Alumni Profiles
Throughout Assumption College's 100+-year history, our alumni/ae have accomplished great things in there careers, in their communities and in their lives. Listed below are just a few of our graduates who have been highlighted in the Assumption Magazine and/or 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 or dlaska@assumption.edu.
Business |
(Deceased) Former President, Aubuchon Hardware, the largest privately owned hardware store chain in the U.S. |
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Owner, The Thorncroft Inn, Vineyard Haven, MA |
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Executive Vice President of Product Development, Fidelity Investments, Providence, RI |
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Chairman/CEO of Big Y Foods, Inc., Springfield, MA |
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Vice President, Human Resources, CUNA Mutual Group, Madison, WI |
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Retired President, The Protector Group Insurance Agency, Worcester, MA |
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Senior Vice President, Emerging Markets, Prudential Retirement, Hartford, CT |
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Retired President/Chairman, Marois Brothers, Inc. (construction/contractor), Worcester, MA |
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| Sue Morton G’'91 | Owner, Inn at Round Pond, Round Pond, ME | |
Owner, Skowhegan Motel, Skowhegan, ME |
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Former Managing Director, Dresdner Bank, London, England |
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Education |
Expert on Iran, Author, Retired College Politics and International Studies Professor, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA |
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| Gerard J. Brault, Ph.D. AP'46, '50 | Sparks Professor Emeritus of French and Medieval Studies, Penn State University | |
Aquaculture Biologist Expert and Distinguished Professor at Mississippi State University |
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Law Professor and NCAA faculty athletics representative, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN |
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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 |
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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 |
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| Kilby Garabedian, R.N., J.D. ’82 | Associate General Counsel, UMass Memorial Health Care | |
| Special advisor to chief justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court | ||
Federal Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Puerto Rico |
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Former Research Fellow for the Miller Center of Public Affairs’ Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia, Author |
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(deceased) World-renowned, legal pioneer in the venture capital and high tech. industries, Former Partner, Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault |
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Health |
(deceased) long-time family doctor in Maine, devoted AC alumnus, delivered Commencement address in 2004 at age of 100 |
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Provide free dental care through Cape CARES to underprivileged in Honduras |
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| Thomas Walsh, M.D. ’74 | Director, Cornell University Medical Center | |
Military |
Maj. Gen. in U.S. Army, Bronze Medal recipient for service in Iraq, Army veteran for more than three decades |
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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. |
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Entertainment |
Director of National Sales and Theatrical Productions for Disney |
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Emmy award-winning Journalist and Co-anchor of 6 and 11 p.m. news for CBS affiliate WFSB-TV, Hartford, CT |
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Professional actor, Appeared in Fox’s drama "24" and "Beverly Hills, 90210"; CBS’s "CSI: New York"; and the feature film, "Bruce Almighty" |
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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 |
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Athletics |
(deceased) Former Atlantic Coast Conference Associate Commissioner for Men’s Basketball and Coordinator of Basketball Officials |
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| Ray Fagnant ’86 | Boston Red Sox Northeast Regional Scouting Supervisor | |
Head Football Coach, University of Notre Dame. 2009 ESPN Home Depot National Coach of the Year |
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(deceased) Former President/CEO of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, long-time Assumption coach and administrator |
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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 |
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Government |
Former aid to Hubert Humphrey and former Mass. Lt. Governor John Kerry, Former Undersecretary of Labor to Robert Reich under Pres. Clinton |
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| Frank Guinta '93 | Representative, U.S. Congress, New Hampshire, 1st District | |
| James B. Leary ’89 | Associate Vice Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA |
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State Representative for the 12th Worcester District, served U.S. Army Reserves in Iraq and Kuwait |
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Religious |
(deceased) First American born Superior General of the Assumptionist Order, long-time Assumption College administrator |
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Long-time Assumption College administrator, current ambassador to Alumni Association |
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Non-Profits |
Maurice "Moe" Boisvert AP'62, '66 | President/CEO, Youth Opportunities Upheld, Inc., Worcester, MA |
| 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 |
