CLASS NOTES AND NEWS
1987 Mike Sheehan had a chance to make a difference for his college friend, utilizing spirit, mind, and, most importantly in this instance, body. Classmate Brad Vernet was born with one kidney and diagnosed with kidney disease 23 years ago. Vernet, son-in-law of longtime faculty member and Director of the Premedical Scholars Club Mary Healey, had been looking for a donor through social media and word of mouth after his kidney function dropped and he entered stage five of the disease.
Numerous friends had started the donation process, one even making it all the way to the end only to be rejected because of high blood pressure. Vernet and his wife Katy began to explore—and began to think they had exhausted—numerous other options, when the couple received news that changed everything.
On March 9, Sheehan notified the Vernet family to let them know he was a match and had passed the rigorous examination needed to confirm him as a suitable donor. The procedure took place on April 10 and was a success. At press time, Vernet and Sheehan are reportedly doing well.
Kerri Smith is the Massachu - setts Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Teacher of the Year for elementary school. Smith teaches physical education at the Newman Elementary School in Needham, Mass.
1989 Kevin Fitzpatrick
1989 Kevin Fitzpatrick has been working with the YMCA for 25 years and currently is the execu- tive director of the Eastside Family YMCA in Penfield, N.Y., which has been rated by Seer Analytics as one of the top YMCAs in the country in customer satisfaction for the last five years.
1987 Mike Sheehan, left, and Brad Vernet, right, with classmate Dr. Tom Murray who cared for a recuperating Sheehan following the transplant. Sheehan came east from his current home in California for the procedure.
1990 Regina (Ferraro) Doherty recently was inducted as a fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association. Doherty is an asso- ciate professor in the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and is the program director of the entry-level doctor of occupa- tional therapy program.
1987 Mike Sheehan with Brad Vernet 28
1997 Roger Anderson (G) received the Pathfinder Award from the Massachusetts Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Anderson is the physical education department chair in the Westborough (Mass.) public schools.
2003 From left: Howard Hinds, his wife Kailey, their daughter Tatiana, Allison (Mellage) Campise, her son Louie, daughter Genevieve, and husband John.
1999 Theresa (Toelken) Taylor is a mom to three children and completed nursing school in May 2013. She currently is work- ing at a local nursing home as a registered nurse.
2002 Dan Farrell recently was certi- fied as a member of the Fresno County Search & Rescue Team in central California. Dan currently lives in Clovis, Calif., with his wife Sarah and their four dogs.
2003 Alison (Mellage) Campise and Howard Hinds ’00 observed the Springfield College swimming and diving team in action at New York University on Jan. 18. Campise was a national cham- pion diver for the Pride in 2001 and still holds one of the diving records. Hinds was an Olympian for Netherlands Antilles in 2000 and also still holds a school diving record.
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