Mary Jo (nee Santangelo) Nocero
  Christmas 2001

With husband Mike and Family

Among the highlights of Mary Jo's year, she writes, were a first grandchild (Patrick Michael Scanlon), a trip to Eastern Europe, and overseeing a 6-week Scripture studies program, Women in Scripture and Catholic Tradition.  Husband Mike will be honored by the American College of Cardiology at their annual convention in March.

Mary Jo (nee Santangelo) Nocero Christmas 2000

(Center) with husband Mike and family

Among the highlights of Mary Jo's year, she writes, were graduations, a grandchild-to-be, and seven grand dogs. Daughter Meg married, brother Charles and   son-in-law Tim graduated, and she now awaits her first grandchild. Mary Jo and Mike will celebrate their 35th anniversary this year.

Barbara (Koeppen) Reilly
December 4, 1999

With husband Paul at a Nuptial Mass celebrating their wedding at St. Catherine Church in Connecticut on a balmy December day when the temperature reached into the 70s.

Barbara writes that she and her husband Paul "traveled a lot this year, to Colorado, California, Florida and Prince Edward Island."

"It's wonderful being really retired," she adds!

(Read Barbara's Christmas Letter 2000)

Mary Jo (nee Santangelo) Nocero Christmas 1999

(Center) with husband Mike and family

Mary Jo writes that a highlight of their year was the publication by the Center for Migration Studies of Lucky Corner: The Biography of Congressman Alfred Santangelo an the Rise of Italian Americans in Politics by her mother, Betty Santangelo.

Mary Jo (nee Santangelo) Nocero Christmas 1998

Mary Jo (right) with husband Mike; daughters Aimee, Mary and Meg and their significant others.

Carol Landers, 1966

During my first summer after college, Carol and I visited Mexico. She is shown here at the Mexico City airport.