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Christo[ her Columbus and Julie Billiart High School
70 'h Anniversary Celebration
Nino DiIanni
On Sunday, May 3 i, 2015,
the Christopher Columbus
High School Class of 1957
sponsored a 70 th anniversary
celebrating the founding of
Columbus and Julie Billiart
High School.
The school was founded in
1945 by the Archdiocese of
Boston as Columbus High
School, within three years
the schools were separated
in name, Columbus being
the boy's school under the
direction of the Franciscan
Fathers of the Immaculate
Conception Province and
Julie Billiart, the girl's
school, under the direction
of the Notre Dame sisters.
Sunday's celebration be-
gan with a Mass at St.
Leonard Church with Father
Robert Caprio O.F.M., as cel-
ebrant and Bishop Maurus
Muldoon O.F.M., as co-cel-
ebrant and homilist. Father
Caprio was a former princi-
pal from 1982 to 1985 and
Bishop Maurus Muldoon a
graduate of the Class of
1956. Also present as co-cel-
ebrants were graduates Fa-
ther Joseph ScorzelIo (1962)
and Father Patrick Mc-
Laughlin (1953). Father
L-R: Father Pat McLaughlin, Fr. Robert Caprio, Roger
Mustone, Arthur Lauretano, Nino Dilanni, Bishop Maurus
Muldoon, Brother Chuck Trebino, Fr. Joseph Scorzello,
Fr. Claude Scrima
Claude Scrima O.F.M., Paro-
chial Vicar of St. Leonard
Church and Brother Court-
land Campbell O.F.M., as-
sisted at the Mass.
Alumni of Columbus and
Julie Billiart as well as their
guests attended the Mass
and the reception that fol-
lowed. In total there were
approximately 80 people
present.
All proceeds will be do-
nated to the St. Leonard
Church building fund and to
the St. Christopher Friary in
the North End, a home for
elderly priests.
Bishop Maurus Muldoon
OFM
Janice Seaparotti
Nino Dilanni and John
Ranauro
Roger Mustone
Father Robert Caprio OFM
Arthur A. Lauretano
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Honors
Howard K. Koh, MD' and the New England Council
Boston Health Care for the
Homeless Program (BHCHP)
recently honored Howard K.
Koh, MD, professor of the
practice of public health
leadership and director of
the Leading Change Studio
at the Harvard T. H. Chan
School of Public Health with
its Dr. Jim O'Connell Award.
The award is given each year
to a person who embodies
the spirit of BHCHP, an or-
ganization that provides
medical services to the most
vulnerable members of soci-
ety.
BHCHP also honored John
T. Hailer, chairman of The
New England Council and
president and CEO of Natixis
Global Asset Management,
and James T. Brett, presi-
dent and CEO of the Coun-
cil, with its Tim Russert
Award for their work raising
public consciousness of is-
sues of health and
homelessness.
The awards were pre-
sented at BHCHP's Medicine
that Matters Gala, Wednes-
day, May 6 at the Renais-
sance Boston Waterfront Ho-
tel. Some 450 supporters at-
tended the gala, which
raised $500,000 and com-
memorated BHCHP's 30 th
year of earing for Boston's
"Medicine that Matters"
gala co-chair Ed Murphy,
right, with Robert Popeo
homeless families and
adults.
"For almost two decades,
Howard has been an ardent
champion of the work of Bos-
ton Health Care for the
Homeless Program," said
BHCHP CEO Barry Bock. "His
partnership with us began in
the late 1990s when, as Mas-
sachusetts' commissioner of
public health, he convened
a task force to investigate a
rash of premature deaths
among the city's street popu-
lation. Since then, we have
been thrilled to collaborate
with Howard on a number of
projects focusing on reduc-
ing morbidity and mortality
among Boston's most vul-
nerable population -- home-
Amy Sennett, Daniel Koh and Dr. Zirui
Song
less men and women."
Bock also lauded Hailer
and Brett: "Under the lead-
ership of John and Jim, the
New England Council has
been an incredibly effective
and committed ambassador
for BHCHP, educating the
business community about
our mission, which in turn
has led to an abundance of
meaningful partnerships
and relationships for us,"
said Bock. "The Council
championed our cause when
much of the city did not
know we existed and for that,
we are eternally grateful."
Other VIP guests included
Governor Charlie Baker,
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh,
former Governor Michael
Former Governor Michael Dukakis, gala
emcees Anthony Everett and Mary
Richardson, and honoree Dr. Howard Koh
Gala honorees Jim Brett
Boston Health Care for the and John Hailer of the New
Homeless Program Board of England Council
Directors Chair Brett
Painchaud and his wife
Joanna
(Photos by Roger Farrington)
Dukakis, BHCHP president co-chairs were James D.
and co-founder Dr. Jim Gallagher, Executive Vice
O'Connor, and Hill, Holliday, President, General Counsel
Connors, Cosmopulos & Chief Administrative Of-
founder Jack Connors. Gala (Continued on Page 13)
