Michael Buckley '97
After graduating from
Salve Regina, Buckley joined the New York field office of the United States Park
Police, where his assignments included undercover drug enforcement, the
protection of politicians and crowd/riot control. In 2002, he became a special
agent with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Buckley has wide-ranging
duties with the department. He investigates international narcotics traffickers
and money launderers and is tasked with responding to natural disasters or
terrorist incidents both at home and abroad.
Shelley Byron '09
After receiving her
bachelor's degree in European history, Byron enrolled in the University of
Pittsburgh's graduate program in library and information science, with a
specialization in archives and preservation. As part of her education, she was
employed at the Archives Service Center, the repository for the university's
archival holdings. While there, Byron gained experience processing collections
on the Red Scare and McCarthyism related to Pennsylvania, environmentalism in
Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania political figures. She received her master's
degree in August 2010.
Mario DiNitto '02
While at Salve Regina, DiNitto received
several academic awards, including the Pell Medal for Excellence in U.S.
History. Since 2004, he has worked in Boston for Brown Brothers Harriman, a
private banking firm, and is currently an associate within trade management.
DiNitto oversees a team that is dedicated to supporting three clients in an
operational capacity. In his spare time, he reads as much history as he can,
and is presently in the process of reading biographies of the American
presidents in sequential order.
Michael Farley '93
A 1998 graduate of the University of
Connecticut Law School, Farley operates his own legal practice on Bellevue
Avenue in Newport. He also runs the Blackwell Group, which handles fraud
investigations for a number of Fortune 500 companies. Farley has been an active
supporter of Salve Regina in the years since his graduation. He coached the
rugby team for two years and has served as an adjunct instructor for the
Business Department. Farley is presently campaigning for a seat on the Newport
City Council.
Amanda Goodheart '08
Goodheart received her
master's degree in American history with a concentration in public history from
the University of Massachusetts Amherst in May 2010. While in the program, she
presented a paper titled "'Oh what munths they have ben to me': Testing the
Boundaries of the Sphere at Sea, 1840-1860" at a regional maritime humanities
conference. A continuation of Goodheart's senior thesis, the paper focused on
antebellum New England whaling captains' wives and their experiences at sea. She received a fellowship for doctoral study at UMass Amherst and began the program in September 2010.
Jonathan Turrisi '05
Since graduating from Salve Regina, Turrisi has
been teaching eighth grade social studies at Pierce Middle School in Milton,
Mass. In addition, he coaches varsity football and freshman basketball at
Milton High School. Turrisi received his master's degree in education from Framingham
State College in 2008 and is presently working on a master's degree in
educational leadership from the same institution. In 2009 he had the
opportunity to teach in China for two weeks, offering lessons on global trade
to eighth graders. Turrisi plans to do a similar study tour in India next
summer.
Katheryn LaPorte Viens '84
Viens received
her master's degree in history from Northeastern University, where she was an
editorial assistant for The New England Quarterly and earned a certificate in
historical agencies administration. She is a former assistant editor of the
Massachusetts Historical Society and was the director of the Old Colony
Historical Society in Taunton, Mass. After serving as executive director of the
New England Museum Association, Viens returned to the Massachusetts Historical
Society as research coordinator. She is co-editor, with Conrad Edick Wright, of "Entrepreneurs: The Boston Business Community, 1700-1850" and a forthcoming
volume of essays on the transcendentalist Margaret Fuller.