Donna Lucile Buchness (dlb), who goes by “Lucy”, was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1958 and grew up in Catonsville. After graduating from Catonsville High School in 1976, she attended Georgetown University School of Nursing where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1980. For the next 16 years, she worked as a Registered Nurse at The George Washington University Hospital and during her tenure there, she earned a Master’s in Healthcare Administration from The George Washington University. After a few years in private-practice, Lucy joined Kaiser-Permanente Mid-Atlantic in their Falls Church, Virginia location, working first in internal medicine and then in endocrinology where she earned a certification of a Diabetes Educator. Lucy is an accomplished watercolor artist and collector of antique dolls and related items.
Thomas Eugene Costigan Jr. (tec), who goes by “Tom,” was born in Rockville Centre, New York in 1957. He grew up in West Hempstead and attended Chaminade High School in Mineola, graduating in 1976. He then attended Columbia College, Columbia University in the City of New York, where hear earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1979. He then moved to Arlington, Virginia to pursue a Master’s Degree in Latin American studies from Georgetown University, which he earned one day after marrying Lucy on 23 May 1981. Tom and Lucy moved to Falls Church, Virginia upon getting married and have lived there ever since. Tom worked in federal government consulting for several years and then moved into computer system consulting work, specializing in accounting, database management, and local area networking technologies. From 1989 to 1996, Tom worked as a programmer for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) — the western-regional arm of the World Health Organization (WHO) — and traveled extensively throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, installing an organizational financial management software system. From 1996 through 2005, he worked as a consultant and system manager for customer relationship management systems. From 2005 to 2020, Tom has worked primarily in the banking industry, first for Online Resources Corporation and from 2013 to 2020 with Promontory Interfinancial Network (now called IntraFi Network). In both bases, he became a specialist in data transformation and analysis / reporting techniques using Microsoft SQL Server. Tom currently works for Booz Allen Hamilton as a Lead Technologist and is assigned to a project with a major US government agency. Tom has been a certified soccer referee for over 40 years and between 1978 and 1994, Tom ran 33 Marathons, including the New York City Marathon (five times), the Marine Corp Marathon (seven times), and the 1979 Boston Marathon; Tom’s best Marathon time of 2:51:46 would have won the Gold Medal in the 1912 Olympics in London.