WEDDING
Nantucketer Doug Bennett will marry Kathleen Ann Galligan of Weston, Mass. in Kennebunkport, Maine on August 4, 2007. Doug served as selectman and county commissioner for Nantucket for the last three years, retiring this past April 2007. Bennett, a former U.S. Army Reservist, graduated valedictorian from Valley Forge Military College in 1997, and also received two bachelor degrees in 2001 from Penn State University in History and Labor Studies and Industrial Relations. Currently, Doug is helping in the rebuilding process of the Massachusetts Republican Party, and has been accepted to graduate school at UMass Boston in their Public Affairs and International Relations program. Mr. Bennett will continue to be active in politics on the Cape & Islands.

Kathleen is a 1995 graduate of Colgate University receiving a dual degree from English and Spanish, and received a Masters' Degree from Boston College in English Literature. Currently, Kathleen is an Assistant Vice President for Relationship Marketing in the Global Wealth Investment Management Division of Bank of America. She manages client relationships and marketing materials for their asset management company, Columbia Management.

Doug is the eldest son of Dr. Douglas Bennett and Mrs. Kathy Lee Kanyock.

His father is Director of Research and Development at Air Products in Pennsylvania, and his mother is a Clinical Liaison on the Cape and Islands.

Kathleen is the eldest daughter of Dr. Ann and Thomas J.Galligan III. Kathleen's mother is a child psychotherapist with two practices in Newton and Leominster, Mass. Her father is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Papa Gino's Holdings Corp. The newlyweds will spend their honeymoon in Puerta Vallerta, Mexico.