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	Déja Vu all over again: Well, almost. Jim Bove ’07, and Jay Hislop ’07 get some help from old hands at the roommate game, Jim Bove ’78 and John Hislop ’76. (photo by Ben Barnhart)

IT HAD TO HAPPEN. IT was written in the stars or maybe in the genes. History is repeating itself in Southwest, where someone named Bove is rooming with someone named Hislop. In a small, but surprisingly neat double on the 15th floor of John Quincy Adams Hall, first-year students Jim Bove and Jay Hislop are furthering a family tradition started when Jim Bove ’78 and Mike Hislop ’77 decided to share a space on the 14th floor of JFK. Young Jim is the son of Jim Sr. and young Jay is Mike’s nephew.

Their families knew each other first. (And, oh yes, four other Bove brothers, Jim Sr.’s wife, Julie Bove ’76, along with Jay Hislop’s dad, John ’76, are all UMass graduates.) Then the two members of the class of ’07 became friends as freshmen at the Xaverian Brothers School in Westwood, with Jim finishing up at Canton High.

In late September, a few weeks after their arrival at UMass, they had already bonded with the 15th floor. Nice and loud, a lot of good people here, they agree. A weight room four floors up. Great views all over the Valley. A good way to live.

In the Hislop family, in addition to a UMass legacy, there is the hospitality legacy. Uncle Mike got a degree in Hotel Restaurant and Travel Administration and now is CEO of a West Coast chain of restaurants and bakeries called Il Fornaio. Jay plans to major in the more recently named department of hospitality and tourism management.

Jim Bove’s dad was an engineering major who is now the plant engineering manager for Metro West Medical Center in Framingham and Natick. The younger Bove is not yet sure about what direction he might go. So coming to a school with “lots of options” seemed like a good idea to him. That’s why he chose UMass – not to mention the fact that it also offered the chance to room with someone named Hislop.

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