"The semester I spent in South Africa through Marist's Study Abroad
program gave me new ways to look at the world. After spending four days a
week volunteering at an orphanage
in
Langa, I decided to pursue my dreams
of working with the U.S. government in humanitarian affairs and assisting
Third World countries. I am thankful for the exceptional education and
life-changing opportunities that
I
have received at Marist.
Marist Fund gifts have g1ranted students like me endless possibilities
and bright futures. The financial support of alumni, parents, and friends
today will ensure that current and future Marist students continue to
experience the independence and growth of a Marist education."
-MARISSA
CARADONNA
'07, LEVITTOWN,
N.Y., POLITICAL SCIENCE
Gifts you make
to
the Marist Fund
ill
continue to offer students opportunities like
Marissa received. You can help su
rt Marist students by:
•
Saying "yes"
to a student phonat n caller, who will be reaching out to you soon!
•
Going online at www.marist.edu alumni/giving.
•
Mailing your check, payable to arist College, in the return envelope provided in this issue.
•
Calling the Office of College Ad ncement at
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MARIST
CONTENTS
I
Summer
2007
8
Marist
Basketball
Gains
National
Recognition
•
NBA
Taps]ared]ordan
•
The Glass Slipper Almost Fits
•
And the Fans Followed
12
Marist Again Captures
JetBlue
Airways
MAAC Commissioner's
Cups
The Red Foxes have again taken the highest
honors in their athletic conference, becoming
the first team in league history to win the
overall, men's, and women's categories
of the Cup competition four times.
13
NPR
President
Encourages
Graduates
to
Lead
At Marist's 61st commencement, Kevin Klose,
president of National Public Radio, told more than
1,000 new graduates that their education has
equipped them to meet the challenges of the future.
14
The
Music
Program
Hits
a High
Note
The
modern-day Marist Band started in 1986 with
two trumpet players and a bandleader named
Arthur Himmelberger.
Today, as director of the
Music Department, he oversees more than 350
students performing in vocal or instrumental
ensembles and another 350 taking music courses.
His students credit him with changing their lives.
Marist Magazine
is published by lhe Office
or College
Advancemenl al Marist College for alumni, friends,
faculty, and staff of Marist College.
Editor: Leslie Bares
Art Director:
Richard Deon
Vice President for College Advancement:
Robert
L.
West
Chief Public Affairs Officer: Timmia11
Massie
Executive
Director or Alumni Relations:
Amy Coppola Woods
'97
Alumni
News
Coordinalor:
Katie Magarity
'05
Conlributing Wrilers:
Mil1e
Ferraro
'01,
Kerry Syl1es,
Shailee11
Kopec.Jack Bishop
'07,jeffrey
Dahncke
'01,
Brian
Loew
'07,
Rachel Pacterson
'07
Cover photo by Michael
Nelson
of lhe Marisl College Band
and Marist College Singers performing in April 2007 al the
Bardavon 1869 Opera House
in
Poughkeepsie.
Marist College, 3399 North Road,
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-1387
www.marist.edu
•
editor@marist.edu
The women's basl1etball
team, called the "Cinderella
story of 2007" by national
media, captured the MAAC
To rnament title in overtime
a1~d
then won two games in
the NCAA Tournament to
, each the Sweet 16 round
l~efore
falling to eventual
national champion Tennessee
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9
A nong those onstage during
c1ommencement
was
Lithia
(~reenman,
wlio at age 91
eceived a BA in English
Page 13
"No
Music Without
Fun,
No Fun Without Music"
Page
14
19
A
Bachelor's
Degree Program Is
Launched in
Florence
A new bachelor's degree program in Florence,
Italy, lets students pursue a four-year Marist
degree abroad in studio art, art history,
fashion design, English with a concentration
in literature, interior design, conservation
studies/restoration,
or digital media.
20
New
Turf
for Athletics and
Academics
A new athletic stadium has taken shape,
and chemistry labs as well as the historic
Cornell Boathouse have been renovated.
ALUMNI
PROFILE
22
Marist
Grad Is
Head
Ed
David Ng '80 paid his dues as a
reporter. Now he runs the irrepressible,
inimitable New York Daily News.
DEPARTMENTS
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Marist Drive
What's happening
0,1
campus
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Alumni
News
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NEWS & NOTES
FROM
Lauren
Jackson
'08
(left)
has
received the Or. Andrew A. Molloy Memorial Scholarship in
Chemistry. Rosemary
Molloy
'91 (center) established the scholarship in the name of her
husband, who was professor emeritus of chemistry. Dr. Michael Tannenbaum
(right)
is dean
of the
School
of Science.
Chemistry Major Is First Recipient of Molloy Scholarship
L
auren Jackson '08 has been named
the
first recipient of the Dr. Andrew A. Molloy
Memorial Scholarship
in
Chemistry.
"Like Andy,
Lauren
has a great
lo\'e
for
chemistry and a driving enthusiasm to work
until the
assignment or project is completed,"
says Dean of the School of Science Michael
Tannenbaum.
Jackson has
worked on faculty-student
research projects,
a
hallmark
of the School
of Science
that
Molloy helped shape. She
has
also presented
twice
at
the Pittsburgh
Conference on Analytical Chemistry and
Applied Spectroscopy and done grant-
supported
research
at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
and the Smithsonian Environmental
Research
Center. She plans to pursue a PhD
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in
proteomics and genomics.
Rosemary
Molloy '91 founded the scholar-
ship
LO
honor her husband of 40 years. Named
professor emeritus of chemistry, Andy Molloy
had a 26-year career at Marist that included
fi\'e years serving as academic \'ice president.
He
graduated from Marist in 1951 and passed
away in August 2006.
The
scholarship will be awarded annual-
ly
to a
top
chemisLry major who exemplifies
his
commitment to academic excellence
and sen·ice to others. Gifts to the Molloy
Scholarship Fund may be made online
through the Marist alumni Web site, www.
marist.edu/alumni,
or by contacting College
Ad\'ancement,
Marist College,
3399 North Rd.,
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12601-1387.
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T H E CAMPUS
McGowan Scholar Chosen
P
atricia Arena '08 of New
Windsor,
N.Y.,
has been named a
William
G. McGowan
Scholar and Marist's
top business
student
for
the 2007-2008 academic year.
The prestigious and
highly competi-
ti\'e
award
from the William
G.
McGowan
Charitable Fund will
provide
an $18,000
scholarship toward
her
senior year as she
completes a double major
in
accounting and
business.
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Dr. James P. Honan '78
Alumnus and Harvard
Educator Named a
Marist Trustee
D
r.
James
P. Honan
'78,
co-chair of
Harvard's
Institute
for Educational
Management, has joined the Marist Board of
Trustees
for
a three-year renewable
term.
Honan has served on the faculty of the
Harvard Graduate School of Education
since
1991.
He has been a faculty
member
in a number of Harvard's execmive educa-
tion programs and professional
development
institutes for educational leaders and nonprofit
administrators.
His teaching and
research
interests
include financial management of nonprofit and
education organizations, strategic planning,
organizational performance measurement
and
management issues,
and higher education
administration. He is the author or co-author
of several publications including
Monitoring
Institutional
Performance
for the Association of
Governing Boards of Colleges
and Universities
and
New Yardsticks
for Measuring Financial
Distress.
with Kent Chabotar, for the American
Association for Higher Education. He received
the Fussa
Distinguished
Teaching Award from
the Harvard University Extension School in
1995.
Honan
is a member of
the board
of
directors of the
Plan
for Social Excellence,
Inc.,
a
private
foundation based in Tampa,
Fla., and serves on the
boards
of trustees of
Fitchburg State College and Dana Hall School
in
Massachusetts.
In
addition
to
receiving a
bachelor's
degree in communications from
Marist, he also holds an MA and EdS in
higher education from George Washington
University and an EdM and EdD in admin-
istration, planning, and social
policy
from
Harvard University.
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More Scholarships Established
Charles and Mabel Conklin (center front) have established scholarships for talented
young people who transfer
from
Dutchess Community College to complete their
bachelor's degrees at Marist. The inaugural Charles E. and Mabel E. Conklin Scholars at
Marist
College include (back row, left to right) Nicole Anderson
'07,
Elizabeth M. Wardell
'08, Natoya Williams '08, and Laura
Leahy
'08, shown with President Dennis J. Murray.
Captain of Marist's crew team his senior year, Stanley J. Becchetti '66 (right) has fond
memori,es of his days on the
Hudson
River. To support student athletes participating in
the Coll,ege's oldest sport, Becchetti has made a $25,000 leadership gift to found the
Captain:,' Scholarship for
Rowing. Thus
far, 20 former men's and women's crew captains
have joined him in advancing the endowment. Jordan Kieschnick
'10
(left) of Palo Alto,
Calif., is
the
first recipient.
SUMMER
2007
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A Marist
tr ition: Alumni,
trustees,
and friends
gathered
for the
President's
Annual
Dinner
Dance
in May at the Culinary
Institute of America
in Hyde
Park, N.Y.
Trustee
Ross Mauri '80 and
his
wife, Barbara
New York State Assemblyman Joel Miller with Mike Arteaga '70 and his
wife, Sandy
___
Maria Gordon Shydlo '87 and her husband, Brian
..
-
Michael and Sarah
Jordan,
parents of Jared Jordan '07
and chairs of the Marist Fund Parent Division campaign
Trustee Todd Brinckerhoff and his wife, Beverly, with
New York State Senator Stephen Saland
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Fr. Stephen Bosomafi and other students
dance
to a song by
c1
cappella group Time Check at a
Battle of the Bands
to raise
money to
build
a well for a village in Ghana.
Students Giving Back
D
uring
the spring 2007 semester,
students spearheaded
fund-raisers
for
a wide variety of causes, some new and some
traditional.
The
Marist campus hosted
its
fourth
annual American Cancer Society
Relay
for
Life, headed by
senior and cancer survivor
Lauren Flood. The 12-hour campus
relay
walk
raised
more
than $52,000 for the American
Cancer Society.
What started as a class
project
by busi-
ness
majors
turned
into a
humanitarian
effort that
raised
$10,000 to
build
a well
in
a
village
in
Ghana,
providing
a badly
needed
source of
fresh
water. Fr. Stephen Bosomafi, a
Ghanaian priest pursuing an MBA at
Marist,
detailed
the
plight
of
residents
throughout
his co1:mtry who
do not
have
fresh
drinking
water when
he
spoke
to
an
undergraduate
business class
taught
by Assistant Professor
of Management
Dr. Beate Klingenberg. The
School of
Management's
Counci
I
of Business
Leadership,
a student organization advised
by Associate
Professor
of
Management Dr.
Helen Rothberg,
took
up
the cause. Students
raised
about $5,000 holding a Battle of
the
Bands
competition
in
April. A Marist employ-
ee who wishes
to remain
anonymous donated
an additional $1,000, and
the
Millbrook, New
York-based Dyson
Foundation
provided the
remainder.
Brian Loew
'07
ran in the Boston
Marathon
to
raise
money for the Meningitis
Foundation of America
in memory
of Caitlin
Boyle, a fellow Marist student who died
in
fall 2006.
Although
he
was not close to
Boyle,
many
of
his
good friends were.
"She
meant
a
lot to
them, so anything
I
can do
to
help
raise awareness
of
meningitis
and help others
remember
Cait,
I thought
I should do
it,"
he
said.
He raised
$1,500.
A marathon fund-raiser held on campus
for the
fourth
year was
Gaming
for Hope,
which raised $1,500
for
Child's Play, a charity
that
donates toys and video games
to
hospi-
tals
nationwide.
The
event, in which people
came
to
campus
to
play a wide variety of video
games, was
hosted by
the Marist Computer
Society and
1the
Anime Society.
A
poker tournament,
sponsored by the
Athletic Affairs Committee of the Student
Government Association and Professor
Keith
Strudler's Sp,ons
Public Relations
class, raised
$300 for
Hope
for a Cure
for Parkinson's
Disease.
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Marist
host1~d
its fourth annual American
Cancer Society Relay for
Life.
( I N
BRIEF)
Marlst has received the largest gov-
ernment grant in the history of the
College,
a $5 million capital grant from
New York State. The award will be
used
to create space within the
new
Hancock
Technology Center to encourage economic
development and innovation in the 10-
county Hudson River Valley region. The
proposed project would consist of de-
velopment
laboratories;
office space
for
start-ups; high-tech education and train-
ing facilities; collaborative workspace for
joint projects; an executive presentation
center; and labs with shared access to
some of the most advanced
IBM
and
Cisco technology in the world. The grant
was secured under the auspices of New
York
State Senator Steve Saland.
Marist
contributes
more than a
quarter-billion
dollars annually to
the economy of the Hudson River
Valley,
according
to
a
recent
study.
Using a methodology provided by the
U.S.
Department
of Commerce's Bureau
of Economic Analysis, Marist's Office of
Institutional Research determined the
College's
economic
impact
on the sur-
rounding county and valley region. Mari st
has 1,128 full- and part-time employees,
ranking the College as the third largest
private-sector, non-healthcare employer
in
Dutchess
County and the 15th larg-
est in the Mid-Hudson Valley. In addition
to the employees who live
in the
area
year-round, approximately
4,200
full-
time students
live
on campus or within
a short drive, providing more than $15
million annually in additional revenues
to merchants in
the
county. In addition,
more than 35,000 out-of-county visitors
come to
Dutchess
each year
to
visit the
College and attend events. Those visitors
spend an additional $4 million annually
in Dutchess
County.
The study determined that, based
on direct spending by Marist, students,
and visitors, the
total
contribution
to
the
economy of the Hudson
River
Valley for
the
2006 fiscal year was $251 million,
with a
Dutchess
County impact of $204
million.
The
College's economic activity
supports 2,059 jobs in
Dutchess
County
and another 507 jobs in the
remaining
counties of the
Hudson
River Valley.
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Remembering Adrian Perreault
Adrian Perreault
led the
library through
expansions and moves from Greystone to
Donnelly
Hall
to the former Fontaine
Hall.
A
drian Perreault, one of Marisl's
early
librarians,
passed away
Nov.
17,
2006.
Part of the College from ils earliesl
years, he joined lhe Marist Brothers
in
1932.
He spent seven
years in Poughkeepsie,
completing high school and
two
years of
college.
He received
a bachelor's
degree
Remembering Jerry McBride
P
rofessor
Jerome
'Jerry"
McBride
died
on Nov. 11,
2006.
He
came to
Marisl
lo establish
the
graduale program in information syslems
and served as
ils first director. He
spent
21 years al
Marisl
as an administrator
and associate professor of information
syslems.
'Jerry
was passionale about his disci-
pline and was known as a master
teacher,"
says President Dennis]. Murray. "Beloved
by
his students,
many
of our alumni credit
Jerry with shaping
their
careers and
enhancing their lives."
He
is
survived
by
his wife of
39
years,
Judy, and
daughters
Joelle
Floriana
'89
and Julie Stepp
'91,
four grandchildren,
and siblings Ethel and
Robert
McBride.
Recently
Jerry
and Judy
had
moved
to
Ohio
tO
be
near
their daughters.
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Professor
Jerome "Jerry" McBride estab-
lished
the graduate
program in information
systems
and served as its first director.
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from Fordham Universily and a masler's
degree
in
library
science from St. John's
University. He laughl in several Marist
BrOLhers
schools in New England and New
York, e\'emually returning
lo
Poughkeepsie
m
1958
to
serve as
head librarian
at what
was
then
Marian College.
He resumed
his
lay
statu.s afrer
40
years of ser\'ice wilh
the Brothers and retired
from the
College
in
1984.
At the
time
of his appointment, lhe
College':s entire
library
was
located
in
the Greystone
building.
He
oversaw the
library's
subsequent growth and expan-
sion as
il_
mo\'ed
firsl lo Donnelly
Hall
and
laler to the
former Fontaine
Hall.
Afte1r
his
retirement,
he
remained
acti\'e in
the local
community. Even when
a stroke impaired
his
abilities, he
and his
wife, Betty, continued
to take
great interest
in
Marist and
regularly
attended campus
events and activities. She earned an
MBA
from
the
College in
1988.
"Dur:ing
his
tenure,
he
dedicated
him-
self
to
the conservation of knowledge used
in
the teaching and
learning
process," says
Presidernt
Dennis
J.
Murray.
"He
will be
greatly
missed
by all of
us
who were fortu-
nate enough
tO
have known him."
In July
a reference
research
room
in
Marist's
library
was dedicated
to
him.
More tha.n
50
family members and friends
attended the ceremony.
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•
Mary Foy
was the
wife
of
Linus Richard
Foy,
Marist's
president
from 1958 to 1979.
Remembering Mary Foy
M
ary Foy, wife
of
President Emeritus
Linus Richard
Foy,
passed away Nov.
30, 2006.
Born
in
1938,
she graduated from
Our Lady Seat of Wisdom High School
in
Richmond Hill
and took courses at Saint
John's
University as she worked with excep-
uonal
c.h1ldren.
She
later received
a
degree
m
nursing
from
the
Catholic University
of
America and worked at
Lenox Hill
Hospital
in New York City.
In
1970,
she moved to
Poughkeepsie
and
began teaching in the nursing departments of
Mount Saint Mary's College in Newburgh and
U!ster County Community College in Stone
Ridge.
That same year, she married
Richard,
who served as Marist's
president
from
1958
to
1979.
When
he
was vice president of
Boyden
Associates, an international executive recruit-
ing firm, the family moved
to
Chappaqua, N.Y.
They
returned lo Poughkeepsie in November
2006.
She is survived by her husband and
their
two children, Peter
Joseph
Foy
III
'95
and
Dr.
Bridget Morley
Foy
'98.
"Mary exuded a warmth
that made those
around her feel special and had a
smile that
would light up a room," says
President Dennis
J.
Murray. "Her sense of humor,
deep
faith,
and
love
of family carried her
through
during
her
long-term
illness. She was an integral
part
of
the
Marist family
during her
years at
the
College and a
frequent
visitor to
the
campus
over
the
ensuing years. She will
be
greatly
missed by all of
us."
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Alumnus Named Academic
Vice President
D
r.
Thomas S. Wermuth '84 has
been
selected the new vice president for
academic affairs at Marist.
The vice
president for
academic affairs is
the College's chief academic officer,
respon-
sible
for the planning, management,
direction,
and
leadership
of all academic programs. The
vice
president also serves as the College's
liai-
son with certain external agencies such as
New York State Education Department.
Wermuth
began his
career at Marist in
1992 as an assistant professor of history and
was
promoted to associate professor
in
1998.
In
2001,
he
received
the Board
of Trustees'
Faculty Award for Distinguished Teaching. He
is
the
author of
Rip
Van Winkle's
Neighbors:
The
Transformation
oJ Rural Society in the Hudson
River
Valley,
1720-1850,
published
by
the
State
University of New York
Press,
and
the
author
of
numerous
articles
in
distinguished academ-
ic journals.
Since 2001, Wermuth
has
served as the
dean of the School of
Liberal
Arts, where he
has been
involved
in
the
development
of a
number of academic
programs
at Marist.
Wermuth has also received major grants,
fellowships, and awards, including two U.S.
Department
of Education Teaching American
History
grants, a
Hudson
River Valley
National
Heritage
Area Grant, a National Endowment
for
the
Humanities Summer Fellowship, and
the
Charles G. Kennedy Award
from
the
Economic
and Business
Historical
Society.
A specialist
in
early American history
and Hudson River
Valley
history
and culture,
Wermuth is
the
founder of
the
Hudson River
Valley Institute at Marist, a regional studies
center. As
part
of
HRVI, he
assumed
lead-
Dr. Thomas.
S. Wermuth '84
Kiplinger's
Ranks Marist
One of Nation's "Best Buys"
K
iplinger's
Personal
Finance
magazine
has
named
Marist one of the 50
"best
buys"
in private college education
in the
U.S. The
designation was contained
in
the April 2007
edition of the
popular
economics and
money
management
publication.
The
Kiplinger's
ranking follows
a December
announcement
by
another financial publica-
tion,
Barron's,
that named Marist one of the
247
"best buys in college education." Marist
was
also
named one of"the 361 best colleges"
in
America
by the
Princeton Review, which
also
named
Marist's School of Management
one of "the
top
282
business
schools"
in the
U.S. and Canada.
ership of
The Hudson
River
Valley Review:
A
Journal
of Regional Studies, a peer-reviewed
journal offering scholarly articles on
the
histo-
ry,
culture, art, literature, and environment
of the area.
Kiplinger's
selected 50 best values among
private
universities and
another 50 among
liberal
arts colleges across the country. Marist
was named
to the
Ii
rst list
because it offers
a comprehensive education at
both the
undergraduate and graduate levels. Criteria
included
the quality
of
the institutions'
educa-
tional programs and
the
availability of a wide
variety of
financial
aid offered
to
admitted
students.
Marist was
the
only New York college to
make the list. Four universities
in the
Empire
State were also
named-Cornell, Columbia,
Fordham, and Syracuse. Also making
the
cut
with Marist were schools such as
Brown,
Duke,
Harvard,
Penn, Princeton,
Rice,
UCLA, Yale,
the
California Institute ofTechnology,
and the
Massachusetts Institute
of
Technology.
Wermuth graduated from Our Lady of
Lourdes
High School
in Poughkeepsie
in 1980
and received a BA in history from Marist.
He
went on
to,
earn an MA
in
history from the
State University of New York at Albany and a
PhD in history from Binghamton University.
He
completed Harvard University's School of
Education Management
Development
Program
and was also a
Fellow
at
the
University of
Pennsylvamia's McNeil Center for Early
American Studies.
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Marist accepted only 41
percent
of
its
applicants this year, compared with 49
percent
in 2006, making this the lowest acceptance
rate
in
the College's
history. The
average SAT
scores of accepted students were up
18 points
over last year, and about half of
the
students
were
from
outside New York State.
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Shooter Gets a Makeover
S
hooter, the Red
Fox
mascot, has
a new look.
The need for a new Shooter was
the
result of a costume
aging from wear and tear, says Travis Tellitocci, assistant
athlet-
ics
director of external affairs. The goal was
to make
the new
costume
less
bulky and to change
the fur
type and color
to
give
it
the
same characteristics
as a red fox.
The
Athletics
Department
also
wanted
to create a costume that would allow
the mascot
to
be
more
mobile,
says Tellitocci.
"The
new design
enables
the mascot
to perform
at a
higher level and
allows
for higher mobility when
interacting with
the
fans."
Starting
in the
spring of
2006,
Athletics
invited
Marist students
to send in their renderings for review.
A sketch
was
chosen and
sent
to
various
companies that specialized
in designing
and producing
mascot
costumes. Athletics selected the
final design
after
review-
ing the
submissions
from those
companies. The costume,
which
took about eight weeks
to
produce, was made by Alinco Costumes
in Murray,
Utah. Alinco Costumes has created
mascots
for clients
such as the Arizona
Diamondbacks, the
Seaule Seahawks, Nestle,
Disney, the Phoenix
Suns,
the
Chicago Bulls, and
more
than 50
percent of
the
teams
in the
NBA.
■
-Jack Bishop
'07
SUMMER
2007
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Athletics
Red
Fox
After
leading the men's
team
to its best season ever, Jared
Jordan
'07
became
the first
Mari
st player
to be drafted
by
the NBA
since Rik
Smits in 1988.
NBATaps
F
or someone who
doesn't
go around seek-
ing a
great deal of
attention, Jared
Jordan
sure seems to
find
it.
In
his four years as point guard of the
Marist
College men's
basketball team, Jordan
went about
his business
in a quiet,
unassuming
manner on and off
the floor-even
when
the
results he
produced
were spectacular.
At approximately 11:26 p.m. on
June 28,
2007,
all
his
years of hard work and outstand-
ing production
turned a childhood
dream into
reality.
Jorda1n was selected by
the
Los Angeles
Clippers in
the
second round of
the
NBA
Draft
with the
45th
overall selection,
becom-
ing just
the
second
Red
Fox to ever
have
his
name call,~d
on draft night. The first was
7-foot-
4
Rik Smits,
who was picked
by
the Indiana
Pacers with the second overall selection of
the
1988 draft.
Naturally.Jordan's
response
to being
linked
with Smits was similar
to
the
on-court
mantra
which made
him
so successful as a
Red
Fox:
always take care of the big
man.
"Wherever we'd go,
people
would always
associate
Rik
Smits with
Marist," Jordan
says.
"Hopefully
I
can
be mentioned
with
him. He
should
get
all the
recognition he
does.
He put
Marist
on
the
map, and hopefully I'll
try to
continue
in his
footsteps."
Jordan was
the Division I
leader
in
assists in
both
his
junior and senior seasons,
becoming
the
first
pllayer
to lead
the
nation
in assists twice
Two-Time
National
Assist
Leader
Jared
Jordan
BY
MIKE
FERRARO
'01
Puts
Jared Jordan '07 was selected 45th overall by
the Los
Angeles
Clippers
in
the 2007 NBA Draft.
since Southern University's Avery
Johnson
accomplished the
feat in
1986 and 1987
He
was also named Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference Player of
the Year,
and
he
won
the Haggerty
Award as the All-Met
Division I
men's
college basketball player of
the
year
this
season.
In
addition,
Jordan departed
Marist as
the program's
all-time assists
leader
and was a
finalist for the
Bob Cousy Award-given to the
nation's top point guard-as a senior.
As a team, the
Red
Foxes grew each season
with Jordan on the
floor, increasing their
vict0ry
total each of the
last
three seasons. Marist won
a
program-record
25
games
this
season,
includ-
ing its
first
outright MAAC regular-season
The men earned their first postseason
victory
with a 67-64 win at Oklahoma
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The women's
basketball
team captured
the
MAAC
Tournament
title in overtime
and then
Marist
on the Map
won two games
in the NCAA
Tournament
to
reach
the Sweet
16 round
before
falling
to
eventual
national
champion
Tennessee.
championship
in
program
history.
On March
13,
the Red
Foxes earned
their first
postsea-
son victory
in
program annals with a 67-64
triumph
at
Oklahoma
State
in the
first
round
of
the
National
Invitation
Tournament.
"His leadership with our team was clearly
invaluable,"
Marist Director of Athletics Tim
Murray says. "The people
in the Hudson River
Valley have been spoiled by the level of his
basketball knowledge
and
just
the
fact that
he
was such a
pure point
guard to watch."
Beyond
the
statistics and style of
play
that
thrilled fans at the McCann Center,Jordan's
down-to-earth approach made
him
a true team
leader.
Even as
his national profile
expanded
during
his senior year, as evidenced by being
named Most Outstanding Player of
the
nation-
ally televised Old Spice Classic and appearing
on ESPN2's
Cold Pizza, he didn't let the extra
attention affect his demeanor or his play.
"I
lead
by example,"
Jordan
says. "I'm not
the biggest talker
out there.
I just
try to go
about
things the
right way,
to
be on
time, be
respectful.
I
think
everyone
knew
that was my
way of leading and
they
tried to follow that."
Jordan
played
his
first season at Marist
under
Dave Magarity, who
recruited
him to
Poughkeepsie.
He spent his final three seasons
receiving
tutelage from Mau
Brady,
who had
arrived at Marist with a proven track
record
of
developing
guards.
ln Brady's
final year as an
assistant at St. Joseph's, two of his
proteges-
Jameer Nelson and Delonte West-became
first-round NBA Draft choices.
According
to
Brady,
the
primary factor
in
Jordan elevating his game was improving his
level of fitness.
It
paid off, as
Jordan
played
at least
40
minutes in a game 15 times in his
senior season.
"We
agreed that we'd
make
him a more
lithe and quick basketball player,"
Brady
says.
"We
agreed
to
do
it and he
did
the work."
Another factor
that made
Jordan
more
valuable
in
the eyes of NBA scouts was
his
progression
as a scorer.
He
raised his scoring
average every year as a Red Fox, improving
from
6.1 points per game as a freshman to
11.7 as a sophomore, 16.1 as a
junior,
and
17.2
as a senior.
The irony
in
Jordan elevating his own stock
through the antithesis of what made him such
a great player and
leader
was not lost on his
coach.
"I
had
to encourage
him
to
become
a
more
aggressive
scorer,"
Brady
says. "That was more
difficult
because
of his complete unselfish-
ness."
■
Mike Ferraro '01 was assistant sports informa-
tion director
at Marist in the 2006-2007
year and
previously
was a sports writer and copy editor
for
the Poughkeepsie Journal.
Thie
Glass
Slipper
T
he
20106-07 Marist women's
basketball
season began on
Nov.
W
just as
it had
for
the
previous
four seasons under
Head
Coach Bria1n
Giorgis.
Hopes
were
high
for another winning season,
another
MAAC
crown, and maybe
even another bid
to
the NCAA
Tournament..
After an 82-72 victory
over Stony Brook
in
Poughkeepsie,
it
appeared that those
dreams
might be
possible.
The seai;on ended on March
25 in Dayton, Ohio, on the noor
of the University of
Dayton
Arena as
the
women
fell
65-46
in
the
NCAA Tournament
Sweet
16
game to
the
top-seed-
ed
Tennessee
Volunteers-a
place no
one
imagined
they'd
be
on
that brisk day
back in
November.
"It was an
incredible
experience and an especially
incredible
way for a senior to go out,"
says guard Alisa Kresge
'07.
I
was excited we
could do that and put Marist on the map."
After compiling a program-best
29-5 record,
Marist jumped onto
the
national stage as a
contender and was
the
2007 Cinderella story.
The
Waco-Tl'ibune
Herald down in Texas said
it best when
they
proclaimed,
"Cinderella's
name is Ma1rist."
One of
t.he
reasons the Red Foxes caught
the imagination
of
the
country was this: no
MAAC
team
had
ever
reached
the Sweet 16. So
when Marist upset fourth-seeded Ohio State
67-63 in
the
first
round,
people started talk-
ing.
Then,
two
days
later
when they upended
fifth-seeded! powerhouse Middle Tennessee
State
73-59, the nation hopped on the Marist
bandwagon.
"Guidance
counselors and parents from all
over the country were calling to say that
they
had been hearing a lot about Marist College
lately and
th.ey
were curious about the school,"
says Corinne Schell
'83,
admissions director
for external recruitment and outreach.
People weren't hopping on the bandwagon
merely beca1use
they liked
the Red Foxes' style
of play-they liked
their
style.
Inboxes
at Marist
were overno,wing and telephones were off the
hook with supporters from Massachusetts to
BY BRIAN
LOEW
'07
Almost
Fits
Guard and co-captain
Alisa Kresge
'07 was
named MAAC
Defensive
Player
of the Year.
California applauding the
class, grace, and poise of the
student-athletes.
"One
of the
reasons
why sever-
al of
the
phone calls came
in,"
says
Schell,
"was
because these people were
extremely impressed with the manner
in which these women presented
themselves. They were gracious and
unassuming
and so happy to be where
they were that the callers wanted to
know more about this place."
Marist had been thrust
into
the
national
spotlight and was now playing for an audience
far larger
than
it ever had
in
Poughkeepsie.
For
its
athletic achievements-being only the
third
No. 13 seed
in
NCAA history to advance
to
the Sweet
16-everyone
from ESPN, the
New York Times and Los Angeles Times to the
Boston
Herald and the San Francisco
Chronicle
was carrying stories about Marist. All of them
SUMMER
2007
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Coach Brian Giorgis (back
row, far left)
led the
Red
Foxes to the Sweet
16
round and the first nation-
a
I ranking in program
history.
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M A R
I
S T M A
G
A Z I N E
seemed
to
end with
the
same question: "Who
is this
IMarist
College?"
For
the
first
time,
the nation
was seeing
Marist: a
mid-sized
school in the
Hudson
Valley
with a great
athletics program
and
individuals
who
hitd
reached the
top
of their games with
the str,ength of character
to
not lose
sight of
how they got
there.
Coach Giorgis encapsulat-
ed
the
experience in an interview with ESPN.
com writer Graham
Hays:
"For
Pat [Summitt] and Tennessee it's an
expectation-26 out of
26
[Sweet 16 appear-
ances].
This
is obviously our
first,
and I
really
wanted the
kids to
enjoy it," Giorgis said.
"It's
a
moment that
hopefully they'll never forget,
so
they
should soak it
up
as
much
as possi-
ble-and still try to
be
a
normal
person, as
far as
doing their
schoolwork and just being a
normal
college student."
"The
most
exciting piece of
it,"
remembers
Chief
Public
Affairs Officer
Tim
Massie,
"was
that
so many of
the
e-mails and
phone
calls
that
caime
in
weren't from alumni or individ-
uals
related
to the school.
They
were simply
people who had watched the games and were so
impressed with
these
women
that
they wanted
to
call and extend their support."
Marist chartered a jet to carry
students, staff, alumni, and
other fans to Dayton, Ohio, for
the Sweet 16 round.
Not only was the
nation behind the Red
Foxes, but so were
the Red
Fox faithful
that had
been there all along. Students and
local resi-
dents
who had
been
at
the
games
throughout
the year were excited as well.
When word got out to
the
student
body
that Marist President
Dennis
Murray
had
char-
tered
a private
jet
for
students and
Red Fox
Club members to the Sweet 16 game in Dayton,
hundreds
of students
lined the third
Ooor of
the
Student Center, some camping out over-
night, in the
hopes of snagging one of the 150
tickets. For $100, students gOL
transportation
to and from Stewart
International
Airport,
the
chanered flight, and
transportation
to and
from
the University of Dayton Arena.
"I
was very
proud
of
the
girls and proud
to
be a
Red
Fox," says
Michael
Gelormino
'07 "They
did something that no one
thought
feasible for them and they excelled. I
don't
know how you couldn't be a
fan
after
that
accomplishment."
"l was watching
it
on TV back
here
at
Marist,"
recounts
Marissa Nelson
'07.
"All you
could see was Tennessee fans. But all you could
hear was Marist."
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Marist Madness
And
the Fans
Followed
Marist
basketball
fans around
the
country
followed
the men's
and women's
basketball
teams as they made historic
postseason
appearances.
Class of '01 alumni (left
to
right) Vinny Pettograsso.,
Todd
Hutton,
John
Nicolucci,
Chris
LaRose,
Ryan
Mccue.,
and
Jason
Echols rooted for Marist at the National
Invitation Tournament
in Raleigh, N.C.
W
hen Jason
Echols
'01
of
Raleigh,
N.C., learned that the Marist
men's
basketball team would be playing
its
second-round game of
the
National
Invitation
Tournament (NIT) at North Carolina State
University
in
Raleigh
on Friday,
March
16,
he
talked
his pal Todd
Hutton
'01
into
making the
drive
down from Newburgh, N.Y.
Todd,
in
turn,
recruited several other Class of
'01
alumni to
make
the trip with
him.
After
picking
up Chris
LaRose '01 on
L9ng Island,
the
two drove
to
Philadelphia
late Thursday,
March
15,
in
order
to
miss
the huge
snowstorm
predicted
for
the
tri-state
area.
In
Philly, Todd and Chris picked
up
John Nicolucci
'01
and Vinny Pettograsso
'01
and started
out
for
Raleigh
at
7
a.m. on
Friday.
Four hundred miles later,
through
pouring rain,
the group
finally
arrived at the
home
of
Ryan
'01
and
Seneca (Beck)
McCue
'01,
who had
just
had their first child, Adelyn Grace
McCue. That
evening
they
headed for
downtown Raleigh
sporting
plenty
of
Marist
gear.
In
a city domi-
nated by
NC State students, alumni, and fans,
this group of Marist alumni definitely stood
out in the
crowd. NC State
ultimately
defeated
Metro
Atlantic Athletic Conference
regular-sea-
son
title
winner
Marist
69-62.
"We
enjoyed a close game,"
says
Ryan,
"and
were proud
to see
Marist
representing the MAAC
so strong
in
a dominant ACC
atmosphere."
■
Marist fans went to Rik's, a restaurant in St. Maarten, to cheer on the Red Foxes
in their Sweet 16 game against the University
of Tennessee.
Gathered
were
(left
to right) Nadine and Lou Persico,
Eileen Sico '97, Dan and Jean vanderKar,
Ina
and Richard
Bennett, and Anita Serano.
Members of 1the Boston chap-
ter of
the
Alumni Association
gathered at th1e
Cask
'n'
Flagon
near Fenway
Park
to watch the
Sweet 16 gamie. Below, Marist
fans still
"b,elieved"
in
the
Red
Foxes outside the Univer-
sity of Dayton Arena after the
Marist vs. Tennessee game.
Tony Campilii
'62 (left) along with his daughter, Allison
Campilii Sapp
'91, and
son, Christian, were three of the
150 passengers aboard the
"Flying
Red Fox," the char-
tered flight that traveled from Stewart International
Airport in Newburgh, N.Y.,
to Dayton, Ohio, on March
25 for the Sweet 16 game.
SUMMER
2007
11






















Marist
Again
Captures
JetBlue
Airways
MAAC
Commi!;sioner's
Cups
The Red Foxes
have again
taken the highest honors
in
their athletic conference,
becoming
the first team in
league history
to win
the
overall, men's,
and women's
categories
of the Cup
competition
four
times.
The women's swimming
and diving team captured
its fourth straight MAAC
title. Senior swimmer
Lauren Malski (below)
won the 100· and 200-
yard breaststroke
events
at the MAAC champion-
ships and was also part
~
of the winning 200· and
~'it ~
1
·
_
400-yard medley relay
teams.
Ml
arist, which captured six
Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference titles
during
the 2006-07 academic year and a
women's basketball berth
in
the Sweet
16, has claimed the league's highest
honors, earning all three JetBlue Airways
MAAC Commissioner's Cups.
This
is the fourth time that Marist swept all
three cmegories (overall, men's, and women's),
the first member institution to do so in the
history of the league.
"This
is a remarkable accomplishment for
Marist's outstanding student-athletes, coach-
es, and administrators," says Marist President
Dennis
J.
Murray. "Our sllldent-athletes have
performed
well, nol only in athletic
endeavors,
but
in
the classroom."
The cup is awarded annually as a symbol of
overall excellence in athletics in
the 25
cham-
pionship athletic events conducted within
the MAAC. Each institution
is
scored
in
all
championships in which it fields a varsity team.
However, only the scores from the
men's
and
women's basketball participation, plus the other
top six men's and other top six women's cham-
pionships, are used to determine an institution's
total points.
Marist finished with a total of 128.50 points,
28.50 points ahead of runner-up Loyola
College.
On the men's side, the Red Foxes captured the
league ,crown with 58 points.just 9.50 points
more than second-place Manhattan. Marist
finished in the top spot in the women's cup
race by compiling 70.50 points, 16.50 points
ahead of Loyola.
"The
Marist College athletic program
continues
to
set standards for excellence that
f
-~---.
·/~
'
The
men's
swimming
and diving team captured
its third straight MAAC championship.
Junior
diver Devon O'Nalty (inset, above) was named
MAAC Diver of the Week three times during
the 2006-07 season.
Upper left: the men's and
women's squads both emerged victorious at
the 2007 MAAC Rowing Championships.
The
men won their seventh consecutive confer-
ence championship
and 10th overall, while the
women earned their second title in as many
years and eighth in program history.
will be difficult
to
match for future genera-
tions of MAAC
student-athletes and coaches,"
MAAC
Commissioner Richard]. Ensor says.
··1
congratulate Athletic Director Tim Murray and
his team of administrat0rs for their tremen-
dous effort t0 build and sustain the Marist
program."
The Red Foxes captured four women's and
two men's championships
this past season. This
past winter, Marist earned the title crown in
women's basketball as well as men's and
women's swimming and diving. In the spring,
Marist captured the men's and women's
rowing
and women's tennis championships.
The rest of the overall field finished as
follows: Loyola (100), Fairfield University
(93.00), Manhattan (92.50), Niagara University
and Siena College (88.50), Iona College (81.00),
Rider University (72.50), Canisius College
(71.00), and Saint Peter's College (52.50).
In
the men's standings, Manhattan finished
second with 48.50 points, followed by Niagara
(46.50),
Loyola
(46), Fairfield (40.50), Siena
(39.50),
Iona
(35), Rider (34), Canisius (30),
and Saint Peter's (29.50).
On the women's side, Loyola was second
with 54 points, followed by Fairfield (52 50),
Siena (49), Iona (46), Manhanan (44), Niagara
(42), Canisius (41),
Rider
(38.50), and Saint
Peter's (23).
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Commencement
NPR
President
Encourages
Graduates
to
ea
At Marist's
61st commencement,
Kevin
Klose,
president
of National
Public
Radio,
told more tl~an
1,000 new graduates
that their education
has equipped
th1em
to meet the
challenges
of the future.
evin
Klose, president
of National Public
Radio,
told
members
of
the
Class of
007 that
their Marist education will
enable
them
to solve the world's problems.
"It will fall
to
you and your generation to
help the rest
of
us find
a path
to
a secure and
peaceful future
for our country, our citizens,
our families."
He
said the new graduates would
be
faced
with challenges such as wars, epidemics, and
climate
change, but that
they
were among the
chosen because
they
were better educated
than
any
previous
generation.
"You
know the rigors
of a
disciplined
search
for credible
facts.
You
have
been gifted with
a
dynamic,
questing, engaged faculty
to
help
you hone
the
skills of
thinking things
through
that must
be your
firmest
companion
through-
out your
lives.
And also you have
been
honed
in reaching for
the best
solutions for family,
community, self, country." He emphasized
Thomas Jefferson's
proposition that
a nation
cannot be
both
ignorant and free.
Klose spoke to
more
than
1,000 undergrad-
uates
and an estimated 9,000 of their family
members
and friends at the College's 61
st
grad-
uation
ceremony.
Klose has led
NPR,
the
nonprofit
radio
programming
organization
that
the New York
Times
has called "a primary
news
source
for
millions of Americans," since
1998.
Over the
past
nine years,
listenership
and program spon-
sorships
have
risen dramatically. One of the
most noteworthy
highlights of
his
tenure was
a
bequest
of
more
than $200 million left
to
NPR in 2003 by the estate of philanthropist
Joan B. Kroc, the widow of McDonald's Corp.
founder Ray
A. Kroc.
Prior to joining NPR, Klose was
director
of
the
U.S. government's
international radio
and
TV
broadcasting
services and earlier was presi-
dent of
the
government's radio service
Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which broadcast to
Central Europe and
the
former Soviet Union.
Prior
to directing the
broadcast
services, he
was an editor and
reporter
at the Washington
Post for
25
years.
His
positions there includ-
ed city editor, Moscow
bureau
chief, Midwest
correspondent, and deputy national editor.
He
is the author of
Russia
and the
Russians:
Inside
the
Closed
Society,
which won the Overseas
Press Club's Cornelius
Ryan
Award,
and co-author of four other
books. He
received a
BA
degree, cum laude, from
Harvard.
At c,::immencement,
Klose
was
awarded
an
H,::inorary
Doctor
of
Humane
Letters
degree:.
The previous
evening, more than
370 students received degrees through
the
School of Graduate and Continuing
Education in
a ceremony in
the McCann
Center.
Dignitaries
onstage
included
Sadie
Effron
'79, who was awarded the
College's
Distinguished
Alumni
Medal.
At age 100, she is
Marist's
oldest living
graduate. An English major, she grad-
uated
from
Marist
at age 72. Many
in
the College community
know
of
her
because of the lecture series she and
her
husband
established at
Marist.
The
annual William and Sadie Effron
Lecture
in
Jewish
Studies at
Marist marked its
30th year in fall 2006.
The medal
is the
highest
award Marist
presents to
its;
graduates and is present-
ed to
individuals
who exemplify the College's
ideals:
excellence in education, the
importance
of community·, and dedication to service.
Effron had some distinguished company
on
the
dais
during
commencement. Among
those
onstage was
Lithia
Greenman, who at
age 91 was awarded a
BA in
English. The audi-
ence gave both
women
a standing ovation as
they
were
introduced.
President Dennis).
Murray also
recognized
another guest on
the
platform, Preston
Felton
'84/'98
MPA, interim
superintendent of the
New York State
Police.
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President Murray (left) recognized Preston Felton '84/'98MP,A (right) as one of the
distinguished guests on the dais at Marist's commencement cernmony for adults receiv-
ing undergraduate and graduate
degrees
through the College's School of Graduate and
Continuing
Education.
Felton is interim superintendent of the New York State Police.
Kevin Klose, president of National
Public
Radio, gave the commencement
address.
President Dennis
J.
Murray (left) awarded the
2007 Distinguished Alumni Medal to Sadie
Effron '79 (center) as Effron's
son Ira joined her
on the platform.


















Hits a Hi~ Note
A
veteran of 26 years in
the
U.S. Army,
he does
not cry. Even when his parents
passed
away, Marist Director of Music
Art
Himmelberger
was able to give
their
eulo-
gies.
But
the day
he
watched a homemade video
his
graduating students gave him in 2004,
the
unthinkable
happened:
tears
rolled
down his
cheeks.
"You've given
me the
confidence
LO
be
who l
am
today," trumpet
player and choir
member
Pamela Bellemare
'04 said
in the
video.
"Without the
band I don't
think
I
would
have
come this far as a person."
"From your
knowledge
and your mentor-
ship
I've
learned so
much
about myself, so
much
about my potential
to become
a
better
human
being and a
better
leader,
not
only
in
the band
but
in
everything
that I do,"
said
Michael
Napolitano '04. Over and over in
the
video, students
thanked
him for
his
support
and
inspiration.
Bellemare,
who
today
plays trumpet
in the
Brookline
Community Band
in
Massachuseus,
recalls
now that
her
music
skills grew
tremen-
dously
at Marist.
She was a member
of not only
the
Marist
Band but also
the
Marist Singers.Jazz
Foxes, and Chamber Singers. She became "first
chair,"
the position
in every orchestra
reserved
for
the
best musidan on each
instrument.
"I
remember practicing
a concerto freshman year
when Art came into my practice room and said
that
l
had a great sound. He said
I
should
be
playing
'first.'
I
wasn't very confident about my
playing, but
afterwards,
my
confidence grew.
Before
I
knew it,
I
was
the principal
first trum-
peter/section leader,
playing solos and helping
the
freshmen in my section get
into
the groove.
It
helped boost my confidence in Singers,
too,
where
!°was
the only female tenor, and I start-
ed singing solos.
"It was exciting to
be
a part of something
that
was growing-and continues
to
growl-over
those four
years.''
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A First-Fltate Band
The
l 50-member Marist College Band organi-
zation is surprising people, near and far, who
believe that small colleges cannot establish and
maintain gre:at
bands,
says Himmelberger.
"The
Marist
Band has
become
the
standard that other
small college
bands
emulate,"
he
says.
Although all of the
members
of the
band
don't
travel to every venue because of
their
class schediules, the group has
nevertheless
gained exposure over
the past dozen
years
through
multiple appearances at Walt
Disney
World, National Collegiate
Athletic Association
basketball
tournaments, Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference basketball
tournaments,
National
Invitation
Tournament games, basketball games
at Madison Square
Garden,
and the nationally
televised
Ki,:k-Off
Classic in
Giants
Stadium
at the Meadowlands.
The band made quite an impression on
one sports writer this past November when
the
men's basketball
team played in
the
Old
Spice Classic at Disney's Wide World of Sports
Complex.
'The band was
one
of
the
highlights
of
the
event,. especially when
they
stayed and
played
during the championship game," wrote
ESPN
columnist Jeff Shelman in his account of
the
Classic. •-rhis isn't a mid-major band-this
is
a
major-major
outfit."
The band
gained more exposure
than
ever
this past
March
when it played at the
Red
Foxes' basketball games during
the
MAAC
Championship Tournament in Bridgeport,
Conn., and NCAA women's
regional
games
in
Palo Alto, Ca11if.,
and Dayton, Ohio, events tele-
vised
nation:ally.
Band members traveled more
than 10,000
miles this
academic year,
by
far
the
most
ever.
Himmelberger
says all
the direc-
tors of
the
01ther
teams'
bands
were surprised
at
the
caliber
of the
Marist
Band.
The
band also
performs in
concert halls,
befitting its primary
mission:
to
"master
Backstage
at the Bardavon,
Amanda Rollizo
'08 (left) and Karen
Pickford
'08 prepared flowers to be worn
by members
of
Kappa
Kappa
Psi
and
Tau
Beta Sigma, the
national honorary
band
fraternity and sorority.
symphonic
band
repertoire
that
provides
higher levels of
technical and aesthetic
diffi-
culty so our student members
can grow as musicians and
perform acclaimed concert
literature,"
Himmelberger
says.
This
ensemble, along
with
Marist's 30-piece string
orchestra and
180-member
Marist
Singers organization,
draws a standing-room-only
crowd to the 933-seat
historic
Bardavon 1869
Opera
House
in
downtown Poughkeepsie
at
its
fall and spring concerts
each year.
Art
Himmelberger
conducts
onstage.
Modest Beginnings
It wasn't always that way. A
1983
story on
the
front
page
of
the
student
newspaper the
Circle
describes
a
pep band that
formed
in 1982
and
performed at men's
home
basketball games.
But
it
was
not
chartered as
an
official student
club and
had
no
budget,
and
the
College's
sole
instrument was a
bass drum,
according
to the
article.
Today's band
dates to January 1986.
Himmelberger was
a U.S. Army percussion-
ist
and
member
of
the
senior
leadership team
of
the
United
States
Military Academy Band at
West
Point
when Marist asked him to prepare a
band for the College's
upcoming
game against
Fordham in Madison Square Garden. When he
arrived at
the
Marist chapel for the first
rehears-
al,
he
was stunned to find only two students
inside. One of them, Paul Stento '90,
recalls
also being shocked by the dismal turnout. But,
he
says,
Himmelberger
was "the consummate
positive
thinker
and professional" who knew
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The band performs
regularly
at Walt Disney World.
how Lo get things done. The three practiced,
and
two
days
later
the
bandleader
drove them
LO
the Garden, bringing along a drum kit. The
modern-day
Marist College Band was born.
Despite a busy schedule
that
included
playing on the soc.cer
team,
StenlO, a trum-
peter since sixth grade, wanted
LO
continue in
the
Oedgling
outfit. Himmelberger augmented
the small group with his West Point musician
buddies, paying each with a
hot
dog, a soda,
and $15 in travel money when they came
to
an event. Marist's then-athletics director, Gene
Doris, bought the group red-and-white striped
shirts. The
band became
a welcome part of
basketball games. Cheerleaders would request
certain songs to cheer to. The athletes
them-
selves would say afterwards,
"Hey,
good job out
there"
and
"Going
to be at the
next
game?"
The band grew more popular as it gained
exposure, and in 1994 the band's first pres-
ident,
senior trumpeter Michael Gordon,
established
the
band as a club under the
bylaws of
the
Student Government Association.
That year
it
turned a corner when four first-
year students took charge during the second
semester.
Jennifer
Trenary Malcarne
'97,
Judy
Reid LaVoie
'97,
Anastasia Filak
'97,
and
Jessica
Cramer
Richard
'97
served as band officers
for three years. Although Marist has no music
major, the Music
Program
recruits high school
students whom the College has accepted and
who
indicated
on their applications that
they
play
instruments. The four
newly elected band
officers set about convincing such students to
choose Marist and join the band. By the
time
the four women graduated, the band had grown
to 50
people. Thal included
members of a string
orchestra, formed
in 1997.
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Semin1oles
for a Day
In
1998 the band, at 80 members, had an
experiernce that made it even more attractive
to
students. Members were in band camp,
held
annually the week before fall classes start, when
the president
of the Florida State University
Alumni Association called Himmelberger
in
a
panic.
FSU was facing Texas A&M in the Kick-
off Clasi;ic at Giants Stadium in New Jersey.
The Texas school had a 400-piece
marching
band
rea1dy
to perform. The FSU Band wasn't
ready, and the FSU Alumni Association
wanted
a
band
p,ronto.
The Marist Band rode
to
the
rescue:
Himmelberger again called on his friends from
bands p:ast, sending
them
sheet music. FSU
paid for buses and food and donated sever-
al thous:and
dollars to the
Marist
Band
fund.
The musiicians
mustered in the Giants Stadium
parking lot before
the
game for a two-hour
rehearsal,
their first and last. For that night,
they were the FSU Band.
The
FSU Alumni
Association awarded the band a
plaque that
now sits in the
trophy
case
in
Marist's Music
Department.
"From
that point on, the band has grown
significantly,"
says Himmelberger.
A major reason for the growth of Music
Department programs has
been
President
Dennis
J.
Murray. When
he
became Marist's
president
in
1979, there was no band or choir,
Himmelberger
says.
"Dr.
Murray has been very,
very helpful and
instrumental in
our
develop-
ment.
He has been our greatest advocate."
Stento, now a financial advisor with Merrill
Lynch Global Private Client Group in Albany,
still plays his trumpet occasionally
for his
three
young
children.
He
heard the
band this
past
February when he attended a basketball game
at Marist. Now he says he
is
glad he and
the
other early players were so committed
to
keep-
ing
the group going.
"The
band
is
top-notch,
first-class, and a
lot
to be proud of."
One of
tlhe
band's functions
is to perform at athletics events.














A Choral Tradition
Although
the
band was only
just hatching
in the
1980s,
choirs had
been
a major
part
of campus
life
in the College's earliest
days
when
it
was Marian College, an academy for
training Marist
Brothers. From the
founding
of the Marist Normal
Training
School
in
1923
through
the late 1950s, the
tradition
of choral
singing was extraordinarily
rich,
says
Professor
Emeritus of Chemistry
J
Richard
La Pietra '54.
All students were involved
in
the preparation
of both Gregorian chants and harmony-sing-
ing several
times
a week, singing at
masses
and in campus concerts. Special choirs sang
the
more difficult pieces and also performed
in
the
community. After 1959, when the College
became independent,
the
tradition
of singing
together
continued.
"No
faculty party in the
'60s
was complete without a session around the
piano, Mari st
Brothers
and
lay,
singing familiar
tunes," the
professor remembers.
But by 1980 when DorothyAnn Davis
became
the director
of
music,
she had
to
build
a choral program
from
scratch. Formerly the
choral director at
Ladycliff
College
in
Highland
Falls, NY, she not only taught music classes at
Marist but also directed three student choirs,
eventually
taking
groups to perform in Italy,
Germany, Austria, Egypt,
Israel,
Australia, and
New Zealand.
She was succeeded as
director
of
the
Music
Department by Mark
Lawlor
and then Laura
Russell,
who
both
continued
to
strengthen the
program. At each
director's
side since
1982
has
been
Ruthanne Schempf, accompanist and
music history
instructor,
who accompanies
the
Marist choirs
today.
Although Himmelberger came on board
the
Music
Department
staff in 1986, he main-
tained his full-time
role at West Point until
2002. That year he retired from
the
Army and
joined Marist full
time
as director of
the
Music
Department.
He
now
oversees all orchestral, choral, and
academic offerings of
the department, helped
by band and choir alumnus
Mike
Napolitano,
who
is
now
manager
of Music Department
operations, a
much-needed position
created
in
2005.
Fourteen
part-time instructors teach
academic
music
classes and
lead
ensembles
that
include
the Jazz
Band, woodwind ensemble,
brass ensemble, percussion ensemble,
hand-
bell choir,
low
brass choir, woodwind quintet,
string orchestra, string
quartet,
jazz sextet
Funk 101, and
two
flute choirs.
Today 180 students
participate
in
the
Marist
Singers,
directed by Christopher
Sheehan,
assistant
director
of the Music Program and
director
of choral activities, who
joined
the
Music Department
in 2005.
The department's
vocal ensembles
include
three women's choirs,
a men's choir, a gospel choir,
liturgical
sing-
ers, chamber singers, and
the
a cappella
groups
Time
Check and Sirens.
The
groups
perform
at
campus special events,
in
community venues,
and even at Carnegie Hall.
Today
180 students participate
in
the Marist Singers.
No Fun Without Music
Altogether
more
than
350 students are
involved
in
Music Dejpartment instrumental
and vocal
groups. Alth,ough
practice
space for
the
depart-
ment, located
in
the basement of the Student
Center,
is limited,
the student musicians remain
admirably
dedicated.
Three evenings
each week,
band
members spend an hour removing dining
tables
and chairs from the Student Center cafe-
teria to
make room for rehearsal set-ups
that
include chairs,
music
stands, and many large
percussion
instruments. They spend anoth-
er hour dismantling their set-ups at the end
of each rehearsal and arranging
the
cafeteria
tables
and chairs for
the following
morning's
breakfast.
Si nee
the
area
is too
small
to
contain
the
140 band[ members at once, the symphonic
band
practic,es Monday nights, the
percussion-
ists Tuesday nights, and the wind symphony
Thursday nights.
Similarly,
the
180 members of the Marist
Singers seldom rehearse as a complete ensem-
ble. The choir
room
comfortably
and safely can
hold
60 singers at a time. So
the
ensemble
rehearses
as three separate
units:
the freshman
women,
the upper-class
women, and all men
singers. When pending performances
dictate
that the
ensemble must rehearse as a whole,
140
singers cover
the
floor space, crowding
around the grand piano, with 40
more
singers
spilling through open
doors
into
the
adjacent
hallway.
Classroom schedule conflicts relegate
the College's string orchestra
to preparing
its
repertoire
in the Music
Department's instru-
ment storage room,
amidst
stand-alone
tubas,
Sousaphones, euphoniums, and trombones
that
overflow
from
the department's storage
cabinets.
"We
outgrew our current facilities
several years ago," Himmelberger says. "The
Douglas Rich,ard
leads the Marist College Orchestra.
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desire of our student musicians to succeed,
excel
in their
crafts, and provide audiences
with
quality performances
supersedes obsta-
cles
that they face
every
day
in preparing
their
concert
literature."
In
addition to the singers and
musicians,
more than 350 other
Marist
students,
includ-
ing
student-athletes and students
from
all
other major academic programs,
take classes
in
jazz, opera, music
theory,
piano
instruction,
voice
instruction, medieval
and renaissance
music, history of motion picture
music,
and
music of
the
18th,
19th,
and
20th
centuries,
among other subjects in
the music discipline.
"Our
music program
provides and emphasiz-
es worthwhile
music
activities and academic
offerings for students who
don't
wish
LO
make
a
living
at
music," Himmelberger
says.
Music
minors
are offered in instrumental or
\'Ocal
cracks. The Dr.
Edwin A. Ulrich Charitable
Trust supports music at Marist with an annual
gift
that
the
Music Department
distributes as
private
lesson scholarships.
The department's motto
is
"No Music
Without
Fun,
No Fun Without
Music,"
and
Himmelberger says the
band,
orchestra, and
choirs have become wonderful social and musi-
cal outlets for
the
students.
"We've
developed
a Music
Department
family."
Marist Singers president Amanda Schreiner
'08
agrees. "My
participation in
Singers repre-
sents a
huge
part of my college experience.
l
joined
the program
immediately when I came
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Spring Music Festival 2007: Above (left to right), Assistant Director of Choral Activities Sarah
Williams conducted
two women's choirs; Director of Choral Activities Christopher
Sheehan
led
the Sing1m; and Director of the Marist College Orchestra
Douglas
Richard
conducted
the
orches-
tra. Below, President
Dennis
J.
Murray congratulated
graduating seniors.
LO
Marist, and
I think it
was one of the
best
choices l could have
made.
This department
has
trul11
become
like
family to me-I spend
a great deal of time with my
fellow
Singers
both in rehearsal and outside of
it,
and
I think
the
people in the Music Department are what
make it
:so
special."
Band president and clarinet player Matthew
DePace
'08
says that being
pan
of
that
family
has
been
one of the best things about playing
in the
band
and being involved
in the
Music
Department. "I know, and
the
ocher members of
our organizations
know, that
everyone
is always
there for each other."
He
says Himmelberger
has made a tremendous impact on him.
"His
dedication
to
music and
his loyalty
to
Marist
are
unmatched.
He has a tremendous amount
of energy, and his passion for what he does is
an inspiration."
"I
learned so many
things
that
I
will always
take with me, about music and about
life, from
Band and Singers, and of course
from
An," says
Pamela Bellemare.
"It's an experience
I
wouldn't
trade for
anything."
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Mari
st A~road
A Bachelor's
Degree
Pro~1ram
Is
Launched
in
The Florence
program
offers bachelor's
degrees in
seven academic
disciplines:
studio art, art history,
fashion design, English
literature,
interior
design,
conservation
studies/
restoration,
and
digital media.
M
arist
has
launched
a new bachelor's
degree program
in
Florence,
Italy,
allowing students
to
earn a four-year
Marist
degree abroad.
Marist students can choose to spend
anywhere from one to four years at the new
site. Through a unique partnership between
Marist
College and Scuola
Lorenzo
de Medici
in
Florence, Lhe
program
offers bachelor's
degrees
in seven academic
disciplines:
studio
art, art
history, fashion
design, English with
a concentration in
literature,
interior design,
conservation studies/restoration, and
digital
media. The
site in
Florence
has been
approved
by the Middle
States Commission on
Higher
Education as Marist's first
branch
campus.
Seventeen students enrolled for the first
semester of
the
program last fall. Most are
from the United States, with others
hailing
from countries such as
Kazakhstan, Russia,
and Sweden.
Meg Franklin,
assistant dean of academic
affairs and
director
of Marist-LdM Programs,
says plans for
the program began in
spring
2005. "We
have had
a
longstanding relation-
ship in terms of study abroad with
Lorenzo
de Medici
in
Italy.
Our students have always
been
very
happy there. It
is our most popular
program."
The new
site aims
to draw
students
not only
from the
United States
but
also all
parts of the world
to
create an educational expe-
rience
with an international navor. Students
will have to
meet the
same requirements as
their
peers in
the
States,
including
core
liberal
studies courses and college writing.
In
addition to those in
the Florence
degree
program,
more than
450
Marist
students stud-
ied abroad
in
2006-07, making it
the most
successful
academic year ever
for
Marist's
inter-
national programs.
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PATTERSON
'07
Studenlts posed with Professor Jacopo Berti (sixth from left) in front of the Duomo
(Cathedral of Santa Maria Dei Fiori) are (left to right) Brittany Preston, Sarah Hajtol,
Jackie Casaceli, Amanda
LaMela,
Lauren Peters, Patrick Sarson, Bridgete LaRose,
Tarsy Koentges, and Nicholas Sera-Leyva.
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Upgrades
New
Turf
for
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A new athletic stadium
has
taken shape, and chemistry
labs as well as the historic
Cornell
Boathouse
have
been renovated.
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The new grandstand will seat 2,200 and have an athletic training
room,
team and officials' dress-
ing rooms, restrooms, concessions, and storage space. The first football game will take place
Oct. 6 at 1 p.m. against Duquesne during Homecoming Weekend.
M
arist's
latest
construction
project
is
obvious to anyone who
has
driven
by
the campus
on Route
9 since
October.
Leonidoff
Field,
located at the south
entrance
to the
campus, is undergoing a major
O\'erhaul, including a
new precast
grandstand
structure topped with a
press booth
and VIP
suites. The stands will have
2,000
seats and
space for
200
additional seats
in
the press
box
for
a total capacity of
2,200. Beneath
specta-
tor
seating will be an athletic
training
room,
team
and officials' dressing rooms,
restrooms,
concessions, and storage space.
The Marist
Media Center worked with the project's archi-
tects,
Skidmore, Owings&: Merrill,
to upgrade
the sound system. Skidmore, Owings&: Merrill
also created
the
master plan
that
is guiding
Marist's campus development through 2011.
A mild December
and January helped
keep
the project
on
track. In
addition, the area
under
the
seating, where
plumbing
and electrical
work
was required, was enclosed so that work could
continue
regardless
of winter weather.
The stadium will serve as the home field for
the
Marist
football
team
as well
as the
men's
and women's
lacrosse
and soccer
teams.
The
first
football
game
to be
played on
the
new
field will take
place Oct.
6 at 1
p.m.
against
Duquesne during
Homecoming Weekend.
BY KERRY
SYKES
A new pavilion in Longview Park offers scenic
views of the Hudson River.








Marist's chemistry labs have been undergo-
ing renovation. Jeremy T. Madden '07 (above)
carried out research in the
labs
for his advanced
inorganic chemistry course this past spring.
He is starting a
PhD
program in chemistry at
Purdue University this fall. Below, the Cornell
Boathouse sports new siding, paint, and
windows as well as improvements to the Envi-
ronmental Science
Department
lab inside.
A 264-bed townhouse complex is planned, pending town approval, for
the
east side of campus.
A New Chemical Compound
Leonidoff Field isn't the only area on
the
southern end of
the
campus to get a face-lift.
Renovations to the Chemistry
Department
in
Donnelly
Hall began in May and will
be
complete
by the
fall
2007
semester.
"The
overarching goal of this
renovation
is to
provid,e
a physical setting that better
supports 21
st
-century
teaching
and
research
methods in
the
chemistry discipline," says
Executive Vice
President Roy Merolli.
Crews
will
upgrade
the
plumbing
and
heating
and air
conditioning,
infrastructure, improve
lighting
and safety equipment throughout the
labs,
and
reconfigure
the
lab spaces
to
enhance faculty/
student interaction and support instruction.
The total
estimated cost of the stadium and
lab projects is $11 million.
Improvements West to East
Meanwhile, work on waterfront
Longview
Park
is
wrapping up and a
new
scenic over-
look pavilion at
the
top of a
hill
offers expansive
views of
the
Hudson
River. Renovations to the
historic Cornell Boathouse
include
replacement
of windows,
installation
of
new
cedar siding
and wood
trim,
and new exterior
paint.
A small
area
used
for environmental science has
been
upgraded, and the boathouse will continue
to
support environmental science pursuits as well
as the
men's
and women's crew
teams.
On
the
east
side
of
the
campus, construc-
tion
may start
this
summer on a 264-bed
townhouse complex. Marist administrators
are
awaiting approval
for the
complex
from
the
Town of
Poughkeepsie Planning
Board.
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David
Ng
'80
paid his dues
as
a reporter.
Now
he runs
the
irrepressible,
inimitable
New
York
Daily
News.
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\IARIST
MAGAZl'\JE
vid
Ng '80_______..
Marist
Grad
Is Heail
Ed
P R C) F I L E S
O
n Sept.
10, 1963, the cover of
the
New
York
Daily News featured a
photograph
of an Asian immigrant and
her
five-
year-old daughter. The two, along with others
in their family. quickly
became local
celeb-
rities in their Chinatown neighborhood on
Manhattan's Lower
East Side.
"That was my
first
introduction to
journal-
ism and
1.he power
of
the press,"
says David
Ng '80, the
brother
of
the
girl
in the photo.
"I
never forgot
that."
More
than
40 years
later,
Ng is often the
one decidling what will go on the cover of that
same
newspaper.
As
the
Daily News's executive editor,
his
office loo!ks out
toward the paper's busy news-
room. Se-veral memorable
Daily News covers
from
throughout his
life
in
journalism fill the
wall
behimd his
desk. including that of
his
mother and sister from 1963.
'Throughout
my life, I've
been fortunate LO
come across one great opportunity after anoth-
B Y
JEFF DAHNCKE
'01
er," Ng says. "So often it's about being at
the
right
place
at the
right
time."
As Ng
recalls, that's
exactly
how he
ended
up at
Marist.
While attending St.
Raymond High
School
for
Boys in
the
Bronx,
where
he
was ediLOr
of
the
student
newspaper,
Ng went
LO
a college fair
on
Manhattan's
West Side.
He bumped into his
former English
teacher,John
Noonan, who
had
since left St.
Raymond's to
become
an
admis-
sions counselor at Marist. Shortly
thereafter.
Noonan convinced him
to
spend a weekend
in
Poughkeepsie.
"I
fell
in
love with the
place," Ng
recalls.
He thrived
at
Marist,
becoming editor of
the
student
newspaper the
Circle, studying
abroad in
London,
and
interning
at United
Press
International.
Not
bad
for a guy who was
the
first in
his
family
to
go
away to
college.
"He was a very vocal kid, very bright, and
a great writer.
David
was
the type
of kid you
knew
was going
LO
make
it
somewhere,"
says
Noonan, who
is
now
dean of admissions
at
SLOny
Brook
SouthampLOn.
"I'd
like to
think
that I
had some role in his development by














In 1983,
David
Ng's
bylh11e
appeared
under
one of the
Post's
most
legendary
headlines:
"Headless
Body
in Topless
Bar."
teaching him
and introducing
him to
Marist,
but
he probably would have
been successful
no matter where he
went to college.
He
was
just
that
type
of
person."
Others
recall different
qualities that
made
Ng stand out. "The first thing
that
immedi-
ately impressed me
about
David
was
that he
could spell," says
Richard
Sisk, for whom
Ng
interned
at UPI
"The
second thing that
impressed me was that he
could count. None
of
us
can count."
Sisk
is
currently a reporter
in the
Washington, D.C., bureau
of the
Daily
News,
meaning
Ng
has
gone
from being
one of
his
interns to being
one of
his bosses. It's
a progres-
sion that Sisk doesn't at all
resent, however.
"David was so enthusiastic
and
showed that
he had
a
feel
for it.
He
picked
up
so quickly on
what journalism
was abouL
and
what
the
meat
of
a
story
was,"
Sisk says. "As an editor,
David
has never
lost a
knack
for being a colleague.
He has an ability
t0
listen, to
take it
from
the
reporter
on
the
scene. A lot of editors,
frankly,
don't
have that."
Ng's
ability to
lisLen
to reporters
comes
from
the many years
he
was a successful report-
er
himself. After
graduating
from Marist,
he
joined the
New
York
Post
as a
dictationist,
a pre-
e-mail position in which
he transcribed
swries
that reporters
phoned
in from
the
road.
Over
the next
13 years, Ng worked
his
way up at
the
Post
from
reporter to associate
managing
edi.tor.
He
covered
many
memorable
stories
along the
way,
including the infamous
Central
Parkjjogger
case in 1989.
ln
1983, Ng's
byline also appeared
under
one of
the
Post's
most legenda.ry headlines:
"Headless
Body
in
Topless Bar."
Ng
first
Jioined
the Daily
News
in 1993,
where he held
various
positions including
metropolitan
editor and
deputy
managing
editor.
In
2000, he
left to
join the Star-Ledger,
New
Jersey'i; largest
newspaper, where he
served as assistant managing editor.
It
was a
homecoming
of sorts
for
Ng last year when
he returned
1to the Daily News
t0
assume his
current
position.
"David
is
a smart guy who
brings
intel-
ligence to the craft and an
understanding
of
people
to
the table," says
Dinah
Eng, a syndi-
cated columnist for Gannett News Service.
"Nothing
is achieved
without the support of
others, and
O,avid
's
savvy, empathy, and sense
of humor
make
him a natural leader."
While
he's
a
leader in the
journalism
community overall,
he is
also one of the
most
prominent
journalists
ever
to
come from an
Asian American
background.
"There
are very few Asian American
news-
room leaders at the top of
their
organizations,
and
David is
the first Asian American
tO
run
a
newspaper
the
size of
the Daily
News,"
says
Eng, who also serves as director of
the
Asian
American Journalists Association's
Executive
Leadership Program.
"Ha\'ing
his name on
the masthead
is an
inspiration
for other Asian
American
journalists,
and
indeed,
for all
minor-
ity journalists."
Despite his
success, and the hundreds of
congratulatory
e-mails he
received
from around
the
country upon returning to
the
Daily News,
Ng
remains
humble and shies away from call-
ing himself
a
role model.
"People should
pick their
own role models,"
says Ng, who grew
up idolizing tennis
great
Arthur Ashe.
"He
was a
classy, poised
gentle-
man,"
Ng
recalls
of Ashe.
Ng has those same qualities, and they have
helped to
propel his career. They have also
served
him
well in his
life
outside
of
journalism.
He
and his wife.Joan Harrison,
live
on Staten
Island
with
their
two daughters-Isla Clare,
12,
and Esme Maria, 6-and
their
two
dogs.
"David
is a warm,
loving human being
who
has a
razor-sharp
wit and deep sense
of
spiritu-
al values," Eng says.
"He
loves being
the
father
of
two daughters."
His ascension from
his
Chinatown child-
hood to
the top
of New York City journalism
is
nothing short of the quintessential American
success story.
"I
live
the
white picket fence
life,
minus the
white picket fence," Ng says with a smile.
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1 9 5
i6
James
Friel
is editor ,of
Humanities
Magazine.
The
year 2007 marks
the
35th anniversary of
the
magazine.
He
is
also president of Justin Books
Publishing Co. and ii;
the
director
of the Center for Philosophy, law,
Citizenship,
Inc.
I
Rudolph Ramirez
survived open heart surgery and
continues to teach and coach at St.
Thomas Aquinas
High
School
in
Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla.
lnn1N·
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1 9 5 7
G. Patrick
Gallaghe1r
is president
of the Gallagher-Westfall
Group. He
has been involved
in law enforcement
liability and expert witness ser\'iC-
es for
police
for the past 25 years
and has recently been
named
a co-
director of the legal and liability
Risk
Management
Inmitute,
which
provides a wide range of services
to police departments all over the
country.
1
9 5
.S
Three
of
William
Mahe
r's
four chil-
dren will be married by August 2007
and
his
first grandchild, Zoe Marie,
was born in March.
~unm·
1•~
1
9 6 2
William Lenehan
is enjoying retire-
ment. He participate:s in outdoor
sports, volunteers,
travels,
and
spends
time
with his children and
six grandchildren.
I
Patrick Murphy
is completing his 44th year
in
educa-
tion, with
no
retirement in sight
yet! His last son is
in
college.
I
Dr.
M. John
O'Connell
has
had
much
success in establishing a virtual
community of more than 160 Marist
Brothers
and ex-Brothers
who were in
school
together
more than 40 years
ago (from 1954 to 1962). For more
information, e-mail OBbWAT@aol.
com.I
Frank Sutton
has retired from
teaching but still runs Sutton's Place,
a guest
house
in Manchester, Vt.
I
Frank Swetz
is the editor of e-journal
Convergence.
Visit
his
site at http://
convergence.mathdl.org.
I
Francis
Walsh
retired
to
Englewood, Fla.
1
9 6 4
Robert
YanAernem
is
retired
and
has
three grandchildren.
1
9 6 5
Dennis Feeney
retired from the
Huntington schools on
long
Island
in 2006. He was
the
recipient of
the
2007 Distinguished Teacher of
the
Year Award from the
Harvard
Club
of
long
Island.
I
Samuel Maneri
retired
in
June of 2006 as a middle
school counselor.
I
Bob O'Handley
is enjoying life with three grandchil-
dren, with one more on the way.
In
addition to teaching and carrying
out research at MIT,
he has
started
a small company making energy-
saving devices and sensors.
1
9 6 6
Theodore Flynn
is vice chair of
the
board of directors
of
the
New England
Shelter for
Homeless
Veterans.
I
Joseph Garcia
and his wife are
enjoying retirement in Florida.
They travel
occasionally
throughout
the United States, especially to visit
their children and grandchildren.
I
Alan Schultz
is a retired
lab
director
for
the
New York City Department
of Environmental Protection. He
is
a
flight
inspector
with River
Aviation
at
the Kingston/Ulster
Airport in Ulster
Co,,~Y
n:mN•
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1 9 6 7
Michael Gilfeather
is still enjoy-
ing retirement as he waits for
his
last
son
to
graduate from college.
I
In
1997
Bob Johnson
started Kaffe
Magnum Opus (www.kmocoffee.
com), a wholesale coffee manufac-
turer
that
in
2006 will
top
$2 million
in sales. Bob's current indulgence
is
bluegrass music. He and
his
wife,
Cathy, tra\'el extensively to jams
and festivals, collecting songs and
singing. He formed a group, Kettle
Creek Band (www.kettlecreekband.
com), in September 2006. Bob and
Cathy plan to have a second home
in Galax, Va., a bluegrass and moun-
tain music mecca. Daughter
Jennifer
is a supervising producer on CBS's
Cold Case
and his son Paul started
Meadowbrook
landscaping. He has
five grandchildren: Maggie, Jake,
Marli, Luke, and
lngrid.
lJoseph
Lallo
retired on April 1,
2006,
as manager of ExxonMobil
Risk
Management
after 27 years of service.
I
Anthony
laRocco
has
been elect-
ed vice president of the Fire
Island
Pines Ans Project.
I
Rupert Ross
says
that the fishing
is great
in Port
Aransas, Texas.
1
9 6 8
Robert Bailey,
Esq.,
is
the
direc-
tor of Missouri University School
of Law's nationally ranked
Dispute
Resolution Center. As commission-
er of
the
National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State
laws, Robert continues
lo
work as
a salary arbitrator for Major League
Baseball.
I
Thomas Bauer
has been
appointed to supervisor of prac-
tical
arts,
in
addition
to
being the
world
language
supervisor, at Park
Ridge High School in New
Jersey.I
Dr.Joseph Brosnan
has
been named
the 12th president of
Delaware
Valley
College.
I
Paul
D'Ascoli's
fourth son,
Christopher, is a senior at Marist
and spent a semester in Australia.
I
Dominick
Favata
retired
to
Hilton
Head,
S.C.1
Paul
Hickey
produced
a CD of songs about the Brooklyn
Dodgers. Visit
his
Web site at www.
brooklyndreamof55.com.
I
Dorothy
Kondash
Willis
has been
reelected
president of NARFE Chapter 662
of
Leesburg,
Fla. She hopes that all
active and retired federal employ-
ees are or will become members.
I
Edward
Manganel
is celebrat-
ing his 25th year or
teaching
at
Monsignor Farrell High School on
Staten Island, N.Y.
I
Michael
Ryan
has been appointed facilities
manager
and
trade
show logistics manager at
Biesse America in Charlotte,
N.C.
1 9 6 9
Harry
Carroll is
still the president
of the St. Patrick's Day
Parade
and
Faire for Phoenix, Ariz., and the
Arizona Colleen Pageant.
I
Brian
Flanagan
retired to
Southport,
N.C.,
in July 2005. He
has
opened
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JR Morrissey '88 Receives Fashion Progr·am's
First Distinguished Alumni Award
The Marist College Fashion Program has present-
ed its inaugural Distinguished Alumni Award to
JR Morrissey
'88.
President Dennis
J.
Murray
and Fashion Program
Director Radley Cramer gave the award
to
JR at the
21st Annual Silver Needle Fashion Show April 27 at
the
Mid-Hudson
Civic
Center in Poughkeepsie.
His scholarship award this year went to Sheila
Cooney '08 for
her
"Project Green" garment, which
used
bamboo fabric donated by
the Bamboo
Textile
Company.
The award will be given in
the future
only as a
very special
honor to
outstanding alumni from the
Fashion Program, according to Radley
Cramer.
Also at the show, Fashion
Program
alumna
Dominique Pino-Santiago '99 served on the panel
of
jud9es
that evaluated the designs and presented
a schollarship.
She
contributed to a scholarship
that
honomd the Outstanding Senior Garment from the
show finale. The award went
to
Kristina Iacobucci
'07 for her "Lily
of the
Mohawks"
design.
JR has contributed substantially to the ongo-
ing success of the Fashion Program,
he
says. "JR is
an active
member
of the Fashion Program Adviso-
ry
Board, has permitted use of his garment center
showroom for the program's annual alumni recep-
tion,
and contributes a scholarship
to
the Fashion
Program honoring
an outstanding garment
from
a third-year design major at the program's Silver
Needle
Fashion Show."
Mo,re than $35,000 in other scholarships was
award,ed.
The
award for Outstanding Senior Collec-
tion w,ent to Amanda Marcalus
'07
for "The Devil's
Reject:s."
Amanda Cassese '07 won
the
award for
Outstanding Senior Design Portfolio.
a small business, is involved with
the community food pantry, and is
a volunteer
firefighter.
He
is
enjoying
coastal North Carolina very much.
I
Gregory King
and
his
wife,
Rosie,
have three children, all graduates of
St. Louis University.
I
Sean O'Neill
was elected rear commodore of
the
Albany
Yacht
Club. Founded in 1873,
the Albany Yacht Club is one of the
oldest yacht clubs in the country.
1
9 7 0
Robert Brown
and
his
wife, Mary
Ellen,
have
been married 34 years.
Daughter Erin is married and Kate
will be getting married. Son Connor
is also doing well.
I
John Kren
was
ordained as a permanent deacon in
the Diocese
of
Richmond
in March
Thei show featured more
than
180 garments
by seniors as well as first-, second-, and third-year
designers.
2003.
I
Anthony P. Lof:aro
was
named assistant director with the
U.S. Government Accountability
Office
in
Washington, D.C. He and
his
wife, Nanette, live in Springfield,
Va.
I
Austin
Sansone
retired after a
career in public service.
I
Dean
Scribner
retired
in July
2006 after
35 years of government service,
23 of which were as a
research
physi-
cist at the Naval
Research
Laborat0ry.
In August 2006,
he took
a position
as associate chief scientist with
Northrop Grumman Corp
..
1 9 7 1
William
Fil's
daughter,
Cheryl,
graduated cum
laude
from Marist
in 2006 with a degree in psycholo-
gy. His other daughter,
Lauira
'01, is
in her third year of medical school at
the New York
College
of Osteopathic
Medicine.
I
W. Terrence
Mooney
runs a
large
mental
health
practice
in Albany, NY, with more than 40
employees.
I
John Rogener
has joined
MSCI
Barra,
a provider
of benchmark
indices and
risk management
anal-
ysis products, as the head of global
learning and development.
lJoseph
Rubino
was elected
to the
First
Coast
Metropolitan
Planning
Organization.
The organization
is
responsible for
transportation planning, related air,
noise, and water quality planning,
and a variety of other
transporta-
tion-related
issues
that affect people
living
in the greater
Jacksonville,
Fla.,
area.
I
Robert
Ullrich
has developed
a software program named LaxSoft
MARRIAGES
1980
Paul Pless
to Angela
Person,
April 29, 2006
1984
Daniel Rogers
to
Risa
Rae
Willcott,
Nov. 4,
2006
1988
Patricia Kelly
to Dominic
Perri,
Nov. 4, 2005
1990
Jay
LaScolea
to Cheri
Lynn
Smerdon,
June
2006
Karen
Schaeffer
to
Michael
Brooks,
Oct. 27,
2006
1992
Mary Delmar
to Kurt Benecke,
April 2006
Keren McNulty
to
Karim
Hindi,
Sept.
29, 2007
Melissa Orcutt
to
Dennis
Routson,
Jan.
7,
2006
1993
April
Suther
to
Kirk
Wennerstrom,
Nov.
25, 2006
Jackie Gruebel
to
Adam
Wheeler,
Oct. 21,
2006
Barbara Zisa
to John
Petrie,
Oct. 20, 2006
1994
Steven Crane
to
Danielle
Szelag,
Dec.
30,
2006
Jennifer
Uttley
to Edward
Andres
Jr.,
May 14,
2005
1995
Sharon
Deloughery
to
Jeremy
Nihart,
Aug. 2, 2003
Colleen
McGrath
to Kevin
Shanley,
Nov. 11,
2006
Anthony
Mignone
to
Matthew
Coumbes
'01,
June
24, 2006
Bree
Scott
to Kevin
Pelczar,
June
25, 2004
Joanne Ungechauer
to Joseph
LePauloue,
Nov. 18, 2006
1996
Todd Coulson
to Christina
Finello,
Sept.
30, 2006
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A
MARRIAGES
Steven Dardanello
to Marnie
Cambria,
Sept. 22, 2006
Casey Frost
to Brad
Woodley,
May 27, 2005
Jill
Heller
to
Joseph
Slankas,
June
18,
2005
Gary
O'Brien
to Violet
Hastings,
July
29,
2006
1997
Philip Mason
to
Danielle
Sobal,
July 1,
2006
1998
Nicole Carino
to Joseph
Garafolo,
April 23, 2006
Carissa Keane
to
Daniel
Giardino,
Sept. 16, 2006
John Gallagher
to
Elaine
Cohn,
Aug.
5, 2006
Laura Giraldi
to Mario DiGesaro,
July
8, 2005
Mary Martello
to Joseph
Glista,
May 6,
2006
Elaine Swanson
to Drew Coberly
Lisa
Wiggins
to
Paul Yauch,
Oct.
7, 2006
1999
Lark-Marie Anton
to
Daniel
F.
Menchini,
May 20,
2006
Vanessa Arturi
to Patrick
Shyrer,
Sept.
9, 2006
Jennifer Bowen
to
Brian
Killea,
Nov. 11,
2006
Jennifer Buhrman
to
Erich Mann,
September
2006
Beth Cimino
to
Timothy
Tomlinson,
Oct. 15,
2006
Danielle DuPont
to Brandon
Barnes,
Aug. 5, 2006
Martin Kappus
to
Dawn
Marie
Deluca,
Oct. 15, 2005
Jody
Mirto
to Mendy
Clouse,
Sept. 23, 2006
Jill Salvucci
to Ryan
Henebury,
May
13,
2006
Steven Schaming
to
Judy
Conway,
Aug.4,
2006
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
Welcome Home, Alumni!
October 5-7, 2007
Saturday, October 6:
Athletic Sta1dium Open House
10:00 a.m.-noon, Leonidoff Field
Alumni Family Picnic
Noon-4:00 p.m., Campus Green
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Athletic Sta1dium Dedication
12:30-12:45
p.m.,
Leonidoff Field
Marist Foot:ball vs. Duquesne University
1:00 p.m., Le:onidoff
Field
Social Receptions throughout the day
Class Reunion Celebrations including
the 50th Re:union Presentation
For more information on weekend
events including your class
celebration, please call the Office of
Alumni Relations at
(845)
575-3283,
e-mail maristalumni@marist.edu,
And much more!
or visit www.marist.edu/alumni
We look forward to
welcoming you home!
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that captures and reports statistics
for boys'
lacrosse. It had
limited
distribution within Michigan in the
past year but
now
is being marketed
nationally.
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2
William Anderson, PhD,
is the
associate vice presid,ent for enroll-
ment management at William
Paterson University in Wayne,
NJ
I
Raymond DelMaestro
retired
from
the Yonkers
Boa
rid of Education
after
receiving
the Administrator of
the Year/leadership in Education
Award for 2006.
His
school was also
awarded the No Child
Left
Behind
National Blue Ribbon School of
Excellence Award for 2004-2005
Ray served Yonkers public schools
for 34 years.
I
Rev. Bryan Glancey
is pastor aL St. Andrew's Episcopal
Church
in Hurlock,
IMd.
He is
the
proud grandpa of Audrey Beth.
I
Susan Prall-Heaney
owns her own
business, called Susie Pratt's World.
I
Michael
A. Smith
has been appoint-
ed associate administrator of Elam,
Inc., a regional
health
care facility
headquartered in Goshen, N.Y.
I
James Wilkens
appeared on New
York Magazine's
list "Best lawyers in
New York"
inJuly
2006.
1
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James
J.
Corcoran
Ill
has
been
awarded another patent from the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
for a system and device
that
utilizes
water power through both waves and
estuary Oow to generate electricity.
I
Brian
Doyle '73/'90MPA
took office
in
January 2006 as a member of the
Poughkeepsie
City Council and also
was elected chairman of the coun-
cil.
I
Neil Esposito
retired in June
2006 after 32 years of teaching at
Albany High School in Albany, NY.
He also moved back to Bayonne,
NJ.
Ijames
J.
Lavery
passed away on
Feb. 12, 2007 Jim was dedicated
to
his alma mater and was very active in
alumni activities.
He
was a member
of
the
Marist Alumni Association
Executive Board and
recently
was
elected president of the
long Island
alumni chapter. His family,
friends,
and classmates
have
established
the James
J.
Lavery '73 Memorial
Scholarship at Marist. For more
information, please call Marist's
Office of College Advancement at
(845) 575-3868
IJohn
Redmond
is now president/CEO of Universal
Environmental
Services
in Peachtree
City, Ga.
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4
Bruce McGann
has
been appointed
medical co-director of Tranquility
Hospice
in
Woodbury, NJ.
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A profile of
Pastor
MaryAnn
Paradiso
Berry
appeared
in
the 2006
edition of Who's Who of American
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Women.
She
is
also
the
co-host of
Faith
for
Today,
a radio broadcast.
I
Margaret
Darragh
Castelli
teach-
es at St. Martin de
Porres
School
in
Poughkeepsie. Her
husband, Jack
'75,
has
worked at
IBM
for 27 years.
Their
sonj. Matthew
received
his MA
from
Georgetown
University
in 2006.
Son
Thomas
is a 2005 graduate of
Marist and
daughter AnneMarie
is
a 2007 Marist graduate.
I
Thomas
Herman
is the executive
director of
special operations
with L-3 ComCept,
Inc. He
is
a retired
U.S. Army colo-
nel
and
his
last
duty
assignment
was
with
the
White
House.I Gary Slavin
was
reelected
president of
the
East
End Disability
Foundation, which
raises money
for children
and
adults
with special
needs.
He
also
recent-
ly received
an award from
the
town
of Oyster
Bay,
N.Y.,
for bringing the
community
together to build
a "field
of
dreams." He
is a
member
of
the
board
of directors
of
the Massapequa
Chamber of Commerce.
1
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Larry
Hurley
is
retiring
in 2007
from
Philips
Semiconductors
after
11
years, following
30 years with
IBM.
Larry has
moved to
Kissimmee,
Fla.
I
Matthew Masiello
works as vice
president of community
health
at
Memorial Medical
Center, the
largest
hospital
of the Conemaugh
Health
system
in
southwestern
Pennsylvania. It is recognized as
the only U.S.
member
hospital of
the
World Health Organization-Health
Promoting
Hospital/Network.
I
Phyllis Mendreski
and
William
Hoar's
daughter, Margaret, grad-
uated in spring 2007 from Marist
with a degree in
psychology/special
education.
She was on the Dean's
List
every
semester
and was named to
the
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
All-Academic
Team,
rowing on
the
varsity crew team.
I
Carmine
Pirone's
son,
DomenicJoh1n,
will be
a sophomore
at Marist in the
fall.
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Cynthia Cusumano
'77/'05MBA
was
promoted to director
of compensa-
tion and
benefits at
Precisiton
Valve
Corp.
in
Yonkers,
N.Y.
She has been-
very busy as 2006/2007
president
of
the
Junior
league
ofWestchester-
on-Hudson,
a
women's V'Olunteer
organization,
in Tarrytown, N.Y.
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Debra Bowers Citrone teaches
second grade
in
Scarsdale,
N.Y.,
and
is
completing
a
master's
in childhood
education.
I
Dennis Cosgrave
is a
regional
vice president for Compass
Group and lives in Park Ridge, NJ,
with his wife, Stephanie, and their
children, Chris and
Jacquie.
I
William Sharp
joined McCarthy
Building
Companies
Inc.,
in
St. Louis,
Mo.,
as vice
president
of risk manage-
ment.
I
Robert Wishart
is accounts
manager for Snyder of
Hanover.
His
spouse of 30 years, Jeniene,
teaches
art and
their
sons, Scott and Brent,
have graduated from Maryland
colleges.
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Maria Troiano Paul's
eldest son,
Matt, attends Brown
University.
Her
second
son, Mark,
is in the Johnson
&
Wales Culinary Program
and contin-
ues
to
train
for
the
2012 Olympics
in
dressage.
I
Kathleen
Anderson
Pereira
is
in
her fourth year of
home-
schooling her 16-year-old
son. She
says
it
has been a rewarding
learn-
ing experience.
1
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Lou Merlino
is proud to say that
the
tradition is
continuing: his
niece,
Kristen, is attending Marist. She
pitches
on
the
women's
softball
team.
I
Elizabeth Diggelman Pectal
is a
senior controls analyst with Swedish
Match
North America.
I
Dave Powers
was inducted
into the
New
York
State
Joan Crawford '94 Named 2007 Social Wor·ker of the Year
The New York State
Chapter of
consultant, Joan develops curri-
the
National Association
of Social
cula and provides training on the
Workers
has named Joan Craw-
assessment of crisis
in
the work-
ford '94
the
2007
Social Worker
place,
bipolar
disorder, violence
of the Year. Joan is a
licensed
in the workplace, sexual harass-
clinical social worker and vice
ment, and outcome measures. She
president of Family
Services, Inc.,
serves as the president of the
New
in Poughkeepsie.
York State Crime Victims Adviso-
The
award is
not the
first Joan
ry Board and was chair of its task
has received in her field.
While
force on outcome measures. She
at
Marist,
she was awarded the
is also the appointed chair of the
Excellence
in
Social Work
award.
Dutchess County Children's
Servic-
After she
received
a BS degree
es Council and past co-chair of
in social work
from Marist
as an
the Victims Subcommittee
of the
adult student,
Joan
went on to
Dutchess County Criminal
Justice
earn a master's degree in social
Council.
work from Columbia
University.
"I've always remained close to
"I absolutely feel like
I
got
the
,
the Marist community," she says.
strongest foundation possible in
Joan Crawford 94
"I
look
to Marist when it comes to
social work," she says. "When I went
to
Colum-
hiring;
miany
of my staff are graduates of the Marist
bia I was nervous, but when I got there to
get
my
BSW
pro!gram.
Staying
connected gives me an added
books, they were the same ones I read at Marist. I
benefit as an employer."
was much more prepared than many of my fellow
She also currently
sits on the Marist College
Social
students due to the rigor of the Social
Work
Program
Work
Advisory Board and often visits campus as a
at Marist."
guest
lei:turer.
She formerly taught social work in
At
Family
Services, Joan is responsible for clini-
Marist's
:Saturday
Social
Work
Program
that caters to
cal and administrative
oversight of a wide
range
of
adult students, which she felt was a wonderful
match
community-based
programs. In addition, as a
private
since she! had gone through the program herself.
-Kerry
Sykes
MARRIAGES
Allyson Travis
to Daniel
Kane,
Aug. 13, 2006
Daniel Wagnes
to Lisa Urgola,
Oct.
14,
2006
Kathleen Wisniewski
to
Timothy
McEnroe,
July
16,
2006
2000
Elizabeth Browne
to
Michael
V.
Homenick,
Sept. 2, 2006
Jessica
Cooper
to
Leo
Palliardi,
April 2006
Jennifer Ferris
to Thomas
Azzariti,
Sept.
16,
2006
Lauren Gancarz
to
Christopher
Dabek,
Oct. 21, 2006
Rebecca
Jones
to
Thomas
Acerno,
June
3, 2006
Maria Lacerra
to
Lawrence
Comeau,
Nov.
2 5, 2006
Kimberly Lux
to
Robert
Connelley,
Sept.
10,
2005
Roseanne
Racanelli
to
Adam
W.
Broussard,
June
17,
2006
Tippi Sutfin
to
Edward Butler,
Oct. 1,
2005
Heather
Suydam
to Scott
Herrington,
Sept. 16, 2006
Kate
Tamas
to Shawn
Temple,
July 22, 2006
Kathleen
Tower
to
Bill
Millis,
August
2003
Kelly
Ulmschneider
to
Brian
Jingeleski
'00,
November
2005
2001
Jennifer Bradish
to Andrew
Kernan,
Feb. 18, 2007
Randeep Dang
to Navjir
Kaur,
Jan. 7, 2007
Leah Duggan
to Anthony
Cristi,
Aug. 11, 2006
Kimberly Feinman
to
Mark Martiuk '00,
May 20, 2006
Sharon Kennedy
to Anthony
DePalo,
July
2006
Kimberly Neal
to
Kevin Stack '00,
April 2006
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Alumni
A
MARRIAGES
Kimberly Niforos
to
Jack Bolan,
Sept.
9, 2006
Jamie Peloquin
to
Ian
landsman
'99,
Aug. 24, 2003
Christina Schwab
to
Nicholas
Pontilena,
June
2006
Leigh Shillington
to Andrew
Neys,
Jan.
27,
2007
Karen Stack
to Garrett
Goodwin,
June
9,
2006
Katherine Willhoit
to
Nicholas
Turner,
Oct.
28, 2006
2002
Jennifer Barbieri
to
Chris Parfett
'01,
June
2006
Lisa
Bonnes
10
CPT
Kevin
Johnson,
Aug.
5,
2006
Megan DeVita
to
Eric
Helmecke,
Aug. 4,
2006
Kerri-Ann
Lang
to
Ryan Kessler
'00
Kerrie Mendez
to
Joseph
DeAntonio
Sarah St. Germain
to
Erik Dietz
'99,
Nov. 4, 2006
Kara Stoutenboro
to
William
J.
Brinkerhoff,
June
2006
2003
Hadley Bauman
to Mark Sands,
May 7, 2005
Mary Kate Carew
to
Matthew
Goodman,
March
24,
2007
Erin Covell
to
Leonard
Evans,
June 24, 2006
Sarah Ferguson
10
Ethan
Olberding,
Aug.4,
2005
Christopher Hart
to
Laura
Yurgeles,
June
25, 2004
Amy Mathason
to Darren
Hagan,
Oct.
1,
2006
Nichola Williams
10
Tommy
Glass,
Oct.
7, 2006
2004
Randi Chizinski
to
Michael
8.
Pierce
'02,
July
1, 2006
Kim Bayles
to
Michael Gerhowsy,
August
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
Basketball
Hall of Fame on March 24,
2007, in Glens Falls, NY Dave
has
been a winning coach in the
Hudson
Valley for 23 seasoni;, taking
both
Tuxedo and Nanuet varsity
teams
to
Section
9
girls' hoop titles and
the
state
Final
Four. Powers
is the
first
girls' coach ever to be inducted into
the New York State B,asketball
Hall
of Fame.
lJohn
Shamnon's
daugh-
ter, Megan,
is
a sophomore at Marist
where she is studying communica-
tions,
works for the Marist
Institute
for Public Opinion, and is on
the
ski
team.
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1
Kathleen Sheldon Ball
is work-
ing at Fossler's Chelt,mham
Tennis
Center and enjoying competing on
Buxmont and USTA
tennis
teams
in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She
has been
happily
m:arried
to
Don
Ball
'80 for
25
years. Their oldest
son, Don, recently graduated from
Georgetown University. Son Chris
is
a senior at Georgetown and
daughter
Lauren a
freshman.
Kathy
participated
in
a
three-day,
60-mile
walk for the Susan B. Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation
in
October.
I
Jim Gilligan
was awarded
the
2005
Larry Frederick Award at
the
annual
America's
Blood
Centers confer-
ence, held
in
Houswn in February.
The honor recognizes
Jim's
leader-
ship in
raising
awareness
of the need
for blood
donations.
Jim
has
been
a local
advocate
and volunteer and
was recognized by
the
West Milford
(NJ)
Town Council as Volunteer of
the
Year for
2005.1
R:ory
Ferguson
Keogh
is teaching
pre-K at Holy
Saviour School in W,estmount,
NJ,
where she
lives
with
her
husband,
Michael,
and three
sons.
I
Brian
Whalen
has
been appointed pres-
ident and CEO of the Forum on
Education
Abroad, a ;global
member-
ship
organization
serving the field of
education abroad
through research,
education, and setting standards of
good~
~~
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Elaine
Doremus
developed and
led a class on
time
management
at Knowledge Network in Albany,
N.Y
She also donated a career
consulting and res.ume develop-
ment
package, valued at $225,
to
the PBS Great TV Auction Elaine
is
the
CEO of Resumes Written
(www.resumeswritten.com)
and
is
a career consultant and resume
What's
Marist Minute?
Marist Minute
is
an e-newsletter
produced
by the Alumni
and
Advancement offices at
Marist
to keep
Marist
alumni connected
with
the
College. Every
two
months a
new
issue
is
released
that
includes
alumni profiles, feature articles, campus news, a calendar
of
upcoming
events
(both on
and off campus}, and much more!
Subscription
is
free and
requires
only your e-mail address.
Just
submit the request form at
www.marist.edu/alumni/
maristminute.html
and you will soon receive
an
e-mail message
that includes
a
link to
the
latest issue
of
Marist Minute.
writer.
I
Frank Ostrander
is
now
operations
budget
director with
CH Energy Group.
I
Leslie Byerly
Ragusa
and
Mike
Ragusa
'79
have
four sons. Their oldest son, Michael,
is in his second year at Boston
College and plans
to
study abroad
in
Madrid
next
spring. Son Greg
is
a senior at North Shore High School
and plans
to
attend UMass/Amherst.
Leslie
just
received
an interior design
degree
from the
New York
1
nstitute
of Technology and Mike is senior
vice president of Quest Software.
I
The 6th Annual
Bob Sweeney
Golf
Outing will take place Monday,
Sept.
24, 2007, at the Plandome Country
Club
in
Manhasset, N.Y.
The event,
held in memory of Bob Sweeney
who
died
in
2002 of pancreatic cancer at
age 43, raises funds for a camp
held
annually for children who have
lost
a parent, grandparent, or sibling.
The camp, called Bob Sweeney's
Camp Comfort, was created by
Bob's
wife,
Diane.
Anyone
interest-
ed
in
either golf or dinner is invited
to
contact
Karen O'Connor
at (631)
547-0781.
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Frank Burhance
joined Cardean
University as vice president of
operations and student services.
Frank
leads the
operational areas of
Cardean's two online
universities,
Ellis College
of New York Institute of
Technology
and Cardean University.
Frank and his wife,
Linda Zemba
'85,
reside
in
Newtown,
Conn., with their
son,
Noah.
I
Elizabeth
Miller Haupt
recently
divorced
and sold and bought
a
new
home.
Her
second daughter
graduated
from SUNY
Morrisville.
I
John Kraus
has observed
his
fourth
year as a Big Brother.
I
Hugh Taylor
was one of six
Northrop
Grumman
Corp. employees honored for their
outstanding contributions
to
engi-
neering, managerial,
and community
service excellence
at
the
2007
Black
Engineer of
the
Year Awards confer-
ence in Baltimore
Feb.
15-17.
Hugh,
president of
the
Commercial, State
and
Local
Group
in
the company's
Information
Technology sector in
Hugh
Taylor
'83
Mclean, Va., received
the
technical
sales and marketing award.
He has
completed a number of executive
management, project management,
and leadership
development
courses
during his
more
than
20-year career
with Northrop Grumman.
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Preston
Felton
'84/'98MPA
has
been named
interim
superinten-
dent of the New York State
Police.
He has been a
member
of
the
New
York State
Police
for more
than
22
years. This past May he was one of
the
distinguished guests on the dais
at Marist's
commencement
ceremony
for adults receiving
undergraduate
and graduate degrees
through the
College's School of Graduate and
Continuing Education (see Page
13).1
Derek
Lewis
finished gradu-
ate school at ORU in Oklahoma
in
1990.
He
married
in
November
2002
and
he
and his wife,
Nancy,
live in
Luther, Okla. Derek
thanks
Marist
for giving
him
a quality educa-
tion.
I
Daniel Rogers's
daughter,
Meaghan,
is
considering Marist
among her
future
college choices.
I
Tracy
Barnett Suhovsky
is happi-
ly married
with
three
children. She
lives
on Long Island and teaches
chemistry.
I
Liz
Cook
and
Steve
Funk live
in Litchfield,
Conn., with
their four children.
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Michael Diaz
'06
(far
left)
was one of three winners of the Barnc1bas
McHenry Hudson
River Valley Award
presented by the Open Space Institute. Other winners were
(second
from
left)
Jenny Reisner of Yale
University and (third from right) Matt Weiner of Vassar
College
..
They were joined
at
the
award
presenta-
tion by (left
to
right) former
U.S.
Secretary of State James
Baker, Marian Heiskell,
and
Barnabas
McHenry,
Marist College
Hudson
River Valley Institute Advisory Board m1~mber.
Michael Diaz '06 Receives Inaugural Award for History Research
The
Open
Space
Institute
has presented one of its
inaugural
Barnabas McHenry
Hudson
River
Valley
Awards to
Michael Diaz
'06.
The award provides
financial
support to promis-
ing
young
leaders
and exemplary
projects that make
significant contributions in environmental
conserva-
tion, historic preservation,
and the arts
in the
Hudson
River
Valley.
will supp,ort his research
this
summer on
Loyalists
in
the Hudson Valley
during the American
Revolu-
tion.
Michael
majored in
history
at Marist and plans
to attend graduate school and then either work in
the museum
and public
history field
or earn a PhD
in
colonial
American history.
Michael was one of
three
recipients
of the award,
presented
in
New
York City
in
April. The award
The
avvard
is
named
for Barnabas
McHenry,
who
OSI
says
has
worked to
protect the
Hudson
River
Valley's landscapes,
heritage,
and culture for
more
than four decades.
1
9 8 5
Janet
Lawler
is working at NBC
News as an editor. She is also
the
executive producer of
the
Internet
talk show
The Alcove
with
Mark
Molaro
at www.markmolaro.com.
I
Susan Studley Marcy
is a
2006
graduate of
the
Ulster Leadership
Development Initiative, sponsored
by the l:Jlster
County
(N.Y.)
Chamber
of Commerce with help
from
M&T
Bank.
I
Charlene Bernazza Mitchell
is
the
human resources and volun-
teer manager for an art
museum in
Memphis,
Tenn. She became certified
as a professional in
human
resourc-
es, or
PHR,
through
the
Society for
Human
Resources
Management.
I
Shawn Mulligan
and
his
wife, Lora,
have
two sons.Jaime
and
Casey.
1 9 8 6
Thomas
Begg
completed
the
2006
NYC Marathon and Triathlon. Visit
his
Triathlon Club at www.grtri.
com.
I
Ken
Briggs
added a
full
horn
section
to his
new band,
Nite
Train.
His
daughter, Amy, and his wife,
Marla, sing
in
the
band.
For infor-
mation,
go to www.nitetrainband.
com.
I
Shauna Ziegler
Erdogan
recently
got divorced and is start-
ing
life over with
her
new business,
Apex Airport&:
Limousine
Service
in
Wappingers
Falls,
N.Y.
She
enjoys
traveling
with her 4-year-
old son, Alex.
I
Mark Gar:rett
has
been
named
executi\'e vice president
and chief
financial
officer fo,r
Adobe
Systems
lnc.
lAfter
taking
some time
off
to
care for
her
infant son,
Liam,
Cathy Gilio
reopened
her psycho-
therapy
practice in Hackensack,
N.j.
I
Michael Masterson
has moved
to
the
Ritz-Carlton
in Kapalua, Hawaii,
as director of sales and ma1rketing.
He
was
recognized as Leader
of the
Year in Marketing
for Ritz
Carlton's
western
region in
2005.1
Howard
Mills Ill
has
accepted a po!;ition as
chief advisor with
Deloitte
f;r
Touch
USA,
LLP.
I
For the sixth
time Ian
O'Connor
has been named
one of
America's
top five
sports colum-
nists
in the
annual
Associatied
Press
Sports Editors national conte:st.
He is
working on
a
book about the
historic
golf
rivalry between
Arnold
Palmer
and Jack Nicklaus.
The
book,
to
be
published
b)' Houghton
Mifflin,
is
due out
in
April
2008.1
Kendall R.
Stanley Sr. has
been
happily
married
to
his
wife,
Lisa,
for 22 years. Son
Kendall
Jr. has completed
his
fresh-
man year at the University
of Buffalo
where
he
is studring nuclear
medi-
cine. Son Derek has completed
his
junior
rear at Saugerties (N.Y.)
High
School and has applied to West Point.
Son Ethan
has
moved
up
to
junior
high and
daughter Tessa
is now
in
third grade and
is the
"boss of
the
house." Kendall
is working
to connect
health-care
communities
through
Regional Health Information
Organizations
(RHIOs).
~MWIN~R
,..
1
9 8 7
Kevin Kaley
has
moved
to
the
Premier
Account Division with
Verizon
Business.
He was also
promoted
to
lieutenant colonel
in
the
U.S. Army
Resen·e
and is
battalion
commander for l-355th in Round
Rock,
Texas.lJean
Clements
Kelly
ran the
New York City Marathon
in 2006
and reports that she did
better
than
she did when she was in
her
twenties.
I
Carol
I.
Leth
in
was
promoted
to team
leader at Pederson-
MARRIAGES
Jennifer Frisenda
to Christopher
Malone,
May 26, 2006
Jennifer
Knoerzer
to
John T. Smith,
May 27, 2006
Tracey Maida
to
Kevin
Altieri,
July
15,
2006
Lindsay
Martel
to
David Buckner
'02,
Sept.
3, 2006
Kara McNulty
to
Luke Baron,
Oct. 22, 2006
2005
Adriana Abreu
to Walvis
Pena,
Dec. 30, 2006
Richard Sassi II
to
Lisa
Marra,
Oct. 20, 2006
2006
James Butler Ill
to
Jaime
Marie
Berryann,
Oct. 14,
2006
SUMMER
2007
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
1956
Anne and
Jack
Duggan,
a grandson,
Devon
Jack
1958
Elaine
and
William Maher,
a granddaughter,
Zoe Marie,
March
23, 2006
1966
Rose
Marie and
Charles Barry,
a
granddaughter,
Taylor
Nicole,
April 9, 2005
1968
Rosemary
and
George Bennett,
a grandson,
Jack
Sheridan,
Dec. 25, 2005, and a
granddaughter,
Grace
Xistris,
Aug. 9, 2006
1969
Phyllis
and
James
Conroy,
a granddaughter,
Sophia
Rose,
July 21, 2006
Peggy
and
Ed Spaight,
granddaughters,
Riley
Elizabeth
Cerino,
May 24, 2006, and
Susan
Margaret
Spaight,
Dec. 15, 2006
1970
Lesley
and
Andrew Fallon,
a grandson,
Mason
Wesley
Fallon,
Dec. 11, 2006,
and a granddaughter,
Blake
Fallon
Meeks,
March 12, 2007
1984
Cheryl Bowering
and
Peter Fredsall
'83,
a
son,
Arthur, July
12, 2004
1985
Jennifer Bohanan
and David
Fleming,
a son,
Shane,
Feb.
23, 2004
Tara
and
Michael
Lowen,
a son,
Luke
Mccaffrey,
May 19, 2006
Linda-Sue
and
James John Murphy,
a son, Adam,
July
1, 2003
1986
Karen
Szklany
and
Edward
Gault,
a daughter,
Cosette
Amanda
Cecilia,
Sept.
18,
2004
1987
Kristin
Durcan
and Anton Nieroda,
twins,
a
daughter,
Charlotte
Estelle,
and a son,
Anton Matthew,
Jan.
25, 2006
Ellen
Fitzpatrick
and
Robert
Saunders,
a son,
Wyatt, Aug. 13, 2005
30
MARIST
MAGAZINE
Krag Center's Assertive Community
Treatment Program in Smithtown,
NY.
I
Mike McHale:
is the found-
er of Cleverworks, a creative think
tank
that
has recently added its 50th
client.
I
Scoll
Nevem
purchased a
building in 2004 and now operates
a 6,000-square-foot store specializ-
ing
in
furniture of the era 1940 to
1970 in Hudson, N.Y.
1 9 8 8
Michael
Carson
was promoted
on April 1, 2006,
to•
chief warrant
officer
4 in
Germany after return-
ing from 18 months in Afghanistan.
He
received
the Bronze Star Service
Medal for his work as a maintenance
platoon leader and an air medal for
performing more than 100 medical
evacuation
flights in am unarmed UH-
60 Blackhawk.
He
is :still performing
as an aviation maintenance officer
with
the
236th Medical Company
(Air Ambulance) in Landstuhl,
Germany.
I
Kenneth Lorello
has
his own business, Clean Room
Depot,
where he makes germ-free
portable rooms for
hospitals,
govern-
ment facilities,
NASA,
and computer
companies.lPeter
G. Oppenheim
completed his fifth marathon, the
2006 Philadelphiil Marathon.
I
Kathy Wanamaker
moved from
Tuxedo, N.Y.,
to Hill:sborough,
N.C.,
in
March 2005.
1
9 8 9
Susanne Lynn Wilson
is an account
executive
for Tempur-Pedic
and lives
in
Lindenhurst,
N.Y. She is mother
to Zachary and twin daughters
Lyndsey
and Sofie.
I]
oseph Nowak's
son, Zachary, and daughter, Alyssa,
both play AAU baske:tball,
whichJoe
coaches. Alyssa was also a starter on
her
school's ,·arsity s,oftball
team asa
freshman.
I
Roger Roush
received
the
Probation Officer of
the
Year award
from the New York State Division
of Probation and Correctional
Alternatives for his work in gang-
recruitment prevent ion.
1
9 9 0
Sean Creighton
received his PhD
in the Leadership and Change
program from Anti.och University
in August
2006.1
Celeste Frasier
English
earned a master's degree
at the College of St.
Rose
and
now
teaches fifth grade at Edinburg
(N
.Y.)
Common School.I
:Shunda
Taylor-
McRae
earned an MBA
at Long
Island
University and a Master of Divinity
degree at New York Theological
Seminary. She was ordained
in
May
2005.
IJossette
Geronimo
and
Paul
Mead
'89 are
the
proud parents of
identical
twin
daughters,
Ashley
and
Sarah. Brothers Christopher and
Jonathan are great helpers.I
Leonard
Klie
was promoted to senior editor
of
Speech
Technology
Magazine
in New
York Cit
y.1
Edward
Sagarese
teach-
es English at Charlotte High School
in
Punta
Gorda, Fla.
He
expects to
complete a master's degree program
in
educational leadership
at National
Louis
University
in
2007.1
Sheila
Quirk Voyles
was
the
top woman
finisher from the
Tampa
Bay area
in
the
Bank of America Marathon.
Sheila placed fifth with a time of 3
hours, 16 minutes, and 37 seconds
and
received
$500 for
her
effort. She
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1
9 9
1
Marissa
Manderioli
Arcaroli
and
her husband, Frank, have
three
boys,
Nicholas
Frank, Joseph Anthony,
and Antonio George.
Cherylyn
Briganti-Torrisi
'91
is
godmother
to Joseph.
I
Stephen Batta
works at
the Marriott Marquis in New York
City's
Times
Square, overseeing all
hotel operations.
He
and
his
wife,
Jennifer,
have
three
children, Kristyn,
Jackson, and Dylan.
I
Christine
Mccaffery-Deter recently
incor-
porated Creati\'e Ventures.
I
Tara
Mclaughlin
McGuinness
and
her
husband,
Peter, have
three
children,
Patricia, Matthew, and new arrival
Megan
Irene.
I
Rosemary Molloy
was the guest artist at
the
gallery in
the Dyson Center for Cancer Care
at Vassar Brothers Medical Center
in
Poughkeepsie
throughout
January
and
February.
Rosemary's exhibi-
tion
featured watercolors and work
in pastels. While currently interested
in capturing the disappearing farm-
lands of rural Dutchess County and
surrounding
areas, she also exhibited
pieces from her studies in Venice.
In
addition to several
one-person
shows,
she has had
her
work displayed at
the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira,
NY., and Clermont
Historic
Site
in Germantown, N.Y. She is a
member oft
he
Barrett Art Center
in
Poughkeepsie
and the
Tivoli
Artists
Co-op.
I
Sheila Clancy
O'Donnell
lives
in
county Donegal
in
Ireland
with
her
husband, Manin, son
Seamus, and daughters Chloe and
Alexandra Rose.
I
Richard Park
is
a computer integrated manufactur-
ing
(CIM)
engineer for dpiX, LLC, a
manufacturer of digital x-ray
image
sensor arrays in Colorado Springs,
Colo.
I
Allison
Campilii Sapp
and
her husband.Jay, have
two
sons, Jay,
3, and Ke\'in,
1.
Kevin was adopted
from
T,·er,
Russia,
on Oct. 18, 2006.
Ijames
Saunders
is vice presi-
dent in the pri,·ate equity group of
the Blackstone Group.
He resides
in Garden City,
N.Y.,
with
his
wife,
Shannon, and daughter, MaryKate.
I
Kindra Predmore-Thompson
received the Sports Emmy Award for
Outstanding Production Design and
Art Direction at a ceremony
in
April
2007 in New York City. The award,
presented by
the
National
Television
Academy, is based on her costume
and set design for
Cinderella
Man:
The
James
J Braddock
Story.
See more of her
work at www.kindrastyle.com.
PMGN·
1•
~
1
9 9
2
James
Alecca is
still distributing
his debut album.
I
Mary Delmar
Benecke
and her husband,
Kurt,
have
two
young sons, Craig and
Hunter.
lJohn
Cleary
is director of
tennis at Norbeck Country Club in
Rockville,
Md. He was named 2006
Maryland Professional of the Year
and
2006
Mid-Atlantic 35s Player
of the Year. He serves on
the
board
of the United States
Professional
Tennis Association's Mid-Atlantic



























Kimberly Steinhorn
'9S (fourth
from left)
and
her
students at
IKhan
Market in New Delhi.
Teaching in India
Kimberly
Meehan
Steinhorn
'95
spent three months
in 2006 teaching at a school in New Delhi, India.
Through the Fulbright Teaching Exchange
Program, she switched positions with a teacher at
Sanskriti School
in
New Delhi. Students at Green-
wich High School
in
Greenwich, Conn., learned
about India through teacher Sreelekha Sarcar while
students at Sanskriti School learned about America
through
Kimberly.
Indian
students. I know I'll continue to reflect on this
incredible
opportunity."
Inspired
by her term
in
New
Delhi,
she has been integrating
lessons
into her class-
es at GH:S
and
has
been speaking about India
to
other
classes, colleagues, and the
local
community.
The
experience,
Kim
says, was amazing; she was
embraced by the school community and found the
cultural differences fascinating as well as challenging.
''I'm
honored
to have
had
this experience. I feel fortu-
Kim
has taught English
for 12 years, the past seven
in
Greeniwich public schools. She lives in New York
City with her husband, Bartholomew Steinhorn '93.
They have been married for three years after recon-
necting in
1999, 10
years after they met at Marist
College.
Kim
welcomes questions and comments about
India.
Contact her at steinhornghs@gmail.com
and
read more at www.steinhornindia.blogspot.com.
nate to
have represented the
United States to my
150
Division
as
its
secretary.
He
has
spent
the past
10 years
at
Norbeck
Country Club and the
past five
years
in his
current
position.
I
Dr. B. Arena
Cobham
has been appointed assis-
tant provost
for student life at the
University of Denver. She received
a
Master
of Education
degree
in
student personnel and
higher
educa-
tion from the
University of Georgia
in 1996 and
in
2000
made history
at Indiana University by becoming
the
first recipient
of the Master of
Ans
degree
in
African
American
and
African
Diaspora Studies. She
earned a
PhD
in
higher
education
and student affairs
in
2003.1
Sue
Santa
more
Coffey
and her husband,
Jim,
li\'e
in Littleton,
Colo.
They
enjoy
their two
young children.Josie and
Patrick. Sue has owned her own
counseling
practice
since
2001 in
Littleton,
called
Believing
in
Kids
and
Families. She continues to practice
social work and is thankful for the
strong foundation
in social work she
received
at
Marist.lMichael
Feeney
has
been
promoted
to senior vice
president
of corporate communica-
tions for
the
A&E
Television
Network.
I
Dean Mastrangelo,
Esq.,
started a
mortgage
company, Platinum
Home
Finance,
Inc.,
in
addition to maintain-
ing
his law practice.
I
Leslie Moore
Massaro
has
joined a
new
real estate
company, American
Dreams, LLC,
in East Windsor, Conn.
IIJennifer
O'Connell
ickelsen
has
accepted
a position
as senior program manager
for McKesson
Specialty. She works
out of the
home
office
in
New
Jersey.
I
Michael
O'Farrell
is the publicist for
Mystic
Seaport
in Mystic,
C,:mn.
Over
the
past year
he
appeared on Fox
News, CNN,
Good
Morning
America,
The
CBS
Evening News,
and
The
Monte/ Williams
Show
to discuss one
of
the institution's
historic
vessels.
A
research group
had
come to Mystic
Seaport
to
investigate whether
the
1841
ship, the
Charles
W Morgan,
had
paranormal activity. A
Joe.ii
newspa-
per story on
the
investigation drew
the national media.
Mike notes
that
he
never
promoted
the
vessel
as
haunted
but rather en,~ouraged
visitors to
learn more
about the ship
and decide for themselves.
II
Michael
Prout
and
his
wife, Audra, relocated
to
Washington, D.C., afteir Michael
was named deputy assistant director
of the U.S. Marshals
Service:.
I
Robert
Ranieri
Jr.
has been
promoted
to vice
president at
Rose
&
Kiernan,
Inc.,
in East Greenbush, N.Y.
He received
the
Greater
Southern Dutchess (N.Y.)
Chamber of Commerce's
Top Forty
under 40 Shaker Award
in
February.
I
Christine Tansey Williamsen
and
her
husband,
Stephen,
have four chil-
dren,
Nicholas, Jillian, Gabrielle
Nicole, and Danielle Marie.
1 9 9 3
Julia Burns
is a senior business
analyst with Diversified
Investment
Advisors
in
Purchase,
N.Y.1
Robin
Gest! Garcia is
a
franchise
owner
of
Dunkin' Donuts
in New York
and
Massachusetts. She has
four
chil-
dren,
Brianna,
17,
Justin,
15, Aijah,
3, and Atticus,
1.1
Maria Giovanna
Licari
Cohen is
a producer for
Good
Morning America
and coordinates
cooking segments with celebrity
chefs such as Emeril Lagasse,
Rachael
Ray,
and Wolfgang
Puck.
lJennifer
Smith
DeFelice's
students at her
Broadway Bound Performing Ans
Center
performed
on opening night
for
the
Boston Celtics at the Boston
Garden.
The
Competition
Team
has
received many regional as well as
national dance
titles.
The team also
was asked to perform at
the
Champs
Sports Bowl in Orlando, Fla.
lJohn-
Takashi
Suzuki
and his new baby
daughter,
Ellie, watched
the women's
basketball
team march all the way to
NEW
ARRIVALS
Maureen Keenan
and
Dean
Swartz,
triplets:
a
daughter,
Gretchen,
and
sons
Blake
and Luke,
April
3, 2005
1989
Rachel Mastrostefano
and
Steven
Nichols,
a
daughter,
Maggie
Joyce,
June
12,
2006
1990
Leslie
and
Sean Creighton,
a son, Quinn,
Aug.8,2006
Jossette
Geronimo
and
Paul
Mead
'89,
twin daughters,
Ashley
and Sarah,
Nov.
10, 2005
Catherine
Tagliaferro
and
Pierce Redmond,
a
daughter,
Brenna
Marie,
April 11, 2006
Ann Triant
and Charlie
Cave,
a son, Carter,
Jan. 28, 2006
1991
Dana Branchesi
and
Jake
Tedford,
a
daughter,
Lauren
Olivia,
June
19, 2006
Allison Campi Iii
and Jay
Sapp,
a
son,
Kevin
James,
Dec.
25, 2005, adopted
from
Tver,
Russia,
on
Oct. 18, 2006
Sheila Clancy
and Martin
O'Donnell,
a
daughter,
Alexandra
Rose,
April 26,
2006
Jacqueline Conroy
and
Sean
O'Donnell,
a daughter,
Sophia
Rose,
July
21, 2006
Denise Gormley
and Sean
Brennan,
a
daughter,
Deirdre,
Jan. 1, 2007
Tara
Mclaughlin
and Peter
McGuinness,
a daughter,
Megan
Irene,
March
17,
2006
Sara
Jones
and
Peter O'Keefe,
a son,
Ryan
Peter,
Aug. 20, 2006
Jennifer Shotter
and Mike
Mignano,
a son, Aidan
Joseph,
Nov.
23, 2006
1992
Patricia Camperlengo
and
Robert Meindl,
a daughter,
Erica
Rose,
Oct. 26, 2006
Connie
and
Kevin Francis,
a daughter,
Gabriella
Mae,
Dec.
14,
2005
Jennifer O'Connell
and
Jason Nickelsen,
a daughter,
Olivia,
Dec.
31, 2005
Georgia
and
Steve Popper,
a
son,
Braden
Alexander,
Aug. 28,
2006
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Alumni
~
~._/
1!Y
NEW
ARRIVALS
Diane Raven
and
Brian
Mclaughlin,
a
daughter,
Megan
Joan,
June
2, 2006
Christine Tansey
and Stephen
Williamsen,
twin
daughters,
Gabrielle
Nicole
and Danielle
Marie,
Dec.
31, 2005
Jennifer Walker
and David
Fielding,
a
daughter,
Shaeleigh
Hope,
Sept.
10,
2005
Debra Waller
and
Peter
Frederick,
a
daughter,
Riley
Patricia,
April
19,
2006
Karen Wiese
and Kenny
Osterndorf,
a son,
Jack
Edward,
March
3, 2006
1993
Mary and
Robert Allison,
a
daughter,
Sophia,
Aug.
6,
2006
Margaret Barrett
and
Raymond
Resseque,
a son,
Brandon
Raymond,
May 28,
2006
Robyn
Berger
and
James
Ulbrich
'95,
a
daughter,
Zoe, May 23,
2006
Elisa
Cannizzo
and
Patrick
Kinsman,
a son,
Holden
Patrick,
May
9,
2005
Patricia
and
Wilbert
den Ouden,
a son,
Gabriel
den
Ouden,
March
25, 2005,
and
a daughter,
Isabel
Joy,
Jan. 12,
2007
Jennifer
and
Kraig DeMatteis,
a son,
Aidan
James,
April 2006
Stacy Giblin
and Tom
Edwards,
a son,
Donovan
Thomas,
Dec. 16, 2005
Kathleen
Kollar
and
Brian
Mccourt
'94,
a son,
Teagan
Patrick
Mccourt,
June
27, 2006
Maria
Licari
and
David
Cohen,
a son,
Matthew
Jack,
Oct. 25, 2006
Margot
Power
and
Allen Tobin,
twins:
a daughter,
Carla
Claire,
and a son,
Shane
Martin,
Jan.
9, 2007
Michele
Rubin
and Jeffrey
Francisco,
a son,
Colin
William,
June
18,
2006
Lisa Smith
and Brian
Gilmurray,
a son,
Nicholas
Robert,
Sept.
18,
2006
Lisa
and
John-Takashi
Suzuki,
a daughter,
Ellie
Nozomi,
Feb.
15, 2007
1994
Clarissa
and
Robert Farrier Jr.,
a daughter,
Lauren
Elizabeth,
Nov.
17,
2006
Wendy Fell
and
Dominick
DeAngelis,
a
daughter,
Luciana
Rose.
Oct.
3,
2007
32
MARIST
MAGAZINE
World Com11nunity
Grid: When Doing
Nothing Is C>oing
Something
Marist College
invites
all
alumni to join the, undergradu-
ate population
and other Marist
friends
in
the bi!Jgest philan-
thropic grid computing venture
in the world. Marist signed on
in fall 2004 on to IBM's World
Community Grid, a global
humanitarian
effort that aims
to bring together
lthe
collective
power of millions of individual
PCs and business computers
to address the world's most
urgent challenges using grid
computing technology. There
are an estimated 650 million
PCs
in
the world.
Marist students
in Dr. Mark Van Dyke's
public relations
classes
and
capping
courses
provided
the new
slogan
for
World Community
Grid:
"Be
a
part of Wortd Community
Grid-When doing nothing
is doing something."
Those who sign on as participants in World
Community
Grid
!,end
idle computer time for a multi-
tude of high-potential research projects looking
for cures for cancer, AIDS,
Alzheimer's, and SARS;
mapping the human genome; or providing
early warn-
ing of impending
earthquakes. World
Community
Grid
helps expedite calculations, normally
requiring
years,
to produce results in mere months. World Community
Grid
will
be available
only to medical,
environmental,
and other research projects conducted by public and
not-for-profit
organizations that meet stringent stan-
dards for the betterment of humanity.
Results will be
made available to the world research community.
computers in the various labs across campus
have
also been connected.
Students in Dr. Mark Van Dyke's communications
capping class at Marist recently partnered with IBM
to
help
spread the word about World Community
Grid while gaining real world experience and help-
ing humanitarian causes. Some projects organized
and
implemented
by the students
include
shooting
a television
commercial
for
Marist
College
Television
and You
Tube, talking to undergraduates about World
Community Grid, publicizing the project through
flyers
posted around campus, and sponsoring
a talent
show to promote the humanitarian
project. They also
provided a new slogan: "Be a part of World Commu-
nity Grid-when doing nothing
is
doing something."
President
Deninis
J.
Murray, faculty, staff, and
students have
joined
World Community Grid, and
To read more abol'Jt
the endeavor
and to register
your own computer,
visit
www.worldcommunitygrid.org.
Enter
a member
name, password,
and e-mail
address.
Under
"Select
a Team,"
choose "Marist
College."
the Sweet 16
in
Dayton, Ohio, and
were beaming with pride.
lJackie
Gruebel
Wheeler
was promoted to
manager of employm1mt
at the Boat
Owners Association of the United
States.
I
Michael
Wilberton
has
been working as a structured prod-
ucts trader at Descap Securities, a
division of First Albany Corp., since
early 2005.
1 9 9 4
Jennifer
Pellegrino Barbee
is the
founder
of Sterling
Equine
Appraisals,
a horse valuation firm.
lJennifer
Caron
Brady
is an assistant traf-
fic manager for KXAS
NBC 5-TV in
Dallas, Texas.lJohn
Campbell
was
promoted
to
senior :;oftware engi-
neer at IBM.
ICathy
A:golia
Cote
and
Michael Cote
adopted their daugh-
ter, Danrah
Catherine,
from Russia
in
March 2006. She is now 2 years old.
Michael
was promoted to partner in
his
law
firm.
I
Wendy
Fell DeAngelis
and her husband, Dominick, have
three children, Nicolas Saverio,
Alexander Jack, and Luciana Rose.
I
Paul DiGiacomo
and his wife
moved from New York
to Chicago
in
November
2005 when Paul became
senior editor of Stats LLC, a joint
\'enture between
the
MegaSports
Department of
the
Associated
Press
and Stats,
Inc.,
which specializes
in
pro\'iding sports content to online
customers.
I
U.S. Army CPT
John
F.
''.Jay"
Gavigan
completed
his second
tour of
Iraq
in October. He and his
wife and their 2-year-old
son moved
in January from Germany
to Fort Lee,
Va. He has been at Fort Lee taking
the Combined Logistics Captains
Career Course that will prepare him
to
lead
a unit of 100
to
200 soldiers.
I
Jennifer
Smith
Frischknecht is
the quality engineering
lead
for
IBM's
WebSphere
Portlet Factory.
I
Matthew Muro's
"Acti\'ity
Partner"
and online dating site, www.lifeknot.
com, has surpassed 15,000
members.
IJeffrey
Schanz
received a certif-
icate of advanced studies and an
MS degree in educational admin-
istration and policy studies from
the
University at Albany
in
2006.
I
Kevin Stranahan
was promoted
to security manager of the Omni
New
Ha\'en
Hotel at Yale University.
Previously
Kevin served as a police
officer
in the NYPD's
104th Precinct
for five years and spent the past four
and a half years as a security super-
visor at Mohegan Sun Casino in
Uncasville,
Conn. He was recently
recognized by the American Heart
Jl
1:11HZ
The flag denotes classes
that
will
celebrate
reunions
in
2007

































BACKROAOS
-•/-
NEW YORK
Voyageur
Press
has
just published
Backroads
of New York,
the fourth
book by
Kim Knox Beckius
'90.
A combination coffee table and
guide book, the volume
presents
28
of New York State's most colorful
and scenic
drives.
See
an excerpt
at
www.backroadsnewyork.com.
Elderberry Press has published
Beyond
My Odyssey
by
Roger R.
Fernandez '58.
In a follow-up
to previous books
in
his autobio-
graphical
travel series,
Roger
writes
about
his
trips to South America
and the Philippines
as well as the
area in Spain, El Bierzo, where he
grew up.
Deborah Jack '93's
second
volume of poetry, Skin, has been
published by House of Nehesi
Publishers.
It's written under the
name
Orisana
Deborah
Jack.
ALUMNI
AUTHORS
John Hart
'66's
latest
book is
Sacramental Commons: Chris-
tian Ecological Ethics, published
by Rowman & Littlefield.
IHe
also
wrote a chapter, "Catholicism,"
in
the Oxford Handbook of fleligion
and Ecology. He is professor of
Christian
ethics, chair of th,e Social
Ethics Program, and chair of the
theology, ethics, and philosophy
area at Boston University
School
of
Theology.
In her new book, Crazy
in America:
The Hidden Tragedy
of O11r
Crimi-
nalized Mentally Ill,
Mar;~ Beth
Pfeiffer
'76 tells the stories of
six people whose mental illnesses
thrust them into the arms of police
and into
jails,
prisons,
and juvenile
facilities that were ill-prepared to
care for them. Mary Beth i:s a
long-
time investigative
reporter
who was
a 2004 Soros
Justice
Media Fellow.
For more information, see www.
crazyinamerica.com.
The b,ook
was
published
in May by Carroll & Graf.
Myles Pinkney
'94 and his wife,
Sandra, have released their third
book, Read and Rise. Published
by Scholastic, Inc., it encourages
young children to read. For more
information visit www.scholastic.
com or www.MylesStudio.com.
Aventine Press has published
Lesley Springstun Schaffer
'76's book Pet People-Surviving
the Alcoholic
Home
with the Family
Pet.
William F. Supple Jr.
is the
author of Becoming
a Baby: How
Your
Baby Grows
from Day to Day.
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.,.
Hi-\1,.,
.....
I•
u.:,:_~:~!
Ufehacker
Mltc:lltt\6,1~
t~.,,sMg
John Wiley & Sons
Inc.
has
published
Gina Trapani
'97's
Lifehacker:
88 Tech
Tricks
to Turbo-
charge
Your
Day.
The 88 "life hacks"
are ways to tweak your computer
for maximum productivity. Hacks
include
how to automate
repetitive
tasks, streamline common tasks,
control your e-mail, organize
your
files, and master
the Web.
If
you would like news of your book included in Alumni Authors, please
send the title, name of publisher,
date
of publication,
and description
of the content to editor@marist.edu
or to Alumni Authors, do Marist Magazine,
Advancement,
Marist College,
3399 North Rd., Poughkeepsie,
NY 12590-1387.
Feel free to have your publisher
e-mail
us a pdf of the book's cover.
NEW
ARRIVALS
Jennifer Uttley
and Edward
Andres
Jr.,
a
son, Aidan Edward,
Feb. 11, 2005
Heather
and
Chris Ilardi,
a
daughter,
Sofia Maryanne,
Feb.
17,
2006
Gina
and
Matt Miller,
a
daughter,
Marina
Grace,
May 10, 2006
Patricia Mocker
and AJ
Freshwater,
a son,
Christopher
Charles,
Aug. 20, 2006
Elizabeth Noonan
and
Edwin Ryan
II
'93,
a daughter,
Teagan
Jane,
June
24, 2006
Michelle Pontecorvo
and Daniel
Costello,
daughters,
Sofia Rose,
May 5, 2005, and
Amelia
Jean,
Nov. 19, 2006
Jennifer Smith
and Steven
Frischknecht,
a daughter,
Holly Christine,
Jan.
3, 2007
Colleen Talbot
and
Scott Jacques,
a son,
Connor
Julien,
March
17, 2006
Stephanie
and
Jeremy Thode,
a
daughter,
Hannah
Deborah,
April
1,
2006
E. Robin Vazquez
and
Dan Ryan,
a daughter,
Lauren
Elizabeth,
Oct. 20, 2006
Shannon
Vincent
and
Anthony Uanino
Jr.
'93, a daughter,
Melinda,
Oct. 12, 2006
1995
Dana Avagliano
and Thomas
Blount,
a son, Andrew
Francis,
Jan.
8, 2006
Shannon Bostwick
and Jason
Steele,
a son, Connor
Austin,
Feb.
22, 2006
Jeannine Brescia
and William
Castaldi,
a son, Anthony,
June
14, 2005
Mary Kate Calabro
and
Kyle Bader,
a
son, Brendan,
Nov.
30, 2006
Kerry Connors
and Stanley
Broadway,
a daughter,
Grace
Ursula,
Aug. 15, 2005
Danielle Couture
and Mark
Wilson,
a daughter,
Hailey,
April 27, 2005
Maria Cuneo
and Eric
Kincheloe,
a son,
Trevor
Michael,
April 19, 2006
Maryanne
and
Sean Dumas,
a daughter,
Abbey
Mae,
June
9, 2006
Suzanne
Jacobs
and
Marc Gasperino,
a son, Drew
Martin,
May
14,
2005
Sharon Deloughery
and Jeremy
Nihart,
a
daughter,
Keleigh,
April 2005
Colleen Murphy
and
James Nagurney,
a daughter,
Anna Elizabeth,
July
1,
2005
Jennifer Schneider
and John
Kemnitzer,
a son,
Alex, Dec.
31, 2004
SUMMER
2007
33






















Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Bree Scott
and
Kevin
Pelczar,
a daughter,
Avery
Madison,
June 30, 2006
Laura
and
Brian Sheridan,
a son,
Jack,
Dec. 25, 2005
1996
Virginia Barnes
and
George Siegrist
'91,
a son,
Patrick
William,
June
14, 2006
Deborah Cartalano
and
Kolby
Slocum,
a son,
Hudson
Liam,
April
6, 2005
Cathleen
and
Jason
Farago,
a
daughter,
Caitlin
Rose,
June
2, 2005
Brenda
Gallagher
and Stephen
Liberti,
a son, Luke,
Jan.
30,
2006
Jennifer Hichborn
and
Joseph Badalamenti,
a daughter,
Jordan
Nicole,
Aug. 3, 2005
Amy
and
Mark Jeary,
a daughter,
Macrina
Clare,
March
24, 2007
Beth Kershaw
and
Raymond
Mahoskey,
a daughter,
Faith
Maria,
Sept. 1, 2006
Katie McMahon
and
Doug
Horstman,
a
daughter,
Abigail
Jane,
Aug.
25,
2006
Theresa Mottola
·and
Christopher Mulkins
'97,
a son,
Matthew
Eric,
April
4, 2006
Meghan O'Neill
and Andrew
Currier,
a daughter,
Catrina
Avery,
May
11, 2005
Valerie
and
Mike Pappagallo,
a daughter,
Amelia
Rose,
Dec.
4,
2005
Heather Spino
and
Craig
Pelletier,
a daughter,
Megan
Ann,
July
22,
2006
Jen and
Sean Stam,
a
daughter,
Payton
Louise,
Dec.
20,
2005
Karen Teufel
and Michael
Mushorn,
a daughter,
Kathryn
Mary,
Oct.
8,
2006
Julie Vetter
and Bryan
Palmieri,
a
daughter,
Olivia
Grace,
Oct. 29, 2005
Carley Waldron
and George
Tsaglos,
a
daughter,
Marist,
Oct.
31,
2006
1997
Emily
Bennett
and Jamie
Rosica,
a son,
Kieran
Luke,
April
5, 2006
Kristine
and
Michael Bogush,
a son,
Matthew
Stephen,
May
31, 2006
Gina D'Angelo
and
Robert
Mullen,
a
daughter,
Ava Noelle,
Sept. 26, 2006
34
MARlST
MAGAZINE
Association for performing CPR on
a casino patron. Through his efforts,
along with
those
of
the
Mohegan
Tribal Fire Department,
the
patron
was resuscitated on the scene and
survived. Kevin resides in North
Haven,
Conn.
1
9 9 5
Sharon
DelougherJ1-Nihart
lives
in
Forsyth, Ill., with
her
husband,
Jeremy,
and daughter, Keleigh.
I
Michael
J.
Dunne
would
like
to
contact Tau Epsilo,n Phi Marist
fraternity brothers about a
reunion
in
New York City. Anyone from
TEP
can contact Michael at Mdunne@
starcpq.com or Durbin "Rod"
Hunter
at DRH@Themcinty1regroup.com.
I
Anthony
Galvin
started a
new
job
in June 2006 at Wc,rld Wrestling
Entertainment
as promotions manag-
er for partnership marketing.
I
James
Henne
was promotE:d to manager
in Distribution Services with
TJX
Corp.'s
Homegoods
Division.
His
wife,
Marcia
Rosbury-Henne,
is
director of admissions at Holyoke
Community College in
Holyoke,
Mass. They reside in Orange, Mass.,
with their daughters,
Lauren,
6,
and Abigail, 31
Megan Mould
is
assistant di
rector
of programs and
events at Boston College.
I
Kevin
O'Neill
'95/'00MS t,~aches BA and
MBA classes for the University of
Phoenix
in
the Pittsburgh area.
He
also does free-lance Web developing
for www.pinkcloud.com.
I
Victoria
Perotti
was elected councilwoman
for Amenia, N.Y.,
in January 20061
Jennifer
Pusatere
accepted a position
in August 2006 as director of devel-
opment for the
nonprofit Freedom
Alliance. Freedom Alliance works
with troops and their !families.
I
Sean
Ryan
and
David Whiitehead
play in
a New York City rock band called
Liquid Carousel. They have
released
three
records
over the past 10 years
with another
release
planned for
2007. Liquid Carousel recently played
the 2007
HBO
Comedy Ans Festival
in
Aspen, Colo. For more informa-
tion, visit www.liquidcarousel.com
and www.myspace.com/liquidcar-
ousel.
I
Danielle
Couture
Wilson
is
a senior Web produc,er for
Lego
and
is living
in
Sturbridg,e, Mass.
1
9 9 6
Barbara
Amos
is enjoying
life
in New
Hampshire.
She is busy with volunteer
work, training for a
triathlon,
politics,
and spending time with
her
ador-
able granddaughter.
I
Todd
Coulson
is currently a multimedia developer
Class of 1968 members Charlie DiSogra and Bill Karl contacted
other '68 graduates
living
in the Poughkeepsie
area and held a
mini-reunion in January.
The
group consisted
of (left to right) Dan
Kuttner
'68,
Bill Karl
'68,
Nes Bojarczuk
'68,
Toni
Bojarczuk
'92,
Bob
D'Errico
'68,
George Probolus '68, and Charlie DiSogra '68.
for
Haley Productions and is also
a
teacher
at
Philadelphia
University.
His wife, Christina, is finishing a
degree
in law
and a PhD in clinical
psychology
at Villanova and Drexel
universities.
I
Brian Frankenfield
was promoted
10
director of devel-
opment and serdce, reporting
10
the
CEO and president, at Long Term
Care Partners,
LLC.
IJoshua
Gaynor
is class dean of academic advising
at
Columbia University.
I
Kathryn
Johns-Masten
received
her MLS
degree
in
2004 from SUNY Buffalo.
She is a librarian at Siena College.
I
Sylvia
Wood Pastor
resigned from
her quality assurance manager posi-
tion
at
Edward
S. Babcock & Sons,
an environmental, analytical
labora-
tory,
in Riverside,
Calif.,
to
be home
with
her
daughter, Sarah. Raising a 2-
year-old and running a home is hard
but
rewarding
work, Sylvia
says. She
uses
her
degree e,·ery day: chem
is-
try
("how will I get
this
stain out?"),
ethics, economics, and psychology
all come into plar. She and her family
are enjoying their recent relocation
to
Knoxville,
Tenn.
I
Amy Somes
Read
participated in Operation
Freefall by jumping out of a plane at
10,000 feet. The
jump
was pan of a
nationwide campaign to raise aware-
ness about sexual assault and funds
for
local
service agencies as well as
the
national organizations Rape,
Abuse & Incest National Network
and Speaking Out About Rape.
More than 270 people across
the
country jumped, raising
more than
$215,000.1
Michelle
Rivera
partici-
pated in a weight-loss
challenge on a
show called
Primetime
Live
and lost
25 pounds.
I
Stacey
Rhubin
is the
building coordinator for the Gifted
and Talented Program at Monroe-
Woodbury (N.Y.) High School.
I
Virginia
(Ginna)
Barnes
Siegrist
'98MA
and
George
Siegrist
'91
have four young children: Madison
Mae, George II, Caroline Jane, and
newest addition Patrick William who
was born in June 2006. The proud
Siegrist family continues to
reside
in Poughkeepsie
where George is
a custom-home builder and Ginna
is back at Marist College
teaching
psychology.
I
Scott Sullens
has
been
named
president of Bentbrook
Furniture. Bentbrook produc-
es custom leather upholstery and
leather-fabric
combinations. Scott
visited Bentbrook's factory south
of Shanghai, China, in March. The
company is
to
open a warehouse and
a showroom in High Point, N.C., this
summer. Scott and his wife,
Vanessa
'97, have lived
in
Pittsburgh, Detroit,
and Overland Park, Kansas, and
now reside
in
High Point with their
two daughters, Grace and Molly.
I
Brandon Tierney
is
the
host
of
The
Brandon Tierney Show
which airs
weekdays from 7 to 10 p.m. on ESPN
Radio 1050
in
New York City. He
is
also the host of pre-game, halftime,
and post-game broadcasts of the N.Y.
Knicks games. Brandon
is
an analyst/
play-by-play
host
for St. John's
University basketball and contrib-
utes to
Out of Bounds
on Comcast's
Channel CNS.
Scott Sullens
'96






































To hundreds of Marist graduates, Mike Malet will
always be "Coach."
Mike
led
dozens of Marist teams to
victory as
head
football
coach
(1978-88)
and
head lacrosse coach
(1984-90).
Arriving
at
Marist in
1970
as assistant football coach,
he
came
to
serve
as
a senior athle1tic administrator.
Mike now leads Arthur S.
May
Elementary School
in
Poughkeepsie, where he
has
been principal for the past eight years. Ten Marist
graduates are on his
team.
Shown in the
school
library, left to ri!iht, are Julie Smith
'99,
third grade teacher;
Christine Barry
'86,
kindergarten teacher; Carol
Porter
'72,
teac:hing assistant; Michael Schratz
'86,
fourth
grade teacher; Mike;
Tom
Voelker
'71,
school psychologist; Kimberlee Vallo
'87,
special
education teacher;
Kelly Becker
'01,
first
grade teacher; Joleigh Burleigh
'04,
fifthi grade teacher; and Michele Anderson
'98,
special
education
teacher,
shown with her
daughter,
Emily,
a
prospect for the Class of
'28.
,iamh·HR
---
1
9 9
7
Robert
Autenrieth
is
teaching K-5
technology
in the
Jackson Township
School
District in
New Jersey.
He
is
pursuing a PhD in supervision
and
special education certification
at
Georgian Court University
in
New
Jersey.I
Maura Wallin
Cawley
and
her
husband,
Jay,
adopted
twin
girls,
McKenna
and Elizabeth,
from
Guatemala
in September.
The family
recently
moved from
Hawaii to
New
Hampshire.
I
Stephanie Figura is
heading up
the New York office of
1/D PR, an entertainment/celebri-
ty PR
firm, where she is
managing
several
accounts including Starbucks
and
Tiffany's.
I
Sue Frost
is
the
head
women's lacrosse coach and
the Learning
Center
manager
at
the
University of Southern Maine.
I
Karen Fusaro
joined Nine West
in 2005 as vice
president
of
inter-
national sales. She
had
worked for
the company from
1997
to 2001.
I
Thomas Holmes
Jr.
is a
producer
and
writer
for
the Fox News Channel.
I
James
0.
Lord
was
named
vice presi-
dent
of
public
relations for the Surf
Restaurant Group on Cape Cod.
I
Matt
McAlear
runs a
non-public
school in
Richmond,
Calif., serving
students diagnosed on the autism
spectrum. The school falls under
the umbrella
of the California
Autism
Foundation. CAF serves
more
than
200 individuals across
the
greater
San Francisco
Bay
Area.
In
2006 a
government
task
force from
Slovenia
invited
and sponsored Matt
to
teach a
week-long
training
course in autism
service
development
and
delivery
for
Slovenian medical and edrucational
staff. Mau said the trainirng was
an
amazing
experience, allowing him
to
work with a recently
independent
nation as
it
develops an
infrastruc-
ture
for the education and treatment
of this exploding population.
He
was invited to return for a second
visit
during
summer 2007
I
Karin
Mitchell
has moved
to
State College,
Pa.,
and is a quality control inspector.
I
Stacey
Renner
was promoted from
assistant
treasurer to treasurer
of
CH Energy Group
in Poughkeepsie.
I
Daniel
Tarpey
is a police officer in
the
Emergency Service Unit for
the
Pon Authority Police
Department
of
New York and
New
Jersey.
Stacey
Renner,
'97MBA
1
9 9 8
Daniel Berggren
built a
new
home in
Bondurant, a suburb of Des
Moines.
I
Thomas Dannible
took a new job
at the
Albany Medical Center as
the
cardiac services
business manager.
I
David Hartman
is a
police officer
and
also a
real
estate
agent in
Wilton,
Conn.
I
Andrew Kilpatrick
held his
first public photography
display,
"The Hudson Valley-A Natural
Beauty,"
at the Hyde
Park
(N.Y.)
Free
Library Annex
inJanuary
2007.lliz
MacDougall
is
an
animal
care
tech-
nician
at St.
Lawrence
University,
where she also teaches classes on
anesthesia,
analgesia,
surgery tech-
niques,
and
government
rules
and
regulations
pertaining
to
research
animals.
I
Ronald Markowitz
mired
in April
2006 from the IBM
Corp.
after 25 years of service.
He
and
his
wife, Natalie, run a small used-book
business in
Poughkeepsie
called Ron-
Nat Books.
lJennifer
Scheulen Moss
and her
husband, Richard,
bought
a
house in May
2006.1
Dr. Bridget
Foy
Pomerantz
moved
back to
Poughkeepsie and
joined a family
practice
in
Fishkill,
N.Y.
I
Kristen
Jones-Tangarone
is
the
engineered
products manager
for
Pearse-Bertram
and lives
in
New
Hanford,
Conn.,
with her
husband, Jeremy,
and 4-
year-old
daughter,
Corrin.
1
9 9 9
Jennifer
Canonico Avroch teaches
third
grade at SJ. Preston Elementary
School and her husband,
Bryan
Avroch
'00,
teaches
eighth grade
reading
in
Stamford, Conn.
I
Diane
NEW
ARRIVALS
Willow
Lanpher
and
Thomas Dannible
'98,
a son,
Jaxson
Thomas,
April 9, 2007
Catherine Liebman
and Michael
Kirby,
a daughter,
Caroline
Elizabeth,
May
22,
2006
Suzanne McNamee
and
Van
Snyder,
a son,
Jonah,
Dec. 19,
2006
Jo-Ann
Piezzo
and J. Patrick
Holmes,
a son, Jack
Thomas,
May 2, 2005
Colleen Smith
and Benjamin
Hawkinson,
a daughter,
Riley
Frances,
July
2005
Marianne
Vetter
and
Brian
Warner,
a son, Robert
John,
Jan.
8, 2007
Maura Wallin
and Jay
Cawley,
twin daughters,
McKenna
and
Elizabeth,
Feb. 16, 2006
Tabitha Zierzow
and
James
Maccalous
'97,
a daughter,
Allison,
January
2006
Sandra
Dougall
and Christian
Stromberg,
a
daughter,
Gretchen
Eva,
April
19,
2006
1998
Jolene Barnao
and
Christopher Plant,
a
son, Andrew
James,
Feb.
21,
2006
Danielle Battiloro
and Marc
Vaphides,
a
daughter,
Isabella,
July 2006
Amie and
Mike
Blanchette,
a
daughter,
Anna
Noelle
Blanchette,
Dec.
1, 2006
Holly Giammarella
to
John
Maroney
'00,
Oct. 28,
2006
Suzanne
and
Russell Heigel,
a daughter,
Gabriela,
Jan. 17,
2006
Brittany King
and David
O'Connor,
a son,
James
David,
Feb.
1, 2006
Melissa Manso
and
Adam
Pennucci,
a daughter,
Adeline
Ann, Jan.
2, 2006
Kimberly
McHugh
and
Christian
Toelle,
twin
daughters,
Phoebe
and
Chloe,
Nov. 15, 2005
Kimberly
Metera
and
Carl Fishback,
a son, Benjamin
Riley,
Feb.
9, 2007
Mandi Morabito
and
Brett Mclaughlin,
a son, Anthony
William,
Nov.
24,
2005
Melissa Podgurski
and
William
Shimukonas,
a daughter,
Nicole
Marie,
Oct. 23, 2006
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Allison Poulin
and
Martin Sinacola
'97,
twin
sons, Lucas
Martin
and
Logan
Michael,
Feb.
2, 2006
1999
Kerry Barrett
and
Wilson Mendez Jr.
'01,
a son,
Kevin
Wilson,
April
27, 2006
Melissa Bennett
and
Chris Xistris,
a daughter,
Grace,
Aug. 9,
2006
Gina Cabuzzi
and Joseph
Bozek,
a
son,
Benjamin
Anthony,
March
30, 2006
Jennifer Canonico
and
Bryan Avroch
'00,
a daughter,
Marissa,
July
26, 2006
Meredith
and
Kevin Lundy,
a son,
Brendan
Michael,
July
11, 2006
Joelene Lyons
and Michael
Lenyk,
a daughter,
Allison
Nicole,
Oct.
26, 2006
Keri
and
Mike Melfi,
a son, Dante
Michael,
March
9,
2007
Ursula Modzelewski
and Eric
Sward,
a son, Lukas
Kevin,
Oct. 4,
2006
Robin Monk
and Gregory
Bilotta,
a
son,
Jack
Keller,
Feb.
20, 2006
Dana O'Rourke
and
James
Condela,
a daughter,
Makayla
Elle,
May
28, 2006
Emily Snayd
and
Benjamin
Scurto,
a son, Noah
Richard,
March
8, 2006
2000
Manjari Gangwar
and
Koustubh Warty,
a daughter,
Niharika,
September
2006
Kimberly Lux
and Robert
Connelley,
a son,
Robert
Lux
Connelley,
Nov.
22, 2006
Beth Mathewson
and
Mark
Law,
a son,
Matthew
Thomas,
March
9,
2006
Lorraine Millen
and Garrett
Millen,
a daughter,
Niagara
Marie,
September
2006
Kate
Tower
and Bill
Millis,
a daughter,
Kelly
Morgan,
Dec.
12,
2006
Janeen Van Beese!
and
Keith
Allmendinger,
a son, Eric
Michael,
March
3, 2006
2001
Robin Applegarth
and
Mark Bielawiec,
a
daughter,
Amelia
Anne,
June
26, 2005
Seneca
Beck
and
Ryan Mccue,
a daughter,
Adelyn
Grace,
Feb.
26, 2007
36
MARIST
MAGAZINE
Bonsignore
is a prodlucer on
Inked,
a reality
show on A&E
about tauoo
artists.
I
Richard
C,occhiara
was
recognized
as
an
IBM Distinguished
Engineer in May
2006.1
Colleen
Hoffman
is teaching pre-Kat Half
Hollow
Hills
Central 5chool
District
in
Dix Hills,
N.Y.IEmily
Kucharczyk
is
a development
resea,rcher/writer
at
Wesleyan UniYersity
in
Middletown,
Conn.
I
Amanda Liles
is president-
elect
for
the
2006-2007 board
of
directors of
the
San Antonio
Media
Alliance,
a
chapter of American
Women in
Radio
and
Television.
I
Kathleen Wisniewski
McEnroe
is
pursuing
an
advanced certificate
in
literacy
at
Hofstra
University.
I
Mike
Melfi
placed third in
the
2006 Key
BankVermont
City Marathon
in
a
time
of
2 hours
and 32
minutes.
I
Jessyka Peeters's
son, Colten, turned
2
years old
in
June.
Jessyka teaches
second grade in Averitll
Park,
N.Y.
2 0 0 0
Jennifer Ferris
Azz:ariti and
her
husband,
Tom, boug;ht
a house in
Massapequa
Park,
N.Y.IHeidi
Bock
is
Columbia Land
C:onsen·ancy's
conservation easement stewardship
associate in
Columbia
County,
N.Y.I
Lauren Gancarz Dabek
moved
from
Syracuse,
N.Y., to Tolland,
Conn.,
and became
the
marketing
manag-
er at Schoenhardt Architecture
&
Interior Design
in
Tariff ville,
Conn.
I
Anna
Darpino
graduated from law
school and
passed
l
he
July 2006
Pennsylvania and New Jersey bar
exams. She began a derkship for
the
Hon.William Mathei;ius in Mercer
County Superior
Court in Trenton,
NJ.
I
Michael
Galante
is
manager
of
the
Co-Marketing
Division for
ESPN
Customer
Marketing
and
Sales.
IManjari
Gangwar
and
Koustubh
Warty
relocated to Frisco,
Texas,
near
Dallas.
I
Heather
Suydam
Herrington
was recently
elect-
ed to
the Executive
•Comminee
of
the
Young Lawyers
Division of
the
Philadelphia
Bar Assodation.
lTracy
Pizzola
Jensen
is pursuing a
degree
in radiologic technology.
I
Aisha
Wright Kutter,
program manager
for the New York
Power
Authority's
Peak Load
Management Program,
was named
the Pow,~r
Authority's
2007 Black
Achieve:r. Aisha was
recognized for impr-oving
NYPA's
efforts to
estimate
its customers'
energy
use,
allowing
NYPA
to more
accurately arrange for their energy
needs.
I
Christopher
Vaughn-
Martel
was sworn
in
as
a member
of
the
Massachusetts
bar on
Dec.
1,
Marist students and staff had the opportunity to shop for a good
cause when Caravan, the boutique on wheels
launched
by Claudine
'96 and Brian Gumbel '96, came to campus in April. Opened in June
2005,
Caravan makes the rounds in Manhattan, offering men's and
women's clothing, accessories, and gift items from around the globe.
Caravan donated 10 percent of sales to the Marist College Fashion
Program Scholarship Fund. Above, Claudine
(right)
greets shopper
Katie Magarity
'05,
Marist's alumni relations assistant.
2006.
IJacqueline
Martin
gradu-
ated from Boston
University with a
master's
in school counseling. She
is coordinator of career assessment,
planning, and
placement
at
Blue Hills
Technical
School
in
Canton,
Mass.
She
runs
its cooperative education
program, administers
career assess-
ments
for incoming freshmen, and
assists with
recruitment.
lJennifer
Matarazzo
resigned from
Fitness
Magazine,
where
she was an associ-
ate
editor,
and is now
senior editor
at
Weight
Watchers
Magazine.
I
Margo
Henninger
Musgnug is pursuing
a
master's
in educational
administra-
tion
at the University of Scranton.
I
Mike Musgnug
was
promoted
to
director of marketing at
Im·erness
Medical.
He has
offices in Maine, the
UK, and Germany.
I
Alison O'Brien
has been
named
partner at Gagnon
Securities,
an
investment firm
where
she has worked since 2003.
IJessica
Cooper
Palliardi
completed an
MA
in education at the University of
Connecticut and is certified to teach
middle
and
high school social stud-
ies.
Jessica
and
her husband, Leo,
a
financial
advisor in Hanford, Conn.,
reside in
Manchester,
Conn., and
recently purchased
their
first home.
I
Chelsey Ferrigno
Patriss
is
thrilled
to
be
the
new
director of alumni
rela-
tions
at Fitchburg State College
in
Massachusetts.
I
Kerri Darmody
Philipbar
is busy
raising
her
son,
working,
and
attending nursing
school
at
SUNY
Farmingdale.
I
Kelly
Ulmschneider
and
Brianjingeleski
live
in
Wantagh,
N.Y.,
where Kelly
teaches
at Her
ricks High
School
and
Brian is
an
Emmy-Award winning
cameraman
at News
12 Long Island.
I
Abby van
Horne
ran in
the 2005
New
York
City Marathon and
completed
the 2007 Boston Marathon
with a
time
of 3 hours
and
26
minutes.
I
Rachael Vollaro
was promot-
ed to vice
president at Rubenstein
Communications,
Inc.,
in New
York
City.lAdam
Weissman
became the
president
of the Hoboken Ski Club.
I
Shelly
Napoli
Yapchanyk
graduat-
ed
from
nursing school
in 2006
and
became
a
registered nurse.
2 0 0
1
Robert
Adamski
was
promoted to
associate
producer II
within
the
ESPN
Remote
Production
De pan ment.
I
James
Alackness
moved to Georgia
to teach
sixth grade special educa-
tion
in
Waynesboro.
He
also
recently
bought
his first house, in South
Carolina. He
previously
worked in
residential
life
at
Marist
for
four
years.
I
Christopher
Asmann is attending
master's degree
classes at Fordham
University
and working toward
sign
language certification.
I
Christopher
Blasie
was promoted
to senior
analyst of
research
and
on-board
product at Continental Airlines.
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NEW
ARRIVALS
Rebecca
Kizirian
and Jeffrey
DiStefano,
a
daughter,
Erin
Tula,
April 28, 2006
Dawn Russell
and
Robert
"Gus•
Schnitzer
'96,
a
daughter,
Madeline
Mae,
Jan. 22, 2007
Jennifer Sperry
and Oscar
Santiago,
a
daughter,
Fiona
Helena,
July
26, 2006
2002
Kimberly Magrone
and
Brian
Laffin,
a son, Patrick
Darren,
March
3, 2007
Pre~ident_
Dennis
J. Murray (far l~ft\ welcomed Marist Trustee
Jlames
Barnes
'68 and his wife, Maryellen, and
their family to the 20_07
St. P_atnck
s Day_
Parade in New York (ity. Jim and Maryellen were honorary grand
marshals
for
the
Manst contingent. Family members includedl
alumni
George Siegrist '91, Sean Barnes
'04,
Shamus
Barnes
'91, and
Virginia
"Ginna"
Barnes
Siegrist
'96/'98MA.
Julie Anne
Valente
and Antonio
Milelli,
a son,
Giuseppe
Christiano,
July
11,
2006
2003
Laura
and
Christopher Hart,
sons,
Caelan,
Nov. 23, 2004, and
Timothy,
May 13,
2007
became
a member
of the Continental
Management Association.
He
was
chosen
to
organize inaugural nights
in
2006 to Cologne, Barcelona,
and
Copenhagen.
I
Kimberly Niforos
Bolan
and
Jack Bolan
recent-
ly married and
have
purchased
their first
home, in
Springfield,
NJ.
I
Michael
Coviello
received a
master's
degree in public history
from SUNY Albany in December
2006.
Ijames
Dabek
is
an avion-
ics software engineer al
Lockheed
Martin Systems Integration in
Owego,
N.Y.
He recently completed
the
company-sponsored
Engineering
Leadership Development Program
which included
a master's
in systems
engineering
from Cornell University.
IJeff
Dahncke
is a vice president
at Weber Shandwick, a global
public
relations
firm. He advises
companies on corporate communi-
cations strategy.
I
Sharon
Kennedy
DePalo
and her
husband,
Anthony,
purchased a
house
on Long
Island.
I
Leah Duggan
is living just
north
of Boston and still
teaches
seventh
and eighth grade Spanish at Parker
Middle School in
Reading,
Mass.I
Jeremy Koscielecki
completed
his
PhD
in
biological chemistry at
the
University
of Connecticut in the fall
of 2006. He is
now
working as an
R
&
D chemist with DuPont.
I
Gerald Nelson
'0lMPA was promot-
ed to Brooklyn North borough
commander by
the
New York
City Police Department.
I
Melissa
Novick lives
in Las Veg,as, Nev.,
and
works at the Venetiant
Hotel.
I
Christopher Parfett
is pursuing a
master's in
social work at Adelphi
University.
He
expects
to
;graduate
in
2007.
IJoseph
Parizo
nnoved
to
Illinois
to be with his fiancee, Nicole.
I
Matthew Pitruzzello
received a
doctor
of pharmacy degrne in May
2005.
He
is
practicing in Danbury,
Conn.I
Christina Schwab
is a buyer
for a chain of craft stores called the
Rag Shop.
I
Patrick Spence
lhad
been
working at WTOP Radio lfor more
than
two years but has moved
to
a
sister station, WFED. He
is now the
associate
producer
of a new morning
show aimed at federal workers both
in
the
Washington, D.C., area and
stationed
around
the
country and
the
world.lJulioA.
Torresjr.
works at
the Fashion Institute ofTec:hnology
as an Equal Opportunity Program
advisor/counselor.
lna•mM~•
2 0 0 2
Martin
Aguilar
was promoted
in
2006 to sales director of audiovi-
sual at the Westin New York hotel
in
Times Square.I
Benny
Cueto is
a
high school business
teacher
in New
Jersey, where
his
fiancee,
Alyssa
Tierney
'03, resides and owns a
bridal shop.
lMaria
De Dallin
is
keeping
the
Geriatric Assessment
Program going at Catskill Regional
Medical
Center
in Harris,
N.Y.,
under
a
new
grant for another year. She
is
a member of the Geriatrics Mental
Health Alliance.
Ijames
F. Dooley
'02MPA
is a captain in
the
New York
Police
Department
and has three chi I-
2005
Kristen Meinecke
and Michael
Laino,
a
son,
Jacob
Michael,
Aug. 25, 2006
Alumni Accept Award for Morgan Stanley
James
Crutchfield '00 and
Joseph Verderame
'00 of Morgan Stanley
recently accepted an award on behalf of their employer from Marist
College's Center
for
Career
Services.
Stephen Cole '72, executive director of the Center for Career Servic-
es, presented the Intern Employer
of the Year Award April 26 at
the
center's Field Experience Recognition Luncheon on
Marist's
main
campus. The annual award
recognizes
an employer who
has
a long-
standing
relationship
with Marist, based on full-time
recruitment
and
internship hi res.
James and Joseph are associates in
the
Technology Division
of
Morgan Stanley. In addition,
Marist
alumni Vicky
Chen '07 and Jeffrey
Forde
'06
of Morgan
Stanley
attended the
luncheon,
which also drew
more than 160
employers,
Marist
faculty
and staff, and students.
Past recipients of the employer award
have
been
Maggy
London
International, Dutchess
County Sheriff's
Department, Center for
Enhanced
Performance
at
U.S.
Military
Academy,
St.
Francis
Hospital,
IBM,
Enterprise
Rent-A-Car,
American
Cancer
Society,
Central
Hudson
Gas and Electric,
Northwestern Mutual
Life, Paine Webber, and Madi-
son Square Garden.
Also at
the luncheon, Desmond
Murray,
assistant director of
Field
Experience,
presented the 2007 Marist College
Intern of the Year
Award
to
Amy
Fernandez,
a senior communications
major
with
a
concentra-
tion in
advertising. The annual award, given by
the
Center for Career
Services
since
1993, recognizes a graduating
senior
for outstanding
achievement in experiential education,
which
includes
internships,
co-
ops, and
student
teaching assignments.
Alumni who would be interested
in
having Marist students serve
as interns in
their
workplaces are invited to contact Desmond
Murray at desmond.murray@marist.edu
or (845) 575-3547.
SL,
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Alumni
IN
MEMORIAM
Alumni
Bernard
A.
Garrett
'48
Dr. Denis
D. Murphy
'49
Bro. Matthew R. Snowden,
FMS
'53
Patrick
M. Curtin
'58 (Bro.
Patrick
Anselm,
FMS)
Bro. Joseph
Malatak
'58
Alexander
R. Brown '61
Donald
J.
Edwards
'61
Bro. Bernard
Ruth, FMS
'62
James
J. Gara
'63
John
P.
Loughren
'63
James
F. Cardus
'68
Theodore
B. Brosnan
'70
Jack
Neustadt
'72
James
J.
Lavery
'73
Stephen
F.
Murphy
'75
Carl J. Bendell
'77
Kevin
P Gallagher
'77
Michael
A. Muscatel!
'77
Michael
W. Welch,
Jr.
'77
Dianne
M.
Hacker
'81
George
R. Penfield
'.85
Douglas
Maloney
'87
Jeffrey
B. Whitaker
'87
Thomas
P. Logan
'93
Kimberly
L.
Knight '94
Judy
K. Parks
'94
Kathleen
M.
Wilson
'95
Terrina
L.
Snowden
'04
David
C.
Brinkerhoff
'06MPA
Antonio Nieves
'06MPA
Friends
David
Avenius
A. F. Roy Carpenter
Evelyn
J.
Crispell
Mary
Foy
Phyllis
Haven
Dr. Martin Koloski
Benjamin
Leeds
Warren
J.
Mitofsky
Josephine
Minutella
Joseph
O'Brien
Ethel Schwartz
Leonard
E. Simon
Dr. Theodore
G. Sturgis
38
MARIST
MAGAZINE
dren.lNicholas
Gilda rd
graduated
in
May
2005 from Pac:e Uni\'ersity
Law
School
in
White
Plains. He
is
an
assistant district
attorney
with the
Dutchess County District
Attorney's
Office in
Poughkeepsie.
I
Elizabeth
Hammond
was
selected for
the
U.S.
Department
of
Health and
Human
Services
Emerging
Leaders
Program.
She completed
her
rota-
tion at
the Centers of Medicare and
Medicaid
Services and
is now doing
rotations
through H,&HS.
I
Lisa
Bonnes Johnson
has
moved
back
to the United States after
living
in
Bamberg,
Germany, for
three
years.
I
Megan Richard Licata
is
pursu-
ing a
master's in analytical
chemistry
at
the University
of New Hampshire.
Her husband,
Brendan Licata
'01,
is the
manager
for
!Robert
Half
International Corp.
They have
two
children,
Kieran
Brendon, 6, and
Brigid Katherine, 16 months.
I
Thomas Murray
was promoted from
vice
president to
associate director
at Bear
Stearns.
I
Emily
Pacella
is
currently pursuing educational
administration
certifica.tion.
lAlison
Reilley
finished a master's
degree in
teaching English language learners.
She
is teaching
Spanislh. Four years
ago
she started
a lacrosse
program
in
the
Dedham.
Mass., public schools.
and now
the
schools have
both
junior varsity and varsity teams.
I
Carolyn Salter
has
joi.ned
the staff
of
the Lillian
and Emanuel Slutzker
Center
for International
Services
at Syracuse Universil)• as an
advi-
sor
to international
students and
scholars.
I
Diesa
Seide:! is
pursuing
a master's
degree and
teaching health
and physical
education in New
Jersey
after
playing professional
basketball
in Tarbes, France, and Viterbo, Italy.
I
Mariel
Sosa
is working for
the
U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs.
2 0 0 3
Bridget
Boian received!
a
master's
in
reading from
Sacred Heart University
in
2004. She is currently a special
education
teacher
at
an
elementa-
ry school
in
Shelton, Conn.
I
Erin
Burke
is a
publicist
in the Lifestyle/
Beauty
Department at Rogers
&:
Cowan in New
York
City.
I
Linda
Calvelli passed four
parts of
the
CPA exam, completing the
final
part
in No\'ember
200
1
6.
I
Danielle
Coscia is
earning a
master's
in
learn-
ing technologies
at Willliam
Paterson
University.lJonathan
IDeZinno
was
promoted to
background screening
analyst with Citigroup Security and
Investigative
Services
in
its
back-
In
May, Anthony
Trocino
'07 was the last of six
in
his family to
gradu-
ate from Marist. A photo at commencement
included
(left
to
right}
Domenic Trocino
'98, MaryEllen Siegrist
Trocino
'01 MA, Patricia
Trocino '03, Anthony, Christine Fasano,
Chris
Trocino
'05, and Mark
Trocino
'02.
ground screening unit.
I
Mary Doyle
moved to
Westchester and started
a
new job with
Tri-State Learning
Center
after
completing a master's
degree.
I
Michael Festi
teaches first
grade in South Windsor, Conn.
I
Sarah Ferguson
Olberding
and
her
husband,
Ethan.
are stationed
in
Oahu,
Hawaii. Ethan is
a captain
in
the U.S. Army and recently returned
home from
Iraq.
I
Lauren
Gilstein
lives
in
Manhattan and is employed
at Weill Cornell Medical College of
Cornell University as a Web
devel-
oper for the Education Technology
Department.
I
ichole Hartzell
spent
two
years teaching
in
special
education
in Hawaii.
She now
teach-
es
at
O\'erbrook School for
the
Blind
in Philadelphia.
I
Nick Lakin
is the
head
coach and program direc-
tor
of
the Black
Hawk Area Swim
Team
and was also
the
2006-2007
Iowa
Swimming Coach or the Year.
I
Danielle
Blank Lambert bought
a home in Pennsylvania, where
her
husband accepted a
position
in
Wilkes-Barre.
I
Vito
Pagano
was
promoted to
vice president
in
Global
Corporate
Investment
Banking for
Bank of America
Merchant
Services.
I
Matthew Pennacchio
was promoted
to
senior account executive
at Ruder
Finn Public
Relations in
New
York
City.
I
Jonathan
Wetmore
received
a
JD degree
from
the
Robert Williams
University Ralph
R.
Papitto School
of
Law
in May
2006.
I
Nichola
Williams
was promoted
to manag-
er of
product
de\·elopment
at Calypso
Christiane Cello.
I
Stacey Willis
has purchased her
first
house,
in
Wallingford,
Conn., where she says
will proudly hang pictures
represent-
ing
many Marist memories.
2 0 0 4
Kevin
and Tracey (Maida) Altieri
live
in
Stamford, Conn.
I
Kelli
Bodrato
is the co-author of the
case study "Entrepreneurs
Test
the
Market:
Got (Goat's)
Milk?"
published
in the
New
England
journal
of
Entrepreneurship.
Ijames
Dudra
launched a
new business, Eco Touch,
in
New
Hampshire. Eco
Touch
is
a
new biodegradable,
nontoxic,
water-
less car cleaning product.
For more
information,
go
to www.ecotouch.
net.
I
Lauren
Fassold is
training for
the
Honolulu Marathon.
She
is in
her third year of
teaching in Hawaii.
I
Brendan
Grimaldi is a program-
ming
manager for AOL Music
as well
as a
music
director on AOL
Radio,
housed
in
New
York Cit)'.
I
Stephen
Harrison
was nominated
as
Web
site committee chairman for
the Big
Bend
Society or
Human Resources
Management, an organization of
more than 150 professionals
from a
variety of
agencies
in
the Tallahassee,
Fla.,
area.
He was also promoted to
director or
human resources
for Seva
Technologies,
LLC,
while
keeping his
title of business
manager.
I
Edmund
Hartnett
'04MPA has
been appoint-
ed commissioner
of police in
Yonkers,
N.Y.ISean
Houlihan
graduated with
an
MS in national
security in
2006
from the
University of New
Ha\·en.
He is a
police officer
in
Connecticut.
I
Kathleen
F.
Hyde
has
been
promot-
ed to corporate trainer
at
Geico.
I
Adaze W.
Imafidon
is
the
owner
of AW.I. Security&:
lm·estigations.
He has
employed
more than 130
security guards and investigators.
I
Kristin
Mancini
graduated
from
the University of Connecticut in
May 2006
with
an
MA in
Spanish.


























I
Since graduating,
John McGarr
has
lived in
New Mexico
and Hawaii.
He
then
worked
at
Newsday
on
Long
Island before becoming an assistant
supervisor
in
the trucking and ware-
house
division
at ABC
in
New York
City.
I
Frank
J.
Muthig's
daugh-
ter is studying criminal justice at
Dutchess (N.Y.)
Community College.
IJacqueline
Ranaldo
is pursuing
a master's degree at C.W. Post
I
Allison
Seaman
recently
returned
from
Hawaii
where she
has
taught
for the
past two years. She
is
now
teaching a
self-contained special
education class
in Roselle Park,
NJ.
I
Lauren Selke
has
been
working
as a merchandise coordinator at
the
Danbury
Christmas
Tree
Shops
since July 2004.
ITracey
Robinson-
Thomas
completed Greenbelt
Training
for Six Sigma,
a
unique
approach to
process improvement
and
problem-sol\'ing.
2 0 0 5
Jill
Anderson is teaching third
grade
in
Brooklyn,
N.Y., and
has
moved
to Queens
with
a fellow
Marist
graduate,
Timothy
McCarthy.
I
Alexander
Bea
is
coaching for
the
University of
Texas
club crew team.
IJulia
Braun
is
pursuing a
Doctor
of
Jurisprudence
degree and says she
misses all of
her Red Fox
friends.
I
Patricia Coogan
is_earninga
Master
of Education
degree in
higher educa-
tion
in student affairs
at
Salem State
College in Salem, Mass. She
hopes
to
pursue a career
in residence
life
or student activities.
lJohn
De Joy
'05MBA, the
dean
of graduate and
continuing education enrc,llment
at
Marist,
ran in the New York City
Marathon and came in No. 33,880,
finishing
in 5
hours and 30 minutes.
IJohn
Delaat III
has been
working
at ESPN
in
Bristol, Conn.,
for
a year
as a
programming
content associate.
I
Caitlin
Donahue,
upon
comple-
tion of
her
first year at Thomas M.
Cooley
Law
School,
has
re:ceived
two certificates of
merit
for achiev-
ing the
highest
grade in
two
dasses:
Torts I and
Research
and Writing.
I
Matt Grant
is
pursuing
an
MS
in
journalism at Columbia University.
I
Caitlin
Halligan
has taken a new
job
at
New York Magazine
as a
design-
er. She says she is enjoying
life in
the
city.
I
Mehren Hopfenspirger
received
a
master's
in science
from the
University at Albany
in
December
2006.1
Lorraine
Lopez
is
a
program
specialist at
the
New
York
21st
Statewide Tee hnical
Center where she provide:; train-
ing
and technical assistance
to
21st
Century Community Learning
Centers, federally
funded
afte1rschool
programs
throughout
New York State.
Prior
to
working with
the
center,
Lorraine taught with Orange-Ulster
BOCES and
the
Fallsburg Central
School
District. Her
oldest
daugh-
ter, Jocelyn,
will head to college in
the
fall.
I
Nicole
Lynch
was
promot-
ed
from
corporate sales assistant for
Nets basketball to sales and research
coordinator
for
Brooklyn Sports
&
Mike Mostransky
'94's
solo photo
exhibit,
"Moments Captured," is
scheduled
for
Uniondale
(N.Y.) Library in September.
The
same
exhibit
appeared
over the past year
at
libraries in Baldwin, Wantagh, North
Bellmore,
Hempstead, and East Meadow.
In
November two of his
pieces
were accepted for
a
group show
at
the North Shore Art Guild,
a juried
show that included only two photographers'
works
among
its 150
paintings
and
pieces of sculpture.
For more
information
visit
http://mikemostransky.blogspot.com.
When Lesley Springstun Schaffer
'76
replaced the Marist
College
Alumni license plate on her
car
recently, she and her husband, Rick,
found
a
good use for the old one. Rick used it to decorate a bird feeder
that hangs
at
their cabin near the Lincoln National Forest
in
Ruidoso,
N.M.
"I've noticed a
sharp
increase
in
visitors," Lesley says,
"and
they
seem
to be
a little
more educated!"
Entertainment.
I
Daniel
Mazzone
'05MPA
retired
from
the
Schenectady
Police
Department in December
2005.
He is
now
an agent with the
Internal Revenue
Service.I
Anthony
Olivieri
is
an associate editor at PA
SportsTicker,
a real-time sports news
information
service delivering
instant
scores, breaking sports news, statis-
tics,
previews, recaps, and features
to
radio and TV stations,
broadcast
and cable networks, newspapers,
wire services,
interactive
media,
on
Ii
ne services,
paging
services,
multimedia,
and other electronic
publishing
applications throughout
North and South America
and
Japan.
I
Richard
Sassi
II
was
promoted to
detective
with
the
City of
Beacon
Police Department
in
March
2007.
I
Scott Shukri
is a graduate student
in
the
physician
assistant program
at New York
Institute
of Technology.
I
Allison Stern is
a sales executive
for
Jones
New York's L.E.1.
Division.
I
Lauren Talbot
works at UBS
Financial Services
in
Weehawken,
NJ
I
Marine
Lt.
Patrick
Van
Horne
is stationed at Camp
Pendleton
in California and
is
preparing for
deployment
to Iraq.
2 0 0 6
Ashley Arcuri
is applying
to
radi-
ography school and seeking a
job.
I
Patrick Bean
is pursuing a
master's degree
at Duke University.
I
Christine Behlmer
is
a
part-
time graduate student at Fairfield
IN
MEMORIAM
Faculty/Staff
Joan
S. Hanaburgh
Switchboard
Operator
Bro.
Francis
Hughes,
FMS
Faculty
Member
Jerome
A. McBride
Associate
Professor
of Information
Systems
and Director
of Information
Systems
Graduate
Program
Adrian
Perreault
librarian/Archivist
1958-84
Bruce
W. Wagner
'66
Assistant
Vice
President
for
Human
Resources
and Security
Former
Trustees
Michael
M.
Pennock
Students
Wayne
Revell
'08
Steven
Andrew
Kearins
'09
SUMMER
2007
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University. She al:so
is
an inter-
national assignment consultant
for Cartus in Danbury, Conn.
I
Matthew Borchers
ii; enjoying teach-
ing seventh and ninth grade math
and fondly remembers his four years
at Mari st.
I
David
C.
Brinkerhoff
'06MPA, a New Yori<
State Trooper,
was
killed
in the line of duty on April
25, 2007. The New Yc,rk
State Trooper
Foundation has established a trust
fund at Trustco Bank for David's
infant daughter, Isabella Grace.
I
Adam Coppola is
working for
The
Insider
and
Entertainment Tonight.
Both shows reponedly
recently
achieved
their higlhest ratings
in
the past two years
.and
were rated
the No.
1
and No.
2'.
entertainment
news shows on
TV.1:Remington
Cox
has
opened CC Blute, a contempo-
rary Japanese restaurant featuring a
sushi bar, in the town of St. Helena
in
northern California's
Napa Valley.
To read more, visit www.ccbluesu-
shi.com.1Tara
Delmour
is pursuing
a master's in teaching at Montclair
State University
in
New Jersey.
I
Amanda DeValerio
'06MA became
an adjunct professor
at Peirce
College
in
Philadelphia,
Pa.
I
Elizabeth Egan
is
pursuing a master's in elementary
education at Sacred !Hean
University
in Fairfield, Conn.
II
Katie Eskin
is
the marketing and PR coordinawr
President
Dennis
J.
Murray (far
right)
presented
the Marist Colllege
Alumni
Association's
2007 Alumni Leadership
Award to Nicholas Lombardi
'07
(left)
and Maryellen Conway
'07 at
the College's
baccalaureate
ceremony
in
May. Each year the association
recognizes
two seniors
for outstanding
leadership and
contributions
to the campus community. Re:cipients
are
nominated
and
elected by alumni employed
by Marist.
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for the
International
Fight
League,
"the world's first mixed martial arts
professional league."
I
Virginia
Fundell
is applying to
law
school.
I
Kimberly
Fuller
has completed
her first year in a PhD program at
Syracuse University.
I
Christina
Garibaldi
is working for MTV in its
News Department.
I
Mark
Gildard
is
a certified athletic trainer and a grad-
uate student in the athletic
training
program at West Virginia University
in
Morgantown,
W.Va.
He is a gradu-
ate assistant trainer for several
of the
university's
Big East athletic teams.
I
Sherri Glicklin
is an
investigator
for
New York State. She says it's a great
opportunity and very exciting
LO
be
able to apply her degree.
I
Lorraine
Grant
started in the MBA
program
at Marist this spring.
I
Edward
Grosskreuz
is earning an MA in
adolescent education
in
English at
Adelphi University and was observ-
ing in the classroom this spring. He
continues
LO
pursue
his
interest in
theatre, acting in six shows since
graduating from Marist.
In January,
he
performed for the first time in
New York City
in
a play written by a
fellow
actor. They
now,
along with a
few others, have formed the Winter
Theatre Company.
They plan to write
and stage new work again soon.
I
Aurora Israelson is
pursuing an MS
degree in college student person-
nel
at Miami University in Oxford,
Ohio, and is running a residence
hall.
I
Darren Johansen
complet-
ed a master's degree in psychology
at Marist in May.
I
Kenneth Juras
is pursuing an MPA at
Rockefeller
College at the University of Albany.
I
Lindsay Liquori
is the first
woman sports anchor/producer at
Time
Warner in Middletown,
N.Y.
IJennifer
Luongo
is working as
a group assistant for the Kaplan
Thaler Group in New York City.
I
Dennis Marcel
'06MPA retired as
a deputy commanding officer with
the
Rock\'ille
Centre (N.Y.) Police
Department. He is now a detective
investigator for the Suffolk County
District Attorney's Office.
I
Patricia
Maxim
lives
in
West Virginia
and is attending West Virginia
School of Osteopathic Medicine.
I
Miranda McAuliffe
is a news
assistant for NYl News and also
waitresses on weekends at a local
bowling alley. Miranda is consid-
ering graduate school programs.
Her family has just adopted a shel-
ter dog named Lady.
I
Upon retiring
from the NYPD's
Organized Crime
Unit,
Anthony Mercogliano
'06MPA
went to work for the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority Control
Bureau as
inter-agency
security liai-
son in January 2006. In November,
he
was promoted
LO
director of secu-
rity operations for MTA
bridges and
tunnels.
I
Christina Moran
is living
in Manhattan and working in the
fashion
industry
as an assistant prod-
uct development manager for Ann
Taylor.
I
Katie
Nichols
is working
full
time
as a relocation consultant,
specifically for government agen-
cies such as the FAA and NASA.
I
Sara Nylin
is saving money
to
go
back
to
school to study photography.
She misses Marist.
I
Lisa
Reyes
is a
sixth grade special education teach-
er at Minisink Valley
(N.Y.)
Middle
School and plans to begin a master's
degree program this summer.
I
Leah Schultz
teaches
ninth
grade
algebra and geometry in Litchfield,
Conn. She presented at the National
Council of Teachers
of Mathematics
Annual Conference in Atlanta, Ga.,
in March. She also coached the girls'
varsity tennis team at her school this
spring.
I
Nicole Sciacca
is working
for LiveTechnology, an Internet
company that helps manage advertis-
ing,
marketing,
and communications
for Fortune 500 companies.
I
Megan
Sickler
joined the Community
Service Office at the University of
New
Haven
as the community
service
coordinawr.
I
Lisa Stephens
began
working at
IBM
as a financial analyst
right
after graduation.
I
Michaela
Sweet
is the marketing manager for
the Ottawa Lynx baseball team in
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
I
Melissa
Troiano
is marketing coordinator
at DOT Federal Credit Union in
Poughkeepsie.
I
Alec Troxell
is a
presentations coordinator at BBDO,
a New York City ad\·ertising agency.
He loves
his
job and the company
for which
he
works.
I
Bryan Van
Steenbergen
coordinates public
relations
at the National Kidney
Foundation.I
David Violante
is
the
assistant director of emergency
medi-
cal services for
the
Arlington Fire
District in Poughkeepsie.
He
also
volunteers with the international
humanitarian organization SHARE
(Society for Hospital And Resources
Exchange).
I
Ryan
Wisniewski
has
purchased a home and is
now
presi-
dent of North Creek Carpentry Inc.
I
Richard
Zayas
has been accepted
LO
the New York College
of Osteopathic
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