Marist Fund Chai1rs
Share Their lrhoughts
Last year nearly 7,500 alumnij, friends, parents,
businesses, staff, faculty, and trustees supported
the Marist Fund. Each and evE!ry supporter has a
special reason why he or she !~ives to the Marist
It is important to support Marist
College and continue to elevate its
reputation as
one
of our nation's top
educational
institutions.
Our financial
contributions will further enhance the
value of your Marist degree.
Marist College is a unique institution
that combines traditional values with a
contemporary environment. Supporting
the Marist Fund is recognition of the
importance that we have placed on our
Marist education.
Fund. !Our Division Chairs
share
eheir
thoughts:
-Pat and Patty
Lavelle
'73/'74,
Alumni Chairs
The Marist Fund provides
local students the opportunity
to receive an incredible
education and helps them
develop into leaders in our
community. The Marist
Fund
is a wonder/ ul program
for both the college and
its students.
-Richard Whalen, DDS
Business Co-Chair
With Marcellin Champagnat as their inspiration, the
Marist Brothers and their faith have made Man'st College
stand out over the years as an institution where .students
are encouraged to be ethical, energetic, committ,~d, and
generous to the world they will enter. It is a privilege to
support the Marist Fund in furthering the high ideals and
rich traditions of a Marist education.
-Elizabeth
M. Wolf, Friends Chair
-Tom Ward '69
Chairman and CEO of Maidenform, Inc.
Marist College is one of
a select few institutions
and organizations in
the Hudson Valley that
provide a foundation
upon which the rest
of our area grows and
thrives. By supporting
the Marist Fund we all
do our part in assuring
the future strength of
our community.
National Chair
I
have had many roles at Marist
as a student and administrator of
various areas within the institution.
I take great pride in my 13-year
affiliation with the college and in
my decision to be a part of a very
special educational institution.
My unique vantage point has
helped me to see firsthand the
value of unrestricted support.
-Robin
Diller Torres, NCC '95 M
Campus Chair
We support the Marist Fund
because we know that every
dollar raised goes directly
back into the college to further
enhance the opportunities
that the students will receive
atMarist.
-David
Birsner
Business Co-Chair
-Stephanie
and Kenneth
Karl,
Parents of Hollie
'06,
Parent Chairs
Contributions to
the
2005
Marist
Fund help to provide a quality education for every Marist student. Gifts
@
support our premier library, top-notch faculty, scholarship programs, state-of-the-art technology, and other
important resources
vital to a first-rate education. Please support the 2005 Marist Fund goal of $1.25 million by
making your
giftonline at www.marist.edu/alumni/giving
or by calling 845-575-FUNDto speak with someone on our Advancementteam.
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MARIST
CONTENTS/Spring
FEATURES
8
Shaping
Marist
College
for
a Quarter Century
Of
all
the
college's
remarkable
advances over
the
past
25
years, observers cite
the quality
of
the Marist academic
experience
as President
Dermis].
Murray's
greatest
achievement.
12
Helping
Kids
Enjoy
a Winter Weekend
Lazarus House, a homeless shelter,
recently
honored
Marist students
with an award
for their 12
years
of
volunteer
service.
Lazarus House welcomes
college
students
in
hopes of teaching
them
about poverty
and how they
can
alleviate it. Marist
volunteers
have taken that lesson to heart.
16
An Auspicious
Debut
at
the Millrose Games
To race-and
.finish
fourth-at
this
legendary
track meet
in
Madison
Square Garden
was
an
experience
the
Marist
men's
4x800 relay team won't
soon
forget.
Marist Magazine
is published
by
the
Office of College
Advancement at
Marisl
College for alumni, friends, facuh)• and
staff or
Marisl
College
Edi1or:
Leslie Bates
An Direc1or: Richard
Deon
Vice
President
for College Advancement:
Robert
L.
\Vest
Chief Public Affairs Officer:
Timmian Massie
Executive Director of Alumni
Relations:
Amy Coppola '97
Alumni News Coordina1or:Jo-A1111
Wohlfahrt
Contributing Wri1ers:
Kerry McQuade, Pete Colaizzo '86,
Jason Corriher,Jeffrey Dal111cl1e
'01,
Dara Ely, Shaileen
Kopec
Cover pho10 by Michael Nelson of
President Dennis
J.
Murray
and
25
Maris1
students. Leri 10
right:
first row: Nisarg
Rakesh Rami
'05
(international student, master's
in
software development), Charu
Verma
'05
(interna1ional Student,
master's, information
S)'Slems
management},
Miranda McAuliffe
'06
(Marist
College lnslilute for
Public Opinion},
President
DennisJ. Murray, Marybeth
Kunsch
'05
(accounting), Nguye1 Vuong
'07
(biomedical science),
Tim luculano
'06
(lacrosse); second row: Alisa
Kresge
'07
(basketball),
Amanda
Wells
'08
(volleyball), Ayswarya Sundaram (international student,
master's,
compu1er science/soft ware
development),
Christina Dias
'05
(fashion design and economics), Susan Olsen
'05
(integrative studies),
Jennifer Goldsmith
'05
(Maris1 College Council on TheatreArts); third
row:
Doris
Velez
'05
(rowing), Jus1in Ligas
'05
(computer
science/
JT},Jen Cecchi
'05
(rowing),
Louis
Ortiz
'06
(Student
Government
Association); fourth row: Miles Orman
·01
(basketball),
Kathleen
DeAngelis
'06
(Symphonic
Band), Brian Belfiore
'07
(Marisl
College
lnstilltle for Public Opinion),Joe Hines
'07
(Maris1
Singers),Jennifer
Milchell
'07
(poluical
science); back row: Chris Tracz
·05
(baseball),
David
Snell
'07
(football), Kalie Finnegan
'05
(Campus
Minis1ry),
Ralph Filardo
'06
(MCTV}.
Maris1 College, 3399 North Rd., Poughkeepsie, NY
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HEiOP:
35 Years of Mentoring
and Moral Support
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18
The
Brady Bunch
The
newest
edition of
the
Marist
men's basketball
program
found itself atop
the
MAAC
in the
last
week ofjanuary with
a 7-1 league mark,
showing
signs
of
the
brand
of
basketball
that
Head
Coach Matt Brady
hopes
will
become
the hallmark of Marist
basketball for many
seasons to come.
Highlights included the
outstanding play of
three student athletes.
19
From Worst
to
First
When Head Coach Brian Giorgis told
11is
players
in January that they
could
not lose
anymore, they responded
by tearing
through
the rest of their conference
slate
on
a school-
record
16-game
winnir1g
streak,
the
fourth
longest
in
the NCAA. The Red Foxes ended
the
2004-05 campaign
in
sole possessio,1
of
the regular season championship
following
the best season
in
program
history.
20
HEOP:
35
Years
of
Mentoring
and
Moral
Support
Students and alumni say being
pan
of the
Higher
Education Opportunity Program
family at
Marist
has
helped
them
succeed
in
college
and
in
life.
24
Chapel Anniversary
Recalls
Dedication
of
Founders
A
new
chapel endowment will
sustain student activities.
DEPARTMENTS
2
Marist Drive
What's
happening on
campus
lz,am1NJ<
26
Alumni News
Notes about Marist graduates
48
In Closing
Helping
Injured
War
Vets
Learn
to Ski
Jim
Barnes
'68
and
his
family
helped
when the
Adaptive Sports
Foundation
at Windham Mountain taught injured
U.S. soldiers to s11i
and treated
them
to
a three-day weel1end
at the Catskills slii resort.































~MARIST
NEWS &
N O T E S
FROM
T H E CAMPUS
The
tsunami i,1
December destroyed
tire
Marist
Brothers'
school
in
Payagala,
Sri
Lanlw.
Rebuilding a Marist School After the Tsunami
The
Marist College community has col-
l
lected
more
than $37,000 so far
lO
buy
land
for
a new Marist
Brothers
school
in
Sri Lanka
Lo
replace one
that the tsunami
destroyed.
sent
the
college
a letter shortly aflenhe disaster
describing the situation. He wrote,
"Brother
Sales, a
teacher
at Holy Cross, said. 'When the
gigantic waves hit the school, the walls gave
The Marist Brothers' school
in
Payagala
was decimated by
the Dec. 26
tsunami. Because the
Sri
Lankan
government declared
the former school site
unsafe, the
Brothers now
must purchase
a
new
parcel of
land
upon which
to
rebuild
the
school.
"When the
gigantic waves
hit the school,
the walls gave
way and the roof collapsed and
everythinginside-desks,chairs,
school supplies, books-every-
thing was destroyed. Luckily the
tsunami hit on a day when the
school was closed or most of our
students would have died here
as well.'"
way and the roof
collapsed
and
everything
inside
Classes have since resumed
in makeshift locations to
help the staff and students
"Once again the Marist com-
munity
walks
the
walk," says
Bro.
Frank Kelly, FMS, '73,
director
of
Campus Ministry. "This
isa
need,
desks, chairs,
school supplies,
books-everythin
was destroyed."
get back
into
a
routine
and
help everyone feel a sense
and standing on our tradition of service we
responded overwhelmingly."
The
destroyed
building was a sma
II
school
with
120
first- and second-graders built
in
2003 toaccommodate
the increasing
number
of students who wanted
to
attend Holy Cross
College. Holy Cross College is the MarisL
Brothers' school
in
nearby Kalutara that
opened 27 years ago and serves l ,600students
between
the
ages of six and 19.
Bro. Michael DeWaas, FMS,
'94,
the pro-
vincial in charge of the Brothers in Sri
Lanka,
2
\1 A R
I
S T M A G A Z I N E
of normalcy. The government has
denied the school's request to rebuild
in its original location because of
its
proximity
to
the
sea. Therefore,
in
ad-
dition
to
rebuilding
costs, the school
must
buy
new land without
being able to raise money
from selling the original
land
since nobody can
build
on
the
site.
-Kerry McQuade
Student Wins
Fulbright Award
S
enior Rachael Fantauzzi, a communica-
tions/public relations
major,
has
been
awarded a 2005-2006 Fulbright Teaching
Assistantship Grant.
Fantauzzi will travel
to
South Korea
in
July 2005
to
begin orientation and be
placed
with a Korean host family while teach-
ing conversational English to high school
students. The Fulbright research award
includes a monthly stipend, insurance and
transportation costs.
For the past year, Fantauzzi has served
as a research assistant for Bradley
Freeman,
assistant professor of Media Arts, on
the
topic
"Presidential Position: Press Coverage and
Portrayals of William
J.
Clinton and George
W. Bush During the
Honeymoon Time Pe-
riod." While on a study abroad
trip
to South
Africa, she examined
the
topic "Religion and
Social System
Impact
on South Africa."
She has received several awards including
the Harry Connick,
Jr.,
Music Scholarship,
the University at Albany High School Student
of Color Leadership Award and membership
in the Deans' Circle Program at Marist.
In-
volved in community service, she has
helped
to coordinate a benefit concert for Eastern
Child Welfare, volunteered in an elementary
school's summer program and served as a
counselor at a Korean culture camp. She
has also worked as a piano
teacher
and is a
member of the Marist equestrian team. She
speaks Italian and Spanish and will learn
introductory Korean as part of her Fulbright
experience.
Upon returning to the United States,
she plans on writing
for
a newsletter for
Korean adoptees as well as collaborating
with American schools to create programs
through
which students can
learn
about
foreign countries
in
order to pro-
mote ah igher
le\·el
of awareness,
tolerance and understanding of
cultures and
people
different
from
their own.
The
U.S. Department of
State has sponsored the Ful-
bright program since 1946.
Senior
Rachael
Fantauzzi
has
been awarded
a
2005-2006
Fulbright Teaching
Assistantship
Grant.
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New York State to Fund Research Center at Marist
N
ew York State has announced funding
for a new
research
center at Marist. Gov.
George E. Pataki announced that the state
is
providing
a grant
to
the
college as
part
of a
new
comprehensive initiative tospurtechnol-
ogy-based applied research and economic
development
across
the
state.
The grant is
from
the New York State
for Applied Research
in
Collaborative and
On-Demaind Computing.
"I am pleased to have worked
closely
with
Governor
Pataki
and Marist College to help
secure this grant," says New York State Sen.
Steve Saland. "Governor Pataki continues to
advance and promote far-reaching strategies
which will.
ensure a stronger regional economy
Office of
Science, Technol-
ogy and Academic
Research's
(NYSTAR) College Applied
Research
and Technology
(CART) Center
initiative.
The
grant is
designed
to
encourage applied
research
NYST4p·
by generating future job
growth and investing in
New York's
technology
base
to
better compete on a global
level.
TheselectionofMarist
College as a recipient of this
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YORK STATE OFFICE 6F
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SCIENCE.
TECHNOLOGY
& ACADEMIC
AESIEARCH
collaboration and innovation with
industry,
promote workforce
development
and
better
leverage stale funds with investments from
the
federal
government, industry,
foundations
and
not-for-profit
economic development
organizations.
Under
the
program, Marist will
receive
$500,000
in the first year and a
total
of
up
to
$2.5
million over five years for
its
Center
highly
competitive grant
designed to
promote
technology research
and
workforce development will ensure the
Hud-
son Valley"s
future
role in the related economic
growth generated by
this
initiath·e."
"This center will have a
tremendous im-
pact on Marist
for
at least
the
next five years
and beof g.reat benefit
to
our students,
faculty
and
the
greater community," says President
Dennis
J
Murray.
Lesley Stahl Receives Marist College Lowell Thomas Award
I
esley Stahl, co-editor of
the
CBS news-
lrrnagazine
60 Minutes and anchor of the
network's
48
Hours
Investigates,
was the recipi-
ent of
the
2004
Marist
College
Lowell
Thomas
Award. She was
honored
at a luncheon at
the
Union
League
Club in Manhattan this
past
fall.
Stahl,
known
for
her persistent
and pro-
fessional reporting, is
in
her 14th year with
the
top-rated 60 Minutes.
Born in Swampscou,
Mass.,shegraduated with
honors
from Whea-
ton
College. She served as CBS White House
correspondent
from
1978 to 1986 and again
from 1988 to 1991. From
1983 to
1991, she
moderated
the network's
long-running
public
affairs show Face the Nation.
She has won
many
honors
including a
Lifetime Emmy Award
for
her work. Her
experienc,e covering Washington for more
than
20
)tears became the subject of
her
book, Reporting
Live,
published
by Simon
&
Schuster in 1999.
lt was the 18th presentation of the
Marist College Lowell Thomas Award,
which recognizes outstanding individuals
in
the communications
industry
whose
lives
and work renect the imagination, courage,
ambition and
humanity
of Lowell Thomas.
Thomas
received
an honorary doctorate from
Marist and was
the
commencement speaker
in
1981. M:arist's
Lowell
Thomas Communica-
tion Center is
home
to
the
college's School of
Communication and
the
Arcs and contains
several galleries displaying rare Lowell
Thomas memorabilia.
Marist presented its
Lowell Thomas
Award
to
Lesley
Stahl
(seated).
Prior to
receiving
the
award,
sire
met
with
co111111u,1icalio11s
students
to
talh about journalism.
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Business School Named One of the
Best
Marist's School of Management
is one of the
nation's
outstanding busi-
ness schools, according to The Princeton
Review. The school is one of
143
featured
in the Review's student opinion-driven
guidebook,
Best 143 Business Schools,
2005
Edition. It is also one of only 300
business schools in the country to
have
its undergraduate and graduate busi-
ness programs fully accredited by
the
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools
of Business.
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One of the Best
The
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Princeton Review also
-Olteues
included
Marist
in its
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2005 guidebook
The
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New Degree in
Biomedical Sciences
..
The
New
York State Department of
Education
has
approved a new bachelor of
science in biomedical sciences at Marist.
The curriculum, which includes all the
courses required for admission to medical
school, is designed for students who plan
to pursue advanced degrees in medicine
or other health care professions.
New London Center
Marist's
International
Programs office has launched a London
Center internship program. Students take
an intensive British
life
and culture course,
serve an
internship
and participate
in two
of three options: an online course with
Marist
faculty from the main campus, a
course offered by the host site and an
inde-
pendent research project.
The
Foundation
of
International
Education is providing
on-site program services
in its
five-
story Edwardian mansion in Kensington.
Students live in South Kensington in a
complex with wireless
Internet
access.
The
launch coincides with Marist's most suc-
cessful yearof study abroad programming:
351 students went abroad in 2004-05 to
destinations including Paris, London, Hong
Kong, Florence, Prague. Sydney,
Melbourne, Osaka, Madrid, Cairo,
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B R I E F
Top Professor
Honored
Dr. Rose
De Angelis, associate
professor of
English and director of the
Honors
program,
received
the 2004
Board
of
Trustees
Faculty
Award
for
Distinguished Teaching. De
Angelis earned a
doctorate
from
Fordham
University in
the
field of modern
British
and American
literature
and a master's in English
and comparative literature
from
Columbia
University.
She graduated summacum
laude from
Lehman
College
with a bachelor's degree
in English.
She
came to
Marist
in 1995. Her teaching
and research
interests include 19th-
and
20th-century British and American fiction
and ethnic American
literature.
Maristto Host Opening of Empire State
Games
Marist will be the site of the open-
ing
ceremonies for the 2005 Empire State
Games on July 27.
The
college also will
host
several events
during
the following
four days, includ-
ing men's bas-
HUDSON
ketball,
diving,
RI
VE
R.
men's
lacrosse,
99
~,
rowing
and soft-
EMPIRE $TATE GAMES
ball. Campus resi-
July 27_31, 2005
dence halls will
house nearly 12,000 athletes and offi-
cials. The event's operations and media
centers will be in the Student Center.
The
occasion will offer the athletes, many of
whom are high school students, a chance
to see what Marist offers.
National Science Foundation Awards
Marist $600,000
Grant
The
National
Science Foundation has awarded Marist
a three-year, $600,000 Partnerships for
Innovation grant. The grant will support
the project "An Educational Environment
with Virtual
Laboratories
for Data Center
Professionals." The project
involves
the
development of courses fort he education,
training and certification of data center
professionals and will
help
promote the
programs offered by Marist's
Institute
for
Data Center Professionals.
It
will also cre-
ate a permanent support, outreach and
networking infrastructure for the data
center work force.
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Five Join Board
of Truistees
M
arist's
Board
of Trustees has fi\'e
new members, four of whom are
Marist
graduates.
Mark
Dennis,
a
residem
of
Hopewel
I
Junction, is a certified
public accountant with more than
25 years
in the
accounting and
tax
profession.
He
is also a trustee of the
Jeannette Schlobach Charitable Trust.
Active
in
the community, Dennis is
Marh
Dennis
Mary Joyce '74
past president
and treasurer of
the
Dutchess
Golf and Country Club, a
board member of Rehabilitation Pro-
grams,
Inc.
and has
been
a member
of area
chambers of commerce and
the
Exch:ange
Club.
He and his wife,
Gisella, have been
longtime
Marist
supporters and
regularly
attend Red
Fox
bask,etball
games.
Mary
E.
MonsaenJoyce
74 isan
in-
dependemad\·enisingand
marketing
executive. A resident of New City, she
formerly
was the
di rector
of advertising
for the
Edlucation
and
Week in
Re\'iew
sections of
the
Sunday New York Times
and retired from the New York Times
Co. in
1989. She and
her
husband,
Jim
'74,
s,erved as Class of'74 reunion
co-chairs in 1994.
Her
community
service also
includes
work with United
Way, St. Thomas Aquinas College,
Rockland
Country Club Foundation
and Villano\'a University
Patrick
M. Lavelle
'73
has been a
vice
pres:ident
of Audiovox
since 1980
and senior vice
president
since 1991.
Patrick and Patty Lavelle '73/'74
He
is
CEO and
president
of Audiovox's
electronics subsidiary, Audiovox
Electroni.cs Corp.
He
was elected to
the company's board of directors in
1993.
He
and his wife, Patty '74, sen·e
as chairs of the alumni campaign for
the
Ma
rim
Fund.
He isa
memberof
the
board
of directors of Students in
Free
Enterprise
and is active with the Long
Island
Special
Olympics. The Lave lies
have
thre:echildren.
Their son Michael
graduated from Marist in 2002.
Patrice
Connolly Pantello '76 is
semi-rerired following a career in
publishing.
She owns the consulting
Patrice
Co11nolly
firm Connolly and Associates and
Pantello '76
Bro.John
Klein,
FMS,
'70
her
clients
have
included Reader's
Digest,
Simon and Schuster, Consumer
Reports,
Kiplinger Books
and Sterling Pub-
lishing. Previously, she was managing editor
for Doubleday's
Literary Guild
and Nelson
Doubleday Books.
A
former
vice
president
of
the
Alumni
Executive
Board, she served
as
national
alumni chairperson for the 1990
Marist
Fund. She and her husband,
Ron,
lh·e
in
Park Ridge, NJ., and Longboat Key, Fla.
Bro.
John Klein,
FMS, '70 has been pro-
vincial s.uperior of the Marist
Brothers
for
the Pro\'
ince of the United States since 2003.
Previously, he was president of
Marist High
School in
Bayonne,
NJ,
for
four
years.
From
1997 to 1999, as
president of
the Conference
of Major Superiors
of Men, he
represented
26,000
religious
Brothers
and
priests
in the
United States and served as
liaison
with the
Vatican.
He has
also
been provincial
superior
of
the
Mari st
Brothers for
the
Esopus Pro\'ince
and principal of Archbishop Molloy High
School
in Briarwood,
N.Y.
He
earned
an
MA
and PhD
in
American history
from
Fordham
University.
































A
Marist Brother
signed tire deed to acquire tire MacPhers,on
estate
a
ce11tury
ago, property
that would become Marist
College.
Marking a
100
th
Anniversary for Maris1t
I
t
was
Feb.
28, 1905, when Brother Louis
Zepheriny signed the deed for the acquisi-
tion of
the
MacPherson estate, the first piece
of
land
that would become Marist College.
To mark
the
100
th
anniversary of the
event, two experts spoke on
"The
Origins of
the Marist College Campus" March 2 in the
Henry Hudson Room of Fontaine Hall. Bro.
Joseph Belanger, FMS, '48, professor emeritus
of French, described details of the historic
purchase and the expansion of the future
college's property holdings
in
1908 with the
purchase of the contiguous Bech estate. Susan
Roeller Brown, former senior advisor to the
president at Marist, discussed the designation
of a portio111
of the Bech estate as a National
Historic Site. Brown was involved with ad-
vancing th,e historic designation.
The talk was pan of a series of
lectures
on topics concerning Marist College history
co-sponsored by Marist's Archives and Spe-
cial Collections and College Advancement
offices. For more
information
about the
lectures, please contact John Ansley, head
of Archives and Special Collections, at john.
ansley@marist.edu or (845) 575-5217.
Robert L. West Named Vice President for
College Advancement
P
resident Dennis
J.
Murray
~
of the Central Development
has announced the ap-
~
Office. In addition he served
pointment of Robert
L. West
i
as executive director/assistant
as vice president for College
~
vice presidern, SUNY Empire
Ad\'ancement.
5 State College Foundation. He
West has served as associ-
z
also has corporate experience
ate vice president and director
in the sales and marketing
of de\'elopment at the college
field.
forthe past eight years. During
West received
his BS
this period he forged numerous
degree
in
business adminis-
relationships with alumni and
tration and his MBA degree
friendsofthecollege. He served
from Suffolk University. He
as a key member of
the
<level-
is a graduate of
the
Harvard
opment team that successfully
University Management De-
completed the capitalcampaign
velopment program and has
for the James A. Cannavino
completed the Certified Fund
Library. As vice president he
Robert
L.
West has been
Raising Executive (CFRE)
O\'ersees all areas of Marist's
i
program.
Advancement effort, which
named
vice presidentJor
He succeeds
Shaileen
.
l
d
f
d
l
College
Advancement.
K
h
d
.
h
inc u es un raising, a umni
opec, w o serve
m
t
e
relations and public affairs.
position for 14 years and who is now senior
Prior to coming to Marist, West served
development officer with responsibility for
as chief development officer for Suffolk Uni-
inaugurating a planned giving program and
versily
Law
School and was a senior member
helping
to
expand the college's endowment.
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Fashion Students Win Scholarships
Four Marist fashion students
have
been
awarded scholarships
from the Young
Men's Association
in
New York City. The
YMA
is
an
industry
organization formed to
promote the interests of menswear manu-
facturers and retailers. The goal of the
scholarship program is to encourage stu-
dents to consider entering the menswear
business after graduation rather than the
much largerwomen's apparel industry. The
scholarships were awarded based on an
essay written by the students and letters
of recommendation.
Six Marist students
applied this year and four received awards
of $5,000 each.
The
winners are senior
Kristi Silko andjuniors Stacie Hamalainen,
Viviana Llaurado and Stacy Anderson. In
addition to the monetary
prize,
the stu-
dents will be invited to a black-tie industry
event next year that will provide them with
more
networking
opportunities.
Patriots' Weekend 2005: The Benedict
Arnold Conspiracy to Surrender West
Point
The
Hudson
River Valley
lnstitute's
ongoing
celebration
of
the
225th
Anniversary of
the
American Revolution in
the Hudson River Valley
takes place
this
Sept.
29 to Oct.
2. Leading
historians
from around the nation will
join
thou-
sands of spectators
and Revolutionary
War
reenactors
to celebrate one of the
Hudson River Valley's most
infamous
events: Benedict Arnold's attempt to sur-
render West
Point
to the British. HRVI will
host
the
event
in
collaboration with the
Hudson River Valley National
Heritage
Area
and the U.S. Military Academy at
West Point. More
information
about this
and other HRVI events can be found at
www.hudsonrivervalley.org.
Athletic Training Education Program
Accredited
The Commission
on
Accreditation of Allied Health Education
Programs
has accredited Marist's athletic
training education program.











































( I N B R I E F
Swimmers and Divers Excel
Senior Co-
Captain Matthew Castillo was named the
2005
ECAC
Swimmer of the Meet as the
men's swimming and
diving
team placed
second at the ECAC Championships.
The men also captured their ninth
MAAC
title
in
10 years. The women's swimming
and diving team won its seventh MAAC
title
in
10 years and second in a
row.
Larry
Vanwagner coaches the men's
and women's teams.
Associate Head
Coach Melanie Bolstad was named MAAC
Coach of the Year and freshman Jamie
Falco earned
MAAC
Swimmer of
the
Year
honors.
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KNOWLEDGE
to
INTELLIGENCE
c ....
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Faculty Books Published
Dr. Barbara
Lavin-McEleney, associate professor
of criminal justice,
has co-authored
Penology, Justice, and Liberty: Are You a
Man or a
Mouse?with James C. McEleney,
published this year by University
Press
of America... Richard Lewis and
James
Luciana, both professors of art. have
co-authored
the
textbook Digital Media:
An Introduction,
published in
2004
by
Prentice Hall. .. Dr. Paula Willoquet-
Maricondi. assistant professor of commu-
nication, completed a book of interviews
with Pedro Almod6var published by the
University Press of Mississippi
...
Dr.
Helen
Rothberg,
associate
profes-
sor of business. has co-authored the
book From Knowledge to Intelligence:
Creating Competitive Advantage in the
Next
Economy,
published by Elsevier
Butterworth-Heinemann.
The
book, writ-
ten with Dr. G. Scott Erickson, associate
professor of marketing at
Ithaca
College,
focuses on the future of knowledge
management and how competitive
intel-
ligence informs
knowledge management
practice.
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Chess Champ
M
arist
junior
Dave Bedoukian has
beaten
all three of
the
chess
masters
he has faced
at
Marist during
the college Chess
Club's
last
three
annual Chess Master Challenges.
The faculty advisor for the club and
coordinaLOr of
the
wurnaments, Associ-
ate
Professor
of Information Systems Craig
Fisher, says
in
the
15
years
he's been
bringing
professional
chess players
in
for the tourna-
ments,
only one other student has won a
single
match.
The
expert at
the
most
recent
event, Lon-
nie Kwanler.
is ranked in
the top
2
percent of
chess
players
in
the
United States and is
the
current New York State senior champion. On
Dec.
4,
Kwartler
challenged
17
members of
the
Chess
Club
to simultaneous games. After
almost four
hours
of play, Kwartler
finished
with
15
wins,
one loss and one draw.
"He
made
a couple of mistakes and
I
got
lucky, but
it
was a pretty good game," says
Bedoukian,
who is currently rated as a C
Class player
in the U.S. Chess Federation
(USCF)
ranking
system. "It felt good LO
win."
Freshman
Alex
Reynolds drew his
game with
Kwartler.
Fisher,
who is also a USCF-cenified
tournament direct0r, thinks Bedoukian
has the talent to
go far. "He's gone from a
D
player to
a C
player in
a year, and
I
predict
that
within
six
months
he will be a B player,"
says
Fisher.
Bedoukian's
grandfather taught him the
game of chess when he was six, and the routh
was
beating him
by the age of
14.
"Chess
is
Ii
ke
a big
puzzle
you ha\·e LOsol\'e
when you're
playing,"
the junior
chemistry
major
explains.
"1
like
the
challenge and the creati\'ity."
The Chess Club plays a lot of practice
chess and competes
in
se\·eral tournaments.
They
play against West Point every year. The
membership
is
\·ery
open, and people come
Senior Doreen
Mullady has received the first
Thomas G. Crotty
'81
Memorial Scholarship.
Marist junior Dave Bedouhicrn has beaten
all tlirec of
the
chess
masters
he
has faced at
Marist
,luring the
college
C11ess Club's last
three annual
Chess
Master Challenges.
and play when they want.
Beginners
on cam-
pus are
welcome to join
the club. "We
try
to
get as many
people
as possible.
We
have
no
problem teaching beginners," says Bedoukian.
"We
have
a huge
range.
Whatever skill you
are, you can always
get a good
game."
Bedoukian
and Reynolds
tra\'eled
to
New
Jersey in February to compete in a
national
chess t0urnament with
more than
1,000
participants, where games can potentially
last
up to six hours each.
Both won
L
wo matches,
lost two matches and drew
two
matches.
Bedoukian says he didn't do
as
well as
he had
hoped but that it wasn't
bad for his
first
time
in a t0urnament at this
level.
-Kerry McQuade
First Thomas G. Crotty '81
Scholarship Awarded
~e
first Thomas G. Crotty '81
Memorial
I
Scholarship has been awarded
to Doreen
Mullady
'05.
Tom Crotty's family endowed
the
scholar-
ship in his memory. Crotty,
who died
in
the
terrorist
attacks at
the
World
Trade
Center
on Sept.
11.
2001, was
a
standout basketball
player at
Marist. The
scholarship
supports
a
varsity athlete entering
his
or
her
junior or
senior year who is
from Long
Island.
A
walk-
on on
Marist's
women's track
team,
Mullady
ran
track at St. Anthony's
High
School
in
Huntington,
Long
Island,
about
an hour west
of
her
family's home in
Rocky Point.
She
is
majoring in
history
with a con-
centration
in
Irish hist0ry, inspired by
the
semester she spent
in Dublin,
Ireland, in fall
2003
as
part
of
Marist's
international
study
program. She
plans to auend
graduate school
and enter nonprofit or
human rights work.

























Student Receives Prestigious McGowcm Scholarship
J
enna Notti, a junior from Woodbury,
Conn.,
has
been named a William G.
McGowan Scholar and Marist's
top
business
student fonhe
2005-2006academicyear.
The
prestigious
and
highly
competitive 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
business
administration and
fashion
merchandising.
A committee of School of
Management faculty mem-
bers selected Notti
from
a
slate of business students
nominated
by
management
faculty. The committee re-
\"iewed nominees'
academic
records,
leadership
qualities,
character and commitment
to
helping
others.
says. "Despite his wealth and success, he re-
mained
connected to
his
humble
beginnings
and always gave
back
to
the communit)'-His
foundation
i:oday continues to support vari-
ous charitable
funds
that
touched
McGowan
during his
Ii
fetime.
His is an example
that
we
can all leam
from
and follow."
As pan of her
application, Notti wrote a
1,000-word
essay
on
McGowan's
contributions to today's busi-
ness
world
in
general and to
the telecommunications
field
in particular.
In
addition to
maintain-
ing
a GPA of 3.7, Notti is a
member
of
the Deans'
Circle
and
Beta
Gamma Sigma, the
honor
society
for business
programs accredited by the
Association to Advance Col-
legiate
Schools of
Business
lmernational (AACSB). She
has
also been involved
in
com-
Every year,
the
William
G. McGowan
Charitable Fund
qualifies a select number of
colleges and universities
nationwide
to
participate
in
its
McGowan Scholars
program. Colleges and uni-
versities
may
apply only if
they have business programs
accredited by either the
AACSB
or the Association of
Collegiate Business Schools
and Programs. Scholarships
are then awarded through
a competitive process on
individual campuses.
Jenna
Notti
'06,
shown
witlr
School of Management Dean
Andres
Fortino,
has been na111,ed
a William
G.
McGowan
Schol,~r
The McGowan Chari-
table
Fund established the
Scholars
program
to provide
significant suppon to
the
country's top stu-
dents
whoa re pursuing a business education.
The
program is based on the experience of
William G. McGowan
during his
college
days.
Though admitted
to Harvard Business
School
to
study
for
an
MBA
degree,
he did not
have sufficient funds
to
complete his studies.
However, he won Harvard's Baker Scholars
award, which provided the
funds necessary
for
him
to earn his
degree
and
launch
a suc-
cessful career.
for
2005-2006.
munity service organizations
such as
the
Marist chapters of
Habitat for
Humanity and Big Brothers
Big
Sisters and
the
Poughkeepsie
YMCA.
Noui says she
is
honored
to have won
the McGowan
Scholarship,
named in
honor
of William G. McGowan, a
pioneer
in
the
telecommunications
industry and
the founder
and longtime chairman of MCI Communica-
tions Corp. "William McGowan
embodied
the
ideal that an individual can achieve anything
through hard work and determination," she
Practice, Practice, Practice ...
Tire Marist
Chamber
Choir
performed at
New
Yorh City's fwned Carnegie Hall on
Nov.
21.
Tire
Clramber
Choir,
along
with
Texas
choirs Clrorus Austin,
Southwestern
University Concert
Clrorale,
CAC Chorale
of Te111ple
and the San Gabriel Clrorale as well as the
New England
Clramber Orchestra, performed tire
"Missa
in
tempore be/Ii
(Mass
in
Time of War)" by Joseph
Haydn.
Tire
40
singers
who
mahe
up
Marist's auditione,1 Chamber
Choir
were selected by
invi-
tation from the staff of MidA111erica
Productions, cm organization affiliated
with
Carnegie. The
Clwmber
Choir's
director,Janet Davis,
had
conducted
progmms
for MidA111erica
Productions
before
coming
to Marist
in
2003.
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College Joins World Community Grid
Marist
is
the first college or
university
in
the United States to become a member
of World Community Grid, joining the IBM
Corp. and a group of
leading
academic
institutions, associations, foundations
and companies.
Grid technology
links
many individual
computers, creating a large system with
massive computational power that ex-
ceeds the power of a few supercomput-
ers.
This
capability can be applied, on a
global scale, to very large and complex
problems.
The college is encouraging its stu-
dents, faculty and staff to contribute their
idle PC time to World Community Grid at
www.worldcommunitygrid.org. To join, they
can go to www.worldcommunitygrid.org
and download and install a free, small soft-
ware program on their computers. When
idle, computers request data from World
Community Grid's server. Computers
then perform computations
using this data, send the
results back to the server
and prompt it for a new
piece of work.
World Community
Grid addresses global
humanitarian
issues,
such as 1) new and ex-
isting
infectious
disease
research: researching cures
for HIV and AIDS, Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), malaria
and others; 2) genomic and disease
research:
the Human
Proteome
Folding
project seeks
to
help identify the
functions
of the proteins
that
are coded by human
genes; 3) natural disasters and hunger:
World Community Grid applications can
help
researchers
and scientists with
earthquake predictions,
improving
crop
yields and evaluating the supply of critical
natural
resources like water.
In
2003,
IBM
was one of the sponsors
of a smallpox study that took advantage
of grid computing. The study, using the
largest available supercomputers, would
have taken years to complete, according
to World Community Grid. With grid com-
puting, the study was completed in less
than six months and identified 44 potential
smallpox treatment candidates.
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8
MARl::,T
MAGAZl~E
Cloch,~ise from top left Prcsulcnt Dennis
]. \furra)
presented rare photos of fibct
from
the
Lo\\rll Thomas
Collewon
r
10 1hr Dalai
Lama
at a \\"ashingwn.
0.C..
rl'Ccption in
1995
Bm.
Paul
Ambrose Fontamc.
F\15.
\fur
ra>
and his
"ifc,
\larih n.
prncn1Cd
Pope
John
Paul
II
"ith
a book
about the Hudson Valle\ in
1997.
In
1996
tl1e
Eleanor
Roo,nelt
Center at \ al-Kill pr csrnted
its \
al-Kill
\fedal
10
\lurra)
and
(left
10
right) cm
iro~-
l'lcn1alis1 and .\farisr
Truster
Frances
S
Reese.
Lea Rabin
and Qurrn
'\oor of Jordan. In
October
199-1
\fur
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"cl-
comcd George E. Pa1ahi. 1hr11
a
'r"
)01k
s1a1r
,enator.fo,
a campus , isit. Pataki "as
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1hr
fol-
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fir,1
Lad,
Hillan
Rodha111
Clinton
al a \\
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House
r,cnr in 1997. Dcnnh
and
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grrcred
writer
\fa_,
a Angelou at a
spcak-
i11g
e11gage111cn1
on
tl1r
campus
in
1996.
A
generous gift and challrngr grant
of SJ 111illion
frn111 1hr
D.Hon Founclarion in
:\01crnbc1
1996
lrd 1hr
"a., in ralsingfunds
for
\larist"s
libran. Long1imr T, usrrr
Robert
Dvson
has srnecl 11s chairman
of \larisi's
Board
of Trustus sincr
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Cover Story
Shaping Marist College
for a Quarter Century
Of all the college's remarkable advan,ces
over the past 25 years,
observers cite the quality of the Marist academic experience as
President Dennis
J. Murray's greatest achievement.
A
s Dennis J. Murray sat in
his
California
home
on a Saturday afternoon in 1979,
the
local
public television station was
showing newsreels from the
1930s
and
'40s.
The
then
vice president for
development
at
Whittier College
had just been
contacted for
the second time by a
headhunter
trying to
lure
him
to
become
the
new
president
of Marist
College,
but the Los
Angeles native just wasn't
interested.
He continued watching the local program-
ming
and soon
found
himself viewing old
footage
from
the
International Rowing
Regatta
in
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Immediately
realizing
the
coincidence, Murray started
to
reconsider
the
headhunter's offer.
"I
saw
the
river and said maybe
that's
worth
taking
a trip,"
he
recalls.
"That
newsreel
piqued
my
interest to
see what this place was
like."
More than a
quarter
century later, Murray
is
still here, having presided over
body president and a three-sport athlete and
ended
up marrying his
high school sweetheart,
Marilyn, he was asked
by
a local
politician
and
close family
friend
to
hand out fliers for
the
presidential campaign of John
F.
Kennedy.
Ultimately, Murray had
the
opportunity
lO
shake
Kennedy's
hand one
day
in 1960, an
experience tha1t
instilled in him one ofMarist's
core
ideals-the
principle of service.
"From
that
day on I
just
always had an
interest
in public
affairs," Murray says.
"I
think
all citizens in a
democratic
society
have
an
obligation
to be
involved in
public
affairs and
to
be concerned about their communities."
This
belielf
was evident upon
his
arrival
at Marist, as Murray set out
lO
convince
lo-
cal community
leaders
that the college was
an asset, a
pledge
he
has
continued to make
throughout
hiis
tenure.
During
his
time at
Marist more than 415 new full-time jobs
hav•~
been created. Marist staff and
the greatest period of growth and
de\'elopment in the history
of
the
college. Assets have
increased more
than
$300
million.
Enrollments
have more
than
tripled. Some $140
million has been invested
in
con-
struction and renovation. Nineteen
property acquisitions have almost
doubled the
size of the campus.
Over a quarter
century later,
Murray is still
here, having
presided over
the greatest
students also volunteer hundreds of
hours
in the area.
Murray
himself
is an active
member
of the civic community.
He has
served on 29 community
and
national boards including
the
American Council on Education's
Commission on
Leadership
Devel-
opment and the Dutchess County
Workforce
Investment Board
as well
as
the
boards of
the
Franklin and El-
earn)r
Roosevelt
Institute,
Greenway
Not
a bad track
record for
some-
one who originally thought
that
Marist would
just be
a short stop
on an otherwise
long
career path.
"I
period of
growth and
development
in
the history of
the college.
wld
(my
wife) Marilyn
that
college
presidents
last
three
to
five years, and then
they move
on
to something else," Murray says.
"(I
thought)
we'd do this for a while and see where our
career takes
us."
Murray was right about college
presi-
dents
in
general, as the average
term
is
less
than seven years, according to the American
Council on Education. But
his
term
has been
far from average.
"He
has taken Marist
from
a small, almost quasi-local college
to
being a
national institution with a great reputation,"
says
Robert
Dyson, chairman of the Marist
Board ofTrusteessince 1994.
"He
has
not
only
set the standards,
but
also continued
to
raise
them.
Every
yea
rt
here
is something
improving
at the college."
In
many ways, Murray's path
LO
Marist be-
gan during his freshman yea rat Mount Carmel
High School
in Los
Angeles. A self-described
"typical high
school
kid"
who was student
Cornservancy for
the
Hudson River
Valley,
Hudson River
Valley National Heritage
Area, National Science Foundation Commit-
tee
and United Way of Dutchess County. He
has also chaired
the
Vassar Brothers Hospital
Foundation. F'or his
service
he
has received
numerous
aw~1rds
and
honors.
"Marist
doesn't function
in academic
isola-
tion. Dr.
Murray and his staff are an
integral
pan of the Hudlson Valley,"
says New York State
Sen. Steve Saland, who also chairs
the
Senate
Education
Committee. "He
has
a vision for not
only
Marist
College,
but
also
forthecommunity
and the region in general. He has
the
intellect,
the energy, the vision and the people skills to
drive
results."
As Marist's role in
the local
community
has grown
un,der
Murray's
leadership,
so
too
has its reputation on
the
national academic
BY
JEFFREY
DAHNCKE
'01
Dennis). Murray arrived at Marist
in
1979.
stage. The Princeton
Review
named Marist to
its
list
of the top 10 percent of all colleges and
universities
in the
country. U.S. News & World
Report
consistently ranks Marist among the
top
tier
of northern colleges and universities.
Yahoo!
Internet Life
magazine selected Marist
for
its list
of
the
100 most wired campuses in
the
nation. The John Templeton Foundation
placed Marist on
its
elite honor roll of only
100 academic
institutions
noted
for teaching
character development. Careers and Colleges
magazine picked Marist as one of
14
"schools
that rule," providing
"strong
academic pro-
grams,
terrific
professors, a vibrant student
life
(and)
other opportunities for
personal
development."
At the same
time,
Murray has forged and
presided over a longtime
partnership
with the
IBM Corp., making Marist one of
the nation's
most
technologically
advanced liberal arts col-
leges. He successfully
led the
charge toward
Division
I
athletics. And he
points
further to
the
growth and strength of
the
music program
and
the
esteemed reputation oft he Mari st Col-
lege Institute
for
Public Opinion as additional
accomplishments of which he
is most
proud.
Everything has combined to make the
Marist student experience far different than
when Murray
came
to visit the campus in
1979.
"He
has made our degree worth so much
more," says Mary Joyce '74, a new member of
the Mari st Board ofTrusteesand one of the first
two alumnae to serve
on
the board.
"He
has
really put Mari
st on
the map.
The
stature of the
college
has
grown by leaps and bounds."
As an
outside
obsen·er and someone who
iscommiued
tO
high-qualityeducation,
Sa
land
agrees.
"Marist
has been elevated to one
of
the
finer schools in the
country,
and it was
all
done
on his watch," he
says. "It
1s nothing
short
of
extraordinary."
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Shaping Marist
College
for a Quarter
Century
Any discussion of Marist's academic
growth
must include
a discussion of its
physical
growth as well. The 83,000-square-footJames
A. Cannavino Library was constructed and
wriuen up in
the
New York Times
as a high-tech
complex. The Steel
Plant
Studios developed
to
enhance
the
visual ans. Robert Dyson and
the
Dyson Foundation helped build the
Dyson
Center, which
houses
the School of Manage-
ment, leading tO
the
prestigious accreditation
by
the
Association to Advance Collegiate
Schools of
Business
(AACSB).
Fontaine
Hall,
named
in
honorofBro.
Paul Ambrose Fontaine,
considered the
founding
president of
modern-
day Marist,
was constructed
to
support the
School
of Liberal Ans and
the
Marist College
Institute for
Public
Opinion. Donnelly
Hall
was renovated tO support academic
programs
and student services offices.
But despite all that, many still view
the
heightened quality
of the Marist academic
experience as Murray's greatest achievement.
"It's
not the
buildings,
it's
not
the
computer net-
work,
it's
not
the
relationship
he
has
maintained
with
IBM
and Cisco Systems, and it's not the
tireless work he does in the community. Those
are all things you can point to and say Dennis
did a nice job here," says James Cannavino, a
member
of
the
Marist Board of Trustees since
1984 and
its
immediate past chairman. "(His
real
legacy
is) turning an
institution
that was
on life support
int◊
a vital, well-financed insti-
tution that
provides an outstanding education
for its students.
I
would rank him as one of the
very
best
in the country."
N
ot many could have imagined that
Murray would have such an
impact
when he LOok
the reins from
his
pre-
decessor, Dr.
Linus Richard
Foy. At 32 years
old, he was faced with a variety of challenges
stemming
from
Marist's financial condition
and
its transition
from a religiously governed
institution tO an
independent
college.
"There were some people who weren't
read-
ily going tO accept
the
authority of a young kid
from California coming in
here
as
president,"
Murray says. "Over
time, because
of what we
did and the way we
did
it, we won the confi-
dence of the
people
who were necessary to get
the
college
moving
in
the right direction."
"Fort
he
past25yearsDr. Murray has guided
Mari st College
through
many groundbreaking
academic achievements and a
remarkable
expansion of the college's facilities," says Bro.
John
Klein,
FMS, '70, provincial superiorof
the
Mari
st Brothers
for the Province
of the United
States and a new Marist
trustee.
"At the same
time, perhaps his greatest achievement has
been
his clear vision and effons to ground all
aspects of
the
college in its Marist
heritage
and
mission. In so many ways the
legacy that
the
early Marist Brothers
bequeathed
LO
the
col-
Murray presented journalist Diane Sawyer
with
Marist's Lowell
Thomas
Award
in
1994.
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T M A G A Z
I
N E
Murra,y worked
closely
with
long-
time
rrustee
John].
Gartland, Jr.,
who
c,haired
the
college's
Buildings
and
Grounds
co111111it1ee
for more
than
:20
years,
show,1 in
a 1993
photo.
lege
have found new expression in
his
leadership.
This has been clearly
manifested through the college's
commitment to the Campus Ministry program
and the student and faculLy
efforts to reach
out to the most needy in the local Dutchess
County community.
"Dr.
Murray has been a wonderful friend
lO
the Marist Brothers,"
says Brother
John.
"His
generosity and support have made each of us
appreo:iate
our
hist◊ry
and ongoing link to the
college. We are grateful Lo include him as an
imponant part of our Marist family."
Pe-rhaps because of the Marist Brothers
heritage, a strong family atmosphere is evi-
dent within the Marist College community,
one in which people genuinely care for one
another-whetherthey're in the administrative
officei; of Greystone or at the physical plant.
"Ther,e's a famous old quote that I've always
loved that, in higher education,
if
you don't
treat
both yourintellectualsand your plumbers
with the same degree of
respect,
then
neither your pipes nor your theories
will hold any water," says Murray,
who himself worked as a spot welder
at General Motors for
two
summers
during his college years. "I've always
tried to show respect
to
the people
who work on our grounds, our
mechanics, our people who do
the
cleaning and others. Organizations
don't function if
those people
aren't
doing
their
jobs, and doing
them
well."
They also don't function if their
leaders
aren't doing theirs. Luckily for Marist,
the
kid
from California has kept up his end of the bar-
g<1in.
The college has seen 26consecutive years
of balanced budgets and operating surpluses.
"The school is well-run, tOp to botwm, and
it's fiscally in great shape," says
Dyson,
who
joined Marist's board 30 years ago. "Parents
know that when their
kids
come to Marist,
they're geuing excellent value, great facilities,
appropriate supervision and safety. Students
know they're going to get a great education
in
a good environment.
It cuts both ways."
Murray says credit for Marist's success
over the past quarter century should not
be
auributed to him. "I've been very fortunate
during my tenure to work with a strong board
of trustees that has
provided
excellent guid-
ance. We have also had
board
chairs who
have been great
leaders.
In
addition, were it
not for an academically talented faculty, we
wouldn't have achieved such distinctions as
being named one of the country's best colleges
by the Princeton Review.
'·Each person working on
this
campus is
part of a student-centered team. Strong bonds
are formed
between
students, faculty and
staff. That's why our alumni are as loyal and
supportive as they are. The Marist experience
doesn't end at commencement. It continues to
grow with each
passing
year. As a community,
we can all feel proud of fulfilling our mis-
sion-helping students
develop the
intellect
and character
required for
enlightened, ethical
and productive lives in the global community
of the 21
si
century."
Murray also says his wife has been an
integral partner
in
the de\'elopment and suc-
cess of the college. "You can't do a
job
like

























Dennis
J.
Murray's Tenure
at Marist Since 1979
Under Dennis
J.
Murray's
leadership,
Marist has been
transformed
from a small local college
to one of the top
colleges
and universities
in America.
►
Twenty-six
consecutive
years
of balanced
budgets
and operating
surpluses
►
Assets
increased
S297
million before
depreciation
►
Net assets
· ncreased
S206 million before
depreciation
►
More than 415 new full-time
jobs created
►
Nineteen
property
acquisitions
almost
doubling
the size
of the campus
►
Enrollments
increased
from 1,633
to more than 5,000
undergraduate
and graduate
students
►
7,200
applications
received
for 950 seats
in last
year's
freshman
class,
making
Marist
one of the most
selective
colleges
in the country
►
Thirty-three
new academic
programs
initiated
►
Academic
structure
of the college
organized
into
seven
new schools
►
School
of Management
received
AACSB
accreditation
and Is recognized
by the Princeton
Review
as one of
the best business
schools
In the world
►
The Marist College
Institute
for Public
Opinion
(MIPO)
gains
national
stature
as premier
research
center
►
The 83,000-square-foot
James
A. Cannavino
Library
consiructed
and hailed
as one of the top academic
libraries
in America
►
The Steel
Plant
Studio
and Gallery
developed
to enhance
the visual
arts
►
The Lowell
Thomas
Communications
Center,
Dyson
Center
and
Fontaine
Hall constructed
and Donnelly
Hall renovated
to support
academic
programs
►
Music
program
launched-choir and orchestra
gain national
recognition
►
Student
Center
constructed
to support
student
programs
and aC11v1ties
►
Six housing
complexes
constructed
for student
'iving:
Foy
Townhouses,
Gartland
Commons.
Mid-Rise
residence
hall, Riverview
townhouses,
Lower
West
Cedar
Street
townhouses
and Upper
West Cedar
townhouses
►
Sheahan,
Leo
and Champagnat
dormitories
completely
renovated
►
Mccann
Center
addition
constructed
for student
training
and recreational
space
►
$140
million
spent
on construction
and renovation-
all projects
completed
on time and within budget
►
National
Science
Foundation
awards
grants
to Marist
for Science
on the Move
and Institute
for Data Center
Professionals
this ror more than 25 years ir your family is
not supporti\'e \tanst would not be where it
is today wahout Marilyn's help:
And
1r
Murray
had
any
doubts
about
~,-hether
he made the right decision by tak-
ing the headhunter up on his offer to ,·isit
Pough kcepsie back m 1979, they were quick
I}
erased the following year.
English professor Bob "lorman approached
the ne\\ president about creating a School
of Cornmunicauons at the college, with the
in\'olvcmcnt or famed journalist and local
resident Lowell Thomas As chance would
have
II,
Lowell Thomas also happened to
be the narrator of
the International
Rowing
Regatta newsreel Murray was watchmg on
"The
credit for these
accomplisl1111ents
belongs to our
faculty,
staff,
board
and
alumni.
None of
these achievements
would
have been possible
without
tlteir
involvement and
support."
►
Princeton
Review,
U.S.
News
and World
Report
and
Barron's
Best 8uys m College
Education
ranked
Marist
among
the
best
colleges
and universities
in America
►
The Templeton
Guide:
Colleges
thac Encourage
Character
Development
recognized
Marist for leader-
ship in the field of student
character
development
►
IBM partnership
initiated
helping
Marist
become
one
of the most te,:hnologically
advanced
comprehensive
colleges
in America
►
Franklin
Delano
Roosevelt
Presidential
Library
and
Marist
form
unique
partnership
to digitize
presidential
records
and make them
available
over the Internet
►
lnternet2
invit,es
Marist to join consortium
connecting
leading
research
universities
around
the nation
►
New York State Office
of Science,
Technology
and
Academic
Research
designates
Marist
as a Center
for
Advanced
Research
and Technology
►
The Open
Sou1rce
Development
Lab selects
Marist
as
a site for one of only three research
centers
in the
world to provi:le
state-of-the-art
compuung
and test
facilities
to ac<:elerate
the use of the Linux
operating
system
in organizations
around
the world
public television that Saturday arternoon
in 1979. \lurray approached Thomas about
becoming mvoh-cd with ~lanst and. m 1987.
Murray dedi,:ated the new
Lowell
Thomas
Communications Center
~laybe it was fate. or maybe
ll
was just
a good match. Whate\"er
11
was, ~turra) has
transformed
Mari st over
the
past quarter cen-
tury and is steering the small school on the
Hudson Rt\'er toward e\'en better days.
New Yori! State
Sen.
Steve
Sa/and
,,resented
Mun-ay
with
a
S76,595 stare gmnt
in
2004
to
fund tec/111ology 1l1e college
will
use to dnelop
prototype Web services
rliar
l1elp
busi11esses
marliet,
sell amd
deliver their pmducts.
►
Yahoo
Internet
Life named
Marist
as one of the
•100 Most Wired
Colleges•
for incorporating
network
technologies
into campus
life
►
Intercollegiate
athletics
moves
to NCAA
Division
I
(1981)
►
Metro Atlantic
Athletic
Conference
(MAAC)
invites
Marist to join (1998)
►
Nine new intercollegiate
sports teams
added
(one men's
and eight women's)
►
Club
and intramural
sports
programs
expanded
►
The Hudson
River
Valley
Institute
established
and designated
as the academic
arm of the
Hudson
River
Valley
National
Heritage
Area
►
Community
development
initiatives
spurred
major
economic
growth around
college,
starting
with the Route
9 improvements
in 1996
►
Longview
Park
on Marist
campus
develops
through
innovative
partnership
with town,
state and federal
governments
►
Greystone,
Kieran
Gatehouse
and Saint Peter's
placed
on National
Register
of Historic
Places
In addition to his duties for the college,
Murray
has
continued
the mission
of the Manst
Brothers
to serve
the
community.
He has
served
on 29 community
and national
boards including
the American
Council
on Education's
Commission
on leadership Development,
Dutchess
County
Workforce
Investment
Board,
Franklin
and Eleanor
Roosevelt
Institute,
Greenway
Conservancy
for the Hudson
River
Valley,
Hudson
River
Valley
National
Heritage
Area,
National
Science
Foundation
Committee
and United
Way
of Dutchess
County
and he chaired
the Vassar
Brothers
Hospital
Foundation.
For his service Murray has received
the following
awards
and honors.
Anti-Defamation
League's
American-
ism
Award,
the
Council
for Advancement
and Support
of
Education's
Recognition
Competition
Silver
Award, the
Community
Foundation
of Dutchess
County's
Service
Award,
the Eleanor
Roosevelt
VaI-K1II
Medal
(along
with
fellow recipients
Lea
Rabin,
Queen
Noor of Jordan
and
Frances
Reese),
the Franciscan
Award
by the Saint
Francis
Health Care Foundation,
a community
award from the
Hudson
Valley
Philharmonic,
Marist Brothers
Affiliation
(also
given
to Marilyn
Murray),
Saint
Cabrini
Home's
Gold
Meda Human
Service
Award and a service
award from
the Vassar
Brothers
Hosp,tal
Foundation.
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2005
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Student Service
Helping Kids Enjoy
a Winter Wee·kend
were
out of commission: the
swimming
pool
was
closed because
of
a filter
problem, and a
basketball
league had the
gym booked
until
early afternoon.
The
Marist students
needn't have
worried.
The 14youngcamperssmiled broadly whether
they
were
making nametags, building with
Popsicle
sticks,
playing
catch with a rubber
ball
or crab-walking across the
lobby
in relay
races.
Not one camper
looked
bored
throughout the
three-day
camp
led
by eight Marist students
over the
Dr.
Manin
Luther King.Jr.,
weekend
this
past February.
Lazarus
House,
a homeless
shelter, recently honored
Marist College
students
with an award for their 1.2 years
ofvolunteer
service.
Lazarus
House welcomes
college studenlts
in hopes of teaching them about
poverty and how they can allevi~1te
it. Marist volunteers
have taken
that lesson
to heart.
BY LESLIE BATES
PHOTOGRAPHY
BY TOM KATES
R
unning a weekend of indoor activities
for children wasn't going to be easy.
Marist students were leading their an-
nual winter camp ata community center for the
poor arnd homeless children served by Lazarus
House Ministries
in Lawrence,
Mass. But this
year the camp's two most popular facilities
Lawrence,
30
miles
northeast of
Boswn, is
the
poorest city in New England and
the
23rd
poorest
city
in the
United States, according
to
H.
Bridget Shaheen,
director
of
Lazarus
House
Ministries, which offered the winter
camp. Eighty-four
percent
of the children in
Lawrence
live below
the poverty level.
A
dozen
other colleges have sent students
tO
help
at
the
shelter,
but
in November
Laza-
rus
House
presented Marist students with
its
Christ
the
Servant Award for their
dedicated
"II
was truly a plunge into a world I always knew existed but have never really experienced," says
senior Everett Reiss (left), here
read\ing
to
Kiara Laboy
(right)
and
other campers. "The clrildren just
needed people to hug,
listen to them 111d
hang out with
them. Tire adults at Lazarus House were dealt a
tough
Ir
and for
tire time being and ,wre just living day to day worrying about a roof, food and clothing.
And we, as a handful of blessed
peolple, were give,1 the opportunity
to
bring
some hope and light into
their lives, while tl1ey reciprocated with honesty, smiles and reality-shaking perspectives."
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volunteer
service. Oven he
past 12 years, Marist
students have volunteered for
the organization's
enormous
Thanksgiving food delivery
to 800
families
as well as
in
its soup kitchen, thrift
shop and
homeless
shelter,
led
by Bro. Michael
Williams, FMS, a
mentor
at the college.
Brother
Michael has led
the City
Plunge
to Lawrence
at least
three
times
a year
to put
students to
work whereverneeded.
More
than
200
students
have participated.
"Who else
in the dead
of winter would drive
up
here
to
do
a winter camp
for kids?"
says
Shaheen. "Our
toughest
weekend of the year
is the weekend
before Thanksgiving,
and
they
work
themselves into
the ground packing food
orders.
They
don't
get any of the glamorous
jobs. Making
food
orders is
lifting hundreds
and
hundreds
and
hundreds
and
hundreds
of
boxes of
food
and moving them
to
sites so that
people can
have Thanksgiving
food.
"They're so committed, they're so flexible,
they're willing to
do
anything. And
they
have
such a spirit of willingness and caring.
It's
a
perfect
match."
Lazarus
House hosts
the colleges in order
to educate students about poverty. "It's one
more
way for
us to
take young, pliable
minds
and give themi an opportunity to witness the
reality of poverty," says Shaheen. "We wanted
it
to
be something
they
would take home with
them. And something
that
would stick
in
their
craw
for the
rest of
their lives.
And then we
often say to
them,
'No
matter
what you do
with your
life,
you
have
something
that
you
can offer
to
people who are
poor
and
in
need.'
So they have a life full of
opportunity to
make
a
difference if
they choose to."
Serving
those
in need at Lazarus
House
did translate
into everyday
life
for alumna
Beth
Mathewson law
'00,
a special education
teacher
working at Yale University with students who
havesocialanclemotional
disabilities.
"lalwars
looked forward
to
going to
Lazarus
House as a
student
becau:se
the experience put my
life
into
perspective,"
s.he says.
"The
people of Lazarus
House exude 1!nergy
and
hope."
Christine Coco
'99
first
went
to
Lazarus
House as a sophomore,
returning
early from
winter vacation to join
the
City
Plunge
and cre-
ate a winter camp
for
the children in Lawrence.
She went
back to Lazarus House for
two more
years as a student and then for three years as
an alumna.
"I
continued
my
work at
Lazarus House
because
it was there
I
witnessed
true
compas-
sion fort he poonhrough
the
work oft
he
Marist
stud ems and Mari st
Brothers,"
she says.
"It
was
always rewarding
to
see 'small' actions
making
true differences in
the lives
of
the poor."
Her
volunteer experiences in Lawrence
influenced
both personal and career
decisions
and continue to sharpen her
perspective
on life,
she says. Today she works with the
immigrant
population
in
Long Island's Uniondale School
District, teaching English asa second
language
on the elementary level. She also volunteers as
a mentor through
the
Mentoring Partnership
of Long Island.
"This
program
gives
me
the
opportunity to directly work with youth who
face
difficulties in their
own personal
lives.
This program gives me
the
same sense of ac-
complishment
that I
felt
in
Lawrence."
The children eagerly awaite their scheduled time in a busy neighborhood gym,
loolling longingly through the
/indows
of the gym door as a local team held basket-
ball practice. When their time ,,ame they burst in. They did cartwheels, back bends,
liandsprings and headstands a tumbling mats and played games organized by the
Marist students. Above, Bro. M"chael Williams, FMS, (upper right) gives instructions
for an activity that calls. or everyone to form a circle
011
the gym floor.
SPRING
2005
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"Kianna
is
one of
the
people
I
most vant to re111ember
years
from
now,"
says sophomore Racl1el Worell
(left),
l1ere
with
Kianna Olavaria.
"I
remember the first
night
at tl1e
shelter,
seeing
her
eating
dinner
and
l remember
thinking how
very stresi;ed
her
111other
looked.
Kianna
was a
handful,
that's for sure. I think
our presence
in
Lawrence that weekerd gave tire parents a much-needed breali from worrying about lieep-
ing their children
warm and fed.
he weehend
in
Lawrence reminded me how
extremely
luchy I
am."
City
Plunge
Scrapbook
Eight
Mariststudents
volunteered
at
Lazarus
House
Ministries in
Lawrence,
Mass.,
in
February,
running
a winter camp for 14
children during
the three-day
Dr.
Manin
Luther King.Jr., weekend.
The
children signed
up
for
the
camp at Good Shepherd Center
rJ,
which houses a soup kitchen,
thrift
shop, chapel, PC lab for
job
training,
preschool and ad-
ministrative offices. Bro. Michael
Williams, FM$, Leo
Hall
mentor
at Marist College and
leader
of
the
Marist group,
drove them
14
M A R
I
ST M A G A Z I N E
from Good Shepherd to St.Joseph
Plains
Community Center
IIJ
a
few
blocks
away where
most
of the
camp activities took place.
One of
the
games
led by
the
Mariststudentscalled for everyone
to
link
hands
and crawl under and
over each other
to
end up holding
hands in a circle. They played in
the community center's
lobby
C!I
since the gym that morning was
in use
by
a local basketball
league.
Overt he past
12
years Bro. Michael
has led
more
than 200 Marist
students to Lazarus
House
at least
three times
a year
to
volunteer.
He oversees everything from
driving
the
students
LO
Lawrence
to
leading evening discussions of
what they experienced that day.
He
makes sure not only that
the
children are happily occupied
but also
that the
Marist studems
are
prepared to
lead each acti,·ity.
Here
he talks with
Jose
Ferreira
in
the community center's
kitchen
where the children are
Lie-dying
T-shirts
0.
The last day of the
camp, Monday,
featured bingo
at
Good Shepherd Center
11.
Each
















At first Gabriel Monge (left) didn't want to play kichball and dodge ball because lie wasn't sure
of the rules and preferred basl1etvall, says freshman Matt Driscoll
(right). "But
as
soon
as he got
into
it lie enjoyed
it."
Matt recalls constantly
wanti,1g
to play sports himself as a hid,
noting
that
the children at the camp didn't always have that opportunity.
"The
l1ids had a great
time.
They
were so excited every day.
It
was a great experience because we made a difference i11
their
lives."
winner was allowed Lo choose a
prize
from
dozens
of new
wys
do-
nated
LO
Lazarus House
Ministries.
Earlier in
the
weekend, freshmen
Jill
Koller and Stuan Cohen
had
selected
the
prizes from a swrage
room
in
Lazarus House filled
Lo
the
ceiling with
toys.
Lazarus House
Ministries
presented
its Christ
the
Servant Award to Marist students
fonheirconsistentservice.
On the
weekend of the winter activities
camp, H. Bridget Shaheen, ex-
ecutive
director
ofLazarius House
Ministries (left), presented the
plaque
tosophomoreJen
Maclean
(center) and freshman Stuart
Cohen
ll.
"There's a
reaL
persona
of Marcellin
Champagnat that's
present
in
so many of the stu-
dents," says Shaheen. St. Marcell
in
Champagnat founded the Marist
Brothers order. Lazarus House
C!J,
a homeless shelter, opened in
1983
after a Marist Brother, Tom Petitte,
returned
from working in India
with Mother Theresa, who advised
him to
help
the poor
in America.
He decided
to open a shelter.joined
by Shaheen and other
members
of
a local parish who raised
money
to
purchase a house.
Today
Lazarus
House Ministries
serves
more than
8,000
people
a month through
its
shelter.soup
kitchen.job training,
free
medical and dental clinics
and
other programs. The basement
of
Lazarus House is where
Marist
sLUdents
help
pack 1,500
boxes
of
food
for
needy
families
the week-
end before Thanksgiving each
year. Students
also have
cooked
meals for residents and
painted
rooms in
the house.
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Athletics
An Auspicious Debut
at the Millrost~
Games
To race-and finish
fourth-atthis legendary
track meet in Madison
Square Garden
was
an experience
the Marist men's
4x800 relay
team won't soon forget.
I
t's the world's
most
famous indoor
track
meet at
the place dubbed
the world's
most
famous arena-the
Millrose Games at
Madison Square Garden. On Feb. 4, the Marist
men's track team
t0ok center stage-for a
few
minutes,
anyway-at the Millrose Games, the
first
Red
Foxes ever invited
to participate.
Mill rose is the
longest
continuously
run-
ningevent
at
the
Garden,
having
celebrated
its
98th year in
2005.
Some of
the world's best
indoor
track
performances
have happened
at
Mill
rose,
including this year's scintillating Mill-
rose
mile record of 3:52.88 by
Bernard
Lagat
of
Kenya. Millrose is
steeped
in
athletic
lore.
Did you
know
that the first time
the national
anthem was sung at an athletic event was
at
the
1926
Millrose Games?
For any fan of
the
sport,
Millrose
is the
indoor track
meet to attend. And on a
chilly
mid-winter's
evening,
four
Marist
athletes
got
the
chance of a lifetime:
LO
compete at the
renowned meet
in
the
celebrated
building
on
34th Street and 8th Avenue.
We were there
tO
race
in
the
college 3,200-
meter
relay,
also
known as
the 4x800 relay.
ln
that
race,
each runner completes 5.5
laps
on the
tiny banked
and
boarded
four-lane
Garden track. And we were in elite company.
Among
the teams
in
attendance
were
Duke
University,
Boston
College and American
University-all
national
or regional powers
in
track
and field.
How
did we get into Millrose?
That's
a
good
question. This
year,
Millrose
was
affili-
ated with the New Balance Armory Collegiate
Track
Invitational, which is held at the Armory
Track
and Field Center way uptown at
168th
Street. When information was sent out about
the
Armory meet last spring
and
summer, there
was a
questionnaire included
asking coaches
if
they
would
be
interested in
having a
team
participate at Millrose.
I
checked "yes" on
the 4x800
spot.
During
the winter of
2004,
ourteam of
two
sophomores
Uustin Harris and Sean
Prinz)
and
two fresh-
men
(Mike
Bamberger
and
Brian DeMarco)
combined
LO
become the first Marist
4x800
team to
qualify
for
the championships of
the
lC4A,a 110-team
conference
including
the best
track schools in the East. At the
2004
IC4A
meet, the
team
members
lowered
their own
school
record
tO
a very strong
time
of 7:45.42.
The future looked bright
for
this relay.
BY
PETE COLAIZZO
'86
PHOTOS
BY DARRYL
BAUTISTA




















In September, a second Armory
mailing
came out. I returned the Millrose page and
followed up with an e-mail
to
meet
director
Jack Pfeifer
at the Armory.
At
the
NYU Invitational at
the
Armory,
I
was at
my usual
spot near
the track,
yelling
out times and encouragement to my guys
in
the
early season meet.Jack Pfeifer, whom
I
had
never met, asked me
ifl
were the Marist coach.
Then he said: "You wanted to run a
relay
at
We decided to lead off with Mike Bam-
berger. He
has been our fastest800-meter man
all year. Mike was
in Lane 1, flanked
by the
lead runners
from American, Duke,
Boston
College, the
University of
British
Columbia,
C.W. Post,
St. Francis College and
Long Island
University.
The
gun went off and Mike charged out with
the
leaders. The
race
field quickly sorted out
with
the
top fo1ur
teams beingAmerican, Duke,
Millrose, right?"
I
said: "Yes."
He
said: "OK, you're in."
Millrose Games Facts
Boston College and Marist.
As Mike negotiated the tight
turns and high banks of the
track, several team members
who had taken the train down
to the city cheered wildly
for him.
Simple as
that.
And the
next
thing you know,
there
we were at
the
Garden, in
front
of 10,000 fans, at the
■
The meet
was first run in
1908.
■
It has
been
held
annually
since
1914.
Millrose Games.
This year's 4x800
relay
team was
different
than the
2004 version. After a fantastic
fall as one of
the lead run-
ners on our cross country
team, Justin
Harris
injured
his
hamstring
and was
not
running
indoor track. Sean
Prinz,
the fastest leg on our
2004 relay
team,
was studying
■
It
is
the
longest-running
sporting
event
in Madison
Square
Garden
history.
With about two
laps
to
go, Mike hurtled himself
into
Lane
2
...
and into
the
lead!
There we were, at
Madison
Square Garden,
leading
the
Millrose Games!
Mike handed
off the baton to
Bryan-in the lead! His
split
time
of
1:56.1
was fantastic
on
that track.
■
A
total
of 87
world
indoor
records
have
been
set or equaled
at the Millrose
Games.
■
A total of
119
Millrose
winners
have
been
Olympic
champions.
■
Past
Millrose
Games
participants
won a
total
of 22 medals
at the
2004 Athens
Olympics.
abroad in Spain
for the
spring semester.
Mike
Bamberger
and
Brian DeMarco
re-
turned,
now assophomores.Joini
ng
them were
senior captain Geoff
Decker
and sophomore
transfer Bryan
Quinn.
Bryan
and
Mike
were
teammates
at Northport
High
School. Together,
they were on the winning Championship of
America distance medley relay at
the
2003
Penn Relays.
Because we
didn't know
exactly what
to
expect at Millrose, our strategy was to put
our strongest legs up from
in
the
relay. The
Garden
track is
small and cramped-not
the
ideal place to post a fast
Lime.
Our goal was
simply to run as well as we could and put up
a respectable showing so we might possibly
be invited back.
Bryan
took off
down
the straightaway and
ran powerfully his
first
two
laps.
But these
other teams were equally as strong. After
about three
laps,
the Duke runner overtook
Bryan, but Bryan hung with him for another
1.5
laps.
Bryan started
tiring, but
with a
lap
to
go sprinted with all his might and handed
off to Geoff
in
second
place.
We knew going
into
this race that it was a
tough
spot for
Geoff.
He's a true
distance
run-
ner, and the800-meterdistance isan unnatural,
all-out sprint for him. That, combined with his
lanky
6-foot-5 frame on
the
short track, made
it difficult
for fom.
The
runne:r
from Boston College caught
him and
passe,d
him. Geoff sprinted down the
straightaway, handing off to Brian DeMarco
in fourth place.
Brian
is
the opposite of Geoff. A sprinter,
the
800-meter distance is comparatively long
for him, so he ran cautiously his first two
laps.
At this point, we had separated from the back
end of the field, but Brian was too far away
from the third-place team to close the gap any
further. He burst down the final stretch and
the team finished in a very respectable fourth
place. The time of 7:57.12 was outstanding on
this track and in this field.
More
important,
we put on a good show
in
front of the big crowd. These boys proved
they belonged-much to the thrill of the
many
alumni who were in attendance and annually
go to watch Millrose.
For
these
alumni-many of them friends
of mine with whom I ran countless miles in
college or coached at countless
meets-seeing
the Marist singlet circling the Millrose track
was a special thing. Track is a sport that
has
always had an
inferiority
complex among its
athletes and coaches.
lt
starts with the fact that
we are almost always on the
road,
practicing
at local parks and high schools and compet-
ing off-campus every weekend.
To
compete at
Millrose was an opportunity and a night
that
we all won't soon forget. Will we get another
opportunity to run at Mill rose? That's
hard
to
say. The scope of the
meet
changes each year.
Its primary focus is on world-class athletes,
not college teams.
This much
I
know:
For our first time at
Millrose, we
held
our own and proved we
can
run
on
the
big stage.
I
speak for
my
boys
when l say
I
sure hope we get the chance
to
do
it
again next year.
Pete Colaizzo
'86
is in his 14th
year
as head men's
track and
cross
country
coach
at Marist. He also
works at the
Poughkeepsie
Journal,
where
he
is
ediror
of the Players
recreational
sports section.
SPRING
2005
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Men's Basketball
The Brady Bunch
The newest edition of the Marist men's basketball
program
found itself
atop
the
MAAC in the last week of January
,with
a 7-1 league mark,
showing
signs
of the
brand of basketball that Head Co,11ch
Matt Brady
hopes
will become
the hallmark
of M,arist
basketball
for many seasons
to come. HighligMs included
the
outstanding
play of three student athletes.
T
he Red Foxes' 2004-05 season marked
a new era in Marist basketball. Follow-
ing
Dave Magarity's resignation the Red
Foxes
turned
over the
reins
of the program
to Mau Brady, who
had
been an assistant at
St. Joseph's for
l
l
seasons. Brady came to
Poughkeepsie with impressive credentials,
having helped guide the
Hawks
to four NCAA
Tournament appearances,
three
NIT berths,
four Big 5 Championships and three Atlantic
10 titles.
Marist'sseason began where it usually does,
in
Poughkeepsie for the annual Pepsi Marist
Classic. The Red Foxes gutted out a 72-67 win
over Cornell
before
falling in the title game
to
Birmingham-Southern.
What would soon
follow, however, would be the type of success
and brand of basketball that Brady hopes will
become the hallmark of Marist basketball for
many
seasons
to
come.
Following a heartbreaking 2 point
loss
at
home to 2004 Big South champion Liberty,
Marist ani;wered with an
unprecedented six-game
winning streak, beginning
against arch-rival Siena at
home on Jan. 7. After that
win,
the
Red Foxes rattled
off wins over two-time
defending MAAC cham-
pion Manhattan, eventual
MAAC champion Niagara,
Fairfield and a pair of wins
over Loyola. After winning
just six games a season ago, the newest edition
of the Mari st men's basketball program found
itself atop the MAAC
in the last week of Janu-
ary with a 7-1 league mark.
The Red Foxes then struggled down the
stretch, but found a way to knock
off Siena
once again in the Pepsi Arena
on
Feb. 18
BY JASON
CORRIHER
Left: Sophomore
Jared Jordan
established
himself as one of the premier floor
generals
in
the MAAC, dazzlingfans and befuddling opponents
with his
playmahing
ability as well as
unselfishness
when
it
comes
to finding open teammates. Right: Soplwmore
Will Whittington,
who
earned
MAAC
Co-Player
of the Week honors
this
season, had
one of
the
finest seasons
for a
shooting
guard
in
Marist history.
He
became only the fourth player
in
NCAA
history
to
.finish in
the top six
in
the
country
in
3-pointers made per
game and 3-point percentage.
18
M A
R
I S
T
M A G A Z
I
N E
before ending
the
season with
an 11-17 record.
"I think we showed in
Janu-
ary
how
good this team can be
with the run
that
we had," Brady
says. ''I'm certainly sad
to
see our
seniors (Brandon Ellerbee,
Pierre
Monagan and Will McClurkin)
leave
our program, but
I'm
confi-
dent with our returning nucleus
that we'll have the makings of a
solid program next season."
Marist did accrue some
postseason
acco-
lades for the stellar play of three of its student
athletes. Sophomores Jared
Jordan
and Will
Whittington were named Third-Team AII-
MAAC,
while
redshirt
freshman Ryan Stilphen
was named to the league's All-Rookie Team
Jordan, a native of Hartford, Conn.,
finished second in
the league
in assists and
assist-to-turnover ratio. He also stands ninth
on theschool
'sall-time
assist list with 280after
just
two seasons of play. He recorded double-
figure scoring efforts 15 times
this
season with
three-straight double-doubles against
Rider,
Lafayette and St. Peter's in early December.
\\'ill
Whittington, who earned MAAC
Co-Player of the Week honors
this
season, had
one of the finest seasons for a shooting guard
in Marist history. The Kingwood, Texas, na-
tive became only the fourth player
in
NCAA
history to finish in the top six
in
the country
in 3-pointers made per game and 3-point
percentage. He also finished the season ranked
second
in
scoring improvement over last season
with a jump of over
12.5
points after averaging
just 4 points a season ago. Whittington led
the Red Foxes
in
23 of 28 games and netted a
ca~eer-high 31 points against Big East power
St. John's on Jan. 19.
Stilphen, a native of Bay Village, Ohio,
started 20 games this season before being
sidelined midway through the campaign with
a back
injurr
He recorded four double-doubles
this season and averaged 12.5 points and 8.2
rebounds and shot 53.3
percent
from the
floor in MAAC games. Stilphen was a three-
time MAAC Rookie of the Week honoree this
season.
Jason Corriher
is
sports information
director
at
Marist .
























Women's
Basketball
From Worst to ~First
When Head Coach Brian Giorgis tiold his players in January
that they
could
not lose anymore,
they responded
bytearingthrough
the rest of the
season
on a school-record
16-game
winning
streak,
the fourth longest in the NCAA.
'The
Red Foxes
ended the 2004-05 campaign
in sole possession
of the regular season
championship
following
the
best season in program history.
A
fter
2003-04's
"season of
firsts,"
the
Marist
women's
basketball
team still
felt
it
had
something to
prove,
and did
so
by turning
in
the best
season
in
program
history,
a commanding
22-7 record
(15-3
MAAC).
Along
with
that,
21
of their wins came
in the
regular
season for
the
school's
first-ever
20+-win
regular
season.
Marist went
6-3
in
nonconference play
for
the
school's first
nonleague
winning season
since 1999-00 when
the
team
went 7-2.
The
Red Foxes' record was
the
best
out of all
the
MAAC
schools and included
wins
over
Penn,
San
Francisco,
St.
Bonaventure and
Lehigh.
Marist had
its
success out of
league
play
but
suddenly,
three
games
into
the
MAAC
season,
found
itself 0-3,
having
lost
to
Siena, St.
Peter's
and Canisius. After a 61-58
loss
to Canisius on
Jan
8 at the
McCann
Center,
the defending
conference champions
were
in sole possession
of
last
place
and
needed a
quick
turnaround.
Head
Coach
Brian
Giorgis told
his
players
that
they could
not
lose
anymore
and
they
responded by defeating
Iona
62-49 on Jan.
10
to
start
the wheels
in motion.
IL
seems that
they
truly
took
him literally,
tearing through
the
rest
of
their
conference slate on a school-
record 15-game
winningstreak,
fourth
longest
in
the NCAA. The
Red
Foxes went from worst
to
first. They ended
the 2004-05
campaign in
sole possession
of
the regular
season champion-
ship and
the
number-one
seed
in
the
upcoming
tournament.
The
Red
Foxes increased
their
winning streak
to
16 with a 69-49 win over
Fairfield
in
the
MAACTournamentsemifinals,
setting up a
rematch
of
last
year's final against
Canisius
the
next day.
In a
hard-fought battle,
the
Red Foxes struggled
to
build a significant
lead and eventually
fell
to
the
Golden Grif-
fins 60-59.
Throughout the year, Marist steadily im-
proved
in
the RPI ranks,
sitting at 82 by
the
end
of
the
season.
In
addition, they were
ranked in
the top 25 in five
different national
categories:
personal fouls per game, tenth (13.8); winnin~
streak, fourth (16); won-lost percentage,
29'
(75.9); and field-goal percentage defense, 20
th
(36.1). Perhaps
the
most notable ranking was
fourth in
the
country forscoringdefense, hold-
ing opponents to
just
51.4
points per
game.
BY DARA
ELY
Senior
captain
Kristin Keller
was a First Team
All-MAAC
a,1id
MAAC All-Tournament Team
selection as well as the Fide/is
Care
Humani-
tarian of
tl1e
Year award recipient.
Marist
tallied
19
double-doubles as a team,
the most in
the
MAAC, and ranked in
the
top
four in the
conference
in
all
but
four statistical
categories. The
Red
Foxes ranked first in seven
different
categories including scoring defense,
scoring
margin,
assist-to-turnover ratio, steals,
assists, field--goal
percentage
defense and
turno\'er margin.
Marist's stifling defense carried the team
on its 16-game winning streak, but it finished
the MAACsea1son
with three players averaging
double
figures. Fifi Camara ranked second in
the confereneoe
at 17.2 points per game, Kristin
Keller was fifth with 15.3 and Megan Veuer
finished 20th at 10.2. Sophomore point guard
Alisa Kresge was
tremendous
for the Foxes,
finishing
the
season ranked
first
in assists
with 5.89 per game, fifth in steals with 2.06
per contest arnd,
perhaps
the most
impressi\'e,
first
in
assist-to-turno\'er
ratio
at 303.
Following a tremendous effort
in the
regular season,
Marist
was
rewarded
with
three
selectio1ns
to
the
All-Conference teams.
Senior
Kristin Keller,
a Preseason First Team
selection, and junior
Fifi
Camara were named
to the All-MA
AC First Team. Freshman point
guard Nikki
Fllores
was named to the All-Rookie
Team for her efforts this season. Keller and
Camara are Marist's first First TeamAII-MAAC
Junior
forward
Fifi Camara,
who
was named to
the
First
Team
All-MAAC
and
the
MAAC
All-Tournament
Team, led
Marist in points,
rebounds
and
steals.
selections and Flores is
just
the second All-
Rookie
Team
pick.
The Marist
frontcourt duo
of
Keller
and
Camara
was unstoppable
this
season, with
the
two
averaging a combined
30.4
points
per
game. Camara, a 6-foot-l forward,
totaled
15
double-double performances,
with 13 coming
in
18
league games
played. She
led
the Red
Foxes in scoring with 15.7 points
per
game,
rebounding
with 9.5
boards
per game and steals
with 57.
She
was fourth
in the
conference in
scoring, second in steals and first
in rebounds
and won MAAC
Player
of the Week honors
three
times during
the
regular season.
Keller, a 6-foot-3 center and 2004's MAAC
Sixth Player of the Year, lived
up
to her
Pre-
season
First
Team selection by averaging 14.7
points
and 7.3 rebounds per game. Keller
tal-
lied
2.4 assists per game and was a big force
on defense,
leading the
team with 29 blocked
shots and 27 steals. She also had a
team-high
eight 20+ point outings for the Foxes, had
four
double-doubles and was a two-time MAAC
Player of the Week.
Flores, a 5-foot-4 guard, was a vital spark
off the bench for Marist
thisseason,appearing
in all 27 games and averaging
12.8
minutes
per contest.
In addition,
Keller,
Camara and Flores
were named
to
the
MAAC All-Tournament
Team fortheirefforts. Head Coach Giorgis was
named MAAC
Co-Coach of the Year and Alisa
Kresge
was named MAAC Defensive Player of
the Year.
Keller
received the first Fidelis
Care
Humanitarian
of
the
Year Award, presented
LO
a student athlete who is "active
in
her com-
munity, a campus leader and humbly reflects
and actively represents the shared missions of
the MAAC and Fidelis Care."
Dara
Ely
is
assistant sports information
director
at Marist.
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HEOP:
35
Years of Mentoring
and Moral Support
A
zulenis
Liriano
'94 will
never
forget
the first postcard she
received from
Marist
College.
"lt
was the
one with a
picture
of the crew
team
rowing down the Hudson River, during
the early morning
hours,
when
the
mist is still
dancing
on
the waters,"
she says. "That picture
spoke
to
me.
l knew
that if
l
planned to attend
such a
prestigious
school, it would
have
to be
with the help of a program
like HEOP."
Liriano,
nowt
he reservations manager
of
a
vacation
home rental
company
near
Walt Dis-
ney
World
in Kissimmee, Fla,
credits Marist's
Higher
Education Opportunity
Program
with
giving
her
the tools toconquer"the
real
world."
In 2004 Marist HEOPcelebrated
its35<hyearof
helping students
not
only get into college but
also graduate and succeed in a
career.
"All
of
the
students
are from
lower economic
classes," says
Iris Ruiz-Grech, director
of
Marist's HEOP,
a New
York
state-funded
program.
"That is one of the criteria
to
be
part of the program.
We
try to explain
to
them
that
once they graduate
and
get successful
jobs,
they
will
be
at a
different
level, with
different
responsibilities
and opportunities." The major-
ity of
the
students in
Marist's HEOP
are from
the
fiye
boroughs of New York
City,
as well as
Long Island
and
Rockland
County. Some come
from
as far
away
as
Binghamton
and some as
close as Poughkeepsie and Pawling.
Marist was one of
the
original 24 schools
LO
participate, and since
1969
Marist HEOP
has graduated
more than
260 students. Marist
HEOP
students
have
a stellar graduation rate,
with 80 percent
receiving their degrees
within
six years, says Ruiz-Grech.
Students accepted
into
HEOP must
meet
certain financial
needs
criteria set
by
New
York state. The HEOP staff
interviews pro-
spective students and explains
the details
of
the
program, such as
the
expected financial
contribution
from
the student or family and
the
fact that the
program prohibits students
enrolled in
HEOP from
playing on college
sports
teams during
the freshman year.
That was almost a deal-breaker for Cha-
derick Greer '03. But
he
decided
to
come to
Marist after all, with the
hope
of cajoling
his
way
into trying
out for
the football
team.
His
pleas were in vain,
but
in
hindsight he rec-
ognizes the wisdom in
the
rule.
"When
I
got
here, I
realized how
many academic
problems
I
had
and
that l didn't have the
preparation
I
BY KERRY
MCQUADE
Students and alumni say being part of the Higher Education
Opportunity
Program
family at Marist has helped them succeed
in college and in life.
needed.
If I
had come to
Marist
as
a regular
student,
I
would
have
sunk.
HEOP
provided
the guidance and tutors
I
needed."
Greer
credits
HEOP with putting him
on
the right track to succeed and showing him how
to achieve his goals. While
his
family was very
supportive,
he
says they-
didn't know
how
to
help
because they
had no college experience.
While he did
play
football following his
J
freshman year, Greer chose not to play
during
his final year of college. "When the time came,
I
realized
that
my education and getting a
job
were
more
important than playing football."
He
says
HEOP
helped him stay focused; although
he passed the state police
test
to attend the
state police academy while still in college,
he
decided
to finish his bachelor's degree in
criminal justice. After graduating from the
Maryland Police Academy, he became a New
York
State Trooper in December 2003 and is
now headquartered in Wappingers Falls.
Greer is just one example of an HEOP
graduate who
decided
to
return
to the Mid-
Hudson
Valley
to
settle
down.
Graduates of
the HEOP
program help the economy of the
county
by
working in the area, according
to
Ruiz-Grech. Eighty percent of Marist's
HEOP
graduates stay in New York state and
most are employed and contribute to
the tax
base. Marist
HEOP
staff stressed that
fact
with their catchphrase
"HEOP:
A
Profitable
lnvestment-StudentsofTodayare Taxpayers
of Tomorrow. Support
HEOP
1"
for a
regional
event, "Contact
the
Governor
Day,"
in 2002.
The HEOP Professional
Organization, a group
made
up
ofHEOP administrators who
meet
to
discuss
program development
and networking,
adopted the saying as
the
statewide motto for
its
2003 and 2004 HEOP lobbying campaign.
Maintaining adequate funding for HEOP
is an ongoing challenge. On Feb. 8, 10 Marist
students joined more than 800
students from around
the
state to
protest New York State Gov. George
E.
Pataki's proposed
budget
cuts
LO
funding for various academic
programs. Currently,
HEOP
grants
•
cover financial aid, which supplies
funding for
tuition
and room and
board, and supportive services,
which include
the
HEOP staff and
tutoring
programs.
In
Pataki's
proposed
budget
for 2005-2006,
the financial aid
portion
of
HEOP's
funding
was cut completely
a
!though
money
was allotted for supportive
sen·ices. The
legislature has
since
restored
funding
for
2005-06.
Marist President
Dennis].
Mur-
ray
is
squarell behind HEOP. At the
program's35' anniversary luncheon
Nov.
10,
HEOP
presented him
with
a special award of appreciation
for
his longtime
support.
Every
year he
meets
with the
incoming
students
and
their
families to welcome them
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HEOP:
35 Years
of Mentoring
and Moral
Support
personally to Marist. When the program was
in
danger of being eliminated from the state
budget in 1995, he assured the students that
they would be able
LO
continue their educa-
tion at Marist regardless of the outcome of the
budget battle. Although the program was not
eliminated, its
budget
was cut by 25 percent
and
did
not receive an increase until 1999.
HEOP works
to
fully integrate its students
into the Marist community, where they often
take on leadership roles and excel academically.
"Many current students are
leaders
on campus
in programs like Habitat for Humanity," Ruiz-
Grech says. "A few years ago a hurricane hit
Puerto Rico and some HEOP students wanted
LO
help. They couldn't afford to actually travel
LO
Puerto Rico
LO
help so they raised funds
through Campus Ministry."
One of the strengths of the program is
its
six-week summer orientation, when incoming
HEOP students are
introduced
to the Marist
campus. During this time, students take
Intermediate
Algebra and Introduction to
College Writing classes and have
mandatory
study time every day. They participate in 30
HEOP
students
(left to
right)
Tara-Lee Peart
'05,
Andrew Candelario
'08,Joel
Caceres
'05
and
Yuvelqui
Rivera
'07
were
in the
HEOP
office recently
serving
on
a Search Committee to
interview
candidates
for
a
counselor/tutor coordinator's
position. HEOP
Director
Iris
Ruiz-Grech and
HEOP
Assistant
Director
Nadine
K. Lewis
(center)
joined
them
for a photo.
workshops on a variety of aspects of college
life such as
time
and money management,
domestic violence and substance abuse. They
also take a field trip around
Poughkeepsie
to
help alleviate
the
culture shock of moving to
the smaller Mid-Hudson Valley community.
This past summer, HEOP added a newseriesof
six workshops, designed by Nadine
K.
Lewis,
assistant director of
HEOP,
to
address
issues
of self-esteem.
Triumph for One HEOP Graduate
l
always wanted to go
LO
college; that was
never
a question in my head. But
1
hated
high school.
1
was unable to pass simple
mathematics
in
ninth grade and
bytheeleventh
grade
I
was still in the same-level math class. I
started skippingschool and eventually dropped
out
that
March. My guidance counselor was
of
no
use and was
there
LO
knock me down
anytime she got a chance. According to her,
the
only future she saw for me was
that
of a
drug
dealer's
girlfriend. She told me
l
would
be
nothing
more than
that
and that she was
sure
I
would one day find myself
in
a small
apartment cutting up coke. She told me I am
the kind
of student you end up reading about
years later
in
the newspaper because of some
crime
they
had committed. I was 16 and this
was her
perception
of me.
I proceeded to
auend a GED class,
but
not
because
of
her; it
was
already a part of
my
plan.
I took
the test,
passed
and attended two col-
leges before
ending
up
at Mari st.
Both
colleges
served
their
purpose,
but none
of
them
gave
me the
satisfaction
I
was looking for.
At
Marist
1
became
an
HEOP
student.
HEOP provided
me with
tutoring for
algebra
and statistics and although I was
never
able to
pass
basic
ninth grade
math, I
was able
to
pass
college
math
with A's. HEOP also provided me
with the
book
for my statistics
class
as well
as the scienti
fie
calculator
I needed
for
the
course,
and
this
was done for
me
through the
lending library that
they have.
When
I
was
taking
biology courses they networked with
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
older students in the
program and
introduced
me to another HEOP student who
helped
me
tremendously with
my
course work and
ques-
tions I
had
about
the
medical field. Also,
HEOP
haswhatisnowcalled the
HEOP Alumni Fund
and
through
that fund
I
was able
to
become
member
of Psi Chi, a national honor society
for psychology students~
HEOP helped me become the
kind
of per-
son and student
1
wanted
to
be. When others
said
I
would become nothing, HEOP stood
by my side.
The
services they provided
me
with were excellent. Through hard work and
dedication
l
was able to maintain
myself
on
the Dean's List every semester since I arrh•ed
at Marist. I
remember
walking with my class
in May 2004 and shaking President Murray's
hand. My sash said' HEOP" because
I
wanted
him to know what a great job they had
done
with me. I graduated with high honors and
l
wanted him to see that
the
program he
supported helped me. I wanted
to
hug him
and
thank him
so
much
for giving us HEOP
students a chance when so many other
people
had
turned
their
backs on us. I wanted him
to
know
how grateful
I
would forever be for my
years at Maristand
how
his support equaled my
triumph.
But
it
was
the
first
time
I ever gradu-
ated, the
first
time I ever stood on a
podium
and shook someone's hand as they called
my
name,
so
I just
smiled at him and quickly said
BY
ILIANA
YORDAN
'05
thank you because I could al
ready
feel
the tears
forming in my eyes and the
knot
in my throat.
But I
think
he got
the message.
1
graduated from
Marist
officially
Jan.
15
and
have
since applied
to
NYU, Columbia
University,
Fordham University and
the lntera-
merican Unh·ersity of
Puerto Rico.
Some
day I
hope to become a
school
psychologist and
help
other kids
who
like me
might ha\·e
gotten lost
in
the
cracks were
it
not
for
a group of dedicated
people
who
cared. Now
1
have
some
free
time to
read books forpleasureand
volunteer in
literacy
groups while I wait for graduate acceptance
letters,
and
for that I
say, "Thank you,
HEOP.
Thank
you, President
Murray!"













F
reshman Robert "Tito''
Robles
felt going
through
the
six-week summer program
gave
him
a great head start. "When all of
the students came at the start of the semester,
I
already knew everything.
I
knew about
time
management, how
to
look for information on
databases and how
to deal
with obstacles.
I
knew how many hours
to
expect to spend doing
work." Robles was named
to the
Dean's List this
past fallsemcsterwhilc working approximately
15
hours a week with Sodexho,
the
college's
dining services provider, as part of his work-
study
program.
He has come a
long
way since
his
first two years of high school in
the Bronx,
where he made barely
passing
grades. In the
city he
didn't
have any textbooks to study with
at home, so "if you didn't get
it
in class,
that
was your
problem," he remembers.
Everysummerseveral
HEOPalumni
come
back
during
orientation to encourage the
in-
coming students. They serve as
role models,
people who have
been through
the
program
and accomplished goals that
many
of the cur-
rent students have.
Andres "Tony" Santiago
'88,
a master con-
trol operator
for
Lifetime
Tele\'ision, is
proud
to serve as a role model e\'ery summer. "HEOP
has helped
me, has
been a part of my success,
and whenevertheyneed
me, 1'11
help them out,"
he
says. "l give tips on
how
to
handle
college
life
and
job interviews. 1'11
look at resumes for
people."
He shares stories of what
life
was
like
when he was a student, illustrating how the
counselors
were always
there
to help him when
he
had a problem. "HEOP was always there for
me as I was trying to acclimate
to
college
life.
I never felt let
down by
them."
During the school year,students meet with
counselors once a week for about 45
minutes
to discuss grades and any problems they
may
be having
in
classes. Students have to discuss
with a counselor any academic
decisions
such
as adding or dropping classes.
Robles said these meetings are beneficial,
not only foracademics.
"You
can also
talk
about
minor stuff to g:et it off your chest. You can tell
them
about outside
things,
external factors that
affect your academic performance.''
Many of the: HEOPstudentscome from dif-
ferent cultural backgrounds than the majority
of Marist students.
ln
1985,
Santiago became
the
first
rap
DJ at the Marist
radio
station He
got a
lot
ofOak for it, he
recalls.
"People told
me,
'We
don't
want
to
ghetto-ize the institution."'
He says the same people
now
apologize to him at
reunions,
telling
him, "You were ahead
of your time."
Bianca
DeLorenz
·99
says
support
from the HEOP
com-
munity
got
her through
a
difficulttime.
ln
1996,
during
the spring of her soph('1ITlore
year, Delorenz
became preg-
nant and was
devastated.
She
didn't know what
to do
and
didn't think she could con-
tinue with school.
Delorenz
took
the
next semester off
LO
have her
daughter,
Damani.
In January
1997
her friends
in
HEOP and her family helped
her find an apartment off cam-
pus for her and her daughter,
and she resumed her studies.
"I would
take the
baby with me
LO
classes and,
if
necessary,
friends from
HEOP would come
into the
room and
just
stroll her out. Everyone
was supportive. There was not one naysayer
among staff or my friends."
As Delorenz neared graduation, her pro-
fessors
were an
integral
part of her
decision
LO
go on for a master's
degree in
social work.
"They
just kept
telling
me
I could
do it."
After
graduating from Marist with a degree
in
so-
cial work, she
immediately
began a master's
program at
the
University of Albany.
She
now
works as a budget examiner for
the New York S1tate
Department ofBudget. "It's
an amazing thing I\·e been able to get this far
with
the
barriers
that
have
been
put in front
of me, but I'm
here for
a
reason
...
.You never
know
what
the future holds."
HEOPwasthe
key,shesays. "You're
pan of
a family in
the program. It's
a support
program
with
tutoring
and mentoring,
but
you also
always know
there
are other
HEOP
students
going through similar
things. You feel
like a
cohort. You
are
in
a group with
people of
similar
backgrounds and that
familiarity
brings you
close.
We're all feeling
like outsiders wgether;
we're not alone. You feel a
little
stronger.
If
I
was
having
a bad
day,
I could always go
to
the
office and someone was there
to
say
they've
been
through the
same thing."
Many alumni speak of
a long-lasting
bond
with the staff and
counselors
of
HEOP.
Army
Cargo
Specialist Mariel Sosa
'02, who gradu-
ated with a degree
in
social work, says
the
HEOP
staff, especially
her
counselor at
the
time, Kristine Cullen, was
nervous
about her
joining the
Army. "But I
have
their
blessings
and
I
made
it through
OIF l !Operation
Iraqi
Freedoml."shewritesviae-mail from
Iraq,
"so
!should be
OK
the
second
time
around." She
is
in her last year of a
three-year hitch,
scheduled
to return
home
in
October.
It was because of
her bond
with
HEOP
staff
that
in 2003 Sosa started a special alumni fund
with a gift of $800 dedicated to supporting
Marist
HEOP.
"I didn't
know
what the plan
for
the
money
Mariel Sosa '02
was,
I just wanted it
to
be
put
to
good
use,"
she says. "Iris
wanted
tostan
the
alumni fund
and needed help." The money
assists current
HEOPstudents
in
paying
farthings that the
regular
operational
f uncl
or financial aid
can't cover, such as a suit
for
a
job inter\'iew.
'Tm glad
I
was able to start
something
that
many people
will benefit from," Sosa says.
"All we need now is continued
help
from
alumni."
Meanwhile. she
is plan-
ning a future after the military
that
includes more
education.
"When I get om. after
taking
a
long shower,
I
plan on applying
to
graduate
school.
I
want to
become
a guidance coun-
selor, get married and have wns of children.
I may also
join
the Air Force
Reserve
or Air
National Guard.
"HEOP allowed me
to
go
to
Marist, and
for that
I
am
\'ery
grateful," she says. "Some of
my best years were spent at Marist, a school
I wouldn't have been able
to
afford without
HEOP."
Azulenis
Liriano,
like other Marist
HEOP
alumni,
is
also grateful. "I strongly
feel
that
the program
is
a gift to those of
us fortunate
enough
LO
be
accepted into it. It offered
me
a
safe place
to learn,
live and explore."
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2005
23



















Honoring
Marist's Heritage
New Chapel Endowment to Sustain Student Activities
A
unique
pan
of Marist's past and a special
dimension
tO
Marist's future were rec-
ognized when several hundred alumni,
friends and Mari st Brothers gathered
tO
mark
the
50th anniversary of
the
dedication of Our
Lady Seat of Wisdom Chapel
last
summer.
The spiritual roots of
the
college and its
unique chapel were celebrated with a mass,
anniversary recollections and a
luncheon
that included
a special salute
to
the
original
builders. On the historic occasion,
President
Dennis]. Murray announced the establishment
of the Charles E. and Mabel E. Conklin Chapel
Endowment at Marist College.
"Asan enduringsymbol ofMarist College's
heritage, this
chapel will continue to
re0ect
the Marist
Brothers'
ideals and will remain
the
spiritual center
for
generations of Marist
students," the president said.
"Thanks
to the
generosity of
two
wonderful friends of the
college-Charlie and Betty Conklin-the needs
of our chapel and
the
many student activities
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M A R I
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M A
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A Z I
N E
that em:anate from this spiritual center will be
met in perpetuity." A
commemorative
clock
was presented to the Conklins, who were
warmly applauded.
The mission of the Conklin Chapel
Endowment
is
to expand, deepen and initi-
ate
pro;grams
that keep Our Lady Seat of
Wisdom Chapel central
to
the
lives
of Marist
students and the college community. It has
been
designed so that the campus minister
has 0ex:ibility in carrying out activities that
support the spiritual and
liturgical
needs of
current and future Marist students. Among
its
numerous
goals are enhancement of the
chapel's
liturgical
environment, broadening
spiritual and religious education opportuni-
ties
for students,
development
of spiritual
retreats and
leadership
training of students
for Campus Ministry and future roles as
lay
BY
SHAILEEN
KOPEC
Thirty-six members of
the
original co,1-
structio11
crew
of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom
Chapel
were
among the
more than
250
guests
who
attended the
50'h
anniversary of
the
dedication of the
chapel
July
17,
2004.
Among
the guests were
more than
100 Marist
Brothers
who
capped a weehlong retreat at
the
college
with
a liturgy
in
the chapel. At
the
farthest
right is
Mari st Trustee
john
O'Shea,
whose
father, an
electrical
contractor, l1elped
the
Brothers
with their
construction
projects,
including the chapel,for many
years.
leaders in parishes.
Known at one
time
as "the college
that built
itself,"
Maristemerged
from
the resourcefulness
and literal
labor
of
the
Marist
Brothers,
whose
core campus
dramatically
expanded over five
decades to
now
serve 4,000 undergraduates
and 2,000 adult
learners.
To
many
the
chapel,
perhaps more
than any
building constructed
by the Brothers
here,
symbolizes the vision
and spirit
that
shaped Marist
College.
Its
unique
history and unusual design also
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Seated
(left to right):
Thomas
Murphy
'55
Gerard Cox
'55
Laurence
Sullivan '54
Harry Henky '56
Bro. Richard
Rancourt
'53
James
Friel '56
Bro. Philip DeGagne
'53
Bro. Patrick
McNulty
'56
Bro.
Dominic
O'Brien '56
Bro. Robert Ryan '55
Standing
(left to
right):
John
Nolan
'55
Richard
La
Pietra
'54
Bro. Donald Kelly
'65
Augustine Nolan '52
Frank
Reilly
'52
Kevin Carolan
'54
Bro.
James
Ryan
'53
Bro. Martin Ruane
'54
Bro. Luke Reddington
'55
Denis Murphy
'49
Bro. Stephen
Bosco
Wang
'53
Thomas
O'Connor
'53
Bro. Gregory Dela
Noy
'55
Martin Lang '51
Bro. Albert Phillipp
'57
Eugene
Donnelly
'51
Andrew Molloy
'51
Edward Cashin
'52
Bro. Leo Shea '56
Franklin McNiff
'55
Jack Duggan '56
Bro. James
Kearney
'53
Bernard Joseph
Woods
'56
Joseph
McKiernan
'56
Maurice
Bibeau
'54
it one of a
kind among
American college and
university chapels.
On
May 2,
1954, Francis Cardinal Spell-
man observed al the dedication oft
he
chapel,
"This is
the
church of the
future." The
chapel's
octagonal shape was
innovative
for its
time,
allowing worshippers
to
sit anywhere and be
equidistant from the altar.
The
structure was
the first round chapel completed on a college
or university campus, according to college
archivisl
John
Ansley.
The
chapel was also
unusual
in
that it was
hand-built by Marist
Brolhers who
lived,
studied and worked on
the
campus of what was then Marian College,
exemplifying the motto of the Marist
Broth-
ers,
Orare et Laborare,
to
pray
and to
work.
Bro. Nilus Donnelly, director of construction
at the college,
led
the effort. For an architect,
Bro. Nilus tapped Clarence
H.
Pratt of Ash-
ton, Huntress and
Pratt in Lawrence,
Mass.,
with whom he had worked previously.
Bro.
Paul Ambrose Fontaine,
the
superior of the
To
many the chapel, perhaps more than any building
constructed by the Brothers here, symbolizes the
vision
and spirit that
shaped
Marist
College.
college, also
played
a
major
role in the chapel
construction.
These
facts and others were recounted in
the
programi that
complemented Lhe anniver-
sary mass offered by the Most Reverend Edwin
Broderick, retired
Bishop
of Albany.
The bishop
at one
time
served as secretary to Cardinal
Spellman and
has had
a
long
acquaintance
with the Marist
Brothers.
Concelebrating
the mass w;as
Fr. Richard
LaMone, campus
minister
at Marist, who also helped plan the
anniversary activities. More than 100 Marist
Brothers
participated
in
the
event, which co-
incided
with the end of their week
long
retreat
on the Maritst campus. Offering concluding
remarks
was Bro. Sean Sammon '70, who as
superior general of
the
Marist Brothers leads
the order worldwide. A highlight of the event
was a robus1t
acknowledgement by the guests
of
the
36 men
in
auendance who were among
the
several hundred Brothers involved
in
the
landmark project.
Among alumni who worked on the
chapel
bmsent regrets that
they
were unable toauend
the
event were:
Thomas
Casey '55, Martin
Cullinan
'Si',
William Deschene
'56,
William
Egan
'57,
Timothy Falkenstein
'53,
James
Gormley
'53,
Brendan
Haggerty
'54,
Martin
Hane
'51,
William
Krueger'55,JepthaLanning
'53,
Gerard McCann
'55,
John
McGuire '58,
Denis
Proulx
'55,
Rudolph
Ramirez
'57
and
Rev. Willianns
Sears
'56.
At the
end
of
tl1e
mass
President
Dennis].
Murray
announced
the
Charles
E.
and Mabel
E.
Conlilin
Chapel Endowment at Marist Col-
lege,
established by a gift from community
leaders
Charlie
and
Betty
Conlllin
(above).
The
president
gave
special acknowledge-
ment
to
Bro.
Luis
Garcia Sobrado, \'icar
general of the Marist Brothers, and Bro.
John
Klein
'70,
pro\'incial of the Marist Brothers of
the
United
States. Also recognized was Bro.
Frank
Kelly
'73,
director of Campus Ministry
at Marist. With more than 1,300 members,
Campus Ministry is the
largest
student orga-
nization on campus.
A longtime member of the Maris/ College
com-
munity, Shaileen Kopec currently serves as senior
development
officer
for planned
giving
and endow-
ment support.
The
Most Reverend
Edwin
Broderick, retired bishop of
Albany
(third
from
left),
and
Fr.
Richard
LaMorte,
caitllpus
minister
at Marist
(secondf
rom right),
concelebrated
a mass
in Our
Lady
Seat
of Wisdom
Chapel
011
the 50'
h
anniversary
of
the
dedication
of
the
chapel.
Also
shown
(left to
right)
are
CJl1arles
and Mabel
Conklin,
Marilyn
Murray
and
President
Dennis). Murray.
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MAR IS
T MA Cu\ ZIN E
l 9 5 S
Bro.
Vincent
Jerom,e,
FMS, 1s
re-
ti
red
and
living
in
the Marist
Brothers' commun11r on
39·
Avenue m Miami,
Fla
l 9 S 6
Professor
James Fri1cl
1s
co-chair
of the Long
Island
Philosophy
Society, cd11or of Humanities
,\laga:jnt·
and director of the
Center
for Philosoph)·,
Law and C111zenship
Inc.
at SUNY
Farmingdale
in
rarming<lalc
l\l
Y.
1 9 5 7
Rudolph
Ramirez
s,~nds kudos to
his fellow builders
of Our
Lady
Scat of
Wisdom
Chapel on
the
\lanst
College campus. Last year
marked the 50
~anniversary
of the
dedication
of the chapel
l
9 S 9
Bro. John Malich, FMS,
recm·ed
the Nat1onal Brotherhood Award
m Atlanta,
C,a ,
last summer at the
annual convention of
the
Rchg1ous
Brothers Con
fcrence.
1 9 6 2
William Lenehan
is enJo>·mg re-
uremenl.
f-le
would like to
hear
from former football and crew
athletes whom he coached Btll can
be reached at WJl@aolcom
I
Dr.
Gerald
McKenna
is the CEO of
the McKenna
Center,
a treatment
facility for professionals
in
Honolulu, Hawaii. Hb ~on, Sean,
1s a member of the ped1:11rics
fac-
ult} at the \_;ntversit
y
of \'1rgmia.
I
Or. M. John
O'Connell 1s
semi-
retired and liws .,, 1th his wife,
~and}-, on the coast of \tame m
Boothbay I larhor. He enJoys his
ideal work schedule. a four- to
five-day Wt)rk month, consulung
on character-based d1sc1plinc
and
academics Prior to-ret1rmg, John
was the superintendent of the
\\ 1scasset School D1str1ct m
Wiscasset,
Maine.
I
Dr. Frank
Swetz has
developed and 1s co-
editing an e-magazi,ne for
teachers
devoted to using the history of
math
in
teaching. Th.e \lathemaucal
Association of America 1s sponsor-
ing
thee-magazine,
Convergence,
at
htt p://conYcrgence.
mat
hdlorg.
1 9 6 3
Francis
"Frank"
Sutton 1s
now a
retired
French
teacher who
runs
a
bed and breakfast called Sutton's
Place in ~lanchester, \'t
1 9 6 4
I a Roche College m
Pittsburgh
awarded
Bro.
Rene D. Roy,
FMS,
an honorar} Doctor of
Humane
Letters m 2004. The college hon-
ored him at the graduation of a
group of students whom he
taught
in Rwanda
10 years ago and
then
helped
to
achiC\'l' a goal of auend-
ing college in the United States. He
1s principal of Bishop Donahue
High School m \k:Mechen, \\'.Va.
1
9 6 S
Jerry Dahowski
and high school
frn:n<l An Atk ns have formed a
nonprofit agency, \\'ork Works
lnc.,
that
pro\'tdcs
Job
trammg in
the construction trades
m
the
Hudson Valley. Jerry is chairman
of the board or the agency,,, h1ch
is
wllaboraung ,,nh
the
Dutchess
Count>'
Department
of Social
Sen·ices and the
Poughkeepsie
Housing Authortl} and seeking
grants
.rom
foundations.I
Dennis
Feeney
boasts two new grandchil-
dren, Kate Ann and
Griffin.
lie 1s
looking forward
to the 40'h
reunion
oft he Class of '65 m October 2005
I
Peter
Lordi
1s president of
Amrncan ScicnttfJC
Resource,
Inc.,
which
acquired a company he
founded,
Ulster Scientific
Inc.
Baxter
International Inc. presented
him with 11s prestigious ann,1al
t\ew Product Dc\'clopment Award
m 1992.IMartinJ.
Lyden, PhD,
a
'licensed
ps}'chologist, has
been
workmg
in the
Albany, N.'\-
.,
:m:a
smce
197➔
In addition toa pnvate
practice, he 1s director of the
Psrchology Department in the
residential d1,·1s1on
of the Ccmer
for the
Disabled,
a
large
not-for-
prof11
agency. In 2003 and 2004 he
had articles published m profcs
s1onal Journals
I
k has presented
more than 30 papers
at
profl's-
,ional confen'.nccs.
lAfter
h\'lng m
\11ddle1own \; Y for 35 }'C'ars,
Robert Petruski
and his wife.
Diane
have
moYed to Marshalls
Creek,
Pa.,
to
be close
10
their
grandchildren
I
Ronald
Streek's
son, Ryan. compkted his ~I BA and
his daughter, K}he, completed her
b,Khelor of professional s1Ud1cs.
Both
received
l
heir
degrees from
~lanst
in
May
2004.
1 9 6 6
Dr.
Thomas
J.
Berger
has worked
for
the past
21 years
111
the
Microbiology
Department ol
the
Hospital Products Dinsion of
GRADUATES
Abbou Laboratories.
In Mar 2004,
Abbou
spun
off the division to
become the pharmaceutical
firm
Hospira
Inc. Both of Tom's sons.
Andrew and Alex, work at Abbott.
His
daughter, Charloue,
1s
a phar-
macist 111
Seattle,
Wash. Tom and
his,, 1fc, Linda,
arc
the proud
grandparents oft,, ins, Ka<len
Any
and Ashlen Kristen, compliments
of son ,\ndre,, and his
wife,
Kan
Tom's twin brother, John, is also a
member of
the
Classof'66
I
Bruce
C.
Oa,·idson,
Esq.,
has been sc-
lectt:d
o,
his peers
fo1
inclusion m
Tht·
Brst
L<1ll'yers
in ·\maica 2005-
2006.
Bruce
is a partner in the
Milwaukee, Wis.,
law
firm
of
Quarks & Brady, LLP. Brsl Lawy.is
bases us listing on an exhausuve
stud} of the legal
profession
m
which
attorneys
nationwide arc
asked
to rank the top practitioners
in
their
specialties in
thetr Jurisdic-
tions. In
200➔•
more than 16,000
attorneys throughout
the
countr}'
cast
more
than 500,000
votes.
I
Fred
Gilmore would
like
to inform
his
cla~smates
that
he is still
around, retired and enJoying
tmehng in his
R\'
He has
two
beaut1ful
granddaughters
thanks
to his
son
Kevin and his wife. His
son Andre\\ is a professional
engi-
neer m Ari:ona who specializes m
groundw,ller proJects, and his son
Tim graduated cum
laude from
SUNY
New Paltz 111
the English
masters
program.
Tun
teaches at
:-.;ew Pait.:. Dutches~ Community
College and
~lar1st
I
Peter
1
estcroke
is
retired He
and his
wife,
~and}',
say that
life
is good:
"Rock 011
1
Ijames
E. Patrick,
PhD,
retired from his pos1t1on
as group
director for drug disposition at
Schering-Plough
Research lnslllutL'
in Kenilworth,
N.j.
I
le
and his
famtl}' have
relocated to
Aiken, S.C.
Jim and his wife, \ltchcle, ha,·e a
son. J1mmr who is a student at
Clemson l_;nivers1t}
I
Vincent
Sheridan, PhD, 1s
principal of
Our
Lady tif
Mount
Carmel School in
Tempe, An:. Profiled man arttcle
in the
,\11;:ona
Rrpul,hc, \'mce said
that
the qualities of a gn~at
teacher
are
"finding
a way
to
relate
to
sllldents."
I
John D.
Sullivan
re-
tired from the Social Securit}
Admm1s1ra11on m \larch 2004
after more than
28
years of sernce
He now works part-lime
as
a
beer
tender
at Apple
Annie's Deli&: Pub
in Flormce, S.C.ISincc
\lay
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Guests at the Class of
'69's 35th
reunion included Barbara
(center)
and Bob Hatfield, Jr.
'69 (right),
shown with Executive Director
of
Alumni Relations
Amy Coppola
'97.
The Class
of '69 inducted Jo-Ann Wohlfahrt (center) as an hon-
orary member of the class at
its
35
th
reunion. Members
of the
class
enjoying
the reunion at the Poughkeepsie
Grand
in October
I
included (above, left to right) Bob Hatfield, Jr., John Doherty,
j
Jim Conroy,
Jack Eberth, Sean O'Neill and Bill Rowley,
Jr.
Dear
Alumni,
The
2004-2005
school
year has been a great one for
the
Marist
College Alumni Association.
The Alumni
Career
Network
has reached
a membership
of
1,100
graduates,
close
to
40
chapter
events
were
held
across
the country and
Homecoming
&
Reunion
Weekend
in
October
brought
almost
2,000
alumni back
to campus.
Homecoming
also marked
a milestone
for the Class
of
'69,
which
became
the
first
class
in
the
history
of
Marist
to collectively
raise
$100,000
for the
Marist
Fund.
Speaking
of
the
Class
of
'69,
one of its most active
classmates,
Robert
E. Hatfield,
Jr,, has served
as presi-
dent of the
Marist
College
Alumni Association
for the
past three years.
Bob has
been extremely
supportive
of me in my role as alumni director and he's been a
wonderful
leader
of the Alumni Association
over the
past three years. He even volunteered
to
serve an
extra
year as president
while we
filled
the vacant vice
president
position.
Now
that
this
position
has
been
filled, Bob's
term has officially ended.
Fortunately,
he
will
continue
his service
to the Alumni
Executive
Board
as a member-at-large
for the next few years. I look
forward
to working with
James
E.
Daly '72,
president-
elect,
throughout
the
next two years.
Another
vital member
of the
Marist
alumni "family"
will be moving
on as well. Jo-Ann
Wohlfahrt,
alumni
assistant.
came to
Marist
in January
of
1980,
shortly
after Dennis
Murray assumed
the role of president.
Twenty-five
years
later, Jo-Ann has
decided
to retire
so she can enjoy her new home with
her
husband,
Lenny.
It
amazes
me
how
one person can
remember
so many names, faces and voices. Jo-Ann has the
uncanny
ability to recognize
an alumnus
on the phone
even befom hearing
the person's
name. I don't know
how we'll giet along without
her,
but
I'm
sure she'll be
back for various alumni events (especially
since she
was
named
an honorary
member
of the Class
of
'69
last fall). Dr. John Doherty
'69,
a member
of the Alumni
Executive
e:oard
for the past
30
years,
has
known Jo-
Ann
throughout
her
entire tenure at Marist and recalls
"hersmilinii,
efficient,
helpful
personality."
In reference
to honorin\1
her as a
'69
class
member,
he says, "We
always
felt
that she
was a
member
of our class
anyway
...
the Class
of
'69
expects
Jo-Ann
to be our guest at
our
40m, 4S'
h
,
etc."
I
look forward
to
a very busy but rewarding
2005
-2006
year for the
Marist Alumni
Association.
Please
mark your calerrdar for Homecoming
&
Reunion
Weekend
'05,
Oct.
7-9.
We
are planning
many
exciting
activities.
We'd
love to hear your input, so
if
you
have
ideas
or comments
about alumni
events,
please
contact
Alumni Relations
at maristalumni@marist.edu
or
(845)
575-3283
.
.And continue
to visit our Web site, www.
marist.edUJ'alumni,
for
updated
alumni
information.
Thank
you!
Am Cop
la
'97
Exec ·
Director
of Alumni Relations
Charles
Zoeller
has been the as-
sociate program director of
the
Alzheimer's Association of New
Hampshire and Vermont. Chuck's
son, Jacob, was
married
in
May
2004.
1
9 6 7
David
Fouts
is a
professional
artist
with a studio in Stanfordville, NY.,
and a gallery in Kennebunkport,
Maine.lJohn
Gelchion
has retired
after working for 32 years for the
Victaulic Company of America
in
Easton,
Pa.
I
Michael Gilfeather
is
enjoying
retirement, traveling a lot
and "getting children
through
college." Everything
is
good,
he
reports.
I
Peter
Higgins
is pri
nci-
pal consultant with the
Higgins-
Her manse n
Group
LLC in
Washington,
D.C. His
company
merged
its
consultancy
with an-
other group in 2003.
I
R:obert
Johnson's
daughter,
Jenniifer,
is
co-producer
for
the ABC-TV show
"Lost," which premiered on Sept.
22,
2004. She was the primary
writer of episode No. 5.
IAnthony
LaRocco
continues
to
enjoy retire-
ment. He
spends winters in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., and summers at
Fire
Island
Pines and in New York
City.
Each
year is highlighted by
travels
such as a cruise on the
Queen Mary
II
and trips
LO
Venice
and
the
Greek islands.
I
Robert
Mathews
welcomed grandchild
No. 5, Fiona Clare, in
June
2004.
MARRIAGES
1966
Robert Tirone
to
Pamela
Rimato,
June 5, 2004
1982
M.
Diane "Dee"
Nell
to
Glen Hardgrave,
September
2004
1985
Patrick
Hadden
to
Christine
Murphy,
Oct. 9,
2004
Christopher Sulger
10
Janine
Raad,
Sept.
3,
2004
1986
Susan Lecki
lo Joseph
Gural,
Aug. 7, 2004
1987
Marydale Dolezal
to
Michael
Leonard,
June 19,
2004
Jeanne
Isler
10
Oliver Maletz
'88,
June
5, 2004
William Wright
to
Helen
Street,
April
10,
2004
1988
Debra
Bramley
10
Paul
Carkner,
July
3,
2004
1990
Kathleen
Cassels
to Paul
Woodley,
April
23, 2004
Donna Duncan
to
John
DuBois,
Sept. 28,
2003
Jeanine
Gasbara
to Christopher
Urba,
Sept. 13, 2003
1991
Jacqueline Conroy
to Sean
O'Donnell,
Sept. 10, 2004
Jo-Anne
Prokopowicz
to Harry
Sears,
Oct. 4, 2003
Jeffrey
Thibeault
10
Melanie
McCoy,
Nov.
1,
2003
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Alumni
A
MARRIAGES
1992
Suzanne Engles
to
Thomas
Dolan,
July
31, 2004
Maria Martinez, Esq.,
to
Paul
Lamont
Haggerty
IV,
Sept.
18,
2004
Nicholas Valente
to
Leslie
Mayer,
Oct.
2,
2004
1993
Donna Abrami
to Brian
Buback,
July
4,
2004
Carey Allaband, Esq.,
to
Tim
LeRoux,
Sept.
25,
2004
Thomas Mulryan
to Jill Cowen,
May
29,
2004
Christopher
Weston
to Michelle
Mancuso,
Aug.
28, 2004
1994
Eileen Kaylor
to
James
Bunch,
Aug.
15,
2004
Joel Kraft
to
Stacy
Marie
Torchio,
June
19, 2004
Jason Michaleas
to
Cristina
Chane,
Sept.
10, 2004
Matthew Miller
to
Gina DeVincenzi,
June
26, 2004
Michelle Pontecorvo
to
Daniel
Costello,
Oct. 4,
2003
Heather Scofield
to Jay
Brooker,
May
29,
2004
1995
Deena Barsky
to
James
Spencer,
July
30, 2004
Marla Colletti
to Michael
Huber,
Aug.
14,
2004
Wendy Crocker
to Michael
Egan,
Aug. 22,
2004
Paul DiGiacomo
to
Nicole
Vivona,
Aug.
14,
2004
Marlo Dyson
to Kevin
Schorling,
Oct.
4,
2002
Lucia Fraboni
to John
McCalmont,
July
5,
2003
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MARIST
\1AGAZINE
She joins
Finn,
Nora, Quinn and
Beck.
I
Charles McDermott
retired
in July 2004 so that he and
his
wife,
Linda, can enjoy life and their two
grandsons, Brian and Matthew.
They hope to travel
with
their
fifth
wheel and continue riding their
"tourer."
Chuck was a detective
in
the arson squad for
the
Suffolk
Count>'
(N.Y.)
Police Department.
I
Tim
agle retired
in
July
2002
after 34 years
in
secondary educa-
tion. He
is now
an adjunct profes-
sor at William Paterson University
and Caldwell College. He super-
vises student teachers at both in-
stitutions.
I
Richard
Sinkoski
retired
after 31 years of
teaching
high
school social studies at
Pathfinder
Regional
Technical
High
School
in
Palmer, Mass.
His
daughter,
Katherine,
teaches
Spanish at the sch,ool. Richard
previously
taught
at Burke Catholic
High
School
in
Goshen, N.Y., and
at Eagle
Hill
School in
Hardwick.
Mass.
1 9 6 8
Donald Brown, Esq.,
has been
recognized
by
New York-based
Trial
Lawyers
Care
for
his
ef-
fort
in a
nationwide
endeavor
to
provide free legal sen·ice for
victims of
the
Sept. 11,
2001,
ter-
rorist attacks. Don
re1presented
two
victims before the
fiederal
Victim
Compensation Fund
and
received
an award of $1.5 million for both
of
them.
Trial Lawyers Care is the
largest
pro bono program in the
history of American
jurisprudence,
formed within davs of
the
ter-
rorist attacks by
the
Association
of Trial Lawyers of America to
assist victims with claims to the
federal fund.
I
Paul D'Ascoli's
son, Christopher, entered Marist
as a freshman in fall 2004. Paul
changed jobs and returned to
Apple Computer as a region sales
manager.
I
Dr.
Charles
Howlett
has been appointed
professor
or graduate educatilon at Molloy
College in Rockville Centre, N.Y.
He
retired after 27 years as
head
or
the
Social Studies Department
for
the
Amityville, N.Y., public
school
district.
A former Marine
now with
the
Air
Force,
Chuck
continues to serve
his
nation and
state. Aside
from
his duties as
admissions
liaison
,officer for
the
USAF Academy, he i:s currently the
public affairs officer/historian for
the New York Guard Air Division's
106'h rescue wing in Westhampton
Beach, N.Y. Chuck's two sons also
serve
in
the military. Sean, USAF
Academy Class of 2002, is a C-21
pilot stationed at Peterson Air
Force Base in Colorado Springs.
Colo. Patrick, a
third-year
cadet
at
the
U.S. Military Academy at
West Point, is a contributor to the
award-winning book
Encyclopedia
of the American
Civil
War.
Chuck
thanks Dr. Ed Cashin
'52
for
his
love of
history.
I
Daniel Kuffner
plans to retire in June
2005
after
a 37-year career as an elementary
teacher.
Dan has taught for 32
years in classroom No. 10 at Violet
Avenue Elementary School in
Hyde
Park, N.Y.
I
Thomas
Nolan has
an
individual
and family
therapy
practice in Paramus,
N.J.
Tom's
daughter,
Jaclyn.
is a junior at
Marist majoring in communica-
tions.
She spent the fall 2004 se-
mester in Italy.
Ijames
Pucci,
first
vice president of Advest lnc./The
Pucci Investment Group
in
Goshen,
N.Y ..
has
earned
membership
in
Advest's Chairman's Council.
He was Advest's
top
producer
in
1998 and 2002.1
After 34
years
William Romito
will retire
inJune
2005
from his
position
as
a foreign
language department coordinator
at Marlboro (N.Y.)
High
School.
I
Edward Weyant
"retired" from
teaching history at New London
High
School
in 2002
after 30 years.
He
is
the public
address announcer
for the
University of Connecticut
soccer team, the University of
Hartford
basketball teams and the
Norwich Navigators,
an AA affili-
ate of
the
San Francisco Giants.
1 9 6 9
Floyd
Alwon's
youngest child,
Kate, entered
the
University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor as a fresh-
man in September 2004.
IRichard
Berg's
first granddaughter, Aubrey
Rose, was born in 2002.
His
daughter,Janet, received a master's
in marketing from
Johns
Hopkins.
His son, Eric, graduated from
the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill with a
bachelor's
in
biochemistry. Eric now
is
a
third-
year medical student at
Emory
University School of Medicine
in
Atlanta, Ga.
I
Charles
Button
teaches part-time at Santa Ana
College
in
Santa Ana.
Calif.lHarry
Carroll
continues to serve as
president of the Phoenix (Ariz.) St.
Patrick's
Day
Parade and Irish
Faire and the Arizona Colleen
pageant. Harry lives
in Tolleson,
Ariz., with
his
wife, Sandra Jean.
I
After 30 years in
public
service
and
after serving as
deputy mayor in
Troy, N.Y., for
the
past
eight years,
James
Conroy
has retired
and
begun a
new
career in commercial
real estate in
the
Albany, N.Y., area.
Life
is great, he reports. Jim
and
his
wife,
Phyllis,
celebrated
their
36
1
h anniversary
in 2004 and their
daughter,
Jacqueline
Conroy
'91,
was
married
on Cape Cod to Sean
O'Donnell.
Jackie
works in
the
development
office of the
Metropolitan
Museum
of Art
in
New
York,
N.Y. Son
Jim
(USMC
and Siena) is a vice president
with
the
New York Business
Development
Corp.
in
Albany.
He
and his wife
are the parents of Madeline, 6, and
Julia,
3. Son
Chuck
'00 works for
the
New York State Senate and
is
active
in
several Democratic
po-
litical campaigns.
Phyllis
is
direc-
tor of computer
technologies for
the
Sage Colleges
in
Troy and
Albany.I
Dr. Richard
Dickinson's
daughter. Lindsay.
is
an attorney
and chief of staff
for the
deputy
secretary
of commerce
in
Washington, D.C.
His
son,
Richard,
Jr., plans
to enter dental school in
2005.1
Daniel
Fitzpatrick
received
the
Time International
City
Management Association Award
four
times. He
also received
the
2004 National Public Service
Award
from the
National Academy
of Public Administration
and
the
American
Society
of Public
Administration.
Dan is
city
man-
ager for Peekskill, N.Y.
I
Gerard
Gretzinger,
Sr.,
was appointed
superintendent of schools
in the
Kingston (N.Y.) City School
District, the
same district in which
he
did
his
student teaching when
he
was a senior
at Marist
in
1969.
I
Peter Hayden
was
promoted
to
chief of the
Fire Department
of
New York.
He leads 14,000 uni-
formed and civilian employees of
the FDNY.
He
was
in
charge of the
World Trade Center North Tower
command post on Sept.
11.
2001,
and spearheaded
the
effort to re-
build the
FDNY in the days and
months following
the
attack.
He
received the Marist College
President's
Award
during the
col-
lege's 2002
commencement cere-
mony
and
accepted
the honor on
behalf
of all firefighters.
I
Steven
Johnson
has a 14-year-old son,
Kevin, who
is
a freshman in
high
school.
I
Anthony Kondysar's
grandson, Stephen
Kondysar.
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Alumni
Enjoy
Florida Reception
President
and
Mrs. Dennis
J.
Murray
hosted a recep-
tion
for
Heritage
Professors,
trustees,
alumni
and
friends at
the Ritz-Carlton
Golf Resort
in
Naples,
Fla.,
on Feb. 24.
its chief financial officer. Tony will begin to enjoy his
retirement
this
spring with his wife, Ginny, who also
attende•d
the reception.
The president
recognized
Tony
Campilii
'62
for
his
42
years of outstanding service to Marist College as
In between rain showers
the following day, several
faithful
golfers were able to
squeeze
in nine holes at
Tiburon Golf Club.
Guests
at the president's reception
in
Naples, Fla.,
included
(left
to
right, standing)
former Dean of Stu-
dents
and
Director of
Development
Thomas
Wade,
Heritage Professors Dr.
Lawrence
Menapace, Dr.
Edward
O'Keefe, Gus
Nolan
'52, Dr.
Casimir
Norkeli-
unas,
Dr.
Jeptha
Lanning
'53
and
Theodore
Prenting,
Heritage
Executive
Tony
Campi
Iii
'62, (seated)
former
Director of
Teacher
Education
Elizabeth Nolan and
Heritage Professor
Dr. Richard
La Pietra
'54.
Three!
members of the Marist Board
of
Truste•es,
Patrick Lavelle
'73, John
O'Shea
and
James
Cannavino,
also
attended.
lollowing
in his
grandfather's
footsteps. Stephen entered
Marist
as a freshman m September 2004.
Tony
and his
wife, Maryellen, have
two other grandsons. Christopher
and ;-.;1cholas,
who
ll\·e in
Williamsburg. Va
I
Richard
\lease(
is a human resources
~peciahst
with Applied Marine
lechnologies
Inc. (A\ITI). a go,·-
anment contractor.
I
Vincent
Mooney's
daughter,
Erin, gradu-
ted lrom Holy Cross College in
\lay
2004. She
is
a program coor-
<lmator at
the
Age Center or
\\orcester, Mass. Vinny's son,
Chris,
1s
an employment specialist
for Schenectady ARC.
I
Paul
ReichharL
is director or employee
training at
the
Seneca Cayuga
Association for
Retarded
Citizens
m Auburn.'\\
Paul and his
wile,
Teresa, are grandparents
to
Haley
and
Jared, with whom
the}' ha,·e a
great ume.
lJoe
Sommers
1~emem-
bers
the great times he
had with
the
\larist
crew team. especially
the
daily
practices,
crew
races
on
the weekends
and
the
team's
Florida mp m 1967 when Frank
Egan '68 (R.1.P.)
was
captain.
I
James Walsh
reured on Oct. 31
2003, as a special agent fort he FBI
after 25 years or service.
~·IZ:
The flag denotes
classes
thcll
will
celebrate
reunions
in
2005
lz,Jm\Ntt:
1
9 7 0
After a 32-year career m commer-
cial banking.
George
.
Jarvis
1s
now president or Rhona S1h-er
Enterprises.
George 1s also the
executi\·e vice president of Rhona
Silwrs Huntington Townhouse m
Suffolk County.
\J
Y .. a catering
operauon serncmg nearly 1,800
e\'ents
a
year.
11
larold
Luebbert
provides 1merna11onal
food service
tram mg for the 7-Ele"en Corp. He
enJoys
his three
grandchildren.
I
Tim
Sinnot
former!) executl\·e
officer of Crossroads Centre,
Ant 1gua. has been promoted to
MARRIAGES
Kimberly
Meehan
to
Bartholomew
Steinhorn
'93,
July
14,
2004
Stefanie
Novy
to Jonathan
Makowsky,
Dec.
21,
2002
Brian
Smith
to
Nadia
Lubow,
June
12, 2004
Susanne Yanusz
to
Nick Belibasakis,
Mays,
2004
1996
Elizabeth
Batista
to Jeff
Anthony
Zappone,
Oct.
4,
2003
Michael
Davis
to
Jennifer
Tredy,
August
2003
Sarah
DeRoberts
to
Eric
Roche,
Sept
5, 2004
Helena
Henderson
to
R
Todd
Brantley,
July
8,
2004
Vicky Keresztes
ro
D;wid
Saco
'95,
July
3, 2004
Ray
Panepinto
to
Molly Quinn,
Oct
11
2003
Laura
Stoll
to Jay
Sukow,
July
4, 2004
Jennifer
Trainor
to
Bradley
Auleta,
M ,131,
21 03
1997
Jessica
Alfieri
to
Kenneth
Casamento,
Oct
8,
2004
Kara
Chrzescijanek
to
Joseph O'Donnell,
Sept.
25. 2004
Andrei Gisetti
to
Jacquel
ne
Ann Weisberg,
May
31, 2004
Andrea Johnson
to James
Serra,
Sept.
4,
2004
Tisha Jordan
to
William
Loney,
Nov.
2003
Ellen
Kalaus
to
Robert
Wolfe,
May
8,
2004
Kristen Koehler
to Michael
Kubert,
Jr.,
Sept.
25,
2004
Cathy
McPeck
to Matthew
T1ccony,
June
4,
2004
SPRl~G
2005
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Alumni
i
A
MARRIAGES
John Seifert
to Rebecca
Lyon,
Oct. 9, 2004
Laura Smith
to Scott Florio,
June
28, 2003
Cynthia Stein
to John
Krozser,
Oct. 12,
2003
Michelle Trabona
to Jason
Schwartz,
Oct.
4,
2003
Christopher Webb
to Rebecca
Lopez,
June
7, 2003
1998
Michael Accuosti
to Suzanne
Roddy,
Oct. 2, 2004
Bridget Foy
to
Jason Pomerantz,
June
7, 2003
Cybil Golas
to
Eric Lovly,
May 8, 2004
Susan Goodwin
to
Kevin
Mewhiney,
Oct. 2, 2004
Russell
Heigel
to Suzanne
Santucci,
July
4, 2004
Tiffany Lamance
to Michael
Douglass,
May
28,
2004
Mathew
Laskowski
to Erin Rizzo,
Sept.
27, 2003
Melissa Manso
to Adam Pennucci,
Oct. 9, 2004
Teresa Marcotrigiano
to
Darren
Meyer,
Nov. 27, 2004
Kimberly McHugh
to Christian
Toelle,
Feb. 14, 2004
Christopher O'Connor
to Ashley
Hotze,
July
3, 2004
Melissa Podgurski
to
William Shimukonas,
June
26, 2004
Patricia Rendon
to
Andres Ospina,
Sept. 12, 2003
Christine Tripodi
to Brian Carlile,
October
2003
30
MARlST
MAGAZINE
CEO of the company. The addic-
tion rehabilitation tr<eatment facil-
ity was founded in
1998
by famed
guitarist Eric Clapton.
I
Arthur
Smith
was appointed
Ulster
County administrator
in June
2004. The unanimous
appoint-
ment was based on Art's 23 years
of experience with the county.
1
9 7 l
Audrey
Bellarosa, PhD,
continues
her affiliation with Mlarist through
her super\'ision of students com-
pleting their field placement in
psychology.
I
Capt. Michael Cahill
'98
MPA
has joined the board of
directors of the United Way of New
York State. He also :serves on the
board of United W:ay of Orange
County as well as
01n
the
town
of
Highland's recreatioin commission
and the town of Crawford's Vision
Committee. Peter is; a Zone Two
commander with the New York
state police.
I
Robert Donaldson
retired
from
teaching at
Rhinebeck
High School after 32 years. He
continues
Lo
teach at Dutchess
Community College where he is an
adju
net
instructor of law.
I
Thomas
Ferrara's
company, FerraraJerum
International,
is repr.esenting Wal-
Mart in upstate Ne:w York. Real
estate consultants, 1.hey are de\'el-
oping shopping cernters in Victor,
Geneseo and
Johnson
City, N.Y.
I
William Fil's
daughter, Laura,
graduated from M:arist in 2004
with a bachelor's
in
biology. Laura
now attends New Y,ork College of
Osteopathic
Medicine.
lJohn
Gallagher
retired [rom teaching
high school cherni:stry in public
schools after 31 yoears. He
now
teaches chemistry
at a private
school in Manhattan.
I
Stephen
Larkin
was recruited by Trinity
Rail Group, a manufacturer
of
freight rail cars, as executive vice
president.
I
Al fredl Pfluger
has
been deployed
toO
Wurzburg,
Germany, as a major with the 348'
h
General Hospital. As a civilian, Al
is an occupational health nurse
with IBM in Hopewell Junction,
N
.Y.1
Patricia Miku.s Rittenhouse
teaches
Spanish
at Tyburn
Academy, a small Roman Catholic
high school in Aub1urn, N.Y.
1
9 7 2
George
Alberti graduated from
Johns Hopkins in May 2003 with
a master's in systems engineering
and accepted a poi;ition with the
Department of Def.ense. A
retired
Air Force lieutenant colonel, he
previously
served as a senior
member of the technical staff at
Lockheed Martin Corp.
I
William
Anderson,
PhD,
is acting vice
president for academic and student
sen·ices at the New Jersey
Institute
of Technology in Newark, NJ
I
Salvatore Assenza,Jr.,
is working
for the National Archives and
Records Administration
at
the
Franklin Delano Roose,·elt Library
in Hyde
Park.
I
Raymond
DelMaestro
is principal of
the
Casimir Pulaski School in Yonkers,
N.Y. He receh·ed the Pathfinder
Award for outstanding educational
improvement
presented by the
Business Council of New York
State, which cited the Pulaski
School as a model for educational
success. Twenty schools
in
New
York State were selected for the
award. In fall 2004, the state edu-
cation commissioner
named
the
Pulaski School and its principal to
the list of the top 100 schools with
sustained systemic improvement
in New York State. Ray and his
school were also honored by
COPA, the Congress of Polish
Americans, for setting outstanding
educational standards
in
the
City
of Yonkers and the State of New
York. Ray's daughter, Christina, is
a member of the Class of 2008 at
Marist where she is a business
management major.I
Jack Glennon
and his wife, Linda,
have
two
granddaughters and three grand-
sons ranging in age from 8 months
to 13 years.
I
Frederic
Ross
retired
twice in 2002: first from his posi-
tion as a probation officer with the
New York State Probation Office
and second from the U.S. Army
Reserves, where he held the rank
of master sergeant.
1
9 7 3
Robert
Coffin
and his wife, Cindy,
moved from New York City to
Orlando, Fla., to have a new adven-
ture and escape city life.
I
In
February 2004
Daniel Faison,Jr.,
was named acting director of
Access, the Assessment
and
Referral Unit for treatment in the
New York State Division of Parole.
I
Bro.
Henry
Hammer, FMS,
is the
assistant pro\'incial
for Marist
Brothers of the USA and the direc-
tor of Marist evangelization for
Marist schools and ministries.
I
Mark Mahoney
moved to Seal
Beach, Calif., and bought Energy
Brokers Inc. Prior to the move,
Mark was senior editor at Oi I Price
Information Service
in
Lakewood,
NJ
I
Kurt
Strolis
celebrated 20
years with Finkelstein
&
Partners,
Esqs., in June 2004.
1
9
7
4
David
Cassaro
is president of
Comcast Network Advertising
Sales, a new department being
established
by Comcast's
Programming
Investments
Division to oversee advertising
sales for Comcast's national net-
works: E! Entertainment Television,
the Style Network, G4techTV,
International Channel Networks
and Outdoor Life Network.
I
Eric
Garrison
teaches at New Canaan
Country School. He spends vaca-
tions and summers on the
road
playing music. His most
recent
CD
is
available at www.cdbaby.com.1
Michael].
Harrigan
is
pleased to
announce that his children's book,
What Does the Tooth Fairy Do With
All Those Teeth?,
was published in
January 2004 by Publish America
(www.publishamerica.com
or
www.harrigan.4t.com).1Dr.
Susan
Kelly
has been appointed director
of curriculum and instruction for
grades K-12 for
the
Island
Trees
School District
in
Levittown, N.Y.
Susan is also a past president of
the
New York State English Council.
I
Dominick F.
Mucci,
PhD,
is
the
new school superintendent for the
North Bellmore (N.Y.) School
District.I
Mark Takacs
marked his
30-year anniversary with IBM in
May 2004. He
is
a senior engineer/
chemist working at the company's
Hudson Valley Research Center in
Fishkill, N.Y.
IAs
of September
2004,
Craig Vogel is
the director
of the Design Research Institute at
the University of Cincinnati's
College of Design, Architecture,
An and Planning.
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1
9 7 5
Pastor
Maryann
Paradiso Berry's
biographical profile was published
in the May 2004 edition of
Marquis
Who's Who of American Women.
I
Vincent Caruso
was promoted
to
general superintendent for
the
New
York City Department of Sanitation.
IJack
and Margaret
Darragh
Castelli's
son Joseph Matthew
is
pursuing a master's
in
national
securities studies at Georgetown
University. He plans a career in
federal law enforcement. Their son
)PJ:FIM:'C
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James
J. Corcoran
Ill '73: Inventing
Systeims
to Make Aviation
Safer
A patent
for
an
invention
by
James
J. Corcoran
Ill
'73
is making airplane travel safer.
While
employed at Honeywell,
the multinational
aerospace company, Corcoran was awarded a
U.S.
patent
for
software
he
designed to
reduce
the number
of aircraft accidents on airport surfaces.
Honeywell
incorporated the software
in
its Runway Awareness and
Advisory System (RAAS), a
product designed to
reduce
aircraft collisions with other
planes and vehicles
on
runways
and taxiways.
RAAS,
approved by the
Federal
Aviation
Administration
(FAA),
uses a
Global
Positioning
System
coupled with an
inter-
nal airport runway database
to
monitor
a plane's location
and provides voice advisories
of such possible dangers as
a runway that is
too
short
for a safe
takeoff
or landing.
RAAS customers include the
Cessna
Aircraft
Co. and Alaska
Airlines.
The FAA
predicts
a rise
in
the
number of aircraft operations
lessons at Dutchess County Airport and then flew
aircraft for a law firm in
Poughkeepsie
to earn
tuition
money. After working at IBM from 1974 to 1983,
he
spent
eight years as a corporate pilot for Gannett
and designer Ralph Lauren,
logging more than 5,000
hours
in
the air.
Following
four years with
Computer Sciences Corp.,
in
the Washington, D.C.,
area, he went to work for
Honeywell in 2000, most
recently
managing a global
sales and marketing
program
for Honeywell Technology
Solutions
in
Phoenix,
Ariz.
Now
president
of his own
consulting
firm
specializing
in
aviation,
insurance
and com-
puter-related international
businesses,
Corcoran
says
his
Marist
education led to his
patent. "My years at Marist
College
contributed
to the
curiosity
and
intellectual
abil-
ity that
enabled me
to come
up with
this
solution."
over
the next
decade that will
James
J.
Corcoran
111
'73
increase safety management
He now lives
in Scott-
sdale,
Ariz.,
with
his
wife,
Lana
Harris, a
former pho-
tojournalist
who worked
for
challenges. Reducing
the risk of
runway incursions
and runway collisions
is a top priority of the agency,
according
to its August 2004
Runway
Safety Report.
The
FAA
defines an incursion
as any occurrence
on
the
runway
involving
an aircraft, person, vehicle
or
object
that creates a collision hazard. During
the
four-year
period
2000
to 2003, the agency
reports
an average
of one runway
incursion
per day with seven runway
incursions
resulting in
collisions.
In March 2000, one
-UPI
and later for the Associated
Press
as
part
of
the
collision
resulted
in four
fatalities.
White House press corps covering
President Ronald
Reagan. He says he
recently
received word from
the
U.S. Pate1nt
Office that
his next
patent
has been ap-
proved.
"lit
should be a great deal of fun
implementing
this one," he says.
Corcoran's
experience
in aviation
and computer
sci-
ence helped him invent the system. Born in
Milwaukee,
Wis.,
he moved with his family to
the
Hudson Valley
in
1950
and graduated from Our Lady of
Lourdes
High
School.
While
a student at
Marist he
took flying
The p.atent, Automatic Formation Flight Control
System,
would allow the mission
commander
leading
other aircraft while flying in formation to control the
other aircraft even in bad weather conditions.
Corcoran
says the
invention
also would make it possible for a
military
aiircraft
to take control
of a commercial
airliner
that
has
b,een hijacked.
He
reports he is in talks with a
major avionics manufacturer
to license the patent.
Thomas expects to graduate from
Marist in May
2005
with a degree
in
criminal justice. Their daughter
Anne Marie is pursuing a com-
munications/public
relations
de-
gree from Marist and expects
to
graduate in May
2007.
Margaret
teaches
at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
School in Poughkeepsie and
Jack
marked his
25'h
anniversary with
IBM
in February
2005.
I
Col.
Thomas
Herman
retired
in 2003
from his position as presidential
communications officer at the
\Vhite House after se,·en years of
serl'ice there and 21 years of ser-
l'ICe
in the
U.S. Army. He
is
now
the executive director for MlanTech
International
Inc.
The company
designs,
develops. procure:,, imple-
ments,
operates,
tests
and main-
tains enterprise
information
technology, communicatiion sys-
tems and
infrastructures
for
fed-
eral go\'ernment customers in the
United States and more
than
30
countries worldwide. Tom's son,
Sean, isa freshman at East Carolina
University.
I
Dr. Robert
E. Lee
marked
his
20'h
anniversary as a
chiropractor
in Tuckerton,
N.j., in
December
2004.
I
Ma.ureen
O'Toole Reimers
is school
trea-
surer for
the
Palm Beach County
School District. She resides in
Wellington,
Fla
..
with her husband,
Karl, an electrical engineer at East-
\Vest Technology. Their oldest
daughter, t,teghan. is studying to
be a medical coding specialist.
Their
youngest daughter.Jaclyn,
is
a junior at Florida State University
where she studies housing/prop-
erty
management.
I
Gary Slavin
recei\'ed
an award from the
Massapequa
Chamber
of
Commerce for spearheading an
effort to get athletic fields for his
community.
I
Carla
Taylor
is
the
director of the Winchester
(Va.)
Department
of Social Services,
MARRIAGES
1999
Roni
Brasen
to
Steven Beatty,
Oct. 5, 2004
Dr.
Steven Conroy
to
Dr. Melinda
Healy,
Feb.
21,
2004
Kara
Elliott
to Eric
Wohlleber,
May 23, 2003
Amanda
Flood
to
James Farrell,
Nov. 5,
2004
Tara Griffin
to John
Duggan,
Dec. 27, 2004
Amanda "Mandy" Liles
to
Andrew
Hughes,
May 22,
2004
Christine Lubas
to Andy
Ryba,
Sept.
4,
2004
Jennifer Miranda
to
Andro Buneta,
May
1,
2004
Julie Morin
to
George
F. Heudorfer
111,
June
5, 2004
Rachel Oswald
to
Thomas
Craparo,
Oct.
16,
2004
Chantal
Poirier
to
James
Glancy,
Nov. 20, 2004
Jessica Pomaco
to
Stephen DiMarco,
June
27, 2003
Emily Snayd
to
Benjamin Scurto,
June
28,
2003
Kimberly Ann Svoboda
to
Dr. Patrick
Biegel,
Aug. 28, 2004
Kristy Ann Yacovone
to
Ross
Farbman,
July
4, 2003
2000
Sara Bartsch
to
Robert
Battaglia,
Nov.
1,
2003
Matthew
Greenstein
to
Joy Alessandro,
June
26, 2004
Raychel Grestini
to Michael
Marcil,
Sept. 18,
2004
Shelly Napoli
and
Christopher
Yapchanyk '01,
Nov.6,2004
Kathryn Peterson
to
Felix Tapia,
June
26, 2004
Karen Zeidan
to Aaron
Zobel,
Jan.
2, 2004
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Alumni
A
MARRIAGES
2001
Seneca Beck
to Ryan
Mccue,
Oct. 10, 2004
Amanda
Kelly
to Ryan
Coyle,
June 5,
2004
Michael Quick
to
Debra
Ann Matola,
June
12,
2004
Ryan Streck
to Anna Marek,
Aug. 21,2004
2002
Jessica Edwards
to
Kevin Culloo,
March 20,
2004
Jennifer Thomas
to
Benjamin
Staskiewicz,
June 25, 2004
2003
Danielle
Blank
to Warren
Lambert
11,
Aug.28, 2004
Jacqueline Collins
to Ashley
Prester,
Dec. 13, 2003
Jillian Duffy
to
Steven Black,
June
12, 2004
Jarrod Manfro
to
Denise
Dietter,
Oct. 9, 2004
Amy Riopko
to
Paul Sydlansky '99,
Sept.
18,
2004
2004
Jessica Fitzgerald
to
Erich Schaefer '02,
June
11,
2004
Jacqueline Gonzalez
to
Hector
Camilo,
Jr., Dec. 24, 2004
Jill Priano
to John Fiori,
July
24, 2004
32
MAR I
ST
~t
AG AZ I N E
responsible for directing
22
em-
ployees and more than
100
volun-
teers. Carla
is
also a consultant for
the
George Mason University
Human Subjects Review Board, a
member of the GoYernor's
Prisoner
Re-entry Policy Group and an ap-
pointee
to
the Fairfax County
Board of Supervisors' Criminal
Justice AdYisory Board and the
Domestic Violence: Prevention
Policy and Coordinating Council.
1 9 7 6
Florida Chapter President
Ernest
A. Arico,Jr.,
and his wife, Donna,
were named Fosttr Family of
the Year for hosting more than
30
foster children. They adopted
one of the children who
has
special needs. Ernie is Florida
network
coordinator for
Florida
Today
and an adjunct professor
of communications at Brevard
Community College in Melbourne,
Fla.
I
Joseph
Callo,]
r.,
has retired
as a peace officer for Ne\·ada's State
Gaming Control Board. He now
works part-time for the Las Vegas
Metropolitan Police IDepartment.
I
Linda Dickerson-Hartsock
is the
executive director or the Cortland
County Business Development
Corp. and
Industrial
Development
Agency in Cortland, N.Y.
Ijames
Fitzgerald,
Esq.,
is general coun-
sel for the Albuqu,erque (N.M.)
International
Airport.
IJohn
Marrone
plans to op,en an antique
barn and
to
expand his business,
Millbrook Estate
SeJrvices.1
Mary
Beth Pfeiffer
recenrtly completed
a yearlong fellowship from the
Open Society Institute, a George
Soros foundation based
in
New
York City. As a Soros justice Media
Fellow, Mary Beth r,esearched the
growth of the mentally ill prison
population in various states and
examined treatment options and
opportunities for reform. Among
her publications was an Oct.
31,
2004,
article in the
New York Times
Magazine. The six-page article
pronled the life and death of a
21-
year-old woman who committed
suicide in a New York State prison.
Mary Beth, who ha.s taken an ex-
tended leave from her position as
projects editor at th,e
Poughkeepsie
Journal,
has wri11en extensively
on prisons
in
New ){ork State and
on the treatment or the mentally
ill.
She has focused on suicides
in
state prison disciplinary units, to
which psychotic inmates are often
relegated for long pe:riods without
adequate mental health care.
I
Cmdr.
John Tomkovitch
retired
from the U.S. Navy in September
2004
after
28
years of ser\'ice.
1 9 7 7
Dr.
Nancy Church
was promoted
to the rank ofSUNY Distinguished
Sen·ice ProfessorofMarketingand
Management
at the State Uni\'ersity
of New York College at Plattsburgh.
The rank is awarded by the SUNY
Board of Trustees and
recognizes
those who ha\·e achieved national
or international prominence and a
distinguished reputation in a
chosen field. She joined
the
Plattsburgh faculty in
1977
and
was promoted
to
professor in
1996.
I
Steven Forrestal
has
been named
general manager and controller for
La Raza. a major Spanish-language
publication
in
Chicago.
I
John
Gavigan
was promoted to senior
vice president
of Odyssey
Reinsurance in New York, N.Y. His
daughter, Stephenie, attends NYU
and his son, Michael, attends
Kellenburg High School.John lives
in Malverne. N.Y., with his wife,
Eileen.
lJeffrey
Nick
is senior vice
president and chief technology
officer at EMC Corp
.•
a pro\·ider of
systems, software and services for
information storage and manage-
ment. Previously Jeff spent
24
years at IBM. He held
the
title of
IBM Fellow, the highest technical
honor
that
IBM bestows on its
IT
innovators.Jeff has filed more than
80
inventions and
holds
more than
50
U.S. patents
in
computer sys-
tems technology.
I
Barbara
Stern
is happy
to
be
involved
with the
Center for Lifetime Study, spon-
sored by Marist College for people
over age
55.
Jeffrey
Nick
'77
1 9 7 8
In August
2004,
Nicholas
Candito
marked his
17'h
year of service as
a vocational
rehabilitation
coun-
selor with the state of Arizona. He
hopes to retire in three years.
I
Debra Bowers Citrone
is pursuing
a master's
in
childhood education
at Mercy College. She teaches
computer science and religion at
two schools.
I
Capt.
John W.
Covell, USN,
is assistant chief of
staff for plans and
policy
on the
staff of Commander United States
Fifth Fleet,
located
in Bahrain.
I
Winnie Saitta Dunn
is a produc-
tion assistant on ABC-TV's
Good
Morning
America
and
network
news.
I
Marcia Grubel
has set
up
a practice for executive,
business.
career and life coaching. She
works with national and interna-
tiona
I
clients. Her address is
mgcoach@verizon.net.1 Kristin
Jane Keller
'05,
daughter of
Virginia
Heaton
Keller
and the late
Robert
Keller
'80,
was a
member
of the
Marist women's basketball team
that won
the
2003-04
MAAC
championship and went on to
compete in the NCAA Tournament.
She also played on the
team that
won the
2004-05
MAAC
regular
season title. (For
more
on
Kristin,
see Page
19.)
One of
Kristin's
sis-
ters, Caitlin Joyce, is an under-
graduate at Marist.
lTeresa
Manzi
Manlowe
received the U.S. State
Department's
Cobb Award at a
ceremon>' in November
in
Washington, D.C.
Terry
is
the
economic commercial officer at
the
U.S. Embassy
in
Sri Lanka.
The
Cobb Award recognizes the Foreign
Service officer who is
most
effec-
tively advancing U.S. commercial
interests. Terry mediates between
American companies that are in-
terested in
investing in
Sri
Lanka
and
the
economic and employment
needs of Sri Lankan citizens. She
negotiates with administrations as
well as businesspeople from both
countries and is also
in
charge of
holding
trade
fairs for American
investors.lG.
Brian Morgan,
Esq.,
was appointed attorney for
the
town of Wawayanda
in
Orange
County, N.Y.
He
was elected to
the
executive committee of
the
Dutchess County Bar Association
and
the
Board of
Directors
of the
Dutchess
County Ans Council.
He
also sen·es as chairman of the
Legislative Action Committee of
the
Poughkeepsie Area Chamber
of Commerce. Brian is an attorney
































Keith Hollman '79 hosted a Marist mini-reunion at his home in New
Jersey in August
for
13
former classmates. Alumni traveled fro,m as
far as
Pennsylvania,
Vermont and Maryland to
reminisce
about their
days at Marist. The group
included
(left
to right) Paul Ceonzo
'79,
Keith
Hollman
'79,
Thomas Crane
'79,
James
Flynn
'79
and Bro. Paul
Keenan
'79
(seated).
with
the
law
firm
of Jacobowitz
and
Gubits LLP
in
Walden, N.Y.
1 9 7 9
Doreen
Bachman
Burger
is a
service coordinator
with
the
Family
Empowerment Council
in
Middletown, N.Y.
I
Maria
Grace
Diaz Deeken
received
a Barbara
H.James 2004 Teacher Award from
the
South Carolina Office of Career
and Technology Education.
She is
president-elect of South Carolina's
Health
Science Technology
Educators'
Organization and was
nominated for
Who's Who Among
America's Teachers
2003-2004.
I
William Gerlach
sold
his
office
supply
business
to Staples in
August
2004.
He
is
now
a
mort-
gage consultant with
the Bank
of
Greene County.
I
Michael
Ragusa
is \'ice
president
of worldwide
channel sales
with
Net
IQ
Corp.
m Melville,
N.Y.
linnrn•n•
,,
1
9 8 0
wholly owned subsidiary
of
National Mobile Televi:;ion, a
provider of TV production
trucks
and crews across
the
country.
1 9 8 1
William Ciraulo
was
promoted
to
restaurant
manager
at
the
Polo
Restaurant
at
the
Garden City
Hotel
in
Garden City, N.Y.
I
Matthew
Cole
writes that all
is
well at
the
Hendersonville,
N.C., YMCA
where he works.
Ijames
Gilligan
was honored by the
Blood
Center
of New
Jersey
for his outstanding
work and long-term commitment
to
the
recruitment and
retention
of
blood donors. He
is the founder
and chairman of the
monthly
blood
drive in West Milford, NJ,
which has collected more than
3,750
blood product
donations
since
its inception
in 1999. Other
communities
have
successfully
followed
his model. Jim
!lives
in
West Milford with
his
wiJe, Ana,
and their children,
Danny
and
Kevin.
I
Brian McGowan
,and his
wife, Lori, celebrated
their
19'
h
Michael Lanza's
son,
Mike, is
a
wedding anniversary
in,
2004.
sophomore at Marist College.
I
Their
family
business,
Kaa1terskill
Paul Meseck
has been a PGA golf
Farm
Natural,
is in
its nin11h
year
professional
for 20 years.
He is
the
in
the
natural
food industry.
His
head
PGA
teaching
professional
at
daughter,
Chelsea,
is a
high
school
the Darlington Golf Center
in
freshman who is simultaneously
Mahwah, N.j.
I
David
Shaw
left
taking college courses.
I
Malcolm
MSG Networks after 23 years
of
Schick, Esq.,
is a partner with
service
10 become president
of
the
law offices of Gray
and Prouty
Venue Services Group in White
and managing
partner
in
1:he
San
Plains, N.Y. The company
is
a
Diego,
Calif., office.
IM.
Susan
lr:tsw&
The
flag
denotes
classes thl twill celebrate
reunions
in
2005
I
Dubatowka
Spratt
teaches
math
at
Haldane High
School in Cold
Spring, N.Y. She is completing a
master's
in
educational psychology
at Marist.
1 9 8 2
Evelyn
Greco Ashworth
is super-
intendent for
the New York City
Transit Authority
buses in
Brooklyn,
NY., where she has
worked for the past
17
years. She
lives
in
Mahopac, N.Y., with her
husband.John, and
their
daughter,
Emily.lVirginia
Luciano Brophey
completed the Kona Marathon, a
fund
raiser for the American Stroke
Association in Kana, Hawaii.
I
Elaine
Doremus
celebrated the
one-year anniversary of her busi-
ness, Resumes Wriuen, last year.
I
John
Dyer's
oldest daughter,
Bridget, graduated from
Lehigh
University in May 2004 with a
degree in economics and finance.
John,
and his wife, Elizabeth, ad-
opted
three
Russian siblings, ages
6, 7
and
10,
in January
2004.1
M.
Diane
"Dee"
Nell
Hardgrave
works as a medical anthropologist
at the University of Nevada-Las
Vegas. She was awarded the
President's
Fellowship for
research
in
anthropology.
I
Dr.
Clair
Hesselton
is
the
national
secretary
and a member of the Board of
Directors of the United Spinal
Association
in
New York, N.Y.
I
Stephen
Hopson
is
training to
become the first
deaf
pilot in the
world
to
obtain
an
instrument
rating.
The rating allows pilots
to
fly in bad weather using
instru-
ments only.
In
2001
he
earned a
private pilot's
license
and in 2003
became the first deaf person in
Michigan to earn a commercial
pilot's license.
I
Donald
C.
Miller
was elected president of
the
New
York State Association of Municipal
Purchasing Officials Inc. for
the
term beginning in May 2004. Don
is the county director of central
services and one of only 246 pro-
curement professionals
in
the
na-
tion
to
be certified as both a public
procurement buyer and a public
procurement officer. Don was co-
found er of the Inter-Agency
Purchasing Cooperative, which
offers opportunities for county
agencies
to reduce costs.
I
Mary
Alice
Russo
is
executive director
of the Whitney M. Young, Jr.,
Health
Center Foundation in
Albany, N.Y.
She also serves as vice
president for marketing for the
NEW
ARRIVALS
1962
Ginny
and
Anthony Campi Iii,
a grandson,
Justin
Anthony
Sapp,
Oct. 27, 2003
1965
Althea and
Dennis Feeney,
a granddaughter,
Kate
Ann
Feeney,
Nov.
18,
2004, and a grandson,
Griffin
Kallhoff,
Nov.
29, 2004
1966
Linda
and
Thomas
Berger,
twins,
a grandson,
Kaden
Avry,
and a granddaughter,
Ashlen
Kristen,
Aug. 16,
2004
1967
Lillian
and
Joseph Gajda,
a
grandson,
Michael
Allen, May
8, 2004
Robert Mathews,
a granddaughter,
Fiona
Clare,
June
2004
1969
Jeanne
and
Richard Cole,
a
grandson,
Ryan
Tyler
Munger,
Oct. 29,
2004
Francine
and
Gerard Gretzinger, Sr.,
a granddaughter,
Nicole
Elizabeth,
Aug. 27, 2004
1973
Rowina
and
Robert
Kennedy,
a granddaughter,
Jessica
Lynn
Kennedy,
August
2004
1980
Marie and
Dennis O'Doherty,
a
son,
Daniel
Connor,
March
2,
2004
1981
Shirley
and
Robert O'Reilly,
a
daughter,
Peyton,
Aug. 31,
2004
1983
Joanne
Wynne
and David
Bald,
a
son,
Alex, May 31, 2002,
adopted
from Siberia,
Russia,
on
May 24,
2004
SPRING
2005
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
1984
Cheryl Bowering
and
Peter Fredsall
'83,
a son, Arthur
Peter,
July
12, 2004
1985
Trisha Denham
and Nicolas
Gikakis,
a
daughter,
Helen Elizabeth,
Jan. 10,
2004
Christine
and
Steven Lo Destro,
a son.
Thomas
Connor,
Aug. 5, 2004
Margaret
and
Nicholas Salleroli,
a son. Nicholas
Michael
II,
June
2, 2002
Christopher Sulger
to Janine
Raad,
Sept.
3, 2004
1986
Patricia Clark
and
Thomas
Michels,
a son, Thomas
Christopher,
June
2004
Anne and
Paul Gamerdinger,
a son,
Justin
Ryan,
Aug. 24,
2004
Catherine
"Casey"
Marra
and
Rich
Karel,
a daughter,
Katrina
Grace,
May
27, 2004
Mary
Jo Stempsey
and Eugene
Lorini,
a
daughter,
Elizabeth
Virginia,
Aug. 14, 2003
1987
Joelle Charlot
and James
Duffy, a son,
Eamonn
Charles,
April 27, 2003
Elizabeth
and
Kevin
Cushing,
a daughter,
Kaleigh,
March
21, 2004
Michele
and
Sean Dougherty,
a
daughter.
Erin, July
14,
2003
Elizabeth
Geary
and
Gerard
Nolan,
a
daughter,
Erin
Marie,
Sept.
29, 2003
Christine Hart
and
Thomas
Heer
'88,
a son,
Hans-Martin,
May
18,
2002
Maureen Melley, CPA,
and
Philip
Angelastro,
twin sons.
Peter
and
Paul,
Aug.
14,
2003
Julie
and
Timothy Nelson,
a daughter,
Rebecca
Anne, Feb.
9, 2004
34
MARIST
MAGAZINE
Ian O'Connor '86
health
center. She, is developing a
philanthropic
program for the
foundation and promoting the
health center's visibility
in the re-
gion. Mary Alice was previously
executive director of the Seton
Health
Foundation in Albany.
I
Unda
Simeti
has
started
her
own
business, Square-U-Away.
She is a
professional organi2:er for homes
and small businesses.
1 9 8 3
Barbara
Demeter Alessandrello
moved with
her
family to
Celebration,
Fla., in
2004.
She and
her husband, Tano,
sold the res-
taurant
that they ran for
20
years
and made the move with daughters
Daria and Nicole to escape the cold
Northeast winters. She now very
happily drives a sa1fari truck in
'"East Africa" in Di:sney World's
Animal Kingdom and
reports
that
she could not be happier.
I
Scott
Bennett
is senior vice president for
the
financial group at Advest Inc.
in
Jericho,
N.Y.IAnthony
Cardone
received the Marvin Sims Award
for business promotions
in
Orange
County and the Ken Wolfe Award
from
the
Make-a-Wii,h
Foundation.
Tony
is
the owner of
Fran's
Hallmark in Monroe, N.Y.IDonna
Garcia
writes that her son,
Ryan,
started kindergarten
and her
daughter, Chelsea, started high
school in September
2004.
Donna
lives
in
Bayport, N.Y., with her
husband,
Richard.
I
Patrick
O'Donnell
moved
from Tokyo
to
Shanghai with his wife, Nichola,
and
their three
chitldren, Sarah,
O'Connor's
Jump
Rodale has published
The Jump:
Sebastian Telfair and the High
Stakes
Business
of High School
Ball
by Ian O'Connor '86.
The Jump
chronicles the rags-to-riches path
of New York sensation Sebastian
Telfair,
at 5-foot-11
the
first
small
high
school player to skip college
on the way to
NBA
fortune and
fame. O'Connor tracks Telfair's
journey
from high school point
guard phenom to Portland TrailBlazers
rookie with an estimated $18 million sneaker endorsement
deal.
O'Connor is a sports columnist for
USA Today
and the
Journal
News
of
New York who has won
numerous
national writing
honors
including
the
Sigma
Delta Chi Award from the Society of
Professional
Journalists. He
lives in
New Jersey
with his wife, Tracey,
and son, Kyle.
Elaina
and
Ronan.
As vice presi-
dent of IBM.com Asia Pacific,
Patrick
is
responsible for IBM's
teleweb
sales centers
in
Asia.
I
Joseph Stoeckler,Jr.,
was elected
to the
Ulster County
Legislature.
He
is
the director of planning and
plant
operations at Ellenville
Regional Hospital.
1 9 8 4
Geoff Dylong
is the director of
news
publications at
The Recorder,
a
daily
newspaper in Amsterdam,
N .Y.
I
Donald
Eustace
relocated
to
New York stale after living in South
Carolina and Virginia for
the
past
few years.
He
is a school psycholo-
gist and chairperson
for the
Committee on Special Education
for Jefferson-Lewis BOCES
in
Watertown, N.Y. Don
is
a former
at-large member of the Marist
College Alumni Executi\'e Board
and is an associate member of the
New York State Department of
Corrections Emerald Society.
I
Stephen
Funk
is self-employed
in
Litchfield, Conn. He and his wife,
Elizabeth
Cook
Funk,
live in
Litchfield with their four children,
Sam, Madeline, Jane and Nellie.
I
Maj. Timothy Keough,
U.S. Army
Reserves
for Civil Affairs, was de-
ployed to Iraq from April
2003
to
March
2004.
He served with the
l'
Marine Di\'ision in Central
Iraq
with his wife, Chong Hui, and their
daughters, Eileen and Bridget.
I
Kathy Kimball-Wurster
received
the Mid-Hudson Social Studies
Council
2004
Social Studies
Teacher of the Year Award. She
teaches global
history
and geogra-
phy
II
as well as an elective course
on human
rights
al Washingtonville
(N.Y.)
High
School.
I
Lawrence
McNeill
is senior vice
president
with UBS Financial Services
in
New York, N.Y.
I
Margaret Good
Patterson
is
director
of print
me-
dia and out-of-home for Corinthian
Media. She
lives
in
West Caldwell,
NJ, with her
husband,
Todd,
and
their
daughters,
Farrell and
Lindsey.
I
Daniel
Rogers
joined
J.B.
Hunt Transport and is in
charge of dedicated logistics ser-
\'ices and sales for North Texas and
Northern
Louisiana.
I
Mark
SantaCroce
is president and
general
manager
or CIGNA
HealthCare's operations in North
Carolina and South Carolina.
Mark's
home
base is Charloue,
N.C. Mark is responsible for exter-
nal
operations in North Carolina
and South Carolina and oversees
a sales
team
of more
than
70 pro-
fessionals.
)Pamh·UJI
....
1 9 8 5
and the
82
nd
Airborne Di\'ision in
Michael Berardinelli
received
an
Fallujah. He is the
recipient
of a
MPA
from Marist in May
2003
Purple Heart and two Bronze Stars. Michael lives
in
Newburgh, N.Y.,
As a civilian, Tim
is
vice president
with
his
wife, Sherri Lynn, and
at Aon Consulting
in
New York,
their
children,
Kayli
and Colin.
I
N.Y. He lives in Tinton Falls, NJ,
Donna
Berger,
coordinator of aca-
Ju..-,llt
Th,
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demic grants at
Marist,
earned a
PhD
in
educational administration
and
policy
sllldies
from
SUNY
Albany in
December 2003. Donna's
dissertation was titled
''The Effects
of
Learning
Self-Management on
Student
Desire
and Ability to Self-
Manage, Self-Efficacy, Academic
Performance
and
Retention."
She
received two awards from
SUNY
Albany.
The
School of Education
faculty honored
her
with a $1,000
Arvid
j.
Burke Scholarship in
rec-
ognition of
her
academic achieve-
ments. She also
received
an
Initiatives For Women award of
$1,000 to support
her
dissertation
research.
Donna
is
the
first among
her
doctoral
cohort
members to
receive the degree.
I
Cindy
Bennedum Kashan received
an
MPA
from Marist in
May
2003. She
was
promoted
to
executive assis-
tant to
the
president of Sullivan
County Community College in
Loch Sheldrake, N.Y.,
in September
2003.1
In
2004,
John Loughlin
achieved "Chairman's Circle," State
Farm's top
level
of
recognition
based on sales and profitability.
I
Susan Marcy
is
the vice president
of
the
United
Way
of Ulster County
in Kingston,
N.Y.
I
Edmund
McKenna, Jr.,
established
Keel
Systems LLC, which
provides
computer consulting services for
small offices and home offices.
I
Paul Malley
received
an MBA in
December
1999
from the
University
of
Phoenix. Paul
lives in
Phoenix,
Ariz., with his wife,
Nora
Sakell
Malley,
and
their three
children,
Kristen, Tommy and Mi.chael.
I
Charlene Bernazza Mitclnell
and
her husband, David, live in
Bartlett,
Tenn., a suburb of Memphis.
David
works for the U.S. Navy and
Charlene
is
the
human resources
manager
for the Brooks Museum.
I
Shawn Mulligan
is district
president
of Robert
Half
International
Inc., a specialized
staffing company where he has
worked for
19
years.
I
Maureen A.
O'Rourke, Esq.,
was appointed
interim
dean of
the
School of Law
of Boston University in July
2004.
She became a
full
profess,:,r at
BU
in
1998. She teaches
upper-level
courses
in
intellectual property
and commercial
law
and has been
a visiting professor at Columbia
University's School of
Law
in New
York, La
Trobe
University
in
Australia and the University of
Victoria
Law
School
in British
Columbia.I
Lisa Pilewski
and
her
husband, Tom, are very busy with
work and family
responsibilities.
Their
oldest child, Kelsey, started
middle school
in
September
2004.
I
Larry Roll
and his wife, Sharon,
have opened a yoga studio
in
Sugarloaf, NY., called
Eye:s
of
the
World
Yoga.
I
Roger Romano
was
promoted
LO
vice
president
of sales
at
REA Publishing
after
15
years
as national sales
manager. REA
publishes
Sllldy guides and
test
prep
and
reference books. Roger
serves Marist as an at-large mem-
ber
of the Alumni Association
Executive Board.
I
Margaret Soltis
is
an adjunct composition/college
Marta Powers
Decker '87
Joins
Advancement
Office at Marist
~
Marta Powers Decker
'87 has j,oined
~
the Office of College Advancement
i
at Mari st as assistant vice pres.ident
I
for College Advancement. She
-
graduated from Marist with
a,
B.A.
in communication
arts, magna cum
laude.
Decker comes to Marist a'fter a
16-year career at IBM when~ she
provided day-to-day commu1nica-
tions support for the chairman and
CEO; managed major product and
crisis media campaigns; serv,ed as
an executivespeechwriter
and
,event
producer; and was the managing
editor for several corporate Intranet sites. She has been recogniZE!d
on
numerous
occasions for writing and producing award-winning
sales and
marketing
materials.
She and her
husband,
Michael,
live
in Fishkill,
N.Y., with their two
children,
Kate and Jack.
writing
professor
at Marist She
also teaches the Marist "bridge"
course at Our Lady of
Lourdes
High
School.
I
Maria Walski
re-
ports that in July 2003 she pur-
chased a
1,450-square-foot
colonial home.
1
9 8 6
Kenneth Briggs Ill
continues
to
succeed in his senior analyst/tech-
nology developer
role
at New York
Independent
System Operator and
is
now a part of the finance systems
developmem
team.
Daughter Amy,
6, joined mom and dad on stage
at the
2005
Fleet Blues Fest
in
July 2005
in
their Nite Train
Band (www.nitetrainband.com)
performance. Little sister Lily, who
was born on June 29, 2003, hopes
to join the band some day.
I
Sheila
Glasheen
Crosby
writes
that
turning 40
is
not so bad, especially
when you're still
in
touch with old
friends like Cathy Gilio, Allison
Schwab, Fred Schuster
and
Joan
St. John.
I
Alan
DiGiovanni
was
promoted to
national
sales vice
president for Compensation
Risk
Managers
LLC
in
Poughkeepsie.
I
Mark Greiner
completed his
17'h
year
as a
bilingual school social
worker at
the
Westchester School
for
Special Children.
I
Patricia
Lercara received
a certificate
in
advanced study
in
educational
administration from SUNY New
Paltz. She
teaches
at Middletown
High
School
in
Middletown, NY.
I
William
Losey
recently
pub-
lished his
first
book,
101 Stock
Market Guarantees,
available at
www.lOlguarantees.com.
I
The
Hon. Howard D. Mills 111
is
acting superintendent of
the
New
York State Insurance Department.
He was nominated to
the
post
by New York State Gov. George
E. Pataki.
I
Karen
eevel
is a
reading specialist at Brinckerhoff
Elementary School in Fishkill, N.Y.
I
Michael O'Brien
is president and
general manager of public relations
firm Cohn & Wolfe.
I
The
Hon.
Alfred Piombino
won reelection
as the Register of Probate for the
County of Cumberland, Maine.
He approves wills, appoints estate
executors and serves as the sur-
rogate
and guardian for deceased
and incapable persons. A Harvard
Law School-trained mediator,
he is a
member
of
the
National
College of Probate Judges and
the National Association of Court
Management.
He lives
in
Portland,
NEW
ARRIVALS
1988
Cynthia Cole
and
Robert Munger
'91,
a son,
Ryan
Tyler,
Oct. 29, 2004
Pamela
and
Robert DelGrande,
a
son,
Joseph,
March
25, 2004
Larisa
and
Charles Fetterly, Jr.,
a daughter,
Christina
Elizabeth,
July 14,
2004
Jamie Gajda
and
Eric Bloom,
a
son,
Michael
Allen, May
8, 2004
Wira Kuzmyn
and Stephen
Romasco,
a daughter,
Natalie,
Feb.
28, 2004
Stephanie Sowinski
and
Robert
Bondar,
a daughter,
Lyndsey
Rose,
Feb.
7, 2004
Aline Sullivan
and
Michael
Magee,
a son, Aidan Michael,
April 25, 2003
1989
Maureen Blake
and
James
Mercer,
a son, Ronan
Michael,
Dec.
26, 2003
Leslie Currant
and
John lake,
a
son,
Matthew,
May 1,
2004
Kathleen De Riso
and
Brian
Mitchell,
a
son,
Dylan
Donovan,
June
19,
2003
Lydia Dougherty
and McBee
Butcher,
a son, Charlie,
Feb.
5, 2004
Mary Duffy
and
David
Purdy,
a son,
Andrew
Dawson,
Dec.
25, 2003
Michelle Graham
and
Timothy
Plummer,
a son,
James
Joseph,
March
1,
2003
Janine Lukowiak
and
Tom
Finnegan,
a daughter,
Alexa,
Aug. 2,
2003
April and
Patrick Pacenza,
a son,
Zachary,
Feb.
9, 2004
Donna Revellese
and
Andrew
Smith,
a
son,
Andrew,
Nov.
12,
2003
Susan Ryan
and Thomas
Gallo,
a daughter,
Alexa Victoria,
April 5, 2003
Shannon
and
Thomas Taylor,
a
daughter,
Kelly,
Oct.
11,
2004
Dr. Bridgette Sacco
and
Marc Laurens,
a daughter,
Mary
Rachel,
March
2, 2003
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Christina Suglia
and
Peter
Cleary,
a son, Matthew
Agustus,
Aug.
13, 2004
Kelly
Timmons
and Bill Devens,
a daughter,
Jennifer
Rose,
Aug. 8, 2004
Patricia
Walsh
and
Greg
Andersen,
a daughter,
Lauren
Patricia,
Jan.
S, 2003
Deborah Wizeman
and
Kenneth
Treadway,
Jr.,
a son, Riley
Garin,
Oct. 17,
2003
Jennifer
and
John
Woodhour,
a son,
Jack
Thomas,
Aug. 9, 2003
1990
Laurie Aurelia, Esq.,
and
David
Cerveny,
a son,
Brady
John,
July
17, 2003
Marybeth Baran
and
James Halinski
'88,
a
son, Martin, June
19, 2004
Loriann
Bonati
and
Patrick
Close,
a son, GPffin
Patrick,
April 21,
2003
Nancy
Carney
and
John
"Jay•
Cody
'89,
a son,
Patrick
John,
Dec. 16,
2003
Krista
Coniglio
and
Patrick
Flinn,
a son, Connor,
June 12, 2003
Karen Daly
and Sergio
Amoedo,
twin
sons, Hunter
and Logan,
March
20, 2003
Yolanda Lynch
and Gregory
Head,
a son, Garrett
James,
May
1, 2004
Michelle
and
Tom
McCarthy,
a son,
Andrew,
Oct. 16, 2003
Regina Moeller
and
Kenneth
Kempster
'89,
a daughter,
Victoria
Marie,
March
7, 2002
Betsy
and
Edward
Ryan,
a daughter,
Mollie Quinn,
Oct. 9,
2003
Janet
Ryan
and Hans
Lubbeck,
a son,
Donald
Ryan,
Jan. 21, 2004
Jennifer Schiffer
and
Vincent
Freeh,
a daughter,
Anna
Maria,
Jan.
18, 2004
Michele Ward
and Victor Triolo,
a son,
Tristan
James,
July
16,
2003
Doreen Williams
and Tom Ricci,
a
daughter,
Heather
Ann, Sept.
4, 2003
36
\I
A R
I
S
r
M A G A Z
I
N E
Maine.
I
Allison
White
recei\'ed
a
Connecticut realtor's license. She is
a realtor with RE/~1
AX First.
1 9 8 7
Fred
Dever,
a
member
the Marist
men's swimming team from 1983
to 1987, issull swimmin11,and
has
added running and biking
10
his
workout
regimen. He
was
ranked
10
in the
34-39 age group in the
U.S. master·s swimming champi-
onships and in the top third in the
U.S.
Triathlon Association. He
qualified for the
US
triathlon
nationals and the Boston :-.ta
rat hon.
He and his partner purchased a
new house
in
the northwest
area
of Washington, D.C.IKevin
Kaley
was selected as the executi\'e officer
for
1-355
field artillel). U S. Army
Reser\'es, in
Round Rock,
Texas.
I
Geoffrey
Milne
completed
the
fourth edition of
Connecticut
Foreclosurt's.
a prominent legal
treatise that has been published for
more than
25 years. Geoff is an
attorney/partner with the
law firm
of Hunt, Leibert &Jacobson PC in
Hartford, Conn.
II
Scott
even
purchased a 6,000-square-foot
building in
Hudson,
N.Y.,
so he can
expand his business, '-Je,·en and
ts.even Moderne, specializing in
·sos
and '60s ,·image furniture.
I
Kathleen
O'Sullivan
Roghair
is
marned
10
Dr Chad Roghair and
they have two daughters, Paige, 7,
and Sydney, 5.
They
h,·e in \Val
nut
Creek, Calif.
I
Todd Wysocki
earned a PhD in educauonal psy-
chology from SUNY Albany in
August 2003
He
was awarded
the
Presidential
Distinguished
Doctoral Dissertation Award in
:-.lay
2004 Todd was promoted
10
associate professor in the Liberal
Arts
Department
of
Hudson
Valley
Community College in May
2004
1
9 8 8
Judith
Abruzzo-Wasilewski,
Esq.,
is inspector general for the New
York Cit} Housing Authorit}
I
Kathleen Szarek Da,,
son
is a
senior
internation,al
underwriter
for AIG/J-ISB
Inspection
and
Insurance
Co. in
1-lartford,
Conn
She works in the company·s newly
formed
internauonal
underwriting
unit where she
is
responsible for
underwriting and pricing rein-
sured portfolios
from Latin
America and the
L
nited Kingdom.
I
After
l 2
years
in
the pharmaceu-
tical industry, most
of them
in
sales,
Thomas
DeStefano
has
started
his
own company
with two
other partners. The new company,
\'ision Pharma, is a generic pre-
scripuon pharmaceuucal that
boasts eight products and antici-
pates 24
more over the
next
two
rears. Its Web site is ,,·w,,·.vision-
pharma us
IA
line
SulliYan
Magee
and her husband, ~ltchael, own
and operate the Fooc.l
Mill
Gourmet
Deli in Napa. Calif Michael
is
a
Cuhnar} Institute of America
graduate
I
Antonio
Mazzarelli
1s
an
IT
archttect w11h IBM
in
Poughkeepsie, where he happily
resides with his wife of six years,
\lana, and their three children.
I
John McGurk,
CEO and president
of
Tolan Inc. in
Providence,
R.I.,
I
won his first bid for electh·e office
He is the \'Ice president of the East
Greenwich, R.1.,
town
council.
I
Robert
O'Connor,Jr.,
writes
that
he
is continually grateful for his
\larist education and experience
I
Peter
Oppenheim
and
his
wife,
Carolyn, completed the November
2004 Philadelphia Marathon to-
gether They have two children,
Case), 4, and Ab1ga1I.
I.
I
Peter
Prucncl
was
named
vice president
of
human
resources
programs
and
prOJCCt management
for
\\'ashington \1utual s retail bank-
mg and home loans group. Peter
liYes
in
Long
Beach,
Calif.
I
Her
\tajest} Queen Beatrix of The
Netherlands awarded by royal
decree one of the country's cl\'lhan
orders,
the Knight in the
Order of
Orange Nassau,
to
Rik
Smits. The
Office of the Consulate General of
the Kingdom of the '-letherlands
said in a statement that
Rik
"is
not
only
Holland's
best basketball
player e\'er, he has also been a great
ambassador for the Netherlands
and has
rendered
exceptional
sen·ice to the community,
his
alma
mater and other worthwhile
causes.· An official from the con-
sulate of the Netherlands
in
Chicago presented Rik
with the
order, a medal, ribbon and certifi-
cate Jan 22 during half-t1me of a
game in Indianapolis between the
Wizards and
the
Indiana
Pacers,
for whom Rik played from 1988
until his retirement in 2000.
Don't Miss the Fun
1
9 8 9
Alan Aff uso
is one of
three
owners
of a
technical
consulting and ex-
ecutive search firm. the Garrett
Sayer Group
LLC.
in
Pars1ppanr,
N.j.
I
Tara
Dowd
has been
a
no-
tary
public and a
member
of
the
National '1otarr Association since
2002.
She became
a certified per-
sonal
trainer through Hofstra
University's
certificate
program.
She is self-employed
as a real estate
title closer in Patchogue,
NY
I
Joseph Eriole
is the managing
associate at
Veneziano
& Associates
in Armonk.
N.Y
The firm special-
izes in land use, real estate de,·el-
opment and related litigation in
and
around
Westchester County,
N.Y.1
Renee Hewitt
has started her
own full-sen·ice, cream·e ser\'lce
compan} called E-voluuon Media.
The
company's
Web
site is www.
e-volut1onmedia.com.
lCarol
Ann
Catucci
Kinane
,,as named
Disungu1shed
Teacher 2004 by the
Huntington
(N.Y.) Union Free
School District where she works as
a special education teacher
I
Christopher
Kippins
is a de,·elop-
mental
aide with
the
New
York
State Autism
Program.
lJohn
B.
Lake,
CFA,
is a research analyst
for \'ictory Capital Management
in
Cleveland, Ohio.
His
wife,
Leslie
Currant Lake,
is
manager of
the
Administrative
Ser\'1cc
Department
for Antares
\lanagement
Solutions
in Westlake, Ohio. They live in
Middleburg Heights,
Ohio,
wnh
their
two sons, Christopher and
\latthe,,
I
Michael Lofaro
1s a
marketing manager for the Esselte
Corp.
m Melville,
N.Y.
His
wife,
Christ
inc Lefferts Lofaro
'90,
recel\·ed a professional diploma in
school district adm1mstration. She
is an enrichment/gifted teacher m
the Huntington
(N.Y.)
Union
Free
School District.
\1tchael
and Chris
live m \\'est Say\'llle, N.Y., wnh
their two
children, Alyssa and
Michael, Jr.
I
Pierce Redmond
1s
an eight-year member of the
Rockland County AOH Edward \'
Larkin Memonal
Pipe Band. The
band marched m the Bacchus
Parade
during
Mardi
Gras
2004 m
Ne,, Orleans.
La
Pierce lives in
Bardonia, N.Y, ,, 1th his wife,
Catherine
Tagliaferro Redmond
'90, and
their two daughters, Faith
and Abigail
I
Richard
K.
Sabol
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the
alumni
Web
site at
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to
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to
find out
tomer service and fulfillment-
when
and
where
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ne
.com).
Richard lives in Ridgewood,
NJ.
I
Wendy
Bender
Slesinski, CSW,
opened
her
own counseling busi-
ness
in
May 2003
in
Pine
Bush,
NY.
The
group
provides
counsel-
ing
for
children, adults and
fami-
lies as
well
as
marital
counseling
for couples.
I
Philomena Martin
Smith received
a master's
in
social
work
from Fordham
University
in
1994. She
is a
licensed clinical
social worker.
Philomena
lives
in
Lake Worth, Fla., with
her
hus-
band,
Randall,
and their
two
children,
R.J.
and Gianna.
lJ:nam·UR
1 9 9 0
James
Baumann
is the vice
presi-
dent/media
for
Lhe
Ad Council in
New York, N.Y.
He
and
his
wife,
Jessica
Buchan
'89, relocaLed
from
Alexandria, Va.,
to
Carmel, N.Y.
I
Kimberly
Beckius
is a self-em-
ployed
travel
writer. Voyageur
Press released her second
book,
Back
Roads of New England,
in
fall
2004.ILaurie
Aurelia Cerveny
is
an attorney
with
the firm Testa,
HurwiLz
and
Thibeault LLP
~
Boston,
Mass.
I
William ,l,Qb.H'son
was deployed to Baghdad with
the
Rhode
lsland
Army National
Guard in May 2004.1
Lucille Budd
Ogden is
the
coordinator of
the
English Department at Arlington
High
School
in
LaGrangeville,
NY.
She lives in Salt
Point,
N.Y., with
her
husband,
Don, and tht:ir two
children,
Rachel and
Oa.niel.
I
Melissa
Reilly
accepted her second
Andrew Carnegie Medal
for
Excellence
in Children's Viideo in
June
2004
in Orlando,
Fla.
She
received
the
award for the ani-
mated
children's film Giggle,
Giggle,
Quack,
based
on
the
bo,ok
by
Doreen
Cronin and
Betsy
Lewin.
Narrated by
Randy
Travis,
with
music
by
Robert Reynolds and
Scotty
Huff, Giggle,
Giggle, Quack
has won
numerous
other
awards.
Melissa has produced and/or di-
rected dozens
of
award-winning
children's films for Weston Woods
Studios,
a division
of Scholastic
Inc.,
based
in
Norwalk, Conn.
I
Dan
Welch
is the owner of New
York
Video Crews.
He is
a free-
lance
videographer with mo re than
10
years of experience shooting
corporate productions, sporting
events, medical procedures, edu-
cational videos, premieres and
infomercials.
1 9 9
1
Shamus
Barnes
writes
that
his
company, Fitco Moving
&
Storage,
is expanding
to
larger
wanehouse
facilities
to
accommodate its grow-
ing
list
of Fortune 500 clients.
Shamus and
his
wife,
Deborah
Joyce Barnes
'90, live in
Breezy
Point, N.Y.,
with their two children,
Shamus and Kayla.
I
Laura
Forcade
Brundage
and
Charles
Brundage
have
two children,
Sarah, 3, and Allison,
l.
The fam-
ily
lives in Ossining,
N.Y.1
Laura
Demeri
is
pursuing a master's
in
exercise science and
nutrition.
She
is
also enrolled full-time
in
a chef's
training
program
at the Natural
Gourmet Cookery School
in
New
York, N.Y. She
is
employed as a
personal trainer, nutrition
coun-
selor and private chef.
IJoseph
F.
Heavey
has
been
elected vice
chairman of the Board of
Directors
of MVP
Health
Care, an emplo)'ee
health benefits company serving
more
than 540,000 members
throughout
upstate
and central
New York and Vermont.
Joe is
CEO
of the Children's Medical Group, a
large pediatric practice with six
offices
in
the Hudson Valley. He is
a member of
the
board of Dutchess
County United Wa)', Rehab
Programs Inc. and the Anderson
Education Foundation of Anderson
School. Dutchess County Executive
William Steinhaus has appointed
Joe
to the Dutchess County
Workforce Investment Board.
I
Dr.
James
Jozefowicz
was granted
tenure
and promoted to associaLe
professor
of economics at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania
in
Indiana,
Pa. Jim was also elected
vice president for membership of
the
Pennsylvania
Economic
Association.
I
Marianne
Kemp
NEW
ARRIVALS
1991
Debra Alleva
and
Kenneth
Kirby,
a
daughter,
Shannon
Margaret,
Dec.
14,
2004
Veronica
and
James Boccieri,
twin
sons,
Luke
and Jonathan,
Oct. 28, 2003
Allison Campilii
and
Jay
Sapp,
a son,
Justin
Anthony,
Oct. 27, 2003
Stephanie
and
Kevin Desmond,
a son,
Matthew
Denis,
Jan.
31, 2005
Mary and
Christopher Destefano,
a daughter,
Kathryn
Ann,
July 6, 2004
Sharon Driscoll
and Richard
Spiers,
a daughter,
Jessica
Lynn,
Oct. 29, 2002,
and a daughter,
Alexa Nicole,
Sept.
17,
2004
Patrice Gentner
and
Dewey
Rose,
a daughter,
Georgia
Claire,
Sept.
8, 2004
Jane
and
Ritchie Gomez,
a son,
James
Edward,
Sept.
17,
2003
Denise Gormley
and Sean
Brennan,
a son,
Kevin
Patrick,
March
19,
2004
Jeanie
and
Desmond Kenneally,
a daughter,
Meghan
Rose,
March
28, 2004
Mary Killeen
and Joe
McDermott,
a son, Riley,
Dec.
28, 2001,
and a
daughter,
Cynthia,
March
15,
2003
Maureen Louney
and
Patrick
Heffernan,
a daughter,
Maeve
Ann, Jan.
26, 2004
Regina
and
Timothy
Meskill,
a daughter,
Breanna
Elizabeth,
March
29, 2004
Mary Nowak
and
Michael Lynch,
a son, Connor
Robert,
May
7, 2003
Rebecca
and
Richard Pastor,
a son,
Logan
Reese,
Feb.
23, 2003
Beth Prestiano
and Christopher
Dolis,
a daughter,
Amanda
Rose,
July
28, 2003
Jo-Anne Prokopowicz
and
Harry
Sears,
a
son,
John
•
Jack"
Atlee,
June
30,
2004
Susan
and
Kevin St. Onge,
a
daughter,
Nora
Jane,
Sept.
1,
2004
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Alumni
NEW
ARR
VALS
1992
Francesca Burns
and John
Huss,
twins,
a
son,
John
Joseph
111,
and
a
daughter,
Ava Francesca,
Oct.
30, 2004
Amy Cairo
and Vincent
Lamendola,
a
son, Tyler
Alex,
May
3,
2004
Patricia Camperlengo
and
Robert Meindl,
a
son, Andrew
Joseph,
Aug.
20,2004
Patricia "Trish" Coffey
and
Ken
Fischer,
a son, Thomas
John,
July
6, 2003
Cynthia Donaldson
and
Anthony Mercogliano,
a son,
Ryan
Anthony,
Aug. 18,
2004
Lisa Giordano
and
William Burns
'93,
a
son,
William
Francis
111,
April
26, 2003
Elena Kodis
and
Christopher
Bergin,
a son, Ryan
Patrick,
June
S,
2003
Marie Lupone
and Ken
Kantor,
a daughter,
Grace
Elisabeth,
Oct.
15,
2004
Christine Martorana
and
Peter
McCann,
a
daughter,
Lauren
Christine,
Aug. 6,
2004
Tara Mason
and
Brian Mulry,
a son, Brendan
Thomas,
Feb. 6,
2003
Elizabeth
"Liz"
Murphy
and
Timothy
Lynch,
twins,
a
son,
Christopher
Michael,
and a daughter,
Shannon
Aurora,
Feb.
3, 2005
Leslie Moore
and Richard
Massaro,
Jr.,
a
daughter,
Alexis
Dilyn,
June
24, 2003
Renee
and
Michael 0'Farrell,
a son,
Aidan
Michael,
May
8,
2004
Kerriann Patton
and
Joseph Gambino
'94,
tw~
a
daughter,
Kate,
and a son;-,efexander,
March
27,
2004
Diane Raven
and Brian
Mclaughlin,
a daughter,
Brenna
Claire,
Oct.
26, 2003
Johanna
and
Joseph Santarelli,
a son,
Joey,
Dec.
8,
2003
Stacy Swierk
and
Tom Ashburn,
a son, Matthew
Dylan,
Jan.
29, 2004
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MAGAZINE
bought an Express Personnel
Service franchise in September
2003.
She owns the Hasbrouck
Heights,
N.j., location.
I
Mary
Killeen-McDermo,u
received a
master's in speech-language pa-
thology
from Hofs'lra University.
Mary li\·es
in
Brightwaters, NY.,
with her husband,
Joe,
and their
two children, Riley and Cynthia.I
Jason Lerner
is \'ice president and
business adminisrtrator for
the
Little
learner
Academy in Do\'er,
NJ Jason received an MBA from
the University of Phoenix in March
2004.
He is also president of the
Whippany Rotar)' Club.
I
Sally
Ann McNamara
was appointed
director of admissicins and market-
ing for
the
Phoebe Richland Health
Care Center in Alllentown, Pa.
I
Suzanne
Jelinek
I.
ies,
her
hus-
band.Jerry, and
thei.r
sons, Connor
and Gavin,
live
in Granger, Ind.
I
James O'Hara
is vice president for
enrollment management at
Rider
University in Lawrenceville, N.J,
Previously, Jamie served for six
years as
the
director of enrollment
management at Pace University.
I
Christopher Shelldon
was pro-
moted
to
vice president of financial
institutions
at the Bank of New
York
in
New York, NY. He, and his
wife,
Lisa
Harrington
Sheldon
'91/'92
M,
celebrarted their lO'
h
wedding anniversary in June
2004.
Lisa also works at the
Bank
of New
York as a manager with the insur-
ance custody division. They
live in
Glen Rock, NJ, with their chil-
dren, Christopher and Victoria.
1
9 9 2
James Alecca
is trying his hand at
professional
songwriting.I
Thomas
Badura
started a new consulting
assignment. He is working on a
Web development
project at
Scholastic Publishing in Danbury,
Conn.
I
Mary Sisson Delmar
purchased a new home with her
husband, Jeffrey, and they are en-
joying moving in and making it
their own. They have a son, Craig,
3.1
Christopher Jones
was pro-
moted to region appraisal manager
for World Savings. Bank in New
Jersey.
His wil"e,
Kristine
KickenweitzJones
'94, became a
real estate appraiser trainee. Their
daughter, Katie, emered kindergar-
ten and their son, Matthew, entered
nursery school in fall
2004.
I
Peter
Jones
is
a manager for Mercedes
Benz, USA. He is allso a founder of
Power to Become Consultants,
where he conducts strategic plan-
ning sessions, best-practice work-
shops and business
process
redesigns. As a cultural diversity
specialist, Peter addressed the
Montgomery, NJ, school district
staff and administrators on the
topic of culture and learning.
I
Dean Mastrangelo, Esq.,
started
his own
law
practice
in
Garden
City, N.Y.IGerrit
Roelofisa
police
officer for the City of Salem, Ore.
Gerrit and his wife, Sarah, live
in
Salem.
I
Donna Sacco
was pro-
moted to director of media ser-
vices and new business development
for
lnterMedia
in Ft. Lauderdale,
Fla. The company is an award-win-
ning agency in the South Florida
area.I
Mark Tobia
left at the begin-
ning of
2005
for a three-year as-
signment
in
Basel, Switzerland.
His wife,
Brenda,
and their two
sons, Matthew and Nicholas, will
be
joining
him.
I
Debra Waller-
Frederick is
the director of
resi-
dence
life
at Mount Saint Mary
College in Newburgh, NY.
1
9 9 3
Terri
Bambakidou's
son, Eric, is
10
and plays soccer, basketball,
baseball and golf.
I
Susan
Brown
left
her
position at
Reader's
Digest
to take
the
position of deputy di-
rector
for communications
at
Fortune
magazine.
I
Tara
Groll
Carrubba
received a Pennsylvania
real estate license and is a realtor
with Davis R. Chant Realtors,
serving Pike and Wayne counties
in the
Poconos.
lValerie
Gajdzis-
Reyher
was promoted
LO
vice
president of rehabilitation services
at
the Kennedy
Center
Inc.
in
Trumbull,
Conn.
I
Kevin
Gilmartin
graduated from the Westchester
County Police Academy in May
2004.
He is a police officer for
the
Village of Pleasant ville, N
.Y.
I
Kendra
Lawlor
was
promoted
to
senior software developer with the
Uni\'ersity of Colorado Health
Sciences Center. She earned a
certification as a personal trainer
in fitness instruction. Kendra
teaches fitness
in
Thornton, Colo.
I
Maria
Licari
produces cooking
segments
for
ABC-TV's
Good
Morning
America
and has worked
with Emeril
Lagasse,
Sara Moulton
and Rocco DiSpirito. She also
produces other
lifestyle
segments
with
Good
Housekeeping
magazine.
I
Marco
Resseque
teaches
reading
in the Hauppauge (N.Y.) School
District.
I
Paul
and
Annmarie
O'Connor
Rudolph
live in
Lynbrook, N.Y., with their
two
sons, Liam and Kieran.
lJ.W.
Stewart
represented
Marist
President
Dennis
J.
Murray at the
inauguration of James F. Jones,Jr.,
as the 21" president of Trinity
College
in
October
2004.
1
9 9 4
Rachel Smith
Baldwin
and
her
husband,
Robert
'93,
have
pur-
chased a
new home
in Freehold,
N.J.
I
Amy
Defazio Barsanti
and her husband, Tom, have
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Career
Network
created
by
Marist
College's
Alumni Relations
Office
and the Center for Career
Services
is now
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online. The
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contains almost
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who are willing
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by
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about career
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and
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two children, Christa Rose and
Tommy.
They
have lived
in
North
Carolina for nine years.
I Renee
Carolin
was elected
president/
chairperson
for the Syracuse
chapter of
the
Association for
Computing
Machinery
for 2004-
05. Earlier, she was vice president
for two consecutive
terms.
ACM
is a nonprofit organization
that
promOLes community awareness
of changing computing
technol-
ogy.
I
Michael
Defelice
has been
named
the
new head coach of
the
Medford
High
School football
team
in Massachusens.
I
Michael
Gearing received
an MBA from
Binghamton University.
I
Marisel
Herrera,
coordinator of student
leadership programs
at Arizona
State University, was among 22
Latinas
in
the country selected
LO
participate
in
the
National
Hispana
Leadership Institute, dedicated
to
developing Latinas into ethical
world
leaders.
She was selected
because of her community service
record and her leadership in and
commitment
to the
Hispanic com-
munit
y.1
Gabriel
Hidalgo,
Esq.,
is
the executive
director
for legal and
compliance affairs
for the
Delgado
Group of Companies.
He
handles
the anti-money laundering and
legal
affairs of the
three
compa-
nies. The Delgado Group handles
approximately $750 million in
money transfers per year from
around
the
world.
lJeffrey
Hurley
is director of environmental health
and safety for
the
New York City
Department of Environmental
Protection Watershed Operations
for
the
Drinking Water Quality
Division.
I
Corin Sherwood
Kelley
is
enjoying
her
second
year as a
preventive
services case-
worker with the Warren County
Department of Social Services.
Corin and
her husband,
Dan, man-
age the Litlle League organization
for the town of Lake Luzerne, N.Y.
They have two children, Greg and
Reagan.
lJeanMarie
Komyathy
was elected
membership
develop-
ment vice
president
for Sigma
Sigma Sigma Sorority
Inc. in June
2004. JeanMarie is a supervisory
examiner for the National Credit
Union Administration. She lives in
Omaha, Neb.
lJoel
Kraft
opened
his own
photography
business
specializing in
local landscapes.
Joel's Web site
is
www.catski
I
1st
i Its.
com.
I
Kristin Lamberti-Lloyd
purchased and opened a
horse
farm
in
Dutchess County. The
farm
is
now operating as a
full-•service
equestrian facility.
lJay
LaScolea
is
a news anchor at NewsChannel
36.
He
was the only journalist
from
Elmira, N.Y.,
to cover Ground Zero
just days after the attack.
His
news
team
received
a 2002 Associated
Press Award for
its
coverage of
the
one-year anniversary ,:if 9/11.
Jay became a licensed
minister
at
Victory
Highway
Wesleyan ,Church
in Painted Post, N.Y., whe1re
he is
completing
his
pastoral intern-
ship. He is also taking dasses
to be
an ordained pastor.
I
Mary
Ann
McGovern
teaches special
education at Bethpage
High
School
in Bethpage,
NY.
I
Beth Keenan
Meyers
resigned
from MBNA
America in September
2003
to
pursue a career in
real
estate.
Beth
is
a realtor with Weichert
Realtors
in
Media,
Pa.
She works from
home so she can spend more time
with her family.
I
Jason Mic:haleas
and his wife, Cristina, received
MBA degrees from
C.\M.
Post
College/Long Island University
in
2004.
The two
met while both were
graduate students.
~nmu-n1-
..,.
1
9 9 5
Susanne
Yanusz Belib;asakis
is
currently employed at WPlX
in
New York as the technical
coordinator fort
he
WBll morning
news.
She
resides
in Colonia, N.J.,
with
her
husband, Nick.
I
]Bonnie
Briggs
left
IBM/Fidelity
to
work
in
the Accounts Parable Department
of Bearing Distributors Inc., a
supplier and service provider to
manufacturing
companies world-
wide.
I
Vincent Bugge
received an
MBA from the University ,:if New
Haven in July 2003. He is a produc-
tion planner for Ansonia Copper
&
Brass Inc., a manufacturer of
seamless tubing
for
customers
such as Electric Boat and for use
in
nuclear submarines. Vinny
lives
in North
Haven,
Conn , with
his
wife, Amy, and their infant
daughter, Alyson Michaela.
I
Dr.
Nicole
Buzzetto-More
rellocated
from Manhattan
LO
the
eastern
shore of Maryland, where she is a
faculty member at the Uniiversity
of Maryland-Eastern Shore
in
the
Department of
Human
Ecology.
I
Ana
Castillo-Farrell
is an assis-
tant
vice president
in the
Internal
Audit Department with
the
Bank
of New York in New York, N.Y. She
\lllliil"l~
[he flag denotes classes that will celebrate
reunions in 2005
lives in Smithtown, N.Y., with her
husband, Terence, and their two
daughters, Natalie and Olivia.
I
Eric Cavoli
was
named
a partner
in the Lang/Durham Advertising
Agency
in
Farmington, Conn.,
where he
is
also a senior copywrit-
er.
I
Marla
Colletti
is a licensed
practical
nurse. She has worked at
Four Winds Hospital in Katonah,
N.Y., as a
psychiatric nurse
since
October
2003.
IDeirdre
Devlin,
a
senior graphic designer,
received
a
four-year contract at AstraZeneca
through an international
talent
agency called Aquent.
I
Kathleen
Dick
is an exhibitor relations
associate at Screenvision in New
York, N.Y.
IMichael
Dunne,
CSW,
is the
director
of social services
for
HELP
Suffolk
in Bellport,
N.Y.
Jeanne Brennan Dunne,
CSW,
is
a social worker
for
Good Shepard
Hospice in
Long
Island.
They
live in Sayville, NY.
I
Gregory
Ilukowicz
is
a
regional
vice presi-
dent for
Kelmoore
Investments
in San
Francisco,
Calif.
I
Brian
Kenworthy
manages video pro-
duction for
Deluxe
Digital Studios
in Hollywood,
which
released
the
Star Wars trilogy, Spiderman 2
and
The Girl Next Door on
DVD.
I
Rick Monte
was promoted
to
the
position of on-air director at the
Golf Channel
in
Orlando, Fla.
I
Theresa
Geremia
Pallozzi
is a
human
resources
generalist in
the Matching Gift Department
at
the
Benjamin Moore Co. in
Montvale, N.J.IFrancis
Pizzani
is
a drummer with his band, Liquid
Carousel. He and band mates
Sean
Ryan
'95,
Dave
Whitehead
'95
and
Mike Alfano
'94 hosted "Rock
in
the Woods," a concert to ben-
efit the Union Arena Community
Center in Woodstock, \'t. Fran
is
the son of Eleanor and the late
Jim Pizzani
'64. The group has
released its
first CD, In
a Moment
of
Clarity.
I
Siegfried
Richter,
Jr.,
is using his Marist MBA e,·ery day
in his position as vice president
of performance measurement for
Prudential's Group
Insurance
subsidiary. He happily resides
in
Cedar Knolls, N.J., with his wife,
Yelena, and their sons, Ivan and
Vladislav.
lJeff
rey
Rose
took a job
in March 2004 at BAE
Systems, the
international defense contractor,
where he
is responsible
for assist-
ing the company on matters of
federal legislation and regulation.
He previously spent eight years
as a congressional staffer for New
NEW
ARRIVALS
Rebecca
Thew
and
Thomas Cronin,
a daughter,
Kathleen
Rose,
November
3, 2003
Jennifer Trainor
and
Bradley Auleta
'96,
a son, Liam
Andrew,
June 10,
2004
Laura Ulbrandt
and Dean
DiPierro,
a
son, Dean
Vincent,
May 13,
2004
Mary Voelker
and
Raymond Zacharkevics '93,
a son,
Alexander
Shane,
April 7, 2004
Sandra Wilhelm
and
Peter
Wagner.
a son,
Thomas,
Dec. 19,
2003
1993
Denise
and
Chris Arrigali,
a daughter,
Mia Noelani,
Jan.
21, 2004
Christa Baumgartner
and
Ralph Mallozzi
'94,
a daughter.
Grace
Mary,
May
1,
2004
Elisa Cannizzo
and
Major
Patrick
Kinsman.
a son.
Ethan
Thomas.
Sept. 15,
2003
Christina "Chrissy"
Cassidy
and
Charlie
Romano,
a son,
Charles
Remington
("Remi"),
May 21, 2004
Lisa Dudek
and Greg Bold. a son,
Leo Matthew,
May 11, 2004
Noel Feehan
and Robert
Babcock,
a son, Nate,
June
4, 2004
Ann Ferrante
and
Keith Soutar,
a daughter.
Abigail Grace.
July 27. 2004
Melissa
and
Steven Ferro.
a daughter.
Elizabeth
Marie, Feb.
27. 2004
Nanci Forman
and Michael
Posner,
a daughter.
Morgan,
April 18,
2004
Farrah Mead
and
Paul Fiedler,
a son,
Kyle
Joseph,
May 30, 2003
Kendra Mulvey
and Kevin
Lawlor.
a daughter.
Naia Lynn,
March 15,
2003
Tara Pantony
and Edward
Moore,
a daughter.
Hannah
Frances.
Feb.
28, 2004
Jean Petroski
and
Ben
Ford,
a son,
Patrick
James,
Oct.
19,
2004
Audrey Pflug
and Tracy
A.
Beer,
Sr.,
a daughter.
Charlotte.
Oct. 14,
2003
SPRING
2005
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Victoria Pratt
and Daniel
Kirichok,
a son,
James
Daniel,
July 2004
Michele Rubis
and Jeffrey
Francisco,
a son,
Brandon
James,
Dec.
8, 2003
Deanna Sapala
and Peter
Reisert,
a daughter,
Ashley
Noelle,
March 12, 2004
Amy Wegman
and Drew
Forsythe,
a daughter,
Anna Lily, Jan.
17,
2004
Kristin
Williams
and
Harry DiAdamo,
a son,
Liam
Edward,
Oct. 28, 2003
1994
Victoria
and
Evans Ashong,
a daughter,
Jeannette-Ashley,
Nov.
19,
2004
Moira Breen
and Joe Long,
a daughter,
Olivia Marie,
April 22, 2004
Suzanne Brown
and
James
Gill,
a
daughter,
Julia
Rose,
April 17, 2004
Elizabeth Daniello
and
Al Faraday,
a daughter,
Claire
Elizabeth,
May 3, 2003
Ami and
Michael Gearing,
a son,
Andrew
Michael,
Oct.
4,
2003
Paula
and
Gerard Gretzinger, Jr.,
a daughter,
Nicole
Elizabeth,
Aug. 27, 2004
Michelle Guerriero
and Bill Maisel,
a son,
Christian
Jake,
Sept. 18, 2003
Patricia
Harten
and
Eugene Keener, Jr.,
a daughter,
Ella Rae,
Sept. 16, 2004
Beth Keenan
and Stephen
Meyers,
a son,
Nolan Philip,
May 19, 2004
Stephanie Levandusky
and
Michael E. Schultz, Sr.,
a son, Michael
Edward,
Jr.,
May 23, 2004
Noreen
McQueeney
and James
Cronin,
a son, Aidan, March
21, 2003
Janis Netschert
and
Gregg Simat
'93,
a son, Christopher
Gregg,
April 6, 2003
Annmarie O'Connor
and
Paul
Rudolph
'93,
a
daughter,
Bridget
Ann, Jan.
10,
2005
Andrea
and
Michael Olivapotenza,
a son,
Michael
Joseph
11,
June
15, 2004
Chantal Pecourt
and
John Daigneault,
a daughter,
Sophia,
Oct.
15,
2004
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MARLST
MAGAZINE
Hampshire Republicans.
I
Ann
Marie Bunnell
Spielman
gradu-
ated from Central ConnecticuL
State University wi.th a
masLer's
in geography in May 2004. She is
a GIS analyst at the Metropolitan
District, a nonprofit municipal
corporation
charttered
by
Lhe
Connecticut
General Assembly
Lhat provides water, sewer and
household
hazardous
waste col-
lection services
w
its
member
municipalities.
I
David
Strong
lives in Albuquerque, N.M., with
his wife,
Beth Potts,
and their
children, Hannah and Andrew.
I
Mark Zeck, Esq.,
is
a partner in
the law office ofJalowiecand Zeck
LLC, which is celebrating its fourth
year in business.
1 9 9 6
Christina Adzima
teaches kinder-
garten at Eli Whimey Elementary
School
in
Stratford,
Conn.
I
Elizabeth Buonaguro
is a medical
malpractice
insuran,ce
underwriter
for ACE USA.
I
Todd
Coulson
re-
vamped and revised the Web site
for Haley Productions. The com-
pany is
localed
in Media, Pa. Todd
invites
visitors at www.haleypro.
com.
I
Kristin Daly
teaches third
grade at Margaret Chase Smith
School in Sanford, Maine.
I
Paige
Furlong D'Anna
ii; a client
rela-
tions
manager
at Attentive
Personnel, a staffing firm
in
Albany,
N.Y. She resides in Clifton Park,
N.Y., with her husband, John.
I
James
Ellis
is a New York State
psychologist
II
serving dually di-
agnosed clientele
in
residential
seuings.
lJoshua
Gaynor
is as-
sistant director of new student
orientation at
St.John's
University
in Jamaica,
N.Y.
He is
responsible
for a year-round orientation pro-
gram, parent orientation, welcome-
back activities
a1nd
a family
weekend.Josh also assists with the
leadership of new student pro-
grams that assist first-year students,
transfers and pare1r1ts in making
the transition from their previous
environment to St.John's.lAndrea
Hadhazy
is a gondolier at the
Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev.
She sings classical music and rows
a boat on the
"canals
of Venice" for
Best Agency, an acting agency that
manages the relationship between
the Venetian Hotel and gondoliers.
I
Matthew Kelly,
Esq., was re-
cently named partner at the law
firm White, Carlin and Kelly PC in
Providence, R.1.IJames
McCarthy
and his wife,
Susan Gullotta, live
in Braintree, Mass., with their son,
Colin. Jim
is
a vice president/port-
folio manager with Gannett, Welsh
&
Kotler, an investment firm
in
Boston, Mass.lThomas
McNulty's
daughter,
Lorene,
graduated from
Marist in 2001. Lorene is a gradu-
ate student at Marist and a
retire-
ment benefits examiner for the
Teachers' Retirement System
in
New York, N.Y.
I
Susan Ferinde
McWhirter
has moved to New
Canaan, Conn. She
is
the staffing
manager at InBev USA, a global
brewer of more than 200 brands.
I
Robert
Moyer
has been working
with his friend
Jermaine
Allen
at
netComponents for two years. Bob
reports
that his wife, Katy, is
pursuing a master's
in
education at
Florida Atlantic University, from
which she expects to graduate
in
spring 2005.
I
Stacey Nunes-
Ranchy
lives in
Danbury, Conn.,
with her husband, Bruno, and their
Lwo
daughters,
Alexandra
Laurianne, 5, and Amelie
Juliette,
2. Stacey is pursuing a master's in
TESOL and cross-endorsement in
elementary world
languages
at
Fairfield
University.
I
Betsy
Polityka-Wilson
was featured in
Who's Who of American Teachers
2004.
IJennifer
Doorly
Smith,
MSW,
is
program director at Alma
Rangel Gardens, a residential care
facility
in
Harlem, N.Y.
Jennifer's
husband,
Kevin
Smith
'95,
is
pursuing a PhD in education ad-
ministration at Fordham University
He is the principal of Sacred Heart
School in Bronx, N.Y.ILaura
Stoll
is the national account director for
leisure sales with United Airlines
in Chicago, Ill. She and her hus-
band, Jay Sukow, were married in
a Founh-of-July-weekend celebra-
tion in Chicago in 2004.IBrandon
Tierney
is the host of "New York
SportsNight," which airs Monday
through Thursday from 10 p.m.
to
midnight,
and the "Brandon
Tierney Show" on Sunday morn-
ings. Listeners can hear both pro-
grams on 1050 AM ESPN Radio.
1 9 9 7
Cynthia
Botticello
received
a
master's from SUNY New Paltz
in 2001. She teaches math at the
McGee Middle School in Berlin,
Conn.
I
Betzaida Torres
Burns
and her husband, Peter, mo\'ed
to Memphis, Tenn , in September
2000. She is an applications
analyst for International
Paper
in Memphis.
I
Andrew
Fleming
was promoted
LO
associate
head
men's soccer coach at Boston
University and helped lead BU to
its 20•h straight winning season
and a second-round appearance
in
the
NCAA tournament
in
fall
2004.
Collegesoccernews.com
named
Andy one of the "Nation's
Top Assistant Coaches."
I
Andrei
Gisetti
is
the
alumni
relations
manager at Johnson
&
Wales
University in Denver, Colo.
He
will
serve as the West Coast
university
representative
for all Johnson
&:
Wales graduates.
I
Brian Hatfield
is
a federal security screener with the
Depanment of Homeland Security
for the Transportation
Security
Administration at Newark Libeny
International Airport in Newark,
N.j.
I
Claudia Corso
Healy
and
her husband,
Scott, bought a
house in Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y.
I
Cynthia Stein
Krozser
is a clini-
cal social worker for Connecticut
Department
of Mental Health
addiction services
in
Stamford.
Cindy lives
in
Bridgepon, Conn.,
with her
husband,John.lKristen
Koehler Kubert
was
inducted
into
Kappa Delta Pi, the
international
honor society for education, in
spring 2004. She is completing
dissertation requirements
for a
doctoral degree.
IMichelle
Lopez
received a master's in elemen-
tary education from Saint Peter's
College
in
May 2003. She teaches
kindergarten with the West New
York (N.j.) Board of Education
I
Christopher
Merrow
is
a com-
munications specialist with High
Point Communications Group in
Bow, N.H. Chris is responsible
for a variety of integrated com-
munications plans and materials,
implementing
media relations
programs and designing publicity
strategies for the firm's clients.
I
Sean O'Connor
graduated from
the FBI National Academy's 214'h
session. Approximately 240
law
enforcemem professionals from
around
the
world attended. Sean
is
a sergeant with the New York
City Police Department.
I
Kyle
Reeves
received an MBA
from
the
University of Denver.
I
Daryl
Richard
is the director of pub-
lic relations and marketing
at
United Healthcare in Connecticut.
Previously he worked for a public
relations firm
in
Boston.
lJohn
Seifert
received an MBA from
Seton Hall Uni\'ersity. He has
been promoted to team leader































Seven Marist alumni worked for NBC Olympics
Inc.
at the 2004 Sum-
mer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. The seven were
(standin9,
left
to right) Erin McCarthy '00,
production
associate;
Angela Pelus,~
'01,
merchandise
and wardrobe coordinator; C.
J.
Bottitta '93, associate
director; Kaare Numme '00,
associate
producer; Ryan Souq• '99,
programming administrator;
Rob Faris
'94,
associate director,; and
(seated)
John
Gilmartin, producer/director.
a1 Proformance
Insurance in
Freehold, N.j.
I
Sandra
Dougall
Stromberg lives
wi1h her
husband,
Chris1ian,
and
their 1wo kittens in
Saxwn's River, Vt. They are
res1or-
ing
their
first home,
a farmhouse
buih in 1870.
I
Ellen
Kalaus
Wotre
is direc1or of
1he
Marywood
Fund a1 Marywood
Universi1y
in Scranton, Pa.
I
As an official
STOP DWI officer
for Dutchess
County (N.Y.), Sheriff's
depu1y
Tyler Wyman
has
many
duties.
They
include
pa1rolling
in
areas
without local
police
coverage,
manning
sobriety checkpoints,
educating fellow officers, giving
presentations at area schools
and
assisting
the Dutchess
County
Council
on
Alcohol and Chemical
Dependency.
STOP-OW!
stands
for
Special Traffic Options Program
for Driving While
lntoxicated.
1 9 9 8
Thomas
Ajello
has
been
named
vice
president,
group creative
director for itraffic, Agency.corn's
interactive
marketing
group. Tom
will
lead the
conceptual
develop-
ment,
marketing
strategy and
insight and campaign
delivery
for such premiere brands
as
Discovery Channel,
Discovery
Kids, TLC, Travel Channel, British
Airways, BrownCo, JPMorgan
Invest
and more.
lWillian~
Bell
is
an accounting supervisor
at
Bank
One. He is pursuing an
MBA at
Villanova University.
I
Christian
Bladt
is
a contributing writer and
performer
on CNBC's Dennis Miller,
airing
Monday
through Friday at
9 p.m. and
midnight,
EST. He
is
also a
producer for Inside
Joke
Productions and co-founder of
the
Web site www.insid1!joke.tv.
I
Elizabeth
Brophy
is
a member
of
the
New Jersey State !Bar
and
was admitted
to the
New York
State
Bar
as well. She
is
an at-
torney
working for a
law
firm in
Florham
Park,
NJ
I
Nicole Carino
received a
master's
in education
from Western Connecticut State
University in May
2004.
I
Gregory
Christman
is a sales manager at
Resort at Squaw Creek in Olympic
Valley,
Calif.
He
also
has
competed
in
three
lronman Triathlons since
2002, most
recently in Lake Placid,
NY.
I
Michele
Donovan
received
an
MBA from the University of
Central Florida in July 2004. She
is
a junior
financial
analyst at Walt
Disney
World in Lake
Buena
Vis1a,
Fla.
I
Meredith Engler
became
the main
anchor for the
local
edition of CNN
Headline
News
in Philadelphia.
I
Angela
Galgon
received a master's
degree in edu-
cation from Millersville University
in Millersville, Pa.
A reading
teacher at
Manor
Middle School
in
Penn Manor, Pa.,
she is
training
for
the
2005 lronman
USA Triathlon.I
Michael Goot
has been promoted
to
Portsmouth bureau
chief for
Foster's
Daily Democrat, a newspa-
per
in New
Hampshire.
I
David
Hartman
has
established a second
business of renovating
homes
and
reselling them.
I
Russell Heigel
is
a
residential propen
y
manager
for
Rose
Associates, a
real
estate
de-
velopment and management firm
in
New York City.
I
Maj. Thomas
P. Kelly, Jr.,
commander of state
police Troop C
in
Sidney, N.Y.,
has
been promoted
to
staff inspector
and
assigned
to
the State Police
Division
Internal
Affairs
Bureau in
Albany, N
.Y.1
Fernanda Leventhal
is a free-lance
interpreter
and
translator.
She completed
transla-
tion
siudies at New York University
in
May
2004.
I
Deanna Makin-
Dwyer
received an
MBA with
the
honor
of distinc1ion from Bentley
College's McCallum Graduate
School
of Business.
Deanna's
husband,
Robert
Dwyer
'04,
received an MBA from Marist.
I
Ronald Markowitz
graduated from
Empire State College
in
2004 with
a master's
in
liberal studies.
Ron is
a production control analyzer with
IBM
in
Poughkeepsie.
I
Elizabeth
McCarthy
is
a product manager
for
FoodHandler Inc. Previously,
Liz worked for Canon USA Inc.
I
Melissa Monahan
isa news editor
for
the
Dateline
Journal in Passaic,
N.Y.
She is also
pursuing
a master's
in
drama
therap)'
at New York
University.
I
Kevin Moore
works
for ad agency McCann Erickson in
New York, NY.
I
Melissa Manso
Pennucci
and her
husband,
Adam,
are television producers for World
Wrestling Entertainment and
reside in Stamford, Conn.
I
Ellen
Seifert
left
her
position as commu-
nications manager at
the
Women's
Sports Foundation
to
join
the
Public
Relations
Department at
ESPN, where she works on public-
ity for ESPN the
Magazine.
I
Mary
Beth
Ostrowski Sica
moved
lO
Maine with her husband, Matthew,
and
their
four dogs. Mary Beth is
a medical technologist at
Inland
Hospital in
Waterville, Maine. Matt
NEW
ARRIVALS
Kirstin Rinn
and Ryan
leTellier,
a
son,
Rowan
McCarick,
Sept.
23, 2004
Nicole Silenzi
and
Randy Desrosiers
'95,
a daughter,
Bailey
Catherine,
Feb.
23,
2004
Louise
Tompkins
and
Gregory
Tompkins,
a son, Merrick
Dennis,
Sept.
23,
2004
Annette
and
David Triner,
a
son,
William
Angus,
Feb.
2, 2004
Joan Wietrzykowski
and
William
Ferguson,
a son, Liam
Francis,
Feb.
21, 2004
1995
Dana Avagliano
and Thomas
Blount,
a son, William
George,
March
27, 2004
Kersti
Bowes
and
Robert Hopkins,
a son, Cal
Philip,
Jan.
19, 2004
Amy and
Vincent Bugge,
a
daughter,
Alyson
Michaela,
April
27,
2004
Dr.
Nicole
Buzzetto
and Robert
More,
a son, Ryan
Robert,
March
23, 2003,
and
a son, Anthony
Giovanni,
July
25, 2004
Ana Castillo
and Terence
Farrell,
a
daughter,
Natalie
Alexis,
April
11, 2003,
and a daughter,
Olivia
Jade,
July
21, 2004
Pamela Conlon
and
Joe Saitta
'93,
a daughter,
Victoria
Melone,
Nov.
2, 2002
Claudia Dolan
and Scott
Heckert,
a
daughter,
Emma
Catherine,
June
1,
2003
Maryanne
and
Sean Dumas,
a
son,
Colin
James,
Aug.
13,
2004
Marina Emrey-Arras
and
Jeffrey Wright, CFP
'94,
a
son,
John,
Nov.
5, 2003
Jayme Gabay
and Lloyd
Stofko,
a son,
Jordan
Thomas,
May
15, 2004
Kathleen
Hull
and Scott
Elson,
a
son,
Connor
Burke,
Dec.
10,
2003
Debbie
and
Gregory llukowicz,
a son,
Jake
Robert,
Nov.
29, 2004
Suzanne
Jacobs
and
Marc Gasperino,
a son,
Jake
Kenneth,
Oct.
10,
2002
Allison
Martin
and David
Brown,
a son,
Colin
Ted,
Aug.
29, 2004
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N G 2 0 0 5
41






























Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Joann Puma
and Walter
Pfaffenberger
11,
a
son, Walter
Ill, Feb.
24, 2004
Maureen
and
Jeffrey
Riva,
a son, Luke,
May
6, 2004
Jennifer
Schaivone
and Mark
Levy,
a
daughter,
Addison
Grace,
Nov.
2, 2003
Suzanne Schiano
and Gerard
Scully,
a
daughter,
Brooke
Margaret,
June
3, 2004
Emily
Sediva
and
Willard Bink
11,
a
daughter,
Sarina
Jadvyga,
Sept.
12,
2004
Jennifer
Smith
and Peter Natoli,
a daughter,
Madeline
Renee,
Feb.
1,
2004
1996
Jeana Alves
and
Doug Closinski
'95,
a
daughter,
Sydney
Jo,
March
20, 2004
Jennifer
and
Bradley Auleta,
a son,
Liam
Andrew,
June
10,
2004
Ursula
Bender,
Esq.,
and
Geoffrey
Hall,
a
son, Griffin
Thomas,
Sept.
14, 2003
Megan Dowden
and Michael
Carette,
a son,
Michael
Colin,
May
19, 2004
Melanie
Fester
and
John
Dawson,
a daughter,
Reese
Elizabeth,
Oct.
31, 2004
Amy
and
Brian Grandjean,
a son,
Ethan
Henry,
March
18, 2004
Jennifer Groot
and David
Brown,
a
daughter,
Kyla
May,
May
19, 2003
Christine Guerci
and
Zoran Milojevic,
a daughter,
Sofia
Rose,
March
6, 2004
Lynn Lesenger
and
Shannon Alpert,
a daughter,
Erin
Alyssa,
Nov.
28, 2003
Courtney Loeser
and
Joseph
Zarzycki,
twins,
a son,
Joseph
Thaddeus,
and a daughter,
Madelynn
Brooke,
March
8,
2004
Katie McMahon
and
Doug
Horstman,
a
daughter,
Elizabeth
Grace,
March
19, 2004
Becky Paulo
and
Christopher
Riviezzo,
a daughter,
Samantha
Rae,
Aug.
24, 2003
Kimberly
Pressmar
and
James
W. Luciano, Sr.,
a son,
James
William,
Jr.,
Feb.
22, 2004
42
MARlST
MAGAZINI:
is the certification officer for all of
the
en\'ironmental
labs
in the state.
I
Sean
White
received a
master's
in education from SUNY New Paltz
in December 2002,. He
teaches
Spanish in the Pinc Plains (N.Y.)
Central School District.
1 9 9 9
Jennifer
Canonico Avroch
teach-
es third grade at Sarnuelj. Preston
Elementary School in Westchester
County, N.Y. Jennifer
li\·es
in
Stamford, Conn., with her hus-
band,
Bryan
Avro,ch
'00. Bryan
teaches sixth grade at the Eagle
Hill School in Soutlhpon, Conn.
I
Kimberly
Svoboda
Biegel
was
granted a
Johnson
&
Johnson/
Center
for Organizational
De\'elopment and !Leadership fel-
lowship at Rutgeirs University,
where she completed a master's
in
communication in May 1999
In
2004 she and her husband, Patrick
Andrew Biegel,
moved
to Scotland
where she is the outreach manager
at Scotland's National Health
System at the Centre for Change
and Innovation. Kim resigned
from her position as
the
Marist
equestrian team coach in
fall
2004
and has resumed competing
in
equestrian events in Scotland.
I
Robin Monk Bilotta
completed
and passed the
licensed
clinical
social worker exam.
I
Diane
Bonsignore
co-produced, assis-
tant-directed and edited a short
film that won Best Comedic Shon
film at the 2004· Long Island
International
Fillm Fesli\·al.
I
Carrie
Amrich
Bowen
and her
husband.
Seth Bowen,
moved to
lowa
in September 2004. Carrie is
assistant director of de\'elopment
al Grinnell Co!Lege.
I
Steven
Conroy
has completed
his
first
year as a resident
in
emergency
medicine at Lehigh Valley
Hospital
in Allentown, Pa. His wife. Melinda,
is
doing a
residency in
internal
medicine
and
then
one in derma-
tology, also at Lehigh Valley. They
graduated
from
Nova Southeastern
Uni\'ersity Medical School in May
2004.
IJamie
Conway recei\'ed
a
master's
in readi1ng from SUNY
Albany.
Jamie teaches
fifth grade
al Violet Avenue Elementary School
in Poughkeepsie.
IJulie
Curtin-
Palmeter
writes
that
she and
two
other Marist alumni,
Sean
Dougherty
'87 and
Mike
McGuire
'87, all work for
tht
Concord, N.H.,
Police Department. They were each
named Police Officer of the Year,
Carrie
Bowen
'99
in 2004,
1998
and 1999
respec-
tively.
I
Donna-Marie
Facilla
is a
fifth grade special education
teacher for
the
Lindenhurst. N.Y..
Public School District.
I
Robert
Fagan
is a
teacher
at the Hudson
County School of Technology in
Jersey City, N.J. He is also a gradu-
ate student at City University of
New
Jersey.
I
Tara Griffen
has
been an officer with the Federal
Reser\'e for four years.
I
Kerri
Harris
has been certified
to
teach
secondary biology on Long Island.
N.Y. She
is
enrolled
in
a master's
program at Dowling
College.
I
Colleen
Hoffmann
is pursuing a
graduate degree
in
early childhood
and special education al Touro
College in Bay Shore, NY. She
expects
to
graduate in May 2005.
I
Edward
Kenyon
completed his
third New York Cit)' Marathon in
2004.1
Peter
McEvily
won a New
York Emmy for ll\·e sports coverage
of the New York
Islanders
hockey
team during the 2002-03 season.
He also received a New York Emmy
nomination in 2002 for live sports
coverage
of the Outback Steakhouse
Empire Challenge on July
6,
2002.
Peter is a graphics producer for
MSG Network and Fox Sports New
York.I
Michael Milby
works in the
fixed-income department at State
Street Global Advisors in Boston,
Mass. He plans
to
pursue an MS in
finance at Brandeis University.
I
Jody
Mirto
received a master"s
in
education from
the
University of
Georgia in May 2004 Jody is a
special education teacher for stu-
dents with autism at the Walter
F.
White Elementary School in
Atlanta, Ga. She lives in Marietta,
Ga., with
her
life partner, Mendy.
I
Carol
Moran
is program director
for the New York State Office of
Managed Care in the metropolitan
area regional office. She earned a
Service Award in recognition of 30
years of employment with New
York state.
I
Erin Mulholland
was
promoted
to
assistant principal
at
P.S. 247
in
Brooklyn, N.Y., in April
2004.1
After a year on Wall Street
and
two
seasons of photographing
Bill Blass fashion shows,
Rachel
Murphy
has
a taken a great
job in
her hometown of Stanford\'ille,
N.Y. She is director of marketing
for Duffy Layton Contracting.
I
Steven Napolitani is
a graphic
coordinator for the New York
Rangers at MSG Network
in
New
York, N.Y.
IJessyka
Greer
Peeters
and her husband,
Dan,
celebrated
their
first anni\'ersary in February
2004.IDominique
Pino-Santiago
opened a bridal gown showroom
in New York's garment district in
January 2004. Her company's Web
site is www.dominiquedaniela.
com.
I
Audrey
Wood
was elected
president of the Argyle Alumni
Association
and
the
Argyle
Community Scholarship
Fund
committee. Audrey
teaches third
grade in the Argyle, N.Y., Central
School District.
lJ:nmiM•
2 0 0 0
Craig Adelhardt
graduated
in
May
2004 from Ste\'ens Institute of
Technolog)' with an MSIS in
infor-
mation management. He is a senior
associate with UBS Financial
Services lnc.
I
Sara
Bartsch
Battaglia
and her husband, Robert,
bought a house in Middletown,
N.Y.
Sara plans to pursue a master's
in education at Long
Island
Uni\'ersity.1
Heidi Bock
is finish-
ing her
last
semester at Antioch
New England Graduate School.
She is pursuing a master's in con-
servation biology. Heidi will be
working on
her
thesis with
Hudsonia
Ltd.
in summer 2005.
I
Jennifer Boudreau
has been pro-
moted
to
clinical care coordinator
for children in residential facilities
at
the
Wheeler Clinic
in
Plainville,
Conn.
I
Lori Burgess
is
a special
education
teacher
at Plain\'ille
High School in Plainville, Conn.
I
Allison Clough is
a student ac-
ti\·ities
program advisor at Stony
Brook Uni\'ersity
I
Patrick
D'Amore
works
in
sales at Raymour
&
Flanigan furniture store and
in
an Ebay business
from
home.
I
Caroline
Davis
and
her
co-worker,
Anthony Ramirez
11,
run a music
industry program for teens ages 14
to
18 called "Mandelbaum Music
~B:itii'IZ:::
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Roberto "Bobby
Jo"
Hatton '00 (right) was a member of the Pu1~rto
Rico
basketball team
that upset the United States
92-73
during the
Athens
2004
Summer Olympic Games. Bobby
Jo
had five points com-
ing off the bench
for Puerto
Rico. Above, he brings the ball upcourt
against Allen
Iverson
of the United States.
Project."
They received
a second
grant
that
allows
them
to continue
the program for a
third
year.
I
Jessica
DeCicco
is
a
fifth
grade
special education teacher with the
Rock)' Point
(N.Y.) School District.
I
Erica
DeTraglia
graduated from
Albany
Law
School where she was
the
justice
president
of the
Rockefeller
Chapter of
Phi
Alpha
Delta. She
participated in
the Civil
Rights
and
Disabilities Law
Project
while working for an
attorney in
the
Albany area. Erica is an associ-
ate
with the
law
firm Rizzo
&
Kelley
in Poughkeepsie.
I
Lisa
Douglas received
a certificate in
advanced graduate studies
from
Northeastern Universit)' in
2004.
She
is
a school
psychologist
with
Rockland, Mass, public
schools.
I
Jacqueline
Dowd
is a caseworker
at Mercy First,
a foster
care agency
in
Rockaway,
NY, where she
works
with adoption
cases. She
plans
LO
pursue
a master's in
edu-
cation at Adelphi University so that
she can work
with
special
needs
children.
I
Barbara
Forman
and
her
husband,
Michael,
restored
and moved into an
1888 farm-
house with their three children,
Emily, Devin and Aiden.
I
Elizabeth Foster
has been
a
spe-
cial education
teacher
at Anderson
School
in
Staatsburg, N.Y., for
five
years.
I
Elizabeth Ann
Johnson
is
a blood
bank
technologist at
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center
in
New York, N.Y.11
Kelly
McHugh
Joseph
owns and oper-
ates
the
Aaron Stockholm
House
bed and
breakfast on
Beekman
Road
in
Hopewell Junction., N.Y.
I
Jennifer
Matarazzo
has been
promoted to associate editor at
Fitness Magazine.
I
Jennifer
Mercury
teaches
at a charter
school, South Boston Harbor
Academy, in Dorchester,
Ma:;s.
The
mission
of
the
school is
to
send
every student to college. The first
graduating class,
in
2003,
had
a
100 percent
acceptance rate. The
school
prepares
students by
plac-
ing
them
in
an "advisory" named
after
the teacher's
alma mater.
In
2003
a group of
22 fifth
graders
became "Marist 5."
I
Victoria
Neville
recei\·ed a
master's
in
corporate
public relations
from
Boston University in September
2003.1
Allison Occhicone is
a
member
of
the Long
Island Chapter
of the
Leukemia
and Lymphoma
Society's Team
in
Training pro-
gram. Allison participated
in the
Vytra-Tobay
Triathlon
on Aug.
22,
2004, in memory
of
her friend's
sister,
Heather,
who
lost
her battle
with
lymphoma
in 2003 at
age
29.
Since
that time,
Allison
has
com-
pleted three Team in
Training
events. As an undergraduate stu-
dent at Marist,
she
played lacrosse;
she now coaches field
hockey
and
lacrosse at
Carle
Place
(N.Y.)
High
School, from
which
she graduated
in
1996.1
Nicole Ornek
success-
ful!)' completed
the
Creating a
Community of Scholars 2004
summer
institute
at Northwestern
University. Nicole is a
teacher
at
Windsor
High
School where she
also coaches girls' soccer.
I
Elizabeth Owens is
a pharmaceu-
tical
sales representative for Upsher-
Sm
ith Laboratories.
I
Amanda
Parrillo
was one of only three
women to graduate from the 62'd
class of the Morris County Police
Academy
in
New Jersey. She
is
an
officer with the Morris Coumy
Sheriff's Office. Mandy
is
pursuing
a Spanish
degree
at the College of
Saint
Elizabeth.
I
Thomas Peters,
Jr.,
teaches
social studies and ad-
vanced placement
psychology
at
Lakeland High
School in Shrub
Oak,
NY,
where
he
has received
tenure.
He
is
the
\'Oice of
the
Hornets
as well as
the
junior var-
sity girls' basketball coach.
I
William
Quinn
graduated
in May
2003 from
SUNY Albany with a
master's
in
social work.
He has
since
passed the
social work licen-
sure exam
and is qualified to
practice
at the beginning
master's
level.
lJonathan
Reiss
is
an associ-
ate
producer
for
the launch of
the
History
Channel en Espanol, a
24-hour Spanish
language
cable
network.
Jonathan
is
responsible
for
quality control,
translation
ac-
curacy and
preparing
and format-
ting
all
of
the programs.
I
Lisa
Roberts
teaches history
at Blessed
Sacrament
High
School in New
Rochelle,
N.Y.
I
Nicholas
Ross
is
building a business around an
online cartoon series called
"Strategy
Guide." The first three
episodes
have
been
released
and
have been seen more
than
500,000
times.
More information is on the
company's Web site, www.sgcar-
toon.com.
I
Andrew Sama
is a
member of the Air Force Special
Operations Command.
He
was
awarded the 2002
16
th
Mission
Support Group Professional
Performer of
the
Year as well as
two
Air Force Achievement Medals and
an Air Force Commendation
NEW
ARRIVALS
Victoria Puorro
and
Richard
Pancoast,
a
son, Bennett
Elijah,
May 16, 2004
Danielle Ciranni
and Adam
Ciranni,
a
daughter,
Emily
Lisa,
Dec.
8, 2003
1997
Kristine
and
Michael Bogush,
a daughter,
Emily
Victoria,
July 6, 2004
Eileen Bruce
and Jon
Kulhawy,
a daughter,
Katelyn
Grace,
June
23, 2004
Kimberly Caldwell
and
John
Kehoe,
a daughter,
Shauna,
Nov.
4, 2004
Elizabeth
and
Gavin Cronin,
a daughter,
Kaitlyn
Elizabeth,
Dec.
4,
2003
Jennifer Delosso
and
Michael DeMilio,
a son,
Michael
Rocco,
Sept. 11, 2001
Bernadette Goebel
and
Marcel
Cekuta,
a son, Austin
John,
Oct.
16, 2003
Patricia
and
Robert la Barbera,
a son,
Patrick
Robert,
May
25, 2004
Casey
and
Eric Mandeville,
a
daughter,
Danielle
Rita,
Aug.
6, 2004
Kristen
and
Charlie Melichar,
a daughter,
Kailey
Ann, April 16, 2003,
and a daughter,
Hanna,
July 14, 2004
Heather Wallace
and
Stephen
Coletta,
a
son, Stephen,
Jan.
2, 2004
Erica Wittman
and
David Delorey,
twins, a daughter,
Kiersten
Rose,
and a
son, Tyler
Charles,
June
23, 2004
1998
Danielle Beck
and
Brian
Diglio,
a
son,
Jackson
Vincent,
April 9, 2004
Brandi Cascio
and Toby
Albanese,
a daughter,
Alyssa
Jae,
Sept. 24, 2004
Deborah Duphiney
and Robert
Russ,
a son,
Griffin Robert,
Feb. 17, 2004
Jessica
Gonzalez
and
Jason Brochu
'96,
a
daughter,
Emily,
April 22, 2003
Heather Marriott
and Kevin
Martino,
a son,
Kevin
Anthony,
Jan.
10, 2003
SPRING
2005
43

































Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Christine
and
William Rall, Jr.,
twin sons,
Aidan
William
and Daniel
Michael,
March
16, 2004
Jaime Wallace
and Greg
Ochojski,
a son,
Tyler
Joseph,
Dec. 17, 2003
1999
Missie Backes
and
Larry
Dunn,
a daughter,
Alexis
Olivia,
Dec.
20, 2004
Lisa
Bing
and
John
Sizer,
a daughter,
Grace
Elizabeth,
Sept.
4,
2004
Corry
Ourdovic
and
James
Devin,
a
son,
Jack
Michael,
Oct. 26,
2003
Jessica
Monck
and
Timothy
Trililo,
a daughter,
Rose
Marie,
Oct.
24, 2003
Kristi
Morris
and
Matthew Morris,
a son,
Ryan
Alexander,
Feb.
12, 2004
Janel
Scarponi
and Joseph
Pauser,
a son,
Evan
James,
June
17,
2004
Emily Snayd
and
Benjamin Scurto,
a
daughter,
Sadie
Kathryn,
June
19, 2004
2000
Laurie Bellucci
and Jason
Nolan,
twins,
a
son,
Nicholas
Jason,
and a
daughter,
Isabella
Elizabeth,
May
20, 2004
Carolyn Gonzalez
and
Aaron Peck,
a
son, Adrian
Jay
("AJ"), Jan. 24, 2004
Keri
Stevenson
and Sean
Healy,
a
daughter,
Clara
Jane,
June
7,
2004
2001
Jennifer
Breslin
and
Eric
Mulholland,
a son, Aiden
Thomas
Walter,
Feb.
16,2004
Kassia
Cappillino
and
Michael
Messina,
a daughter,
Maryn
Concetta,
Sept.
24, 2004
Heather Clarke
and
Jeffery Novakouski
'99,
a
son,
Jeremy
David,
Jan. 17, 2004
44
MARIST
MAGAZINE
Medal
for distinguished
contribu-
tions
to
Operation Iraqi
Freedom
in Baghdad,
Iraq, and at
Hurlburt
Field,
Fla. Andy
has
completed
four
years of service in
the
Air
Force.
He
auends the
prestigious
Mendoza School of Business at
the
Universit)' of Noi:re Dame where
he
is pursuing
ain MBA in entre-
preneurship. After graduating in
2006, he
plans
to
open a consult-
ing business.
I
Erin Smith
is a
print
production manager
for the
Grow Network, a company re-
cently
acquired
loy McGraw-Hill
Education.
I
Heather Suydam,
Esq.,
was admitted to
the
bar in
Pennsylvania. Sh,~ works as a judi-
cial
law
clerk for
Judge
Annette
M.
Rizzo and the Firs,tJudicial
District
of Penns)'lvania in the Court of
Common Pleas i1n Philadelphia.
I
Kate Tamas
rece:ived
a master's
in
remedial reading at Southern
Connecticut Sta,te Universit)'.1
Vanessa Tammaro
received a
master's
in
social work from
Fordham Univer!;ity in May 2001.
She is a social worker in a nursing
facility in Great Neck, N.Y.IAdam
Weissman
is an account executive
with Dobbin Bol,gla
Associates
in
New York, N.Y.
He
belongs
to
the
Hoboken Ski Club and
is
a vouch-
er representative for
the
New
Jersey Ski Counci
I.
I
Jill
Weston
is
a
copywriter wirth the Yinucom
Group, a third-party Web content
provider in Syracuse, N.Y.
I
Patrick
Whittle
graduated
from
Columbia
University in February 2004 with
a
master's in
Ame-rican
studies.
Pat
lives
in
Venice,
Fla.,
where
he is
a
staff writer for the Sarasota Hcrald-
Tribune,
part
of
the
New York Times
regional newspaper group.
2 0 0
1
Christina Allgeyer
completed
the
sixth-year certification in
school
psychology
at Southern
Connecticut State University. She
is a school
psychologist
at Great
Oaks Middle School in Oxford,
Conn.
I
Christy
Barr
earned
the Group Benefits Associate
designation from the
Wharton
School at the Universit}' of
Pennsylvania in September
200-1.
She is pursuing
the
Certified
Employee Benefits Specialist
des-
ignation, also
from
the Wharton
School. She is a benefit services
specialist with
Reimbursement
Services
Inc. in
Mt. Laurel, N.j.
I
Scott
Bauman
has worked at
the
Town of B-looming Grove
Police Department
since August
2003. Previously
he
worked at
the
Orange County Sheriff's Office
and
Town
of
Highland Police
Department.
I
Stacey Tapinis
Belonsky
has
opened
a home
design, furniture and accessories
store called House-to-Home
in
Babylon, N.Y. Within
the first
10
months of
being in business,
Stacey moved to a location seven
times larger
than the original
store. She is in partnership with
her sister, Laura.
I
Christopher
Blasie
is a supervisor for
his
"dream"
companr, Continental
Express in Washington,
D.C.
Since
being emplored
at
Continental,
Chris has traveled
to
Portugal,
Ital)', Las
Vegas,
Hawaii
and the
Caribbean.
ljocelyn
Broughton
is a paralegal with the law firm
of Larkin, Axelrod, Trachte and
Tetenbaum in Newburgh, N.Y
She hopes
to return to
l\larist to
obtain a master's degree.
I
Megan
Bruno
is a special education
teacher
at Sayreville
(N.j.)
War
Memorial
High
School where she
also coaches track and field. She
expects
to
complete a master's in
educational leadership in spring
2005.
ITracey
Carangelo is
a Web
production
coordinator for Ann
Taylor Direct
in New
York,
NY.
Ann Taylor
Direct
also
includes
Ann Taylor and Ann Tarlor Loft
Web sites.
ljaron
Cohen
success-
fully completed
the
2004 Creating
a Community of Scholars pro-
gram at Northwestern University.
Jaron teaches
at Windsor
High
School
in
Windsor, Conn., where
he
also coaches football.
I
After
being a
practice
manager for
a
veterinar)'
hospital
for the last
10 years,
Jennifer
Cole
is
now
a self-emplored e\'ent planner
and publicist in Red Hook, NY.
I
Graig
Corveleyn
graduated
from
Rutgers
Law School
in May
2004. In September 2004 he was
hired by Sterns and Weinroth,
a
law
firm
in
Trenton, N.j., where
Graig practices bank
law
and
business litigation. He
follows in
the
footsteps
of
his
very proud
father, auorney Daniel Corveleyn.
I
Amanda
Kelly
Coyle has
volun-
teered
for
10
consecutive summers
at the Applachian Service
Project
through
a
local
church in New
Jersey. Volunteers build and repair
homes for those
less
fortunate
in
Appalachia. Amanda
is
a residence
hall director at SUNY Cortland.
She
lives with
her husband,
Ryan,
in
Cortland, N.Y.
I
Leah Duggan
teaches
eighth grade Spanish
at
A.W. Coolidge
Middle
School in
Reading, Mass.
I
Linda Fakhoury
graduated
from Western New
England College School of
law in
May
2004. She
was Senior
of the
Year and was
selected
to be the
class
speaker at graduation.
Linda
also
passed
the
New
York Bar.
I
Elizabeth
Fletcher
graduated
from Albany Law
School in
May
2004. She
received
the 2003 Medal
of
Excellence
from the
American
Bankruptcy
Institute and
Albany
law School. At graduation
Lisa
was
presented
with
the 2004
Capital
Region Bar
Association
Justin Mahoney Memorial Prize.
I
Dominick Giordano, Jr.,
is an
advertising consultant
for the
Superpages,
which also
helps
businesses
advertise
nationally
through
the
world's largest online
"yellow pages," Superpages.com.
I
Russell Gray
started
his
own
ac-
counting and bookkeeping
practice
called
Hudson River Bookkeeping
&
Consulting LlC.
The
company
specializes in bookkeeping,
payroll
and
tax
return
ser\'ices
for
indi-
viduals and small
businesses.
His
practice also addresses
the
finan-
cial needs of senior citizens.
Russ
is
a
member
of
the Hudson
Valley
Ski Club.
I
Christopher
Grogan
was
promoted to
5:30 p.m.
news
co-anchor at station
KRTV-CBS
3
in Great Falls,
Mont. In 2004,
Chris
was nominated
for
an
E.
B.
Craney
Award for
breaking news
coverage of
the Reavley
double
murder trial
verdict.
I
Martha
Hackett
is
a special education
teacher
with
the
Smithtown School
District.
She received a
master's
from
SUNY Stony
Brook in May
2004.1
Randy Harders
is
a
report-
ing analyst at Olympus America
Inc.I
Brian
Higgins
is
an infantry
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Brian
Higgins
'01
officer in Iraq with the l"
Infantry
Division.
He
was activated on Oct.
l, 2003, and
has
been
in
Iraq
since
February
2004. He
expected to
be
home
in 2005.
He
is a platoon
leader
in
charge of a rifle platoon
of approximately 35 soldiers.
Two
Marist graduates are serving
in
the
same task force. As a civilian, Brian
is a police officer with
the
New
York Police Department.
I
Marisa
lannacito
was promoted
to
conser-
vation director in the Public Affairs
Office
of the Adirondack Mountain
Club.
Ijames Infranca
is a spe-
cial education teacher at Garden
City
High
School
in
Garden City,
N.Y.
I
Amy
Kuhar
teaches
sixth
grade
in
the Clarkstown Central
School District
in
West Nyack,
N.Y.
I
Gregory
LaPointe
received
a master's in survey
research from
the
University of Connecticut in
2002.
He is pursuing
an MBA from
~1arist.
I
Peter Matina
received
a JD
degree
from Western New
England College School of Law.
I
Kristen
Nocerino
graduated
in
Ma}' 2004 with a
master's in
school counseling from New
York
Institute
ofTechnology.
Kristen
has
completed
600
hours
of internship
at Amityville
High
School.
I
Lee
Park is
a communications special-
ist with Nextel Communications
in Reston, Va.
He was
employed at
Nextel
less than a year when he
was
awarded
the
Circle of Excellence
Award for
his
contributions to
Nextel. Out of approximately
17,000
employees,
Lee
was one of
420 employees nominated atnd one
of 263 who
received
the award.
I
Christine
Romer
is
purs.uing a
master's
in
higher education ad-
ministration at Baruch Colllege
in
New York, N .Y.
I
Aileen Sairgeant
received a master's in education
from Trinity College
in
May 2004.
She teaches
third
grade for the
Archdiocese of Washington,
D.C.
I
Gretchen Schaert
received an
MBA
in
technology management
with a concentration in
human
resource
management from
SUNY
Institute of Technology at Utica/
Rome, N.Y.
I
Barbara
Mentry
Schuler
was
promoted to
proba-
tion director
for Oswego County
in
Oswego, N.Y., in May 2003.
I
Timothy
Sorensen received
a
master's
in
teaching
from SUNY
Cortland. He moved from S)lracuse
to
Stratford, Conn., where
he
teaches sixth grade writing in the
Darien
Central School District.
I
Patrick
Spence
is a fre1:-lance
news
assistant
in the newsroom
at
WTOP Radio in Washingtc,n, D.C.
IJulio
Torres
is employed in the
Department
of
Communications
and Alumni
Relations
at Boys and
Girls Harbor Inc.
in
New York,
N.Y.
I
Lauren
Vecchio
graduated
from Monmouth University in
summer 2003 with a
master's in
special education. She began her
fourth year of teaching i;pecial
education as a
resource
room
teacher in September 2 004.
I
Pierre
Vinh is
a fourth-year ex-
tern in
the Doctor of Opt,ometry
program at
the
Pennsylvania
College of Optometry.
He
e·xpects
to graduate with the Class of
2005.
I
Christopher Yapchanyk
received
a
JD degree
cum
laude
in
2004 from
New York Law School
(NYLS).
Honors
he received upon
graduation from NYLS included
induction
into the Order of
the
Barrister; selection as NYLS best
oral advocate
in 2004;
selection
as member of the NYLS National
Moot Court Team; a national award
for
Best Brief
at Catholic Uni1versity
of America Law School National
Constitutional Law Competition
in Washington, D.C., in April
2003;
and a ranking of
fifth
in
the
nation
in oral advocacy at
the
John Marshall Law School Privacy
and
Technology
Competition in
Chicago in October 2003. Chris is
an attorney for the New York City
Corporation Counsel.
2 0 0 2
SPC Gary Albaugh, U.S. Army,
remains in Iraq with the 226
th
Medical Battalion in support of
Operation Iraqi Freedom.
I
Eric
Deabill
has changed jobs. After
v.'orking
as a reporter/producer
for WRNN-TV he moved to
Pennsylvania
to
assume a similar
position
at WYOU-TV,
a CBS affili-
ate, covering
breaking
news, poli-
tics
and crime.I
Maria
De Dallin
is
an Alzheimer's Association Policy
Action Committee member who is
setting
up
an Alzheimer's Spanish-
speakingsupport group at Catskill
Regional l\1edical Center in the
Hudson Valley.
I
Phil DiMartino
offers this sage advice: "Work is
not hard
to
find. Good jobs are
hard to
find. Keep your head up
and network, network, network!"
IJeremy
Doran
teaches eleventh
grade English at St. Anthony's
High School in South Huntington,
N.Y. He
is
pursuing a
master's
in
education at Molloy College.
I
David
Gariglio
is a claims
representative for GEICO Direct
in Woodbury, N.Y.
I
Amanda
Hrincevich
is
an alumni infor-
mation specialist at Swarthmore
College
in
Swarthmore, Pa. She is
also a full-time law student who is
enrolled
in the
four-year
law
pro-
gram at Widener University School
of Law. She expects to
receive
a JD
degree
in
2008.INicole
Kulik
is a
VIP marketing coordinator at the
Bathhouse Spa in the hotel at the
Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
in
Las Vegas,
Nev.lKristen
Lincks
is
a special education teacher
at North Shore High School
in
Glen Head, N.Y. She received a
master's
from Teacher's College
at Columbia University
in
2003
I
Kimberly
Magrone is
a special
education teacher for the City of
Poughkeepsie
School District in
the Circle of Courage
Learning
Community.
I
After
finishing
a
second year with Americorps.
Justin Mc
ally
continues to
work for
Habitat
for Humanity in
Winston-Salem,
N.C.ILisa
Miller
graduated from SUNY Brockport
with a master's
in
psychology in
August 2004.IMichael
Nehr
won
the
2004
Long
Island Marathon.
He is a teacher for the West Suffolk
County BOCES.
I
Diesa
Seidel
played professional basketball in
Tarbes,
France,
and Viterbo, Italy,
from 2002 to 2004. Now
"retired"
from the sport,
she is
pursuing
EW
ARRIVALS
Milena
Milani
and
Frank
Barrett,
a son, Noah James,
Dec.
30, 2003
Dawn
Russell
and
Robert
"Gus"
Schnitzer '96,
a daughter,
Emmalynn
Dawn,
March
28, 2004
Jennifer
Beadle
and
Joseph
Tierney,
a son, Carter
William,
Aug.
15,
2004
2002
Maria
and
Paul Annetts,
a daughter,
Ciara
Jaeden,
Oct. 19,
2004
Victoria Hanrahan
and
Gregory
Locke,
a son, Nicholas
Joseph,
Sept.
24, 2004
2004
Rebecca
Auchmoody
and
William
Auchmoody,
a son,
Ryan
Charles,
July 2, 2004
SPRING
2005
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Alumni
IN
MEMORIAM
Alumni
Or. Eugene
F. Connolly
'48
James
T.
Moloney
'63
Robert
C.
Moetzinger
'65
Jerome
R. Worell
'65
Mark
P. Scott
'66
George
B.
Kinney,
Jr.
'68
Victor G.
Junke
'69
John
Robert
Lankard,
Sr.
'69
Richard
J.
Stanulwich
'69
Thomas
F. Hyland,
Jr.
'70
Joseph
lngrao
'70
Michael
J.
Murphy
'70
Peter
G. Studva
'70
Elizabeth
Yerks
'70
Alphonse
Ambrosia
'72
Christine
Woisin
La
Rose
'73
Martin S. Burgess
'74
Robert
E. Slovak
'75
Patrice
Cuccioli
Mulvey
'76
Robert
Levin
'76
Stephen
H.
Blenk
'78
Frank
J. Witt '78
Paul
M.
Conway
'79
Dorothy
J.
Strachan
'80
Clare
Austen
'81
Saul
Russell
'85
Nancy
C. Moffett '90
Shane
C. Guss
'94
Clifton E.
Mosley
'95
Albert
T.
Arbelo
'97
Richard
Hartwich
'99 M
Andrea
Coppola
Weisenburger
'00
46
MARIST
MAGAZINE
a career in
physic;al
education.
I
Jennifer
Stewart
began a second
year at the New
England
College
of
Optometry in !Boston, Mass.,
in the
fall
of
20M.
She expects
to complete
the degree
of Doctor
of Optometry in
2007.
I
Andrew
Toland
is
a
copy editor/designer at
the
Telegraph
in
Hudson,
N.H.
2 0 0 3
Tiernan Applegate
is pursuing a
master's in
political
science at
Fordham University.
I
Jessica
Bacchi
is a
special education
teacher
in Pearl
City, Honolulu,
Hawaii.
I
Carla Baker
is
an assis-
tant account executive in New
York, NY., with
Laura
Davidson
Public
Relations,
a
travel
public
relations
firm.
Her accounts in-
clude
the
Scouish Tourist Board,
Cambridge Beache:;, Bermuda and
Canouan Island in St. Vincent of
the Grenadines.
I
Brett Biggs
completed his first year as
the
youngest financia'I consultant at
Janney, Montgomery,
Scott
LLC
by
three years. He also made
the
Staten Island Xtreme of
the
National
Indoor
Football League
and he plays
in
a few professional
games.
I
Traci
Cillis
is
a
third
grade special educ:ation
teacher
at
Sargent Elemenwry School in
Beacon, N.Y.
I
Laura Connolly
is
a leave-of-absence case specialist
for the Mellon Fin.ancial Corp. in
Piusburgh, Pa.
lJaiime
Corkedale
is completing graduate study at
SUNY New Paltz toward a
master's
in elementary
tea,:hing in
math,
science and technology.
IJesse
.
Cubito
is
the
field
director/out-
reach
specialist for the Girl Scouts
ofUlsterCounty,
NY
I
Christopher
Doyle
is
the
office
manager
at Atlas
In the Peac:e
Corps?
Following
in
the Mlarist
Brothers'
tradition of providing service
to others, many Marist College
alumni have served or a reserving
in
the
Peace Corps.
For
a possible
futurefeaturein
MaristMagazine,
the Alumni 0fficP would
like
to
hear
from you. Please email
maristalumni@marist.edu
orcall
845-575-3283.
Ed Lowe '67, shown with President Dennis J. Murray, served as the
honorary
grand marshal
for the Marist contingent in this year's 244th
Annual St. Patrick's
Day Parade
in
New York City.
Lowe
is a longtime
journalist
and
currently is a columnist
for the Long Island Press.
Star Ltd. in Wappingers Falls, N.Y.
I
Dana
Ferro
is
pursuing a master's
in accounting from the University
of Phoenix.
lJill
Gallagher
is in
her second year of
teaching
in
Mililani Middle School
in
Mililani,
Hawaii, on the
island
of Oahu. Jill
is
a special education
teacher
for
grades six, seven and eight.
I
Chaderick
Greer
was a
presenter
in a program called
Transition to
College
for
Students
with
Disabilities: Making
It
Work, held
ac Dutchess Community College
in October
2004.
Chad and two
ochers shared their experiences
succeeding in college despite dis-
abilities. He was featured in an
article about
the
presentation in
the Poughkeepsie newspaper
Weekly
Beat.
Chad was diagnosed
with a
learning
disability during
his sophomore year at Marist. He
is a New York State Trooper. (For
more on Chad, see Page 21.)
I
Christina
Hope
has been hired by
St.Joseph's Church in Croton Falls,
NY,
to head up a youth ministry
program centering around
high
school students. She is also a Web
site coordinator for ENA P
Inc.
in
New Windsor. N
.Y.
IJ
uan Jackson
has been recruited
by the
Manchester
(N.H.)
Wolves football
team. Juan, an A-list rookie, will
serve as a lineman for the Wolves·
2005
season. He is a two-time,
first-team All-MAAC player who
was named to
the
l-AA-Mid
Major
All American first
team his
senior
year at Marist.Juan served as coach
of the
Red foxes·
tight ends and
was also the football program's
recruiting coordinator.
I
Lisa
Johnson
has
started a
new
job and
a new life. After living
in
Poughkeepsie all of her life and
working at Marist College for nine
years. she is an administrati\'e/re-
search assistant with the
Rand
Corp. in Arlington, Va.
lJeanette
King
received a master's in social
work from New York University in
May
2004.
IJason
Lassiter
is the
CEO and chairman of E-Z-R
Transport Solutions, a
transpona-
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tion
business
he started
in
2000.
An
internship
with the
Dutchess
County Office for
the
Aging and
New
Horizons Resources not
only
sparked
his interest
in
working
with
lhe
elderly
but
also gave him
the idea
for
the
business
\·enture.
He runs the business from
his
home
in
Wappingers Falls, N.Y.
Many of
his
clients are
people
who
can
no
longer
drive
on their own.
Most of his
business
is for
people
who need
to run
errands, shop or
go to medical
appointments.
While
his business
grows, Jason works
full-time
as an
information
systems
manager
for
UPS.
I
Michael
Loniewski
returned for
the
2004
season to
play
for the Albany
Conquest
football
team in
Albany,
N.Y.
The
team won back-to-back
Nonheast
Division
championships
in
the
arenafootball2
league.
During
his
undergraduate years at
Marist,
Mike was
an offensive and
defensive
lineman
for the Red
Foxes.
I
Thomas McG
erty
is
a
healthcare
manager with O'Connor,
Davis, Munns
&:
Dobbins
LLP
Medical
Management
in
Harrison,
N.Y.
I
Vito Pagano
is a consultant
for Pitney
Bowes'
world headquar-
ters
in Stamford, Conn.
I
Dipam
Sharma
is
a
graduate student and
projecl assistant in
the
Industrial
Engineering Department at the
University or Wisconsin-Madison.
I
David Surdovel
is
a scripl as-
sistant at Fox News Channel in
New
York,
N.Y.
I
Nicole Tuttle
visited Gualemala, El Salvador and
Nicaragua
in
2004.
I
Rosanna
Veras is
an operations associate at
the training
center
for the
Goldman
Sachs Group
in
Princeton, NJ She
plans to auend graduate school.
I
Christine
Ward
was
promoted
to
account executive for
the
Retail
Advertising
Department
at the
Democrat
and Chronicle,
a Gannell-
owned newspaper with a circula-
tion
of 450,000.
2 0 0 4
Nicole
Baker
is
pursuing
a master's
in
professional studies at SUNY
New
Paltz.
She expecls to gradu-
ate
in
May 2006 wilh a degree
in
humanistic/multicuhural educa-
tion.
Nicole is a sister of Omega
Phi Beta Sororily
lnc.
lJoseph
Borelli
was appointed chief of staff
to
New York Slate Assemblyman
Vincenl
lgnizio
who
represents
the
62
nd
District of Staten Island,
,.Y.
I
Amber
Cleveland is
a new
account coordinator for Greystone
Partners, a
communicatio,ns firm
in
Poughkeepsie.
I
Bradley Cook
signed a professional
baseball
contract to
pay
for the Elmira
Pioneers
of
the
Northeast
League.
He is a
right-handed relief
pitcher.
I
Stephanie DelPreore
is playing
professional basketball in Spain.
While al Marist, she was a member
of the Marist women's basketball
team
for four years
including 2004
when
lhe team
won
the
MAAC
Championship.
I
Lauren Eberle
is
pursuing
a
master's
in
social
work at Wheelock College in
Boston, Mass.
lJoelle
Evanousky
is
an assistant
designer
for junior
swimwear at A.H. Schreiber &:
Co. in New
York,
N.Y.
II
When
Jessica
Fitzgerald
and
Erich
Schaefer
'01
married
on jlune
11,
2004,
their
wedding was
it
Marist
family affair. Anendants
included
Brian Bruno
'02,Jason
LalFerrieri
'02,
Debbie Rassin
'03,
Lisa
Achenbach
'04,
Amanda Vladick
'04 and
Kathleen Fitzgerald
'05.
I
David Mack,
senior vic-e presi-
dent of the Lifetime
Healthcare
Companies, was elected chairman
of the Board of Directors for United
Way of New
York
State.
I
Scott
Montesano
is lhe first
radio an-
nouncer
for the
Fargo-Moorehead
Jets professional hockey
team
in Fargo, N.D. He received
lhe
2003 New England Collegiale
Baseball League "Broadcaster of
the
Year" award.
I
Lauren Selke
is
the merchandise
coordin:ator for
Danbury Christmas Tree Shops.
She began her employment there as
a cashier in 2002. A member of the
Marist orchestra for four years, she
hopes
LO
improve her violin skills
by
joining
the Fairfield County,
Conn., Symphony Sociely.llFrank
Owen Daly
'OS
Smith
is a
junior
accountant
in
the
Client Services Depanment
of Vanacore,
DeBenedictus,
DiGovanni &: Weddell, an ac-
counting firm with offices
in
Poughkeepsie
and Newburgh, N.Y
I
Edward Summers
works full-
time with Marist
President Dennis
J.
Murray as a Presidential
Fellow.
Eddie is listed
in
Who's Who
Among
Students in American Colleges
and
Unil'ersities.
Recipient
of
lhe
2004
Alumni Leadership Award, he is
pursuing an MPA al Marist.
2 0 0 5
Owen
Daly
has graduated from
Officer Candidates School at the
U.S. Marine Corps Base in
Quantico, Va. Owen now enters
basic school for six months. His
options then will be to attend flight
school or be deployed. Owen's dad,
Jim Daly
'72,
is president-elect of
lhe
Marist College Alumni
Association Executive Board.
Alumni Discount
on IBM PCs Available
Marist College alumni nnay now purchase
IBM
PCs at a discount
through
the
college
com1puter
store's
Web site.
The Personal
Computer
Discount Program
provides
a discount
on select models
of ThinkPad
notebooks,
ThinkCentre
desktops
and
ThinkVision
displays.
Marist
alumni may vi,~w
the selected
models,
place an order and
get the discount by acce:ssing
the
store Web site at
www.marist.
edu/compstore,
clickiing on "Computers
and Accessories"
and
clicking on "View our 1Dnline
Offerings." The vendor, Computer
Discount Warehouse,
wiill verify with
Marist
that the buyer is an
alumnus/a
and eligible for the discount.
The PC will be shipped
to
the buyer's home.
For more information
contact
John Lauro,
CDW
account
manager,
at
800-508-2394
or
john.lauro@cdwq.com.
MEMORIAM
Friends
Beatrice
Ruth Trussell
Brook
George
M.
Gill
Clayton
Kavanaugh
Morse
C.
Roger
Murray
Bernard
Reifler
Faculty and Staff
Robert
D. Breslin,
Sr.
Andrew
G. Herrup
George
McAlonie
Philip
C.
Murley
Eva
G. Patora
Tammy
L.
Price
Patrick
B. Ryan
Frederick
B. Tyler
Honorary De9ree
Recipients
Dr.
Eoin
McKiernan
Retirees
Gustav
Heer
Life
Trustee
Bro.
Patrick
Magee,
FMS
'47
, PR I
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IN
Helping Injured War Vets
Le a r n
t
O
ski
Jim Barnes '68 and his family helped when the Adaptive
Sports Foundation
at Windham Mountain
taught injured
U.S.
soldiers
to
ski
and treated them to a three-day
weekend
at the Catskills
ski
resort.
M
arist Trustee
James
Barnes
'68 and
his
family offered
tips
on skiing and plenty of
moral
support when
the
Adaptive Sports Foun-
dation at Windham Mountain hosted its
SupportOurTroopsevent Feb. 4
through
6
in
Windham, New York.
In
partnership with Disabled Spons
USA, the ASF brought nine servicemen
from
Walter
Reed
Army Medical Center
to Windham Mountain fora three-day ski
trip. All
the
servicemen were amputees
as a result of injuries received in
the
war
in
Iraq.
The event was designed
tO
give
disabled U.S. soldiers some
"R
&
R" as
well as the opportunity to learn
to
ski.
The soldiers were taught by the ASF's
well-trained volunteer ski instructors,
six of whom
are
Vietnam veterans,
two
of whom were
disabled in
that war.
"Prior
to
this weekend I wasn't really
into
skiing," says Army Staff Sergeant
Hilbert Ceasar.
"But
going out
there
and
seeing
the disabled
ASF
instructors
do-
ing it,
that
was pretty cool.
The
fact that
the instructors are disabled war veterans·
inspired
me.
It
made
my
weekend."
In
partnership
with
Disabled Sports
USA, the Adaptive Sports Foundation
at
Windham Mountain
brought service-
men
(above)
from Walter Reed Army
Medical Center
to Windham Mountain
to learn to s//i.
the soldiers
from the
airport to
the
hotel
and
throughout the
weekend.
The
soldiers skied for three
days
and
had
plenty of
time to
experience theapres
ski social scene at Windham Mountain.
In
addition,
theASF
arranged for several
informational
programs
for the soldiers
on
prosthetic
options and other adaptive
sport
resources
such as fitness programs
and athletic options for amputees.
"My wife and
I
wanted to relay our
sincerest gratitude for
the incredible
weekend that we had
in February,"
writes
John Fernandez, Army lieutenant and
West Point alumnus. "Your support for
wounded soldiers, such as me, is a
true
testament
to
the strength of our nation.
Since I was injured,
it has been
a goal of
mine
to
once again
return
to
the
slopes.
Thanks to everyone at the Adaptive Sports
Foundation I reached that goal. Not
enough can be said about the confidence
U.S.
Marine Jim
King
(left) met
Jim
Barnes
'68
(right)
when the
Adaptive
Sports Foundation at
Windham
Moun-
tain hosted
nine servicemen
injured
in the
war
in
Iraq for
a three-day
slli
wee//end. Barnes, a member of the board
of the found,ation, and members of
his
family volunteered
throughout 1the
wee//end.
The visiting soldiers were all suc-
cessful learning how to ski, and by
the
end of
the trip
everyone had progressed
to the top of
the
mountain. The event
attracted several media outlets
including
Fox News, Jane
Hanson
of New
York
City's WNBC and MSNBC.
that
many of the soldiers were given
during
the course of the weekend. We are thankful
for all the effort and collaboration that went
into
planning
for the event. My wife and
I
had
such a wonderful time and
look
forward
to
returning
sometime in
the
future."
Jim Barnes was
"the
all-around help-out
guy," says Cherisse Young, executive director
of ASF
"He
helped with the
lessons,
he talked
to the media for us, he ate with
the
soldiers,
he
was just a great ambassador for us because
not only was he an ASF board member but
a Marine himself in Vietnam.
So
he was able
to relate directly
t0
the
soldiers."
Also volun-
teering
were Sean Barnes
'04, Ginna
Barnes
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Siegrist
'98,
who
teaches
psychology at Marist,
Shamus
Barnes
'91, Colleen
Barnes
McGowan
and heir husband, Chris,
Debbie
Barnes '90 and
Maryelllen
Barnes.Jim's wife, who has been an
instructor
in
the
program
for 18 years.
The Adaptive Sports Foundation solicited
donations
from
individuals, community orga-
nizations
and corporations to underwrite
the
event i;o that
the
soldiers would
not
have
to
cover any expenses.
They flew from
Baltimore
to Albany and stayed
in
condominium suites
in Windham. Members of the New York City
Fire Department, particularly the members of
Watkins Street
Firehouse from
Brooklyn, NY.,
donate:d vans and personnel to help transport
This
summer ASF will
have
a water-
skiing weekend for a
dozen
soldiers
at
Breezy
Point,
NY. The foundation is
planning another
ski weekend
for 20
soldiers
in
January
2006.
For information about supporting
the
event,
call
the
ASF at (518) 734-5070.
ASF
is
a nonprofit organization with an
annual operatingbudgetof$550,000.
It
serves
more than
1,300
special needs individuals
and
conducts
2,800
lessons annually. The
program
has more than
180
volunteer
instructors
and
six full-time staff members. The foundation
is
recognized
as
the
largest adaptive sport
program on the East Coast.
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