MARIST
CONTENTS/Fall
2003
FEATURES
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Marist
Named
One
of
the
Nation's
Best
The Princeton Review has added
Marist
College
to
its list
of
the top 351
colleges
in the
United
States.
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The Marist
Institute
for
Public
Opinion: Getting it
Right
for 25 Years
Dr. Lee Mi,ingoff and Dr. Barbara Can
1
alho
have brought the Marist Poll
into
the
national
spotlight.
12
Remembering Franny
Reese
President Dennis].
Murray
writes a
tribute
to
this
extraordinary trustee
and friend of Mari st.
14
Launching
a
High-Tech
Career
As a
Marist
freshman in 1976, Ross Mauri
'80
jumped at
the chance
to
help rim Marist
Colleges
IBM
1401
mainframe. Today
he has worldwide
responsibility for the design and development
of
all server and storage hardware and
software for IBM.
Destination: Cuba
Mari st students study
in
Cuba
for
the
first time
and find it a life-changing
experience.
Marist Magazine
is published by
the
Office or
College Advancement at
Marist
College
for alumni,
friends,
faculty and
staff of
Marist
College
Editor: Leslie Bates
Vice President for
College
Advancement:
Shailccn
Kopec
Con1ribu1ing
Writers:
Tim
Massie,
Larry
Hughes,
Jeffrey Dahncke
'01,
Bonnie Hede
Striegel '85, Chris O'Connor '98
Alumni
Notes Coordinator:
Jo-Ann
Wohlfahrt
Art Director: Richard
Deon
Contributing
Photographers:
Ma11hew
Gillis,
Carlisle S1ock1on,
Brian M. Ballweg
Maris1
College
3399 North
Rd.
Poughkeepsie, NY 1260
l-1387
www.marisl.edu.
editor@lnarist.edu
Cover
photo
of
Dr. Lee Miringoff
and
Dr.
Barbara Carvalho
by
Michael Nelson.
Cover
photo
of
Marist
studenlS
by
Ma11hcw
Gillis.
Getting it
Right
Page8
Remembering Franny Reese
Page
12
Destination:
Cuba
Page
16
Coaching Champions
Page
30
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The School of Graduate
and Continuing
Education:
Serving Adult
Learners
Progressive
scheduling and advanced technology
enable
the
School of
Graduate and Continuing
Education
to offer
programs that.fit into the busy
lives
of
more adult students than
ever
before.
Alumni Profile:
Achieving
a
Dream
of
Public
Service
Since
his college days, Howard Mills
'86
has
worked steadily toward a
career
in politics.
Today, as a Republican assemblyman and the
deputy minority leader
i11
the
New
Yorh State
Assembly, he
is
advancing rapidly and
thrivi11g
011
life
in
the public sector.
The
"Dunkin'
Dutchman"
Returns to
Center Court
For 12
years
Ri/1
Smits
'88
was a
standout
for the
NBAs
Indiana Pacers. For
one
day in
2003, he belonged
to
Marist
again.
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Larry
Vanwagner:
The Coach of Conference Champions
Larry
Van
Wagner has built the
winningest mens
swimming and
diving
program
i11
the
history
of
the Metro
Atlamic Athletic Conference.
DEPARTMENTS
2
Marist Drive
Whats happeni11g
011
campus
32
Alumni News
News
about Marist
graduates
56
In Closing
The Marist
College community
lost
a well-loved
mentor and friend when Robert
C.
Norman,
professor
emeritus of comn11micatio11s,
passed
away
in
December
2002
at age 77.






























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NEWS
NOTES
FROM
THE
CAMPUS
Marist One of Only 30 U.S. Colleges to Receive IBM Shared University Research Award
Nicholas
M.
Donofrio (left),
senior vice
president of technology and manufacturingfor
IBM,
announced
a
$1
million
Shared University
Research aw,ud to Maristfor
worll
with
the
IBM
Corp.
i11
pioneering
a new
generation
of
0,1/ine
digitized media that
will
support
the
creation,
storage
and
exchange
of digitized
content via
the Internet. Marist President
Dennis].
Murray
joined Mr.
Donofrio
at
the news
conference
011
the
campus.
M
arist has received a $1
million
research
award
to
work with the
lBM
Corp.
in
pioneering a new generation of on
line
digi-
tized
media
that
will support the
creation,
storage and exchange of digitized content
via the
Internet.
Nicholas M. Donofrio, senior vice
president
of
technology
and manufactur-
ing for IBM, announced the corporation's
Shared University Research award at a news
conference at Marist.
IBM's
SUR program is
highly
competitive, with only 50awardsmade
worldwide. Marist is one of only 30 colleges
in
America
to
receive
the distinction.
Under
the
collaboration,
lBM is
supply-
ing
Marist with a combination of software,
hardware
and services. Marist plans to use
the technology
to
implement
a variety of new
interactive online
modules,
including linked
and improved access to several digital me-
dia archives currently
housed
at the school,
including the Emmy Awards Collection,
the
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
Presidential
Library
collection and college course materials;
Web-based
portals
for team
rooms,
bulletin
boards and instant messaging; orientation
materials
for
new faculty;
and college credit
bridge courses.
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"The:
rapid evolution and convergence
of
digital
data storage and rich media
technologies is
leading
to a new generation
of applications that will make it easier for
people
to
manage and share information,"
says
Mr. Donofrio.
"Working
with an outstanding
partner like Marist College will enable us
to
test
and enhance some of our most advanced
digital
media
technologies and solutions in a
real-world environment."
The Marist digital
media
project will uti-
lize a number of new technologies
developed
by
IBM :Research,
including:
Rich Media
Distribution
Utility
(RMDU)-
a
distributed
platform for creation,
man-
agement, and
distribution
of Rich Media
applicarions and objects across a network
to position the content close to end users.
Enterprise Media Beans
(EMBs)-an
open
standard
media framework
that allows
a common view of
rich
media assets for
applications regardless of
the
underlying
transport and rendering vehicles, such as
the streamingsen·ers from multiple vendors.
Xcast-an approach to network multicasting
that malkes it
practical
to
have an unlimited
number
of small groups recei\'e broadcast
data.
"The ability to access and
interact
with
content
is
an essential component of the
teaching and
learning
process," says Marist
President Dennis]. Murray. "These new tech-
nologies developed by IBM will provide us
with opportunities to impro\'e how
professors
teach and students learn.''
IBM's SUR program awards computing
equipment
and services
to
colleges, univer-
sities and institutions of higher education
around the world to facilitate
research
projects
in
areas of mutual interest,
including:
lifesci-
ences,grid computing, autonomic computing
and
deep
computing.
The
SUR awards also
support the advancement of
university proj-
ects by connecting
top researchers
in academia
with IBM Research personnel, along with
representatives
from product
development
and solution provider communities.
High Grades for Marist
The
Commission on Higher
Education
of the
I
Middle States Association has
reaffirmed
the
accreditation of Marist College without
conditions.
The reaffirmation
means the college meets
the highest standards for accreditation
stipulated
in the commission's Characteristics
for Excellence
in
Higher
Education.
The commission found
no
current
issues
that require
monitoring
or fol-
low-up
reports.
"This
achievement is a credit
to
the
entire
Marist College community and renects
very
positively on our efforts
to
provide
a
quality
education
to
our students," says Marist President
Dennis
J.
Murray.
"Congratulations
to
the entire
Mari st community on the successful conclusion
of our Middle States
review process
and
the
resulting reaffirmation of our accreditation."
The Commission on
Higher
Education is
the unit of the Middle States Association of
Colleges and Schools that accredits degree-
grantingcollegesand universities
in the
Middle
States region.
It
examines the institution as a
whole,
rather than
specific programs within
the
institution.
The Middle States Association
of Colleges and Schools, established
in 1887,
is
a nonprofit,
membership
association, dedicated
to
educational improvement through evalua-
tion
and accreditation.
Members
are
located
in
Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland,
New
Jersey, New
York,
Pennsylvania, Puerto
Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and other loca-
tions overseas.




























Speakers Highlight Ethics as Record l~umber of Graduates Receive Degrees
E
thics were
the
theme of
the keynote
speeches
on a picture-perfect day at
More
than
11,000 turned
out
for
Marist's
57'h
com111e11cement
011
the campus
green overlooking
the Hudson
River.
Marist College's 57'h com-
ter
engine for prosperity.
mencemem
May 17. Marist
It
is
imperative,
however,
awarded
1,130
bachelor's
that
at
times
you question
degrees
and 265 master's
the
system
...
that
we col-
degrees to the
largest gradu-
New
York
State Attorney General
lectively
question it.
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ff
15
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k
"Use your education,
a crowd of 11,000.
IO
pi
zer,
spea er
work hard, and be ambi-
Featured speaker EliotSpitzer, NewYork
tious,
but also do not be afraid to question
State's attorney general,
told
the graduating
either
the destination
on the path you
travel
students
to
question the system,
referring
to
or
the
values of
your
fellow travelers.
his office's
investigations
of the
past
year.
"And also, remember
that
sometimes the
"To
the
extent that you have seen me be-
thing
that
you
have, that you are searching
fore,
or heard about
my
office, it is
probably for,
may be
right
at hand. Today you have
because we investigated some of the
biggest
a wonderful sense of accomplishment
that
firms
on Wall Street and
revealed that these
you
are sharing with friends and family. You
companies were misleading
investors,
touting
have found .something
that
is
indeed
special.
stocks
they
knew
to
be
poor investments,
all
You
don't
need to spend
the
next 20
years
because
of conflicts of interest that
pervaded
looking
for it."
their
companies."
Valedict.orian
Adam Slavin, of
Irvington,
Mr. Spitzer told
the
students
that
at some
N.Y.,
told his fellow graduates to act ethically
point in
their
careers
their
ethics would be
and take responsibility. Graduating with a
tested.
"There
will come a time when the
perfect
4.0 ;grade
point
average, he received
values
that
your
parents
have
tried
to instill,
a Bachelor of Science
degree
in business
and which
this
great institution has
tried
to
administration/accounting.
instill,
will
be
challenged."
Mr.
Spitzer
was awarded an honorary
He
praised
the American system as a
Doctor of
Laws
degree
in
recognition of his
great one
despite its
flaws.
"There
is no
bet-
public service.
He became
New York's 63rd
attorney general on Jan. 1, 1999 and was re-
elected
to
that position in
November
2002.
Time
magazine named
him
"Crusader
of the
Year" in 2002 for his investigation into Wall
Street's
biggest
securities firms that had misled
investors.
He
negotiated
a $1.4 billion accord
to
put in place reforms that willseverthe links
between research
and investment banking
and help protect New Yorkers'
retirement and
college savings.
Mr. Spitzer also negotiated the settlement
between George Steinbrenner's YES network
and Cablevision, allowing Yankees and Nets
games to be broadcast on
that
cable system.
He served asan assistant district attorney
in Manhattan from 1986
to
1992,
rising
to
become chief of the Labor Racketeering
Unit,
where he successfully prosecuted organized
crime and political corruption cases.
He
later
worked at
the
New
York
law
firm
ofSkadden,
Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom and was a
partner at Constantine
& Partners.
He
is
a 1981 graduate
of
Princeton Uni-
versity and a
1984 graduate of
Harvard
Law
School, where he was an
editor of
the
Harvard
Law Review
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Faculty Receive Grant Awards
■
Dr. Sherry Dingman,
assistant professor
of psychology, was awarded a three-year
$355,317 grant
from Lhe
National
Institute
on
Drug
Abuse (NIDA) at the National
lnsti-
LuLes
of
Health
(NIH)
for
her
research
project
"PF-L-DOPA: An
MRI Tool for Developmental
Neurobiology." The
projecL's
long-Lerm ob-
jective is to develop
powerful new wols for
investigating
how early environmental fac-
tors, such as perinatal stress or exposure
to
drugs,
contribute
to
creating
individual
differ-
ences
in
biological susceptibility to addiction
and other mental
disorders.
Ultimately the
project
aims LO
tag
chemicals
that
are used by
brain cells
for
communicaLion with
fluorine
awms that can
be
detected with
magnetic
resonance imaging.
NIDA also awarded
Dr.
Dingman
$56,756 for developing LOols
for neuroimag-
ing.
The supplement
is part
ofNlDA's effort
to
attract
students
from underrepresented
minorities
to
biomedical
careers.
The funds
are
used to
place
undergraduates in
NlDA-
funded
laboratories.
■
Dr. David Woolner,
assistant
professor
of history, received a three-year $214,730
National
Science
Foundation
(NSF)
award for
his project
"Accessing
FDR's
America: Enhanced Search and Retrieval."
David Meck, direcLOr of
the
Marist S/390
Knowledge Center
and visiting professional
lecturer in
the
School of Computer Science
and
Mathematics,
is a collaborator on
the
project.
"AccessingFDR'sAmerica"
explores
new
ways of searching, organizing, preserv-
ing and
interacting
with
large
information
resources in
the humanities
and social sci-
ences.
It
involves
the creation and suppon
of a digital
library
of
materials
of significam
international importance drawn
from
the
Franklin D.
Roosevelt Library
and Digital
Archives, which
includes
image, sound,
video and textual
data,
and the encoding,
annotation and
multi-modal
linkage
of a
portion of the collection
to
develop
new
methods
for
search and
retrieval.
■
Dr. Michael Tannenbaum,
dean of the
School of Science, received a $60,000award
from
the
Merck Company Foundation
in
association with
the
American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science for an
undergraduate
science research program.
Research
activities are
focusing
on
how
cadmium (a
heavy
metal) in the
Hudson
River,
in
its
sediments, and on its shoreline
affects plants, animals and
microorganisms
that live in these
habitats.
The goal of
the
program
is
to
encourage students
to
pursue
graduate education in biology and chemis-
try through
involvement in undergraduate
research
experiences
that
emphasize
the
relationship
between
these
two fields.
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MAGAZINE
■
Kamrani
Khan,
vice president for informa-
tion
technology, received a $12,500 grant
from
the NSF
to
fund student
research
on
four
projects
related to
Marist's
lnternet2
award.
In 2001 Marist received
$150,000
from
the
NSF
for
a High Performance
Network Connection
(HPNC)
to facilitate
collabora1tive
research
with other institu-
tions.
Through
the
latest
grant, participating
students
are
gaining valuable experience
in
developing Web applications
using
sophisticated software and programming
languagei;.
Vice
President
Khan also received
$1,000 from
the
NSF
for
a workshop on
the grant application and
implementation
process
for
Internet2
institutions.
■
Dr. Elisa
Woolridge,
assistant
professor
of
chemistry,
received
a $41,293 award from
the Cottrell College Science
Program
of
Re-
search Corporation, a
private
foundation
that
aids
basic
research
in the physical
sciences at U.S. and Canadian colleges
and universities. The award
is funding
re-
search by Or. Woolridge and her students
on how enzymes
isolated
from
fungi
may
be
used
tO
remove
lignin
from
wood and
wood products.
Dr.
Woolridge also received a $37,715
collaborative grant
from the
NSF Course,
Curriculum and
Laboratory Improvement
program with Vassar College. The grant
provides funding for faculty and studems
at Marist and Vassarto develop lab exercises
for upper-level biochemistry courses focus-
ing on a relatively
new
area of biochemistry
called proteornics.
Kayla Ferguson '03 Wins Fulbright Grant
K
ayla
Ferguson
'03, of
Marysville,
Wash., has been awarded a grant
by
the
prestigious
U.S. Student
Fulbright Program.
The
grant allows
Kayla,
who graduated in May with a B.A. in psychology/special educa-
tion,
LO
spend the
upcoming
academic year
teaching
English
LO
high-school
level
students
in Germ:any.
"Kayla
has
been a model student
at
Marist,"
says
Marist President
Dennis
J
Murray.
"She
is
a young renaissance woman with \'aried interests who will make a
major
impact
on
her
community and in the world
in
the
years ahead. This is a significant
honor for
both
Kayla
and
Marist."
Travel
is a
tradition
in Kayla's
family. Her
father was a U.S. Navy captain whose assign-
ments
moved
the family both within the UniLed States and abroad 11 times
in
21
years.
Her
mother a.ttended school
in
Germany, and her aunt and
uncle
served in
the Peace
Corps.
During
the summer of 2002 Kayla tra\'eled to
Jordan
LO
study Arabic for ten weeks,
visiting Syria at the same
time.
She hopes LO
return to the area someday.
The Fulbright application process wasn't east She
drafted
her
two-page proposal
45
times
and her one-page curriculum ,·itae 15
times.
all while carrying 19 credit hours of
courses and dealing with an
illness that
put her in
the
hospital repeatedly.
She says her roommate, Mary Wawrousek
'03,
kept her spirits up during that
difficult
time.
She also credits Dr. Art
in
Arslanian,
dean
of faculty and vice president for Academic
Affairs, Meg Franklin, executive assistant LO
the
academic vice presidem, and
Lisa Kooperman,
career and graduate school advisor, with geuing her through the application process.
Established
in 1946, the
Fulbright program aims LO
increase mutual understanding
be-
tween
people
of
the
United States and other countries through the exchange of
individuals,
knowled.geand
skills. Sponsored
by the
U.S. Department of State,
the
program provides funds
for
students, scholars and professionals to undertake graduate study, advanced
research,
university
teaching
and
teaching
in elementary and secondary schools.
Kayla
Ferguson
'03
(right),
winner
of a
Fulbright
grant
for
2003-04,joins
(left to
right) Dr.
Artin
Arslania;n,
dean of faculty/vice president for
academic affairs, and Rob
Dyson, chair
of tire
board of trustees,
prior to die 2003
commencement
ceremony.






















$837,486 Grant from U.S. Departmen1t of Education Supports American History Initiative
Marist
senior Kristin Miller
rnptured this dramatic photo ,on Jan.
25, when
reenactors from
the
2nd
New
Yorh, 5th
New
Yor/1, and
5'
1
'
Connecticut
regim1ents,
as
Colonel
Samuel Blacl1ley
Webb's
Additional Continental
Regiment,
ventured
from
1the
shores
of
Constitution
Island
onto
the
ice
to
commemorate
the
liistoric
crossing
of the Hudson
River 011
Jan.
27,
1778,
to
begin the construction
of
Fortress
West
Poi11t.
Dr.James
M.Jo/rnson, executive
director
of
the
Hudson River
Valley
Institute, is
carrying
the
flag.
HRVI
co-sponsored the
eve11t.
Marist and HRVI.
The
inst
it ute'sdigital library
serves as a portal to house and disseminate
learning modules
developed by HRVI.
The Hudson River Valley Institute,
www.hudsonrivervalley.net, is a regional
history center whose partners
include
an
extensive network of collaborating institu-
tions such as the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Presidential Library and the Franklin and
Eleanor Roose,·elt
Institute in
Hyde Park,
the
Gilder Lehrman
Institute
of American
History
in Manhattan, the
Hudson
Valley
Greenway and the National Maritime His-
torical
Society.
M
arist College
is
helping history
teachers
in Dutchess and
Ulster
counties upgrade
American history instruction,
thanks to
an
$837,486
gram
from
the U.S. Department of
Education.
The gram, awarded
LO
Dutchess County
BOCES, was developed
by
Marist's Hudson
River Valley
Institute
(HRVI)
in conjunction
with Ulster County BOCES. It was one of
114 grants made nationwide as part of
the
department's 2002 Teaching American His-
tory Program.
The project,
"Freedom
and Dignity: The
Exploration of American Democracy,"
exam
-
ines the role of
the
Hudson River Valley in
American history.
"This Department of Education grant will
allow us
LO
teach
teachers about the roots of
American democracy in the Hudson River
Valley so
that
they can
then
inspire their
students to learn about
the rich
heritage
of this region," says Dr. James M.
Johnson,
executive
director of
the
Hudson River Valley
Institute and a visiting assistant
professor
of
history
at Marist.
Marist faculty are working with
history
teachers
from 22 school
districts in
Dutchess
and Ulster counties on curriculum
develop-
ment projects in traditional American
history.
Week-long summer
institutes
immersed
teachers in the following areas: the Ameri-
can Revolution: the
Creation
of American
Democracy; the Underground
Railroad:
the
Extension of American Democracy; Franklin
D. Rooseve·lt,
the New Deal and World War
II: the Defense of American Democracy; and
Eleanor
Roosevelt,
Post-War America and
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Democracy for All. The summer
institutes
are being held
for three
years, beginning in
2003. Follow-up activities include workshops
throughourt
the
school year,
teacher mentor-
ing and
technology-enhanced
networking of
teachers
and historians. Teachers have access
to
digitized
archives
made
available through
Dutchess County
BOCES
is part of the
statewide system of Boards of Cooperative
Educational Services established in 1945.
HRVI !Launches
The Hiudson River Valley Review
T
o support
its
goal to become a
premier regional
stud-
ies center,
the Hudson River
Valley
Institute
has begun
publishir:tg the scholarly journal
The Hudson River
Valley
Review.
HRVI
is
producing
the journal
by
special agreement
with
Bard
College, which formerly published
it
as
The Hudson
Valley
Regional
Review.
"The goal of the
Review
is much
the same as
in
the
past:
to
present
the
most recent
scholarship on all aspects of
the
Hudson
River
Valley's
unique history
and culture," says
Dr.
Thomas 5. Wermuth,
HRVI
director.
The new Review
will
continue
to
publish
issues twice
a year, with one
issue
each year
built
around a special
theme. The
premier issue, which appeared
in
July, focused on the
American
Revolution in
the
Hudson
River
Valley.
The
journal is available
by
subscription and in the Marist College bookstore.
For subscription information
,·isit
www.hudsonri\·ervalley.net,
or contact HR\'I at
hrvi@marist.edu or
(845)
575-3052.
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Tom Ward '69,
president,
chief
executive
officer
and
member
of the board of
directors
of Maidenform,
Inc.,
lws
joined Marist's board of trustees.
Marist Fund Raises More
Than $1 Million for
Second Straight Year
A
merican
colleges and
universities
have
been having a harder
time
raising funds
lately because of the economy, says a recent
study. But thanks
to
the
loyalty of Marist
graduates and other donors, the college's
annual fund has exceeded
its
goal of raising
$1 million
for
a second consecutive year.
Results of anannualsurvey released by the
Council for Aid to Education show contribu-
tions to
U.S. colleges and universities declined
for the first
time
in more than 15 years. The
survey has
tracked
giving to higher education
for more than 50 years.
But at Marist,
three
annual giving records
were broken
during the
fiscal year fromJuly 1,
2002
to
June 30, 2003, according to Marist's
Office of College Advancement. Parents
recorded $98,255. The regional business
community provided more
than
$125,000
and Marist faculty and staff contributed
$63,870
to the
Marist Fund.
Thomas
J.
Ward '69 Elected
to Board of Trustees
Thomas
J.
Ward '69 has been elected to the
I
Marist College board of trustees.
Tom is president, chief executive officer
and member of the board of directorsofMaid-
enform,
Inc.,
a world-renowned marketer of
intimate
apparel.
He has also served as chairman of Thomas
Ward Associates
L.L.C.,
an international con-
sulting firm.
Tom had a 31-yearcareerwith WestPoint
Stevens,
lnc.,
rising to the position of president
and chief operating officer and member of the
board of directors.
Tom is among Marist's most active alumni.
He has chaired Marist's Fashion Ad\'isory
Board since its
inception,
served as a visiting
executive
in
the School of Management, as-
sisted Marist admissionseffonsand prO\·ided
career advice to Marist graduates.
He is also a member of the Educational
Foundation of the Fashion
Industries
of
the Fashion Institute of Technology. Tom
majored
in
business at Marist and attended
the Graduate School of Business at Drexel
Uni\'ersity. He and his wife, Mary, reside in
New York City.
42
M
The Answer
is "Marist"
M
arist became a
household word
1(.
for crossword aficio-
nados e\'erywhere on
Sunday, March 30.
/
"Marist" was
the
answer
to
a clue
in
The New York Times
5
Magazine's
crossword
puzzle that day. The
clue was for No. 42
T
Down in
the
puzzle "To
B or Not
to
B" by Alan
Arbesfeld. It asked for
a six-letter word for a
Poughkeepsie college.
It
wasn't
the
first time
the
col-
lege has
been
a crossword
puzzle
answer in The New York Times. In
the Feb. 9, 2002, puzzle, Marist was
the answer to No. 9 across, which
also asked for a six-letter word for
"Poughkeepsie college."
Undoubtedly, alumni got it
right away!
"Our resu
Its
exceeded
last
year's milestone
goal and also saw an
increase
in the number
of donors," says Tim Brier '69, chair of the
2003 Marist Fund. A Marist trustee, Tim is a
co-founder of Priceline.com and director of
Priceline Europe. "This is a great reflection on
Marist alumni and all donors who kept Marist
as a priority in their philanthropy. We are
truly grateful for
this
generosity which helps
keep Marist's reputation strong and provides
students with a first-class education."
Marist
President Dennis].
Murray (left), Tim
Brier
'69
(center)
and Director
of Student
Activities
Bob
Lynch '75
led
the
cruise-themed
festivities launching
the
2003 Marist Fund
campus
campaign.
Bob
chaired
the
campus division, wliich raised $63,870.
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Marist Named OJne
of the Nation's
The Princeton
Review
has added Marist Colle e
to
its
list
of he top 351 colleges
in the United
States, based
on campus
visits, data, and the pinions
of students,
parents and college counselors.
M
arisL College is one of
the nation's
best
insLituLions
for
unclergracluale
eclu-
caLion, according LO
The Princeton
Review,
Lhe New York-based
company
known
for iLs
Lest-prep
and educalion services.
Marist
was added to The Princeton
Review's
annual
"besL colleges" college guidebook,
The
Best
351
Colleges:
2004
Edition.
By being
lisLed
in the guide, Marist is
now ranked among the
top 10
percent of
all colleges and universiLies in
the
United
SLaLes.
The book is published by
Random
House/Princeton Review Books.
"We
have
a
high
regard
for
Marist Col-
lege and are pleased
to
include it among
the
colleges we
recommend to
our readers as
one of 'Lhe creme of
the
crop'
institutions
for
undergraduate
education," says
Robert
Franek, editorial director of The
Princeton
Review.
Mr. Franek adds that
Marist
offers
"an
oulstandingacademic program," a judgment
based on several criteria.
"Our
selection of
colleges for
this book
is
informed by
our
visits
to
schools,
by data
we
review
about
them,
and by
the
opinions of
independent
college counselors, students and parents we
talk
to."
"This
recognition
by
The
Princeton Re-
view confirms
that
Marist
is
now a top-tier
academic
institution
of
national
stature," says
Marist
President
Dennis
J.
Murray.
"What
makes
our inclusion in
this
prestigious pub-
lication
even more satisfying is
that ratings
by
our students
played a major
role
in Marist
being listed. That
means students come to
Marist
for its quality programs,
faculty and
staff,
receive
the
best
education, have fun,
graduate and get good
jobs."
Dr. Murray
gives credit
for this
ranking
to
"our
faculty and staff, many of whom were
here when Marist was considered a small,
local college.
They
should
take
great pride
in seeing this national
recognition
awarded
to the college."
The
Princeton Review
"best
colleges"
guide is unique
in
offering both two-page
profiles on the schools and college
ranking
lists based on what students attending
the
schools
report
about
their
college and campus
experiences at
them.
According
to the
guide,
Marist
students
say the "school is well-run;
classes
are small
and instructors are good
teachers."The
Princ-
eton
Review notes
"Marist College's 'simply
spectacular'
Ii
brary, called 'one of the nicesL
and
most modern
with a very high student-
to-Internet
connection
ratio,'
stands as a
testament
to the college's commitment
to
academics."
Marist students also count
their profes-
sors as "amon;g 'the
most
devoted I have ever
met'
and 'actitve participants
in
their field
outside of
class.'
One of
the
school's 'greatesL
strengths
is th;~
interaction
between professor
and student,' causing one student
to point
out, 'Getting together to watch college
hoops
with your
proressor is
not something you can
do
at every school.'
"
Marist students also praise
the
college's
"'great
internship
program'
(which) ensures
that Marist undergrads
are 'well prepared
2004 Edition
/;[he
r.._!!:inceton
Review
'hBest35J
Colleges
for jobs after
graduation
'
"
The
I
ists
report
the
•··,
top-20
rank-
ing colleges
in Lhe book
in 63
different
categories
covering
topics from
academics and finan-
cial aid to various aspects of campus life.
The ranking
lists
in the 2004 edition are
based on The
Princeton Review's
survey
of
more
Lhan
100,000
students al
the
351
colleges
in the
book. The
Princeton
Review
also posts
information
about the 351 col-
leges, and
the
ranking lists, on its Web Sile,
www.PrincetonReview.com.
The Princeton
Review
is not affiliated with PrinceLOn
Uni-
versity or the Educational Testing Service.
Fort he tenth yearina row, Mar
isl
was also
rated in
the
top
tier
of colleges and uni\·ersi-
ties in
the
annual college guide produced by
U.S.
News
&
World Report.
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Dr. Lee Miringoff
and Dr. Barbara
Carvalho
have brought
the
~r1arist
Poll into the national
spotlight
while giving
thousands
Cl
f students
a front-row seat to the political process.
T
he bottom line
in polling
is,
do
they
get
it
right? The Marist
Institute for
Public
Opinion is well-respected in the
rough-
and-tumble worlds of politics and
the media
because
the
institute
does consistently geL
it
right.
Through the
regular
public release
of
survey results, the
Marist
Poll has built a
legacy
of independence, reliability and accuracy over
its 25-year hiswry.
Mariststudems participate
in
the polling
in
three ways:
in class,asan intern
orasa paying
job,says institute direcLOr
Dr. Lee
Miringoff,
on
a spring evening as a group of MarisL
College
students prepares for a poll. They are under-
graduates
with
a Yariety
of majors.
"They
are
excellent at what they do,
closely
moniwred
and well-trained. We also have quarterbacks,
supervisors and polling assistants. Some are
already interviewing fellow students
for
next
year's positions. We supervise and keep a close
watch on everything,
but
the students play a
huge
role. As
they
always
have."
"It's a wonderful educational experience,"
says
Dr.
Barbara Carvalho '79, direcLOr
of
the
Marist Poll. "I
just
got a call from one of our
current students who is interning for WNBC,
Political
Science
BY LARRY
HUGHES
Original
phone bank
in
Adrian
Hall
class
M
IPO
produces
conducts Marist
Institute training
video Survey
exit poll
for Public
for student
research
of
race
for Opinion
is
interviewers;
courses
are
Dutchess
founded,
MIPO
installs added
to
County
conducts
computer
undergraduate
executive
local polls
system
curriculum
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with Gabe Pressman and his producer, asking
when we'll be releasing the
New
York
state
poll
that
we're going to do tonighL."
The heart of the institute, which consists
of 39 polling stations, is a computerized state-
of-the-art system. The high-tech operation
is a far cry from 1978 when Dr. Miringoff,
Barbara Carvalho and her fellow students
were developing a
student
model.
"The
rumor
is
that there was
a
student
in
my class in 1978 who
raised
her hand
and
thought we might want to do
a
poll,"
says
Dr. Miringoff, pointing to Dr. Carvalho. To
paraphrase Yogi Berra, Dr. Carvalho
made
the 25th anniversary necessary.
"That's
the
rumor. But sometimes memory plays
funny
tricks." Of
course,
he says, he would have
thought of
conducting a
poll on his
own
about an hour later.
"We
were doing
it
asan
innovative,
educa-
tional
model,"
he
says
of the
early
days.
"It
was
designed to provide a contemporary definition
of
what we
felt a
liberal
arts
education ought
to
be all about, a combination
of
theory and
practice. It's remained that. My
yardstick
has
always been, if it's
something
I would have
wanted as an undergraduate,
let's
find
a way
to do
it
now."
Twenty-five
years
ago the first
survey
was an
exit
poll
on
Lucille Pattison's run
for Dutchess
County executive. She
was a
MIPO
Kudos from Alumni
It
was back
in
1979,
way before
MIPO
was using
computers
or any other form of technology.
What we
had
were
two
great leaders
in
Lee
and Barbara.
These
leaders
gathered
a
bunch
of novice
unsuspecting
students,
extolled
the virtues
of exit polling research
and sent us out to
the
far corners
of
Dutchess
County.
Basically
they would
make
sure
we had
enough
gas
to
find
our way and get back
and
hopefully
we
had
a map.
It was a great
experience.
I
met
some
wonderful
and some
cra:iy
people
and then we would gather
back
on
campus
to tabulate
the data manually
and try to make
sense
out of
it.
Clemly
it was one of
my
best experiences
I
had
as
a
student
at Marist.
It
taught
me
how to interact
with
people
and how
to
get a better understanding
of the way
people
view the events
that shape
our
lives.
It has
also
been
a pleasurewatching
MIPO
grow
through-
out
the
years
to
be the wonderful
organization
it
is
and how
it
has helped
:shape
the
brand
of Maris!
College.
Christopher
G. Mccann '83
President, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM
Westbury, N.Y.
In
my
job I spE?nd
a lot of time talking
with undergraduates
from
all over
the
country.
The
more
people
I
meet
the
more
I
appreciate
my
truly
unique
undergraduate
education.
There
is no better
undergraduate
preparation
for further
study
in
public
opiniorn
research
than the hands-on
experience
and
professional
g1uidance
I
received
working
at MIPO.
Jennifer Necci Dineen
'93,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
in Residence
Director,
1
Graduate
Program in Survey Research
University of Connecticut,
Storrs, Conn.
I worked
at MIPO
during
my four
years
at Maris!.
I
remember
my
first time calling
as a
freshman.
All
the
supervisors
were
eating
pizza
and I was on
the
phone
plugging
away
as the
aroma
of pepperoni
flowed
through
Adrian
(the old build-
ing).
I
was starving,
too!
I
polled
a
few
more
times
before
Lee
and Barb
offered
me a job working
there.
Needless
to
say,
I
soon
got tobe a supervisor
eating
pizza
and
sometimes
we'd getto order
Mill
House
Panda(Barb's
favorite).
MIPO
was
a
great learning
experience
for me.
I remember
faxing
out the
latest
polls
with
Joan
(Nies)
to about
a million
sta-
tions
and going through
the Burrelle's
clippings!
Lee
and Barb
were
wonderful
mentors,
and continue
to
be. They
gave me the opportunity
to intern for Gabe
Pressman.
I
have
come
back
to campus
to speak
to
a few
of
their
classes
and the one thing
I
make
it a point to stress
is that the Maris!
Poll
is
like a family.
We are such
a family
that we decorate
Barb's
Christmas
tree every
year! The
students
who work at M
IPO
have
the opportunity
to
learn
from two amazing
individuals
who love
what
they
do and
are dedicated
to interpreting
their polls
with accuracy
and
fairness.
Happy
25th birthday
to MIPQI
!
I
lark-Marie
Anton
'99
Deputy Press
Secretary
Office of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
New York, N.Y.
Being
at Maris!
from
1991
to
1995,
I
had the opportunity
to see
the poll move
from
entirely
paper
into the future.
My
first day working
in
the office at Adrian
Hall,
there
was a
meeting
to begin
development
of a new computer-based
script for callers
to
use
(CATI)
that would be able to give
results
overnight.
In
four short
years
we saw index
cards
and
paper
scripts
move
into
video
news
releasesand
instant
results.
It was
really
amazing.
There
is
nothing
more
satisfying
than
when I
pick
up a
Washington,
D.C.,
publication
and
see
the Marist
Institute
for Public
Opinion
quoted.
It
shows
that
the
students
who
call were all a part of
helping
to build something
great.
With Rudy
and
Hillary
being
national
figures,
the
next
eight
years
could be amazing
exposure
for MIPO.
Pre-1994
elections,
Lee
and
Barb
invited
two
political
figures
to campus
to
meet
the
students
and faculty.
Both
were
fairly
unknown
at the time.
Their
names
were
George
Pataki
and Sue
Kelly-now
the governor
of New York
and
the Congresswoman
representing
Dutchess
County.
Brian Smith '95
Director of Grassroots
Advocacy
Food Marketing Institute
Washington,
O.C.
~:ie
Ca~l992:
tl'aml988
MIPO
1
conducts
polls
on New
York
City
mayoral
contest;
speakers'
The
Pollin'!,!'lace
"""'
<
•
Symposium
is held at
Marist
on •
Reporting
the
Presidential
Campaign
MIPO
conducts
first
New
York
State
polls
on
gubernatorial
and
U.S.
measures
approval
ratings
on
statewide
officeholders;
MIPO
holds
media
confer-
ence
on "The
Role
of
the
Media
in State
Politics·
MIPO
conducts
statewide
polling on
presidential
election;
MIPO
is
featured
as
"The Student
Pollsters"
in
Newsweek;
ABC's
Good
Morning
America
comes
to
Marist
MIPO
does
five-state
poll
The
Cuomo
MIPO
moves
to
new facilities
MIPO
conducts
national
poll;
makes
first
of
quadrennial
trips
to New
Hampshire
primary
program
is
organized;
student
internships
at
WNBC
begin
MIPO
publishes
student
newsletter
of 1992:
Lessons
from
1988";
MIPO
is
selected
to participate
in
Marist/
IBM
Joint
Study
Senate
elections
on economic
issues
Factor
is
published
in Adrian
Hall
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"I
think one of the most
exciting
things the
st1udents
enjoy
is
that we'll finish here at 9:30 or IO o'clock and we
say
this will be aired tonight at 11," says Dr. Carvalho.
"They
get to
go
back to the dorms and see the results on TV."
Democrat
running
in
whal has always
been
a predominantly
Republican political
strong-
hold.
A hundred students
fanned
out to
polling
places
Election
Day
morning LO
collect
daLa.
"We
had a
deployment
center and a tally
room,"
Dr.
Carvalho
says. "Packets were going
ouL,
results
were coming in and
there
was a
horseshoe-shaped
table
with students Laking
relevant
statistics
from
the questionnaires.
We
raced
over to (local radio station) WKIP.
When the
polls
closed we announced that
Lucille
Pattison would be elected, and then
waited
to
see
if
we were right."
1L
was
more,
in retrospect,
a census than a
poll,
al
least
by wday's institule
sLandards.
lt
was also
the
right call.
It
wasn't long before
MlPO became
well-
known
int
he region.
'The institULe
has become
an institution
in
terms
of New York state
poli-
tics," a political
insider
told
Newsweek
for its
March 26, 1984,edition.
"TheyareonLheverge
of
obtaining
a national reputation because
they've
earned a
national
reputation."
These
were the
words of
TimoLhy
Rus-
sert, counselor Lo
then-Gov. Mario Cuomo,
the
same Tim
Russen
who
now hosLs
NBC's
"Meet
the
Press."
Today the institule conducts state
and
national
polls on politics and
matters
of
public
interest.
The findings areas
likely
LO
be
found
in
The London
Times
as
in Lhe
Poughkeepsie
journal, on
local
radio
and
TV
news outlets as
on
the national
networks. AnoLher
sign of the
institute's
national prominence
was
the
elec-
tion
of
Dr.
Miringoff
in 2001
as
president
of
the National Council on
Public
Polls.
There's only one
thing that drives
Lee
Miringoff
lO
distraction.
And, keep
in
mind,
he's
a guy whose experience
in
the public
eye
has res1ulted
in
a somewhat
thickened
skin.
Just don'L
belinle
the
work of the Marist In-
stitute for Public Opinion because "it's done
by
students and somehow not at the
level
a
poll
should
be."
"The
one
thing
that over the years I will
answer
Lhe quickest
is
when someone ques-
tions
Lhe
use of students to conduct
polls," he
says.
"The
reality is jusl
the
opposite.
I
would
never
trade
a Marist student for a
pollster
at any
of the commercial
houses.
Our track record
speaks for itself."
The
institute
comes equipped with an
underlying
enthusiasm commercial pollsLers
wish they could
maLch.
"Our
industry talks
a
lol
about
response raLes,
people
responding or
nol
wanting
to participale,"
Dr. Carvalho says.
"As
a
research
cenLer at a college we certainly
have
an advantage when a student
is
calling as
opposed to someone from a company
thaL
is a
nondescript corporaLion
where
there
is no con-
necLioni.
Our students
introduce
themselves,
they say
they
are students here,
they
explain
that
they
are doing a research projecl and
talk
a
linle :about
whal
they
are
doing."
The
convergence of communications
and computer
technology
fueled rapid
change
in
polling techniques, and over
the
years
the
institule has frequently shed its
technological
skin. This
has
included
hir-
Dr. Barbara Carvalho
and
Dr. Lee Miringoff:
teachers
first.
ing Kathleen
Tobin
Flusser,
senior research
associate, who keeps
the
instilute
up
to
date on interviewing
techniques
and survey
technology,
and partnering wilh Mitofsky
lnternaLional
to develop
innovative sam-
pling designs
for
the
Internet. The
process
that once
took
a week or Lwo now starts
aL
5:15 p.m. with
the
results
broadcast
on the
11 p.m. news.
"I think one of
the
most exciting
things
the
students enjoy
is
that
we'll
finish here
at
9:30 or 10 o'clock and
we
say Lhis will
be
aired
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LOnight
at
11,"
says Dr. Carvalho.
"They
get
lO
go back
to
the
dorms
and see the
results
on
TV."
MIPO
establishes
CATI
system;
undergraduate
concentration
in public
opinion
is offered;
MIPO
receives
extensive
cover·
age
for polling
and analysis
of
presidential
primaries
and
Democratic
National
Conven·
tion
in
New York City
Marist
and
WNBC
form
election-night
partnership;
MIPO
joins
the
National
Council
on
Public
Polls
Marist
students
first
to know
of George
Pataki's
election
victory
MIF'O
establishes
National
Poll
Service
Ml
PO
provides
polling
and
analysis
to media
on
presidential
primaries
and
Democratic
and
Republican
National
Conventions
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But is
il as much fun as
the
early days?
"Sure
il is,"saysDr.
Miringoff.
"First of all, iL's
not just
elections
but
lots
of wpics, so we're
doing
all kinds of issue-focused things.
With the
technology.
we're in a
very
different
mode
but
we're
right where we need LO
be as far
as state of the art. In fact, we're
pushing the envelope and aclu-
ally developing the
next
phase."
Five
years from
now,
he
pre-
dicts, 2003's
graduating student
Election
Night 1997


























pollsters will
return
to
campusand
be
startled
by the changes.
"It
will
look
familiar, the theory base may
be
the
same,
but the applications will be very
different," he
says. "What's changed over
the
years and will continue to change are the ap-
plications, the
scope,
the
turnaround and the
recognition that comes with it.
The
students
continue
to
have a front-row seat for what's
going on in the survey research industry and
political process."
Polling is a great alternative
to
"chalk
and
talk," Dr. Miringoff has said over the
years.
It
has been much more than that
to
hundreds
if not
thousands
of students.
"It
has given and continues to give students
lasting ways
to
build confidence. They don't
have
to
go into opinion research, although
there's probably a fair number who have,"
he admits with pleasure.
"It
makes for better
citizens and more confident individuals."
And it doesn't hurt
in
a
job
hunt.
"I
hear all
the time from people who go out for
jobs
and
they're asked,
'Where
did you go to school?'"
says Dr. Miringoff,
"and
they say Marist Col-
lege. And they tell me the next question was
'Were
you part of the poll?' Boy, does that
work out well if they
can
say yes!"
Drs. Miringoff and Carvalho have received
commercial
job
offers over
the
years.
But, for
both, what they do
is
what
they have
done for
a quarter-century.
"We're
teachers,"
Dr.Carvalho says, and
Dr. Miringoff nods in agreement.
■
Kudos
·from
the Pros
Lee
and Barbara
have
shown
how a well-run,
high
quality
poll, with a sharp
news
sense,
can
put an
institution
on
the map.
The
Marist
Poll
has raised
awareness
of Maris!
College
very dramatically.
Evidence
of how many
people
follow its
reports
are the not-infrequent
calls I get from
people who
heard
a
report
on the radio but confuse
• Maris!'' with •Harris·!
Humphrey
Taylor
Chairman, The Harris Poll
Every
journalist who covers politics
knows that
polls
are a malleable
commodity,
but
in my
years as
Time
magazine's
New York bureau chief, I turned to the
Marist Poll as
the
dependable barometer.
I
had
confidence
in
its
results and often used
the
findings
as a guide in coverage.
Lee
and Barbara
have
built an admirable
reputation
for unbiased,
no-spin, fresh-meat
polling. And
through
their many
TV appearances
and much press
coverage,
they
have br<lught
Marist College
to
the
attention of a
wider public.
Congratulations-and
on
to the
next 25
!
Bonnie Angelo
Contributor, Time Magazine
Marist Colf.ege
Honorary Degree Recipient,
1992
On the occasion
of the 25th anniversary
of
the
laudable
Marist Poll (that's plus or
minus
three,
I
assume),
I
find
myself
wondeiring
about
the apparent
inverse
relationship
between
the
duration
of the survey
and
Lee's
hairline.
Now
that's a regression!
Serious
congratulations
to
Lee,
Barb and the whole
team.
Gary Langer
Director of Polling, ABC News
Lee
and Barb
are the best.
Their
methodology
and
accuracy
are beyond
re•proach.
They
are excellent
at adapting
their
findings
for broadcast
summaries
enabling
us to cut to the
chase
without betraying
the veracity
of their surveys.
But more than anything
they
are a
real
joy to work
with. Barb and Lee can
not
only give you the complete
history
of New York
elections
from
day
one,
they
also
stand
toe-to-toe
with anyone
who thinks
they know everything
there
is
to know about the
New
York
Yankees,
including
telling you everyone
who ever wore Number
11
for the
Bronx
Bombers.
They
know polling, they know the politicians,
they
know all the players.
They
made
a transplanted
Texan
feel
at home
in
l\lew York for four years although
replacing
barbecue
ancl
Tex-Mex
with rice cakes
and latkes
took a
little
getting 1Jsed
to.
Marist
sh,Juld
be proud
ofthem both.
They
have
given
Marist
a
national
reputation.
John Sparks
Execu11ive
Producer, Politics/Investigations,
KTVT/CBS
11
News,
Dallas
"Hello,
my 11ame
is
...
"
MIPO's
MIPO
establishes five-part series
Interactive
on WNBC,
MIPO
partners
MIPO
moves
to Fontaine
Communications
•Many
Voices, with WNBC
for the
Hall and establishes
state·
Lab to develop
One City,·
WNBC/Marist
Poll
MIPO
is
of-the-art
call center;
MIPO
Internet
polling
commemorates
on
issues
facing
the
featured
is featured
on CBS's
Sunday
under
the
first
anniv11rsary
tri-state region;
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on ABC's
Morning
and NBC's
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of
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I
remember
covering
U.S.
Senate
candidates
Rudy
Giuliani
and Hillary
Clinton
for NY1 News
and how
thankful
I
was
to have
people
like Lee
Miringoff
and Barbara
Carvalho
to
rely upon.
The
star-powered
match-up
brought forth an
army
of pundits,
pollsters
and political
consultants
eager
to
appear
on television
and
offer ·expert" analysis.
Many
of these
folks
haven't
been
heard
from
since.
Lee
Miringoff
stands
out
with an
unrivaled
ability
to bring
dry polling
data
to life. In an age of
unscientific
instant
Web surveys
that
are passed
off
as polls, every
journalist
should
be grateful
for
the
Marist
Poll.
Jamie McShane
Producer,
CNN, Los Angeles
I
recall
how
the
Marist
Poll
saved
the day when
VNS
failed
in
the
2002 New York
gubernatorial
election,
giving
us
at
least
some
information
to work
with on our early
newscasts.
Or
I
could recall
the 34
interns
Marist
has
provided
to
our
station
over the years,
virtually
each
and every
one a star.
But
most
of all,
I
recall
the
period
of time when
I
left this
station
to
work at a competitor,
and no longer
had
full ac-
cess
to
Lee,
Barbara
and the Poll.
I
recall
the void not only
before,
during
and after each
debate,
primary
and
election,
but also the loss of contact
with them regularly
as great
colleagues
and friends.
Now back at WNBC,
I
appreciate
them
more than ever.
Dan Forman
Senior Vice President,
News,
and Station Manager
WNBC
I
want to congratulate
the Marist
Poll on 25 great years.
I
have
worked
with Lee
and Barbara
since 1996
and have
nothing
but the utmost
respect
for them.
They
are the best
at what they
do. Their
work
is so timely
and perfectly
complements
WNBC's
coverage
on a
wide
range
of topics
from
war to love (Valentine's
Day).
Again, congrats
on a job well done.
There
certainly
is
reason
to celebrate!
Michael Fitzsimmons
Assistant
News
Director, WNBC
At the risk of sounding
like
a commercial,
I have
always
loved
working with
Lee
and Barbara.
They
have
always
brought
credibility
to the work
that
they do.
Besides
work,
I
also
like
them
as human
beings.
I have
spent
many
election nights working with them into
the
wee hours and they
have
always
been the tops, always
very professional.
They
are extremely
great people
to work
with.
Dianne Doctor
Vice President and
News
Director,
WCBS
I remember
getting
a call
from
someone
named
Lee
M1ringoff
who said he had done some
polling about something
or
other.
Can't remember
the year.
It
may
have
been
20 years
ago. He wanted
to know if Inside
Albany
was interested.
I
said we were and followed
up with a visit
to Marist
and
a knee-to-knee
television
interview
with the good
doc-
tor
in his
then tiny office. I told him
about the
Legislative
Correspondents
Association
at
the state
capitol.
Suggested
he
might
want to
circulate
his data
among
reporters
there.
He and Barbara
ran
with
it
and the
rest
is
history.
Congratulations
to Lee, Barbara
and
all of
you
who
have
gone
on
to build the Marist
Empire.
Dave Hepp
Co-Producer, Inside Albany,
PBS
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Remembering
rann
1
The Marist College
community was deeply sad-
dened to
learn
of the death of Frances Stevens
Reese
on
July
2,
2003, at age 85 following a
car accident. Franny
Reese
was vice chair of
Marist's board of trustees and longtime chair of
the
board's Student Life Committee. This tribute
written by Dennis
j.
Murray appeared in the
Poughkeepsie Journaljuly
9.
T
here is an old adage
that
suggests you
begin
to understand
the
true
mean-
ing
of
life
when you
plant
a shade
tree
under
which you know
full
well you will
never
sit.
During
her 85 years on this earth,
Frances Stevens
Reese planted
many shade
trees
and
made
the world a beuer
place
for
us and
future
generations.
For the
past 20
years,
I
had
the
pleasure
of working with Franny and was constantly
amazed by
the i mpacl
she had
up
and down
the
Hudson
River
Valley-from Albany
to
New
York
City. Whether il was Marist
College,
Locust
Grove
in
Poughkeepsie,
Grinnell
Library
or Zion Episcopal Church
in Wappingers Falls, Boscobel Restoration
in Garrison,
House
of the
Redeemer in
New York City or Scenic
Hudson,
Franny
used
her
wisdom, warmth and unrelenting
work ethic
to
innuence these organizations
for the better.
Of course,
her
greatest commitment was
Lo
the Hudson
River
Valley
itself.
She taught
thousands of
us
about the unique beauty
As
the longtime
chair
of the Student Life
Com-
mittee
of
Marist's board of trustees,
Franny
Reese
often talked
with
students Lo
get
first-
/rand reports
on
the
adequacy
of
everything
from
housing
to activities.
Top:
Marisl awarded
Franny
Reesi:
(center)
an
honorary
Doctor of
Humane Letters in
2000
for
her
leaden:hip
on the
campus and
iri the
com-
nwnity,
her
concern
for
the college's
students,
faculty and .staff and
her accomplishments as an
environmentalist.
President Dennis]. Murray (left) and Trustee
Kathleen
K.
Cullen performed the
hooding
cere111011y
at t/1e college's commencement.
Right: Franny Reese attended the dedication
of
the
James
A.
Cannavino
Library
011
May
6,
2000,
visiting
the
Reese Reading
Room,
which
offers
sweeping
views
of the Hudson
River, with President Murray.
of
the
region and our responsibility for its
stewardship. And she had
the
courage of
her
convictions.
Consolidated Edison discovered this
nearly 40
years ago when
the
utility com-
pany tried
to,
build
a
large
hydroelectric
power plant
into
Storm King Mountain.
Franny joined a Oedgling group called
Scenic Hudson and began a 17-year David
vs. Goliath
battle to
stop
the development
of Storm King and
LO
preserve the
ecology
and
natural
b,eauty of
the
majestic Hudson
Highlands
As
in
the Biblical tale of might vs.
right, David, or in
this
case Franny, won.
The
lawsuit
against Con-
solidated Edison became
a
legal
landmark
because
it
established for the first
time thatcilizenscould gain
"standing"
in
federal
courts
when they seek
to
protect
public
resources
from
pol-
lutersordevelopers.
For her
vision and determination,
Franny Reese
has
right-
fully
been called one ofthe
founders of the modern-day
environmental
movement
in
the
United States.
At Marist College,
Franny was vice chair of
the board of
tirustees
and
longtime
chair of
the board's Student
Life
Committee.
There
was no generation gap
between
Franny and
our students. Although most of them were
ese
young enough
to
be
her grandchildren, she
frequently was seen in the dining hall,
the
dorms and
the
recreation center talking with
students and getting firsthand reports on
the adequacy of everything from housing
to
social activities. Franny saw the unlimited
potential
of the human spirit in young
people,
and they saw in her a friend, an advocate and
a genuine human being. She gained their
respect
and
their
love.
Franny also had a
keen
eye
for
aesthetics.
She probably gained
this
through
her
stud-
ies at Barnard College and Yale An School
as well as her travels around
the
world. She
understood what
philosophers
call
"a
sense
of place"-how the environment and the
buildings around us affect us as
human
beings.
She had a unique appreciation
for
beauty,
whether it was
found in
the views of
the Hudson
River, the
Highlands.a building,
painting or
tree. Her
imprint can be seen on
the
design
of public spaces in our James A.
Cannavino
Library,
Student Center, Fontaine
Hall and campus grounds.
Franny and her late husband of 53 years,
Willis
L.
M. Reese, set a fine example for
their fi,·e children, six grandchildren and
six great-grandchildren. Her death has left
a huge void in our lives and our community,
but we
thank
her for planting so many shade
trees for us to enjoy. Her life was a splendid
gift to us all.
■
Dr. Dennis]. Murray
is
president
and
professor
of
public policy at Marist
College.
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Launching a
D
uring his first week at Mari st College
in
1976,
Ross Mauri received an "A"
in
Introduction to Computing. Dur-
ing his
second week, his computer science
professor recruited
him
to work
in
Marist's
computer center. By
the
third week he was
operating its computers.
For
the next two
years,
he
and two other students kept
the
college's computing
facility
up and running
for
a campus of
1,800
students.
Today, Ross
Mauri
'80
is still im-
mersed in computing-on
a global scale.
He is responsible
worldwide for
the
design
and
development
of all server and storage
hardware and software for the IBM Corpo-
ration,
the
largest
information technology
company, business and
technology
services
consultancy and
hardware
company
in
the
world.
To
Ross, the Marist
computer center was
like a playground Adrian Hall, the home
of
the
computer center, was
demolished
in
2000 but,
he
says during a visit to
Marist,
"l
walk
fondly by that
piece of grass."
Ross
became fascinated with
computing before
he
ever reached
Marist. A physics class
in 1975
at
Roosevelt
High
School first opened
his
eyes
to
what computing was all
about.
"We were shooting off Estes rockets
and doing calculations on thrust and all
that kind of stuff, and
I
had
a state-of-
the-art Tl (Texas Instruments) calculator.
It
took me about 50 minutes to do these
three
pages of calculations.
I remember
this
clearly.
I
was the second one done in
the
class."
His teacher,
Floyd Holt
'68,
had
brought
to class a computer terminal connected to
an online system.
He
told
the
students
to
enter
key
variables into the computer, which
would print answers
that
the students would
compare with theirs.
"Sol
typed
in
all the variables, hit Enter,
and it immediately printed out a page and a
half
of answers-in
seconds,"
Ross remem-
bers.
"l was floored.
I
just said,
'I
have
to
learn
about this because
there's
no way
I'm
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LESLIE
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MATM"NGILUS
Ross
Mauri
'80,
vice
president, development for
the
IBM Systems Group.
Inset:
A
1980
Marist
College yearboo/1
portrait.
going to sit around
for
50 minutes with a
calculator if
there's
something
that
can
do
it that fast.' "
Through
the
school's Computer Club
he so,on took a course
in
APL, short for
A Programming Language, developed in
the 1960s for mathematical applications.
When
Ross
got to Marist and his
freshman
Introduction to Computing
I
course,
taught
by Kevin Carolan,
he
saw
that
APL was the
foundation of the class.
"After
the first class
I
went up
to
Kevin and I said, This seems
very basic.
Is
there any chancel could skip
this course?' "
The
professor asked
him
to
bring in his programs, so
the
next day Ross
brought
in a
dozen
programs
he
had writ-
ten.
"He
looked
at them and
then he
said,
'I
think
we'regoingtoskipyou to
lntroduction
to
Computing
II.'
The next week he came
back
to
me and he said, 'Would you consider
working
in
the computer center?'
"
From
the
moment
he
saw the center's


























Ross Mauri met Marist
computer science
majors and IBM interns
(left
to right) James
Moore
'03
M,
Christopher Davis
'03
and
Anthony
Sofia
'04
M
this
past spring
in
the
college's
computer center. James Moore is
110w a
J
u/1-time IBM
employee
wor/1i11g
i11 IBM's Pough/1eepsie lab.
lBM 1401, Ross was hooked.
"To
me
it
was
a no-brainer. l couldn't think of more fun
than
working with my hands directly on
real
computing."
So in only his third week at college, he
joined two other students in
running
the
college's computer facility.
"It
was
just
a phe-
nomenal experience,"
he
says. He worked an
average of
40 hours
a week at the computer
center. "But, again,
it
wasn't work. I was hav-
ing
the time
of my
life
and
I
couldn't believe
that
l
got paid for
it."
He
continued working in
the
computer
center into
his
sophomore year, until Mari st
completed a transition to outsourcing
its
computer operations. Then he was hired
by
the
outside company, where he
had the
opportunity
to
work
for its
other customers
as well as Marist.
"That's
when
I realized
that
there was a bigger wdrld out there." At
the
same time he was invited to program
computers
for
a
new
Poughkeepsie area
business and also went to work for IBM as
a co-op intern.
"At
one point I had four dif-
ferent programming jobs, and
I
took
a full
course load the whole
time"
He spent 80 to
100 hours a week at
his four
jobs. The work
"was
like solving the biggest puzzle
I
can
imagine," Ross remembers.
"In
the everyday
world
there
were puzzle pieces I'd find and
figure
out, and then
realize
that
the
puzzle
just kept
going on."
Eventually
it
became too much. Working
to
maintain his
grade point average at
4.0
each semester
in
addition to working multiple
jobs was very
tiring. He
gave up all of
the
jobs except
the
one at IBM and
focused
on
finishing college with good grades.
When
he
graduated, he
had
IO
interviews
at IBM over
two
days and got job offers from
each one. 'They all wanted me, not because
I was super-bright but because not many
graduates from college
have
four years of
intense
working experience on
their
resumes
that they
can
directly
apply. And I
had
that.
So
the hands-on
experience at Marist
helped
launch
me
at
IBM."
He accepted a job as a programmer at
IBM despite an offer
from
another company
at twice
the
salary. "I wanted
to
work at a
big
company
because
of
the playground
and
the
puzzle. I knew it would
be
immense
there.
I
knew
IBM
would
be
a much
bigger
place to
go indulge myself
in
technology."
By 1986
colleagues whom
he
respected
urged him to go
into management.
The idea
of having more control over
the
direction of
large
projects, not
just
in
his
own work
but
in
many people's work, intrigued
him.
ln
1993 he was appointed director of
IBM's Paris-based Client/Server
Computing unit overseeing
strategy in Europe,
the
Middle
East and Africa. In 1994
he
was
named general manager of IBM
Software Group marketing for
,--
that
region.
In 1995
he
became
g
technical assistant to IBM's
~
chairman and CEO. In 1996
i
he was named vice president of
S/390 Global Hardware
Development
with
responsibility
for delivery of
IBM's
latest
generations of S/390 CMOS-based servers,
including the
record-setting
Generation 5. In
1998,
he
led the worldwide S/390 marketing
effort as vice
president
of S/390 Solutions
and Strategy.
In
early 2000 he was appointed
vice
president
of UNIX Software, responsible
for
the
development and marketing of
IBM's
UNIX and
Linux
initiatives. In September
2000 he
was named vice president, eServer
development
in the IBM Server Group.
In
December 20>02
Ross
was named
to his
cur-
rent position of vice president,
development
for the
IBM
Systems Group. He is also
the
senior
location
executive for IBM's site in
Poughkeepsie.
Marist has had a special
relationship
with
IBM
through
a 15-year joint study.
The
cor-
poration and Marist
have been
collaborating
on
the
application of
the
massive computing
power of large servers to
teaching, learning
and organizational support
for
colleges and
universities.
A
member of Marist's board of
trustees,
Ross
says one of
the
most exciting devel-
opments of
the joint
study has been the
Franklin D.
Roosevelt Presidential Library
project, and
the
eLearning and distance
learning initiatives
that
sprang
from
it. The
project involved digitizing many materials
held
by
the
nation's oldest presidential
li-
brary,
located
up the
road
from
Marist in
Hyde
Park, archiving
them
and making
them
available online
to
scholars around
the
world.
'That
project was very valuable
because
it proved that the technology we
pioneered
here
is expandable."
"The clas room part is, I believe,
extremely important and I wouldn't
have give it up for anything in the
world." B t the hands-on
experience
amplifies
t e classroom
component,
he
says. "It ves you such a leg up when
you have t go out into the real world
and look f r a job."
An exciting current joint study project
focuses on utility computing.
"It
enables
business executives to think about com-
puting in much
the
same way they think
about electricity," he explains.
"It's
always
available, and customers
pay
forexactlywhat
they
use. The idea is
to
alleviate some of the
problems today of customers having
to
build
their
own data center, buy all the software
and
implement
their own applications. A
lot of customers are saying, Td rather have
somebody else do
the
computing part for me
and I'll just use what I need, like a utility.'
They can easily get to computing resources,
and do it in a variable-cost way."
Utility computing
is just
one aspect of
the "on demand"
future
of the computing
industry, Ross asserts.
"We're
pioneering
some of the technology
right
here at Marist.
That's the other thing
I'm
most proud of
right now. We can't say we're done, but we
can see we're making great progress, and
Marist is being viewed as a pioneer in the
use of that technology."
IBM's
joint
study with Marist has also
been valuable
for
students, he says, giving
them opportunities that will
launch their
careers.
"It's a larger education than just being
in a classroom. The classroom part
is,
I be-
lieve,
extremely
important
and I wouldn't
have given
it
up for anything in the world."
But the
hands-on
experience amplifies the
classroom component, he says.
"It
gives you
such a
leg
up when you have
to
go out into
the real world and
look
for a
job."
The Marist students who work on the
joint
study projects are phenomenal, Ross
says. "They're just stellar, they're leaders.
I
hate to say they remind me of myself, but
they're young, they're moti\'ated, they're in-
terested
in
the technology and I'm positive
that's what
drives
them e\'ery da}',°'
As for Ross Mauri, the puzzle is big-
ger than ever, sometimes too big.
"It
feels
overpo\\'ering some days," he
smiles.
"But
yes,
the
puzzle is never-ending. It's pan of
the
reason
that l\·e stayed with IBt-1
for 23
years now. Every day
l
can
learn something
new.''
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U
ntil this year, Marist political science
major Kimberly Cuccia had never
been out of the United States. Unlike
many college students,
she
had never been
one for international travel. Yet on January
4, there she was at Kennedy Airport, waiting
to board a flight to a destination very few
Americans have reached: Havana. Cuba.
Kim, now a senior, was one of
26 people
who traveled to Cuba Jan. 4 to
18
in the
Maristgroup. The contingent included two
Marist faculty members, Dr. James Kent.
assistant professorof public
administration
and director of the M.P.A. program, and
Dr. Thomas Wcrmuth, dean
of
the
School
of
Liberal
Arts.
Because
of a U.S. government embargo
established in
1960, the
govern
mentallows
only certain
classes
of Americans such as
journalists
and family
members
of Cubans
to travel freely
to
Cuba.
In
othercases,such
as
those
of American college students, it
requires
application for a license. ln
2002,
more than
900 American students visited
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Student visited
the
Museo de la Revolucion in Havana, among
other
historical
sites.
Cuba, a
.cording
Lo Open Doors
2002, the
annual 1report on international education
published
by
the
Institute
of International
Education,a not-for-profit educational and
cultural exchange organization.
"Why not Cuba?" says Duleep Deost-
hale, a:ssistant dean of international
programs, of the genesis of Marist's first
trip
to
that nation.
"Part of the Marist mission is
to
encour-
age people
to
think.
1
think this
program
really
forces students
to think
and wonder
and question and explore. It fits right into
what we are all about."
Duleep
Deosthale
says getting gov-
ernment approval wasn't a complicated






process. In March 2002 he requested per-
mission from the Treasury Department's
Office of foreign Assets Control for the
winter intersession program as part of
Marist's Global Studies and International
Programs curriculum.
The government
granted the required license within two
months.
Cuba is one of many countries that have
seen
an increase in Americans
studying
abroad. The numberofU.S. college students
receiving credit for foreign
study
in 2000/01
increased
7.4
percent from the previous
year,
according to
Open
Doors 2002. The
number
of students studying abroad
in the
past five years
has
increased 55
percent.
Since 1991/92,
the
number
has
more than
doubled,
from
71,154 to 154,168. Many
countries hosting only a few American
students five years ago saw
hundreds
of
students in 2002. Cuba was one of these
with 905 American students, up 64 percent,
according
to
the report.
To earn three academic credits, the
Marist students were required to write a
paper before the trip on what they expected
in Cuba; keep a journal that program di rec-
raded
e\'ery
day; and write a
paperaftcrt
trip. In addition the
students
took
classes each
morning in Havana at
Casa de
las
mcricas, a
government-run
arts organi
lion
recognized as
one of
the
most
sig ~ificant cultural
institutions
in Latin Am
rica.
Casa de las Americas
hosts
progra :ns, conferences and exhibits
on visual ar
,·,
dance, film, theatre, music
and literature and is a major publisher of
books and joiurnals. Its Cuban faculty lec-
tured the Marist group on the country's
social
programs, history, political system,
music, relations with the United States,
ecology,
tourism and media.
The students
went on trips
each
after-
noon to places related to the morning's
topic,
visiting
museums, religious cen-
ters
and
attractions including the home
of American writer Ernest Hemingway.
With evenings on
theirown, they
explored
Havana by sightseeing, dining in restau-
rants and seeing shows at
the
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The
students
marveled
al
1950s-era
cars
in
use
011
the
streets
of Havana.
At one point the students had an unusual
opportunily to meet U.S. Congressman Mau-
rice Hinchey, a Democrat representing New
York's 22nd Congressional District, which
includes the city of Poughkeepsie. The con-
gressman, one of a number of members of
Congress who have advocated easing the
U.S. trade and travel restrictions, happened
to
be on a trip to Havana at the same time
as
the
Marist group and initially met wilh
them brieOy
in
their hotel. They persuaded
him to
join
them later that week to address
their class, where he spoke about U.S. policy
toward Cuba.
From the moment they set foot
in
Cuba,
the students were struck by the country's
many differences with the United States. Pat
Ferrante
'96,
an adult-student graduate of
Marist now enrolled in
the
M.P.A. program,
nOLiced
destitution e\'erywhere.
"The
people
were basically poverty-level."
Hustlers were a common sight on
Havana's streets, the students say. Panhan-
dlers thought
that
because the students were
Americans, they
had
lots of money, says Wil-
neida Negron, an M.P.A. student who works
full-time as a case manager at a children's
home.
'·Compared
to them, we do," she adds,
recalling a mother and children who asked
her for
soap, toothpaste and shampoo.
Pat, a financial ad\'isor at Merrill Lynch,
noticed the country's crumbling infrastruc-
ture. Manhole covers and grates on drains
were missing. Sidewalks were torn up for a
half a block. A historic church damaged by a
hurricane
in
1979 had not been repaired.
"They're doing the best they can with
what
they've
got," he says, citing a need for
medical supplies, building materials, trac-
tors, food and hospitals.
The Americans noticed a police and mili-
tary presence but were not unduly alarmed
by it. Police and military were \'isible on
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street corners and carried sidearms. The
police were protective of the Americans,
the students report, dispersing Cubans
they percei\'ed to be bothering
the
\'iSitors.
"They
were really watching out for the tour-
ists," Kim says.
"You
were
not on
vacation,"
say$
Pat Ferrante.
"You
were
learning all the time."
What also stood out were the 1950s-
era cars in use on the streets of Havana.
During the group's five-hour bus ride from
Havana to the colonial city ofTrinidad, Pat
marveJ.ed that everything seemed set back
in time. Tractors were also of 1950s vintage,
and farmers were using oxen
to
plow
land.
Houses had
roofs of sugar cane leaves.
Willneida was interested in comparing
Lhe two places where she grew up, Puerto
Rico arnd the Dominican Republic, to Cuba.
"It
really blew me away," she says. 'There
was no American influence; it represents
Puerto Rico back
in
the 1950s. Due to their
isolation, culture has been able to thrive.
The intensity of the culture was amazing."
She als,o felt fortunate to be able to speak
Spanish and made a point of Lalking with
local
people in Spanish each day.
The Marist students also remarked on
how
friendly the Cubans were. 'They're very
warm and they don't have any kind of anger
toward Americans," says Wilneida.
"They were kind and loving people," says
Pat.
"Tlhey
made it very clear that
they
like
the
American people but they just don't like
the
American policy."
Members of the Maristgroupwerestruck
by the freedom they perceived Cubans to
have. "II expected more of a
feeling
of repres-
sion or :suppression," says professor Jim Kent.
'·I
was not expecting the people to be as
forthcoming
in
conversation
....
It was a more
open society than
I
expected to find."
"I
didn't think the people would be as
free as they are," says Wilneida. "It's very
li\'ely.
They can speak
their
mind. They can
write poetry about
different
views. They can
express any kind of frustration.
I
thought
it
would be more repressive. The majority
seems pretty content.
I
was surprised at
that."
However,
two
months after the Marist
trip, the Cuban government cracked down
on dissidents,jailing 78. The arrests outraged
the U.S. Congress and overshadowed
recent
efforts by members to normalize relations
with Cuba.
Dr. Kent, who had traveled extensively
but never before to Cuba, knew how deeply
the
trip was affecting students from grad-
ing
their
journal entries every day.
"It
was
a profound experience for
lots
of
them,
and
it certainly was for me."
"You were not on vacation," says Pat.
"You
were just
learning
all the time."
The group returned to the United States
with an appreciation of the material
things
they
had.
"I
relearned
the whole simplicity of
life," says Wilneida.
"It
was a culture shock,
to go there, with all the poverty, and to come
back" to all the excess, she says.
"I
learned
that you could have a wonderful life with
the bare necessities."
"You're doing a hard thing,"
Dr. Kent
says
he
told
the
students. "You agreed to go to
a country where Americans can't go. When
you did that, you opened your mind."
Kim Cuccia would recommend the
trip to
anyone.
"It
was the experience of a
lifetime.''
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Historic
sites of
Havana
served
as
the Maris!
group's
classroom.






















The School of Graduate and Continuing
Education
____
earne:rs
Marist has been reaching out to nontraditional
students since the college's
earliest days. Today,
progressive
scheduling
and advanced
technology
enable the School of Graduate and Continuing
Education
to offer programs
that
fit into the busy
lives of more adult students
than ever before.
I
n
the
Indian
Ocean, 30
miles from
shore,
in the dynamic
positioning room of an
oil
exploration ship drilling 7,000
miles
deep,
Second Officer
Richard Robson
was
taking
a Marist College
c:.lass.
In
a
military hospital
in
a
jungle in
East
Timor,
battling Dengue
Fever, attorney and
former New
York
City police officer Ken Pa-
yumo was doing
the
same
thing.
Both men
were at
laptop
computers,
tak-
ing
part in
Marist on
line M.B.A.
courses.
Ma
rist has
ah
istory
of educali
ng not
only
traditional undergraduates
but also adult
learners
ina
variety of circumstances.
Today
the
college strives to offer programs that wi
11
fit
the
schedules of a range of students,
not
only
to
bring in revenue but also to
fulfill its
mission
of excellence
in
education.
Fulfilling the mission means
accom-
modating more kinds
of students than ever
before. Undergraduates
have
changed over
the
past
generation, according to a
2002
report
by
the
National Center
for
Educa-
tion Statistics. The nation's
undergraduate
population was 72
percent
larger in
1999
than
in 1970, with
more
students enrolled
part-time,
more
at
two-year
colleges, and
women replacing
men
as the
majority.
Col-
legians were also older, with 39 percent of all
postsecondary students 25 years or older
in
1999, compared with 28 percent
in
1970.
The government report says the "tradi-
tional" undergraduate-one who graduates
from
high school, enrolls
full time,
goes
di-
rectly from
high
school
to
college, depends
on
parents
for financial support and either
doesn't work
during the
school yearorworks
part-time-is the exception,
not the rule.
In
1999-2000,
just
27 percent of
undergrads
met all oft
hese
criteria.
The
goal of the School
of Graduate and Continuing Education at
Mari st
is to
provide
high-quality
educational
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programs
to
graduate sLUdents
and
that
73
percent of srndents who are
nontraditional,
offering schedules
that
allow
for
the compet-
ing
demands of job and family
Night School
D
r.
Richard For,
president
of Marist
from
1958 to
1979,
sars serving di-
verse populations
is
a school tradition
tracing
back
to the
Marist Brothers. "This
~ concept
that
we're
here to
serve you really
S
goes back
to
the founder," says Dr. For, a
former Marist Brother,
referring
to
SainL
Marcellin Champagnat, the founder of the
Marist
Brothers,
who established a group
of Brothers in
1817
dedicated to
teaching
poor
country youth. "He
really
focused on
education for everybody."
From
the beginning,
the college's stu-
dent
population included foreigners, says
Dr.
Fo}', recalling as many as 20 student
Brothers
from abroad during the 1950s and
1960s.
In 1957,
the
college, then a school for
Marist Brothers led by Bro. Paul Ambrose,
FMS, admiued
J
2 laymen. Two rears
later,
the college teamed with the IBM Corp. to
offer an evening bachelor's degree program
for
IBM employees. Dr. Brian Desilets, who
chaired the Physics Department at the
tune,
recalls that IB!vl
was expanding, hiring many
emplorees who had
two-rear
degrees. The
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Serving
Adult
Learners
Today the school reaches out with not only degree programs but also a variety of certificate programs
and other training available at sites in Poughkeepsie, Fishkill, Goshen, Kingston, Monticello and online.
corporation wanted to offer employees the
opportunity
LO
complete a four-year degree.
The college soon
had 128
physics majors
from
lBM,
Dr. Desilets says.
Administrators
then
decided to open
an evening
division.
"Those
were the
days
when small colleges were closing quickly,"
says Dr. Desilets. "You either got bigger or
you didn't make
it."
Dr. Foy hired
Dr.
John Schroeder
to
be
the
first director of adult education in 1959,
and
the:
evening di\' i sion opened for business
in September
1959
with 167 enrolled.
In 1966
women were admitted to the
evening division, and
in 1968 to the day
division.
During the
1960s
and
1970s
the
Dick Cole
'69forged
a highly successful career at IBM starting In Poughkeepsie
in
1951
and progressing through the leadership ra1nks to executive levels of man•
agement, at several locations throughout the co1mpany. He retired in
1991.
In
1963
he decided to attend Marist College
·to
earn a business degree. His
motivation at the time was to enrich his capablll1:ies, if for no other reason than
self-satisfaction.
But he became so exhilarated
lby
the learning experience and
environment at Marist, he became a full-time istudent for two years prior to
graduating in
1969.
Dick was elected a member of Marist's board off trustees in
1975
and continues
to serve the college In that capacity. He helped leiad the successful fund-raising
effort to build the new Marist College library, an1II he and his wife, Jeanne, have
been loyal supporters of the college for more th,an 30 years.
Upon retirement from IBM, Dick, along with tieveral partners, established a
consulting company, Meritus Consulting, as a jollnt venture of IBM and Coopers
&
Lybrand. In
1996
he and seven others bought
,out
the company and Dick was
subsequently named president of the firm.
His daughter, Cynthia, followed him as a Maritit graduate, obtaining her bach•
elor's degree in computer science in
1988.
She and her husband, Bob Munger,
received their master's degrees from Marist in
1,991.
"Jeanne and I look at our Marist College years as one of the most gratifying
experiences of our lives," says Dick. "We are grat4aful to have had the opportunity
to be part of the college."
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college opened
its
doors wider. The college
invited senior citizens to sit in on classes,
as
long
as
there
was room, for a
low fee.
Dr.
Foy
remembers
as many as 40 seniors
taking
the college up on
it.
In
1972 officials at Green
Haven
Correc-
tional Facility, a maximum-security prison
in
Stormville, N.Y., contacted Marisr. They
sought college courses for a number of in-
mates who
had
completed the
prison's
high
c
school equivalency program and wanted to
!
continue
their
schooling while serving
their
" sentences.
"They
wanted
to
break the cycle,"
§
says Dr.
Foy
With
funding
from New York
State,
Marist
went on to offer programs at
several
prisons
for a number of years.
In
1972 the college introduced its first
two
master's degree
programs,
in
business
administration and psychology In
1979
Marist
initiated
a master's
in
public admin-
istration.
Since
then the
college
has
added
master's programs
in
computer science
in
information systems, computer science
in
soft ware development, educational psychol-
ogy, and school
psychology.
Other milestones in
reaching
out
to
adult
learners were
the
opening of
the Fishkill,
N .Y., extension center
in
1983 and the exten-
sion center in Goshen,
N.Y.,
in
1990.
The year 1983 also saw
the
debut of
the bachelor's
in integrative
studies, which
allows students to develop
individualized
cross-disciplinary majors by using courses
from Marist's 28 academic programs. The
Oexible program has been very
popular,
with
44 percent of adult undergraduates choosing
it during fall 2002.
Accelerated bachelor's degree programs
also have
been popular. The
newest, a
bachelor's
in
organizational leadership and
communication
(OLC),
enables adult learn-
ers to complete a degree in
two
years while
working
full-time.
Students
meet
one night a
week for four hours in six-week modules and
two
to
four hours
per
week on
line, through
the Internet.
The program
graduated its first
class, 17
people, in
spring
2003.
With such
programs, says Dr. De
Joy,
interim
dean of
Marist's School of Graduation and Continu-
ing Education, "we
reduce
the
barriers
that
adults
face
when
they
come
to
college.''
The School of Graduate and Continuing
Education, located
in
the
Dyson
Center on
the Poughkeepsie campus,
is the
admitting
office for all pan-time students, all students
seeking graduate degrees and all students
aged
22
and over seeking
undergraduate
de-
grees. (The full-time
undergraduate
aged
22
or under enters th rough
the
college's Office of
Admissions.) En
rollmentofboth
undergrad-

















uate
adults and graduate students at Marist
has
increased
significantly
in
recent
years.
The 935 adult
undergrads
enrolled
in
fall
2002
represented a 53 percent
increase
si
nee
fall
1997.
The
1,053
graduate students of
fall
2002 represented an
86 percent increase over
fall 1997, and
the
numberof graduate credits
generated
has
doubled since
then.
Today the school
reaches
out with not
only degree
programs
but also a variety
of certificate
programs
and other training
available at sites
in Poughkeepsie, Fishkill,
Goshen,
Kingston, Monticello and
online.
What's most exciting, says
Dr. De Joy,
is
helping to
transform
people's
lives through
education. "Adults are special people. They
see
this
as a second chance."
"l
loved
working with adult students,"
says Eleanor Charwat
'85,
executive director
from
1987
to 1997 of adult education
pro-
grams at Marist and an adult student when
she earned an
M.P.A.
at Marist.
"They
were
so
motivated."
Motivated
Students
T
o say Richard Robson
'04
Mand
Ken
Payumo '03 M were
motivated
to earn
their
degrees would be an understate-
ment. Richard Robson, second officer and
dynamic positioning operator aboard a
drill
ship for the company Transocean,
had to
carry
textbooks
in
his
luggage
on airplanes
from
New York
to
lndia
and on a
helicopter
from
shore to his ship each time
he went
out
for
his
28-day
shift.
Ken Payumo
had to
wait as
long
as eight weeks for
his
books
to
arrive-via Australia-in East Timor, where
he
was working with a United Nations
mis-
sion, advising on security and
infrastructure
for
the
country's
new
democracy.
Waiting for books was
the
least of his
worries.
Dengue Fever-"it's
a very
painful
disease," he notes-put
him
in
and out of
the
hospital
for four weeks.
Even
in the
hos-
pital he kept up
with his course work.
'The
classes are paced so
quickly that
you
don't
have time
to skip a week,"
he
says.
Both
men
also
had trouble
with
Internet
access.
"Weather
is
the primary
challenge,"
Richard Robson
says in an e-mail from
his
ship.
"Our
ship's communications are
of-
ten interrupted when we encounter
heavy
weather.
It
is
not
unusual
to
have
our
Internet
out of service for a
few days,
which
makes
planning
and preparing
my
assignments
ahead of time a priority. Another
challenge
is
the
limited
bandwidth. On some
days
the
speed of
the Internet
could
be
compared
to
the old
l
4.4 kbps modems of years
past. This
makes for
a long night when doing
research.
Ethel
IPaxton
'75
had worked
as an industrial nurse for IBM in
Poughkuepsie for about five years
when,
lln
1973,
having already
obtained an associate degree in
nursing in her native Virginia, she
enrolled at Mari st College. Going to
Marist to study psychology was, she
says, one of the best decisions she
has eve1· made.
"I knew at that point I was go-
ing to change my career path," says
Ethel, who moved north with her then
husband! and their children after he
was hired by IBM. "There were a lot
of oppo1rtunltles {at IBM), so It did
not make sense for me not to take
advanta1ge of it. I knew that I was
going to leave nursing. I knew that I
was goir11g
to go into personnel work
and tha1t I would have a career in
manage11nent."
It wits an experience that did
not define her as a person so much
as confi1rm who she was. "It was a
confirm11tion
that education is abso-
lutely nticessary, that you can do it
and that you will be able to use that
experier1ce to satisfy your goals."
Ethell could have applied to other colleges but selected Marist because of
its repuitation. "Many IBM employees had gone to Marist and so there was a
very po11itive image in the community and in my mind," she says. "There was
no hesit:ancy about going to Marist."
She unrolled in a Marist night class. "I did not have the patience to do it at
that pace. So then I applied for a leave of absence {from IBM) and went full•
time."
She 11et goals and accomplished them. One goal involved a daughter {she
has four children and now four grandchildren). "She was going to be graduating
from high school and I wanted to go back {to college) and get out by the time
she graduated," Ethel says. "It was interesting that she was in a bridge program
that wau associated with Marist. So I graduated from college the same year
she gradluated from high school."
But ~,eing an educational contemporary of her daughter was nothing new.
"Educatiion was always something that was so important to us that I think we
were ahirays learning together, whether it was going into New York City to art
gallerieu or to a theater," she says. "This was simply in a different place, but
learning was something we always did together as a family."
Whilo a student at Marist she utilized her energies and life experiences
serving as a counselor to disabled students. In
1993
she took early retirement
from her position as program manager In corporate curriculum development at
IBM and opened an art gallery In Poughkeepsie. Since
1996,
Ethel has been the
executiv
1
e director of the Poughkeepsie YWCA.
"I've
1always
been confident In a learning situation, but when you go to a school
like Marllst that provides learning opportunities, it helps you know that you are
really OM," she says. "You take those challenges and you deal with them."
-Larry Hughes
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Serving
Adult
Learners
A distinction of the School of Graduate and Continuing Education
is
the way it uses
technology
in teaching and serving
students.
"I read in the New York papers
that there's a weekend course for
M.B.A. degrees that Cornell Univer•
sity is giving," says
Sadie Effron
'79,
matriarch of the family that has
operated since
1930
what is now
Efco Products in Poughkeepsie.
"Well,
I
can't get in for that
but I'm talking it up to my chll·
dren," she says, seated elegantly
at the dining room table of her
apartment overlooking the Vas•
sar College Alumnae House in
the City of Poughkeepsie. "There
are so many advantages to learn•
ing and so many things that are
available."
At the age of
96
she is still an
active and inquisitive learner-and
a Marist College graduate who
obtained her degree when she was
72
years old.
"I always had a desire to
learn," she explains.
"I
grew up in
Canada and my father died when
I
was 18 years old. My mother could not afford to send my twin sister and me to the
university."
After taking a first year of college in her senior y1aar of high school, she worked
at the large country store that her mother ran, deliv1ering goods to farmers in their
town of
1,200.
Sadie was always disappointed shit wasn't able to continue her
college education, but life took her in other directi1ons.
She married in
1930
and moved to Poughkeepsie. She and her husband, Bill,
shared an interest in literature and poetry. He had ~raduated in
1927
from Cornell.
Times were tough. He had trouble finding employme111t
and wound up selling coffee
in New York City for
$10
a week. Cousins in the Bronx owned a vegetable store.
They took him in, gave him a place to sleep and fed him.
BIii's father, recalls Sadie, was established in 1'eal estate. He told his son to
come back to Poughkeepsie; the young couple coult~ live with his parents and he'd
rent him a store. And he backed his son for a carl~1ad of flour and a secondhand
truck.
They were in business, with Sadie handling the b4ooks
as she had for her mother
as a girl in Canada. She remembers their intellectual pursuits, discussing literature
and especially the works of William Shakespeare.
Before long there were three sons to raise. Still she found time to volunteer at
Vassar Brothers Hospital and be a caseworker for th1e American Red Cross. Temple
Beth-El was an important part of family life. But the desire to complete a formal
education was always dear to her heart.
"I started at Dutchess Community College, went there at nights, finished and
then started to take a few courses at Marist," she s1ays, reveling in the memories.
"The thing that really impressed me at Mari st was the ability of the faculty to make
an older student comfortable."
What does it mean to Sadie Effron to be able to say she's a Marist College
graduate? "It makes me proud and reinforces my own beliefs that you have to keep
going, keep trying and keep learning."
-Larry
Hughes
22
MARIST
MAGAZINE
Anolher challenge is
the
remole
location.
I
have
no access to libraries or
to
bookstores.
I rely
solely on
the Internet
and the
books I
bring with me for all of
my information. Be-
ing
in
another
time
zone (10 hours ahead of
New York) can cause a slighl problem when
online discussions are set
up."
At times
Ken
Payumo
had
only
20
minutes
a day online,
making it difficult
to
download
material or converse with
classmates. Power outages were common.
"Electricity was very
unpredictable," he
recalls.
"We
never had
electricity
for 24
hours
a day.
"There were
more
obstacles
than
I ex-
pected," he says.
Yet
the program
had
an
unexpected
benefit
for
him.
With
no news-
papers or olher amenities, he was glad to
have somelhing to keep him connecled.
"Doing
the
M.B.A. was really a blessing. It
really got me together.
This
kept
my mind
in focus."
On-Site Programs
S
tudents
enrolled
in
Marisl courses
might
take them
online from any
remote
location,
at
the Poughkeepsie
campus or extension centers, or in some
cases
in their
workplaces. Marisl
custom-
ized
a recent program
for
a group of
IBM
employees. Some
100
employees enrolled
in the bachelor's in integrative studies in
technology
management, presented in af-
lernoon
classes at an
IBM
facility in
East
Fishkill, N.Y.
At IBM's
request Marist has
also
offered non-degree, college-level courses in
math, communicationsand semi-conductor
chemistry
to
groups of employees, complete
with a graduation ceremony.
Marist also offers on-site accelerated
M.P.A.
programs
al various
law
enforce-
ment agencies
throughout
New
York
State.
In spring 2003 about 300 students
took
lhe
coursesatagency
facilities in
Albany, Middle-
town, New York Cily, Syracuse and Valhalla.
Students
need
not be in law enforcement
lO
enroll in the cohorts, which meet one night
a week
for
four
hours,
over eight weeks,
in
a program lhat
takes no
longer
than lWO
and a
half
years. About 1,000 students have
earned
M
P.A. degrees through
the
cohort
program
since
it
began in 1989.
Dr.
James
Kent, assistant
professor
of
public
administration and M.P.A. program
direclor,
says the program
has been
ex-
tremelysuccessful.
"Students
have
expressed
considerable satisfaction with
the
program.
I lhink
they
regard it as academically chal-
lenging
and
professionally
worthwhile."




















\1
\HIST
~
as the school implements
its
goal of putting
Marist's
core
general education
courses
online for
adults. Beginning
in fall
2003,
Marist will offer
a
certificate
in
information
technology
online.
The
school also offers
a
joint M.B.A./advanced
certificate in
information
systems, combined for
the
first time.
For only
three
courses
more
than
the
regular M.B.A.,
students
can earn
the
M.B.A.
and
www.marist.edu/gce
Also starting
this
fall,
data center
professionals
can enroll through
Graduate and Continuing
Education in
a
unique
online accelerated bachelor's
degree
comple-
tion
program
or
a certificate program.
Both
offer an indus1try-applicable, skills-based cur-
riculum while
preparing
students for Certified
Data Center Professional
(CDCP) certification
through
the
lni;titute
for
Data
Center
Profession-
als.
The
online component constitutes Marist's
first
undergraduate degree-completion program
offered
completely online; students must have
67 credits
to
enroll.
the certificate.
All of the
program's
courses
are
available
online or in
the
classroom,
and students
may mix
and
match them.
"We expect this M.B.A. Plus Three option
to be
very popular," says
Dr. De Joy.
A
distinction
of the School of Graduate
and Continuing Education is
the
way it
uses
technology in teaching
and serving students.
The
on
line M.B.A.
and
M.P.A.
options-on-
line programs
that cover exactly
the
same
material as classroom courses-have
made
the degree possible
for
many, and students
can mix
online
and
classroom courses. Be-
ginning
in fall 2003, the master's in
computer
science in
information
systems will be offered
complete! y onli
ne.
Offered on
line
fort
he
first
time this past
spring were
two
of the
required
courses for
undergraduates,
College Writing
II
and Arts and Values, and
more
are planned
To better
serve students and bring them
together,
the
School of Graduate and Con-
tinuing
Education redesigned its
Web site in
2003, www.marist.edu/gce. The redesign had
been live
only a few months when
it
won a
top
national
award for excellence
in
electronic
mar-
ketingand
communications
from the
University
Tony Kondysar
entered college in Indiana in
1947 and graduated In Poughkeepsie in 1969.
Life has a way of intervening.
In between, the Poughkeepsie native served
as a combat engineer In the Korean War, became a
successful businessman and raised a family.
"In 1947
I
went to the University of Notre
Dame and when
I
came back after that first year
I
found out that my mother and father were bor-
rowing money to pay for my education," he says.
"I decided not to go back, although I felt I wanted
to complete college at some point."
1969 was a good year for him. He graduated,
became co-owner of Dutchess Beer Distributors,
Inc., with Tony Cappillino, bought his present
house and quit smoking. Oh, and the Mets won
the World Series.
It wasn't easy going back to school at night.
It helped that Marist College was close, but he
was in his mid-30s with a job, children and all
the inherent responsibilities. Instead of going
home from the office he went to class. Tony's
wife, Mary Ellen, encouraged him, and there were
Continuing Education Association, the
premier
professional association for
those
in
continuing education. Also
this
year,
staff members developed a student news-
letter,
The Navigator,
available on
line
and
Compas,a Website where all adult learn-
ers can interact and connect with each
other and the college.
While Graduate and Continuing
Education works hard to meet
the
needs
of adult students,
the
students
work even harder
Lo meet
the demands
of their academic programs while hold-
ingjobs
or
raising
families, or both. For
Ken
Payumo and
Richard
Robson,
it
has
been worth
it.
Ken, who
returned to
the United
States
from
East Timor in
the
fall of
2002, completed
his
M.B.A. in January
2003.
He is
now
a policy officer in the
Asia Middle East
Division
of the United
Nations
Department
of Peacekeeping
Operations' Office of Operations,
based
at
U.
N. headquarters
in
New York City.
He
is
also teaching
in the M.P.A.
program at
John
Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Although
Richard
Robson won't
He was employed at a wood•
working firm where he saw the
future.
The year before that
business closed, Tony "sort of got
the sense it didn't look good" and
decided to return to college and
work toward a business adminis•
tration degree.
"The students were mostly
younger than me but there were
some that were older," he says.
"I remember a man from a local
bank who must have been in his
70s who had always wanted to get
that degree."
Father of four, Korean War
veteran, businessman, Tony stood
out among his classmates. "They
definitely made me welcome," he
says. "A lot of them looked up to
me for opinions on certain things.
Others just helped me."
those Sunday afternoons she'd take the kids out so hie could
have a peaceful study time.
"It was difficult at first, but as
I
got into it more and more
the wheels started getting polished up a little and
I
found that
there was one or two semesters that
I
took enough credits
to be considered full-time," he recalls. "And you know what?
I
did better then because my back was to the wall.
II
knew
I
couldn't fool around. I knew I had to get right down to it."
His degree from Marist did not bring profound change. "Let
me put it this way, I found out the fancy names for what I was
doing already," says Tony, who retired in 1996.
He graduated but he didn't leave Marist. Over the years
Tony and Mary Ellen have been loyal supporters of the college.
They also enjoy Marist events and attend most Red Foxes home
games.
"I
feel very close to Marist," Tony says.
"I
love it."
-Larry
f'
,ghe•
FALL
2003
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Serving
Adult
Learners
"Get
out there and do it.
It's
going
to be
what you
make it. It's not all
luck."
-Arthur
Brown,
Jr.
'95
graduaLe until May 2004, he has
round
the
MarisL program \'aluable.
"My
sLUdies
have
already provided me with a whole new way
of thin ki ngabout my work environment," he
says. "The degree has pro\'ided me with
the
LOols
necessary to one day serve as captain
or as a shore-based operaLions manager.
Management skills are a necessary part of
the job in
this
information age, both on board
and shoreside."
Although his ship is now drilling off the
Malaysian island of Labuan in the South
China Sea, Rich
intends
to take part
in
the
commencement ceremony in Poughkeepsie
in
2004.
"I
will definitely come to campus
to
get my diploma jusL as long as it is on my
off schedule.
I
have put a lot of hard work
and time into my degree and
I
would love
to receive it in
person."
■
Marist's School of Graduate
and Continuing Education
Programs for Adult and Graduate Students
Graduate
•
M.B.A.
(Business Administration)
Including
online
option
• Joint
M.B.A./Advanced
Certificate
in
Information
Systems
The• opening of Marist's new Fishkill Center in 2000 was a milestone
for the School of Graduate
and Continuing
Education.
New York
Staite Senator
Steve Saland (right) joined President
Dennis Murray
for the dedication
of the facility,
in the Wastage
Business Center
neHr the intersection
of 1-84 and Route 9. Senator Saland is a long-
tim1e advocate of continuing education
and workforce
development.
Including
online
option
•
M.P.A.
(Public Administration)
lncluding
on
line
option
•
M.S.
in
Computer Science
(Information
System5,)
Including
online
option
•
M.S. in
Computer Science (Software
Development)
Including
on
line
option
•
M.A.
in Psychology
•
M.A.
in
School
Psychology
•
M.A.
in
Educational Psychology
Undergraduate
•
28
Undergraduate Majors
Including
evening
and weekend
scheduling optiorns
and
six course
terms annually
•
Integrative
Studies
Individualized
major designed to
meet
the needs
of working
adults
•
Organizational
Leadership
and Communicatio111
Accelerated cohort
bachelor's
completion
program for
adults
offered
at a
variety of
off-campus locations
Hybrid
program: part
of each course
is taught
in the
classroom and
on
line
www.marist.edu/olc
•
Data
Center
Professional
Accelerated
bachelor's degree-completion program
www.marist.edu/gce/dct
•
Technology Management
Providing
managerial
and communication skills for
technical employees
Professional Programs
•
Undergraduate
Certificate
Programs
Paralegal
Smdies (A.B.A.-approved)
Information
Systems Analysis and
Design
Emerging Technologies (on
line)
www.marist.edu/et
•
Certified
Data
Center
Professional
(C.D.C.P.)
certification
•
z/OS
Associate
Specialist/Professional
Specialist/
Expert
Specialist Certification
•
Emerging Technology Training
LAN
Technician (Network+)
PC
Technician (A+)
Internet
Foundations,
Web Design,
eCommerce
Cisco
CCNA
Emerging
Technologies
Certificate (online)
www.marist.edu/ett
•
Non-Credit
Certificate
Programs
Human
Resource
Management
(SHRM-approved)
Financial
Planning
(C.FP.-approved)
Sites
Poughkeepsie
Fishkill
Goshen
Kingston
Monticello
Online
888-877-7900
toll-free
www.marist.edu/gce





















Adult Students Shape their Future, with
As the magazine was going to
press,
the Marist College community was
sad•
dened to learn of the passing of Harold
Miller,
a
friend of the college and
a
great
advocate for adult students
at
Marist.
The following story highlights two of the
many outstanding
Miller Scholars who
have graduated from Mar/st.
Harold and Anne Miller,
longtime
residents
of the Poughkeepsie
area,
were friends of Marist who wanted to
do something significant for the college
and their community. So in
1988
they
established the Harold and Anne Miller
Scholarship
Fund for Adult Students
through what was then the largest en•
dowment ever made to Marist.
Since the fund was established, more
than
150
Miller Scholarships have been
awarded.
"For
Miller Scholars, earning
a bachelor's degree has been a trans•
forming experience professionally
and
personally," says Sha Ileen Kopec, vice
president for college advancement at
Marist. "Harold's and Anne's vision has
had a tremendous impact on individual
lives as well as our community where
MIiier Scholars now work and live. The
recipients deeply appreciate this schol•
arship for providing Important financial
help as well as an expression of confl•
dence in their abilities and dreams."
Elizabeth
Teed '95 and Arthur J.
Brown, Jr.
'95
were two Miller Scholars
who made the most of their under-
graduate
experience.
Both excelled
academically
and graduated
summa
cum laude. Both also strongly believe
in the power of an Individual to shape
his or her own future.
Beth Teed, who grew up in East
Fishkill, N.Y., earned a bachelor's and
master's in psychology at Marist. After
graduation she became director of the
Office of Community Research and an
adjunct professor
of psychology
at
Marist. In
2000
she completed
a
Ph.D.
in clinical psychology at Union Institute
and
University and began practicing as
a psychologist.
Two years later, she
achieved her dream of becoming a col•
This past
ll►ecember
Harold Miller (left),
Dr. Elizabeth
Teed
'95
(center)
and
Arthur
J.
B,rown,
Jr.
'95
reunited
in Fon-
taine Hall on the Marist campus.
As undergraduate
adult students,
Beth
Teed and
,Art
Brown received
Harold and Anne Miller
Scholarships
for
Adult Studlents.
They first met Mr. and Mrs. Miller eight years ago (inset)
at commencement,
where both students
graduated
summa cum laude.
lege profeusor
when she accepted a
position as
assistant
professor of psy•
chology at
IMarlst. "Because
my Marlst
education ,ivas so valuable, it was my
first choice of colleges where I wanted
to teach af1ter receiving my doctorate,"
she says.
Today,
lln
addition to teaching psy•
chology, Both also serves as faculty
advisor to
ithe
women's lacrosse team
and Tri Sign~a at Marist. She volunteers
for the Unit1ed Way, serves as a member
of the boarld of directors of the Cornell
Cooperativo Extension and is a member
of the Mental Health Association's advi•
sory committee.
Art Bro'11n, who grew up In Hopewell
Junction, NuY., enlisted in the Army right
out of high school in
1987.
After three
years of military service he went to work
with his father in the heating and air
conditionin1g industry, taking community
college courses in business administra•
tion at night. In
1991
he decided to pursue
an accountllng degree at Marist.
He went: on to distinguish himself in
the field. After earning a bachelor's in
accounting, he was honored by the New
York State Society of Certified Public
Accountants in
1996
for achieving the
second-highest
score on the New York
State
C.P.A.
exam.
Art spent five years at Ernst
&
Young, L.L.P. and also served on the
Poughkeepsie
Town Council before
joining Tremont Capital Management,
Inc., with offices in Rye, N.Y., London,
Toronto and Bermuda. Today he Is senior
vice president and chieffinancial officer
of the company.
Marist, he says, taught him to focus
on excellence and gave him self-confi•
dence. His philosophy, which he traces
to his Marlst years, is to create a vision
and put the steps in place to execute
it. It's an approach that applies both to
getting an education and advancing
in
the workplace.
"Get
out there and do it. It's going to
be what you make it. It's not all luck. It's
not all chance," he
says.
Beth Teed con•
curs.
"You
can make It happen if you're
willing to risk It and sweat through the
process. You're never too old to create
the life you want."
FALL
2003
25



















Alumni Profile
Since his college days, Howard Mills '86
has worked steadily toward a
career
in
politics.
As a Republican
assemblyman
and
the deputy minority leader in the New York
State Assembly,
he is advancing
rapidly
and
thriving on life in the public sector.
A
portrait ofTheodore RoosevelL
hangs
prominently in the Goshen, N.Y.,
office of New York State Assembly-
man Howard Mills
'86.
Rep. Mills calls
Lhe
American president his poliLical
idol
and so
far
has
followed in his fooLsLeps
in
at
least
one
way: Mr. Roosevelt was al 23 Lhe youngest
man
ever elected
to
the assembly.
Howard
Mills
has been
among the youngest, winning
the office when
he
was only 34.
A
Republican now in
his third
term,
he
has advanced rapidly since he was first
elected
in 1998.
In 2002 he was appointed
deputy minoriLy
leader,
Lhe youngest
member currently in a senior leadership
posiLion.
Howard represents
the 97
th
District,
which includes pares of Orange and
Rock-
land
counties. "Rightauhe outset, he wanted
to
make a career in politics," says Dr. Lou
Zuccarello, a professor of political science at
MarisL.
'·J
remember
himasa freshman
in my
I
nLro LO
PoliLicsclass.
He was interested, alert
and alive and just
totally
immersed
himself
in the course. Youcouldsee he
really
enjoyed
the whole political arena."
Dr. Lee
Miringoff,
director
of the Marist
Institute for
Public Opinion
(MIPO)
and as-
sistant professorof
political
science, has seen
Howard
Mills on many occasions since his
college
days.
He's
"a
take-charge, positive,
!-know-where-I'm-headed
person," Dr.
Miringoff
says.
Howard always knew he wanted to go
into
public
service.
"I
definitely had a plan,"
he says. At
Marist he
majored in political
science, took part
in
debate and helped con-
duct MIPO
polls. After graduating
he
went
to Washington,
D.C.,
to
pursue
a master's
in
government and public administration at
TheAmericanUniversity.
Whileearningthe
degree
he accepted a full-time job as federal
grants and projects direcLOr
for his mentor,
Republican
U.S. Congressman Benjamin
Gilman, who represented the
20
th
District
of New York for 15 terms.
Ben Gilman, whose district included
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ream
of Public Service
Howard's hometown of Middletown, N.Y.,
has known Howard since he was a
young-
ster.
"He
volunteered
in
one of our earlier
campaiigns," he says, calling from his office
at the Gilman Group, a consulting firm in
Washington, D.C. He says Howard per-
formed[ meriLOriously
as
federal
grants and
projects
director
and was a good assistant.
"We
were proud of him. He did good work
for us and was very industrious. He's a real
gentleman.»
Ben Gilman has stayed in LOuch
with
Howard over the years, visiting
his
home on
a
recent
weekend.
"We've
been good friends




















throughout our careers."
Working with federal grants in the
Congressman's Washington office kept
Howard in
contact with officials back
home
in
Orange County. '·[ got involved
in
the local
Republican Party and, because
my objective was always to
just
go home
again,
I
was able to build
those
contacts," he
says. When a council seat became vacant in
Walkill in 1989, he resigned
his
full-time
position
on Ben Gilman's staff and made a
beeline home.
After spending the next six months
campaigning,
he
won the seat-"for
a
$6,000-a-year job,"
he
laughs, "which was
tough
for
awhile." He began the very part-
timejobof towncouncilman in January 1990
at age
25.
Fortunately for his finances,
he
was offered a full-time job six
months
later
at Mount Saint
Mary College in Newburgh as
an adjunct instructor in geog-
raphy
and
then
as director of
development.
Reelected to Walkill's town
council
in 1991,
he went on to
be elected
Town
of Walkill
supervisor
in
1993, 1995 and
1997. On
his
watch
the
town
achieved a dramatic economic
turnaround, and he was
recog-
nized with the Distinguished
Budget Award
from the
Gov-
ernment Officers Association
of
the
United States
in 1996,
1997 and 1998.
him responsible for raising funds for
Re-
publican assembly races.
He
also serves on
the Ways and Means, Insurance, and
Hous-
ing
committees.
He
thrivei;
on the
busy
schedule of a
legislator.
During a typical week, he stays
in
Albany Monday through Wednesday,
returning
home to Hamptonburgh in Or-
ange County Wednesday night
to
spend
Thursday
and Friday
in
his
district office.
On Saturday .and Sunday he auends
local
events. He also travels from Montauk to
Buffalo raising funds and meeting with
area
Republican
officials.
Involved
in
a number of civic and so-
cial organizations, he serves as a member of
the board of directors of the Mid-Hudson
Alzheimer's Association and a member of
ive
of everything that I do. She goes with me
LO
a
lot
of the events." Now they bring their
new baby boy,
H.Jack,
with them to dinners
and other functions. "He's a very happy baby
and he likes being out with people."
As for the
hardest
parts of his job, there
aren't any. "I like what
I
do very much.
l
re-
ally love being in the state legislature.
l
I
ike
public service. There are times, cenainly,
I'd
like
to just go home and spend some
more
time
with my family,
but I
would ne\'er
characterize
it
as hard
because I
enjoy what
I'm
doing."
He enjoys the give and
take
with con-
stituents who disagree with him. "A lot of
these folks
are calling me up and saying,
well, why did you vote against
th is
bill, and
when
I
explain it, maybe they might not still
agree with it, but
they
might
understand it beuer."
The
role of town supervisor
gave him
the
best possible expe-
rience for the state
legislature,
he says. "In all of
politics,
no job
Dr. Zuccarello knows how
well
Howard
relates to people.
"I've spoken to people whom
1
just met who know of his work
in
Orange County, and he was
so well-regarded by
these
folks.
But nothingabom that wassur-
prising to me. I think that he
has
the ability
to
bring people
together
regardless of the po-
litical
pany that they
belong
to. ll's
not that he overlooks
his
party
identification.
But
he's
very committed to getting
thingsdone,good thingsdone.
And you could see that in his
college
days,
when he would
argue a point with passion."
Assemblyman
Howard Mills
(right)
of the
97'h
District
and
his infant
son,
H. Jack, attend at a
veterans''
memorial observance in
May.
Orange
Coun-
ty
Executive Edward
Diana is at left.
"I like the debating,"
Howard says. "I find that
challenging and very satisfying-not that
I'm going to convert everyone.''
is tougher than that of a local government
official. For years
1
was the
town
supervi-
sor of a large town with a
lot
of growth, a
lot of controversial projects always coming
through. I had town board meetings twice
a month that were
televised
live, and we
would have very irate
people
come. So
I
had
the best training
in the
world. Because when
you're town supervisor you have culpability
and responsibility right there at your feet,
squarely
laid there.
If the
road isn't
plowed,
it's your fault,
period.
If
the New York State
budget
is
late on April One, there are 211
legislators
and a governor, so no one's going
to say
it's
Howard Mills's fault."
Now, as deputy
minority
leader, he
is
responsible
for helping
shape Republican
strategy and advance
the
Republican agenda
in the assembly. He chairs the Republican
Assembly Campaign Committee, making
the Orange County Chamber of Commerce.
He
previously served as a member of the
board of
directors
of
the
New York State
United Way,
the
United Way of Orange
County and Leadership Orange. He has
received
the
Orange County Partnership
Most Valuable: Partner Economic Develop-
ment Award twice, in 1997 and 2002.
He
was
recognize:d by
the Child Care Council
of Orange County in 2002 and
recently
re-
ceived
the Heart
of Gold Community Service
Award from Occupations,
Inc.
A major in
the New York Guard, he was brieny called
to active duty in the wake of Sept.
11.
He
has a foot in rthe private sector as well; he
is currently the business development and
public
relations officer for Myles Financial
Services in
Florida,
NY
The
Ii
fest yle works because of his wife,
Erin, he says.
•'My
wife
is
very, very support-
The most rewarding pan of his job is
helping others, he says. "Every day we are
able to help people with some preuy im-
portant problems, certainly
to
them, cutting
through red
tape
in terms of geuingsomeone
an answer from an agency that they have
just been so frustrated with. Maybe they're
a small business and
they
really need
to
get
a permit from the DEC or from the DOT
to
open up a road or commence a project, and
they can't do it. And we can come in and move
it through and help
it.
That's very graufymg,
\'ery satisfying. I enjoy that."
Former Congressman Benjamin Gilman
predicts "unlimited horizons" for Howard
Mills. "l think he's got a great future ahead. I
think he'll continue to go on up the
hill."
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Alumni
Basketball
Game
The
"Du11kin'
Dutchman"
Returns to Center Court
NBA All-Star
Ri/1
Smits
'88
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Left
to
right,
front rnw: Athletics
Director
Tim
Murray, John McDonough
'88, George Siegrist
'91,
Ste\'e
Paterno
'91,
Rob
Van
Aernem
'64,
Mike
Borrelli
'66,
honorary
coach Tom Wade,
James
Selby
'88,
Nicl1
Mancuso
'88,
Associate Atliletics
Director
for External Affairs Colin Sullivan;
bach row: Rik
Smits
'88,
Tim
Murphy
'87,
Steve Egginli
'84, Fred Weiss
'66,
Danny
Basile
'97,J.T.
Dolan
'02,
honorary
coach
Jim
Norman
'86
and his
son,
Semi
Norman, Class of 2014, Mari st President Dennis]. Murray
F
o,r 12 years
Rik
Smits '88 was a stand-
o,ut for the NBA's
Indiana
Pacers. On
J:m 4, he belonged to Marist College
again, and Maristshared him with the nation
in the first nationally
televised
broadcast of
a game
from
the McCann Center.
ESP'N2 was at the McCann Center to
cover
the
Mari st vs. Manhattan College game,
but
announcers capitalized on the presence
of Rik Smits,
there
to
play
afterward
in
an
alumni basketball game, by
interviewing
him
at half ti.me. More than 1,000 fans of all ages
laterwa.tched as
Rik
and other
former
Marist
men's basketball
team
members returned
to
the court for an abbreviated game.
The players
included Danny Basile
'97, JT Dolan '02, Steve
Eggink
'84, John
McDonough '88, Nick Mancuso '88, John
McDonough '88, Tim Murphy '87, Steve Pa-
terno
'91, James Selby '88, George Siegrist
'91,
Rob
Van Aernem '64, Fred Weiss '66and
Mike Borrelli '66. Former Marist basketball
coach and dean of students Tom Wade serYed
as one of the honorary coaches along with
Jim Norman '86, whose father,
the late
Bob
Norman, announced
Red
Foxes basketball
games on
radio
for more
than
25 years and
was
known
as the Voice of the
Red
Foxes.
Marist's Director of Athletics Tim Murray
and Associate Athletics Director for Exter-
























All-time basketball great Rik Smits signs
autographs for Jans including Red Fox Club
me111bers
after the alumni game.
nal Affairs Colin Sullivan filled out the two
teams.
After the alumni game, Rik cheerfully
gave auwgraphs
lO
dozens of children who
offered their programs, shoes and bare arms
for him
lO
sign. Youth were there in full
force because the
Red
Foxes were hosting
NCAA Basketball's annual Take a Kid
to the
Game program, which allowed children 18
and younger
lO
receive
a
free ticket
with
the
purchase
of an adult ticket.
Rik's wife and childrenaccompanied him
to Marist.
They
joined him at a reception
co-hosted
by the
college's Alumni Associa-
tion
and
the Red
Fox Club
in
the McCann
Center's
Red
Fox
Den.
■
Rik Smits '88 (center) is flanhed
by
opponents George Siegrist
'91
(left) and Athletics Director
Ti111
Murray in t:lte al11111ni
basketball game at the McCann Center in Pough/1eepsie.
Record Number of Student-Athletes Earn Academic All-America Honors
A
record three
Marist
student-athletes
received
Academic All-America
honors
in 2002-03. TennisplayerViktorSapezhnikov
'04also
became the
first student-athlete
in Marist
College
history to
be named to the Academic
All-America
First Team.
VikLOr,
named to
the Verizon/CoSIDA At-Large Academic All-America
First
Team
in July, became the
third Marist
student-athlete
this
ye:ar, and fifth
all-time,
to
earn Academic All-America
honors. He joined David
Bennett '03
(Basketball,
2
nd
Team)
and Jenny Shanks '03 (Soccer,
3'd
Team) from 2002-
03 as well as Amanda
Koldjeski
'00 (Softball,
2
nd
Team), who was
named in
2000, and Gregg Chodkowski '95 (Basketball, 3
rd
Team),
named
in
1995.
Viktor, a
business major
who has
been
accepted
to
attend
the
London
School
of
Economics in 2003-04,
helped
the Red
Foxes
to three
of
their
five
consecutive
Metro
Atlantic Athletic Conference titles
and the ensuing NCAA
Tournament
appearances.
The Academic All-America award
is based
on suc-
cess
in the classroom
and on the field. The Collegiate
Sports
Information Di rectors
of America (CoSIDA)
vote
on the teams
based
on student athletic and academic
achievements.
To
be
considered, a student-athlete
must
have a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or above
on a 4.0 scale, be at least a sophomore and
be
a starter
or major contributor
to
his
or
her
program. At
the time
of
his
award, Viktor's G.P.A. was
4.0. David,
a business
major, had a G.P.A. of 3.995 and
Jenny,
a
math
major,
had a G.P.A. of 3.92.
Marist also
had
101 students
named
to MAAC All-
Academic
teams
during the 2002-03 academic year.
It
was the second straight year
that
Marist had the •
highest number
of
honorees among
MAAC-member
mstitutions.
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j
Marist Director of Athletics Ti111
f
Murray (far left) and Associate
~
Athletic Director/Senior Wo111cn's
•
~
Administrator
Chandra
Bierwirth
(far right) congrat ulatc David
Bennett
'03
and Jenny Slianlis
'03
on
being named to
Verizon/CoSIDA
Academic All-America tea111s.
At
left, Vihtor Sapezlrniho\'
'04
1w1s
named to the Acade111ic
All-A111crirn
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F
or as
long as
there
has
been a
James
j. McCann
Center Natatorium at
Marisl College, Larry Vanwagner
has
patrolled the pool deck as head coach
of
the
men's swimming and diving team.
Si
nee becoming men's head
coach in
1977,
the same year
the McCann
Center was
completed, Coach Vanwagner
has built
the
winningest swimming and
diving
program in
the
history
of
the Metro
Atlantic Athletic Conference.
The success
of
Coach VanWagner's
tenure
is evident by walking
into
the
natatorium,
where
banners
for
10
conference championships
and three
'
undefeated
seasons adorn the walls. But
the banners tell only part of the story. In
Larry
Van Wagner
has built the winningest
men's
swimming
and diving
program
in the history
of the
Metro Atlantic
Athletic
Conference.
In the past
eight seasons
as a member
of the MAAC,
the Red
Foxes
have never lost a conference
dual meet,
going 45-0, and have won all eight conference
championships.
The coach's formula? Asking
for-and receiving-a high level
of commitment
from his student-athletes,
and helping each
athlete improve
his individual
performance.
BY
CHRIS
O'CONNOR
'98
.........................................
Massachusetts, where he was a College
Division All-American,
underthe legend-
ary coach
Red
Silvia.
It
was at Springfield
that his
success as a coach
began
as he
earned degrees in physical education and
athletic administration.
"Without
a
doubt, the
basic philoso-
phies
regarding athletics come
from my
experiences at Springfield," he says.
"My
theories regarding
swimming came
from
Coach Silvia, in
terms
of
knowledge
and applying
the
scientific
principles
that govern human motion
in
regards
to swimming.
He
instilled in me an ap-
preciation of
kinesiology,
and
that
was
his
greatest gift to
me
as a student."
Larry Vanwagner came to Marist as
aquatics director in
1976.
The
position
did not encompass coaching
until the
fallofl977, when
men'sswimmingbegan
as a club program. Coach Vanwagner
elevated
the
program to
the
varsity level
in 1978 as a combined men's and women's
program. In 1983 Marist
separated
the
programs
into
varsity men's and women's
swimming and diving
teams.
Growing Pains
24 years of the program, the Red Foxes
have
won more
than
90 percent of
their
dual
meets on
nine
occasions, including
the
past six consecutive seasons. Van-
wagner-coached
teams
have won 10
conference
titles
since 1990. In the past
eight seasons as a member of
the
MAAC,
the Red Foxes
have
never lost a conference
dual
meet,
going 45-0, and
have
won each
of
the
eight conference championships.
The
MAAC named
Larry Vanwagner
its
Coach of the
Year in
2003 and 2002.
Larry Van Wagner,
2003
MAAC
Coach
of
the
Year.
The
Marist College coach and
his
pro-
gram suffered the expected growing
pains during
the
first three seasons,
but
since then
losing
seasons
have
been
the
exception for Larry Van Wagner, who
has had just five
in
his
25
years of coach-
ing
at Marist. The 1982-83 campaign was
a 6-4 effort, the first of
numerous
winning
seasons.
"I
take
great personal
pride
in helping to
raise
the
bar
of performance both at
Marist
and within
the
MAAC," Coach Vanwagner
says. "The swimming program contributes
to the
image of
Marist
College and Marist
contributes to the image of the MAAC."
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That success
is
not something
that
came
overni1ght. Born at Vassar Brothers Hospital
in Poughkeepsie,
Larry
Van Wagner attended
Roosevelt High
School, where along with
swimming he also competed on
the
crew,
wrest!
ing
and football
teams. He
swam as
an undergraduate at Springfield College in
That success continued, reaching a
milestone
during the 1988-89
season
when the Red Foxes posted a perfect 10-0
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its
road
to prominence
in 1990 as
it
won
its
first conference
title,
the Metropolitan
Collegiate Swimming Conference (MCSC)
crown,
defeating three-time
defending
champion Iona College. Winning conference
titles became
commonplace after that. The
Red
Foxes brought home
the
1995 MCSC
Litle and accomplished another first for
the
program, going
undefeated
and winning
the
conference crown in the same season
(an accomplishment that
the
2000-01
team
matched at
11-0).
The following season saw
Marist move
LO
the MAAC, beginning
an
unprecedented
reign. Starting in 1996, the
Red
Fox
men
won the
next
eight MAAC
titles,
a streak
that remains
active today.
New Motivation
Coach Vanwagner found
new motivations
for
his
program in
the
1990-91 season with
the inception
of
the
Eastern College Athletic
Conference Championships.
The
ECAC,
the
largest collegiate athletic organization
next
to
the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA),
spans
from
Maine to Virginia.
More
than
300 schools compete
in
the ECAC at
the
Division I,
11
and
Ill
levels.
The ECAC Open Swimming and
Diving
Championship began in 1991, with Marist
first
competing in the 1992 event. Going
up
against the
likes
of Connecticut, Pittsburgh,
James
Madison
and current champion Mary-
land-Baltimore
County
provided
a quality
end-of-year
test
for the
Red
Foxes.
Marist's ECAC progression mirrored
that
of
the program's
early years, with
the
team
cracking
the top 10
for the first time
in 1995.
That climb
continued,
reaching
a
high-water
mark
of success
in 2002
with a
second-place
team
finish,
followed
closely
by a third-place
team
finish
in 2003.
A Dedication to Training Youth
Larry Van
Wagner's success can also be cred-
ited
LO
his
dedication
and love of the sport of
swimming.
Along with
hiscoachingduties
at
Marist,
Coach Van
Wagner is also the
director
of the Marist Swim Club,
an
"age group"
team
of United States Swimming. His proteges
ha\'e competed
internationally,
and
he
has
taken a dozen athletes to
the
U.S. Olympic
trials and U.S. Nationals,
the
pinnacle of
swimming competition in America.
"One of my greatest satisfactions about
coaching
in
my hometown is being able to
help produce 10 Olympic trial
qualifiers
and six
junior
national champions, in an
area with no Olympic-size training facil-
ity,"
he
says.
Another reason
for the
coach's great suc-
cess could
be that the swimmers
respect
him. "During four years on
the
Marist
swim
team I
gained a great deal of respect
for Coach V:anWagner
due
to
his
extensive
understanding
of
the
technical aspects of
the
sport and
his
ability
to
bring his swim-
mers' performances to the next level,"
says
Mike Murphy '98. "Coach was always very
approachable
and
cares a great deal about
his
swimmers."
"Coach Van
Wagner is
known for his tech-
nical
knowledge and through that
knowledge
has
created a successful program," says
Ben
Lakin '04, a
math major
and a
team
captain
this coming
academic
year. "His ability
to
help
student-athletes reach
their
potential,
and the conttinued success of
his
program,
was a large Jpart
in my
decision to
become
a
member
of
the
Marist College swimming
and diving
program.··
"I
have
always imposed a level of com-
mitment
on
the
student-athletes," says Coach
Van
Wagner, "and their willingness to accept
this
level helps
us
to
rise
to higher
planes
of competition."
Success
lin
the MAAC.
Marist Director of Athletics
Tim
Murray says the swim-
ming success has helped
the
department as
a whole. "The fact th.at our swimming
pro-
gram competed
two
years
prior
to our
full
membership, in
the MAAC, and
the
success
that they
have had,
set
the bar for
the
rest
of our programs and
laid
the groundwork
for our success
in
the MAAC."
The swimming and diving teams have
played a
larg;e
role in the
Red
Foxes' overall
success in
the MAAC. Marist is
the first
school
to
win four consecutive Commis-
sioner's Cups, awarded for overall athletic
excellence by tallying points
in
all sports
competed
in. In each of those
four
winning
seasons, the Marist swimming and diving
programs
won titles on both
the
men's and
women's side.
A
new
challenge
lies
ahead
for
the
Red
Foxes'
mentor.
He assumed
head
coach
responsibilities
for the women's swimming
program this past
March. The men's and
women's squads
now
will be linked under
one
head
coach for the first time in more
than
two decades. Like
the men,
the women's
swimming and
diving
team has
had
great
success sine,~ joining the MAAC, winning
five of eight championships as well as a
third-place
finish in 2003.
Success is often
measured
by the wins,
losses and championships that a team or
1988
Metropolitan
Coach
of the Year
1989
Metropolitan
Coach
of the Year
Metropolitan
Dual Meet
Champions
Undefeated
Dual Meet*
Season
(10-0)
1990
Metropolitan
Coach
of the Year
Metropolitan
Conference
Team
Champions
Metropolitan
Dual
Meet
Champions
1992
Metropolitan
Dual
Meet
Champions
1995
Metropolitan
Coach
of
the
Year
Metropolitan
Conference
Team
Champions
Metropolitan
Dual
Meet
Champions
Undefeated
Dual Meet Season
(10-0)
1996 MAAC
Team
Champions
MAAC
Dual
Meet
Champions
1997 MAAC
Team
Champions
MAAC
Dual Meet
Champions
1998 MAAC
Team
Champions
MAAC
Dual Meet
Champions
1999 MAAC
Team
Champions
MAAC
Dual Meet Champions
2000 MAAC
Team
Champions
MAAC
Dual Meet Champions
2001 MAAC
Team
Champions
MAAC
Dual Meet Champions
Undefeated
Dual Meet
Season
(11-0)
3••
Place
ECAC
Finish
2002 MAAC
Coach
of the
Year
MAAC
Team
Champions
MAAC
Dual Meet Champions
2
nd
Place
ECAC
Finish
2003 MAAC
Coach
of the
Year
MAAC
Team
Champions
MAAC
Dual Meet
Champions
3''
place
ECAC
Finish
coach collects. But
to
Coach Vanwagner
success
is
more than that. "I have seen him
grumpy after winning because we did not
perform
LO
the
team's
abilities," says Marist
Associate
Head
Coach and
Head
Diving
Coach Melanie Bolstad, who has worked
alongside Coach Vanwagner
for
a dozen
years, "just as I
have
seen him content after
losing
LO
a beuer team when our best effort
was put forth."
'To be truly successful as a coach, I
evaluate
myself
by the
improvement
of each
individual athlete,'' says
Larry
Vanwagner.
"I annually challenge myself to achieve a
percentage of individual performance goals
in every event that
they
swim in any given
year. That is how I like to measure my own
success, and
that
of our program."
■
Chris O'Connor,
sports information
directo,
at Marist, swam for Coach
Larry \fan\\'agncr
from 1994 to 1998 and won the 1995 ,\1CSC
title and the first three
MAAC
titles
w1t/1
him
as a distance
f reestyler.
FALL
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RIST
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
Amy Coppola
'97
Named Marist's
Executive
Director of
Alumni
Relations
Amy Coppola
'97
has joined Marist
College's
Advancement
staff as
ex-
ecutive director of alumni relations.
She
is
responsible for coordinating
activities that encourage a close,
supportive relationship among
alumni and
promote
the mission
and reputation of
Marist.
Previously
Amy served
Marist
as
associate director of admissions
for
three years and assistant
director
of admissions for three years.
She
also
spent four
months as an admis-
sions representative
while
majoring
in communications
at
Marist.
As part of her admissions
work,
Amy
traveled
extensively
throughout
the
Northeast
and southern Califor-
nia promoting
the college.
She
gave
daily
presentations about Marist to
groups
of
up
to 100
prospective
stu-
dents, their families and
secondary
school guidance counselors.
Her experience planning spe-
cial
events includes
chairing
the
Mid-Hudson
River
Valley College
Consortium, a three-day tour of
Hudson
Valley colleges
for 50
sec-
ondary school counselors. She also
planned activities
for
Open House
weekend, one of
the
college's larg-
est events, which brings more than
~B•W\•JW
1 9 5 2
Augustine Nolan
is
retired
but
staying
involved
with Maris!.
He has
been working with John
Ansley,
Marist's
archives librar-
ian,
doing oral
interviews
for the
Maris! Heritage Project
with
folks
who were there
at
the
"creation."
In
addition
to
his
duties
as chair
of
the
Class of '52 50'h
reunion
activities, Gus hosted graduates
from
the
Classof'52
and
other early
classes
at the Heritage Luncheon
during
Homecoming
Weekend
2002. Afterwards
the
group took
advantage of
the
opportunity and
videotaped
memories
(and
laugh-
ter)
for
the project.
1
9 5 3
Thomas F. O'Connor
writes
that
it's
hard
10
believe
50years
have
passed
since graduating
from Marist. He
Executive
Director
of Alumni Relations
Amy Coppola
'97
3,000 prospective
students and their
families to
the
campus, and activi-
ties for
Marist's
annual Opening
Day,
when more
than 900
new students
move
into
residence
halls.
"Amy's
years
in
admissions
have
given
her
an in-depth knowledge
of
the college and a special acquain-
tance with six Marist classes, which
has spent the past years as
teacher,
counselor and
administrator
in sec-
ondary schools. Tom and
his
wife,
Joan,
have four children and six
grandchildren.
They
are enjoying
retirement
both on
Long
Island
and
in
St. Augustine, Fla.
1 9 5 4
Bro. William Lavigne, FMS is
part of
a
pastoral team of three
Marist Brothers ministering with
a priest in
three rural parishes in
the Potomac
Valley
section of West
Virginia-"Almost
Heaven."
1
9 5 6
James
Friel
has been elected chair
of
the Long
Island
Philosophy
Society and
is
a
union
delegate for
United
University Professionals
and NYSUT.
Jim
is
a
professor of
humanities
at SUNY
Farmingdale.
she
helped
admit to
the
college,"
says
Shaileen Kopec,
vice president
for college
advancement
at
Marist.
"She is very
familiar
with and com-
mitted to the traditions of
Marist.
As we expand
communication
and
outreach to our
21,000
alumni, Amy
will bring great energy and dedica-
tion to this important work."
I
Rev. Francis X. Gallogly
lives
at Villanova University where
he
works
with the
Sisters of St.
Joseph
at Chestnut
Hill,
caring
for
their
elderly and
infirm.
I
Kenneth
Murrin
is past
chairman of
the
Hernando
County
Fine
Arts
Council in Brooksville,
Fla.
I
Bro.
Dominic M. O'Brien is the
direc-
tor of Christian Formation
at
St.
Catherine's
in
Orange
Park, Fla.
1 9 5 7
After a
20-year
career,
Rudolph
Ramirez has retired
from
Humana,
a
healthcare
company located
in
Miramar,
Fla.
He
has
returned
to
his
first
love,
teaching.
He
is a history
teacheratSt.
Thomas Aquinas
High
School, the flagship school of
the
Archdiocese of Miami, Fla.
Rudy
also coaches
track
and basketball
at
the
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1 9 6 0
Raymond
Landry
1s on the verge
of publish
mg his poetry
in
his book
Growing
into Immaturity:
VW!Cltes
of Useless
\Vi\cl<lln
He
has already
performed his work at a Robert
Frost
Foundation
Hoot.
J
9 6
1
Francis
Kolarik
retired from the
Dutchess Count) Department
of
Sooal Ser\'lccsafter 36yearsof ser-
,·1ce.
I
John
Wilcox,
Ph.D.
1s, ice
president
for mission
and director
of the Center for Professional
Ethics
at \1anhattan College.
1
9 6 2
Dr.
Gerald
McKenna's
son, Sean
McKenna,
1s completing
his
chief
rcsidenc>·
m pediatrics at the Uni-
verMt)' of Chicago.
I
9 6 3
rrancis Sutton
has
retired from a
38-year teach mg career and now
works full ume at Sutton's Place,
aguesthouse m Manchester Center,
Vt.
rrankextendsaspecial welcome
to
all
Marist
alumni, who can
reach
him at sttonpl@adelphia.net
l 9 6 4
Rev.
Edward
Doran
writes that
last
year in New
York
City fire
destroyed the Church of Samt
Gerard Majella. where he 1s the
pastor. Sadl), everything in the
sanctuary of
the
church was
lost.
He
is now
rebuilding
the
church
'
Mike
Feddeck
'66
(right),
his wife,
Mary,
and
daughter,
Annemarie,
with Cardinal Edward
Egan.
and his
·wounded"
congregation.
I
John
Doss
has retired from the
Plumbers and Steamfitters Union,
Local
201 and
is
now project.
man-
ager forC.B. Strain&: Son.a plumb-
ing company in Poughkeepsie He
and his wife, Carol, are the proud
parents of daughters Dr.
Ellen
Doss
(RPI
'98)and
Lauren Doss,afourth
year student
at
NYU College ClfDen
tistr)· Grandson Chnsuan i5,se,·en
years old.
IJ.
Brien
O'Calla.ghan,
Ph.D.
\Hites
that his
w1fe,J1Jd),
1s
a doctoral student at
the University
of Connecticut and has joined his
practice, Psychotherapy Associates
of \\'est Connecticut. Judy e·arned
a master's
m marriage
and fam1l)
therapy,
passed
the Connecucut
license
exam in
marriag,e
and
familr therap)
111
No,·e·mber
2000 and was hired as a full-ume
counselor at the \hdwestern Con-
necttcut
Council on Alcoholism m
January
2003.
I
Bro. Rene
D.
Roy,
FMS
has been pnnc1pal of Bishop
Donahue Memorial High School
m
\lcMechen,
\\'.\'a., smce 2000.
Bro.
Roy 1s
still
Lrymg
to help
the
people
of
Rwanda
where he
1:aught
from 1995 to 1999.
l 9 6 6
Bro.
Bishop
James
Tamayo
appointed
John
A. Allen, FMS
first chancellor of
the
two-year-
old Diocese of Laredo. Texas. on
Apnl
17,
2002. Pope John Paul
11
established
the
diocese.
I
John
Barry
retired from
his
posit
ion as
an mternational trade specialist
with the U.S. Customs Sen•icc
arter
31
years. He 1s m,·olved in
full-ttme play umpinng softball
and
rcfcreei
ngsocccr
games.
II
Mi kc
Feddcck
was promoted
to Knight
Commander of the Holy Sepulchre
of Jerusalem by Cardmal Edward
Egan.
lJohn
Hart,
Ph.D.
had
three
articles
published in
prokssional
journals in
2002 He
also
wrote
seven encyclopedia aniclo~s for
the forthcoming
Encvclopedia
of
Religion and 1\'atur,,
completed a
book,
Environmental
Theology,
to
be
published
by
Pauhst Press and
lectured on theology and ecology
in :S:ew
York. Montana, Kentuckr,
Tennessee, Canada and Ital)·
I
James
P.
Long,
Jr.
has been
invol\'ed
with
the sport of r,owing
since his college days. Folkiwmg
his graduauon. Jim coached Long
Islands
only ere,, team, a squad
from lloly Trinll)'.
A few years
later, he founded
the
Sagamore
Ro,, mg Associatton, a nonprofit
organization that helped to launch
high school and college programs
and
promote
rowmg
Hts
"bab>·"
has
come full circle,
wnh
many
schools now compwng in
the
Long Island Scholastic Rowing
Champ1onsh1ps.
I
Richard
McKay
has been a musician/songwrneron
the
schooner "Wolf" for
l7
years.
The schooner sails out of Key West,
Fla.
I
Peter esteroke
retired as
proprietor of Pat O'Shea·s
\lad
Hat-
ter in San
I
rancisco, Calif.
m May
of
2002. I
le
1s
traveling,
ndmg
his
motorcrclcand waiting for
his
wife
to retire
lhs
philosophy on life:
"Let
the good times roll and don t
get too greedy'
I
Rocco Pict roresa
has
retired from teaching.
I
le
taught
for 15 years in
the Highland
(N.Y.)
Central School District and
17
years
for Hudson(\ Y.}cit)'schools.
lDr.
James
Sullivan
is m his
3T
year
in education.
He has
spent the
past
five as a deputy superintendent
for
the South Huntington(N
Y
)School
District
I
Thomas Troland
was a
workshop presenter at the \\'orld
Magazmc Marketplace
Conference
in
London,
l:ngland,
in November
2002.1
Charles
Zoellcrisa
prores-
sional geriatnc consultant and care
manager with
life
\\'tsc Personal
Advocates. Charlie assists elders
and
their
fomilies
in
making
good
planning and care decisions and
carrymg them out. His spec1alt)' is
Alzheimer's care and trammg.
1
9 6 7
James
P.
Clancy retired
in
December 2002 from the New
York State Office of Children and
Family Services where
he
served
as
assistant director of
the I
larlem
Valley Secure Center.
Jim
is now
the assistant program director for
the Torrington
lConn.)
Trans111onal
Center.
I
Robert
A.
Johnson
and
MARRIAGES
Richard Scott
'70
to
Connie
Saito,
Sept.
28,
2002
Dennis O'Doherty
'80
to Marie McNdmara,
May
18, 2
,2
Catharine Maggs
'82
to Roger
Larson,
Oct.
26,
2002
Maureen Halloran
'86
to Charles
F
Koran.
Jr.,
Apr
31 2v02
Kenneth
M.
Saccoman
'86
to
Lisa
D.
Smith,
Sept.
19,
2002
Donna Williams
'86
to Joseph
DeN1gris,
July
28,
2 12
Eileen
Patrice Atkins
'87
to Jay
M.
Valdes,
Jr.,
Nov.
17,
2001
Laurie Barraco
'87
to Michae Green,
Apri
27.
2 2
Maureen Melley
'87
to
Phil
Angelastrq,
Sept.
22,
2001
Kenneth
Hommel
'88
to Carolyn
Stys,
June
29,
2C, 2
Catherine Locke
'88
to Curtis
D. George,
June
16,
2001
Meredith Aster
'89
·
Mordechai
E.
Wiseman,
Nov
16.
2002
Patrick
Cancroft
'89
to Jennifer
Goldman,
Sept.
a
2002
Sarah Post
'89
to Timothy
John
Sm th, Oct.
26, 2002
Melanie
A. Winters
'89
to Robert
Mo~her
June
22
Christine Garvin
'90
to
Anthony
D1Ambrosio,
June
3,
2000
E-mail:
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Online:
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mail:
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Alumni
.1
MARRIAGES
Stephen Sylvester
'90
to
Beth VanPelt,
Sept.
13, 2002
Jean Marie Krokus
'91
to
Joseph
Capizola,
Oct. 6, 2002
Michael Wolff '91
to
Terese
Burke,
Nov. 23, 2001
Michael D. Dumont
'92
to Danielle
Boyle,
Jan.
5, 2002
Dr. Robin Buckley '93
to Greg
Gilbert,
June
17,
2000
Lisa A. Chmielewski
'93
to David
C. Bell, Jr., Sept.
14,
2002
Thomas N. Collins
'93
to Mary
Jo
Perrino,
Dec. 15,
2001
Kimberly A. Cuneo, Esq.
'93
to Andrew
Delaura,
Aug.
17,
2002
Kraig DeMatteis '93
to Jennifer
Hannan,
Aug. 3,
2002
Noemi Fernandez, Esq.
'93
to Maxwell
M. Hiltz, Aug. 31,
2002
Karen DePaoli
'94
to Michael
J.
Barnes,
April 20, 2002
Pamela Ricigliano
'94
to Mark Gnapp,
Sept.
14, 2002
Kent Rinehart
'94
to
Deborah
Barnett,
July
13, 2002
Kevin Shine
'94
to Sarah
Herzog,
May 3, 2003
Jeanne Brennan
'95
to
Michael Dunne
'95,
Nov.
2, 2001
Vincent S. Bugge
'95
to Amy Marie
Campanelli,
July
14,
2001
Michael Coughlin
'95
to
Jennifer
Papa,
July 6, 2002
Susan Legath
'95
to Ryan
Sprole,
Nov.
27, 2002
Melissa Miller
'95
to Donald
Pecora,
April 5, 2003
Susan Russello
'95
to Glenn
Buonocore,
July
14, 2001
James R. Sullivan
'95
to
Marcella
Chimienti,
June
22, 2002
Kimberly Tyne
'95
to Mark Reilly,
July
19,
2002
34
MARIST
MAGAZINE
his
wife, Cathy, operate
Kaffe
Magnum Opus (www.kafe.com),
a
company
that
roasts coffee
for
the
specialty coffee
trade.
II
John
Per-
ring Mulligan, Ph.D.
has moved
to
Greenville, Wis.
He
took a position
with Affinity
Health
Sy:stem
as vice
president for mission ser\'ices.
lJ3am1N~•~
1
9 6 8
Robert
G. Bailey,
Esq.
has been
appoimed
to the
Public Health
Emergency Study Group at the
National Conference c,f Commis-
sioners on Uniform State Laws.
Bob is
the assistant
d,ean
for
the
University
of Missouri School of
Law
in
Columbia, Mo.
I
John
S.
Carey,Jr.
writes
that he
had a great
time
at the
Washington/Baltimore
chapter
holiday/sociail
event
at
The Hawk
&
Dove Restaurant
in
Washington,
D.C.,
in December.
I
Frederick
Clark
is s,emi-retired
after 30 years of teaching math-
ematics and computer science.
He
now
teaches part-time· in
Fairfax
County, Va. Fred is als,o an active
memberof Gideons
International.
I
William Gould
retired from
teach-
ing at
the
Newburgh
Free
Academy
in
June
2001.
He
is pursuing pho-
tography interests and
works with
his
brothers
at
the family business,
Bethlehem Art Gallery
in
New
Windsor, N.Y.
I
Paul Hickey
has
retired fromthefederalgovernment
after 33 years and is no,w a
project
manager with Computer Sciences
Corp. in Augusta, Ga.
I
Richard
Kirby
is
a beverage specialist for
the Folgers and Millswne coffees
division of Procter
~il
Gamble,
covering
Florida's
Gulf Coast.
I
Daniel Kuffner
has
b,een elected
to
a
two-year
term as
president
of
the Hyde
Park (NY) Teacher's
Association. He will serve
through
June
2004.
I
Leo
McHiugh
retired
from Lockheed
Martin Corpora-
tion
in Owego, NY,
in December
2001.
Leo
was employ,ed there as
anadvisoryprogramme:r.
lThomas
J.
Nolan,Jr.'s daughter, Jaclyn, is a
sophomore at Marist.
II
Dr. Peter
Passero
became a
grandfather
to Andrew
James,
compliments
of daughter
Kimberly.
Peter was
elected chairman of
the board
of Prizm Dental Partners and
is
a clinical associate
professor
at
the
University of Maryland.
Peter's son,
Kevin,
was
to
gradu-
ate in June 2003 with an M.D.
in
natriopathic
medicine.
I
Thomas
Reichert
works with
the
special
education
program
at Montclair
High
School
in
Montclair,
N.J.
Tom taught
from 1968 to
1980,
left
teachingand
reentered the
field
in 1993
with the Clifton Special
Education Program
in Clifton, NJ
I
Paul X.
Rinn
received
a standing
ovation recently after speaking at
a two-day seminar at the U.S.
Na\'al Academy
in
Annapolis,
Md.
Paul,
the
former command-
ing officer of the USS Samuel
B.
Roberts,
addressed
midshipmen
as pan of
the
Admiral and Mary
Lee
Anderson Speaker Series.
I
Michael
Tobin
retired from
the
New
York
City Board of
Education
after a 34-yearcareer in education.
For
the
past eight years, Mike has
been
principal of Susan E. Wagner
High School
in
Staten
Island,
N.Y.
He is
now
a part-time consultant
and
mentor
for new principals in
the New
York
City school system.
Mike's son-in-law, Todd King, is a
graduate student at Marist, where
he
is
pursuing
an M.P.A.
I
Dorothy
Willis
writes
that
she is enjoying
her retirement
in
Florida.
1
9 6 9
Thomas Annunziata
retired
from
his position as chairperson of the
Mathematics Department
with
the
Island
Trees School
District
in
Levittown,
N.Y.
His
retirement
party
turned
out
to
be a Marist
mini-reunion
with
the
attendance
ofBill
Brennan
'99, districtchairof
computer
technology,
Fred Brand
'69, principal
of Long
Beach
Middle
School in
Long
Beach, NY, and
Allison
Rigaud
'89, a teacher
at Island
Trees
Middle School.
I
Charles
Button
is
retired
but
keeps
busy teaching computer
science
two days
a week at Santa
Ana College in Santa Ana, Calif.
He also volunteers one morning
a week in
the
kindergarten class
of one of his granddaughters.
I
Stephen
Dennison
completed 30
years of service with the Broward
County Health Department in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., where he served as
an environmental specialist
Ill.
I
David
Giannascoli,
Ph.D.
retired
from
his
position
as the
senior school
psychologist
in the
Poughkeepsie City School District
on July l,
2002,
after 32 years of
service.
He
has been elected presi-
dent
of the New York Counseling
Association,
the
state
branch
of
the
American CounselingAssociation.
I
Gerard M.
Gretzinger, Sr.
has
been appointed assistant superin-
tendent
for personnel and admin-
istration
in
the Kingston (N .Y.)
City
School
District.
I
Peter
E.
Hayden
has
been promoted
to
the
rank of
assistant chief
oft he
New
York
City
Fire Department by New
York
City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and
fire
commissioner NicholasScoppetta.
I
Gregory
King
and
his
wife,
Rosie,
celebrated
their
30'
h
wed-
ding anniversary
on Aug.
2, 2002.
They have
three children:
Patrick,
a
graduate of St. Louis University,
Dominic
and Danielle, a freshman
and
junior
respectively
at St.
Louis
University.
I
Daniel
Mahoney
has
been
appointed
vice president,
Giga
research,
and to
the
executive
team
of
Forrester Research, Inc. Dan's
responsibilities
include manag-
ing
the worldwide
Giga research
organization and overseeing
the
delivery
of
the
Giga
product
line.
Dan's office is in Santa Clara, Calif.,
and the company is
based in
Cam-
bridge,
Mass.
I
Richard
Mease!
has been teaching
earth science at
Green Run High School
in
Virginia
Beach, Va., forthree years.
Richard
retired from
the
U.S. Na\'ywith
the
rank
of
lieutenant
commander.
I
Robert Mennonna
retired after 33
years in education, the last 30 years
with
Arlington,
Va.,
public
schools
and
the last
nine years as
principal
of Ashlawn Elementary School
in
Arlington.
I
Vincent Mooney
has
published a
handbook
on
teaching,
Teaching
101: a
Practical
Guide to a
Puzzling
Profession.
Vinny
teaches
English
at Arlington
High
School
in
LaGrangeville,
N.Y.
I
As
of
June
2003,
Edward Novak
completed
34 years as
a
biology teacher at
Catholic
Central
High
School in
Troy, NY
I
Richard
Stanulwich
has retired from the
New York State
Department
of
Corrections after 33
years as a counselor.
1
9 7 0
Howard
Angus planned to retire
in
June
2003 from
the Monroe-
Woodbury (N.Y.) School
District
after
33 years of
teaching
and
coaching.
I
Vincent Begley
had
his
fifth
book,
Dorothy: This
Side
of
the Rainbow,
published
in 2002.
Vince
is the
assistant
director
of
public
information
at Mount Saint
Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y.
He
is also an adjunct instructor in
the
School
of
Communication and
the
Arts at Marist.
I
Robert
L.
Brown,
Esq.
writes that in
2003
his son,






























Bro.
John
Klein, FMS '70 (left}
officially became the provincial
of
the
Marist Brothers's newly
formed
Province
of the United
States during the opening of
the
Provincial Chapter at Marist Col-
lege in
June.
Above, Bro. Sean
Sammon, FMS '70, superior gen-
eral of the Marist Brothers, joins
Brother John in front of Our Lady
Seat of Wisdom Chapel.
Connor, will graduate
from
high
school,
his daughter, Kate, will
graduate
from
Ohio
University,
his
daughter,
Erin,
will
get
married, his
wife,
Mary
Ellen
wi
II
get a
break
and
he
will get
a hole-in-one'
I
Stephen
Caramore
planned
LO
retire inJune
2003
after
teaching
English for
33
years
in the
Patchogue-Medford
School
District in
Patchogue,
N.Y.
I
John
A.
Clancy
has been promoted
to president/administrator
for
St.
Anne's
Retirement
Community
in
Columbia,
Pa.
I
Anthony
DiStasio
is an adjunct assistant chemistry
professor
for
the County College of
Morris in
Randolph,
NJ
Anthony
works full-time as
director
of
pur-
chasing for Crest Foam
Industries
in Moonachie,
N.J.
I
Col. Andrew
Fallon,
USA
(Ret.) is
director of
systems management
for the
Washington,
D.C.,
office of SRS
Technologies,
Inc.
I
Brother John
Klein,
FMS
was elected
provincial
of the
newly formed Province
of
the United States.
Brother
John's
election concluded a six-month
process
to
determine the
leadership
forthe
new province.
Brother
John
formally
began his
three-year term
as
Provincial in June 2003
when
the
Brothers
opened their first
Provin-
cial Chapter at
Marist
College. As
one of 38 Mari st provincials
in
the
world, he assumes
leadership
of a
province that
includes more than
200
Brothers and
many
members
of the
Marist famil)',
I
Joseph
Mangino.son
of
James
E.
Mangino,
1s
a proud
member
of
the
Class of
2006
at
Marist.
I
Das
Elius
Velez
became a shareholder/partner at
Greenberg Traurig
L.L.P.,
a large,
prestigious
national
law firm. His
office
is
in
New
York, N.Y.
1
9 7
1
Michael
Andrew
has
been elected
and appointed
10
the
chairmanship
of
the New
York
State
Public High
School
Athletic
Association
Boys
Soccer Committee.
Mike teaches
social studies at Chenango, Valley
High
School in
Binghamton,
N.Y.
I
Jim
Aridas's
daughter.Julie,
gradu-
ated from
the
International
Bacca-
laureate Program inJune 2002
and
is a freshman at
UNC/Chapel
Hill.
Daughter
Sara
is
a
freshman
in the
IBP
at
Princess
Anne
High
School
in
Virginia
Beach,
Va. The
IBP is
a
comprehensive
two-year
interna-
tional curriculum conducted
in
about
1,300 schools worldwide.
Exams that
1B students
take
are
graded by
the 1B
assessmenit center
in Wales, UK.
The
exams are similar
to
the Advanced
Placement
exams
but are recognized worldwide, and
the standard curriculum is admin-
istered by
the
1B
organization
in
Geneva, Switzerland.
I
Audrey
Bellarosa,
Ph.D.
is a school psy-
chologist with the Orange County
AHRC
in
Newburgh, N.Y.
Daughter
Valerie
'77 also graduated from
Marist. Val
is
employed at SUNY
Albany.
I
Thomas Ferrara's
busi-
ness,
Ferrara
Jerum International
in
Rochester,
N.Y., continues
10
grow. New
clients
in 2002 include
Wal-Man,
Blockbuster
and
Regis,
who have chosen FJI
as
real
estate
consultants for
upstate
and
west-
ern New York.
I
William
Fil's
two
daughters
attend
Mari
st.
laura is a
junior
and Cheryl is a
freshman.
I
Robert
Gurske
was
ordained a
dea-
con fortheArchdioceseofNewark,
NJ.,onJune
1,2002. Bob
is
network
director fort
he
Kent
Place School
in
Sum
mil,
NJ.
I
John Koch
retired
in
1993
after
30 years at
IBM. He
moved
10
Florida in
March 2000
and his
hobbies include computers
and photography.
I
Rev.
Patrick
McSherry
completed seven years
as
director of communications for
the Capuchin Franciscan Order at
its Rome
headquarters in summer
2003.
He
will return to provincial
headquarters
in
Detroit
to serve
as
secretary for the missions.
I
W.
Terrence Mooney's
son, Aran, is
pursuing
a Ph.D.
in marine
science
at the
University
of
Hawaii.
His
daughter,
Cara, is an accomplished
violinist.
I
Kevin
O'loughlin,
Sr.
has
accepted a position
in
Charleston, S.C., as
director
of
quality
assurance and compliance
for aaiPharma's pharmaceutical
development center
in the paren-
teral division.
Kevinalsowritesthat
his middle son,
Philip,
got married
in April 2002.
I
John
A.
Rogener
is senior vice president of learn-
ingand development for U.S. Trust
Company
in
New York, N.Y.
MARRIAGES
Claudia
Woods
'95
to
Jonathan
Heunis,
August,
2002
Marc Beardslee
'96
to
Elizabeth
Tor
res,
Oct. 26, 2002
Karen Bisserup
'96
to
Vincent Gandino
'99,
Sept.
6, 2002
Robyn
L.
Bradley
'96
to
Christopher H. Schubert
'97,
Oct. 13, 2001
Kristine
Dawes
'96
to
Michael
Boisits,
Sept. 28, 2002
Danielle Lind
'96
to
Robert
Corrente,
Jr.,
June
15, 2002
Amy McHugh
'96
to
John
Whipple,
Jr.,
Aug. 3, 2002
Theresa Mottola
'96
to
Christopher
Mulkins
'96,
October
2001
Robert Moyer
'96
to
Kathleen
J.
Karr,
Oct. 10,
2001
Jessica
J.
Nagle '96
to
Peter
Martin,
Nov.
10,
2002
Elizabeth
Polityka
'96
to
John
Wilson,
Aug.
3, 2002
FAIL
2001
35






















Alumni
A
MARRIAGES
Melissa Poponiak '96
to
Billy Tilton,
Sept.
7, 2002
Patricia Ann Porco '96
to
Timothy
W. Keasbey,
Nov. 9, 2001
Pamela Reid '96
to
Ronald
Butler,
Aug.
3,
2002
Thomas
Rocchio,
D.P.M. '96
to Kate Mooney,
Feb.
2,
2002
Matthew W. Stevenson
'96
to
Nadine
Badger,
May
10, 2003
Andrea Straci '96
to
Matthew Taffner '97,
Sept. 7, 2002
Laura Brennan
'97
to Jerome
Liddy,
Nov.
23,
2002
Kathleen Conway '97
to Nathan
Hoak,
June
8, 2002
Jessica
DeGoes
'97
to
John
C. O'Rourke,
Aug.
4, 2002
Jennifer Domizio
'97
to
Newman
Marsilius
IV,
Oct. 7,
2000
Sandra Dougall '97
to
Christian
Stromberg,
July 13,
2002
Erin Flannery '97
to
Thomas
Kirwan '94,
August
10,
2002
Chrystine Gilchrist '97
to Scott Zacherau,
Sept. 15,
2001
Bernadette Goebel '97
to Marcel
Cekuta,
Sept.
29,
2002
Robert M. LaBarbera
'97
to Patricia
O'Rourke,
Sept.
7, 2002
Dawn Langevin '97
to
Rob Muir,
July
21, 2001
Heather Lippert
'97
to
Tim
Doyle,
June
8,
2002
Ellen Maloney
'97
to
Brett
McLaughlin,
July 22, 2000
Suzanne O'Brien
'97
to
Nicholas
Stephens,
May 5,
2001
Patrick A. Power '97
to Abby Arnold,
April
13, 2002
Colleen Smith '97
to
Benjamin
Hawkinson,
June
7, 2003
Wendy Smith
'97
to
Kenneth
Mickle,
Oct. 12,
2002
36
MARIST
MAGAZINE
1
9 7 2
Susan Brannen is, the
elected
vice president for audiology,
professional practices for the
American
Speech/Language/
Hearing Association in Rockville,
Md. She chairs
the
Department of
Audiology for Monroe (N
.Y.)
BOC ES
#2
in Spencerport, NY
I
Roseann
Brust is
a major account/business
development manager for Gerity
Human Resources,
a
Fortune 500
company in Atlanta, Ga.
I
Philip
DeGrandis
writes
1.hat
he
had
a
stem cell transplant
in
April 2002
to
combat multiple
myeloma.
He is
doing well and
lookimg
forward
to
playingsomegolfthisspring. Phil
is
self-employed as
a
principal for
PD Enterprises, which
designs
and
develops
systems
for reinsurance
companies.
I
Raymond Del-
Maestro
was promrned
to
princi-
pal of
the
Casimir Pulaski School
in Yonkers, NY
I
Bro.
George
DiCarluccio
has
been
teaching
at
Msgr. Edward Pace
High
School
in
Miami, Fla., for
more than30years.
In May 2002,
the
U.S. government
awarded the school its
"Blue
Rib-
bon"
as a school of excellence.
I
Bryan M. Maloney
ii;
vice president
for college
advancement
at Mount
St. Mary College
in
Newburgh,
N.Y. Bryan serves .as an at-large
member of
the
Alumni Executive
Board and was dire,ctor of alumni
affairs at Marist College
in the
early
1980s.
I
James
F. Wilkens, Esq.
has the distinction Qf winning
the
largest
medical mal1practice
award
in
the
United
Statei; in 2002.
The
award, $94.Smillion, was awarded
in
a case
of
a premature baby who
developed cerebral palsy. Jim
is an auorney with
the
firm of
Fitzgerald & Fitzg,erald, P.C. in
Yonkers, N.Y.
~
..
w;..,_
l
9 7 3
Beulah
Cowart Lyons
received
an associate's
degn~e
in counsel-
ing
from Dutchess Community
College in May 1999.
I
Marty
McGowan
volunteers fort
he
Not
re
Dame Club of Staten
Island,
which
sponsors many activities including
the
Bread of Life Food Drive, an
annual event
that
organizes food
drives
for nonprofits
that help
the
hungry,
needy
and e lderlyon Staten
Island. The Notre Dame Club
has
about 60 active volunteers and
Marty would
be
g,lad to talk
to
any Marist alumnus who would
like to
join. Marty can
be
reached
through the Alumni Office.
He
is a
tax compliance agent with the New
York State Department of Labor.
I
MaryBeth Thompson
(a.k.a
Dee
Coutant)
teaches
seventh-grade
English in
the
Hyde Park (N.Y.)
School District.
1
9 7 4
Sheila Languth Albert
works
in
the Admissions Office at Avon
Old Farms School in Avon, Conn.
I
Eleanor
Rundie Bockley
left
the world of computers for art.
Elly purchased an art gallery and
frame store in Darien, Conn., the
Noroton Gallery. She serves as an
at-large
member of
the
Alumni
Executive Board.
I
Karen Conlon
Connors
and
Thomas Connors'
son, Kevin,
is
a freshman al Marist
and is on the swimming team.
I
William
K.
Harding
is
the
execu-
tive director
of
the
New
York State
Department
of State. Bill
lives in
Pound
Ridge,
N.Y., with
his
wife,
Ann, and
their two
children, Chris
and Emily, who are both in college.
I
Edward].
Kavanagh, Ph.D.
has
been
appointed
the
first provost
at Roger Williams University in
Bristol, R.I. As the chief academic
officer for the university, Ed is
responsible fonhe viability, quality
and reputation of the
institution's
academic programs.
I
Susan
P. Kelly, Ph.D.
was installed as
the president-elect of the New
York State English Council at its
annual conference
in
Albany, N.Y.
Susan
is
district coordinator for
English in the Sewanhaka Central
School District in
Elmont,
N.Y.
I
Francis Martin
has
retired
from
his position as auditor with
the
U.S.
Department of the
Interior
after 28
Ed Kavanagh, Ph.D. '74
years.
He
auended
the
GOP Con-
,·ention in Houston
in
1992
and
met George
W.
Bush.
He
also
heard
President
Bush
speak and saw
his
name placed in
nomination.
Frank
was
able to
obtain a seat
five rows
behind
the
V.l.P. box One of the
highlights
of Frank's career was
auditing the Enron Corp.
I
Robert
Piersa
writes
that
he enjoys view-
ing
the
Marist Web site
to
see how
the
college is thriving.
He
and
his
life partner will celebrate
15
years
together
in
February 2003. The)'
live in
Saugatuck, Mich., along the
shores of Lake Michigan. Summers
there are glorious; winters are
worse than
Poughkeepsie!
Bob
is
benefits manager for the Don-
nelly Corp.
in Holland,
Mich.
I
Daniel
Whitehead's
son, Jitu,
is
serving his country, stationed
in
Afghanistan.
1
9 7 5
Michael Asip
is principal of
Toano Middle School
in Toano,
Va.
He
was accepted as a doctoral
candidate
in
the education policy,
planning and
leadership
program
at
the
College of William and
Mary
in
Williamsburg, Va. Mike
began
his
studies
in
spring
2003.1
Maureen
Dennigan
Checchiaand
her
husband, Thomas Checchia
'75,
have given
up the
corporate
world
in
New York and are now
the
proprietors of
the
Landgrove
lnn,
an
18-room
country
inn
nestled
in a beautiful Vermont mountain
valley in Landgrove, Vt.
I
Brian
F.
Donnelly
continues to do product
design work with a
focus
on elders
and people with disabilities.
His
work was
recently
selected for a
national
exhibit
titled
"Unlimited
By
Design."
Brian's
daughter, Kath-
ryn, and
his
son, Mauhew, keep
Brian
and
his
wife, Ann, busy.
Brian
is an associate professor al
San Francisco State University.
I
Maureen O'Toole
Reimers'
daughters,
Meghan and
Jaclyn,
are undergraduate students at
Florida State University in
Tal-
lahassee,
Fla.
1
9 7 6
Robert Bodratti
is director of
community services at Columbia-
Greene Community College in
Hudson, N.Y.
I
Larry
Hurley
still
works al Philips Semiconductor
as a senior engineer, a position
he
took on
retiring from
IBM. He
also volunteers with United Way
of
Dutchess
County, serving on its







































Impact
Council. Larry and h1swife,
Dorothy, ha,·e purchased a home in
Florida, when~ the} hope to reure
m a
few year~.
I
Paul
Monar,
Jr.
completed work on the Cannery
Hotel & Casmo, a
$100
million
fac1ht} Paul
1s a
senior pro1ec1
manager for 1hphal1 Products
Corp in
Las
Vegas, Nev.
I
Robert
Wishart's
son '>coll, graduated
from
I
rostburg '>late universit).
His
younger son, Breu, attends
Salisbury University.
I
9 7 7
Charles
Bang
informs
us that
his son, John, graduated from St
Peter"s
College in
\la}
2003
John
will bcgm
working
for Mahone>
Cohen & Company in November
2003
I
Its
daughter. \lelis~. gradu-
ated
frlm1
HolyTnnit)·inJune
2003.
I
Dr. Nancy
J.
Church
1s scn·ing
as arnng director of internauonal
educauon at SL\;\ Pla11sburgh.
I
Jeffrey Nick,
an IBM FellO\\, has
been named vice
president
of archi-
tecture and design fore Business on
Demand at the IB\I Corp.
I
Barbara
Stern
sull visits the Marist rampus
often
w
auend classes sponsored
by the Center for Lifetime ',tud).
Barbara
says
it"s
an
excellent
group
and appreciates
the
fact
that
classes
are offered
lo
alumni.
}rn:1N¥C
~
1
9 7 8
Cath) Carl
has been appointed
assistant
director
of the James
A. Cannavino library at Marist
College '>he completed an \I P.A.
degree al Marist m \la}
2003.
I
Dennis
Cosgrove
1s
regional vice
presidrnt for Sodexho Corp Den-
ms lives in Park Ridge, '-:J,wuh
his Wife, ',tephan1e, and their two
children, ChristopherandJarquie.
I
"\orcen
Fennell
1s president of
Eplunbus
\laximus,
a publishing
and consulting firm.
Her husband,
Vince
Capozzi
'78,
is
business
manager
for Schou Corp., SJ){'oalty
glass manufacturers. Noreen and
Vince have
two
children, Christo-
pher and Katharine, and arc verr
much looking forward
lO
their 25
•
dass rl'Union
in
Or1ober
2003.
I
Patrick
llickey
has
been
living
Jnd ll:athing in I ugenc Ore.,
~mce
1990.
He
I!>
a special e<luca-
11011
teacher
in
a lrarning center at
James
Madison Middle
School for
i:rades
6. 7 and 8 I ha,·e great stu-
dents and I lo,·e m} Job,"
he" mes.
'iince graduating
from Marist,
Pat
has
taught m
Ne,\ York Stallc, New
Hampshire
and now Oreg;un
He
:.ends greetings from the great
l\onhwest.
I
Krisun
J.
Keller
'05,
daughter
of
Virginia Heaton
Keller
and the
late
Robert Keller
'80,
play:. on the Manst women·s
basketball team.
I
Fred
Lauricella
changed his career
in
2002
from
marketing electronics products
to the real estate profession He
1s
a New York State licensed sales
associate w11hSe\'Cn
Oaks Realty
m
Wappingers Falls,\\
He has also
been bus> developing Web sites.
I
William Sharp
was appointed
director of risk management for
Clark Construcuon Group Inc.
B111
lh·es in Ashburn, Va.
I
Duane
Smith
isan investmcnL
consultant/
broker wnh R)'an Beck and Co. m
Poughkeepsie.
l
9 7 9
Russell
J.
Beckie)
retired
a~ chief
of police of the Moum Pleasant
(N.Y.)
Police Department
and
then bernme director of secum,·
at Greenrock Corp. m Po::anuc~
1
ltlls,
N.Y. Greenrork
1s
a Rork-
cfellerfamily-owncd
corporation.
I
Robert
T.
Brown,
former president
oft.;lsterCoumrCommun11}
Col-
lege,
was appointed 10
the
p,os111on
of vice chancellor for commumt)·
rnlleges for the State Uni\·ers11r
of
New York. Bob ,,
111
ser\'e as the
university's
chief
liaison lo the
state's
30
rnmmun!l) colleges.
I
Michael
and
Kathy ~lurphy
Dombroski's
daughter,
B,~than},
will
be
auending college
in
2003.
',he is ranked \lo. 9 in her das~ of
about
400.
I
Toni
Emery
n~ce1ved
the SUI\\- Chancellors Award
for
I
xcellencc in Teaching. Toni
1s
a
beha\'ioral sciences professor at
Dutchess Communn> College in
Poughkeepsie.
I
Robert Hcinisch
1s \"!Ce
president for secur
il)
and
operations at the
i\1.:"
'tork 13otam-
cal Garden
1n
Bronx, N.Y.
I
George
Janis
retired
from
the New York
C
ll)
Police Department and has
1akena1ob,\llhtheL S.Attorncy·s
Office.I
Dennis O'Neill
hai;joined
Thomson
\1edical
Economics
Pubhshmg as senior director of
markeungand brand manag;emcnt.
I
Maureen
Courtney
O'Ndll
has
Joined the la" firm of Dorfman.
Lynch and Knoebel m t'\yack,
N.\
.,
as business manager after
15 years at
home raising
children
Tara, Terence and Logan She and
her husband,
Dennis
O'Neill,
h,·e
1n
Valley Cottage, N.Y.
I
Michael
Dr. George
Searles
'67
Wins Teaching
Award
Dr. George
J.
Searles '67, professor
of humanities at Mohawk Valley
Community College, was
named
2002
Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching New York
Professor of the Year.
Dr. Searles was one of
50
profes-
sors honored at an awards luncheon
at
the National
Press
Club
in Washington,
D.C.
in November.
The awards program,
which recognized one professor from
each state, was presented by the Carn-
Dr. George
J.
Searles ,67
egie Fo~ndation
!or the Advancemen_t
ofT
eaching and directed by the Council
for Advancement
and Support of Education.
He
also was honored by the
New
York State United Teachers
as its
~ighe~
Educati~n
M_emberofthe
Year
at a convention
in Washington,
D.C.,
in
Apn!. The union 1s made up of nearly
480,000
people who work
in
or
are retired from
New
York
schools, colleges and healthcare facilities.
A Clinton resident, he has been a member of the faculty at Mohawk
Valley
Community
College since 1976. He has taught courses in English
c_omposition,
id~as
and valu_es
in literature,
contemporary
poetry, effec-
tive
speech, business/techn1Cal
communications,
journalism,
English
as
a se;ond language, Spanish, Latin and development
writing.
I want my students to develop the habit of
inquiry,"
he
says.
·1
want them to function effectively
in collaborative
situations.
I
want them
to write with some measure of concision and clarity, and also be able
~o stand before an audience and present
their
ideas coherently;
most
importantly,
I
want them to think!·
His ~pproach to instruction and classroom management is a blend of
th_e
tr~d1t1~nal
and the
non-traditional,
combining
blackboard
illustration
with J_ugghng
~nd unusual props such as electronic
games.
·successful
teaching requires not only mastery of subject matter but also
a
touch
of theater," he says.
The
two awards are not his first for outstanding teaching. He received
the SUNY
Chancellor's
Award for Excellence
in
Teaching
in
1985.
His professional activities include membership on the Northeast
Modern
Language
Association
Executive
Council
from
1988 to
1992 and
in the Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly
from 1985 to
1987. He has published five scholarly
books:
A Casebook
on Ken Kesey's
O_ne_
Flew
Ov~r_
The Cuckoo's
Nest, Conversations
With Phillip Roth, The
F1ct1on
of Ph1J,p
Roth
and
John
Updike,
and two editions of
Workplace
Communications:
The Basics.
He has written more than
150
articles, poems and reviews for daily
~ewspa~ers,
popular magazines
and scholarly
journals
and has been listed
in the
Dlfectory of American
Poets
and Fiction Writers
since
1997.
_A
communi~ations_consultant
for a number of
local companies,
organi-
zations
and
sooal
serv1Ce
agencies, he has been a curriculum
development
consultant to
B0CES
and the
National
Science Foundation.
After maj?ring_
in English
at Marist, he earned an M.A.
in
English
from
the St~te University
_of
N~w York at New Paltz and
a
Ph.D.
in
English
from Binghamton
Un1vers1ty.
He also completed
additional
graduate and
pos!-doctoral st~dies at Trinity
College
(Oxford),
Rensselaer
Polytechnic
Institute, Hartwick College, Southampton
College of Long Island
Uni-
versity and Bard College.
Ragusa
is a Sl'ntor \'ice president
m sales with Climputcr As:.ooalc~
lntcrnauonal 1n Hauppauge,
NY
Mike
li\'es in
Sea Cliff,
\JY,
w11h
his
wife
Leslie
Byerly
Ragusa
'79.
and
their four sons, ~hchacl C,regor},
Mau hew
and ',tcven.
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Alumni
A
MARRIAGES
Maura Wallin
'97
to
Jay
Cawley,
Oct. 27, 2001
Christopher Webb '97
to Rebecca
Lopez,
June
7,
2003
Jeffrey Browne '98
to
Laurie
Alison Griffin,
May
25,
2002
Christie
Coleman
'98
to
Eric
Michaud
'98,
Oct. 4, 2002
Eric Bennett Conte
'98
to
Jennifer
Lynn
Palchinsky,
Nov. 30, 2002
Erin E. Dickinson '98
to
Timothy
Geary,
May 18, 2002
Jennifer A. Dreyer '98
to Adam P. Schmidt,
July
12, 2002
Dr. Bridget Foy '98
to
Jason
Pomerantz,
June
7, 2003
Shannon Hirsch
'98
to
Jack Flaherty
'97,
Aug. 31, 2002
Brian Ladd '98
to Brenda
Nason,
Oct.
13, 2001
Betsy liddycoat
'98
to Gregory
J. Graham,
July
27,
2002
Mandi
Mclaughlin '98
to Scott Morabito, Dec. 27, 2001
Shannon O'Rourke '98/'99 M
to Ray
O'Connor,
June 28. 2002
Robyn Evangeline Peet
'98
to
Christopher Simeon Rawls
'97,
July
6, 2002
William P. Rall, Jr.
'98
to
Christine
McNally,
Aug. 2002
SPC Jennifer Lynn Smith, USA
'98
to Dallas
Smith, March
16, 2001
Kristen Germana '99
to
Lee
Nolan, June 22, 2002
Crystal Hinzy
'99
to
Jason
P. Glenn,
April 12, 2002
Andrea Lanzetta '99
to
Thomas J. Drag, D.C. '99,
Sept. 21, 2002
Joelene Lyons
'99
to Michael
Lenyk,
Sept. 14, 2002
Heather Marriott
'99
to Kevin
Martino,
July 27,
2002
38
MARIST
MAGAZINE
1
9 8 0
Mary
Ryan D'Em ic
graduated with
honors
in February
2002
with an
M.S. in special education from
Brooklyn College. Mary
received
the
Charles Mastron:ardi Scholar-
shipAward
foracademicexcellence
and
was
elected
to
and
received
an
award
from the Eta Theta Chapter
of Kappa
Delta Pi,
an
international
educational
honors
society. She is
a pre-K teacher
at St. Agnes Semi-
nary in
Brooklyn.
I
Robert
Feeley
retired as a lieutenant from
the
New
York City Fire
Department
after 20
years of service.
He is
now
the
CFO
of a
large medical
group
in
lower
Westchester County.
I
John
A.
King
was
promoted to
assistant
chief of police
in the
Montgomery
County Department of Police in
Rockville,
Md.John also graduated
from the
FBI
National Academy.
In
April he spoke at
Marist
about
solving the Washington,
D.C.-area
"sniper"
case.
The
case
began
with
five
homicides
in
Montgomery
County.
I
Elizabeth Diggelman
Pectal
has accepted
a
position
as
controller with Sternheimer
Broth-
ers, Inc., a
clothing
and athletic
gear
retailer
located
Lhroughout
Virginia.
Previously
Elizabeth
was an accountant for 20 years with
Alfa
Laval Thermal
in
Richmond,
Va.
I
Rich
Sohanchyk
is owner of
Pelham
Printing
and GR Media, an
ad agency
in
Pelham, N.Y
1
9 8 1
Eileen
B.
Carey
has been promoted
to
senior portfolio manager
at
Cush-
man & Wakefield of New
Jersey,
Inc.,
Asset Services Group
in East
Rutherford,
N.j.
I
Sharon
Dassori-
Valdivieso home-schools her two
daughters,
Rachel
and
Rebecca.
Sharon
is
an active member of
the
Dutchess
County
Home
Schoolers
Group. She organizes
field trips
for
home-schooled children and
advises
interested
parents on the
procedures, curricula and
benefits
of
home
schooling.
I
Bill
De Winne
has been
promoted to market
man-
ager for the
Texas
So,uth
market
of
Volvo Cars of Nonhi America.
He
and his wife, Rita,
:rnd their two
daughters, Heather
and
Kimberly,
relocated to
Austin, Texas, in
June
2002. Bill
celebrated
17
years with
Volvo in 2002.
More
importantly,
he writes, he celebrrated the
25'h
anniversary
of
meeting Rita
at
Marist in
August of
1977.
I
Mary
Frunzi-Rispoli
is a
junior high
school special educalion teacher
in the
Sachem School
District in
Riverhead,
N.Y.1
Michael
lantosca
has been promoted
to senior soft-
ware engineer at
IBM in Research
Triangle Park, N.C.
He has
filed
a patent on advanced
publishing
technology. Mike
lives
in Chapel
Hill,
N.C., with
his
wife,
Eileen
Hogan
'81, and theinwo daughters,
Caroline and
Hillary.
I
Michael
Pruyn
has been
named
vice
president of professional services
in the
Technology
Department at
lntelliCare,
Inc., a leading
provider
of medical contact center services
and technology.
The company is
based in Portland,
Maine.1After20
years at
Donaldson,
Lufkin &Jen-
reueand Credit Suisse
First
Boston,
Marist's very own
Smith
Brothers,
Marty
and
Joe,
have
teamed up
as
financial advisors at Morgan Stan-
ley
in
New York, N.Y.
1
9 8 2
Parley
E. Acker
has been appointed
senior vice president of human
resources for Citi Cards' private
label
business
and Southwest
region.
I
Stephanie
Lambert
Bartner
missed
celebrating
her
20-year
class
reunion
in October
2002,
but
for a good cause. She
walked
20 miles
a day
for three
days
in the Avon
three-day
Breast
Cancer Walk
from
Bear Mountain
to
New York City.
I
Virginia
Luciano
Brophey
was
nominated
for
Billboard
magazine's country
assistant program
director/music
direcwr of
the
year for
2001
and
for
Radio
&
Records
music
director
of the year for 2002. Ginny is
the
assistant program director/music
director for
station WKLM
99.5
FM
in
Boston, Mass.
I
Thomas A.
Cooney
has
been promoted
to pub-
lisher of
Penton
Media Electronics
Group's
EE
ProduCL
News
magazine.
The magazine
is
circulated to over
116,000 design engineers, and it
reviews
the
latest
information
on
semiconductors, components and
assemblies, soft ware
instruments
and other
products necessary
LO
successfully
design,
assemble
and
test
prototypes of consumer,
commercial, industrial
and military
and
aerospace
electronic products.
I
William Nixon
is a sales execu-
tive
forthe mid-Atlantic
region
with
Voco
International. The
company
manufactures dental products
and
they use Panerson
Dental Co. to
distribute
throughout the
United
States.
Bill's territory
encompasses
New York,
Philadelphia,
New
Jersey
and
Maryland.
I
Peter
Regan
is
vice
president
of sales
for Doral Hotels
&
Resorts
in
Itasca,
111.
I
Barbara
Sartorius
was the
2001-2002
president of
the
New York Col-
lege Learning Skills Association,
the
state branch of
the
National
Association
for
Developmental
Education.
She
is
a
professor
of
social sciences at Ulster County
Community
College
in
Stone
Ridge,
N.Y.
lli'IN.PI#
--
1
9 8 3
James
Agrawal,
president
of
J.
Agrawal Financial Group
in
Poughkeepsie,
specializes
in
portfolio management
and asset
allocation
programs,
utilizing
mutual funds.
I
Luane
Rems-
burger Ballantine
is an editor
in
the
law offices of Warren S.
Replansky,
Esq. She and
her hus-
band,
Charles,
have
t
wodaughters,
Brenna
and Marina.
I
Colleen
Giametta returned to Marist
in
1999
to
complete a certificate in
elementary education. She
teaches
first grade
al
the
Highland
(N.Y.)
Elementary
School.
She
is
enrolled
in a
master's
program at
Marist,
pursuing a
degree
in educational
psychology.
I
Claudia
Hinkson
Jeremiah
has
been
promoted to
supervisor/probation
officer at
Kings Family Court in Brooklyn,
N.Y. Claudia and her
husband,
Anthony,
live
in New York, N.Y.,
and are
the
parentsoffourchildren.
I
Jason Murray
was elected first
vice
president
of
the
Newark, N.Y.,
Metro
Chapter of the National Sales
Net work (www.salesnetwork.org).
He
is territory
manager for Wyeth-
Ayerst
Pharmacologies
in Teaneck,
NJ
He
was an
HEOP
student at
Marist.
I
Patrick
O'Donnell
has
moved to Tokyo,
Japan, to
run
IBM's
call centers, sales centers and
Web operations
in
Asia
Pacific.
I
Joseph P.
Stoeckler,Jr. is
director
of
plant
operations
and
planning
at Ellenville
Regional Hospital,
a
subsidiary of Westchester
Medi-
cal Center.
I
Theresa
C.
Tobin
has been promoted
to
captain in
the
New
York
Police Department.
Terri
has
been assigned to the 1st
Precinct,
covering Tribeca, Soho,
Bauery Park
City, Ground Zero,
Wall Street and
the
South St
reel
Seaport.






































1 9 8 4
Nigel
Augustine
was the subject of
an article
in
the Atlanta (Ga.) Jour-
nal-Constitution
in January 2003.
The
story
described
Nigel's efforts
to
promote lacrosse,
"a
sport
many
in south Atlanta
know
little about,"
in
the
Atlanta
area to
increase
opportunities for
his 12-year-old
son,
who
enjoys the sport.
I
James
R. Barnes
represented
Marist
presi-
dent Dr.
Dennis
J.
Murray
at the
inaugurationofRichard H. Hersh as
the
19
th
president ofTrinity College
in Hartford,
Conn.Jim is
president
of Oakleaf Waste Management in
East
Hanford,
Conn. The company
completed its
third
acquisition
in
the last 18 months,
making it the
largest
independent waste
man-
agement
firm in
the
United States
with $190
million in
sales.
I
Don
Eustace is the
chairperson for
the
commiuee on special education for
the Lyme
Central School
District
in Chaumom, NY.
I
Preston
Felton
was
promoted
to
the
rank
of lieutenant colonel
and director
of
human resources
for the New
York State
Police
in August
2001.
I
Kathleen
Lloyd
writes
that
she is
so
busy
volumeering
that
she
looks
forward
LO
rejoining
the
workforce
to
get a
breather.
I
Klara
B.
Sauer
was
honored
as
the 2002
"Woman
of
the
Year"
by the Poughkeepsie
Branch of the American Asso-
ciation
of
University
Women
at
a
luncheon in
January
2003. Klara
is
a partner
with the
Athena Group
in Poughkeepsie.
1 9 8 5
Deborah
Dutil Boyle
is
program
manager and
professor
of the
Legal
Studies Department at Hartford
College for Women/University of
Hartford in Connecticut.
I
Elea-
nor
Charwat
(M.P.A.)
received
the
Eleanor
Roosevelt
Val-Kill
Medal
at a ceremony
in
October
2002
at
the
Eleanor
Roosevelt
National
Historic Site
in Hyde
Park, NY.
The award
was presemed
to Ellie
and four others for
their activities
reflecting the humanitarian
spirit
of Eleanor
Roosevelt.
I
Daniel
Hartman
is a staff
writer
in
the
communications
department
of
the
Oneida Indian Nation ofNewYork.
I
Robert La
Forty
is the produc-
tion
manager for CBS News's The
Early Show.
I
Eileen Hallenback
McCue
spent Chinese New Year
m Hong Kong in
January
2003.
She
traveled
to Dublin,
Ireland, in
February 2003.
I
Lawrence
Roll
was assigned
responsibility
for
information
security for
M,~rcedes-
Benz. Larry is
the security architect
IT
for
the
company in
Montvale,
NJ.
I
Meg Soltis
teaches at
a Ma rist high
school
and
was a
participant in
a
retreat
program called "Sha.ring
our
Call,"
which focused
on
the
charism
of
the
Marist Brothers and
the life
of St. Marcellin Charnpagrnat.
The
retreat took
place
in Esopus, NY.,
and representatives
from
Marist
schools
throughout the nation
auended.
"It
was
a great experi-
ence!" she says.
I
Clara Francisco
Stevens
is semi-retired so that she
can spend more
time
with
her
chil-
dren.
She
and
her
husband, Mark,
have
sold all of
their multi-family
apartment
buildings
but still own
a self-service car wash ;and
are
building another one.
1
9 8 6
Thomas
M.
Begg
swam four miles
across
Long Island
Sound
in the
summer of 2002 to
raise
money
for the fight against cancer.
His
children, Caitlin, and T.j.,
joined
him for a half-mile.
Torn reported
that
they
raised
more
than
$1,700
and Swim Across America raised
over $650,000.
He is
a senior
accoum manager for
Business
Engine
in
New York, NY.
I
James
B. Ferguson, Jr., Esq.
has
been
appoimed
administrative judge
for the
New York State Division of
Parole in Westchester County, N
.Y.
I
Vincent
Furlani
has
transferred
and relocated
to
southwest
Florida
and
built
his
dream
house. Vinny
is
a sales manager with
the
Gartner
Group in Naples,
Fla.
I
The
National
Society of Professional Journalists
has named
Ian O'Connor
Best
Sports Columnist in
all
circulation
categories in its
national
contest.
Ian
also was named one of the
top
two
sports columnists in New York
State for
the third
year in a
row in
the
state's Associated
Press
writing
contest. Ian is a sports columnist
with USA Today and
the
Westchester
(N.Y.)]ournalNews.
lAlvin
Patrick
has
been appointed
\'ice
president
of
production
for CTN,
the
Col-
lege Television
Net work.
He
will
oversee
all
day-to-day production,
specials and on-air events for
the
network. CTN, acquired by MTV
Networks
in
October 2002,
is
on
Cmdr. John
Co,,ell '78:
Exemplary
Leadership
Cmdr.
John
W.
Covell '7'8 was awarded
one of
the
U.S.
Navy's
nnost
prestigious
honors
during a
Pentagon
ceremony
at-
tended by the award's namesake.
Chief of
Naval
Operations
Adm.
Vern
Clark presented Cmdr. Covell with the
Vice
Admiral
James
B. Stockdale
Leader-
ship Award at the
Penta9on
in
Washing-
ton,
D.C. in
October
2002.
The
award is
presented
annuallyto
two commissioned
officers on active duty below the grade
of captain who are
in
command of a
single
ship, submarine
or aviation
squad-
ron
at
the
time of nomination.
Candidates
are
nominated
by peers
who themselves
A
MARRIAGES
Kimberly
Miller
'99
to
Richard
M. Melinsky
'99,
Jan.
1,
2000
Ursula
Modzelewski
'99
to Eric
Sward.
June
29,
2002
laurel
Nylen
'99
to
Peter
Rabender,
Sept.
8, 2002
Stephanie
Sardilli
'99
to
Joseph
Pacheco,
April
21, 2001
Tara
Sullivan
'99
to
Kevin
J.
Watson,
Nov.
15,
2002
Lindsay
White
'99
to
Matthew
St. Lucia
'99,
Sept.
21, 2001
Amanda
Bradley
·oo
to
Benjamin
Agoes
'99,
July
20, 2002
Janna
DeVito
'00
to
Carlos
Whearty,
Aug.
1,
2002
must be eligible for the award.
Cmdr.
John
W.
Covell (left) receives
the Stockdale
leadership
Award,
.
Cmdr. Covell earn~cl the
_award
for
named for Vice Admiral James
B. Stockdale
(center),
from
Admiral
his tour as commandin,g
officer of the
Vern Clark Chief of Naval Operations in
a
Pentagon
ceremony.
strike fighter squadron
113
Black
Eagles.
•
'
From Long Island,
N.Y., Cmdr. Covell entered
the
Navy
through
Aviation Officer
Candidate
School
and was
commissioned
in April
1983.
He
is
currently fleet battle experiment
director at the Naval
Warfare
Development
Center
in
Newport,
R.I.
He and his wife, Maureen,
have
five children.
The eldest,
Erin,
graduated
from Marist
in
May
2003.
Marist
PrEisident
Dennis
J.
Murray honored
Cmdr. Covell
at
the college's
2003
commencement
ceremony
in observancei
of Armed Forces
Day.
The Stockdale
Award was established
in honor
of
James
Bond Stockdale,
who served
in the Navy for 37
years and earned
the ME!dal
of
Honor.
He was shot down over
North
Vietnam
and spent seven
and a half years
as
the
senior naval officer in captivity at the "Hanoi Hilton" prison
camp.
He
spent four of
those
years
in
solitary confinement.
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39




































Alumni
A
MARRIAGES
Kevin Duhamel
'00
to Sarah
Beth
Bubb,
July
20, 2002
Chelsey
Ferrigno
'00
to
Joseph
Patriss
Ill
'99,
Oct. 5, 2002
Paige Furlong
'00
to John D'Anna,
April
29,
2000
Meredith Kamp
'00
to
Christopher
Nielson '97,
Oct.
13, 2002
Sara Pitz
'00
to
Kaare Numme
Ill
'02,
Oct.
12,
2002
Melissa Ranslow
'00
to
Jason
Beland,
December
2002
more
than
750 college campuses
across
the
country.
Prior
to his
role with CTN, Al was executive
producer for
many
of MTV's
spons events and othe-r specials.
I
Alfred
Piombino,
Esq.
received a
mediator-training certificate from
the
Center for Negotiation and
Mediation
at
Harvard Law
School.
Al was elected Maine
Democratic
state committeeman and executive
committee
member. He
is a self-
employed attorney and
legal
author
in
Poughkeepsie.
I
Gina Orlando
Spivey
lives
in Rockville
Centre,
N.Y.,
with her husband, Rich,
and their two daughters,
Jillian
and Marissa.
Gina
is
a leader for
Jillian's
Brownie
Scou1t
troop.
I
In
her free time,
Kim Stuc:ko
has been
assisting two
production
compa-
nies in
Westchester,
Hudson
Stage
Company
in
Croton-on-Hudson,
N.Y., and New York Stage Origi-
nals
in
Tarrytown, NY
Kim
is an
administrative assistant with the
Ludwig
Group,
lnc.
1
9 8 7
Anthony
Bellantoni
is
an office
support assistant with
Byram
Healthcare
in
White Plains, N.Y.
I
Joelle
Charlot
Duffy
has been
promoted to vice president of studio
production
and
administration for
MTV
in
New
York, N.Y.
Joelle
is
responsible
for studio directors,
on-air
talent,
wardrobe and
recruiting production
staff and is
a
liaison
with the New York Film
Office and the New
York
Police
Department.
I
For
the second
year
in a
row,
Michael McHale's
media
planning group, OptiMe-
dia,
was a finalist at
the
Cannes
International Media Lions Awards.
Mike
is
a senior
principal,
group
media
director for the company
in
New York, N.Y.
IJohn
O'Mahoney
was appointed assistant
principal
at lntermediateSchool
77
in
Ridge-
wood. N.Y. John
lives
in
Coram,
N.Y.,
with
his wife, Carla.and
their
three children.
I
Ellen
Fitzpatrick
Saunders
is a
marketing teacher
with the
Spotsylvania (Va.)
Board
of Education,
teaching high
school
students.
I
Maria
Gordon
Shydlo
represented
Marist
President Den-
nis
J.
Murray
al the inauguration of
Judson
R.
Shaver, Ph.D. as seventh
president
of
Marymount Manhat-
tan
College.
Maria
is
the
immediate
past president
of
the Marist
Col-
lege Alumni
Association.
I
Maj.
Michael M. Tallman
is the team
leader
for
the
Computer Emergency
Response
Team,
which responds
to intrusion
incidents
throughout
Maureen Boyle
'81: Helping
Moms o'f Multiples
As the doctor
ran
the
ultrasound
device
over her stomach, a
pregnant
Maureen
Doolan Boyle '81, wasn't sure what she was seeing
on the
monitor.
"A healthy heartbeat?"
she
asked.
"Three,"
answered
her husband,
Jack
Boyle
'78.
Triplets
were on
the
way.
"I was
in
shock,"
Maureen
says. "Jack grinned
for
about a month,
and
our families
thought we were pulling their legs."
Things
became
more
subdued
as a
difficult pregnancy
progressed
into
an extended
hospital
stay-a painful period away from her 2-year-old
daughter,
Meggie,
and Jack '78, a physician
who was then
a
director of
a medical-equipment
company,
often away on business
trips.
When
triplets
Brendan,
Patrick
and
Nora
were born in August of
1987,
eight weeks premature,
life
became
even more complex. Color-coded
charts hung in the kitchen to record feed-
ings, medicine
doses
and
diaper
changes.
Members
of
their Brentwood,
Long Island,
parish
helped
out
during
the
day.
Overwhelmed, Maureen began
a
support
group
with
five other
mothers of
multiples.
Meeting
at night in
their kitchens,
the
mothers exchanged
information, war
stories and
comfort in knowing they
were
not alone.
The
group
grew
and
by 1990, it
had
become
Maureen's
vocation.
She
set up a
desk and telephone
in
her children's
play-
room and
formed
the nonprofit
organization
Mothers of Supertwins
(MOST),
Inc. As of
this year,
the network has
expanded to
Maureen Boyle
'81
and her children
(back, left to right): triplets Brendan,
Nora, and Patrick; (front) Meggie and
Colin. Husband Jack Boyle, M.D. '78
couldn't be present for the photo.
40
MARIST
MAGAZINE
250
volunteers
working
in
nearly
every state
and 50 countries
worldwide,
with a $250,000 budget funded by
private
and corporate donations. Its
purpose
is to support and educate
the parents
of triplets, quadruplets
and
more-before and after the births.
"I came
to
a turning
point,
where
I
didn't
need
the support
anymore,
but
I
made
a decision
to stay on and
help
other
people
coming
up
the road,"
says
Maureen,
who studied
psychology
and early childhood
education
at
Marist.
"I wanted
to
do
it
for others, so
they didn't
have to learn the way
I
did."
MOST headquarters
is
now
a small
office
attached to her
East Is-
lip,
L.I., home. Maureen and
six
other employees
maintain a Web site
(www.mostonline.org)
and online
support
groups, compile a quarterly
magazine,
train volunteers, arrange for donors
to
subsidize
financially
strapped
families and write, assemble
and mail
informational
packages
on
everything
from feeding multiple infants to selecting medical specialists.
Maureen
each
day answers
150 e-mails
and
I
takes
up
to 20 lengthy calls from families
!
who have questions
and fears about
issues
~
such as
babies'
and mothers'
safety, life at
:s
neonatal
intensive
care
units and struggling
marriages.
"A huge part of what we do is helping
people
network," she says. "They
feel as if
they are the
first
person
to
face these
chal-
lenges
or
feel
these
emotions.
Butthere
are
other people out
there
who
know exactly
what they are going
through."
Today,
her oldest is 18, the triplets are
15, and herfifth child, Colin,
is 10.
What
had
been
a daunting challenge
in giving birth
and caring for young
triplets
has become
knowledge
that she can share.
"I learned
at
Marist
that 'to whom much
is given, much
will be expected,"'
she says.
"You are given an enormous
responsibility
with so many tiny babies
to
care for,
but at
the
same time, you are given these huge
gifts.
You have to give
back."
-Bonnie
Hede Striegel
'85




































the Massachuseus Army National
Guard.
He has
completed
the
Operational
Training
Experience,
an
intense,
two-week
school
involv-
ing
systems security and intrusion
detection. Mike was awarded
the
Meritorious Service Medal
for
five years of exceptional
technical
expertise in support of
the
State
Surgeon's
annual
regional
AM EDD
Conference, a
three-day
meeting of
state surgeons
from nearly 15
states.
I
Kathleen Murphy
Theiller
has
moved back to
the
Hudson
Val-
ley
after living for eight years
in
Austin,
Texas.
She
freelances for
Steck-Vaughn
Publishing
Co., the
same company she worked
for in
Texas.
Kathleen
lives
in
Hopewell
Junction, N.Y., with
her
husband,
Philip Theiller
'91,
and
their two
daughters, Megan
and
Erin.
lzuaw•nc
,,
1 9 8 8
Catherine
Dussault
Alexis
is
president
and CEO of
Research
Management Services,
Inc.
in
Hopewell Junction, N.Y.
The
com-
pany
has been awarded
a
large
contract with a pharmaceutical
research
firm
in
New
Jersey.
I
CW3
Michael
T.
Carson, USA,
departed
in
November
2002
for a six-month
rotation to Kosovo with the
236
1
h
Medical Company Air Ambulance.
In
this
deploymelll,
Michael is a
maimenance test/mission
pilot.
I
Catherine
Caverly
is
pursuing an
M.P.A. She
is
a patient representa-
tive
with Athens
Regional
Medical
Center
in
Athens, Ga.
I
Jeffrey
Fuchs
is
a
technical director
with
Traveler's
Property Casualty Insur-
ance in Norcross, Ga.
I
Thomas
F. McGrath
spent
the
past 10
years as a
naval
officer and avia-
tor, including three
deployments
to
the
Mediterranean
and
Middle
East between 1991 and 1994.
Tom
instructed prospective naval avia-
tors
in
Pensacola,
Fla., until his hire
in 1998byDeltaAirlines.
He is
cur-
rently a first officer on the MD88.
I
John
McGurk
is
co-founder and
l'ice president of Verus Systems,
Inc.
in Providence,
R.l.
The com-
pany specializes in customized
business software solutions.
I
David
Schifter
is corporate cast-
ing
director and partner of AMVF
Productions in Wilmington, N.C.
He cast actors for James Cameron's
Expedition
Bismarck,
which
aired in
December
on the
Discovery Chan-
nel.
Other projects
have included
a Civil War
feature
called "Strike
the Tent" starring Mickey
Rooney,
Lee
Majors and Amy Redford and
"The
Last Summer" starring Nick
Searcy, Da\'id Andrews and Muse
Watson. David madethetrainsition
to
casting after a
15-year
career as
a TV investigative
reporter.
1 9 8 9
Julie
A.
Daigle
stood awp the
African continent on
the
summit
of Mount
Kilimanjaro
(l
9,3<f0
feet)
on Aug.
16,
2002.
Julie is a senior
technician with AT&T
in
Somerset,
N.J.
I
Lisa Meo DiRenzo
and her
husband,
Mark, are
the prop,rietors
of
Legends
Pub in Fon Lauderdale,
Fla.
I
Carolyn Bunovsky Gardner
is
a
senior accounts
manager for
Philip
Morris,
USA. Carolyn
resides
in
Groveland, Mass., with
h,er
hus-
band, Mark, and sons Christopher
and
Benjamin.
I
Mark
Hamlin
has
been promoted to
the rank
of lieu-
tenant with the Tampa (Fla.)
Police
Department,
where
he has
worked
for 12 years.
He
is also the com-
mander of a community p,olicing
unit in one of Tampa's preci
nets.
I
Pamela
Jones
has
been
pmmoted
to
vice president at Orange County
Trust Company.
Pam
is also a
graduate of the American Bank-
ers Association School of
Human
Resource
Management.
I
Cynthia
Lemek
is director
of All Aboard
1,
a
nonprofit that
promotes increased
public
transportation
alternatives.
I
Michael
Lofaro
is market. infor-
mation manager
with
the
IEssehe
Corp.
in
Garden City, N.Y. Mike
lives
in West Sayville, N.Y., with
his
wife,
Christine
Lefferts
'90,
and
their two children, Alys.sa
and
Michael,
Jr.
I
ln
2000,
Mamreen
Smith Martin
started
her
own
interior
decorating business called
Signature Style.
I
Melanie ½'inters
Mosher
was
promoted
to associ-
ate editor of Soundings
Trade
Only,
a national trade
magazine
lfor
the
boating industry.
I
Kristine
Var-
num
Nakutis has
been assigned
to
the support operations
position
for the 6
th
Ordnance Baualion in
Waegwan,
Republic
of
Korea.
She
mo\'ed to Korea with
her
family
and will serve
in this
overseas
assignment for two years.
I
Ellen
Ballou
Nesbitt is
the assistant
director of the St.
Lawrence
County Chamber of Comimerce.
Ellen lives in Norwood, N.Y., with
her
husband,
Tom Nesbillt
'89,
who
is
the director of admissions at
SUNY
Potsdam.
I
Pierce
Redlmond
Melissa
Reilly
'90
has been promoted
to
the
rank of
detective
in the warrants/criminal
investigations
di\'ision of the
Rockland County (N.Y.) Sheriff's
Department.
I
Peter
Schneider
left
an executive
position
to
begin
his
own company, First Card
Merchant Services, a
nationwide
sales organization that provides
payment-processing
solutions for
credit cards and check payments
to
small and medium-sized busi-
nesses.
1 9 9 0
Christine
Garvin
DiAmbrosio
is a
designer
for
the
women's Blue
Label
line
for
Ralph Lauren in
New York, NY
I
Kieran Fagan
is
head of communications, global
technical
operations for Novartis
Pharmaceuticals AG in
Basel,
Swit-
zerland.
Kie
ran
and his
wife,
Molly
Ward
Fagan
'90,
live
in
Reinach,
Switzerland, with their children,
Patrick and Claire.
I
In
addition
to owning Kinnelon News Service
in Ringwood,
N.J., since 1990,
Michael
Hafner
has
become a
certified zoning administrator for
the town of
Ringwood.
I
Stacey
Waite MacPhetres
has returned
10
Chase-Education
Firstasastrategic
sales manager. Stacey works with
the financial aid community,
including
the Financial
Aid office at
Mari st College.
I
Brian
K.
Madden,
Jr.
isdirectorof
sales for Aetna, Inc.
in Uniondale, N.Y.
I
Alex Messuri
has
moved from
CBS
Television
to
Comcast ad sales. As the
national
sales
manager,
Alex oversees 15
offices.
The
company
is based
in
LosAngeles, Calif.
I
Melissa
Reilly
has
been
awarded
the 2003 Andrew
Carnegie Medal for
Excellence in
Children's Video
for her
film, So
You \Vant To
Be
President?
Melissa
is
a
producer
with Weston Woods
Studios, a
division
of Scholastic,
Inc., a global children's publishing
and media
company,
in Westport,
MARRIAGES
Helen Stahlin
·oo
to
Graig Corveleyn
'01,
July
27, 2002
Keri Stevenson
'00
to Sean
Healy,
March
10,
2001
Rebecca Strunk '00
to
Michael Press '00,
Aug. 24, 2002
Anita Angelucci
'01
to Dave
Bartoski,
May
11,
2002
Amanda Mary Butts
'01
to
Michael
Stolarski,
Aug. 10, 2002
Colleen Lynn Byrnes '01
to
Lee Russell Park '01,
July
13, 2002
Julie Kozloski '01
to
Peter Pelczar
'01,
April 26,
2002
Andrea Newsome
'01
to Patrick
Curry,
Aug. 17, 2002
Cheryl Ann Schanck '01
to
Dr.
Matthew
D.
Simon,
June 2, 2002
Jennifer Vaiana
'01
to
Ian Becker
'01/'02
M,
Sept. 21,
2002
Jennifer Countryman
'02
to Christopher
M. Wade,
Sept.
28, 2002
FA LL 2 0 0 3
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Althea
and
Dennis Feeney '65,
a granddaughter,
Zoey
Kallhoff,
March
24,
2002
Robert Mathews
'67,
a grandson,
Finn
Iversen
Mathews,
March
29,
2001
and
granddaughters,
Nora
Keller
Mathews,
July
2, 2002
and
Quinn
Annalea
Mathews,
July
5,
2002
Linda
and
Charles P. McDermott, Jr.
'67,
a grandson,
Brian
Alexander
Syren,
August
2002
Lorraine
and
Gerard Schultz, Jr.
'67,
a granddaughter,
Elizabeth
Schultz,
Sept.
18,
2002
Karen
and
Michael Tobin
'68,
a
grandson,
Ryan
Michael,
Nov.
8,
2002
Barbara
and
William
J. Ryan '74,
a daughter,
Claire
Hannah,
Feb.
14, 2002
Susan Buckner
'82
and
Dr.
Jan
Johansson,
a
daughter,
Erika
Chesney,
Jan.
18,
2000
Patricia
Murray
'82
and Tim
O'Neill,
a
daughter,
Anne Marie,
Dec.
11, 2000
Mary
Rose Jones '84
and
James
E.
Gallagher
'83, a daughter,
Carey
Jude, July
1,
2002
Grace
and
Richard Laforce '84,
a
daughter,
Sarah
June, Oct.
9, 2002
Lisa Farabaugh '85
and
Thomas
Pilewski,
a son,
Brendan
Thomas,
March
20, 2002
Deborah A.
Kusa
'85
and Peter
P.
Kahn,
twin sons, Xavier
Alexander
and
Jacob
Dakota,
July
3,
2001
Meredith
and
Robert R. LaForty
'85,
a son,
Ryan
Patrick,
June
24,
2001
Robin Martucci '85
and
Christopher
Livote,
sons,
Michael
James,
Oct.
10,
2001
and Marc
Christopher,
Nov.
25, 2002
Santa
Zaccheo
'85
and
Raymond
Byrnes
'85,
a daughter,
Sara Marie,
Nov.
6,
2001
Kathleen
Borrosso '86
and
Kenneth
Kikkert,
a
daughter,
Kaileigh
Roselyn,
Sept.
18, 2002
Anne
and
Paul Gamerdinger
'86,
a
son,
Matthew
Keegan,
March
4, 2002
42
M A R
I
ST
M A G A Z I
N E
Conn.
I
Kimberly
Smith-Bey
received
an M.B.A. from
Rowan
University in Glassboro, NJ,
in
2001.
Kim is the product manager
at VWR Scientific
Products
in West
Chester,
Pa.
I
Gary Vincent has
been a senior
travd
consultant
for WorldTravel BT!
in
Atlanta,
Ga., for five years. He handles
corporate transportation arrange-
ments
for United Parcel Service
employees who
regularly travel
worldwide. "Vvhenever we come
back
to Dutchess County for
visits," Gary writes,
"it
is always a
highlight to stop by Marist to see
the
newest buildings
and
various
other
improvements."
I
Marianne
Chace Webber's
company, Web-
berwear,
provides internships
for
students
from the
Marist Fashion
Program.
1
9 9
1
JoAnne
Collucci Callahan
is a
learning
disability
teacher
con-
sultant for
the Ridgefield
(N.J.)
Board of Education. She received
a
master's
in
learning disabilities
from
Montclair State College.
JoAnne lives
with her husband,
Brian
Callahan
'90, and
their
daughter, Courtney,
in
Upper
Montclair, NJ
I
Michelle
Walsh
Conrad
is the assistant
director
of
development at Poughkeepsie Day
School.
I
The New
Jersey
Chapter
of the Public Relations Society of
America named
Thomas F.
Coyne
the state's Public Relations Person
of the Year for his achievements
in public
relations and for best
exemplifying
the
pu1blic
relations
profession. Tom, president and
CEO of Coyne Public Relations, was
cited for his pro bono work with
charities. The chapter also gave
Coyne Public Relatic:ms
four New
Jersey Pyramid Awards,
including
one of
two
Best-in-Show Awards,
for five of
its
2002 communications
campaigns. The seven-year-old PR
agency is
based
in
Fairfield, NJ.
I
Kevin D. Desmond
represented
Marist President Dennis
J.
Mur-
ray at
the
inauguration of
Elaine
Tuule
Hansenassevt:nth president
of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
I
Desmond Keneally
was pro-
moted to vice president in charge of
regulatory reporting with Arnhold
and S. Bleichroeder, Inc., a broker-
dealer
in
New York, N.Y.
I
Sheila
Clancy O'Donnell
has opened a
shop called Two Wishes with fellow
classmate
Jennifer
!Mignano
'91.
The boutique, at
the
Crafter's Den
in
Pearl River, N.Y., features gifts
for children and
the
home.
Ijames
P.
Saunders
was promoted
to
vice
president in
the merchant bank-
ing
division of Goldman Sachs.
I
Francis
Thompson
is principal
of St. Bridgid School
in
Elmwood,
Conn. Franwentfrombeingrookie
teacherto
principal in just six years.
He
was a communications major
at Marist and, after a conversation
with a former teacher, realized
he
wanted to
teach.
Fran went
back
to school to get his master's degree
and was hired asan
English
teacher
at his old high school, where
many
of his
former teachers
became
colleagues. After four years, Fran
was promoted to vice principal
at
Sacred Heart in Waterbury,
Conn.
I
Christopher Trieste
has
completed
his
first season as the
men's
tennis
coach at Mount St.
Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y.
Chris led
his
team to fourth place
in the
Skyline Conference.
He
was
voted 2003 men's tennis Coach of
the
Year and the team
received
the
conference's Sportsmanship
Award.
I
Robert
Zimmerman
is
a chef and owner of Season's
Distinctive Catering
in
New York,
N.Y.
Bob also has a prepared-food
store. He writes that
he
used his
degree in business marketing
to
help him open
his
business.
1
9 9
2
Douglas M. Alba, Esq.
has
joined the Cherry
Hill,
NJ, office
of Marshall, Dennehey, Warner,
Coleman & Goggin, a regional
defense
litigation
law firm, as an
associate. Doug will concentrate his
practice on defending health care
liability, professional liability and
insurance fraud litigation.
I
Shelly
Sutherland
Bailey
is a
technical
designer at
The
Weathervane. She
and her husband,
Fred,
own a bridal
boutique in Portland, Conn., called
The Wedding
Dress. The
store
carries designer
dresses
as well as
offering Shelly's custom-designed
dresses
and veils.
I
Maura
Bradley
is
a senior
interior
designer for one
of the
largest
commercial
interior
design firms
in
the country,
Inte-
rior Architects in New York, N.Y.
After graduating from Marist, she
attended the
Parsons
School of
Design in New York, where she
earned an associate's degree
in
1995
I
Christopher Carrubba
was promoted
to head
of the social
studies department at Verona
High
School, where he has been a teacher
Douglas
M. Alba,
Esq. '92
for six years. Chris and his wife,
Tara Groll
'93,
have
moved
from
New
Jersey
to the Pocono
Moun-
tains in Pennsylvania, where they
are building a new
home. Tara
will
then take some
time to
stay
home
with children
Taylor
and
Jake.
I
Cynthia
Dennelly DeSena
is
a
speech-language
pathologist
in
the
brain
injury
unit of a New York City
hospital.
I
Stephen
DiGiacomo
is
coordinator of
training
at Disney's
Port Orleans
resort
in
Florida.
I
Jennifer Johannessen
is
public
relations
director
for the Michael
J.
Quill
Irish
CulLural
&
Sports
Centre
in
East Durham,
N.Y. She
is also a full-time graduate student
at SUNY Albany's School of
Infor-
mation Science and Policy.Jennifer
is a
licensed
whitewater raft guide,
supervising
trips
on
the
Hudson
River in the
Adirondack moun-
tain
region.
I
Fred Koslowski
III, M.B.A.
will begin a doctoral
residency
at
Temple
University
in
fall 2003. Fred has been
consulting
and
lecturing
for several colleges
and universities
throughout
south-
eastern
Pennsylvania
since moving
there
with
his wife,
Sarah, several
years
ago.
I
Alessandra
Rapisarda
LoBiondo
and her husband,
Vin-
cent LoBiondo
'86, are happily
settled in
their
new
home in Balm-
ville, N.Y.,
wheretheylivewiththeir
three
sons.
I
Dean Mastrangelo,
Esq.
has opened a law office
in
Garden City, N.Y.
I
LeeAnn
Levi
Miller
has been
employed with
WNYC
Radio
(NPR's flagship
station)
in
New York, N.Y., for the
past
seven years and serves
as
its
sponsorship copywriter. Outside of
work,
LeeAnn
performs with the
Synergy Ensemble Theatre Group
in
Islip, N.Y.
I
Donna
Sacco
has
been
promoted
to senior media
planner
for Zimmerman Partners
Advertising
in Ft. Lauderdale,



























Dino Quintero
'92/'94 M: A Global
Job, a INew
Baby and a 15-Year Plan
Dino
Quintero's
badge identifies
him
as an IBM em-
ployee.
But
the
lanyard
it
hangs
from
tells
as much
about
him
as
the
badge.
It's
decorated
with colorful flags from many
coun-
tries,
adorned
with
thesouvenirpins
he collects
every
time
he's
abroad.
He's
on
his
second such lanyard;
the
pins
on
his
first
one have made
it
so heavy he
can't wear it anymore.
Dino's job as a senior
IT
specialist
has taken him
to Japan
13
times during the past three years. For
the Poughkeepsie
resident,
going to
Tokyo
is like
going
to
New
York City.
"I have been to
Tokyo
more
than
New
York
City," he
realizes.
In
2002
alone he
went to
Japan
four times, as well as
to
Germany,
Belgium,
Italy, Spain,
Slovenia
and
Denmark.
He also
visited
his
family
in Panama,
where
he
was
born.
The
U.S. passport
he
got
in
2001,
when
he
became
an
American citizen,
is
now
full, all
24
pages. In
2003
he will go to
Japan
four times as well as to
London,
France,
Italy,
Germany,
Romania,
Denmark
and
Indonesia.
"It's not glamorous,"
he
says. "If you
can't
do
15
to 25
hours
on a
plane, this
job is not for you. Your
body takes a big
hit.
But
I
like
to
travel. I
like
meeting
people, seeing
the people who
read
my books."
Dino,
part of IBM's
International
Technical
Support
Organization,
leads
teams
who test software and
~
because
they were leaving
the United States,
J
Dino
had
plans underway
for
his
return.
~
In
1988
he enrolled as a foreign student
and
computer
science
major at
Marist,
mov-
ing
in
with his aunt, Daisy
Tyler,
who taught
Spanish
at Marist, his
uncle,
who worked at
IBM,
and
three
cousins.
To
help
pay for col-
lege,
he
worked in Marist's Computer
Center,
installing
computers
across
campus.
The
wages
helped after the United States
froze
Panama-
nian assets,
drying
up his tuition resources,
in April
1998
following
rising tensions
with
the
Panamanian
government.
Although he
spent
most of his spare time working
in
the
Computer
Center
and
tutoring
other students
in math, he occasionally
took some time off,
flying
anywhere
for
a weekend that cheap
airline tickets would
take
him.
write books about what they discover. He covers
Dino QuintE!ro
'921'94
M
subjects related to
IBM
eServer
pSeries
clustering
During his undergraduate
years he also
held
down
internships
at IBM and Texaco,
where
he
continued to
intern
while earning
a master's
in computer
science
at Marist.
Im-
mediately
after graduating
in
1994,
he went to
work as
director
of information
technology
for
Peekskill
Area Health
Center,
where he
looked
after not only the
PCs
but also phones,
the
alarm system and anything else electronic.
"The boss had a
lot
of faith in me. She
let me
run
my own
thing."
technologies.
The
books, part of a series
known as Red
books, are te:chnical
addendums
to
software manuals.
The
teams,
made
up
of
IBM
staff mEimbers,
business
partners and customers,
come
to
Poughkeepsie
for four•·
to
six-
week
residencies.
where
they
set
up
software
and "play with
it,"
he says.
Since
he took the
position three
years ago, he and
his
teams have written
15
books.
The
travel comes in when
Dino
goes abroad
to
teach sessions
on the
software he's written about.
On
the trips, he encounters
a variety of chal-
lenges.
In
Madrid
last year, he expected to teach in
Spanish,
his; native
tongue. But when two
English
speakers
ended
up
in his
class,
hE!
found
himself
having
to say everything in both
languages.
At the end of the two-
day class, "I
had
no brains
left,"
he says.
Dino,
34,
was born
in
David,
Chiriqui
in the
Republic
of Panama
and grew
up
in La Concepcion.
"I had a vision,"
he
remembers.
"My goal wc1s
to go
to college in
the United States."
In
1985,
going into
his junior
year of high
school,
he
went to America
for
the
first time. He spent three months
with his
aunt's
family
in
New
Orleans,
where he
shadowed
his cousin
through
classes
in
English,
math, chemistry
and American
history.
As an exchange
student
in
1987,
he
lived with a family
in the
suburbs
of Chicago.
It was
there,
after
he earned
a C
in
programming-a
class
taught, of course,
in
English-that
a
teacher
told
him
he would
never
be a
computer scientist.
It
was the wrong thing to say
to
Dino.
It motivated him. "Thank you
very much," he
remembers
thinking.
"You have
just
given me a boo,st." On
the airplane
back
to Panama,
while other exchange
students wem crying
Fla.
Donna will start and
run the
media planning department
of
the
agency.
Clients
include
the
Miami
Dolphins,
Florida
Panthers,
Florida
Marlins, Lennar
Homes, Papa
John's
Pizza, AutoNation and Nis-
san.
I
Douglas Sanders, Ph.D.
is
a full-time
faculty member
of
the
psychology
department
at Orange
County Community College and a
clinical psychologist
at
Middletown
Psychiatric
Center.
Doug
is also
an adjunct professor
for
Marist's
graduate
psychology pro-grams.
His
wife,
Danielle Dum1lewicz
'92, is a critical care registered
nurse at Orange
Regional
Medical
Center.
I
Sandra Wilhelm Wagner
and
her
husband, Peter, moved
to
East
Northport, N.Y. The family,
which
includes
daughters
Sarah
and Emily,
is
enjoying a new
home
He
joined IBM in
1996
as a backup and recovery
specialist
and moved
into a
job
as a performance
analyst before
landing
his
current
position.
Also
in
1996,
he
married
Christine
Gregowski
'96,
whom he met at Marist. They
had
their
first child,
daughter
Alexa,
in
September
2002.
Leaving
his family is now
the
most difficult part of
his job.
"It's becoming
harder and
harder
to
take a plane. I guess
it's up to
me to figure out how
to balance
it." Between
trips
he manages
to
have a little free time, playing
basketball
on Saturday
mornings
at a local church
and softball and volleyball
in
local
leagues.
He
lives
in
the
same
neighborhood
as he did during college
and drives the same car
he
had when
he
finished
Marist,
a
1995
Saturn.
He
still has a vision. "I always
think
10
to
15
years
ahead." He would
like
to
become
a manager
and ultimately an executive
at
IBM.
When
he
retires,
he would like to
teach
math.
Meanwhile, Dino
makes
a
point
of giving back. Last year he took part
on a panel at
Marist
about international
careers.
He
lectures
twice a year to
students in the Inroads
program,
run by a nonprofit
that trains
and develops
talented
young people
for
careers
in
corporations.
He and Christine,
a com-
puter programmer
at IBM, have
taught
computer
workshops
for
the Higher
Education
Opportunity
Program
at Marist for several
summers.
"It was nice, somebody
having
faith
in
you," he says.
"That's
why I
always put a lot of faith in the people I teach, especially
the HEOP
students.
If I did it, they can do it."
Then
he
smiles. "They
know English
better
than I
did!"
and
new
pool.
I
Kevin Weigand
is pursuing
a master's
in
sports
management/sports coaching at
the
United States
Sports Academy
in
Daphne,
Ala.
~Mnm-nl#
--
1 9 9 3
Dawne Berlinski
is a marketing
director at HNTB Corp., a national
-Leslie
Bates
I
ALL 20ll3
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Michelle Janin
'86
and
Steven
Mastandrea,
a daughter,
Lauren
Paige,
Dec.
14,
2000
Erin
and
the
Hon. Howard D. Mills Ill
'86,
a
son, Howard
Jack,
July
23, 2002
Carol Szczepanski
'86
and
David Wise
'86,
a son,
Ryan,
July 5, 2002
Shauna
Ziegler '86
and
John
Erdogan,
a son, Alex
John,
Jan. 23, 2002
Lysa
and
Timothy Curry
'87,
a daughter,
Sarah
Michele,
Aug. 5, 2002
Mare Fakler
'87
and James
Corwin,
a daughter,
Sydney
Elizabeth,
July
24, 2002
Maureen Keenan
'87
and Dean
Swartz,
a
daughter,
Audrey,
Aug. 30,2002
Lisa
and
Michael Lang
'87,
a daughter,
Camryn
Elizabeth,
July
17,
2002
Anne Marie Muller
'87
and Matthew
Cutolo,
a son,
Connor,
April
18,
2002
Patricia
Tuohy '87
and
Bob Birmingham,
a daughter,
Mary Cait,
Oct. 29,
2002
engineering and architectural
firm
in
New York, N.Y. Dawn supports
various
transportation
clients and
oversees all
marketing
operations
for New York, New
Jersey
and
Phila-
delphia.
Her
six-year-old twins,
Amanda and
Karina,
started kin-
dergarten in
2003.
Dawne
is pursu-
ing an M.B.A. at NYU.
I
Susan
K.
Brown
was promoted to associate
director for global communications
with
Reader's
Digest Association
in
Pleasant
ville, N.Y.
I
William
Burns
is an
assistant professorof commu-
nications
in the
media department
at
Brookdale
Communit)' College in
Lincroft,
N.J.
I
Kislrnni
Chinniah
graduated from New York Univer-
sity with a
master's in
education.
I
Kimberly
A. Cuneo-Delaura,
Esq.
is an attorne)'
practicing
law in Whethersfield, Conn.
I
Harry
E.
DiAdamo, M.B.A.
has
joined Webster
Insurance
as a
sales associate.
The
company
is
Connecticut's
largest independent
insurance agency.
I
Amie
Dunning
is a
human
resources specialist
for Wentworth Gallery
in
Miami,
Fla.
She is
pursuing
a
master's in
management at St. Thomas Uni-
versity in Miami,
Fla.
I
Andrew
Ferguson
received
a
master's
in
education administration from
Arizona State University. This was
Andrew's second
master's
degree;
his first was
in
school psychology.
He
is
now pursuing a doctorate at
Arizona State Andrew is a school
psychologist
in
the Cart wright
School District in Phoenix, Ariz.
I
oemi Fernandez-Hiltz, Esq.
Dr.
Lawrence W.
Menapace (center), associate professor of chemistry,
retired this past spring after 36 years of service to Marist. Faculty
col-
leagues, alumni
and
students wishing
him
well at a
reception
included
(left to
right) Dr.
Bridget
Foy Pomerantz
'98, Jessica Davi!,
'01,
Rosa
Montalbano Pastorello '92 and Dr. Anthony J. Frank
'93.
44
\I A R
I
ST M AG AZ
I
N
E
received Congressional
recogni-
tion
and a cornmunityaward for her
work with
the Hispanic
Women's
league in Buffalo, NY.
I
Along with
three
other Jvtarist graduates.Jen-
nifer Flynn
started
the
New York
City AIDS I
lousing
Network. As
a
result
of their community orga-
nizing and advocac)' efforts,
Jen-
nifer was the first U.S.-based and
-focused
human rights advocate to
be accepted to the Columbia Uni-
versity Human Rights Advocates
Training
Program, a one-semester
fellowship.
I
Dr. Robin Buckley
Gilbert received
a doctorate in
clinical/school psychology in May
2001
from Hofstra University.
She is the campus college chair
for
the
education department
at the Uni\'ersity of Phoenix.
I
Bruce
A.
Harris
opened
his
first
business, Powder, a nightclub
in
Hunter
Mountain, N.Y. He opened
his second
business,
the Tavern,
in Southampton, N.Y., in
2003.
Bruce
was captain of the l\'larist
football
team
during his senior
year.
I
Jacqueline Kingsbury
still
works as a counselor/advocate
ror
the Poughkeepsie YWCA Battered
Women's Services. She hopes
to
retire in
2003
or
2004.
She writes
that she often
lhinks
of Marist
friends and faculty ,.vith affection.
I
David
Laffin
was appointed
English
teacher al
Poughkeepsie
High School. He is also a member
of the PHS football staff. David
has been recognized as the voice
of
the
Dutchess County Boys
Basketball
Tournament
and
the
\'Oice of
the
Poughkeepsie Pio-
neers basketball games.
He
joins
his younger brother,
Brian
'94,
who is a teacher and coach
for
boy's basketball at PHS. David is
\'ery
invol\'ed
in
local
theater and
music and will
be in
charge of the
theater program at
the high
school.
He is enrolled
in the
educational
psychology master's
program
at
Marist.
I
Maria G.
Licari
recei\'ed
the prestigious
Peabod>'
Award for
hercoverageoftheSept.
11
terrorist
attacks on the World Trade Center
in
New York, for ABC News. She
also received a CINE Golden
Eagle
award for a segment she produced
on the USS Enterprise. Maria has
produced gardening, food and
Good
Housekeeping
segments for
Good
Morning
America.
I
Joshua
Mor-
din
is lechnical
support
manager
at Net Decide,
Inc.
in Falls Church,
Va.
I
Kenneth
O'Connor
has
been
a proud member of the New York
City Fire
Department
since 1997.
He was at Ground
Zero
when the
second tower came
down
but sur-
vived
relati\'ely
uninjured.
Ken
is
assigned
to
the Bronx.
I
Peter
A.
Raymond, Ph.D.
is
assistant
professor
of ecosystem ecology
at
the
Yale School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies in New
Haven, Conn.
His
research
focuses
on
the
biogeochemistry
of natural
systems.
In
particular,
he is
inter-
ested
in
the carbon cycle within
the
coastal
zone. His
research utilizes
the natural isotopes
of carbon
to
determine major sources, sinks
and ages of various carbon pools
in the
natural
environment.
I
Amy
Rogers
is a licensed marriage
and
family
therapist
with the stale of
California and a
registered
an
therapist. She works with emo-
tionally disturbed students and
runs a
school-based day
treatment
program. She
is
also
the project
leader for the
Non-Violent Fam-
ily
Skills
Program
through
Kids'
Turn, providing
parenting skills
to ju\'enile offenders of
domestic
violence
in
San Francisco, and
a
workshop
leader
for
Kids' Turn,
facilitating
groups for
kids deal-
ing
with divorce
issues.
Arny
has
a master's in marital and
family
therapy with
a specializalion
in
art
therapy
from Notre Dame de
Namur Universit)'.
IJodi
Springer
was appointed resource develop-
ment officer for
Ha\'en House
Ser-
\'ices, a nonprofit
in
Raleigh, N.C.
I
Teresa Sorrentino is
a
producer
in
NewYorkCityforWarnerBroth-
ers television on the
daling
show
"Change of
Heart."
I
Lori
Stella
is
working in the
information
services
department
of
Empire
lnsurance Co.
in
New York, N.Y.
She was an
HEOPstudentat Mari
st.
I
Lara Wieczezynski
has
mo\'ed to
a new
position
within Bloomberg
LP, where she
has
worked for five
years. She is now a
pan
of
the
train-
ing content
team, in lhe
producl
lraining
group
in
the New
York
office. The group
produces help
pages, manuals.job aids and other
documents to train
the
sales force
and external clients.
1 9 9 4
Marianne
Carpenter-Currier
is a
supervisor of special education for
Hol)'oke (Mass.) public schools. She
is also a doctoral student at
the
Uni-
versity of Massachuseus/ Amherst.
I
Pamela
Ann Clinton
was
pro-
moted in
!\'larch
2002
to
the rank


































Lark-Marie
Anton '99:
Handling
the Media
for the Mayor
With a population of eight million
people,
most New Yorkers never
get
the
chance to meet the city's
mayor,
much less swing by Wendy's
with
him
for a bite to eat. For Lark-
Marie Anton '99,
however,
it's all in
a day's work.
~
Lark serves
as a deputy press
sec-
retary for Mayor Mike Bloomberg,
a
role she assumed following
Mr.
Bloom
berg's
election
in
2001.
Beyond
being a liaison and spokeswoman
for
the mayor,
she is also
responsible
for
overseeing
press and publicity for
various
city agencies
and offices.
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg
(left)
shares the podium with
Lark-Marie
Anton '99,
his
deputy press secretary.
From the
New
York City Commission
for
the United
Nations
to
the New
York City
Housing
Authority to
the
Office
to Combat
Domestic
Violence,
she juggles a busy
roster of responsibilities
all around the city. And while
her life
can at
times
be hectic, she couldn't be
happier
with how things have turned out.
"It's a challenge
every day,"
says Lark, who earned
her
undergraduate
degree
with a double
major in
com-
munications
and Spanish
and a minor
in
psychology.
"You have to be ahead of the ball. If
not,
you will get
run over by it."
Judging from
her
success
since graduating from
Marist,
the
ball
won't catch up with
her
any time soon.
Following
four
years
in
Poughkeepsie,
she took the ad-
vice of
Dr. Nick
Neupauer,
former assistant professor
and chair of communication
at Marist, and accepted
an assistantship
at West Virginia University
to earn a
master
in communication
studies degree.
"Lark was
in
one of
the
very first classes
I taught at
Marist. I remember
her sitting in the first row," says Dr.
Neupauer,
who currently
serves
as dean
of the
humanities
and social
sciences
at Butler County
Community
College.
"She
stood out that first day and went on
to
be one of
my better students.
Obviously,
her
degrees
from
Marist
andWVU,
and her wonderful
personality
and work ethic,
have
paid tremendous
dividends."
After completing
her graduate
studies,
Lark worked
as
a free-lance
television producer
on various projects
including
the
2001
MTV
Movie
Awards
and TV
Funhouse
on Comedy
Central.
While
she
enjoyed
production
work,
she
also wanted
to
explore
other areas
in the communica-
tions
field.
Before
long, her mother
convinced
her
to
apply
for
a
po:sition
on
Mayor-elect
Bloomberg's
staff.
These
days,
as
she roams
around City
Hall, it is
ap-
parent she has made
a
name
for
herself,
as there is
rarely
a passerby
who doesn't have something
to discuss
or a
kind word to say.
This
includes
the
mayor,
who
regularly
relies
on Lark's
input
and even
asks
her
for the occasional
Spanish
lesson.
'He'i;
such a great guy," Lark says. "He really
listens
to
what we say and takes
our
advice to heart.
Working
for som,eone
like that, to me,
is
an
inspiration."
Along
the
way, others
have
found Lark
to
be an
inspiration,
too.
Earlier
this
year,
Lark
was named
Woman of
the Year
by the
Dominican
Women's
Caucus.
In January,
the
Alliance
for
Young Urban Design
and
the
Arts, a
nonprofit
organization
that
helps empower
the creative minds of the
future,
presented
her
with the
Guiding Star award.
Given her constant
hard work and
positive
attitude,
Lark's
star is sure to rise
even
higher in the years to
come.
"I !,earned
from my family and belief in God
that
life
is most rewarding
when we put
our
heart and soul
into what we do," she says. "When we think of others
before Clurselves,
this brings true
success."
-Jeffrey
Dahncke
'01
of captain
in the
U.S. Army Military
Police Corps. She
is the
officer
in
charge of
in
sta
I
lat
ion access com
rol
in the
Prornst
Marshal's Office at
Fon Bragg, N.C.
I
Christopher
Dolan
is a special agent with
the
U.S. Secret Service assigned
to
the
Chicago field office.
He
investigates
financial crimes and
participates in
protective details.
I
Robert
G. Far-
rier,Jr.
is vice
presidemand district
manager at
Fleet
Bank. Rob
is
in
charge of
all
branches in Orange
and Sullivan coumies.
I
Jennifer
Smith
Frischknecht
isa part-time
IT
specialist at
IBM in
Waltham,
Mass.
I
Marisel Herrera
is a
ru11-
time
minority affairs practitioner,
university instructor and doctoral
student at Arizona State University,
as
well
as a proud
mother.
She
is
also a poet-author-presenter who
wrote a book,
Puerto
Rica:n
Gold-
ilocks.
The book is
a collection of
poetry and
prose
based on her
life
as
a "Nuyorican"
and her
edu,:ational
experiences. She was an
HE'OPstu-
dent at Marist.
lJeffrey
Hrnrleywas
promoted
to
district
envi
ronmemal
compliance officer with
the
New
York City
Department
of Envi-
ronmemal
Protection.
I
Colleen
Talbot
Jacques
and
her
husband,
Scott
Jacques
'95,
purchased a
home in
Trumbull,
Conn.,
in
May
2002. Colleen
teaches sixth-grade
math
at Hillcrest
Middle School
in
Trumbull and Scon co-owns Long
Hill Tree
Service.
I
The
Dutchess
Coaches Association and
the
Poughkeepsie
Journal
chose
Brian
Laffin
Coach of
the Year. He led
the Poughkeepsie High School
boys'
varsity basketball team
to
a
22-2
record. Poughkeepsie High
won
NEW
ARRIVALS
Catherine Dussault
'88
and Michael
Alexis,
a daughter,
Raisin
Grace,
March
5, 2002
Sharon Eberle
'88
and
Joseph
Zeleznik,
a son,
James
Andrew,
May
27, 2002
Genine
Gilsenan
'88
and
Michael McCormick
'88,
daughters,
Olivia
Rose,
July 2,
2001 and
Grace
Madeline,
Sept.
9, 2002
Kimberly
Graziano '88
and
James
McClelland,
a daughter,
Ashlyn
Paige,
June
17, 2002
Catherine Locke '88
and
Curtis
D. George,
a daughter,
Elizabeth
Mae,
July
23, 2002
Mary
Ann
and
Joseph Stevens
'88,
a
son, Joseph
Alexander,
Aug. 26, 2002
Sheila Stowell
'88
and
Paul
Kelly
'87,
a
son, Bryce
Walter,
Dec. 27, 2000
Linda
Reip
'88
and
Kevin
Lipton,
a
son,
Benjamin
William,
May 2, 2002
Eleanor
and
James Roldan
'88,
a
son,
Brandon
James,
March
14,
2002
Maureen Blake
'89
and James
Mercer,
a
son,
Aidan
James,
April 27, 2002
Christine
Domurat '89
and
Anthony Maio
'88,
a daughter,
Kathryn
Elizabeth,
March
25, 2003
Lori Dubrowsky
'89
and
Greg
Warnokowski,
a son,
Gregory
James,
April
19, 2002
Melinda
and
James
Mccloskey
'89,
a son,
Jonathan
James,
Aug. 8, 2002
M. Daniele Conklin
'89
and Robert
Holmes,
a
son,
Andrew
Gerard,
Sept.
21, 2002
Carol Anne Gordon '89
and
Jorge
Arriaga,
a daughter,
Jessica
Anne,
Oct.
10, 2002
Karen
Gorman '89
and James
McGetrick,
a son,
Rory
Thomas,
Jan.
22, 2003
Michele
Graham
'89
and Tim Plummer,
a son, James
Joseph,
March
1, 2003
Karen
and
Martin
Kennedy
'89,
a
son,
Devin
Ryan,
Sept.
4,
2002
FALL
2001
45































Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Susan Ryan '89
and Thomas
Gallo,
a daughter,
Alexa
Victoria,
April
5, 2003
Cheryl Sobeski-Reedy,
Esq.
'89
and Anthony
Sobeski,
a son, Ryan
John,
May
29, 2002
Patricia
Walsh '89
and
Greg
Andersen,
a daughter,
Lauren
Patricia,
Jan
5, 2003
Elizabeth
and
Brian
J.
Wenzel, Sr. '89,
a son, Brian
Joseph,
Jr., Sept.
23, 2002
Dawn
Aiello
'90
and
Thomas
Bongiovanni,
twin sons,
Jack
Matthew
and Brian
Francis,
Aug.
2,
2002
Mary Baran
'90
and
Jim Halinski
'88,
a daughter,
Molly
Margaret,
June
28, 2002
Kristine
Conway
'90
and
Kevin
Many,
a son, Lukas
Dawes,
April
21, 2000
Kathleen
Duffy
'90
and
L.
Peter Korzeniewski,
a
daughter,
Abigail
Marie,
May
25,
2001
Gina Emma
'90
and Keith
Dowling,
a son, Joseph
Keith,
June
14, 2002
Doreen
and
Michael Hafner
'90,
a son, Andrew
Wilmont,
Nov.
5, 2001
Bettyann Hagenah
'90
and
Chris
Bucchino,
a son, Mark
Christopher,
Feb.
14,
2002
Karen
Klei '90
and Thomas
Foley,
a daughter,
Emily
Grace,
Jan.
25, 2002
Nicole Liegey '90
and Glenn
Noakes,
a daughter,
Ann
Claire,
May
1, 2002,
adopted
on May
16, 2002
Susan
and
Edward
C.
Miller, Jr.
'90,
a
daughter,
Nicole
Elizabeth,
Jan.
22, 2002
Susan
Morrin
'90
and
Mark
Desrochers,
a son, Mark
Joseph,
March
2 2, 2002
Irene
and
Glenn Onos
'90,
a son,
Steven,
May
9, 2002
Melissa Powers
'90
and
Michael
Levine,
a son, Noah
Gabriel,
Jan.
8, 2002
Kimberly Snyder '90
and
Bruce
Beckius,
a daughter,
Lara
Luna,
Oct.
26, 2002
46
MARIST
MAGAZINE
the
Conference
1-C
league
title for
a second straight year.
I
Jennifer
LaPietra
has been
promoted to
assistant
regional director of the
Manhanan Early
lntcr\'ention pro-
gram in New
York,
NI
.Y.
I
Michelle
BuebendorfMcConmack's
Marist
roommates and
fellow 1994
gradu-
ates.Joy
Lindo, Ma1ry
Walsh
and
Kristin
Lamberti-lLloyd,
joined
Michelle's
family
at the christen-
ing
of
her
son,
Daniel Thomas,
in
August
2002.
IL wai; a real
Marist
"mini-reunion."
I
IBeth Keenan
Meyers is pursuing
an M.B.A. at
Goldey-Beacom College in Wilm-
ington,
Del., and
expects
to
gradu-
ate in
December 20•03.
I
Patricia
Mocker
earned
Lhe
Accreditation
in
Public Relations
(APR) status
from the Public Relations
SocieLy
of America.
Members
of
this
and
eight
partner
organizations
with
at least
five years of
paid,
full-
time professional public
relations
experience
may
earn accredited
status
by
passing
written and oral
portions
of exams
ithat
test
their
competence in and
knowledge
of
the public relations profession.
I
Michael
Olivapoteniza
received
an
M.B.A.
from
Pace University.
He
is a sales specialist
for
IBM
Global
Financing in Piscataway,
NJ
I
Ann
Ricker
designs and markets
her
own line
of !eat her handbags
and
accessories.
I
P,eter Tartaglia
is
the story producer
for the
ABC-
TV primetime
serie5;
"The
Family."
He
resides
in
Los
Angeles,
Calif.
I
Jeremy
Thode
is athletic director
for
the
Com
mack
(N .Y.)
Union
Free
School District.
I
9 9 5
Barbara
Cochrane Alexander,
Esq. received a
J.D. from Wash-
ington College of
Law
at American
University
in May 2001.
She was a
law clerk for Justice
Miriam
Shear-
ing
of
the Nevada Supreme Court
from August 2001
LC>
August
2002.
Barbara is now
a solo
practitioner
in northern California.
I
Arthur
Brown, Jr.,
C.P.A.
was
promoted
to chief financial officer of Tremont
Advisers,
l nc. Previously
A
rt
served
for two
years
as the corporate
con-
troller of the company, located
in
Rye,
NY.
I
Vincenit
S.
Bugge
is
pursuing
an M.B.A.
at
the
Univer-
sity of New
Haven. He
is employed
by Helicopter
Supp-on
in
Orange,
Conn.,
asa
GE
aircraft
engine sup-
port coordinator.
I
Susan
Russelo
Buonocore
is intern ingat ManhaL-
tan Psychiatric
Center, where she
Chris and
Kathy
Mccann '83/'83 (far right) served as honorary alumni
marshals for the Mari st College contingent
that
marched in the 242nd
St. Patrick's
Day
Parade in New York City. Chris and Kathy were joined
by their
children (left
to right)
Christopher, Devon Claire and Jenna.
Chris is a member of Marist's board of trustees and president of
1-800-FLOWERS.COM.
will complete
the requirements
for
a
Ph.D.
in clinical
psychology
from
the
New School UniversiLy.
I
Julie
Chan-Moroney
is a
legal
assistant
in
the
patent law division of
John-
son &Johnson in
New
Brunswick,
N.J. She completed an M.P.A.
at
Marist in
May 2003.
I
Michael
Coughlin
is
pursuing
a
master's
in
administraLion at Fordham
Universit}'.
I
Danielle
Couture
expects to complete requirements
for
an
M.B.A. from Western New
England College. She
is
a Web
producer
for
Lego Systems, Inc.
in
Enfield, Conn.
I
Deidre Devlin
is
a designer
at ECRi, a
nonprofit
health
services research agency.
She also does free-lance work.
I
Mary
Diamond
has
joined the
staff of
Rep.
Shelly Moore Capito
(R-W.Va.)
as
press
secretary.
Mary
is a veteran
of
the
2000 Bush for
President
campaign and she served
as
press secretary fort
he
Clayburgh
for Congress North
Dakota
Con-
gressional
race.
I
Sean
Dumas
is
a
field
clinical
representative for
Lhe
Guidant Corp. in
the Long lsland
area, serving the
pacemaker
and
internal
defibrillator segment.
Sean
received
an
M.B.A. from
St.
John's
University and writes that
he
has adopted
two
great dogs,
Molly and Maggy.
I
Jeanne
Bren-
nan Dunne
is
a social
worker
for
Good Shepherd
Hospice.
I
Michael
J.
Dunne,
C.S.W.
isdeputydirector
of the
RighLs
of
Passage
program
at Co\'enant
House
of New
York.
I
Theodore Eglit
owns
his
own busi-
ness, Theodore].
Eglit,Jr., C.P.A. in
Hopewell Junction,
N.Y.
Ted spe-
cializes
in
corporations, partner-
ships,
non-for-profit
organizations
and
municipalities.
I
In
October
2002
Peter
Foy
was sworn in as
an
assistant prosecutor
with
the
Morris County (NJ.)
Prosecutor's
Office. He has
spent the
last L
wo
and
a
half years with
the Essex
County
Prosecutor's
Office in
Lhe
adult trial unit.
I
Kevin Freeman
premiered
his latest short mo\'ie,
Devil's
Night Out, in New
York
City
in February
2003.
Kevin
is working
on his
next project,a feature-length
film, that was to begin shooting in
spring 2003.1
Carolyn
Gallagher
is
a
kindergarten assistant
at
King
&
Low/Heywood Thomas
School,
a
private
school
in
Stamford, Conn.
Carolyn is
pursuing
a master's in
library science at
Long Island
University.
I
Timothy Gamory
is
chief
technology
officer at Charity
Navigator (www.charitynavigator
.org), a
nonprofit
that evaluates
the financial health
of America's
largest charities. Tim
lives in
Bronx,
N.Y.,
with
his wife,
Mary
DeLara-Gamory
'96.
I
Dawn


















Otto Johns
and her husband,
Allen, are the owners of Morgan
Motorspons'
Din
Motorspons
Race Team, Pike
Underground
Excavating
Company and Com-
munity Rental
Centers
Equipment
Rental
Store in Matamoras,
Penn.
I
Marie Kornisar
received an M.P.A.
from New York
University.
She is
national
director
of development
for Young Audiences, Inc.
in
New
York,
N.Y.
I
Frank Kraljic
is the
swim coach at Monsignor Farrell
High
School in Staten
Island,
N.Y.
Frank
is
a graduate of Monsignor
Farrell and
was
captain of the
Marist team during his senior year.
Also during
his
senior year, Frank
helped lead
the
Red Foxes to an
undefeated season (10-0) and
the
MAAC
championship.
I
Michael
McGilligan
has been
promoted
to hotel manager at the Embassy
Suites
Hotel
New York City. His
responsibilities
include
oversee-
ing the
day-to-day operations of
the
463-suite hotel
in
the heart
of
Bauery
Park
City, next door to
the
World Financial Center.
The new
hotel
was closed for eight months
following 9/1
l
and
marked
its
first
fiscal year of continuous operation
in
May 2003.
I
Melissa Miller
recei\'ed
a master's in counseling
from
Marist
College
in
1999 She
is a counselor/academic advisor at
Montclair
State University in Upper
Montclair,
N.J.
I
Gregory Petruska
accepted a position with the global
human resources,
training and
organizational development office
of Universal Music Group,
based
in New
York
City.
I
Joann Puma-
Pfaffenberger
moved to
Palm
Beach,
Fla.,
with
her husband,
Walter.Joann
teaches
first-and sec-
ond-grade gifted students
at
D.D.
Eisenhower Elementary School in
Palm Beach
Gardens,
Fla.
I
Kim-
berly Tyne Reilly
is the director
of
special events at Bernard
Zell
Anshe
Emet Day School
in
Chicago,
Ill.
I
Jayme Rieke rs
teaches
business
at
Fox
Lane High
School
in
Bedford,
N.Y.
IJamesSullivan
is an assistant
vice
president
with Oak
tree
Capital
in
its
Singapore office. Oaktree is
an emerging
markets
hedge fund,
focusing on telecorn operators in
Asia.Jim
lives
in Singapore with his
wife, Marcella.
I
Melissa Reynolds
Walton
resigned
from her
position
as case manager at CenterPoint
Human Services to open a
private
agency, People Helping People of
North Carolina,
L.
L.C.
The agency
pro,·ides
treatment,
training and
support
to
people with develop-
mental
disabilities
who
reside
in
the
community.
I
Michelle Wright
has
been promoted
to news
di recwr
for WCFB, Orlando, Florida's top
station for
R&B
and classic soul.
She will continue as afteirnoon
news anchor/reporter on sister
station WDBO, Orlando's No.
1
news/talk station. Both st:ations
are Cox affi
Ii
ates.
1 9 9 6
Barbara
L.
Amos
moved
tO
Hol-
lis, N.H. in September
2001.
She
teaches
computer science courses
at New
Hampshire
Community
Technical College
in
Manchester,
N.H.
IBryanAndrews
is the global
sales
manager
fort he chemical divi-
sion of FRP Services & Connpany
in White Plains, N.Y.
I
Meredith
Kennedy Andrews
is
senior
program officer for
the
National
Book
Foundation
in
New
York,
N.Y.
I
Greg Bibb
is
the
exe.cuti\'e
Yice president
and
general man-
ager for the Major
Indoor
Soccer
League
in Philadelphia, Penn.
Greg directs all of
KiXX's busi-
ness operations,
including
ticket
sales,
marketing,
public relations
and game-day operalions.
I
Amy
Capozzolo
received a masuer's in
counseling from Fairleigh Dick-
inson Uni\'ersity in
1999.
She is
the
substance abuse counselor
for Morris County, N.j., where
she
provides both
mental health
and substance abuse evaluations
for all
kinds
of offenders. She is
also the counselor for the Morris
County Drug Court, a diversion-
ary
program
for offenders wlho are
facing state prison sentences. Arny
is pursuing a state license so
that
she can open a counseling
prac-
tice.
I
Todd Coulson is
celebrating
three
years as senior
multimedia
developer at
Haley Productions
in
Media, Pa. Thecornpanyspeciializes
in Web sites, CD-ROMs, film
and
video.
He hasalsoco-authored two
nash
books:
Macromedia
Flash MX
Unleashed
and Flash
MX Components
Most Wanted.
I
Kristin M. Daly
is
an elementary school teachernt
Edi-
son School
in
Sanford,
Maine.
She
teaches multi-level
third and !fourth
graders.
I
Paige Furlong D'Anna
is
the
client
relations manager
for
Attentive
Personnel
in Albany,
N.Y. She lives in Clifton
Park,
N.Y.
with her
husband,
John.
I
Jlames
Ellis
resigned
from a management
position at Gateway Community
Industries
to
complete cenifica-
lion as a school psychologisl at
Mari st. Jim accepted a position as
a
learning
disabilities specialist at
Marist in
January 2003.
I
Joseph
Esposito
was to
represent
Italy
in
Augusl in
the
European lacrosse
championships
in
Amsterdam.
He plays lacrosse
year-round, in
leagues
and
tournaments
across
the
United States, on teams sponsored
by
M
iche
lob, Lexus
and other com-
panies.
A
billingand
credit manager
at
Digex in
Laurel, Md., he is also
assistant coach of
the
lacrosse
team
at Good Counsel
High
School in
Wheaton, Md.
Joe
played
for ltaly
at
the
lacrosse World Cup in Perth,
Australia,
in
2002.
The team took
second
place in
the international
open division. Following
the
World
Cup
Joe
was the
subject of an a rt icle
in
The Laurel
Leader.
a newspaper in
Laurel,
where
he lives.
At Marist,
he played
Division I lacrosse
and
was an academic All-American.
I
Donna-Marie Facilla
received a
master's in special education
from
Dowling
College. She is a first-
grade special education
teacher in
the
Lindenhurst School District.
I
Brian Frankenfield
received an
M.B.A. from the Benlley College
Mc Ca
I
I urn Graduate School of
Business in Waltham, Mass.,
in
2002. Brian gradualed with
high
distinction and is currently per-
forming
independent
business and
technology
consulting for several
organizations in the greater Boston
area.
I
Josh Gaynor
is
the
Class
of 2006 academic advisor for the
Goldman Sachs Scholars
Institute
for Leadership,
Excellence and
Academic
Development
(I-LEAD)
program at the Bank Street Col-
lege of Education
in
New York,
N.Y.
The
!-LEAD
program
is a
college preparatory
program
that
provides academic, entrepreneur-
ial and
leadership
enrichment
opportunities
to
students
from
six
inner-city Catholic
high
schools.
I
Lisa Goddard
is
pursuing
an
M.B.A.
in
marketingatSt. Edward's
University in Austin,
Texas.
I
Erin Green
is a
national
learning
manager for
Randstad Nouk Solu-
tions,
an
i nternat ion
a
I
employment
company.
Erin is responsible
for
curriculum development. curricu-
lum
facilitation and performance
consulting.
I
Sherri
Schneider
Gugliara
recei\'ed
a master's in
clinical research
administration at
New York Medical College in 2002.
She is a scientist/study direcwr for
Hoffman-LaRoche in Nulle)', NJ
NEW
ARRIVALS
Diane
and
James M. Reynolds, Jr.
'90,
a daughter,
Kelly
Ross,
June
18,
2002
Yolanda Robano '90
and
John
Gross,
a
daughter,
Morgan
Angeline,
Feb. 16, 2002
Catherine Tagliaferro '90
and
Pierce
Redmond
'89, a daughter,
Abigail
Hope,
May
11,
2002
Debra Alleva '91
and
Robert
Kirby,
a daughter,
Katelyn
Elizabeth,
Nov. 10, 2002
Paula Amendola-Sekinski, O.D. '91
and
John
Sekinski,
a
daughter,
Shelby
Rayne,
June
12, 2002
Laura
and
Charles B. Brundage '91,
a
daughter,
Sarah
Elizabeth,
Sept.
7, 2001
Kara
and
Benjamin Chu '91,
a daughter,
Kelsey
Grace,
Nov.
11, 2002
Sheila Clancy '91
and
Martin
O'Donnell,
a daughter,
Chloe
Jude,
June
16,
2002
Nancy Collins '91
and Michael
Csorba,
a daughter,
Julia
Marie,
April
29, 2002
Denise Gormley '91
and
Sean
Brennan,
a daughter,
Meaghan
Colleen,
July
23,
2002
Kristen Hull '91
and
Robert Straub '91,
a son,
Daniel
Edward,
Aug. 31, 2002
Laura Marcil '91
and
Donald
Oruckenmiller,
daughters,
Cameron,
Jan. 16,
2000
and
Haley,
March
15, 2002
Christine Marotta '91
and
Barry
Parker,
a daughter,
Marisa
Lee,
Nov. 5,
2002
Eileen McGinley '91
and
the
late
Kevin
J.
Hannaford,
Sr.,
a son,
Kevin
James,
Jr., Jan.
9, 2002
Carrie Murphy '91
and
Andrew Giberti '90,
a son,
Sammy,
May
9, 2001
Mary Nowak '91
and
Michael Lynch
'91,
a son, Connor
Robert,
May 7, 2003
Kristen O'Brien '91
and Richard
Piazzolla,
a son,
Michael
Ryan,
June
20, 2002
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Christina
and
Daniel G. O'Donnell '91,
a son, Daniel
Egisto,
Feb.
11,
2003
Susan
and
Kevin St. Onge '91,
a daughter,
Molly
Maeve,
June
25, 2002
Shannon
and
James P. Saunders
'91,
a
daughter,
Mary
Kate,
Dec.
9, 2001
Katherine
Smythe '91
and
Robert
Newman,
a
daughter,
Maizie
Quinn,
May
2, 2001
Michelle Walsh
'91
and
Steven
Conrad,
a
daughter,
Olivia,
June
2, 2000
Kristen DeMusis '92
and
Matthew
Kruger
'92,
a
son,
Jack
Thomas,
March
22, 2002
Cynthia Dennelly
'92
and
Salvatore
Desena,
a
daughter,
Gabrielle,
May
2002
Eileen Doran '92
and
Daniel
Kline,
a daughter,
Kaitlin
Anna,
Nov.
1,
2001
Jeanne Earle
'92
and Christopher
Strahley,
a son,
Aidan
Thomas,
June
27, 2002
Melissa
and
Steven Ferro '92,
a son, Michael
Steven,
April
24, 2002
Connie
and
Kevin Francis
'92,
a son, Garrett
James,
April
3, 2002
Tracey
and
Eric Gehnrich
'92,
a son, Kyle
Patrick,
June
28, 2002
Lisa Giordano
'92
and
William
F.
Burns
'93,
a son,
William
Francis
Ill,
April
26, 2003
Christine Henn
'92
and
Glenn Mcsweeney
'92,
sons,
Matthew
Joseph,
June
15,
2001
and, Sean William,
Jan.
3, 2003
Maura Leddy
'92
and Derek
Bradley,
a daughter,
Emma
Grace,
Feb.
24, 2003
Kim Lojacono '92
and
Patrick
Barrett,
a daughter,
Paige,
Nov.
23, 2001
Theresa Lopos
'92
and Michael
O'Neill,
a
daughter,
Julia
Kathleen,
Dec.
7, 2001
Amy
and
Andrew Lowry
'92,
a daughter,
Madison
Elizabeth,
Oct.
16,
2002
48
MA R I ST ~1 AG AZ I
N E
I
Susan N.
Heagney
received
an
M.S.W.
in
2000
from Simmons
College
in Boston,
l'vlass. She is a
certified social worker providing
psychotherapy to
fo,ster children
and joined
a
private
practice in
November
2002.
I
Matthew
Lacomchik
and
his
wife, Dawn,
marked
their first anniversary in
April 2003 and
bought
a
house
in
Morrisville, Pa. They celebrated by
taking
a trip to Pompano
Beach,
Fla.
I
Debra Levan1trosser
is
the
CEO of Arbed Designs,
l.l.C., the
designerof
custom, made-to-order
beds. Debra also teaches classes
in business, physics
and
public
administration at Wayne State
University
in Detroit, Mich., and
Henry
Ford Community College in
Dearborn,
Mich.
I
Danielle
Lind
is
a financial analys1.
with
CVS in
Woonsocket, R.I.
I
Karen Locey-
McCabe
completed
a
second
master's in
school
administration
to
become a
high
school
principal.
I
Sheila
Meyers
isa product develop-
ment
and
system support specialist
for Canon USA. She
has been
with
the
company
for
three years. She
was an
HEOP
student at Marist.
I
Kristen
Mooney
relocated
to
Virginia. She
runs
51Ks
and travels
frequently.
A
highlight
of
her trav-
els was seeing
the
nunning of the
bulls
in Pamplona,
Spain.
Kristen
has
been a regional sales vice
president
for
Travef.ers
Insurance
in
Alexandria
for
tlhe past
three
years.
I
Elizabeth IPolityka-Wil-
son
teaches Spanish
at
Arlington
High
School in
LaGrangeville,
N.Y.
Betsy
and her
husband,John,
live
in
Wappingers
Falls,
N.Y.
I
Cynthia
Ramirez
received
an M.B.A. with
a specialty in human
resources
from
Pace
Univers,ity
in
2002.
She
is
a
human resource
analyst
for Chadbourne
&
Parke
l.l.P.
in
New York, N.Y.
I
Brandon
Tierney
is
a sports
broadcaster in
Detroit,
Mich., at Sports
Radio
1130
"The
Fan," the nagship station for the
Detroit Pistons.
He is the
host
Monday through Friday,
9
a.m.
to
noon.
He has
abo written
for
several
national
Web sites,
in
addition to performing
television
duties for various stations.
During
his undergraduate y,ears at Marist,
Brandon
was
a
four-year starter for
the Marist
baseball· team,
during
"the
rough
yea
rs!"
1
9 9 7
Lisa
Annor
is a graduate student
at
George Mason University
in
Virginia where she
is
pursuing
a degree in
industrial
and
orga-
nizational psychology.
I
Robert
Autenrieth
is enrolled
in the
master's in
education
program
at Georgian Court College in
Lakewood, NJ.,
in
preparation
for
a career
in teachingand
administra-
tion.
I
Theresa
Breen
received
a
master's from
Fordham University
and teaches fifth grade
at Rj. Bailey
Elementary
School
in
White
Plains,
N.Y.
I
Michael
Corbett
is a police
officer with the Long Beach (N.Y.)
Police
Department. Previous!)',
Mike
was a
police
officer with the
New
York
Police Department for
more
than
three years.
I
Willow
Lanpher
Oannible
is
a marketing
assistant
with Capital Communi-
cations Federal Credit Union in
Alban)', N.Y.
She and
her husband,
Tom
Dannible
'98,
live
in Ballston
Lake,
N
.Y.1
David
De
Vito
received
an M.B.A. from
the
Stein School
al New York University.
He
resides
in
Denver,
Colo.
I
Colleen Smith
Hawkinson
received
a
master's in
urban planningfromthe University
ofVirginia.
I
Amy
Hoey
isa teacher
at
the Institute
of Notre Dame
High
School in
Baltimore, Md.
Amy
is
also
the head
coach for varsity
lacrosse
and
the
assistant crew
coach at the school.
I
Dennis
J.
Kennedy
was named assistant
director
of communications for
the
Commission on Independent
Colleges and Universities
in
Albany,
N.Y.
I
Kristen
Koehler
has
been
promoted
10
associate
director
of
alumni
relations
at Seton
Hall
University in South Orange,
NJ.
I
Robert
M.
LaBarbera is
a
senior operations associate
with
JP. Morgan in New York, N.Y.
He
received
an M.B.A.
from Hofstra
University in 2001.
I
Donna Mat-
thews
is a school psychologist with
Ulster County BOCES
I
Wendy
Smith
Mickle
received
a
master's
in
art education
in May 2002.
She teaches
an at
Tunkhannock
Area Middle School in
Tunkhan-
nock,
Pa.
I
Wendy Mitchell
is a
social worker with the New
York
Presbrterian Weil Cornell
Medical
CenterinNewYork,N.Y.IWilliam
Muller
is city
manager
of
the
Las
Vegas, Nev., branch of
Renaissance
Management,
Inc., which
facilitates
and
coordinates
convent ion
i nsta l-
la1
ions
and
dismantles.
I
Janet
C.
ovoselich
is production
manager
for
Dell
Computers
in ils Dell Home
Systems
Division.Janet
lives
in Aus-
tin, Texas.
I
Michael Onorato
is
a
publicist for
business
and
finance
titles
at
Wiley Publishing in
Hoboken, NJ.
I
Daryl Richard
is
managerof marketingand commu-
nications at Uniprise,
a
Hartford,
Conn.-based company
that is
a
division
of
healthcare provider
UnitedHealth
Group.
Daryl directs
the
company's
public relations
and
marketing activities.
I
Janis Rus-
sell has been promoted
to
senior
account
manager, researching adult
beverage products for PERT
Survey
Research
in
Bloomfield,
Conn.
I
Craig
Scribner
made his
acting
debut in
a
production
of
One
Flew
Over
the
Cuckoo's
Nest
at the Airport
Playhouse
in
New
York,
N.Y.
He
also starred
in
West
Side
Story
al
the Airport Playhouse. Craig
is
a
quality
assurance
engineer
with
Computer
Associates in Islandia,
N.Y.
I
Theresa
Sheeley is
a school
psychologist fort he
Ellenvi
lie
(N
.Y.)
Central School
District.
I
Matthew
C. Somuk has been promoted
to
sales
manager
at Mortgage Lenders
Network
in Middletown,
Conn.
I
Cynthia
Stein
received a
master's
in
social
work
from Fordham
University in
1998.
She
is
a clini-
cal social
worker
associate for
the
Connecticut
DepanmentofMental
Health
and Addiction Services
in
Stamford, Conn.
I
Suzanne
O'Brien Stephens
is
a
special
education teacher
at Blythedale
Children's
Hospital
in Valhalla,
N.Y.
I
Sandra
Dougall
Strom-
berg
and
her
husband, Christian,
embarked on
a backpacking hon-
eymoon
(their
wedding took
place
on
July
13,
2002)around the world.
After 9/11
they realized that
life
is
too short. She
writes,
"We
are
not
wealth)', but
we
quit
our
jobs
and
are
making
this trip
a
challenge on
a $10-a-day
budget'"They planned
to
see Sweden,
Lithuania, Latvia,
Estonia,
Poland, Ukraine,
China,
Vietnam,
Thailand, Cambodia
and Laos, Australia, New Zea-
land, Chile,
Bolivia
and Peru.
I
Katie
Trifiletti
is operations
manager
at Revelations Perfume
and Cosmetics in New
Hope,
Penn.,
a consulting company
that
develops
products
and
packing for
companies in
the
United
States
and
Europe.
I
Christopher
Webb
is associate
director of admissions
for Bridgton
Academy
in
North
Bridgton, Maine.
Chris
plans
on
guiding
the best
and the
brightest
toward
Marist!
I
After spending six
years living and working on
Block
Island, R.l.,
Kristen
Woronoff
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DorothyAnn
Davis
Remembering
DorothyAnn
Davis
The Marist
College community
mourned the passing of
Dorothy
Ann Davis
in
February
2003.
Mrs. Davis
founded
the choral
music
program at
Marist
College
and was the
first chair of the
Music
Department.
"The choral music
program
at
MaristCollege
reached
new
heights under the direction of DorothyAnn
Davis,"
says Mari
st President
Dennis
Murray.
"She gave
hundreds
of students the opportunity
to highlight
and develop
their
musical
talent.
Her
choirs
performed
in the
local
community and around
the
world, building Marist's
reputation as a
school
with a strong
music
program.
Today Marist's singers are great ambassadors for our
college, and
the
performance
of choral
music is
now a
tradition at Marist."
Born
in Quincy,
Mass.,
Mrs. Davis
earned a bachelor's
and master's in music performance from prestigious
Westminster
Choir
College
in
Princeton,
N.J. Throughout
the 1970s and 1980s she continued
to
take graduate-
level
classes in choral conducting,
choral literature and
opera. She also co-directed many church choral groups
with
her husband, John,
to whom she was married
for 57
years, and directed the youth choir for the U.S.
Military
Academy
chapel for
10
years. From 1970 to 1980 she
taught music and directed two choirs at Ladycliff
Col-
lege.
Undler
her
direction the school's Glee Club, which
performed
in
Italy,
Spain, Romania
and Greece
as well as
American
cities,
consistently
won top honors at annual
intercollegiate
competitions.
Mrs.
Clavis
came
to Marist
in 1980 as director
of music
and assistant professor of music, teaching a number of
courses while directing
three
student choirs. "She was
no sooner on staff than she was planning a choral tour
of Italy,
southern Germany
and Austria," says Dr. Richard
LaPietra
'54, a longtime chemistry professor at Marist.
He
joined
the Marist
chorus during Mrs.
Davis's
first year
as directoir
and sang with the group for more than seven
years. ThEigroup
later performed
in Florida,
Egypt,
Israel,
Australia and New Zealand.
"These were major undertakings and, considering
howsmalll
her supporting
staff was, their accomplishment
had to border on the miraculous,"
says Dr. LaPietra. "I
can
remember
singing at a papal audience in
Rome, in
St.
Mark'i;
in Venice
where we climbed
up into the upper
galleries t:o do a special rendition
of antiphonal singing,
in Cairo on New Year's Eve in the
lobby
of a grand hotel,
a converted palace, in Christchurch,
New
Zealand,
on a
Saturday1~vening.
Visiting
the Holy
land was an unforget-
table experience; we were quartered
in
a convent built
at the sitE!
where
Jesus
appeared before Pontius Pilate.
You
can well
imagine
what great educational
experiences
these were for our students."
Under Mrs. Davis's
directorship,
choral singing
was a
major cul:tural
activity
for students. The annual Lessons
and Carols service in Our Lady of Wisdom Chapel was
always standing-room-only.
She inaugurated
an annual
Medieval Banquet that drew a faithful
following
from
the outside community
and provided
an opportunity
for
students to perform for their peers and families.
Mrs. Davis also shared
her
passion for choral music
beyond
the
campus. Active in the Classic
Intercollegiate
Women's
Glee Club
Association,
she was elected
its
presi-
dent in
1987.
She volunteered
her
talents extensively,
presenting numerous concerts at high schools, senior
citizen centers and hospitals.
"What
I remember
most about her was
her
remark-
able
ener,gy,
the
long
hours she put in, and her 'can do'
attitude," says Dr.
La
Pietra. "Her
confidence
in what could
be
accomplished
musically
knew
no bounds."
-Leslie
Bates
now
a
resident of BosLOn,
Mass.,
where she is a
marketing
manager
for Wild Oats
Markets,
Inc. She
has
published
11
children's nonfiction
books and continues LO
write both
personally
and professionally.
I
Chrystine
Gilchrist Zacherau
has
been promoted
to senior associate
al
APCO
Worldwide
where she works
in
the
research
division,
APCO
Insight. The
company is
located
in
Washingwn,
D.C.
Chrystine and
her
husband,Scou, have
purchased
their first
house,
in Burke, Va.
-JUltfNsW:
--
1 9 9 8
Meredith
Engler
Allan
is the
morning
anchor for WVNY-TV
ABC News
in
Burlington, Vt.
I
Michael Benevento
has
worked at
Madison
Square Garden Net works
for four years.
In
August
2002
he
was promoted
to
traffic
manager of
MSG Radio.
Mike oversees every
commercial ad and anno,uncer
script
for
all radio broadcasts of
New York Jets, Knicks and
Rang-
ers games.
I
Elizabeth Brophy
is a
member
of
the
New Jersey State Bar
and was
also admiued to the New
York State Bar. She is an arnorney
with the firm of
Bressler,
Amery &
Ross,
P.C.
in Florham Park,
N.J.
I
Jeffrey Browne
is senior su
per\'i-
sor of quality control
for
T:aconic
Farms,
Inc.
in
Germantown, N.Y.
The company is an
international
breeder of research-grade
mice
and rats for laboratory research.
The QC
lab
is
a
microbiology lab,
which verifies
the
"cleanliness"
of
the animals, their environment
and
all of
the
products with which they
come in contact.
I
Nicole
Carino
attends Western Connecticut State
University, pursuing
a
master's in
special education.
I
Rachel
Caner
has been
promoted to public rela-
tionsaccountexecutiveat
Paul Kaza
Associates
in
South Burlingwn, Vt.
Rachel
isa
memberof
the
band Ekis,
a popular Vermont
pan
y
band.
As
an
undergraduate sLUdent,
she was
a music
minor
who was
active in
the Marist Singers and Chamber
Singers.
I
Rafael
Castillo
works for
Merrill
Lynch's
international pri-
vate client group, focusing mainly
~
~__,/(/2)
NEW
ARRIVALS
Cathy Mahland '92
and
Kevin
Hannon,
a daughter,
Caroline
Frances,
March 11,
2002
Tara
Mason '92
and
Brian Mulry '91,
a son,
Brendan,
Feb.
6, 2003
Denise
and
Daniel H.
Massey
'92,
a daughter,
Shannon,
Feb.
15, 2002
Catherine Morrison '92
and
James
Heath,
a daughter,
Abigail Marion,
Aug. 5, 2002
Claudia
and
Brendan
J.
O'Connell
'92,
a son,
Aidan, May 28, 2001
Kathleen
Peterman
'92
and Richard
DeMatteo,
a son,
Andrew,
May 24, 2002
Denise
Piana
'92
and
Rick
Lewis,
a daughter,
Ashton,
July
4,
2002
Gina Pollio
'92
and Richard
Lugo,
a son,
Richard
Victor,
Feb.
10,
2003
Christine
and
Charles
J.
Ribaudo
'92,
a daughter,
Charlotte,
Feb
11,
2002
Catherine Sullivan '92
and Scott Burchard,
a
son,
Ryan
Patrick,
May 29,
2002
Denise
and
Matthew
Thomson
'92,
a son, Shane
Aloysius,
March
27, 2002
Laura Ulbrandt '92
and
Dean
DiPierro,
a son, Nicholas
George,
March
26, 2002
Donna Zielinski '92
and Michael
Randazzo,
a daughter,
Hailey,
May 24, 2002
Noel Babcock '93
and Robert
Feehan,
a son, Ted,
Jan. 13, 2002
Laura Lee Carre '93
and Bruce
Terry,
a
daughter,
Annabel
Elizabeth,
May
29, 2002
Patricia
Florez-den
Ouden
and
Wilbert den Ouden '93,
a daughter,
Madeleine
Celina,
Feb.
11, 2003
Tara Groll '93
and
Christopher Carrubba '92,
a son, Jake,
Sept.
17,
2002
Brenda Long '93
and Josh
Wittman,
a son, Avery
Stewart,
June
16,
2002
Farrah Mead '93
and
Paul Fiedler
'93,
a son,
Kyle
Joseph,
May
30,
2003
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Margaret
and
Josh Mord in
'93,
a daughter,
Hannah
Catherine,
May
31,
2002
Margot Power
'93
and Allen
Tobin,
a son, Dean
Patrick,
July
25, 2002
Laura Rasky
'93
and Glenn
Kupsch,
a son,
Brendon
Allen,
Nov.
29, 2002
Deanna Sapala
'93
and
Peter
Reisert,
a
son, Justin
Peter,
March
2, 2002
Kristen
and
Mark Skoglund
'93,
a daughter,
Lauren
Claire,
Oct. 21, 2002
Deidre Sullivan '93
and
Michael Beirne
'93,
a daughter,
Abigale
Michaela,
June
4,
2002
Maureen Taylor
'93
and
Joseph Jones
'91,
a son,
Timothy
Michael,
May 7, 2002
Geeta
and
Shreedar Viswanathan
'93,
a
daughter,
Prajna,
May 31, 2002
Janine Vitagliano
'93
and Dan
Mccarron,
sons,
Kyle
William,
April 24, 2000
and
Ryan
Salvatore,
July 1, 2002
Michele
and
Mark Bennett
'94,
a son,
Charlie
Aaron,
June
18,
2002
Michelle Buebendorf '94
and
Christopher
McCormack,
a son,
Daniel
Thomas,
June
14, 2002
Elizabeth Daniello
'94
and
Al Faraday '94,
a daughter,
Claire
Elizabeth,
May 3,
2003
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'-'1ARIST
MAGAZI\JE
on highlyafOuent clients
in
France,
Latin America and Australia. His
division
provides banking and
investment
service:;.
He
was an
HEOP
student at M;arist.
I
Mandi
Culligan
is
day-of-air
manager at
ABC Television network opera-
tions
in New York, N.Y.
I
Thomas
Dannible
is the sulfgical services
business manager at Glens Falls
Hospital in
Glens Falls, N.Y.
Tom
and his wife,
Willow
Lanpher
'97,
live
in Ballstorn
lake,
N.Y.
I
Deanna
Makin
Dwyer
is pursuing
an M.B.A. at Bentley College. She
and her
husband,
Robert, now
live
in
Boston but the)' are planning a
move
to
Arizona
in
.January 2004.
I
Angela
Galgon
received teaching
certification
in
secondary English
from Millersville University
in
Millersville, Pa.
1in
December
2000. She is pursuing a master's
in English education and teaches
seventh-grade English at Manor
Middle School in
Lancaster,
Pa.
I
Stephanie Hajjar
le:ft her position
asa research anal)'Sl
in
institutional
advancement at Sacred Hean Uni-
versity
to become
a
research
devel-
opment officer at St,amford Health
Foundation. Stamford Health
is
a
part of Stamford (Conn.) Hospital.
I
Michelle
Handel
obtained a Certi-
fied Public Accoumant license in
June 2002. Michelle is a senior
accountant with D'Arcangelo &
Compan)' in Poughkeepsie.
I
Brian Ladd
recei\'ed an M.B.A.
from
Franklin Pierce College.
He
is
a marketing manager with
ManageSoft
in
Boston, Mass.
I
Melissa
Manso
vvas promoted
to
senior associate producer for
World Wrestling
]Entertainment
in Stamford, Conn.
I
Edward A.
Millar
teaches English at Mahopac
High School in Mahopac, N.Y.
I
Mandi Mclaughlin Morabito
is
a medical receptionist/secretary
and physical therapy aide with
Physical
Therapy at Jefferson Val-
ley in Yorktown Heights, N.Y.
Just
after
their
wedding. on December
27, 2001, Mandi's husband,
Breu.
was activated with
the
U.S.
Marine Corps
in
.January 2002
as a result of
the
events of 9/11.
I
Shannon
O'Rourke
O'Connor
received
a master's
in
psycholog)'
from
Marist in 1999. Shannon
is
a special education
teacher
at
East Brook Elementary School
in
Park Ridge, N
.J.
I
Bridget
Foy Pomerantz
g:raduated from
NYCOM
medical
school in May
2003.
I
Holly Roloinson
gradu-
ated from Rutgers law School in
May 2003 and will sit for the New
Jersey
and New York
bar
exams.
Upon completion of
the
bar exams.
Holly will fill a clerkship position
in the Camden
(NJ)
County fam-
ily court.
I
Vanessa
Rudolph
is
in
her second year of teaching regents
ph)'sicsat
WT
Clarke High School
in East Meadow, N.Y.
I
Trent
Sano
is the youth and family program
director for
the
Glens Falls (N.Y.)
family YMCA. He was awarded the
Association of Professional Direc-
tors Rookie-of-the-Year Award,
which
honors the
top new direc-
tor in Chapter 6, which stretches
from Kingston
to
Plausburgh.
I
Jennifer
Scheulen
teaches sixth-
grade math and
language
arts at
Cavallini Middle School
in
Upper
Saddle River, N.j. She also coaches
girls' soccer at Ca,·allini.Jennifer is
pursuing a master's in counseling
at William Paterson University.
I
Dwi
Sumarsam
was promoted
to
competition/promotion an direc-
tor, USA for Babolat U.S. North
America, working with elite level
tennis players and ATP/WTA
tour professionals.
I
Blanca N.
Vasquez
is the associate curator
of
performing
ans at
the Jamaica
CenterforArts&Learning,
Inc.
The
center's Web site is www.jcal.org,
offering information on upcoming
performances. classes and exhibi-
tions.
She was an HEOP student
at Marist.
I
Wilson Vernelly,
Jr.
graduated from
the
New York
Police Department Academy. He
is a police officer with
the
New
York City Police Department. He
was an HEOP student at Marist.
I
Alisa White
is a
media
direc-
tor at
lntagio
International
Trade
Exchange in Milford, Conn.
1
9 9 9
Meredith
Dobson
Aidun
received
a
master's
in film studies from
the
University of
East
Anglia
in
Nor-
wich, England. Meredith expects
to
complete requirements for
secondary social studies certifica-
tion from
Mansfield University
in December 2003.
I
Russell
R.
Boedeker, C.M.R./C.F.M.
is
a
senior financial analyst
for lntel
Corp. in Hillsboro, Ore.
I
Mary
Boylan
received
a master's
in
social
work
from
Fordham University.
She is a certified social worker
with the Archdiocese of New
York. She recently bought her first
home.
I
William Brennan
is
the
district coordinator of computer
technology
for the
lsland
Trees
School District in levittown, N.Y.
He received
a master's in educa-
tional technology
from long
lsland
University
in
May 2002 and is
pursuinga doctorate in educational
administration. During his spare
time, Bill
has
competed in more
than 20
triathlons, ranging
from
the Olympic distance up
to
a half-
ironman.
I
Jennifer
R.
Canonico
teaches fourth grade at Samuel
J.
Preston Elementary School
in
West
Harrison,
N.Y.
I
Emily Carrozza
is
a guidance counselor at
John
F.
Kennedy Middle School in Plants-
ville, Conn. She received a 6
1
h
year
certificate in school counseling
from the University of
Hanford.
I
Jessica
Cooper
isa claims adjuster
for Progressive
lnsurance
in Yon-
kers,
N.Y.1
Michelle Cotteneaches
a multi-age classroom of fourth,
fifth and sixth grades at Madison
Central School in Madison, N.Y.
I
Thomas
J.
Drag, D.C.
graduated
from
the
New York Chiropractic
College and is in private practice
in northern New
Jersey.
I
Peter
Esposito
shares a bit of
philosophy:
"If you always
do
what you have
always
done,
you will always get
what you always get."
I
Amanda
Flood is
an account executive for
WOR Radio
in
New York, N.Y.
I
Desmond Kenneally
was
pro-
moted to vice president in charge
of regulatory
reporting
at Arnhold
&:
S. Bleichroeder,
Inc.,
a broker-
dealer in New York, N.Y.
I
Andrea
Lanzetta
is
an account executi\'e
at QED Communications, a phar-
maceutical
marketing company
in
Hawthorne, N.j.
I
Paul
Lenhart
is
a team leader at
IBM.
The
team
provides
data backup
and
recovery
services for a
large number
of com-
mercialcustomers.
Paul is pursuing
a
master's
in
information
systems at
Marist.
I
Kevin Lundy
is
pursuing
a
master's
of public
policy
at George
Mason University in Arlington,
Va. Kevin is state relations and
grassroots coordinator for
the
National Restaurant Association in
Washington, D.C.
I
Curtis Mat hot
is a hazardous waste manager for
Trinity Environmental Group in
Indianapolis, lnd.
I
Michael Melfi
joined
the
Adidas-sponsored Fleet
Feet Syracuse racing
team
in the
fall of 2002. Mike was
the
second
American finisher
in
the Pittsburgh
Great Race
10K
with a time of
30:37, out of
more than
8,000
runners. He won Colgate's Class
of 32 Invitational in a
time
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Recognizing
Leadership
At
the 2003
baccalaureate
ceremony
in
the Marist chapel,
President Dennis Murray
(far
left)
and Alumni
Association
President
Bob
Hatfield
'69 presented
the
2003 Alumni Leadership
Award to Anna
Frances
Carmon
and Joseph
J.
Giacalone.
Each
year the association
recognizes
two seniors
for outstanding
leadership
and con-
tributions
to the campus
community.
Recipients
are
nominated
and elected by alumni employed
at
Marist.
8:44.88 and the St. Lawrence
Twilight Meet's
5000 meters
in
14:49.9.
He was second by only
six seconds
to
Stephen Ondieki (a
former Division I Cross Country All
American at Fairleigh Dickinson)
in the
Midland
Run
5K
with
15
33
Mikealsowon
theJPMorgan Chase
Corporate Challenge
in
Syracuse,
N.Y.,
in
August
2002. He is
an
elementary
resource
teacher in
the
Syracuse City School
District.
I
Michael Milby
is
an
equity
trade
support
administrator
at Lazard
Asset
Management in
New
York,
NY
I
Todd Myers
isa
police
officer
forthecityofWest
Hartford,
Conn.
and
head
crew coach for the
Ethel
Walker School
in
Simsbury, Conn.
I
Craig
Murray
and
his partner
celebrated
their
lives
together
on
June
7,
2003,
in a
Rite
of
Blessing
at
Christ
Episcopal
Church
in Phila-
delphia,
Pa. Craig
was promoted
to
assistant
director
of international
gifts
at the
Cunis
Institute
of Music.
I
Stefanie
Sardilli Pacheco
is a
first-grade
special
education
teacher in
the
Lakeview
Elementary
School
in Mahopac, N.Y. This
is
her
tenure year. She and
her husband,
Joe,
purchased
a
new home in
2002.
I
James P. Saunders
has
been promoted
to vice president
in
the
merchant banking
division
of Goldman Sachs in New
York,
N.Y.
I
Steven
Schaming
is
a New
York City
firefighter
who responded
to the
World
Trade
Center
disaster
on Sept.
11, 2001. He is
stationed
at
Engine
33 in New York City.
Before
becoming
a firelfighter,
Steve was
a
New York Cit)/
police
officer.
I
Laura Schanars
taught
school
in Hawaii
after graduation
from
1999 to
2000. She is now
a
teacher in the
East Islip (N.Y.)
School District.
Laura is
pursuing
a graduate
degree in
educational
compming.
I
Thomas
F. Schwab
has
been
asked to
help
start a
new,
wholly
owned subsidiary focusing
on
broadcast
public
relations
for PR
Newswire, where he
has
worked for
the
past
two
years. The
new
com-
pany is called MultiVu
and Tom
will
be the
production
manager
at PRN's corporate headquaters
in New York City-right
across
from David Letterman's
studio.
I
Stacey Spina
teache!; third
grade at
the Lake
Parsippany
Elementary School
in the Parsip-
pany Troy
Hills
School Di!;trict
in
Parsippany,
NJ She
is
p1Jrsuing
a master's
in
elementary school
guidance counseling at
Montclair
State University.
I
Erica Sutton
is
a behavior specialist working
with children with autism in
the
San Diego (Calif.) Unified School
District.
Erica is pursuing a master's
in social work.
I
Debra Tannacore
has
launched
two radio networks,
CMT
&
BET, at Westwood One.
She is the audio engineer/producer
for both stations.
I
Sara Tymon
is
a special education
teacher
at
the
Hi
I
lcrest
Elementary
School in San
Francisco, Calif.
I
Angela
Witzke
expected
to
complete
C.P.A.
requirements
in February 2003.
She writes
that
she
is
the proud
owner of a beautiful chocolate
lab, Tia.
I
Kristy Ann Yacovone
is
a
promotions
manager for
the
Snapple Beverage Group
in
White
Plains,
N.Y.
2
0 0 0
Kristina Britto
is
a producer for a
nightly newscast at News
12
Con-
necticut in Norwalk.
I
Jessica
Cooper
is
a claims adjuster
for
Progressive Insurance
in Yonkers,
N.Y.
I
Paige Furlong
D'Anna
relocated
to Westchester Count}"
after
graduation.
She
began
a
career in
human
resources, doing
career
placement
for a
local
staff-
ing
agency. She
is
a client
relations
manager with Auentive Personnel
in Albany, N.Y.
I
Michele Degati
is
pursuing
a master's in social work
at Columbia University.
I
Lisa
NEW
ARRIVALS
Maria
Dryer '94
and Eric
Slabaugh,
a daughter,
Alexa
Grace,
April
15, 2002
Bonny
Emmons '94
and
Christopher
Algozzine
'85,
a
daughter,
Lillian
Marie,
March
20, 2002
Wendy
Fell '94
and
Dominick
DeAngelis,
a
son,
Nicolas
Saverio,
Nov. 20, 2001
Flora
and
Gabriel Hidalgo, Esq. '94,
a
daughter,
Lauren
Isabella,
May
6,
2002
Janis
Netschert
'94
and
Gregg Si
mat
'93,
a
son,
Christopher
Gregg,
April 6, 2003
Anne
Marie
O'Connor '94
and Paul
Rudolph
'93,
a son,
Kieran,
April 26,
2002
Kate
O'Hanlon '94
and Andrew
Clapperton,
a daughter,
Lucy
Jane,
March
15,
2002
Andrea
and
Michael
Olivapotenza
'94,
a
daughter,
Gianna
Lee,
Nov.
25, 2002
Eileen O'Reilly '94
and
Sean
McGinnis,
a
son,
Jack
Eamon,
Feb.
5, 2003
Erin O'Sullivan '94
and Robert
Kelly,
twin sons,
Sean
Robert
and
Thomas
William,
May
31, 2002
Chantal Pecourt '94
and
John
Daigneault,
a
son,
Ian
Paul,
April
24,
2001
Kirsten
Rinn
'94
and
Ryan
LeTellier,
a son,
Cooper
Rinn,
Feb.
3, 2003
Sarah
and
Jeffrey M. Schanz
'94/'99 M,
a daughter,
Margaret
Grace,
May
8, 2003
Nicole Silenzi
'94
and
Randy E. Desrosiers '95,
a daughter,
Randi
Elizabeth,
April 9, 2002
Elizabeth Robin Vazquez '94
and
Daniel J. Ryan '94,
a
daughter,
Caroline
Brooke,
March
18, 2003
Kersti Bowes '95
and
Robert Hopkins '95,
a
son,
Rhylan
John,
April
11, 2002
Jeannine Brescia
'95
and
William
Castaldi,
a son,
Dominic,
Sept.
11,
2002
FALL
2 0 0 3
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Ann Marie Bunnell '95
and
Ben Spielman,
a
daughter,
Amanda
Marie,
Oct.
28, 2002
Julie Chan
'95
and
Gerard
Moroney,
a
son,
Gehrig,
Jan.
8, 2002
Pamela Conlon
'95
and
Joe Saitta '93,
a
daughter,
Victoria
Melone,
Nov.
2, 2002
Lavaughn Cox
'95
and Kurt
Allison,
a
daughter,
Kai Lenox
Cox-Allison,
Aug. 4,
2001
Denelle Heller
'95
and Dave
Manley,
a daughter,
Paige
Renee,
May
9, 2002
Dawn Jacobson
'95
and
John Oldham,
a son, Jacob
Nevel,
March
29,
2002
Cynthia Malo '95
and
Peter Faustino '95,
a daughter,
Emily,
July 1,
2002
Allison Martin
'95
and David
Brown,
a daughter,
Paige
Julia,
Sept.
25, 2002
Colleen Morrow '95
and
Jeffrey M. Raymond
'94, a
son,
Trevor
Michael,
July
31, 2002
Chasity Nadge '95
and
Don
Jaynes,
a daughter,
Madison
Maureen,
March
2001
Maureen
and
Cpl. Jeffrey Riva '95,
a
daughter,
Kathleen
Marie,
Dec. 17,
2000
and
a son,
Jake
Thomas,
Jan.
23, 2002
Helen Schryver
'95
and
J. Doug Jelen
'95,
a
daughter,
Rebbecca
Anne,
March
28, 2003
Leslie
Zurinskas
'95
and Todd
Mather,
a son, Quinton,
March
11, 2002
Yasmin Aristy
'96
and
Lenny
Parker,
a daughter,
Angelina
Yasmin,
Sept. 2,
2002
Beth Dooley
'96
and James
Canfield,
a son, Connor
James,
Dec. 7, 2001
Lori
Drugan
'96
and
Juan
Valdez,
a daughter,
Matiana
Kailey,
Feb.
4, 2003
Joann
and
Michael T. Flynn
'96,
a son, Ryan
Michael,
Feb. 5, 2003
Jennifer Groot '96
and David
Brown,
a daughter,
Kyla
May,
May
19,
2003
52
MARIST
MAGAZINE
Douglas
is
pursuin1g
a master's
and a certificate
in
ad\'anced
graduate studies in
applied
edu-
cational
psychology with
a con-
centration in school
psychology
at Northeastern University. She
is
a
full-time preschool teacher
at the
Peabody
Terrace
Chilldren's Center
in
Cambridge,
Mass.
I
Donna-
Marie
Facilla
received a
master's
in
special education from Dowling
College. She
teaches.
a first-grade
special education class in the
Lindenhurst
School District
in Lin-
denhurst, N.Y.
I
LaTonya Francis
recei\'ed
a master's in reading and
literacy
from Fordham University.
She teaches
third
grade at
Thornton
Elementary School
in
Mt. Vernon,
NY
I
Amanda Garrison teaches
physical
education for grades
K-8
at St.
Joseph's
School
in Danbury,
Conn. Amanda also coaches the
girls'
JV. basketball team.
I
Jen-
nifer
Glover
returned
in
October
2002 from a
trip
to Brazil, where
she
presented
at the Universidade
des
Sau Paulo one-commerce work
she's
done in upstate
New
York.
I
Raychel
Grestini is
the human
services
director
for
the
City of
Cohoes, NY
I
Jaso111
Harty
is an
associate account e;~ecut
ive with
360 Youth,
an
Aloy, line. company,
and a full-service
marketing
agency
in Boston, Mass.Jason
raced
in the
Monster Challenge, a triathlon
in
Boston
that benefited the
AIDS
Action Commiuee ,of Massachu-
setts.
I
Keri
Stevenson Healy
is a
special education
teacher
at Christa
McAuliffe Middle School
in
Jack-
son, NJ
I
Hanneh
J
Kalyoussef
is
an account
executive working on
inside advertising s.ales for Jonas
Publishing/IDT.
I
Kevin Kwas
is
a youth service bureau worker for
LheTownofNewMilford,Conn.,as
well as a recordingstudioengineer/
owner.
I
Patrick LaC:roix
has been
promoted to
account executive at
Catalyst Marketing Communica-
tions, a
full-service
agency in
Stamford, Conn
IJ,ohn
Maroney
was
promoted to
senior agent at
Central Entertainment Group
in
New York, NY
He
represents the
cast members of MTV's ·'Jackass"
for
movies
and
tele·vision
as well
as many other
top pop
culture art-
ists.
I
John M. Massoud
entered
boot
camp training;
for the
U.S.
Coast Guard at Cape May, NJ, in
October
2002.
I
Beth
Mathewson
isa special education teacher at Yale
University. Beth also serves as
an
advisor
in
Yale's
Psychiatry Depart-
ment high school for students with
social/emotional
disabilities.
Beth
is pursuing a
master's
in learning
and social emotional
disabilities
from Southern Connecticut State
University.
I
Leon McGuire
has
graduated
from
the New
York
Police
Department
Academy.
He
was an
HEOPstudentaLMarist.
lLorraine
Millen
moved to
North Carolina
in 2001
and
built
a house
there in
2002.
She received an M.B.A.
from
Marisl in December 2002. Lorry is a
global com
mod it
y manager for
IBM
in Research
Triangle
Park, N.C.
I
Craig
M. Murphy
has
been pro-
moted to accounting coordinator
for
Enterprise
Rent-a-Car for the
state of Vermont. Craig oversees
and manages all rental branches·
accounting and financial
activity.
I
Meghan
elson is
a special
education
teacher
at Mineola (NY)
Middle
School. She is a certified
reading
specialist and coaches
seventh- and eighth-grade soccer
and lacrosse.
I
Erin
Pender
is a
second-year graduate student
in
Monmouth University's
master's in
counseling psychology program.
I
Sara
Peters
is pursuing
a master's
in education at the Universit}' of
Bridgeport.
She expected
LO
gradu-
ate in June
2003
IJohn
Ragozzine
is an editorial assistant for Prentice
Hall
in Upper Saddle
River,
N.j. He
is pursuing an advanced degree at
SUNY New Pahz.
I
Nicholas
Ross
is pursuing a master of fine arts
at the Academy of Art College in
San Francisco, Calif.
I
Senior
Airman Andrew Sama, USAF
is
on assignment in
Iraq. He
serves
as a chemical
weapons
specialist
with
the 16
th
civil engineers out of
the
Air Force Special Operations
Headquarters
al Hurlburt Field,
Fla.
I
Jennifer
Simmons
has
been accepted
for study in SUNY
Albany's Ph.D. program
in infor-
mationscience. Her specializations
are public
information policy
and
organizational studies.
Jennifer
is
the director
of the Grinnell
Library Association
in
Wapping-
ers Falls, N.Y. She was elected
secretary of the New York
Library
Association's
Library
Administra-
tion and Management
Round
Table.
Jennifer
will be a panelist at
the
2003 NYLA Annual Conference,
speaking about careers
in public
libraries.
I
Melissa
Slevin does
legal
research for American Lawyer
Media, publisher of
The National
Law Journal and other national and
regional
legal trade
newspapers
and magazines.
I
Helen
Stahlin-
Corveleyn Leaches
seventh-grade
science at
Montgomery
Middle
School
in
Montgomery, NJ
I
John
J
Sullivan
is a professional
screenwriter
for Blackout
films in
New
York,
N.Y.
He
has sold his
screenplay "Rapid"
to
Columbia
Pictures. "Rapid"
is
a
high-energy
action
thrillerin the
vein of"Speed"
and "Die
Hard." He
will
also be
producing the film with "The Fast
and
the Furious" producer
Neal
Moritz.
John is
working on
a
two-
picturedeal with
a New
York-based
major motion
picture company.
He
is
working
with Alex
Heineman
'00
on
a new
film
project.
I
Heather
Suydam
expects
to
graduate from
Temple University
Law School in
December 2003. She plans on
tak-
ing the
bar exam in
Februarr 2004.
I
Rachel
Tollen
was promoted
to
district
director
of
the Muscular
Dystrophy
Association
I
In Sep-
tember
2002,
Abby van
Horne
cycled 150 miles for the Muscular
Dystrophy
150 City to Shore Bike
Tour
in
Cherry
Hill,
NJ, for
the
second year.
Her team
raised more
than S1,000 for MS
research.
Abby
is a second-year graduate student
in
the media ecology program at NY U.
She works
in the
nonprofit sector
in
public relations
in New York, N.Y.
I
Janna
De
Vito Wheart y
is pursuing
anonline M.P.A.
at
Marist
College.
I
NBC News
anchor
Tom Brokaw
(left)
presented the Boys
&
Girls
Harbor Alumni Achievement
Award to Julio A. Torres, Jr.
'01
(right) at
the 11th
annual
Boys
&
Girls Harbor Salute to Achieve-
ment luncheon April 29
at
the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New
York City. Julio is a development
writer
and alumni
associate for
Boys
&
Girls Harbor, Inc.


































Adam Weissman
was promoted
LO
assistant account executi\'e
at
G.S.
Schwanz & Company
in
New York,
N.Y.
I
ln
September 2002,
Kather-
ine
Wright
began her second year
of
teaching
for
the
New
York
City
Board of Education. She teaches
students with special needs in
grades
three to
six.
2 0 0
1
Benny
Amarone is
director
of
admissions at Notre Dame
l
ligh
School in West
Haven,
Conn.
I
Sara Andrews
teaches
science at
St.
James
Middle School
in
Bid-
deford,
Maine.
I
Edward Antoine
is
a special education
teacher
at
P.S.
152
in
District
22 in New York, N.Y.
He
was an
HEOPstudentat
Marist.
I
Rebecca
Astin received
a
master's
in
teaching from
Sacred
Heart
Uni-
,·ersit)'
in
2002. Rebecca
isaspecial
education teacher
in
the
Brookfield
(Conn.) School
District.
I
Christy
Barr
isa client
delivery
associate for
Towers, Perrin,
Forster&Crosbyin
Voorhees,
NJ. a global
management
consulting
firm.
I
Sonpreet
Bhatia
was the first
runner-up
in the
2002
Miss
India
New
York
contest. After
completing her graduate studies,
she
joined IBM
as an engineer/
scientist.
I
Megan Bruno
is a spe-
cial education
teacher
at Millstone
Middle School
in
Clarksburg, NJ
Megan enjoys tra\'elingand going to
the beach
in
her
spare time.
I
Kenia
Cabrera
isan
underwritinganalyst
with American
International
Group
in New
York,
N.Y.
She
was
an
HEOP
student at Marist.
I
Sarah
Conklin
is
the
store manager for Aeropostale
in
the Poughkeepsie
Galleria. Sarah
is enrolled in Marist's M.P.A.
pro-
gram. She was an
HEOP
student
at
Marist.
I
Graig Corveleyn
is
a
law student
at Rutgers
University
School of Law
in
Camden, NJ
He
expects to graduate in spring
2004.1
Neil
Crescenti
is
pursuing
a
master's
in
resource
economics
and
policr
at
the
University of
Maine.
I
Matthew Daigle
received
a
master's
in
broadcast journalism
from
Northwestern University in
Evanston,
Ill. in
June 2002.
He
is a
reporter
and fill-in anchor for NBC
affiliate
KNDU-TV
in
Kennewick,
Wash.
I
Leah
Duggan
isa full-time
graduate student at SUNY Albany.
She expects
to
graduate in Mar
2004 with a master's
in
TESOL
(Leaching English
to
speakers
of other
languages).
I
Linda
Fakhoury
is
in
her
second rear
at Western New England College
After Two Best
Sellers, Anothe1r
Book for
Bill O'Reilly
'71
Bill O'Reilly
'71's new
book comes
out in Sep-
tember. Publisher
Broad
..
way Books
describes
it
this way: "Who's Look-
ing Out for You
is
a book:
that boldly confronts
our
worst fears and biggest
problems
since
9/11.
Its
sage, candid advice
on
regaining
control
and
trust in these troubled
times will resonate
with millions of read-
ers and viewers
who have come to
believe
in Bill O'Reilly
as the man who speaks
for
them."
Bill's No Spin Zone
in
hardcover
spent several
months
on the New
York Times
Book ReviewlBest
Sellers
list,
including
eight weeks
at No.
1;
close
to
1
million are in print.
The
paperback
edition
at press
time
had spent
10
weeks on the New York Times
Paperback
Best Sellers
list,
including
four weeki; at No.
1,
with
300,000
in
print.
His
earlier
book, The
O'Reilly
Factor,
preceded
No Spin Zone
at No.
1
on the lists.
The
hardcover
edition spent
32
weeks total,
including
11
weeks at
No.
1,
and more than
1
million are
in
print.
School of
Law.
She will possibly
seek
an L.L.M.
in
either criminal
law
or
trial
ad\'OCacy
upon comple-
tion of her law
degree.
During
her
undergraduate
years at
Marist,
Linda
donned
clown
atuire and
entertained scores of children at
the alumni family picnics
during
Homecoming/Reunion
Weekend.
I
Martha
Hackett
is a special
education teacher for six
th
and
se\'enth grade students at Smith-
town
Middle School
in
Smithtown,
N.Y. Martha is
pursuing a
master's
at SUNY Stony Brook.
I
Erin Hoff-
man
has
moved
to
Providence,
R.l.
She is enrolled
in
the
ceirtificate
program for interior
de:sign
at
Rhode
Island
School
of
'Design.
I
Amy
Kuhar
teaches sixth grade
in
the
Clarkstown Central School
District
in
West Nyack, N.Y.
I
Jeanneil Kulik
teaches fifth
graders at St. Viator School in Las
Vegas, Nev.
I
Gregory
LaPointe
graduated
from the
University of
Connecticut with an M.A.
in
sur-
vey
research
in August 2002.
He
is
a qualitati\'e
research
manager
for
Luth
Research,
a
marketing
research
firm in downtown San
Diego,
Calif.
He
anends Pep-
perdine University
pan-time
in
pursuit of
an
M.
B.A.,
specializing
in
marketing.
I
Dawn appi
teaches
English at Merrick
High
School
in
her
hometown
of Merrick, N.Y.
She
is
pursuing
a
master's
in
English
education.
I
Joseph Parizo
goes
to
Boston, Mass., every weekend
to visit
Beth Reilly
'01 and
they
"party
hard
I"
I
Dana
Pecorella
has
been
working
at Shearson Lehman
Brothers
in New York, N.Y., in
its
fixed-income sales
department.
I
Amy
Perry
is a graduate studem
at Albany Law School in Albany,
N.Y.
I
Kevin Porter
is
an assistant
branch
manager at M
&
T
Bank in
Monroe, N.Y.
He
holds the Series
6 and 63 NASD registrations as
well as
life
and
health insurance
licenses.
He
is
pursuing
the
certi-
fied
financial planner
designation
through Marist. Marist College is a
family
affair at
the
Porter residence.
Kevin's mom and
dad,
Carol
Welz
Porter
and
Bill Porter,
are both
graduates
of the
Class of
'72
at
Marist and Kevin's sister,
Kristen,
graduated from 1'.larist
in
Mar
2003.
I
Jaclyn Rannazzisi
has
returned
from
teaching in Hawaii. She
is
a
special education teacher
in
the
Kings Park
Central School District.
She plans on
returning
to Hawaii
to
NEW
ARRIVALS
Meredith Kennedy
'96
and
Bryan Andrews '96,
a
son,
Collin Robert,
Sept. 5, 2002
Suzanne Folkerts '96
and
Michael McDowell '97,
a
son,
Brendan
Patrick,
Sept. 22, 2002
Katherine Gallagher '96
and
Leonard Stripeikis '96,
a
son, Ryan
Thomas,
June
21, 2002
Christine Gregowske '96
and
Dino Quintero '92/'94 M,
a daughter,
Alexa
Danielle,
Sept. 3, 2002
Jan X. Martin '96
and
Michael
Zoller
'97,
twins,
a son,
Keegan
Michael,
and a
daughter,
MacKenzie
Xenia,
Oct.
1,
2001
Stephanie Mossa
'96
and
Andrew
Ponzoni
'96,
a son,
Andrew Michael,
Jr.,
May 29, 2002
Megan
O'Neill '96
and
Andrew
Currier,
a daughter,
Brynne
Morgan,
Feb.
11,
2003
Christina
and
Dennis Rau, Jr. '96,
a daughter,
lsabela,
Feb.
22, 2002
Cylinda Rickert '96
and
Matthew
Areno,
a daughter,
Sara
Donna,
Dec. 10,
2002
Kristin Shay '96
and
Jonathan Ventresca '96,
a daughter,
Shay
Elizabeth,
May
31, 2001
and
a son,
Sean
Matthew,
Sept.
19,
2002
Jessica Cramer '97
and
Daryl Richard '97,
a
daughter,
Katelyn
Mary,
Sept.
4, 2002
Jeanine Kelly '97
and Timothy
Caras,
a
son, Thomas
Michael,
April
8, 2002
Kristen
and
Charles Melichar
'97,
a daughter,
Kailey
Ann, April
16, 2003
Jennifer Trenary '97
and
Joseph
Malcarne,
a son, Noah
John,
June
2,
2002
Jo-Ann Piezzo
'97
and
J.
Patrick
Holmes,
a daughter,
Hannah
Marie,
Aug.
18, 2002
Jennifer Whalen
'97
and
Michael
Kotas,
a son,
Warren
Delbert,
May I 0, 2002
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Laurie
Griffin
and
Jeffrey Browne
'98,
a
daughter,
Cortney
Alyson,
Nov.
16, 2002
Alisa Franz
'98
and Neill
White,
a son, Evan,
Dec.
30, 2001
Kristen Lee Jones '98
and Jeremy
Tangarone,
a
daughter,
Corrin,
Oct.
12,
2002
Heather Lynch
'98
and
Scott Glass '98,
a
daughter,
Taylor
Michele,
Sept.
17, 2001
Laura Scanga
'98
and
Joshua
Hammond,
a
son,
Luke
Michael,
Aug.
2, 2002
Trish Bazin
'99
and Daniel
Rowell,
a
daughter,
Kayla
Diane,
January
29, 2002
Sandra
and
Marcos
Campos '99,
a son, Marcos
Xavier,
Nov.
16, 2000
Julia Watson
'99
and David
romaine,
a daughter,
Sydney
Elizabeth,
Nov.
29, 2001
Audrey White
'99
and
Michael
Wood,
a son, Gabe Michael,
Nov.
15,
2002
Waleska Rivera
'01,
a
daughter,
Kaylah
Marie
Carvajal,
Aug.
22, 2002
Stacy
and
Peter Frisoni
'02,
a son,
Dylan,
June
12, 2002
54
MARIST
MAGAZINE
visit with
friends
and co-workers.
I
Barbara Rivera
is
a case
manager
with
the Dutchess
County
Mental
Health
Association. She
was an
HEOP
student at Ma rist.
I
Jenni-
fer Rosignol
is a
higher
education
program counselor a1:
Mt. St.
Mary
College
in
Newburgh, N.Y.
I
Bon-
nie
Sanchez
received a
master's in
social
work from
Fordham Univer-
sity in May 2002.1
faic
Schaming
is a New York
City firefighter with
Engine 5 in New
York,
N.Y.
He
followed
his
father,
!Fred,
and his
brother, Steven Schaming
'99, into
the
New
York
City Fin: Department.
I
Joe
Scelia
is a special education
teacher at Brewster
Hligh
School in
Brewster,
N
.Y. He
also coaches
the
boys' and girls' track teams
there.
Previously he taught seventh- and
eighth-grade special education at
the Kailua lntermed1iate School
in
Kailua,
Hawaii,
on
the island
of
Oahu.
I
Tim Sorensen is pursu-
ing
a master's
in arts
and teaching
in adolescence
education in Eng-
lish
at SUNY Cortland.
I
Patrick
Spence
still works m WMDT-TV
in Salisbury, Md., where
he
has
moved
up to
producing the 6
p.m.
newscast.
WMIDT is an ABC
affiliate.
I
K.
Renee
Springate is
program coordinator for Marist's
Upward Bound
program.
She was
an
HEOP
student at
Marist.
I
Jill
M.
Stetler
is a graduate student
at
Syracuse University.
IIJaime
Smith
Thompson and
Scott
Thompson
are happily
married
and
living
in
Saugerties, N.Y. Sco1.t is
pursuing
an M.S.C.S. degree at Marist
and
Jaime received a master's in library
science
from
the SUNY Albany
School of Information Science
and
Policy in
May 2003
I
Pierre
Vinh
isasecond-yearstudent
in
the
Pennsylvania College:
of Optometry
doctor
of optometry program
in
Elkins Park, Penn.
I
Charles
R.
Joe Scelia
'01
Vitchers,
Jr.
spent eight
months
at the World
Trade
Center disaster
site as a
recovery worker. He
plans
on
pursuing a
master's
in
education
and/or
history.
I
Megan
Williams
is a pharmaceutical sales
rep for
Aventis Pharmaceuticals. She
is
also pursuing a second bachelor's
in
art
at
Marist.
2 0 0 2
Lisa
Burke
is a communications
specialist with the
Poughkeepsie
Area Chamber of Commerce.
I
Maria Dallin
graduated
from
Fordham University's Graduate
School of Social Service
in
Mar
2003.
Maria has accepted a
posi-
tion
with the Catskill
Regional
Medical
Center
in Harris,
N.Y.,
to
work
with
its
elderly and
acute
care population.
I
Danielle
DeNure
is a residential supervi-
sor with Liberty
Enterprises,
an
Association
for Retarded
Citizens
facilityinAmsterdam,N.Y. Danielle
is
pursuing
a master's
in special
education
from
SUNY Albany.
I
Melissa
Discount
is
a marketing
associate for group
benefits
with
Hartford Life Insurance
Company
inSimsbur)', Conn.
I
Peter
Frisoni
isa
lieutenant
with
the
Schenectady
(N.Y.) Police
Department.
He
is
the
department spokesman and
is in
charge of the office of planning
and polic)'
resources.
I
Yalixa
Garcia
is a
human
resource assis-
tant with the North Shore
(N.Y.)
Animal
League.
She was an HEOP
student at Marist.
I
Michelle Hal-
lock
is a special education
teacher
in
the South Colonie Central School
DistrictatSaddlewood Elementary
School
in
Alban>',
N.Y.
She is pur-
suing a
master's
in reading
at the
University at Alban>'·
I
Liz Ham-
mond
works for
the
U.S.
House
of
Representatives
as a
proctor
with
the
house pages.
House
pages are
16-year-old
students who spend a
semester in Washington working
on
the House
0oor.
lJean
McGrath
was
to receive
a
master's
in social
work from New York
University
in
May
2003.
I
Justin Mc ally
is
a
construction assistant with
Habitat
for Humanity/AmeriCorps in Fair-
fax,
Va.
I
Keri
Mitchell
entered
the
New York
Police Department in
2002.
She was an
HEOP
student at
Marist.
I
Laurie Nash
isa
research
project manager for
the
Nathan
Kline
Institute in Orangeburg,
N.Y.
I
Mike T.
ehr teaches
at
a
BOCES
special education
high
school and
is
a graduate student
IN
MEMORIAM
Alumni
Dominic
T. Cavallaro
'55
Edward
W.
Bischof
'57
Dr. Lawrence
D. Keogh
'58
Lt.
Col.
Joseph
J.
Gallo,
NYG
'61
Patrick
J.
McMahon
'64
John
T.
Fitzpatrick
'65
Stephen
V. Russell
'65
Patrick
Cappillino
'66
Bruce
R. Magner
'67
Joseph
F.
Celie
'69
William
V.
Foley,
Jr.
'70
Isidore
C.
Sabeta '70
James R. Green
'74
Thomas
W.
McCarthy
'74
Vincent
J.
Carfora
'75
Bernard
Gaddy
'76
Michael
D. O'Toole
'76
Carl Grant,
M.D.
'79
Dawn
M. Parrella
'80
Kenton
Elsworth
Morrison,
M.D.
'82
James
A. Slater
'82
Denise
A. Cusmano
'83
Donald
E. Klimczak
'86
Todd
F. Squillaro
'86
William
Degli
Angeli
'87
Louis
A. Merrill
'90
Jennifer
Murphy-Morrell
'94
Mario
A. Petroccitto
'95
Joseph
Fernandez,
Jr.
'98
Nelson
Torres
'98
Marianne
T.
Cody
·oo
Jonathan
F. Currie
'00
Jillian
Lackowitz
'00
Aisha
R.
Jackson
'01
Meghan
•Meg"
R. Vaughan
'02
Faculty
DorothyAnn
Davis
Professor
Robert
C.
Norman
Dr.
William
Olson
at
Long Island University. The
former
Red
Fox running standout
recently
ran
indoor track
at CW.
Post
because he had some eligibilit }'
left. There he
ran a 14:31 SKandjust
missed
making
Division 11
Nation-
als
by one spot.
He
won the
Long




























Remembering
William J. Murphy
(Bro. Joseph
William)
William
J. Murphy
(Bro.
Joseph
Wil-
liam), who
in
the 1960s began the
teacher
certification program at
Marist College and also served as
director of athletics, died
March 9
in
Wisconsin.
He had lived
in South
Milwaukee
with his wife, Sandra.
He was 79.
Bill took the religious habit in
1940, spent a year as a
novice
before
officially becoming a
Marist
Brother,
and spent two years
in the
,
Marist Training
School,
which later
became
Marist
College.
He
earned
a bachelor's
in
education
from
Fordham
University
and a master's
from
St.
John's
University.
He began
his teaching
career in September
1943 at Cardinal
Hayes High
School
in
Bronx, N.Y.,
where
he
taught until the summer of 1951. He then
taught at
St.
Ann's Academy
in
New
York
City for several years. F,ollowing
a fellowship
to the University
of
London
to study secondary education,
he
was assigned to
the Marist
Brothers
Novitiate
in Tyngsboro,
Mass;.,
where
he
taught philosophy,
English
composition
and English
literature.
The May 2003
issue of the
newsletter
Marists
All
included
several
warm
remembrances
of Bill Murphy. "We were
18
and
19
years old, just
out
of
high school, and a giant walked into our life," wrote Bro.
Rene Roy
''60.
"We
were both fascinated and perplexed
by
his command of all that hE!
taught,
and by his
demands on
us. He loaded up the
library
with Great
13ooks-
Hardy,
Dostoevsky,
Conrad, Buck,
Proust,
Wilde-and demanded that we
read
and
report
on them. He
ripped
our first reports to shreds, reali:zing
that
Island
Half Marathon in early May
in 1 hour, 9 minutes. He has been
accepted i mo the NYC
ma rat hon as
an elite entry and hopes
Lo
qualify
for the Olympic
trials
by running
a sub-2:22 maraLhon.
He hopes LO
race
Mike
Melfi
'99
"because
he
is considered one of
L
he greatest
runners
in
Marist hisLOry.
He beat
me the last time
I
raced him. We
will jusL have LO
see what happens
nexL
time!"
I
Matthew Orgera
is a
financialsalesconsultanL
with PNC
Bank
in
South Orange, NJ Matt
is in training Lo become a licensed
investment counselor for PNC
lnvesLments.
I
Danielle Patterson
is a teacher al the Circle of Courage
School
in Poughkeepsie.
The school
is a new special education facility
in the City of Poughkeepsie
School
District. She teaches a combined
kindergarten and first-grade class.
Danielle is pursuing a master's at
SUNY
New Paltz. She was an HEOP
student al Marist.
I
icole Patter-
son
is a manager of a McDonald's
restaurant in Modena, N.Y.
She also
works part-time as a teacher at the
New Hope Centerafter-schtool
pro-
gram in Poughkeepsie.
Sh,e
was an
HEOP student at Marist.
I
Julia
Rodriguez
received a master's in
community/counselingps)•chology
from Marist
in
May 2003.
I
Pedro
Roman
isa seventh-grade !learning
center teacher in the Schenectady
(N.Y.) School District. Pedro is
pursuing a master's in education
at the College of St.
Rose
in Albany,
N.Y. He was an HEOP student at
MarisL.
I
Melissa
Sartori
wok a
top prize in the 2002 Tau Alpha
Chi/KPMG National Tax Paper
Competition. Melissa also was
awarded S1,500 for her pa1per
"The
Meals and Entertainment Deduc-
tion: Controversy and Planning."
She is an accountant for Urbach
Kahn
&
Werlin Advisors,
Inc.
in
Poughkeepsie.
I
Jaime
Semerad
is
a graduate resident direct()r at the
University of Hartford while she
obLainsa
master's
in readingeduca-
Lion
from St.Joseph College.Jaime
also teaches elementary reading in
he'd
have
to teach
us
how
to write
one that showed
insight
and made
sense.
He
challenged
us with epis-
temology,
ontology
and metaphys-
ics. June 4, 1960: our philosophy
final.
We
had learned
all
he
taught,
but more: we
had learned
how to
stick with it and
not let
it destroy
us; we
learned the
sweet feeling
of
working
hard
to conquer and come
out stretched beyond
what we had
ever
imagined
ourselves capable
f "
0.
Bill came
to Marist College
in
the early 1960s, where he served
as
director
of teacher
certification
and director of athletics. Dr.
Linus
Foy, president emeritus of Marist
College,
recalls Bill Murphy's
con-
tributions. "While Marist College
always blended preparation for
teaching
with a solid
liberal
arts
curriculum,
Bill
Murphy
transformed
it
into
an accredited
program
that prepared all students, both Brothers
and
layman
and laywomen, and gained
certification
for the program from New York
State.
In
addition, Bill
Murphy
established
the first formal
Athletics
Depart-
ment at
Marist
College.
He was also the driving
force in obtaining
an Upward
Bound grant to assist struggling secondary school students-a program
that has continued
at
Marist
for almost
40
years. It was through
imagination
and
hustle
like this that Marist developed
in the
1960s,
setting the platform
for the amazing growth of the college during the past four decades.·
Bill
left the order to work in the Washington,
D.C.,
area. He then moved
to
Wisconsin
to become vice president for advancement
at St. Norbert's
College.
Later he
became
executive
director and fund-raiser
for the United
Performing
Arts in
Milwaukee.
the West Hartford Public School
system.
I
Mariel
Sosa
is
in
Lhe
U.S.
Army. She finished basic training
and
is
completing technical school
training to become a
loadmaster.
She was an HEOPstudemat Marist.
I
Jeremy
Stennett
is a
print
media
mategist with Optimum Media
DirectingAdvertisingin
New York,
N.Y.
Jeremy is also a partner in a
recording and entertainment mar-
ketingcompany(www.rureg.com)
that produces albums and assists
new
and/or
independent
artists
and provides integrated market-
ing
assistance
to
small businesses
and
nonprofiLs.
He was an HEOP
sllldentat Marist.
I
Olidia
Valencia
is
a part-Lime Spanish teacher at
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School in
Poughkeepsie. She was an HEOP
student at Marist.
2 0 0 3
Mary Wawrousek,
a medical
technology major while at Marist,
is pursuing a Ph.D. in epidemiol-
ogy at Yale.
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Alumni
Web
site at www.maristlal11m11i
to find
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2001
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IN
Remembering
Bal,
Norman,
Marist Mentor ancl Friend
T
he Marist College community lost a well-loved,
longtime
faculty member when Robert C. Nor-
man, professor emeritus of communications,
passed away
in
December 2002 at age 77. Many Marist
alumni called Bob Norman
their
mentor and friend.
Professor Norman was
the
driving force behind
the founding of Marist's communications program,
now
the
most popular major on campus. Hundreds
of students have gone on to successful careers thanks
to his communications internships.
"There's nothing more gratifying than seeing
some of my
former
students lind success after
they graduate,"
he
once said. "That makes it
all worthwhile."
Bob Norman grew up in Olean, N.Y.
He
earned a bachelor's
degree from
St.
Bonaventure University, an M.S. from Syra-
cuse University and an M.A. from Manhattan
College.
He
was a World War
II
U.S. Army
veleran.
His
passion for radio broadcasting began
in
1942
when
he
landed a job as a radio station
announcer
in
upstate New York.
His
career LOok
him from Bradford and Erie, Pa.,
to
Kingston and
Poughkeepsie, and to WCBS-AM in New
York City. He joined
the
Marist faculty
in
1961
as an English professor and in
1973
became part of the communica-
tions
department.
He was instrumental
in
establishing
the
communications
internship
program, which provided many students with their
lirstjobs after graduation. During
the
20 years prior
to his retirement
in 1995, he placed more than 2,000
students in internships.
Those who follow Marist's athletics teams will
also remember Bob Norman as the "Voice of the
Vikings," when football was a club sport, and then
the
"Voice
of the Red Foxes."
He
saw Marist athletics
grow from the club sports
level
to a
respected
NCAA
Division l
program.
He retired
as the radio voice of
the
basketball Red Foxes
in
1988
after more than 25
years at
the
mike.
Professor
Norman and his late wife Camille's three
children.Judy, Bob,Jr.,andjim, are all Maristgraduates.
When Bob
retired
from
the college after 34 years of
teaching.alumni and
friends
established a scholarship
endowment in his honor. After his death the family
requested
that memorial
donations be
made to the
Robert C. Norman Communications Scholarship Fund
through the Oflice of College
Advancement.
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
Alumni Memories
In terms of the classroom,
Bob's
Public
Speaking
class
was a superb
tool in getting young
men and women
comfortable
addressing
large
groups-a
skill
I
know many
of
us
needed
to
rely on frequently
in
later life.
In Bob's
radio class,
he brought,
uniquely,
the asset
of being
an actual,
working media
person
instructing
a classroom.
But the biggest impact Bob had on my
life,
of course,
was through
his internship
program.
In
a business
world more and more occupied
with phoniness
and insincerity,
Bob had a unique
char-
acteristic-honesty.
Some
of the most powerful men in business,
the
biggest
names,
came
to
trust
Bob-think about
it,
they hired young men and women, sometimes
sight unseen,
based
on
Bob·
s
recommendation.
Wildly impressive.
I
am still gainfully
employed
at the site of my
internship-Madison
Square
Garden
(21
years).
Bob
always
enjoyed
that.
Not as much
as
I
enjoyed
being one of his
many,
many
grateful
students.
Michael McCarthy '82, Executive
Vice President
MSG Networks
Bob
was what every
professor
should
aspire
to be: a mentor,
a guide, and a
friend. His
pride
in
watching
his students
excel
in internships
and post-graduate
work was not unlike that of a
father
watching
his own
children
bloom. I'll always
remember
his voice-in person
and on the
radio-as
one of
reassurance
and
trust.
I'll always
hold dear
the memory
of
Bob
introducing
me
at a Marist
ceremony
as his friend.
Ian O'Connor '86, Sports Columnist
USA Today
and
Westchester
(N.Y.)
Journal News
Bob
Norman
would
knock
on any door to investigate
an opportunity
for a Marist
student.
As a student
in
the
late 1970s,
I was curious
about the Associated
Press,
the world's largest
news organization.
I
asked
Mr. Norman
if
there
were any internships
there.
There
were
none-until Bob
Norman
arranged
one
in
the AP's New
York
City bureau
for this Marist
student.
For
a semester,
I
accompanied
veteran
reporters
or
was sent out on my own to cover
crime,
labor and
politics.
I took
basic
skills
learned
in the classroom
and on
The Circle
and applied them to writing for the AP's newspaper
and
broadcast
wires. The constant
practice
was
the
best way to cut my teeth in newswriting.
I was
.; shaky
at first, to be sure, but Bob Norman
encouraged
me. I will be indebted
to him always
for opening
a big door to a career
in journalism.
Larry Striegel
'79,
Staff Writer,
Newsday
Larry Striegel '79, his wife, Bonnie Hede Striegel 'BS, and Doug Dutton '86 were part of
the
Newsday
team that won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting.
Bob Norman
was
one
of those
special
individuals
who will remain
in my heart and my memory
forever.
He got most of his students
terrific internships.
I was the Poughkeepsie
weather
girl on local cable
before cable television
was in vogue.
I
knew nothing about the weather or newscasting,
but Bob
coached
and counseled
me every
step of
the
way. He had a wonderful
sense
of humor
and made
every
class
and assignment
fun.
We
all
loved
hearing
his stories
about the days at CBS
and, happily,
many
Marist graduates
landed
positions
at this news station. Bob had vision and determination
that gave
us the fortitude to be successful.
Bob helped
me
land
my job at
The New York Times
upon graduation.
When he learned
about my
interview
with the newspaper
he made
sure
I was equipped
to answer
any question
that they gave
me.
Bob's
legacy
will live on
in
the School
of Communication
and the Arts, and
its
existence
is a testimony
to one man, Bob Norman.
Mary Monsaert Joyce '74
What
I
remember
most about Bob are the values
he taught me on how to be a good editor, reporter,
husband
and father-honesty,
integrity,
fairness,
objectivity,
self-discipline,
compassion
and truthfulness.
Bob
once
said in a class
many
years
ago: ·Great broadcasters
and journalists
aren't born
overnight.
You
must be willing to work hard and commit
yourself
to want to be the best." Over the years,
I've come
to cherish
the memories
Bob and
I
have shared.
The successes
I have achieved
throughout
the years
as a reporter,
an editor and now a teacher
are the direct result
of his influence
and teachings.
Thanks
to Bob,
I'm
not afraid
to
ask questions
like Who? What?
When?
Where?
Why?
And how?
Ernest Arico '76, Florida Network Coordinator, Gannett Corp.,
Adjunct Professor of Communications, Brevard Community College, Melbourne, Fla.









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