Thank~;
a Million!
Let's do it again-achieve a $1 million
goal for the Marist Fund.
This milestone goal was reached
in the 2002 campaign. Keep the
momentum going for Marist with a gift
to the 2003 Marist Fund campaign.
Marist Fund gifts keep Marist on
the path of excellence, which is at the
heart of the college's mission. Your
contributions help continue the many
programs and services that give our
students the knowledge and skills they
need to succeed
in
their careers and in
life. That's why annual support is so
important. Every Marist Fund gift makes
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each and everJ
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each and every day.
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No checks, envelopes, stamps or
trips
LO
the
mailbox are
re-
quired.
Now you can
make
a gift
to
the Marist Fund online.
From his
office
located
in
the
heart of Times Square.Jim
Joseph
'91,
the newly
appointed
president
of
the Marist
Alumni Association's New York Metro Chapter,
was the
first
to
make
an on
line
gift
to the
Marist Fund.
"It
was
easy, fast
and
completely secure,"
Jim
says.
Giving online
is
simple:
1.
Visit
www.marist.edu\alumni\giving
2. Fill
out
the
giving form
(using your credit
or
debit card)
3.
Hit
"Send."
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library
acquisitions,
technology upgrades
and
other
student
pro-
gramsand
services rely on aid provided through
the Marist
Fund. Support the
2003
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Fund
campaign
wday
with
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MARIST
22
CONTENTS/Fall
2002
A New Toy in the Sandbox
Virtual servers are
giving
Marist information
technology majors a unique opportunity to
experiment
and practice.
FEATURES
Marist Remembers
September 11
IO
Honoring
Those
Who
Answered the Call
Three Marist alumni were among the dedicated law
enforcement,
firefighting and medical professionals
who summoned their experience and their
courage
to help
at Ground Zero.
12
Securing
the
Nation
United States Anny Lieutenant
Colonel
Thomas
Hennan '75 was one
of
a handful of people who
were with President
George
W Bush when terrorists
attacked t11e
World Trade Center and the Pentagon
on Sept.
11.
A senior presidential
communications
officer, he is one
of
an
elite-and
highly secretive-
team trained to protect the commander in
chief
and
his ability to govern.
15
They
Sparkled
Like
Diamonds
Six
members
of the Marist family were lost
in
the terrorist
attachs on the World Trade Center
in
New Yorh City. Their light shines on
in the hearts of those who knew them.
Celebrating the
Hudson River Valley
Marist College launches the Hudson River Valley
Institute,
a regional studies center focused
0,1
one
of Americas richest historic, scenic and cultural
regions-the Hudson River Valley National
Heritage Area.
Maris!
Maga~ine
is
published
by the Office of
College Advancement at Marisr College for alumni,
friends, faculty and
staff of Marist College
Editor: Leslie Bates
Vice President for College Advancement:
Shaileen
Kopec
Contributing writers:
Larry
Hughes.Jeffrey
Dahncke '01,
Sean
Morrison,
Chris O'Connor
'98
Alumni Notes Coordinator: Jo-Ann
Wohlfahrt
Art Director: Richard
Deon
Marist
College, 3399 North
Rd.,
Poughkeepsie, NY
12601-1387
www.marist.edu
•
editor@marist.edu
Cover
photo
of
the
sloop Clearwater at Catskill, New York,
by
James
Bleecker
24
A New Leader for
the Marist Brothers
Bro.
Sean Sammon,
FMS
'70
is tl1e
first
American
co
be elected head
of
the Marist Brothers worldwide.
Thos:e
Who
Answered
the
Call
Page
10
25
Celebrating the
Hudson
River
Valley
Page
18
.Accrediting
Business
Page 25
Red Foxes Rule
Again
Page
30
I
Accrediting Business
i,,
Marists School
of
Management
earns
prestigious
AACSB accreditation
for its undergraduate
and
graduate
programs in business administration.
Alumni Profile:
A New York State of Mind
Popular writer and broadcaster
Ed Lowe
'67
tells the stories of ordinary Long Islanders and
the things that make them who they are.
Student Profile:
On the Right Track
Scholarship winner Jen
Stewart '02
has devoted
four
years
to pre-med studies,
running
track,
volunteering, working part-time and figuring
out
her
future. She also had a little fun.
30
Red Foxes Rule Again
I
Marist tahes top honors in the Metro Atlantic
!l
Athletic
Conference
for the fourth consecutive
year.
j
And, Rowing Coach Scott Sanford is remembered.
DEPARTMENTS
2
Marist Drive
A
look
at who'.s
in
the news
and whats happening on campus
34
Alumni News
News
of Marist
graduates
64
In Closing
On the
spur of
the moment, a Marist womens
a
cappella group visits
Ground
Zero
and
sings what
is
in
their hearts




























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I
NEWS
NOTES
FROM
THE
CAMPUS
Marist Makes the Grade in
U.S. News,
Rankings
F
or the eighth year in a row, Marist was
ranked
in
the top tier of colleges and
universities in the northern United States
in the latest edition of the annual U.S. News
&
World Report America's Best Colleges
guide.
Marist's
"overall
score," which determines
the college's numerical
ranking,
increased
by
three
points over the
previous
year.
Marist was ranked
19
th
out of
167
northern schools
in
its category, which
this year has been
reclassified
as "Best
Universities-Master's." The magazine
made
the
category change "to reflect
the
schools' mission: providing a full
range of undergraduate and
master's
level
programs."
"The
U.S.
News ranking confirms
what our current and prospective
students already know: Marist has
enhanced its academic quality sign
i
fi-
cantly over the past decade and a hat f,"
said President Dennis Murray.
The
past year's
freshman class
was the most academically talented
and geographically
diverse
in
the college's
history. The average SAT score increased 22
points, the highest SAT scores and class rank-
ings of any Marist class.
Marist wa$
ranked
19
th
out of 167
northern sdwols in its category.
Dr. Lee
M.
Miringoff, director of the Marist College fostit1~te for Public Opinion, has been
elected president of the National
Council on Public Polls.
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MAGAZINE
Deborah DiCaprio
Appointed Vice President/
Dean, Student Affairs
D
eborah DiCaprio
has
been named vice
president and
clean
for Student Affairs.
A memberof the Student Affairs division
since 1982, Dean DiCaprio had been interim
vice
president
of Student Affairs for the five
months prior
to
her appointment. She began
her career at Marist in 1982 asa resident
men-
tor and
lived
and worked on campus
until
1985 when she was
appointed assistant
dean. As assistant
dean she supervised
a
broad
array of key
operational areas
in-
cluding Counseling
Services,
Campus
Ministry, Special Ser-
vices,
Health
Services,
freshman orientation
and
the
mentor pro-
Deborah DiCaprio
gram as
well
as
the
has been named vice
Upward Bound and
president and dean
Liberty Partnership
for Student Affairs.
programs.
She holds a bachelor's degree in history
and a master's degree in education, both from
St. Bonaventure University.
Lee Miringoff Named
President of National
Polling Group
D
r.
Lee M. Miringoff,
director
of the Mari st
College
Institute
for Public Opinion, has
been elected president of the National Council
on
Public Polls.
The council is
dedicated
to
advancing an understanding of how polls are
conducted and interpreted by pollsters, pol
iti-
cians, the
media
and
the
general public.
"This selection reflects positively
upon
the survey work we have accomplished at
Marist College," says Dr. Miringoff, who will
continue to serve as the head of Marist's poll-
ing
institute.
"I
look
forward to furthering
the
values of accurate and fair research on
elections and public officials that is supported
by
the National Council on Public Polls."
The
National Council on Public Polls has
30
members
in addition
to
Marist
including
ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the Gal-
lup
Organization, Harris
Interactive,
the Los
Angeles
Times,
The PEW Research
Center and
Princeton Survey Research Associates.






















unux
Research
An
New York State Sen. Steve Saland
(center)
cuts the ribbon ,opening the Linux Research and
Development Center,joined by
Marist
President Dennis Murray
(left)
and Ross
Mauri,
Marist
trustee and
vice
president fore-server development and senior location
executive
at IBM.
Linux Research Center Now on Campus
M
arist's Center for Linux Research and
Development celebrates
its
one-year
anniversary this fall.
Thanks to the leadership of New York
State Sen. Steve Saland, major funding for
the
center came from a $377,960 Strategic
Investment Program grant.
A key objective of the center is Lo uncover
and analyze S/390 Linux environments and
to
apply this information to the development
and use of new technologies. The center
is providing New York businesses with a
location to test their applications
in
a Linux
environment.
Guest s.peakers at the opening were
Sen. Saland and Ross Mauri, vice president,
e-server development and senior
location
executive for the IBM Corp. and a Marist
trustee. Sen. Saland has been a champion of
technology-based business development in
Dr. Roger Norton, Dr. Thomas Wermutln Named Deans
Two
of Marist's academic schools have
I
new deans.
Dr.
Thomas
Wermuth was named
dean
of
the
School of
Liberal
Arts, and Dr. Roger
Norton was appointed dean of the School of
Computer Science and Mathematics.
Dr. Wermuth served as
interim dean
prior to his appointment.
His
activities in-
cluded overseeing
the
review of five academic
programs and assisting with the successful
reaccreditation
ofMarist's paralegal program.
One of
the
country's leading
regional histori-
ans,
he
also
led the
founding of
the
Hudson
River Valley
Institute,
an interdisciplinary
study center focusing on
the
history, culture
and natural
resources
of
the
region (please
see
feature
on Page
18).
He
is the director
of
the
institute. This past fall he received
the
Marist College Board of Trustees Faculty
Award for
Distinguished
Teaching.
Dr. Wermuth earned a B.A.
in
history
at Marist, an M.A.
in
history at $UNY Al-
bany and a Ph.D. in U.S. history at $UNY
Binghamton.
He
joined the Marist faculty in
1992. His
book, Rip
Van Winkle's Neighbors:
The Transformation
of Rural Society in the
Hud-
Dr. Roger Norton,
dean of the School
of Computer Science
and Mathematics
Dr. Thomas
Wer11111th,
dean
of the School of
Liberal Arts
son
River
Va!lley, 1720-1850,
was published
in October 2001 by the State University of
New York Piress.
He has chaired the History Department
and published a number of refereed articles
in professional journals. His distinctions
include several grants and awards, includ-
ing
a grant :from the New York Council for
the
Humanities and a $150,000 grant for
the Hudson River Valley Institute from the
Math Professor Joseph
Kirtland Wins Book Prize
D
r.
Joseph Kirt-
~
land, associate
~
professor of math-
zf
ematics, received
the Beckenbach
Book Prize from
the Mathemati-
cal Association
of America for
his book
Identi-
fication Numbers
and Check
Digit
Dr. Joseph Kirtland
Schemes.
The Mathematical Association of
America awards the $1,000 prize
to
an
author of a distinguished, innovative
book published by the MAA. The award
is
not given regularly but only when a
book appears that is judged to be "truly
outstanding," says the MAA.
In its citation for the award, the MAA
called the book interesting and accessible
not only to those in college but also high
school. "Finally," the citation reads, "the
teacher who is confronted
by
the common
question, 'What is math good for?' can an-
swer
by
handing the
questioner
this book,
for it can be easily read by students."
partnership with education and has been in-
valuable to Mari st in ad\'ancingsuch projects
that can benefit both the region and state. Ross
Mauri has been instrumental in supporting
Marist's joint study efforts with
IBM.
federal National Heritage Area program to
create a digital library.
As
interim
dean for the five months prior
to his appointment, Dr. Norton led the design
and implementation of the new undergradu-
ate major in information technology.
He
is
also
leading
an innovative project, part ofMarist's
joint study with the
IBM
Corporation, that
allows students to create and work in their
own networked environments by giving
them
their own virtual servers(please see feature on
Page 22). Previously, as director of the Marist
College Center
for
Mental Health
Informa-
tion Systems, he designed and maintained a
statewide network system that has become a
model in New York.
Dr. Norton received a B.S. in mathematics
from
the
University of Massachusetts, Am-
herst, an M.A. in mathematics from Brandeis
University and a doctorate in computer sci-
ence from Syracuse University. He began
his teaching career at Marist in 1980. He
also worked as a consultant for 10 years,
helping companies such as Arco, Coors,
Johnson & Johnson and Hess manage their
enterprises.
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C ---.
in 1975. In 1975 she was the first woman
member of the Gridiron Club, made up of
reporters and editors, in its 90-year history,
becoming its president in 1993.
She has won dozens of professional awards
including the
International
Women's Media
Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in
1998, the Society of Professional Journal-
ists Lifetime Achievement Award and the
National Press Foundation's Distinguished
Contributions to Journalism Award in 2001.
The White
House
Correspondents Associa-
tion established the Helen Thomas Lifetime
Achievement Award and presented it to Ms.
Thomas in 1998.She has written two books:
Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas poses
with
Marist
students
with whom
she
met prior to
receiving
the Marist
College Lowell Thomas Award
in
Manhattan.
Dateline: White House, published in 1974, and
her 1999 autobiography,
Front Rowatthe White
House: My Life and
Times.
Helen Thomas Given Marist College Lowell Thomas Award
The Lowell Thomas Award is presented to
a broadcast journalist who reflects the imagi-
nation, humanity and pioneeringspi
rit
of the
late Lowell Thomas, the famous broadcaster.
He lived in Dutchess County and
received
an
honorary doctorate from Marist
in
1981.
H
elen Thomas, the veteran White House
correspondent who has covered every
president since John
F.
Kennedy, received
the l
7'h
Mari st College Lowell Thomas Award
in the Union League Club in Manhattan.
Now a columnist for Hearst newspapers,
she is best known for her association with
United Press International; before joining
Hearst she spent 57 years covering the
White House for UPl. Her career gave her a
front-row seat at most of the historic events
of the past four decades, including the assas-
sination of a president, men walking on the
moon, the Vietnam War, campaigns for civil
rights and women's rights, the resignation of
Marist Honors
Community Leaders
F
or the 34th year, Marist has recognized
outstanding
community service with
awards presented
to
three individuals.
Mari st President Dennis Murray present-
ed the awards
Lo
Michael Duffy,
Ira
Effron
and Fredrica Simon Goodman at the college's
annual President's Community Breakfast in
the Student Center Cabaret. More than 200
of the area's business and community
lead-
ers attended.
Michael Duffy retired from lBM
in
1995
and was
instrumental
in founding the Family
Partnership Center in the City of Pough keep-
sie.
He is
active with Family Services,
lnc.;
chairs the board of Health Quest, the parent
organization of Vassar Brothers, Northern
Dutchess and Putnam hospitals; and is a
Marist trustee.
Ira Effron is president of EFCO Products
and serves as president of the Community
Foundation of Dutchess County. He has
been active with the Poughkeepsie Jaycees,
the Jewish Community Center, the Jewish
Federation of Dutchess County and Temple
Beth-El. He is also a trustee ofVassar Brothers
Hospital and a founder and member of the
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
a president, the Berlin Wall coming down,
and the Gulf War.
Ms. Thomas blazed a number of trails
in an industry dominated by men for most
of her career. She was the only woman print
journalist traveling with President Richard
Nixon to China during his breakthrough
trip in January 1972. She was the first
woman ,officer of the National Press Club
after it opened its doors to women following
a 90-yeair period of all-male membership.
She became the first woman officer of the
50-year-old White House Correspondents
Association and its first woman president
Past winners include Eric Sevareid,
Walter Cronkite, Howard
K.
Smith, Douglas
Edwards, David Brinkley, Harry Reasoner,
John Chancellor, Barbara Walters, Charles
Kuralt, Diane Sawyer, Tom Brokaw, Dan
Rather, Mike Wallace, Charles Osgood and
Cokie Roberts. Special awards were presented
in 1993 to Fred Friendly, Don Hewitt, Dallas
Townsend and Thomas Watson.Jr. to mark
the centennial of Lowell Thomas's birth.
President Dennis Murray
(far
left) presented the Marist College President's Award for
Commuriity Service to (left to right) Fredrica Sinton Goodman, Michael Duffy and Ira Effron
at t/ie 3•11tlt
annual President's Community Breakfast in the Cabaret
011
campus.
board of Riverside Bank.
the first director of the New York State Office
Fredrica Simon Goodman is a founding
of Special Projects and Protocol and has held
member and a vice president of the Franklin
numerous other leadership positions.
and Eleanor Roosevelt
Institute
in Hyde Park.
Nearly 80 local residents have received
She spearheaded the New YorkStatecelebra-
the Marist College President's Award for
tion of the centennial of President Franklin
Community Service since
its inception
in
Delano Roosevelt's birth and was executive
1968. The award recognizes people who have
director of the U.S. Congressional Eleanor
improved the quality of life in
the
Hudson
Roosevelt Centennial Commission. She was
River Valley region.






























Silver Needle Fashion Show
Draws Largest Crowds Ever
Decord
crowds enjoyed the l6
1
h
annual
RSilver
Needle Fashion Show in April at
Casperkill Country Club in Poughkeepsie.
The
event, presented by
the
Marist Fashion
Program under the leadership of director
Heather
Osgood, drew 600
to the
afternoon
show and 700
to the
evening show.
In
the
highlightofthe program,
11 seniors
each presented six oft
heir
designs on student
models. Award winners were seniors Kelly
Lynn
DePascale
for Outstanding Garment,
Nicole
Rae Horn for
Outstanding Collection,
Melanie
Bou
for Outstanding Fashion Student
and junior
Kellyn Leveton,
who received
the
Amazing Threads Scholarship award.
Designer-critic Ginny Hilfiger of the
Tommy
Hilfiger
Collection worked with
the students this past October. She helped
the seniors
narrow
their portfolios, which
contained as many as 70 illustrations,
to
six
outfits they would create and present
in
the
fashion show.
The theme of the show, "Celebrating the
Hudson
River,"
inspired
garments created
by
the junior
fashion
design
majors.
The event
program featured
river landscapes
by Sue
DeSanna,
a painter and
member
of the
Fashion Program faculty. During the show
she received a Silver Needle Award for
her
15
years of service as a Fashion Program faculty
member. A special guest at the evening show
was Marist Trustee Franny Reese, who
has
played a
key
role
in
preserving the beauty of
the
Hudson River Valley
through
her work
with
the
org,anization Scenic
Hudson.
In
keeping with the
Hudson
River
Valley
theme,
the Fashion
Program raffled
off a
Huds,on River
Valley
getaway complete with
bed-
and-breakfast
lodging,
meals
and
locally
made wine.
The
raffle raised $350 that the
Fashion Program donated to Marist's Hud-
son
River
Valley
Institute.
Some
120
students were
involved
in the
show's production.
Realizing That Words Can Hurt and Heal
Sadie Effron
'79
(center)
is
shown
with
her family
outside
the
Nelly
Coletti
Theatre
at
Marist
following
the
25th
annual
William
and Sadie
Effron
Lectur,e in Jewish Studies.
Mrs. Effro11
holds a
gift
presented by President Dennis Murray in appreci,ation
for establishing the
lecture
series
in 1976
with
her husband,
Bill.
Top
left,
Erin Covell
'03
models a design
by
Cla..-isse
Ruby
'03;
center,
Barba..-a
Wonica
'02
models
an outfit
by Kelly Lynn DePascale
'02;
top
..-ight,
Melonie Torres
'04
models a
gan11ent by
Ruo
Fang
Zhang
'02.
~
can
people
go 24 hours without saying a
;
hurtful
thing to
or
about someone?
!
That was
the
challenge issued by Rabbi
Joseph Telushkin at
the close
of
his talk,
"Words that
Hurt,
Words that
Heal:
The
Ethics
of Speech," in Marist's Nelly Goletti
Theatre
during the fall semester. The speech
before
an audience of about 300 was the 25
th
installment
of the annual William and Sadie
Effron Lecture
Series
in Jewish
Studies.
The
rabbi,
a scholar and author,
drew
on
the Old Testament.Jewish law and amusing
anecdotes
to
make his point that people
who
don't
control
their
anger greatly damage their
relationships
as well as
the people
with whom
they
interact. "Tens of
thousands
of couples
have divorced
because of
things
people said
to
each other," he said.
The
rabbi
has
written several
novels,
one
of which,
An
Eye
for
An
Eye,
became several
episodes of
the
TV drama
"The
Practice."
He
co-wrote the
1991
film "The Quarrel."
Sadie Effron '79 and her husband, Bill,
established the lecture series in
1976
to
in-
crease awareness of Jewish history, culture
and current affairs.
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2002
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NSF Awards Marist
$150,000
Grant
1for
High-Performance
Network Connection
W
ith a $150,000 grant from the National
Science Foundation (NSF), Marist
has
joined top research instilUtions in
a
pro-
gram
designed to
facilitate collaborative
research.
Since
1995 the
NSF High Performance
Network Connections (HPNC)
program
has
given scientists and engineers better access
to
research facilities across the United States.
The
purpose
of the program is
to
encourage
U.S. colleges and
universities to
establish
high
performance Internet connections where
such a connection
is
needed to advance a
line of scienti
fie research.
The award allows Marist to connect
10
a
national
grid of research networks that
operate at speeds
up to
2.4 billion bits per
second. Marist
is
one of221
institutions now
assisted through such grants. They
include
New York City's American Museum of Natu-
ral Histary
and Massachusett's Woods
Hole
Oceanographic Institute, institutions at
the
forefront
of research
in
the fields of genom-
ics
and oceanography, according to HPNC
program
director Greg Monaco.
Awardees may
use the funds
tO
con-
nect with
the \'BNS (very high
performance
Backbone Net work System) or the
lnternet2
consortium's ad\'anced
backbone network,
Abilene.
lnternet2 is
a nonprofit consortium
led
by
more than
180 universities
working with
The award allows Marist to
connect to a national grid of
resear,ch
networks that operate
at speeds up to 2.4 billion bits
per se,cond.
industry and government
to
develop and
deploy
a1dvanced network applications and
technologies, accelerating the creation of the
Internet of
the
future. lnternet2 is recreating
the partnership among academia, industry
and gove·rnment
that fostered taday's Internet
in its
infancy.
Karman Khan, vice president, informa-
tion
technology,
spearheaded
the HPNC
A Crew Shell is Dedicated to Eileen Hickey '94
proposal
initiative along with
Marist
faculty
members Harold
Anderson, associate
profes-
sor of computer science, Sherry
Dingman,
assistant
professor
of
psychology,
and
Ray-
mond Kepner,
assistant
professor
of
biology.
Key
project personnel
are
john
Morrison Gal-
braith,
assistant
professor
of chemistry,
Pau
San
Haruta,
assistant professor of
English,
and Joseph Kirtland, associate
professor of
mathematics. The Office of Academic Grants
coordinated
the
grant
proposal.
Mari st faculty projects
that
can
make
use
of the
high-performance
connection span a
range of
disciplines,
including the
natural,
social,
behavioral
and computer sciences,
mathematics and communications. They
include:
re
mote microscopic visua
Ii
zation in
sup-
port of
polar
microbial
research;
•
an MRI vertebrate
development
alias;
a collaboratary-an online
laboratory
where
users
who are geographically
separated
use the Internet
to
run sci-
entific equipment and collaborate-for
ad\'anced
brain
imaging;
•
streaming media;
a computational study of chemical
bond-
ing across
the
periodic table;
finite and infinite group theory research;
and
pedagogical applications
in mathematics
and writing.
The campus network upgrade
is
expected
to be complete,
and faculty and studems
w
have
access
to
other \'BNS
colleges and
univer-
sities across the country, by August 2002.
The Marist
College
Athletics Department dedicated a
crew shell
this
past
winter in
memory of Eileen Hickey.
A
fonner
New York
State
legislator, Mrs. 1-licliey
was a longtime
supporter
of
crew
i1~
tl1e
Hudson
River Valley and a
1994
alumna
of Marist.
The
Vespoli
Millennium
Eight,
called "Spirit
of
Eileen
Hicliey," was dedicated
during
halftime
at a men's baslietball
game
in
January. Above,
the
men'.s and women'.s
crew teams
join
the Hichey family, including Da,1 Hiclley
'66
and son
Dan]r.
(center),
at tire dedication.
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Bob Hatfield '69 Elected Alumni Associiation President
The
Marist
College Alumni
Association
I
Executive
Board has
elected
Robert
E.
Hatfield,
Jr
'69 president for a
two-year
term
beginning
in
September.
He
succeeds
Maria Gordon Shydlo
'87,
who served from
September
2000
to August
2002.
Bob is vice president and di
rectorof
com-
munity
relations
for M&T
Bank
and
director
of
the
M&T Bank
Charitable
Foundation.
He
works in
the
bank's divisional
headquarters
in Fishkill,
NY
An alumni volunteer since his gradua-
tion
from
Marist, Bob has been a
phonathon
Pat Gallagher '57
Endows Fund to Support
M.P.A. Student Research
D
r. G. Patrick Gallagher
'57
has endowed
an academic fund at Marist
LO
help law
enforcement officers studying in Marist
College's M.P.A. program
LO
enrich their
knowledge of policing and serve as agents
of change.
The Gallagher Fund provides financial
assistance to M.P.A./criminal
justice
students
wsupporl on-site
research
at police agencies
as pan of
their
capping course work. The
purpose of
the
fund
is
to encourage
police
managers to study
innovative
approaches
to-
ward improving their organization's climate
and performance.
"Endowed
funds
make an important
statement about a commitment to academic
excellence at Marist," says Shaileen Kopec,
vice president for college advancement at
Marist. "We are very grateful
LO
Pat Gal-
lagher, who
is
preeminent in his field, for
his vision and generosity in establishing
this award."
Recipients of
the
$1,000 award so far
have been John
J
Flynn '02 and
Lt.
Peter
L.
Frisoni,
Jr
'02.
Both earned
the
M.PA
through Marist's programs at police acade-
mies. Maristoffers
its
M. P.A.
degree
program
to
the
public at a number of police academy
facilities including
the
New York City
Police
Academy,
New York State Police Academy
in
Alban)', New York Stale Police
Headquarters
in
Middletown, Onondaga Sheriff's Training
Center in Syracuse and West-
chesterCount y Police Academy
in Valhalla.
Pat Gallagher
is
president
of the Gallagher-Westfall
Group,
lnc.
and a nationally
recognized
lecturer,
author
and consultant on governmen-
tal
liability.
He has conducted
hundreds of training sessions
with law enforcement agencies
on leadership
development,
management and supervisory
caller,
reunion commiuee member
and active member of his class.
He
was appointed an at-large
member
of
the Alumni Executive Board in 1997
and just recently completed a two-year
term as its \'iice president. Active with
the College's fund-raising efforts, Bob
Bob Hatfield
'69
"Bob
Hatfield has been
exceptionally dedicated to
the
college,
both
as a vol-
unteer and supporter," says
Marist
President Dennis
Murray. "He is an excel-
lent
choice to continue
the
strong
leadership
tradition
served as national alumni chair for
the successful
1997
and 1998 Marist Fund
campaigns.
He
and his wife, Barbara, are also
longtime
members of the Marist College
President's Club.
that
has marked
the Marist
College Alumni
Association."
As Alumni Association president,
Bob
also serves as alumni
representative
to
the
Board of Trustees.
Gordon Badovich
(right),
then dean of Marist's School of Management, presents a Gallagher
Fund
stipend
to ]aim]. Flynn
(center)
to support research for
his
M.P.A. capping
course
this
past academi-c
year.Jolm graduated
in
2002 with a
3.869
average. At left
is
Alexander
F.
Con-
tini,
who
coordinates
Marist's off-campus M.P.A. programs. John pursued the M.P.A. through
Marist's
program at the
New
Yor/1 City Police
Academy.
and
pursuit. He
has also been an interna-
tional consultant.
For the
past
30 years
Pat
has
been
active
in
law
enforcement. He ser\'ed as
director
of the
police
and fire
departments
and their
addition, he developed standards for 46 law
enforcement
training
centers, their curricula
and
their
instructors. He also was responsible
for the decertification of officers involved in
serious or criminal offenses. He has taught
police administration at lndiana Univer-
sity and George Washington Uni\'ersity. He
earned an M.A. at New York University and
a Ph.D. at Purdue University.
For
the
first
17
years of his career, Pat was
a Marist Brother. He was
part
of
the
Marist
Brothers crew who constructed man)'
build-
ings
on the Poughkeepsie campus during the
1950s and 1960s.
training and the use of force
Pat Gallagher
'57
600 personnel
in
South Bend,
Ind.
Hewasdirectorofthe
Police
Executive
Institute
fort
he Police
foundation
in
Washington, D.C.,
providing
courses for leaders of
the
nation's
largest law enforce-
ment
agencies.
In
1980
Florida
Gov. Bob Graham appointed
him
director of
Police
Standards and
Training for the state of Florida,
where
he monitored
statewide
standards of employment, train-
i1ngand
certification for Florida's
police and corrections officers.
In
The Gallagher-Westfall
Group is
located
in
Indian
Valley,
Va.,
in the
Blue Ridge Moun-
tains. Pat and
his
wife, Mary, also own a
bed and breakfast there
called
the Wild
Geese Inn.
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At
commencement
Mar-ist paid tribute to law
enfo,-ce111e11t,fire
and medical pmfessionals
wlto
served at Ground Zem after Sept. 11, represented
by
(left
to rig/it)
Lt.
Theresa Tobin
'83,
Deputy Fire
Chief
Peter Hayden
'69
and Dr. Patricia
Casey '91.
The
valedictorian
was
summa
cum laude
graduate
Julie
Anne Valente.
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12002
Commencement
1,221 degrees
conferred
this year
M
other Nature grabbed center stage at
Marist College's May 18 commence-
ment, pounding the campus with snow,
rain, sleet, and high winds that forced the
school to
move
its ceremony into the shelter
of the McCann Center. Although the condi-
tions were not what anyone had hoped for,
the ceremony went on as Marist President
Dennis Murray conferred 924 bachelor's
degrees and 297 master's degrees.
Prior
to
conferring the degrees, President
Murray acknowledged the five Maristalumni
and one student killed
in
the Sept. 11 ter-
rorist attacks on the World Trade Center in
New York City.
He
added
that
Marist would
award a bachelor's degree posthumously to
Carmen Rivera, a young mother who received
a paralegal certificate from Marist in 2000
and had been working on a bachelor's in
integrative studies.
Dr. Murray also paid tribute to the law
enforcement, fire, and medical profession-
als throughout the metropolitan area who
served at Ground Zero following Sept. 11.
He
introduced
three Marist alumni who
themselves responded to the Twin Towers
tragedy: Police Lt. Theresa Tobin, Class of
1983, who despite severe injuries sustained
in the attacks helped rescue three people
and evacuate many others; Deputy Fire Chief
Peter Hayden, Class of
1969,
who was in
charge of the North Tower command post
on Sept. 11; and Dr. Patricia Casey, Class
of 1991, a podiatrist who volunteered for
weeks caring for rescue workers at Ground
Zero after the attack. The trio accepted the
Marist College President's Award on behalf
of their colleagues.
The valedictory address also referred
to
heroes of Sept. 11.
Julie
Anne Valente, a
summa cum laude graduate who achieved
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"New York
is
resilient and so
is
America." The country "needs all
of you, and you need each other."
-Gabe
Pressman
2002 commencement speaker
degree in psychology
and a
dual
teaching cer-
tificate in elementary education and special
education, said that
during her
ti
me
at
Marist,
"I've
been
shown
how
to be selfless. One of
the
greatest examples of this behavior
was
seen on September
11, 2001,
when so many
people
in
selfless service to others
tragically
lost
their
lives.
Here
on campus, students,
faculty and administrators
worked
together
to help in
any way
they
could."
"We graduates have been given so much,"
she said. "The ability to live
in the
great-
est of all countries, to
be
free, to
have
the
opportunity
to be
educated and to better
ourselves and others are
priceless
gifts.
Let
us
make a firm resolve
to use these
gifts
well
to
help make
the
world a beuer
place
in
which to
li\'e."
In
his keynote
speech, Gabe Pressman
noted
the
fortitude of New Yorkers following
Sept.
11.
A
pioneer
in local broadcast journal-
ism
whose career has spanned five decades,
he
said
in
generation after generation, New
York
City
has faced crises and emerged stron-
ger than ever.
"New
York is resilient
and so
is
America." The country "needs all of you,''
he
said, "and you need each other.
There
are
many
challenges ahead
for
America and
the
world. The important thing is
to
stay
in there
and keep punching. Never give up."
Gabe Pressman has been credited
with
almost inventing the crafl of street
reporting,
leaving
the
studio
to
take his camera and
microphone
to
New York City's streets to
cover breaking news. He
has
covered every
major New York State and New York City
political race. He
was also one of
the
first
local
broadcast
journalists to be assigned
to
national and
international
stories.
He
ex-
panded
his reportage into award-winning
documentaries and was one of the first
lo-
cal reporters
in the
nation
to
host a public
affairs program.
Mr.
Pressman,
who holds a
B.A. from
New York University and an M.A. from
the
Columbia School of Journalism, began
his
ca-
reer in print journalism at
the
New York World
Telegram
and Sun
in 1949.
He
then moved
to
radio before
joining WRCA-later WNBC-in
1956. He has
been
with NBC4 for 38 of
his
46 years in broadcast
journalism.
Over the years he has given 32 Marist
students career-shaping experiences as in-
terns. During
the
commencement ceremony
President
Murray recognized Mr. Pressman
for his distinguished career, awarding
him
an
honorary
Doctor of Humane
Letters.
Dr.
Lee M. Miringoff,
director
of
the
Marist
College Institute for Public Opinion,
read
the
citation.
New
York broadcast journalism pioneer Gabe Pressman gave Lite lieynote speech.
Caneil McDonald
'02
and lier father, Cornelius, after the ceremony.
Marist's 56th commencement was dedicated to four retiringfaculty members: Kevin Carolan
(center),
associate professor of mathematics, retiring after 40
years
of
service;
Dr. Robert Lewis
(rigltt),
assodate professor of English, 39
years;
Dr. Stuart Greenfield
(not
pictured), assistant
professor of
computer
science, 17
years;
and Dr. Ronald Gauch
(left),
associate professor
of
public administration, 12
years.
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D
MARIST REMEMBERS
SEPTE BER 11
Honoring T
oseWho
A
Hundreds
of Marist alumni work in
military, law enforcement, firefighting
and medical professions. Many are
in
the
New
York City and Washington,
D.C., metropolitan areas. A number of
them were called upon following terror-
ist attacks Sept. 11 on the World
Trade
Center
in
New York City and the
Pentagon
in Washington.
Here
are the stories of
three Marist graduates who took part in
the rescue efforts.
A
ssigned to
the
New
York Pol
ice
De-
partment's Manhattan press office,
police officer
Theresa
"Terri"
C.
Tobin,
a member of Marist's class of
1983,
raced Lo
the World Trade Center after the
first hijacked plane hit. She was ordered
Lo
don a heavy-duty helmet. Debris was falling.
The helmet saved Tobin's
life
minutes later
when the first tower came down.
The force of the collapse and the resulting
compression of air and building fragments
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blew Tobin out of her shoes and tossed her
like a rag doll across a street.
'·When
you go on a cave tour and they
shut oflf the lights they tell you
it's
'true dark-
ness,' a:nd that's what it was
like,"
she recalls,
slipping from the past tense
to
present and
back. "It was hard to breathe. My eyes were
watering. I was on the ground being pelted
with stuff when I was smacked on
the
back
of
the
head. The ballistic helmet splits and
comes sliding off my head in
two
pieces. I
can fed blood
running down
the back of
my neck. I reached up and there was a
chunk of cement embedded in
the back
of
myskutll."
The:n the explosions started. "I thought
they
haid started bombing but
it
was
the
gas
tanks
on
the
police cars, ambulances and fire
trucks
buried
in
the rubble,"
Lt.
Tobin
recalls.
"The
smoke turned from a dark blackness
BY LARRY
HUGHES
to a grayish-white ash. Peering
through
the
opening around me
l
could make out the
silhouette of a firefighter. He told me to keep
down and cleared my mouth and nose."
Despite her head wound and a broken
ankle she teamed with
the
firefighter and
two
EMS workers who treated her head wound to
pull three survirnrs from
the
rubble.
"Then
people were running towards us
screaming and waving their hands-the
sec-
ond
tower
was coming down," she says.
Lt. Tobin joined
the
exodus and was
knocked to the ground by a shard of glass
that penetrated her back. She made it to the
river,
where she was evacuated to a medical
center established at Ellis
Island.
She was
there
three hours.
Six months later,
Lt. Tobin is back on
limited
duty. She still experiences
foot
and
back
problems and a partial hearing loss.
She had been in the early stages of re-
covering, emotionally and physically, when
United Flight 587 crashed Nov. 12 on take-











off in her Queens neighborhood, killing255
passengers and crew.
'Tm two blocks
from the
crash site," she
says.
"The
house
across from me got one of
the
engines."
Peter Hayden,
deputy
fire chief for
the
New York City Fire
Department's
Division
l and a
1969
Marist graduate,
has
experi-
enced an emotional roller-coaster
ride
over
his
33 years with
the
NYFD. But nothing
could have prepared
him
for Sept. 11, when
more than
80 firefighters assigned directly
to
him
died.
Among
them
were fellow Marist graduate
and firefighter Kevin Ffeifer. "I never
realized
he was also a Marist graduate," says
Deputy
Chief
Hayden.
"I
worked closely with his
brother.
I
was in
the
lobby of the (north)
tower that
morning with
(Battalion
Chief)
Joe
(Pfeifer)."
Deputy Chief Hayden left Marist with
a B.A. in business administration. After
graduation he attended law school for a
year before finding his niche with
the
Fire
Department.
"It's
a great
job,
wonderful, very re-
warding; an
,enjoyable
life,"
he says
from
his
Rockaway, Queens home.
"I've
made
tremendous
friends over the years. The
tragedy has
c,nly served
to
strengthen the
bonds. There are unspoken words and feel-
ings.
We don··t
have
to say anything.
It's
in
the
eyes."
Since day one,
DeputyChiefHayden
has
been in charge of ground zero
recovery
op-
erations for
the
Fire Department. "The events
of
that day
are ever-present;
they
are on my
mind every day,"
he
says.
"I
can't rationalize
or
in
any way make sense of so evil an act,
such a cowardlly act. I
don't
see how anybody
can rationali2:e
it."
There are times
he
has to walk away from
the TV
as another 9/11 report airs.
"Some-
times it's
like I've just seen too much of it.
There are always emotions
involved
when
you're looking at
the
film, tapes and picwres.
You just
have
to move away from
it."
But
he's
not
moving away from
the
Fire
Department.
"I have two sons working
for
the
EMS, waiting to go on (the
Fire
Depart-
ment)," he says. 'Tm 55 but I have no
thoughts
about
retiring. I
couldn't. Not until we get
the
Fire
Department back
up
to
strength. I
can't
leave
now."
He cakes pride in the
job that is
being
done and the
job that
was
done.
"When
the
analysis is done," he says,
"we
handled
the
emergency."
Patricia A. Casey
graduated from
Marist
in
1991 with a degree in
political
science.
In 1997
she earned another de-
gree-in medicine. Specializing
in
podiatry,
Dr.
Casey, a Long
Island
native, helped keep
Ground Zero
rescue
workers on
their
feet.
Literally.
"Whether
it
was getting
them
new shoes,
insoles for work
boots
or cortisone shots, we
did whate\·erit took,'' she says from her office
on
Long Island.
"They wanted
LO
get their
feet fixed and go
right
back. Most of them
were working around
the
clock."
Every
time
she went home she had
difficulty
breathing
for a day or
two.
But
if she could make one person's day
just
a
little better, she found,
it really
helped her.
A volunteer, she was assigned to St. Paul's
Church, where George Washington once
had a pew.
"The church receh·ed relatively liule
damage," she says. --vvhen I first started
working
there they'd
have the doors open.
There was this little cemetery out back. It
was the midnight shift and one night I was
standing out back.
It
was very weird.
It
was
so quiet and peaceful, blll everywhere you
looked
there was destruction."
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MARIST REMEMBERS
SEPTEPIIIBER
11
•
ec.ur1n
W
hen
terrorists attacked the World
Trade Center in l\ew York Cit}' and
the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.,
on Sept. 11, U.S. Army
l
1eutenant Colonel
Thomas Herman, Mari st Class of '75, was at
the side of the president of the United States
m Sarasota, Fla. A senior presidential com-
munications officer assigned to the White
House, LTC
Herman was
responsible
for
establishing communications between the
U.S. commander mchicf and his top officials
and assisting with his evacuation during one
of
the
most critical moments in
the history
of the American presidency.
The senior military officer on the presi-
dcnt'sadvance
Learn
to Sarasota, LTC
I
lerman
recalls
the
da}' clearly. President Bush had ar-
rived m Sarasota m the late afternoon of Sept.
10 to speak about education initiauves the
following day at Emma Booker Elementary
School. After dinner, the president retired in
lodgings on Longboat
KC).
The next morn-
ing LTC Herman went running wnh the
presidenL at a golf course not
far
from the
president's hotel. The presidential motorcade
left the hotel around 8 a.m.
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The presidential
communications
officer,
part of tlie White House
Military Office,
is always
with
the president and
commands
and controls
his
communications
infrastructure.
''.Just as we were arriving at the school,
I
received a notification from our operations
center than an airliner had struck one of the
towers of
the
World Trade Center," Sa}'S
LTC
Herman,
"and
that Dr.
ICondoleezza] Rice,
the national securit) advisor, was requesting
the president on the telephone.
"The
motorcade stopped then and there
at Emma Booker Elementary School and
we got out of the wh1cles." LTC Herman,
MaJ. Paul f\tontanus, the militar} aide to
the pr,esident, and the Secret Service moved
the president into a "presidential hold," an
office that has "both secure and nonsecure
comrnunicattons,~ he says.
"We got
the
president to a telephone, a
secure telephone. He spoke
to
Dr. Rice. Dr.
Rice obv1ousl}' informed him of what had
transpired.
At
that
ume we didn't know that
it was a terrorist auack. There was some
quesuon as to what did happen. In other
words, we were aware that the tower had
been
struck but we didn't know it was a
concerted action.
··we were notified again that the second
tower had been struck: LTC Herman remem-
bers. "When
the
president became aware
that this appeared that it was a concerted
effort and there was some question about the
security of the homeland, he made a sencs
of
phone
calls." LTC
Herman
and the White
House M1lnary Office set up calls to Vice
President Richard Cheney, FBI 01rector Rob-
ert Mueller, Dr. Rice and Auorney General
John Ashcroft, among others. Then "there
was a notification, obviously, that yes, it was
a terrorist attack. He (the president] made a
statement to the press and we departed
As the motorcade was leaving the school.
an airliner crashed mto the Pentagon. \\"e
made the decision to evacuate the president,
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•
at1on
United
States
Anny Lieutenant
Colonel Thomas Hennan '75
was one of a handful
of people
who were with President
George
W. Bush when terrorists attacked the Wor1d
TradEi
Center and the Pentagon
on
Sept.
11. A senior presidential
communications
officer, hu is one of an elite-and highly
secretive-team
trained to protect the commander
in chielf
and his ability to govern.
LTC
Herman
says. "There was some ques-
tion at the time that Air Force One and the
president were a target as well. Therefore
we evacuated the president back
to
the
airport, where he departed immediately
in
Air Force One."
The White House Military Office is
the agency
responsible
for securing the
president's ability to
function
as America's
chief executive and commander in chief.
The WHMO provides the president's com-
munications capability, transportation,
medical care, and even his food. While the
Secret Service is charged with protecting the
president's actual body, it
is
the president's
military aide, part of the WHMO, who di-
rects any evacuation and the WMHO that
executes his safe passage. The
presidential
communications officer, also part of the
WMHO, is always with
the
president and
is responsible for the command and control
of
the
communications infrastructure sur-
rounding the commander in chief.
Of
the
25 current
presidential
commu-
nications officers, or PCOs, assigned to the
WHMO, LTC
Herman is
one of only
10
who
are "fully qualified." A fully qualified PCO
has completed several years' worth of spe-
ci fie work assignments and scenario-driven
exercises and passed a series of
rigorous
written and oral examinations.
"We got him on the aircraft, l remained
in Sarasota and we loaded another aircraft
with all of the: presidential limousines," says
LTC Herman. He and other staff members
loaded vehicl.es and other
items
on the sec-
ond aircraft, a plane that normally would
have been us,~d only to carry people back to
Washington. "We took all of the remaining
members of the Secret Service, the
limou-
sines, another military aide and a bunch
of equipment we had which 1 can't really
discuss. Suffice to say 1 had a number of
devices with me that we
took
on the aircraft,
and basically we got airborne not too long
after the president got airborne."
After almost four years as a PCO,
LTC
Herman
is
practiced at saying,
"I
can't talk
about that." He wi II not even
reveal the
name
of the security clearance that he holds al-
though he admits it is the highest, "above
top
secret." Describing what
he
does in only
the
vaguest terms comes effortlessly
to
him.
He has to get permission from
the
WHMO
to
be interviewed about Sept. 11 and to
release
photos of himself and the president
that were taken that morning at the height
of
the
crisis.
LTC
Herman
will not talk about where
the second aircraft went, or why.
"At
the
end of the day we wound up arriving at
Andrews Air Force Base about 15 minutes
after
the
president. Obviously we were
in
the air for a reason, for any contingency,"
he says.
"Basically
we could have gone to
any city or county or
location in
the United
States and landed and supported the presi-
dent
at that location.
"Obviously
it became
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a special mission."
The procedures by which the White
House
military team
executes emergency
action are well-established, he
notes.
"We
do this stuff for a living. We're prepared
for it..,
Despite the unprecedented situation,
his team remained focused on its mission.
"Everybody
wanted to do their respecti\'e
jobs .... We were concerned with the safety
and security of the president of the United
States. We were also desirous to make sure
that all our communications systems were
optimized and that he had multiple means
by which to communicate to whomever he
wanted, instantaneously."
There was concern about the "follow-on
missions" as well, he says." Knowing we were
eventually going back to Washington, D.C.,
we were thinking about how we were going
to have to reconfigure our individual agencies
to support the president if it was a wartime
scenario. You know, when you're going from
a peacetime scenario
to
a wartime scenario,
things change radically. When
l
came back,
I wound up going to work with two other
lieutenant colonels in the operations center
of our agency and worked 12 hours on and
24 off
for
about two weeks.
'Ne
were basically
working around the clock."
When the airliner hit the Pentagon, LTC
Herman
became concerned about his wife,
who worked two miles from the Pentagon,
and his children. At first he and his wife
were unable to reach each other because
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S
T M A
G
A Z I N
E
phone lines were overwhelmed. Eventually
each got word of the other's safety through
third
!Parties.
Sept.
11
wasn't the first time LTC Her-
man had evacuated a president. In February
2000 fire broke out in the
laundry
room of a
Washington, D.C., hotel beneath the room
where President Bill Clinton was speaking.
"At that point, you don't know if it's just a
mishap, or if it's a diversion, or if that's a
threat
to
the president," LTC Herman says.
"But
clearly we were concerned, [and] the
Secret Service was concerned.
\Ne
were all
concerned that the safety of the president of
the United States was at risk, and the deci-
sion was made to evacuate him and bring
him
immediately
back to the \Vhite
House.
And that's exactly what we did."
L
TC Herman was chosen for the White
House assignment in 1998 while sen·-
ing at Fort Gordon, Ga., with the 63'
d
Signa:t Battalion. He began his military career
in 19132
after a friend suggested he would
be good material for the armed forces. An
airborne infantryman commissioned as an
infantry lieutenant, he went to airborne and
special weapons training schools. By 1987
he was a communications officer and served
with the 32
nd
Army Air Defense Command
in Germany. In 1990 the Army sent him
to gra1duate school at American University,
where he earned a master's in TV production
engineering.
He later
worked for the chief of
staff of the Army in the Pentagon, went
to
"We
were
concerned
with
the
safety
and security of
the president
of
the
United
States.
We
were
also
desirous
to
make sure that
all our communications
systems were
optimized and
that he had multiple means
by
which
to communicate
to
whomever
he
wanted,
instantaneously."
Command and General Staff College
in Fort Leavenworth. Kansas and was
assigned to the 63"1 Signal Battalion at
Fort Gordon. Over his 20-year career
he has been
involved
in a number of
special operations overseas but won't
discuss
them.
Overseas assignments again be-
came part of his job when he
joined
the WHMO. From August 1998
to
February 2002 he traveled with the presi-
dent for a total of 412
days
on 51
trips, to
Rabat, Gene,·a, New Delhi, Okinawa, Beijing,
Warsaw, Ljublana, Lima and dozens of other
cities across the United States and abroad.
He has been present at meetings between
the American president and other heads of
state,
including
the summit of President Bill
Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
and Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat at Camp
David in July 2000. While on duty he has
slept in
the
White House, at Camp David and
at the second White Houses of presidents
Clinton and Bush.
Although he himself is a member of an
elite military team, LTC Herman has
high
praise for those with whom he serves. "The
best part of my job is that I get to deal with
the very best men and women that you could
ever work with," he says. "There are some
fabulously talented people whom l work
with-really, really dedicated, unquestioned
integrity. It's a great mission, it's a great
agency, with the best people."
LTC Tom Herman was among those sen·-
ing with dedication on Sept.
l l.
"I wasn't
worried about what the overall national
threat assessment was, what the
interna-
tional political atmosphere was," he says. "I
was just focused on what my mission was,
and what my job was, and leading my
team,
and that we as an organization would be
successful in providing the services
to
the
president that we provide-especially at a
time when the president is in communica-
tion with the highest levels of officials in our
country. The president literally can't function
in his constitutional role unless he can com-
municate, so it's absolutely critical."
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MARIST
REMEMBERS
SEPTEMB:ER
11
They Sparkled
Like
____...)iamo
CARMEN
A.
RIVERA
'02
C
armen
A. Rivera
received a
paralegal
certificate from Marist
in
2000 and
was
working on a
bachelor's in
integra-
tive
studies
rrom Marisl's
Goshen site. She
balanced an academic schedule with
her
marriage to
Luis,
raising
Lheir
three chil-
dren
and commuting beLween
Lheir
Orange
County
home
and
her
job as an assistant
vice
president for
Fiduciary Trust Company
International. At the World
Trade
Center.
What was and what could have been
for
the dynamic
33-year-old New York City
native ended Sept.
11.
She and five oLher
Marist alumni
died in
the Lerrorist attacks
that day. The
following brief
profiles are
remembrances
of
husbands,
wives, broth-
ers, sisters,
fathers,
mothers and
friends,
all
members
of
Lhe Marist family.
,
Anita
Tejeda,
an adjunct professor and
friend,
had lunch
with Carmen and another
student on Sunday, Sept. 9. She has warm
memories of
that
spring-like afternoon at a
restaurant
on
the
Newburgh waterfront.
"It
was a long
lunch
and could
have
lasted until
supper,"
recalls
Anita, whose
friendship with Carmen
Rivera developed
over two years and
three classes.
"The
river
sparkled like
diamonds. I don't
know why
we had
lunch
that Sunday. We'd
never
done
that before. All
the
students were invited but
only
two
came; Sunday
is
family
day
and we
all have obligations. But
the
semester
had
just ended and there we were. I'm so glad."
She
describes
Carmen as
loving,
open, warm,
Six membl!rs
of the Marist family were
lost in the terrorist attacks on the World
Trade Cen1ter
in New York City.
Their light shines on in the hearts
of those who knew them.
emotionally honest, inspirational, sharing
and
having
deep integrity.
"My wi1fe
was
a remarkable woman,''
says Luis
Rivera,
a circulation
department
manager
for
The New Yorh Times. "She
kept
setting goals and surpassing
them.
Marist
was extremely
important
to her."
She saw education as
the key that
opens
doors
to dreams,
a message Luis, who plans
to pursue a
master's
degree, passes on
to
their child:ren, a boy, 14, and girls 16 and 8.
Carmen planned
to
switch
to part-Lime
work.
She had a law degree
in
her sights.
Carme1n and Luis married three times.
"We were married at City
Hall,
had a church
wedding and renewed our
\'Ows,"
he recalls.
''I would
marry her
another
hundred times
if I
could."
He stil I
lives
in
the
same
house
with
the
children. "I will
never leave this house,
never
sell it.,"
he
says emphatically. "I always
promised
her, 'When you're
25 I'll
get you a
house'
and
I
did just that."
His bitterness
over
her
loss fades. The
memories
of
their life
together come
into
sharper focus.
Like the
five years
they
shared
teaching Saturday
morning
Bible
lessons
to
children at a church
near their home.
Carmen called that
morning
from
the
World Tradle Center. "She told me,
Tm
okay,
it's the other building.' She had a
flashlight
on
her desk
on the 90
1
h
floor and used
it to
help everybody get to the stairs," he says.
"She's a
real hero
who stayed behind and
gave
up her life
for others.·•
He attended a
memorial
service after
which many of
his
wife's
former
co-work-
ers approached
him.
"They came
up to
me
and said
my name;
people I
didn't
know,"
he
says. "Butt hey
knew me
from
the
portrait of
our family on
my
wife's desk.
They
told me,
'Because of her,
I
made it out of
there.'
"
BY
LARRY
HUGHES
THOMAS
G. CROTTY
'81
T
homas G. Crotty
was a
1981
Marist
graduate who played four years after
receiving
a basketball scholarship.
Mar-
ried,
the
father of two young daughters and
a managing director at Sandler O'Neill
&
Partners, he too
died
in the collapse of
the
World
Trade
towers.
"We were
introduced bya mutual
friend,"
recalls
Joanne, his
wife of 16 years. 'Td gone
to
high school with
her
and she went on
to
Marist while
I
went
to
SUNY Brockport.
I
met Tom in
the
Hamptons.
He
had college
friends
he kept
in
touch
with, most
based
on
the
basketball experience."
She says Marist taught her husband
that
something
positive
comes out of hard work.
"He worked really
hard
because everything
didn't come easy for Tommy and that was one
of his best qualities," she says. "He did fairly
well academically at Marist, but basketball
was his driving force."
The oldest off our brothers, he was noL
the
most gifted athlete. He grew up a basketball
gym rat,
recalls brother
Jim.
"When it was cold or raining, he always
found gyms
that
were open and I'd often go
with
him to rebound
his shooting," he says.
''At Marist he was a hard-working ballplayer
who knew the game better than most. He
was like a
floor
captain who ran the offense
and was a
tremendous
defender."
The brothers were very competitive grow-
ing up. Fortunately all played
different
sports.
says Jim. "Our brother.John, who ran track,
tells the story of how
they'd
go for a run and
Tommy would not stop until John did. faen
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MARIST
REMEMBERS
SEPTEMBER
11
if il was by Lwo feet. Tommy enjoyed excel-
ling
and worked
hard
at Lhings."
Tom
Crotty
remained
compelitive in a
variety of sports
through
his life.
He ran
in
marathons
and was
to
participate in a
triathlon
Lhe
weekend
afler Sept.
11.
"He
was a great
brother
who
did
a
lol
for
the family,"
says Jim. "No,
I
don't mind
rnlking
about him.
It
keeps
him alive."
DANIEL
M.
COFFEY
'69
AND
HIS
SON,
JASON
F
ew families
lost
more in the attacks
on the World Trade towers than Lhe
Coffeys of Newburgh. A faLher and
son
died.
Daniel M. Coffey,
a 1969 Marist
graduate,
was
senior vice
president
al Guy
Carpenter and Company, a subsidiary of
Marsh
&
McLennan Companies. Jason,
who did
not
anend Marist, was a senior ac-
countant at Marsh
&
McLennan.
The father
worked on the 94th
Ooor
of 2 World Trade
Center.
His
son, four
Ooors
above him.
"I
don't
wish anything
like
this on
anyone.
lt
should never have happened,"
says Kevin, the younger of three sons and
the
only one LO
follow his father LO
Marist.
Kevin graduaLed
in
2000 after
transferring
from
the
University of Maine.
"My
mother,
brother and myself are
handling
it as well as
we can. Taking
it
one day at a time. Thal's
all you can
really do."
While a graduate student at SUNY
Albany,
Kevin
worked
pan-time
at the
Marist
library.
"The
biggest honor
for me was having my
father
hand me my diploma
at graduation,"
he says.
"It
was one of
the
best gesLures
I've
seen at any school. They gave us a videotape
of Lhal and the college also LOok
a family
portrait. Marist
has always been good
to
me
and
my
father, as well."
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M A R I ST M A
G
A Z
I
N E
JACQUELINE
K. SAYEGH
DUGGAN
'89
His father discussed Marist but never
really
pushed
him
to
attend. Then, afLer
deciding
to
transfer,
he spoke with several
of his father's
friends
who were teaching al
Marist.
"It
just seemed like the place
to
be,"
says
Kevin.
"We
would talk and my father
could relate to my experiences at Marisl. I
also heard some stories from his friends. We
had
similar experiences. Marist
has
always
had
a c:ommunily aLmosphere, a greal sense
of unilfying students, faculty and staff."
J
acqueline K. Sayegh Duggan
gradu-
ated in 1989 with a B.A. in fashion and
went on
to
a culinary management career.
She booked banquets and parties at Windows
on the World on the 107th floor of
l
World
Trade Center and was at work Sept
l
l.
She had married Mitchell Duggan, a
former
colleague, the previous March. The
two planned to hold
the
reception in March
of 2002 when the family could gather in
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There were
relatives in
the Poughkeep-
sie area and
her
family had heard of
the
Dutchess County college. She always liked
fashion and Marist's program brought her
to
Poughkeepsie.
"She
had
a dyslexic
learning
problem and
had private tutoring
in high
school," says her
father, George.
"Marist
had
a program for
her
allowing her to record classes and they had
someone to work with
her.
After two years
she
didn't need
that counselor/advisor. She
graduated with excellent grades. Marist was
a good
time
for
her,
an excellent
learning
experience."
After graduation she went
to
work doing
fashion
layouts
for
the
jewelry division of
Bulova Watch and then opened a restaurant
with her brother
in their
native Brooklyn.
"After
they
built that up, she moved to
Hilton
as a sales manager," says
her
father,
pausing
to
compose himself during a phone
conversation
from his
office.
"After
that
she
moved to Windows on the World. She had
a management
personality.
Not cooking but
decor and
presentation.
They
loved
her
at
Windows."
Although she established a career
in
restaurant management,
fashion remained
her
first
love.
"A
priest
friend
of ours did
her eulogy," says
her
father, pausing again.
"Jackie
was always impeccably dressed and
he said
because
she was
in heaven
now,
if
the
Blessed Mother were everto reappear she
would be more stylishly
dressed."
T
wo Marist graduates were among the
New York City firefighters who perished
on Sept.
11.
They knew each other,
having spent summers with their families
in
bungalows
a few
doors
apart on
Breezy
Point, Long
Island.
Vincent D. Kane
graduated in
1986
with
a B.S.
in
business. He
was a
member
of
Engine
Company 22.
Kevin
J.
Pfeifer
earned a
B.A.
in
psychology
and
graduated
in
1983. He was
a
member
of
Engine
Company 33.
Vinnie came
to
Marist at the
urging
ofh is
parents.
"We
sent
him there,"
Vincent Kane,
his
father
and a retired firefighter, says of
his
son's college
choice.
"We'd
heard
about
it
and
seemed
to think
it
would be for
him.
And
it
was.
He
loved Marist, the
Hudson
Valley and
that whole scene and got back
there
a few
times after he graduated. He
kept in touch
with quite a few
people.
He said some of the
best
Limes
of his
life
were at Marist."
Music was
his
son's passion. Vinnie was
a founding member of the college
band
Fun-
hole. During Marist's
Homecoming/Reunion
Weekend
less
than two months after the at-
VINCENT
D. KANE
'86
KEVIN
J.
PFEIFER
'83
They knew
each
other, having
spent
summers with
their families in
bungalows a few doors apart
on
Breezy Point, Long Island.
tacks, the ba:nd held a
reunion
concert at a
Poughkeepsie pub in
honor
of Vinnie with
the
proceeds
going to
the
World Trade Center
Relief Fund.
"He had
a.
small
place
on
the
East Side
near
the
firehouse," says his father. "He took
advantage of,everything-the
East
Side, Cen-
tral
Park and museums:·
He
also
~lltended
performances of the
New York Philharmonic and was a devoted
environmentalist.
He
kept a guitar in his
firehouse
locker
and on
breaks
would some-
times play in
the
park.
Vinnie
Kane,
who had become a volunteer
firefighter in Breezy
Point
at
the
age of
17,
did not have
to be
at
the
World
Trade
Center
the
day it
became Ground
Zero.
"He
had fitnished his shift and his com-
pany wasn't called
in until
later," says
his
father.
"Technically
he was off-duty.
He did
not
have to go. But
he
did."
V
incent
~mdJoan
Kane
live
year-round
at Bree.zy Point where William and
Helen
Pfeifer still
have
a summer
bungalow.
"I
really do,n't know why he
picked
Mari st
College," says
Helen, Kevin's
mother.
"He
started at St.
John's
and was
not that happy
there so he started looking around.
I
went
with
him
to Marist. He
told
me not to get out
of the car. He walked around awhile, came
back and said
'Come
on in.'"
Kevin
enjoyed the four years at Marist,
and some oft.he
friendships
he made
there
lasted
his
lifetime.
Friends
from
his college
yea
rs
attended his memorial and funeral.
The
Pfeifers
live in Middle Village
where their son
was buried on Feb. 9, a week after
his
remains
were recovered from the
ruins.
It
was New
York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's first
firefighter's funeral since
taking
office.
"On
behalf of all the people
in
New York
City, of the
quarter-of-a-million people I've
the
pri\'ilege
to
work with, all I can say is
thank
you for giving us Kevin," he told
the
family.
Kevin is
also survived by a sister and
brother.
"Life
goes on,
it
has to, and we
have
to think about our other two children," Mrs.
Pfeifer says. "We worry aboutjoseph because
he doesn't
talk
about iL, trying to save us.
We pray
to
God everything will
be
all
right
with him."
Battalion Chief Joseph Pfeifer was the
first chief on the scene of the north tower.
He was at the command
post
when his
brother arrived with his company. They
spoke briefly and
then
Kevin went up into
the
building. When
Kevin's
body was found
his
big brother helped carry it out of the
rubble
and accompanied it in an ambulance
to
the
coroner's office.
All of
the
almost 3,000 people who died
in the attack on
the
World Trade towers were
members of a family. These six belonged
to
a second family-the Marist College
family.
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Marist College
launches
the Hudson
River
jalley
Institute, a regional
studies center focused
on one of America's
O
n a fall day in the Hudson River Valley,
Continental soldiers and their British
adversaries were spread out in the
grass in disarray.
A colonel outfitted in a black tri-corner
hat, brown regimental coat, red waistcoat,
white canvas haversack, white breeches
and black shoes with buckles was trying
to organize the American Patriots. In 1777,
moving infantrymen could be a difficult
task. But on this day
in
2001,
the
colonel
had only
to pick them
up and rearrange
them:
they
were toy soldiers, conscripted to
help
an American
history class understand
the Battle
of Saratoga.
·'If
you want
to understand the
Ameri-
can Revolution, you come to the Hudson
BY LESLIE BATES
River Valley," says
Dr. James
M.
Johnson,
professor of history and the executive
director of the new Hudson River Valley
Institute at Marist.
"This
is the place to
understand that war.» Which is why Dr.
Johnson, a retired U.S. Army colonel, wore
period clothing and took his class outdoors
to comm,and
the
miniature Continentals
and milihamen
that
day.
"The turning
point
of the American
Revolut' on was the campaign for the
Hudson
iver
Valley," Dr.
Johnson
says.
Control
,
f the valley was a key goal for
both
sides. G
. George Washington personally
spent on
-third
of
the
eight-year American
Revoluti n defending the
valley,
knowing,
as did t
British, its importance as a food
produce and transportation system to the
middle
lonies.
He and his Continentals
spent o r a year camped at New Wind-
sor, where he issued the ceasefire orders
ending the War of
Independence
on April
19, 1783.
Studying the American Revolution is a
primary focus of the Hudson River Valley
Institute. Both Dr.
Johnson
and
the
direc-
tor of the institute, Dr. Thomas Wermuth,
specialize in the Revolutionary period.
However, the institute, modeled after aca-
demic entities such as the Center for the
Study of Southern Culture at
the
University
of Mississippi, will carry out research and
disseminate information about
the
Hudson
River Valley's culture and natural
resources
as well as its
history.
The heart of the institute is the Hudson
River \'alley Digital library and Portal Site,
a \Veb site at www.hudsonrivervalley.net
that aims to define the River Valley's distinct
cultural history and identity. The digital










irica's
richest
historic, scenic and cultural regions-the Hudson
River Valley National Heritage
Area.
library contains
resources
and records use-
ful
not
only
to
students,
historians,
and
academic
institutions
but also
to regional
planners,
local government
agencies,
environmental
organizations,
tourists,
businesses
and the general public.
"We
hope to use the digital
library to
expand exponentially the
reach
of this
institute, not
only to
the Hudson
River
Valley but beyond,"
says
Dr. Johnson.
One section of
the digital library
serves
elementary
and
secondary school teachers
and students,
offering lesson
plans,
prima-
ry sources and other educational materials
about Hudson River Valley history.
"The
digital library is to help educators give defi-
nition to the region, to characterize and
give identity to the Hudson River Valley,"
says Dr. Wermuth, founder and director of
the institute and dean ofMarist's School of
liberal
Arts. "The
digital
library is there
not
only
to
supply educational
materials
but to
provide
information for someone who lives
in the
region
or who wants to visit the valley
to
learn more
about
the different
aspects
of its culture,
its history, its
art."
The
digital library
offers a comprehen-
sive guide to
historic
and cultural sites in
the
valley,
illuminating
their
history
and
significance as well as providing directions
and
hours
of operation. An
initial
goal will
be the promotion of the
225'h
anniversary
of
the
American
Revolution. The institute,
in
partnership
with
the
National Park Ser-
vice
and
the Hudson River
Valley National
Heritage Area, is leading the
effort
in
ew
York to recognize the occasion.
Beginning this
year,
the institute
is
sponsoring annual lectures and biennial
conferences. Historian and author Richard
Brookhiser
spoke about George Washing-
ton
in a June lecture at Marist.
"Patriot's
Weekend:
The
225
th
Anniversary of the
American
Revolution in
the Hudson River
Valley" will be held Oct.
4-0ct.
6,
2002,
at
three locations: Marist College,
the
United
States Military Academy at West Point and
Fort Montgomery State Historic Site.
Currently Dr. Wermuthand Dr.Johnson
are developing a series of interdisciplinary
undergraduate classes about the Hudson
River Valley for an
institute
certificate pro-
gram at Marist focused on
local
and
regional
studies. All five of Marist's classes in Hud-
son Valley
history
were filled
to
capacity
this academic year, only
partly because
the
course
fulfills a requirement for elementary
education
majors. In addition to the new
undergraduate curriculum, Dr. Wermuth
says, through the conferences, through the































digital library, we are encouraging
the
idea
of interdisciplinary swdy-the study of his-
tory, art and literature or the valley and
how
they
all intermix." Marist students already
have been involved
in a
number
of institute
projects
including
compiling
information
for
the
guide to Revolutionary War sites.
More than
a dozen historical and cultural
groups
have
sought the
institute's
expertise
since
it
was formed a year ago. Currently the
institute
is working with
the
Brigade of the
American Revolution to plan a reenactment
and grand encampment
this
fall related to
the
225'h
anniversary celebration. The orga-
nization
Friends or
the
Hudson Valley sought
advice on exhibits for Stewart International
Airport and New York Thruway stops
to help
visitors understand
the
area's important his-
torical
sites.
Dr.
Johnson
met with a town
supervisor
in Putnam
Valley to discuss
interpretation
or a site on
the
Appalachian
Trail
where American soldiers camped and
were inoculated against smallpox. And the
New York State
Lottery
sought
the institute's
review
of
its
brochure about New York's role
in
the Revolution.
"I
truly believe the institute will be a
great success because we are offering a valu-
able service," says
Or.
Wermuth.
"There
are
literally
hundreds
of historical and cultural
group; in
the
region, but there is
relatively
little
focus or organization. Perhaps most
important
is the fact
that
we are bring-
ing
these
disparate groups
together
and
strengthening
communication
and col-
laboration
among them."
The institute
is also developing
resources
to support its activities.
In
addition to Marist
College's significant commitment, funding
comes from
private
historical and cultural
found,1tions. The
federal
Hudson
River
Valley
National
Heritage Area
(HRVNHA)
program has awarded
the
institute
$150,000
over five years for
the
development of the
digital library.
The U.S. government desig-
nated the
Hudson River
Valley as a
National
Heritage Area
in 1996
to
recognize
the
im-
portance of
the
valley's history and resources
A Gift to Marist Will Support Study
1Df
the Hudson Valley
I
n honor of Thomas
W. Casey,
a distinguished
and
popular
member
of the Marist College
philoso-
phy
faculty
for 38 years,
his family
has established
an
endowed
fund to support
faculty
research
on
the
Hudson
River
Valley.
The
Thomas
W. Casey
Faculty
Stipend
for
Hudson
River
Valley
Studies
will be awarded
to
one
or more
Marist
faculty
members
each year who conduct
research
on the region. Preference
will be
given to proposals
that enhance
and
promote
the mission
of the
Hudson River Valley Institute. A
major gift was
provided
by
Tom's
wife,
Irma
Blanco
Casey,
and
his
children,
Karen Casey
Hines '87
and Robert
Casey
'89.
One
of Professor
Casey's
great-
est passions
was the Hudson
River
Valley
and
he
often wrote for
local
and
regional
publications
about
the
history
and culture
of
the
region.
He
introduced
the
first
course
in Hudson
RiverValleyhistoryatMaristand,
during
the 1990s,
developed
a proposal
for a center
devoted
to
the history
and culture
of the
region.
Tom Casey
joined
the Philosophy
Department
at
Marist
in 1963.
He served
at
various
points in his career
as president
and vice president
of the New York State
American
Studies
Association;
chaired
two national
con-
ferences
held
at Eleanor
Roosevelt's
home
at Val-Kill
that
had
major
impacts
on
higher education;
and initiated
the American
Studies
program
at Marist, serving
as its
director
from 1968 to
1985.
On Oct. 27, 2001 during Marist's Homecoming/
Reunion
Weekend,
the School
of Liberal
Arts dedicated
a classroom
in Fontaine
Hall in memory
of Professor
Casey.
Dean
Thomas
Wermuth
spoke
to the
large
crowd
of friends,
faculty,
staff members
and alumni
on behalf
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of
Professor
Casey's
colleagues.
Paul
Browne
'71,
deputy
commissioner
for administration
for the New York
City
Police
Depmtment,
became
a longtime
friend
of
Professor
Casey's
ancf
spoke
of
his
unique
ability
to
inspire.
"As
Tom's
students,
1,ve
learned
to appreciate
philosophy.
To
respect
the
power
of thought.
To
respect
nature
and understand
_,._
"~-a
our place
in
history.
And if
we were
•
paying
attention,
we noticed
how
l
he
loved
his
family
above
all else.
f
In
other
words,
Tom
taught
us how
to
make
a life worth living."
Dean Wermuth
read
remarks
from
another
of
Tom Casey's
for-
mer students,
Capt. Paul
X. Rinn,
USN
(ret.) of the Class
of
'68, who
received
an
honorary
degree
from
Marist College
in 1989 for heroic
actions
in the Persian
Gulf.
"Tom
Casey
had
the magical
ability to
in-
spire men and
women
to perform
at levels
well above
what they
ever
dreamed ey could achieve,"
Capt. Rinn
wrote.
"His
vision
oft
te
world was filled with
compassion,
love
and
keen
intui
ion that
allowed
him to understand
problems
and
put th1!m
in proper
perspective.
His appreciation
for
the beauty·
of the Hudson
Valley
awakened
many
to the
treasures
of the
region they
had not realized
existed.
He deeply
affected
my life and
the
road
I
chose
to take
as
I
am
sure
he
did for
countless
others.
He will always
be
with us."
Family,
friends
and colleagues
of Tom
Casey
gathered
again on l\rbor Day,
April 26, in
front
of
Fontaine
Hall
to
dedicat1!
a
tree
in memory
of
Tom.
A plaque
beneath
the
sugar
piaple
tree reads:
In
mernory
of Professor
Thomas
w.
Casey,
who
loved
the beauty of the
Marist
College
campus
and
thEi
Hudson
River Valley.
Dean of
Liberal
Arts
to
the
nation, to help
New
York and valley
communities preserve, protect and interpret
their resources for the
nation's benefit and
to authorize
federal
financial and
technical
assistance. NHA funding and programs
are managed by
the
Hudson River Valley
Greenway, a state-sponsored agency created
in 1991
to spearhead
the development
of a
voluntary regional strategy for preserving
the
valley's naLUral, historic, cultural and
recreational
resources
while encouraging
compatible economic development.
To
sup-
port the
launch
of the digital library in June,
the Gilder
Lehrman Institute
of American
History co-sponsored the
lecture
by Richard
Brookhiser. The Charlotte Cunneen-Hackett
Charitable Trust has generously endowed an
annual lecture series on subjects relating
to
the Hudson
River
Valley.
Or.
Wermuth originally came up with
the
idea of the
institute
as a result of his
research specialty,
the
social and economic
history of the Hudson
River
Valley. One of
the
country's
leading
regional scholars, he
is the editor of the book series
The Hudson
River Valley: An American Region
from
the
State University of New York Press, an as-
sociate editor of
The Encyclopedia
of New York
State
from Syracuse University Press, and
the author of Rip
Van Winkle's
Neighbors:
The
Transformation
of
Rural
Society
in
the
Hudson
River
Valley,
published last
fall by the State
University of New York Press.
First
disti11guislied lecturer































HRVI
Executive
Director
Dr.
Johnson is the HRVNHA's military
historian anc\
is nationally
recognized for his
expertise
in
American
Revolutionary
mili-
tary
history.
He headed
the military
history
program at
the
United States Military Acad-
emy at West
Point before
retiring at
the
rank
of colonel afterthree decades in
the
Army. He
is the author of
Militia,
Rangers,
and
Redcoats,
published
by
Mercer University
Press,
and of
numerous
scholarly and popular essays and
The Hudson River
Valley Institute
Modeled
after academic
institutes
such
as the Center
for the Study
of Southern
Culture
at
the
University
of
Mississippi,
the Hudson
River
Valley
Institute
at Maris!
College
is
fostering
an
interdisciplinary
approach
to
research
and generating
new scholarly
interest
in the
region.
In a departure
from
regional
study
centers
for a
solely
academic
audience,
however,
the
Hudson
River
Valley
Institute
serves
scholars,
elementary
and
second
-
ary school
educators,
environmental
organizations
and
the general
public.
While
conducting
its own
research,
the
institute
is
also an
information
hub facilitating
and
disseminating
information
and
research
on the Hudson
River
Valley.
To
help
accomplish
this, the
institute
is
taking advantage
of Marist's
recognized
leadership
in applying
information
technology
to
teaching
and
learning.
Maris! College
is
fully committed
to having
the Hudson
River
Valley Institute bring a new
level
of
scholarship
and public awareness
to
bear on the
scenic,
cultural, economic
and
historic
resources
of
the Valley.
Educational
programs
will promote
understanding
of
the
Hudson
River
Valley's
culture,
history
and
environment
among
elementary
school
students.
f
pieces.
He is
responsible
for developing
the
;
<
American
Revolutionary interpretive
theme
§
for the
HRVNIHA.
Although the initial focus of
the institute
is
the
American
Revolution,
it is offering
its
expertise and developing programs in all
aspects of the: region's history and culture.
The area gave: birth to significant develop-
ments
in
American an and architecture and
played a central
role
in the recognition of the
aesthetic \'alu,e of the landscape through the
work of the painters known as
the
Hudson
River
School.
Dutch
and Huguenot settle-
ments,
the
Kni1ckerbockerwriters, early
labor
cooperatives and the first women's secondary
school are all products of
the
Hudson
River
Valley. Maris,t faculty experts specialize
in
additional subjects such as the
region's
economy,
natural
environment, politics and
World War
11
history.
Dr.
Werrnuth
believes interest
in
the
institute will continue
to
grow. With the
launch of
the
Hudson
River
Valley
digital
library,
the institute
will
develop
a
national
presence.
"By
the tiime
we're
done,
we
Institute Proj1ects
The 225th Anniversary
of the American Revolution
In
partnership
with
the
National
Park
Service
and
the
Hudson
Ri11er
Valley
National
Heritage
Area, the
institute
is
leading
the effort in New
~
York
to promote
the
225th
anniversary
of
the
d
~
American
Revolution(2002-2008).
The
motto
is "Lighting Freedom's
Flame."
The Hudson
River
Valley
Institute
Digital
Library
and Portal
Site
will serve
as the
hub
for the celebration
and
promote
the region
as
a
destination
for
heritage
tourists.
In the
fall
of each
year,
the
institute
will spotlight
an
important
event
in
New York
that
year of
the
American
Revolution
with
a Patriots
Weekend,
which
will
include
a lecture.
The Revolutionary
War Interpretive
Guide
An interpretive,
el1ictronic
guide will
include
an inventory
of
the
several
hundred
Revolutionary
sites
and battlefields
in
the Hudson
River
Valley,
with
information
regarding
their
historical
significa1nce
and public
access.
Hudson
River Vallley
Institute Digital Library and
Portal Site, www.hudsonrivervalley.net
The backbone
of
the
institute is the Hudson
River
Valley
Institute
Digital Liibrary
and Portal Site on the Web at
www.hudsonrivervalley.net,
an
interactive,
electronic
repository
of information
related to
the
River Valley's
cultural, historical. economic
and
natural environment
that
will help deli ne
the
valley's
distinct cultural
history
and
identity.
The digital library contains
resources
and
records
of use
to
educators,
historians,
students,
regional
officials
and the g,meral
public.
The interactive
nature
of
the
digital library
enables
it to serve
as a regional
informa-
tion
exchange
among
academic
institutions,
government
agencies
and environmental
organizations.
In
addition
to
the above
audi1mces,
the digital library is available
to
A
prominent advisory board
is
supporting tl1e
institule's mission
tl1roughout the region. Peter
A.
Bienstoc/1
(left) and
H.
Todd Brincherhoff
are
helping lead the
effort.
hope
that the
Hudson River
Valley will be
the
final destination that people will choose
to understand the
American
Revolution,"
says Dr. Johnson.
"We
can help people
throughout the valley understand
their
own heritage and then share
that
heritage
with the world."
■
cultural
and historical
tourists
from
all over
the world
as
they
make
plans to visit the valley.
Hudson
River Valley Educational
Institute
The goal of this program
is
to promote
a
broader
and
more compelling
understanding
of
the Hudson
River Valley's
unique culture, history
and
environment
among elementary
and high school
teachers
and
their
students.
Programs
will
make
use
of both
traditional
and
virtual
learning
environments,
in particular
the
electronic
repository
contained
within
the
institute's
Digital
Library
and Portal
Site.
Lecture in Hudson
River
Valley History
The
Hudson River Valley
Institute sponsors
an an-
nual
Lecture
in
Hudson
River
Valley
History.
Lecturers
are
Gardens
at the Samuel
prominent
scholars
of
the
8. Morse
Home
in
the
River
Valley's
rich
heritage
Hudson
River
Valley.
and recorded
on both
videotape
and audiotape.
The recordings,
along
with the
original
transcripts,
will
be
stored
in
the Cunneen-Hackett
Special
Collections
Reading
Room
in Marist's
James
A.
Cannavino
Library
and
will
be
available
via
the
institute's
Digital
Library
and
Portal
Site.
Biennial
Conference
on Hudson
River Valley Heritage
This
major
conference
will bring
together
scholars,
students
and
all
those with
an interest
in the rich
history
of
the
Hudson
River
Valley.
The
first conference,
"The
Campaign
for
the
Hudson
Valley:
The
Turning
Point
of
the
American
Revolution.·
will be held
at
Marist
College
in fall 2002
as
a part of
Patriots
Weekend
and
the nationwide
celebration
of the 225th anniversary
of
the
War for
Independence.
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most every college in
the
country
ffers courses
in
building Web sites.
ut no
other college except
Marist
has students
doing it
on their own virtual
servers.
The latest project in an ongoing
part-
nership between Marist and the
IBM
Corporation involves giving
Marist
College information
technology
majors
their own virtual servers.
Students are able to practice
installing, configuring and
servicing applications
without
endangering
the
functioning of the
college's networked
servers.
A server
is
a pow-
erful kind ofcomputer
that generally
has
much
more
memory
and storage capacity
than the average PC.
It
has more
process-
ing power, a
different
operating system than
a
PC,and more
elaborate
and dependable backup
systems. Servers carry out
a variety of
functions includ-
ingstoringand
delivering
Web
pages,
e-mail and
translating the
domain
name you
type into
your
Web browser
into the
numbers
that
will connect you
to
your destination.
The
concept of virtual servers
is
not new.
It
was
pioneered
with
IBM's
VM (Virtual
Ma-
chine) operatingsystem originally developed
in the late
1960s and early 1970s. VM
is
the operating system that Marist runs on
its
mainframe, an S/390 G5 Enterprise Server,
the same way
PC users run
Windows on their
machines. The
software that makes
up
the
VM operating system simulates hardware
architecture,
making
it seem as though
the
user has
a real
hardware
machine. Because
of
the
simulation capability of VM, other
operating systems can
run
on
top
of VM,
making
it possible
to
run
multiple copies
of an operating system on one
physical
ma-
chine.
Marist runs
several of these "guest"
operating systems, the primary one of which
is
OS/390.
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MAGAZINE
0
C,
in the
~,an___,
__
What is
new is the
capability to
run
the Linux operating system as a
"guest"
on
top of VM.
This
is what is called a
Linux
virtual server. A computer science student
at the University of
Helsinki named
Linus
Torvaldls originally developed
Linux
in
the
early
1990s. He made his operating
system
available for free to software
developers
all
over the world.
In 1999 developers in IBM's
Germany lab developed code
that
allowed
Linux
to
run
on
mainframe hardware
and
also as a guest operating system on top of
VM. Soon after,
Marist
created a Web site
from which
developers
around the world
could download this
Linux/390
code.
Above,
Sireesha
Rudraraju M
'02
(center)
helps
Christopher
McCloskey
'03
(left) and
Michael
Cring
'03
in Web
Programming
I,
where
students work with their
own
virtual servers. Upper right,
Dr.
Roger Norton works
with a
student.
Linux now
runs
on all of
the
IBM eServer
platforms. Over the
past
two years
IBM
has
strongly embraced Linux and has
been
developing
soft ware, hardware and services
to
strengthen
its Linux
offerings.
Linux is
becoming attractive
LO
cor-
porations due to its low
cost, and large
corporations
have
started to implement
Linux in their
production environments.
The
popularity of Linux has grown over the
years compared
to
other operating systems
and
the
trend is continuing, says Kamran
Khan, vice president of
in
formation technol-
ogy at Marist. "For our students
Lo be in
the
forefront of Linux and
large
scale computing













environments provides
them
adefiniteedge
in
the marketplace
after graduation."
Within the college's G5, Marist can
run
hundreds
of virtual servers.
Each has its
own
lnternet
Protocol (lP) address,
the
32-bit
nu-
meric code that identifies every computer on
the Internet.
These
Linux systems
function
just as though
they
were each running on a
stand-alone server. Students can access
their
server
from
anywhere on or off-campus.
The benefits of
the
virtual server experi-
ment are
numerous.
Students can practice
installing, configuring and servicing ap-
plications without threatening
the
college's
technology infrastructure.
"Virtual
servers are software that give
you
the
feel of conventional systems," says
computer science major
Hardeep Kaur,
who
along with 24 other sophomores received
virtual servers this
past
fall in
the
class
Web
Programming
I.
"It
is a good thing
because it
makes
a person comfortable to
work
in
a UNLX environment and also on
other servers."
"It
provides
students exposure
to
Linux
running in an environment
that they
most
likely have never
seen before," says
Howard
Baker, the
project
manager of
IBM's
joint
studies with Marist.
"As
their interest
and
skill with
Linux
grows
they
will also
become
interested in
the underlying technology-the
VM operating system, and
the
S/390 and
zSeries architecture,"
he
says. "There
is
a
growing need
to
provide students with
these
'mainframe'
skills
to replace
the cur-
rent population
of S/390 experts within
IBM
and across its customer set, which
has
been
shrinking over
the past
several years.
"In
addition
to
using
Linux
and the
joint
study
project to
teach and
prepare
students
for
future jobs in
the IT
industry, IBM also
benefits by utilizingsome of
the
Marist excess
computing
power
as a 'sandbox' for testing
leading-edge
technologies," Baker says.
The students who
received
virtual servers
in Web
Programming
I will continue to
use
their virtual servers
for the next
three years.
This past
spring
for
the first
time
the Distrib-
uted Systems course, which
included
30 IT
or computer science majors,
provided
two
virtual servers to each student. The concept
will
expand to include Web
Programming
11 this
fall. Ultimately Marist will
run
400
\'irtual Linux servers on one
physical main-
frame machine.
Another advantage of
using
virtual
servers in Web site-building classes
is
that
student Web sites are live and available
24
hours
a day.
In
conventional classes,
students create sites
that
must be stored
on
disks
for
the
professor
to
grade. Hav-
ing their
owni Linux environments
makes
students
more:
excited
about their
work, says
Dr. Roger
Norton,
dean
of Marist's School
of Computer :Science and Mathematics.
Dr.
Norton
instructs the
sections of the Marist
courses that
usevinualserversand
leads the
Marist
team
int the virtual server experiment.
"Most
every student
has
done
much
more
than
their homework required. Students get
very
much involved."
Dr.
Norton encourages the students to
give
their parents the
address of their Web
sites.
"They
seem
to
work harder on their
projects knowing that they
have
told
their
parents
and
friends
about
their
sites and
that
they
are visiting
the sites
regularly.
"As
they learn new things,
they immedi-
ately
incorpo1rate them
into their Web sites.
They have gone
beyond
what I've asked
them
to
do. They want
impressive
sites.
They
all
have stuffin them
they
added simply because
they want thei rsites to look good." The course
also spreads positive
public relations
about
Marist as
parents
become enthusiastic about
the
project.
Students' assignments in Web
Program-
ming I
included
creating a table
for
their Web
sites that displayed
their
class schedules. The
students
reported
that
their parents
used
the schedules
to keep
track of
them.
The
students ~lsc, created a Web site
message
center where others could communicate with
them.
And thtey developed an e-commerce
site for mock sales of products.
"They
add
numerous
applications
that
they have written
just
to make
their
sites
more
interesting," says Dr. Norton.
Visitors can interact with the student
sites. After looking at
the
student's
photo
in
a game callled
"Guess
My Age,"
the
visitor
can
input
a guess and get a
response
on how
close
he
or she came. Another feature called
"Countdown"
calculates the days,
hours,
min-
utes
and seconds to go until any
future
date
designated.
On his Web site, computer sci-
ence major
Joseph
Buscarino offered "Inside
your
Personal
Computer," which allowed the
viewer
to
click anywhere
in
a photo of the
inside
of a central processing unit and
read
a
description
of the selected component.
The students
have
the opportunity to
work
in
a complete environment,
not
merely
develop
applications on a
noppy
disk,
test
them in the
computer lab and turn
them in.
In addition, Dr. Norton can view their work
24 hours
a
day, from
anywhere, to see how
they are doing. ''When
they
are working on a
database application,
l
do
not need to
make
certain everything is set properly on my
ma-
chine
to
make
certain
it
will run properly,"
he notes.
"The
students
have done
that ahead
of time on
their
own servers."
As for a
downside,
there isn't much of
one.
If
a student alters the server's configu-
ration or adds a component incompatible
with the system, it can bring
down
his or
her
entire server-but not the college's net-
worked servers. Marist
in
formation systems
staffers
then
have
to reinstall
a new server
for the student, but it's a simple
process. It's
not
until the upperclass Distributed
Systems
course that students gain access
to
the system
configuration, so
these
kinds of problems
rarely
occur.
The
initial
experimentation has been
very successful, says Dr. Norton.
Now,
he
says, "we are investigating what needs
to
be
done
to
allow all information technology
students to
be
given their own virtual
Linux
environment."
Students have found
the
experiment
fruitful as well.
"Working
on a virtual
machine makes
it
easier
to
work on a con-
ventional server," says Hardeep Kaur.
"It
is
a good thing to learn if one wants to make
a career in computers."
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•
A
New leader
for the
ar1st
Bro. Sean
Sammon,
FMS
'70
(right),
now
Superior General of
the
Marist Brothers
worldwide,
joined Marist President Emeritus Bro.
Paul
Ambrose, FMS
(left) and President Dennis Murray at
tlhe
ca11011izatio11
of Saint
Marcel/in
Champagnat, pictured
011
the
wall behind
them, in
Rome
in
April
1999.
Founded
by
Saint Marcellin Champagnat
in 1817 in France, the Brothers
serve in apostolates
in 76 countries.
F
orthe firsttime,anAmerican has been
named the leader of
the
international
congregation of Marist Brothers.
He
is
Marist College graduate Bro. Sean
Sammon, FMS '70, who was elected Superior
General of the 5,000-member order ofMarist
Brothers
in
October 2001. He will
lead
the
order for the next eight years.
Founded
by
Saint Marcellin Champag-
nat in 1817
in
France, the Brothers serve
in
apostolates in 76 countries.
Brother Sean was born on Nov.
26, 1947,
in
New York City, one of three children of an
Irish
father and English mother who both
emigrated to
the
United States. The oldest
child, Henry, is also a Marist Brother. Brother
Sean studied at St. Agnes High School in
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New York and afterwards at the Juniorate
in Esopus, New York, a high school for
Brotheirs-in-training that
the Brothers
have
since phased out.
He
completed
the required
two
years of
intensive
religious
studies in
Tyngsboro, Mass., before
pronouncing
his
first vows
in
1967.
After graduating from Marist College
in 1970, Brother Sean
taught
at St. Agnes
while i,tudying at the New School for So-
cial Research, where
he
earned a master's
degree in
1973.
ln
1978
he was
invited
to
join the staff at the House of Affirmation,
a rehabilitation center for alcoholic clergy-
men, in Massachusetts and was named the
organi;rntion's international clinical di rector
in 1982.
He
was awarded a doctorate in clini-
cal psychology from Fordham University
in
1982
and has gone on to write 10 books
and numerous articles about
psychology
and religious
Ii
f
e.
In
1987 he was named Provincial, the
local
representative
of
the
Superior Gen-
eral, of the Poughkeepsie
Province,
one of
two
American administrative sections of
the
Marist Brothers.
During
that term, he
was elected president of
the
Conference of
Major Superiors of Men of the United States.
a group comprised of
leaders
of many reli-
gious male communities. Brother Sean was
the first non-priest
to
be elected head of the
conference.
In 1993
he became Vicar General
of
the
Marist Brothers, the second in com-
mand of
the
Marist Brothers.
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•
Dr.
Vernon Murray, assistant
professor of business, teaches a class .
Accrediting
us1ness
Marist's
School
of Management
earns
prestigious
AACSB
accreditation
for its
undergraduate
and graduate programs
in
business
administration.
M
arist's School of Management
has
achieved the highest distinction of-
fered to business schools
nationally
and
internationally.
In January
the
college
won accreditation of
its
undergraduate and
graduation programs
in business
administra-
tion
by the
Association to Advance Collegiate
Schools of
Business.
AACSB
is the premier
accrediting agency
for
bachelor's,
master's and doctoral
degree
programs
in
business administration. The
accreditation places Marist's
business
programs among the top 30 percent
in
the country As of
January
2002, AACSB
International had accredited only 411 col-
leges,
universities
and institutions of
higher
education worldwide.
The School of
Management
went through
a
six-year
process
of self-study, continuous
improvement and peer review to earn
the
distinction. A.ACSB
commended Marist on
its "1) evolviing and continuously improv-
ing mission re:view
process
that
involves key
stakeholders, 2) enthusiastic and collegial
stakeholders including students, faculty,
School of Management administrators, Ad-
visory
Board
members, Board of
Trustees
members
and college officials, 3) strong
financial and :managerial support for faculty
development,
4)
student satisfaction with the
programs, 5) exceptional
information
tech-
nology
that is easily accessible
to
faculty and
students, 6) st rongstudent support services,
including
library
services, internship pro-
grams, study abroad opportunities, advising
and
career services, 7) strong
representation
AACSB
is
t:he premier accrediting
agency for bachelor's, master's
and doctoral degree
programs
in business administration.
The accreditation places Marist's
business programs among the
top 30 percent in the country.
of women on the full-time
tenured
and ten-
ure track faculty and 8)
noteworthy number
of contributions
in the
faculty's
portfolio
of
intellectual contributions."
"AchievingAACSB
International accredi-
tation
is
a significant external validation of
the
quality of Marist's academic
program,"
says Marist President
Dennis
Murray.
"It
is
a major step in Marist's continuing efforts
to be
recognized
among
the top
colleges and
universities in America."
"Our
graduates will
have
an added ad-
vantage
in the job market
because
employers
recognize the value of a
business
degree
that
adheres to the highest international stan-
dards for
business education while
reflecting
the latest
changes
in
the
business
world,"
said
Gordon Badovick, dean of the School of Man-
agement at the time.
"Marist
undergraduate
business majors will now have an added ad-
vantage when applying
to
other top M.B.A.
programs, and our alumni can
be
proud
to
have
earned their degrees from a
business
program
that is a
recognized
quality
leader
in management education."
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Not bad for a
former
junior
high
school
English
teacher
who
now
ranks among the
most
popular writers at
the nation's
sev-
enth-largest
metropolitan newspaper.
'Tm
a
storyteller
by
trade. Whatever
talents I
had from wherever
in
the
genetic
universe I
got them,
I
applied
them
to storytelling,"
he
says.
"My
ambition
is
to have the
respect
and affection of
the
audience.''
Ed
became
a
featured
columnist with
Newsday
in
1976, a
position
he enjoyed so
much
that he continues in
it
today. He also
serves as an associate editor at Newsday.
He
writes
three times
a week fort he paper, telling
the
stories of ordinary
Long Islanders
and
the
things that
make them
who
they
are.
"These
are stories that people tell each
other when
they
are getting their
hair
cut
or when
they
are in a
restaurant
or a tavern.
These are
the things
that we are
moved
or
amused or enlightened or angered by,"
he
says.
"I
just don't
know
that there's
a bet-
ter way
to do
it, outside of winning
the
lottery.
"I
really
like
being
Ed Lowe. In fact,
there
are mornings
when I
look
in
the
mirror
and
say
...
if
you weren't Ed Lowe, you'd wish
you were."
Growing
up
in Amityville, where
he
still
resides, Ed always had a fascination with
writing.
But
while
he dreamed
of
making
a
living
of
it,
his Depression-era parents
tried
to
guide
him
toward a more
reliable
profession.
Eventually
he found
himself in
the
semi-
nary,
but
he
soon
realized that
was not
the
life
for
him.
"Poverty,
chastity and obedience
were
important to the trade," he
says.
"I
had
poverty and chastity down pretty good,
but
obedience and
I didn't
get along."
He did get
his
start in
journalism
while
there,
however,
when
he
was asked
to
start
writing a newspaper column call
"Lowe
Lingo."
And so
the
pursuit
by the
craft
began.
Ed Lowe
likes
to say
that
he
"pleaded
his way into Marist,"
having
graduated
56'h
in a class of 58.
But
once he was in, he did
BY JEFFREY
DAHNCKE
'01
PHOTOBYMATTHEWGlllUS
Wherever .he
went, writing
and journalism
always seemed
to find him.
"By
the
time
I
had
gotten
out of
Marist,
this craft
had been p·ursuing me," Ed Lowe
says.
"Ultimately,
I
turned
around and pursued
it."
very well for
himself,
and
by
his
junior
year
Johnson had asked him
to
start
The
Circle.
After securing his roommate as
the new
sports editor,
he
then rounded
up
friends
from around campus
to
fill
the
other
posi-
tions.
"(I
told Bob
to)
give
me a half-hour
and
l
would
meet him
in
the Rathskeller
of
the then brand-new
Champagnat Hall," he
says.
"And
I met him
in
a
half-hour and
had
a Budweiser a;nd said,
'OK,
give me the five
grand and an office.' And we cranked out a
newspaper for
the next
two
years."
After a
brid
stint as a
teacher, Ed
even-
tually became a reporter at
The
Suffolk Sun
in 1969. Less than
three
months
later,
the
paper
folded, but his
dream of
becoming
a writer did not. Soon after,
he
started at
Newsday.
"I
gc::it
noticed for being able
to
elicit
truth in
people in circumstances
that
would otherwise
be
difficult or emotional,
or as somebody who could go someplace
and find a st01ry where nobody else could,"
he
says.
The
father
of
four
and grandfather of
four found
himself
in the
unique
position
ofhavinga close,
personal relationship
with
his
readers.
He
learned
this when
he lost
a
grandchild and
thousands
of letters of sup-
port
poured in. He learned it again after Sept.
11, when some families of the victims of
the
terrorist attacks said they would speak
to
the media only if
they
could speak to
Ed
Lowe.
Such things are what cause him to con-
sider himself part of
families
throughout
Long Island.
"I
have
this
relaLionship
with
this audience that
is
somewhere between
affectionate
and actually intimate," he says.
'Tm a renection of an audience."
That audience now sees him serve as a
regular
panelist on
"Father
Tom and Friends,"
a weekly Cablevision show produced by
Msgr. Tom Hartman of
Long Island's
Tell-
care Channel. They also
listen
to him host
"Lowecally
Speaking with Ed
Lowe,"
a daily
radio talk show that airs from
7
to
8
a.m. on
WLUX 540AM.
He has
teamed
up with New York psy-
chotherapist Stanley Siegel for two books:
The Patient Who Cured His Therapist
and
Un-
charted
Lives.
Ed Lowe's Long
Island
and Not
As I
Do-A
Father's
Report are two published
collections of his stories and essays.
Throughout it all, Ed still looks back
on
his
Marist
days
with fondness. He real-
ized just how important those years of his
life were when he attended his 10th-year
reunion. 'Tm looking around at
these
guys
and it occurred
to
me that these are good
guys. These are guys you could trust. These
are guys for whom you would work. If you
were an employer, you would want
them,"
he
says.
"Then
it
occurred to
me
... This is a
good
place. I
was
really impressed."
It's a safe bet that Ed
Lowe
will stay put
at Newsday.
He also wants
to
continue public
speaking, something he does quite often;
he has keynoted staff conferences for more
than
60 school
districts.
He may even find
himself onstage at a few more comedy clubs,
where he sometimes performs.
But mostly he is going to continue his
role as storyteller for a
large
portion of
Long
Island.
"I
discovered about 25 years ago that
if
you want to
be the
best in the world at what
you do, do something no one else does," he
says.
"I'm
out to be the best Ed Lowe on
the block."
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Student Profile
_.
......
,
On the Right
rac
Scholarship
winner Jen Stewart '02 has devoted
four years to pre-med
studies, running
track,
volunteering,
wi>rking
part-time and figuring out her future. She also had a little fun.
T
he road to Mohonk Mountain
House, a resort in New York's
Shawangunk Mountains, can
strike apprehension
in
many a
driver even
in
the friendliest of
weather. Made up of switchbacks
up a mountainside,
in
places it's
just one car wide with only small
rocks
for
a guardrail. Covered with
snow,
it
can intimidate
the
heartiest
winter
traveler.
It
didn't
faze Jennifer Stewart
one bit. On her way to her part-time
job at Mohonk during her winter
holiday break from Marist College,
she stopped for some breakfast at a
bagel shop
in
New
Paltz,
N.Y. State
troopers there told her the road to
Mohonk was so bad that even her
Subaru might not make it.
She
tried it
anyway, and was
doing OK ("My car is good
in
the
snow," she maintains, even as she
notes it's
a model without all-wheel
drive)
until the
vehicle slowed and
finally came
to
a stop in the mount-
ing snow. She tried to back up, to
no avail; as soon as she would clear
her
back window and get behind the
wheel,
the
falling snow would cover
the
rear windshield again. Finally
she called a coworker on
her
cell
phone. Mohonk security guards moved her
car and
took herup
the mountain, where after
her shift she bunked with
fellow
snowed-in
staffers
in
a Mohonk guest room.
This
winter, after the area's first snowfall,
Jen claimed to be afraid of getting stuck on
Mohonk again on her way to work.
But
she
still
didn't take
a snow day. She just packed
extra clothes.
To
say Jennifer Stewart takes everything
in
stride would be too simple, besides being
a
bad pun:
the
5'10"
biology major was one
of
the
captains of the track team and holds
the
school records
in
indoor triple jump,
outdoor triple
jump
and indoor shotput.
Yet it's true that she seemed remarkably
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serene, quietly confident and even happy
despite the pressure she was under during
her senior year-maintaining high grades
in her pre-med major, practicing daily for
track nneets and facing the uncertainty of
life afte:r graduation.
Dei;pite a class schedule
during
fall
2001
that included vertebrate physiology, physics
and biotechnology plus
their
associated lab
courses,Jen Stewart,
21,
achieved an overall
grade point average of 3.758 with a GPA of
3.588 in her major. On
the Dean's
List for
the pai,t four semesters, she was inducted
BY
LESLIE
BATES
; in the Sigma Zeta National Sci-
<
ence and Math
Honor
Society
~
and during fall
2000
was one of
only
ten
Marist student-athletes
to achieve a 4.0 GPA. She recently
received the Fredrica Simon Good-
man Senior Award, a scholarship
given for leadership and academic
excellence. She was always one of
the top students in class, says her
faculty advisor and professor, Dr.
Joe Bettencourt.
"She
is a very
involved
student."
She was also a careful,
thoughtful, questioning student.
Dr. Bettencourt says Jen came
into his office often
to
talk about
career choices-that is, except for
those times she and her classmates
came in for
the
candy he keeps on
his desk.
"I change my mind a lot,"
Jen
smiles.
But
her exploration of a
number of career fields is the result
of meticulousness, not indecision.
She is methodically trying out each
field
that
interests her.
Jen says she has always wanted
to go into a health profession. At
first she wanted to be a doctor, but
by her freshman yearof college she
was considering veterinary school.
During her junior year she put it to the test,
volunteering with a vet in Millbrook a few
hours each week. The experience told her
she wanted horses to
be
her recreation, no1
her job.
"I
have always enjoyed the thought of
helping people,
but
I am really fascinated
with all aspects of medicine: the details of
the diseases,
how
the
body
reacts, and
how
it
recovers, and to be a part of that is the
most amazing thing I can think of," she says.
Once she began
taking
pre-med courses,she
fell
more in love with the field, "especially
the courses that everyone hates, like organic
chemistry"-her favorite class-and com-
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"You
reach inside
yourself
when
you're
that
tired ...
it's
fun,"
says Jen Stewart
'02.
"We
were all
exhausted
but that's
when you
feel the
best. You
gave
it
everything."
letic Conference championships. And at the
spring 2002 outdoor MAAC
championships,
she placed fifth
in
triple jump, seventh
in
long jump and eighth in shotput. The team
placed third overall with the highest point
total in school history.
Jen Stewart
'02
brohe
her
outdoor triple jump record at a meet at West Point in spring of 2001.
Juggling
academics and athletics has not
always been easy. This past fall
Jen
often had
to run
and work out alone because her three
science labs took place during the team's
practice time. "It's hard to get yourself moti-
vated to get there if you know no one's there.
Chemical Society, she chose electives exclu-
sively in biology or psychology throughout
her college years.
To explore her interest in medicine, in
fall 2001 she took on an internship with
a pediatrician at Saint Francis Hospital in
Poughkeepsie. After
a
semester shadowing
the doctor for several hours each week, she
realized pediatrics was not
for
her. This past
spring, she volunteered
in
an optometrist's
office
in
nearby Hyde Park. She
loved
it. At
the same time, Stewart took another demand-
ing course schedule of classes and
labs
from
9:30
to
6:30
p.m. every
day
consisting of
comparative anatomy, physics, a religion
course and a capping course blending sci-
ence, medicine and ethics.
She showed the same range of interests,
and the same desire
to
pursue them all,
in
her athletic activities. A gymnast since kin-
dergarten, she added track and field
hockey
in high school. New Paltz High School,
in her
hometown of New Paltz, NY, named her the
top field hockey player of the
decade.
A passion for horseback riding had
similar stellar results. As a girl, she spent
weekends and summers on horseback.
"My
mom would
drop
me off at the barn at
7:30 in
the
morning and pick me up at
8:30 at night."
When she was nine years old she bugged
her mother about getting a horse and pored
over the classifieds,
hoping somehow to make
the dream come true. One day, it did.
"I
looked in the paper and said, 'Oh,
free horse, Mom!'
"
The seller
turned
out
to someone she knew.
"l
called, and
it
was
my teacher. And she said,
'She's
yours if you
want her.'"
Jen got her horse and went on to become
the Ulster County barrel-racing champion
in 1996 and 1997, winning a number of
championships
in
Dutchess and Orange
counties as well.
It
turns out that balanc-
ing athletics and academics is what she has
always done: ,even in
high
school, while com-
peting in field hockey, gymnastics and five
track events,
:she
took a rigorous courseload
that
included
Advanced Placement courses
th rough SUNY-Albany
in biology,
chemistry,
calculus, French and American history.
lt
was track that Jen pursued in college.
A walk-on to the Marist women's track team,
during spring 2001 she
received
a Coaches
Award for hernutstandingoutdoorseason de-
spite the fact that she injured her
hamstring
two weeks before the MAACchampionships
and could not compete. She placed third in
the triple jump and seventh in
the longjump
at the most recent indoor Metro Atlantic Ath-
... I
love practicing with the team."
Evenaftera particularly grueling practice
full of sprints with the team, she says she
would
like
to do it again. "You reach
inside
yourself when you're that tired ... it's fun.
We were all exhausted, but that's when you
feel the best. You gave it everything."
While
in
college
Jen
also made time to
help others. For years she has helped teach
horseback riding to handicapped as well as
SUNY-New Paltz students. Marist's Office of
Special Services chose her, based on recom-
mendations from her professors,
to
take notes
to share with
fellow
students who were not
able to take their own because of
learning
disabilities. She took notes for three courses,
including biology. She was also involved
in
Campus Ministry, going on retreats and tak-
ing part in the annual Giving Tree project
that provides gifts for needy families in the
Poughkeepsie area.
ill
Even
during
the summers, Jen stayed
~ busy. She has worked
in
the gift shop at
I.
Jen Stewart (left) received the Fredrica Simon
Goodman Senior Award, a scholarship
given
for
leadership ,and
academic
excellence,
named
for
community
leader Fredrica Goodman.
~
Mohonk Mountain House during not only
j
winter holidays but also
the
past three sum-
mers. On days off, she found time to hike
Mohonk's trails and take up yet two more
sports, tennis and golf.
Stewart again will work at Mohonk
Mountain House's gift shop for a year after
graduation.
"l
need a break," she says simply.
Then she will embark on the career path she
has decided on: she will enter optometry
school in New York City.
Dr. Bettencourt knows she will succeed.
"She
is
one of the most capable people
I
ha\'e
known. She can do anything she wants to
do."
■
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Marist Athletics
Red Foxes
1
eAgain
Marist
takes
top honors in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
for the fourth
consecutive
year.
e Marist Athletics
De-
artment has captured a
record-settingfourthconsec-
utive
GHI Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference Commissioner's Cup
trophy.
Marist is the
first
school in
the 21-year
history
of
the
MAAC
to win four straight Commission-
er's Cups.
The
college
tied
current league
member Loyola College and for-
mer
member
LaSalle University for
the most overall awards won
by
a
single school. The
Red
Foxes won
the men's individual
trophy
for
the
second straight
time
and finished
second on
the
women's side, be-
hind Fairfield University.
all championships were
used in
determining
the
winner.
Marist has been
a member of
the MAAC
for
five years,
having
joined
the
10-team conference for
the 1997-98 season.
Baseball Reaches
NCAA
Regional
for 3rd
Year
The 2002 season will be one
that
stays near
the top
oft
he page
when
telling the history ofMarist College
baseball
for many
years
to
come.
Under
the
leadership
of Coach
John Szefc, the
Red
Foxes posted
a school
record
41
wins
on
the
year,
as compared
to just 14 losses,
for a
winning
percentage
of .746. Along
the
way Marist
posted
a
22-5
re-
cord in MAAC
play,
winning
its
first-ever
regular
season
title
and
advancing as the
number
one seed
into
the
MAAC
Tournament.
The
Red
Foxes swept their way
to
the
crown,stretchingtheirtournament
win streak
to
eight games. Marist
also
won
a program-best 19 games
in
a row, going nearly
the
entire
month
of April without a loss.
"The
Commissioner's Cup
is
a
true
testament
to the
effort
and commitment to excellence
put fonh by
the
student-athletes,
coaches and administrators
here
at
Marist,"
says Director of Athletics
Tim Murray.
"The
entire athletic
program
is
extremely proud
to be
honored
with the award for their
athletic successes,
not
only
th is
year,
but
also over the
past four
years. The support
that
our stu-
dent-athletes
receive throughout
their
careers from
the
entire Mari st
College community
plays
a
large
role in
the
capturing of
the
award
year after year. I am proud of the
fact that our student-athletes are
A11tho11y
Boccl1i110
wens
namecl the MAAC Player of
the
Year and tl1e
first pick
of
tl1e
11
th
round
of
the Major League Baseball draft by the
Pit1sburgl1
Pirates.
Marist baseball
earned
its
third consecutive bid
to the
NCAA Tournament with
itsMAAC
Tournament title and garnered a
number-three
seed
in the
regional
at
Lincoln,
Neb. The three seed is
not
only
champions
on
the
field but in the
classroom
as well, where we had 89 athletes
named
to
the
MAACAll-Academic
Team this
past year." Student-athletes
must
maintain a
3.2 cumulative GPA, have completed a
full
academic year at Marist and be a starter or
significant
reserve
to
earn All-Academic
Team honors.
The
GHI
MAAC
Commissioner's Cup
is
awarded annually as a symbol of overall ex-
cellence
in
athletics in
the 25
championship
athletic events conducted within the MAAC.
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MAGAZINE
This season
marked the use
of a new scoring
system to determine
the
champion. Each
institution
is
scored in all championships
in which it fields a varsity team. However,
only 14 of those sports
are used
to
determine
the
chamjpion. Each school uses
the
scores
from
men's
and women's basketball plus the
other top six
men's and
other top six women's
championships.
In past
years
points
from
IBY
CHRIS O'CONNOR
'98
the highest-ever
regional
ranking
for the
Red
Foxes and it set
up Marist
for a
showdown with
the
second-seeded Bears of
Southwest
Missouri
State Junior Tim Allen
provided Marist with late inning heroics,
hammering
the first pitch
he
saw
in the
top
of
the
ll
th
inning
over the
left
field
fence
for
a 5-4 win.
Marist
dropped
the
winner's
bracket game
to
No.
1
Nebraska, 9-1, and
dropped the
rematch with SMS 5-2 in
the
nightcap.
Anthony
Bocchino
was
named the
MAAC
Player
of the
Year
and was
honored
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Senior Dave Dobbins led the Red
Foxes,
earning
his
fourth MAA,C
Outstanding Swimmer
ho11or.
Marist
co11tinued
to dominate
the
MAAC
in
swimming
and
divirig
as
the
men
won
their seventh
straigl1t
title and
the
women
their
fifth
in
seven
years.
as a TPX Collegiate Baseball and ABCA Sec-
ond Team All-American. He was named to
the ECAC Division
I
All-Star First Team as
well as being selected to
the
2002 NCAA
Tournament All-Regional Team,
his
second
such selection.
He
finished
his
career with
334 base hits,
nearly
100 more than
Ryan
Brady, the former
record
holder,
and finished with a school record
4
lOcareer batting average. Of20
major
offensive school records,
Anthonyfinishedwith
16ofthem
in
his name.
He capped
his
col-
legiate
career by being chosen as
the first pick of
the
ll'
h
round of
the Major League
Baseball
draft
by
the
Pinsburgh Pirates.
Steve O'Sullivan became
the
second
Red
Fox drafted
during
the
MLB draft, chosen by
the
Chicago Cubs
in the
23'd round.
The San
Diego
Padres LOok se-
nior Chuck Bechtel two rounds
later,
in
the 25th round. Along
with Anthony
Bocchino,
the trio
comprises
the
most Marist play-
ers
taken in
a single
draft
in
the
program's
history.
Men's Tennis Returns
to NCAA for 4th Year
in
a Row
The men's
tennis team wrote a
new chapter
into
its record
book
this season, winning its fourth
consecutive MAAC title after go-
ing
9-0
in
conference
play. The
Red Foxes, behind MAAC Coach
of the Year
Tim
Smith, earned the
number-threeseed
in
the
Harvard
Regional of
the
NCAA Tourna-
ment.
It
was the team's fourth
straight appearance in
the
NCAA
Tournament. For the first time
in
Men's Swimming and Diving Wins
7'"
Straight MAAC Title, 8'" Overall
The men's swimming and diving
program,
coached by Larry Vanwagner and Melanie
Bolstad, continued
its
dominance, win-
ning
its
seventh consecutive MAAC title,
eighth overall,
placing
second at the ECAC
(45.35), and concluded
his
career
with
fi\'e
individual school records
to his credit.
The Red Foxes also received
strong performances
from
Mau
Castillo, Trevor Charles, Ricky
Ka-
pusta and
diver
Mike Guman.
Women's Swimming
and
Diving
Captures
5'
h
MAAC Championship
The women's swimming and
di\·-
ing team returned
to the
pinnacle
this
season, capturing the MAAC
Championship for
the
fifth
time in
seven years.
The
Red
Foxes
scored
838 points, well ahead of runner-up
Loyola (671
points)
and
defending
champion Rider (509
points). The
dual
meet
season was also a success
fort he Red
Foxes, posting a 7-5 O\'er-
all
record,
going unbeaten against
MAAC competition and finishing
15th at
the
ECAC Championship.
At the MAAC Championship,
Marist won 10 events while set-
ting eight school records and
one conference record. Under
the
leadership of
Head
Coach Christine
Honig,
Kristen Schnitzer set new
standards
in the
200-yard freestyle
(1:56.07)
and 200-yard backstroke
(2:09.65),
placing first
and second,
respectively. Jennifer Gelsomino
captured
the
400-yard IM in
record
program
history
the
Red
Foxes
were
invited
to
the
prestigious 16-
team ECAC Invitational,
played
at Harvard University
during the
Junior
goalie
Mellanie
Nai
h,ad a
spectacular season for
the
Red
Foxes,
.finishing
with
a
1.27
goals-against-average
and a
save
percentage of
.860,
earning
MAAC
Goallieeper of
the
Year
honors.
time
( 4:35.42) while also winning
the
200-yard
IM. Jennifer
Meyer
lowered
her
school records
in
the
50-yard freestyle (24.37) and the
fall portion of
the
schedule.
The Red
Foxes
finished 19-8 on
the
year, and 12-0 against
MAAC opponents.
Pat
Dahnert became
the first
Marist
men's
tennis
player to compete in four
NCAA Tournaments, and played
a
role
in
all four of
the Red
Foxes MAAC
titles.
Pat
Hofer, who
played
at
number one
singles
for Marist
this
season, was awarded
the Dr.
Joseph Grassi Award for most outstanding
player at
the
MAAC tournament
for
the
second straight season.
Championship and posting a
10-1
dual meet
record. The Red
Foxes are a perfect 39-0
in
dual
meet
actiion against MAAC foes since
joining
the
league
in
1996.
Senior
Dave
Dobbins led the Red Foxes,
earning
his
fourth MAAC Outstanding
Swimmer
honor,
winning the 100-, 200-
and 500-yard freestyle events and selling
MAAC
record:s
in
the
100
and 200 freestyle.
He solidified
his
place in Marist history,
lowering
his
school
records
in the 50-yard
freestyle (20.93) and
the
100-yard freestyle
100-yard backstroke (59.96), fin-
ishing
first and second,
respectively.
She also
captured the 100-yard freestyle
title
(53.57)
and set a school record leading off the
200-
yard medley
relay,
completing her 50-yard
backstroke leg in a time of 28.13. Missy Gif-
ford scored 222.95 points in the one-meter
diving event
to
earn first-place honors
for
the
Red Foxes. Marist set a new conference
record in the 200-yard medley relay and set
a school record
in
the 200-yard freestyle
relay
while capturing the gold in both the
400- and 800-yard freestyle relays.
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Marist
College
President
Dennis Murray
has been
named chair of the council of
presidents
for the Metro Atlantic
Athletic
Conference
for
2002-03.
The
council
is the chief governing
body
of
the MAAC.
Dr. Murrayservedasvicepresi-
dent of the
council
for 2000-01.
Founded
in
1980,
the MAAC
includes
members
Canisius
College,
Fairfield
University,
Iona
College,
Loyola
College
(Md.), Manhattan
College,
Marist
College,
Niagara
University,
Rider
University,
St. Peters
College
and Siena
College.
Member
and associate
member
colleges
compete
in 25 sports.
Women's Soccer Wins MAAC
Title
The women's soccer team, in its eighth year
as a varsity sport, capped its most successful
season with a MAAC regular season title.
Megan McGonagle was named the MAAC
Coach of the Year, leading Marist to a 10-10
overall record, an 8-1
league
mark, and an
appearance
in
the MAAC Tournament final.
Junior
goalie Mellanie Nai had a spectacular
season
for the
Red Foxes, finishing with a
1.27 goals-against-average and a save
per-
centage of .860, earning MAAC Goalkeeper
of the Year honors. Senior Kasey Sibrinsz and
junior
Jenny Shanks were both selected to the
All-MAAC
First Team as well. Kasey Sibrinsz
was second on the team with
10 points
(four
goals) while Jenny Shanks
led
Marist with
six assists. Senior defender Erin Norton
earned All-MAAC Second Team honors for
the fourth time in her career. She started each
game this year for the Red Foxes and played
a key role in the team's five shutouts.
Men's Basketball Shares MAAC
Regular-Season
Championship
The men's basketball team had
its
most
successful season since joining the MAAC,
posting a 19-9 record and earning a share
of the MAAC regular season championship.
Led
by Head Coach Dave Magarity,
the NABC
District II Coach of the Year, the Red Foxes
posted a 13-5 mark in
league
play and earned
the
number-two seed, their highest ever,
in
the
MAAC Tournament. For the first time
since
the 1998-99
season, Marist captured
the Pepsi-Marist Classic, defeating Drexel
and Columbia in the process.
Sean Kennedy had a career season for
the
Red
Foxes, eclipsing the 1,000-point
mark
in
his final game. He finished 20
th
on
the
school's all-time scoring list with
1,007 points.
Known for
his unselfish play,
Sean
dished
out a career-high 222 assists
this season, which ranked him third
in
the
nation in the category, averaging 7.9 a game.
Sean was named to
theAII-MAACFirstTeam
for the
second consecutive season; he also
was an NABC District
II
First Team selec-
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lb
-
Senior Sean Kennedy
eclipsed tlie
1,000-point
mark
in his
fi,1al
game.
tion, was named
the
Collegelnsider.Com
Mid-Major Most Valuable Player and was
a Mid-Major All-America. While at Marist
Sean distributed 670 assists
to rank
second
all-time, including a single-game school-re-
cord 17 assists
in
his final
home
game.
He
also amassed 212 career steals,
the third-
highest
total
in program history.
Classmate Rick Smith also reached the
1,000-point barrier Feb. 6 at Iona, finishing
with 1,075 career points, 16
th
all-time. Rick
averaged 11.8 points per game this year and
was a Pepsi-Marist Classic All-Tournament
Team selection. He finished his career with
145 steals, good for fifth
in
program history,
and also finished in the top 10 in career
rebounds with 436 and in three-point field
goals with 98 made. Matt Tullis, who spent
two sea.sons with the Red Foxes, swatted
49 shots on the year and 77 for his career,
ranking seventh all-time.
Women's, Men's X-Country
3rd at MAAC Championships
The women's cross-country and indoor
track and field seasons, under Head Coach
Phil Kelly, were successful with the Red
Foxes placing third at both the MAAC
Cross-Country and
Indoor
Track and Field
Champ·ionships. A total of seven school
records
were broken during the indoor
season by Nicole Thompson, Alison Keller,
Liza Grudzinski, Susan Golden and Jen
Stewart.
The 2001-02 Red Fox men's cross-coun-
try and indoor track and field teams, under
Head Coach Pete Colaizzo '86, saw success
individually
and as a unit. The cross-coun-
try
team
finished third at the 2001 MAAC
Championship and the indoor
track team,
which set 12 school
records,
scored a
pro-
gram-best 58 points
in
finishing fifth. Chris
McCloskey became the first Red Fox runner
to win an
individual
indoor MAAC title as
he captured
the
800-meter run. Chris Mc-
Closkey, Eli Bisnett-Cobb, Adam
Pakiela,
Michael Nehr, Adam Waterbury, Pat Driscoll
and Brian Parella all set new school records
during the indoor season.
Women's
Basketball
Duo Tops
1,000
Points
Each
Two seniors surpassed the 1,000-point bar-
rier and moved into the
top-five
all-time in
scoring during the 2001-02 women's bas-
ketball season. Diesa Seidel, the all-time
blocks leader
(162), finished with 1,248
career points, fourth all-time. Marie Fusci
finished as the program's fifth most prolific
scorer with 1,219 career points, second in
made three-pointers (241). The Red Foxes
finished 11-17 and in sixth place in the
MAAC. The sixth seed in
the
MAAC Tour-
nament, Marist, coached by Kristin Lamb,
advanced
to
the quarterfinals for the first
time since joining the league during the
1997-98 season.
Diesa Seidel finished lier
Marist
career with
1,248
points,fourt/1
all-time.
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and news
about the Red Foxes,
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A Stellar Crew Season Befits its Mentor, Scott Sanford
T
radition.
Excellence.
Passion.
Family.
These
are just some of the words that come
to mind when an oarsman
is
asked
to summarize
his or her sport.
Add the words class,
selfless
dedication
and winning
and you have only begun to the scratch
the surface
of
Marist
College
rowing
which
this year,
more
than any
other,
emulated
its mentor,
Scott Sanford.
This year,
the men's
varsity eight crew
(seniors Phil McDowell, coxswain; Rob
Chimchirian,
captain;
Dave
Buckner,
Andy
French,
Curt Kelly,
Chris
Kullak,
junior An-
drew Cox,
and sophomores
Will Copeland
and John Snyder)
again rowed Marist to
national
prominence.
After successfully
defending
its
MAAC
crown
the team posted
a
first-place
finish
at the Avaya
Collegiate
Rowing
Champion-
ship (formerly
Champion
Regatta).
Racing
on pure emotion, Marist headed to the
Cooper
River
in Camden,
N.J.,
and the
IRA
Championships,
where
the Red
Foxes
turned
in
a 15"'-place
performance.
Marist crew, a program
that had now solidified
its
position
among the
rowing
elite and in the midst of its
greatest
season
ever,
was dealt a crushing
blow on June
9 when
Coach
Sanford,
·The Rock,· as he was dubbed
by
his
men,
lost
his race against
cancer
at age 60.
Hudson
Valley Rowing
Becomes
a Family
Affair
The
Sanford
name
has
become
synonymous
with
row-
ing.
Scott Sanford
began
his
rowing
career
alongside
his
brother
Bill at Syracuse
University.
(This
year, Bill retired
as
the
Orangemen's
head
crew coach.)
Upon his graduation
from Syracuse
in
1964, Scott
began
his teaching
career
at Franklin
D. Roosevelt
(FDR)
High
School
in
Hyde
Park, N.Y.,
and also brought
his
love
of rowing
to the Presidents,
serving
as the school's
crew
coach
until 1978.
While
at FDR
"Coach"
metJudyZimmer-
man
and the two were married
in 1966,
she too, quickly,
became
hooked
on rowing.
As the San
fords
welcomed
their
son,
Tom,
and
daughter,
Jody,
into the world, there
was little doubt that they
would
be
heirs
to the family business
and both gladly picked
up
the
oars
at FDR.
Tom
went on to coxswain
atthe University
of Pennsylvania
and Jody to row at Cornell.
Both would
eventually
coach
the sport. Tom
met his wife, Elna,
while
rowing
on the Potomac
and Jody's
fiancee
was a varsity
oarsmen
at UPenn.
Theclaimwasnowstaked-theSanfords-the
Hudson
Valley's
First Family
of
rowing.
Scott's
passion
for education,
which
included
38 years
of service
to Hudson
Valley
school
districts,
was
rivaled
only
by
his
love of family
and rowing.
In
1981
Scott
brought
his talents
to the collegiate
ranks,
founding
the crew program
at Vassar
College.
He led the
Brewers
until 1993,
when
he
moved
up
the east bank of
the
Hudson
River
to coach
Marist.
Building
a Tradition and Dynasty
at Marist
A
rowing
power
in
the early and mid-1970s,
Marist crew is stee,ped
in
tradition. Taking
over
the reins
in
1994,
C,oach
Sanford
had many
goals
and one dream.
The:
ultimate
goal was to solidify
Marist
as one of the top rowing programs
in
the
country.
Retiring
as Spackenkill
High
School's
principal
in 1995, Coach
Sanford
put
in
a
full-time effort. Results
were
swift
and the numbers
grew.
The
men's
and women's
programs
began
to
assert
themselves
reminding
crews
•
across
New York State
that
if
you
can row the Hudson,
the original
horn
e of the National
Champion-
ship,,
everything
else
is
glass.
.A
steady
progression
contin-
ued and Marist slowly, methodi-
cally-,
in
vintage
Sanford
style, climbed
the
rank.s.
And then
it
happened.
With the fall
of 1997
came
arguably
the best freshman
clas:; in the history of the program
and
the national stage was again on the horizon.
The
year
1999 brought
a MAAC Championship,
and a Grand
Final
performance
at the Champion
Regatta;
2001,
the
MAAC
Championship,
the bronze
medal
at the Dad
Vail Regatta,
the IRAs
and
a top
fi
performance;
and 2002,
the culmina-
tion of effort-victories
over
Brown,
Michigan,
Georgetown,
Virginia,
Dowling
and brother
Bill at Syracuse,
the MAAC
Championship,
the Avaya
Championship
and again a
top
15 performance
at the
IRAs.
In
his
final
year
of coaching
Scott
was
coaching
with
son
Tom.
In
the
fall
of 2001,
Tom
returned
home
after
coaching
stints at Syracuse
and Georgetown,
to take over
from his
2002 Natio1nally
Ranked
Crews
Men's Varsity
IEight
Men's Second
1.
California-•Berkeley
Varsity Eight
2. Wisconsin
1.
California
3. Washington
2. Cornell
4. Oregon
Sta1te
3. Washington
5. Princeton
4. Wisconsin
6.
Navy
5. Princeton
7. Dowling
6. Brown
8.
Northeastern
7. Dartmouth
9. Cornell
8. Oregon
State
10.
Temple
9. Michigan
11.
Michigan
10. Penn
12.
Penn
11. Drexel
13.
Stanford
12. Syracuse
14.
Dartmouth
13. Marist
15. Marist
14. Ohio State
16. Brown
15.
Navy
17. Boston
16.
Purdue
18. Georgetown
17.
Rutgers
The Mari
st men's
varsity eight crew members
savor
their victory with Scott Sanford after posting
a
first-place finish at the Avaya Collegiate Rowing
Championship
at Mercer Lake
in
West Windsor,
N.J.,
this past May.
ailing father and spend
a season
coaching
right alongside
"Dad." The
New
YorkStateCollegiate
Rowing
Coaches
As·
sociation
named
Scott
Sanford
Coach
of the Year
in June,
a
decision
the coaches
made
before
learning
of Scott's
death.
The association
also said it
will
rename
the men's
varsity
eight trophy
at the state
championships
the Scott
Sanford
Cup,
and its Point Trophy
the Sanford
Trophy.
Scott
Sanford's
biggest
dream
did
not
go
unfulfilled.
On
July
3-6, Tom
Sanford
took his lather's
Marist
crew
to the
Royal
Henley
Regatta
in Henley,
England,
the
international
showcase
for the world's best rowers.
Once
again
Maris!
stepped
to
the
forefront
and paid the greatest
tribute
to
"The Rock."
After
winning
the Reading
Cup,
a pre-Henley
Regatta
race,
the Red
Foxes
set their sights
on
the
Henley
Regatta.
Competing
for
the Temple
Cup
against
perennial
rowing
powers
Harvard
and
Oxford,
the Red
Foxes
advanced
to the semifinals
of
the
54-team
bracket
with victories
over the England's
Imperial
"B"
and Northern
Ireland's
Queensland
University.
Marist
defeated
Queensland
in
the
quarterfinals
by three feet. In the semifinals,
Marist
had
its dream
season
come
to a close
with
a loss
to eventual
Temple
Cup Champion-Harvard.
Throughout
the
week,
Marist earned
the
respect
of the rowing
elite
and repre-
sented
the college
with
the class
and distinction
befitting
its mentor-Scott
Sanford.
-Sean Morrison
Donations
in Scott
Sanford's
memory
may be made
to Marist
College
Crew,
care
of the
Office
of Col-
lege
Advancement,
Marist College,
3399
North
Rd., Poughkeepsie,
N.Y. 12601-1387,
or to Memo-
rial Sloan
Kettering
Cancer
Center,
Box
E,
1275
York
Ave., New
York,
N.Y.
10021.
For
more
details
on the Red
Foxes'
trip
to
Henley,
Englandl,
log
onto the Marist
College
Athletics
Web site at
www.goredfoxes.com.
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Contact Marist
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Francis
J.
Reilly
has
retired after
49 years
teaching
English:
45
years
at
Willimantic High
5chool and
four years at
middle
school. Frank
lives
in Willimantic, Conn., with
his
wife,
Johanna,
who
teaches
at
Bernard
Academy in Uncasvi\le,
Conn.
1
9 5 5
A Mass for
Jubilarians honoring
Marist Brothers
markirng50'
h
anni-
versaries was celebrated on June
17,
2001, at Immaculate ,Conception
Center
in
Douglaston (Queens),
A Scholarship
!Honors
Longtime
Dea111
of
Students
and l1heatre
Mentor Jerry Cox
A scholarship honoring
longtime
Dean of Students, English
profes-
sor and theatre mentor
Gerard
A.
Cox '55 has been established at
Marist College.
Jerry, who will forev,er
be known
to many as "Dean Cox," retired in
2001
from
his post as Vice
President
and
Dean
for Student
Affairs
after a
34-year career at
Mari
sit.
His
service
to the college encompa,ssed
teach-
ing,
serving as a senior executive
of
the college and sharing
his talent
and passion for the theatre through
scores of student prodluctions.
He
remains
active as director of Marist's
theatre
program and c1n associate
professor of English.
A former
Marist
Brother,
Jerry
graduated from Marist
in
1955.
His
career at the college be·gan in 1967
as a faculty member
in
the
English
Department. Named an assistant
professor of English in 1970,
he
was granted tenure
iin
1974. In
1969 Jerry was appointed Associ-
ate Dean for Student Academic
Affairs and continued
to
teach.
He worked in
the
Academic Dean's
Office until
1979,
wh1en he was
named
Vice President and
Dean
of
Students, a position he,
held
for 22
years. Over
the
yea
rs,
Jerry's love for
the theatre has influenced several
thousand students who benefited
from
his
enthusiasm and guidance
as the advisor for
the M.arist
College
Council on Theatre Arts (MCCTA).
A published playwright, he
helped
establish
the
college's
experimental
theatre program
in
1970. In
1976
he
N.Y.
Among
those honored
were:
Gregory DelaNoy, FMS, Vincent
Jerome
Doughty,
FMS, Declan
Murray.
FMS, Luke
P. Reddington,
FMS, Robert
F.
Ryan, FMS,
Louis
Richard
Gaudreau, FMS, Vincent
Xavier, FMS,
Albert
J.
Phillipp,
FMS
'57 and
Denis
Caverley,
FMS
'67.
Bro. Declan
Murray also
received the
Stanner Achievement
Award for 27 years of outstanding
service as a religion teacher at
Archbishop Molloy High School
in
Queens,
N.Y.
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Professor
James
Frie
l's
Humanities!
Aitla Magazine
is in
its
30'h year.
He
also speaks on the 9/11
disaster,
offers solutions to world crises and
is
publishing a
book
of
poetry. His
first
poem was published at Marist
in 1956.
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G. Patrick Gallagher, Ph.D. is
still
immersed in his police
defense
wit-
ness work,
handling
mainly shoot-
ings
and
uses of force and pursuits
while he and his wife, Mary,
live
in
their Blue Ridge
Mountain
home
in
southern Virginia and
run
a
bed
and breakfast
called
the
Wild Geese
Inn in
Indian
Valley,
Va.
I
Joseph
Strang
(aka Bro.
Joel
Gilmary) has
been named Teacher of
the
Year at
Alumni who were involved in theatre at Marist gathered to celebrate
with
Jerry
Cox
'55
at a surprise party for him on the campus when
he retired from his
longtime
position as
Dean
of Students. Joining
Jerry
were (left to right) Jerome Anderson '93, Nicole
(Marino)
Chapin '93 and John Chapin '93, Sarah (Taney) Humphreys
'92 and
Jim Joseph
'91.
was instrumental in bringing about
the
unification
of the
Theatre
Guild,
Children's
Theatre
and Experimental
Theatre into what is now
known
as
MCCTA.
The
effort broadened
in-
terest
in theatre at Marist by con-
solidating resources and planning
and enabling students to see more
possibilities
for developing
theirown
theatre
skills. Currently
MCCTA
has
160
members
and annually
sponsors
a comedy, an experimental play, a
traditional
drama, the annual V-Day
theatrical celebration,
a major musi-
cal, a children's
theatre
production
and the
Festival
of Student Plays,
which Jerry founded in 1980. The
group produces a Shakespearean
play and a musical
revue
in alter-
nate years.
This
past October,
the
Dutchess
County
Arts Council
honored
MCC-
TA,
now entering
its
26
th
season.
Jerry, along with student members
of the council's executive board,
accepted the award recognizing
MCCTA
for stimulating growth
in
the arts.
To
honor
Jerry's
distinguished
career, family,
former students and
colleagues
have
initiated the
Gerard
A. Cox Scholarship.
The scholarship
endowment will provide financial
assistance to
Marist
students who
have shown exceptional com-
mitment to
the
theatre and MCCTA
through writing, performing,
de-
signing or managing production
units,
or
through
some combi-
nation
of achievements
within
these
areas.
Contributions
continue
to be
welcome and may be sent in care
of the Office of College Advance-
ment, Marist College, 3399 North
Rd., Poughkeepsie,
N.Y.
12601-1387.
Please indicate that the gift
is
for the
Gerard A. Cox Scholarship
Fund.































Heald Business College
in
Salinas,
Calif, where
he
chairs
the
General
Education
Department.Joe teaches
Word
2000, business communica-
tions
skills
and research
writing.
1
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John
R.
Wilcox, Ph.D.
has
co-
edited a
book,
Enhancing
Religious
Identity, Best
Practices
from Catholic
Campuses
(Georgetown University
Press).
John is
chair and
professor
of religious studies at Manhauan
Colle e
in Riverdale,
NY
1
9 6
2
William
Lenehan
is eager
10
hear
from athletes he coached in football
and crew-especially graduates
from 1964
to 1975 Contact Bill
al wjlenehan@aol.com or by
calling
the
Alumni Office.
I
Dr.
Gerald McKenna
is
president
of
the
Hawaii Medical
Association.
Jerry continues
to
practice
in
Kauai and
Hawaii
and is clinical
associate
professor
of psychiatry
al
lhe
University of
Hawaii
Medi-
cal School.
I
Dr. Frank
J.
Swetz
has written
the
book
Legacy
of the
Luoshu:
the 4000-Year Search
for the
Meaning
of the
Magic
Square
of Order
Three.
Frank says
it's
his
best book
to
date.
I
Francis
P. Walsh
retired
in 1998 from
Morris Hills
High
School in
Rockaway,
N.J., after
25
)'ears, for a
total
of 36 years teach-
ing English/drama and directing
school plays and musicals (a total
of 85
productions).
1
9 6 3
Bro.
John
Cherry, FMS has been
a Catholic chaplain at St.
John's
Hospital in
Elmhurst,
(Queens)
N.Y., for
17
years. Bro.
John
also
serves as chairman of the Ethics
Committee at the hospital.
1
9 6 5
Frederick
DiBerto
has retired
from
IBM
Global Services.
He
served the
company as senior
professional
development
manager.
I
Robert
Gould is
the owner of Bethlehem
Art Gallery, located at 58 Orrs
Mills
Road,
Salisbury Mills, NY
Bob
also serves
as
chairman of
the
board of
directors for
the Orange
County Chapter
of the
American
Red Cross of Greater New York.
I
James
Mara
retired
as
assistant
principal
at Arlington High School,
where he served as a
teacher and
an
adminislrator
for 36 years.
lJohnJ.
Meehan
has
retired from the
Deer
Park
School in
Deer Park,
N.Y.,
after
35
years
in
education.
1
9 6 6
Stanley
Becchetli
retired
on
March
1,
2002,
from A.G. Edwards& Sons,
Inc.
after
24
years, completing a
35-year career in the secuirities
industry.
Stan was a vice president
at A.G. Edwards in St.
Louis,
Mo.
I
Joseph Garcia
is
enjoying a
happy retirement in Florida.
I
Matthew Habinowski
recently
retired
as
an acquisition
manager
at Compaq Computer Corp.
His
daughter, Susan, received
a
Ph.D.
in
molecular biology from Dart-
mouth, and his son, Mauh,~w. is
in
Kazachstan
as a
Peace
Corps
business
advisor.
I
TheJosepihinum
Journal of
Theology has
published
an article
by
John W. Han, Ph.D.,
"Caring
for
Creation, Community
and
the
Common Good,"
in ils
winter/spring 2002
issue.
John
presented "Sacred Cosmos, S,acred
Commons" at
the
Oxford Seminars
in Science and Christianity at
the
University of Oxford, England,
on Aug.
17,
2001.
I
Donald
J.
Haughey
retired
from
the
Austin
Independent School District in
May 2001 after
26 years. Dc>n
has
increased his teaching assignments
at St. Edward's University
in Austin,
Texas, to three classes per semester.
He has
taught at St.
Edward's
for
17
years as an adjunct
insuructor
of an. Don participated in the
first Celtic Art Show in Austin
in
November and
December
of 2001.
I
John
T.
McManus
writes that he
and
his wife, Cathy, enjoyed get-
ting together with other
members
of the Class
of
'66 at their 35'
h
class
reunion at
Marist in
October
2001.
Theirson,John,and his
wife,
Liz,
are attorneys in Albani,, N.Y.
His
daughter, Cate, graduated
in
May 2002 with a V.M.D. fro,m
the
University of
Pennsylvania
School
of Veterinary
Medicine.
I
Thomas
Troland
has been named directorof
brand
futures
for Meredith
Corpo-
ration
(publisher of
Better .Homes
and Gardens and other mag:azines
and
books).
The new
posit.ion
is
an internal consultancy
focused
on
lrends research,
strategy, new
products
and
brand licensing.
I
Terry Youngs
writes that every so
often, he sneaks
up to the
campus,
visits the terrific
library, bookstore
and chapel, walks around
taking
in
the
sights and sounds arnd gets
lost in the happy
memories
of yea
rs
gone by. It's his wish
that
today's
students will come
to relish
and
appreciate the
opportunities for
personal
growth
that the quality
education at Marist
has provided
them-as
he
does!
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1
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1
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Or. Ronald
M. Anderson
was
elected president of the Microscopy
Society of America. The 6,000-
member scientific society serves the
needs
of physical and life scientists
making use
of light and electron
microscopy
in the United States
and 37 other countries. Ron has
wriuen four
books
and published
186 scientific papers
in
the field.
He
is a senior physicist with
IBM's
Microelectronics Division in
East
Fishkill,N.Y.IThomasCrimmins
and
his
wife, Cathy, celebrated
their
silver wedding anniversary in
July
2001. Tom is
a guidance counselor
at
Elmont
Memorial
High
School
in
Elmont,
N.Y.
I
Michael Gilfeather
retired
on Dec.
29,
2000,
after
32
years with the New York State Leg-
islative
Bill Drafting Com
mission
in
Albany, N.Y.
He's
currently enjoy-
ing retiremenL.
I
Bob
Johnson's
daughter, Jennifer, is
story editor
for NBC's hit drama "Providence"
and
his
son, Paul.and
his
wife made
Bob a grandfather for
the
fourth
time
with the birth of Luke Rob-
ert. Afler 25 years
in
banking. Bob
started Kaffe Magnum Opus, Inc.,
a
coffee
roaster
that
now
sells
in
45
states
to
more than
1,000 retailers
of specialty coffee.
Bob
traveled
to
Guatemala in fall
2001
to
arrange
supply contracts for green coffee.
I
John
F.
Kenny
retired after32
years
as an educator in
the
Wappingers
(N.Y.) Central School
District.
I
Tim
Nagle
has been chosen "The
Favorite Teacher
in North
Jersey" by
his former students in
the Pompton
Lakes
School District
in
Pompton
Lakes,
NJ Tim
left
teaching a
few
years ago
10
become
the
supervisor
of
English
and basic skills and coor-
dinator of
testing for
the
Pompton
Lakes
district. Tim
says he
misses
the
interaction with the students
as
well as
the
stimulation of answering
their questions
and helping
them
to
communicate beuer.
Tim
says that
over the years
he
enjoyed teaching
early British
literature and
Greek
drama
courses
the most.
He loves
the Greek tragedies.
I
Fred Poli-
castri
is enjoying
retirement
after
working at
IBM
for 35 years.
MARRIAGES
Helene Ardila '85
10
George
Lenoir,
Sept.
29, 2001
Karen Szklany '86
to
Edward
Gault,
Sept.
28, 2001
Eileen Atkins '87
to
Jay
Valdes,
Nov.
17, 2001
John
"Skip"
Benamati, Ph.D. '87 M
to Mandy
Campbell,
May 19, 2001
Maureen Melley '87
to
Philip
Angelastro,
Sept.
22, 2001
Maureen Blake '89
to James
Mercer,
Dec.
11,
1999
Lydia Dougherty '89
to
McBee
Butcher,
Jr.,
Dec. 29, 2000
Maria Fanelli '89
to
Michael
Giametta,
Aug. 5, 2000
Christine Garvin '90
to
Anthony
DiAmbrosio,
June
3,
2000
Kimberly Knox '90
to
Bruce
Beckius,
Sept.
2, 2001
Andrew Scarano '90
to
Natalie
Rehklau,
May
26, 2001
Ann M. Triant '90
to
Charlie
Cave,
Sept.
22,
2001
Aimee Asaro
'91
to
Kenneth P. O'Connor,
Jr. '93,
March 10,
2001
Kym Eggers
'91
to Jeffrey
Sorbel,
May 18,
2002
Denise Gormley '91
to
Sean
Brennan,
Aug. 19,
2000
Dr. James J. Jozefowicz
'91
to
Dr.
Stephanie
M.
Brewer,
July 28, 2001
Scott David Kunda '91
to
Jacquelyn
Marie
Stafford,
Dec. 16, 2000
Amy Marble
'91
10
Scott
Thompson,
Sept. 16, 2000
Scott Rumsey
'91
to
Casey
Hollister,
May 26, 2001
Christopher
A. Russell
'91
to
Nicole
Drizos,
Oct.
6, 2001
Denise James
'92
to Michael
Malario,
Sept.
1, 2001
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MARRIAGES
Maura Leddy '92
to Derek
Bradley,
Oct.
20, 2001
Marie Lupone '92
to Kenneth
Kantor,
Aug. 4,
2001
Barbara Lydon '92
to Robert
T.
Fanning,
Jr.,
May
19,
2001
Dean S. Mastrangelo, Esq. '92
to
Nancy
Kersich,
March
23,
2002
Frank Mora, Esq. '92
to Sheri
Provost,
Sept.
8, 2001
Gina Pollio '92
to Richard
Lugo,
April
1,
2000
Paul Prims '92
to
Dea
Pitruzzello,
Aug.
11,
2001
Joseph Santarelli '92
to
Johanna
Marie
Ammirato,
June 24, 2000
Chris Arrigali '93
to Denise
Godoy,
April
7,
2001
Anne
Ayotte
'93
to
Scott
Delomba,
May
19, 2001
Robyn
Berger
'93
to
Jim
Ulbrich '95,
March
10,
2001
Nicole Conti '93
to
Jack
Tolnes,
June 29, 2001
Christine Coughlin '93
to Anthony
Collora,
Aug.
25, 2001
Sara Cuozzo '93
to
Philip
Poska,
June
30,
2000
Valerie Gajdzis '93
to Matthew P.
Reyher,
Oct. 21,
2001
Virginia Kosuda
'93
to Peter
Franco,
Oct.
13, 2001
Jill McDonald '93
to Matthew
Aronin, Oct.
20, 2001
Dr. Tanya M. Neuhaus '93
to Dr. David
Wittig, Aug. 19, 2000
Colleen Russell, C.P.A. '93
to Mark A. Susko,
June
3,
2000
Tara Camo '94
to
Daniel Hart
'97,
July
4, 2001
Michael Gearing '94
to
Ami Annette
Darrow,
July 1,
2000
Beth Keenan '94
to Stephen
J. Meyers,
Nov.
10, 2001
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MAGAZINE
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Robert
G.
Bailey, Esq.
is chair of
several committees foircommunity
organizations
in
Columbia, Mo.,
including the Family Hlealth
Center,
the Central Missouri Fund
Bank
and Boone County Group Homes.
He also chairs
the
University of
Missouri Athletic Department's
strategic planning committee and
professional sports panel. Bob
is
a
member of the National Academy
of Arbitrators and
the
National
Conference of Committees on
Uniform State Laws.
I
Dominick
Bollella
retired
after 35 years of
teaching high
school science.
He will be working pan-time
for the
next
two years
until
his
wife,
Ruth,
can retir,e. They plan
to
travel
extensively
in
their new
motorhome.
I
Charles
Dykas
is
regional
managn for Cisco
Systems/Federal,
res,ponsible
for
U.S. Forces/Europe. He spends lots
of time
in Heidelberg,,
Germany.
I
Dr. Patrick B.
Fors)rth
has been
elected to a three-year term as
vice president of the American
Educational
Research
Association
(AERA)
at its Seattle: convention.
Pat joined
the
Okl:ahoma State
University graduate faculty in 2000
and teachesschoolad
ministration.
I
William S. Gould retired
from
teaching
at Newburgh
(NY.)
Free
Academy after 33 years
in
the
Newburgh City School District.
He
now works part-time in the
family
business,
Bethlehem Art
Gallery.
The
galle:ry recently
framed
the
works of more than 50
celebrities for Sesame Street's 30
1
h
anniversary. These
items toured
the country and were eventually
sold at Sotheby's.
I
Floyd Holt,
a
former physics teach,~r
at Franklin
Delano
Roosevelt
High School
in
Hyde
Park, N.Y., has opened a
j
Dr. Patrick B. Forsyth '68
Capt. Paul Rinn, USN {Ret.) '68
prototype of
his
future Spaceship
Discovery Science and Technology
Museum.
He
and a \·olunteer crew
renovated the former Burger King
on
Route
9 in Hyde Park
to look
somewhat like a cross between the
bridge of the famous TV starship
and
his former
classroom. He
hopes this
endeavor will spark
interest
in science by showing
how robots,
laser guns
and
such
can nurture creativity
and intellec-
tual development.
"Imagination
is
more
important than knowledge,"
Floyd
said at the opening. He
eventually hopes
to build
a per-
manent museum
that
will draw
visitors from around
the
world.
I
William R. Howell
retired as an
inspector
of weights
and measures
for the Dutchess County (N.Y.)
Department of Consumer Affairs.
I
Richard Kirby
is
a beverage
specialist for Folgers
and
Millstone
Coffees
(Proctor
&
Gamble) in
its
food service division in Cincinnati,
Ohio.
I
William Kuffner
has left
the bankingindustryaftera30-year
career and
has
joined
the
YMCA
of Greater Buffalo as executive
di rector of the Southtow n's
branch.
Bill
writes that
his
daughter, Mag-
gie, will attend Marist
in
fall 2002
as
a member of the class of 2006.
I
Kenneth Maass
is
enjoying
teaching American
history
and
philosophy at St. Augustine High
School
in
St. Augustine, Fla.
He
continues working on
his
novel.
I
The Rev. Joseph
G.
O'Connell
is
pastor
of the
oldest
Baptist
church
in Virginia
(est.
Oct. 8, 1751), the
Ketoctin
Church in Purcellville, Va.
Pastor Joe
invites
Marist alumni
to visit
the
church's Web site at
www.ketoctin.org.
I
Dr. Peter
Passero
is
chairman of
the board
of
Prizm Dental
Partners.
His
daugh-
ter, Kimberly, is
a general dentist
in Mclean, Va.,
and
son, Kevin,
is studying
holistic
medicine
in
Portland,
Ore.
Peter's
wife, Maria,
manages a woman's clothing store
in Bethesda, Md.
Ijames
Pucci
has
opened a
new
office for Ad vest, Inc.
in
Goshen, N.Y., called
The
Pucci
Investment Group.
I
Capt.
Paul
X.
Rinn,
USN (Ret.) has been
promoted
to
vice
president
for
busi-
ness development and
marketing,
international
maritime
operations
for the Washington, D.C.-based
consulting firm Whitney, Bradley
&
Brown. Since joining Whitney,
Bradley
&
Brown, Paul has served
as senior consultant for maritime
operations and has
directed
the
firm's successful effort
to
expand its
business base in
Europe, the
Middle
East
and North America.
I
Robert
T.
Scott
was presented with
letters
ofaffiliation
tot he
DeLaSalle
Broth-
ers of the Christian Schools.
Bob
was named
the
first lay principal
of St.
Joseph's
Collegiate Institute
in Buffalo, N.Y.
I
Philip
Sheehan
retired
from
Lucent Technologies
after 33 years
and is
now the gen-
eral
manager
of worldwide sales for
OFS Fite!, Inc. of Norcross, Ga.
He
continues
to
live in Floral Park, N.Y.,
with
his
wife, Nancy.
1 9 6 9
Harry J. Carroll
is
happy traveling
around
the
world.
I
Richard
A.
Dickinson, D.D.S.
reports that
his oldest
daughter,
Lindsey,
passed
the bar
in Pennsylvania
and is look-
ing
for
a
job
in
Washington, D.C.
His second oldest
daughter,
Grace,
is a senior dental student at
Tufts
University
Dental
School. Grace
plans
to
return to St. Albans, Vt.,
to begin practicing dentistry with
her
dad. His
son, Rich,Jr. graduated
from Dartmouth in
2000
and is an
electrical engineer.
I
The City of
Oak Park, Mich., and its city
manager,
Daniel W. Fitzpatrick,
have
been named recipients of the
2001 International City/Count)'
Management Association (ICMA)
Program Excellence Award for
Innovations
in Local Government
Management. Dan and Oak Park
were
honored
duringthe87'h
ICMA
Annual Conference
in
Salt Lake
City, Utah. Dan was recognized for
his
success in
improving
the morale
of city employees and enhancing
service delivery.
I
Gerard M.
Gretzinger,
Sr.
became the first
teacher
inducted into Coleman
Catholic High School's
Hall
ofFame
in May 2000. The Nov. 9, 2000,
issue
of
Catholic
New York
featured
an article
showcasingJerry's career
in
education and children ·s
theater.
He believes
that
a theater
program
brings a community
together
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offers the
joy
of seeing small chil-
dren in the audience overcome
with wonder and delight as
the
play transports
them
into another
world. Jerry
is principal
of Felix
V.
Festa Middle School
in
West
Nyack, N.Y.
Jerry's
son,
Gerard
M.
Gretzinger, Jr.
and
his
wife,
Karen Landry Gretzinger,
are
members
of the classes of
1994
and
1997 respectively.
I
Patrick
J.
Keilty, Jr.
and
his
wife, Anne,
retired from
the
Howard County
(Md.) Public School District
inJune
2001 after 25 years of teaching. Pat
and Anne have moved to
Bradenton,
Fla., where
they
will teach
for
the
Manatee County Public Schools at
Braden River Middle School (Anne)
and
Lakewood Ranch
High School
(Pat).
They expected construction
on
their
new home to
be
completed
by March 2002. Pat sends
regards
to
his
teachers
and friends who
were Marist Brothers.
He is most
grateful for his years at
Marist
and
for his associaLion with so many
fine men.
I
Vincent
J.
Mooney's
son, Chris, graduated
from
Union
College in June 2001.
I
John
J.
unziata,Jr.
represented
Maristat
the
inauguration
ofDr.
Johnjoseph
DeGioia
as the 48th
president
of
Georgetown University on Oct.
13,
2001. John is
Lhe
immediate
past
president
of Marist's Alumni
Executive Board and is vice presi-
dent for partner markets at
Inter-
mediate Communications
in
Upper
Saddle
River,
N.J.
I
Bro. Bishop
Vianney Fernando
of Kandy, Sri
Lanka,
ordained Clifford
Perera
a priest on Sept. 29,
2001.
I
Gaspare Perrello
is
in
his
33rd
year of teaching at Tuxedo
High
School in Tuxedo, N.Y.
I
William
J.
Rowley, Jr., Esq.
represented
Marist at
the inauguration
of
Dr.
Stuart
Rabinowitz
as
the
eighth
president of Hofstra University
Daniel
W.
Fitzpatrick
'69
Another
Best Selliar
for
Bill O'Reilly
'7:L
A second book of
nonfiction
by
journalist
and author
Bill
O'Reilly
'71 has spent weeks at
the No.
1
spot on
The New York Times
"Best
Sellers"
list.
The No Spin Zone: Confronta-
tions with the Powerful
and Famous
in America,
published
in
October
2001, was on
The New York Times
"Best Sellers"
list
for 20 weeks,
including eight weeks at
No. 1. His
first book,
The O'Reilly
Factor: The
Good, the Bad, and the Completely
Ridiculous
in American Life,
issued
in
2000, was on the
Times
"Best
Sellers" list for 32 weeks, including
11 weeks at
No.
1.
Some 900,000 copies of
The No
Spin Zone
are now
in
print.. More
than 1 million copies of
The
O'Reilly
Factor
are circulating.
on Oct. 19, 2001.
Bill
is vice
president for employee
benefits
at
Profile Coverage in Ronkonkoma,
N.Y.,
and serves as
Lreasurer
of
Marist's Alumni Executive
Board.
I
Thomas
J.
Ward
was appointed
president and chief executive,officer
of Maiden form,
Inc. Tom
hats also
been asked to serve as a member of
the board of directors of Maiden-
form. Previously, he was president
of WestPoint Stevens following a
32-year career there.
1
9 7 0
Inside
Business
has named
Robert
L.
Brown,
Esq. in the top
one per-
cent of Ohio attorneys.
I
Phillip
Crawford, D.D.S.
has
opened a free
clinic
in
Pahokee,
Fla., providing
medical
and dental
care
to
poor and
migrant
families.
He and his wife,
Elisa,
welcomed
their
first g,rand-
child,
Jackson,
into
the
family.
I
Robert
Farina
is a retired Air Force
pilot,
having
flown the C-141 and
KC-10
for over 20 years. He is
now a
USAirways pilot,
flyi.ng
as
captain on
three
aircrafts: the B767,
B757 and the AirBus.
I
William
Reuschle's
daughter,
Kathleen,
graduated
from James
Madison
University in May
2001
and works
at Fox News
in
New York, N.Y.
I
Dr. Douglas Stuart
was appointed
the
first holder of
thej.
William and
Helen D. Stuart Endowed Chtair in
International
Studies,
Business
and
Management at Dickinson College.
Douglas
is the
director of
the
Clarke
Bill, anchor/host of Fox News
Channel's "The O'Reilly
Factor"
since
1996,
is as popular on TV as
he
is
in
print. In 2000, "The Factor"
passed "Larry
King
Live"
to become
the
No.
1 cable news program in the
United States.
Center for
the Interdisciplinary
Study of Contemporary
Issues
at
Dickinson.
1
9 7
1
Edward C. Anderson
represented
Marist at
the inauguration
ofDonna
E.
Shalala as the 5
th
president
of
the University of Miami on Nov.
2,
2001.
I
Paul
J.
Browne
was
appointed the New York City
Police
Department's deputy com-
missioner foradministration,
under
police Commissioner
Ray Kelly,
in
January. He
previously
served the
department as assistant commis-
sioner for programs and
policy
and as director of special
projects.
I
Edward
G. Hallen,
C.P.P. has
been elected
to
a
three-yeanerm
on
the American Society for
Industrial
Security
board
of directors. Ed has
worked in the security industry
field for 22 years,
18
of which
have been
in
managerial roles.
He
is the managerof security and safety
services for Occidental Petroleum
Corp. in Los Angeles, Calif.
I
John
W.
Koch
retired
from
IBM
in
1993
after 30 years of service.
He
and
his
wife, Arlene, moved to Florida
in
March
2000. John
joined the
Boca
Raton, Fla., chapter of the
IBM Retirees
Breakfast Group.
I
Robert
L.
Miller
teaches
seventh
and eighth grade math at St.
Theresa's
Elementary
School
in
Staten Island, N.Y.
He
was listed
in the
2000 edition of
Who's Who
Among America's Teachers.
I
SUNY
MARRIAGES
Claudine Martini '94
to
Jeffrey
Paul
Caruso,
June
3, 2001
Susan B. Murphy '94
to
Michael
F. Harney,
Oct.
13,
2001
Christine Nichtern '94
to
Eric
Foster,
Sept.
30, 2000
Patricia O'Keefe '94
to Gregory
Hrycak,
June
8, 2001
Stephanie
L. Stewart '94
to
Joseph
L.
Barry,
Oct. 6, 2001
Ray Varuolo '94
to Silvia-Maria
Nora,
June
22, 2001
Jessica
Adelman '95
to
Brian
Kogut,
Sept. 1, 2001
Jeana Alves '95
to
Douglas J. Closinski '95,
Nov. 10, 2001
Jeanne Marie Brennan
'95
to
Michael Dunne, C.S.W.
'95,
Nov.
2, 2001
Arthur J. Brown, Jr. '95
to
Diane
Gareau,
May
31, 2001
Ana Castillo '95
to Terence
Farrell,
Oct.
13,
2000
Jennifer Clark '95
to
Patrick Brennan '95,
June
10, 2000
Gabrielle Demma '95
to
James
Smith,
July
7, 2001
Ted Eglit '95
to
Sonda
Carroll,
May 12,
2001
Christopher
M. Fromm '95
to
Kathleen
M. Fedorchak,
May 4,
2001
Jennifer Hall '95
to
Raymond
Barrante,
Sept.
25, 1999
Tracy Harpin '95
to
Jason
Carifa,
Sept.
29, 2001
Shradha Mulani '95
to Shailesh
Patel,
Oct.
11, 1998
Julie Philippon '95
to
Neil Pade,
Oct. 13,
2001
Suzanne Schiano '95
to Gerard
Scully,
June
30,
2001
Lisa
M.
Colon '98
to
Joseph Sievers
'95,
May
18, 2002
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ALL
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Alumni
i
A!
MARRIAGES
Sheri Weidner '95
to Michael
J.
Fitzgerald,
March
16,
2002
Robyn Bradley
'96
to
Christopher Schubert
'97,
Oct. 13, 2001
Claudine DeSola '96
to
Brian E. Gumbel '97,
May 12, 2001
Lori Drugan '96
to
Juan
Valdez,
Aug. 11, 2000
Kara Dugan '96
to
Vincent Romeo '96,
March 31, 2001
Alaina Evangelista '96
to
Kevin
Wiehn,
July 21,
2001
Susan Ferinde '96
to Brian McWhirter,
May 10, 2001
Melanie Fester '96
to John
Dawson,
Sept. 8, 2001
Katherine Gallagher
'96
to
Lenny Stripeikis
'96,
April
1,
2001
Andrea Gulius '96
to
Kevin Straw '96,
April 8, 2000
Jessica
Main '96
to David Linicus,
Aug. 14,
1999.
Anthony J. Mallano
'96
to Danielle
Casavillo,
April 21, 2001
Stephanie Mossa
'96
to
Andrew Ponzoni '96,
March 24, 2000
Eileen Nunno
'96
to
Kurt
Allen,
June
1, 2001
Kimberly Pressmar '96
to
James Luciano '96,
May
19,
2001
Theresa Scura '96
to
James Coughlin '96,
July
28, 2000
Karen Teufel
'96
to Michael
Mushorn,
May 18, 2002
Melissa Vanacore
'96
to
Joseph
Carbone,
July
21, 2001
Ramsay Whitworth, Esq.
'96
to
Amy
Kathleen
Cavero,
Esq.,
July
14,
2001
Lori Zengel '96
to Scott Brown,
June
29, 2001
Terri Carrozzo
'97
to
Erik
M.
Parks,
July 7, 2001
Gina D'Angelo
'97
38
MARIST
MAGAZINE
New
Paltz
honored
James
N. Stein-
meyer
for
Excellence:
in Teaching.
Jim, a
30-year veteran who teaches
English at
Roy
C. Ketcham High
School in the Wappingers
(N.Y.)
Central School District, was
recognized for his dedication as a
teacher,
coach and mentor and as
a compassionate human being who
treats his students wit.h dignity and
respect.
I
Jack
Wawrzonek
and
his wife, Linda, greatly enjoyed
attendingJack's 30
th
class reunion
in October 2001 at Marist.
"The
campus looks great a:nd
the
library
isa
huge
asset to present and
future
students," he said.
II
Thomas E.
Wilson
was honored in April
2001
by the International Wood Products
Association with the organization's
prestigious Distinguished Service
Award. The award was presented
during
World of Wo,od 2001,
the
group's
45'
h
annual convention
and 13
th
International
Forest
Products Exhibition i:n Puerto Rico.
Tom is president of International
Specialties,
Inc. in
Germantown,
Tenn. He lives in Germantown
with his wife, Teresa, and their
five children.
I
Steve Wysowski
is
the principal at CoginchaugHigh
School in Durham, Conn.
~nmu•
1
m:=
1 9 7 2
Theyear2001 wasabusytravelyear
for
Jim
Cosentino
of IBM's Storage
Subsystems
Group.
Early
in
the year
he
returned from an <1ssignment
in
Beijing, China, where he lectured
at IBM's
"Storage
Systems Top
Gun Academy," an extension of
his lectures in
the
United States
for IBM's
"Top
Gun Academy" at
Xerox Document
University
in
Leesburg, Va.
Earlier
this
year,
Jim
was responsible for the Stor-
age Systems content within IBM's
"eServer
University" events held
Jim Cosentino
•:12
throughout the
United States and
Canada, England, France, Spain,
Germany,
Hong
Kong and
Japan.
Back at home, Jim works at the
IBM eServer Customer Executive
Briefing Center
in
Poughkeepsie
and the IBM Palisades Execu-
tive Conference Center. He and
Mary,
his
wife of 27 years, live
in Saugerties, N.Y. They have two
children,Joseph, age 19, and Tara
Marie, age 17.
I
Paul
J.
Curtin,
Jr.,
Esq.
represented Marist at the
inauguration of Charles
J.
Beirne,
SJ. as
the 11th president
of LeM-
oyne College on Nov. 18, 2000.
Paul is
a partner in the
law
firm
of Shulman, Curtin, Grundner &
Regan,
P.C. in Syracuse, N.Y.
I
Neal
Fenton
is a fiscal analyst for the
New York City Department ofYouth
and Community Development.
I
Robert Keatingco-ownsArlington
Wine and Liquors
in
Poughkeepsie.
The business was one of only 12
retailers to
win
the
prestigious Mar-
ket Watch Leaders Award, which
honors
top retailers around
the
country.
I
Bryce
Kiernan
retired
from
a quarter-century of service as
a boarding school master, including
20
years as
mathematics
chairman
at the New York Military Academy.
While continuing to teach part-
time at Marist, Bryce divides his
residence between
Briarcliff
Manor
and Fishkill in New York and Prince
Edward
Island,
Canada.
I
Michael
Smith
joined The Pucci Investment
Group at Advest in Goshen, N
.Y.,
as
a financial advisor.
I
Cmdr. Martin
E. Torrey
(USN
Ret.) is chief of staff
for
Congressman
John
Sweeney of
New York's 22
nd
District in Wash-
ington,
D.C.
1
9 7 3
Dr. Dana Delaware
was named
associate division head of the
Science
Division
at Truman State
University in Kirksville, Mo. He
joined
Truman
State in 1980 after a
post-doctoral fellowship
at the
Uni-
versityoflllinois.
I
Richard
Freccia
is
a memberof the executive boards
of the New Jersey Association for
College Admissions Counseling
and the Monmouth County
(N.].)
School Counselors Association. A
counselor at Allentown
(N
.].) High
School, Rich isalsoastatistician for
ESPN regional television
on Big East
Conference football and basketball
broadcasts.
I
Dr. Raymond].
Fron-
tain
has been appointed director
of
the
new Humanities and World
Cultures Institute at the
University
Dr.
Dana
Delaware'73
of Central Arkansas in Conway,
Ark.
I
Bro. Henry
"Hank"
Ham-
mer
is director of adult and youth
evangelization for Marist Brothers'
schools and ministries in
the
United
States and
Japan.
I
Stuart Neil's
daughter, Jaime, graduated from
high school with honors in June
2002 and plans to auend Colorado
State University
in fall
2002.
1 9 7 4
Richard
Green isthechief
executive
of Fellowship
&
Peace Academy-
Crown Heights Youth Collective,
Inc. Heauended the James
A. Can-
navino Library dedication in May
2000. He was an HEOP student at
Marist.
I
Kenneth
G.
Hayes, Jr.
is president and CEO of Radiant
Medical, which is
running
clinical
trials to study new endovascular
cooling therapy to treat heart attack
and stroke.
I
Stephenj.
Hewitt
is
director of government affairs for
the New York State Department
of Transportation
in Albany,
N.Y. He
is
a proud grandfather to
three grandchildren.
I
Joseph D.
McCann,
Esq.
is
a partner in the
law
firm
of Murray and McCann in
Rockville Centre, N.Y.,
specializing
in litigation. He lives in Glen Cove,
N.Y.,
with his wife.Julie. and their
daughter, Margeaux. They divide
their spare time between visits
to
the playground and sailing on Long
Island
Sound.
1 9
7 5
Mike
Asip
successfully led Toano
Middle School
through
a rigor-
ous accreditation
process
by the
Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools, with
the
school's prep-
aration and efforts for students rec-
ognized as"a national model."
Mike
has been principal ofToano Middle
School
in
Williamsburg, Va., since
1997
I
Charlotte Ballinger
cele-
brated her 80'
h
birthday
in June
2001.
She has six grandchildren
and six great grandchildren.
I
Maureen
O'Toole
Reimers's
daughter, Meghan, is a
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Judge
Ricardo
Cuevas
'74
Returns
to Campus
Ricardo
Cuevas
'74, an administrative
judgeforthe
Equal
Employment
OpportunityCommission
(EEOC),
spoke
in
the Student
Center
Cabaret
at Marist this year.
Approximately
120
faculty,
students,
staff and com-
munity guests attended his lecture, "Illegal Discrimi-
nation: Are We Too Busy
To
Notice?"
As an administrative
judge
for the EEOC,
Ricardo
presides
over formal evidentiary
hearings
and decides
cases
involving allegations
of
illegal
discrimination
in
the workplace.
His jurisdiction includes
all U.S. fed-
eral agencies,
the U.S.
Postal
Service
and the civilian
workforce
in
all branches
of the U.S. armed services.
Previously,
as a senior trial attorney, he prosecuted
government lawsuits against private companies
in
federal court.
Ricardo
Cuevas
'74
Ricardo
is also the president
of a federal
labor union
(Local
#3555,
American
Federation
of Government
Em-
ployees,
AFL-CIO).
The
union
represents,
negotiates
and
arbitrates
on behalfof EEOC
employees
located
in
New
York,
Boston, Newark
and San
Juan,
Puerto
Rico.
al Florida Stale University
in
Tal-
lahassee,
Fla.
I
Gary
Slavin
was
elected president of
the Massapequa
(NY.)ChamberofCommerce.
Heis
sales manager for Metropolitan Life
Insurance
Company
in
Lynbrook,
N.Y.
IJeffrey
Speanburg
has
lived
in Charlotte, N.C., since gradua-
tion and
opened his own business,
Corners,
in 1985.
He
writes that
he runs into Marist graduates
wherever he goes.
1 9 7 6
Ernest
A. Arico,
Jr.
was named
Adjunct
of the
Year
for
the 2001-
2002
school year at Brevard
Community College's Melbourne
campus. Ernie
has
been a
dedicated
adjunct on
the Melbourne
(Fla.)
campus for a number of years. He
teaches
radio/television broadcast
and
production
courses and
is
much beloved
by his
students.
He
also oversees
the
internships
for students who want
to
work at
Florida
Today,
where
he
is
the night
copy editor. Ernie
is
also
the new
Central Florida chapter
president
of the
Marist
College Alumni
Association.
I
Joseph A.
Carey
supervised the New York State
Call Center, where donations
fort
he
World Trade Center disaster were
accepted.
I
Nigel
Davis
retired
from
IBM after
30 years.
He
is now
working
for Manufacturers
Services
Limited
as
senior director of supply
chain operatives.
Thecompanyisin
Charloue, N.C.
I
Bradford
GrHfin
has
retired
to sunny Arizona and
is
Rica1rdo,
a former student
in
the
Marist
Upward
Bound program,
received
a J.D. degree
in
1977
from
the University
of Pennsylvania
Law School.
pursuing
a
lifelong
dream
of being
a jazz guitarist. He currently plays
with a
big band.
I
Keith M,cArthur
received
a
master's in
manufactur-
ing
engineering from Polytechnic
University in Brooklyn, N.Y., in
June 2001. Keith isa materi:als
logis-
tics senior
professional
with
IBM in
Hopewell Junction, N.Y.
II
Robert
Orlando
retired
from
the New York
City Police Department on Nov. 27,
200
I. He
is a senior accoumant for
the Catholic Guardian Society
in
New York, N.Y.
I
Ernest Puglisi
and his family relocated
to
North
Carolina in
June
2001.
I
Robert
Wishart
and his wife, Jeniene,
will celebrate
their
25'h
wedding
anniversary in Aruba. Bob writes
that
their sons, Scott and Brett, are
doing well.
lzum1N■
..
1
9 7 7
Cynthia
Cusumano
is manager
of compensation and
benefits
for
Precision Valve Corp.
in
Yonkers,
N.Y. She is pursuing an online
M.B.A. at Marist. Cindy
praises
the
program for
the 0exiibility
it
provides
for people like
her
who
have
a busy career
in
addition
to
personal
and
family
commitments.
I
Noreen
Fennell is
president
of
E Pluribus Maxi
mus,
a publishing
and consulting
firm
specializing
in
organizational development. She
is
on
the
executive board of Orange
County Citizens Foundation and
serves on the board of
directors
of
Leadership Orange and asa
trustee
of
the
Tuxedo Park School. Her
husband, Vincent
Capozzi
'78,
is
a
marketing
and sales
manager
of
Schott Corp. and
is on the board
of the Mid-Hudson
Chapter of
the
Society
for
Information
Displays.
They are
the
parents of
two
chil-
dren,
Christopher and Katharine.
I
John
E.
Gavigan, Jr.
is
a vice
president
at Odyssey Reinsurance
in
New York, N.Y.
I
Thomas
J.
Murray
was appointed Albrecht,
Viggiano, Zureck
&
Company's
new
managing partner fol
lowing
25
years with
the
firm. He lectures on
various accounting and
tax
issues,
writes articles for financial and
local
publications and serves as an on-
air expert
on radio
and
television.
He was also the
past
president of
the
Suffolk County Chapter of the
New York State Society
of
Certified
Public Accountants.
I
Maywood].
Myers
is an IBM account execu-
tive
for
International
Sematech
in
Austin, Texas.
I
Nancy Stormer
is
a
health law
attorney in private
practice in
Utica, N.Y. Nancy and
her husband,
Michael Bagge,
have
two children, Sean and Kiernan.
1 9 7 8
Debra Bowers
Citrone
opened her
own business, DC Consulting, an
educational consultant group
emphasizing
financial literacy.
I
Margaret Hrushesky
lives
in
eastern North Carolina with
her three-year-old son, Michael
Martin. She enjoys her position as
A
MARRIAGES
to Robert
Mullen,
Oct. 27, 2001
Sandra Dougall '97
to
Christian
Stromberg,
July 13, 2002
Kristen Marie Eberth
'97
to Brian
Craig
Noble,
June
8,
2002
Kerry Ferris
'97
to John
Vasaturo,
Sept.
1,
2001
Tracey Kupp
'97
to Eric
Chasse,
July
15,
2000
Brian Piazza
'97
to
Heidi
Besko,
Sept.
8, 2001
Kristin Richard
'97
to Fred
Aguilera,
June
10, 2001
Aimee E. Roux
'97
to
Matthew
T.
Smith,
April 28,
2001
Barbara Smith
'97
to
Daniel Tarpey
'97,
June 16, 2001
Elizabeth Ann Spagnuolo
'97
to
Eric
Saam
'97,
Oct. 6,
2001
Carolyn Sutton
'97
to
James Iorio
'96,
July
21, 2001
Denise Tomassetti
'97
to
John
Thomas Lasker
'97,
Aug.
12,
2000
Heather
Wallace
'97
to Stephen
Coletta,
June
16,
2001
Jennifer Wuerz
'97
to
Brendan McGahan
'01,
Nov. 23, 2001
Jolene
Barnao
'98
to
Christopher
Plant
'98,
July 14,
2001
Jennifer Basile
'98
to
Jason
Geise
'97,
Sept.
8, 2001
Erin Cafarelli
'98
to
John Hill, May 4, 2001
Traci Davis
'98
to
John
Lanner,
June
9, 2001
Ben Fishel
man '98
to
Romy
Mitchell
Vreeland,
Oct. 27, 2001
Matthew
P.
Halicy
'98
to Melissa
Evans,
May 20, 2000
Diane Kolod
'98
to Walter
Schmidt,
Oct. 9, 1999
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i
A!
MARRIAGES
Janine
Kren
'98
to
Kevin
Wentworth '98,
May 25,
2002
Nicole M. Lauck '98
to
Christopher
J. Edelstein '98,
March 24, 2001
Paul
McHugh
'98
to Peggy
Ferguson,
Aug.
11,
2001
Carolyn
Mercury
'98
to
Michael Lockward '97,
June
30, 2001
Jennifer Minnella '98
to Michael
Ryan,
June
2,
2001
Mandi
Morabito
'98
and
Brett
Mclaughlin,
Dec.
27,
2001
Suzanne O'Brien
'98
to Nicholas
Stephens,
May
5,
2001
AliciaAnn Ross
'98
to Richard
Grasfeder,
June
8,
2002
Dana Pelliccia '98
to
Brian Paul Olore '98,
April 28, 2001
Carrie
Amrich
'99
to
Seth Bowen
'99,
Nov.
10,
2001
Sumit Deshpande
'99
to
Asangla
Moa, April 7, 2001
Kristen Elfner '99
to
Marc
Savare
'99,
July
7, 2001
Sarah Anne Gregor
'99
to
Peter Daniel McEvily
'99,
Aug. 31, 2001
Summer Haverly '99
to
Jason
Lopes
'96,
Aug. 11, 2001
Dominique Pino
'99
to Ismael
Santiago,
Jr., Dec. 10, 2000
Janel Scarponi '99
to Joseph
Pauser,
Dec.
1,
2001
Megan Bihn '00
to
Justin Hawkins
'00, June
3, 2000
Suzanne Both '00
to
Michael
Carmalitano,
July 7, 2001
Leigh-Kate Brooks '00
to
James P. Crutchfield
'00,
Oct. 7, 2001
Megan Hyland '00
to
Ryan
Chianelli
'98,
May
18, 2001
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
a school counselor for the Edge-
combe County School District
in
Greenville, N.C.
I
Virginia
Hea-
ton
Keller's
daughter, Kristin, is
a sophomore at Marist, where she
received
a scholarshitp
to
play bas-
ketball. Kristin is also
the daughter
of the late
Robert Kelller
'80.
I
Sam
Letterii
was appointed principal
of W.W. Smith School in
the
City
of Poughkeepsie.
I
Ellen
Burnett
Woods
received an M.S.T. from
SUNY New Paltz in May 2000.
1 9 7 9
Russell
Beckley
has lfetired as chief
of police from
the
Mt.
Pleasant,
N
.Y.,
Police
Department. He
is now
director of security for Greenrock
Correction, a correctional facility
in Pocantico
Hills,
NY.
I
Chris-
topher
C.
Faille
is
employed by
an online financial
news
service.
Fellow classmates
interested in
reading
his work can
log
on to
www.hedgeworld.com/news.
I
Joanne Scherer
Hols.opple
teaches
math at Boynton Beach High
School
in
Florida.
I
Catherine
Schlesinger
Kennedy,
M.S.W.,
and
her husband, Michael, continue to
live
in the beautiful wine country
of northern California with
their
five children. Cathy recently began
teaching a prescho,ol class two
mornings a week but. she
is
mostly
at home raising the chi
Id
ren, ages 4
to
9.1
Howard]. Leitch
accepted a
position
as a
procurement
analyst
responsible
for
the
purchase of
services for Public Service Electric
&
Gas Company
in
New Jersey.
I
Suzanne
Marcoux-Conway
graduated from California State
University/San Bernardino with
a master's in education with an
emphasis on reading and
language
arts. She also earned a reading spe-
cialist credential. Suzanne lives in
Morongo Valley, Calif., with her
husband,
Tom
'79,
and their
three
sons,
Hunter,
Dan and Ryan.
I
Megan O'Brien is
director of
marketing at Callison Architecture
in Seattle, Wash.
I
Jim Palatucci
's
son,
Dan, is
a student
at
Marist.
Dan
made the Dean's List during
the
spring
2001
semester.
1
9 8 0
Wilma
Burke
is
in her 18
1
h
year
of business as a personal prop•
erty appraiser, specializing
in
antiques and fine art. For the past
year Billie has written an antiques
educational column for Powhatan
Today, a weekly paper
in Pow-
hatan, Va.
I
Roberta Dunspaugh
DeMaio's
oldest
daughter,
Kara, is
a sophomore at Mari st majoring in
communications. Roberta and her
husband, Neil, live in
Highland,
N.Y., with
Kara
and her two sis-
ters.
Kara was the 2001 recipient
of the Mari st Alumni Association's
Alumni Legacy Scholarship.
I
Paul
Meseck has
been a member of
the
Professional Golfers Association of
America for 18 years
and
the
head
golf professional at White Beeches
Golf Club in
Haworth,
NJ, for 10
years.
I
Michele Halvorsen Pow-
ell teaches
kindergarten in the
Cornwall Central School District
in
Cornwall, N.Y.
I
David
W.
Pow-
ers
coached the Tuxedo girls varsity
basketball team to a
2 2-5
record and
a Final
Four appearance in the New
York State Scholastic Public
High
School Athletic Association ClassC
championships.
Dave
teaches
in the
Nanuet (N.Y.) School
District.
1
9 8
1
Rick
Anguilla
was appointed vice
president, brand communications,
for Nike, Inc. in Beaverton, Ore
Rick
lives in Portland, Ore., with
his
wife,
Lisa Palermo
Anguilla
'78,
and their two
daughters.
I
Donald
Ahrens
is a TRPB agent/director
of security with
the
Thoroughbred
Racing Protective Bureau, assigned
to
Sam Houston
Race
Park in
Hous-
ton, Texas.
I
Michael
A.
Barton
joined Mid-Hudson Valley Federal
Credit Union as vice president of
lending.
Mike is a
member
of the
Graduation
from Marist: a Family
Tradition
for Some
;,:
from crossing the stage together. But Jack sat
in
!
the bleachers with
his
son, among the graduates,
i
and they posed for pictures afterwards.
~
Altogether a dozen graduates
joined their
parents
¥
in the ranks of Marist alumni at the college's 56
th
commencement. Following
in
a parent's footsteps
were:
•
Jason
Ramsey, son of Harold Ramsey '88
•
Sean Condon, son of
Bob
Condon '68
•
Matthew Boyd, son of William Boyd '78
•
Cynthia Rowley, daughter of Bill Rowley '69
•
Lisa Roberts, daughter of David Roberts
'80
John
Mccutcheon
'02 (left)
followed in the
footsteps of his father,
Jack
Mccutcheon
'80.
•
Christina Pagano, daughter of Joe Pagano
'97
•
Thomas Murray, son of Tom Murray
'77
When Jack Mccutcheon came to Marist on May 18
to see
his
son gra,duate,
he
came full circle.
A member of Marist's Class of 1980, he had not
been
able
to particiipate
in his class's commencement
exercises
because of family commitments.
Twenty•
two years
later,
Jc1ck
donned a cap and gown and
planned to
walk
across the stage with his son,
John, as John rece!ived
his diploma. The shortened
commencement
ceremony
kept
father and son
•
Shannon McDonnell,
daughter of
Jack McDonnell
'71
•
John Mccutcheon, son of Jack Mccutcheon
'80
•
Michael
Lavelle,
son of Pat
'73
&
Patty
'74
Lavelle
•
Heidi Kettler, daughter of Suzann
Kettler
'99
•
Catherine
lanelli,
daughter of Bob
lanelli
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Fergal Foley
'82/'94
M.P.A.
Standing
Guard at Ground
Zero
On the morning of Sept.
11,
Col. Fergal
Foley
'82/'94
M.P.A., a full-time member of the National Guard
and a Dutchess
County resident,
was at the Armory
on Park Avenue,
a few minutes' drive from the World
Trade
Center
in
New
York City.
His
phone rang and a Guardsman
said, "Sir,
look
at
TV." The first
hijacked
plane had hit. Fergal
assumed
it was a small private plane. He was on the phone to
state Guard
headquarters
in
Albany when the second
plane
hit.
He thought it was a replay.
The top-ranking military officer in the vicinity,
Fergal
assumed
command
in response
to the attack
on the World Trade
Center.
The first step was to estab-
lish an emergency
operations
center.
An area hospital
cleared!
rooms at the Armory to treat the expected
casualties.
None
came.
From
Sept.
11
through
the 23
rd
•
Fergal
was in charge
of the National Guard troops manning
the perimeter,
establi:;hed
that first morning,
encompassing
the area
that be,came
known as Ground
Zero. "We used
our own
cars
to
,get
down to the site that first morning," he says.
"One of the buildings
was down at that point and our
guys stayed and helped. Calls started coming in from
troops around the area.
The
bridges were being shut
down but they
let
the uniformed
guys through."
Feriial
had come to the United States from his
native Ireland with his parents
in
1969
and settled
in Wesltchester
County.
He went on to attend Marist,
where
he
earned
a B.A. in business
administration
in
1982
and an M.P.A. in
1994.
He has been full-time
with the Guard since
1990.
"I thoughtthe Guard
was the perfectthing,"
he says.
"I had always thought that
no
matter what I did in
life
I wanteid
to be of service
to the community."
He was never more so than on
9/11.
"After the
attack, I
told
my father it had hit home," says Fergal.
"We
le·ft Ireland
because
they were concerned
about
me growing up in the violence.
After what
happened
in the
,1ttacks
I
told my father, 'I've got nowhere
else
to go.'"
lrnmf\-H<
1
9 8 2
Mid-Hudson Valley Mortgage
Bankers Association and lives in
Hrde Park,
N.Y., with his wife,
Renee.
I
An anicle
in the
Oct.
15, 2001, issue of
People
magazine
focused on the
international
char-
ily
Mothers of Su pen wins(MOST),
Inc., founded by
Maureen Doolan
Boyle.
MOST is a nonprofit sup-
portingandeducatingfamilieswith
triplets
or
larger
numbers of babies
born at the same
time.
I
Charles
Carnes
was elected supervisor of
the Town of Crawford
in
Orange
County, N.Y.
I
Bill DeWinne
was
promoted
lo
market manager for
Texas for Volvo Nonh America
after
10
years
in
Volvo's New
Jer-
sey
headquaners
and seven years
in Atlanta and Nashville,
Tenn. He
will relocate
to
Austin,
Texas,
with
his wife,
Rita,
and their
daughters,
Heather and Kimberly, who are
both
honor roll
students.
I
Luis
Franco participated
on a panel of
HEOP alumni this past spring.
He
is a counselor at
the
Fishkill Cor-
rectional
Facility. He was an HEOP
student at Marist.
I
Lauren
Harti-
gan received
a master's in curricu-
lum
development and
instructional
technology from SUNY Albany in
June 2001. Lauren
isa truancy pre-
Yention
counselor at the Berkshire
Farm Center for Youth.
I
Mary Kay
Kennedy Knight
and
her
husband,
Caroline
A.
Cerilli Goodrich
'82
Byron,
are adopting
their
first child.
They expect
to
receive
their
daugh-
ter, Kate, from
China in summer
2002.
I
John P.
''.Jack"
Mahoney
(M
B.A.) is North
Americam sales
manager
for
Basler Electric's
system
integration division
in
Poug,hkeep-
sie.
I
Kimberly Engelhardt Mallen
is
a
territory
business
manager
for
Bristol-Myers
Squibb in New York,
NY.
I
Richard Michos
was
named
Yice president
for Linux
servers
at
IBM
in
Poughkeepsie
Stephanie
Lambert Bartneris
par-
ticipating in
the Avon 3-Day Breast
Cancer Walk from Bear Mountain
toNewYorkCityOct.11-13,2002.
Avon sponsors this event to raise
money for
breast cancer research.
Walkers will
trek 20
miles each
day.
Stephanie's goal
is
to
raise
$2,500 and she
asks that
anyone
who wishes
to
sponsor her contact
her
at stephanieb_nj@yahoo.com.
I
Michael Doherty
was promoted
to
associated i rector
of fixed
income
sales at Bear Stearns
in
New York,
NY
ICarolineA.
Cerilli Goodrich
has
been
selected a
member
of the
Leadership
America Class of
2001.
Leadership
America
is
a
national
women's leadership organization
that recognizes,
educates and
connects accomplished and
diverse
women to increase their
individual
and collective impact globally. Each
year it
selects
100 women to par-
ticipate
in a year-longseries of
three
i ntensi\'e
professional
development
sessions. Caroline is
regional
vice
president
of the Community Affairs
division
ofBayCare
Health
System
in
Dunedin,
Fla. She
lives
in Safety
Harbor, Fla
, with
her husband,
Jerry.
I
Christopher
Harrison
MARRIAGES
Melissa Roudis
'00
to
Kyle
Potter,
July 2001
Amy Spero '00
to
David Petersen
'00,
Sept.
29,
2001
Jennifer Breslin
'01
to
Scott
Morris,
Aug. 25, 2001
Heather Clarke '01
to
Jeffrey Novakouski
'99,
June
16, 2001
Lauren Dabak '01
to Michael
Troche,
April
7, 2001
Lisa Masullo '01
to Brian
Neer,
June
30, 2001
Marybeth Post '01
to 1st
Lt.
Cesar
Rivera,
11,
(USA)
June
23, 2001
Valerie Williams Sheafe '01
to
John
DuBerry,
May 25,
2001
Jaime
Lynne
Smith '01
to
Scott Randall
Thompson
'01,
Aug. 11, 2001
FALL
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Althea and
Dennis Feeney '65,
a granddaughter,
Zoey
Jeanne
Kollhoff,
March
24, 2002
Kate and
John
Goegel
'68,
a grandson,
Nicholas
Alexander
Goegel,
Sept.
2, 2001
Jeanne
and
Richard Cole
'69,
a grandson,
Cole
Mark Munger,
June
6,
2001
Judith
and
David Lyons '73,
a granddaughter,
Kendra
Lyric
Lyons,
Feb.
20, 2002
Julie
and
Joseph D.
Mccann
'74,
a
daughter,
Margeaux
Bernadette-
Hope,
March
24, 1998
Carol and
John P. Hunt
'75,
a son, Devin
Patrick,
Jan.
1, 2001
Kathleen
Sisti
'80
and David
Fisher,
a son, Ryan
David,
May
2,
2001
Colleen Hill
'81,
a son,
Brendan
Patrick,
April
10, 2001
Barbara
and
Gerhard Wiesinger
'81,
a son, Ian,
Nov.
5,
2000
Linda Jeane Arcoleo
'82
and
Thomas
Simeti,
a son,
Dante
Thomas,
June
2,
2001
Carol and
Michael Chung
'82,
a son,
Jackson
Paul,
May
6,
2001
Mary Consentino '82
and Don Peters,
a son,
Jack
Ryan,
Sept.
28, 2001
Judith Clarke
and
William Nixon
'82,
a
son, Spencer,
Dec.
23, 2000
Arlene
Hutnan
'83
and
Heinz Warmhold '84,
a daughter,
Faith Rebecca,
May
14,
2000
Diane Jackson
'83
and
Joseph
Folson,
a son, Kyle Jared,
Sept.
12, 2001
Nichola
and
Patrick J. O'Donnell
'83,
a son,
Ronan
Patrick,
April
21, 2001
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
is the executive vice president for
sales and marketing of Oakleaf
Waste Management
in
East Hart-
ford, Conn
I
Michae:l McCarthy
was featured in the Dec ember 2001/
January 2002 issue of
Irish
America
magazine.
Mike is executive vice
president for MSG Net works and
was one of the chief architects of
MSG Network. He
has been
instru-
mental in
helping
lO
establish MSG
Network and Fox Sports Net (FSN)
as the premier carriers of regional
sports programming. As a board
member of MSG's Cheering for
Children Foundation, Mike was
responsible
for orgamizing four
successful Charity Weeks that
raised
more
than
$2QI0,000.
Mike
lives
in Fairfield, Conn., with
his
wife,
Allison
McCarthy
'83, and
theirtwo children,Jeremyand Mar-
garet.
I
Henri Rivers.
is president
of
Drum
River
Industries,
Inc., a
construction consulting business.
Henri lives
in Wyandanch, N.Y.
I
Patrick
J.
Rush
incorporated
his own company, Rush Hour
Graphics, in New York City. The
company specializes in offset and
large format printing, bus shelters,
bus sides and
billboards.
I
Kevin
L.
Sullivan is
senior account
manager
fortheOracleCorp. He
lives in
Mor-
ristown,
N.J,, with hi.s wife, Betsy,
and their three children.
1 9 8 3
Barbara
Demeter
Alessandrello
and her husband, Tano, have
just celebrated
15
years of doing
business at Tano's, their Italian
restaurant
in
Bloomingburg, N.Y.
They
have a new home, also in
Bloomingburg, where
they live
with
their
two daughters.
I
Frank
L.
Burhance
is
director of eBusi-
ness
Technology
Solutions for
the
Jason
S. Murray '83
Corinne Strange Schell '83
Hartford Financial Ser\'ices Group
in Hartford, Conn. Frank lives in
New Hartford, Conn., with his wife,
Linda Zemba
'83, and their son,
Noah.
I
Robert
E.
Butterfield
has
been promoted
to
local sales man-
ager for WCHS-TV
in
Charleston,
W.Va.
I
Monica Murphy
Cope
is a marketing analyst with the
Xerox Corp.
I
Jeanne Legloahec
Corcoran
was promOLed to vice
president for audits at ABNAMRO
North America
in
March 2001.
I
Patricia
A.
DeFriscohasjoinedthe
Milwaukee (Wis.) Public Museum
as executive assistant
to
museum
president
Roger
W. Bowen.
I
Mar-
sha
A.
Hunt
isanauorney in private
practice, specializing in criminal
law and family/matrimonial law.
She
is
also an adjunct professor in
the psychology department at Syra-
cuse University and in
the
paralegal
program at Syracuse's University
College.
I
Jason
S.
Murray
is
an assistant vice president in the
CitiBusiness division of Citibank,
N.A. He holds the Series 6 and 63
NASO
registrations
as well as
his
life and health insurance licenses.
I
Patrick
O'Donnell
is vice president
of public
Internet
sales for IBM.com
and has worldwide responsibility
for IBM's public site Web programs
for small and medium business.
I
David
Riley
is
president of Riley
and Company
in
Middletown,
Conn.
Established in
1986,
the
company is a full-service adver-
tising agency.
I
In January 2000,
Thomas R. Schaffer
resigned his
position as director of marketing
at
IBM
after 22 years of service.
He
formed the Schaffer Group,
Inc. and purchased a two-store
general equipment and party rental
business
in Raleigh, N.C., called
Holland Rent-All. Tom's daughter,
Robyn,
was named junior grand
champion at a 4-H county/district
youth horse show. His wife, Cath-
erine, has completed certification
for
preschool teaching in
North
Carolina.
I
Corinne
Strange
Schell
was
honored
by the YWCA
of Dutchess County in their "2002
YWCA
Salute to Women." Corinne
has worked for Mari st College since
1985
and is currently the director
of transfer admissions. She directs
the
recruitment
and selection of
students wishing
to
transfer to
Marist. Corinne oversees the spring
enrollment effort and monitors the
budget for the entire enrollment
area. Her volunteer involvement
includes
St. Martin de Porres CYO
basketball, the Poughkeepsie
Brew-
ers Independent Baseball League,
the Community Foundation of
Dutchess County, the Town of
Poughkeepsie
Little League Booster
Club and
the
American Heart Asso-
ciation Walk. Corinne resides
in
Poughkeepsie with her husband,
Tim
'95,
and
their
children,
TJ
and Caitlin.
I
Steve
Smith
was
promoted
to
district market
man-
ager for
the
Midwest division of
Brown-Forman Beverages World-
wide
in Louisville,
Ky. Steve has
the distinction of being one of only
three
basketball players
in
Marist
history
to
have his
number
retired.
Rik
Smits
'88
and
Drafton
Davis
'88 are the other two.
1 9 8 4
Joan Sheppard
Andrek
joined
the staff of Valencia Community
College in Orlando, Fla , as
director of marketing and media
relations.
I
Nigel Augustine
is the
founder/director of a small youth
sport program in
the
Atlanta Metro
area called Metro Youth Recreation
League,
Inc.
I
James R.
Barnes
is
president and CEO of Oakleaf
Waste Management in East
Hart-
ford, Conn. The company
is
No. 25
on
the
Inc. 500 list.
I
Ronald
Paul
Beckerle
lives
in
Pearl Ri\'er, N.Y.,
with
his
wife.Janet, and their five
children.
I
Christopher
M.
Capone
was promoted
to
the position
of treasurer at Central Hudson
Energy Group,
lnc.
Chris will also
serve as treasurer of the company's
two
primary
subsidiaries: Central
Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. and
Central Hudson Energy Services,
Inc.
I
Robert
E. Cardinal has
been
promoted to supervising probation
officer in the Brooklyn, N.Y.,
office
of
the
U.S. Probation Department.
I
Michael
L.
Cesta,
M.D.
founded
a multi-specialty
medical
group in
Virginia. He practices internal med-


































icine
and psychology.
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Lori Dyer
Cooper
and
her husband, Bill, have
relocated
to Ringwood, NJ.,
from
Las
Flores,
Calif., because of
a job
transfer.
I
Timothy
J.
Keough
is
vice president for training opera-
tionsat AON
Management
Consult-
ing,
responsible for
the
delivery of
leadership
and
training
programs
worldwide.
I
Stanley
F.
Merritt
is
a personnel
administrator
for
the
City of Poughkeepsie
and
has
been
elected to the
Poughkeepsie
City
School
District Board
of
Educa-
tion.
I
Grace Gallagher
Triolo
has
returned
to
the
workforce
after
a
hiatus
of eight years
to raise her
three
children,
Marianna, Stephen
and
Kelly.
Grace, and her
husband,
Alan, enjoy
living
by
the water and
are actively involved in the Town of
Milford (Conn.) happenings.
1 9 8 5
Dr. Robert
W.
DeSimone
is
director of chemistry
at
Cellular
Genomics, an emerging
biotech-
nology company in Branford,
Conn.
I
Steven
Eastwood
has
started a
new
Web
design
business
called Sherwood Web
Design. The
company's Web site is www.sherw
oodwebdesign.com.
I
John
Gurba
celebrated five years of ownership
of Court Access Centers of America,
an
independent paralegal
company
that
files
corporations
in
24 hours
and
prepares
paperwork for
people
who
don't
want
to
hire an attorney
for divorce and
bankruptcy.John's
business
is
located
in Odessa.
Fla.
I
Joyce
0.
Holly
represented
Marist
at the inauguration of Dr.
Ronald
J.
Volpe as
the
lQ•h president
of
Hood College
in
Frederick. Md.,
on Oct. 20, 2001. Joyce is
manager
of staff development
at
the National
Aquarium
in Baltimore, Md.
lJohn
Loughlin
is
a
major in the
U.S.
Army
Reserves and
volunteered
for duty
to
support Operation
Noble Eagle.
He has
served in
the
Office
of the Surgeon General since
February
2002.
As
a
civilian.John
is an agent with State Farm
Insur-
ance
in
Troy, N.Y.
I
Susan Studley
Marcy is
director of
alumni
and
parent
relations
at
Trinity-Pawling
School
in
Pawling, N.Y.
I
Eileen
Hallenbeck
McCue
visited
Krakow
and Warsaw, Poland,
in
September
2001 and
is busy
with
her
private
practice.
I
Maureen A.
O'Rourke,
Esq.
became
Boston
University
School of Law's sixth winner in a
dozen years of
the Metcalf
Award,
the university's
highest
teaching
honor. In
addition
to
supervising
the student-run
Journal
of Science
and Technology
Law
and teaching
seminars exploring
intellectual
property,
commercial
law and
antitrust
issues surrounding
new
technology, Professor
O'Rourke
has
written extensively.
Her latest
work, "Toward a
Doctrine
of
Fair
Use
in Patent Law," appea-red
in
the
Columbia
Law Review
(;WOO).
Other
articles
have appeared in
publications such as the
Dulie
Law
Journal,
Iowa
Law
Review,
Minmesota
Law Review
and
the
technology
journals of Harvard,
the
Ulniver-
sity
of
California
at Berkeley
and
Boston
University. She is currently
working on a paper examining
price
competition on the
lntternet
that
will appear in the
Vanderbilt
Law Review,
and a paper
consider-
ing
the intersection
of
intell.ectual
property and law
antitrust. This
latter effort will form the basis of
an upcoming
keynote
speech at
the
New Zealand Competition La wand
Policy lnstitute's
Eleventh Annual
Workshop.
I
Margaret
Sohis is
teaching a college
English bridge
course sponsored by Marist
at
Our
Lady
of Lourdes
High School.
She
feels
she has come full circle.
1 9 8 6
In
July 2001, Thomas
M.
Begg
swam
four
miles
across Long
Island
Sound
to
benefit
,cancer
research.
ln 2000, this
effort
net-
ted
over $540,000. Tom is a senior
account manager
for BMC
Solftware.
He
lives
in
Paramus, NJ., with his
wife, Jen, and
their two
children,
Caitlin and
T
J.
I
Marie Bernhard
received
an award
for
her volun-
teerism with the Junior Lea1gue
of
Monmouth County,
working
with
disadvantaged
children.
I
Kenneth
R. Briggs
III
redesigned,codedand
implemented a new
"Bidding and
Scheduling"
marketplace
on the
New York
Independent
System
OperatorWebsiteinfall2001,
using
Java
technology as
a
member of
the
Internet
applications
development
team.
NYISO is a not-for-profit
corporation established in
1999
to facilitate
the restructuring
of
New
York State's electric
industry.
I
Christopher S.
DesauteHe
is
the
CFO at Metastorm,
Inc.,
a software
company in Severna Park, Md.
Chris's wife,
Margaret
"Peggy"
May
'86, received
an
M.P.S.
from
Manhattanville College
i1n
May
2001. They live in Marriottsville,
Md., with
theirfourchildren.
lJohn
Digilio
was promoted
to
manager
of
the
S/390 and
Digital
Library
Group
in the
office of information
technology at
Marist College.John
is
responsible
for
planning,
imple-
mentingand maintainingtheS/390
system
as well
as Marist's digital
library.
I
David
Eidle has
moved
to Middleton, Mass., and will
soon mark his
15'
h
anniversary
at Fleet
Boston
Financial. He and
his wife,
lvy,
are
the parents
of
three
children,
David, Darcy
and
Dayna.
ln
his
spare time, David
enjoys coaching his son's hockey
team.
I
Vincent
Furlani
has been
promoted
to
district
manager
with the GannerGroup in Naples,
Fla.
I
Kim
Ahders Goodson
is
a
member
of the 109'h Air National
Guard, which was activated
for
a
tour
of duty
in
New
York
City after
the
Sept.ll' h attack. Kim is also a
correctional officer at
the
Mohawk
Correctional Facility in
Rome,
N .Y.
I
Scott Gregory
was selected as
the chairman of the Greater Fort
Myers (Fla.)
Beach
Area Chamber
of Commerce. The association
has
a
membership
of 650 advo-
cates
for
the business interests
of
its members throughout Lee
County. Scott is a member of
the
independent insurance
company
Oswald
Trippe
&
Co., Inc.
in
Fort
Myers.
I
John Henry
Griffiths is
a technology learning facilitator,
responsible for overseeing
how
technology is
integrated into the
K-12
curriculum in Pelham, N.Y.,
public schools.
He
is a single dad
whose daughter,
Henrietta,
will
enter
kindergarten in
fall 2002.
I
Theresa
Rose
Kelly
represented
Mari st
at
the
inauguration
ofRose-
mary
E.
Jeffries, R.S.M.,
Ph.D. as
the eighth president of Georgian
Court College on Sept. 30,
2001.
Terry serves as secretary of
the
Marist College Alumni Executive
Board
and
chaired
the
15'h reunion
of
the
Class of
1986 during Home-
coming Weekend
2001.1
Elizabeth
Lawlor Kirkpatrick
was
promoted
to manager
of operations for Con-
sumer
Reports
Online. You can
visit
the
Consumer Reports Web
site at www.consumerreports.org.
I
Marlene
McGowan
is director
of
technical services for Canon USA,
Inc.
in Lake
Success, N
.Y.,
where she
has
worked for
the
past two years.
I
Diane
O'Rourke
is the supervisor
for international
operations at FNY
Securities,
L.L.C.
in
New York,
N.Y.
I
Alvin
Patrick
recently won
a
2001
National Media Award from
NEW
ARRIVALS
Kendra
and
David Riley '83,
a
son,
Cameron,
Aug. 1, 2001
Loren
and
David Skrodanes
'83,
adopted
a daughter,
Hanna
Elise,
born on March
18, 2001,
adopted
on
Aug.
15,
2001
Lorie
and
Christopher
Vaught '83,
a daughter,
Samantha
Rose,
Dec.
4, 2000
Maria
and
John
F.
Card
is
Ill
'84,
a daughter,
Melissa
Nicole,
June
14,
2001
Sharon
and
John
M.
Donovan
'84,
a daughter,
Emily
Jean,
March
11,
2002
Michelle
and
Paul Palmer '84,
a
daughter,
Alissa
Caroline,
Aug. 22,
2001
Sheila
and
John R. Albinson, Jr. '85,
a
daughter,
Jane
Elizabeth,
Feb.
3, 2001
Theresa Bastian
'85 and
Ken Powers
'81,
a son, Jonathan
William,
March
21,
2001
Monica
Bechtold
'85
and
Ronald Turcotte
'83,
a son, Louis,
March
8,
2001
Lisa
Cutrone '85
and Mark Torre,
a daughter,
Angelina
Marie,
July 11, 2001
Mary and
Richard
G. Doane
'85,
twins,
a daughter,
Shayla
Ann,
and a son, Matthew
Paul,
March
31, 2002
Meredith
and
Robert R. La Forty
'85,
a son,
Ryan,
June
24,
2001
Lauren
and
John
McGeary
'85,
twin daughters,
Caroline
Langan
and
Julia
Langan,
'
July
3, 2001
Joyce
and
Michael J. Barker
'86,
a
son, Evan
Michael,
May
5, 2001
Marie Bernhard
'86
and
Todd Weidman
'86,
a
son, Matthew
Joseph,
June
26, 2001
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2002
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Sylvia
and
Daniel Biglin
'86,
a son, Sean
Daniel,
June
8,
2000
Gina Franciscovich
'86
and
Lee
Seward,
a daughter,
Isabelle,
Nov.
3, 1999,
and
a son, Benjamin,
April
2, 2001
Kimberly
and
Douglas Fuller
'86,
a
daughter,
Madison
Leigh,
April
23, 2001
Terianne
and
Joseph Giuliani
'86,
a son, Christopher
Luke,
Jan.
14,
2001
Kim Grob
'86
and
Douglas Dutton '86,
a
son,
Darren
Edward,
Jan.
3, 2001
Maureen Halloran
'86
and Charlie
Koran,
a
daughter,
Finnuala
Halloran.
May
11, 2001
Deborah A. Kusa
'86
and
Peter
P. Kahn,
twin sons,
Xavier
Alexander
and Jacob
Dakota,
July
3, 2001
Denise Maraia
'86
and
Kevin Connell
'86,
a daughter,
Corinne,
Aug.
31,
2001
Peggy May '86
and
Christopher Desautelle
'86,
a son, Casey
John,
Jan.
2, 2001
Allison Reck '86
and
Douglas
Anneser,
a son, Scott
James.
May
25, 2001
Carolyn
and
Paul
Rezza '86,
a
son,
Andrew
David,
July
18, 1999
Janet Rodgers
'86
and
John
Weber
'86,
a
son,
Ryan
Patrick,
July
13, 2001
Barbara Scaramellino
'86
and
Dominic
Gaudioso,
a
son,
Michael,
May
17,
2001
Lisa Schmitt
'86
and
Michael
Gentile,
a son, Michael
Anthony,
April
21,
2000
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
the
National Association of Black
Journalists(NABJ)
fora segment he
produced for HBO's "Real Sports
with Bryant Gumbel" last year.
The award was his fourth from
the NABJ
I
Kenneth Roberts
is
director of communications for
the Connecticut Hospital Asso-
ciation.
I
Diane Sc:avuzzo
is a
sales executive
for
special projects
with Mokrynski and Associates.
I
Patrick Sheehan
has been working
as a freelancer
in
broadcasting in
Charlotte, N.C. Companies
he
has
worked for
include
E5,PN,
Carolina
Partners, Charlotte Hornets,
Turner
Broadcastingand Bank of America.
I
Todd Weidman
was promoted
from vice president
1.0
director
of
Deutsche Bank
in
New York, N.Y.
I
Michael Masterson
has been
promoted
to
director of sales and
marketing for
the
Sheraton Maui
in Maui, Hawaii. Mike oversees all
sales and marketing initiatives for
the resort.
~Mam•im:::
1 9 8 7
Paul
R.
Aiudi, Esq.
was promoted
to associate genera
I
counsel at
Traveler's Property Casualty in
Hartford, Conn.
I
John
"Skip"
Benamati, Ph.D.
is assistant pro-
fessor
of MIS at Miami University
in
Oxford, Ohio. Skip lives
in
Hamilton, Ohio, wiith his wife,
Mandy.
I
Gina M. Di!5anza-Carro
is
campaign directorat the Morris-
town Memorial Health Foundation.
She
is responsible
for a $45 million
campaign to build a Cardiovascular
Institute at Morristown Memorial
Hospital.
I
Doris David
Conti
has
returned toworkfull••timeand was
promoted
to
program manager for
Z
Series software delivery, quality
and
tools
at IBM in Poughkeepsie.
I
Beth Ann Sewing Dexter
sells
real
estate for Dralke Realty in
Dutchess County, N.Y. She has
been very successful
in
her first
year.
I
Lisa Giardimo-Hyams is
senior director for operations at
Discovery
Television
Center, in
charge of digital broadcast and
post-production facilities for Dis-
covery'sdomesticand
international
net
works. Lisa
lives
in Weston,
Fla.,
with
her husband,
Rich, and their
daughter, Jacqueline.
I
Maureen
Hickey Horrego
walked 60
miles
in
the "Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day
Walk" from Oct. 26 to 28,
2001,
to
raise money for breast cancer
research.
She
raised
$6,000
toward
an overall total of $6 mil-
lion.
I
Carol
Leth
in
was promoted
to intensive case manager within a
specialized
mental
health
team
at
Catholic Charities. Carol continues
to travel and have lots off un.
I
Oli-
ver
J.
Maletz
has returned
to the
United States and was promoted
to senior vice president/business
and development director at Uni-
versal McCann in New York, N
.Y.
I
Geoffrey K
Milne, Esq.
has been
appoi med
to
serve on a commission
involving
prose
litigation in Con-
necticut that
will issue a report to
the chief justice of
the
Connecticut
Supreme Court. He also became a
member
of
the
national registry of
Who's Who
in
American Business.
Geoff
is
a litigation attorney with the
law firm of Hunt, Leibert, Chester
&
Jacobson
in Hartford, Conn.
I
Joseph C.
Morency
was named
senior vice president, director of
marine and offshore energy under-
writing for Liberty
International
Underwriters.
I
Laureen Dejong
Morrissey
has formed LDJ Events,
an event
planning
company, spe-
cializing in corporate parties and
nonprofit
benefits
in
New York City
and the Hamptons. Laurie and her
husband,JR.
Morrissey
'88,
live
in
New York City and on Long
Island with
their
two children,
Jack and Joie.
I
Tim Nelson
has
been promoted
to
vice president
for finance and controller of the
department of motion and flow
controls at ITT Corp.
in
White
Plains, N.Y.
I
Scott Neven has
sold his photography business
after
14
years and
has
opened an
antique store in Hudson, N.Y.
I
Michael
P.
O'Looney
has joined
the
New York City Police Depart-
ment as deputy commissioner of
public information.Mike had been
a general assignment
reporter
for
CBS 2 since Sept. 1995 In addition
LO
reporting, Mike appeared in the
film "City Hall"withAI Pacinoand
the
Emmy Award-winning HBO
series "Vietnam War Stories," in
which he played a medic. In addi-
tion,
he
played the piano in Carole
King's music video
"Now
and
Forever."
I
John
O'Mahoney
is a
guidancecounselorat Intermediate
School 93
in
Ridgewood, N.Y.John
lives in
Coram, N.Y.,
with his wife,
Carla, and their three children.
I
Susan Sullivan-Bisceglia
is a staff
anorneywith IBM
in
Poughkeepsie
where she lives with
her husband,
Paul, and their daughter, Brianna
Marie.
I
Todd Wysocki
of Hoo-
sick Falls, N.Y., was appointed
department chairman for
liberal
arts and sciences, individual
studies and
learning
skills. at
Hudson Valley Community Col-
lege
in
Troy, N.Y. Todd has served
as interim department chair fort he
departments since
fall
2000. He is
currently pursuing a Ph.D. at
the
University at Albany. Todd earned
a
master's
in
counseling psychology
from St. Bonaventure University.
1
9
8 8
CW3 Michael Carson
is on
deployment in Bosnia (SFOR-10)
as an aviation
unit
maintenance
platoon leader and maintenance
test pilot. Mike is also supporting
the mission as a mission pilot in
command of the 498'h medical
detachment.
I
Sheila Bradley
Bruce
'88 shared the sad news
that
her
roommate
Angela Silveri
Davis
'88
passed away May 3 from
cancer. To honor her good friend's
memory,
Sheila is
helping
organize
a
fund-raising
event this summer,
along with Angela's family and
friends,
to
support
the
Angela
Silveri
Davis
Scholarship at Marist
College. Contributions are welcome
and may be directed
to:
Office of
College Advancement, Marist
College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601.
Heartfelt sympathy is extended to
Angela's family, who
include her
husband, Chris Davis; 3-year-old
son, Sander; parents Angelo and
Connie Silveri; and two sisters.
I
Joe
Esposito
was voted the 2001
Lone
Star Conference Coach-of-
the-Year.
Joe
is the head basketball
coach at Angelo State University in
San Angelo,
Texas.
His team won
the
Lone
Star Championship
with an 11-1 conference record,
leading to
ASU's first
trip
to the
NCAAs in 10 years. Joe took over
a program that had had 8 out of
10
losing
seasons and
three
straight
last-place
finishes. ASU has won
an average of more than 20 games
the
past two seasons.
I
Oliver
J.
Maletz
was promoted to senior
vice president for
multinational
accounts at McCann-Erickson/
Universal McCann
in
New York,
N.Y.
I
Robert
E. O'Ctmnor, Jr.'s
stepdaughter, Adriana, graduated
from Ithaca College
in
June 2001.
"Happily, I continue to
have
a great
sense of gratitude for
my
Marist
education," he writes.
I
Nancy
Sproviero Salerno
was to complete
her coursework at William Paterson
University
to
become a certified


































A Painter's
Life
"The life itself
is
not an easy one,
but
it's
a great one."
Joe Concra '87 is talking about
his
life
as a painter.
His
interest in
painting
began
in an elective course
at
Marist
College taught by
Evelyn
Fisher.
"Shewasfantastic,"
saysJoe.
"She opened my mind to
the
endless
possibilities of painting and
I
will
always
feel
fortunate that
I
met her."
The
class sparked an interest in
Joe
that has continued to this day.
Joe graduated from
Marist
with
a
B.A. in
communication
arts and
continued
his
education at the
Maryland
Institute College of Art,
where
he received
a master's in
fine arts.
After
graduate school he
returned
to
Maristto
teach painting
for five years, moving to
Kingston,
N.Y.,
where he works and
lives
in
his
studio and
is
engaged
to
be
married.
"The
hardest
part
of
doing all
this is
making
money," he says, "so
I learned a trade." He makes ends
meet through construction
jobs.
Many
of
his
paintings, some
of which appear on the
Web
site
www.joeconcra.com, are very
large.
They include desolate
land-
or seascapes that
feature isolated
objects: the prow of a sinking boat,
a
floating
umbrella,
a hot air balloon
or a string of party
lights.
schoolcounselorin
May 2002. This
master's degree
is
in
addition to her
first
master's
in elementary educa-
tion rrom
Seton
Hall
University in
1991.1
Eileen
Markey
Smith
is
the
director
or evening counseling at
KingsboroughCommunityCollege
in Brooklyn,
N.Y.
1
9 8 9
Joseph Beckerle
started a corporate
video production business
arter
leaving
the sports
broadcasting
world
to
spend
more
time with
his
family.
I
William
J.
Corbett,
Jr.,
president
or Corbett Associates,
Inc.,
a Floral
Park, N.Y.,
media
rela-
tions, marketing
and government
affairs firm, was
named
one or"40
Rising
Stars Under
40"
by
Long
Island Business News.
According
to
the paper, Bill is a
leader
in
the
public
relations
field.
He
also
has
been recognized
by
Newsday
as
one or the
top five
proressionals
in the
public
relations
industry
to watch.
I
Kathleen
Deriso-
Joe
Concra
'87
"They aren't the
happiest
paint-
ings on the
planet," Joe
told a crowd
of students and faculty last
October
during a solo show of
his
artwork
in
the Marist
art gallery. But,
he
added,
he
wants each painting "to
have some hope in
it."
His work is
in
numerow; private
and public collections
including
the
Samuel Dorsky Museum
o,f
Art
at
SUNY
New Paltz.
His
paintings
also
hang
in the office of the
president
at
Marist
College and in th11
board-
room
of Marist'sJamesA.
Ca nnavino
Library.
He has had solo exhibits at
the Carrie
Haddad
Gallery
in Hudson,
N.Y.,
the
Loft in Kingston,
the Susan
Mitchell
has been promoted
to
assistant vice
president at Meridian
Group, L.L.C., sister company
to
Equinox Management
Group,
lnc.
in
Oradell, NJ
I
James
Dick
is
compensation
manager
for Sharp
Electronics. Jim and
his
wire,
Aimee, recently
purchased
a new
home
in
Monroe,
N.Y.,
where they
live
with their two children,
Kyle
and
Jeanette.
I
Melissa
A.
Egan
has been promoted
to
manager
or
Web development
and
services in
the orfice
orinformation
teclhnology
at Mari st College.
Melissa's
primary
responsibility
is
management
of
Marist online
Intra-
and
Internet
and Web applications
to
support
the campuswide community. She
will continue
to
enhance the func-
tionality of existing applications,
introduce new
applications
and
work with
administrative
com-
puting to
further
integr:ate
and
expand online Web-based appli-
cations.
I
Marc Eisenhauer
is
Northeast regional sales
manager
Cooper Gallery
in Woodstock,
N.Y.
and
Underground
Arts in Seattle,
Wash.
He
has also
exhibited
in group
shows at several New York
City and
Hudson
Valley
galleries.
Joe
has
a
realistic awareness of
the stimuli his
art
must
compete
with for a viewer's attention, but
he remains optimistic.
"I
am glad
when someone
takes the
time
to
look at a
painting.
It
takes a great
leap of
faith
these days
for
someone
to slow down
enough to even look.
The amount of information that is
out
there
is staggering. I
just hope
they look
and take with
them
what
they will."
-Justin
Haight '01
at
Harley Davidson
Financial
Services.
I
Karen
Free
received
a
master's in speech
pathology
from
the
University
of North Carolina
at Chapel
Hill
in May
1999.
She
now works
as
a speech-language
pathologist
at
Alamance
Develop-
mental
Center
in
Burlington, N.C.
I
Judith Frost
is
a communications
specialist for BOCES,
representing
five school districts
in the
Scho-
harie
County area.
Judy
lives
in
Brunswick, N.Y., with
her
boxer,
Cassius Clay.
I
Maria
Fanelli
Giameua
is
a
Spanish
teacher
at
Minisink Valley High School in
Slate
Hilt,
N.Y.
I
Marc Hamlin
completed three months of train-
ingat
the
Southern Police
Institute,
a very
prestigious
and demanding
police
command college at
the
University
of
Louisville.
He was
scheduled to appear on
the
televi-
sion show "Cops" in February and
March of 2002 when it airs several
episodes
from Tampa, Fla. Marc
is
a sergeant with the Tampa
Police
NEW
ARRIVALS
Mary Schroeder
'86
and Vincent
Savino,
a son,
Matthew
Vincent,
April
17,
2001
Patricia
and
Mark Sullivan
'86,
a daughter,
Aislinn
Lolanne,
Oct.
16,
2001
Tracey
and
John
L.
Vispoli
'86,
a
son, Ryan
Clark,
July
30, 2000
Lisa Waugh
'86
and Ray
O'Donnell,
a
daughter,
Kerry
Anne,
April
13,
2001
JoAnn Burton
'87
and
Paul
Neugebauer,
a daughter,
Nicole,
Jan.
10,
2000
Jean Clements
'87
and Dave
Kelly,
a
daughter,
Colleen
Mary,
Dec.
20,
2001
Colleen Cunningham
'87
and
Jim
Doyle
'87,
a
daughter,
Jenna
Grace,
Nov.
26, 2001
Elizabeth Geary
'87
and
Gerard
Nolan,
Bridget
Erin,
March
16,
2001
Maureen Hickey '87
and
Vladimir Horrego '87,
a son,
Leo
Patrick,
Nov.
11, 1999
Maura
and
Norman Juniewic
'87,
a
son, Riley
Joseph,
March
1,
2001
Lisa
and
Michael
Lang '87,
a
son,
Michael
Gerard,
Jan.
15,
2001
Lisa Lavin
'87
and
Brian Cronin
'86,
a
daughter,
Molly,
Aug. 4, 2001
Pamela Nau
'87
and Matthew
Erickson,
twins,
a
daughter.
Abigail
Paige,
and a son, Aidan
Patrick,
May
30, 2001
Susan Ormsby
'87
and James
Svarczkopf,
a daughter,
Kristy
Anne,
April
10,
2001
FALL 2002
45




































Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Andrea Orzechowski
'87
and
Tommy
Harris,
a son,
Isaiah
Haidar,
Sept.
20, 2000
Elizabeth Reisert '87
and
Edward Burnich
'87,
a son, Jason
Robert,
Feb.8, 2002
Donna
and
Gary
L.
Smith, Jr.
'87,
a daughter,
Lucy
Marie,
June
26, 2000
Heather
and
Todd
Wysocki
'87,
a daughter,
Grace
Mary,
March
3, 2001
Lauren Arthur
'88
and
Lt. Thomas P. Marren (NYPD)
'87,
a daughter,
Kelsey
Ellyn,
Oct. 27, 1999
Leslie
and
Thomas Bartolo
'88,
a son, Malcolm
Frederick,
Feb.
21, 2001
Ann Marie Breslin '88
and
Daniel Barron
'88,
a daughter,
Amy Lorraine,
Jan. 15, 2000
Kristin
and
Patrick
J.
Bruno
'88,
a
daughter,
Rachel
Sarah,
Aug. 17, 2001
Cynthia Cole '88
and
Robert
Munger
'91,
a son, Cole Mark,
June
6, 2001
Cathryn Cuccia
'88
and Chris
Northen,
a daughter,
Shannon
Eileen,
Nov. 8, 2001
Tara
Doherty
'88
and Thomas
Ahern,
a son, Dylan,
Aug. 7, 2001
Tammy
and
Joe Esposito
'88,
a son, Jacob
O'Neal,
May 2, 2000
Michelle
and
Eric W. Haas
'88,
a son, Matthew
Lyle,
July
2, 2001
Tami
and
Timothy Lee
'88,
a daughter,
Kelcey,
April 6, 200
I
46
MARIST
MAGAZINE
Department.
I
LDOnline.org,
a national Web sirte fostering
improved educational services for
students with learning
disabilities,
named
Carol-Ann Kinane
Mentor
Teacher of
the
Month. Carol-Ann,
a special education
teacher
in the
Huntington Union Free School
District,
teaches sixth graders
in
an inclusion program at Hunting-
ton
Intermediate
School.
I
Linda
Beluk Kirby
is vice president for
marketing
and admissions at Trin-
ity
College
in
Washington, D.C.
I
David
Lozinski
is a
1network
spe-
cialist with Webster Financial in
Bristol, Conn.
lJame:s
McCloskey
isa teacher in New Jersey, where
he
lives. He is married and has a son.
He was an HEOP student at Marist.
I
Karen
Gorman
Mc:Getrick
is
a
free-lance producer of corporate
meetings. When not working on
projects, she is a stay-at-home
mom
to sons Trevor and Gavin.
I
Maureen Blake Mercer
received
a
master's
in elementary education
from Long Island University. Mau-
reen
lives
in Nanuet, N.Y., with her
husband,
Jim, and their daughter,
Tara.
I
JoAnn Mong,elluzzo LeB-
right
has been a staff attorney with
the Legal Aid Society for 10 years,
working pan-time since her chil-
dren were born.
I
Judy Polonkay
Marano
is an adjunct professor at
Westchester (N.Y.) Community
College. She has designed and cur-
rently
runs an online ESL course,
one of the only cours.es of
its
kind
available in the country.
I
Rachel
Mastrostefano
Nichols
received
a master's in teaching
math
from
Providence College in May
2001.
I
Sarah
Post
has accepted a position
with IBM Global Services Strategic
Outsourcing as a regional offering
manager for the Americas.
I
Adam
Shirvinski
has joined! Export Man-
agement Services,
Inc.
as director
of business development.
I
Susan
Trach
Sonner
has
returned
to
the
world of public relations with a
local
Long
Island firm, the Creative Edge,
after taking a two-year hiatus
to
focus on her two children.
I
Maj.
Kristine
Varnum-Nakutis
was
promoted to assist.Int professor
of English and is serving as the
course executive officer for the
Basic Composition Course dur-
ing
her final year at West Point.
She and her family were to move
overseas to Korea at the end of the
academic year.
I
John Walden
has
been promoted to director of the
East Hampton (N.Y.) Library.
1 9 9 0
Kimberly Knox Beckius
had
her
first book,
The Everything
Guide
to
New
England,
published in April
2000
by Adams Media Publishing.
Autographed copies of the book are
available on Kim's Web site, http:
//everythingnewengland.com.
I
Laurie Aurelia
Cerveny,
Esq. is
a lawyer in Boston at
Testa,
Hurwitz
& Thibeault. She graduated from
Boston College
Law
School in 1996.
I
Wendy
Smith
Deer
graduated
cum laude from Pace University
School of law and summa cum
laude from Pace University, Dyson
College
of Arts and Sciences in 1999
with JD and M.P.A degrees. This
return to school followed a six-year
career in sales and marketing with
the Estee Lauder Companies in Bos-
ton, Mass.,and New York, N.Y.
Fol-
lowinggraduation, Wendy clerked
for two years at the New York State
Court of Appeals in Albany, N.Y.
She is deputy director of the newly
established New York State Judicial
Institute, a think tank dedicated
to
research,
court innovation and
judicial education and
training.
I
Kathleen Eagen
was promoted to
manager of the town of Farming-
ton, Conn., in April
2001.
I
Julie
Haynes
was promoted to vice
president, deposit operations for
Oceanside
Bank
in Jacksonville,
Fla.
I
Karen
Schaeffer
Hincapie
received
a master's in education
from SUNY New Paltz in May
1999. She received a certificate of
advanced study from SUNY New
Paltz in
December
2001
and has
been accepted into the doctor of
education program at Teacher's
College, Columbia University,
where she will pursue a degree
in
education administration. Karen
is
coordinator of the Student Services
Center at Orange/Ulster BOCES.
I
Margaret Kuck
has been promoted
to manager of administrative com-
puting in the office of information
technology at Marist College.
In
this position, Peggy is responsible
for campuswide administrative
application systems, overseeing all
aspects of administrative systems
and supporting users. She also
works to incorporate Web access
and services as part of IA-Plus for
the students, faculty and staff at
Marist.
I
Stephen
Lebitsch
is an
occupational health practitioner at
Arch Chemicals, Inc. in Norwalk,
Conn.
I
Stacey Waite MacPhetres
has been appointed
national
director of
lender
relations at
American Student Assistance in
Boston, Mass., one of the nation's
largest
student
loan
guarantors.
I
Judith Connolly
Rebholtz
was
promoted to operations manager at
Filene's department store
in
Kings-
ton, N.Y.
IYolanda
Robano-Gross
is the director of quality assurance
for Beacon Therapy Services
in
Roslyn.
N.Y. She and
her
husband,
John, recently bought a house
in
Lynbrook.
N.Y.
I
Kathleen
Vetter
received
the Project Management
Professional
(PMP)
certification
through
the
Project Management
Institute (PMI)
in
July
2001.
In addition to her position as a
project manager within SkyTel's
Advanced Technology Center in
Jackson, Miss
..
Kathleen teaches
PMP prep classes with the Memphis
Chapter of PMI at the University of
Memphis.
I
Michele
Ward-Triolo
is a store development specialist
in
Syosset, N.Y., where she works for
the director of store development at
Starbucks Coffee Company.
1 9 9 1
Denise
Gormley
Brennan
teaches third grade at
the
Cross
Street School in Mineola,
N.Y.
Denise received a master's in
elementary education
from
C.W.
Post College in January
2000.
I
Lisa
Cerniglia
was an honoree
at
the
annual YWCA Salute to
Women in Dutchess County for her
significant contributions
to
busi-
ness and community. Lisa oper-
ates an after-school/school break
program for children with autism
and other special needs.
In
June
2001
she opened a day care center
in Sugar Loaf. N.Y.,
forchildrenages
three to five. Lisa presented at the
International Youth and Childcare
Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, on
autism and the program she oper-
ates. She will also
have
an article
published in the
journal
of
Youth
and
Childcare.
I
Marcia Firmani Dei-
nard
expected to graduate in May
2002
with a Ph.D. in microbiology
from UCLA/Berkeley.
After gradu-
ation, Marcia planned to move to
New Orleans, La., where she will
be an assistant prof~ssor at the
Louisiana
State University Health
Sciences Center.
I
Eric
Frenzke
has completed New Jersey Army
National Guard Officer School
and has been commissioned a 2
nd
lieutenant. He serves with
C
Com-
pany, 2
nd
Battalion, 113'
h
Infantry
in Woodbridge, NJ The
ll3'
h
is
part of the 42
nd
Infantry Division



























Jo-Anne Prokopowicz
(far
right),
a
press officer for Secre•tary of
State Colin
L.
Powell,
looks
on at a press
event
following a meet-
ing between Secretary Powell
(center) and
Serbian Deputy Prime
Minister Nebojsa Covic
(far
left)
in
Washington on March
27'.
Serving
the Secretary
of State
It's
never easy to start a new
job,
particularly in a new presidential
administration.
After completing various inter-
views,
receiving
security
clearances
and filling out federal paperwork,
Jo-Anne
Prokopowicz
'91 began
her
appointment as a press officer for
Secretary of State Colin
L.
Powell
on Sept. 5.
Less
than one week
into
her
new
assignment,
Jo-Anne saw firsthand
her government in action
in
a way
that few people ever will. On the
morning of Sept. 11, Jo-Anne was
preparing
for an early morning
staff
meeting when a new co-worker
came
dashing
into
her office
to
inform her that an airplane
had
hit one of the World Trade Center
buildings.
"I thought that it was a
fluke
accident
until
we saw the second
plane
hit
the other tower. My initial
thought
was of my Marist
classmates
and I began e-mailing them
in New
York,"
says Jo-Anne.
Shortly
thereafter, the Penta-
gon was attacked and
the
State
Department
was summarily
evacu-
ated. Although
the phone lines and
cell
towers were jammed,
Jo-Anne
was able to get through
to
her
comprised of soldiers from New
Jersey,
New
York,
Connecticut,
Rhode Island,
Massachusells,
Vermont, New
Hampshire
and
Maine.
I
Cheryl Giglia
is an
international
financial controller
for SpeechWorks International,
Inc. in Woking, Surrey, England.
I
Marlon
Hosang is
assistant prin-
mother in
Florida
on her cell phone
while walking
across
the Key
Bridge
from Georgetown
in Washington
to
Rosslyn,
Va.
Her mother informed Jlo-Anne
that both of
her
brothers who work
overseas
were safe and that the tow-
ers
had
crumbled
and fallen. "At that
moment,
I
could
not
comprehend
the
magnitude of the crime and was in
shock. The
Pentagon
was burning
in the
distance and seconds later
I
saw a pair of U.S. Air Force
F-16's
screaming
overhead en route to
the
Pentagon. Ournation was u1nder
at-
tack and
I
hustled across the remain-
ing span of
the
bridge."
As Jo-Anne
made herw,1y
home,
she teamed up with another
State
Departmentemployeewho'Wasalso
trying
to get out of Washin9ton
and
into
the
safety of the suburbs. "A
10-minute
commute
took tvvo
hours
and my
new friend, Kristen1,
stayed
with me until later in the afternoon
until her
husband
picked
her up. We
both kept each other focused and
calm in the middle of
thei
crisis,"
says
Jo-Anne.
Once home,
Jo-Anne
could see
the
smoke rising from the
P,entagon
and
the
video footage of
th1e
towers
disappearing
in a cloud of uray and
cipal at
P.S.
137 in New
York,
N.Y.
I
Valentina
Kemp-Miller
received
a
master's
in social work from
Fordham University
in
M;ay
2000
and works as a substance abuse
therapist for Pius XII
in
Newburgh,
NY She was an
HEOP
student at
Marist.
I
Desmond Keneally
was
promoted to vice
president in
black smoke.
After
trying
to take her
mind off the
tragedy
by
unpacking
her belongings in her new home,
she
returned
to an alternate work
site
that night
and began
the
first
of many
long
workdays.
As
a press officer and political
appointee, Jo-Anne is assigned a
dossierof
countries
including
several
in
Eastern
Europe.
She also monitors
diplomatic
security and counterter-
rorism.
On an average
day, she works
with various
regional
bureaus to cre-
ate the
briefing book
for the State
Department
spokesman, Ambas-
sador
Richard
Boucher.
Immediately
following
her grad-
uation
from Marist
in 1991,
Jo-Anne,
who is president
of the MaristAlumni
Association's
Washington/Baltimore
chapter, spent one year in Germany
with a graduate program
sponsored
by Boston University.
Upon her re-
turn
to
the United States, Jo-Anne
capitalized on
her
experience with
the
Marist
College
Institute
for Public
Opinion, finding employment
as a
survey writer for
KPMG
before
jumping into
the
political arena as
a
press
secretary for Sen. Alfonse
D'Amato
at the Republican
Senato-
rial Committee.
Her next career move took
her
to
Capitol
Hill
as a
lobbyist
for the Na-
tional
Association
of Manufacturers.
On a whim,
Jo-Anne
returned the
call of an executive headhunter
and
interviewed
for the director of
media
relations
position
at
Power
UP,
a joint project of AOL
Time Warner
CEO
Stephen Case and retired Gen.
Colin
L.
Powell,
committed
to giving
children a head start by
helping
to
bridge
the
digital
divide.
She worked
for the
George
W. Bush-Dick
Cheney
transition team
and then was asked
to serve in the
State
Department's
press office.
Jo-Anne
is
proud of the gov-
ernment employees with whom
she works. "On
Sept. 12,
all of my
co-workers arrived at work, on
time and without exception.
They
have great resolve and determina-
tion and I'm
honored
to be serving
with them."
-
Sean
Morrison
charge of
regulatory
reporting at
Arnhold and S.
Bliechroeder,
Inc.,
a
brokerage
house in midtown
Manhattan.
I
Debra
Kirby-All-
eva left investment
banking to
pursue
a
master's in special edu-
cation
from LIU
full-time.
I
Janet
Miglino
Kutch
was promoted to
assistant controller at
National
NEW
ARRIVALS
AnnMarie
Martirano
'88
and
James
Beagen,
a daughter,
Kelly
Anne,
Dec.
1,
2000
Jody
Mogavero
'88
and
David Joyce '86,
a
daughter,
Erin,
Nov.
6, 2000
Nancy
and
John
Montanaro
'88,
a son, Michael
Channing,
March
9, 2001
Victoria O'Neill
'88
and Robert
Hayes,
a
daughter,
Delaney
Rose,
April
4,
2001
Carolyn
and
Peter Oppenheim
'88,
a
daughter,
Casey
Jane,
March
31, 2001
Lauren
Pirilli
'88
and
Jack
Burg,
a
daughter,
Taylor
Rose,
Aug. 1,
1998,
and
a son, John
Ryan,
Oct. 17, 2000
Stephanie
Sowinski '88
and Robert
Bandar,
a son, Owen
Arthur,
Dec.
14,
2001
Aline
Sullivan
'88
and Michael
Magee,
a
son,
Kyle
James,
May 3, 2000
Nicole
and
Joseph
Beckerle
'89,
a
daughter,
Sarah,
Sept.
18, 2001
Maureen Blake
'89
and
James
Mercer,
a
daughter,
Tara
Blake,
Jan.
30, 2001
Carol
Ann
Catucci
'89
and
Michael Kinane
'89,
a
son, Patrick
Brian,
Oct. 29, 2001
Elizabeth Davern
'89
and Christopher
Mercer,
a daughter,
Jane
Reddington,
Nov.
1,
2000
KathleeQ
Deriso '89
and
Brian
Mitchell,
a daughter,
Lauren
Victoria,
Aug.30,
2001
Aimee
and
James R. Dick '89,
a daughter,
Jeanette
Catherine,
Oct.
20, 2000
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Bethany
and
James W. Gillen
'89,
a son,
James
Joseph,
Oct.
18,
2001
Carol Anne Gordon
'89
and Jorge
Arriaga,
a
son, Justin
Miguel,
June
12,
2000
Kimberly
and
Thomas Haggerty
'89,
a
daughter,
Lauren
Marie,
May
16, 2001
Melissa Hayes
'89
and
Michael
Hawxhurst,
a daughter,
Hannah
Madeline.
Nov.
29, 2000
Deborah Taylor Kuffner
'89
and
Daniel P. Kuffner
'68,
a
grandson,
Nicholas
Andrew
Chuckas,
April 12,
2001
Janet
and
David Lozinski
'89,
a
daughter,
Sarah
Jean,
Feb.
21,
2001
Judith Maitland
'89
and John
Reggio,
a son, Charles
Joseph,
Sept.
1, 2001
JoAnn Mongelluzzo
'89
and
Eddie
LeBright,
a
daughter,
Kate,
Sept. 15, 2000
Patricia Nicolino
'89
and Casey
Ward,
a son, Charles,
March
21,
2000
and a daughter,
Victoria,
Sept. 18,
2001
Gretchen
and
John
M. O'Kane
'89,
a daughter,
Erin
Elizabeth,
Feb.
12,
2002
Linda
and
Michael Pelrine
'89,
a
son, Matthew
Ryan,
Oct.
9, 2001
Patricia
and
Michael
Pender '89,
a daughter,
Siobhan
Marie,
May 2000
Patricia
Rapuano
'89
and
Jeff
Wosleger,
a
son, Sean
Jeffrey,
Nov.
24, 2000
Jane
Regan
'89
and
Robert
Emig,
a
son,
Robert
Joseph,
June 12,
2000
48
MARIST
MAGAZINE
Bank of Canada in April
2001.
I
Kerin O'Connor Kockenmeister
graduated from Dowling College
in
August 2000 with a
master's
of
science
in education.
I
In May
2001,
Courtney
Messina
completed
requirements for certification in
early childhood educ:ation
(K-8)
from Montclair State University.
I
Matthew
V.
Phung
is an assistant
property
controller for GVA Wil-
liams,
a
worldwide real estate
service.
He
was an HEOP student
at Marist.
I
Scott
Rumsey
has
been
promoted
to
defensive coordina-
tor
for
the
men's
football
team
at
Marist College.
Scott's
wife, Casey
Hollister,
is an assistant women's
basketball
coach at Marist.
I
Peter
J.
Whalen
has been
promoted
to
intelligence
specialist
GG-11
for
the
Office of the
Deputy
Chief of Staff
Intelligence U.S. Army/Europe in
Heidelberg,
Germany.
Capitol Campaigning
Imagine
your work ending up in the Smithsonian.
It happened
to
Peter
O'Keefe
'91, a top fund-raising
consultant
in
Washin91ton.
Peter was
the
lead
fund-raiser
for what became
the most successful
benefit in the history of American
politics.
A tribute to Pn?sident
Bill
Clinton
benefiting
the
Democratic
National
(ommittee,
held May
24, 2000
at the
MCI Sports
Cernter
in
Washington,
raised $26.5
million in one evening.
Subsequently
Peter was at
the
Smithsonian
exhibit
"The American Presidency"
when he noticed some-
thing
familiar on displlay:
the
invitation to his May 24
event. (See the
invitation
and other
items
from the
exhibit at
http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/
1_frame.html.)
The DNC is one of Peter's
biggest clients. As senior
advisor
to DNC
Chairman
Terry
McAuliffe, Peter
now
is
heading
up a $30 million
capital
campaign
to
build
the
DNC's
new
Washington
headquarters
and overhaul
the
committee's
information technology
infrastructure.
The
campaign,
although a
big
challenge,
has been
overwhelmingly
successful,
Peter
says.
"It
is
not an easy
project, but it's very qratifying to dig into something
and bring it
to
a successful
point.
"It's important work and I'm enjoying
it very much.
It's going quite well; we've had a great year. There's
never a dull moment,
that's
for sure."
He spends
a lot of time on the
road
meeting with
prospective
donors and estimates
he was
in 15
states
over the past year.
Travel
also includes
frequent trips
to
Little Rock,
Arkansas,
site of
the future
Clinton Presi-
dential
Center,
which
will include
the
Clinton
Presidential
Library
and Archives,
another of his clients.
He
is
raising
funds to build a presi,dential
library that
will be "part
archive,
part
museum,
part
school
and part public
policy
center,"
he
says.
Peter's
day begini; with a cup of coffee and the
Washington
Post and ends
with a benefit or
reception.
In
his rare free time
lhe
runs, golfs and plays on the
DNC
softball team.
Peter
majored
in
po,litical
science
at
Marist,
where
his
father,
Dr. Peter
O'Kee:fe,
was an associate
professor
of
history until
retiring in
2001 after 34 years
of
teaching
at the college.
Peter
started his career
in politics in
New
Hampshire
in November
1991, knocking
on
doors and
phoning voters to
mu1ster
support for
Bill
Clinton. He
continued
to work
for the
Clinton campaign
in
Illinois,
Wisconsin
and
Kentuicky,
at
the
Democratic
National
Convention
in
New
York City and again in
Kentucky
for
the general
election.
After Clinton's
victory in 1992
Peter
worked on the
presidential
inaugural
and in 1993 raised
money
throughout
thei South
for the
DNC.
From
1993
to
Peter O'Keefe
'91 (left)
and
his
father, Marist
Associate Professor of
History
Peter O'Keefe.
1995 his
efforts brought in S
13
million through special
events.
After working on
the
president's
successful
re-
election
campaign,
he
joined the White House
Office of
Public
Liaison,
where
he
served
as the administration's
conduit to the business
community.
After two years
in
the
White House,
Peter
left
in
1998
to earn a master's
in
international political economy
at the London
School
of
Economics.
He enjoyed
living
overseas,
where
he
found it enlightening to spend
every day "with people who didn't have the same
views of America."
Upon
his return
in
July
1999,
he was recruited
to work
on the Clinton library
effort.
The end of 1999
proved
memorable
as he was a guest of
the
Clintons-along
with celebrities
including Bono,
Elizabeth
Taylor,
Jack
Nicholson
and Robert
De Niro-at their New Year's
Eve
gala, complete
with
spectacular
fireworks
on the Mall.
"I will never,
ever forget
it," he
says.
"It's been
a
lot of
fun. I
feel very, very lucky to be
here. I absolutely
love
what
I
am doing."
The
political
fund-raising
landscape
becomes
rockier
this fall when the McCain-Feingold
campaign
finance
reform bill, which prohibits
unlimited
contributions
to
the
national
parties,
goes
into effect after the November
elections.
"It's
an
interesting
time," he
notes.
Meanwhile,
this
past May,
a Republican
Pacty
event
beat the
Democrats'
$26.5 million
record,
raising
$30
million at a black-tie dinner.
But
if the
Smithsonian
plans to update its
exhibit,
it would do well to wait
until after Oct. 8,
2002: Peter
O'Keefe
has
a campaign
finale gala scheduled
for that
date.
-Leslie Bates

































lznnuM&
1 9 9 2
James
J.
Alecca
is beginning his
ninth year as a volunteer fire-
fighter with the Port Ewen (N.Y.)
Fire Department.
I
Thomas
W.
Badura
has joined HMonline, Inc.
as a senior application developer.
I
Kimberly
Conk is the diving coach
for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
in Troy, N.Y. A member of the Marist
diving team as an undergrad, she
writes that she came across another
alumna from the team last year.
Kim found to her amazement that
Jan Zoller
'96
was the new div-
ing coach at Skidmore College in
Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Kim is also
the senior administrator
to the
CEO of School Bell Partnership, a
school fund-raising organization.
I
Rebecca
Thew
Cronin has started
her own company, the Saratoga Gift
Basket Company. She offers more
than
19
customized baskets for
both personal and professional
gift-giving needs. The company
can be reached at
518-893-0306.
Rebecca lives in Greenfield Center,
N.Y., with her husband,
Thomas
Cronin
'92.1
Stephen
Di
Giacomo
is employed with the Walt Disney
Companyascoordinatoroftraining
fort
he front office and engineering
at Disney's All-Star Resort.
I
John
T.
Federico received his master's
of science
in
management with a
concentration
in information
sys-
tems from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
in May
2001.
I
Kevin
Francis is a consultant software
engineer in the eBusiness group
for Fidelity
Investments in
Boston,
Mass.
I
Kasha Mitchell Godleski
isdirectorofalumni relations at the
Manlius Pebble
Hill School in
DeWitt, N.Y.
I
Sean
Kelly
owns
and
manages
SLK Design
in
Monroe, Conn.
The
company
provides design,
hosting
and
Sean
Kelly '
92
computer-related
services to clients
wishing to enhance their Internet
presence. More
information
is avail-
able at http://members.aol.com/
slkdesignlirm.
I
Matthew Kruger
was laid off
in
September
'99
from
Scudder Kemper Investments after
working for live and a half years
in
various positions. He took seven
months off to attend
the
Chubb
Institute computer programming
school. On graduating from Chubb,
he was hired by
JP
Morgan to con-
sult in their application dlelivery/
programming
department.
He
accepted a full-time position in
February
2001,
managing a group
of live consultants working on
compliance monitoring s,oftware
for
investment
managem<!nt and
private banking.
I
Marc l.iepis
is
in
his fourth year at NBC, super-
vising
the
publicity for "late Night
with Conan O'Brien" and "S.aturday
Night live." Marc also performs
regularly
at New York's Upright
Citizens Brigade Theatre.
II David
L
Meyer
reports that
he
is
living
in
Salt Lake City, Utah, still working
as an account executive with Siebel
Systems and skiingatAlta.11
Daniel
Newcombe is
coordinator of
tele-
communications and
networkingat
Clayton College in Morrow, Ga. He
lives
in McDonough, Ga., with his
wife,
Mary Lawson
'93,
a1nd
their
two children.
I
Meghan
O'Connor
is an executive in the Tri nit y·College
Enterprise Centre for the lendac
Corp. in Dublin,
Ireland.
She
is pursuing a
master's
in media
studies at
the
Dublin Institute of
Technology.
I
Michael O'Farrell
was
named
publicist for Mystic
Seaport in Mystic, Conn.
I
Paul
Prims
is
a job estimator for ADT
Security Services in West Spring-
field, Mass.
I
Courtney Glennon
Richards
is a clinical supervisor
for Pediatric Occupational
Therapy
Services in Fairfield, Conn. She is
also an adjunct professor in the
occupational
therapy
department at
Quinnipiac University in Hamden,
Conn.
lR.
Allen
Roy
was p1resssec-
retary
for a campaign that defeated
a four-term incumbentstate:senator
in November
2001.
He is executive
assistant
to
the Clerk-of-th,e-Court
for the City ofToledo, Ohio.
I
Joey
Stanford
has been promoted to the
rank of major in the U.S. Air Force
Auxiliary ( CAP).Joey has assumed
a new position as "general rescuer
and rescue diver" with the Long-
mont (Colo.) Emergency Unit. He
was appointed to the Longmont
Airport Advisory Board by the
City Council. On
Jan.
1, 2001,
IBM
named Joey to a corporate
chair assignment on the: North
American Project Management
Certification
Board. Hi:; other
dmies include
leading
teams on
the
IBM
Global Services Project
Management Initiative Team.Joey
serves
the
Alumni Association as
president of
the
Colorado chapter.
He and his wife, Oksana, live
in
Longmont.
I
Brian Timm
left
the
military
in
1999
to
pursue
an M.B.A. at Michigan
State
University. He is
managing
sup-
ply and demand for the
Band-Aid
brand for
Johnson
&:
Johnson.
I
Kevin Weigand
is
a full-time
residential
graduate student at
the
U.S. Sports Academy in Daphne,
Ala. He
is
pursuing a
master's
in
sports
management/sports
coaching.
I
Deborah Widmer
is
clinical research coordinator for
the
Genetic Epidemiology of Metabolic
Syndrome, a multi-international
study at the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center.
I
Joy
Williams
has been promoted
to director of communications for
Girl Scouts U.S.A., overseeing the
organization's
national
public
relations.
1
9 9 3
Jill McDonald
Aronin
teaches
third grade fort
he
Milford (Conn.)
Board of Education.
I
Margaret
A.
Barrett
isa reading specialist with
the Three Village School District
in
Stonybrook, N.Y.
I
Serda
Belek-
danian
is a sales associate with
Coldwell Banker, a
residential
brokerage in Ridgewood, NJ.
I
Susan
K.
Brown has left
Fortune
magazine to become
manager
of
global communications
for the
Reader's Digest Association in
Pleasantville, N.Y. Susan handles
corporate communications
and
public
relations
for
Reader's
Digest
magazine.
I
John and
Nicole
Marino
Chapin
have both
completed M.S.M. degrees from
Alben us Magnus College and have
both been inducted into the Tau
Pi Phi Honor Society for business,
accounting and economics. John
manages the fraud
investigations
unit at People's Bank in Connecticut
and Nicole is a contract analyst with
Health Net of the Northeast.
I
Lisa
Chmielewski
isa registered nurse
at the Stamford
Hospital
in Stam-
ford, Conn. Lisa also has
her
own
business as a legal
nurse
consultant.
I
Kelly
Carner Cleary
is
executive
director of
marketing
for Doctors'
Preferred,
lnc.,asubsidiaryof
Phil-
lips Health
L.l.C.
Kelly's husband,
John
Cleary
'92, was promoted
to
head tennis professional at Norbeck
Country Club in Rockville, Md.
I
Laura
Connell
graduated from
Sage Graduate School in Troy, N.Y.,
NEW
ARRIVALS
Kristin Reiss
'89
and
John
DeAngelo '89,
a
daughter,
Emily
Kate,
March
20,
2001
Rebecca
and
Matthew Schoenfeld
'89,
a son, Theo,
April 15, 2001
Susan
Trach
'89
and David
Sonner,
a son, Cole
Harrison,
March
29, 1999
Amy Allesandrine
'90
and John
Kennelly,
a daughter,
Aliza Mary,
Feb. 15, 2001
Laurie Aurelia, Esq. '90
and David
Cerveny,
a daughter,
Sydney
Elizabeth,
April 1,
2001
Mary Baran '90
and
James
Halinski '88,
a son, Timothy,
March
30, 2001
Claudine Carpenter
'90
and Frank
Fiore,
a daughter,
Nicole,
Sept.
22, 1999
Kerry Coulter '90
and Robert
Mundinger,
a daughter,
Lauren
Estelle,
July
20, 2001
Darlene Eirish '90
and Ken Schofield,
a son, Christopher
Michael,
Jan.
16, 2001
Laura FitzPatrick
'90
and Mark
Tamke,
a daughter,
Anna Eileen,
Aug. 8, 2001
Charlotte Howard '90
and George
Lazor
111,
a son, George
IV,
July 14,
2001
Karen Klei
'90
and Thomas
Foley,
a daughter,
Elizabeth,
March
26,
2000
Laura Kuczma
'90
and Stephen
Zeppieri,
a son, William
Domenic,
Feb.
9, 2001
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Kathy
and
Stephen Lebitsch
'90,
a son,
Brendan
Kyle,
May
15,
2001
Sharon
and
Brian F. McEvoy
'90,
a son, Brendan
Matthew,
May 2,
2001
Mary
Polese
'90
and
Frank
Benvenuto
'90,
twin sons, Nicholas
Frank
and
Matthew
Michael,
Jan. 1,
2001
Kerriann Reilly
'90
and Mark
Broussard,
a
daughter,
Michelea
Colleen,
May
9, 2001
Maryann
and
Steven Shulkin
'90,
a
daughter,
Savanah
Hailey,
Jan. 1,
2001
Kathleen Steidle
'90
and
Chris
Soulias,
a
daughter,
Meghan
Elizabeth,
Aug. 23,
2001
Dawn
and
Gary
C.
Vincent
'90,
a
daughter,
Allison Dawn,
Nov.
30, 2001
Michele Ward
'90
and Victor
Triolo,
a
daughter,
Hannah
Grace,
May
1,
2001
Susan Weisser '90
and
Paul
Schmitt,
twin
daughters,
Zoya
and
Katerina,
Feb.
9, 2001
Jennifer Boyer
'91
and
Christopher Pasquali
'91,
a son, Ryan
Christopher,
June
4, 2001
Marianne Cenicola
'91
and
David
Kemp,
a
daughter,
Alexis,
Sept. 15,
2001
Jill
Chatt
'91
and
Timothy
Warner,
a
daughter,
Victoria
Ann,
July 9, 2001
Mary and
Christopher Destefano
'91,
a
daughter,
Alyson
Maria,
Jan. 13, 2001
Joanne DiStefano
'91
and
Jason
Greco,
a
son,
Jack,
Oct.
31,
2001
50
MARIST
MAGAZINE
Behind
the St:enes
at ABC-TV
It's 7
p.m.
on a
Monday
evening
inside the ABC
building
in
Manhattan. Antom!lla
(Nella) Licari
'94 is
talking
on
the phone
with
her
boss, who
is in
San
Francisco
on
business.
You
wouldn't
know
it by
listening
to her,
but
she's coming
off
a weekend that
included
working a
21-hour shift.
Meanwhile,
Maria1
Licari
'93 is in
her
office getting
ready
for tomorrow morning's show. Everything
seems
quiet and
calm, butth1~re
is
obviously
still plenty of work
to be done.
And
so
it
goes
for
the Licari
sisters who, since graduating
from
Marist, have
gone on
to enjoy successful careers at
"America's
favorite
n,etwork."
Nella,
who internEid
at
ABC
while a
student,
is currently
manager
of special
projects
at
ABC-TV.
Maria,
who got
into television
"mere:ly
by
ac-
cident," serves as an associate
producer
of
"Good
Morning
America"
(GMA).
time immediately
after graduation between substitute
teaching, assisting at an after-school program and
working at her family's restaurant.
In
1994,
she moved to Manhattan and enrolled in
the
American
Academy
of
Dramatic
Arts to
pursue her
love of acting. Shortly
thereafter, Nella
informed her
of some freelancing
opportunities with ABC. Now, six
years
later,
Maria
is still in the business.
Throughout
their
time at
ABC,
the Licaris
have been
involved
in several
memorable
s
projects. During
the
network's
~
24-hourmillenniumbroadcast
E
to close out
1999,
Nella was
0
in
the control room the entire
time. At the Academy
Awards
that same year, Maria was re-
sponsible for off-air reporting
from
the
"American Beauty"
party.
Most
memorable
of all,
although it
is
something they
would obviously
prefer to for-
get, was
Sept.
11.
Between the
two
of
them,
the Licaris spend
quite a bit
of time working
behind
the
scenes
at the
network, doing
Maria '93 (left) and Antonella Licari '94
"I had
to look
at footage
that
the crews
shot and it was
very difficult
to
look at. but it
had
to be done because we
had
a show
to
put on the air,"
everything
from graphics
and
logging
tape to working
in
the
control room and produc-
ing live segments.
And
although
that sometimes
results
in days
like
the 21-hour
one
Nella
put in
recently,
the
pair couldn't
be happ,ier.
"It's
a
lot
of
work:, but if we didn't
love it
then we
wouldn't
be here," Maria
says. "You have
to be
able
to roll
with
the
punches."
Nella has been rolling
ever
since leaving Marist. A
communications
major with
concentrations
in public
relations and advertising,
the
former student body
president
developed an interest in
television
while
interning at
the ABC
soap
opera
"One Life to Live."
That carried over inlto
a second
internship
with the
network,
this time
with
GMA,
and
before
long she
found
herself
doing
associate
producer
work for the
morning
program.
After two years
with
GMA, Nella
became a pro-
duction
associate and joined the
Directors Guild
of
America. She
spent tlhree
years in that position
before
being
elevated to
her current
role.
Maria's path
was
less direct.
An
English
literature
and
secondary
education major
at Marist,
she split her
says
Maria,
who arrived at work at 9 a.m on 9/11 and
didn't
leave until
5 a.m. the next morning. "That was
the
roughest day."
In their
line
of work they have learned to be prepared
for
whatever is thrown their way. "You're
always sort
of
on
a standby at all times," Nella says. "On every
project you're always altering your roles and
learning
everything
about how to put a show on properly and
cheaper."
And even when work
is
done for the day, there is
always the chance to learn more by talking with each
other when
they
get home. Besides being sisters, Nella
and
Maria
are also roommates, allowing them to cut
down
on
that
expensive
Manhattan rent.
If all goes according
to plan,
perhaps one day they
will even work together on their own show, preferably
one
devoted
to cooking.
"We
grew up
in the restaurant business. I really am
a 'foodie' at heart," Maria says. "Maybe we'll have our
own cooking
show one day.
Nella
can direct and I'll do
the
producing."
In
the
meantime, stay
tuned.
-Jeffrey Dahncke
'01
with a
master's
in
psychology
She
is
a clinical therapist at St. Ann
lnstilULe
in
Albany, N.Y.
I
Allison
Letts
Dean
is directi::ir
of
financial
aid
at
Westwood
College of Tech-
nology in
Denver, Colo.
I
Beth
Fogarty
DeGeorge,
her
husband,
Paul, and
their
daughter,
Katie,
have
relocated to
the
Northeast
after
living
in Atlanta
for
seven
years. They
reside
in Bridgewa-
ter,
Mass.,
where they are in
the
process of
reno\'ating
their "new"
120-year-old
horne.
lAnneAyotte
DeLomba
recei\'ed
a master's in
the expressive
ans
therapies. She
currently works
in
a
local
public
school system providing counsel-
ing
services
to
special education
students.
I
Lili
Melendez
Dendy
is
a supervisor/fraud investigator
for
the City of New York Office of
Revenue
and
Investigations.
She
is
married
and
has
a daughter. She
was an
HEOP
student at MarisL
I
Patrick
0.
Dolan,
Ph.D.
is
an
assistant professor of
psychology
at Drew University
in
Madison,
Conn.
I
Neil
V.
Fino, Jr.
has
been
appointed vice
president
of
finance
for
Walden Savings Bank.
Neil has been a CP.A. since 1995.
I
Michelle Foglia
isa
psychologist
in an outpatient clinic in Green-
\'ille, S.C She is also
the
director
of child and adolescent ser\'ices























at the clinic. She obtained her
license in
December
2000
and is
also naLionally
certified.
I
Anthony
J.
Frank
received a Ph.D. in chem-
istry from Rensselaer Polytechnic
lnstituLe in Troy, N.Y.
Anthony is a
senior research chemist at Albany
Molecular Research,
Inc.
I
SFC
Stuart
E.
Gallagher
is pursuing
a master's in organizational man-
agemenl. He completed Officer
Candidate School and will work
for
Lhe
Army's Special Operations
Command at Fon Bragg, N.C.
I
Gayle Gruber
is
the
manager of
licensing, wholesale and special
promotions for
the
American
Museum of Natural History in New
York, N
.Y.
Gayle received a master's
from SUNY/Fashion
Institute
of
Technology in gallery and retail
an administration.
I
Kimberly
Haight
is an assistant manager for
Solomon Smith Barney's health
and fitness program.
I
Sean
J.
Hynes
has joined the custom
market research and consulting
firm of Knowledge Systems &
Research, Inc. in Syracuse, N.Y.,
as a research analyst.
I
Wesley
Lee (M.P.A.) is coordinator of the
Poughkeepsie
Even
Start Program.
Recent
I
y
the
Bene ficia
I/
Household
Finance Corp. became a corporate
sponsor of the program.
I
Jay
Linder
joined the firm of Strook,
Strook & Lavan L.L.P. after more
than five years of development
and fund raising for Columbia
Uni\·ersity. He
is
the staff writer
for the firm's marketing group.
I
David Makris
is senior director at
Nerve Wire, a systems integration
firm, where he does exciting work
for Fortune 1000 firms all over
the
United States and Europe.
I
Christa
Baumgartner
Mallozzi
and
Ralph
Mallozzi, Jr.
'94 became parents
a little earlier than they expected!
Their first child, Megan Elizabeth,
decided not to wait until her due
date and made herent ranee into the
world three months early on
June
4,
2001,
weighing 2.5 pounds.
I
Craig Neal was promoted to human
resources director of
the
Catholic
Cemeteries Association of the
Archdiocese of Hartford, Conn.
I
Carol].
Odeveseff,
C.P.A., M.B.S.
has joined theaccountingand busi-
ness consulting firm of Judelson,
Giordano and Siegel, P.C. as a staff
accountant.
Carol isa memberofthe
New York State Society of C.
P.A.s.1
Steven
Pardon
is co-host of a local
morning
newscast
on WD BJ-TV
in
Roanoke, Va.
I
Andrea Preziotti
is
a marketing communications
specialist for WallStreet Interac-
tive TV, which streams up-to-the-
minute financial news over the
Web,
targeting the
young,
hip
and
trendy Wall Street set.
I
Valerie
Gajdzis
Rey
her
has been
p1romoted
LO
supervisor of employment ser-
vices at the
Kennedy
Center,
Inc.
I
Chrissy Cassidy
Romano
has
been
employed as an English teacher in
Lhe
Arlington Central School Dis-
LricL
in Poughkeepsie, N.Y
.. , for
Lhe
past six years. Prior
LO
her
teaching
career, Chrissy received an M.S.T.
from Pace University after a short
stint in the advertising industry.
I
Colleen
Russell
Susko,
C.P.A.
is controller at Bellevue Woman's
Hospital in Niskayuna, N.Y.
I
Regina
Pelliccio
Sypher
has been
promoted from operations manager
to
general manager at Betelgeuse
Productions in New York, N.Y.
I
Robyn Berger Ulbrich
is vice-
president of external reporting at
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in New
York, N.Y.
I
Gregory
Reisert
was
promoted to director, market data
at the New York Stock E:<change
in November
2000.
I
Clinton
Wiley
has expanded his
Internet
service business, New Frontiers
Telecommunications,
by becoming
a CLEC, which allows him
to
offer
loca I
telephone services throughout
the state of Maryland. Clint's wife,
Patricia
Dube Wiley
'93, isa part-
time district court commissioner
for Washington County and stays
at home with their two young
children, Sarah and Ryan.
1 9 9 4
Marilyn Brandl
was h,:mored,
along with 27 other women, by
the YWCA for
her
contriblltions to
the work environment as di
rector
of
annual giving
in
the Advancement
Office at Marist and
in
the greater
community.
I
Verna Cason
works
in the international sales support
office at IBM. Verna was an HEOP
student at Marist.
I
Lisa
'Ehrgott
Cancel
and
her
husband, Alex-
ies, have
purchased a
home in
Cortlandt Manor, N.Y. Lisa was
promoted to human
resources
managerwithCapGemini
Ernst&
Young
in
NewYork,N.Y.
IR,ev.John
W. Canorro
was ordained a priest
for the diocese of Syracuse, N.Y.,
on June
2, 2001,
at the Cathedral
of the Immaculate Conception. Fr.
John entered St. Mary's Seminary
in
Baltimore, Md., in the fall of
1995
and graduated on May 10,
2001,
with a master's of divinity
and a bachelor's
in
sacred theology.
Fr. John
serves as parochial vicar
al
Holy
Cross Church
in
Dewitt,
N.Y., and will teach pan-Lime at
Bishop
Grimes High School in East
Syracuse, N.Y. Also affectionately
known as Fr. Cookie, he
is
still
baking up a storm.
I
Christopher
Cambe
received an M.B.A. from
Long Island University on May
23, 2001.
He
has
been promoted
to
assistant director of finance al
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York,
N .Y.
I
lst Lt.
Pamela
Ann Clinton's
unit, the
503'd Military Police Bat-
talion (Airborne), was deployed to
the Pentagon to increase security
in the wake of the Sept. 11,
2001
attacks. Pam is pursuing teacher
certification at Methodist College
in
North Carolina.
I
Stephanie
Diiorio
has joined the public
relations firm of Berk Communic-
ations as associate vice president,
representing a diverse clientele of
restaurants, nightclubs, person-
alities and consumer products.
These
include
NBA stars, Kevin
Garnett's urban fashion line
OBF, Tiki Barber, UMG's World
Wrestling Federation software,
Hype energy drink and Manhat-
tan restaurants Tao, Gustavino's
Lansky Lounge, Vi rot and Light.
I
Robert
Farrier
is an assistant vice
president at the Bank of New York
in White Plains, N.Y.
I
Michael
Gearing is
pursuing an M.B.A.
at Binghamton University while
workingfull-timeastheworldwide
travel services, policy and analysis
manager at IBM Corp.
in
Endicott,
N.Y.
I
Emily Girard Gregory
received a master's of science
in
technical communications from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
in
May
2002.
I
Kimberly
Hack-
Rev.
John
W.
Canorro
'94
NEW
ARRIVALS
Wendy Emmons
'91
and
Thomas McNutt '90,
a
son, Joseph
Connor,
Aug.18,
2001
Allison
and
Joe Faraldi
'91,
a son,
Joseph
Lawrence,
Jr.,
June
4, 1998
Robin Feldman '91
and
Jim
Malaussena,
a son,
Sam
James,
July 29, 2001
Theresa
and
Rick Floyd
'91,
a daughter,
Brianna
Nicole,
Feb.
1, 2001
Suzanne Geida
'91
and Don
Konz.
a daughter,
Taegan
Montgomery,
Oct. 4,
2000
Laura
and
Steven Giannone '91,
a daughter,
Caroline
Shaye,
July
22, 2001
Kristin
and
Thomas
Hanna
'91,
a daughter,
Caroline,
March
27, 2000
Melissa Hegg
'91
and Matthew
Entzion,
twins, a son, Jack
Matthew,
and a daughter,
Grace
Marie,
May 18, 2001
Lea Ellen lnfranca
'91
and
Dr. Kevin Collins '88,
a son,
Brandon
James,
Aug. 15, 2000
Cynthia Koestner
'91
and Shawn
Alexander,
a son, Trevor,
April 7, 2001
Caren
and
Paul Kratochvil '91,
a son, Matthew
Brian,
July 13, 2001
Lisa
and
Kelly Kujath
'91,
a daughter,
Emma
Margaret,
March
26, 2001
Nikki and
Jason
Lerner '91,
a son, Justin
Seth,
March
2. 2001
Elizabeth Lucido
'91
and Robert
Bahm,
a daughter,
Rebecca
Elizabeth,
June
1, 1999
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Marisa Manderioli
'91
and
Frank
Arcaroli,
a son,
Joseph
Anthony,
March
20, 2002
Beth Maniscalco
'91
and Dean
Morretta,
a son,
Luke
Anthony,
April 30, 2001
Danielle
and
Christopher Marzo
'91,
a
daughter,
Sophia,
Dec. 29,
2000
Kristen O'Brien '91
and Richard
Piazzolla,
a son,
Nicholas
James,
Oct. 8,
1999
Amy
Purpura
'91
and Michael
Smith,
a son, Gabriel
Michael
Joseph,
July
19,
2001
Elizabeth Sturno
'91
and
Christopher
Kistler,
a
daughter,
Stefanie
Christine,
Dec.
29, 2000
Linda Tracy
'91
and Scott
Geiger,
a daughter,
Natalia,
Nov.
1,
2000
Kristin
and
Steven D. Waryas '91,
a son, Jakob
Ryan,
March
29, 2001
Jennifer
L. Wissing
'91
and
Peter
McGahren,
a
daughter,
Keri-Leigh,
Aug.8,
2000
Kristin Anderson
'92
and
Scott Salisbury,
a
daughter,
Lily Abigail,
Aug.
28,2001
Jill
Schwartz
and
Thomas E. Bubel
'92,
a
daughter,
Emily
Theresa,
March 16, 2000
Amy Cairo '92
and
Vincent
Lamendola,
twin
sons, Matthew
Vincent
and Andrew Michael,
Dec.
30, 1999
Jennifer Chandler '92
and Sean
Kane,
a son,
Jack,
Dec.
30,
2000
Joan
and
John Chrysler
'92,
identical
twin daughters,
Danielle
Dominique
and
Kristen
Nicole,
April
3, 2001
52
MARIST
MAGAZINE
ell
received
a master's
in
theology
in June
2001. She is a department
specialist
in
the electronic
publish-
ing
department
of Marcel
Dekker,
Inc.,
a scientific, technical and
medical publisher
in
New York,
N.Y.
I
Susan Murphy Harney
was promoted in
Jan,uary
2002
to
chief information officer at Citadel
Broadcasting Corp. in
New
York,
N.Y.
I
Bruce A. Harris
istheowner
of a
nightclub,
Powder,
located
in
Hunter
Mountain, N.Y. Bruce and
his
wife, Carrie, live in Tanners-
ville, N.Y.
I
Tara Camo Hart
is
a certified social worker with
the
WappingersCentralS,:hool
District
in Wappingers Falls, N.Y.
Tara
lives
in Poughquag, N.Y.,
with her hus-
band,
Daniel
Hart
'97.
I
Gabriel
Hidalgo, Esq.
is
an
insurance
defense
litigation attorney with the
firm of Milber, Makris, Plousadis
and Seiden
in
Garden City, N.Y.
He lives in
Howard
Beach, N.Y.
with
his
wife,
Flora
and their son,
Devon.
I
Coach of the Year for
Poughkeepsie
High
School
Brian
Laffin
coached the boy's varsity
basketball
team
to victory
in the
Dutchess County Coach's
League
ll-B, Section One Championship.
Poughkeepsie
High
was ranked No.
6 among large schools
in
New York
State.
I
Kristin S.
Lamberti-Lloyd
received
a master's
from Fordham
University in 2000.
Kristin is
an outreach coordinator
for
the
Archdiocese of New York.
I
Jay
LaScolea is
managing editor and
the
main
news
anchor for WENY-
TV News Channel 3
1
6 at 6 and 11
p.m.
WENY is the ABC affiliate
in
the southern tier
of
New York and
northern tier
of Pennsylvania.Jay's
co-anchor
is
also a Mari st alumna,
Kelly
Quinn
'99.
He also
teaches
broadcast
journalism and public
speaking to college and
high
school students.
I
Kathryn Link
has been
named
associate direc-
tor
of the career
development
office
at the University of New
Haven.
Kathy
is
pursuing a
master's
in
labor
relations
at
the
university
and
expects
to
receive her degree
in
August
2002.1
Azu1lenis
Liriano
lives
and
works
in
Florida. She
is
employed
by
Premier Vacation
Homes.
She was an
HEOP
student
at
Marist.
I
The Rev. Matthew
E.
Martin,
advertising direcwr
for Cellular One of South Missis-
sippi, was named one of the "Top
40
Under 40" by the
Mississippi
Business
Journal.
Mau oversees
the
creation of UnWiredl
Advertising,
Jim Haggerty
'94
Carrying
a Torch
for America
Jim
Haggerty '94 is one of only 11,500 people ...
That statement doesn't seem like anything special until you hear
the
rest: to carry
the
Olympic
torch on its 13,500-mile-plus
journey
across the United States.
It
becomes very special when you consider that
these 11,500 people were chosen from more than 210,000 nominated
to participate in the torch run.
A tradition of the Olympics
since 1936,
the
torch run is a symbol
from the original games. In ancient Greece, a sacred truce was
called
so athletes could
peacefully
compete at
the
Olympic
Games. Before the
games,
runners-called
"heralds of peace"-traveled Greece proclaiming
the truce and issuing a call to the games.
Participants in the 2002 torch
run
were nominated by family and
friends via
the
Internet and selected by local community task forces.
Nominations included a 50- to
100-word
essay explaining how the
nominee embodied the Olympic
spirit and provided
inspiration
to others
and to their community.
The criteria for selecting Olympic
torchbearers
also called for
someone
who motivates others by encountering and
overcoming
adversity.
Mark
Bennett '94, a friend since college, nominated Jim for the run
following
a recent visit to Music City. "Nashville
is
a big music city (not
just
country music, either) and it is
hard
to make a living as a musi-
cian-which Jim is," says
Mark.
"He is a leader-he
is
making a living
doing what he loves and
he
is very involved
in
his community."
Running
in Nashville,
Tenn., his
home
since 1997,
Jim
found the
experience
very
humbling.
"What was most amazing was meeting the
other participants
in
the run. There were World
War II
field nurses, Viet-
nam vets running in memory of their friends, and I was honored
to
be
associated with
these
people," says
Jim.
"Mark's decision
to
nominate
me is one of
the
most generous things that someone has done for me
in support of my career."
Since moving
to
Nashville,
Jim
has been doing studio work and is the
bassist/vocalist
in a band called joe, mare's brother.
The
band's
Web
site,
www.joemarcsbrother.com,
includes photos of Jim carrying
the
torch
in
addition
to
information
about
the
group.
Jim
will
travel
to Europe in
the coming months to tour with Josh Rouse, who wrote "Directions,"
featured on
the
soundtrack of the film "Vanilla
Sky."
where he is creative director. The
former Marist swim team captain
also
recently
competed
in
his first
triathlon,
finishing in
the top 20 in
the
event's half-mile swimming
leg
out of
more than
300 participants.
As if that weren't enough
to
keep
him
busy,
Mau performed his
first
wedding as an ordained
minister
in
May
2001.
I
Mary
Elizabeth
-Sean
Morrison
Keenan Meyers
is a senior busi-
ness analyst for
MBNA
America.
Beth
lives in Drexel,
Pa., with
her husband, Stephen.
I
Ralph
Musolino
is a
recreation
center
manager
for the
New York City
Parks and Recreation Department
in
the
West Village.
He
writes that
it's the best
job
in
the
world next
to playing for the Yankees. Ralph




























lives
in Brooklyn,
N.Y., with his
wife,
Tina.
I
Christine Nichtern
Foster
is
the
managing director of
West
Coast sales for Qua
mum
Shift,
an enterprise soft ware solution
for
communications management.
I
Myles
C.
Pinkney
and his wife,
Sandi, have a new book,
a Rainbow
All Around Me.
The
40-page
book,
published
by
Cartwheel Books
in
January
2002, is designed to teach
children ages
4
through 8 about
color
through photos
of multicul-
tural children and accompanying
verse. Previously Myles and Sandi
collaborated on
Shades of
Black:
A
Celebration
of Our Children.
They
were
honored
at
the 4•h
Annual
Prestige Awards in April
in
New-
burgh,
N.Y.
I
Pamela Ricigliano
is
an event
planner
for SHINE,
Inc.
in
New York, N.Y.
I
Kent
Rinehart
is
associate
director
of
admissions at Bentley College in
Waltham, Mass. He and
his
staff
are responsible for
the
enrollment
of
the
freshman class. Kem was
formerly
coordinator of
transfer
admissions at
Marist.
I
Christina
Royal
is director of technology
training/emerging technologies
at Marist. Tina
is
responsible for
the operations and
development
of
non-credit
and credit
technology
training programs
and distance
learning in the
School of Gradu-
ate and Continuing Education.
I
Carole T. Salamone, Esq. is
a
consultant
for the leasing,
zoning
and telecommunications
industry.
She
received
an award for arranging
access for emergency, microwave
and
telecommunications
equip-
ment
to
aid disaster relief efforts
in
the
wake of the World Trade Center
disaster
on Sept.
11.1
Linda
Sala-
Roth
is a
school counselor at Sacred
Hean
Academy
in Hempstead,
N.Y.
I
Deborah
Schnarr
McKeough
is
a collaborative
third
grade teacher
at Nonhside Elementary School
in
Farmingdale.
I
Jeff
Schanz
has
won a
2002
Circle of Excellence
Award
from
CASE, the Council
for the Advancement and Support
of
Education.
Associate director
of alumni
relations
at
Rensselaer
Polytechnic
Institute, he
received
the
honor for
the comprehensive
career
assistance program
RPI
offers
to
alumni.
I
Nicole Sullo
is
operations
manager
with Gan-
nett
&
Fleming, an
international
environmental engineering firm.
I
Jeremy B. Thode
is
the lead
teacher
for health and physical education
at Commack High School.
In
December 2001, he
obtained
school
district
administrator cer-
tification from
SUNY Stony Brook.
I
Ray
Varuolo
is an inve:stigative
analyst and heads
the
cold case
unit
of the New York County District
Auorney's office. The unit is in
charge of
re-opening
unsolved
homicides
in
Manhattan.
1
9 9 5
Madeline Bartolotti's
business,
Madeline's
Dance
Cente-r, cele-
brated
its
lO'h
anniversary in 2001.
She
reports
that
the
cen1ter had
successful
performances dancing
for
the
Olympics in Sydn,ey,
Aus-
tralia, in
September 2000.
I
Tom
Becker is the lead
reporter for
the
Dow
Jones Newswires corporate
court
team in
Washington,
D.C.
I
Dana Branchesi is
the from-
line manager for Morgan Stanley
and Fidelity Investments annuity
business
for Citigroup in
Hartford,
Conn.
I
Jillian
Caci teaches music
technology
at South Junior
High
School
in
Newburgh, N.Y. She is
also president of
the
Orange:
Coum y
Music Educators' Associ:ation.
I
Jeannine Brescia
Castaldi became
the
first online M.B.A. graduate
from Marist. She isa
tax
accountant
with Pepsi-Cola Bouling, Group
in
Somers, N.Y.
I
Rich
Cocchiara
graduated from Purchase College
with a master's in fine arts
in
theatre
design
and technology. He
is
pursuing a career in theatre.
I
Michael
Coughlin
is pursuing a
master's
in
school administration
at Fordham University. Michael
is an accountant
for
the Hartford
Insurance
Group
in
Hartford,
Conn.
I
Yesenia Cruz
was
pro-
moted to accounting executive for
Discover Card. She was an HEOP
student at Marist.
I
Anthony
Deluca III
has been promoted
to
lead medical
technolo,gist for
MDS
Hudson
Valley Laboratories
at Columbia Memorial
Ho:spital in
New York, N.Y.
I
Jacque:line
A.
Emslie (M.S.)
met another Marist
alumnus,
Peter Lamb
'80, when
she attended a conference at the YO
Ranch in Mountain
Home, Texas.
Jackie
complimented the chef on
his delicious
Texas cookiing
and
he
asked her where she was from.
When she said, "Poughkeepsie,
NewYork,"heasked, "So
how
is my
alma mater, Marist College?" She
writes
that
it just goes
to
show that
Maristalumni
meet
in
thedarndest
places. The ranch
is located two
hours
west of San Antonio.Jackie
is
Marist alumni are everywhere!
Jacqueline
Emslie M '95 offered
"compliments to the chef" at the
YO Ranch in Mountain Home,
Texas, and
discovered
he was
fellow Marist graduate
Peter
Lamb '80.
a systems analyst
for
the Dutchess
County Office for Computer
Infor-
mation Systems.
I
Mark
Ferrari
is
working
with the
New
York
State
Emergency Management Office
in support
of the
recovery efforts
from
the
World
Trade
Center and
Flight 587
disasters.
I
Sheri Wei-
dner Fitzgerald
has
been elected
president of Women in Cable and
Telecommunications
of New Eng-
land.
WICTisanindustryorganiza-
tion
that ad\'ances women leaders
in
the communications
industry.
Sheri is a regional account man-
ager for Comedy Cemral in New
York, N.Y.
I
Lucia
Fraboni
is the
director
of programming for High
Definition Net work, HDNet, in
Dallas, Texas.
I
Kevin
Freeman
is
a tape coordinator for ABC's
"Good
Morning
America." He is
a
member
oft he Red
Sweet Beet
y Fi
Im
Group and had
two
short movies
showing
in
New York City during
the
summer of 2001.
Kevin
lives
in
the
Williamsburgsection ofBrook-
lyn,
N.Y.1
Luis Gonell
had a small
role in the
film
"Empire" starring
John
leguizamo. He was an
HEOP
student at Marist.
I
Stacey
Hernan-
dez
works in the New York City
Department of
Investigations.
She
was stationed at the World Trade
Center
providing
security after
the
Sept. 11
tragedy.
She was an
HEOP
student at
Marist.
lAsiflmran
lives
and works
in
Georgia.
He is
a stock
trader with a company based in
New York.
Hewasan HEOPstudent
at Marist.
I
Farah
Joly
completed
her master's in human
services
at
Audrey Cohen College
in
1998and
works for the Administration for
NEW
ARRIVALS
Patricia
Coffey '92
and Ken Fischer,
a
daughter,
Kayla
Allison,
Oct. 18, 2000
Mary Delmar '92
and Jeffrey
Sisson,
a son, Craig
Jarrod,
Jan. 16, 2001
Annmarie
DePaolo
'92
and Steven
Decker,
a son, Ryan
Michael,
Jan.
25, 2001
Cynthia Donaldson
'92
and
Anthony
Mercogliano
'92,
a
daughter,
Emma
Jayne,
April 4, 2001
Nancy
and
Scott
Doyle
'92,
a son, Gavin
Hendrixson,
Feb. 14, 2001
Julie Anne Dumont
'92
and Seth
l.
Rabinowitz,
a
daughter,
Sarah
Elizabeth,
Sept. 17, 2001
Danielle Dunalewicz
'92
and
Douglas
Sanders,
Ph.D. '92,
a
daughter,
Lauren
Michelle,
May 24, 2000
Tracey
and
Eric Gehnrich
'92,
a son, Brett Ryan,
Jan.
19,
2001
Melissa
Hard
'92
and George
Leyva,
a
son, Tyler
Patrick,
March
17, 2000
Christine Henn
'92
and
Glenn Mcsweeney '92,
a son,
Matthew
Joseph,
June 15, 2001
Cathy
and
Ryan
McEntee
'92,
a
daughter,
Aline Mary Julia,
May 28, 2001
Leslie
Moore '92
and Richard
Massaro,
a son,
Zachary
Duncan,
July
18,
2001
Amy
lncremona-Nass
and
Richard
R. Nass
'92,
a daughter,
Layton
Amanda,
March
19,
2001
Kerriann
Patton '92
and
Joseph Gambino '94,
a daughter,
Lindsey
Carroll,
Feb.
24, 2001
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Margaret Saltarelli '92
and
Ron Marchand '91,
twin sons,
Vincent
and Ron,
March
20, 2002
Christine Sheeran '92
and
Thomas
Mohr,
a daughter,
Erin
April,
Sept.
27,
2001
Margaret
and
James Stafstrom
'92,
a son,
Patrick
Francis,
Nov. 30, 2001
Maureen Taylor
'92
and
Joseph Jones
'91,
a son,
Patrick
Joseph,
Sept. 28, 2000
Lori Vitale
'92
and
Marc
DeAngelo,
a daughter,
Emily
Rose,
Feb.
12,
2001
Jennifer
Walker
'92
and
David
Fielding,
a daughter,
Kiera Margret,
Sept.
18,
2001
Krissy Andreasen
'93
and
Tom
Shashaty,
a
daughter,
Kasey
Ann,
Dec.
28, 2001
Carla Angelini '93
and
Christopher Bautista
'92,
a
son,
Luke,
April
1,
2001
Christa Baumgartner
'93
and
Ralph Mallozzi, Jr.
'94,
a daughter,
Megan
Elizabeth,
June
4,
2001
Christina Cassidy
'93
and Charles
Romano,
a
daughter,
Cayleigh
Cassidy,
April
14,
2001
Kim Delaney
'93
and Casey
McKee,
a son, Declan
Rorke,
Aug. 25, 2001
Patricia Dube
'93
and
Clinton Wiley
'93,
a son,
Ryan
Patrick,
March
15, 2001
Darlene Eberhardt
'93
and
Benton
Duffett
111,
a
daughter,
Katherine
Ann,
Jan.
10, 2001
54
MARIST
MAGAZINE
Children Services as a child abuse
investigator. She was.an
HEOPstu-
dent at Marist.
I
Hai;san
Kareem
(Lewis) is
still serving in the U.S.
Coast Guard in
Point Pleasant,
N.j.,
and
is
a
per diem nurse
aL Brick
Hospital
in
New
Jers,ey. He
was an
HEOP student at
Marist.
I
John
M. Macari
sends compliments
to
the
Marist
baseball
staff
for
including
alumni
participation
in
what
has
become
an annual game
against the current student baseball
team.
He
thoroughlir
enjoyed
the
experience
and tips
his cap to
coach John Szefc and his staff.
I
Rochelle
McDonough
is
a crime
victims specialist with
the
New
York State
Police
in Poughkeepsie.
She plans to start graduate work
in
social work and criminal
justice in
the
near
future.
She was an HEOP
student
at
Marist.
I
Michael Mur-
ray isa
kiosk
developer working on
the
Kiosk
National
Practice
for IBM
Business Innovation Services in
Somers, N.Y.
I
Colleen
agurney
is
a
paralegal
for
Legiion
Insurance
Company while she pursues a
law
degree from
Rutgers
University.
I
After
graduaLing from Marist,
Sherilee
Newton
pursued a
mod-
eling career, starting with Shades
Fitness Models in 1998. She did
commercial ads in fitness
modeling
publications
including
Natural
Bodybuilding and Fitness, Shape
and
Physique
World
while gaining
experience in runway shows and
competiLions. In 1999 she won
the title of Miss Black World New
York State. Sheri then won
titles
in
the
Miss New Yorlk USA, Model
Eastern SLatesand FimessAmerica
pageants. In 2000 s,he starred in
an
independent
film called "Fam-
ily
Business"
and
performed
as a
featured model on the TV broad-
casL of
Lhe
2000 Ess,ence Awards.
In
2002 she was a
featured model
for
Muscle and Fitness
magazine's
January and April
iissues.
While
competing
and
modeling
for
Shades, Sheri also coordinaLed
evems and performances
and
booked modeling assignments for
the
companr
ln
Jully
2001 Sheri
left
a
full-time position
at Thomas
Publishing Company to become
president
and co-owner of Shades
Model&Talent Management. Sheri
was an HEOP student
at
Marist.
I
Renee Murphy
O'Connell
works
for Chelsea Property Group
in
Roseland,
NJ., asa lease accountant
for a real estate investment
Lrust
company. She is als.o working to
obtain a realest ate license.
I
Kevin
O'Neill
is pursuing an M.B.A. in
leadership
from
Waynesburg
College. Kevin is an intermedi-
ate
systems analyst
at Federated
ln\'eStors
in downtown Piusburgh
where
he was
named
employee of
the
month.
I
Victoria
Perotti
is
the
network account
manager
for
the
Hudson Valley under
United
Health Care.
I
Kristen Rath
has
been promoted
to director of cre-
ative services/broadcast
producer
at Lawrence
Butner
Advertising,
Inc.
in New York, N.Y.
I
Jayme
Gabay Reikers
has
received
a
master's in secondary education
from
Hofstra
University.
Jayme
teaches business at
Roy
C.
Ketcham
High School in Wappingers Falls,
N.Y.
I
Joy Romanelli
is a district
sales
manager
for Coca-Cola Enter-
prises.
I
Marcia
Rosbury-Henne
is
associate
director
of admissions
at Mount Wachuseu Community
College
in
Gardner, Mass. She
is
pursuing
a master's in
educational
administration.
I
Vanessa Sebas-
tiano
works
for
the Visiting Nurse
Service of New
York.
She is
pursu-
inga
master's in
organizational
psy-
chology at Columbia University.
I
Gabrielle
Demma
Smith
received
her
master's
in
education from St.
Joseph College
in
Connecticut
and
has
been a
teacher
for
three
years. She
lives
in
East Haddon,
Conn., with
her
husband, Jim.
I
Jim Ulbrich
works as a TV com-
mercial
editor for Day and Night,
a commercial editing company
in
Manhattan.
I
Sheri Weidner
is
account manager of affiliate rela-
tions for
the East Coast region for
Comedy Central in New York, N
.Y.
I
David Whitehead
teaches New
York State
Regents
chemistry at the
Riverdale Kingsbridge
Academy
in
Bronx,
N.Y.
I
Mark Robert Zeck,
Esq.
owns the law
firmJalowiec
&
Zeck,
L.L.C.
in Derby, Conn.
The
firm has a strong focus on criminal
and personal injury
law.
1
9 9 6
Christina
Adzima received
a
master's in special education from
Fairfield University in May 2001.
I
Shannon Alpert
graduated from
the New York State
Police
Academy
in
May 2001. He
is
a state
police
officer stationed in Wappingers
Falls, N.Y.
I
Mark Arum
is
the
reporter for WSB-TV (ABC),
the
number-one
rated TV
station
in
Atlanta, Ga.
He
is also
hosting the
top-rated
sports-talk show
in town
for AM-750,
the
number-one raLed
radio
staLion in Atlanta.
He is the
host of
the
pre- and post-game
shows for
the
Atlanta Braves and
Atlanta
Hawks.
I
Michael Beau-
dreau
has been promoted
Lo
sales
and marketing manager for George
D. Hall
Publishing Company,
Inc.
in
Kennebunk, Maine.
I
Stacey
Berrios
is a new
homeowner
in
Pompano Beach,
Fla
, enjoying the
sun and beach. She is
pursuing
a
master's as a
physician's
assistant.
I
Christina
Bisirri-Franklin
teaches
writing composition classes
at Camden County College. She is
a master's candidate at Rutgers
University
in
Camden, N.].
I
Kara
Capone
is currently a student at
Yale University's School of Epidem-
iology and
Public Health,
pursuing
a master's
in
public
health
with a
concentration
in
public policy.
I
Mikael Carlson
is on terminal
leave
from active
duty
with Army
Airborne, B Battery, l" Battalion
(Airborne), 321"
Field
Artillery
Regiment.
He
awaits recall order
for possible deployment
to
support
the war on
terrorism.
I
Todd
Coulson
isa
multimedia
developer
for Haley
Productions
in Media,
Penn. The company createsaward-
winning presentations
in
film/
video,
multimedia
and Web pro-
duction.
I
James
Coughlin
is
a
recent
ion
counselor and researcher
for Westlab,
Inc.
in Elmsford, N.Y.
He
is
pursuing a master's
in
social
work at Fordham University. Jim
lives
in
Westwood, N.j., with his
wife,
Theresa Scura
'96.1
Theresa
Scura Coughlin
received a master's
in education
from
Fordham Uni-
versity
in
February 1998. She is a
special education teacher for grades
6-8
in the
Oakland
(NJ)
School
District. Theresa lives
in
West-
wood, NJ, with
her
husband,Jim
Coughlin
'96.
I
Kristine Dawes
has been
promoted
to
Northeast
region account
manager for MTS
Wireless Components, a division
of American
Tower
Corp.
in
Water-
bury, Conn.
I
Melanie Fester
Dawson
is
an executive recruiter
at Media Recruiting Group in
Irvington,
N.Y., helping people
in
ad sales,
marketing
and promotion
to
find employment
in
the magazine
industry.
I
Heidi Ann
Dennis
graduated from Suffolk University
Law
School
in
May 2000. She
has
moved
to
Virginia Beach, Va., and
is an attorney with
the law
firm of
Fine, Fine,
Legum and
Fine.
I
Kathleen
Doody
is
a partner and































director of sales and account man-
agement for Publishing Dimen-
sions. a company she helped found
in
November 2000. Publishing
Dimensions provides electronic
publishing services
for
all sectors
of
the
publishing community.
I
Alec
ks Elia
has
completed 16years
with
the
United States Marine
Corps. He plans
to
retire with 20
or more years of service and work
in law
enforcement
for
another 20
years.
I
Brenda
Gallagher
is
the
manager of eventsand fund raising
fonhe Northern New
Jersey
Chap-
ter
of
the
Leukemia &
Lymphoma
Society of America.
I
Pamela
Gooltz
graduated
from
Bentley
College with a
master's
in human
resource management. Pam
is
pursuing an M.S.M. degree
in
human resources
at
Lesley
Univer-
sity. She
is
a
human
resource
manager at
Fujitsu
Network Com-
munications in
Acton, Mass.
I
Susan McCarthy
Gullotta has
been promoted to senior database
analyst at Putnam Investments in
Norwood, Mass.
I
Ann
Hanley
is
amanagingpannerina New
Jersey-
based firm, 90 South
Realty.
She is
pursuing a
master's
in teaching at
Monmouth
Universny. Ann
plans
to teach
high
school English.
I
Al
Heinle
is
in his
third
year of teach-
ing in the Rose
Tree Media School
District in Media, Pa. Al is pursuing
a master's
in
educational adminis-
tration from Gwynedd-Mercy
College.
I
Christine
Helling
has
been
promoted
LO
manager of the
401 K
profit-sharing division
of
Citistreet in New Brunswick, N.Y.
I
Suzanne
M. Hodges
is a junior
publicist for Warner Brothers Film
Publicity. Suzanne li\·es
in Hobo-
ken, NJ.
I
Kim Kelly
isa
third-year
student
in
the Ph.D.
clinical
psy-
chology program at St. John's
University.
I
John R. King
is a
writer/researcher for
ERi Economic
Research
Institute,
with offices in
California, Washington and Lon-
don.
I
Jessica
Main Linicus
received a master's in industrial/
organizational psychology in 2001
from the University of New Haven.
I
Debra
S.
Levantrosser
has been
hired
by
Exide
Technologies,
an
electrical-energy solutions firm
based in
Princeton,
NJ, as the
company's new director of Excell
and business strategy.
I
Darrah
M.
Metz
joined the staff of Bishop
Donohue High School as the assis-
tant developmental director. She
received
a master's
in
communica-
tion studies
from
Marshall Univer-
sity in
Huntington,
WVa.
Ijames
McCarthy
has
earned
the
chartered
financial analyst (C.F.A.)
designa-
tion.
He is a
vice
president/
investment analyst with
Putnam
Investments
in
Boston,
Mass.
I
Paul
Morrell
is
a patrolman fiirst
class
fonhe
Horry
County
Police Depart-
ment
in
Myrtle Beach, S.C.
I
Tara
Ferina
Mostransky
is
a studio
artist working on a Master of Ans
degree
through
New York Univer-
sity
in
Venice,
Italy.
Her husband,
Michael
C.
Mostransky
'95, is a
technical sales executive for Bur-
rups, Ltd.
in London,
England. Tara
and Mike
have
lived
in
London
since
June
2000 and are sclheduled
to return to the States
in
June
2003.
I
Jessica
Nagle
graduated from
Boston
Uni\·ersity School o,f
Law
in
1999
and is a
litigation
associate
in the New
York
office of
Latham
&
Watkins.
I
Karina Ortega-
Verdejo received
a mas.ter's
in
psychology from
Pace
University.
She and
her husband,
Lorenzo
Verdejo
'96,
have a son. She was
an
HEOPstudentat
Marist.
I
Casha
Joefield Parker
has completed a
master's in environmental science.
She
is
a member of
the
science
curriculum for
the
school
district
in which she teaches. She
was
an
HEOP student at Marist.
I
Amy
Patrick
has been
named
alumni
relations coordinator for Syracuse
University's College of Human
Services and Health Professions.
The
new college, founded
in
July
2001, includes three former SU
schools and colleges:
the
College
for
Human
Development,
1.he
Col-
lege of Nursing and
the
School of
Social Work.
I
Betsy Polityka
has
taught
Spanish at Arlington High
School in
Lagrangeville,
N.Y.,
since
graduating from Marist.
I
Carl
Pica
isa senior investigator for Emigrant
Savings Bank.
I
Carrie Pochank
is a fifth grade special edlucat
ion
teacher
in an MIS
Ill
prog;ram for
speech and language-innpaired
learners in
Brooklyn, N.Y. Carrie
has
a
master's in
special edlucation
with a concentration in deaf and
hearing-impaired
education.
I
Dennis E. Rau, Jr.
has been
pro-
moted
to deportation officer with
the
Immigration
and Natural-
ization
Service
in the
U.S.
Department of
Justice.
He
attended
the
Immigration
Officers Academy
at
the
Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center in August
2001.
Dennis lives
in
Canton, Ga., with
his wife,
Christina.
I
Lynne
Dominick
Sager
is
a
health
care
consultant for Covance
Health
Economicsand
Outcomes Services,
a pharmaceutical and medical
device
company
in
Gaithersburg,
Md.
I
James
Secreto
is
a
police
officer
with
the New
York Police
Department.
I
Kevin
J.
Smith
received
a
master's in Higher
Catholic School
Education
from
Seton
Hall University. His
wife,
Jennifer Doorly
'96, is
pursuing
an M.S.W.
degree
at Southern Con-
necticut University. Kevin
and
Jennifer
live
in Greenwich, Conn.
I
Brandon
Tierney
was in
the
top-10
market
after spending
14
months at
the
SponsFan
Radio
Net work
in
Las Vegas, Nev. He
has
joined the
team
at SportsRad
io
1130
"The
Fan" WDFN, the home of the
Detroit
Pistons. Brandon's duties
include actual
hosting
and field
reporting
for all of the four majors,
in addition
to Big
Ten football and
basketball.
I
Marshalita
Cross
Tota
is
a consumer economic
consultant with
ROMA
Interna-
tional in Warwick,
Bermuda. She
writes that the
company
is
very
prosperous while still developing
network marketing business with
affiliations worldwide.
I
Christo-
pherTroetti
is pursuing an educa-
tion
administration
degree. He is
a history teacher with
the Bethel,
Conn.,
Public
School
District.
I
Jose
Villafane
is
the national
sales
manager with
Radio
Unica I
210
AM in Miami, Fla.
Radio
Unica
is
theonly24-hourSpanish
language
radio network nationwide.Jose
was
an HEOP student at
Marist.
~nnN+@
1
9 9 7
Melanie Bendfeldt
is
an
instruc-
tional technology facilitator for
the
Ramapo
Central School
District in
Suffern, N.Y.
I
Kellie Benn
received
a master's
from the
College of St.
Rose
in August
2001.
She is
a
clinical specialist
with
Conifer
Park
in
Glenville,
N.Y.
I
Kathleen
Lewis
Carpinteri
is a
senior
loan
officer at GMAC Mortgage.
Kate writes that she
loves living
in
San Antonio,
Texas.
I
Laura
Casavant
is a special education
teacher with the
Hanford
(Conn.)
Transitional
Learning Academy.
Laura is
a first-time homeowner
in
West
Hanford,
Conn.
I
Tracy
Kupp Chasse
received a master's
in
social work from Boston Uni-
NEW
ARRIVALS
Holly Fisher '93
and
Gordon
Brown
Ill,
a son,
Hunter
Timothy,
Sept.
20,
2000
Jodi Hyland
'93
and Jon Monahan,
a
son,
Jack,
Dec.
20, 2001
Cynthia
and
Frank Irizarry
'93,
a son, Frank
II,
Nov.
21, 2000
Michele Kelly
'93
and
Chuck
Cafasso,
a
son, John
Robert,
Dec.
30, 2000
Christine Krein
'93
and
Charles Ribaudo '92,
a daughter,
Charloue
Nicole,
Feb.
11,
2002
Donna Lapham
'93
and
Eric J. Wilson, Esq.
'88,
daughters,
Jennifer
Ruth,
Oct.
27, 2000,
and
Kara
Elizabeth,
Dec. 21, 2001
Mary Lawson
'93
and
Daniel Newcombe
'93,
a
daughter,
Anastasia,
Oct.
11,
2001
Faith Lefebvre
'93
and
Stephen
Piolle,
a
son,
Luke
Edouard,
Oct.
22, 2001
Jane McNamara
'93
and
Glenn
Taylor,
a
daughter,
Elly
Ann, Oct.
27, 2001
Margaret Morgan
'93
and
John P. O'Brien
'94,
a son,
Kieran
John,
July
28, 2001
Sandra Najarian
'93
and
Sean Fales
'92,
a
daughter,
Jacqueline
Sally,
Oct.
31,
1999
Jennifer Necci, Ph.D.
'93
and
James
Dineen,
a
son,
Thomas
Matthew,
June
26, 2001
Annemarie O'Connor
'93
and
Paul Rudolph '93,
a
son,
Liam
Paul,
April 10,
2001
Audrey Pflug '93
and Tracy
Beer,
a son,
Tracy
Augur,
Jr.,
June
28, 2001
f'ALL
2002
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Diane Pitts
'93
and
David
Ward,
a
daughter,
Samantha,
Oct.
26, 2000
Deanna Sapala '93
and Peter
Reisert,
a daughter,
Hailey
Danielle,
Sept. 17, 2000
Joanne
Tanguay '93
and
Christopher
Vandal
'93,
a
daughter,
Elizabeth
"Libby" Grace,
April 26,
2001
Kathy
and
Christopher Behlke
'94,
a
son,
Jakob
Christopher,
Jan.
9, 2001
Moira Breen '94
and Henry
Long,
a son, Jacob
Anthony,
Nov.
23, 2000
Elizabeth Daniello
'94
and
Albert Faraday
'94,
a
daughter,
Caroline
Brigid,
July
12, 2001
Charlene
Fields
'94
and Steven
Boynton,
two
sons,
Lucas
Jorel,
May 6, 1999,
and Zackary
Tyler,
Aug. 29, 2000
Aarti Kapoor
'94
and
James Comstock
'92,
a son,
Ryan
James,
July 28, 2001
MaryBeth Kelly '94
and
Thomas
Cassio
'92,
a
son, Matthew
Thomas.
May 7, 2001
Kristine Kickenweitz '94
and
Christopher
Jones
'92,
a son,
Matthew
Christopher,
Aug. 3, 2001
Kristin
Lamberti
'94
and
Paul
Lloyd,
a daughter,
Hanna
Susan,
July
8,
2001
Christine Lebitsch
'94
and
Craig K. Hickam
'94,
a son, Luke
Kiley,
March
24,
2001
Jennifer Ann May
'94
and Anthony
lmpronto,
a
son,
Jack
Anthony
Lincoln,
Sept. 26, 2001
56
MARIST
MAGAZINE
versity and is a soci:al worker for
Rockingham Visiting Nurses
in
Portsmouth, N.H.
I
Siobhan Cul-
len
has left her posit
ion
as a New
England region training and com-
munications manager at
the
Hertz
Corp. and is now an information
system specialist at The Travelers
in Hanford, Conn
I
Christopher
Cullinan
began
his
fifth season as
assistant men's basketball coach at
Brandeis
University
in
Waltham,
Mass., under former NBA coach
Chris Ford. His co,1ching duties
include
designing the
team's
training schedule,
recruiting,
film
breakdown and sc,outing coor-
dination.
He
is
also
the
offensive
team coordinator. Chris is pursu-
ing
a master's in special education
at Cambridge College.
I
Gina
D'Angelo-Mallen
is vice president
of Wine Services International,
which runs the Windows on
the
World Wine School
in
New York,
N.Y. As a result of
the
World Trade
Center
disaster,
Windows on the
World has
relocated to the
Marriott
Marquis
hotel.
I
Gina1
DeDominici
is
a graphic designer for the Massa-
chusetts Medical Society/New
Eng-
land Journal
of Medicine.
I
Melissa
Fleming
was selected as a member
of
the
New York City Teaching
Fellows Program.
The
program
takes non-teaching (professional)
individuals and
tr.tins
them to
teach
in
the most troubled schools
in New York City. She embarked
on her teaching career this past
September and love:; it.
I
Andrei
Gisetti
received
an M.A.
in
higher
education administration
from
New York Universit)f in 1999.
He
is the convention services
manager
for the Millennium Hotel
Boulder
in Boulder, Colo.
I
Benjamin
Greene
received an M.B.A.
from
Syracuse University
in
May
2001.
He
is an accounting, analyst with
IBM in Somers, N.Y.
I
Daniel
Hart
teaches
eleme:ntary school
in Bronx,
N.Y. He has a
master's
in
education from Mercy College.
Dan and
his
wife,
Ta.ra Camo
'94,
live
in Poughquag, N.Y.
I
Jennifer
Hoover
is a produc,er/production
manager for Blue Visual Effects, a
production company in Philadel-
phia, Pa. The company produces
for broadcast,
film
and video,
specializing in mo,tion graphic
design.
I
Amy Charlotte
Hunt
received a Juris
Doctorate
from
Suffolk University
Law
School in
May
2001.
I
Alison
Kilts
teaches
kindergarten for
the
Byram Hills
School District
in
Armonk, N.Y.
I
Robert LaBarbera
is a senior
operations associate forj.P. Morgan
Chase in New York, N.Y.
I Robert
Maniaci
graduated
from Dutchess
Community College in
December
2001
with an associate's degree in
paramedicine.
lPatrick
Mara
is the
manager of government relations
for ML Strategies, a subsidiary of
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky
and Popeo
in
Washington, D.C
Pat represents a number of small
energy concerns, among other
interests, before Congress and the
executive branch.
He
resides on
Capitol Hilland isactivelyinvolved
with a Rhode
Island
congressional
campaign.
Patservesasanat-large
member of the Alumni Executive
Board.
I
Donna
Matthews
is a
school psychologist with Ulster
County BOCES
I
Cara McCaf-
frey
graduated from Hofstra Uni-
versity School of
Law
in May
2000
and
joined
the firm of
Kaufman,
Schneider
and Bianco,
L.L.P.
in
Jericho, N.Y., as an associate. She
practices
labor and employment
law
on behalf of management.
I
Donna
McDade
is a project man-
ager
for
IBM in Southbury, Conn.
I
Lurleen
Monteleone-Rebhan
(M.P.A.) retired
as weapons
training officer from the New York
State
Department
of Correctional
Services on March
17, 2001,
after
28 years of service.
I
Dana
Nar-
vaez,
Jr.
completed training at the
Rockland
County Police Academy
and
is
a
detective
investigator
for
the
Bronx District Attorney's
Office.
He
was an HEOP student
at Marist.
I
Michael Onorato is
a
senior account executive for Raker
Goldstein and Company, Inc.,
a public and financial
relations
firm.
I
Chandler
"Chile"
Owens
is
a graduate student at Columbia
University where he
is
pursuing
a master's in fine arts
in
film.
I
Jennifer
Palmatier is
employed
as a social worker for
the
Mas-
sachusetts Department of Social
Services as an ongoing protective
worker. She is pursuing a master's
in
social work at the University of
Connecticut.
I
Kim
Picataggio
is a special education teacher in
Rockaway,
N
.J.
She's pursuing
a master's
in
special education
at New Jersey City University.
I
Carie
Piskura
is a
relocation
tax analyst for
Homestore.com
in
Wilton, Conn. Carie
received
the
certified relocation
professional
designation (CR.P.) from the
Employee Relocation Council in
May
2001.
I
Cesar Ramirez,
Jr.
graduated with a physician's assis-
tant degree from
TouroCollegeand
works as a physician's assistant. He
was an HEOP sLUdent
at Marist.
I
Adrianne Rosario
is pursuing an
M.P.A.
at Baruch College of Public
Affairs.
I
Elizabeth Spagnuolo
Saam
works for the Massapequa
(N.Y.) School District. She
lives
in Union, N.]., with her husband,
Eric Saam
'97,
a programmer for
About.com.
I
Danny
St.
Rose
obtained a master's in social work
from
Fordham University and
works at Mt. Sinai Hospital
in
an
adolescent outpatient program. He
was an HEOP student at Marist.
I
Nicole Schlott
received an
M.B.A. from Fordham University
in December
2001.
She
isan
opera-
tionsspecialist
at INVESCO
Private
Capital in New York, N.Y.
I
Erica
Scinto received
a master's
in
school
counseling from the University of
Colorado at Denver. Erica teaches
at a Littleton, Colo., high school.
I
Craig Scribner is
a quality
assurance engineer for Computer
Associates in Islandia, N.Y., test-
ing network
and
Web software.
He pursues an acting career in his
spare
time.
I
Wendy R. Smith
is
pursuing a master's in art education
at Marywood University.
I
Marc
Tracey
isaseniorsystems/graphics
specialist for Ernst
&
Young L.L.P.
in Lyndhurst, N.J. Marc
lives
in
Caldwell, N.J., with his wife,
Kim
Showers
'97. Kim teaches sixth and
seventh grade at Columbia Middle
School in Berkeley Heights, N.J.
I
Jennifer
Traver is
the
registrar
at
Poughkeepsie
Day School.
I
Blanca
Vasquez
manages the theatre for
the
Jamaica (N.Y.) Center for Arts
&
Learning, which
features
diverse
and educational performances in
theatre, music and dance.
I
Dani-
elle M. Vecchia
attends Florida
Atlantic University where she is
pursuing a teacher certification/
master's degree in elementary
education. She teaches at the
Charter School of Excellence in
Fon Lauderdale, Fla.
I
Bruce
E.
Villard,
Jr.
received a master's
certificate in project management
from George Washington Univer-
sity. Bruce
is
a marketing manager
for IBM
in
the Annapolis, Md., area.
I
Mary
C.
Walsh
received a Ph.D.
from the Center for
Immunology
and Microbial
Disease
at Albany
Medical College in Albany, NY., in
summer
2002.
She has accepted a
































A Very Special Agent
Jerome Pickett '98 has a
lot to
be
thankful for.
He's
alive.
Since his senior year at
Marist,
Special
Agent
Pickett
has been work-
ing
for the
United
States Treasury
Department
as a
member of
the Se·
cretService.
Joining
the
department
full-time
upon
graduation,
Jerome,
now
in
his fourth year of service, is
earning special distinction.
On Nov.
1, 2001,
Jerome was
recognized
by
the
Federal Law
Enforcement Foundation as the
Special Agent of the Year. A mem-
ber of the
New
York Electronic
Crime Task Force (NYECTF)
for
the Secret
Service,
he investigates
telecommunications
and computer
fraud, network intrusions, e-com-
merce and identity theft over the
Internet.
It's the
latter
part of the job that
earned
Jerome this distinction.
In
March
of
2001,
Jerome orchestrated
and implemented an operational
strategy that
led
to the arrest and
conviction
of a
man
who breached
the
bank, brokerage and credit card
accounts of more than
300
of the
"Richest People in America" (as
listed
in
Forbes magazine)
including
Stephen Spielberg,
Ted Turner,
Dis·
ney CEO Michael Eisner and Oprah
Winfrey.
It
was the
largest ID
theft
case
in
history.
In addition to his role
in
the
NYECTF,
Jerome, a group
leader in
the
New
York office responsible
for
five
other agents, is also involved
in
the
protection and security of
post-doctoral
fellowship
at Harvard
Medical School.
I
Chris Webb
is
the vice president and co-founder
of North Star Consulting Corp.,
an executive recruitment firm
in
Boston, Mass.
I
Julie Yuen
has
completed work as an editor on the
!max
film
"Kilimanjaro:
Tot he Roof
ofAfrica,"which
premiered nation-
wide this past spring in Atlanta,
Boston, Denver, Kansas City,
Fon Worth, Texas and New York
City.
I
Tabitha Zierzow
earned a
master's in geology from Wesleyan
University in January
2002.
1
9 9 8
Thomas
R.
Ajello
III
was recruited
for a senior art director position at
Modem Media. Tom manages acre-
ative team working on campaigns
for clients such as Kraft Foods, IBM
e-business hosting J.C. Penney,
CSFBdirect, Citibank and others.
I
Daniel Berggren
is a technical
Jerome Pickett '98
foreign dignitaries and heads of
state, including Presidenti; George
W.
Bush and Bill Clinton,. It was
such an assignment-m,otorcade
advance agent for the president of
India-that had Jerome leaving his
office at 7
World
Trade Cen1ter
on
the
morning
of
Sept.
11
when hei
bumped
into Kelly
Morton,
a
Marist
student
beginning her
internship
just
as
Je•
rome had
done four years ago.
"I saw her in the
lobby
and fig-
ured I would bring her upstairs and
introduce
her
to some of
the people
who were there," says Jerome. "As
we
made
our way back, the plane
hit Tower One, which wai; where I
was heading because my car was
parked in the garage."
Walking
out onto the concourse,
Jerome
saw the second tower struck,
right
above him.
"Our offices were on
the
north
support analyst for Salomon Smith
Barney in DeMoines,
lowa1.
IJenny
Carpenter is
a graphic designer in
the advertising department of
The
Monitor,
a South Texas ne:wspaper
under Freedom Communiications,
Inc. She is also self-employed
doing
free-lance
work in graphic and Web
design.
I
Catherine Caverly
is
working as a patient representative
at Athens Regional
Medical Center
in Athens, Ga.
I
Ryan Chianelli
is a superintendent on
large-scale
commercial projects for Structure
Tone, Inc., managing the construc-
tion of new buildings for financial
companies relocating fr.om New
York City to Jersey City.
II
Patrick
M. Cuddy
is a consultant for Alden
Consulting
in
West Washington-
ville, N.Y., placing IT profession-
als in Fortune
500
companies. He
also owns Cuddy Entertai.nment,
a
professional
DJ
company.
IJoseph
DeBona
is pursuing a master's
in
side and the plane hit
the
second
tower from the south side
so
all I
really
saw was a giantfireball
coming
from the tower."
From
then on, the
Secret
Service
and Jerome sprang into action.
He
and other agents immediately
as-
sisted
in
evacuation and first aid
and
in the
days to come assisted
in tracking phone numbers and
creating
a
Web-like
chart that led
to identifying
several cell phones
and owners who may
have
been
involved
in the attack.
Personally,
Jerome is doing
well.
"I don't think
that I
am suffer·
ing
post-attack trauma. So many
people, particularly from
Marist,
called to make sure that
I
was
okay," he says. "I
have
spoken to
so many people about everything
that
happened
that day
that
I think
that it was somehow therapeutic.
The reality of
it
set in and since I
was down at Ground Zero in the
days following the attack,
I
don't
think that there was ever really a
time for me to think
that
maybe it
didn't
happen."
Now it's back
to normal for
Jerome, who is entertaining dif-
ferent career opportunities within
the department.
"I don't
know
how much every-
thing
has
changed me," says Jerome.
"I know that I
have
changed in terms
of my outlook on things, though. I
am
trying
to live every day
to its
fullest
and not worrying as much
about
the
future."
-Sean
Morrison
English at Iona College.
I
Michele
Donovan
auends graduate school
at the University
of Central Florida,
pursuing an M.B.A.
with a concen-
tration in finance.
I
Dennis Dowd
graduated from Hofstra
Law School
and passed the New York State bar
exam. He is an associate at Leahey
and Johnson, P.C. on Wall Street in
New York City.
I
Terence Duane
has been promoted to
regional
sales manager of Six Flags theme
park
in the
New England region, in
charge of the corporate sales events
team.
I
Kerri
Flannery is
a special
education teacher at Claremont
School in Ossining, N.Y. She is
also
lieutenant
of schedule for the
Nanuet Community Ambulance
Corps.
I
Bridgit Foy
is a third-
year student at New York College
of Osteopathic Medicine
where she
is pursuing a doctor of osteopathy
degree.
I
Susan Goodwin
has a
new Web site: www.suechan.com.
NEW
ARRIVALS
Jennifer Smith
'94
and Steven
Frischknecht,
a son, Ryan
Steven,
Feb.24, 2002
Justine
Sparaco
'94
and
John
DiSarlo,
a daughter,
Alexandra
Nicole,
Aug.28,
2000
Tracy
and
Richard
L.
Bruschi
II
'95,
a son, Richard
Louis
111,
Nov.
3, 2001
Jennifer Celli
'95
and
Yannick Lastennet
'93,
a
son, John
Yannick,
Oct. 25, 2001
Monica Connors
'95
and David
McGlinchey,
a daughter,
Taylor
Erin,
Dec.
22, 2001
Jeannie Cordero
'95
and Juan
Tatis,
a son, Jeremy
Elias,
July
8,
2001
Kathleen
Hull
'95
and Scott
Elson,
a son, Jack,
Oct. 5, 2000
Deanna McGraham
'95
and
Mark Sternefeld
'95,
a son, Mark Ferenc,
Jan.
19,
2002
Sarah
Povilaitis
'95
and
Denis Farrell
'95,
a daughter,
Kailin Rose,
March
12,
2002
Marcia Rasbury
'95
and
James Henne
'95,
a daughter,
Lauren
Elizabeth,
Sept.
12,
2000
Margaret
and
Peter Cipriano
'96,
a daughter,
Sydney
Elizabeth,
July
2,
2001
Jennifer Dascenzo
'96
and
Kevin O'Neill
'95/'00M,
a daughter,
Maura
Amelia,
Dec. 27, 2001
Nelly and
Raul De La Rosa
'96,
a son, Raul
Alejandro,
Jan.
1,
2002
Cylinda Rickert
'96
and Matthew
Arena,
a son,
John
Slater,
April 28, 2000
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Alumni
NEW
ARRIVALS
Dyana Santulli
'96
and
Jeffrey Felix
'96,
a son,
Ryan
James,
Sept. 10, 2001
Heather Spino '96
and
Craig
Pelletier,
a daughter,
Katie
Elizabeth,
Sept.
9, 2001
Lori Bennett '97
and Allan Guerriero,
a
daughter,
Reina
Marie,
Aug.
20,
2001
Jennifer De Marco
'97
and
Michael
Nyhuis,
a
daughter,
Alana
Rae,
March
8, 2002
Donna McDade
'97
and
Bill McDade,
a
daughter,
Danielle,
Aug. 1,
2000
Karen
and
Daniel Berggren
'98,
a
daughter,
Taylor,
Aug. 1, 2001
Cristina
Ferraresso
'98
and
Sean
Sant,
a daughter,
Nora
Cailin,
Sept.
6,
1999
Heather
Lynch
'98
and
Scott Glass
'98,
a
daughter,
Emily,
July
2,
1999
Christine Rosenvinge
'98
and
Joshua Dellett
'97,
a son,
Joshua
Christian,
Jr.,
Sept. 27, 2001
Denise
Marie
Zottola-Gianna
and
David Gianna '00,
a son, Anthony
David,
Oct. 5, 2001,
adopted
from
Guatemala
on May 2, 2002
Lauren
Dabak '01
and
Michael
Troche,
a
son,
Michael
Adrian,
Nov. 1999.
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I
S T M A G A Z
I
N E
I
Michael Goot
is a
reporter
for
Foster's
Daily
Democrat,
working out
of
the
Portsmouth, N.H.,bureau. He
covers city government and other
city activities.
ljonathan
Gorham
isan
information sysi:emsanalyst
in
the
IT
department
at Lasell College
in
Newton, Mass.
I
Lisa Casavant
Hartman
and
her husband,
David
Hartman
'98, mo\'ed
into a
house
that was
built
for them
in
Beacon
Falls, Conn., after months of hard
work.
I
Irene
Henderson
is
a
production
coordinator at A &
E Television Networks m Stam-
ford,
Conn.
I
Patriick Holton
is
a
career
de\'elopme m
advisor for
TIAA-CREF
in New York, N.Y.
I
Martin Korfman,
D.D.S.
and his
daughter,
Elise, received master's
degrees in
public administration
from
Marist
in
1998.
Marty has
practiced
dentistry for 35 years.
He is
regional
dental director
for
the New York State Department
of Corrections and has found
his
master's very helpful
in his
career.
I
Fernanda leventha
1
attends grad-
uate school at New York University,
where
she is
pursuing
a
degree in
English/Portuguese translation.
I
Andrew Manning left
his posi-
tion with MTV to
p1ursue
a career
in
the music indu:stry. He now
is director
of video
promotions
for
Warner Brothers Records.
I
Douglas Marcantonio
is
the
2001 New York Army National
Guard NCO Soldier of the Year.
I
Stephanie Mercurio
is a
market
reporter
for
CN BC.com. She li\'eS
in New York, N.Y.
I
Ted Millar
teaches
seventh-grade English at
Van
Wyck
Junior
High
School in
Wappingers Falls, N.Y.
I
Lauren
Murphy
is
a school psychologist at
Roger
Sherman ElemientarySchool
in
Fairfield, Conn.
lJ
oyOlejniczak
isa paralegal
for Noresco, L.L.C.,an
international
energy management
company.
I
Melissa Podgurski
teaches
Spanish to eighth-grade
students outside !Philadelphia.
I
Shannon O'Rourke
teaches
autistic children at the
Institute
for
Educational Achievement in
New Milford, NJ Shannon
is
pursuing
a
master's
in
special
education.
I
Kerry
!Peterson won
an award for best
booth
design as
marketing/trade
show coordinator
for
her
previous employer, Merit
Industries. She bec21me
corporate
communications
manager for
American Meter Company
in
April
2001.
I
Suhei I Pimentel
is
a graduate student
i1n
NYU's M.A.
program
in media
ecology. She is
a
broadcast
traffic coordinator for
DOB
Worldwide, working on
the
New
York
State Lottery account. She
was an
HEOP
student at Marist.
I
Jolene M. Barnao Plant
teaches
at
Hyde Park
(N.Y.) Elementary
School. She also works at
the
Bright
Beginnings Agency.
Jolene
lives in
Hyde
Park
with her husband,
Christopher
Plant
'98.
I Kerri
Provo
is
pursuing
an acting career
while working at NCI Advertising
in New York, N.Y.
She
has
appeared
in se\'eral mo\'ies including a film
starring Chris Rock and Anthony
Hopkins.
I
Juana Uenny) Rivera
is the program coordinator for
the
Newburgh, N.Y., YMCA. She
attends Mount Saint Mary Col-
lege
in Newburgh in
the
graduate
education department. She was an
HEOP student at Marist.
I
Nicole
(Whittingham)
Rose
married
Chris Rose, HEOP retention
counselor/coordinator at Mount
Saint Mary College, in August
2001. She relocated
to
the Mid-
Hudson Valley, began a master's in
business administration at Mount
Saint Mary College and works for
the Bank of New York. She was an
HEOP student at Marist.
I
Lou
Santiago is in
his
third
year as a
pro wrestler. He wrestles underthe
name "Diablo Santiago, Da Puerto
Rican Nightmare" and
holds
three
championships for three
different
independent
federations. He is
the
Tri-State Wrestling Television
Champion, a New Millennium
Wrestling Tag Team Champion and
in
his
second reign as World of
Hurt
Wrestling United States Champion.
He can be seen on TV in 30 states.
Check www.tswwrestling.com/
television.asp
for
TV listings
and
wwwdiablosantiago.com for more
on Lou.
Lou
continues
to
work
at
Marist as the assistant director
of admissions and the liaison to
HEOP.
He was an HEOP student
at Marist.
I
Jennifer Scheulen
teaches
sixth grade math and
language
arts at Cavallini Middle
School
in
Upper Saddle Ri\'er, NJ,
where she also coaches girls' soc-
cer. Jennifer
is
pursuing a master's
degree
in school counseling from
William Paterson University.
I
Diane Kolod Schmidt
has
been
working in
journalism
and has
had
articles published on several Web
sites
including
Careerbuilder.com
and MSN.com. Her Web site is
http://www.schmidty.com/diane.
I
Alison
Spanovich
teaches
kindergarten in Kearny, N.j. She
was
to
receive her master's
in
early
childhood education
in May
2002
from New
Jersey
City University.
I
Darryll Towsley
is
an attorney
with the law firmofDa\'iS, Malm&
D'Agostine
in
Boston, Mass. He is
pursuinga
master's in taxation
from
Boston Uni\'ersity.
I
Chrisoula
Tsirpan lis
is a pharmaceutical
sales representative with GlaxoS-
mithKline in Tom's Rh·er, NJ She
is
also the reigning Ms. New
Jersey
U.S.A.
I
Elizabeth
Waldman
is
a
middle school special education
teacher in the Hendrick Hudson
School District.
I
Carolyn
Mus-
sig
Walsh
is
a
junior high
school
special education teacher for the
Wappingers Central School District
in
Wappingers Falls, N.Y.
I
Sean
White
teaches Spanish
at
Stissing
Mountain Middle School
in
Pine
Plains, N.Y.
I
John
T.
Williams
is an equity
research
associate
in
the media group at Bear, Stearns &
Company, New York, NY.John
lives
in Bronx, N.Y.,
and
is
active
in
local
go\·ernment and community orga-
nizations.
I
Alicia Zadrozny
is a
reporter/staff writer fort
he Dateline
Journal
in Passaic, NJ Alicia
loYes
learning about the many cultures
of
the
area and chronicling stories
about
the people
she meets. Alicia
has begun studying Spanish at a
local college.
1
9 9 9
lark-Marie
Anton
received a mas-
ter's
from West Virginia University
in
2000. She
is
a
press
secretary
for
New York City
Mayor
Michael
Bloomberg.
I Russell
Boedeker,
C.M.A., C.F.M. received
the
certified
management
accountant
designation
from
the
Institute
of
Certified Management Accoun-
tants. He is a senior
financial
analyst with
the
Intel Corporation
in Hillsboro,
Ore.
I Peter
Brown
works for a worldwide public
relations
company called Rapp
Collins as an account executive
for
DaimlerChrysler/Mercedes.
He
bought a house in the
Bronx
and
has also started an events
planning
company with a friend. Peter was
an
HEOP
student while at
Marist.
I
Matthew
J,
Burke
isa
third-year
teacher
at Putnam Northern West-
chester BOCES,
teaching
English
to students of
the
Communication
Academ}', Matt's email address is
writers247@aol.com.
I
Jennifer
Canonico teaches
fourth grade at
Preston School in West Harrison,

























Remembering
Sister Eileen Halloran
Few at
Marist have
touched
people
as did Sister
Eileen
Halloran,
who
passed
away during the
summer
of
2001.
A few months ago, when her
friends at Marist College
heard
that
a magazine
article was to be written about her, they im •
mediately gathered to
tell
stories about their
unforgettable
friend.
Sister Eileen directed Campus
Ministry
at
Maristfrom
1981
until
1992.
Her
brand
of
minister·
ing
encompassed
everything from
chaperoning
students in the fund-raising
club
known as the
21
Society
to
taking
students
on
retreats
to
help
families in
need.
Students' parents fell
in love
with her from
the get-go. After meeting her at
freshman
orientation, one wrote "Good
nun!"
on the
evaluation
form.
"She had this way about her," says Jane
O'Brien,
director of health services
at
Marist.
Her
friends
say she was someone
you were
always
happy
to see.
Students
gravitated
toward
her and
surrounded
her whether at a Halloween
party, bowling Tuesday
nights, dancing at the
senior
formal or playing parlor games.
"She was
always
the life
of the party," says
Bob Lynch
'75,
director of student activities. "You always had
fun around her."
You couldn't walk across
campus
with Sister
Eileen unless you had about three hours; she
would stop and talk
to
everyone. "She could
really
work a crowd,"
Jane
remembers.
Sister
Eileen
had a strong faith and
nurtured
it
in others. "She got people to get involved
not
by badgering but by her
friendly
demeanor,"
says Jimmy Ferguson '86, an administrative
judge for
the New
York State Division
of
Parole.
"She
would bring you
into
situations
from
which
you would grow."
Jimmy
says Sister Eileen's ten-day trip to
Georgia to help migrant workers changed his
life.
He and
the
other volunteers helped poor
families with childcare, reading stories to chil·
dren who
had
never been read to before.
The
Georgia
trip,
his first
time
volunteering,
was a
tremendous
experience,
he
says. Helping the
migrant workers learn about their
legal rights
inspired
him
to become
a
lawyer.
I
l
People
graviltated toward Sr. Eileen
Halloran,
here with Sue Lozinski
'90
and Bro.
Miclhael Williams, FMS
'63.
Jim
Raimo
"81/'92
M.P.A.,
executive
director
of operations at Mount Saint
Mary
College in
Newburgh,
N.Y'.,
remembers
fondly
a similar
trip
to
West
Virginia,
where he says
Sister
Eileen's
rough
and rugged side was tested by sanitary
facilities
that consisted
only of an outhouse.
Butthe bigger
picture
was whiat mattered.
"She
reallyfeltitwas
important to
bring students places
where they
would
realize
how fortunate they were."
Jim, then
resident director of
Leo Hall,
still
carries
the image
from the first time he met
Sister
Eileen
as she was moving in upstairs:
she was
in
a
T-shirt,
scrubbing
the
floor. "I loved
the woman
dearly,"
he says,
adding
that it
brings
tears
to
his
eyes
to
think about
her.
"She was very down
to
earth but at
the
same time very spiritual."
Sister
Eilee1n
wasn't above
using her religious
status
to
get
things
done. One
day her friend Deb
DiCaprio,
now
vice president/dean
for student
affairs but then a
newcomer
to Marist, went to
buy film for college business
and forgot to bring
back the
receipt required
for office bookkeep·
ing.
Sister
Eile1~n
led Deb back to the store. "I'm
Sister Eileen," she purred. "When
I
was in here
the other day,
I
forgot to get a receipt." Where-
upon the clerk
immediately
produced
one
in
the
proper amount.
"The
number
of students
whom
Eileen touched in those 11
years
was incredible,"
says
Bob Lynch.
"She was
a
very
dedicated woman
to her faith and a great friend
to
all of us."
Sister Eileen didn't harbor slackers. "She
worked hard and she expected everyone else
to,"
remembers
Jane. "She put such emphasis
j
on student leadership,"
says Bro.
Michael
Wil-
§
Iiams
'63, campus
minister,
recalling
how
she nur-
~
tured undergraduates
active
in
Campus
Ministry.
~
"Students she worked with really cared about
j
her-because
she cared about
them."
m
~z~
Sister
Eileen
was a matchmaker
who
set
up
what colleagues
remember
as disastrous
dates.
She cooked only three or four
times
a year but
was
known
for
her loin
of pork, chicken
wings,
and crab dip. Jim
Raimo had
to admonish
her
repeatedly
for burning candles
in her
apartment,
which she did while she meditated or prayed.
She was so devoted to
her
faith
that
when the
Poughkeepsie
Galleria
promised
all the
pennies
in its fountain to Campus
Ministry, she
collected
them and scrubbed
them
clean
in
her
bathtub.
As popular as she was, Sister
Eileen never
wanted to be the center of attention.
When
she
left Marist to move into pastoral ministry at
St.
Joseph's
Church
in Lincoln
Park,
N.J.,
she wanted
no farewell party. "She was so easy in
herself
that she could
just
move into her other life,"
says Pat Laffin, administrative
secretary
in
the
Academic
Learning
Center.
Even
as she
battled
cancer during the last months of her life, she
would turn the conversation
away from herself.
When
Jane
O'Brien
would call
to
ask how she was
doing, Sister Eileen
would
say,
"Tell me about
your daughter's
wedding."
The
wake following
her
death spoke
volumes
about how beloved
she
was. As many
as
20
priests
were
in
attendance,
and
all
the altar boys and
girls were sobbing.
"The numberof
students
whom
Eileen
touched
in those
11
years
was
incredible,"
says
Bob Lynch.
"She was a very dedicated
woman to
her
faith
and a great friend to all of
us."
-Leslie Bates
N.Y. She is pursuing a master's
in reading at
the
College of New
Rochelle.
I
Christina Gaudenzi
Cistaro
isan
lnternetsourcingspe•
cialist
with Pearson Education
in
Upper
Saddle
River,
N.j. Christina
and her husband,
Joseph
Cistaro
'99, live in Parsippany, N
.j.
I
Joseph
Cistaro
is a support manager for
Milestone Software
&
Systems. He
lives
in
Parsippany,
N.j.,
with his
wife,
Christina
Gaudenzi
'99.
I
Angela Cortijo
attended the
MMAPO Alumni reception on
Oct. 26, 2001. She is working on
her master's in learning disabilities.
She was an HEOPstudentat Marist.
I
Thomas Cunningham
teaches
advanced
placement
course:sin U.S.
history and government and global
history at Aviation High School
in
Long
Island
City, N.Y.
I
Brian
Dawson
is
a counselor at tlhe
New
Brunswick
Counseling Center.
He is pursuing a certificate as an
alcohol and drug counselor. Brian
has an M.S.W. from
Rutg1:rs
and
New Jersey L.S.W. credentials.
I
Bianca Delorenzo
completed
her M.S.W. from SUNY Albany in
May
2000
and works for the NYS
Division
of the Budget as a budget
examiner for
the
Mental Health and
Substance Abuse Unit. She was an
HEOP
student at Marist.
I
Maria
Frustaci
is a graphic
designer
for
One Source Printing & Graphics
in New York, N.Y.
I
Ben Grimaldi
was
named
one of America's most
amazing bachelors by
Cosmopolitan
magazine in its November
2001
issue.
The
mention is included
FALL
2002
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60
MARIST
MAGAZINE
in
the "All About Men"
feature.
I
Amy Hanks
received
a
Juris
Doctorate at Vermont
Law
School
in
May 2002. She has
accepted
a
first-year associate position with
the law
firm
of Updike, Kelly,
and Spellacy, P.C.
in Hartford,
Conn., where she will specialize
in health care and a1dministrative
law.
I
Crystal
Hinzy
received an
M.B.A. in
international business
from
Hawaii
Pacific University
in Honolulu,
Hawaii, in August
2001.
I
Jennifer Kelly
is an
inspector
with the U.S. Customs
Service
in
Laredo,
Texas.
I
Edward
Kenyon
finished his first marathon
by running
in the
New York City
Marathon
in
2000, finishing in
3
hours, 42 minutes in
5,636'h
place.
I
John
P.
Killeen
works in
the
loss
prevention
department
at
Polo Ralph
Lauren
ai:
the
company
headquarters
in
New York, N.Y.
I
Jason Liguori
is a police officer
with
the
Los Angeles Police Depart-
ment.
I
Julia McBride
is
project
director for Moskowitzjacobs, Inc.,
a marketing research company
in
White Plains, N.Y. She lives
in
Fleetwood, N.Y., with
Allison
Joyner
'00.
I
Colleen McCulloch
is a research analyst for"the polling
company," a full-se1rvice
political
and market researchimdconsulting
firm in Washington, D.C.IJennifer
Mancinelli
is a computer program-
mer with Verizon Wireless in New
Jersey.
I
Christopher
Manriquez
is
still working for Pear:son
Education
Publishing and was promoted
to
product manager for Latin Amer-
ica. He was an HEOP student at
Marist.
I
Laura H~:ss Mantel
is
a retail operations executive at
Logan International Airport. She
works very hard for local business
owners who
have
been affected by
the events of Sept. 11, 2001, which
has changed
the Logan
community
forever.
I
Curtis Mathot
is
a
field
chemist with Safety-Kleen
in
Kent,
Ohio. Histerritorywversnortheast
Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania.
His primary responsibility
is
pack-
ing hazardous chemicals for ship-
ment and disposal for
industries.
I
James Miller
is
the
department
spokesman for the City of Albany
Department of Public Safety.
I
Suzanne
Moravick
(M.A.)
is the
director of activities at Raleigh
Rehabilitation
and Healthcare Cen-
ter, a skilled
nursing home
facility
in Raleigh, N.C.
I
Totdd Myers
is a
police officer with the Town ofWest
Hartford, Conn. He
is
also
the
head
Recognizing
Leadership
At the 2002 baccalaureate ceremony
in
the Maristchapel,
Marist Presi-
dent Dennis Murray (far left) and Alumni
Association President Maria
Gordon Shydlo '87 (far right) presented the 2002 Alumni
Leadership
Award to Dmitri Batalov '02 and Kerri-Ann Lang '02. Each year the
association recognizes two seniors for outstanding leadership and
contributions to the campus community. Recipients are nominated
and elected by alumni employed at Marist.
crew coach at Ethel Walker School.
I
Steven Napolitani
isan associate
producer with Dutch Productions
at Madison Square Garden in New
York, N.Y. Clients include the
New York Rangers hockey team.
I
Kathleen
O'Donnell
has been
promoted to account executive
with the
Rasky/Baerlein
Group,
a public relations firm in Boston,
Mass.
I
Dana O'Rourke
received a
master's in
education from Adelphi
University. Dana teaches physical
education and
health
for grades
9-12 at Sacred Heart Academy in
West Hempstead, N.Y.
I
Domi-
nique Pino-Santiago
has
started
her
own clothing
line,
Dominique
Daniela,
Inc.
I
Rafaelina
(Lina)
Rivas
is
a
litigation
paralegal
in
the
legal
department of Bank of
America.
I
Trish Bazin Rowell
is the director of a young parent
program in Killeen,
Texas,
serving
women under
the
age of 21 who
have children or are pregnant.
Trish
offers support services, home visits
and connict management classes.
Trish
lives
in Killeen with
her
husband, Dan.
I
Megan
St.
John
is a staff writer for Prime Publishers
in Connecticut.
I
Thomas
Schwab
has been promoted to senior editor
with PR Newswire in New York,
N.Y., and witnessed firsthand the
events in
lower
Manhattan on Sept.
11,
2001. Although he and fellow
workers were evacuated
from
the
company building, he
later
returned to assist with
24-hour
continuous news coverage. Tom
also
received
a Global Editorial
Performance award.
I
John
Svare
is a student at Albany
Law
School
in Albany, N.Y., where
he
expects
to graduate with the Class of 2004.
IJenniferTabano
obtained a mas-
ter's in elementary education from
Fordham University. She
teaches
second grade at Overlook Primary
School in Poughkeepsie.
I
Desire
Treski
is doing public
relations
and event coordinating for Capital
DistrictCommunityGardensinthe
Albany, N.Y., area.
Desire
was an
HEOP student at Marist.
I
Sara
Tymon
teaches
third
grade at St.
Emydius, a private school in San
Francisco, Calif.
I
Mark
Urciuolo
received a master's in public policy
from George Washington Univer-
sity. Mark
is
an acquisition analyst
for
Technology
Management and
Analysis in Crystal City, Va.
I
Jen-
nifer
Wheeler
is an administrative
assistant in marketing and program
management at PowerSmart in
Needham, Mass.
Jennifer
lives in
Boston.
I
Cathy
Wiley
is
a case-
worker for
the
Fostercare program
at
the
Ulster County Department of
Social Services in Kingston, N.Y.
She
bought a house in Red Hook, N.Y.,
and is pursuing a graduate degree

























at Fordham University.
I
Kathleen
Wisniewski
has
decided
to change
career paths
from
communications
to education. She is pursuing a
master's in elementary education
at Long Island University's C.W.
Post campus.
I
Angela Witzke
is
an accountant for Carmine Gentile
Accounting in Gloversville, N.Y.
2 0 0 0
Craig Adelhardt
is
pursuing
a
master's in information systems at
Stevens
Institute
of
Technology.
I
Miguel Alvarez
is
president
of the
Association for
Hispanics to
Obtain
Resources or AHORA and works
as an alcohol counselor at
Turning
Point, a
rehabilitation
facility at St.
Francis
Hospital
in Beacon, N.Y.
Miguel reaches out
to the
Hispanic
community
in
the area
in
an effort
to close
the
gaps in services, espe-
cially for
Latinos.
He
is
pursuing a
master's in social work at Marist.
I
Jacqueline Baker
is assistant
direc-
tor
fort
he
office of alumni relations
at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute
in
Troy,
N.Y.
I
Megan Hyland
Chianelli
has
been
promoted to
account executive at FCB, New
York,
an advertising agency. Megan
and her husband,
Ryan
Chianelli
'98,
live in Lyndhurst,
NJ
IJessica
Cooper is
a claims adjuster for
Progressive
Insurance in northern
Virginia.
I
Caroline
Davis
has
made a career change and is work-
ing for SOB RO as a youth advocate.
The program works with at-risk
youths.
I
Michele Degati
is
a
caseworker for St. Cabrini Home,
Inc. in Bronx, N.Y.
She received
the
St. Cabrini
Home
Mission Partner-
ship award
for
exemplifying
the
mission values of the organization,
which include collaboration, com-
passion, courage, excellence,
respect for life and stewardship.
Michele is pursuing a master's
in
social work at Columbia University.
I
Jessica DeCicco
teaches fifth
grade inclusion at
the Joseph
A.
Edgar
Intermediate
School in
Rocky Point, N.Y. She is pursuing
a master's
in reading.
I
Janna
OeVito
is a
job
mentor with
the
Poughkeepsie Area Chamber of
Commerce.
I
Lisa Douglas
attends
Northeastern
University
in Boston,
Mass., where she
is
pursuing a
master's and certificate of advanced
graduate study
in
applied educa-
tional psychology
with a concentra-
tion
in
school
psychology.
She
works at Peabody
Terrace Chi Id re
n's
Center
in
Cambridge, Mass.
I
Bobbi
Jo
Fuller
graduated
from the
University of Connecticut
in
May
2001
with a master's
in
survey
research. She
is a
senior
project
director with Advanced Analytics
in New
York,
N.Y.
I
LaTonya
Francis
teaches fifth
grade at
Thornton
Elementary School
in
Mount Vernon, N.Y.
She is complet-
ing
her master's
at Fordha1m
Uni-
versity. She was an HEOP student
at
Marist.
I
Lauren
A.
Gancarz
has joined
the
custom
market
research
and
consulting firm
of
Knowledge
Systems and
Research
in Syracuse, N.Y., as a
research
assistant.
I
Manjari Gangwar
and
Koustubh Warty
'00
ceLebrated
their
first wedding anniversary on
March 11,
2002.
They remember
the nice
and
lovely days they had
together
on
the
beautiful Marist
College campus.
I
David Gianna
is a security engineer for Westcon,
Inc.
in Tarrytown, N.Y. Dave
pro-
vides
Internet
security so.Jutions,
services, and
pre-sales
support for
multiple vendors and
delivers
training programs
for certification
of resellers and end-users.
IIJ
eff rey
Grady
is in
his second year of
teaching life
science at Haviland
Middle School in Hyde Park, N.Y.
He is
pursuing a master's
in
edu-
cation with an emphasis on biology.
Since graduating from Marist,Jeff
has completed
two marathons
(NYC and Boston) with
a new
personal
record
of
2:42:09.
I
Jes-
sica Greer
teaches second grade
at
Miller Hill/Sand Lake Elementary
School in Averill
Park,
N.Y.
I
Raychel Gresti ni,
C.S.W.
has been
appointed human services director
fort
he
City of Cohoes, N .Y.
Raychel
will attempt
to better
the social and
recreational
programs
offered
to
Cohoes' residents. In
addition to
working at the city's teen
drop-in
center, better known as The
Oen,
Raychel is
employed as ar:1
outpa-
tientclinician at OASIS,
a substance
abuse treatment
program
for chil-
dren
under
12
in
Albany, N.Y.
Raychel
received
a
master's
in
social
work
from
SUNY Albany in
2001.
I
Tom
Guilmette
won a
2000
Emmy Award
from the
Boston/New
England chapter of
the national
Academy of Television Ans and
Sciences for his videography.
He
won
in
the category of Outstanding
Sports Segment for the piece
"UNH
Wildcat
Hockey
Trek to Ga lehead."
The segment
documented
six
disabled
outdoor enthusiasts who
hiked
under
their
own power over
uneven and
rocky uphill
trails in
wheelchairs. They all reached their
goal of traversing Mt. Galehead.
Tom is a camera operator freelanc-
ing in Boston and
has
his own
business, Xlake Media.
I
Elizabeth
Henn
is a seventh grade special
education
teacher
at Walter 0.
Krumbiegel
Middle School in
Hillside,
N.J.
I
Janine Jablow
attended Fordham University
graduate school, pursuing a mas-
ter's
in
social work.
I
Jocelyn
Jean-Philippe
has
been promoted
to
director
of field operations at
Emergency
Children's Services
in
Staten Island, NY.Jocelyn said the
promotion
was a direct result of
her educational achievement at
Marist.
I
Jennifer Kern
received a
master's
in
reading
from
the
College
of Saint Rose
in
December
2001
and
is a New York State certified
reading
teacher.
I
Suzanne
Lowry
has
a
dual
position
at Iona College.
She
is
a
resident director
and
assistant
director of student
activities. She was to graduate
from
Iona in May
2002
with a
master's
in public
relations.
I
Sept.11,
2001
began
as
a normal Tuesday for
Geoff Maynard,
who works for
New York City's Department of
Investigations, located
just three
blocks east of
the
World Trade
Center-two
buildings he
rarely
visited. But
that day, his
supervisor
asked
Lo
meet him for
breakfast
at
the
Marriott Hotel
in
Building
7
of the WTC complex. Geoff
remembers
it as "an eerie day," a
beautiful day that
just didn't
feel
right. At 8:48 a.m.,
his
sedate
breakfast erupted
in
a fierce
explosion from above as pieces of
the WTC's north tower crashed
through the restaurant's glass
windows.
I
Barbara H. McBride
is a program director for the City
of
Peekskill
(N
.Y.) Youth Bureau.
Barbara
implements
and adminis-
ters a youth court. She
received
a
master's
in
criminal
justice from
SUNY Albany in
2001
I
Shaun
McLean
passed the
C.P.A. exami-
nation
in
November
2001
and
became a
member
of the New
Jersey State Society of CPAs
and
the American lnstituteofCPAs.
He
is a
tax
accountant withj.H. Cohn
LLP in
Roseland,
NJ
I
Matthew
Oswald
is
a
product
engineer for
Corvis Corporation in Columbia,
Md.
I
Amy Spero Petersen
grad-
uated
from
Simmons College in
Boston, Mass., with
a master
of
arts
in
teaching. Amy
lives in Lyndon-
IN
MEMORIAM
Alumni
Michael
E.
Zeoli
'65
Leonard
R. Galante
'67
Timothy
J. Fitzgerald
'68
Daniel
M. Coffey
·59•
Erwin K. Dudek
'69
Edward
Hartmann
'69
Paul
Keriazes
'69
Joseph
C.
Nobile
'69
Robert
J.
Hawd
'71
Stephen
D. Kopki
'71
Martin
P.
Zylstra
'71
Eugene
K.
Patterson
'73
Adeline
Aquilino
'74
Philanzo
G. Edick
'74
Laura
S. Moore
'77
Thomas
G. Crotty '81*
Robert
L.
Sweeney
'82
Thomas
Szack
'82
Kevin
J. Pfeifer
'83*
David
R.
Heacock
'85
Vincent
D.
Kane
'86*
Angela
Silveri
Davis
'88
Kelly
Jo
Davis
Greenberg
'88
Jacqueline
Sayegh
Duggan
'89*
Sara
M. Matulewicz
'96
Laura
L.
Blanchfield
'98 M.8.A.
Carmen
A. Rivera
'02*
*9/11/01
Faculty and Staff
Professor
Thomas
W. Casey
Sr.
Eileen
Mary Halloran
Coach
Scott A. Sanford
Coach
George
Strba
Betty
Yeaglin-Bowdish
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Alumni
Is it
your
reunion year?
H is if you
graduated
in
1952, 1957, 1962, 1967,
1972, 1977,
1982,
1987,
1992
or
1997.
What's so great
about reunions?
Old friends, favorite faculty,
Hudson
River beauty and
Marist pride.
On the fence
about attending?
Go immediately
to
the Marist Web site
at
www.marist.edu/alumni
and check out your
reunion
class
page.
It
will bring back
memories
and tell you
what's
in store for your class.
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ville, Vt., with her husband,
David
Petersen
'00.
I
David Petersen
graduated from l'lonheastern
University in June 2001 with a
master's in criminal justice. David
was a
I.A.
with the Criminaljustice
Department while
he
was a gradu-
ate student. He is a trooper with
the Vermont State Pol
ice.
I
William
Quinn
is a social worker with
Catholic Charities of Poughkeepsie.
I
Jonathan
Z.
Reiss
is a television
production assistant: with World
Wrestling
Federation
Enter-
tainment, Inc. in Stamford, Conn.
I
James
Rusch
has been writing
music for 10 years
:and
is
now a
music producer.
I
Sarah Seamon
attends Oswego State University
where she is pursuing a master's
in
elementary education.
I
Jennifer
Simmons
completed a master's
in
library science in De:cember 2001
at SUNY Albany. She has been
accepted for study in SUNY Alba-
ny's program in information sci-
ence, specializing
in public
information policy and organiza-
tional
studies. Jennifer
is
director
of the Hurley library
in
Hurley,
N.Y.
IJenny
Sinrilu!; isa
paralegal
with the law firm Cmman, Calla-
han & Ingham near her home
in
Long Island. She was an HEOP
student at Marist.
I
Jonathan
Speary is
a business analyst for
MasterCard in Westchester, N.Y.
I
Kate
Tamas is a special education
teacher at the Center School in
Stratford, Conn.
I
Rachel Tollen
is a program coordinator for the
Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Rachel coordinates fund-raising
events with corporate and com-
munity organizations in Nassau
County, Brooklyn, Queens and the
Bronx.
I
Christopher
Urynowicz
is a
2
nd
lieutenant
in
the U.S. Marine
Corps, stationed
in
inorthern Vir-
ginia.
lJaneen
Van
E:eesel
teaches
third grade at the Ridgewood
Avenue Upper Elementary School
in
Glen Ridge, NJ
I
Adam Weiss-
man
is
working at G.S. Schwartz
and Company in New York, NY,
after being downsized at his former
place of employment, Middleberg
Euro.
I
Linnea
Welker
is project
director for a research study at the
University of Pennsylvania. She
is
completing the requirements for
the advanced certificate in school
psychology and plarns to graduate
in May 2003.
I
Patrick
Whittle,
former editor of
The
Circle,
is
a staff
reporter
for
The New Haven Register,
Connecticut's second largest daily
newspaper.
2 0 0
I
Jason
T.
Adamoyurka
isa second-
year graduate student at Springfield
College
in
Springfield,
Mass., where
he
is pursuing a degree
in
sports
management.
I
Robert Adamski
is
a production assistant for ESPN
in
Bristol, Conn.
He
received
a bachelor's degree cum
laude
from Marist. He was formerly a
TV production intern at Madison
Square Garden Networks in New
York, N.Y.
I
Benny
A. Amarone,
Jr.
is
the director of admissions at
Notre Dame High School
in
West
Haven, Conn Ben is working
toward a master's
in
secondary
English education at the University
of New Haven.
I
Edward
(Eddie)
Antoine
attended the MMAPO
alumni
reception in
October
2001.
He works for TheraCare as an
itin-
erant special education teacher in
Brooklyn. Hewasan
HEOPstudent
at Marist.
I
Christopher
Bedell
is
an inspector for the NYPD
Depart-
ment of
Investigations.
I
Yocasta
Bobea
is
a benefit consultant for
Geller and Wind, Ltd. Yocasta was
an HEOPstudentat
Marist.1
Kenia
Cabrera
attended the October 2001
Homecoming/Reunion Weekend.
She is a professional associate
with American
International
Group. She was an HEOP student
at Marist.
I
Jodie Castle
teaches
special education at Cobb Memo-
rial School and attends Albany State
part-time where she
is
pursuing a
master's
in reading.
I
Anthony
Cervini,
collegiate all-American,
ran a fundamental instruction
baseball/softball clinic for boys
and girls ages
8-17
at the Sports
Underdome in Mount Vernon,
N
.Y.,
earlier this year. Anthony
ran
the
camp with Drew Martino, former
New York Mets
major league
coach
for
nine
years.
I
Vinny
Commisso
and
Chris
Matthews
are members
of the band
"Sam
Hill," which they
formed while attending Marist.
Vinny plays the drums and Chris
plays bass and sings for the group,
who played with the
renowned
Pink
Floyd cover band
The
Machine at
The Chance on Crannell Street in
Poughkeepsie in November 2001.
The third
member
of the trio is Tim
Solomon, who plays guitar and also
sings.
I
Bryan P.
Delaney
is work-
ing in New Mexico helping high
school students who have learning
disabilities.
I
Kathryn Docherty
is pursuing graduate studies at
the University of Notre Dame,
specializing in environmental
microbiology.
I
Linda
Fakhoury
attends law school at Western New
England School of
Law.
I
Eliza-
beth Fletcher
attends Albany
Law
School. She is publisher of
Rhythm
and News Magazine
in Middle
Grove, N.Y. Elizabeth wrote the
cover story for
the
September
2001 edition of
Accounting World
magazine.
I
Andrew Gorray
is a
market researcher with Innova-
tive Concepts in Carle Place, N.Y.
I
James
Harrison
is pursuing a
career with the New Jersey State
Police and is enjoying time back
home.
I
James
J.
Infranca
is a
seventh grade special education
teacher
at Howiu Middle School in
Farmingdale, N.Y. He also
teaches
an after-school program called A+
Advantage geared to help at-risk
elementary school students.
I
Richard
Kuberski
retired
from
the New York Police Department in
March 2001. He received an M. P.A.
from Marist in June 2001 and now
teaches
3
rd
grade at Holy Rosary
School in Staten Island,
N
.Y.
I
Amy
Kuhar
teaches sixth grade with the
Clarkstown Central School District
in
Rockland
County, N.Y.
IGregory
W. La
Pointe
expected
to
graduate
in May 2002 with a master's in sur-
vey research from
the
University
of Connecticut. After graduation,
Greg was
10
move to LaJolla, Calif.,
to work on an M.B.A. and pursue
a position in
the
market/survey
research indusLry.
I
Brendan
Licata
is accounts representative
for
L.A.D.D.
Security Management
Consultants,
Inc.
in New Jersey.
I
Joseph
Macchia
is an account
coordinator for D. Pagan Commu-
nications,
Inc.,
a public relations
firm for
the
professional audio and
technology markets.
I
Lauren Mon-
temurro
is employed at CBS in New
York. N.Y.,
in
the
program practices
department.
I
Kristen
Nocerino
auends
the
New York Institute
of
Technology
as she pursues a
master's in school counseling.
She also heads the Immunization
Department
at NYIT and is a tutor
for a child with special needs on
the
weekends. She is a recreation
aide for the Town of Oyster Bay
Handicap Services.
I
Craig
Olin
is
a special education
teacher
in the
Sachem School District in Lake
Ronkonkoma, N.Y. He is pursuing
a master's at SUNY Stony Brook.
I
Amy Ostgulen
was one of seven
college graduates selected to be























a
traveling
consultant
for
Kappa
Kappa
Gamma
fraternity.
She was
chosen for outstanding leadership
skills, academic achievement and
contributions to her college and
community. She visited
more
than
30
collegiate chapters of Kappa
Kappa
Gamma during
the
2001-
2002
school year to aid in chapter
organization and
programming.
Amy was
trained
to assist chapter
members in areas such as
leadership
de\·elopment, goal setting, risk
management,
rel
at ionsh1p
building
and group dynamics.
I
Lee Park
joined the
staff of
the
Poughkeepsie
Journal
as a columnist focusing on
the music scene.
Lee
gives readers
the
lowdown
on
well-known
and
up-and-coming
acts playing area
venues as well as spotlighting
local
musicians making
a splash.
I
John
A.
Pegram retired
from the
New
York Police
Department after
20
years of service on Feb.
24, 2002.
I
Anne
L.
Perkins
is
pursuing
a
master's as a
physician
assistant.
I
John
J.
Pidgeon
is an
admissions
counselor
at Fairleigh
Dickinson
University.
I
Waleska Rivera
teaches kindergarten
at P.S.
98
in
Manhattan.
Waleska
was an
HEOP
student al Mari st.
I
Jenrnifer Ros-
signol
works as a counselor for
the
educational talent search program
at
the Research
FoundationatSUNY
New Paltz.
The
program encourages
students
in
grades 8 through 12
to
go to college.
I
Bonnie
Sanchez
is
pursuing
a
master's in
sc,cial work
at Fordham University and is doing
an internship at Ulster County
Mental Health. She was an HEOP
student at Marist.
I
Steve Sosl
is
responsible for
the
development of
client media
releases,
media pitch
letters and other materials at Mayr
Communications in Ridgewood,
NJ. Overall duties include writ-
ing, proof
reading
and support for
production of client newsletters,
press
releases
and business plans
fort
he
generalclient
base.
I
Patrick
Spence
is
producer of
the
"Good
Morning Delmarva"
broadcast
by
WMDT-TV
Delmarva
47
News
in
Salisbury,
Md.
Salisbury
is
30
minutes from
Ocean City on
the
Eastern Shore of Maryland.
I
Jen-
nifer Sperry
is a
policy
research
assistant at the Natio1nal
Rural
Electric Cooperative A!;sociation
in Arlington, Va.
I
Allison Stec
is
an administrative
assistant
with TradeMark Plastics. She
also freelances for
the
West.field
Leader,
her hometown's weekl>·
paper. Allison
is
still waiting
for
that
dream sports-writing
job.
I
Ryan Streck
is pursuing
an
M.B.A. at Marist while working as
a graduate assistant in Champagnat
Hall.
lJaime
Tomeo
is
the infobar
editor for News
12
Long
Island.
He
writes the news on the scrolling
bar along the bottom of the screen
for all News
12
Networks-Long
Island, Bronx, Connecticut, New
Jersey
and Westchester.
I
Julio A.
Torres,Jr.
isadevelopment writer/
alumni associate for Boys
&
Girls
Harbor, Inc.
in
New York, NY
He
is also an assistant basketball coach
for the Upward Bound basketball
team.
He
was an
HEOP
student
at
Marist.
I
Melissa Tucci
is
pursu-
ing
an
M.B.A.
at Marist while she
assumes
the duties
of
head
softball
coach at the college.
I
Pierre Vinh
is a
first-year
student
in
the
Doc-
tor of Optometry program at
the
Pennsylvania
College
of Optometry
in
Elkins Park, Penn.
I
Tara Wiley
is
the
communications coordina-
tor for
the
Institute
for Humanist
Studies
in
Albany, N.Y.
"FunDay"
Brings
Campus
Community
Together
Marist faculty and
staff
gather
in
front
of
the Lowell Thomas Communications Center on Marist
FunDay this past
May
for a campus
photo, taken by Bob Lynch '75.
Faculty
and Staff Contribute
$70,749 to Marist Fund
For the sixth consecutive
year the Office of College
Advancement
sponsored
Marist Fun
Day,
a celebra-
tion of the end of the school year and successful
completion of the annual
Marist Fund
campaign.
Helping reach a $1 million milestone
goal were 289
faculty and staff members,
including
71
alumni who
are also employees
atthecollege,
who contributed
to
the 2002 Marist Fund. Their gifts totaled $70,749.
"IVlarist faculty and staff have always been
exceptionally
dedicated," says Vice President
for
College
Advancement
Shaileen
Kopec. "To
have
so
many people who work at Marist, day in and day
out, also provide such generous
financial
support
to
he!lp
our students says a great deal about our
colle9e's
spirit and character."
Calling the
Class of 2002
Congratulations
on joining the
alumni ranks!
We
want
to know
what you'll be doing in the
coming year. Tell us by going
to www.marist.edu/alumni
(then click on "On-Line Updates,"
fill in your information
in the
spaces
provided and click
on
"Submit") or contact
Sean
Morrison, alumni affairs director,
at sean.morrison@marist.edu.
While you're at
the Marist
alumni Web site, don't
forget
to keep your address
current so
we can keep you up to date on:
■
Homecoming/Reunion
2002,
coming up Oct.
11-13
■
Chapter
activities
■
Career networking
activities
■
Athletic events
■
Social events
■
Volunteer
service to Marist.
We want your news
in
the
next issue! Keep
in touch.
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IN
Sharing Grief and
Hope through
on
Liz Danehy
'03 is a member
of a small a cappella
sin1i~ng
group at Marist called
The Sirens. She wrote this e-mail to her family and fri,ends
after the group sang
spontaneously
at Ground
Zero on Oct. 25.
H
i Everyone! I went down to New York
City today and
I
wanted
to
share my
experience with you all. My singing
group was invited to sing at an awards cer-
emony for
Helen Thomas
(a White
House
correspondent). Only five of us could make it,
but it
turned
out fine. We were excused
from
all of our
classes
for
the day
so we decided
to make use
of our
time
off.
After the ceremony, we hopped on the
subway and
headed
to Ground
Zero.
As soon
as we stepped onto the sidewalk, the mood
was completely
different. lt
was dark,
quiet,
and it smelled strange. What we saw was
devastating.
The buildings
are still burning
and the air is
filled
with smoke.
The
area
is
fenced off,
but
you can see pretty much ev-
erything.
l
have
never
seen such
destruction
in my entire
life; not
one
person
there could
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MAGAZINE
look
at it without feeling
horrified.
There
were candles, pictures, posters and
letters
posted
a.II along the fence
that
separated
us from the remains. Hundreds of people
stood wa.tchingand crying. I have never felt
so
hopel,ess.
We
d,ecided
to do the only thing we could
think of :and that was to sing. We have been
preparing many patriotic songs that are
beautifully written and well arranged (for
a cappella music). The girls and I stood up
against the wall, faced the people and, with
the
remains
behind us, we sang for two
hours.
You have no idea the responses to
the
music. P1eople videotaped us, took pictures,
hugged
us, sang with us and about five
people
called
home
and
held
up their cell phones to
our music. At one point a woman in front of
us
broke down and started crying, and all of
us
girls
felt her
pain and
lost
it
in the
middle
of the song. The
most
amazing
thing
was that
the
crowd joined
in
and finished it for us;
it
was absolutely surreal. CNN showed
up
and
taped
our group and the
people responding
to our
music.
In our
last
song, "The Star-Spangled
Banner," firemen began to fill
the
streets.
There were about
40
of
them
and
they
had
just walked off Ground
Zero
from working
there all
day.
They
removed their hats
and
began to
cry.
It
was so sad;
I
cannot begin
to describe how
it
felt. At
the
end they ap-
plauded
us
and we applauded them. We
walked into
the
streets and hugged
them
and thanked
them.
They were crying and
tried to
explain
how horrible
it
is
there,
but
told
us
how
important it
is
that people
sup-
port
each other.
1
will never forget
this day
as
long
as I
live.
1
hope
I didn't
depress any of you,
but
rather
gave you a little hope
in
humankind.
Keep
in touch, everyone. Take care of yourselves.
God
Bless.
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V
ISION.
Marist's
founders had it, conceiving of a
college that 56 years later has educated
more
than
20,000 men and women and prepared
them for a
lifetime
of accomplishments. You, too, can
create a plan that will shape the lives of tomorrow's
students.
By
remembering
Marist
in your estate through a
bequest or by developing a trust during your lifetime,
you can found a scholarship, establish a1n endowed
professorship
or faculty chair, maintain
Marist's
beautiful campus or support academic: facilities. Through your gift, you can honor a loved one, a
family member or your own achievements. Your financial advisor can explain the advantages of
donating assets such as cash, stocks or real estate to
Marist
College.
Most important, your generosity will have a
lasting
impact on many lives. What you plan
today will help provide the best education possible for future generations of Marist students. And
providing for tomorrow
is
what vision is all about.
For
information
about plcrnned giving opportunities
at Marist College,
please
contact
Shaileen Kc,pec, Vice President for College Advancement,
(845)
575-346a
or
Shai/een.Kopec@Marist.edu.



























M
arist College
has launched
the Hudson River
Valley
lnstitute,
a
regional
studies
center focused
on
one of America's
richest historic, scenic and cultural
regions-the
Hudson
River
Valley National Heritage Area.
Among
its many projects,
the
institute,
in partnership
with the National
~
Park
Service and
the
·
Hudson River Valley
National
Heritage
Area, is
leading
the
effort
in
New
York
State to
recog-
nize the
225
th
anniversary of the
American
Revolu-
tion (2002-2008).
A focal
point
of
the celebration
is
a series of Patriots
Weekends.
Patrie11ts
Weekend-2002
Some 2'.25 years ago, the
battles
at Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton delayed British
Generatl Sir
Henry
Clinton in
the
lower Hudson Valley, thus upsetting his attempt
to aid
1
General John Burgoyne in upstate New York. As a result General Burgoyne
was forced to surrender at Saratoga on Oct.
17,
1777-the
turning
point in America's
struggle for
independence.
Friday, Oct. 4, 2002
Maris
t
College,
Poughkeepsie,
N. Y.
Commemorative lecture by a prominent
historian
(TBA).
Sponsored by the Charlotte Cunneen-Hackett Charitable Trust.
Saturday,
Oct. 5-Sunday, Oct.
6,
2002
Highland
Falls, N.Y.
Celebration of the 225
th
anniversary of the battles of Fort Mongomery and Fon Cl int on
in conjunction with
the
Bicentennial of
the
United States Military Academy. Events
will include
tactical
exercises, a parade and fireworks, as well as the dedication of
Fort
Montgomery State Historic Site. The event will
feature
some 500
reenactors
and a number of 18
th
-century sailing ships.
Cosponsored with the United States Military Academy, New York State Office of Parks,
R,ecreation and Historic Preservation and Fort Montgomery Baule Site Association.
For information,
contact
the
Hudson
River
Valley
Institute
(845) 575-3052
•
HRVI@marist.edu


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