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CONTENTS/Summer
2000
News
and notes from the campus:
a senator speaks at
Commencement,
Vietnam
veterans are remembered,
national
leaders meet
at Marist, the Alumni Association gets a
new
president, the Fashion Program
holds
its
14•h
annual Silver
Needle
extravaganza and the
college launches an on line M.P.A.
4
A New Library for Marist
A long-awaited dream comes true with the
opening
of the James
A.
Cannavino
Library.
10
A Champion of Marist
A chronology of service shows why Marist's
most dedicated volunteer,John]. Cartland Jr.,
has
been named a /if
e
trustee
of the
college's
governing
board.
12
A Character-Building College
Marist is recognized as a
leader
in
student charac-
ter development.
Marist Magazi11e
is published
by
the Office of College
Advancement at
Marist
College for alumni, staff,
faculty
and friends of Marist College.
Vice
President
for College Advancement:
Shaileen Kopec
Associate Vice
Presidenl/Dircctor
of Development:
Robert L. West
Chief College
Relations
Officer: Tim Massie
Editor: Leslie
Bates
Director
of Alumni Affairs:
Jeff
Schanz
'94f99M
Alumni Notes Coordinator:
Jo-Ann Wohlfahrt
Contributing writers:
Ben
Amarone
'01,Jennifer
Parker
'00
Art
Director: Richard Deon
Marist
College
Poughkeepsie,
New
York 12601-1387
(845) 575-3412
www.marist.edu
edi1or@marist.edu
Cover
photo
by
Michael
Nelson
The James
A. Cannavino
Library-Page
4
J,ack
Gartland,
a
part of
Marist-Page
10
Ealith Wliarton was
here-
Page
26
Marist graduates
are
on
the move-
plus births, marriages and a fond remembrance.
26
Experiencing Nature
Purchase
of
the
estate
at
Marist's
northern
boundary has
given
students
a tranquil setting
for studying the environment or
just
escaping
for
some quiet time.
28
Along the Campaign Trail:
Notes from a Political Junkie
By Dr.
Lee
M. Miringoff
The
director
of the
Marist
College
Institute for
Public
Opinion chronicles
MIPO's adventures on
the
road during the six
weel1s
before the
New
Hampshire and
New
York presidential primaries.
31
Two Teams Represent Marist
in NCAA Play
And
the
Red Foxes
earn the
Metro
Atlantic
Athletic
Conference's
highest honor
for
a
second straight
year-in only
their
third
year
in
the
MAAC.
MARIST
NEWS
AND
NOTES
FROM
THE
CAMPUS
Sen. Bob Kerrey of
Nebraslw,
a
Vietnam
veteran and the only
sitting
member
of
Con-
gress
to receive the
Congressio,ial
Medal
of
Honor,
gave
tl1e address
at commencement
May
20, wliich
was
Armed
Forces Day.
Record Number of
Students Graduate at
54th Commencement
A
record
number of students received
their diplomas
on Saturday, May 20, at
Marist's 54
th
commencement.
Nine-hundred-t wemy students received
bachelor's
degrees and 230 received master's
degrees on
the
campus green, the official
site
for
graduation exer-
Commencement
cises since 1996 and the
only space
large
enough to
accommodate
the
growing
number
of graduates and
their
families and friends.
Optimistic about
the
day's
2000
weather forecast, student
representatives of the Class
of2000 had decided to follow
tradition
and
hold
the ceremony on the green; graduation
is
moved
into
the McCann
Center only in
cases of
dangerous
weather since
the indoor
site limits each graduate to only
two
guests.
The
rain eventually came, but many of the
9,000 guests were
prepared
with
umbrellas
while others
went into the
Student Center
to watch the event on closed-circuit TY.
Commencement
speaker Sen.
Bob
Kerrey of Nebraska exhorted the graduates
to remember that
the most important hu-
man
attribute is character. "You are better
than
the
worst
thing
you do
in
your
life,"
he
added. "The worstthing you do may awaken
you to do the best." He concluded by
urg-
ing
the
graduates
to
"keep your sense of
humor, especially about your own mis-
takes,
and
don't
walk away when a stranger
asks for help .... May God grant you seren-
ity,
happitness
and the courage to
do
what
frightens you."
During
the
ceremony Marist awarded
an honorary Doctor of Laws to Senator
Kerrey,
a former Navy SEAL and Vietnam
veteran who earned
the
Congressional
Medal of Honor,
the
country's highest mili-
tary
decoiration.
Marist
also awarded a Doc-
tor
of
Humane
Letters
to
Frances Reese, a
pivotal figure in preserving the ecology and
beauty of the Hudson Valley through her
work with Scenic Hudson and a staunch
advocate for students over the past 16 years
as a
member
of Marist's Board of Trustees.
Prior to the ceremony May 20, which
was Armed Forces Day, Sen. Kerrey helped
plant a redwood tree in honor and memory
of those members of
the
Marist community
who served in Vietnam. The senator joined
Vietnam veterans Jim Barnes
'68,
a Marist
trustee,
Brendan Burke
'68,
also a trustee,
Dan Okada, assistant
professor
of criminal
justice, and Roy Merolli, executive vice
president, in planting the
tree
at the north
end of
th,e James
A. Cannavino Library.
Marist
awarded an honorary degree to
Frances Reese
(above,
with
President
Dennis Murray), a
pivotal figure
in
preserv-
ing
the
ecology of
tl1e Hudson
Valley
and
an
advocate
for students as a Marist
trustee.
The tree
memorial
will be formally dedi-
cated on Saturday, Oct.
14,
during
Home-
coming/Reunion Weekend, when a plaque
will be installed at the site. All alumni are
invited to the dedication, especially those
who are veterans. More information will
appear in the Homecoming/Reunion pro-
gram
being
mailed
to
alumni.
Prior to
commencement,
Sen. Kerrey helped plant a redwood tree dedicated to members
of
the Marist
community
wlto served
in
Vietnam.
The senator
(center)
joined President Dennis
Murray
(far
left),
Chain11a11
of Marist's Board
of Trustees
Rob Dyson (far right), and (left to
right) Vietnam veterans
Executive
Vice President Roy
Merolli,
Jim Barnes
'68,
Brendan
Burlie
'68
and
Assistant
Professor of
Criminal
justice Dan O/wda
i,1
planting the
tree at
the
north
end!
of
tlte
Cannavino
Library.
SUMMER
2000
1
MARIST
DR
News
and
Notes
from
the
Campus
National Leaders Meet
at Marist
Thanks
to
Marist's relationship with the
I
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential
Library, the campus became the summit site
May 21 and 22 for more than 120 officials
from across the country who are
members
of the Democratic Leadership Council.
The
DLC had planned to
meet
at the
FDR Library to develop what will be called
the "Hyde Park Declaration," a statement of
principles
to guide
the
centrist think tank
for
the
next
10
years. However, the FDR
Library was not
large
enough to accommo-
date the governors, U.S. senators,
members
of Congress,
mayors
and myriad other
elected and appointed officials, as well as
entrepreneurs and other DLC supporters. A
call to Marist's College
Relations from FDR
Library archivist Lynn Bassanese '75 led to
several meetings with DLC staff
members
who were awed by
the
campus, particularly
the new James A. Cannavino
Library. The
DLC
staff noted that the technologically
advanced
library fit
the progressive
image
the group wished
to portray,
while the
views of
the
majestic
Hudson
River would
be
conducive
to
fruitful
discussions.
The
timing
of the DLC event
put
the
entire college staff
to
the
test.
Just 24
hours
after
the
last of
the
9,000 commence-
ment
guests
left
campus, Physical
Plant
and Housekeeping
crews,
joined by members of the College
Activities, College Relations and
Media Center staffs,
turned the
Stu-
dent Center Cabaret into a
high-tech
conference center. The DLCalso
used
several rooms in the Cannavino Li-
brary
for break-out strategy sessions.
Adding
to the
complexity of ar-
rangements
was
the
possibility
that
President
Bill
Clinton
might
visit the cam-
pus
on May 21 before heading
to the FDR
Library to address the DLC members.
Marist
President Dennis
J.
Murray hoped to give
the president a demonstration of the Marist/
IBM/FDR Library project, which has led to
thousands of documents being scanned and
digitized,
then
placed
on the Web to be
accessed
by
students and scholars. The
project
could be a prototype for the pro-
posed Clinton presidential
library
as well as
those
of past and
future
chief executives.
While Mr. Clinton's schedule did not
allow for a Marist stop, Dr. Murray was able
to discuss the
project
with
the
commander
in chief when he greeted President Clinton
at the
FDR
Library.
That
led to a request
from
Mr. Clinton to visit
him in
Washing-
ton
to go over
the details
of
the
collabora-
tion.
During
the
DLC meeting, Dr. Murray
and project director Dr. David Woolner
demonstrated
this
"digital library" technol-
ogy
for
Secretary of
the
Army Louis Caldera.
Following Mr. Clinton'sspeech,
the
DLC
delegates
arrived at Marist to begin two
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MAGAZINE
Conference attendees networked at a reception in the Student Center rotunda one
evening
(above). Se11. Evan Bayh of Indiana
(inset,
left) was one of many
elected
officials present at
the conference. DLC members broke into
groups
that met in areas
throughout
the James A.
Cannavino Library, including the Alumni Reading Room
(inset,
right).
marathon days of talks on the future of their
organization.
Senators Evan Bayh of
Indiana,
Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and
Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut were
joined by others such as Mayors Lee Brown
ofHousto,n and Anthony Williams of Wash-
ington,
D.C., as well as senior executives of
financial firms, dot-com companies and
communicationsconglomerates. They were
all
impressed
with Marist's state-of-the-an
facilities and beautiful campus.
"This is
like
making a pilgrimage for
me, visiting
the
college where
Rik
Smits got
his stan," said
Indianapolis
Mayor Bart
Peterson, whose
hometown
Indiana Pacers
were
battl.ing the
New York
Knicks that
day
to make it into the National Basketball
Association finals. The Pacers, of course,
feature the 7'4" center and Marist alumnus.
Other participants used their video cam-
eras to capture the
panoramic
vistas
from
the campus green or record the high-tech
design
of the Cannavino Library. All
the
participants
left
with favorable opinions of
their visit. In a
thank-you
note to the col-
lege,
Oklahoma State Treasurer
Robert
Butkin wrote, "l was most impressed by
both your cam
pus
and yourwonderf
ul
staff.
I feel your students are fortunate to
have
the
opportunity to study at an outstanding lib-
eral arts college such as Marist."
The DLC
paid
for all expenses
incurred
during their two-day Marist stay.
-Timmian
Massie
The 85,000-square-foot
James
A.
Cannavino
Library,
designed
by
Perry
Dean Rogers
and
Partners
of
Boston,
sits on
the
crest of
the
main quad area of
the
campus,
overlooking
the Hudson
River.
The
$20 million
project,
made
of gran-
ite
and sandstone,
took
16 months
to complete
and opened
in
Janu-
ary 2000.
This
page:
The
library
en-
trance features
a
three-story
atrium.
Facing
page,
top:
Students
serving as tour guides during
library
dedication
activities
on May
6
were eager
to meet James
Cannavino
(seated).
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
"We shape our spaces and they, in turn,
shape us." -Winston
Churchill
Maria Gordon Shydlo '87
Elected Alumni
Association President
M
aria Gordon Shydlo
'87
has been
elected
the
first woman
president
of
the
Marist
College Alumni Association.
Ms. Shydlo is director of
public relations at Oxford
Health
Plan
in
Connecticut and
was previously senior vice
president at Edelman World-
wide.
She
has been
an active vol-
unteer for
the
Alumni Associa-
tion
since graduating from
Marist. She has served for
the
past two
years as national
alumni chair for
the
Marist
Fund, which in
2000
had its
most successful year ever. Alumni giving
reached
new heights
with more than
$500,000
in
gifts and
pledges,
and a
record
number
of alumni participated in
this
an-
nual campaign.
Ms. Shydlo served as vice president of
the
association from
1998
to
2000
and as an
at-large member of the Alumni Executive
Board from
1988
to
1998.
She was
presi-
dent
of the New York Metro chapter from
1993
to
1997.
She also worked in the Ad-
vancement Office at Marist as coordinator
of
the
Annual Fund
in
1987
and
1988.
"Maria has
been
an extraordinary vol-
unteer," i;ays
Bob
West, associate vice presi-
dent/dire:ctor
of
development
at Marist. "She
will
be
a1
strong
representative
for Marist
graduates
in
advancing the role of alumni in
the
life of the college." Serving as Alumni
Association president includes represent-
ing alumni at
meetings
of
the
Marist Board
of Trustees.
Ms. Shydlo succeeds
John
Nunziata,
vice
pre:sident
of
partner
markets for
Intermedia
Communications,
who has
served as, association
president
since
1998.
"John cointinued a
tradition
of strong lead-
ership
that has been
a
hallmark
of Alumni
Association presidents," says Jeff Schanz,
director of Alumni Affairs at Marist. "On his
watch the Alumni Association saw signifi-
cant advances
in
communicating
with
alumni and a marked increase in chapter
activity amd
involvement
with the college.
There also was a significant
increase
in
alumni support for
the
college."
Ms. Shydlo and her husband, Brian, live
in Pelham, N.Y.
Fashion Program Struts its Stuff wiith
14th Annual Silver Needle Awards iaind Show
T
he 14
th
annual Silver Needle Awards and
Fashion Show
drew
on talent
from
all
sectors of
the
Marist community.
Eight senior fashion majors
presented
their collections
in
two
shows April
27
at
the
Casperkill
Country
Club
in
Poughkeepsie. A
record
crowd of almost
600
attended
the
evening show while more
than
500
viewed
the
afternoon show.
More than
100
students
were involved
in
the
pro-
gram as models, ushers,
dressers
and
more. Faculty
also played a major role. Sue
DeSanna,
acting director of
the Fashion
Program,
over-
saw the whole
production.
Other Fashion Program fac-
ulty
brought
two
new
ele-
ments
to
the
annual event.
Ri-
chard
Kramer
was
the
show's
first
stage director, and
Lydia
Biskup
arranged for
the
show's
first
party favors by seeking do-
nations
of jewelry, sunglasses, scarves and
perfume. Faculty
member Michelle Lester
designed
artwork for the
poster
and
pro-
gram cover. A cocktail
re-
ception before the evening
show featured
the
Marist
College flute ensemble.
Even
the
show's
most
celebrated guest
had
a
'
Marist connection.
Re-
nowned
couture
icon
Pauline Trigere, who pre-
sented
two
awards, annu-
ally visits
the
Marist fash-
ion studi,os to critique the
senior collections
en
toil
es.
Ms. Trigere
presented the
award fo-r Best
Collection
to
Sara Martire and
the
award
for
Best
Garment
to
Leigh
Kate
Brooks. Susan
La
Verda re-
ceived the Outstanding Mer-
chandising
Major
Award and
Gregg
Arenson
received
the
award for Outstanding Fash-
ion Design
Major.
A number of alumni of the
Fashion Program attended the
shows. Several Marist gradu-
ates
in the fashion
industry
also
advise
the Fashion Pro-
gram. Tom Ward
'69,
COO
and president of WestPoint
Stevens, Alyson Byrnes
Morilla
'97,
assistant de-
signer at Ann Taylor, and JR Morrissey
'88
of Garfield
&
Marks serve on Marist's Fash-
ion
Advii;ory
Board.
eMP
Online Program
Online M.P.A. Launched
B
ecause of
the
overwhelming success of
its online master of
business
adminis-
tration
program, Marist will
launch
an online
master of public administration program in
September
2000.
Applications for
the pro-
gram are now
being
accepted. The first class
of students can expect to receive
their
grad
u-
ate
degrees
in May
2003.
Like Marist's traditional M.P.A.
pro-
gram, the online M.P.A. consists of
13
courses. Online courses are eight weeks
in
length so
the pace
is somewhat accelerated.
By
taking two
courses each semester and
one course each summer, a
part-time
stu-
dent can complete
degree requirements
in
less than
three years.
To be eligible for the degree, students
are generally
required
to complete
39
cred-
its. The core curriculum covers budgeting
and accounting,
personnel
management,
policy
analy-
sis and program evaluation,
and political and public ac-
tion. Students then begin
coursework within an area
of concentration
such as
criminal
justice
administra-
tion,
nonprofit administra-
tion,
human
services admin-
istration or health services
administration.
Acting M.P.A. Program
Director Dr James Kent says
the
impetus
for creating the
online
program
was the
number
of inquiries
Marist was receiving
from far away about its M.P.A. offer-
ings.
"We
think
this
is
a really exciting
opportunity for Marist to establish itself
as a national, or even international,
pres-
ence among M.P.A.
programs."
Marist launched its online master of
business
administration program
in
Janu-
ary
1999.
More than
150
students
have
been
admitted to that program. Students
are very satisfied with the
flexibility,
conve-
nience and quality
learning
experience they
are receiving, according to Dr. Gordon
Badovick,
dean of the School of Manage-
ment. Students as far away as California,
Florida and Canada are now applying to
the
online M.B.A.
program
and administrators
expect even greater
demand
for the online
M.P.A. program.
For more
information
about the online
M).A. or M.B.A , visit www.marist.edu/
graduate or call Graduate Admissions
toll-free at
(888) 877-7900
or e-mail
grad
uate@ma rist.ed
u.
-Jennifer
Parker
'00
SUMMER
2000
3
THE
)AMES
A.
CANNAVINO
LIBRARY
A
Ne,N
Libr
___
.,.,..
for Marist
A
fter three years of fund
raising
and 16
months
of construction, the
James
A.
Cannavino
Library
at Marist opened in
January 2000
and was dedicated
May
6 before
a crowd of almost
1,000.
James Cannavino, a
member
of the Marist
Board of Trustees for more
than
15 years, was
the guest of honor at
the
ceremony. During
his
time
on
the board Mr.
Cannavino
has
helped guide
the
college
into the
new
frontier
of information technology. In recognition of
his exceptional service to Marist, the board
voted unanimously to
name the
new building
the James A. Cannavino Library.
Mr. Cannavino pledged $3 million to
support
the
new
library, the largest
personal
gift ever made
to
Marist.
Mr. Cannavino's gift
was
received in
addition to
the
$10 million
Campaign for
the Mari
st Library goal achieved
by
Sept. 1, 1999, when
formal
fund-raising
activity ended. Vice
President
for College
James
Canna)?no
(center),
joined here by
Bro.
Paul
Ambrose,
FM
,
president
emeritus
of Maris! (left),
and Presiden
Dennis
J.
Murray,
was the guest of
honor at the edication
of the new
library.
Rob
Dyson
(le ), chairman
of Marist's
Board
ofTrust-
ees, served
a master
of ceremonies
at
the
library
dedication.
Ja
,k
Gartland
(right), a life trustee,
was
one of many
~card
members
in attendance.
Advancement Shaileen Kopec spearheaded
the campaign, which
included
successfully
meeting the Kresge
Challenge, a $500,000
challenge to
raise
$1.1 million.
Mr. Cannavino,
recognized
as one of the
nation's
technology
leaders,
is
president and
chief executive officer of CyberSafe,
Inc.,
a
corporation specializing
in
network security.
He was the
president
and chief executive
officer
of Perot Systems Corporation through
July
1997
and
before
that was a senior vice
president at
IBM,
responsible for strategy and
development.
During
his tenure at IBM he
was credited with
developing
some of
the
company's most innovative products, ranging
from
mainframe
computers to
laptops.
He
is
recognized for spearheading the development
of the ThinkPad"' computer, which in recent
years
has
been one of IBM's
most
successful
products.
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2000
5
The
Alumni Reading
Room,
named
for the
many
alumni
who contributed
to
the
library
fund-raising
campaign,
provides
a
serene
study space
with a beautiful view of
the
campus
green
and Hudson
River.
Four
pri-
vate
study
rooms
surround
the open seat-
ing
area,
where
long
tables
are
equipped
with
lamps
and connections
for
laptops.
A Library for Teaching and Learning
■
Marist's archives
and special collections
have
received
a permanent,
organized
home in the
new
library.
The
area
devoted
to
Special
Collections
opens
in the
fall
of
2000
with a preservation
area,
storage
area
and reading
room,
overseen
by an archivist.
The
Special
Collections
include
the
Lowell
Thomas
Col-
lection,
the
Richard
and Gertrude
Weininger
Collec-
tion
in
Judaic
Studies,
the award-winning
television
documentary
series
"On
the
River,"
the
George
M.
and
Alice
S. Gill
Fore-Edge
Collection,
the
John
Tillman
Collection,
the Rick
Whitesell
Record
Collec-
tion
and
the Nelly
Goletti Music
Collection.
Currently
accessible
via the Web
are more
than
1,200
materials
from
the
Hudson
River Environmental
Society
collec-
tion, digitized
in
a project
headed
by
Dr.
Thomas
Lynch,
professor
of environmental
studies.
Information
on
biology, ecology,
hydrology,
regulatory
policy and
issues
of public access
is now
available
to
research-
ers, policymakers,
educators,
librarians,
students
and other members of
the
public at http://
library.marist.edu/Diglib/EnvSci/EnvSci2a.html.
ly
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d
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II
■
The
Center for Applied
Technology
(CAT)
on the
library's
top level is closely
associated
with Marist's
Department
of Academic
Technology,
which provides
technology
awareness
and collaborative
hands-on
training
in some
of the latest information
technology
products
to the Marist faculty.
Approximately
30 stu-
dents
work
in
Academic
Technology/CAT.
The
students
are the primary
contact
for the faculty members
and
work
closely
with them to plan and implement
their
projects.
■
The
Academic
Learning
Center,
Writing Center,
Of-
fice of International
Education,
Higher
Education
Op-
portunity
Program
and Center
for Career
Services
share
the east side of
the
top
level,
giving students
conve-
nient access
to specialized
information
and
trained
support
staff.
A student
resource
area
there
features
PCs,
a reference
library
and
private interview
rooms
for students
using any of
these
services.
The
Reese
Reading
Room,
named
for long-
time
Marist
board
member
Frances
Reese,
offers
a spacious
and
airy
reading
and
study area,
with comfortable
seating,
car-
rels
equipped with network
ports
for
laptops
and breathtaking
views of
the
Hudson
River
and
nearby
mountains
from
the
library's
top level.
The
Margaret
W.
Mair Executive
Presenta-
tion Room
is equipped
for projecting
im-
ages
on a
large
screen
from a variety of
sources
including
PC,
DVD,
VCR
and laptop.
Teleconferences
are
possible
via phone
amplifiers
and
tabletop microphones.
A
unique
sound
system
features
no
speakers
but
instead
drivers
built
into
walls, result-
ing
in uniform
sound
throughout
the room.
A touch screen
controls
systems
including
image
display,
window
blinds,
lighting
and
sound
volume.
"Reading f11unishes the mind only with materials of knowledge;
it is thinkir1g that makes what we read ours." -John Locke
The building encompasses
all the principal
features
nec-
essary
for creating
and sustaining
a digital
library.
A
ro-
bust
network capable
of transmitting
large
video files to
simultaneous
users
supports
an array of servers,
collabo-
rative
work rooms
for producing
and capturing
content,
205
workstations
and four classrooms
fully
computerized
for teaching
and
learning
as well as nearly
400
network
ports
for student
laptops.
Forty-five
of
the
workstations
are
in
the Dyson
E-scriptorium
(below right).
8
MARIST
MAGAZINE
Ample
study
space
in
the building,
including
the Frank
A.
Fusco
Reading
Room
(left,
top
and facing
page),
enables
725 students
to work
individually
or
in
small groups
us-
ing soft seating,
single or double carrels,
study tables
or
small
study
rooms.
Many
students
bring
their
own laptops,
and
IBM
ThinkPads•
are available
to borrow
for use
within
the library.
A
Champion
ofMarist
John J. Gartland Jr. is named a life trustee of Marist's Board of Trustees
after four decades of dedicated service.
A
fter more
than 43 years of dedicated
service to
Marist
College, Poughkeepsie
attorney John
J.
Gartland
Jr. has
been
elected
to life trustee
status by
Marist's
Board
of
Trustees.
"He
is
a very
unique
and special
person in
the life and
history
of
the
college," says Dr.
Dennis
Murray,
president
of Marist.
"No
vol-
unteer
has done
more
for students, faculty
and alumni of our college
than
Jack
Gartland."
Mr. Gartland's
involvement
with Marist
dates
to
1956,when he was elected
to
the first
lay
advisory board at the college, which was
then
devoted to training young men to be-
come Marist Brothers. Mr. Gartland
became
a
member
of the
college's
board
of trustees
in
1969
and served as chairman of
the
board
from
1972
to
197 4.
He has
been
an advisor to
10
MA RIST
MAG AZ I N E
three Marist
presidents and
has
served as an
important
bridge between
the college and the
Dutchess County community.
Physically and academically,
Marist
has
been
shaped significantly
by
Jack Gartland's
efforts. For 20 of
his
30 years on
the board,
Mr. Gartland chaired
the
trustees'
Buildings
and Grounds committee and oversaw the
design and development of the
Marist
cam-
pus. The
construction
or renovation of virtu-
ally every building on the campus was com-
~
pleted during
his tenure
as committee chair,
totaling
more
than
$120 million
in improve-
ments.
His
participation was always hands-
on; he attended meetings nearly every week
and made frequent visits to construction sites
Jolt11]. Gartla11d]r.
to
monitor progress. As president of
the James
j.
McCann
Foundation, he played a
leader-
ship role in securing several million
dollars
in
foundation grants
to
support
the
expansion
and enhancement of the campus
and its
aca-
demic
programs.
■
As
cltainna11
of tlte Board of Trustees' Buildi11gs a,1d Grounds
committee, Jach Gartla11d has played a11 integral role i11
every
major decisio11 involving construction at Marist. At left: Mr.
Gartla11d
a11d
Pltysical Pla11t
Director Thomas Daly donned ltard
hats and
viewed
tlte Stude11t Ce11ter
from Cliampagnat before
touri11g the project during its co11structio11
in
1993.
Chronology of Jack Gartland's lnvo,lvement
with Marist College
73-85
Served
as lay-affi
I
iated
Brother
of the
Maris!
Order
of Teachers
1977
The
Class
of
1977
dedicated
its
yearbook
to Jack
Gartland
1977
The
James
J. Mccann
Recreation
C:enter
was
completed,
supported
by a
~
$1.35
million
grant
from
the Mccann
Foundation,
which
also
supported
the
~
rnnovation
of
Fontaine
Hall
as a
<
~
library
l
~
1980
Helped
establish
the college's
first
Over
the
past four decades Jach Gartland
e1ndowed
chair,
the
Dr. Linus
Richard
has
served
as a close advisor to
Marist
Foy
Chair
in
Computer
Science,
and
presidents including, above, President Den-
provided
a
leadership
gift from
the
nis
Murray (left) and President Emeritus
fvlcCann
Foundation
Bro. Paul Ambrose,
FMS (center).
1980
Received
an honorary
Doctor
of
1956
Elected
chairman
of the college's
Humane
Letters
degree
at President
first lay
advisory
board
Dennis
Murray's
inauguration
1957
Helped
foster
the
admission
of
lay
1983
Honored
as a Volunteer
of the Year
students
to
the college
by the Council
for Advancement
and
1967
Received
the
Maris!
College
Support
of Education
President's
Award
for Community
1984
Tlhe
Mccann
Foundation
assisted
in
Service;
his
father,
John
J.
n1e
purchase
of
7
acres
northwest
of
Gartland
Sr.,
and
son Michael
t~1e
townhouses,
enabling
Maris!
to
also
received
this
award
e,<pand
northward
with planned
student
residences
and
new
athletic
1968
Helped
foster
the
admission
of
fields
women
to
the college
1985
lrnitiated
the Maris!
College/Mccann
1969
Became
a member
of
the
Maris!
Foundation
Computer
Grant
Partner-
College
Board
of
Trustees
sllip, which
to date
has
provided
1969
Became
president
of the newly
grants
totaling
more
than
$800,000
to
established
Mccann
Foundation
75
private
schools
and
nonprofit
1969
Introduced
the
Mccann
Scholars
organizations
in Dutchess
County
program-to
date,
more
that
$1.
4
1986
Tile
Lowell
Thomas
Communications
million
in
scholarships
has
en-
C1enter
opened,
supported
by a
abled
several
hundred
local
stu-
$·1
million
grant
from
the Mccann
dents
to attend
Maris!
Foundation
72-74
Served
as chairman
of the
Maris!
1989
Gartland
Commons
student
College
Board
of
Trustees
residences
dedicated
Jach
Gartland's
son
Michael
became a
member
of Marist's
Board
of
Trnstees
ear-
lier
this year. Michael Gartland
is
a
part-
ner
in
tire
law
Jinn
of Corbally, Gartland
and Rappleyea, where
Ire has practiced
with
Iris
father
since
1974.
J-le
received tl,e
Marist College President's
Award for Com-
munity
Service,
an
honor he
shares
with
his
father and grandfather. Above, father
and
son
find a
moment
to
visit
before a
board
meeting
on the
campus.
1990
Opening
of Gartland
Athletic
Com-
mons,
created
with more
than
$1
million
from
the Mccann
Foundation
1991
Mccann
Baseball
Field
dedicated,
supported
by a grant
of nearly
$500,000
from
the Mccann
Foundation
1997
Major
addition
to the Mccann
Recreation
Center
dedicated;
con-
struction
was
supported
by
$1.75
million
from
the Mccann
Foundation
1999
Secured
a
$150,000
grant
for
the
James
A.
Cannavino
Library
from
the
Cunneen-Hackett
Charitable
Trust
1999
Elected
Life
Trustee
of
the
Marist
College
Board
of Trustees
Jach
Gartland spol1e
at
the
dedication of
Jach Gartland, a longtime supporter
of atlrletic
programs
at Marist, tossed the
coin
at
the
the McCann Baseball
Field
in
1991.
start of Mal'ist'sfootball game against
his
alma
mate,;
Georgetown University,
in
1995.
SUMMER
2000
11
A
Character-
Building
College
M
arist College has been
recognized
as
a
leader
in
student character
develop-
ment.
This past year, Marist was
named
in
The
Templeton
Guide:
Colleges
That
Encourage
Char-
acter Development,
a national
guidebook
pro-
duced by the
John Templeton
Foundation.
Marist was also named to
the
Templeton
Honor Roll, a select
list of 100
colleges and
universities recognized
for
their
record of
commitment to inspire students
to
lead ethi-
cal and civic-minded liYes.
Intended
for
high
school students, par-
ents, guidance counselors, college adminis-
trators,
trustees,
faculty and alumni,
The
Templeton
Guide
recognizes programs that
represent the
best practices in the
field
of
character development during the college
years. The
programs
were chosen
through
a
highly
selective process
that
considered clar-
ity of vision and statement of purpose; institu-
tional
resources; involvement
of institutional
leaders; impact
on students, faculty, campus
and
community;
integration
into the core
this interdisciplinary
mi-
nor
in 1995 as part of
the
college's
humanities pro-
gram.
Students
take
courses in human
rights,
human
values and choice,
afOuence and poverty, and
other social and
political
topics. Faculty and students
collaborate
on social
research
and hands-on experience,
working with a wide variety of community
service agencies to
put into
practice what
is
learned in
the Marist
classroom. Dr.
Mar
Peter-Raoul, chair of the Philosophy and
Re-
ligious
Studies
Department,
Dr. Bruce Luske,
associate professor
of sociology, and Dr. Greg
Moses, assistant
professor of philosophy, di-
rect the
program.
In
addition
to
recognizing
the Public
Praxis
project, Templeton recognized Marist's Self-
Management
program
as a nationwide
model
for students entering college. The
program
teaches students
to
examine how their own
curriculum or academic study;
longevity; external awards and
recognition; and assessment.
Designed
for those who be-
lieve
that
character matters,
The
Templeton
Guide
contains profiles
of 405 exemplary college
pro-
grams in 10 categories. Programs
profiled include those of Brown
The Templeton
Guide
recognizes
programs that
represent the best
practices in the
field of character
development
during
the college years.
feelings, behaviors and thoughts
are central to personal develop-
ment and achievement in all as-
pects of life. Two Marist educa-
tors, Dr. Edward O'Keefe and
Donna Berger, initiated the pro-
gram with the college's Academic
Leaming
Center in 1989. They
are also the authors of
Self-Man-
University, Colgate University, Cornell
Uni-
versity, Dartmouth College, Duke University,
Princeton University,
Stanford
University
and
Yale
University. Marist is
profiled
in two sec-
tions
highlighting the top
programs
for first-
year students and for civic education.
The book recognizes Marist's Public
Praxis
project
as one of the country's
leading civic
education
programs. Marist's Department of
Philosophy and Religious
Studies
established
12
M A R I ST M A G A Z
I
N E
agementfor
College
Students:
The ABC Approach,
a
book
used
in the
Marist program and in
many other colleges and universities nation-
wide. Now in its second printing, the text was
chosen in 1995 by
Rolling
Stone
magazine as
one of
the
top three personal development
and study guides in
the
country.
"Marist College's strong commitment
to
character development and
the
strength of
its
program
make it
a model for colleges and
universities
nationwide,"
said
Dr.
Arthur
J.
Schwartz, director
of
character development
programs at
the John Templeton Foundation.
"With
The Templeton
Guide,
we
hope
to
help
prospective college students and
their parents
who want to
know
what colleges are
doing
to
promote
the
core values of
honesty,
self-
control, respect and service to those
less
for-
tunate.
The
Templeton
Guide
identifies
col-
leges that
encourage students
tO
understand
the importance of
personal
and civic respon-
sibility, which will
help
them succeed
in
col-
lege
and
beyond.
Marist's work in this area
is
most
impressive."
"The
Templeton
Guide
gives added affi
rma-
tion
to the well-known fact
that
Marist gradu-
ates are
liberally
educated, first-rate
profes-
sionals who are also
builders
of community
and exemplary citizens," said Dr. Artin
Arslanian, dean of faculty/vice president for
academic affairs at Marist.
"This
also attests
tO
the
fact that the
Marist
mission is very much
alive on campus and
impacts
the
lives
of all its
students, thanks
to
the
professionalism,
com-
mitment
and
dedicated
leadership of
its
fac-
ulty, staff and administration." Marist's
mis-
sion today
is based
on the
ideals
originally
established
by
the founding Marist Brothers:
commitment to excellence in education, a
pursuit
of higher human values, and dedica-
tion to the
principle of service.
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t
ALU1~NI
Keeping Up With Mai'ist Graduates
NOTES
1
9
5 6
Bro. Dominic
M.
O'Brien
is
di-
rector of Christian Formation for
St. Catherine's
Parish
in Orange
Park,
Fla.
1
9 5 7
G.
Patrick Gallagher
is active in
his
work as an expert
police
wit-
ness dealing
with cases across the
country, including one case that
was on
Fox's
"Scariest
Police
Chases." He
has
also been work-
ing with the Department of
Jus-
tice and
its
Civil Rights Division
as an expert consultant in some
nationally
prominent
police
cases
and conducting
national
training
sessions for
the
Public Risk Man-
agement Association. All Marist
alumni are
invited to
enjoy
the
views and solitude from the
porches of Pat's
bed
and
break-
fast, the Wild Geese, in
the Blue
Ridge
Mountains near Blacksburg,
Va.
]Pa•mMsl#
1
9 6 0
Bro. Vincent Benedict, FMS
(aka
Bro.
Thomas Moriarty) received a
promotion to
dean of studies at
Our Lady of Lourdes
High
School
in Poughkeepsie.
1
9 6 3
Bro. John
j.
Cherry, FMS
has
been
asked
by
his religious order
to
become the vocation director
for the Marist Brothers at Marist
College.
1
9 6 5
David
R.
Gerling
and
his
wife
would
like to
hear from alumni
from the classes of
1965
and
1966
who
live
in or near
the
Houston,
Texas, area. Feel free
to
call
them
at (409) 291-7393.
I
j.
Brien
O'Callaghan, Ph.D.
was accepted
to present at the National Confer-
ence on Education, sponsored by
the American Association of
School Administrators in San
Francisco
in March. His presen-
tation
was titled
"Student
Shootings: Predictable, Explain-
able,
Preventable."
I
Robert
O'Handley's
textbook,
Magnetic
Materials: Principles and Applica-
tions,
has
been published
by John
Wiley & Sons.
I
Father Michael
Perry
is the pastor at Our Lady of
Refuge Church in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Alumni played
a
prominent
role
in
the
Campaign for
tlte
Marist
Library a11d
tlte
dedicatio11
of tlte
11ew
library May
6.
Dick
Cole
'69
(left),
one of
several
speakers weari11g
a Marist
baseball
cap
for protection
against the harsh
sun,
addressed
tlte
crowd of
nearly 1,000.
A
member
of Marist's
Board
of Trustees
and
chair
of the trustee
campaign,
lie
recognized
the Board
of Trustees for
launching the
campaign
with
generous gifts
and p1roviding a total
of $5.6
million
toward
tlte
library. 111
another
speech
Jach
Ebertlt
'69
(right),
wlto
cltaired
the
alumni
campaign,
reported tltat
alumni response
to
tl1e
effort
!tad been
overwhelming.
Total
alumni giving reached
$735,000,
more than
600
new
alumni
donors participated
and 83 percent
of
all
gifts
to
tlte campaign came from
Marist
graduates.
I
Ronald Streck
retired
from IBM
after 32 years
in
April of 1998. He
is
doing
consulting work for
Outsourced MarketingAssociates,
Inc.
His son, Ryan, is a senior at
Marist,
majoring in
environmen-
tal
policy.
1
9 6 6
John Hart, Ph.D.
was selected for
the
Oxford Seminars in Science
and Christianity at the
University
of Oxford in England for
1999-
2001. He also received
the
Sci-
ence-Religion Course Develop-
ment
Award from
the
Center of
Theology and
the
Natural Sci-
ences in Berkeley, Calif.
I
Will-
iam R. Kawka
is
a seniior man-
ager at Penta Associates,
Ltd.
Penta
is a consulting
firm
v.rith a prac-
tice in disaster
recovery, technol-
ogy, operations and fi111ance.
I
James O'Brien
is
a computer-
programming instructor at
the
CHUBB
Institute.
I
Terry
Youngs
has retired
from
North Rockland
School District.
1
9 6
7
Robert
A.
Johnson
staned and
operates Kaffe Magnum Opus,
Inc., a specialist coffee roaster for
independent
coffeehouses and
cafes.
I
John F. Kenny
lhas been
selected by
the
Mid-Hudson
School Study Council
to
receive
one of
this
year's Awards for Ex-
cellence
in
Administration. He is
the coordinator for
mathematics
and
business
education in
the
Wappingers (N
.Y.)
Central School
District.
I
Anthony LaRocco
re-
tired
from
teaching after 32 years
in New York City public schools.
He
was elected to
the board
of the
Prescott
Fund for Children and
Youth
in April
1999.1
Palma and
Dennis Mega
recently vacationed
in Arizona and visited the Grand
Canyon. As they drove into the
park, they were greeted by a
park
service officer,
Kevin
Kelly,
a
1983 Marist graduate.
Kevin no-
ticed
Dennis's
Marist alumni hat
in
the car. What a small world!
I
Dr. George Searles
published
his
fourth
book,
Workplace Com-
munications:
The Basics,
a college
textbook used
in
applied writing
courses.
I
William
Urkiel
has
been appointed senior vice
presi-
dent and chief
financial
officer of
Ikon
Office Solutions
in
Malvern,
Pa.
1 9 6 8
Richard Amodeo
received the
Certified Medical Practice Execu-
tive award from the American
College of MPEs
in
Englewood,
Colo.
I
Robert G. Bailey
is
assis-
tant dean at the University of Mis-
souri-Columbia School of
Law.
He
was awarded a Spurgeon
Smithson Award.
This
award
is
given annually by
the
Missouri
Bar Foundation
to
Missouri
judges, teachers oflaw and/or law-
yers
deemed
"to have rendered
outstanding service toward
the
increase
and diffusion of
justice
among men."
I
James T. Brice
retired from
federal
service after
40 years with
the
USDA-Animal
Plant Health Service in May
1999.
While
there
he was
the federal-
state plant health director and
completed many
domestic
and
foreign assignments. Among his
awards was the Department of
Agriculture
Distinguished Service
Award for
his
work with grass-
hopper emergency control pro-
grams.
I
Dr. Lawrence P. Carr
has been promoted to
full
profes-
sor at Babson College. Larry ,viii
be
on sabbatical
in
2000.
I
Fred
Clark
has
retired
from the school
system in Fairfax County, Va.,
after 26 years at Robinson Sec-
ondary School as a math/com-
puter
science teacher. He is now
teaching
the
same topics in
Prince
William County, Va., at Osbourn
Park High School.
I
John
T.
Goegel
was honored by the New
Hampshire Interscholastic Ath-
leticAssociation
for more
than
25
years
of coaching. For the 1999-
2000
season, he coached cross-
country and indoor
and
outdoor
track and field.
I
Maj.
Charles F.
Howlett
has been
appointed
by
SUMMER
2 0 0 0
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t
ALUMNI
NOTES
the
Department
of the Air Force
to the position of additional duty
admissions
liaison
officer. Chuck
will assist students
with Air
Force Academy admissions and
AFROTCscholarships.
lHoward
P. Lapidus
is the
superintendent
of schools for the Moravia Central
School District
in
Moravia, N.Y
I
Kenneth Maass
iscompleting his
18
th
year as a social
studies
teacher
at St. Augustine High School
in
St. Augustine, Fla.
I
Edward
j.
Manganel
is
the
chair of the so-
cial studies department at Monsi-
gnor Farrell High School in Staten
Island. Ed
is
also an adjunct pro-
fessor at the College of Staten
Island.
I
Anthony Morrell
has
retired
from
the Bonneville Power
Administration in Portland, Ore.
Tony and his wife, Marjorie, cel-
ebrated their 30
th
wedding anni-
versary
in
April 2000.
I
Thomas
Spratt
is vice president with U.S.
Trust Company.
Ijames
Zoeller
has
moved to Florida.
Jim has
joined
Jefferson Pilot Financial
Group
as a partner
in
the
company's largest agency.
1
9 6 9
Peter Clarry
is
celebrating
his
25
th
year of
teaching.
I
Fred
Greifenstein
has been appointed
lO
senior vice president of
re-
search and development and chief
technical officer for ProBusiness
Services, Inc.
I
Anne and
Patrick
Keilty
are planning
to
retire from
teaching in
June
2001 after 33
years in the classroom. They plan
to move to and work in Tampa,
Fla.
I
Vincent]. Mooney
is
in his
31st year at Arlington High School
in LaGrangeville, N.Y.
I
Thomas
j.
Nolan
is
practicing individual
and
family
therapy in
Paramus,
NJ. and Rye Brook, N.Y.
I Tom
Ward
rang
the closing bell on
the
New York Stock Exchange on Oct.
15,
1999,
as WestPoint Stevens
stock
began
trading on NYSE
rather
than NASDAQ. Tom
is
president
and COO of WestPoint
Stevens.
)P1nm•ua
~
1
9 7 0
Theodore
Brosnan
lives
in
San
Antonio and
is
the
regional
mar-
keting
director for Georgia Pa-
cific.
He
is a volunteer
USA
Wres-
tling
(for
kids!)
coach.
I
Robert
L.
Brown,
Esq.
has retired
from
the Department of Justice after 26
years there, where
he
served as
director of
immigration. He
is
now a partner
in
the firm of Frantz
Ward, L.L.P. in Cleveland, Ohio.
I
Richard F.
Bruno
retired
from
AT&T. He is
manager
of research
and
development
for Network
Plus,acompetitive
local
exchange
company
headquartered
in
Priceline.com
co-founder
Tim
Brier
'69
(center) visited
with Presi-
dent
Dennis
Murray (left)
and Jach
Eberth
'69
following
his
talk
at
Marist
this
past fall about
establishing the
two-year-old
com-
pany.
A standing-room-only crowd
attended the presentation.
14
MAR IS
T
MAG AZ IN
E
Quincy,
Mass.
I
Cleveland
Dodge
was awarded a Ph.D. in
chemistry
from SUNY-Stony
Brook.
I
Thomas
R.
Hoffay
was
appointed
to the
Office of New
York State Attorney General Eliot
Spitzer. He is assistant
deputy
director for intergovernmental
relations,
stationed
in the
Poughkeepsie
regional office.
I
Richard
Maloney
is the adminis-
trator
of a 400-bed hospital/nurs-
ing
home in
Pomona,
N.Y.1
Pete
Masterson's
son, Danny, is a star
of
the
Fox television show
"That
?O's Show." He
plays
Hyde. His
other son, Chris, is a regular on
theshow"Malcolm in the Middle,"
also on Fox.
I
James
A.
McGlumphy
was invited to make
a
presentation
at the Secretary's
National Technology Conference
in
Washington, D.C., inJuly
1999.
Visit his home page at http://
web.mountain.net/~jmcg.
I
Bro.
Richard Sharpe, FMS
has been
appointed principal at Our Lady
of Lourdes
High School in
Poughkeepsie.
He was previously
president of Marist High School
in Chicago.
1
9 7
1
Anthony
Dallojacono
retired on
Jan. 1, 2000.
I
Rev.
Neil
Draves-
Arpaia
had a second collection of
intercessory prayers,
Come Light
Our Hearts,
published in July 1999
by
Ave Maria Press in Notre Dame,
Ind.
I
Philip G.
Heasley
has been
named president and COO of U.S.
Bancorp in Minneapolis, Minn.
I
F.
Stephen
Moore, C.P.C.U.,
C.l.C.
has been promoted to se-
nior
profit center consultant for
the Harleysville
Insurance
Com-
panies
in Harleysville, Pa..
I
Patricia F. Rittenhouse
retired
from teaching at Spackenkill High
School in Poughkeepsie
and
worked for the U.S. Park Service
in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Now she's
back in a classroom at St. Joseph's
School in Auburn, N.Y.
I
Tho-
mas E. Wilson
is the president of
International
Specialties, Inc. in
Germantown, Tenn. He teaches
producers how to conduct busi-
ness internationally, including
how
to
make a product to an
international
standard, how
to
ship it and how to market it.
1 9 7 2
Roseann
Brust
is the senior
busi-
ness
development manager for
Homecoming/Reunion
Weekend 2000 October
13-15
It's a Whole New Millennium!
We've got entertainment-
two
live
bands at
the
Family Picnic!
We've got sports-
a dozen athletic events including
Marist Football vs.Iona!
We've
got
culture--
A
rt
Gallery exhibit and a
comedy
by Oscar Wilde!
Plus another new building
to
showcase--
The dedication of Fontaine
Hall!
For information, call the Alumni
Affairs Office at
(845)
575-3283
or visit
www.marist.edu/alumni.
Staff Leasing Group. She
lives
with
her two children in Roswell, Ga.
I
Dr.
Vincent
j.
Coda
became
president
of
the
Mid-West Podia-
try Conference
in
March 2000.
I
Paul]. Curtin
Jr.
is a partner in
the
law
firm Shulman, Curtin,
Grudner, Reagan and Shyder in
Syracuse, N.Y. He specializes in
commercial
real estate.
I
Richard
Davis
has two children. His son,
Ryan, graduated from Loyola Col-
lege and his daughter,
Kristen,
is
a member of the Class of 2003 at
Marist.
I
Frank Gerbes
is
the
associate
broker
for Re Max Realty
Group in New Windsor, N.Y.
I
Gregory
Murin
is the coordina-
tor
of gifted education in the
Brewster
(N.Y.)
Central School
district. He is also an adjunct pro-
fessor at
the
College of New Roch-
elle, teaching graduate courses in
thinking
skills and gifted educa-
tion.
He also teaches summer
graduate courses at the Univer-
sity of Connecticut-Storrs.
I
Michael
A.
Smith
is a business
development engineer with the
Hudson Valley Technology De-
velopment Center in Fishkill, N
.Y.
I
Barbara
Devaney
Weiss
has
been
named group marketing
di-
rector at Hachette Filipacchi
Magazines. She oversees
the
mar-
keting of
Elle Decor,
Home Maga-
zine
and
Metropolitan
Home Maga-
zine.
1
9 7 3
James
Corcoran
is
president of
the Corcoran Group, a business
consulting firm specializing in
performance
measurements.
I
Bro.
Hank Hammer, FMS
is the
director of Marist evangelization
for Marist schools
in
the United
States.
I
Annie and
Marty
McGowan's
son, Matthew,
be-
came an American citizen on Feb.
Chris Mccann '83 Named to
Marist Board of Trustees
Christopher McCann
'83 has been appointed
LO
the
Marist College Board of Trustees.
Chris is senior vice president
of 1-800-
Flowers.com. He was one of the founders of the e-
commerce company(www.l800fiowers.com)
which
specializes in flowers, gourmet foods, candy and gift
baskets. Chris oversees operations of the company's
interactive services division and five telecenters.
ln
April
the
company
launched
1-800-
LASFLORES.COM, the first floral and gift Web site
presented entirely in Spanish. The company, head-
quartered in Westbury, N.Y., also fulfills orders re-
ceived by phone or via its company-operated or
franchised stores.
Chris majored in political science at Marist and
has been an active volunteer with the Alumni Associa-
tion. He and his wife, Kathy, also a 1983 graduate,
have three children and live in Bayville, N.Y.
1-800-flowers'fcom~
Christopher McCann
'83
11, 2000, al a special children's
ceremony
in
New York City.
1
9 7 4
Dennis D.
Claire
Jr.
earned a
doctorate
in English from St.
John's University. The title of his
dissertation
was "Return to Real-
ism: Particularity and Epiphany
in
the Irish
Short Story, 1903-
1960."
I
Thomas
Connors
and
his wife,
Karen
Conlon,
have
three sons and live
in Holmdel,
NJ Tom is senior vice
president
and consumer banking director
for First Union Bank.
I
Denise
DelaMonlaigne
owns a natural
foods store in Front Royal, Va.
She has also completed a two-
and-a-half-year program
to
be-
come a certified nutritionist.
I
John
R.
Markle
lives
in
the blue-
grass of Kentucky and is employed
by
Lexmark
International, which
develops, manufactures and sup-
plies printing products.
He
and
his wife, Sally, have an 11-year-
old daughter who would like to
go to Marist.
I
Dr.
Anna
Mclellan
conducted a series of seminars on
Jacques
Lacan, the noted French
psychoanalyst, in
Rhinecliff,
N.Y.,
earlier this year. She
maintains
a
clinical practice in Rhinebeck and
New York City.
I
Dominic Mucci
is
superintendent of schools for
the Springs Union Free School
District of East Hampton, N.Y.
Previously he was
the
pirincipal of
the Forest Park School
in
the
South Colonie Central School
District in Albany, N Y
In
his
last
year at Forest Park,
the
school
was recognized as a New York
State School of Excellenice, one of
only seven so named, and as a
Blue Ribbon National School of
Excellence, one of 266
;across
the
country.
I
Marge
White
Pellagrino
is
a member of the
Arizona Commission o:n the Arts
Artist Roster 2000-2002.
I
Rich-
ard
C.
Van Auken
w;as named
senior vice president of corporate
banking for the Albany district of
KeyBank NA.
]rtiW\\•UE:~
1
9 7 5
Michael
Hart, LS.
has been pro-
moted to partner at the firm of
Clough, Harbour and Associates,
L.L.P. He is the survey and geo-
graphic information systems ser-
vice group manager.
I
Thomas
Herman
is a major in the U.S.
Army, assigned to the White
House Military Office a.s a presi-
dential communicationi; officer.
I
Brian McCulloch, M.Di.
is medi-
cal director of maternal-fetal
medicine for Central du Page
Hospital
in Winfield,
111.
I
Maureen O'Toole
Reimers
is a
bookkeeper/office
assistant at
Starlight Cove Elementary School
in
Lantana, Fla.
I
Steven
D.
Ryan
has been named publisher of
Modem Reprographics
magazine,
considered the country's most
important
magazine
for large-for-
mat imaging.
1 9 7 6
Linda Dickerson-Hartsock
is
executive director of the Cortland
County Business Development
Corporation.
I
Scott
McDonald
is
mechanical engineer for A WS
Scientific, a renewable energy-
consulting firm,
in
Albany, N.Y.
I
Joseph
Neumann has completed
the five-course requirement for
certified
insurance
counselor sta-
tus.
He
is vice president and part-
ner with the Donald B. Detrick
Agency in Dover Plains, N.Y.
1 9 7 7
After a year and a half in north-
west New Jersey,
Brian]. Bennett
has moved his family
back to
the
suburbs of Philadelphia
and
started a new job with PCl Con-
tract Services.
1 9
7 8
Dick
Fleischmann
is manager of
Fidelity's
Palm Beach, Fla.,
branch, which was awarded
"Top
Branch of the Year" at the
company's national 1999 sales
meeting.
I
Edward Linde
is a
senior direct marketing manager
responsible for a global relation-
ship marketing program for
top
IBM customers worldwide.
I
Michael Marchesano
has been
appointed president and CEO of
Bill Communications, a subsid-
iary of VNU-USA.
I
Duane
A.
Smith
is a broker/investment
counselor at David Lerner Asso-
ciates in White Plains, NY.
1
9 7 9
Eugene
Bryan
owns Hispanic
Media Sales, Inc., a marketing
and sales consultancy group.
He
also publishes www. HispanicAd.
com, a tool for Hispanic advertis-
ing and media professionals.
I
Dr. Maria
Diaz Deeken
is presi-
dent of Federation of Straight
Chiropractors and Organizations
and a member of the South Caro-
lina Chiropractic Board of Exam-
iners. Maria was the president of
the S.C. Federation of Straight
Chiropractic and was recognized
as Chiropractor of the Year at
Sherman College of Straight Chi-
ropractic in 1998.
I
Fay Elliott
Moore
works at Cascade Tech-
nologies, Inc.
I
Angel
Millan
was
promoted to associate professor
at Essex County College
in
New-
ark, N.j.
I
Kathleen
Norton
Mc ulty
has been named public
editor of the
Poughkeepsie
journal.
]lnmn•n•
--
1 9 8 0
Gerard
P. Cavaluzzi
has been
appointed general counsel of
Malcolm Pirnie
Inc.,
a national
firm of independent environmen-
tal
consultants
headquartered
in
While Plains, N.Y. He
is
an ad-
junct
professor
of paralegal stud-
ies at Marist.
I
Joanne
Hempe
completed a master's in organiza-
tional management and human
resource
development
at
Manhattanville College in May
2000.Joanne isa human resource
partner in IBM's personal systems
group in Somers, N.Y.
I
Thomas
Masterson III
started and is the
director of Coyote Hill Mountain
Bike Camp in West Fairlee, Vt.,
now
in its fifth year.
I
Dave
Pow-
ers
was named Section l Confer-
ence A Girls Soccer Coach of the
Year at Ramapo High
School
in
S U
M M
E
R
2 0 0 0
15
f
ALUMNI
NOTES
Frie,1ds
of
late Marist
crew
member Terry
Machen
raised money for a
crew
shell
named in
Terry's
honor
and
dedicated it
April
15
on
the
Marist
waterfront.
Tliose
gathered
at the dedication included
(left to
right) Director of Athletics
Tim
Murray; Terry'.s
sister, Molly Torra;
Head
Men's Crew Coach Scott
Sanford;
Terry's
sister, Sharon
Du Long; Terry's farmer
Marist
teammate Bill
Zabichi
'66;
Terry's
daugh-
ter, Beth;
Nick
Gisonde; Terry's widow,
Kathleen
McCartl1y; Terry's son, Michael; Terry's farmer team-
mate
Larry
Plover
'65;
and Harold
Dulong.
Scott
McDonald
'76
to
Gwendolyn Friesen, April 1998
I
Salim
Talib
'77
to
Tara Fugate,
Nov. 9, 1999
I
Peter
Van
Aken
'77
to Linda Mae Roper, Sept. 26,
19991
Fay
Gillis
'79 to
Lawrence
Moore.June 19,
19991
Barbara
Burke
'81
to
David Behanna, May
2,
1999
I
Evelyn Greco
'82
to
John Ashworth,
July 10,
1999
I
Theresa Ferrante
'83 to
Michael
Mendello, Oct.
10,
19991
Kevin
Oboyski
'84
to
Lori MacNary,
July
10,
1999
I
JeanMarie
Magrino
'85
to
Nelson Arnold.
March
12.
19991
Robert Carboni
'87 to Melissa Muller, Nov. 13,
1999
IJohn
W. DorozynskiJr.
'87
to
Tammy
Turner, Dec. 4,
19991
Paige
Jones
'87 to Michael
Tedford,
Sept. 26, 1999
I
Diane
Martin
'87
to
Chris
Mechler.June
13, l 999
I
Kimberly Graziano
'88
to
James
McClelland, Oct. 10,
19981
Sean Noble
'88
to
Marleni
Calderon, Nov.
13,
19991
Linda
A.
Reip
'88 to Kevin Lipton.July
11,
1999
I
Curt Schryver
'88
to
Monica Dissinger.June 26, 1999
16
MAR IS T MAG AZ IN E
MARRIAGES
I
Kenneth Foye
'89
to
Hitomi
Murayama, March 28, 1998
I
Heidi
Marie Frank '89
to
Tho-
mas Bauer
'91,)une 27,
1999
I
Warren Hance
'89 to Jacquelyn
Spagnuolo, April 9,
19991
Craig
Lynch
'89
to
Cheryl Seals, Oct. 9,
19991
Veronica Santarsiero
'89
to
Dr. Richard
C.
Bauer, Oct. 2,
1999
I
Jeffrey
Ferony
'90 to
Christine Carlson, Aug. 28, 1999
I
Toni Hamilton
'90 to F. Keith
Duncan. Oct. 30,
19991
Melissa
Nassar
'90
to Dr. Robert Tomkins,
Sept.
18,
1999
I
Jacquelyn
D.
O'Brien
'90 to
Robert Whitcomb,
Oct. 5, 1996
I
John Scagliotti
'90
to
Kathleen Williams, Sept.
19,
19981
Patricia Smith
'90
to
Robert Hannemann.July 30,
1999
I
Michele Ward
'90
to
Victor
Triolo, Oct. 16, 1999
I
James
Dreselly
'91
to
Tineo Borek, Oct.
2,
1999
IJames
Gallucci
'91
to
Gloria
Carlson, Aug. 6, 1999
I
Terence
Hosmer
'91 to Amanda
L
Fossett, Oct.
10,
1998
I
Michael Lutolf
'91 to Nicole
Armani,
Dec.
5, 1998
I
Daniel
McGonigle
'91 to Christine
Maher, Sept. 10, 1999
I
Robert
Mitchell Naylor
'91 to
Liz
Layton,
June 12,
19991
Rob
Colbert
'92
to Michelle Potocki, Aug. 7, 1999
IE.Jeffrey
Dolfinger
'92 to Laura
Gamache, Aug. 15,
19981
Laura
Draudt
'92 to Anthony
N.
Giaccio, May 30, 1998
I
John
Enright
'92 to Sally
Thrasher,
Oct. 23.
1999
I
Lorianna
Kerstanski
'92
LO
Jeff
Nizolek,
Oct. 9,
19991
LeeAnn Levi
'92
to
Kevin
C.
Miller, November
19981
Grace
Chao-Yi
Liu
'92
to
Honorato
A. Villareal
Jr.,
Nov. 6,
19991
Amy Millard
'92 to Rich-
ard DiMaio, May 29, 1999
I
Ri-
chard
ass
'92
to Amy
lncremona,
Nov. 26, 1999
I
Hi-
lary Simon
'92
to Jason Britton,
Sept.
26,
19991
Inderjeet
Singh
Ramapo,
N.j. Dave led
the
Im-
maculate
Heart
High
School girls'
basketball team
to the
N.].
Paro-
chial A state finals.
1 9 8 1
Rick
Anguilla
is the vice presi-
dent of
investor
relations for Nike,
Inc. Rick
joined
Nike in 1994 as
director of investor relations after
serving as vice
president
of inves-
tor relations at
Tyco
Toys.
I
Ci-
cely Perrotte
is still enjoying
re-
tirement,
painting and 11 lively
grandchildren.
I
Randy Pius
is
the president of a new company
called
Richartz,
USA.
I
Tim
Scherr
is a supervisor at H&R
Block and will
be
in Carlisle.
Pa.,
for another year or two.
I
Dr.
Brian Whalen
is
the associate
dean
for
international
education
at
Dickinson
College.
1
9 8 2
Parley Acker
was appointed
human
resources director
for
Citigroup's Citi f/i
business,
a new
Web-based
bank.
I
Vincent
Ambroselli
is first vice
president
for the private client group at
Merrill Lynch.
lJohn
Blackmore
was
promoted
to vice
president
of
'92
to
Yukti Ahuja.Jan.
1,
2000
I
Steven Soldo
'92
to
Allyson
Carine, Oct.
2,
1999
I
Jason
Valentino
'92 to Kristina Steiner,
April 24, 1999
I
Beverly Anesi
'93 to
Victor M.
Rodriguez
Jr.,
July
18,
1999
I
Richard Daniel
Crater
'93
to
Claudia Nadine
Schmidt, Oct.4.1998
I
Jeanne
Durso
'93 to
John Bosco, Oct.
2,
1998
I
Steven Pardon
'93
to
Nicole DiNardo, July 3, 1999
I
Deanna Sapala
'93
LO
Peter
Reisert,
Aug. 7, 1999
I
Jennifer
Sulger
'93 to Frank Capodacqua
Jr., Dec. 10, 1999
I
Deidre
Sullivan
'93 to
Michael
Beirne
'93, Nov.
27,
1999
I
Michelle
Buebendorf
'94
to
Christopher
McCormack, Sept. 11,
1999
I
Daryl
Costello
'94
LO
Breanna
Casey, October 1998
I
Tara
Ferina
'95 to
Michael
C.
Mostransky
'94, Dec.
31,
19991
Laura
Mclaughlin
'94
to Gre-
gory Dienna,
Dec.
19, 1998
I
Maureen
Maher
'94 to
Stephen
Maher
'94,
Aug. 14, 1999
IJen-
nifer
May
'94
LO
Anthony
)
the Allied Group of Companies.
I
Michael
Doherty
is
a
vice
presi-
dent
in
the futures
sales division
at
Bear
Stearns
&
Co.
in
New
York
City.
I
Stephen
Hopson
has
published
a story
titled
"Dare Take
Risksl" in
the
best-selling book
Chicken Soup for the College
Soul.
He
is
working
on his first
book,
Goodbye,
Wall
Street!,
about
his
experience giving up a lucrative
Wall
Street career
to
find
mean-
ing
and direction through spiri-
tuality.
He
has
been
added
to
the
roster
of
the
speakers'
bureau
Speakers.com.
I
Dennis Martin
is
director of
market
development
within the establishment services
division
of American
Express.
1
9 8 3
Paul
Drejza
is the
president
of
Leatherst0cking
Abstract
&
Title
Corp.
in
Utica, N.Y., and opened
offices
in
adjoining counties of
Herkimer
and
Madison.
I
Maj.
Bernhardt
Smyle Jr.
was pro-
moted
to
the
rank
of major
in
January
1999 and
has
been as-
signed as chief of
training
for
the
Mountain Warfare
School in
Jeri-
cho, Vt.
I
Bonnie
Unser
has been
named director
of children, fam-
Impronto,
Oct. 8,
1999
I
Lee
Markiewicz
'94 to
Danielle
Devine,
Nov.
6, 1999
I
Tammy
A. Miner
'94 to
J.
David
Leary,
Jan. 14,
1999
I
Brian Michael
Mitchell
'94
to Christine
Ann
Wojtasik,
Dec. 5,
19981Jennifer
O'Neill
'94 to GregoryCook,Aug.
22,
19991
Eileen O'Reilly
'94
to
Sean
McGinnis, April
1
7,
1999
I
Salena Marie
Reilly
'94 to
Charles
Walter Gray, Oct. 10,
1998
I
Thomas Schleif
'94
to
Shannon
Herron,
Oct. 30,
19991
Kelly
J.
Valentine '94 to
Mark
D.
Kentos,
Oct.
4, 1998
I
Andrew
Young
'94
to
Talin
Hovsepian,
July 24,
19991
Monica
Connors
'95
to David McGlinchey, Sept.
18, 1999
IJennifer
Donza
'95
to
Michael Giammusso,
Oct. 23,
1999
I
Amy Ellenes
'95
to
Dominick E. Fontana
'93, Oct.
23,
1999
I
Laurie Ferraro
'95 to
Kris Engstrand,
October
19991
Lynette Marie Galante
'95
to
Alex
Kendall Ross.July
3,
19991
Alexandra
Gonzalez
'95 to
Bryan
Oles
'94,July
11,
19991
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1 9 8 4
James
Cleary
has been
named
a
member
of
the
Select Enforce-
ment
Team of the
Durham,
N.C.,
Police Department.
I
Timothy
Keough
is director of training
and
development
at Assessments
Solutions,
Inc.,
a global human
resources consulting c:ompany
based in
Manhattan.
I
John
Scheinman
is now men's basket-
ball
coach and head men's tennis
coach for Plymouth State Col-
lege.
I
Mark
A.
Stuart
received
a
Juris Doctor
degree
from West-
ern New England Colleg;e School
of Law in 1998. He is assistant
counsel for
the
New York State
Racing and Wagering
Board.
I
Patricia Walsh
is the di
rector of
international development
for
Dow
Jones
&
Company in New
York City. From 1992 to 1996
Heather Griffen
'95
to
Jason
Cosenza,
Sept.
18, 1999
I
Amanda Howard
'95
tO
Paul
Fanuele, Aug. 6,
19991
:Suzanne
Jacobs
'95 to
Marc Gasperino
'95,
April
2
4,
19991
Erika Leone
'95 to
Francis
D.
McKee, Sept. 5,
1998
I
Claudine Lewa.n
'95
to
Anthony Tabacco
'93,,
July
3,
1999
I
Danielle Molirno
'95
to
Keith
Heady, Sept.
25,
1999
I
Sandy V. Palladino
•95;
to Tho-
mas
S. Nafey,
April 10,
1999
I
Sarah Poviiaitis
'95 to
Denis
Farrell
'95,July
16,
1999
IJamie
Reyman
'95
to Matthew Krueger
'94,
Aug.
21,
1999
I
Christine
Steiner '95
to
James
J.
Pastore
'95,
Sept. 11,
1999
I
Colleen
Talbot
'95
to Scott Jacques
'95,
July 24,
1999
I Brooke
Walker
'95 to Ted Leiner, Dec. 6,
19981
Jennifer
Doorly
'96
to Kevin
Smith
'95,June 17,
19991
Tara
Ferina
'96
to
Michael
Mostransky
'95, Dec. 31,
19991
Michael Flynn
'96 to
Joann
Meyer, May 30,
19991
Christine
Guerci
'96
to Zoran Milojevic
she worked overseas at the
Inter-
national
Herald
Tribune
in
Paris
and at the
Wall Street Journal
in
Brussels.
liBm\NsK
~
1
9 8 5
Jeffrey Basch
is expanding his
financial services business
tO
in-
clude tax form preparation and
seminars on retirement plan dis-
tributions.
I
Phil
and
Deb
(Dutil)
Boyle
were selected to be the
Executive Couple for
the
World-
wide Marriage Encounter for Con-
necticut.
Phil and Deb have been
involved
in presenting Marriage
Encounter Weekends for the past
five years.
I
Joseph
E.
Celentano
was promoted to vice president
for
product
management
in the
institutional
products division at
Pacific Life Insurance Company
in
Newport Beach, Calif.
I
Karen
Downs,
a family service therapist
at Jacksonville (Fla.) Marine
In-
stitute,
has
earned state\vide hon-
ors in Florida for her operation of
two treatment programs for ado-
lescent
sex-offenders.
The
"deemed
status" ranking given
to
the
programs
is
earned
by
fewer
'96, Aug. 7,
19991
Amy Hall
'96
to
Ryan
Patrick,
Sept.
25,
19991
Lisa
Anne Kempf
'96 to Carl
Webbe,
Jan. 28,
2000
I
Beth
Kershaw
'96
to
Raymond
Mahoskey
'94, June 19,
1999
I
Lorianna
Kerstanski
'96 to
Jeff
Nizolek, Oct. 9,
19991
Rebecca
Kuchar
'96 to
Bryan
Runyon
'96,
Oct.
11,
19981
Aretha Le,vin
'96 to
Amin Antione, April
3,
1999
IJessica
Moran
'96
to Rob-
ert
Prezorski,
Aug. 14,
1999
I
John
Moran
'96 to Lisa
Mclagan,
November
1998
I
Cylinda
Rickert
'96 to Matthew
Areno,
June
4,
1999
I
Lynne Seehase
'96
to
Kevin
Woods, Aug.
28,
1999
I
Geoffrey Ayres
'97
to
Kari Mortensen,
Oct.
3,
1998
I
Carolyn C. Bowen
'97
to
James
E. Triba, Oct. 9,
1998
I
Jessica
Lynn
Cramer
'97
to
Daryl
Rich-
ard
'97,June 18, 1999
I
Marga-
ret
Engler
'97 to
Mark Litteken
'98, Aug. 8,
1998
I
Mary Kay
Fiore
'97 to Robert
E.
Canino,
Aug.
20,
1999
I Bernadette
Goebel
'97 to
Robert Maniaci
Joseph
Celentano
'85
than 3 percent of treatment pro-
grams
in
the state. Karen
is
the
first clinical director
LO
have
mul-
tiple programs on deemed status
at the same time. Her employer,
Children's Comprehensive Ser-
vices, promoted
Karen to
CEO of
Alabama Clinical Schools in Bir-
mingham in November 1999.
I
Janice Ek
is working part-time
as a travel counselor for the Jones
Travel Agency
in
Hyde Park, N.Y.
I
Shawn
Mulligan
is
the
regional
manager for
13
offices of Robert
Half,
International
in
New York,
New
Jersey
and Pennsylvania.
I
Edward
C.
Muschio
is control-
'96, Oct. 17,
19981
Leah Hayer
'97
to
Thomas Squires,
July
31,
1999
I
Willow
Lanpher
'97
to
Thomas
Dannible
'98,
Sept.
18,
1999
I
Mary McQuillan
'97
to
Dan
Mangan, Aug.
7, 1999
I
Judith
Reid
'97
to
Jason
LaVoie
'96, Oct.
23,
1999
I
Joy
Schoolcraft
'97
to Jason
Manstream,
Aug.
7,
1999
I
Lisa
G. Stephens
'97
to George
Michael Prisco,
Oct. 31, 1998
I
Jennifer Walsh
'97 to
Michael
Muller
'97, May
1,
19991
Chris-
tina Marie Briscese
'98 to John
Albert
Wynn,
July
17, 1999
I
Robert Fuller
'98
to
Erika
McVey, Aug.
14, 1999
I
Adrienne
Janetti
'98
to
Brian
Murphy,
June
5, 1999
I
Linda
Reip
'98
to
Kevin
Lipwn, July
11,
1999
I
Stephanie Rizzuti
'98
to
Scott Dunn, Aug. 7, 1999
I
Kathryn Robinson
'98 to
Andres Gonzalez, Aug. 8,
19991
Christine Rosenvinge
'98 to
Joshua
Dellett
'97, Oct. 3, 1999
I I
Jodi Dooley
'99 to John
Grady.July 10, 1999
■
SUMMER
2000
17
ler in the accounting department
at Montenay Dutchess
L.L.C.
in
Poughkeepsie.
I
Paul
Nienstadt
has
been
promoted
to
manager in
global market intelligence for IBM
in Poughkeepsie.
I
Richard
A.
Patterson
was promoted
to
vice
president
of
service
delivery
within
1
BM
Global
Services.
I
Lisa
Pilewski
has
two children. Her
Barbara and
Robert
J.
Van-
Aernem
'64, a grandson, Patrick,
May
16,
1999
I
Christine and
Patrick Collum
'67, a grand-
daughter,
Taylor
Cassidy
Glassman, May 2 7. 1999
I
Elsie
and
Edward F.
Hanrahan
111
'68,
a grandson,
Connor
Shane
Hanrahan.July 24,
19991
Chris-
tine and
James
Zoeller
'68, a
grandson, William David Zoeller
Jr., Dec. 5,
1998
I
Teresa and
Paul
T. Reichhart
'69, a grand-
daughter,
Haley Nicole Newton
I
Julie and
Richard Hahn
'71, a
grandson.Joseph Thomas Huntz,
Oct. 28,
1998,
and a granddaugh-
ter,
Grace Moriah Huntz, Dec.
18,
19991
Suzanne and
Kenneth
Ousey
'7
4,
a son, Wyatt William,
March
1, 1999
I
Ann Marie and
David Metz
'80, a son, Conor
Joseph.Jan. 28, 2000
I
Christine
and
Ken
Sullivan
'80, twins, a
daughter, Lauren Elizabeth, and
a son, Kevin Michael, Oct. 2, 1999
I
Lina
Cirigliano
'81 and
Keith
Hollman
'79, a daughter.Jessica,
Aug. 12,
19991
Patricia Gorman
'81 and
Bryan Tarsa
'74,adaugh-
ter, Grace Elizabeth, Oct. 5, 1999
I
Maria and
Timothy
E.
McTiernan
'81, a son, Liam
Charles, April 3,
19991
Nora and
Thomas
J.
Murray
'81, a son,
Terrence, Nov. 3, 1999
I
Cindy
and
Randy Pius
'81, a
son,
Max-
well Benson, May
17,
1999
I
Colleen and
Lt.
Col.
Fergal Foley
'82/94
M,
a son,
Rory
Thomas,
July
30,
19991
Susan Gehan
'82
and Joe Brizek, a daughter, Grace
Erin, Oct. 27, 1999
I
Virginia
"Ginny"
Luciano
'82 and Michael
Brophey, a son, Benjamin Michael,
April 5, 1998
I
Elise
Anguilla
'83 and
Phil
Orlando, a daughter,
Jennifer
Hope,
Feb.
14,
1999
I
Suzie and
Christopher
Blood
'83,
a son, Charles Christopher, Jan.
24,
2000
I
Jacquelyn Butler
'83
and Greg
Horkachuck,
a daugh-
ter.Alexa Barbara, March
12,
1999
18
M A R
I
ST
MA
G A Z
I
N E
1f.
ALUMNI
daughter, Kelsey, has;
started
kin-
dergarten and her
:,on,
Daniel,
has
started
preschoo
I.
1 9 8
16
Thomas
M.
Begg
swam
across
Long Island
Sound (four
miles)
for cancer research with
"$\vim
Across
America."
I
Dara Bo land's
book
How to Eat Lihe a Tree,
a
BIRTHS
I
Colleen Cryan
'83 and Gary
Giametta
'83,
a daughter, Ceara
Lyn,
March 17, 1999
I
Joan
Gasparovic
'83 and
George
Gambeski
'77,
twirns,
a daugh-
ter, Catherine Marie, and a
son,
Mark
Francis,
April 19, 2000
I
Lynn
Haight
'83 and Michael
Mindel, a son, Max
L,
Aug. 30,
19991
Patricia
Mitchell
'83 and
Kenneth Breen, a daughter,
Lori
Grace, Sept. 8,
1999
I
Loren and
David
Skrodanes
'83, a
son,
Owen Daniel, Aug;. 3, 1999,
adopted Dec. 10, 1'999
I
Beth
Chiavello
'84 and
Thomas
Maroney
'84, a daughter, Kaitlin,
June
19981
Maria Donadio
'84
and Gavin Bolton, a son, Jack,
April 1999
I
Grace a1nd
Richard
Laforce
'84, a daughtter,
Hannah
Jane, Aug. 4,
1999
I
Maureen
Mirra
'84 and Mich:ael
Kakos,
a
son, Michael]. IV,Ja1n. 22, 1999
I
Jane
Scarchilli
'8,4 and
Paul
Nienstadt
'85, a son, Bryan Wil-
liam, Oct. 3, 1999
I
Mary Ellen
Simmons
'84 and Stephen
Looke,
a son, Stephen Andrew Simmons,
Oct. 23,
19991
ancy
Sproviero
'84 and Frank
Salemo,
a son,
Frank Philip, Oct. 27, 1998
I
Christine and
Jeffrey
$.
Welch,
D.O.
'84, a daughter, Allison
Christine, May 28,
1998,
and a
son.John Scott, April 26,
19991
Bonnie Hede
'85 and
Larry
Striegel '79,
a daughter, Hayley
Elizabeth, May 20,
19991
Nancy
Hofgren
'85 and Gregory Agnello,
a daughter, Jenna Rose, March
19, 1999
I
Lori Slh.aughnessy
NOTES
holistic
health book, has been
published by
Celestial Arts.I
Ken-
neth R.
Briggs III
continues to
play
with
his band
"Shameless ...
Party
of Four" on the Albany,
N.Y., circuit with
his wife, Maria.
I
Anthony M.
DeBarros
was
named
database edit0r
in the Life
section
at
USA Today
in Arling-
ton,
Va.
I
Angela Iannotti
'85 and
Peter
Nargi
'85, a daugh-
ter, Margaret Rose.July 29,
1999
I
Erin and
Peter
Asselin
'86,
a
son.Joshua Barry.June 12, 1998
I
Patricia
Brady
'86 and
Andrew
Hall
'86, a son, Ryan Andrew,
April 2,
1999
I
Maria and
Ken-
neth R.
Briggs
III
'86, a daugh-
ter, Amy Elizabeth.Jan.
31,
1999
I
Patricia
Carpino
'86 and
Charles Marchesani, twins, a
daughter, Sara Taylor, and a
son,
Benjamin Patrick, April 18, 2000
I
Carol
Ann Caruso
and An-
thony Madonna, a daughter,
Lauren Alyssa, Jan. 21, 2000
I
Theresa
Clark
'86, and Martin
Switzer, a daughter, Carolanne,
May 7,
19991
Una
M.
Geoghegan
'86 and
Anthony
j.
Giachinta
'86, a daughter,
Rachel,
July 3,
19991
Robin Little
'86 and Kurt
Solsky, a son, Kurt
Riley,
May 18,
1999
I
Molly and
John L.
Lupi
'86, a son, Michael, March 22,
2000
I
Lisa
Oremus
'86 and
Michael Barker, a daughter, Kelsey
Leigh.June
14,
19991
Elizabeth
Rivernider
'86 and
Craig
Wilensky
'86, a daughter,
Isabel
Marie,
July
9,
1999
I
Maureen
Ryan
'86 and Kurt Walten, a son,
Timothy
Ryan,
May 16, 1998
I
Jill
Shinners
'86 and Mark
Camossi, a daughter, Addison
Jeannie,
April 19, 1999
I
Irene
Albinus
'87 and
Robert
Kress, a
son, Matthew Adam, April 17,
19991
Kim Arrieta
'87 and Rich-
ard Draxdorf,
a daughter,
Stephanie, Dec. 8,
19981
Kristin
M.
Blair
'87 and
Bryan
K. Brad-
ley
'88, a daughter, Kathryn Ann,
July 1, 1998
I
Connie
Brisson
'87 and Peter B. Sorman, a daugh-
ter,
Alexa Danielle, May 14, 1999
I
Cheryl and
Christopher
Chludzinski
'87, a daughter,
Emily Christine, Oct. 14,
19991
Sandra and
Kevin Colie
'87, a
daughter, Alexandra, March
19,
19981
Patricia
M.
Cross '87
and
Gerald Fiore, a son, Ian Gabriel,
I
N
MEMORIAM
Alumni
D.
William
Supple
'62
Dr. Paul
A. "Tony" Andrulonis
'68
William E.
Karges
'72
Judith Anne Mulvey
'72
Richard
K.
"Rich"
Checchia
'73
Robert M. Freer
'74
John Anthony Nevin '74
Gerald
0.
McCabe '77
Mary P.
McMahon
'81M
Jeffrey Paul
Weaver
'94
Faculty
Sigrid
Brandis
July 10, 1997, and a daughter,
Eileen
Sandi,
Dec. 21, 1998
I
Gina
DiSanza
'87 and Sergio
Carro, a
son,
Tyler Gabriel, May
5,
1999
I
Elizabeth Geary
'87
and Gerard Nolan, a daughter,
Kelly Elizabeth, April 16, 1999
I
Jennifer
Gray
'87 and Dan
Dubuque, twins, a daughter,
Megan, and a son, Connor,
June
30,
19991
Eileen and
Thomas
P.
Hanrahan
'87, a daughter, Colette
Murray, April 28, 2000
I
Julie
and
Timothy
Nelson
'87, a
daughter, Rachel Anne, Oct. 25,
19991
Andrea Orzechowski
'87
and Tommy Harris, a daughter,
Isabella
Hadiya, Aug. 17.
1998
I
Eileen Reese
'87 and Dennis
Gannon, a daughter, Patricia
Eileen,
Nov.
18,
1999
I
Vict0ria
and
John
G.
Roche
'87, a daugh-
ter.Jillian
Elyse.June 17,
19981
Suzanne
Ryan
'87 and
Thomas
McCauley
'87, a son, Kenneth
Robert,
Dec. 2, 1999
I
Linda P.
Smith
'87 and Scott Jager, a
daughter, Abigail Kathryn, April
20, 1999
I
Ann
Marie Breslin
'88 and
Daniel Barron
'88, a
daughter, Amy Lorraine,Jan.
15,
2000
I
Laurie
Czerw
'88 and
Brian Roughan, a son.Aidan, Sept.
25, 1998
I
Pamela and
Robert
DelGrande
'88, a son, Robert,
April 8, 1999
I
Tara Doherty
'88, and Thomas Ahern, a son,
Tighe Thomas, Sept. 14, l 999
I
Paula and
Robert Doty
'88, a
son, Eric Johnathon, Oct. 31,
1999
I
Michelle and
Eric
Haas
'88, a son, Thomas William, May
25,
19991
Laurie
Hauck
'88 and
David Hadad, a son, Matthew
David. Oct. 14. 1999
I
Beth and
Jeffrey Nicosia
'88, a son, Jake,
Oct. 26,
19991
Alison
Ring
'88
and Thomas Steigerwald, a son,
BryanRing,May29, 19991Nancy
Sproviero
'88 and Frank Salerno,
a son, Frank Philip, Oct. 27,
1998
I
Kathleen Szarek
'88 and James
Dawson, a daughter,
Laura
Demmer
has been promoted to
assistant
director
of information
services at the Long
Island
State
Veterans Home. She
is
respon-
sible for all computer, telecom-
munication and networking op-
erations at the long-term facility
located on the SUNY-Stony Brook
campus.
I
James
B. Ferguson
Jr.
served the Bronx District
Kathleen,
Sept. 2,
1999
I
Dr.
Mary and
Dr. Brian Wicenski
'88, a son, Evan, December 1998
I
Melissa
Carrigan
'89 and Lee
Blum, a daughter, Emily
Frances,
Aug.
17,
19991
Aimee andJames
Dick
'89, a son, Kyle Spencer,
July 21,
19991Hitomi
Murayama
and
Kenneth
Foye
'89, a son,
Kenneth, April
10,
2000
I
Karen
Oitzinger
'89
and
Kevin
Donnelly
'89, twin daughters,
Sarah and Kristen, Sept. 20,
1998
I
Lori Dubrowski
'89 and Greg
Warnokowski, a daughter, Katie
Lee,
Aug. 17,
1999
I
Therese
Ferguson
'89 and Dr. Alexander
Zuhoski, a son.Jacob Alexander,
April 15,
19991
Stacy and
Kevin
Garrity'89,ason,
Trevor Charles,
March 21, 2000
I
Cynthia
Lucania
'89 and Christopher
Clinton, a son, Noah
Luke,
May
20,
1998
I
Susanne
Lynn
'89
and Aubrey Wilson, twin daugh-
ters, Sofie Bri and Lyndsey
Elise,
Oct. 18, 1999
I
Kristen and
Vincent
Panettieri
'89, a son,
Jack Vincent,
July
14,
1999
I
Melissa and
Steve
Pierie
'89, a
daughter, Samantha Rae, March
20,
19991
Dawn Roesch
'89 and
John
Himoniois,
a son, Jackson
Roesch,
Aug. 9,
19991
Carey and
Paul
Sanchez
'89, a son,
Justin
Paul.Jan. 1,
19991
Rebecca
and
Matthew
Schoenfeld
'89, a
daughter, Erica Ann, Oct. 17,
19991
Christina Suglia
'89 and
Peter
Cleary
'89, a son, Paul
Christopher, Aug. 1,
19991
Eliza-
beth and
Brian Wenzel
'89, a
daughter,
MacKenzie
Anne, Jan.
26, 2000
I
Laurie Barnett
'90
and Christopher Orr,
twin
sons,
David Christopher and Christian
Ryan, Nov. 8, 1999
I
Christine
Burvenich
'90
and
Sean
Guilfoyle, a
daughter,
Shaelynn
Mary, Aug. 2, 1999
I
Nancy
Camey
'90 and
John Cody
'89, a
daughter, Grace Elizabeth, Aug.
26,
19991
Dawn
Carroll
'90 and
Attorney's
Office
for seven years as
a trial attorney
in
the narcotics
bureau
and on the Major Case
Task
Force. In January 1999 he
was ap-
pointed
administrative law
judge
for the
New
York State
Division of
Parole. He conducts the: final hear-
ings regarding parole
violations for
the state.
I
Steven Giacona
formed
Round
Table
Services,
L.L.C.,
to
Michael
Decosta
'90, a daughter,
Camryn Elizabeth, Nov. 6, 1999
I
Kerry Coulter
'90 and Robert
Mundinger, a son, James Robert,
Sept. 24,
19991Anne
Marie Gibbs
'90 and
Steven
Murray-
'90, a son,
Kevin Patrick, Sept. 28, 1999
I
Keana Hourigan
'90 and
Kenneth
Anna
'90, a son, Brady Patrick,
Oct.
18,
19981
Christi1ne
Lefferts
'90
and
Michael
Lofaro
'89, a son,
Michael Andrew Jr., March 22,
2000
I
Roseanne Llewellyn
'90
and
Vincent Amatulli
'8:9, a daugh-
ter, Nina Rose, Dec. 17, 1999
I
Sharon and
Brian McEvoy
'90, a
son, Timothy James, Sept. 30,
1999
I
Patricia and
Michael Medley
'90,
a son, Luke Anthony, Oc:t.18,
1999
I
Susan and
Edward
C.
Miller
Jr.
'90, a daughter, Jacqudine Anne,
Oct. 24, 1998
I
Loma Milo
'90
and Dean Bosak, a so1n, Zachary
Charles, May 5, 1999
IJacquelyn
D. O'Brien
'90 and Robert
Whitcomb, twin sons, William
Robert and Daniel Joseph, March
27, 1998
I
Jennifer
S,chiffer
'90
and Vincent Freeh, a son, Nicholas
Vincent, Aug. 17,
1999
I
Molly
Ward
'90 and
Kiernan
Fagan
'90
a son, Patrick Brendan, Sept.
16,
1998
IJennifer
and
Stephen
Batta
'91, a son.Jackson Gerard, Nov. 3,
1999
I
Susan
Budney
'91
and
Gordon Tyler, a daughter, Hailey
Irene, Dec.
15, 1999
I
JoAnne
Colucci
'91
and
Brian1 Callahan
'90, a daughter, Courtney Ann,
Nov. 5,
19991
Donna
D'Angelico
'91 and
Mark Le
Vie
'91, a daugh-
ter, Alyssa Anna, July 13, 1999
I
Renee
Foglia
'91 and[ Salvatore
Petrara, a son, Matthe:w Joseph,
April 30, 1999
I
Ruth Halley
'91
and Robert W. Mahoney Jr., a son,
Patrick Robert, May 28, 1999
I
Melissa Hegg
'91 and Matthew
Entzion, a son, Samue.l Stephen,
March 2 7, 1999
I
Monica
Latus
'91 and
Roy
H.
Freer IIll
'91,
a son,
Jordan Daniel, Dec. B,
1999
I
Marisa Manderioli
'91 and Frank
deliver comprehensive
financial
estate
investment
and business
planning services
to affluent
individuals
and families.
I
Jen-
ni
fer
and
Tim
McConville
sponsored the second
annual
Christopher James McConville
Memorial
Golf Outing in
honor
of
their
son, Christopher, who
died
of Sudden
Infant
Death
Arcaroli, a
son,
Nicolas Frank,
March 5, 2000
I
Christine
Marotta
'91 and Barry Parker,
sons, Jarod Thomas, July 23,
1998, and Logan Allen, Oct. 26,
1999
I
Eileen Ann McGinley
'91 and Kevin
James
Hannaford,
a son, Patrick James, May 12,
1999
I
Susan
ick
'91 and
Mark Innaimo
'91, a daughter,
Jenna Rose.Jan. 19, 2000
I
Mary
O'Brien
'91
and
James
Fromhartz, a daughter, Bridgid
Maeve, May 27,
19991
Patricia
Ronan-Harten
'91 and
Frank
Harten
'90, a son, Michael P.,
July 31,
1999
I
Joanna
Trimarche
'91 and Robert
Ostrander, a son, Matthew, Feb.
28, 2000
I
Dawn and
Christo-
pher
Andrews
'92, a daughter,
Hope Elizabeth, Dec. 5, 1999
I
Maura and
John
M. Bauer
'92,
a daughter, Grace Catherine,July
28,
19991
Laura and
E.Jeffrey
Dolfinger
'92, a son, Logan,
Dec. 31, 1998
I
Karen and
Glenn Giatto
'92, a son.James,
October 1999.
I
Jacqueline
Greer
'92 and Joel Tanaka, a
son,AlecJackson,Jan. 4, 2000
I
Penny
Law-Kelsey
'92 and
Ken-
neth
Kelsey, a daughter, Katelyn
Rose.April 12,20001Catherine
and
Ryan
McEntee '92,
a son,
Peter
James
Robert,Aug. 3, 1999
I
Theresa McNamara
'92 and
Gary
Mcilroy,
a son, Patrick,
Sept.
2,
1999
I
Julie Morrison
'92 and Mark Desmond, a son,
Jack,
Dec. 26,
1999
I
Claudia
and
Brendan
O'Connell
'92, a
daughter,
Rowan
Catherine,
Aug. 6, 1999
I
Catherine
Sullivan
'92 and Scott Burchard,
a son, Sam,
Feb.
25, 2000
I
Rebecca Thew
'92
and
Tho-
mas
Cronin
'92, a son, Kevin
Thomas, Oct. 9, 1999
I
Carla
Angelini
'93 and
Christopher
Bautista
'92, a son, CJ, March
23, 1999
I
Patricia
Dube
'93,
and
Clint Wiley
'93, a <laugh-
Syndrome
in
1996. The
event
raised in
excess of $31,000
to
benefit
the
CJ
Foundation for
SIDS.
They wish
to
thank the
Maristalumni who
supported the
event
and
joined
them in the
battle against Sudden
1
nfant
Death
Syndrome.
I
Robert
McDonald
received a promotion
to
manager at
Enterprise Process
ter, Sarah Elizabeth, Dec. 3 l, 1998
I
Jodi Hyland
'93 and Jon
Monahan, a daughter, Megan,
Aug. 7, 1999
I
Michele and
Rob-
ert Johnson
'93, a son, Adam
Christopher,
Feb.
9, 2000
I
Faith
Lefebvre
'93 and Michael Piotte,
a son, Michael Stephen, March
22, 2000
I
Alison
Anne Miller
'93 and
Jason
DelMonico
'93,
twin sons, Matthew and Justin,
Sept. 16, 1999
I
Sabrina Par-
sons
'93 and Mark Oestrich, a
daughter, Michelle Cathryn, Sept.
28, 1998
I
Jennifer
Smith
'93
and
Michael
Defelice
'94, a son,
Michael Robert, March 12,
1999
I
Jodie
Woods '93
and Santo
Pacheco
Jr.,
a daughter, Abigail
Louise, Dec. 29,
19991
Michele
Anderson
'94
and
Sasha
Tulchinsky, twins, a daughLer,
Hannah
Rose, and a son,
Maximilian, May 31, 1999
ITracy
and
Dan
Aunkst
'94, a son, An-
drew Boyd, March 10, 1999
I
Kristine Kickenweilz
'94 and
Christopher
Jones
'92, a daugh-
ter,
Kathryn
Marie, March 28,
1999
I
Kate
O'Hanlon
'94 and
Andrew Clapperton, a daughLer,
Carly Ann, Oct. 9, 1999
IJenni-
fer Ross
'94 and Victor Labruna,
a son, Noah
Ross,
May
4,
2000
I
Julie
A. Shrider
'94 and R. Allen
Roy '92, a daughter, Rachel Alana,
March 19,
19991
Stephanie and
Jeremy Thode
'94, a daughter,
AlexandraJordan,Jan 13, 2000
I
Marybeth
Monks
'95 and Will-
iam
D. Giesler, a daughter, Marisa
Paige,
Ocl. 5, 1999
I
Carol
Paldino
'95 and Chris Guerrette,
a son, Cristian Daniel, Dec. 15,
19991
Robin Ward
'95 and Wade
Rinderknecht, a daughter, Kelsie,
Ocl. 20, 1999
I
Aretha
Lewin
'96 and Amin Antoine, a daugh-
ter, Julie-Ann, Aug. 16,
1999
I
Nicole Columbia
'97 and Shawn
Boothe, a
son,
Owen Michael,
Sept. 12, 1999
■
SUMMER
2000
19
f
ALUMNI
Analysis in Schenectady, N.Y., in
July
1999.
I
Alvin
A. Patrick
is
producer
of HBO's
"Real
Sports
with Bryant Gumbel" and an ad-
junct
professor of communica-
tions at New York Institute of
Technology.
I
Alfred
Piombino
was appointed civil service com-
missioner for the city of
Portland
and elected to
the
board of
trust-
ees of the Maine chapter of the
National MS Society.
I
Julianne
Sodokoffhas
resigned
from man-
agement and gone
back
into sales
at Weichert Realtors' Greenwich,
Conn., office. She
is
among
the
top
1
percent ofWeichert's sales-
people.
I
John
H.
Wicks
is
a
principal consultant with
Price
Waterhouse Coopers, L.L.P. in its
financial services
technology prac-
tice,
specializing
in
capital
mar-
kets.
Jack is
also a
professor
at
Hofstra
University and serves on
the editorial advisory board for
The CPA]ournal.
I
David
Wise
is
a
personal-injury
lawyer
by
day,
blues musician
by night.
The
Jan.
30 edition of
Newsday carried an
article about Dave's passion for
playing
guitar at Sunday
night
blues
jams
at a club called Ches-
terfields in Huntington, N.Y.
1 9 8 7
Michael Carey
is
news
director
of radio station WROW
in
the
Albany, N.Y., area.
He
also over-
NOTES
sees
news
operations on WAJZ in
Albany and WlRZ in Johnstown,
N.Y. Mike is also Albany corre-
spondent for WCBS
in
New York,
N.Y.
I
Dean DiMarzo
is the art
director
at
the
Poughkeepsie
Jour-
nal and won
two first-place
graph-
ics
awards in the 1999 Associated
Press comest.
Jacqueline Bono
DiMarzo
is newsletter editor of
the
Vassar Road School PTA News-
letter.
Dean and Jackie have two
children, Dean and Julia.
I
Ann
Michelle
"Shelly"
Galvin
ended
her
five-year
stint as a free-lance
writer and accepted a
full-time
position as senior copywriter for
MemberWorks, a direct
market-
ing and affinity marketing enter-
prise in Stamford,
Conn.
Shelly
oversees all marketing efforts
in-
cluding
print,
Internet
and
telemarketing.
I
Martin
Handy
launched Information Profession-
als, a consulting company spe-
cializing
in
Oracle and
RDBMS-
related
technologies.
I
John M.
Macom
III
is
still
playing in
the
rock
band
"Binge."
The
band
has
been
the featured
artist on the
"Dawson's
Creek" Web site and
also
has
had songs on
"Party
of
Five."
Their
new
single,
"Annakournikova,"
was
to
be
re-
leased
during
the
French Open
2000.
I
John Roche
has
been
promoted
Lo
editor-in-chief of Co-
Op City Times.
I
Paige Jones
San Francisco, here
we
come! These Northern
California alu111ni
may have 111oved
to
the
Bay Area, but they've left their hearts at
Marist
College. Classmates (left
to right) John Otten
'93,
Laura
Nelson
'93
(winner
of the Marist Basketball door prize) and
Tom Mulryan '93 were among nearly 50 alumni and friends who
gathered
in
San Francisco
at Pat O'Shea's Madliatter, owned by
Pete
Nesteroke
'66.
20
M A R I
ST
M A G A Z
I
N E
"DUN-DUN"
.. ./Series Office Break Part
3512:45
p.m./Wednesday,
March 15, 2000/Studios
USA
Television-Set
of the critically
acclaimed series
"Law
and Order"
in
New
York.
Offices of (left
to
right) Mike Rodia
'92,
grip;
Ti111
Dwyer
'00,
intern; Antliony Azzara
'91,
production accountant; and Jessica Byrne
'96,
location
coordi-
nator. Watch their
work
Wednesday nights, 10 p.m.
Eastern/9
p.m.
Central on NBC.
Tedford
is a computer analyst for
March,
Inc. in New
York
City.
1 9 8 8
Anu
R.
Ailawadhi
received
a
master's
degree in education from
the University of Vermom
in
1997. She
is
coordinating a na-
tional literacy awareness and
fund-raising
campaign with Lit-
eracy Volunteers of America, Inc.
I
The New York Times featured
Roy
Arezzo
and his middle school
students in a story about their
project raising trout for
release
upstate.
The
project
is
designed
to
increase
their
awareness about
waterways
in
the Catskills and
Hudson Valley that supply New
York
City
with drinking water.
Roy
teaches
environmental sci-
ence at Intermediate School 318
in
Brooklyn.
I
Susan
Blazejewski
was a
member
of
the
1996-97 and
1997-98
National Bobsled
Team.
I
Michael Carson
was deployed
to Kuwait in
September for six
months.
He
is a maintenance test
pilot/manager
with
the
498'
h
Medical Company (Air Ambu-
lance)
in
the U.S. Army
in
Fort
Benning,
Ga.
I
Gina
Disanza-
Carro
was
promoted
to director
of
major
gifts for
the
New
York
and New Jersey division of
the
American
Cancer
Society.
I
Kathy
M. Korsen
has
been promoted
to
sales representative at
Pearson
Education in Upper Saddle
River,
N.j.
I
Linda A. Lipton
has taken
a
position
with Cartier in
the train-
ing department.
She will be doing
commercial and
retail
training.
I
Peter
A.
Prucnel
moved from
Disneyland merchandise
to
theme
park operations and is working
in
procedures and communications
preparing
LO
open a new
theme
park, Disney's California Adven-
ture.
lJudith
Lach
Veeck
is pub-
lic affairs
director
at the
Cornell
Cooperative Extension in Suffolk
County, responsible for
press re-
lations, government affairs, fund
raising and
marketing.
She lives
in
Hampton
Bays, Long Island,
with
her
husband, Don,
and their
children, Joseph and Emily.
1 9 8 9
Angela Abbate Catanzaro
is an
advisory information technology
specialist at IBM
in
Hopewell
Junction,
N.Y.
I
Marist
alumni
are still breaking
records.
Chris-
tine
Domurat
and
Karen
Oitzinger
Donnelly
participated
in
a relay team
in the Mighty
Hamptons
Triathalon
in
Southampton, N.Y., in Septem-
ber
1999. Karen,
a member
of
the
Marist swim
team
from 1985
to
1989,
finished
ninth among 98
female athletes
in
the mile-long
swim. Christine completed
the
25-mile
bike
course and
Kim
Andrews
'91
ran
the six-mile
course.
The
team
finished
second
among all female
relays.
I
Tara
Dowd
was
promoted
to dealer
direct manager at the Bank of
America Auto Group
in
Melville,
In
Memoriam
Sigrid Brandis
A dearly
loved
Marist professor,
Adjunct Professor of Modern
Languages Sigrid Brandis of
Wappingers Falls, N.Y., died
March 26, 2000. She was 63.
Frau Brandis, as her students
affectionately called her, taught
German at Marist for 32 years.
Born
in
Koenigsberg, Germany,
she had been a resident of New
York since
1964.
"She
was truly fantastic!"
said
l
Bro. Joe Belanger, FMS, a col-
league in
the
teaching of lan-
guages.
"Students
loved
her. Every October she'd have them over
to
her house for the Oktoberfest."
Mrs. Brandis was a dedicated professor, said colleague Maurice
Bibeau. "She was very generous with her time and energy
in
serving her students and promoting the German language and
culture."
"My Marist experience was made better not because I was able
to study German, but because I had Frau Brandis teaching me
German," said Karen Shultz
'00. "Frau
was more than just a
professor. She was a friend, a listener, a mother fig1ure and
someone who always had a good story to tell. Frau was the reason
why many of us stuck with German. Frau made the class. Frau
made the
language
come alive."
"O[
all the wonder[ul teachers
I
had the privilege to work with
at Marist, Frau Brandis was one of
my
favorites," said Elizabeth
Dunn
'98. "1
looked forward to every class with her, and was
blessed to get
to
know her personally outside of school. She
touched my
life
in many great ways, from being a caring
teacher
to
being a wonderful friend."
Sigrid Brandis is survived by her husband of 3 7 years, Elmar;
a daughter; a son and his wife; a brother and his wife; and a niece.
N.Y. She
is responsible
for the
auditing and selling of off-lease
vehicles
to
dealerships across the
country. Tara also
has
been acer-
tified personal trainer since 1997.
I
Timothy
and
Melissa Driscoll
have two
children, Christian, 6,
and Cara, 3.
I
Michael Kinane
has
been named director of pub-
lic
and media relations at SUNY-
Old Westbury.
IJohn
B. Lake
is
a research associate
in
the equity
research
department
at Key Asset
Management in Cleveland, Ohio.
I
Chrissy
Lawless
released
her
first original CD over the Internet
in
the
summer of 1999. She is
pleased with
the initial
success of
the CD and the
interest
generated
by her first single, "Sometimes
I
Don't." Her second CD
is in
the
works. Her mp3 Web address
is
www.mp3.com/chrissylawless.
She and her husband,
Chris
Meyer, live
in New York City.
I
Michelle
M. Plummer,
C.P.A.
has been named CFO of Greene
County Bancorp,
Inc.
in Catskill,
N.Y.
I
Pierce Redmond
is
a bag-
piper and
pipe
corpo,ral in the
Rockland County Anc:ient Order
of Hibernians Pipes and Drums.
Pierce will participate in
the
Rose
ofTralee Festival
in
County
Kerry,
Ireland, in August 2000.
I
Vir-
ginia (Ginny)
Fazio
Upton
is a
systems analyst for Manpower
Technical in Fishkill, N.Y. She
also is a part-time NTSII
defensive
driving
instructor
a:s well as
"Ginzo
the
Clown," children's
party entertainer.
I
Kristine
Varnum
Nakutis
graduated from
the
University of Massachusetts-
Amherst with an M.A. in philoso-
phy. She is an
instruct.or
of phi-
losophy and English composition
at West Point. Kristine is married
to Craig Nakutis, Sr. and
they
have two children, C.J. and Stacy.
l1nm1M&
1 9 9
0
Mary
Kate Kenney
Applegate
works for Exodus Communica-
tions as a senior manager in the
professional services division.
I
Anthony
Damore
is employed
by
the
New York Department of
Corrections. He is married and
has a son, Antonio, and a daugh-
ter, Michaela.
I
After five years
with
the
Nassau County District
Attorney's office,
Karen Klei
Foley
joined the law firm of
Berkman,
Henoch,
Peterson &
Peddy in Garden City, N.Y. She
specializes
in
commercial and
criminal
litigation.
I Leonard
Klie
has been promoted from associ-
ate editor
to
managing editor of
Government
Food
Service
and
Mili-
tary Club and Hospitality maga-
zines.
I
Steven
Maloney
has
been
promoted to assistant
principal
of
Bay Shore (N.Y.)
High
School.
I
Glenn Onos is
director of strate-
gic planning and architecture at
AXA Financial in New York City.
I Jay
Reynolds
is a sports anchor
for ESPN
Radio,
based in Bristol,
Conn.
I
Keith Ryan
has worked
for Bell Atlantic Mobile for nine
years. He is married and has two
sons, Patrick and Sean.
I
Michele
Ward-Triolo
has been promoted
to purchasing coordinator at the
corporate offices of Ann Taylor
in
New York City.
1
9 9
1
Amy Anson
is an editor at
Forrester Research
in
Cambridge,
Mass.
I
John
Bidosky Ill
has
been promoted to vice president
at the American Bridge Company.
During his 16-year career v.rith
the
company he has been involved
in numerous
high-profile
projects
including the
Newburgh-Beacon
Bridge,
the Riverside Drive
Viaduct, the Bronx Whitestone
Bridge reconstruction and the
Williamsburg Bridge construc-
tion.
I
Allison Campilii
contin-
ues to work
in
the Olympic and
corporate events division of
United Parcel Service. She heads
to
Sydney, Australia, this year to
promote UPS'ssponsorship of the
2000 Olympic Games.
I
Anthony
Capozzolo
graduated from
George Washington University
Law School in 1994. He served as
a
law
clerk to New Jersey Supe-
rior Court Judge Vincent E. Hull
Jr. and since 1995 has been an
assistant district attorney in Man-
hattan.
I
Neil Darling
is the man-
aging partner of Net-Centric Con-
sulting Group in Fredericksburg,
Va. Net-Centric helps brick and
mortar
firms
click into e-business
and specializes in Web infrastruc-
ture,
including
online security,
customer service management,
network design and information
technology
operations.
I
Arthur
E. Fludd IV
is the president and
CEO of
JBQ
and Associates, a
production
company that man-
ages
bands in the
State College,
Pa., area. The company was
featured in
The Entrepreneur,
a
magazine of Pennsylvania State
University.
I
Eric
J.
Frenzke
graduated from U.S. Army Basic
Combat Training in Fort Benning,
Ga., in November 1999. Eric is
assigned to the military intelli-
gence section, Headquarters
Brigade, 42
nd
Infantry Division,
New Jersey National Guard. He
holds the rank of specialist and
attended officer candidate school
in April 2000.1
Stephen Kraus
is
a truck driver for Roberts-Boice
Paper Company in Poughkeepsie.
I
Linda
Gallagher
Reusch
gradu-
ated from Lesley College in May
2000 with an M.S. in training and
development.
I
Terence
Hosmer
is a technical support specialist
for the New York Stock Exchange,
coordinating hardware and soft-
ware support for the division of
market surveillance.
I
Julianne
Magazeno
Taylor
has been
named marketing director of the
Chazen Companies, an engineer-
ing,
planning and environmental
consulting firm in Poughkeepsie.
I
Mary Kay Tuohy
is the director
of programs at Grand Street Settle-
ment House in New York City.
She supenrises five program man-
agers who provide services to
some 500 young people. She is
also an adjunct instructor at CUNY
School of Social Work.
1
9 9 2
April Amonica
is instructing two
public speaking classes at the
University of Scranton. April is a
news anchor at WNEP Channel
16 in Moosic, Pa.
I
Thomas
Badura
has joined ESPN as a pro-
grammer/analyst at its headquar-
ters in Connecticut. He does \Veb
site development for ESPN's cor-
S UM
MER
2
0 0 0
21
porate intranet and
extra
net
sites.
I
Jeffrey
E.
Dolfinger
was pro-
moted
to
vice president
of
Sarasota, Inc., a
private invest-
ment group, in Poughkeepsie.
I
Courtney Glennon
received a
master of arts
degree in
occupa-
tional therapy
from New
York
University
in
September 1997.
I
Joseph Grimaldi
purchased his
second McDonald's chain restau-
rant in
Brooklyn.
I
Leslie
Massaro
has been promoted
to
paralegal
specialist for the
U.S.
Postal
Service law department.
I
Dean Mastrangelo
has been
pro-
moted
to senior
in-house
counsel
for BLS Funding Corp.
I
Maureen
McGuire
was appointed vice
president
of retail and contract
design
at
Ruitenburg Displays,
Inc.
I
Judson
S.
McMullen
is a
supervisor in the annuity services
department for CGU Life
Insur-
ance Company of America
in
Bos-
ton.
I
Frank
M. Mora is
a partner
in
the
law firm of Brooke,
Mora
&
Gemmati,
L.L.P.
and won the
1999
election
for City of
Poughkeepsie
1st
Ward
councilmember
for the
2000-
2001 term
IJennifer
O'Connell
Nickelsen
is an
implementation
specialist at Cybear, a health care
Internet
company, in Boca Raton,
Fla.
I
Terry Pfeifer
has
been
pro-
moted
to senior editor for
the
Huntington Herald
and
Valley Ga-
zette
newspapers,
weekly news-
papers
covering Ansonia, Beacon
Falls,
Derby,
Seymour
and
Shelton, Conn. She lives in
Woodbury, Conn., with
her two
children,
Meghan
and Rick.
I
Dino
Quintero
is project
leader
for
the international
technical
support organization at IBM in
Poughkeepsie.
He
works with
RS/
6000
hardware
and software and
will
be teaching
workshops world-
wide.
I
Kevin T. Weigand
is
teaching
and coaching
in
New
Jersey and working toward a
master's
in
special education.
I
Gary Wilson
teaches middle
school social studies at Hadley-
Luzerne
Central School in Lake
Luzerne,
N.Y.
1 9 9 3
Edwin Budd
is
an actor at Walt
Disney
World
in
Orlando, Fla.
He
performs almost every day as
"Muddy"
at Disney's Animal
Kingdom's Dinoland or as a
Ghostbuster or
Blues
Brother at
22
M A R
I
S T
M A G A Z
I
N E
t.ALUMNI
Universal Studios Esca.pe. He has
also worked on several commer-
cials.
I
Greg Caires
:is the
lead
public
relations
exe,cutive for
Lockheed Martin's F-22
Raptor
fighter program. Prior
to joining
Lockheed Martin, Greg served as
a senior fellow with tlhe Lexing-
ton Institute, a non-partisan, non-
profit,
public-policy
think tank
in Washington,
D.C.
I
Michael
Defelice
is
the running
backs
coach/special teams coordinawr
at Tufts University. He:
is
also the
lead
teacher
at Merrimack Alter-
native High School in Chelmsford,
Mass.
lStuartE.
Gallagher
works
for U.S. Army Intelligence at Fort
Huachuca, Ariz., following
two
years of training. Stuart also has
earned an associate's
degree in
Russian linguistics.
I
Adam Gib-
bons
earned an M.A.
iin
criminal
justice
from
John Jay
College of
Crimina]Justice,
part
of the CUNY
system, in New York City.
I
Brent
S. Golisano
received a
JD.
degree from
Roger
Williams
University's
PapitLO
School of Law
in May 1999.
I
Frank
Irizarry
is
the
director
of faculty/
community relations at Stetson
University.
I
Laura Keating
is an
underwriter
for the American
International Group in New York
City.
I
Susan Lavery
left her job
at U.S. Surgical LO
join
a start-up
company called
Radio Therapeu-
tics,
still
in
the
medical
sales
industry.
I
Maria Giovanna
Licari
has returned
to
the
field
and series department at
"Good
Morning America
"
I
Eileen
McCrory
Neary
works
for
the
New York
Board
of Trade and is
pursuing
a master's in elementary
education at C.W. Posi: College in
Brookville,
N.Y.
I
Kevin
James
W
Stewart
'93
NOTES
O'Donnell
has completed a six-
month training regimen at the
World Championship Wrestling
Powerplant in Atlanta, Ga., and is
eager LO
make his wrestling
debut
as
"Tuff
Stuff' Kevvy
K.
Kevin
formerly worked as an operations
manager for a major
petroleum
distributor.
I
Andrea Preziotti
was
promoted to
marketing
man-
ager
of
NBC's online spin-off,
NBCi.
lJosephine
A.
Schoepfer
earned
her
certification from the
Professional
Photographers
of
America
in
February 1999. lnjuly
1999 she was awarded a Master of
Photography,
also from PPA.
I
Tara Stepnowski
works with the
Make-a-Wish
Foundation, which
helps
terminally
ill
children fulfill
their wishes.
Ijames
W. Stewart
is
an anchor for ESPNews.
Prior
to working at ESPN,j.W. worked
at Sports 1 Regional Television
and
the
Poughkeepsie
Journal.
I
Lara Wieczezynski
is a multi-
media producer for Bloomberg
LP. Lara creates multimedia pre-
sentations to educate users about
the
Bloomberg Personal Service.
1 9 9 4
Elizabeth
Bellis
is an account
executive in
the
sponsor services
department of the New
Jersey
NetS
basketball
team.
I
Robert Brandt
is attending
Indiana
School of Law
full-time.
I
Enza
Buonaiuto
re-
ceived a master's from SU NY-New
Paltz in early childhood educa-
tion
in
1998.
She teaches
pre-
kindergarten at Mount Carmel
School
in Poughkeepsie.
I
John
W. Canorro
was to
be
ordained
LO
the transitional
deaconate
in
April 2000.
I
Jennifer
Nies
Carew
is an assistant vice
presi-
dent
at Merrill Lynch in New
York
City.
I
Kate
O'Hanlon
Clapperton
teaches
fifth grade
in
Medford,
N
.J.
I
Cathy Ago
Ii
a
Cote
is
a pediatric physical
thera-
pist
at UCP in
Roosevelt,
N.Y. She
also conducts home care for chil-
dren
with
disabilities.
I
Michael
Cote
is an attorney at Lynch and
Lynch
in
Mineola, N.Y.
I
Chris-
topher Dolan is
an account
man-
ager at Forrester Research in Cam-
bridge, Mass.
Chris manages all
telecommunications, publishing
and broadcasting clients.
I
Daniel
Durand
is
an editor for
"Martha
Stewart Living" in Westport,
Conn. He was nominated for a
1999 Emmy Award for
multiple
camera editing.
Daniel
was pro-
moted
to online Avid editor.I
Robert G. Farrier
Jr.
is assistant
vice
president-team
leader at
First
Union
National
Bank in
New
York's Westchester
County.
I
Michael
Gearing
is
manager
of
the accounting department at
IBM
in
Endicott,
N.Y.
I
Gabriel
Hidalgo
is
a junior associate
in
the Empire
Insurance
Group -
Legal Division
of the law office of
Kevin
L. Kelly. He
is part of
the
litigation
legal
team in the
Mineola, N.Y., office.
I
Colleen
Talbot Jacques
teaches
seventh
grade math
in Trumbull,
Conn.
I
RawleJones
is
a stockbroker with
JB.
Oxford
&
Co.
in
Miami, Fla.
I
Mary
E.
Keenan
has
been
pro-
moted to assistant
manager
in the
customer satisfaction department
of MBNA.
Beth
relocated LO the
Boca Raton office and now
re-
sides in Boynton
Beach,
Fla.
I
AnnMarie
Lambiase
earned a
master's
in
early childhood spe-
cial education
from
Adelphi Uni-
versity.
I
Nikki LeSage
is man-
ager of corporate advertising
re-
search for
Time, Inc. magazines
including
Time, fortune, People,
In
Style
and
Entertainment
Weekly.
I
Mary
Ann
McGovern
teaches
high
school special education/
English
in
the Lawrence, Mass.,
public schools. She graduated
from
Hofstra University
in De-
cember 1997 with a dual certifi-
cation
master's in
special educa-
tion
and elementary education.
I
John
W. McManus
is
director
of
annual giving at King
&
Low
Heywood Thomas School
in
Stamford,
Conn.
I
Michael
Mostransky
and his wife,
Tara
Ferina
'95, are
moving to
Lon-
don
this
summer. His new posi-
tion
as a technical sales represen-
tative calls for
them
to spend two
years
there.
I
Two new children's
books by
Myles Pinkney
will
be
published
this
fall:
Shades of Black
and
Sitting Pritty.
I
Jonathon
Reardon
has been awarded
the
"Master
Leader"
award for
the
second year in a row from Ameri-
can Express Financial Advisors,
Inc.
Jon
received this award for
being
one of the top 2 percent of
the
financial
planning
leaders
for
this
Fortune
500
company.
I
Vicki
Richter
moved
to
Princeton, N.j., and works at
the
engineering start-up company
Knite,
Inc.
in
Princeton. She rows
When
Greg
Christman
'98
went to work for
the Resort
at Squaw
Creek,
a
ski
resort
in Squaw Valley, Calif.,
he
discovered to
his
surprise that a fellow
Marist
grad was
also
employed
there. Ron
Vuy
'74
is
vice
president
and general
manager
of
the resort
Greg
is
an
executive
administrative
assistant
in the accounting
ci!epart-
ment.
Above,
Ron
and Greg show off the
beauty
of the ski
resort,
situated at
the
base of Squaw
Valley
USA, site of the
1960 Win-
ter Olympics.
with
the
Carnegie Lake Rowing
Association.
I
Deborah
Schnarr
earned an M.S.
in
reading from
Hofstra
University.I
Janis
Netschert
Simat
is assistant vice
president of human resources at
Deutsche Bank
in
New York City.
I
Jeremy
Thode
received an M.A.
in physical education and teaches
physical education at Commack
High School
in
Commack, N.Y.
lnanw•na
~
1 9 9 S
Rev. Maryann Berry,
who is co-
pastor of John 3: 16 Christian
Center in Poughkeepsie, has been
nominated and received asa mem-
ber of the International Who's
Who of Professional Management.
I
Brent Bogart
and his wife moved
to Raleigh, N. C., and purchased a
home
in 1996.
Brent has worked
for CS! for one year.
I
Jeanne M.
Brennan
earned an M.S.W. in
1997. She lives on Long
island
and is a certified social worker for
a sub-acute care center working
with respiratory and physical re-
habilitation patients.
I
Jeannie
Cordero
is a security specialist
doing internal
investigations
for
the metro New York
district
of
United Parcel Service.
II
Michael
Coughlin
earned a master's in
elementary and special education
from Manhananville College and
is a special education
teacher
in
Carmel, N.Y.
I
Deidre Devlin
is
a graphic
designer
at Merck
&
Co., Inc. Deidre has also incorpo-
rated herself as a free-lancer. Her
company name is Gir:aphics.
I
Kathleen Dick
is exhilbitor ser-
vices representative for Warner
Bros., handling the eas1tern divi-
sion. Kathleen
deals
directly with
movie theatres, providing trailers
and promotional materials.
I
Lori
DiDonato
continues
to
work for
St. Anne
Institute
in Albany, N
.Y.,
where she has been since 199 5.
I
Paul
DiGiacomo
is an editorial
assistant
supervisor
for the
MegaSports department of the
Associated Press, dealing with
online
sports
coverage.
I
Jacqueline Emslie
is an adjunct
lecturer
in information systems at
Dutchess Community College in
Poughkeepsie.
I
Cindy Malo
Faustino
works
for James
Goodwin,
Inc.
as a vice president.
I
Peter Faustino
is
pursuing
a
doctorate
in psychology
at
Fairleigh Dickinson University.
I
Tony Galvin
is an account repre-
sentative at Sports Marketing and
Television International in Green-
wich, Conn. His responsibilities
have
included
work on the Breed-
ers' Cup Championship
and
NBC's celebrity golf tournaments.
Tony handles all marketing and
advertising aspects of the events.
I
David
M.
Gavner
teaches psy-
chology at Dutchess Community
College
in
Poughkeepsie.
In
1999,he also taught
Introduction
to Psychology at
Marist.1
Steven
C.
Giampaolo
is working for
Metrovision Production Service
as a grip and utility.
I
Edward
Gilhooly
is a senior tax consult-
ant in the state and local tax prac-
tice division at Arthur Andersen
in Vienna,
Va.
I
Andrew
Holmlund
was promoted to man-
ager of New York operations for
CBS Radio/Westwood One Net-
works in August 1999.
lnJanuary
2000 he worked onsite as an as-
sistant
producer
covering
SuperBowl XXXIV, his third con-
secutive Superbowl at the net-
work.
I
Scott
Jacques
is a co-
owner of Long Hill Tree Service
in Trumbull,
Conn.
I
Brian
Kenworthy
is working in Holly-
wood, Calif. He worked on
"Fight
Club" with David Fincher, star-
ring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.
He
also works in
post-production
at the
Post
Group, transferring
films to video.
I
Michael
Murray
continues to work on the Web
site for the Sydney 2000 Olym-
pics for IBM
(www.Sydney.
olympic.org) and will spend much
of the year 2000 in Sydney, Aus-
tralia.
I
Sherilee
Newton
ended
her year's
reign in
1999 as Miss
Black World New York State. She
is assistant international comp-
troller at Thomas Publishing
Company.
I
Kathleen O'Heam
was promoted
to
team
leader
in
the annuities division of the Hart-
ford
Insurance
Group
in
Simsbury, Conn.
I
Alexandra
Gonzalez Oles
is pursuing a
master's in a human resources-
industrial relations program.
I
Bryan Oles
is assistant football
coach at Saint Francis College in
Loretto, Pa. He is also pursuing a
master's in a human resources
industrial relations program.
I
Steven
Rice
is director of public
relations for the Cartoon Net-
work in New York City.
I
Joy
Romanelli
has been promoted to
district sales manager for Coca-
Co la Enterprises.
I
Susan
Russello
is an evaluation associ-
ate at Lighthouse International in
New York City and is pursuing a
Ph.D. in clinical psychology at
New School University there.
I
Jennifer
Schaivone
earned a
master's in elementary education
and is a second grade teacher for
the New Haven, Conn., public
school system.
I
Kohli
Singh
has
joined Rehabilitation
Support
Services, a nonprofit mental
health agency, as its program
director.
I
Robert
Stefano
is a
staff accountant
for Arthur
DeDominicis, C.P.A.
I
James
Sullivan
is director for a Thai
investment-banking
firm, the
Quant Group Co., Ltd., special-
izing in
mergers
and acquisitions
activities.
1 9 9 6
Michael
Beaudreau
is assistant
editor of
Church
World,
a news-
paper in Brunswick, Maine.
I
Steven
Blette
is teaching world
history at Silver Lake Regional
High School
in
Kingston, Mass.
I
Beth Dooley
Canfield
received
a master's in counseling in May
1999 and has been accepted in a
post-graduate program for school
psychology at New Jersey City
University.
I
Tara
Capple was
named a laboratory technician
for Wright-Pierce in Topsham,
Maine.
I
Todd
Coulson
earned
an associate degree from the Art
Institute of Philadelphia and was
honored with the outstanding
achievement award for best over-
all portfolio. Todd works at Haley
Productions in Media, Pa., where
he helps de\·elop CD-ROMs and
Web pages for clients ranging
from the Philadelphia Zoo to B 101
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23
Radio.
I
Louis
Donlin
is a na-
tional
sales account manager in
the
computer telephony
industry
with Oialogic, an
Intel
company.
I
Michael Dunn
was promoted
to
information
technology archi-
tect,
designing
e-business solu-
tions for
IBM.
I
James Ellis
has
been
selected to manage a new
program
called Vocational Alter-
natives, an attempt
to
improve
service
to people
with
mental
ill-
ness
in
choosing, obtaining and
keeping
community-integrated
jobs
in Kingston, N.Y.
I
Melanie
L.
Fester
is a recruiter in the
magazine
publishing and
Internet
industries.
I
Alicia
L.
Foster
earned a master's in counseling
psychology
from Rutgers Univer-
sity.
I
Brenda
L.
Gallagher
coor-
dinates
events and productions
for ABC out of its new Times
Square
studios in New York City.
IJennifer-Katherine
Gomez
was
promoted to the
position of pro-
duction
editor in the
documenta-
tion services
department
of Infor-
mation Builders. She evaluates,
maintains and creates the
design
and presentation of
documenta-
tion
in print, online and Web
formats.
I
Ann
P. Hanley
has
been with
the
Martin
J.
Moran
Company since September
1997.
She
has
traveled
to
New
Hamp-
shire, Rhode Island, Pennsylva-
nia and Ohio conducting capital
campaigns.
I
John
Hynes
was
awarded a medal and
featured
in
a news conference with New York
City
Police
Commissioner
Howard Sa fir for a rescue of three
people from one overturned and
two burning
vehicles. He is a
po-
lice officer with
the
NYPD.
I
Ronald
Johnson
received
a Juris
Doctor degree from Ohio North-
Laurie Anne Robb
'96
24
MA
R
I S T M A G A Z I
N E
t
ALUMNI
em University's
Pettit
College
of Law in
1997.
I
Debra
Levantrosser
is
manager
of Price
Waterhouse
Cooper.s'
East Asia
automotive
practice.
Debra is
based
in Bangkok
and
travels
throughout Asia. She spent Octo-
ber
1999
through February 2000
in
Jakarta,
Kuala Lumpur, Malay-
sia and Singapore.
I
Thomas
G.
McNulty
is a national bank ex-
aminer for
the
Office of Comp-
troller of Currency.
II
From
Feb-
ruary
to
October
1998,
William
Moses
served as a po
lice
monitor
with
the
Internationa I Police Task
Force, the U.N. civilian
police
force in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Since
1998
he has
been
working
for the Organization for Security
and Co-operation
in
Europe, a
regional security organization
in
which the 55
participating
states
are from Europe, Central Asia and
North America. He
returns
to
New
York this year.
II
Michael
Pappagallo
is
a copywriter at
Polese Clancy Design in
Boston.
Michael will be working on brand-
ing and positioning worldwide
clients as well as writing ad copy.
I
Kristie Pena
earned a master's
in English/secondary education
and is
teaching
English to junior
high school students
1in
Queens.
I
Stephen Pezza
received a
Juris
Doctor
degree
from Roger Will-
iams University's Papitto School
of Lawin
1999.
ICan:ie
Pochank
is
a special education teacher in
Brooklyn, N.Y. Carrie is
pursuing
a
master's in
special education,
specializing in
deaf
and
hard
of
hearing
students, at Hunter Col-
lege in
New York City.
I
David
Ranzer
is pursuing
ai
master's in
social work from SlJNY-Albany
and was
to
graduate
in
May
2000.
David
is an
intensive
family spe-
cialist with the Ulster County
Department of Social Services.
I
Laurie Anne Robb
is a staff writer
for Stray Cat Commumications, a
full
service marketing and com-
munications
company.
I
Mark
Salvo
is director of public rela-
tions for Physician Multicare of
Greater New York.
II
Eric Shay
has
moved to
St. Louis with Ener-
gizer. Eric currently
programs
customer
pricing
and. design and
builds
corporate Welb pages. He
is
also
involved
with a start-up
animation
company,
www.
yumeanimation.com.
I
Brandon
Tierney
is
an update anchor for a
NOTES
At
Baccalaureate on May
19
in
the chapel
on
campus, the Alumni
Association
recognized
two
seniors, Susan Soar
Goulet
(left) and
Ryan Patrick Hunter
(rigl1t), with
tlie
Alumni Leadership
Award.
President Dennis]. Murray
(center)
presented the 2000
award
to Susan and Ryan. Eacl1
year alumni employed at Marist
nomi-
nate and
elect tl1e award recipients
based
on outstanding
leader-
sl1ip and
contributions
to
the campus community.
nationally
syndicated talk show
on the SportsFan
Radio
Network
(www.sportsfanradio.com)
in
Las
Vegas, Nev. He
is heard
on 300
stations coast to coast and deliv-
ers all pertinent scores as well as
reporting
on injuries,
trades
or
anything else of
note in
the sports
world.
I
Christopher
Troetti
completed his master's
in
educa-
tion at Sacred
Heart
University.
I
Patrick].
Tully
is
the co-founder
and president of Citystuff.com,
Inc.,
an e-commerce site dedi-
cated to
"showcasing
the
quintes-
sential
'stuf
r
from
the
greatest
cities
in the
world." Citystuff.com
has offices
in
New
York,
Chicago,
San
Francisco
and
Los
Angeles.
1 9 9 7
Robert
Autenrieth
is an account
executive for a New
York
City-
based
advertising agency and a
free-lance celebrity photographer.
How to Reach the
Alumni Affairs Office
www.marist.edu/alumni
alumni@marist.edu
(845) 575-3283
I
Laci
Beckett
earned a
master's
from Fordham University and isa
psychiatric therapist working with
children
in
Queens, N.Y.
IJared
C.
Breault
is a
financial
consult-
ant at Salomon Smith Barney
in
Boston.
I
Terri
Anne
Carrozzo
is the West Coast
regional
repre-
sentative for
the
Culinary
Insti-
tute of America.
Based in
the Napa
Valley at the CLA at Greystone,
she covers California, Hawaii,
Alaska, Washington, Oregon and
Nevada.
I
Bryan Christian
is
"having
a
blast"
living in London
and working for Merrill
Lynch.
Bryan
develops new
systems and
creates
international
business
practices
for the
"new"
European
financial
industry.
I
Kara
Chrzescijanek
is a behavior spe-
cialist working
in
New York City
with
mentally
retarded adults.
I
Chrystine Gilchrist is
a market
research
analyst at PCS
Health
Systems in Scottsdale, Ariz.
I
Jon
Gutierrez
is a special education
teacher
at Bunnell
High
School
in
Stratford, Conn.
I
Jenn
Hintze
is
a coordinator and executive as-
sistant to
the
senior vice
presi-
dent of
music
and soundtracks
for PolyGram Films. She
is
plan-
ning
to
begin
her master's degree
in film
at
the
American
Film Insti-
tute and
is involved in
the writing
of an upcoming
film
project.
I
Amy
C.
Hunt
is
in
her
final
year
of law school
in
Boston.
I
Kristen
Koehler
was
promoted
to assis-
tant director of the annual
fund
at
Seton
Hall
University.
Kristen
completes a
master's
in commu-
nications-sports
management this
year.
I
Robert LaBarbera
is
pur-
suing an
M.B.A.
with a concen-
tration
in management
at
Hofstra
University.
He
works in down-
town New
York
City for a
bank
that
services the banks and bro-
kers who trade on Wall Street.
I
Margaret Engler litteken
earned
a master's
in
social work
from
SUNY-Albany
in
May
1998 and
received C.S.W. accreditation.
I
Judson S. McMullen
is working
as a supervisor
in
the annuity
services department
for
CGU Life
Insurance
Company of America
in
Boston.
I
Mary McQuillan
Mangan
is a
psychotherapist
in
the
office ofDr.
Gabriel
Feldmar.
Mary earned a master's at Adelphi
Mihe McDowell
'97,
Webmaster
for
the
Hertz
Corp.,
spohe
to
students
at
the
fourth annual
Communications Arts
Society
Alumni
Panel held at Marist in
March. Other panelists
i,1-
cluded Michael
O'Brien
'86,
senior
vice
president
at
Ketchum Public Relations,
Tara Mohl
'94,
creative
ser-
vices
supervisor at MediaOne
Inc., Maria Gordon Shydlo
'87,
director of public relations at
Oxford Health Plans,
Andrew
Boris
'94,
"Boris
in the
Morn-
ing'' at
WRRV-FM
and]. W
Stewart,
anchor at
ESPN.
University and received C.S.W.
accreditation.
I
Karin Oloffson
has been promoted
to
specialty
leasing
representative
at
Pyramid
Management Group.
I
Michael
Onorato
works
in
publi.c and fi-
nancial
relations
at
Raker
Goldstein.
I
Kim Picataggio
teaches
first grade in
Flanders,
N
.j.
I
Lauren Schneidmmller
was
promoted
to
associate producer
at
Publicis
Advertising
in
New
York
City.
I
Holly Schumaker
teaches
at
Mills
Middle School in
Rancho
Cordova, Calif. Holly is
working on a master's i1n special
education at California State Uni-
versity-Sacramento.
I
Colleen
Smith
is the marketing and
de-
velopment
manager
for
the
Na-
tional
Park Foundation
in
Wash-
ington,
D.C.
I
Gale Patricia
Thurst
earned a master's.
in
social
work from Fordham University
in
1999.
I
Katie Trifiletti
is a
special events coordinator for the
Philadelphia Museum of Art and
attends
Temple
Univer:;ity
pur-
suing a certified meeting;
planner
certificate.
I
Erica Wittman
is
working in New York City at EMC
Corporation.
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Kelly
D.
Balser
is
pursuing
a
Juris
Doctor
degree at
Qtninnipiac
College School of Law. S.he
plans
to graduate in
2001.
I
Greg
Christman
is
an executive ad-
ministrative
assistant in the ac-
counting
department
at the
Re-
sort at Squaw Creek in Olympic
Valley, Calif. Greg works with
another Marist alum,
Ron Vuy
'7
4.
Ron is
vice presidlent and
general manager of the resort.
I
James
Dziezynski
is planning
mountaineering trips to
Alaska
and
India
for 2000 and 2001. He
is
writing
free-lance
and working
at
planetoutdoors.com,
an online
gear company,
in
Bould,er,
Colo.
I
Kimberly
Dawn
Garrett
is a
photojournalist
in
the
public af-
fairs office at West Point Military
Academy. She works for the in-
stallation newspaper,
The
Pointer
View.
I
Jennifer Harmer
com-
pleted
her first year working
full-
time for Marist's information tech-
nologies department.
I
Robert
Hoey
was to
run in
the
Country
Music Marathon in
Nash ville,
Tenn., April 29, 2000, with the
Leukemia
Society of America's
team-in-training.
I
Fernanda
Amorim Leventhal
is
press and
community outreach coordinator
for
Human
Rights
Watch in New
York
City. She
began
there as an
intern
doing
publicity for
the
Human
Rights
Watch
Interna-
tional
Film
Festival,
held in
June
1999.1
Elizabeth Lowe
received
a master's degree in social work
from
Fordham University in May
1999.
I
Elizabeth McCarthy
was
promoted
to
assistant
to
the
divisional
vice president
of
corporate marketing at Computer
Associates International Inc. in
Islandia, N Y
I
AdrienneJanetti
Murphy
completed Georgetown
University's master of arts in
na-
tional security studies
program
in
May 2000.
I
Jane
Rosiek
was
promoted
to account executive
in
strategic planning at
Mark
Russell
&
Associates in Syracuse, N Y.
I
Genine R. Scalzo
is
the
academic
intervention counselor in
the
Higher
Education Opportunity
Program
office at
Marist.
I Lisa
Tortora
received a master's
in
survey
research from
the
Univer-
sity of Connecticut
in
1999.
She
is a
marketing
research
associate
at the
Taylor Research
&
Con-
sulting Group,
Inc.
in
Norwalk,
Conn.
1
9 9 9
Amanda Flood is
an
interactive
media planner at OgilvyOne
Worldwide
in New
York.
I
Michael Frisch
was
promoted
to
senior software developer at GTE
Networks in
Dallas, Texas.
lJulie
Gadarowski
began a year of ser-
vice
with AmeriCorps VISTA in
Seattle, Wash.
lJeremy
Garzione
has
been
hired
as a
new
staff ac-
countant for Nugent
&
Haeussler
P.C.
I
Dana Greenberg
is a sup-
portive
case
manager
with Catho-
lic
Charities
in
Rome,
N.Y., work-
ing
with the
mentally ill.
I
Amy
Hanks
is
attending Vermont
Law
School and will graduate in
2002.
I
Kelly Kenefick
is development
director
for
the
Arthritis
Foundation's southern New En-
gland chapter
in
Rocky Hill,
Conn.
Kelly
runs a
joints in Motion
mara-
thon
program
and will escort this
year's
participants
to Dublin and
Honolulu.
I
Thomas McNulty
received
an M.
B.A.
from Marist
in
1999.IMichael
Melfi
is a special
education teacher
in
Syracuse,
N.Y.
He
placed
17,h
in
the Philly
Half-Marathon
and was
the
fourth
Beth Clarke
'99
(left) and
Erinn
Hergenhan
'99
were among 100
alumni, friends and
students
attending a special presenta-
tion
by the Marist
College
In-
stitute
for Public Opinion at
the
Union
League
Club
in
New
Yorh
City
April 11.
"Election
2000: An Insider's Looli" fea-
tured Dr. Lee Miringoff, direc-
tor of
the
institute, Dr. Barbara
Carvalho, director
of
the
Marist Poll,
Carl
Leubsdorf,
assistant managing
editor
and
Washington bureau
chief
of
the
Dallas Morning
News,
and
John Spar/is,
executive
pro-
ducer of investigations and
political
coverage
for
News
Channel
4
in
New
York
City.
American finisher. He was the
1999 Empire State Games cham-
pion in the
l0Kand was the fourth
American
finisher
in
the largest
15K
road
race
in
the
world,
the
Utica
Boilermaker,
injuly
1999.1
Arny Rider
is an elementary
school
psychologist
in
Middletown, Conn.
I
Melissa
Sheridan
is assistant market spe-
cialist at the Doneger Group, a
buying
office
in
New York City.
I
John
Svare
is
deputy district
rep-
resentative in the Kingston office
of Congressman
Maurice D.
Hinchey.
I
Kathleen Wisniewski
books satellite TV and radio
tours
at CpT Media, a satellite
media
company
in
New York City.
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Professor Tom Casey meets with his History of the Hudson Valley class at Fern Tor. Background: A ridge at Fern Tor overlooks
the
Hudson River.
Experien~cing
Nature
Marist's acquisition of the 13-acre estate Fern Tor offers a serene setting for teaching, learning and just contemplating.
P
rofessor Thomas Casey could be for-
given for making up ghost stories about
the century-old carriage house that has
contained his office for the past two years.
Leading a tour of the house, the philosophy
professor
suggests that a mysterious cubby-
hole in a closeted staircase is a
likely
home for
a ghost. Outside, he observes that the
house's
wine cellar makes a
prime
hideout for a gob-
lin. And he's not above telling students of
snakes lurking in the surrounding woods.
Although he wants to dramatize the
uniqueness of Fern Tor, the 13-acre estate
Marist acquired in December 1997, Professor
Casey also doesn't want its tranquility de-
stroyed. Any visitor to the peaceful property
could not blame him. The estate at the campus's
northern boundary is a quiet
retreat
rich with
trees, flowering herbs, shrubs, ferns, wildlife
and several ecological habitats, graced by a
Hudson River view and 800 feet of shoreline.
The carriage house,
built
of Dutchess field-
stone and bricks from the estate's original
1880s' mansion, is nestled into the forest.
"When you come onto this property, you're
immediately struck by
nature,
not by build-
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E
ings," says Professor Casey.
"What
strikes you
about this place
is its
natural setting."
Histc1ry
and
Horticulture
Tom Casey, a member ofMarist's Department
of Philosophy and Religious Studies since
1963,
is
one of
15
faculty members in the
Division of Humanities who had offices in the
spacious carriage house until recently, when
the divi.sion moved into newly completed
Fomain,e Hall. Professor Casey has researched
the history of the estate to
1699.
The land was
not
developed
until 1861 when, according to
legal
documents, Thomas Newbold purchased
it.
It eventually boasted a mansion with a
southern vista of
the
Hudson River (before
the Mid-Hudson Bridge and railroad
bridge
were built), a summerhouse, formal gardens,
and greenhouses,
including
one
dedicated to
orchids. A manmade pond, spring-fed, was
fashioned in the 1880s. The mansion com-
manded
the highest point on the estate, and
its
foundations, all that remain of the struc-
ture, now mark the highest ground on Marist's
campus.
With the death of Thomas Newbold, the
estate passed to his wife and children. Frederick
Newbold, Thomas's son, was prominent in
horticulture and helped found the Horticul-
tural Society of New York. It was Frederick
Newbold who named the property Fern Tor
after
its
ferns and rocky hills. The next genera-
tion of Newbolds sold Fem Tor
to the
Way
family, who transformed the carriage house
into their home and eventually sold the
parcel
to Marist.
Fern Tor now recalls a bit of Marist
College's own history. Marist has named the
carriage house St. Ann's Hermitage in
remem-
brance of the role of the Marist Brothers in
establishing the college; St. Ann's Hermitage
was the name the Brothers gave to the
Poughkeepsie property
they bought
in
1905
that later became Marist College.
Fern Tor is of not only historic but also
literary
interest.
The Newbolds had strong
ties to the Pulitzer Prize-winning American
novelist and short story writer Edith Wharton:
Thomas Newbold was married to her mother's
sister, Mary Rhinelander Newbold. Thomas
and his wife were godparents
to
Edith, whose
middle name was Newbold. Dr.
Judith Saunders, professor of En-
glish at Marist and an Edith
Wharton scholar, notes that
R.W.B.
Lewis's
biography of the
writer mentions Edith Wharton
visiting her relatives at Fern Tor
in the autumn of
1906,
enjoying
its
"wonderful colours of foli-
age." Professor Tom Casey
be-
lieves
Edith Wharton, who had a
passion
for gardening,
must
have
remembered her visits to the
Hudson River home; he notes
that her Lenox, Mass., estate, The
Mount,
has
plantings of myrtle
identical to those at Fern Tor.
The Pulitzer Prize-
winning
American
novelist and short story
writer Edith Wharton
forest stand of walnut trees.
"There's a good abundance of
life
there to the casual observer,"
says Dr.
Feldman.
His students
have recorded sightings of wild-
life including deer, turkeys,
skunks,
muskrats,
geese, ducks
and great blue herons.
Undisturbed Land
Both environmental
science
majors and non-science majors
are benefiting greatly from the
presence of Fern Tor on cam-
pus. Previously, Marist did not
have
an extensive area of undis-
visited
her relatives, the
family of Thomas
Newbold, at Fem Tor in
the autumn of 1906,
enjoying its
"wonderful
colours of foliage."
An Abundant Resource
Perhaps more important than its historic or
literary
significance is Fern Tor's role as a
place Marist students can
learn
about nature.
The property is home to at
least
20 species of
native trees, according to Dr. Richard Feldman,
assistant professor of environmental science,
who brings classes there. Trees represented
include four species of maple,
two
of birch
and three of hickory as well as sycamore,
walnut, ironwood,
basswood,
white pine, east-
ern hemlock and black locust. Also
in
resi-
dence are two huge
tulip
trees-one
with a
chest-high diameter of four feet-as well as
two red
oaks at
least
300 years old.
The trees at Fern Tor complement the
variety of trees farther south on
the
Marist
campus that Professor Casey and
the
late
biology professor William Perrone catalogued
in
recent years. During
the
past decade they
identified
and
tagged pine,
oak, beech, wal-
nut, magnolia,
ginkgo, maple,
hemlock
and
LUlip trees.
Now, Dr. Feldman's students help with
the biological characterization of Fern Tor.
The site's ecological habitats include a pond,
small wetlands, a ravine, dry
ridgetop
and a
turbed land, says Dr. Feldman.
"This is so
·important.
It's
one
thing to
show
slides and videos.
It's
another to see habitats
and species firsthand and to witness ecologi-
cal relationships." Now, about 320 of his
students have carried out class assignments at
Fern Tor over the five semesters since Marist
purchased the property.
Dr. Feldman says he was truly excited
when
he
learned that Marist had acquired
Fem Tor. "I like to
let
students know we've got
this in our back yard, that you don't have to go
someplace exotic to appreciate the natural
world."
He
wasted
no
time in using Fern Tor as a
laboratory for his classes. The Invertebrate
Zoology class was the first, collecting speci-
mens there in April 1998. The Ecology lecture
class and Held and Lab Ecology class identify
trees, observe weather conditions and main-
tain field journals
there.
Keeping a journal
calls for students to spend an hour a week for
several weeks noticing details of
the
nature
around them, from plants and interactions
between organisms to smells and sounds.
Students in the Introduction
to
Environmen-
tal
Issues
course, made
up
primarily of non-
science majors fulfilling core liberal arts re-
quirements,. are also
required
to keep field
Students Sonja Sjolwlm-DeHaas (left) and Jen
McKay measure a tulip tree for their Field and
Lab
Ecology
class.
journals. Although students don't have to
make their field journal observations at Fern
Tor, most do, especially freshmen. "I would
not have been able
to
require this assignment
if there wasn't some place students could walk
to," says Dr. Feldman.
The property has made field work pos-
sible for the non-science majors. Formerly
only honors students and science majors went
on field trips,
because
travel and access were
too difficult to arrange for the large classes of
non-science majors.
So far, seven environmental science ma-
jors have carried out independent study
projects at Fern Tor, forgoing travel to the
more
distant sites to which Dr. Feldman pre-
viously took his classes. "I love going up
there," says Carrie Swail '00, an environmen-
tal science major . "I have a favorite spot up
there, behind the Way House, on an overlook
tO
the
river. It's
very quiet and peaceful up
there. There's such a beautiful view of the
river." For their independent sLUdy project,
Ms. Swail and a classmate, Jill Christiano,
compared the habitats of ridge and ravine.
Ms. $wail spent about 30 hours during the fall
1999 semester at Fern Tor. But some of
the
time was spent taking pictures for her phot0g-
raphy class, she adds. "And on a nice day I'll
walk up there on the ridge to have some quiet,
'me' time."
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Warren
Neill says Fem Tor is an excellent locale for
the study of certain
philosophical
ideas about
how
people
gain knowledge. "Deep ecologists
often argue that one becomes aware of intrin-
sic value
in
nature not by philosophical dis-
cussion in a classroom but through direct
experience of nature," he says. "Even those
who are somewhat skeptical of these sorts of
claims can benefit greatly from considering
them while in
the
presence of nature." Dr.
Neill envisions teaching environmental ethics
in a natural setting such as Fem Tor.
It
is Fem Tor's natural setting and his wish
to protect it that
lead
Professor Tom Casey
to
spin a final yarn about St Ann's Hermitage.
"Legend has it that upon the renovation of the
carriage house many years ago, they came
upon a skeleton jammed between the walls,"
he relates. "After extensive investigation, it
was found to be the 1926 Dutchess County
hide-and-seek
champion."
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The intrepid pollsters
of the Marist College
Institute for Public
Opinion went on the
road for the
New
Hampshire
and
New York presidential
primaries.
Here's what
they saw.
BY DR. LEE M. MIRINCDFF
11
e six weeks which began with our
rip
to
New
Hampshire
for
its
presi-
dential primary through the
New
York
presidential primary were, to
reprise
the
Beatie
favorite, a
"Hard
Day's Night."
The
combination of
hard-fought presidential
pri-
mary
contests and
the head Ii ne-grabbing
New
York
Senate
campaign kept
us jumping.
Dr.
Barbara Carvalho,
director of the
Marist
Col-
lege
Poll, and
I
spent 33 days in this
42-day
period
on
the
road. We came close to violating
our policy
of
never
passing ourselves on the
highway going
in the
opposite
direction.
There
were 75 TV interviews, 350 print and radio
interviews,
22 nights of
polling
and 9,699
voters interviewed. Nearly 200 Marisl College
students were involved
in
these projects.
Marist
Polls accurately chronicled
important
trends
while Marist students enjoyed a front-row
seat to
the
political process.
It was a
politically riveting
as well as an
exhilarating time. The sprint
kicked
off
with
a
"News Forum"
interview featuring
John
McCain
and
me
on NewsChannel 4. It was
taped on
the Friday
before the New
Hamp-
shire
primary
for a Sunday
broadcast.
First,
Gabe
Pressman
interviewed John McCain in
Manchester,
N.
H.,
while
l
eavesdropped
from
the New York City studio. Then political
correspondentjay DeDapper
interviewed
me
in
New York. Since
my
segment was to air
before
McCain's, I had to
resist
the temptation
to anticipate every answer McCain provided.
At one point
during
the McCain
interview
the
producer
in the control room enjoined me
through my
earpiece to jump
in.
So there
I
was, on a split screen with the
presidential
candidate,
cast in
the role
of TV
reporter.
I
clumsily
queried the senator about whether
he felt
at a disadvantage against the
Bush
machine
because he
was an insurgent, a po-
litical
newcomer on
the
New
Hampshire presi-
dential primary
scene. Lesson One of TV
journalism
is never ask a
question
that has an
obvious answer.
He
responded that
his new-
ness would
ultimately
turn out to
be
an ad-
vantage.
I really
pinned him on that one! It
was several hours
later
during my ride to New
Hampshire that the light bulb went on.
"Sena-
tor,"
I
asked while driving along the
Massa-
chusetts Turnpike,
"no
sitting
member
of
Congress, has
been
elected directly to the
White House since John
Kennedy
in 1960.
What special
problems
will you face in cap-
LUring the nomination even if you win the
New
Hampshire
primary?"
As we crossed
the
border into New
Hamp-
shire,
I
was paged by MIPO
program
assistant
Joan Nies. Her message said The New York
Times
op-ed section had accepted an article
I
had
submitted earlier
in the
week on
Hillary
Clinton and
the
women's vote. I was
lucky
not
to veer off
the
road at
the
good news.
For Barbara and
I,
this was
the
fourth
quadrennial
go-round stalking
the presiden-
tial candidates through
the
snows of New
Hampshire. ll
was the
first
such
trip
for MIPO
survey center director Kathleen Tobin Flusser.
For Nancy
Robinson
Miringoff, it was
the
fifth
New
Hampshire
sojourn; back in 1972, as
Nancy Robinson, she had
been
a New Hamp-
shire campaign volunteer.
On
three
of our four trips to New Hamp-
shire we never saw a snowflake,
but
with
competitive primaries on
both
the Republi-
can and
Democratic
side we did see oodles of
candidates and
hoards
of
media. Imagine the
entire national political community falling
Being at ground zero in New Hampshire for a
political junkie rivals
throwing 01L1t
the first ball on
opening day
for a Yankee fan.
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M A R
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N E
over each other in the voter-rich area of New
Hampshire no larger than
the
35-mile stretch
from Peekskill to Poughkeepsie, New York:
candidates wooing
nearly
400,000 voters,
pollsters calibrating voter reaction
to
the
decimal point
and
the press
trying
to
stay
awake as the candidates
plow through their
campaign stump speeches for the ump-
teenth
time.
This first-in-the-nation primary con-
nects candidates and voters in an intimate
way. The town
hall
meetings provide a
unique
opportunity for candidates to strut
their
stuff and for voters to check
them
out face to face. New
Hampshire
voters
take
their role very seriously. Our
infor-
mal
chats with
many
New
Hampshirites
revealed
that
they attend
numerous
such
gatherings.
They
are very
informed
and
issue-focused.
They shop around.
Being at ground zero
in
New
Hamp-
shire fora
political
junkie
rivals throw-
ing
out the first ball on opening
day
for
a Yankee fan. So much was
packed into
these
six days in New Hampshire. We saw five of the
presidential candidates, conducted numer-
ous interviews with
the media
and bumped
into political celebrities every step of the way.
Our hotel in Nashua was the home
base
of
Al Gore and
his
entourage. On one occasion,
as I barreled my way
into
the elevator, Nancy
was brushed aside by a Secret Service agent.
"Did
you see who that was?" Barbara asked,
her
eyes
popping
out.
Tipper
Gore was on
her
way
LO
the exercise room in full workout
regalia (in heavy makeup lest a TV crew
spotted her) Barbara and
Nancy
decided
to
work out a short time later-no
doubt
for a
closer view.
We auended a
Lown
hall gathering
in
Derby for John McCain,
the
eventual GOP
New Hampshire primary winner. McCain
touched
upon
many
now-familiar themes
about
the
"Iron Triangle" in Washington, cam-
paign finance reform and
the
needs of veter-
ans. But
interspersed
in the political rhetoric
was a surprising
mixture
of Don Rickles/
Henny Youngman Catskill shtick. Our efforts
to
size
up
George W. Bush in Medford were
rebuffed
when the fire marshal closed
the
hall.
This
was also the day George W.'s parents
were there and the former president referred
in
a not particularly
l1attering
way to
the
presidential hopeful as "my boy."
Our sightings of
the
Democratic contend-
ers
took
us to a Bill Bradley town hall meeting
in
Hollis and an election eve Al Gore rally in
Amherst. The Bradley event
initially
had a pep
rally feel. A surrogate team comprised of
Nebraska Senator Bob
Kerrey,
Minnesota Sena-
tor
Paul Wellstone, Harvard professor Come!
West and actor Ron Silver
provided
the juice.
As Wellstone, who barely tops five
feel,
brushed
by me,
I
muuered
to no one in
particular,
"Aha.
Al last a senator
I
can
look
straight in the eye." Without breaking stride
he
fired
back,
"I
heard
that."
Unfortunately for
Bill Bradley fans,
the
energy level
in the
room
dropped al his tum al
the
podium.
Gore's performance beat the expectations.
He
was,
believe
il or not, engaging. My
tip-off
to the following
day's
outcome, a Gore vic-
tory, was
in the
calm
reaction
of Gore primary
campaign guru Tony Coelho as
he
perused
what appeared
to
be overnight poll numbers.
At one point a woman sining next
to
Kathleen stood
up
and disrupted the proceed-
ings.
She was
later identified
as a supporter of
Lyndon
LaRouche.
Although Gore handled
himself
deftly, we were a
liule
rauled as
police
swarmed around the woman and escorted her
physically
from the
room.
Our primaryevedinnerwasat the Sheraton
Wayfarer in Bedford,
the
gathering place for
political people to
exchange thoughts or just
to
gossip about
the
day's
happenings.
Eating
Imagine the entire national political community falling
over each other in the voter-rich area of New Hamp-
shire
lllO
larger than the 35-mile stretch from Peekskill
to Pouighkeepsie,
New York: candidates wooing nearly
400,000 voters,
pollsters calibrating voter reaction to
the
de◄:imal
point
and the press trying to stay awake as
the ca11didates plow through their
campaign stump speeches
for thei umpteenth time.
at nearby
itables
this night were Lars Erik-
Nelson, Washington columnist for the New
York
Daily
News, members of
the
Bradley
campaign team we
had
spotted earlier in the
day and 1998 Marist graduation speaker
Ray
Flynn, who, hosts a syndicated radio
program.
Many of you have seen
political
reports
from
this hotel,
although you probably
didn't
know it. In
the middle
of the structure
is
a
photo-op comprised of a New Hampshire-
like covernd
bridge,
a New England-looking
stream, an appropriately
placed
gazebo and
an assortment of waterfowl l1apping around.
A lineup of TV reporters
uses
this
backdrop
for their 5, 6, and 11 o'clock reports.
Primary night
is
the climax of
months
of
speculation. We set up camp at NBC's N.H.
outpost
to
monitor the exit
poll
and
be inter-
viewed
by
Gabe
Pressman
andJay De Dapper.
As McCain and Gore victories became appar-
ent, we hopped
down
the street for interviews
\vith CNN's Wolf Blitzer and New York l's
Dominic Carter.
We
left
New Hampshire Wednesday
morning, heading straight for Marist to start
our
post-New Hampshire primary
New York
poll.
We were greeted with the
news that
Hillary Clinton would formally announce
her
candidacy for the Senate race four days hence.
We quickly refocused our
poll questionnaire
on
Hillary
vs.
Rudy
Giuliani.
Coverage of our Friday
Marist Poll
proved
to be fodder for the media feeding frenzy.
Starting
with CBS's
"The
Early Show" with
Bryant Gumbel and
Jane
Clayson,
I
went on to
have a "seven-studio day"
including
taped
interviews
for NBC's
"Nightly
News with Tom
Brokaw" and ABC's
"World
News
Tonight
with Peter Jennings."
On Sunday,
Barbara
and I
left
for SUNY-
Purchase in
Westchester County for Hillary's
declaration
of candidacy. The event was more
like a declairation of
independence.
She broke
with her First Lady role
to become
a Senate
candidate. She demonstrated independence
from her husband, who sat
nearby
and was
literally spe:echless, and offered themes posi-
tioning
herself as a
new
Democrat, a
depar-
ture from familiartraditional
Democratic
Party
positions.
While
,it
this event, my pager clocked
in.
It
was
"The
Today Show." Could I appear the
next morning? There we were
in
Purchase, 60
miles
south of Poughkeepsie, without a change
of clothes. Our
route took
us from Purchase lo
Poughkeepsie
to
reload
and then
back
down
to New York City.
Being a guest on
"The
Today Show" was a
different ball game. As we entered
the
green-
room at 6:45 a.m.,
I
was
relieved
of my suit
jacket for pressing. Greenrooms are places
to
cross
paths
with unusual people. This morn-
ing
was
no
exception. Other guests included
Hillary's campaign manager, Bill
de
Blasio,
the
attorney Johnnie Cochran of O.j. fame
("if
il doesn't fit, you must acquit") and
Charmian Carr, who played Lies! in the 1965
movie
"The
Sound of Music"
("Sixteen
Going
on Seventeen").
The moment I'm ushered into makeup
and
then
onto
the
set
is
the
most
intense.
Barbara
describes
the feeling as when you take
your
dog
to the vet and the vet's assistant
escorts your pooch away, leaving
you
holding
only
the leash.
On this occasion my
"goodbye"
consisted of
the not-so-reassuring
out-of-body
comment to Barb,
"I
hope Lee shows up or
we're
both in
a
lot
of trouble."
Fortunately things went smoothly. Matt
Lauer,
Al Roker and
I
had shared numerous
sets on NewsChannel 4
before
their move to
the
national network. My favorite part was the
graphic plastering
"Marist
College" across the
screen and into 7 million households simulta-
neously.
Later that afternoon Catherine Crier in-
tenriewed me on her new Court TV program.
Then it was
back
to Poughkeepsie for what
turned out to be a much shorter than expected
stay. TV producers typically inquire about
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In the case of a close
election, a fun night can
turn into a
nail-biter.
availability for
that
day's
program
following
their
mid-morning
meeting.
"The Today Show"
on Monday had caught many a producer's eye
so
that
on Tuesday, the
phone
at Marist was
ringing
off the hook.
It
was back to New York
City.
Our first stop was WABC-TV and our
second, NewsChannel 4. (We were on the
evening news
broadcast
every
night that
week.)
Our
third
stop was CNN for a live interview
by
Judy Woodruff for
"Inside
Politics.• While
waiting in the greenroom at CNN, my pager
buzzed.
It was Gabe Pressman's
Marist
intern,
Daniella Femia.
It's not unusual for
us
to cross
paths with
Marist
interns as we
travel
around
New York
City.
Whether
it's
Fox News Chan-
nel, the ABC
polling
unit or NewsChannel 4,
familiar faces from campus
pop up
in exciting
places.
Daniella was calling because Gabe
needed
additional
tape.
And quickly. I was going on-
air so
Barbara
hailed a cab and sped crosstown
to
the interview, just making deadline.
The
next couple of weeks were packed
solid with
polls
and a daily stream of print,
radio and TV interviews about
Hillary
and
Rudy and
the
upcoming Super Tuesday
presi-
dential
primary.
It's
not
surprising for New
York to offer several twists to a presidential
campaign. Campaign 2000 was
no
exception.
For
the
first time in memory, both political
parties held statewide contests. The Demo-
crats offered
the
early expectation that Bill
Bradley might use his home court to his
advantage. On
the
Republican side we learned
that in
New York, an
"open"
primary meant
not
that there
was crossover voting as in other
states but
that
more than one person was
allowed on the ballot.
Each primary season provides a few tid-
bits
that
we carry to the next go-round. This
time, we witnessed
the
dilemma of
the
insur-
gents and
how difficult it
was for them
LO
upset
frontrunners.
Bill Bradley
failed to
re-
spond
quickly
and effectively to Al Gore's
attacks and got clobbered.
Barbara
and
I
saw
firsthand evidence of
Bradley's
sub par perfor-
mance at the Democratic debate at the Apollo
Theatre on Feb. 21. Sitting amidst
250
politi-
cal
reporters
and spinners in the
media hold-
ing room across
the
street from the theatre, we
watched his lackluster effort against Al Gore.
On
the
GOP side,
John
McCain went on
the
counteroffensive
but
in so
doing lost
his
special appeal. McCain's descent was
detailed
in our poll. On
the
Wednesday morning be-
fore the March 7 New York primary,
McCain
led
Bush by 7 percent. White Catholic Repub-
licans,
the single largest voting group
in
the
N.Y. GOP, felt Bush was
injecting too
much
religion
into
politics. By
the weekend, follow-
ing
McCain's misguided counterattack, which
included
references to Pat Robertson and Jerry
Falwell,
these
voters were divided over who
was the culprit. Bush now
led by
5 points, a
lead
he
did
not surrender.
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M A R I
ST
M A GA Z
I
N
E
Our ability
to
conduct polls and release
information literally
overnight
kept
Marist in
the campaign mix. As interest in the primary
grew, so
did
attention to the Marist Poll. We
started polling nightly approximately
two
weeks
before the
March 7
primary.
Kathleen
Tobin
Husser
made
sure
the
evening polling
sessions
were
humming.
Joan
Nies
quarterbacked our press release distribution
and processed
the
barrage of
media
inquiries.
Computer whiz Steve Conley kept our cut-
ting-edge
technology clicking.
On f:riday, March
3,
after
days
of
major
coverage of Marist Polls,
Barbara
and I had
another seven-studio
day
to
coincide with a
poll release updating the
primary
horse race
and a panel
presentation
at
the
New
York
City
Arts Club. At
the day's
end, following our
primary
night rehearsal at NewsChannel
4,
Barbara amd
I
were walking a
long
6th Avenue.
We felt a little
disappointed that
Fox News
Channel hadn't
called
during the
day,
unlike
on many previous
days,
thereby giving
us
a
record
eight appearances. No sooner
had
we
expressed
this
when we
looked
across the
street and saw
the
message board outside the
Fox stud'ios highlighting
the latest
Marist
Poll.
The dection
eve poll is always the most
exciting
for
pre-election
pollsters.
The
unde-
cided vote typically is low and voters have
clarified in
their own minds their
intentions.
When
Barbara
analyzes election eve
poll
data,
she knows that
the
electorate is in there some-
where.
The
trick
is finding
the right model so
that
the final tracking is
accurate.
You
are only
as good as your
last
poll.
While I spent
Monday
in New York City
on a
lengthy
round of interviews, our
Marist
Poll
team
completed this final tracking in
Poughkeepsie.
It
was about
midnight
when
Barbara, Kathleen and
I drew
our conclusions
via telephone about
this
final poll and shaped
the
release for primary
day.
On Tuesday
Bar-
bara and
I
met at NewsChannel
4 midday
to
prepare for that evening's TV coverage.
The poll of
record
on
primary night
is the
exit poll. Conducted
by the
networks, exit
polls
provide projections of winners and
los-
ers and
insight
into
the
reasons underly'ing
voter choices. Our
primary
night
team
at
NewsChannel
4 consisted
of
Barbara,
NewsChannel
4
correspondent Ralph Penza
and producer Dianne Drummey, Marist
in-
terns
Daniella
Femia and Matt Daigle and me.
We all worked under
the
direction of execu-
tive producer
John Sparks.
Barbara and
I
combed the exit polls to
develop news reports for the station's election
coverage. On this night
there
were eight seg-
ments. The station does not project a winner
without our go-ahead.
In the
case of a close
election, like Dinkins-Giuliani in 1993 or
New
Jersey
governor Christie Whitman's
re-
election
in
1997, a
fun
night can
tum into
a
nail-biter.
I
always leave a coin on the desk of
the
news
director,
Paula Madison, during the
afternoon, to
be flipped
later in
the
evening
just in
case it's needed. Fortunately the
races
were not particularly close
this
time and the
coin remained
unused. I
can assure you
it'll
be
ready
for the Senate
race
in
the
fall.
The curtain came down on this chapter
in
the life of the Marist Poll at
the Inner
Circle
dinner
in New York City
the
Saturday follow-
ing
the
primary.
This
roast
of politicians
by
the press was the first
face-to-face
meeting of
Hillary and
Rudy
since she announced
her
candidacy.
It
was also an opportunity for
Barbara and
me
LO
come
full
circle, from
the
Marist students who conducted our
polls,
to
the Marist interns working with New
York
City media,
to the many
Marist alumni suc-
cessfully
pursuing
careers in
the media
who
were attending
this
gala event. As we
look
ahead
LO
the
general election in
the
fall, it's
hard
LO
imagine
that this spring
may
have
been
only the exhibition season.
The
presi-
dential and Senate contests are
destined to
create an unmatched
media
extravaganza-
unless, of course, there is a Subway
Series
in
New York, whereupon we will
also poll
on
whether your favorite
team
is
the
Yankees or
the
Mets.
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Dr. Lee
M.
Miringoff
is
the director
of the Marist
College
Institute
for Public Opinion and a mem-
ber oj the political
science
f acuity at Maris!.
Shortstop
Steve
O'Sullivan
'02
tags
out
a
Siena
base-
·
stealer
to solidify
Marist's
berth to the
2000
Pizza Hut
MAAC Baseball Tournament
at Dutchess Stadium.
Two Teams
Represent
Marist
in NCM
Play
Marist Also Wins the MAAC Commissioner's
Cup for a Second Straight Year
Ti
e 1999-2000
academic
year
was
an
ther
milestone year for the Athletics
Department
as
two
Marist
teams
earned
berths to
NCAA
regional
tournaments.
Red
Fox student-athletes also successfully
bonded
to
garner
Marist
its second consecutive Metro
Atlantic Athletic
Conference
Commissioner's
Cup in only the school's
third
year of compe-
tition in the
league.
The men's
tennis
team, under
the
direc-
tion of
third-year
head coach Tim Smith,
competed in NCAA competition for
the
sec-
ond
straight year.
The men
landed
in
the
NCAA
regionals in
Waco,
Texas,
by success-
fully defending
their
conference title as
the
team
again
compiled an
undefeated dual meet
MAAC
record
and swept the MAAC Tennis
Tournament, losing only one
point
in three
matches.
This
season
the Red
Foxes were led
by
Ralph VanderPlasse '00, who compiled a
15-3
regular season dual
meet record
and was
perfect in the MAAC
Tournament
en route
to
earning the MAAC's Most Outstanding
Performer Award.
The
baseball
program, under the direc-
tion offifth-year head coach
John
Szefc, earned
BY SEAN
MORRISON
the conference's automatic NCAA bid
by
cap-
turing
the
MAAC
Tournament title
and
re-
corded a program-best 33-19-2 overall
record.
The Red
Foxes
competed
in Lafayette,
La.,
where, led by Anthony Ambrosini
'00
and
Anthony
Bocchino
'02,
Marist
again
made
history
as
thte
Red Foxes
defeated McNeese
State (6-5)
in. the
elimination game
to
become
the
first program in
Marist
history
to win an
,
NCAA
Tournament
competition. Anthony
Dave Dobbins
'01
was
named the MAAC's
Most Outstanding Swimmer for
the
third
con-
secutive yea,·
and Sheila
Nieri
'00
was
named
Most Outstanding
Diver
for the
second
straight year·
at tl1e MAAC Championship.
Ambrosini and Anthony Bocchino each were
selected
to the region's
all-tournament team,
further
establishing the school's athletic cred-
ibility on a
national level.
The MAAC's Highest Honor
At the same time, Marist becomes only the
third
school, along with
Loyola
(1996-97,
1993-94) and LaSalle (1991-92,
1984-89),
to
successfully
defend
the
MAAC
Commissioner's
Cup, which recognizes overall athletic excel-
lence
in
the
24
sports sponsored by
the
MAAC.
League
schools earn points for
regular
season
and
tournament
finishes with
the
cup being
awarded to the school
that
earns
the
most
points at the end
of the
academic year.
m
j
During the
1998-99 academic year, six
Marist
teams (women's cross country,
men's
j
and women's swimming and diving,
men's
2
and women's crew and men's tennis) won
MAAC
titles to
lead
Marist to
the
conference's
highest
honor.
This
season, five Marist
programs
(women's cross country, men's swimming
and
diving,
women's swimming and
diving,
men's tennis and women's lacrosse) won all or
a share of the
regular-season
title to again earn
Marist
the
cup while the baseball program
won
the
MAAC
Tournament Championship.
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Pam Brown '01 finished
the
lacrosse
season
ranked 17"' nationally in points per
game.
Ralph \fanderPlasse
'00
(right)
and Roberto
Mayer
'00
teamed
up as Marist's top doubles
com-
bination
vs.
Baylor at the
NCAA Tournament
in
Waco, Texas.
"[ am continually impressed by our stu-
dent-athletes'
ability to compete at the highest
level
athletically while never losing sight of
their academic responsibility," says Tim
Murray, Marist's director of athletics. "We are
focused on developing a broad-based athlet-
ics
program and this is a tangible symbol of
our success."
Swimmers and
Divers Dominate
The
men's
and women's swimming and div-
ing
programs again captured the
league's
top
honor, winning the MAAC Swimming and
Diving Championship hosted
in the
McCann
natatorium. Led
by 2000 MAAC Swimmer of
the Year Dave Dobbins
'01,
who captured
victory in the 100, 200 and 500 freestyle
events, the Red Fox men compiled a new
conference-record
1,221
points to outdis-
tance second-place Loyola (723.5) and earn
their
fifth
consecutive MAAC title.
On the women's side, Sheila Nieri
'00
successfully
defended
her
1-meter
and 3-
meterdivingcrownsen
route
toearningMAAC
Diver of the Year accolades for the second
consecutive season. The title
marks
the fourth
consecutive for the women's program which,
like
the men's, shattered the conference
record
for points at the championship meet with
1,015.
ltalso
marks the first time in the
meet
history
that a
women's
program has eclipsed
the 1,000-point
barrier.
The
women's cross-country team,
led
by
defenditng
champion Liza Grudzinski
'02,
successfully defended
its title
this year, shar-
ing
the conference crown with Manhattan.
Liza Grudzinski once again was the
first
com-
petitor to
cross
the finish
line
at the
historic
Van Conland Park Course, marking her sec-
ond consecutive cross-country
individual
title.
Surprise of the Year
The women's lacrosse team was the surprise
of the year as the Red Foxes, in only
their
fourth )tear of play at the varsity level, opened
the season with an 0-4 record and finished the
year with a 7-7 mark. Included in the turn-
around was a 5-1 record in conference play to
finish tied with Manhattan for first
in
the
conference regular-season standings. Led by
all-MA.AC selection Pam Brown
'01,
who fin-
ished the season ranked 17th nationally in
scoring, Marist entered the inaugural MAAC
women's lacrosse tournament as the top seed
before
falling to Niagara in
the
opening round
of the tournament.
The men's
lacrosse
team also had one of its
best seasons
in
recent history. Third-year head
coach Matt Cameron
led
the
Red Foxes to a 6-
8 overa1ll record
that included
a 5-4 fourth-
place
finish
in
the
tvlAAC
regular-season stand-
ings
and a berth
to the
inaugural tvlAAC
Championship Tournament. Paul Donohue
'02
fini:shed
the
year ranked in the
top
10 in
three
d:ifferent
statistical categories including
Coxswained by Karen Ponzonni
'00,
the men's varsity eight boat
registered
a program-best
l 6
1
h-place finish at the national championships in Cam~len,
NJ.
No. 6 in the country in scoring.
The crew team's men's varsity eight also
ended
the
season on a high note. They fin-
ished 16
th
in
the nation in the Intercollegiate
Rowing Association
championships
in
Camden, N.j.
"I feel that each program elevated
its level
of play and competition
this
year," says Tim
Murray. "However, as well as we competed
athletically, I feel
that
our student-athletes
need to be commended for their efforts in the
classroom."
Sixty-nine Marist student-athletes earned
MAAC Academic All-Star accolades, which
recognize outstanding athletic and academic
achievement. The qualifying winner needs to
contribute significantly to his or her
team
while maintaining a 3.2 cumulative grade
point average.
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U.S. National Rowing
Championships
June
1-3,
2000
Grand
Final
1. California
2.
Brown
3. Princeton
4. Washington
5.
Temple
6. Dartmouth
Petite Final
7. Penn
8. Wisconsin
9. Cornell
10.
Navy
11. Virginia
12.
Northeastern
3
rd
Level Final
13.
Oregon State
14.
Syracuse
15.
Columbia
16. Marist
17.
Michigan
18.
Stanford
4
th
Level Final
19.
Boston Univ.
20.
Purdue
21. Rutgers
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number of alumni in each state
Alaska: 3
Hawaii:
15
Overseas:
205
Marist alumni are in more
than
30
countries around the world.
Total number of alumni
=17,716
200
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6
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200
500
South Fl~rida
Involvement
with the Marist College Alum1ni
Association has never been greater-and you don't have to live
next door to stay connected! There are niow
13
chapters all over the country, from New York to California.
The Alumni Association is pleased to announce
the
for-
mation of another chapter. Graduates gathered
this
spring
in San Francisco for
the
inaugural event of
the
Northern
California alumni chapter at Pat O'Shea's Madhatter,
owned
by
Pete Nesteroke
'66.
The chapter is being
spearheaded by Dave Metz
'80,
director of programming
services at
KGO-TV,
the ABC affiliate
in the
Bay Area.
Nearly 50 alumni, family and friends au ended this fantas-
tic evenl. This brings the total number of ch:apters
to
13
and connects the Alumni Association coast
to
coast, with
chapters from New York
LO
California.
The Alumni Association was out
in
full force for
the
239'
h
Saint Patrick's Day Parade
in
Manhattan March 17.
This marked the
l8'
h
year
that
alumni and friends of
the
college have marched.
It
was estimated that close to
200
people came out to walk proudly up Fifth Avenue in a
steady
March
snow shower!
The cameras
were rolling as
Marist passed the
reviewing
stand, giving Malist a long
segment on WNBC-TV, NBC's New York affiliate. After-
wards alumni gathered at the Carnegie
Brewing
Co.,
owned by Steve
Ryan
'86.
The
North
Carolina chapter spent a day at
the
Asheboro
Zoo on June
24
and
the
Boston chapter watched a
Red
Sox
game at Fenway Park onJune
27.
The
24'
h
annual Alumni
Golf Tournament was slated for
July
10 at Casperkill
Country Club in Poughkeepsie to
raise
money for the
Alumni Legacy Scholarship. And
the
Arizona chapter
is
meeting at Bank One
Ballpark in
Phoenix to watch the
New York Mets
take
on the Arizona Diamondbacks.
For
more information
about Alumni Association pro-
grams, contact
usat
(845) 575-3283
oralumni@marisL.edu
or visit www.marisL.edu/alumni.
Jeff
Schanz
'94f99M
Director, Alumni Affairs
MARIST
Office of College Advancement
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-1387
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athletic events
including Marist Football
vs.Jona!
We've got cutture-
An
Gallery exhibit and a
comedy by Oscar Wilde!
Plus another
new building
to showcase--
The dedication
of Fontaine
Hall!
For information, call
the Alumni Affairs Office at
(845) 575-3283 or visit
www.marist.edu/alumni.
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Ubraay
for
Marist
MARIST
CONTENTS/Summer
2000
News
and notes from the campus:
a senator speaks at
Commencement,
Vietnam
veterans are remembered,
national
leaders meet
at Marist, the Alumni Association gets a
new
president, the Fashion Program
holds
its
14•h
annual Silver
Needle
extravaganza and the
college launches an on line M.P.A.
4
A New Library for Marist
A long-awaited dream comes true with the
opening
of the James
A.
Cannavino
Library.
10
A Champion of Marist
A chronology of service shows why Marist's
most dedicated volunteer,John]. Cartland Jr.,
has
been named a /if
e
trustee
of the
college's
governing
board.
12
A Character-Building College
Marist is recognized as a
leader
in
student charac-
ter development.
Marist Magazi11e
is published
by
the Office of College
Advancement at
Marist
College for alumni, staff,
faculty
and friends of Marist College.
Vice
President
for College Advancement:
Shaileen Kopec
Associate Vice
Presidenl/Dircctor
of Development:
Robert L. West
Chief College
Relations
Officer: Tim Massie
Editor: Leslie
Bates
Director
of Alumni Affairs:
Jeff
Schanz
'94f99M
Alumni Notes Coordinator:
Jo-Ann Wohlfahrt
Contributing writers:
Ben
Amarone
'01,Jennifer
Parker
'00
Art
Director: Richard Deon
Marist
College
Poughkeepsie,
New
York 12601-1387
(845) 575-3412
www.marist.edu
edi1or@marist.edu
Cover
photo
by
Michael
Nelson
The James
A. Cannavino
Library-Page
4
J,ack
Gartland,
a
part of
Marist-Page
10
Ealith Wliarton was
here-
Page
26
Marist graduates
are
on
the move-
plus births, marriages and a fond remembrance.
26
Experiencing Nature
Purchase
of
the
estate
at
Marist's
northern
boundary has
given
students
a tranquil setting
for studying the environment or
just
escaping
for
some quiet time.
28
Along the Campaign Trail:
Notes from a Political Junkie
By Dr.
Lee
M. Miringoff
The
director
of the
Marist
College
Institute for
Public
Opinion chronicles
MIPO's adventures on
the
road during the six
weel1s
before the
New
Hampshire and
New
York presidential primaries.
31
Two Teams Represent Marist
in NCAA Play
And
the
Red Foxes
earn the
Metro
Atlantic
Athletic
Conference's
highest honor
for
a
second straight
year-in only
their
third
year
in
the
MAAC.
MARIST
NEWS
AND
NOTES
FROM
THE
CAMPUS
Sen. Bob Kerrey of
Nebraslw,
a
Vietnam
veteran and the only
sitting
member
of
Con-
gress
to receive the
Congressio,ial
Medal
of
Honor,
gave
tl1e address
at commencement
May
20, wliich
was
Armed
Forces Day.
Record Number of
Students Graduate at
54th Commencement
A
record
number of students received
their diplomas
on Saturday, May 20, at
Marist's 54
th
commencement.
Nine-hundred-t wemy students received
bachelor's
degrees and 230 received master's
degrees on
the
campus green, the official
site
for
graduation exer-
Commencement
cises since 1996 and the
only space
large
enough to
accommodate
the
growing
number
of graduates and
their
families and friends.
Optimistic about
the
day's
2000
weather forecast, student
representatives of the Class
of2000 had decided to follow
tradition
and
hold
the ceremony on the green; graduation
is
moved
into
the McCann
Center only in
cases of
dangerous
weather since
the indoor
site limits each graduate to only
two
guests.
The
rain eventually came, but many of the
9,000 guests were
prepared
with
umbrellas
while others
went into the
Student Center
to watch the event on closed-circuit TY.
Commencement
speaker Sen.
Bob
Kerrey of Nebraska exhorted the graduates
to remember that
the most important hu-
man
attribute is character. "You are better
than
the
worst
thing
you do
in
your
life,"
he
added. "The worstthing you do may awaken
you to do the best." He concluded by
urg-
ing
the
graduates
to
"keep your sense of
humor, especially about your own mis-
takes,
and
don't
walk away when a stranger
asks for help .... May God grant you seren-
ity,
happitness
and the courage to
do
what
frightens you."
During
the
ceremony Marist awarded
an honorary Doctor of Laws to Senator
Kerrey,
a former Navy SEAL and Vietnam
veteran who earned
the
Congressional
Medal of Honor,
the
country's highest mili-
tary
decoiration.
Marist
also awarded a Doc-
tor
of
Humane
Letters
to
Frances Reese, a
pivotal figure in preserving the ecology and
beauty of the Hudson Valley through her
work with Scenic Hudson and a staunch
advocate for students over the past 16 years
as a
member
of Marist's Board of Trustees.
Prior to the ceremony May 20, which
was Armed Forces Day, Sen. Kerrey helped
plant a redwood tree in honor and memory
of those members of
the
Marist community
who served in Vietnam. The senator joined
Vietnam veterans Jim Barnes
'68,
a Marist
trustee,
Brendan Burke
'68,
also a trustee,
Dan Okada, assistant
professor
of criminal
justice, and Roy Merolli, executive vice
president, in planting the
tree
at the north
end of
th,e James
A. Cannavino Library.
Marist
awarded an honorary degree to
Frances Reese
(above,
with
President
Dennis Murray), a
pivotal figure
in
preserv-
ing
the
ecology of
tl1e Hudson
Valley
and
an
advocate
for students as a Marist
trustee.
The tree
memorial
will be formally dedi-
cated on Saturday, Oct.
14,
during
Home-
coming/Reunion Weekend, when a plaque
will be installed at the site. All alumni are
invited to the dedication, especially those
who are veterans. More information will
appear in the Homecoming/Reunion pro-
gram
being
mailed
to
alumni.
Prior to
commencement,
Sen. Kerrey helped plant a redwood tree dedicated to members
of
the Marist
community
wlto served
in
Vietnam.
The senator
(center)
joined President Dennis
Murray
(far
left),
Chain11a11
of Marist's Board
of Trustees
Rob Dyson (far right), and (left to
right) Vietnam veterans
Executive
Vice President Roy
Merolli,
Jim Barnes
'68,
Brendan
Burlie
'68
and
Assistant
Professor of
Criminal
justice Dan O/wda
i,1
planting the
tree at
the
north
end!
of
tlte
Cannavino
Library.
SUMMER
2000
1
MARIST
DR
News
and
Notes
from
the
Campus
National Leaders Meet
at Marist
Thanks
to
Marist's relationship with the
I
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential
Library, the campus became the summit site
May 21 and 22 for more than 120 officials
from across the country who are
members
of the Democratic Leadership Council.
The
DLC had planned to
meet
at the
FDR Library to develop what will be called
the "Hyde Park Declaration," a statement of
principles
to guide
the
centrist think tank
for
the
next
10
years. However, the FDR
Library was not
large
enough to accommo-
date the governors, U.S. senators,
members
of Congress,
mayors
and myriad other
elected and appointed officials, as well as
entrepreneurs and other DLC supporters. A
call to Marist's College
Relations from FDR
Library archivist Lynn Bassanese '75 led to
several meetings with DLC staff
members
who were awed by
the
campus, particularly
the new James A. Cannavino
Library. The
DLC
staff noted that the technologically
advanced
library fit
the progressive
image
the group wished
to portray,
while the
views of
the
majestic
Hudson
River would
be
conducive
to
fruitful
discussions.
The
timing
of the DLC event
put
the
entire college staff
to
the
test.
Just 24
hours
after
the
last of
the
9,000 commence-
ment
guests
left
campus, Physical
Plant
and Housekeeping
crews,
joined by members of the College
Activities, College Relations and
Media Center staffs,
turned the
Stu-
dent Center Cabaret into a
high-tech
conference center. The DLCalso
used
several rooms in the Cannavino Li-
brary
for break-out strategy sessions.
Adding
to the
complexity of ar-
rangements
was
the
possibility
that
President
Bill
Clinton
might
visit the cam-
pus
on May 21 before heading
to the FDR
Library to address the DLC members.
Marist
President Dennis
J.
Murray hoped to give
the president a demonstration of the Marist/
IBM/FDR Library project, which has led to
thousands of documents being scanned and
digitized,
then
placed
on the Web to be
accessed
by
students and scholars. The
project
could be a prototype for the pro-
posed Clinton presidential
library
as well as
those
of past and
future
chief executives.
While Mr. Clinton's schedule did not
allow for a Marist stop, Dr. Murray was able
to discuss the
project
with
the
commander
in chief when he greeted President Clinton
at the
FDR
Library.
That
led to a request
from
Mr. Clinton to visit
him in
Washing-
ton
to go over
the details
of
the
collabora-
tion.
During
the
DLC meeting, Dr. Murray
and project director Dr. David Woolner
demonstrated
this
"digital library" technol-
ogy
for
Secretary of
the
Army Louis Caldera.
Following Mr. Clinton'sspeech,
the
DLC
delegates
arrived at Marist to begin two
2
MARIST
MAGAZINE
Conference attendees networked at a reception in the Student Center rotunda one
evening
(above). Se11. Evan Bayh of Indiana
(inset,
left) was one of many
elected
officials present at
the conference. DLC members broke into
groups
that met in areas
throughout
the James A.
Cannavino Library, including the Alumni Reading Room
(inset,
right).
marathon days of talks on the future of their
organization.
Senators Evan Bayh of
Indiana,
Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and
Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut were
joined by others such as Mayors Lee Brown
ofHousto,n and Anthony Williams of Wash-
ington,
D.C., as well as senior executives of
financial firms, dot-com companies and
communicationsconglomerates. They were
all
impressed
with Marist's state-of-the-an
facilities and beautiful campus.
"This is
like
making a pilgrimage for
me, visiting
the
college where
Rik
Smits got
his stan," said
Indianapolis
Mayor Bart
Peterson, whose
hometown
Indiana Pacers
were
battl.ing the
New York
Knicks that
day
to make it into the National Basketball
Association finals. The Pacers, of course,
feature the 7'4" center and Marist alumnus.
Other participants used their video cam-
eras to capture the
panoramic
vistas
from
the campus green or record the high-tech
design
of the Cannavino Library. All
the
participants
left
with favorable opinions of
their visit. In a
thank-you
note to the col-
lege,
Oklahoma State Treasurer
Robert
Butkin wrote, "l was most impressed by
both your cam
pus
and yourwonderf
ul
staff.
I feel your students are fortunate to
have
the
opportunity to study at an outstanding lib-
eral arts college such as Marist."
The DLC
paid
for all expenses
incurred
during their two-day Marist stay.
-Timmian
Massie
The 85,000-square-foot
James
A.
Cannavino
Library,
designed
by
Perry
Dean Rogers
and
Partners
of
Boston,
sits on
the
crest of
the
main quad area of
the
campus,
overlooking
the Hudson
River.
The
$20 million
project,
made
of gran-
ite
and sandstone,
took
16 months
to complete
and opened
in
Janu-
ary 2000.
This
page:
The
library
en-
trance features
a
three-story
atrium.
Facing
page,
top:
Students
serving as tour guides during
library
dedication
activities
on May
6
were eager
to meet James
Cannavino
(seated).
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
"We shape our spaces and they, in turn,
shape us." -Winston
Churchill
Maria Gordon Shydlo '87
Elected Alumni
Association President
M
aria Gordon Shydlo
'87
has been
elected
the
first woman
president
of
the
Marist
College Alumni Association.
Ms. Shydlo is director of
public relations at Oxford
Health
Plan
in
Connecticut and
was previously senior vice
president at Edelman World-
wide.
She
has been
an active vol-
unteer for
the
Alumni Associa-
tion
since graduating from
Marist. She has served for
the
past two
years as national
alumni chair for
the
Marist
Fund, which in
2000
had its
most successful year ever. Alumni giving
reached
new heights
with more than
$500,000
in
gifts and
pledges,
and a
record
number
of alumni participated in
this
an-
nual campaign.
Ms. Shydlo served as vice president of
the
association from
1998
to
2000
and as an
at-large member of the Alumni Executive
Board from
1988
to
1998.
She was
presi-
dent
of the New York Metro chapter from
1993
to
1997.
She also worked in the Ad-
vancement Office at Marist as coordinator
of
the
Annual Fund
in
1987
and
1988.
"Maria has
been
an extraordinary vol-
unteer," i;ays
Bob
West, associate vice presi-
dent/dire:ctor
of
development
at Marist. "She
will
be
a1
strong
representative
for Marist
graduates
in
advancing the role of alumni in
the
life of the college." Serving as Alumni
Association president includes represent-
ing alumni at
meetings
of
the
Marist Board
of Trustees.
Ms. Shydlo succeeds
John
Nunziata,
vice
pre:sident
of
partner
markets for
Intermedia
Communications,
who has
served as, association
president
since
1998.
"John cointinued a
tradition
of strong lead-
ership
that has been
a
hallmark
of Alumni
Association presidents," says Jeff Schanz,
director of Alumni Affairs at Marist. "On his
watch the Alumni Association saw signifi-
cant advances
in
communicating
with
alumni and a marked increase in chapter
activity amd
involvement
with the college.
There also was a significant
increase
in
alumni support for
the
college."
Ms. Shydlo and her husband, Brian, live
in Pelham, N.Y.
Fashion Program Struts its Stuff wiith
14th Annual Silver Needle Awards iaind Show
T
he 14
th
annual Silver Needle Awards and
Fashion Show
drew
on talent
from
all
sectors of
the
Marist community.
Eight senior fashion majors
presented
their collections
in
two
shows April
27
at
the
Casperkill
Country
Club
in
Poughkeepsie. A
record
crowd of almost
600
attended
the
evening show while more
than
500
viewed
the
afternoon show.
More than
100
students
were involved
in
the
pro-
gram as models, ushers,
dressers
and
more. Faculty
also played a major role. Sue
DeSanna,
acting director of
the Fashion
Program,
over-
saw the whole
production.
Other Fashion Program fac-
ulty
brought
two
new
ele-
ments
to
the
annual event.
Ri-
chard
Kramer
was
the
show's
first
stage director, and
Lydia
Biskup
arranged for
the
show's
first
party favors by seeking do-
nations
of jewelry, sunglasses, scarves and
perfume. Faculty
member Michelle Lester
designed
artwork for the
poster
and
pro-
gram cover. A cocktail
re-
ception before the evening
show featured
the
Marist
College flute ensemble.
Even
the
show's
most
celebrated guest
had
a
'
Marist connection.
Re-
nowned
couture
icon
Pauline Trigere, who pre-
sented
two
awards, annu-
ally visits
the
Marist fash-
ion studi,os to critique the
senior collections
en
toil
es.
Ms. Trigere
presented the
award fo-r Best
Collection
to
Sara Martire and
the
award
for
Best
Garment
to
Leigh
Kate
Brooks. Susan
La
Verda re-
ceived the Outstanding Mer-
chandising
Major
Award and
Gregg
Arenson
received
the
award for Outstanding Fash-
ion Design
Major.
A number of alumni of the
Fashion Program attended the
shows. Several Marist gradu-
ates
in the fashion
industry
also
advise
the Fashion Pro-
gram. Tom Ward
'69,
COO
and president of WestPoint
Stevens, Alyson Byrnes
Morilla
'97,
assistant de-
signer at Ann Taylor, and JR Morrissey
'88
of Garfield
&
Marks serve on Marist's Fash-
ion
Advii;ory
Board.
eMP
Online Program
Online M.P.A. Launched
B
ecause of
the
overwhelming success of
its online master of
business
adminis-
tration
program, Marist will
launch
an online
master of public administration program in
September
2000.
Applications for
the pro-
gram are now
being
accepted. The first class
of students can expect to receive
their
grad
u-
ate
degrees
in May
2003.
Like Marist's traditional M.P.A.
pro-
gram, the online M.P.A. consists of
13
courses. Online courses are eight weeks
in
length so
the pace
is somewhat accelerated.
By
taking two
courses each semester and
one course each summer, a
part-time
stu-
dent can complete
degree requirements
in
less than
three years.
To be eligible for the degree, students
are generally
required
to complete
39
cred-
its. The core curriculum covers budgeting
and accounting,
personnel
management,
policy
analy-
sis and program evaluation,
and political and public ac-
tion. Students then begin
coursework within an area
of concentration
such as
criminal
justice
administra-
tion,
nonprofit administra-
tion,
human
services admin-
istration or health services
administration.
Acting M.P.A. Program
Director Dr James Kent says
the
impetus
for creating the
online
program
was the
number
of inquiries
Marist was receiving
from far away about its M.P.A. offer-
ings.
"We
think
this
is
a really exciting
opportunity for Marist to establish itself
as a national, or even international,
pres-
ence among M.P.A.
programs."
Marist launched its online master of
business
administration program
in
Janu-
ary
1999.
More than
150
students
have
been
admitted to that program. Students
are very satisfied with the
flexibility,
conve-
nience and quality
learning
experience they
are receiving, according to Dr. Gordon
Badovick,
dean of the School of Manage-
ment. Students as far away as California,
Florida and Canada are now applying to
the
online M.B.A.
program
and administrators
expect even greater
demand
for the online
M.P.A. program.
For more
information
about the online
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-Jennifer
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SUMMER
2000
3
THE
)AMES
A.
CANNAVINO
LIBRARY
A
Ne,N
Libr
___
.,.,..
for Marist
A
fter three years of fund
raising
and 16
months
of construction, the
James
A.
Cannavino
Library
at Marist opened in
January 2000
and was dedicated
May
6 before
a crowd of almost
1,000.
James Cannavino, a
member
of the Marist
Board of Trustees for more
than
15 years, was
the guest of honor at
the
ceremony. During
his
time
on
the board Mr.
Cannavino
has
helped guide
the
college
into the
new
frontier
of information technology. In recognition of
his exceptional service to Marist, the board
voted unanimously to
name the
new building
the James A. Cannavino Library.
Mr. Cannavino pledged $3 million to
support
the
new
library, the largest
personal
gift ever made
to
Marist.
Mr. Cannavino's gift
was
received in
addition to
the
$10 million
Campaign for
the Mari
st Library goal achieved
by
Sept. 1, 1999, when
formal
fund-raising
activity ended. Vice
President
for College
James
Canna)?no
(center),
joined here by
Bro.
Paul
Ambrose,
FM
,
president
emeritus
of Maris! (left),
and Presiden
Dennis
J.
Murray,
was the guest of
honor at the edication
of the new
library.
Rob
Dyson
(le ), chairman
of Marist's
Board
ofTrust-
ees, served
a master
of ceremonies
at
the
library
dedication.
Ja
,k
Gartland
(right), a life trustee,
was
one of many
~card
members
in attendance.
Advancement Shaileen Kopec spearheaded
the campaign, which
included
successfully
meeting the Kresge
Challenge, a $500,000
challenge to
raise
$1.1 million.
Mr. Cannavino,
recognized
as one of the
nation's
technology
leaders,
is
president and
chief executive officer of CyberSafe,
Inc.,
a
corporation specializing
in
network security.
He was the
president
and chief executive
officer
of Perot Systems Corporation through
July
1997
and
before
that was a senior vice
president at
IBM,
responsible for strategy and
development.
During
his tenure at IBM he
was credited with
developing
some of
the
company's most innovative products, ranging
from
mainframe
computers to
laptops.
He
is
recognized for spearheading the development
of the ThinkPad"' computer, which in recent
years
has
been one of IBM's
most
successful
products.
SUMMER
2000
5
The
Alumni Reading
Room,
named
for the
many
alumni
who contributed
to
the
library
fund-raising
campaign,
provides
a
serene
study space
with a beautiful view of
the
campus
green
and Hudson
River.
Four
pri-
vate
study
rooms
surround
the open seat-
ing
area,
where
long
tables
are
equipped
with
lamps
and connections
for
laptops.
A Library for Teaching and Learning
■
Marist's archives
and special collections
have
received
a permanent,
organized
home in the
new
library.
The
area
devoted
to
Special
Collections
opens
in the
fall
of
2000
with a preservation
area,
storage
area
and reading
room,
overseen
by an archivist.
The
Special
Collections
include
the
Lowell
Thomas
Col-
lection,
the
Richard
and Gertrude
Weininger
Collec-
tion
in
Judaic
Studies,
the award-winning
television
documentary
series
"On
the
River,"
the
George
M.
and
Alice
S. Gill
Fore-Edge
Collection,
the
John
Tillman
Collection,
the Rick
Whitesell
Record
Collec-
tion
and
the Nelly
Goletti Music
Collection.
Currently
accessible
via the Web
are more
than
1,200
materials
from
the
Hudson
River Environmental
Society
collec-
tion, digitized
in
a project
headed
by
Dr.
Thomas
Lynch,
professor
of environmental
studies.
Information
on
biology, ecology,
hydrology,
regulatory
policy and
issues
of public access
is now
available
to
research-
ers, policymakers,
educators,
librarians,
students
and other members of
the
public at http://
library.marist.edu/Diglib/EnvSci/EnvSci2a.html.
ly
Is
1,
,n
d
l·
IS
II
■
The
Center for Applied
Technology
(CAT)
on the
library's
top level is closely
associated
with Marist's
Department
of Academic
Technology,
which provides
technology
awareness
and collaborative
hands-on
training
in some
of the latest information
technology
products
to the Marist faculty.
Approximately
30 stu-
dents
work
in
Academic
Technology/CAT.
The
students
are the primary
contact
for the faculty members
and
work
closely
with them to plan and implement
their
projects.
■
The
Academic
Learning
Center,
Writing Center,
Of-
fice of International
Education,
Higher
Education
Op-
portunity
Program
and Center
for Career
Services
share
the east side of
the
top
level,
giving students
conve-
nient access
to specialized
information
and
trained
support
staff.
A student
resource
area
there
features
PCs,
a reference
library
and
private interview
rooms
for students
using any of
these
services.
The
Reese
Reading
Room,
named
for long-
time
Marist
board
member
Frances
Reese,
offers
a spacious
and
airy
reading
and
study area,
with comfortable
seating,
car-
rels
equipped with network
ports
for
laptops
and breathtaking
views of
the
Hudson
River
and
nearby
mountains
from
the
library's
top level.
The
Margaret
W.
Mair Executive
Presenta-
tion Room
is equipped
for projecting
im-
ages
on a
large
screen
from a variety of
sources
including
PC,
DVD,
VCR
and laptop.
Teleconferences
are
possible
via phone
amplifiers
and
tabletop microphones.
A
unique
sound
system
features
no
speakers
but
instead
drivers
built
into
walls, result-
ing
in uniform
sound
throughout
the room.
A touch screen
controls
systems
including
image
display,
window
blinds,
lighting
and
sound
volume.
"Reading f11unishes the mind only with materials of knowledge;
it is thinkir1g that makes what we read ours." -John Locke
The building encompasses
all the principal
features
nec-
essary
for creating
and sustaining
a digital
library.
A
ro-
bust
network capable
of transmitting
large
video files to
simultaneous
users
supports
an array of servers,
collabo-
rative
work rooms
for producing
and capturing
content,
205
workstations
and four classrooms
fully
computerized
for teaching
and
learning
as well as nearly
400
network
ports
for student
laptops.
Forty-five
of
the
workstations
are
in
the Dyson
E-scriptorium
(below right).
8
MARIST
MAGAZINE
Ample
study
space
in
the building,
including
the Frank
A.
Fusco
Reading
Room
(left,
top
and facing
page),
enables
725 students
to work
individually
or
in
small groups
us-
ing soft seating,
single or double carrels,
study tables
or
small
study
rooms.
Many
students
bring
their
own laptops,
and
IBM
ThinkPads•
are available
to borrow
for use
within
the library.
A
Champion
ofMarist
John J. Gartland Jr. is named a life trustee of Marist's Board of Trustees
after four decades of dedicated service.
A
fter more
than 43 years of dedicated
service to
Marist
College, Poughkeepsie
attorney John
J.
Gartland
Jr. has
been
elected
to life trustee
status by
Marist's
Board
of
Trustees.
"He
is
a very
unique
and special
person in
the life and
history
of
the
college," says Dr.
Dennis
Murray,
president
of Marist.
"No
vol-
unteer
has done
more
for students, faculty
and alumni of our college
than
Jack
Gartland."
Mr. Gartland's
involvement
with Marist
dates
to
1956,when he was elected
to
the first
lay
advisory board at the college, which was
then
devoted to training young men to be-
come Marist Brothers. Mr. Gartland
became
a
member
of the
college's
board
of trustees
in
1969
and served as chairman of
the
board
from
1972
to
197 4.
He has
been
an advisor to
10
MA RIST
MAG AZ I N E
three Marist
presidents and
has
served as an
important
bridge between
the college and the
Dutchess County community.
Physically and academically,
Marist
has
been
shaped significantly
by
Jack Gartland's
efforts. For 20 of
his
30 years on
the board,
Mr. Gartland chaired
the
trustees'
Buildings
and Grounds committee and oversaw the
design and development of the
Marist
cam-
pus. The
construction
or renovation of virtu-
ally every building on the campus was com-
~
pleted during
his tenure
as committee chair,
totaling
more
than
$120 million
in improve-
ments.
His
participation was always hands-
on; he attended meetings nearly every week
and made frequent visits to construction sites
Jolt11]. Gartla11d]r.
to
monitor progress. As president of
the James
j.
McCann
Foundation, he played a
leader-
ship role in securing several million
dollars
in
foundation grants
to
support
the
expansion
and enhancement of the campus
and its
aca-
demic
programs.
■
As
cltainna11
of tlte Board of Trustees' Buildi11gs a,1d Grounds
committee, Jach Gartla11d has played a11 integral role i11
every
major decisio11 involving construction at Marist. At left: Mr.
Gartla11d
a11d
Pltysical Pla11t
Director Thomas Daly donned ltard
hats and
viewed
tlte Stude11t Ce11ter
from Cliampagnat before
touri11g the project during its co11structio11
in
1993.
Chronology of Jack Gartland's lnvo,lvement
with Marist College
73-85
Served
as lay-affi
I
iated
Brother
of the
Maris!
Order
of Teachers
1977
The
Class
of
1977
dedicated
its
yearbook
to Jack
Gartland
1977
The
James
J. Mccann
Recreation
C:enter
was
completed,
supported
by a
~
$1.35
million
grant
from
the Mccann
Foundation,
which
also
supported
the
~
rnnovation
of
Fontaine
Hall
as a
<
~
library
l
~
1980
Helped
establish
the college's
first
Over
the
past four decades Jach Gartland
e1ndowed
chair,
the
Dr. Linus
Richard
has
served
as a close advisor to
Marist
Foy
Chair
in
Computer
Science,
and
presidents including, above, President Den-
provided
a
leadership
gift from
the
nis
Murray (left) and President Emeritus
fvlcCann
Foundation
Bro. Paul Ambrose,
FMS (center).
1980
Received
an honorary
Doctor
of
1956
Elected
chairman
of the college's
Humane
Letters
degree
at President
first lay
advisory
board
Dennis
Murray's
inauguration
1957
Helped
foster
the
admission
of
lay
1983
Honored
as a Volunteer
of the Year
students
to
the college
by the Council
for Advancement
and
1967
Received
the
Maris!
College
Support
of Education
President's
Award
for Community
1984
Tlhe
Mccann
Foundation
assisted
in
Service;
his
father,
John
J.
n1e
purchase
of
7
acres
northwest
of
Gartland
Sr.,
and
son Michael
t~1e
townhouses,
enabling
Maris!
to
also
received
this
award
e,<pand
northward
with planned
student
residences
and
new
athletic
1968
Helped
foster
the
admission
of
fields
women
to
the college
1985
lrnitiated
the Maris!
College/Mccann
1969
Became
a member
of
the
Maris!
Foundation
Computer
Grant
Partner-
College
Board
of
Trustees
sllip, which
to date
has
provided
1969
Became
president
of the newly
grants
totaling
more
than
$800,000
to
established
Mccann
Foundation
75
private
schools
and
nonprofit
1969
Introduced
the
Mccann
Scholars
organizations
in Dutchess
County
program-to
date,
more
that
$1.
4
1986
Tile
Lowell
Thomas
Communications
million
in
scholarships
has
en-
C1enter
opened,
supported
by a
abled
several
hundred
local
stu-
$·1
million
grant
from
the Mccann
dents
to attend
Maris!
Foundation
72-74
Served
as chairman
of the
Maris!
1989
Gartland
Commons
student
College
Board
of
Trustees
residences
dedicated
Jach
Gartland's
son
Michael
became a
member
of Marist's
Board
of
Trnstees
ear-
lier
this year. Michael Gartland
is
a
part-
ner
in
tire
law
Jinn
of Corbally, Gartland
and Rappleyea, where
Ire has practiced
with
Iris
father
since
1974.
J-le
received tl,e
Marist College President's
Award for Com-
munity
Service,
an
honor he
shares
with
his
father and grandfather. Above, father
and
son
find a
moment
to
visit
before a
board
meeting
on the
campus.
1990
Opening
of Gartland
Athletic
Com-
mons,
created
with more
than
$1
million
from
the Mccann
Foundation
1991
Mccann
Baseball
Field
dedicated,
supported
by a grant
of nearly
$500,000
from
the Mccann
Foundation
1997
Major
addition
to the Mccann
Recreation
Center
dedicated;
con-
struction
was
supported
by
$1.75
million
from
the Mccann
Foundation
1999
Secured
a
$150,000
grant
for
the
James
A.
Cannavino
Library
from
the
Cunneen-Hackett
Charitable
Trust
1999
Elected
Life
Trustee
of
the
Marist
College
Board
of Trustees
Jach
Gartland spol1e
at
the
dedication of
Jach Gartland, a longtime supporter
of atlrletic
programs
at Marist, tossed the
coin
at
the
the McCann Baseball
Field
in
1991.
start of Mal'ist'sfootball game against
his
alma
mate,;
Georgetown University,
in
1995.
SUMMER
2000
11
A
Character-
Building
College
M
arist College has been
recognized
as
a
leader
in
student character
develop-
ment.
This past year, Marist was
named
in
The
Templeton
Guide:
Colleges
That
Encourage
Char-
acter Development,
a national
guidebook
pro-
duced by the
John Templeton
Foundation.
Marist was also named to
the
Templeton
Honor Roll, a select
list of 100
colleges and
universities recognized
for
their
record of
commitment to inspire students
to
lead ethi-
cal and civic-minded liYes.
Intended
for
high
school students, par-
ents, guidance counselors, college adminis-
trators,
trustees,
faculty and alumni,
The
Templeton
Guide
recognizes programs that
represent the
best practices in the
field
of
character development during the college
years. The
programs
were chosen
through
a
highly
selective process
that
considered clar-
ity of vision and statement of purpose; institu-
tional
resources; involvement
of institutional
leaders; impact
on students, faculty, campus
and
community;
integration
into the core
this interdisciplinary
mi-
nor
in 1995 as part of
the
college's
humanities pro-
gram.
Students
take
courses in human
rights,
human
values and choice,
afOuence and poverty, and
other social and
political
topics. Faculty and students
collaborate
on social
research
and hands-on experience,
working with a wide variety of community
service agencies to
put into
practice what
is
learned in
the Marist
classroom. Dr.
Mar
Peter-Raoul, chair of the Philosophy and
Re-
ligious
Studies
Department,
Dr. Bruce Luske,
associate professor
of sociology, and Dr. Greg
Moses, assistant
professor of philosophy, di-
rect the
program.
In
addition
to
recognizing
the Public
Praxis
project, Templeton recognized Marist's Self-
Management
program
as a nationwide
model
for students entering college. The
program
teaches students
to
examine how their own
curriculum or academic study;
longevity; external awards and
recognition; and assessment.
Designed
for those who be-
lieve
that
character matters,
The
Templeton
Guide
contains profiles
of 405 exemplary college
pro-
grams in 10 categories. Programs
profiled include those of Brown
The Templeton
Guide
recognizes
programs that
represent the best
practices in the
field of character
development
during
the college years.
feelings, behaviors and thoughts
are central to personal develop-
ment and achievement in all as-
pects of life. Two Marist educa-
tors, Dr. Edward O'Keefe and
Donna Berger, initiated the pro-
gram with the college's Academic
Leaming
Center in 1989. They
are also the authors of
Self-Man-
University, Colgate University, Cornell
Uni-
versity, Dartmouth College, Duke University,
Princeton University,
Stanford
University
and
Yale
University. Marist is
profiled
in two sec-
tions
highlighting the top
programs
for first-
year students and for civic education.
The book recognizes Marist's Public
Praxis
project
as one of the country's
leading civic
education
programs. Marist's Department of
Philosophy and Religious
Studies
established
12
M A R I ST M A G A Z
I
N E
agementfor
College
Students:
The ABC Approach,
a
book
used
in the
Marist program and in
many other colleges and universities nation-
wide. Now in its second printing, the text was
chosen in 1995 by
Rolling
Stone
magazine as
one of
the
top three personal development
and study guides in
the
country.
"Marist College's strong commitment
to
character development and
the
strength of
its
program
make it
a model for colleges and
universities
nationwide,"
said
Dr.
Arthur
J.
Schwartz, director
of
character development
programs at
the John Templeton Foundation.
"With
The Templeton
Guide,
we
hope
to
help
prospective college students and
their parents
who want to
know
what colleges are
doing
to
promote
the
core values of
honesty,
self-
control, respect and service to those
less
for-
tunate.
The
Templeton
Guide
identifies
col-
leges that
encourage students
tO
understand
the importance of
personal
and civic respon-
sibility, which will
help
them succeed
in
col-
lege
and
beyond.
Marist's work in this area
is
most
impressive."
"The
Templeton
Guide
gives added affi
rma-
tion
to the well-known fact
that
Marist gradu-
ates are
liberally
educated, first-rate
profes-
sionals who are also
builders
of community
and exemplary citizens," said Dr. Artin
Arslanian, dean of faculty/vice president for
academic affairs at Marist.
"This
also attests
tO
the
fact that the
Marist
mission is very much
alive on campus and
impacts
the
lives
of all its
students, thanks
to
the
professionalism,
com-
mitment
and
dedicated
leadership of
its
fac-
ulty, staff and administration." Marist's
mis-
sion today
is based
on the
ideals
originally
established
by
the founding Marist Brothers:
commitment to excellence in education, a
pursuit
of higher human values, and dedica-
tion to the
principle of service.
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t
ALU1~NI
Keeping Up With Mai'ist Graduates
NOTES
1
9
5 6
Bro. Dominic
M.
O'Brien
is
di-
rector of Christian Formation for
St. Catherine's
Parish
in Orange
Park,
Fla.
1
9 5 7
G.
Patrick Gallagher
is active in
his
work as an expert
police
wit-
ness dealing
with cases across the
country, including one case that
was on
Fox's
"Scariest
Police
Chases." He
has
also been work-
ing with the Department of
Jus-
tice and
its
Civil Rights Division
as an expert consultant in some
nationally
prominent
police
cases
and conducting
national
training
sessions for
the
Public Risk Man-
agement Association. All Marist
alumni are
invited to
enjoy
the
views and solitude from the
porches of Pat's
bed
and
break-
fast, the Wild Geese, in
the Blue
Ridge
Mountains near Blacksburg,
Va.
]Pa•mMsl#
1
9 6 0
Bro. Vincent Benedict, FMS
(aka
Bro.
Thomas Moriarty) received a
promotion to
dean of studies at
Our Lady of Lourdes
High
School
in Poughkeepsie.
1
9 6 3
Bro. John
j.
Cherry, FMS
has
been
asked
by
his religious order
to
become the vocation director
for the Marist Brothers at Marist
College.
1
9 6 5
David
R.
Gerling
and
his
wife
would
like to
hear from alumni
from the classes of
1965
and
1966
who
live
in or near
the
Houston,
Texas, area. Feel free
to
call
them
at (409) 291-7393.
I
j.
Brien
O'Callaghan, Ph.D.
was accepted
to present at the National Confer-
ence on Education, sponsored by
the American Association of
School Administrators in San
Francisco
in March. His presen-
tation
was titled
"Student
Shootings: Predictable, Explain-
able,
Preventable."
I
Robert
O'Handley's
textbook,
Magnetic
Materials: Principles and Applica-
tions,
has
been published
by John
Wiley & Sons.
I
Father Michael
Perry
is the pastor at Our Lady of
Refuge Church in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Alumni played
a
prominent
role
in
the
Campaign for
tlte
Marist
Library a11d
tlte
dedicatio11
of tlte
11ew
library May
6.
Dick
Cole
'69
(left),
one of
several
speakers weari11g
a Marist
baseball
cap
for protection
against the harsh
sun,
addressed
tlte
crowd of
nearly 1,000.
A
member
of Marist's
Board
of Trustees
and
chair
of the trustee
campaign,
lie
recognized
the Board
of Trustees for
launching the
campaign
with
generous gifts
and p1roviding a total
of $5.6
million
toward
tlte
library. 111
another
speech
Jach
Ebertlt
'69
(right),
wlto
cltaired
the
alumni
campaign,
reported tltat
alumni response
to
tl1e
effort
!tad been
overwhelming.
Total
alumni giving reached
$735,000,
more than
600
new
alumni
donors participated
and 83 percent
of
all
gifts
to
tlte campaign came from
Marist
graduates.
I
Ronald Streck
retired
from IBM
after 32 years
in
April of 1998. He
is
doing
consulting work for
Outsourced MarketingAssociates,
Inc.
His son, Ryan, is a senior at
Marist,
majoring in
environmen-
tal
policy.
1
9 6 6
John Hart, Ph.D.
was selected for
the
Oxford Seminars in Science
and Christianity at the
University
of Oxford in England for
1999-
2001. He also received
the
Sci-
ence-Religion Course Develop-
ment
Award from
the
Center of
Theology and
the
Natural Sci-
ences in Berkeley, Calif.
I
Will-
iam R. Kawka
is
a seniior man-
ager at Penta Associates,
Ltd.
Penta
is a consulting
firm
v.rith a prac-
tice in disaster
recovery, technol-
ogy, operations and fi111ance.
I
James O'Brien
is
a computer-
programming instructor at
the
CHUBB
Institute.
I
Terry
Youngs
has retired
from
North Rockland
School District.
1
9 6
7
Robert
A.
Johnson
staned and
operates Kaffe Magnum Opus,
Inc., a specialist coffee roaster for
independent
coffeehouses and
cafes.
I
John F. Kenny
lhas been
selected by
the
Mid-Hudson
School Study Council
to
receive
one of
this
year's Awards for Ex-
cellence
in
Administration. He is
the coordinator for
mathematics
and
business
education in
the
Wappingers (N
.Y.)
Central School
District.
I
Anthony LaRocco
re-
tired
from
teaching after 32 years
in New York City public schools.
He
was elected to
the board
of the
Prescott
Fund for Children and
Youth
in April
1999.1
Palma and
Dennis Mega
recently vacationed
in Arizona and visited the Grand
Canyon. As they drove into the
park, they were greeted by a
park
service officer,
Kevin
Kelly,
a
1983 Marist graduate.
Kevin no-
ticed
Dennis's
Marist alumni hat
in
the car. What a small world!
I
Dr. George Searles
published
his
fourth
book,
Workplace Com-
munications:
The Basics,
a college
textbook used
in
applied writing
courses.
I
William
Urkiel
has
been appointed senior vice
presi-
dent and chief
financial
officer of
Ikon
Office Solutions
in
Malvern,
Pa.
1 9 6 8
Richard Amodeo
received the
Certified Medical Practice Execu-
tive award from the American
College of MPEs
in
Englewood,
Colo.
I
Robert G. Bailey
is
assis-
tant dean at the University of Mis-
souri-Columbia School of
Law.
He
was awarded a Spurgeon
Smithson Award.
This
award
is
given annually by
the
Missouri
Bar Foundation
to
Missouri
judges, teachers oflaw and/or law-
yers
deemed
"to have rendered
outstanding service toward
the
increase
and diffusion of
justice
among men."
I
James T. Brice
retired from
federal
service after
40 years with
the
USDA-Animal
Plant Health Service in May
1999.
While
there
he was
the federal-
state plant health director and
completed many
domestic
and
foreign assignments. Among his
awards was the Department of
Agriculture
Distinguished Service
Award for
his
work with grass-
hopper emergency control pro-
grams.
I
Dr. Lawrence P. Carr
has been promoted to
full
profes-
sor at Babson College. Larry ,viii
be
on sabbatical
in
2000.
I
Fred
Clark
has
retired
from the school
system in Fairfax County, Va.,
after 26 years at Robinson Sec-
ondary School as a math/com-
puter
science teacher. He is now
teaching
the
same topics in
Prince
William County, Va., at Osbourn
Park High School.
I
John
T.
Goegel
was honored by the New
Hampshire Interscholastic Ath-
leticAssociation
for more
than
25
years
of coaching. For the 1999-
2000
season, he coached cross-
country and indoor
and
outdoor
track and field.
I
Maj.
Charles F.
Howlett
has been
appointed
by
SUMMER
2 0 0 0
13
t
ALUMNI
NOTES
the
Department
of the Air Force
to the position of additional duty
admissions
liaison
officer. Chuck
will assist students
with Air
Force Academy admissions and
AFROTCscholarships.
lHoward
P. Lapidus
is the
superintendent
of schools for the Moravia Central
School District
in
Moravia, N.Y
I
Kenneth Maass
iscompleting his
18
th
year as a social
studies
teacher
at St. Augustine High School
in
St. Augustine, Fla.
I
Edward
j.
Manganel
is
the
chair of the so-
cial studies department at Monsi-
gnor Farrell High School in Staten
Island. Ed
is
also an adjunct pro-
fessor at the College of Staten
Island.
I
Anthony Morrell
has
retired
from
the Bonneville Power
Administration in Portland, Ore.
Tony and his wife, Marjorie, cel-
ebrated their 30
th
wedding anni-
versary
in
April 2000.
I
Thomas
Spratt
is vice president with U.S.
Trust Company.
Ijames
Zoeller
has
moved to Florida.
Jim has
joined
Jefferson Pilot Financial
Group
as a partner
in
the
company's largest agency.
1
9 6 9
Peter Clarry
is
celebrating
his
25
th
year of
teaching.
I
Fred
Greifenstein
has been appointed
lO
senior vice president of
re-
search and development and chief
technical officer for ProBusiness
Services, Inc.
I
Anne and
Patrick
Keilty
are planning
to
retire from
teaching in
June
2001 after 33
years in the classroom. They plan
to move to and work in Tampa,
Fla.
I
Vincent]. Mooney
is
in his
31st year at Arlington High School
in LaGrangeville, N.Y.
I
Thomas
j.
Nolan
is
practicing individual
and
family
therapy in
Paramus,
NJ. and Rye Brook, N.Y.
I Tom
Ward
rang
the closing bell on
the
New York Stock Exchange on Oct.
15,
1999,
as WestPoint Stevens
stock
began
trading on NYSE
rather
than NASDAQ. Tom
is
president
and COO of WestPoint
Stevens.
)P1nm•ua
~
1
9 7 0
Theodore
Brosnan
lives
in
San
Antonio and
is
the
regional
mar-
keting
director for Georgia Pa-
cific.
He
is a volunteer
USA
Wres-
tling
(for
kids!)
coach.
I
Robert
L.
Brown,
Esq.
has retired
from
the Department of Justice after 26
years there, where
he
served as
director of
immigration. He
is
now a partner
in
the firm of Frantz
Ward, L.L.P. in Cleveland, Ohio.
I
Richard F.
Bruno
retired
from
AT&T. He is
manager
of research
and
development
for Network
Plus,acompetitive
local
exchange
company
headquartered
in
Priceline.com
co-founder
Tim
Brier
'69
(center) visited
with Presi-
dent
Dennis
Murray (left)
and Jach
Eberth
'69
following
his
talk
at
Marist
this
past fall about
establishing the
two-year-old
com-
pany.
A standing-room-only crowd
attended the presentation.
14
MAR IS
T
MAG AZ IN
E
Quincy,
Mass.
I
Cleveland
Dodge
was awarded a Ph.D. in
chemistry
from SUNY-Stony
Brook.
I
Thomas
R.
Hoffay
was
appointed
to the
Office of New
York State Attorney General Eliot
Spitzer. He is assistant
deputy
director for intergovernmental
relations,
stationed
in the
Poughkeepsie
regional office.
I
Richard
Maloney
is the adminis-
trator
of a 400-bed hospital/nurs-
ing
home in
Pomona,
N.Y.1
Pete
Masterson's
son, Danny, is a star
of
the
Fox television show
"That
?O's Show." He
plays
Hyde. His
other son, Chris, is a regular on
theshow"Malcolm in the Middle,"
also on Fox.
I
James
A.
McGlumphy
was invited to make
a
presentation
at the Secretary's
National Technology Conference
in
Washington, D.C., inJuly
1999.
Visit his home page at http://
web.mountain.net/~jmcg.
I
Bro.
Richard Sharpe, FMS
has been
appointed principal at Our Lady
of Lourdes
High School in
Poughkeepsie.
He was previously
president of Marist High School
in Chicago.
1
9 7
1
Anthony
Dallojacono
retired on
Jan. 1, 2000.
I
Rev.
Neil
Draves-
Arpaia
had a second collection of
intercessory prayers,
Come Light
Our Hearts,
published in July 1999
by
Ave Maria Press in Notre Dame,
Ind.
I
Philip G.
Heasley
has been
named president and COO of U.S.
Bancorp in Minneapolis, Minn.
I
F.
Stephen
Moore, C.P.C.U.,
C.l.C.
has been promoted to se-
nior
profit center consultant for
the Harleysville
Insurance
Com-
panies
in Harleysville, Pa..
I
Patricia F. Rittenhouse
retired
from teaching at Spackenkill High
School in Poughkeepsie
and
worked for the U.S. Park Service
in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Now she's
back in a classroom at St. Joseph's
School in Auburn, N.Y.
I
Tho-
mas E. Wilson
is the president of
International
Specialties, Inc. in
Germantown, Tenn. He teaches
producers how to conduct busi-
ness internationally, including
how
to
make a product to an
international
standard, how
to
ship it and how to market it.
1 9 7 2
Roseann
Brust
is the senior
busi-
ness
development manager for
Homecoming/Reunion
Weekend 2000 October
13-15
It's a Whole New Millennium!
We've got entertainment-
two
live
bands at
the
Family Picnic!
We've got sports-
a dozen athletic events including
Marist Football vs.Iona!
We've
got
culture--
A
rt
Gallery exhibit and a
comedy
by Oscar Wilde!
Plus another new building
to
showcase--
The dedication of Fontaine
Hall!
For information, call the Alumni
Affairs Office at
(845)
575-3283
or visit
www.marist.edu/alumni.
Staff Leasing Group. She
lives
with
her two children in Roswell, Ga.
I
Dr.
Vincent
j.
Coda
became
president
of
the
Mid-West Podia-
try Conference
in
March 2000.
I
Paul]. Curtin
Jr.
is a partner in
the
law
firm Shulman, Curtin,
Grudner, Reagan and Shyder in
Syracuse, N.Y. He specializes in
commercial
real estate.
I
Richard
Davis
has two children. His son,
Ryan, graduated from Loyola Col-
lege and his daughter,
Kristen,
is
a member of the Class of 2003 at
Marist.
I
Frank Gerbes
is
the
associate
broker
for Re Max Realty
Group in New Windsor, N.Y.
I
Gregory
Murin
is the coordina-
tor
of gifted education in the
Brewster
(N.Y.)
Central School
district. He is also an adjunct pro-
fessor at
the
College of New Roch-
elle, teaching graduate courses in
thinking
skills and gifted educa-
tion.
He also teaches summer
graduate courses at the Univer-
sity of Connecticut-Storrs.
I
Michael
A.
Smith
is a business
development engineer with the
Hudson Valley Technology De-
velopment Center in Fishkill, N
.Y.
I
Barbara
Devaney
Weiss
has
been
named group marketing
di-
rector at Hachette Filipacchi
Magazines. She oversees
the
mar-
keting of
Elle Decor,
Home Maga-
zine
and
Metropolitan
Home Maga-
zine.
1
9 7 3
James
Corcoran
is
president of
the Corcoran Group, a business
consulting firm specializing in
performance
measurements.
I
Bro.
Hank Hammer, FMS
is the
director of Marist evangelization
for Marist schools
in
the United
States.
I
Annie and
Marty
McGowan's
son, Matthew,
be-
came an American citizen on Feb.
Chris Mccann '83 Named to
Marist Board of Trustees
Christopher McCann
'83 has been appointed
LO
the
Marist College Board of Trustees.
Chris is senior vice president
of 1-800-
Flowers.com. He was one of the founders of the e-
commerce company(www.l800fiowers.com)
which
specializes in flowers, gourmet foods, candy and gift
baskets. Chris oversees operations of the company's
interactive services division and five telecenters.
ln
April
the
company
launched
1-800-
LASFLORES.COM, the first floral and gift Web site
presented entirely in Spanish. The company, head-
quartered in Westbury, N.Y., also fulfills orders re-
ceived by phone or via its company-operated or
franchised stores.
Chris majored in political science at Marist and
has been an active volunteer with the Alumni Associa-
tion. He and his wife, Kathy, also a 1983 graduate,
have three children and live in Bayville, N.Y.
1-800-flowers'fcom~
Christopher McCann
'83
11, 2000, al a special children's
ceremony
in
New York City.
1
9 7 4
Dennis D.
Claire
Jr.
earned a
doctorate
in English from St.
John's University. The title of his
dissertation
was "Return to Real-
ism: Particularity and Epiphany
in
the Irish
Short Story, 1903-
1960."
I
Thomas
Connors
and
his wife,
Karen
Conlon,
have
three sons and live
in Holmdel,
NJ Tom is senior vice
president
and consumer banking director
for First Union Bank.
I
Denise
DelaMonlaigne
owns a natural
foods store in Front Royal, Va.
She has also completed a two-
and-a-half-year program
to
be-
come a certified nutritionist.
I
John
R.
Markle
lives
in
the blue-
grass of Kentucky and is employed
by
Lexmark
International, which
develops, manufactures and sup-
plies printing products.
He
and
his wife, Sally, have an 11-year-
old daughter who would like to
go to Marist.
I
Dr.
Anna
Mclellan
conducted a series of seminars on
Jacques
Lacan, the noted French
psychoanalyst, in
Rhinecliff,
N.Y.,
earlier this year. She
maintains
a
clinical practice in Rhinebeck and
New York City.
I
Dominic Mucci
is
superintendent of schools for
the Springs Union Free School
District of East Hampton, N.Y.
Previously he was
the
pirincipal of
the Forest Park School
in
the
South Colonie Central School
District in Albany, N Y
In
his
last
year at Forest Park,
the
school
was recognized as a New York
State School of Excellenice, one of
only seven so named, and as a
Blue Ribbon National School of
Excellence, one of 266
;across
the
country.
I
Marge
White
Pellagrino
is
a member of the
Arizona Commission o:n the Arts
Artist Roster 2000-2002.
I
Rich-
ard
C.
Van Auken
w;as named
senior vice president of corporate
banking for the Albany district of
KeyBank NA.
]rtiW\\•UE:~
1
9 7 5
Michael
Hart, LS.
has been pro-
moted to partner at the firm of
Clough, Harbour and Associates,
L.L.P. He is the survey and geo-
graphic information systems ser-
vice group manager.
I
Thomas
Herman
is a major in the U.S.
Army, assigned to the White
House Military Office a.s a presi-
dential communicationi; officer.
I
Brian McCulloch, M.Di.
is medi-
cal director of maternal-fetal
medicine for Central du Page
Hospital
in Winfield,
111.
I
Maureen O'Toole
Reimers
is a
bookkeeper/office
assistant at
Starlight Cove Elementary School
in
Lantana, Fla.
I
Steven
D.
Ryan
has been named publisher of
Modem Reprographics
magazine,
considered the country's most
important
magazine
for large-for-
mat imaging.
1 9 7 6
Linda Dickerson-Hartsock
is
executive director of the Cortland
County Business Development
Corporation.
I
Scott
McDonald
is
mechanical engineer for A WS
Scientific, a renewable energy-
consulting firm,
in
Albany, N.Y.
I
Joseph
Neumann has completed
the five-course requirement for
certified
insurance
counselor sta-
tus.
He
is vice president and part-
ner with the Donald B. Detrick
Agency in Dover Plains, N.Y.
1 9 7 7
After a year and a half in north-
west New Jersey,
Brian]. Bennett
has moved his family
back to
the
suburbs of Philadelphia
and
started a new job with PCl Con-
tract Services.
1 9
7 8
Dick
Fleischmann
is manager of
Fidelity's
Palm Beach, Fla.,
branch, which was awarded
"Top
Branch of the Year" at the
company's national 1999 sales
meeting.
I
Edward Linde
is a
senior direct marketing manager
responsible for a global relation-
ship marketing program for
top
IBM customers worldwide.
I
Michael Marchesano
has been
appointed president and CEO of
Bill Communications, a subsid-
iary of VNU-USA.
I
Duane
A.
Smith
is a broker/investment
counselor at David Lerner Asso-
ciates in White Plains, NY.
1
9 7 9
Eugene
Bryan
owns Hispanic
Media Sales, Inc., a marketing
and sales consultancy group.
He
also publishes www. HispanicAd.
com, a tool for Hispanic advertis-
ing and media professionals.
I
Dr. Maria
Diaz Deeken
is presi-
dent of Federation of Straight
Chiropractors and Organizations
and a member of the South Caro-
lina Chiropractic Board of Exam-
iners. Maria was the president of
the S.C. Federation of Straight
Chiropractic and was recognized
as Chiropractor of the Year at
Sherman College of Straight Chi-
ropractic in 1998.
I
Fay Elliott
Moore
works at Cascade Tech-
nologies, Inc.
I
Angel
Millan
was
promoted to associate professor
at Essex County College
in
New-
ark, N.j.
I
Kathleen
Norton
Mc ulty
has been named public
editor of the
Poughkeepsie
journal.
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1 9 8 0
Gerard
P. Cavaluzzi
has been
appointed general counsel of
Malcolm Pirnie
Inc.,
a national
firm of independent environmen-
tal
consultants
headquartered
in
While Plains, N.Y. He
is
an ad-
junct
professor
of paralegal stud-
ies at Marist.
I
Joanne
Hempe
completed a master's in organiza-
tional management and human
resource
development
at
Manhattanville College in May
2000.Joanne isa human resource
partner in IBM's personal systems
group in Somers, N.Y.
I
Thomas
Masterson III
started and is the
director of Coyote Hill Mountain
Bike Camp in West Fairlee, Vt.,
now
in its fifth year.
I
Dave
Pow-
ers
was named Section l Confer-
ence A Girls Soccer Coach of the
Year at Ramapo High
School
in
S U
M M
E
R
2 0 0 0
15
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ALUMNI
NOTES
Frie,1ds
of
late Marist
crew
member Terry
Machen
raised money for a
crew
shell
named in
Terry's
honor
and
dedicated it
April
15
on
the
Marist
waterfront.
Tliose
gathered
at the dedication included
(left to
right) Director of Athletics
Tim
Murray; Terry'.s
sister, Molly Torra;
Head
Men's Crew Coach Scott
Sanford;
Terry's
sister, Sharon
Du Long; Terry's farmer
Marist
teammate Bill
Zabichi
'66;
Terry's
daugh-
ter, Beth;
Nick
Gisonde; Terry's widow,
Kathleen
McCartl1y; Terry's son, Michael; Terry's farmer team-
mate
Larry
Plover
'65;
and Harold
Dulong.
Scott
McDonald
'76
to
Gwendolyn Friesen, April 1998
I
Salim
Talib
'77
to
Tara Fugate,
Nov. 9, 1999
I
Peter
Van
Aken
'77
to Linda Mae Roper, Sept. 26,
19991
Fay
Gillis
'79 to
Lawrence
Moore.June 19,
19991
Barbara
Burke
'81
to
David Behanna, May
2,
1999
I
Evelyn Greco
'82
to
John Ashworth,
July 10,
1999
I
Theresa Ferrante
'83 to
Michael
Mendello, Oct.
10,
19991
Kevin
Oboyski
'84
to
Lori MacNary,
July
10,
1999
I
JeanMarie
Magrino
'85
to
Nelson Arnold.
March
12.
19991
Robert Carboni
'87 to Melissa Muller, Nov. 13,
1999
IJohn
W. DorozynskiJr.
'87
to
Tammy
Turner, Dec. 4,
19991
Paige
Jones
'87 to Michael
Tedford,
Sept. 26, 1999
I
Diane
Martin
'87
to
Chris
Mechler.June
13, l 999
I
Kimberly Graziano
'88
to
James
McClelland, Oct. 10,
19981
Sean Noble
'88
to
Marleni
Calderon, Nov.
13,
19991
Linda
A.
Reip
'88 to Kevin Lipton.July
11,
1999
I
Curt Schryver
'88
to
Monica Dissinger.June 26, 1999
16
MAR IS T MAG AZ IN E
MARRIAGES
I
Kenneth Foye
'89
to
Hitomi
Murayama, March 28, 1998
I
Heidi
Marie Frank '89
to
Tho-
mas Bauer
'91,)une 27,
1999
I
Warren Hance
'89 to Jacquelyn
Spagnuolo, April 9,
19991
Craig
Lynch
'89
to
Cheryl Seals, Oct. 9,
19991
Veronica Santarsiero
'89
to
Dr. Richard
C.
Bauer, Oct. 2,
1999
I
Jeffrey
Ferony
'90 to
Christine Carlson, Aug. 28, 1999
I
Toni Hamilton
'90 to F. Keith
Duncan. Oct. 30,
19991
Melissa
Nassar
'90
to Dr. Robert Tomkins,
Sept.
18,
1999
I
Jacquelyn
D.
O'Brien
'90 to
Robert Whitcomb,
Oct. 5, 1996
I
John Scagliotti
'90
to
Kathleen Williams, Sept.
19,
19981
Patricia Smith
'90
to
Robert Hannemann.July 30,
1999
I
Michele Ward
'90
to
Victor
Triolo, Oct. 16, 1999
I
James
Dreselly
'91
to
Tineo Borek, Oct.
2,
1999
IJames
Gallucci
'91
to
Gloria
Carlson, Aug. 6, 1999
I
Terence
Hosmer
'91 to Amanda
L
Fossett, Oct.
10,
1998
I
Michael Lutolf
'91 to Nicole
Armani,
Dec.
5, 1998
I
Daniel
McGonigle
'91 to Christine
Maher, Sept. 10, 1999
I
Robert
Mitchell Naylor
'91 to
Liz
Layton,
June 12,
19991
Rob
Colbert
'92
to Michelle Potocki, Aug. 7, 1999
IE.Jeffrey
Dolfinger
'92 to Laura
Gamache, Aug. 15,
19981
Laura
Draudt
'92 to Anthony
N.
Giaccio, May 30, 1998
I
John
Enright
'92 to Sally
Thrasher,
Oct. 23.
1999
I
Lorianna
Kerstanski
'92
LO
Jeff
Nizolek,
Oct. 9,
19991
LeeAnn Levi
'92
to
Kevin
C.
Miller, November
19981
Grace
Chao-Yi
Liu
'92
to
Honorato
A. Villareal
Jr.,
Nov. 6,
19991
Amy Millard
'92 to Rich-
ard DiMaio, May 29, 1999
I
Ri-
chard
ass
'92
to Amy
lncremona,
Nov. 26, 1999
I
Hi-
lary Simon
'92
to Jason Britton,
Sept.
26,
19991
Inderjeet
Singh
Ramapo,
N.j. Dave led
the
Im-
maculate
Heart
High
School girls'
basketball team
to the
N.].
Paro-
chial A state finals.
1 9 8 1
Rick
Anguilla
is the vice presi-
dent of
investor
relations for Nike,
Inc. Rick
joined
Nike in 1994 as
director of investor relations after
serving as vice
president
of inves-
tor relations at
Tyco
Toys.
I
Ci-
cely Perrotte
is still enjoying
re-
tirement,
painting and 11 lively
grandchildren.
I
Randy Pius
is
the president of a new company
called
Richartz,
USA.
I
Tim
Scherr
is a supervisor at H&R
Block and will
be
in Carlisle.
Pa.,
for another year or two.
I
Dr.
Brian Whalen
is
the associate
dean
for
international
education
at
Dickinson
College.
1
9 8 2
Parley Acker
was appointed
human
resources director
for
Citigroup's Citi f/i
business,
a new
Web-based
bank.
I
Vincent
Ambroselli
is first vice
president
for the private client group at
Merrill Lynch.
lJohn
Blackmore
was
promoted
to vice
president
of
'92
to
Yukti Ahuja.Jan.
1,
2000
I
Steven Soldo
'92
to
Allyson
Carine, Oct.
2,
1999
I
Jason
Valentino
'92 to Kristina Steiner,
April 24, 1999
I
Beverly Anesi
'93 to
Victor M.
Rodriguez
Jr.,
July
18,
1999
I
Richard Daniel
Crater
'93
to
Claudia Nadine
Schmidt, Oct.4.1998
I
Jeanne
Durso
'93 to
John Bosco, Oct.
2,
1998
I
Steven Pardon
'93
to
Nicole DiNardo, July 3, 1999
I
Deanna Sapala
'93
LO
Peter
Reisert,
Aug. 7, 1999
I
Jennifer
Sulger
'93 to Frank Capodacqua
Jr., Dec. 10, 1999
I
Deidre
Sullivan
'93 to
Michael
Beirne
'93, Nov.
27,
1999
I
Michelle
Buebendorf
'94
to
Christopher
McCormack, Sept. 11,
1999
I
Daryl
Costello
'94
LO
Breanna
Casey, October 1998
I
Tara
Ferina
'95 to
Michael
C.
Mostransky
'94, Dec.
31,
19991
Laura
Mclaughlin
'94
to Gre-
gory Dienna,
Dec.
19, 1998
I
Maureen
Maher
'94 to
Stephen
Maher
'94,
Aug. 14, 1999
IJen-
nifer
May
'94
LO
Anthony
)
the Allied Group of Companies.
I
Michael
Doherty
is
a
vice
presi-
dent
in
the futures
sales division
at
Bear
Stearns
&
Co.
in
New
York
City.
I
Stephen
Hopson
has
published
a story
titled
"Dare Take
Risksl" in
the
best-selling book
Chicken Soup for the College
Soul.
He
is
working
on his first
book,
Goodbye,
Wall
Street!,
about
his
experience giving up a lucrative
Wall
Street career
to
find
mean-
ing
and direction through spiri-
tuality.
He
has
been
added
to
the
roster
of
the
speakers'
bureau
Speakers.com.
I
Dennis Martin
is
director of
market
development
within the establishment services
division
of American
Express.
1
9 8 3
Paul
Drejza
is the
president
of
Leatherst0cking
Abstract
&
Title
Corp.
in
Utica, N.Y., and opened
offices
in
adjoining counties of
Herkimer
and
Madison.
I
Maj.
Bernhardt
Smyle Jr.
was pro-
moted
to
the
rank
of major
in
January
1999 and
has
been as-
signed as chief of
training
for
the
Mountain Warfare
School in
Jeri-
cho, Vt.
I
Bonnie
Unser
has been
named director
of children, fam-
Impronto,
Oct. 8,
1999
I
Lee
Markiewicz
'94 to
Danielle
Devine,
Nov.
6, 1999
I
Tammy
A. Miner
'94 to
J.
David
Leary,
Jan. 14,
1999
I
Brian Michael
Mitchell
'94
to Christine
Ann
Wojtasik,
Dec. 5,
19981Jennifer
O'Neill
'94 to GregoryCook,Aug.
22,
19991
Eileen O'Reilly
'94
to
Sean
McGinnis, April
1
7,
1999
I
Salena Marie
Reilly
'94 to
Charles
Walter Gray, Oct. 10,
1998
I
Thomas Schleif
'94
to
Shannon
Herron,
Oct. 30,
19991
Kelly
J.
Valentine '94 to
Mark
D.
Kentos,
Oct.
4, 1998
I
Andrew
Young
'94
to
Talin
Hovsepian,
July 24,
19991
Monica
Connors
'95
to David McGlinchey, Sept.
18, 1999
IJennifer
Donza
'95
to
Michael Giammusso,
Oct. 23,
1999
I
Amy Ellenes
'95
to
Dominick E. Fontana
'93, Oct.
23,
1999
I
Laurie Ferraro
'95 to
Kris Engstrand,
October
19991
Lynette Marie Galante
'95
to
Alex
Kendall Ross.July
3,
19991
Alexandra
Gonzalez
'95 to
Bryan
Oles
'94,July
11,
19991
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.Y.
1 9 8 4
James
Cleary
has been
named
a
member
of
the
Select Enforce-
ment
Team of the
Durham,
N.C.,
Police Department.
I
Timothy
Keough
is director of training
and
development
at Assessments
Solutions,
Inc.,
a global human
resources consulting c:ompany
based in
Manhattan.
I
John
Scheinman
is now men's basket-
ball
coach and head men's tennis
coach for Plymouth State Col-
lege.
I
Mark
A.
Stuart
received
a
Juris Doctor
degree
from West-
ern New England Colleg;e School
of Law in 1998. He is assistant
counsel for
the
New York State
Racing and Wagering
Board.
I
Patricia Walsh
is the di
rector of
international development
for
Dow
Jones
&
Company in New
York City. From 1992 to 1996
Heather Griffen
'95
to
Jason
Cosenza,
Sept.
18, 1999
I
Amanda Howard
'95
tO
Paul
Fanuele, Aug. 6,
19991
:Suzanne
Jacobs
'95 to
Marc Gasperino
'95,
April
2
4,
19991
Erika Leone
'95 to
Francis
D.
McKee, Sept. 5,
1998
I
Claudine Lewa.n
'95
to
Anthony Tabacco
'93,,
July
3,
1999
I
Danielle Molirno
'95
to
Keith
Heady, Sept.
25,
1999
I
Sandy V. Palladino
•95;
to Tho-
mas
S. Nafey,
April 10,
1999
I
Sarah Poviiaitis
'95 to
Denis
Farrell
'95,July
16,
1999
IJamie
Reyman
'95
to Matthew Krueger
'94,
Aug.
21,
1999
I
Christine
Steiner '95
to
James
J.
Pastore
'95,
Sept. 11,
1999
I
Colleen
Talbot
'95
to Scott Jacques
'95,
July 24,
1999
I Brooke
Walker
'95 to Ted Leiner, Dec. 6,
19981
Jennifer
Doorly
'96
to Kevin
Smith
'95,June 17,
19991
Tara
Ferina
'96
to
Michael
Mostransky
'95, Dec. 31,
19991
Michael Flynn
'96 to
Joann
Meyer, May 30,
19991
Christine
Guerci
'96
to Zoran Milojevic
she worked overseas at the
Inter-
national
Herald
Tribune
in
Paris
and at the
Wall Street Journal
in
Brussels.
liBm\NsK
~
1
9 8 5
Jeffrey Basch
is expanding his
financial services business
tO
in-
clude tax form preparation and
seminars on retirement plan dis-
tributions.
I
Phil
and
Deb
(Dutil)
Boyle
were selected to be the
Executive Couple for
the
World-
wide Marriage Encounter for Con-
necticut.
Phil and Deb have been
involved
in presenting Marriage
Encounter Weekends for the past
five years.
I
Joseph
E.
Celentano
was promoted to vice president
for
product
management
in the
institutional
products division at
Pacific Life Insurance Company
in
Newport Beach, Calif.
I
Karen
Downs,
a family service therapist
at Jacksonville (Fla.) Marine
In-
stitute,
has
earned state\vide hon-
ors in Florida for her operation of
two treatment programs for ado-
lescent
sex-offenders.
The
"deemed
status" ranking given
to
the
programs
is
earned
by
fewer
'96, Aug. 7,
19991
Amy Hall
'96
to
Ryan
Patrick,
Sept.
25,
19991
Lisa
Anne Kempf
'96 to Carl
Webbe,
Jan. 28,
2000
I
Beth
Kershaw
'96
to
Raymond
Mahoskey
'94, June 19,
1999
I
Lorianna
Kerstanski
'96 to
Jeff
Nizolek, Oct. 9,
19991
Rebecca
Kuchar
'96 to
Bryan
Runyon
'96,
Oct.
11,
19981
Aretha Le,vin
'96 to
Amin Antione, April
3,
1999
IJessica
Moran
'96
to Rob-
ert
Prezorski,
Aug. 14,
1999
I
John
Moran
'96 to Lisa
Mclagan,
November
1998
I
Cylinda
Rickert
'96 to Matthew
Areno,
June
4,
1999
I
Lynne Seehase
'96
to
Kevin
Woods, Aug.
28,
1999
I
Geoffrey Ayres
'97
to
Kari Mortensen,
Oct.
3,
1998
I
Carolyn C. Bowen
'97
to
James
E. Triba, Oct. 9,
1998
I
Jessica
Lynn
Cramer
'97
to
Daryl
Rich-
ard
'97,June 18, 1999
I
Marga-
ret
Engler
'97 to
Mark Litteken
'98, Aug. 8,
1998
I
Mary Kay
Fiore
'97 to Robert
E.
Canino,
Aug.
20,
1999
I Bernadette
Goebel
'97 to
Robert Maniaci
Joseph
Celentano
'85
than 3 percent of treatment pro-
grams
in
the state. Karen
is
the
first clinical director
LO
have
mul-
tiple programs on deemed status
at the same time. Her employer,
Children's Comprehensive Ser-
vices, promoted
Karen to
CEO of
Alabama Clinical Schools in Bir-
mingham in November 1999.
I
Janice Ek
is working part-time
as a travel counselor for the Jones
Travel Agency
in
Hyde Park, N.Y.
I
Shawn
Mulligan
is
the
regional
manager for
13
offices of Robert
Half,
International
in
New York,
New
Jersey
and Pennsylvania.
I
Edward
C.
Muschio
is control-
'96, Oct. 17,
19981
Leah Hayer
'97
to
Thomas Squires,
July
31,
1999
I
Willow
Lanpher
'97
to
Thomas
Dannible
'98,
Sept.
18,
1999
I
Mary McQuillan
'97
to
Dan
Mangan, Aug.
7, 1999
I
Judith
Reid
'97
to
Jason
LaVoie
'96, Oct.
23,
1999
I
Joy
Schoolcraft
'97
to Jason
Manstream,
Aug.
7,
1999
I
Lisa
G. Stephens
'97
to George
Michael Prisco,
Oct. 31, 1998
I
Jennifer Walsh
'97 to
Michael
Muller
'97, May
1,
19991
Chris-
tina Marie Briscese
'98 to John
Albert
Wynn,
July
17, 1999
I
Robert Fuller
'98
to
Erika
McVey, Aug.
14, 1999
I
Adrienne
Janetti
'98
to
Brian
Murphy,
June
5, 1999
I
Linda
Reip
'98
to
Kevin
Lipwn, July
11,
1999
I
Stephanie Rizzuti
'98
to
Scott Dunn, Aug. 7, 1999
I
Kathryn Robinson
'98 to
Andres Gonzalez, Aug. 8,
19991
Christine Rosenvinge
'98 to
Joshua
Dellett
'97, Oct. 3, 1999
I I
Jodi Dooley
'99 to John
Grady.July 10, 1999
■
SUMMER
2000
17
ler in the accounting department
at Montenay Dutchess
L.L.C.
in
Poughkeepsie.
I
Paul
Nienstadt
has
been
promoted
to
manager in
global market intelligence for IBM
in Poughkeepsie.
I
Richard
A.
Patterson
was promoted
to
vice
president
of
service
delivery
within
1
BM
Global
Services.
I
Lisa
Pilewski
has
two children. Her
Barbara and
Robert
J.
Van-
Aernem
'64, a grandson, Patrick,
May
16,
1999
I
Christine and
Patrick Collum
'67, a grand-
daughter,
Taylor
Cassidy
Glassman, May 2 7. 1999
I
Elsie
and
Edward F.
Hanrahan
111
'68,
a grandson,
Connor
Shane
Hanrahan.July 24,
19991
Chris-
tine and
James
Zoeller
'68, a
grandson, William David Zoeller
Jr., Dec. 5,
1998
I
Teresa and
Paul
T. Reichhart
'69, a grand-
daughter,
Haley Nicole Newton
I
Julie and
Richard Hahn
'71, a
grandson.Joseph Thomas Huntz,
Oct. 28,
1998,
and a granddaugh-
ter,
Grace Moriah Huntz, Dec.
18,
19991
Suzanne and
Kenneth
Ousey
'7
4,
a son, Wyatt William,
March
1, 1999
I
Ann Marie and
David Metz
'80, a son, Conor
Joseph.Jan. 28, 2000
I
Christine
and
Ken
Sullivan
'80, twins, a
daughter, Lauren Elizabeth, and
a son, Kevin Michael, Oct. 2, 1999
I
Lina
Cirigliano
'81 and
Keith
Hollman
'79, a daughter.Jessica,
Aug. 12,
19991
Patricia Gorman
'81 and
Bryan Tarsa
'74,adaugh-
ter, Grace Elizabeth, Oct. 5, 1999
I
Maria and
Timothy
E.
McTiernan
'81, a son, Liam
Charles, April 3,
19991
Nora and
Thomas
J.
Murray
'81, a son,
Terrence, Nov. 3, 1999
I
Cindy
and
Randy Pius
'81, a
son,
Max-
well Benson, May
17,
1999
I
Colleen and
Lt.
Col.
Fergal Foley
'82/94
M,
a son,
Rory
Thomas,
July
30,
19991
Susan Gehan
'82
and Joe Brizek, a daughter, Grace
Erin, Oct. 27, 1999
I
Virginia
"Ginny"
Luciano
'82 and Michael
Brophey, a son, Benjamin Michael,
April 5, 1998
I
Elise
Anguilla
'83 and
Phil
Orlando, a daughter,
Jennifer
Hope,
Feb.
14,
1999
I
Suzie and
Christopher
Blood
'83,
a son, Charles Christopher, Jan.
24,
2000
I
Jacquelyn Butler
'83
and Greg
Horkachuck,
a daugh-
ter.Alexa Barbara, March
12,
1999
18
M A R
I
ST
MA
G A Z
I
N E
1f.
ALUMNI
daughter, Kelsey, has;
started
kin-
dergarten and her
:,on,
Daniel,
has
started
preschoo
I.
1 9 8
16
Thomas
M.
Begg
swam
across
Long Island
Sound (four
miles)
for cancer research with
"$\vim
Across
America."
I
Dara Bo land's
book
How to Eat Lihe a Tree,
a
BIRTHS
I
Colleen Cryan
'83 and Gary
Giametta
'83,
a daughter, Ceara
Lyn,
March 17, 1999
I
Joan
Gasparovic
'83 and
George
Gambeski
'77,
twirns,
a daugh-
ter, Catherine Marie, and a
son,
Mark
Francis,
April 19, 2000
I
Lynn
Haight
'83 and Michael
Mindel, a son, Max
L,
Aug. 30,
19991
Patricia
Mitchell
'83 and
Kenneth Breen, a daughter,
Lori
Grace, Sept. 8,
1999
I
Loren and
David
Skrodanes
'83, a
son,
Owen Daniel, Aug;. 3, 1999,
adopted Dec. 10, 1'999
I
Beth
Chiavello
'84 and
Thomas
Maroney
'84, a daughter, Kaitlin,
June
19981
Maria Donadio
'84
and Gavin Bolton, a son, Jack,
April 1999
I
Grace a1nd
Richard
Laforce
'84, a daughtter,
Hannah
Jane, Aug. 4,
1999
I
Maureen
Mirra
'84 and Mich:ael
Kakos,
a
son, Michael]. IV,Ja1n. 22, 1999
I
Jane
Scarchilli
'8,4 and
Paul
Nienstadt
'85, a son, Bryan Wil-
liam, Oct. 3, 1999
I
Mary Ellen
Simmons
'84 and Stephen
Looke,
a son, Stephen Andrew Simmons,
Oct. 23,
19991
ancy
Sproviero
'84 and Frank
Salemo,
a son,
Frank Philip, Oct. 27, 1998
I
Christine and
Jeffrey
$.
Welch,
D.O.
'84, a daughter, Allison
Christine, May 28,
1998,
and a
son.John Scott, April 26,
19991
Bonnie Hede
'85 and
Larry
Striegel '79,
a daughter, Hayley
Elizabeth, May 20,
19991
Nancy
Hofgren
'85 and Gregory Agnello,
a daughter, Jenna Rose, March
19, 1999
I
Lori Slh.aughnessy
NOTES
holistic
health book, has been
published by
Celestial Arts.I
Ken-
neth R.
Briggs III
continues to
play
with
his band
"Shameless ...
Party
of Four" on the Albany,
N.Y., circuit with
his wife, Maria.
I
Anthony M.
DeBarros
was
named
database edit0r
in the Life
section
at
USA Today
in Arling-
ton,
Va.
I
Angela Iannotti
'85 and
Peter
Nargi
'85, a daugh-
ter, Margaret Rose.July 29,
1999
I
Erin and
Peter
Asselin
'86,
a
son.Joshua Barry.June 12, 1998
I
Patricia
Brady
'86 and
Andrew
Hall
'86, a son, Ryan Andrew,
April 2,
1999
I
Maria and
Ken-
neth R.
Briggs
III
'86, a daugh-
ter, Amy Elizabeth.Jan.
31,
1999
I
Patricia
Carpino
'86 and
Charles Marchesani, twins, a
daughter, Sara Taylor, and a
son,
Benjamin Patrick, April 18, 2000
I
Carol
Ann Caruso
and An-
thony Madonna, a daughter,
Lauren Alyssa, Jan. 21, 2000
I
Theresa
Clark
'86, and Martin
Switzer, a daughter, Carolanne,
May 7,
19991
Una
M.
Geoghegan
'86 and
Anthony
j.
Giachinta
'86, a daughter,
Rachel,
July 3,
19991
Robin Little
'86 and Kurt
Solsky, a son, Kurt
Riley,
May 18,
1999
I
Molly and
John L.
Lupi
'86, a son, Michael, March 22,
2000
I
Lisa
Oremus
'86 and
Michael Barker, a daughter, Kelsey
Leigh.June
14,
19991
Elizabeth
Rivernider
'86 and
Craig
Wilensky
'86, a daughter,
Isabel
Marie,
July
9,
1999
I
Maureen
Ryan
'86 and Kurt Walten, a son,
Timothy
Ryan,
May 16, 1998
I
Jill
Shinners
'86 and Mark
Camossi, a daughter, Addison
Jeannie,
April 19, 1999
I
Irene
Albinus
'87 and
Robert
Kress, a
son, Matthew Adam, April 17,
19991
Kim Arrieta
'87 and Rich-
ard Draxdorf,
a daughter,
Stephanie, Dec. 8,
19981
Kristin
M.
Blair
'87 and
Bryan
K. Brad-
ley
'88, a daughter, Kathryn Ann,
July 1, 1998
I
Connie
Brisson
'87 and Peter B. Sorman, a daugh-
ter,
Alexa Danielle, May 14, 1999
I
Cheryl and
Christopher
Chludzinski
'87, a daughter,
Emily Christine, Oct. 14,
19991
Sandra and
Kevin Colie
'87, a
daughter, Alexandra, March
19,
19981
Patricia
M.
Cross '87
and
Gerald Fiore, a son, Ian Gabriel,
I
N
MEMORIAM
Alumni
D.
William
Supple
'62
Dr. Paul
A. "Tony" Andrulonis
'68
William E.
Karges
'72
Judith Anne Mulvey
'72
Richard
K.
"Rich"
Checchia
'73
Robert M. Freer
'74
John Anthony Nevin '74
Gerald
0.
McCabe '77
Mary P.
McMahon
'81M
Jeffrey Paul
Weaver
'94
Faculty
Sigrid
Brandis
July 10, 1997, and a daughter,
Eileen
Sandi,
Dec. 21, 1998
I
Gina
DiSanza
'87 and Sergio
Carro, a
son,
Tyler Gabriel, May
5,
1999
I
Elizabeth Geary
'87
and Gerard Nolan, a daughter,
Kelly Elizabeth, April 16, 1999
I
Jennifer
Gray
'87 and Dan
Dubuque, twins, a daughter,
Megan, and a son, Connor,
June
30,
19991
Eileen and
Thomas
P.
Hanrahan
'87, a daughter, Colette
Murray, April 28, 2000
I
Julie
and
Timothy
Nelson
'87, a
daughter, Rachel Anne, Oct. 25,
19991
Andrea Orzechowski
'87
and Tommy Harris, a daughter,
Isabella
Hadiya, Aug. 17.
1998
I
Eileen Reese
'87 and Dennis
Gannon, a daughter, Patricia
Eileen,
Nov.
18,
1999
I
Vict0ria
and
John
G.
Roche
'87, a daugh-
ter.Jillian
Elyse.June 17,
19981
Suzanne
Ryan
'87 and
Thomas
McCauley
'87, a son, Kenneth
Robert,
Dec. 2, 1999
I
Linda P.
Smith
'87 and Scott Jager, a
daughter, Abigail Kathryn, April
20, 1999
I
Ann
Marie Breslin
'88 and
Daniel Barron
'88, a
daughter, Amy Lorraine,Jan.
15,
2000
I
Laurie
Czerw
'88 and
Brian Roughan, a son.Aidan, Sept.
25, 1998
I
Pamela and
Robert
DelGrande
'88, a son, Robert,
April 8, 1999
I
Tara Doherty
'88, and Thomas Ahern, a son,
Tighe Thomas, Sept. 14, l 999
I
Paula and
Robert Doty
'88, a
son, Eric Johnathon, Oct. 31,
1999
I
Michelle and
Eric
Haas
'88, a son, Thomas William, May
25,
19991
Laurie
Hauck
'88 and
David Hadad, a son, Matthew
David. Oct. 14. 1999
I
Beth and
Jeffrey Nicosia
'88, a son, Jake,
Oct. 26,
19991
Alison
Ring
'88
and Thomas Steigerwald, a son,
BryanRing,May29, 19991Nancy
Sproviero
'88 and Frank Salerno,
a son, Frank Philip, Oct. 27,
1998
I
Kathleen Szarek
'88 and James
Dawson, a daughter,
Laura
Demmer
has been promoted to
assistant
director
of information
services at the Long
Island
State
Veterans Home. She
is
respon-
sible for all computer, telecom-
munication and networking op-
erations at the long-term facility
located on the SUNY-Stony Brook
campus.
I
James
B. Ferguson
Jr.
served the Bronx District
Kathleen,
Sept. 2,
1999
I
Dr.
Mary and
Dr. Brian Wicenski
'88, a son, Evan, December 1998
I
Melissa
Carrigan
'89 and Lee
Blum, a daughter, Emily
Frances,
Aug.
17,
19991
Aimee andJames
Dick
'89, a son, Kyle Spencer,
July 21,
19991Hitomi
Murayama
and
Kenneth
Foye
'89, a son,
Kenneth, April
10,
2000
I
Karen
Oitzinger
'89
and
Kevin
Donnelly
'89, twin daughters,
Sarah and Kristen, Sept. 20,
1998
I
Lori Dubrowski
'89 and Greg
Warnokowski, a daughter, Katie
Lee,
Aug. 17,
1999
I
Therese
Ferguson
'89 and Dr. Alexander
Zuhoski, a son.Jacob Alexander,
April 15,
19991
Stacy and
Kevin
Garrity'89,ason,
Trevor Charles,
March 21, 2000
I
Cynthia
Lucania
'89 and Christopher
Clinton, a son, Noah
Luke,
May
20,
1998
I
Susanne
Lynn
'89
and Aubrey Wilson, twin daugh-
ters, Sofie Bri and Lyndsey
Elise,
Oct. 18, 1999
I
Kristen and
Vincent
Panettieri
'89, a son,
Jack Vincent,
July
14,
1999
I
Melissa and
Steve
Pierie
'89, a
daughter, Samantha Rae, March
20,
19991
Dawn Roesch
'89 and
John
Himoniois,
a son, Jackson
Roesch,
Aug. 9,
19991
Carey and
Paul
Sanchez
'89, a son,
Justin
Paul.Jan. 1,
19991
Rebecca
and
Matthew
Schoenfeld
'89, a
daughter, Erica Ann, Oct. 17,
19991
Christina Suglia
'89 and
Peter
Cleary
'89, a son, Paul
Christopher, Aug. 1,
19991
Eliza-
beth and
Brian Wenzel
'89, a
daughter,
MacKenzie
Anne, Jan.
26, 2000
I
Laurie Barnett
'90
and Christopher Orr,
twin
sons,
David Christopher and Christian
Ryan, Nov. 8, 1999
I
Christine
Burvenich
'90
and
Sean
Guilfoyle, a
daughter,
Shaelynn
Mary, Aug. 2, 1999
I
Nancy
Camey
'90 and
John Cody
'89, a
daughter, Grace Elizabeth, Aug.
26,
19991
Dawn
Carroll
'90 and
Attorney's
Office
for seven years as
a trial attorney
in
the narcotics
bureau
and on the Major Case
Task
Force. In January 1999 he
was ap-
pointed
administrative law
judge
for the
New
York State
Division of
Parole. He conducts the: final hear-
ings regarding parole
violations for
the state.
I
Steven Giacona
formed
Round
Table
Services,
L.L.C.,
to
Michael
Decosta
'90, a daughter,
Camryn Elizabeth, Nov. 6, 1999
I
Kerry Coulter
'90 and Robert
Mundinger, a son, James Robert,
Sept. 24,
19991Anne
Marie Gibbs
'90 and
Steven
Murray-
'90, a son,
Kevin Patrick, Sept. 28, 1999
I
Keana Hourigan
'90 and
Kenneth
Anna
'90, a son, Brady Patrick,
Oct.
18,
19981
Christi1ne
Lefferts
'90
and
Michael
Lofaro
'89, a son,
Michael Andrew Jr., March 22,
2000
I
Roseanne Llewellyn
'90
and
Vincent Amatulli
'8:9, a daugh-
ter, Nina Rose, Dec. 17, 1999
I
Sharon and
Brian McEvoy
'90, a
son, Timothy James, Sept. 30,
1999
I
Patricia and
Michael Medley
'90,
a son, Luke Anthony, Oc:t.18,
1999
I
Susan and
Edward
C.
Miller
Jr.
'90, a daughter, Jacqudine Anne,
Oct. 24, 1998
I
Loma Milo
'90
and Dean Bosak, a so1n, Zachary
Charles, May 5, 1999
IJacquelyn
D. O'Brien
'90 and Robert
Whitcomb, twin sons, William
Robert and Daniel Joseph, March
27, 1998
I
Jennifer
S,chiffer
'90
and Vincent Freeh, a son, Nicholas
Vincent, Aug. 17,
1999
I
Molly
Ward
'90 and
Kiernan
Fagan
'90
a son, Patrick Brendan, Sept.
16,
1998
IJennifer
and
Stephen
Batta
'91, a son.Jackson Gerard, Nov. 3,
1999
I
Susan
Budney
'91
and
Gordon Tyler, a daughter, Hailey
Irene, Dec.
15, 1999
I
JoAnne
Colucci
'91
and
Brian1 Callahan
'90, a daughter, Courtney Ann,
Nov. 5,
19991
Donna
D'Angelico
'91 and
Mark Le
Vie
'91, a daugh-
ter, Alyssa Anna, July 13, 1999
I
Renee
Foglia
'91 and[ Salvatore
Petrara, a son, Matthe:w Joseph,
April 30, 1999
I
Ruth Halley
'91
and Robert W. Mahoney Jr., a son,
Patrick Robert, May 28, 1999
I
Melissa Hegg
'91 and Matthew
Entzion, a son, Samue.l Stephen,
March 2 7, 1999
I
Monica
Latus
'91 and
Roy
H.
Freer IIll
'91,
a son,
Jordan Daniel, Dec. B,
1999
I
Marisa Manderioli
'91 and Frank
deliver comprehensive
financial
estate
investment
and business
planning services
to affluent
individuals
and families.
I
Jen-
ni
fer
and
Tim
McConville
sponsored the second
annual
Christopher James McConville
Memorial
Golf Outing in
honor
of
their
son, Christopher, who
died
of Sudden
Infant
Death
Arcaroli, a
son,
Nicolas Frank,
March 5, 2000
I
Christine
Marotta
'91 and Barry Parker,
sons, Jarod Thomas, July 23,
1998, and Logan Allen, Oct. 26,
1999
I
Eileen Ann McGinley
'91 and Kevin
James
Hannaford,
a son, Patrick James, May 12,
1999
I
Susan
ick
'91 and
Mark Innaimo
'91, a daughter,
Jenna Rose.Jan. 19, 2000
I
Mary
O'Brien
'91
and
James
Fromhartz, a daughter, Bridgid
Maeve, May 27,
19991
Patricia
Ronan-Harten
'91 and
Frank
Harten
'90, a son, Michael P.,
July 31,
1999
I
Joanna
Trimarche
'91 and Robert
Ostrander, a son, Matthew, Feb.
28, 2000
I
Dawn and
Christo-
pher
Andrews
'92, a daughter,
Hope Elizabeth, Dec. 5, 1999
I
Maura and
John
M. Bauer
'92,
a daughter, Grace Catherine,July
28,
19991
Laura and
E.Jeffrey
Dolfinger
'92, a son, Logan,
Dec. 31, 1998
I
Karen and
Glenn Giatto
'92, a son.James,
October 1999.
I
Jacqueline
Greer
'92 and Joel Tanaka, a
son,AlecJackson,Jan. 4, 2000
I
Penny
Law-Kelsey
'92 and
Ken-
neth
Kelsey, a daughter, Katelyn
Rose.April 12,20001Catherine
and
Ryan
McEntee '92,
a son,
Peter
James
Robert,Aug. 3, 1999
I
Theresa McNamara
'92 and
Gary
Mcilroy,
a son, Patrick,
Sept.
2,
1999
I
Julie Morrison
'92 and Mark Desmond, a son,
Jack,
Dec. 26,
1999
I
Claudia
and
Brendan
O'Connell
'92, a
daughter,
Rowan
Catherine,
Aug. 6, 1999
I
Catherine
Sullivan
'92 and Scott Burchard,
a son, Sam,
Feb.
25, 2000
I
Rebecca Thew
'92
and
Tho-
mas
Cronin
'92, a son, Kevin
Thomas, Oct. 9, 1999
I
Carla
Angelini
'93 and
Christopher
Bautista
'92, a son, CJ, March
23, 1999
I
Patricia
Dube
'93,
and
Clint Wiley
'93, a <laugh-
Syndrome
in
1996. The
event
raised in
excess of $31,000
to
benefit
the
CJ
Foundation for
SIDS.
They wish
to
thank the
Maristalumni who
supported the
event
and
joined
them in the
battle against Sudden
1
nfant
Death
Syndrome.
I
Robert
McDonald
received a promotion
to
manager at
Enterprise Process
ter, Sarah Elizabeth, Dec. 3 l, 1998
I
Jodi Hyland
'93 and Jon
Monahan, a daughter, Megan,
Aug. 7, 1999
I
Michele and
Rob-
ert Johnson
'93, a son, Adam
Christopher,
Feb.
9, 2000
I
Faith
Lefebvre
'93 and Michael Piotte,
a son, Michael Stephen, March
22, 2000
I
Alison
Anne Miller
'93 and
Jason
DelMonico
'93,
twin sons, Matthew and Justin,
Sept. 16, 1999
I
Sabrina Par-
sons
'93 and Mark Oestrich, a
daughter, Michelle Cathryn, Sept.
28, 1998
I
Jennifer
Smith
'93
and
Michael
Defelice
'94, a son,
Michael Robert, March 12,
1999
I
Jodie
Woods '93
and Santo
Pacheco
Jr.,
a daughter, Abigail
Louise, Dec. 29,
19991
Michele
Anderson
'94
and
Sasha
Tulchinsky, twins, a daughLer,
Hannah
Rose, and a son,
Maximilian, May 31, 1999
ITracy
and
Dan
Aunkst
'94, a son, An-
drew Boyd, March 10, 1999
I
Kristine Kickenweilz
'94 and
Christopher
Jones
'92, a daugh-
ter,
Kathryn
Marie, March 28,
1999
I
Kate
O'Hanlon
'94 and
Andrew Clapperton, a daughLer,
Carly Ann, Oct. 9, 1999
IJenni-
fer Ross
'94 and Victor Labruna,
a son, Noah
Ross,
May
4,
2000
I
Julie
A. Shrider
'94 and R. Allen
Roy '92, a daughter, Rachel Alana,
March 19,
19991
Stephanie and
Jeremy Thode
'94, a daughter,
AlexandraJordan,Jan 13, 2000
I
Marybeth
Monks
'95 and Will-
iam
D. Giesler, a daughter, Marisa
Paige,
Ocl. 5, 1999
I
Carol
Paldino
'95 and Chris Guerrette,
a son, Cristian Daniel, Dec. 15,
19991
Robin Ward
'95 and Wade
Rinderknecht, a daughter, Kelsie,
Ocl. 20, 1999
I
Aretha
Lewin
'96 and Amin Antoine, a daugh-
ter, Julie-Ann, Aug. 16,
1999
I
Nicole Columbia
'97 and Shawn
Boothe, a
son,
Owen Michael,
Sept. 12, 1999
■
SUMMER
2000
19
f
ALUMNI
Analysis in Schenectady, N.Y., in
July
1999.
I
Alvin
A. Patrick
is
producer
of HBO's
"Real
Sports
with Bryant Gumbel" and an ad-
junct
professor of communica-
tions at New York Institute of
Technology.
I
Alfred
Piombino
was appointed civil service com-
missioner for the city of
Portland
and elected to
the
board of
trust-
ees of the Maine chapter of the
National MS Society.
I
Julianne
Sodokoffhas
resigned
from man-
agement and gone
back
into sales
at Weichert Realtors' Greenwich,
Conn., office. She
is
among
the
top
1
percent ofWeichert's sales-
people.
I
John
H.
Wicks
is
a
principal consultant with
Price
Waterhouse Coopers, L.L.P. in its
financial services
technology prac-
tice,
specializing
in
capital
mar-
kets.
Jack is
also a
professor
at
Hofstra
University and serves on
the editorial advisory board for
The CPA]ournal.
I
David
Wise
is
a
personal-injury
lawyer
by
day,
blues musician
by night.
The
Jan.
30 edition of
Newsday carried an
article about Dave's passion for
playing
guitar at Sunday
night
blues
jams
at a club called Ches-
terfields in Huntington, N.Y.
1 9 8 7
Michael Carey
is
news
director
of radio station WROW
in
the
Albany, N.Y., area.
He
also over-
NOTES
sees
news
operations on WAJZ in
Albany and WlRZ in Johnstown,
N.Y. Mike is also Albany corre-
spondent for WCBS
in
New York,
N.Y.
I
Dean DiMarzo
is the art
director
at
the
Poughkeepsie
Jour-
nal and won
two first-place
graph-
ics
awards in the 1999 Associated
Press comest.
Jacqueline Bono
DiMarzo
is newsletter editor of
the
Vassar Road School PTA News-
letter.
Dean and Jackie have two
children, Dean and Julia.
I
Ann
Michelle
"Shelly"
Galvin
ended
her
five-year
stint as a free-lance
writer and accepted a
full-time
position as senior copywriter for
MemberWorks, a direct
market-
ing and affinity marketing enter-
prise in Stamford,
Conn.
Shelly
oversees all marketing efforts
in-
cluding
print,
Internet
and
telemarketing.
I
Martin
Handy
launched Information Profession-
als, a consulting company spe-
cializing
in
Oracle and
RDBMS-
related
technologies.
I
John M.
Macom
III
is
still
playing in
the
rock
band
"Binge."
The
band
has
been
the featured
artist on the
"Dawson's
Creek" Web site and
also
has
had songs on
"Party
of
Five."
Their
new
single,
"Annakournikova,"
was
to
be
re-
leased
during
the
French Open
2000.
I
John Roche
has
been
promoted
Lo
editor-in-chief of Co-
Op City Times.
I
Paige Jones
San Francisco, here
we
come! These Northern
California alu111ni
may have 111oved
to
the
Bay Area, but they've left their hearts at
Marist
College. Classmates (left
to right) John Otten
'93,
Laura
Nelson
'93
(winner
of the Marist Basketball door prize) and
Tom Mulryan '93 were among nearly 50 alumni and friends who
gathered
in
San Francisco
at Pat O'Shea's Madliatter, owned by
Pete
Nesteroke
'66.
20
M A R I
ST
M A G A Z
I
N E
"DUN-DUN"
.. ./Series Office Break Part
3512:45
p.m./Wednesday,
March 15, 2000/Studios
USA
Television-Set
of the critically
acclaimed series
"Law
and Order"
in
New
York.
Offices of (left
to
right) Mike Rodia
'92,
grip;
Ti111
Dwyer
'00,
intern; Antliony Azzara
'91,
production accountant; and Jessica Byrne
'96,
location
coordi-
nator. Watch their
work
Wednesday nights, 10 p.m.
Eastern/9
p.m.
Central on NBC.
Tedford
is a computer analyst for
March,
Inc. in New
York
City.
1 9 8 8
Anu
R.
Ailawadhi
received
a
master's
degree in education from
the University of Vermom
in
1997. She
is
coordinating a na-
tional literacy awareness and
fund-raising
campaign with Lit-
eracy Volunteers of America, Inc.
I
The New York Times featured
Roy
Arezzo
and his middle school
students in a story about their
project raising trout for
release
upstate.
The
project
is
designed
to
increase
their
awareness about
waterways
in
the Catskills and
Hudson Valley that supply New
York
City
with drinking water.
Roy
teaches
environmental sci-
ence at Intermediate School 318
in
Brooklyn.
I
Susan
Blazejewski
was a
member
of
the
1996-97 and
1997-98
National Bobsled
Team.
I
Michael Carson
was deployed
to Kuwait in
September for six
months.
He
is a maintenance test
pilot/manager
with
the
498'
h
Medical Company (Air Ambu-
lance)
in
the U.S. Army
in
Fort
Benning,
Ga.
I
Gina
Disanza-
Carro
was
promoted
to director
of
major
gifts for
the
New
York
and New Jersey division of
the
American
Cancer
Society.
I
Kathy
M. Korsen
has
been promoted
to
sales representative at
Pearson
Education in Upper Saddle
River,
N.j.
I
Linda A. Lipton
has taken
a
position
with Cartier in
the train-
ing department.
She will be doing
commercial and
retail
training.
I
Peter
A.
Prucnel
moved from
Disneyland merchandise
to
theme
park operations and is working
in
procedures and communications
preparing
LO
open a new
theme
park, Disney's California Adven-
ture.
lJudith
Lach
Veeck
is pub-
lic affairs
director
at the
Cornell
Cooperative Extension in Suffolk
County, responsible for
press re-
lations, government affairs, fund
raising and
marketing.
She lives
in
Hampton
Bays, Long Island,
with
her
husband, Don,
and their
children, Joseph and Emily.
1 9 8 9
Angela Abbate Catanzaro
is an
advisory information technology
specialist at IBM
in
Hopewell
Junction,
N.Y.
I
Marist
alumni
are still breaking
records.
Chris-
tine
Domurat
and
Karen
Oitzinger
Donnelly
participated
in
a relay team
in the Mighty
Hamptons
Triathalon
in
Southampton, N.Y., in Septem-
ber
1999. Karen,
a member
of
the
Marist swim
team
from 1985
to
1989,
finished
ninth among 98
female athletes
in
the mile-long
swim. Christine completed
the
25-mile
bike
course and
Kim
Andrews
'91
ran
the six-mile
course.
The
team
finished
second
among all female
relays.
I
Tara
Dowd
was
promoted
to dealer
direct manager at the Bank of
America Auto Group
in
Melville,
In
Memoriam
Sigrid Brandis
A dearly
loved
Marist professor,
Adjunct Professor of Modern
Languages Sigrid Brandis of
Wappingers Falls, N.Y., died
March 26, 2000. She was 63.
Frau Brandis, as her students
affectionately called her, taught
German at Marist for 32 years.
Born
in
Koenigsberg, Germany,
she had been a resident of New
York since
1964.
"She
was truly fantastic!"
said
l
Bro. Joe Belanger, FMS, a col-
league in
the
teaching of lan-
guages.
"Students
loved
her. Every October she'd have them over
to
her house for the Oktoberfest."
Mrs. Brandis was a dedicated professor, said colleague Maurice
Bibeau. "She was very generous with her time and energy
in
serving her students and promoting the German language and
culture."
"My Marist experience was made better not because I was able
to study German, but because I had Frau Brandis teaching me
German," said Karen Shultz
'00. "Frau
was more than just a
professor. She was a friend, a listener, a mother fig1ure and
someone who always had a good story to tell. Frau was the reason
why many of us stuck with German. Frau made the class. Frau
made the
language
come alive."
"O[
all the wonder[ul teachers
I
had the privilege to work with
at Marist, Frau Brandis was one of
my
favorites," said Elizabeth
Dunn
'98. "1
looked forward to every class with her, and was
blessed to get
to
know her personally outside of school. She
touched my
life
in many great ways, from being a caring
teacher
to
being a wonderful friend."
Sigrid Brandis is survived by her husband of 3 7 years, Elmar;
a daughter; a son and his wife; a brother and his wife; and a niece.
N.Y. She
is responsible
for the
auditing and selling of off-lease
vehicles
to
dealerships across the
country. Tara also
has
been acer-
tified personal trainer since 1997.
I
Timothy
and
Melissa Driscoll
have two
children, Christian, 6,
and Cara, 3.
I
Michael Kinane
has
been named director of pub-
lic
and media relations at SUNY-
Old Westbury.
IJohn
B. Lake
is
a research associate
in
the equity
research
department
at Key Asset
Management in Cleveland, Ohio.
I
Chrissy
Lawless
released
her
first original CD over the Internet
in
the
summer of 1999. She is
pleased with
the initial
success of
the CD and the
interest
generated
by her first single, "Sometimes
I
Don't." Her second CD
is in
the
works. Her mp3 Web address
is
www.mp3.com/chrissylawless.
She and her husband,
Chris
Meyer, live
in New York City.
I
Michelle
M. Plummer,
C.P.A.
has been named CFO of Greene
County Bancorp,
Inc.
in Catskill,
N.Y.
I
Pierce Redmond
is
a bag-
piper and
pipe
corpo,ral in the
Rockland County Anc:ient Order
of Hibernians Pipes and Drums.
Pierce will participate in
the
Rose
ofTralee Festival
in
County
Kerry,
Ireland, in August 2000.
I
Vir-
ginia (Ginny)
Fazio
Upton
is a
systems analyst for Manpower
Technical in Fishkill, N.Y. She
also is a part-time NTSII
defensive
driving
instructor
a:s well as
"Ginzo
the
Clown," children's
party entertainer.
I
Kristine
Varnum
Nakutis
graduated from
the
University of Massachusetts-
Amherst with an M.A. in philoso-
phy. She is an
instruct.or
of phi-
losophy and English composition
at West Point. Kristine is married
to Craig Nakutis, Sr. and
they
have two children, C.J. and Stacy.
l1nm1M&
1 9 9
0
Mary
Kate Kenney
Applegate
works for Exodus Communica-
tions as a senior manager in the
professional services division.
I
Anthony
Damore
is employed
by
the
New York Department of
Corrections. He is married and
has a son, Antonio, and a daugh-
ter, Michaela.
I
After five years
with
the
Nassau County District
Attorney's office,
Karen Klei
Foley
joined the law firm of
Berkman,
Henoch,
Peterson &
Peddy in Garden City, N.Y. She
specializes
in
commercial and
criminal
litigation.
I Leonard
Klie
has been promoted from associ-
ate editor
to
managing editor of
Government
Food
Service
and
Mili-
tary Club and Hospitality maga-
zines.
I
Steven
Maloney
has
been
promoted to assistant
principal
of
Bay Shore (N.Y.)
High
School.
I
Glenn Onos is
director of strate-
gic planning and architecture at
AXA Financial in New York City.
I Jay
Reynolds
is a sports anchor
for ESPN
Radio,
based in Bristol,
Conn.
I
Keith Ryan
has worked
for Bell Atlantic Mobile for nine
years. He is married and has two
sons, Patrick and Sean.
I
Michele
Ward-Triolo
has been promoted
to purchasing coordinator at the
corporate offices of Ann Taylor
in
New York City.
1
9 9
1
Amy Anson
is an editor at
Forrester Research
in
Cambridge,
Mass.
I
John
Bidosky Ill
has
been promoted to vice president
at the American Bridge Company.
During his 16-year career v.rith
the
company he has been involved
in numerous
high-profile
projects
including the
Newburgh-Beacon
Bridge,
the Riverside Drive
Viaduct, the Bronx Whitestone
Bridge reconstruction and the
Williamsburg Bridge construc-
tion.
I
Allison Campilii
contin-
ues to work
in
the Olympic and
corporate events division of
United Parcel Service. She heads
to
Sydney, Australia, this year to
promote UPS'ssponsorship of the
2000 Olympic Games.
I
Anthony
Capozzolo
graduated from
George Washington University
Law School in 1994. He served as
a
law
clerk to New Jersey Supe-
rior Court Judge Vincent E. Hull
Jr. and since 1995 has been an
assistant district attorney in Man-
hattan.
I
Neil Darling
is the man-
aging partner of Net-Centric Con-
sulting Group in Fredericksburg,
Va. Net-Centric helps brick and
mortar
firms
click into e-business
and specializes in Web infrastruc-
ture,
including
online security,
customer service management,
network design and information
technology
operations.
I
Arthur
E. Fludd IV
is the president and
CEO of
JBQ
and Associates, a
production
company that man-
ages
bands in the
State College,
Pa., area. The company was
featured in
The Entrepreneur,
a
magazine of Pennsylvania State
University.
I
Eric
J.
Frenzke
graduated from U.S. Army Basic
Combat Training in Fort Benning,
Ga., in November 1999. Eric is
assigned to the military intelli-
gence section, Headquarters
Brigade, 42
nd
Infantry Division,
New Jersey National Guard. He
holds the rank of specialist and
attended officer candidate school
in April 2000.1
Stephen Kraus
is
a truck driver for Roberts-Boice
Paper Company in Poughkeepsie.
I
Linda
Gallagher
Reusch
gradu-
ated from Lesley College in May
2000 with an M.S. in training and
development.
I
Terence
Hosmer
is a technical support specialist
for the New York Stock Exchange,
coordinating hardware and soft-
ware support for the division of
market surveillance.
I
Julianne
Magazeno
Taylor
has been
named marketing director of the
Chazen Companies, an engineer-
ing,
planning and environmental
consulting firm in Poughkeepsie.
I
Mary Kay Tuohy
is the director
of programs at Grand Street Settle-
ment House in New York City.
She supenrises five program man-
agers who provide services to
some 500 young people. She is
also an adjunct instructor at CUNY
School of Social Work.
1
9 9 2
April Amonica
is instructing two
public speaking classes at the
University of Scranton. April is a
news anchor at WNEP Channel
16 in Moosic, Pa.
I
Thomas
Badura
has joined ESPN as a pro-
grammer/analyst at its headquar-
ters in Connecticut. He does \Veb
site development for ESPN's cor-
S UM
MER
2
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21
porate intranet and
extra
net
sites.
I
Jeffrey
E.
Dolfinger
was pro-
moted
to
vice president
of
Sarasota, Inc., a
private invest-
ment group, in Poughkeepsie.
I
Courtney Glennon
received a
master of arts
degree in
occupa-
tional therapy
from New
York
University
in
September 1997.
I
Joseph Grimaldi
purchased his
second McDonald's chain restau-
rant in
Brooklyn.
I
Leslie
Massaro
has been promoted
to
paralegal
specialist for the
U.S.
Postal
Service law department.
I
Dean Mastrangelo
has been
pro-
moted
to senior
in-house
counsel
for BLS Funding Corp.
I
Maureen
McGuire
was appointed vice
president
of retail and contract
design
at
Ruitenburg Displays,
Inc.
I
Judson
S.
McMullen
is a
supervisor in the annuity services
department for CGU Life
Insur-
ance Company of America
in
Bos-
ton.
I
Frank
M. Mora is
a partner
in
the
law firm of Brooke,
Mora
&
Gemmati,
L.L.P.
and won the
1999
election
for City of
Poughkeepsie
1st
Ward
councilmember
for the
2000-
2001 term
IJennifer
O'Connell
Nickelsen
is an
implementation
specialist at Cybear, a health care
Internet
company, in Boca Raton,
Fla.
I
Terry Pfeifer
has
been
pro-
moted
to senior editor for
the
Huntington Herald
and
Valley Ga-
zette
newspapers,
weekly news-
papers
covering Ansonia, Beacon
Falls,
Derby,
Seymour
and
Shelton, Conn. She lives in
Woodbury, Conn., with
her two
children,
Meghan
and Rick.
I
Dino
Quintero
is project
leader
for
the international
technical
support organization at IBM in
Poughkeepsie.
He
works with
RS/
6000
hardware
and software and
will
be teaching
workshops world-
wide.
I
Kevin T. Weigand
is
teaching
and coaching
in
New
Jersey and working toward a
master's
in
special education.
I
Gary Wilson
teaches middle
school social studies at Hadley-
Luzerne
Central School in Lake
Luzerne,
N.Y.
1 9 9 3
Edwin Budd
is
an actor at Walt
Disney
World
in
Orlando, Fla.
He
performs almost every day as
"Muddy"
at Disney's Animal
Kingdom's Dinoland or as a
Ghostbuster or
Blues
Brother at
22
M A R
I
S T
M A G A Z
I
N E
t.ALUMNI
Universal Studios Esca.pe. He has
also worked on several commer-
cials.
I
Greg Caires
:is the
lead
public
relations
exe,cutive for
Lockheed Martin's F-22
Raptor
fighter program. Prior
to joining
Lockheed Martin, Greg served as
a senior fellow with tlhe Lexing-
ton Institute, a non-partisan, non-
profit,
public-policy
think tank
in Washington,
D.C.
I
Michael
Defelice
is
the running
backs
coach/special teams coordinawr
at Tufts University. He:
is
also the
lead
teacher
at Merrimack Alter-
native High School in Chelmsford,
Mass.
lStuartE.
Gallagher
works
for U.S. Army Intelligence at Fort
Huachuca, Ariz., following
two
years of training. Stuart also has
earned an associate's
degree in
Russian linguistics.
I
Adam Gib-
bons
earned an M.A.
iin
criminal
justice
from
John Jay
College of
Crimina]Justice,
part
of the CUNY
system, in New York City.
I
Brent
S. Golisano
received a
JD.
degree from
Roger
Williams
University's
PapitLO
School of Law
in May 1999.
I
Frank
Irizarry
is
the
director
of faculty/
community relations at Stetson
University.
I
Laura Keating
is an
underwriter
for the American
International Group in New York
City.
I
Susan Lavery
left her job
at U.S. Surgical LO
join
a start-up
company called
Radio Therapeu-
tics,
still
in
the
medical
sales
industry.
I
Maria Giovanna
Licari
has returned
to
the
field
and series department at
"Good
Morning America
"
I
Eileen
McCrory
Neary
works
for
the
New York
Board
of Trade and is
pursuing
a master's in elementary
education at C.W. Posi: College in
Brookville,
N.Y.
I
Kevin
James
W
Stewart
'93
NOTES
O'Donnell
has completed a six-
month training regimen at the
World Championship Wrestling
Powerplant in Atlanta, Ga., and is
eager LO
make his wrestling
debut
as
"Tuff
Stuff' Kevvy
K.
Kevin
formerly worked as an operations
manager for a major
petroleum
distributor.
I
Andrea Preziotti
was
promoted to
marketing
man-
ager
of
NBC's online spin-off,
NBCi.
lJosephine
A.
Schoepfer
earned
her
certification from the
Professional
Photographers
of
America
in
February 1999. lnjuly
1999 she was awarded a Master of
Photography,
also from PPA.
I
Tara Stepnowski
works with the
Make-a-Wish
Foundation, which
helps
terminally
ill
children fulfill
their wishes.
Ijames
W. Stewart
is
an anchor for ESPNews.
Prior
to working at ESPN,j.W. worked
at Sports 1 Regional Television
and
the
Poughkeepsie
Journal.
I
Lara Wieczezynski
is a multi-
media producer for Bloomberg
LP. Lara creates multimedia pre-
sentations to educate users about
the
Bloomberg Personal Service.
1 9 9 4
Elizabeth
Bellis
is an account
executive in
the
sponsor services
department of the New
Jersey
NetS
basketball
team.
I
Robert Brandt
is attending
Indiana
School of Law
full-time.
I
Enza
Buonaiuto
re-
ceived a master's from SU NY-New
Paltz in early childhood educa-
tion
in
1998.
She teaches
pre-
kindergarten at Mount Carmel
School
in Poughkeepsie.
I
John
W. Canorro
was to
be
ordained
LO
the transitional
deaconate
in
April 2000.
I
Jennifer
Nies
Carew
is an assistant vice
presi-
dent
at Merrill Lynch in New
York
City.
I
Kate
O'Hanlon
Clapperton
teaches
fifth grade
in
Medford,
N
.J.
I
Cathy Ago
Ii
a
Cote
is
a pediatric physical
thera-
pist
at UCP in
Roosevelt,
N.Y. She
also conducts home care for chil-
dren
with
disabilities.
I
Michael
Cote
is an attorney at Lynch and
Lynch
in
Mineola, N.Y.
I
Chris-
topher Dolan is
an account
man-
ager at Forrester Research in Cam-
bridge, Mass.
Chris manages all
telecommunications, publishing
and broadcasting clients.
I
Daniel
Durand
is
an editor for
"Martha
Stewart Living" in Westport,
Conn. He was nominated for a
1999 Emmy Award for
multiple
camera editing.
Daniel
was pro-
moted
to online Avid editor.I
Robert G. Farrier
Jr.
is assistant
vice
president-team
leader at
First
Union
National
Bank in
New
York's Westchester
County.
I
Michael
Gearing
is
manager
of
the accounting department at
IBM
in
Endicott,
N.Y.
I
Gabriel
Hidalgo
is
a junior associate
in
the Empire
Insurance
Group -
Legal Division
of the law office of
Kevin
L. Kelly. He
is part of
the
litigation
legal
team in the
Mineola, N.Y., office.
I
Colleen
Talbot Jacques
teaches
seventh
grade math
in Trumbull,
Conn.
I
RawleJones
is
a stockbroker with
JB.
Oxford
&
Co.
in
Miami, Fla.
I
Mary
E.
Keenan
has
been
pro-
moted to assistant
manager
in the
customer satisfaction department
of MBNA.
Beth
relocated LO the
Boca Raton office and now
re-
sides in Boynton
Beach,
Fla.
I
AnnMarie
Lambiase
earned a
master's
in
early childhood spe-
cial education
from
Adelphi Uni-
versity.
I
Nikki LeSage
is man-
ager of corporate advertising
re-
search for
Time, Inc. magazines
including
Time, fortune, People,
In
Style
and
Entertainment
Weekly.
I
Mary
Ann
McGovern
teaches
high
school special education/
English
in
the Lawrence, Mass.,
public schools. She graduated
from
Hofstra University
in De-
cember 1997 with a dual certifi-
cation
master's in
special educa-
tion
and elementary education.
I
John
W. McManus
is
director
of
annual giving at King
&
Low
Heywood Thomas School
in
Stamford,
Conn.
I
Michael
Mostransky
and his wife,
Tara
Ferina
'95, are
moving to
Lon-
don
this
summer. His new posi-
tion
as a technical sales represen-
tative calls for
them
to spend two
years
there.
I
Two new children's
books by
Myles Pinkney
will
be
published
this
fall:
Shades of Black
and
Sitting Pritty.
I
Jonathon
Reardon
has been awarded
the
"Master
Leader"
award for
the
second year in a row from Ameri-
can Express Financial Advisors,
Inc.
Jon
received this award for
being
one of the top 2 percent of
the
financial
planning
leaders
for
this
Fortune
500
company.
I
Vicki
Richter
moved
to
Princeton, N.j., and works at
the
engineering start-up company
Knite,
Inc.
in
Princeton. She rows
When
Greg
Christman
'98
went to work for
the Resort
at Squaw
Creek,
a
ski
resort
in Squaw Valley, Calif.,
he
discovered to
his
surprise that a fellow
Marist
grad was
also
employed
there. Ron
Vuy
'74
is
vice
president
and general
manager
of
the resort
Greg
is
an
executive
administrative
assistant
in the accounting
ci!epart-
ment.
Above,
Ron
and Greg show off the
beauty
of the ski
resort,
situated at
the
base of Squaw
Valley
USA, site of the
1960 Win-
ter Olympics.
with
the
Carnegie Lake Rowing
Association.
I
Deborah
Schnarr
earned an M.S.
in
reading from
Hofstra
University.I
Janis
Netschert
Simat
is assistant vice
president of human resources at
Deutsche Bank
in
New York City.
I
Jeremy
Thode
received an M.A.
in physical education and teaches
physical education at Commack
High School
in
Commack, N.Y.
lnanw•na
~
1 9 9 S
Rev. Maryann Berry,
who is co-
pastor of John 3: 16 Christian
Center in Poughkeepsie, has been
nominated and received asa mem-
ber of the International Who's
Who of Professional Management.
I
Brent Bogart
and his wife moved
to Raleigh, N. C., and purchased a
home
in 1996.
Brent has worked
for CS! for one year.
I
Jeanne M.
Brennan
earned an M.S.W. in
1997. She lives on Long
island
and is a certified social worker for
a sub-acute care center working
with respiratory and physical re-
habilitation patients.
I
Jeannie
Cordero
is a security specialist
doing internal
investigations
for
the metro New York
district
of
United Parcel Service.
II
Michael
Coughlin
earned a master's in
elementary and special education
from Manhananville College and
is a special education
teacher
in
Carmel, N.Y.
I
Deidre Devlin
is
a graphic
designer
at Merck
&
Co., Inc. Deidre has also incorpo-
rated herself as a free-lancer. Her
company name is Gir:aphics.
I
Kathleen Dick
is exhilbitor ser-
vices representative for Warner
Bros., handling the eas1tern divi-
sion. Kathleen
deals
directly with
movie theatres, providing trailers
and promotional materials.
I
Lori
DiDonato
continues
to
work for
St. Anne
Institute
in Albany, N
.Y.,
where she has been since 199 5.
I
Paul
DiGiacomo
is an editorial
assistant
supervisor
for the
MegaSports department of the
Associated Press, dealing with
online
sports
coverage.
I
Jacqueline Emslie
is an adjunct
lecturer
in information systems at
Dutchess Community College in
Poughkeepsie.
I
Cindy Malo
Faustino
works
for James
Goodwin,
Inc.
as a vice president.
I
Peter Faustino
is
pursuing
a
doctorate
in psychology
at
Fairleigh Dickinson University.
I
Tony Galvin
is an account repre-
sentative at Sports Marketing and
Television International in Green-
wich, Conn. His responsibilities
have
included
work on the Breed-
ers' Cup Championship
and
NBC's celebrity golf tournaments.
Tony handles all marketing and
advertising aspects of the events.
I
David
M.
Gavner
teaches psy-
chology at Dutchess Community
College
in
Poughkeepsie.
In
1999,he also taught
Introduction
to Psychology at
Marist.1
Steven
C.
Giampaolo
is working for
Metrovision Production Service
as a grip and utility.
I
Edward
Gilhooly
is a senior tax consult-
ant in the state and local tax prac-
tice division at Arthur Andersen
in Vienna,
Va.
I
Andrew
Holmlund
was promoted to man-
ager of New York operations for
CBS Radio/Westwood One Net-
works in August 1999.
lnJanuary
2000 he worked onsite as an as-
sistant
producer
covering
SuperBowl XXXIV, his third con-
secutive Superbowl at the net-
work.
I
Scott
Jacques
is a co-
owner of Long Hill Tree Service
in Trumbull,
Conn.
I
Brian
Kenworthy
is working in Holly-
wood, Calif. He worked on
"Fight
Club" with David Fincher, star-
ring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.
He
also works in
post-production
at the
Post
Group, transferring
films to video.
I
Michael
Murray
continues to work on the Web
site for the Sydney 2000 Olym-
pics for IBM
(www.Sydney.
olympic.org) and will spend much
of the year 2000 in Sydney, Aus-
tralia.
I
Sherilee
Newton
ended
her year's
reign in
1999 as Miss
Black World New York State. She
is assistant international comp-
troller at Thomas Publishing
Company.
I
Kathleen O'Heam
was promoted
to
team
leader
in
the annuities division of the Hart-
ford
Insurance
Group
in
Simsbury, Conn.
I
Alexandra
Gonzalez Oles
is pursuing a
master's in a human resources-
industrial relations program.
I
Bryan Oles
is assistant football
coach at Saint Francis College in
Loretto, Pa. He is also pursuing a
master's in a human resources
industrial relations program.
I
Steven
Rice
is director of public
relations for the Cartoon Net-
work in New York City.
I
Joy
Romanelli
has been promoted to
district sales manager for Coca-
Co la Enterprises.
I
Susan
Russello
is an evaluation associ-
ate at Lighthouse International in
New York City and is pursuing a
Ph.D. in clinical psychology at
New School University there.
I
Jennifer
Schaivone
earned a
master's in elementary education
and is a second grade teacher for
the New Haven, Conn., public
school system.
I
Kohli
Singh
has
joined Rehabilitation
Support
Services, a nonprofit mental
health agency, as its program
director.
I
Robert
Stefano
is a
staff accountant
for Arthur
DeDominicis, C.P.A.
I
James
Sullivan
is director for a Thai
investment-banking
firm, the
Quant Group Co., Ltd., special-
izing in
mergers
and acquisitions
activities.
1 9 9 6
Michael
Beaudreau
is assistant
editor of
Church
World,
a news-
paper in Brunswick, Maine.
I
Steven
Blette
is teaching world
history at Silver Lake Regional
High School
in
Kingston, Mass.
I
Beth Dooley
Canfield
received
a master's in counseling in May
1999 and has been accepted in a
post-graduate program for school
psychology at New Jersey City
University.
I
Tara
Capple was
named a laboratory technician
for Wright-Pierce in Topsham,
Maine.
I
Todd
Coulson
earned
an associate degree from the Art
Institute of Philadelphia and was
honored with the outstanding
achievement award for best over-
all portfolio. Todd works at Haley
Productions in Media, Pa., where
he helps de\·elop CD-ROMs and
Web pages for clients ranging
from the Philadelphia Zoo to B 101
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23
Radio.
I
Louis
Donlin
is a na-
tional
sales account manager in
the
computer telephony
industry
with Oialogic, an
Intel
company.
I
Michael Dunn
was promoted
to
information
technology archi-
tect,
designing
e-business solu-
tions for
IBM.
I
James Ellis
has
been
selected to manage a new
program
called Vocational Alter-
natives, an attempt
to
improve
service
to people
with
mental
ill-
ness
in
choosing, obtaining and
keeping
community-integrated
jobs
in Kingston, N.Y.
I
Melanie
L.
Fester
is a recruiter in the
magazine
publishing and
Internet
industries.
I
Alicia
L.
Foster
earned a master's in counseling
psychology
from Rutgers Univer-
sity.
I
Brenda
L.
Gallagher
coor-
dinates
events and productions
for ABC out of its new Times
Square
studios in New York City.
IJennifer-Katherine
Gomez
was
promoted to the
position of pro-
duction
editor in the
documenta-
tion services
department
of Infor-
mation Builders. She evaluates,
maintains and creates the
design
and presentation of
documenta-
tion
in print, online and Web
formats.
I
Ann
P. Hanley
has
been with
the
Martin
J.
Moran
Company since September
1997.
She
has
traveled
to
New
Hamp-
shire, Rhode Island, Pennsylva-
nia and Ohio conducting capital
campaigns.
I
John
Hynes
was
awarded a medal and
featured
in
a news conference with New York
City
Police
Commissioner
Howard Sa fir for a rescue of three
people from one overturned and
two burning
vehicles. He is a
po-
lice officer with
the
NYPD.
I
Ronald
Johnson
received
a Juris
Doctor degree from Ohio North-
Laurie Anne Robb
'96
24
MA
R
I S T M A G A Z I
N E
t
ALUMNI
em University's
Pettit
College
of Law in
1997.
I
Debra
Levantrosser
is
manager
of Price
Waterhouse
Cooper.s'
East Asia
automotive
practice.
Debra is
based
in Bangkok
and
travels
throughout Asia. She spent Octo-
ber
1999
through February 2000
in
Jakarta,
Kuala Lumpur, Malay-
sia and Singapore.
I
Thomas
G.
McNulty
is a national bank ex-
aminer for
the
Office of Comp-
troller of Currency.
II
From
Feb-
ruary
to
October
1998,
William
Moses
served as a po
lice
monitor
with
the
Internationa I Police Task
Force, the U.N. civilian
police
force in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Since
1998
he has
been
working
for the Organization for Security
and Co-operation
in
Europe, a
regional security organization
in
which the 55
participating
states
are from Europe, Central Asia and
North America. He
returns
to
New
York this year.
II
Michael
Pappagallo
is
a copywriter at
Polese Clancy Design in
Boston.
Michael will be working on brand-
ing and positioning worldwide
clients as well as writing ad copy.
I
Kristie Pena
earned a master's
in English/secondary education
and is
teaching
English to junior
high school students
1in
Queens.
I
Stephen Pezza
received a
Juris
Doctor
degree
from Roger Will-
iams University's Papitto School
of Lawin
1999.
ICan:ie
Pochank
is
a special education teacher in
Brooklyn, N.Y. Carrie is
pursuing
a
master's in
special education,
specializing in
deaf
and
hard
of
hearing
students, at Hunter Col-
lege in
New York City.
I
David
Ranzer
is pursuing
ai
master's in
social work from SlJNY-Albany
and was
to
graduate
in
May
2000.
David
is an
intensive
family spe-
cialist with the Ulster County
Department of Social Services.
I
Laurie Anne Robb
is a staff writer
for Stray Cat Commumications, a
full
service marketing and com-
munications
company.
I
Mark
Salvo
is director of public rela-
tions for Physician Multicare of
Greater New York.
II
Eric Shay
has
moved to
St. Louis with Ener-
gizer. Eric currently
programs
customer
pricing
and. design and
builds
corporate Welb pages. He
is
also
involved
with a start-up
animation
company,
www.
yumeanimation.com.
I
Brandon
Tierney
is
an update anchor for a
NOTES
At
Baccalaureate on May
19
in
the chapel
on
campus, the Alumni
Association
recognized
two
seniors, Susan Soar
Goulet
(left) and
Ryan Patrick Hunter
(rigl1t), with
tlie
Alumni Leadership
Award.
President Dennis]. Murray
(center)
presented the 2000
award
to Susan and Ryan. Eacl1
year alumni employed at Marist
nomi-
nate and
elect tl1e award recipients
based
on outstanding
leader-
sl1ip and
contributions
to
the campus community.
nationally
syndicated talk show
on the SportsFan
Radio
Network
(www.sportsfanradio.com)
in
Las
Vegas, Nev. He
is heard
on 300
stations coast to coast and deliv-
ers all pertinent scores as well as
reporting
on injuries,
trades
or
anything else of
note in
the sports
world.
I
Christopher
Troetti
completed his master's
in
educa-
tion at Sacred
Heart
University.
I
Patrick].
Tully
is
the co-founder
and president of Citystuff.com,
Inc.,
an e-commerce site dedi-
cated to
"showcasing
the
quintes-
sential
'stuf
r
from
the
greatest
cities
in the
world." Citystuff.com
has offices
in
New
York,
Chicago,
San
Francisco
and
Los
Angeles.
1 9 9 7
Robert
Autenrieth
is an account
executive for a New
York
City-
based
advertising agency and a
free-lance celebrity photographer.
How to Reach the
Alumni Affairs Office
www.marist.edu/alumni
alumni@marist.edu
(845) 575-3283
I
Laci
Beckett
earned a
master's
from Fordham University and isa
psychiatric therapist working with
children
in
Queens, N.Y.
IJared
C.
Breault
is a
financial
consult-
ant at Salomon Smith Barney
in
Boston.
I
Terri
Anne
Carrozzo
is the West Coast
regional
repre-
sentative for
the
Culinary
Insti-
tute of America.
Based in
the Napa
Valley at the CLA at Greystone,
she covers California, Hawaii,
Alaska, Washington, Oregon and
Nevada.
I
Bryan Christian
is
"having
a
blast"
living in London
and working for Merrill
Lynch.
Bryan
develops new
systems and
creates
international
business
practices
for the
"new"
European
financial
industry.
I
Kara
Chrzescijanek
is a behavior spe-
cialist working
in
New York City
with
mentally
retarded adults.
I
Chrystine Gilchrist is
a market
research
analyst at PCS
Health
Systems in Scottsdale, Ariz.
I
Jon
Gutierrez
is a special education
teacher
at Bunnell
High
School
in
Stratford, Conn.
I
Jenn
Hintze
is
a coordinator and executive as-
sistant to
the
senior vice
presi-
dent of
music
and soundtracks
for PolyGram Films. She
is
plan-
ning
to
begin
her master's degree
in film
at
the
American
Film Insti-
tute and
is involved in
the writing
of an upcoming
film
project.
I
Amy
C.
Hunt
is
in
her
final
year
of law school
in
Boston.
I
Kristen
Koehler
was
promoted
to assis-
tant director of the annual
fund
at
Seton
Hall
University.
Kristen
completes a
master's
in commu-
nications-sports
management this
year.
I
Robert LaBarbera
is
pur-
suing an
M.B.A.
with a concen-
tration
in management
at
Hofstra
University.
He
works in down-
town New
York
City for a
bank
that
services the banks and bro-
kers who trade on Wall Street.
I
Margaret Engler litteken
earned
a master's
in
social work
from
SUNY-Albany
in
May
1998 and
received C.S.W. accreditation.
I
Judson S. McMullen
is working
as a supervisor
in
the annuity
services department
for
CGU Life
Insurance
Company of America
in
Boston.
I
Mary McQuillan
Mangan
is a
psychotherapist
in
the
office ofDr.
Gabriel
Feldmar.
Mary earned a master's at Adelphi
Mihe McDowell
'97,
Webmaster
for
the
Hertz
Corp.,
spohe
to
students
at
the
fourth annual
Communications Arts
Society
Alumni
Panel held at Marist in
March. Other panelists
i,1-
cluded Michael
O'Brien
'86,
senior
vice
president
at
Ketchum Public Relations,
Tara Mohl
'94,
creative
ser-
vices
supervisor at MediaOne
Inc., Maria Gordon Shydlo
'87,
director of public relations at
Oxford Health Plans,
Andrew
Boris
'94,
"Boris
in the
Morn-
ing'' at
WRRV-FM
and]. W
Stewart,
anchor at
ESPN.
University and received C.S.W.
accreditation.
I
Karin Oloffson
has been promoted
to
specialty
leasing
representative
at
Pyramid
Management Group.
I
Michael
Onorato
works
in
publi.c and fi-
nancial
relations
at
Raker
Goldstein.
I
Kim Picataggio
teaches
first grade in
Flanders,
N
.j.
I
Lauren Schneidmmller
was
promoted
to
associate producer
at
Publicis
Advertising
in
New
York
City.
I
Holly Schumaker
teaches
at
Mills
Middle School in
Rancho
Cordova, Calif. Holly is
working on a master's i1n special
education at California State Uni-
versity-Sacramento.
I
Colleen
Smith
is the marketing and
de-
velopment
manager
for
the
Na-
tional
Park Foundation
in
Wash-
ington,
D.C.
I
Gale Patricia
Thurst
earned a master's.
in
social
work from Fordham University
in
1999.
I
Katie Trifiletti
is a
special events coordinator for the
Philadelphia Museum of Art and
attends
Temple
Univer:;ity
pur-
suing a certified meeting;
planner
certificate.
I
Erica Wittman
is
working in New York City at EMC
Corporation.
1 9 9 8
Kelly
D.
Balser
is
pursuing
a
Juris
Doctor
degree at
Qtninnipiac
College School of Law. S.he
plans
to graduate in
2001.
I
Greg
Christman
is
an executive ad-
ministrative
assistant in the ac-
counting
department
at the
Re-
sort at Squaw Creek in Olympic
Valley, Calif. Greg works with
another Marist alum,
Ron Vuy
'7
4.
Ron is
vice presidlent and
general manager of the resort.
I
James
Dziezynski
is planning
mountaineering trips to
Alaska
and
India
for 2000 and 2001. He
is
writing
free-lance
and working
at
planetoutdoors.com,
an online
gear company,
in
Bould,er,
Colo.
I
Kimberly
Dawn
Garrett
is a
photojournalist
in
the
public af-
fairs office at West Point Military
Academy. She works for the in-
stallation newspaper,
The
Pointer
View.
I
Jennifer Harmer
com-
pleted
her first year working
full-
time for Marist's information tech-
nologies department.
I
Robert
Hoey
was to
run in
the
Country
Music Marathon in
Nash ville,
Tenn., April 29, 2000, with the
Leukemia
Society of America's
team-in-training.
I
Fernanda
Amorim Leventhal
is
press and
community outreach coordinator
for
Human
Rights
Watch in New
York
City. She
began
there as an
intern
doing
publicity for
the
Human
Rights
Watch
Interna-
tional
Film
Festival,
held in
June
1999.1
Elizabeth Lowe
received
a master's degree in social work
from
Fordham University in May
1999.
I
Elizabeth McCarthy
was
promoted
to
assistant
to
the
divisional
vice president
of
corporate marketing at Computer
Associates International Inc. in
Islandia, N Y
I
AdrienneJanetti
Murphy
completed Georgetown
University's master of arts in
na-
tional security studies
program
in
May 2000.
I
Jane
Rosiek
was
promoted
to account executive
in
strategic planning at
Mark
Russell
&
Associates in Syracuse, N Y.
I
Genine R. Scalzo
is
the
academic
intervention counselor in
the
Higher
Education Opportunity
Program
office at
Marist.
I Lisa
Tortora
received a master's
in
survey
research from
the
Univer-
sity of Connecticut
in
1999.
She
is a
marketing
research
associate
at the
Taylor Research
&
Con-
sulting Group,
Inc.
in
Norwalk,
Conn.
1
9 9 9
Amanda Flood is
an
interactive
media planner at OgilvyOne
Worldwide
in New
York.
I
Michael Frisch
was
promoted
to
senior software developer at GTE
Networks in
Dallas, Texas.
lJulie
Gadarowski
began a year of ser-
vice
with AmeriCorps VISTA in
Seattle, Wash.
lJeremy
Garzione
has
been
hired
as a
new
staff ac-
countant for Nugent
&
Haeussler
P.C.
I
Dana Greenberg
is a sup-
portive
case
manager
with Catho-
lic
Charities
in
Rome,
N.Y., work-
ing
with the
mentally ill.
I
Amy
Hanks
is
attending Vermont
Law
School and will graduate in
2002.
I
Kelly Kenefick
is development
director
for
the
Arthritis
Foundation's southern New En-
gland chapter
in
Rocky Hill,
Conn.
Kelly
runs a
joints in Motion
mara-
thon
program
and will escort this
year's
participants
to Dublin and
Honolulu.
I
Thomas McNulty
received
an M.
B.A.
from Marist
in
1999.IMichael
Melfi
is a special
education teacher
in
Syracuse,
N.Y.
He
placed
17,h
in
the Philly
Half-Marathon
and was
the
fourth
Beth Clarke
'99
(left) and
Erinn
Hergenhan
'99
were among 100
alumni, friends and
students
attending a special presenta-
tion
by the Marist
College
In-
stitute
for Public Opinion at
the
Union
League
Club
in
New
Yorh
City
April 11.
"Election
2000: An Insider's Looli" fea-
tured Dr. Lee Miringoff, direc-
tor of
the
institute, Dr. Barbara
Carvalho, director
of
the
Marist Poll,
Carl
Leubsdorf,
assistant managing
editor
and
Washington bureau
chief
of
the
Dallas Morning
News,
and
John Spar/is,
executive
pro-
ducer of investigations and
political
coverage
for
News
Channel
4
in
New
York
City.
American finisher. He was the
1999 Empire State Games cham-
pion in the
l0Kand was the fourth
American
finisher
in
the largest
15K
road
race
in
the
world,
the
Utica
Boilermaker,
injuly
1999.1
Arny Rider
is an elementary
school
psychologist
in
Middletown, Conn.
I
Melissa
Sheridan
is assistant market spe-
cialist at the Doneger Group, a
buying
office
in
New York City.
I
John
Svare
is
deputy district
rep-
resentative in the Kingston office
of Congressman
Maurice D.
Hinchey.
I
Kathleen Wisniewski
books satellite TV and radio
tours
at CpT Media, a satellite
media
company
in
New York City.
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Professor Tom Casey meets with his History of the Hudson Valley class at Fern Tor. Background: A ridge at Fern Tor overlooks
the
Hudson River.
Experien~cing
Nature
Marist's acquisition of the 13-acre estate Fern Tor offers a serene setting for teaching, learning and just contemplating.
P
rofessor Thomas Casey could be for-
given for making up ghost stories about
the century-old carriage house that has
contained his office for the past two years.
Leading a tour of the house, the philosophy
professor
suggests that a mysterious cubby-
hole in a closeted staircase is a
likely
home for
a ghost. Outside, he observes that the
house's
wine cellar makes a
prime
hideout for a gob-
lin. And he's not above telling students of
snakes lurking in the surrounding woods.
Although he wants to dramatize the
uniqueness of Fern Tor, the 13-acre estate
Marist acquired in December 1997, Professor
Casey also doesn't want its tranquility de-
stroyed. Any visitor to the peaceful property
could not blame him. The estate at the campus's
northern boundary is a quiet
retreat
rich with
trees, flowering herbs, shrubs, ferns, wildlife
and several ecological habitats, graced by a
Hudson River view and 800 feet of shoreline.
The carriage house,
built
of Dutchess field-
stone and bricks from the estate's original
1880s' mansion, is nestled into the forest.
"When you come onto this property, you're
immediately struck by
nature,
not by build-
26
M A R I ST M A G A Z I
N
E
ings," says Professor Casey.
"What
strikes you
about this place
is its
natural setting."
Histc1ry
and
Horticulture
Tom Casey, a member ofMarist's Department
of Philosophy and Religious Studies since
1963,
is
one of
15
faculty members in the
Division of Humanities who had offices in the
spacious carriage house until recently, when
the divi.sion moved into newly completed
Fomain,e Hall. Professor Casey has researched
the history of the estate to
1699.
The land was
not
developed
until 1861 when, according to
legal
documents, Thomas Newbold purchased
it.
It eventually boasted a mansion with a
southern vista of
the
Hudson River (before
the Mid-Hudson Bridge and railroad
bridge
were built), a summerhouse, formal gardens,
and greenhouses,
including
one
dedicated to
orchids. A manmade pond, spring-fed, was
fashioned in the 1880s. The mansion com-
manded
the highest point on the estate, and
its
foundations, all that remain of the struc-
ture, now mark the highest ground on Marist's
campus.
With the death of Thomas Newbold, the
estate passed to his wife and children. Frederick
Newbold, Thomas's son, was prominent in
horticulture and helped found the Horticul-
tural Society of New York. It was Frederick
Newbold who named the property Fern Tor
after
its
ferns and rocky hills. The next genera-
tion of Newbolds sold Fem Tor
to the
Way
family, who transformed the carriage house
into their home and eventually sold the
parcel
to Marist.
Fern Tor now recalls a bit of Marist
College's own history. Marist has named the
carriage house St. Ann's Hermitage in
remem-
brance of the role of the Marist Brothers in
establishing the college; St. Ann's Hermitage
was the name the Brothers gave to the
Poughkeepsie property
they bought
in
1905
that later became Marist College.
Fern Tor is of not only historic but also
literary
interest.
The Newbolds had strong
ties to the Pulitzer Prize-winning American
novelist and short story writer Edith Wharton:
Thomas Newbold was married to her mother's
sister, Mary Rhinelander Newbold. Thomas
and his wife were godparents
to
Edith, whose
middle name was Newbold. Dr.
Judith Saunders, professor of En-
glish at Marist and an Edith
Wharton scholar, notes that
R.W.B.
Lewis's
biography of the
writer mentions Edith Wharton
visiting her relatives at Fern Tor
in the autumn of
1906,
enjoying
its
"wonderful colours of foli-
age." Professor Tom Casey
be-
lieves
Edith Wharton, who had a
passion
for gardening,
must
have
remembered her visits to the
Hudson River home; he notes
that her Lenox, Mass., estate, The
Mount,
has
plantings of myrtle
identical to those at Fern Tor.
The Pulitzer Prize-
winning
American
novelist and short story
writer Edith Wharton
forest stand of walnut trees.
"There's a good abundance of
life
there to the casual observer,"
says Dr.
Feldman.
His students
have recorded sightings of wild-
life including deer, turkeys,
skunks,
muskrats,
geese, ducks
and great blue herons.
Undisturbed Land
Both environmental
science
majors and non-science majors
are benefiting greatly from the
presence of Fern Tor on cam-
pus. Previously, Marist did not
have
an extensive area of undis-
visited
her relatives, the
family of Thomas
Newbold, at Fem Tor in
the autumn of 1906,
enjoying its
"wonderful
colours of foliage."
An Abundant Resource
Perhaps more important than its historic or
literary
significance is Fern Tor's role as a
place Marist students can
learn
about nature.
The property is home to at
least
20 species of
native trees, according to Dr. Richard Feldman,
assistant professor of environmental science,
who brings classes there. Trees represented
include four species of maple,
two
of birch
and three of hickory as well as sycamore,
walnut, ironwood,
basswood,
white pine, east-
ern hemlock and black locust. Also
in
resi-
dence are two huge
tulip
trees-one
with a
chest-high diameter of four feet-as well as
two red
oaks at
least
300 years old.
The trees at Fern Tor complement the
variety of trees farther south on
the
Marist
campus that Professor Casey and
the
late
biology professor William Perrone catalogued
in
recent years. During
the
past decade they
identified
and
tagged pine,
oak, beech, wal-
nut, magnolia,
ginkgo, maple,
hemlock
and
LUlip trees.
Now, Dr. Feldman's students help with
the biological characterization of Fern Tor.
The site's ecological habitats include a pond,
small wetlands, a ravine, dry
ridgetop
and a
turbed land, says Dr. Feldman.
"This is so
·important.
It's
one
thing to
show
slides and videos.
It's
another to see habitats
and species firsthand and to witness ecologi-
cal relationships." Now, about 320 of his
students have carried out class assignments at
Fern Tor over the five semesters since Marist
purchased the property.
Dr. Feldman says he was truly excited
when
he
learned that Marist had acquired
Fem Tor. "I like to
let
students know we've got
this in our back yard, that you don't have to go
someplace exotic to appreciate the natural
world."
He
wasted
no
time in using Fern Tor as a
laboratory for his classes. The Invertebrate
Zoology class was the first, collecting speci-
mens there in April 1998. The Ecology lecture
class and Held and Lab Ecology class identify
trees, observe weather conditions and main-
tain field journals
there.
Keeping a journal
calls for students to spend an hour a week for
several weeks noticing details of
the
nature
around them, from plants and interactions
between organisms to smells and sounds.
Students in the Introduction
to
Environmen-
tal
Issues
course, made
up
primarily of non-
science majors fulfilling core liberal arts re-
quirements,. are also
required
to keep field
Students Sonja Sjolwlm-DeHaas (left) and Jen
McKay measure a tulip tree for their Field and
Lab
Ecology
class.
journals. Although students don't have to
make their field journal observations at Fern
Tor, most do, especially freshmen. "I would
not have been able
to
require this assignment
if there wasn't some place students could walk
to," says Dr. Feldman.
The property has made field work pos-
sible for the non-science majors. Formerly
only honors students and science majors went
on field trips,
because
travel and access were
too difficult to arrange for the large classes of
non-science majors.
So far, seven environmental science ma-
jors have carried out independent study
projects at Fern Tor, forgoing travel to the
more
distant sites to which Dr. Feldman pre-
viously took his classes. "I love going up
there," says Carrie Swail '00, an environmen-
tal science major . "I have a favorite spot up
there, behind the Way House, on an overlook
tO
the
river. It's
very quiet and peaceful up
there. There's such a beautiful view of the
river." For their independent sLUdy project,
Ms. Swail and a classmate, Jill Christiano,
compared the habitats of ridge and ravine.
Ms. $wail spent about 30 hours during the fall
1999 semester at Fern Tor. But some of
the
time was spent taking pictures for her phot0g-
raphy class, she adds. "And on a nice day I'll
walk up there on the ridge to have some quiet,
'me' time."
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Warren
Neill says Fem Tor is an excellent locale for
the study of certain
philosophical
ideas about
how
people
gain knowledge. "Deep ecologists
often argue that one becomes aware of intrin-
sic value
in
nature not by philosophical dis-
cussion in a classroom but through direct
experience of nature," he says. "Even those
who are somewhat skeptical of these sorts of
claims can benefit greatly from considering
them while in
the
presence of nature." Dr.
Neill envisions teaching environmental ethics
in a natural setting such as Fem Tor.
It
is Fem Tor's natural setting and his wish
to protect it that
lead
Professor Tom Casey
to
spin a final yarn about St Ann's Hermitage.
"Legend has it that upon the renovation of the
carriage house many years ago, they came
upon a skeleton jammed between the walls,"
he relates. "After extensive investigation, it
was found to be the 1926 Dutchess County
hide-and-seek
champion."
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The intrepid pollsters
of the Marist College
Institute for Public
Opinion went on the
road for the
New
Hampshire
and
New York presidential
primaries.
Here's what
they saw.
BY DR. LEE M. MIRINCDFF
11
e six weeks which began with our
rip
to
New
Hampshire
for
its
presi-
dential primary through the
New
York
presidential primary were, to
reprise
the
Beatie
favorite, a
"Hard
Day's Night."
The
combination of
hard-fought presidential
pri-
mary
contests and
the head Ii ne-grabbing
New
York
Senate
campaign kept
us jumping.
Dr.
Barbara Carvalho,
director of the
Marist
Col-
lege
Poll, and
I
spent 33 days in this
42-day
period
on
the
road. We came close to violating
our policy
of
never
passing ourselves on the
highway going
in the
opposite
direction.
There
were 75 TV interviews, 350 print and radio
interviews,
22 nights of
polling
and 9,699
voters interviewed. Nearly 200 Marisl College
students were involved
in
these projects.
Marist
Polls accurately chronicled
important
trends
while Marist students enjoyed a front-row
seat to
the
political process.
It was a
politically riveting
as well as an
exhilarating time. The sprint
kicked
off
with
a
"News Forum"
interview featuring
John
McCain
and
me
on NewsChannel 4. It was
taped on
the Friday
before the New
Hamp-
shire
primary
for a Sunday
broadcast.
First,
Gabe
Pressman
interviewed John McCain in
Manchester,
N.
H.,
while
l
eavesdropped
from
the New York City studio. Then political
correspondentjay DeDapper
interviewed
me
in
New York. Since
my
segment was to air
before
McCain's, I had to
resist
the temptation
to anticipate every answer McCain provided.
At one point
during
the McCain
interview
the
producer
in the control room enjoined me
through my
earpiece to jump
in.
So there
I
was, on a split screen with the
presidential
candidate,
cast in
the role
of TV
reporter.
I
clumsily
queried the senator about whether
he felt
at a disadvantage against the
Bush
machine
because he
was an insurgent, a po-
litical
newcomer on
the
New
Hampshire presi-
dential primary
scene. Lesson One of TV
journalism
is never ask a
question
that has an
obvious answer.
He
responded that
his new-
ness would
ultimately
turn out to
be
an ad-
vantage.
I really
pinned him on that one! It
was several hours
later
during my ride to New
Hampshire that the light bulb went on.
"Sena-
tor,"
I
asked while driving along the
Massa-
chusetts Turnpike,
"no
sitting
member
of
Congress, has
been
elected directly to the
White House since John
Kennedy
in 1960.
What special
problems
will you face in cap-
LUring the nomination even if you win the
New
Hampshire
primary?"
As we crossed
the
border into New
Hamp-
shire,
I
was paged by MIPO
program
assistant
Joan Nies. Her message said The New York
Times
op-ed section had accepted an article
I
had
submitted earlier
in the
week on
Hillary
Clinton and
the
women's vote. I was
lucky
not
to veer off
the
road at
the
good news.
For Barbara and
I,
this was
the
fourth
quadrennial
go-round stalking
the presiden-
tial candidates through
the
snows of New
Hampshire. ll
was the
first
such
trip
for MIPO
survey center director Kathleen Tobin Flusser.
For Nancy
Robinson
Miringoff, it was
the
fifth
New
Hampshire
sojourn; back in 1972, as
Nancy Robinson, she had
been
a New Hamp-
shire campaign volunteer.
On
three
of our four trips to New Hamp-
shire we never saw a snowflake,
but
with
competitive primaries on
both
the Republi-
can and
Democratic
side we did see oodles of
candidates and
hoards
of
media. Imagine the
entire national political community falling
Being at ground zero in New Hampshire for a
political junkie rivals
throwing 01L1t
the first ball on
opening day
for a Yankee fan.
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over each other in the voter-rich area of New
Hampshire no larger than
the
35-mile stretch
from Peekskill to Poughkeepsie, New York:
candidates wooing
nearly
400,000 voters,
pollsters calibrating voter reaction
to
the
decimal point
and
the press
trying
to
stay
awake as the candidates
plow through their
campaign stump speeches for the ump-
teenth
time.
This first-in-the-nation primary con-
nects candidates and voters in an intimate
way. The town
hall
meetings provide a
unique
opportunity for candidates to strut
their
stuff and for voters to check
them
out face to face. New
Hampshire
voters
take
their role very seriously. Our
infor-
mal
chats with
many
New
Hampshirites
revealed
that
they attend
numerous
such
gatherings.
They
are very
informed
and
issue-focused.
They shop around.
Being at ground zero
in
New
Hamp-
shire fora
political
junkie
rivals throw-
ing
out the first ball on opening
day
for
a Yankee fan. So much was
packed into
these
six days in New Hampshire. We saw five of the
presidential candidates, conducted numer-
ous interviews with
the media
and bumped
into political celebrities every step of the way.
Our hotel in Nashua was the home
base
of
Al Gore and
his
entourage. On one occasion,
as I barreled my way
into
the elevator, Nancy
was brushed aside by a Secret Service agent.
"Did
you see who that was?" Barbara asked,
her
eyes
popping
out.
Tipper
Gore was on
her
way
LO
the exercise room in full workout
regalia (in heavy makeup lest a TV crew
spotted her) Barbara and
Nancy
decided
to
work out a short time later-no
doubt
for a
closer view.
We auended a
Lown
hall gathering
in
Derby for John McCain,
the
eventual GOP
New Hampshire primary winner. McCain
touched
upon
many
now-familiar themes
about
the
"Iron Triangle" in Washington, cam-
paign finance reform and
the
needs of veter-
ans. But
interspersed
in the political rhetoric
was a surprising
mixture
of Don Rickles/
Henny Youngman Catskill shtick. Our efforts
to
size
up
George W. Bush in Medford were
rebuffed
when the fire marshal closed
the
hall.
This
was also the day George W.'s parents
were there and the former president referred
in
a not particularly
l1attering
way to
the
presidential hopeful as "my boy."
Our sightings of
the
Democratic contend-
ers
took
us to a Bill Bradley town hall meeting
in
Hollis and an election eve Al Gore rally in
Amherst. The Bradley event
initially
had a pep
rally feel. A surrogate team comprised of
Nebraska Senator Bob
Kerrey,
Minnesota Sena-
tor
Paul Wellstone, Harvard professor Come!
West and actor Ron Silver
provided
the juice.
As Wellstone, who barely tops five
feel,
brushed
by me,
I
muuered
to no one in
particular,
"Aha.
Al last a senator
I
can
look
straight in the eye." Without breaking stride
he
fired
back,
"I
heard
that."
Unfortunately for
Bill Bradley fans,
the
energy level
in the
room
dropped al his tum al
the
podium.
Gore's performance beat the expectations.
He
was,
believe
il or not, engaging. My
tip-off
to the following
day's
outcome, a Gore vic-
tory, was
in the
calm
reaction
of Gore primary
campaign guru Tony Coelho as
he
perused
what appeared
to
be overnight poll numbers.
At one point a woman sining next
to
Kathleen stood
up
and disrupted the proceed-
ings.
She was
later identified
as a supporter of
Lyndon
LaRouche.
Although Gore handled
himself
deftly, we were a
liule
rauled as
police
swarmed around the woman and escorted her
physically
from the
room.
Our primaryevedinnerwasat the Sheraton
Wayfarer in Bedford,
the
gathering place for
political people to
exchange thoughts or just
to
gossip about
the
day's
happenings.
Eating
Imagine the entire national political community falling
over each other in the voter-rich area of New Hamp-
shire
lllO
larger than the 35-mile stretch from Peekskill
to Pouighkeepsie,
New York: candidates wooing nearly
400,000 voters,
pollsters calibrating voter reaction to
the
de◄:imal
point
and the press trying to stay awake as
the ca11didates plow through their
campaign stump speeches
for thei umpteenth time.
at nearby
itables
this night were Lars Erik-
Nelson, Washington columnist for the New
York
Daily
News, members of
the
Bradley
campaign team we
had
spotted earlier in the
day and 1998 Marist graduation speaker
Ray
Flynn, who, hosts a syndicated radio
program.
Many of you have seen
political
reports
from
this hotel,
although you probably
didn't
know it. In
the middle
of the structure
is
a
photo-op comprised of a New Hampshire-
like covernd
bridge,
a New England-looking
stream, an appropriately
placed
gazebo and
an assortment of waterfowl l1apping around.
A lineup of TV reporters
uses
this
backdrop
for their 5, 6, and 11 o'clock reports.
Primary night
is
the climax of
months
of
speculation. We set up camp at NBC's N.H.
outpost
to
monitor the exit
poll
and
be inter-
viewed
by
Gabe
Pressman
andJay De Dapper.
As McCain and Gore victories became appar-
ent, we hopped
down
the street for interviews
\vith CNN's Wolf Blitzer and New York l's
Dominic Carter.
We
left
New Hampshire Wednesday
morning, heading straight for Marist to start
our
post-New Hampshire primary
New York
poll.
We were greeted with the
news that
Hillary Clinton would formally announce
her
candidacy for the Senate race four days hence.
We quickly refocused our
poll questionnaire
on
Hillary
vs.
Rudy
Giuliani.
Coverage of our Friday
Marist Poll
proved
to be fodder for the media feeding frenzy.
Starting
with CBS's
"The
Early Show" with
Bryant Gumbel and
Jane
Clayson,
I
went on to
have a "seven-studio day"
including
taped
interviews
for NBC's
"Nightly
News with Tom
Brokaw" and ABC's
"World
News
Tonight
with Peter Jennings."
On Sunday,
Barbara
and I
left
for SUNY-
Purchase in
Westchester County for Hillary's
declaration
of candidacy. The event was more
like a declairation of
independence.
She broke
with her First Lady role
to become
a Senate
candidate. She demonstrated independence
from her husband, who sat
nearby
and was
literally spe:echless, and offered themes posi-
tioning
herself as a
new
Democrat, a
depar-
ture from familiartraditional
Democratic
Party
positions.
While
,it
this event, my pager clocked
in.
It
was
"The
Today Show." Could I appear the
next morning? There we were
in
Purchase, 60
miles
south of Poughkeepsie, without a change
of clothes. Our
route took
us from Purchase lo
Poughkeepsie
to
reload
and then
back
down
to New York City.
Being a guest on
"The
Today Show" was a
different ball game. As we entered
the
green-
room at 6:45 a.m.,
I
was
relieved
of my suit
jacket for pressing. Greenrooms are places
to
cross
paths
with unusual people. This morn-
ing
was
no
exception. Other guests included
Hillary's campaign manager, Bill
de
Blasio,
the
attorney Johnnie Cochran of O.j. fame
("if
il doesn't fit, you must acquit") and
Charmian Carr, who played Lies! in the 1965
movie
"The
Sound of Music"
("Sixteen
Going
on Seventeen").
The moment I'm ushered into makeup
and
then
onto
the
set
is
the
most
intense.
Barbara
describes
the feeling as when you take
your
dog
to the vet and the vet's assistant
escorts your pooch away, leaving
you
holding
only
the leash.
On this occasion my
"goodbye"
consisted of
the not-so-reassuring
out-of-body
comment to Barb,
"I
hope Lee shows up or
we're
both in
a
lot
of trouble."
Fortunately things went smoothly. Matt
Lauer,
Al Roker and
I
had shared numerous
sets on NewsChannel 4
before
their move to
the
national network. My favorite part was the
graphic plastering
"Marist
College" across the
screen and into 7 million households simulta-
neously.
Later that afternoon Catherine Crier in-
tenriewed me on her new Court TV program.
Then it was
back
to Poughkeepsie for what
turned out to be a much shorter than expected
stay. TV producers typically inquire about
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In the case of a close
election, a fun night can
turn into a
nail-biter.
availability for
that
day's
program
following
their
mid-morning
meeting.
"The Today Show"
on Monday had caught many a producer's eye
so
that
on Tuesday, the
phone
at Marist was
ringing
off the hook.
It
was back to New York
City.
Our first stop was WABC-TV and our
second, NewsChannel 4. (We were on the
evening news
broadcast
every
night that
week.)
Our
third
stop was CNN for a live interview
by
Judy Woodruff for
"Inside
Politics.• While
waiting in the greenroom at CNN, my pager
buzzed.
It was Gabe Pressman's
Marist
intern,
Daniella Femia.
It's not unusual for
us
to cross
paths with
Marist
interns as we
travel
around
New York
City.
Whether
it's
Fox News Chan-
nel, the ABC
polling
unit or NewsChannel 4,
familiar faces from campus
pop up
in exciting
places.
Daniella was calling because Gabe
needed
additional
tape.
And quickly. I was going on-
air so
Barbara
hailed a cab and sped crosstown
to
the interview, just making deadline.
The
next couple of weeks were packed
solid with
polls
and a daily stream of print,
radio and TV interviews about
Hillary
and
Rudy and
the
upcoming Super Tuesday
presi-
dential
primary.
It's
not
surprising for New
York to offer several twists to a presidential
campaign. Campaign 2000 was
no
exception.
For
the
first time in memory, both political
parties held statewide contests. The Demo-
crats offered
the
early expectation that Bill
Bradley might use his home court to his
advantage. On
the
Republican side we learned
that in
New York, an
"open"
primary meant
not
that there
was crossover voting as in other
states but
that
more than one person was
allowed on the ballot.
Each primary season provides a few tid-
bits
that
we carry to the next go-round. This
time, we witnessed
the
dilemma of
the
insur-
gents and
how difficult it
was for them
LO
upset
frontrunners.
Bill Bradley
failed to
re-
spond
quickly
and effectively to Al Gore's
attacks and got clobbered.
Barbara
and
I
saw
firsthand evidence of
Bradley's
sub par perfor-
mance at the Democratic debate at the Apollo
Theatre on Feb. 21. Sitting amidst
250
politi-
cal
reporters
and spinners in the
media hold-
ing room across
the
street from the theatre, we
watched his lackluster effort against Al Gore.
On
the
GOP side,
John
McCain went on
the
counteroffensive
but
in so
doing lost
his
special appeal. McCain's descent was
detailed
in our poll. On
the
Wednesday morning be-
fore the March 7 New York primary,
McCain
led
Bush by 7 percent. White Catholic Repub-
licans,
the single largest voting group
in
the
N.Y. GOP, felt Bush was
injecting too
much
religion
into
politics. By
the weekend, follow-
ing
McCain's misguided counterattack, which
included
references to Pat Robertson and Jerry
Falwell,
these
voters were divided over who
was the culprit. Bush now
led by
5 points, a
lead
he
did
not surrender.
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Our ability
to
conduct polls and release
information literally
overnight
kept
Marist in
the campaign mix. As interest in the primary
grew, so
did
attention to the Marist Poll. We
started polling nightly approximately
two
weeks
before the
March 7
primary.
Kathleen
Tobin
Husser
made
sure
the
evening polling
sessions
were
humming.
Joan
Nies
quarterbacked our press release distribution
and processed
the
barrage of
media
inquiries.
Computer whiz Steve Conley kept our cut-
ting-edge
technology clicking.
On f:riday, March
3,
after
days
of
major
coverage of Marist Polls,
Barbara
and I had
another seven-studio
day
to
coincide with a
poll release updating the
primary
horse race
and a panel
presentation
at
the
New
York
City
Arts Club. At
the day's
end, following our
primary
night rehearsal at NewsChannel
4,
Barbara amd
I
were walking a
long
6th Avenue.
We felt a little
disappointed that
Fox News
Channel hadn't
called
during the
day,
unlike
on many previous
days,
thereby giving
us
a
record
eight appearances. No sooner
had
we
expressed
this
when we
looked
across the
street and saw
the
message board outside the
Fox stud'ios highlighting
the latest
Marist
Poll.
The dection
eve poll is always the most
exciting
for
pre-election
pollsters.
The
unde-
cided vote typically is low and voters have
clarified in
their own minds their
intentions.
When
Barbara
analyzes election eve
poll
data,
she knows that
the
electorate is in there some-
where.
The
trick
is finding
the right model so
that
the final tracking is
accurate.
You
are only
as good as your
last
poll.
While I spent
Monday
in New York City
on a
lengthy
round of interviews, our
Marist
Poll
team
completed this final tracking in
Poughkeepsie.
It
was about
midnight
when
Barbara, Kathleen and
I drew
our conclusions
via telephone about
this
final poll and shaped
the
release for primary
day.
On Tuesday
Bar-
bara and
I
met at NewsChannel
4 midday
to
prepare for that evening's TV coverage.
The poll of
record
on
primary night
is the
exit poll. Conducted
by the
networks, exit
polls
provide projections of winners and
los-
ers and
insight
into
the
reasons underly'ing
voter choices. Our
primary
night
team
at
NewsChannel
4 consisted
of
Barbara,
NewsChannel
4
correspondent Ralph Penza
and producer Dianne Drummey, Marist
in-
terns
Daniella
Femia and Matt Daigle and me.
We all worked under
the
direction of execu-
tive producer
John Sparks.
Barbara and
I
combed the exit polls to
develop news reports for the station's election
coverage. On this night
there
were eight seg-
ments. The station does not project a winner
without our go-ahead.
In the
case of a close
election, like Dinkins-Giuliani in 1993 or
New
Jersey
governor Christie Whitman's
re-
election
in
1997, a
fun
night can
tum into
a
nail-biter.
I
always leave a coin on the desk of
the
news
director,
Paula Madison, during the
afternoon, to
be flipped
later in
the
evening
just in
case it's needed. Fortunately the
races
were not particularly close
this
time and the
coin remained
unused. I
can assure you
it'll
be
ready
for the Senate
race
in
the
fall.
The curtain came down on this chapter
in
the life of the Marist Poll at
the Inner
Circle
dinner
in New York City
the
Saturday follow-
ing
the
primary.
This
roast
of politicians
by
the press was the first
face-to-face
meeting of
Hillary and
Rudy
since she announced
her
candidacy.
It
was also an opportunity for
Barbara and
me
LO
come
full
circle, from
the
Marist students who conducted our
polls,
to
the Marist interns working with New
York
City media,
to the many
Marist alumni suc-
cessfully
pursuing
careers in
the media
who
were attending
this
gala event. As we
look
ahead
LO
the
general election in
the
fall, it's
hard
LO
imagine
that this spring
may
have
been
only the exhibition season.
The
presi-
dential and Senate contests are
destined to
create an unmatched
media
extravaganza-
unless, of course, there is a Subway
Series
in
New York, whereupon we will
also poll
on
whether your favorite
team
is
the
Yankees or
the
Mets.
■
Dr. Lee
M.
Miringoff
is
the director
of the Marist
College
Institute
for Public Opinion and a mem-
ber oj the political
science
f acuity at Maris!.
Shortstop
Steve
O'Sullivan
'02
tags
out
a
Siena
base-
·
stealer
to solidify
Marist's
berth to the
2000
Pizza Hut
MAAC Baseball Tournament
at Dutchess Stadium.
Two Teams
Represent
Marist
in NCM
Play
Marist Also Wins the MAAC Commissioner's
Cup for a Second Straight Year
Ti
e 1999-2000
academic
year
was
an
ther
milestone year for the Athletics
Department
as
two
Marist
teams
earned
berths to
NCAA
regional
tournaments.
Red
Fox student-athletes also successfully
bonded
to
garner
Marist
its second consecutive Metro
Atlantic Athletic
Conference
Commissioner's
Cup in only the school's
third
year of compe-
tition in the
league.
The men's
tennis
team, under
the
direc-
tion of
third-year
head coach Tim Smith,
competed in NCAA competition for
the
sec-
ond
straight year.
The men
landed
in
the
NCAA
regionals in
Waco,
Texas,
by success-
fully defending
their
conference title as
the
team
again
compiled an
undefeated dual meet
MAAC
record
and swept the MAAC Tennis
Tournament, losing only one
point
in three
matches.
This
season
the Red
Foxes were led
by
Ralph VanderPlasse '00, who compiled a
15-3
regular season dual
meet record
and was
perfect in the MAAC
Tournament
en route
to
earning the MAAC's Most Outstanding
Performer Award.
The
baseball
program, under the direc-
tion offifth-year head coach
John
Szefc, earned
BY SEAN
MORRISON
the conference's automatic NCAA bid
by
cap-
turing
the
MAAC
Tournament title
and
re-
corded a program-best 33-19-2 overall
record.
The Red
Foxes
competed
in Lafayette,
La.,
where, led by Anthony Ambrosini
'00
and
Anthony
Bocchino
'02,
Marist
again
made
history
as
thte
Red Foxes
defeated McNeese
State (6-5)
in. the
elimination game
to
become
the
first program in
Marist
history
to win an
,
NCAA
Tournament
competition. Anthony
Dave Dobbins
'01
was
named the MAAC's
Most Outstanding Swimmer for
the
third
con-
secutive yea,·
and Sheila
Nieri
'00
was
named
Most Outstanding
Diver
for the
second
straight year·
at tl1e MAAC Championship.
Ambrosini and Anthony Bocchino each were
selected
to the region's
all-tournament team,
further
establishing the school's athletic cred-
ibility on a
national level.
The MAAC's Highest Honor
At the same time, Marist becomes only the
third
school, along with
Loyola
(1996-97,
1993-94) and LaSalle (1991-92,
1984-89),
to
successfully
defend
the
MAAC
Commissioner's
Cup, which recognizes overall athletic excel-
lence
in
the
24
sports sponsored by
the
MAAC.
League
schools earn points for
regular
season
and
tournament
finishes with
the
cup being
awarded to the school
that
earns
the
most
points at the end
of the
academic year.
m
j
During the
1998-99 academic year, six
Marist
teams (women's cross country,
men's
j
and women's swimming and diving,
men's
2
and women's crew and men's tennis) won
MAAC
titles to
lead
Marist to
the
conference's
highest
honor.
This
season, five Marist
programs
(women's cross country, men's swimming
and
diving,
women's swimming and
diving,
men's tennis and women's lacrosse) won all or
a share of the
regular-season
title to again earn
Marist
the
cup while the baseball program
won
the
MAAC
Tournament Championship.
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Pam Brown '01 finished
the
lacrosse
season
ranked 17"' nationally in points per
game.
Ralph \fanderPlasse
'00
(right)
and Roberto
Mayer
'00
teamed
up as Marist's top doubles
com-
bination
vs.
Baylor at the
NCAA Tournament
in
Waco, Texas.
"[ am continually impressed by our stu-
dent-athletes'
ability to compete at the highest
level
athletically while never losing sight of
their academic responsibility," says Tim
Murray, Marist's director of athletics. "We are
focused on developing a broad-based athlet-
ics
program and this is a tangible symbol of
our success."
Swimmers and
Divers Dominate
The
men's
and women's swimming and div-
ing
programs again captured the
league's
top
honor, winning the MAAC Swimming and
Diving Championship hosted
in the
McCann
natatorium. Led
by 2000 MAAC Swimmer of
the Year Dave Dobbins
'01,
who captured
victory in the 100, 200 and 500 freestyle
events, the Red Fox men compiled a new
conference-record
1,221
points to outdis-
tance second-place Loyola (723.5) and earn
their
fifth
consecutive MAAC title.
On the women's side, Sheila Nieri
'00
successfully
defended
her
1-meter
and 3-
meterdivingcrownsen
route
toearningMAAC
Diver of the Year accolades for the second
consecutive season. The title
marks
the fourth
consecutive for the women's program which,
like
the men's, shattered the conference
record
for points at the championship meet with
1,015.
ltalso
marks the first time in the
meet
history
that a
women's
program has eclipsed
the 1,000-point
barrier.
The
women's cross-country team,
led
by
defenditng
champion Liza Grudzinski
'02,
successfully defended
its title
this year, shar-
ing
the conference crown with Manhattan.
Liza Grudzinski once again was the
first
com-
petitor to
cross
the finish
line
at the
historic
Van Conland Park Course, marking her sec-
ond consecutive cross-country
individual
title.
Surprise of the Year
The women's lacrosse team was the surprise
of the year as the Red Foxes, in only
their
fourth )tear of play at the varsity level, opened
the season with an 0-4 record and finished the
year with a 7-7 mark. Included in the turn-
around was a 5-1 record in conference play to
finish tied with Manhattan for first
in
the
conference regular-season standings. Led by
all-MA.AC selection Pam Brown
'01,
who fin-
ished the season ranked 17th nationally in
scoring, Marist entered the inaugural MAAC
women's lacrosse tournament as the top seed
before
falling to Niagara in
the
opening round
of the tournament.
The men's
lacrosse
team also had one of its
best seasons
in
recent history. Third-year head
coach Matt Cameron
led
the
Red Foxes to a 6-
8 overa1ll record
that included
a 5-4 fourth-
place
finish
in
the
tvlAAC
regular-season stand-
ings
and a berth
to the
inaugural tvlAAC
Championship Tournament. Paul Donohue
'02
fini:shed
the
year ranked in the
top
10 in
three
d:ifferent
statistical categories including
Coxswained by Karen Ponzonni
'00,
the men's varsity eight boat
registered
a program-best
l 6
1
h-place finish at the national championships in Cam~len,
NJ.
No. 6 in the country in scoring.
The crew team's men's varsity eight also
ended
the
season on a high note. They fin-
ished 16
th
in
the nation in the Intercollegiate
Rowing Association
championships
in
Camden, N.j.
"I feel that each program elevated
its level
of play and competition
this
year," says Tim
Murray. "However, as well as we competed
athletically, I feel
that
our student-athletes
need to be commended for their efforts in the
classroom."
Sixty-nine Marist student-athletes earned
MAAC Academic All-Star accolades, which
recognize outstanding athletic and academic
achievement. The qualifying winner needs to
contribute significantly to his or her
team
while maintaining a 3.2 cumulative grade
point average.
■
U.S. National Rowing
Championships
June
1-3,
2000
Grand
Final
1. California
2.
Brown
3. Princeton
4. Washington
5.
Temple
6. Dartmouth
Petite Final
7. Penn
8. Wisconsin
9. Cornell
10.
Navy
11. Virginia
12.
Northeastern
3
rd
Level Final
13.
Oregon State
14.
Syracuse
15.
Columbia
16. Marist
17.
Michigan
18.
Stanford
4
th
Level Final
19.
Boston Univ.
20.
Purdue
21. Rutgers
5:39.58
5:44.50
5:44.87
5:48.47
5:54.15
5:57.78
5:48.61
5:49.21
5:53.34
5:53.89
5:57.28
6:02.29
5:52.00
5:56.00
5:58.30
5:59.82
5:59.87
6:06.20
5:59.72
6:03.63
6:05.25
CHAPTERIS
CONNECTED
COASlr
TO
COAST
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Figures indicate
number of alumni in each state
Alaska: 3
Hawaii:
15
Overseas:
205
Marist alumni are in more
than
30
countries around the world.
Total number of alumni
=17,716
200
5
6
12
50
200
500
South Fl~rida
Involvement
with the Marist College Alum1ni
Association has never been greater-and you don't have to live
next door to stay connected! There are niow
13
chapters all over the country, from New York to California.
The Alumni Association is pleased to announce
the
for-
mation of another chapter. Graduates gathered
this
spring
in San Francisco for
the
inaugural event of
the
Northern
California alumni chapter at Pat O'Shea's Madhatter,
owned
by
Pete Nesteroke
'66.
The chapter is being
spearheaded by Dave Metz
'80,
director of programming
services at
KGO-TV,
the ABC affiliate
in the
Bay Area.
Nearly 50 alumni, family and friends au ended this fantas-
tic evenl. This brings the total number of ch:apters
to
13
and connects the Alumni Association coast
to
coast, with
chapters from New York
LO
California.
The Alumni Association was out
in
full force for
the
239'
h
Saint Patrick's Day Parade
in
Manhattan March 17.
This marked the
l8'
h
year
that
alumni and friends of
the
college have marched.
It
was estimated that close to
200
people came out to walk proudly up Fifth Avenue in a
steady
March
snow shower!
The cameras
were rolling as
Marist passed the
reviewing
stand, giving Malist a long
segment on WNBC-TV, NBC's New York affiliate. After-
wards alumni gathered at the Carnegie
Brewing
Co.,
owned by Steve
Ryan
'86.
The
North
Carolina chapter spent a day at
the
Asheboro
Zoo on June
24
and
the
Boston chapter watched a
Red
Sox
game at Fenway Park onJune
27.
The
24'
h
annual Alumni
Golf Tournament was slated for
July
10 at Casperkill
Country Club in Poughkeepsie to
raise
money for the
Alumni Legacy Scholarship. And
the
Arizona chapter
is
meeting at Bank One
Ballpark in
Phoenix to watch the
New York Mets
take
on the Arizona Diamondbacks.
For
more information
about Alumni Association pro-
grams, contact
usat
(845) 575-3283
oralumni@marisL.edu
or visit www.marisL.edu/alumni.
Jeff
Schanz
'94f99M
Director, Alumni Affairs
MARIST
Office of College Advancement
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-1387
Address Service Requested
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a
dozen
athletic events
including Marist Football
vs.Jona!
We've got cutture-
An
Gallery exhibit and a
comedy by Oscar Wilde!
Plus another
new building
to showcase--
The dedication
of Fontaine
Hall!
For information, call
the Alumni Affairs Office at
(845) 575-3283 or visit
www.marist.edu/alumni.
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