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Your Marist Pride
Your
Marist r,eunion
is a grand milestone-a special occasion for you to commemorate
your place in Marist's
history,
reflect on what the College has meant to you, and
renew
your
ties to old friE!nds and
faculty.
Reunion celebrations are also a
time
when class members
come together to increase
their financial
support for Marist's
highest
priorities.
Reunion Campaign Gifts
The
Marist Fund Reunion Campaign
supports the core needs
of
undergraduate
education and
provides unrestricted
dollars for scholarship assistance, opportunities
abroad, expmience-building internships, academic programs, and student
life.
Gifts of
all sizes are Eixtremely valuable to
our
current students!
A Marist Fund gift
in
honor
of
your class reunion year is a personal way to make a
meaningful ,commitment
to
Marist, and many alumni choose to combine their Marist
Fund annual gift with an even
larger
commitment to the
Campaign for Marist.
To find
out more, vii;it
www.marist.edu/alumni.
Thanky u for your support!
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Fall
2008
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Ahead of the Curve:
The Hancock
Technology Center
The $35 million Hancock Technology Center
will offer students and faculty the most advanced
information technology available.
The 54,000-square-f
oot facility
will
provide
much-needed academic space as well as resources
dedicated to developing start-up businesses in the
Hudson Valley, all
in
a central campus location
with
spectacular
views
of the Hudson
River.
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A
Lifetime
of Educating
the
Head and
the Heart
During
his
four decades at Mari st, Dr. Milton
Teichman not only taught the poetry of
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats.
He
also helped students
understand
the dangers
of hatred, anti-Semitism, and indifference
to injustice and suffering by introducing
a course on literature of the Holocaust,
establishing a Jewish Studies program, and
initiating a powerful annual Holocaust
Remembrance
Program now in
its
18th
year.
18
Marist More Popular Than
Ever-and
More
Selective
The College has seen
extraordinary
growth in
applications over the past two years. The increase
has allowed Marist to become more selective,
accepting only 37 percent of its applicants.
Marist Magatine
is
published by the
Office of College Advancement at Maris! College
for alumni and friends of Maris! College.
Vice President for College Advancement: Robert
L.
West
Chief Public Affairs Officer: Timmian Massie
Editor: Leslie Bates
Executive Director of Alumni Relations: Amy Coppola Woods '97
Alumni News Coordinator: Donna Watts
Art Director: Richard Deon
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ATHLETICS
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Chuck
Martin
Takes Over
Since joining Marist
in
April, the men's basketball
coach has prepared
for the 2008-09 season
by
hiring
staff, bringing
in
new players, and
getting the Marist name on
the
airwaves.
20
Marist Wins
2007-08
MAAC
Commissioner's Cup
The Red Foxes again earn
the
Metro
Atlantic Athletic Conference's
top honor.
22
Rowers
Excel
Nationally
The men's varsity four brought home Marist's
first medal
in the
Intercollegiate
Rowing
Association National Championships.
23
The New
Face of the Red
Foxes
The Marist Athletics logo gets a facelift
to strengthen brand recognition.
DEPARTMENTS
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Marist
Drive
What's happening
on
campus
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T H E CAMPUS
Dr. Martin B. Shaffer
Dr. Lauren H. Mounty
New Deans Are Appointed to Three Academiic Schools
N
ew deans
have
taken
the reins
of three
in
the Teaching American History
Project,
of Marist's academic schools.
a
federally
funded teacher enhancement
Dr.
Martin
B.
Shaffer began as dean of
program.
the
School of
Liberal
Arts Sept. 1.
This
past
summer,
Dr. Lauren H. Mounty became
dean
A Global Focus
of
the
School of Continuing Education, and
Dr.
Mounty came to Marist from
the
Fordham
Steven
M. Ralston
became
dean
of the School University Graduate
School
of
Business
of Communication and
the
Arts.
Administration, where she was associate dean
Shaffer was appointed interim dean of
for Academic Programs and was
responsible
the
School of
Liberal
Arts on Aug. 1, 2007. for the o,versight of all academic
programs,
He
joined the
Marist
College faculty as an
admissions, career services, and
program
assistant
professorof political science
in
1994, management activities for the graduate
and he
served as chair of the
Political
Science
business
school at Fordham's campuses
in
Department from
2001
to
2007, overseeing Manhattan and Westchester
County, N.Y.,
and
a period of significant growth in that major. Beijing, China. She was
instrumental in
the
He
earned a
BA in
political science from
Le
development
of Fordham's
top-ranked program
Moyne
College
and an
MA and PhD in
political in
Beijing
and other global
partnerships
in
science
from the Rockefeller
College of Public Belgium,
Italy,
Istanbul, and
Barcelona.
She
Affairs and Policy at
SUNY Albany.
also developed numerous graduate
degree
programs including the school's first
Executive
MBA program.
Leading Liberal Arts
Shaffer
teaches a variety of courses in American
politics including History
of the American
Presidency,
Congress Today, and Scope
and Methods of
Political
Analysis. He has
team-taught the
American State and Urban
Politics course
with
New
York
State Sen. Steve
Saland on several occasions.
His research
interests include presidential leadership, the
environmental movement, and New York state
politics. He
has published
articles in such
scholarly
journals
as
Policy
Studies Review
and
Presidential
Studies
Quarterly, and
his
book
project, Empire
State
Politics,
is
under
contract
with
McGraw-Hill. He has
also participated
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
Mounty has a
PhD from Fordham
University
in
social service as well as an MEd
in higher education administration and a BA
in journalism from the University of South
Carolina. She
has
published and
lectured
on
how
the World Trade Center
disaster affected
students working
in
the financial
industry
and on the
development
of global academic
initiative:s in
China. She served as a primary
representative to
the Graduate
Management
Admissions Council and as a member of the
Jesuit
Business Schools Network and has
been
actiive with the Association to Advance
Collegiarte Schools of
Business.
Previously
Dr.
Steven
M. Ralston
she worked with Fairchild Publications in
Manhattan.
The Art of Communication
Prior
to joining Marist, Ralston
was a
professor and chair of
the
Department of
Communication
at Northern
lllinois
University,
where he oversaw
the
university's largest
undergraduate
major
and a sizeable MA
program. Previously, he
was a professor and
chair of
the Department
of Communication
and Visual Art at the University of Michigan-
Flint.
He
was also
director
of
the
Oral
Communication Proficiency Program and
assistant
director
of the Teaching
and Learning
Center at East
Tennessee
State University.
He
also
has
served on
the
faculty of
Iowa
State
University and Creighton University.
He
holds a PhD from Indiana University
in
communication theory and research, an MA
in speech communication from the University
of Tennessee, and a BA in speech and theatre
from Old
Dominion
University.
His research
interests
include the study of organizational
and business communication
and, in particular,
employment interviewing.
He has
written
more
than 60 articles,
papers,
and presentations.
His
research has
appeared in numerous scholarly publications.
He
is the former editor of the
Journal
of
Business
Communication
and past president of
the
East
Tennessee
chapter of
the
American Society
for
Training
and Development.
He
serves on
the editorial review boards of several schol-
arly
journals.
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Nicole Brooks Donolli
'08,
one of 58 James
Madison Fellows, is pursuing a master's in
history at Boston College.
History Major Is Awarded a
James Madison Fellowship
N
icole Brooks
Donolli
'08,
a
native
of
Medford,
N.Y.,
has
received a
highly
compelitive
2008
James Madison
Fellowship.
Brooks
Donolli,
who graduated
magna
cum laude
from
Marist with a
degree
in
history/adolescent education, was one of
58
fellows
named from among
325
applicants.
She
is
pursuing a
master's in
history at
Boston
College.
The James
Madison
Memorial Fellowship
Foundation offers James Madison Fellowships
to
a
select group of
individuals
who are
dedi-
cated
to teaching
American
history and
politics. The foundation was established
by
Congress
in
1986
to
improve
teaching about
the U.S. Constitution
in
secondary schools.
Madison
Fellows
receive
$12,000
(a
maximum
of
$24,000
for
two
years) for graduate study
leading
to
a master's degree.
There is
typically
only one award
recipient per
state.
In
the course of their graduate studies,
fellows
are
required to
take a two-course
sequence
focusing
on the Constitution. Each
fellow is
required to attend the foundation's
Summer Institute during the
term
of fellow-
ship. The four-week Summer Institute is
held
at Georgetown University. The centerpiece
of the
institute is
a graduate course, "The
Foundations of American Constitutionalism."
Participants also visit
historic
sites associated
with the
institutions
of American government
and
the
Constitution's framers.
After
receiving the master's
degree,
each
Madison Fellow must
teach
American
histo-
ry, American government, or social studies
for
one full year
for
each academic year of
aid
received
under a fellowship, preferably
in
the state in which
the recipient
won the
fellowship.
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A Scienc:e Standout Again Wins a Top National Award
A
ndrew
F.
DeBlase
'09,
a chemistry
major
continued through
the
2006-07
academic
year,
from. Hopewell
Junction,
N.Y.,
has been
at a conference at
Hamilton
College and at
awarded
a
2008-2009
Goldwater
Scholarship, Marist's
Celebration
of Undergraduate
Research,
the
nation's most
prestigious undergraduate Scholarship, and Creative Activity.
award in the fields of mathematics,
the
natural
Along with Galbraith and a former Marist
sciences, and engineering.
The
$7,500
annual
student,
De
Blase co-authored a paper
recently
scholarship
defrays the
cost of
tuition,
fees, accepted for publication
in
the
journal of
Physical
books, and
room
and board for
the
current
Chemistry.
During summer
2007
at Columbia
academic year.
University,
he
conducted computational
DeBiai,e
is
one of
321
sophomores and
research
on chemical bonding
that
was
juniors chosen on academic
merit
from among funded
by
the National Science Foundation
a pool
of
1,035
students
nominated
by faculty and presented at several symposia.
at
their home institutions. DeBlase,
who
More recently DeBlase
has
been working
received
an honorable
mention
in the
2007-08
with Marist faculty member
Dr.Jocelyn
Nadeau
Goldwater competition, is the second Marist throughout
the
2007-08
academic year as well
student in
the
past three years
to
have
been
as during summer
2008
on a project
funded
selected for
the
award, which
honors
the late by the American Chemical Society Petroleum
Senator Barry M.
Goldwater.
Katherine
D.
Research
Fund to
investigate the
charge
Amodeo
'08,
a
biomedical
sciences major from transfer mechanism in polymers
that
conduct
Marlboro,
NY.,
and
the
2008
valedictorian, electricity. DeBlase plans to pursue a PhD in
was a
2006-07
Goldwater Scholar.
physical chemistry and eventually would like
DeBlase is
a
recipient
of one of Marist's to
investigate
the fundamentals of chemical
Hudson
Va1lley
Scholarships and is a member bonding and reaction mechanisms with the
of
the Colllege's
Deans'
Circle and a student
hope
of developing
alternative energy sources
affiliate
member
of
the
American Chemical
to
lower dependence on fossil fuels.
Society.
Other
institutions
with
2008-09
Goldwater
During:summer
2006,
DeBlase
conducted Scholarship
recipients include
Yale, Harvard,
research
under
the
mentorship
of School of
Princeton, Penn,
Cornell, MIT, Duke, and
Science faculty
member Dr.John
Galbraith on
Notre
Dame. This
year, almost
80
percent of
a project
funded by Research
Corporation.
He
Goldwater Scholarships went to students at
presented
the
results of
the research,
which
large
research
universities.
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Dr. Jocelyn
Nadeau,
assistant professor of chemistry, works with Goldwater Scholar Andrew
De Blase '09
1
on a project supported by the American Chemical Society
Petroleum
Research Fund.
Nadeau an,d De
Blase
and two other students presented their research at the 236th American
Chemical S,ociety Meeting in
Philadelphia
in late August.
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Marist Again Is Ranked Highly by
"Best
College" Guides
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or the 15th year in a
row,
Marist College
is
ranked in
the
top
tier of colleges and
universities
in the northern United States in
the annual
U.S. News & World
Report
America's
Best Colleges
guide.
For the first time,
U.S. News also
iden-
tified "colleges and universities
that
have
recently made striking improvements or
innovations-schools everyone should be
watching,"
including Marist
College.
Marist was tied for
13th
out of 171 colleg-
es and
universities
in
the northern
United
States that offer a
full
range of undergraduate
and
master's level
programs. The
ranking
is
the highest the College
has
achieved,
up
one
spot
from
last year. Marist
has moved
up six
places over the
past
seven years.
A School to Watch
U.S.
News also
named
Marist one of 70 "schools
to watch" nationwide.
The magazine
notes
these
"colleges and
universities
(were)
iden-
tified
by top college officials in spring 2008
as schools
that
have
recently
made
the
most
promising
and innovative changes in
academ-
ics,
faculty,
students, campus, or
facilities."
The
U.S. News
rankings
were
based
on data collected on students
who applied for college admission as
first-year
students in 2007.
Travel scrapbook: Courtney Chan
'09 (top,
left
and
right)
at the Lantern Festival in Shanghai
and at the
Ice
Sculpture Festival in Harbin. Jamie
Wong
'09
in
Toisan
and at the Great Wall.
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education, according to the
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Princeton Review. The New
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publishing. "We evaluated
them
York-based education services
based on institutional data we collect
company features Marist in
The Best 368
about the schools, feedback from students
Colleges,
the
new 2009 edition of
its
annual
attending them, and our visits to schools over
"best colleg,~s"
guide. Only about 15
percent
the years. We also consider the opinions of
of the
four-year
colleges in America are in
independent
college counselors, students, and
the
book.
parents we hear from year-long. Finally, we
work to have a wide
representation
of colleges
in the
book
by
region, size, selectivity, and
character."
Outstanding Academics
The book's profile on Marist commends the
school for its "competitive academics, career
placement, and a well-rounded college
experience."
The
guide highlights Marist's
pre-professional and career-track programs,
making particular note of communications,
"with its
unique
digital media major and
strong
internship
connections," the "very
good educa1tion
program," the "popular
busi-
ness programs,"
and the "excellent chemistry
department,
where
personal attention is
unmatched.."
Students Praise Marist Abroad
The student surveys cite Marist's "small classes,
great computer facilities, (and) great
library."
Students also praise
the
Mari st Abroad office,
"which has connected students with
many
countries around the world, allowing students
to study abroad for a semester, year, or short-
term period.
"Further sweetening the deal,"
the
guide
adds, "are the school's strong connections to
IBM
and an amazing library that is ranked
among
the
top 20 in the country."
The Princeton Review is not affiliated
with
Princeton
University or the Educational
Testing Service.
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Scholarships Support
International Study for
Four Business Majors
F
our
Marist
business
majors
in the Class of
2009 were awarded scholarships to study
abroad during the spring
2008
semester.
Two
received Benjamin
A. Gilman
International
Scholarships:
Jamie
Wong to
study in
Hong Kong
and Courtney Chan to
study in Shanghai.
The
congressionally
funded
Gilman Scholarship program is sponsored
by
the
Bureau
of Educational and Cultural
Affairs of the U.S.
Department
of State and
administered
by
the Institute
of International
Education (IIE), the same organization
that
oversees the
Fulbright
programs. The program
awarded
more than 1,200
scholarships of up
to $5,000
this academic
year for U.S. under-
graduates to study abroad.
Wong
and Chan also
received
the
Freeman Awards for Study in Asia. Two addi-
tional students received
the Freeman-ASIA
distinction:
Carmen Chan for
Hong Kong
and
Linda Yu
for Shanghai. Freeman-ASIA
are also
administered
by
lIE.
For
the
Freeman-ASIA,
IlE
selects approx-
imately
500
recipients
per year. Award
amounts
range from $3,000 to $7,000.
Since
the program's inception
in
2001, it
has provided
approximately 3,600 students
with
financial support to study in East
and
Southeast Asia.
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In addition to being a top business student,
Jesse Shea
'10
is a volunteer firefighter.
Top Business Student
Awarded the Prestigious
McGowan Scholarship
J
esse Shea '10 ofTinton Falls, NJ., has
been
named a William
G. McGowan
Scholar
and
Marist's
top business student
for
the
2008-09
academic year.
The
prestigious and
highly
competitive scholarship from
the
William G.
McGowan
Charitable Fund will provide an
$18,000
tuition award
toward
his junior year
as a
business
administration
major.
A committee of School of Management
faculty
members
selected Shea from a slate of
business students
nominated
by management
faculty. The committee
reviewed nominees'
academic records,
leadership
qualities, char-
acter, and commitment
to
helping others.
In
addition to maintaining a GPA of 3.96
in
his major
and earning a spot on
the Dean's
List every semester at
Marist, Shea
is president
of
the
College's chapter of Students in Free
Enterprise and
is herald,
or historian,
for the
recently
established Marist chapter of Theta
Delta
Chi, an international fraternity.
He also serves his
hometown
as a volun-
teer firefighter and holds several certifications
related to
dealing
with
hazardous
materials
and disaster
response.
Inspired by the onerous cost of health-
care for a family
member
with a chronic
health condition, Shea hopes to use
his
busi-
ness skills to one
day
start his own
discount
medical supply business.
"It
feels
great
to
be
recognized
for
such an honor, especial-
ly
one connected to
the legacy
of William G.
McGowan,"
he
says.
Named in
honor
of
the
founder and
long-
time chairman of MCI Communications
Corp.,
the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund
qualifies
a select group of 60 colleges and
universities nationwide to participate in
its
McGowan Scholars program. The McGowan
Charitable Fund established
the program to
provide
significant scholarship support to the
country's
top
Students pursuing a business
education.
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The Huds~m River Valley Institute at Marist College was honored in June by Locust Grove, the
Samuel Mi)rse Historic Site in Poughkeepsie, for outstanding achievement in preserving and
promotin~1 the Hudson River Valley's unique history, culture, and natural beauty. Locust Grove
officials presented photos of the site's scenic grounds on the Hudson River to HRVI representa-
tives at tht!ir 13th annual Spring Garden Party. Shown are (left to right) HRVI Executive Director
Dr. James ~II.Johnson; HRVI Advisory Board Chair and Marist Trustee H. Todd Brinckerhoff; Mari st
Vice Presi~lent for Academic Affairs and HRVI Director Dr. Thomas Wermuth;
2008
Garden Party
Chair Deni:se Doring Van Buren; Mari st President Dennis J. Murray; Locust Grove Board President
David Cull,en; and Locust Grove Executive Director Kenneth Snodgrass.
New Townhouses Open
J
uniors
and seniors
had
an additional hous-
ing
option this fall:
the
brand-new
Lower
Fulton Townhouses.
The facility, completed on schedule this
past summer,
joins
three other similar devel-
opments east of
Route
9, all a short walk
to the
center of caimpus.
It
offers 264 beds in seven
buildings
and is patterned on
the
same style as
the
Marist townhouses featured on ABC-TV's
Good Morning
America
last year
in
a story about
The Lower f'ulton Townhouses opened this fall.
campus residences. GMA called the
Marist
residences
among
the best
student housing
in the
country. The new buildings abut the
future site of
the
Dutchess County
Rail
Trail,
a walk/bike path on a
former railroad
line
that
will eventually reach the Hudson
River.
The whole complex provides all
modern
amenities and offers Jazzman's Cafe, court-
yards for outdoor gatherings, recreational
space, and NCAA
Division I tennis
courts.
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( I N
B RI E F
The
Empire State Games
will return to
the Mari
st campus in summer 2009.
The
event,
to
be held
in
Dutchess, Orange, and
Ulster
counties from July 22 to 26,
is
one
of the largest amateur athletic programs
in
the nation, featuring nearly 6,000 New
York
athletes participating in 28 different
Olympic-style sports. It
is
expected to
attract more than 20,000 visitors to the
region
and generate an economic impact
of more than $12 million. Competitions
and programs will be held primarily at
locations
in Poughkeepsie,
Newburgh,
and
New
Paltz.
Marist
first hosted ESG
opening ceremonies and several athletic
competitions in 2005.
The
Council for Advancement
and
Support of Education
has
selected
Marist as a winner of
its
2008 awards
for superior educational fundraising.
Marist was chosen to receive an Overall
Improvement
award based on the judges'
analysis of three years offundraising data
the College supplied to the Council for Aid
to Education's annual Voluntary Support
of Education survey.
Tony Carrizales,
assistant professor of
public administration, has been
named
editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public
Management
and Social Policy. JPMSP
publishes theoretical, applied, and/or dis-
cussion papers on public administration,
political science, and public policy
issues
associated with the process of economic,
educational, environmental, and social
well-being of diverse
populations.
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Trustees, alumni,
and
friends
enjoyed the
President's
Dinner Dance, held
each spring at the
Culinary
Institute
of
America.
New
York State Sen. Steve Sa
land
with
President
Dennis
J.
Murray
Barbara and
Peter Ferrigno,
parents of
Kristen
'10
and Robert
'12
and Parent Chairs
of the 2009 Mari st Fund
Alice and
Tom Taylor
'66,
Kathy Finn,
and Dennis Murray
Marist Again Leads MAAC on Academic Honor Roll
M
arist leads the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
with 150 student-athletes
selected to the Academic Honor Roll for the
2007-08
season.
The MAAC's
August
2008
announcement marks the seventh consecuti\"e
year
the Red Foxes have led the MAAC in number of student-athletes placed on the
Honor Roll, and the total number of honorees is the highest in school history.
To
be eligible for the MAAC
Academic Honor Roll, a student-athlete must hold
a grade point a\"erage of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale and be in the second year of
athletic eligibility. A total of 938 student-athletes were named to the Honor Roll,
which is open to full-time and associate members of the MAAC.
In addition, the Marist volleyball team again was honored for academic excel-
lence by the American Volleyball
Coaches Association. The team, which is led by
Coach Tom Hanna, received the AVCA's
2007-08
Team Academic
Award. The Red
Foxes are the only MAAC team
to
earn the award each of the past two seasons.
The volleyball team was honored for academic
excellence
by the American Volleyball Coaches Association.
The award honors teams at the high school and college level that succeed in
the classroom. Nominees include teams whose members have a minimum GPA
of 3.30 (on a 4.00 scale) or 4.10 (on a 5.00 scale) over a full academic year and
include all varsity athletes who competed in \"Olleyball
with the institution for
any portion of the academic
year.
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The $35 million Hancoclk
Technology
Center will offer students
and faculty the most advanced information
technology
available.
The 54,000-square-foot:
facility will provide much-needed
academic
space as well as resources
dedicated to developing
start-up businesses
in the Hudson
Valley,
all in a central campus
location with spectacular views of the Hudson
River.
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Hancock
Technology
Center
View from campus entry gate
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W
i1th
more than 35 years of experience in
e:xecutive
positions in companies such
as IBM, National Semiconductor, and Apple,
Marist Trustee
Ellen
Hancock
knows
about
leadership
in
the
technology industry.
When she heard about Marist's plans to
build a
pioneering
center focused on technology,
she and her husband, Jason, commiued $5
million
to
support
it.
"Why Marist?" she says. "My
husband
and
I believe in the power and value of education.
We've given to several schools that have been
important
to
us.
We give to MarisL because
we see
it making
great strides.
The
academic
leadership
is exceptional, and the College, in
many ways, is ahead of
the
curve. That's where
we want to
be."
Their vision soon will be realized
in
the
Hancock
Technology Center, named for their
leadership gift and slated to open as early as
fall 2010. The $35 million Hancock Center will
offer students and facully
the most
advanced
information technology available.
The 54,600-square-foot
facility will
provide
much-needed
academic space at a
central campus
location-the
site of Benoit
and Gregory residence halls-with spectacular
views of the Hudson River.
(New
townhouses
opened
in
fall 2008
to
replace residence hall
rooms
lost
by
dismantling
Benoit and Gregory.)
Roadways will
be
reconfigured and the
Lowell
Thomas Communications Center parking
lot
eliminated
Lo
create a new campus quadrangle
joining the Hancock Center,
Lowell
Thomas,
and the Dyson Center.
The
Hancock
Center will
house
the School
of
Computer Science and Mathematics,
the Marist
Institute
for Public Opinion, the International
Programs
office,
the headquarters
f01"'t]e
MlM
Joint Study, and
the
Center for Collaborat-!_Y
and On-Demand Computing. The CCODC
lias
been designated a College Applied
Research
and Technology Center
by
the New York Stale
Office of Science, Technology and Academic
Research.
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"The
Hancock
Technology
Center will be
another step in Marist's drive
to become
one
continued
on page 10~
1'
.,,
"My
hu band and
I
believe
in
the power
and value
of
educa
on. We've
given
to
several schools that have
been
i
portant to us. We
give
to
Marist
because we
see
it ahing
great strides.
The academic leadership
is
exc
tional, and the
College,
in
many ways,
is
ahead
if the
curve.
That's where
we want to be."
-Marist
Trustee Ellen Hancock





















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CAMPAIGN
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The Campaign
for Marist
at 68 Percent
Vice President for College Advancement Robert
L.
West and Marlst Trustee and Campaign Chair Tim
Brier
'69
greet guests
at the campaign kickoff recep-
tion at the Metropolitan Club in New York City.
The
Campaign for Marist, publicly launched in
I
November 2007, has reached $50,757,297,
or
68 percent of the campaign's $75,000,000 goal.
"The campaign is making great progress,"
says Robert
L.
West, vice president for college
advancement, noting that the total includes 16
seven-figure gifts. "The momentum is building as
we
reach
out to more alumni and friends.
"The campaign will support new and expanded
academic facilities including the Hancock
Technology Center; endowed chairs for faculty;
student scholarship aid; music, art, theater, and
athletics programs; and the community service
programs that are so much a part of the College's
mission.
The
campaign will also strengthen our
centers of excellence such as the Marist Institute
for Public Opinion, the Center for Advanced
Technology,
and the Hudson River Valley Institute
and create new ones."
Marist Trustee Tim Brier '69, who heads the
campaign, was one of the first
to
make a gift.
"This is an extremely important endeavor," he says.
'Tm proud to lead this effort because I think it's
important for the future of the College. I wanted
to be a part of this transformational opportunity
for an institution that means a lot to me and is
very much a part of who I am."
The Campaign Committee
consists of President
Dennis
J.
Murray; Trustees Jim Barnes '84, Rob
Dyson, Dan Hickey '66, Mary Joyce
'74,
Bro. John
Klein '70, Pat Lavelle '73, Ross Mauri
'80,
Chris
McCann '83,John O'Shea, Pat Connolly
Pantello '76,
Tim Tenney, and Tom Ward '69; and Jim Duncan
'69, Ken Gestal '70, and Genine McCormick
'88.
To learn more or
to
make a gift or pledge,
please contact Robert West at (845) 575-3412 or
roben.west@marist.edu.
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The
Hancock
Technology
Center
of
the nation's
premier academic
institutions,"
says President Dennis
J.
Murray. "Although
the
Hancock Center will
house
our School of
Computer Science and Mathematics, the concept
is that
technology is
not
just for computer
science majors but for everyone. The center
will
help
students acmss all disciplines
learn
how
technology
impacts
their
fields of study
and
the professions
they
will
enter.
"In addition
to being
a first-rate academic
building,
the Hancock
Center
will
enhance our
efforts to assist the state':; economic development
through
incubation of s.tart-ups.
It
will
nurture
entrepreneurs in
their business development
with the goal of companies creating jobs and
growing the economy in the Hudson
River
Valley."
Resources in th,e
new
building will
include
three computer
labs,
nine classrooms,
six conference/seminar
rooms,
an executive
presentation
room,
and an equipment data
center. The facility will also
have
a cafe/student
lounge and an outdoor patio.
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"The
Hancock
Center will allow Marist
to
better
exploit
its
capacity to develop
and test
emerging
technology.
These
technologies are an increasingly
important
part
of
all
academic
disciplines,
and
the
interdisciplinary configuration will allow
faculty and
students from different
academic
backgrounds to
work
together,
creating
a
synergy
that
will
help
fuel innovation."
-Dr. Thomas Wermuth
'84, Vice
President
for
Academic
Affairs and Dean
of Faculty









































View from campus quadrangle (library is at far
left)
The center has been designed by Robert
A.M. Stern Architects, LLP. The firm's founder
and senior partner, Robert A. M. Stern. dean or
the Yale School of Architecture, recently won
the 2008 Vincent Scully Prize awarded by the
National Building Museum to honor exemplary
practice,
scholarship,
or criticism in architecture,
historic preservation, and urban design.
Among many projects the firm has designed
for
institutions
of higher education are the
William Gates Computer Science Building at
Stanford University, A.James Clark Hall at the
Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute
at the Johns Hopkins University, the Colgate
Darden School of Business Administration at
the University of Virginia, and the Spangler
Campus Center at Harvard Business School.
Through the Campaign for Marist, the
College's capital campaign publicly launched
in November 2007, the center has attracted the
support of others,
including
three brothers who
earned master's degrees through the School of
Computer Sci~nce and Mathematics. Suresh
continued
on page 13
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"The
School of Computer Science
and
Mathematics
at Marist College
has
been very much
involved
in
economic
development
activities
over the past five years. Through
our NYSTAR-designated Center
for Collaborative and On-Demand
Computing (CCODC) we have
worked with numerous small and
medium-sized
New York companies,
helping them work with new
information
technologies to
help
their businesses
grow.
We currently
have
a
company
from
Nevada that
has
co-located to Marist
in
order
to work
with
the
CCODC.
We
have held
workshops and training
programs for individuals
from
around the country, introducing them
to new advanced
technologies.
The new
Hancock
Center
will
contain
wonderful
spaces and advanced
technologies
to further our abilities
in the area
of economic development
throughout
New York state."
-Dr.
Roger
Norton, Dean,
School
of Computer
Science
and Mathematics
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"The
Hancock Technology Center
presents an unprecedented
opportunity to link
the technologies
of opinion
research
and
communication. It
will truly
bring
the Marist Institute for Public
Opinion to the next
level. Students
at the Marist Poll
will
be at the
Jo front of discovering new ways to measure and analyze
public
op
ion
and to communicate this information around
the globe.
As ew ground
is
broken, Marist students
will be at the
cutting edge
of
pinion
research. The new facility
will open
the
door to
the
next
ge eration of survey technology for the next
generation of students."
-Dr.
Lee M.
Miringoff,
Director,
Marist
Institute
for Public
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First floor
lobby
and student lounge
Kothapalli
'91MS,
Rajesh
Kothapalli
'92MS,
and
Vinod Kottapalli
'94MS
have
pledged $100,000
toward the center. Their company,
iSpace,
which
specializes
in
IT
outsourcing, IT staffing, and
business process outsourcing, was named in
2007 by
Inc.
magazine
as one of the 5,000 fastest
growing companies in America.
The brothers also have offered to
help
raise additional
funds
for the Hancock Center.
Touched
by this leadership support provided by
former students who are now very successful
alumni, Dean of the School of Computer Science
and Mathematics Roger Norton
has
made a
significant gift
in
response to their challenge.
Ellen
Hancock
hopes the Hancock Center
will capture a spirit of innovation and synergy.
"We want to put people
in
a position where they
can exchange
ideas and work across disciplines,
with technology
at the core. When you do that,
you get a lot of 'aha!'
moments."
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Suresh
Kothapalli
'91MS,
Rajesh Kothapalli
'92MS,
and Vinod Kottapalli
'94MS
at their company,
iSpace,
in El Segundo, Calif.
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Heritage Professor
Profile
A Lifetime
of Educating
tht!
"An education cannot
be
just
cultivation
of
the intellect.
Of
course the intellect is
very
important, but
so
are
moral feelings,
spirituality,
emotions. An authentic
education
has
to educate
the
heart, not
just the
head."
Head
and
1the
Heart
A
semi-circular driveway, paved with
bushels of white seashells, guides
visi-
tors to a Cape Cod home at 6 Sachem Drive in
Brewster, Mass. Yellow pansies and lavender
Johnny jump-ups nest in ceramic pots on the
front stone steps, and blue hydrangeas grow in
profusion along the
length
of the weathered,
natural-shingled house.
For nearly 10 years this has been the home
of Dr. Milton Teichman, Professor
Emeritus
of
English and Marist College Heritage Professor,
and his wife, Dr. Sharon Leder, also a former
college
professor.
Describing
himself as
"smitten"
by Cape Cod many years ago, Teichman says
he and his wife were fortunate to have found
their charming home, which is more than a
residence. It is also a creative center, providing
a spacious studio for Teichman to pursue his
lifelong passion for art and a quiet setting for
each of them to write fiction.
The couple also runs the Teichman Gallery,
which is an extension of their home and features
contemporary art. Opened in 1999, the gallery
has shown the work of many prominent Cape
artists while also offering musical performances,
dramatics presentations, and readings of poetry
and fiction. More recently it has become an
outlet for Teich
man's paintings and sculptures
exclusively.
Open from June though September
by appointment and by chance,
the
gallery
is
at the corner of Brewster's main thoroughfare,
Route 6A, and Sachem Drive.
Inspired by his Cape surroundings,
Teichman paints quasi-representational
landscapes as well as nonobjective paintings
and collages, both reflecting his
interest
in the
interplay
of form and space on at wo-dimensional
surface.
"In
my
three-dimensional
work," he
says,
"I
now focus on small sculptures in sheet
brass, ceramic, and bronze, the ceramic and
bronze pieces showing the influence of
the
primitive art of Mexico." Mexico is where he
and
his
wife
spend
winters.
Milton Teichman's
journey began 78
years
ago when he was born in New York City.
It
has
included a long stopover in Poughkeepsie. In
1962, while a doctoral student at the University
of Chicago, Teichman read a bulletin board
notice about an opening at Marist College to
teach early
19th-century
English
literature.
"I
was halfway through my dissertation on
Wordsworth's poetry," recalls Teichman, who
was also teaching courses at a nearby state
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Opposite pag,e and above: Dr.
Milton Teichman
and
his
wife,
Dr.
Sharon
Leder,
run the Teichman
Gallery, adjac,ent to their Cape Cod home.
university.
"I
liked
the
idea of teaching and
living
in the Hudson Valley.
It was also a
chance
to teach in my specialty and at a small
college.
I knew little about Marist except that
it
was
church-related."
Teichman was hired by Dr. George
Sommer,
another
future legend of the
English
Department
and now a Cape neighbor
in South
Dennis.
"I
thought I would stay at Marist two
or three
years," says Teichman.
"When
I finished my
doctoral disse:rtation, my plan was
to
move
on
to a more prestigious institution."
Instead
he
stayed for 39 years.
"Sometimes
we
think
the
treasure is someplace
else. Reputation
and
salary
were not my highest priorities. The treasure,"
he says,
"was
at Marist."
What Tekhman found attractive at
the
College was a community with
common goals,
a family-like atmosphere, and warm relations
between faculty and students. He recalls
that,
unlike other institutions,
"faculty
and
administrators, and
the
faculty themselves,
were not in collision." The new professor was
also impressed by
the
young Marist Brothers,
who formed about 85 percent of the then
500-member student body.
"It
was
hard
to
leave those young Brothers," Teichman says,
smiling.
"They
were so motivated, so bright,
so
committed
to a life of
service."
Something
else
bonded him to
the
College.
When Teichman
came
to Marist,
he
asked who
was teaching art. It was the
late
Evelyn Rimai
Fisher,
founder of
Marist's Art Department and
someone
who also would be named a Heritage
Professor.
"Evelyn
invited
me to paint alongside
the Brothers.
It
was a thrilling experience,"
says
Teichman.
"After
grading a pile of student
papers, I would reward myself by going to
the
Art Department to paint. .. Evelyn Fisher was
a great teacher. Composition and color were
her primary talents. She was a fabulous critic
ofmy
work."
At Marist, partly under the influence of
the abstract expressionists, Teichman turned
to nonobjective painting and collage. That
direction was anticipated during his early years
in Brooklyn, where at 14 or
15
he
developed
a
passion for art museums.
"I
was exhilarated by
paintings of the 20th century,"
he says, referring
to Picasso, Matisse, Braque, and Klee. On his
gallery web site he explains why.
"I
loved [these
painters']
visual
simplifications,
their deliberate
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When Milton Teichman began
teaching
at Marist, he found the
young
Marist
Brothers
eager to
learn
about Judaism.
"It was
a
wonderful
exchange.
In
the process,
I
learned
a
great
deal
about
Catholicism."
and creative distortions of factual reality. In
my early years,
I
was intrigued also by the
work of Kandinsky and Mondrian. Their work
struck me as a form of visual music, stirring
the feelings through the eye as music stirs the
feeling through the ear."
"My parents
loved
visual art," he says.
Whenever
he
went to a museum, he would stop
in the gift shop to purchase five-or ten-cent
postcards of favorite paintings. Eventually he
reproduced some of the postcard paintings on
large
canvases.
His
parents proudly displayed
these paintings
in the family's apartment, he
says. "We didn't have a
lot
of money, but my
father made sure my pieces were framed at
Macy's."
Teichman's parents were Polish Jews who
in
1920
came to the United States, where they
met and married in
1925.
The Teichmans
raised three sons. The eldest, Emanuel, died
in
military service during World War
II.
When Milton Teichman began teaching at
Marist, he found the young Marist Brothers
eager
to learn about Judaism. "It was a wonderful
exchange. In the process,
1
learned a great deal
about Catholicism."
In time,
this dialogue would enrich Marist's
curriculum and broaden many of its students'
views of the world. In addition to teaching
two generations of Marist students the poetry
of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats,
Teichman developed such courses as The
Hebrew Bible as Literature, Hebrew Literature
in Translation, and American Jewish Writers.
"A wonderful thing about Marist," he says, "is
that one could teach outside one's specialty if
one felt prepared."
In
1975,
Teichman introduced the course
Literature of the Holocaust.
"We
were then
one of the few colleges in the United States
offering such a course. The fact that Marist was
church-related made it all the more unusual.
Today it would be hard to find a college that did
not offer one or more such courses." Over the
years he became a leading educator
in
the field
of Holocaust studies. In
1996
he was awarded
the highest honor in the field of human
rights
granted by
the
New York State Education
Department for his outstanding contributions
to teaching students, teachers, and
members
of the general community about the
lessons
of the Holocaust.
His
heritage was what motivated
him
to
become a Holocaust educator.
"My
parents
came from two small towns outside Warsaw.
Were it not for an accident of fate, it could have
been me ... Had my parents not come to this
country
from
Poland in
1920,
we most likely
would have been consumed in the catastrophe.
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Their home is a
creative
center, providing a studio for Teichman to pursue his lifelong passion for
art and a quiet
setting
for each to write fiction.
The Holocaust is thus very much in my
consciousness," he says. "Most of my father's
relatives in Europe were lost in the inferno.
Only one niece, who visited the United States
just before the Germans
invaded
Poland in
September
1939,
was spared.
"It
became
dear to me
that
students
needed
to learn about this tragedy and to extract lessons
and meanings from it," which,
Teichman
says,
include understanding the dangers of religious,
ethnic, and racial hatreds and
recognizing
that
indiffere:nce
to injustice and human suffering
is
itself
a. great evil.
"Because
Marist's
religious
traditiorn
reinforces the belief that human life is
sacred, it seemed to me that teaching about the
Holocaust at Marist would be most fitting."
Teichman would often invite a Holocaust
survivor to speak to his class whenever he
taught Literature of
the
Holocaust.
"Listening
to a wimess is a powerful emotional experience.
It
can jair students into a deep awareness of
themselves
and others. An education cannot
be just cultivation of the
intellect.
Of course
the
intellect is
very important, but so are moral
feelings, spirituality, emotions. An authentic
education has to educate the heart, not just
the head."
Observing the impact that survivors'
testimonies had on his students, the professor
sought
to
extend the experience to all Marist
students by founding, with others including
students,
the
Marist College Holocaust
Remembrance Program. This past April,
Teichman was honored at the 18th annual
program for his role in establishing the event
and for his many years as a Holocaust educator.
In
1996
the
state
of New York honored Teichman
for his 01~tstanding
contributions to educating
student:;,
teachers, and the
community
about
the lessons
of
the Holocaust.
His wife, with whom he co-edited
Truth and
Lamentation:
Stories and Poems
of the Holocaust,
accompanied him
to
Marist. Attended by
more than
250
students, the event included
a performance by the Marist College String
Orchestra, student readings, and a candle-
lighting ceremony
in
commemoration of
those who perished
in the
Holocaust. This
year's speaker was Michael Silberstein, a
Poughkeepsie resident and survivor of the
Auschwitz concentration camp.
As an educator, Teichman was an innovator
in other ways.
In
the late '70s as a member of the
English
Department,
he took an interdisciplinary
























In
1975, Teichman
introduced
the
course
Literature
of the
Holocaust.
"We
were
then
one
of
the
few colleges
in
the United
States offering such a course."
approach to creating a Jewish Studies minor
by collaborating with colleagues in religious
studies,
history,
and philosophy. To support
the founding of the
Jewish
Studies program at
Marist, Teichman
interested
one of his adult
students, Sadie Effron '79, in establishing
a lecture series
with
her husband, Bill. The
Poughkeepsie couple was receptive, and
the
32nd William and Sadie Effron Lecture in Jewish
Studies will be
held in
November. (At age 101,
Effron
is Marist's
oldest living graduate.)
In
the
'80s,
when the academic world was
experimenting
with computers in
the
classroom,
Teichman directed an IBM-sponsored pilot
project with a
team
of
English
Department
colleagues to
determine
whether word
processing
might
improve
the
quality of student
writing and develop among students a more
positive attitude toward the writing experience.
The
project was supported by IBM's Thomas
J.
Watson Research Center and involved 160
Marist students over a four-year period.
To engage students who approached
literature
reluctantly,
Teichman introduced
the
one-credit,
five-week
mini-course focused on a
single
poet
like
Whitman, Dickinson, or Frost.
He
also
used the
format
to teach
Shakespeare's
Hamlet,
Macbeth,
and
King Lear.
A perennial
teacher of composition and creative writing, he
advocated for workshops in
poetry,
fiction, and
nonfiction writing. Bringing together
his
two
passions,
literature
and visual art, was never
far from
his imagination.
He experimented
with workshops in which students created
both poetry and painting, incorporating their
lines
of
poetry
into artwork.
Today
Teichman
creates visual art and
fiction for
his
own pleasure and for
the public.
He
also remains committed
to
his calling as
an educator. At
Marist,
the emeritus
professor
recently provided a planned gift in the form
of a charitable gift annuity to
underwrite
the
permanent purchase of
library
books on the
subject of
Judaism
and
Jewish
culture. In his
Cape Cod community, he and his wife
lead
an
annual
Holocaust remembrance program
that
involves
Jewish and Christian congregations.
In
retirement,
Teichman remains engaged
and enthusiastic, erudite and eloquent, and
genuinely empathetic. The
poetry
lover
in
Professor Teichman might call the assonance
in the above sentence excessive. But to others,
the blending of
the
head and
the
heart in this
educator seems
just right.
■
Shaileen
Kopec, senior development
officer
for
planned
giving
and endowment
support,
has
been
a member
of the Marist College
community
for
36 years.
The
!Holocaust
Remembrance
Program:
!-haring
a Sto~
of Survival
Gathering in the rotunda, just prior to the 18th annual Holocaust Remembrance Program, are
(left to riglht) Associate Dean for Student Affairs Steve Sansola; Professor Emeritus Dr. Milton
Teichman, the evening's honoree; Coordinator of the Jewish Studies Program Dr. Joshua
Kotzin;
Ira Effron and his mother, Sadie Effron '79, co-founder with her husband, William, of the Effron
Lecture in Jewish Studies; Michael Silberstein, the evening's speaker; and President Dennis J.
Murray. S,insola and Kotzin co-chair the Holocaust Remembrance Committee.
AA
ichael Silberstein was a teenager
in
January
1945
when
he
and 60,000 other
_l,rlprisoners
were evacuated
from the
Auschwitz concentration camp
in
a
hell-
ish retreat undertaken by
the
Nazis.
He had
survived seven months
in
Auschwitz
and earlier, along with his family,
more
than five grueling years of
persecution in his
native Poland.
Now a grandfather and an IBM retiree living just 20 minutes
from the Marist
campus, Silberstein was the featured speaker at the College's 18th annual
Holocaust
Remembrance
Program. Since its inception,
the program has included
a witness to the
Holocaust.
According
to
a report
in
the
student-run newspaper
The
Circle,
this aspect
had
parucular impact on the
more
than 250 students
in
attendance on April
23.
. '.'You
always
h~ar s:ories
from
textbooks
about
the horrors
of concentration camps,"
said
Bnan
Rehm
10, but
to
have
actually
been
in
the
same
room as
a survivor, and
tO
listen
to
what
he
fought
through,
is something
truly
special.
It was
such a powerful
experience."
"I
thought
it
was so moving
that his two
grandchildren
were
there," said
Michelle
Faber
'10.
"That seemed
to make
the
whole
situation more
real for me."
"The Holocaust is
an
event that touches
us
all,"
said Dr. Joshua Kotzin, assistant
prolfessor
of
English, coordinator of the
Jewish Studies Program, and an
organizer of
the event.
"This
remembrance offers an opportunity
to
rededicate ourselves
to
fighting
racism and prejudice wherever they
appear."
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Between classes in
front
of the
James
A. Cannavino Libra
qr
Marist
More
Popular
Than
Ever
The College
has seen extraordinary
grovirth
in applications
over the past two years. The increase
has allowed
Mari
st to become
more
sele1ctive,
accepting
only 37.5 percent
of its applicants.
H
igh school students are
more
interested
than ever in attending Marist.
The College has seen extraordinary growth
in
applications over
the past
two years, accord-
ing
to Dean of Undergraduate Admission
Kent
Rinehan
'94.
Marist
received 7,300 applications for the
fall
2006
freshman class and 9,198 for
the fall
2008 class, an
increase
of
26
percent.
"It
speaks
to
Marist's tremendous reputation,
excellent
faculty,
beautiful
campus, and successful
alumni
base,"
says Rinehart.
The
increase
has allowed
Marist
to be
more
selective. The College
accepted
49 percent
of its
applicants for fall 2006
but
only 37.5
percent
for fall 2008, placing
it
among
the
top
5 percent
of
institutions
across
the
country
in
admissions
selectivity, according
tO
Rinehart. "With
that
growth, we have been able to bring
in a
class
that is
stronger academically and significantly
more
diverse
ethnically and geographically."
For fall 2008, SAT scores of accepted
students were an average of 12 points higher
than for fall 2007.
Members
of the fall 2008
freshman class "have taken
more honors
and
Advanced Placement courses and a more chal-
lenging
curriculum,'' Rinehart says.
While some 54 percent of recent
previous
first-year
classes
hailed from New York state,
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
49
percent of current first-year students call
it
home.
"We're seeing growth in
markets
that
we
have
targeted,"
Rinehart
says,
noting
an
increase
in students
from Hawaii, California,
and Florida.
From fall 2006
to
fall
2008, Marist
increased
its enrollment of African-American,
Native
American, Latino, and Asian-American
student:s
by
25 percent. "We're
trying
to
bring
in a freshman
class
that's a microcosm of
the
world today," says
Rinehart.
Another
indication
of
increased interest
in Marist is the
number
of applicants who
chose
Marist's binding
"early
decision"
option,
in
which candidates are limited to
Marist
as
their sol.e choice.
The
early
decision deadline is
Nov. 15
and
notifications
are mailed on Dec. 15.
Accepted candidates are
required to
submit a
nonrefundable deposit
by Feb.
15. The
number
of applicants choosing this option
increased
57
percent
for fall
2008
over the previous year.
Three
factors have led to
growth in college
applications
over
the
past
decade,
according to
David Hawkins, director of public policy and
research at the
National
Association for College
Admissiton
Counseling. First, this year marked
an
all-time
high in
the
number of students
who
graduated from high school. Second, more
high
school graduates
than
ever are enroll-
ing in postsecondary
education immediately
after high school. "Third, and most
important,
students
are
submitting more applications per
capita
than
ever before,"
Hawkins
says, a
trend
enabled
by
the
rise
of online applications.
Even so, Marist's growth
is
way above the
norm, says Rinehart. "Most colleges are seeing
2
to
3 percent increases and we are double digit
year after year."
Rinehart
points
to
Marist
graduates as
another
reason
for
heightened
interest in the
College. "We thank alumni around the globe
who are
helping us do
our work by sharing
their
positive experience about Marist with prospec-
tive students
and
their families.
"The alumni's help
in
our enrollment efforts
going forward will be critical. In the coming
decade, the
number of
high
school students will
be
lower.
The
reduction will be most dramatic
in the
Nonheast, Marist's core market," says
Rinehan.
"Competition
is
expected to be fierce
for
students and we appreciate all the
help
we
get from our alumni base."
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Selective
























Athletics
Chuck
Martin
·rakes
Over
Since
joining Mari
st in April,
the men's bask:etball
coach
has prepared
for the 2008-09
season
by hiring
staff, bringing
in new players,
an~I
getting the Marist
name on the airwaves.
The
only constant
in
Chuck Martin's
life over
I
~he past few months
has
been change.
On April 7,
Martin
was on college
basket-
ball's biggest
stage. As an assistant coach
to
John
Calipari at the University of Memphis,
his
team
faced the University of Kansas in
the
national championship game. A
few
days later,
he was in
Poughkeepsie
interviewing for
the
open Marist men's
basketball
head coaching
job.
Martin was introduced as the sixth
Division
I head
coach in
the history
of
the Marist
men's
basketball program
on April 17. Since
then,
he has been
committed to instituting change
within
the program.
A new coaching staff
has
been
hired, and several
recruits have
committed. Martin,
meanwhile,
has invested a
considerable
amount of time and energy getting
the word out about
his
coaching acumen and
his new program.
A
day
after Martin began as
head
coach, he
announced
the hiring of Paul
Lee
and Tyrone
Weeks as
his top two
assistant coaches. Lee, a
20-year coaching veteran, spent
the
previous
eight seasons as an assistant at Northwestern.
He has been rated among the top assistant
coaches in
the
country by
Basketball
Times
magazine. Weeks was also a member of the
Memphis staff this past season, serving as the
program's coordinator of basketball opera-
tions. The Philadelphia native was a standout
in
his playing career at the University of
Massachusetts,
helping lead the Minutemen
to
the Final Four in 1996.
"We're extremely fortunate to
have
two quality men, first and foremost, and
two quality
coaches who
have
a wealth
of experience
in
collegiate athletics,"
Martin says. "Both are excellent commu-
nicators as well as great teachers of the
game."
Soon after that, Martin made two
more hires,
bringing
on Bashir
Mason
and Will
Lanier.
Mason is a
2007
graduate of Drexel who
was a
four-year
start-
er for
the
Dragons
at point guard. In
2004,
he
became
the first
player in
the history of the
Colonial
Athletics
Association
to
be
named Defensive
Player
of
the
Year
as a freshman-
Left
to right,
President Dennis
J.
Murray joins men's basketball
Head
Coach Chuck Martin, women's
basketball
Head
Coach Brian Giorgis, and Director of Athletics Tim Murray
before
the press confer-
ence on cam pus announcing
Martin's
appointment.
l!Y MIKE FERRARO
'01
a season in which Martin was on Drexel's staff
as an assistant.
Lanier
spent the past four years
on staff at St.
John's
and
had
previously served
as a student manager at Georgia Tech, which
reached
the
national championship game in
2004.
Emphasi.zing
performance
on the court and
in
the
classroom, the staff has
brought
in five
new
players.
On
May
16,
it
was announced
that 5-foot-10 guard
R.J Hall,
a native of New
Jersey, and 6-foot-9 Alex Vouyoukas,
who hails
from
Greece, had signed National Letters
of Intent
to
attend
Marist this
fall.
f=our days
later,
Marist announced
the signing of 6-foot-6 forward
Dorvell Carter, a New York City
native.
Another addition is Daye
New
Head
Coach Chuck Martin
sports a Red Foxes jersey at the
April 17th press conference.
Kaba,
a 6-foot-3 guard who is originally from
France. Kaba
played
the past two
seasons at
Boston
College. Although he must sit out the
2008-09 season to serve his NCAA-mandated
year in
residency,
he will have two years of
eligibility with the
Red
Foxes.
In early September, it was announced
that 6-foot-4 guard Javon Parris would join
the
program.
Parris, who previously played
at College of Charleston and Barton County
Community College, will have two seasons of
eligibility
beginning this
year.
Martin has also been busy getting the
Marist name on the airwaves and in print, as
he
is
eager for the region
to
become familiar
with him and his style of
basketball.
He had
plenty of opportunities to do this the week
of the NBA Draft, as Derrick Rose-a player
Martin recruited and coached at Memphis
last season-was selected first overall by the
Chicago Bulls. Two more Memphis players-
Joey Dorsey and Chris Douglas-Roberts-were
also selected in the draft. In the days leading up
to and
following
the
draft, Martin appeared on
1050 ESPN Radio New York's
Brandon
Tierney
Show, ESPN Radio's GameNight
with Freddie
Coleman, MSG's On
the
Hardwood
with Jon
Rothstein,
and WFAN with Steve Somers.
He
was also the subject of a story written by
Mike Benischek of the
Poughkeepsie
Journal.
Martin
has had several local media appear-
ances, including Cablevision's
Sports
Scene
with
Charlie Cornacchio, Time Warner's
Sportswire
with Lindsay Liquori, and
Dan
Reinhard's radio
show on WKNY.
■
Mike Ferraro
'01
is
sports information
director
at
Marist.
Previously
he was a sports
writer and copy
editor
for the Poughkeepsie Journal.
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Marist
Wins
2007-08
MAAC
Commissioner's
Cup
The Red Foxes
earn the Metro Atlantic
Athletic
Conference's
top honor
for the fourth consecutive
year.
&Jlarist
College has earned the Metro
IT1At1antic
Athletic Conference's highest
honor, the MAAC Commissioner's Cup, for
the
2007-08
academic year.
It
is
the
fourth
consecutive year the Red Foxes have won the
Commissioner's Cup, and eighth
time
overall,
tying La
Salle for
the
highest total
in
confer-
ence history.
Marist captured conference tournaments
in
men's
and women's swimming and diving,
women's basketball, men's and women's crew,
men's
and women's
tennis,
women's
lacrosse,
and water polo in the
2007-08
season. The
Red
Foxes earned a share of the MAAC Football
League title as well.
This is
the second time Marist has won
four Commissioner's Cups
in
a
row,
as
the Red
Foxes also
prevailed
every year from
1999
to
2002.
Marist has now won the overall title eight
times in the past 10 years.
"We've proved once again that both academ-
ic
and athletic excellence can go hand in hand,"
says President Dennis
J.
Murray. "This is a
significant accomplishment for our athletes,
coaches, and athletics administration. We all
take great pride in what they've been able
to
do.
All Marist students have to complete a rigorous
curriculum, which makes this accomplishment
all the more significant."
Loyola
College was awarded the men's cup
for the first time in school history, while the
Red
Foxes won their fifth women's cup.
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The MAAC
Commissioner's
Cup is awarded
annually as a symbol of overall excellence in
athletics in the
24
championship athletic events
conducted within the conference. Each institu-
tion is scored in all championships in which it
fields a varsity team. However, only the scores
from the men's and women's basketball partici-
pation,
plus
the other top six men's and other
top six women's championships, are used to
determine an institution's total points.
Marist finished the overall race with a total
of
138.50
points,
30.50
points ahead of runner-
up Fairfield. On the men's side, Loyola
captured
the
league
crown with
55.50
points, just one
point more
than
second-place Marist. The Red
Foxes finished
in
the top spot in the women's
cup race
by
compiling
84
points,
17
points
ahead of Fairfield.
In the overall Commissioner's
Cup race, the
rest of
the
field behind Marist
finished as follows: Fairfield
O
(108), Loyola
(107),
Iona
(92),
Siena
(87),
Canisius
(86.50),
Manhattan and Niagara
(83),
Rider
(80.50),
and Saint
Peter's (61).
On the women's side, Fairfield
was second with
67
points, followed
by Iona
(53),
Loyola
(51.50),
Canisius
(45.50),
Siena
(43),
Manhattan
(42.50),
Niagara
(41.50),
Rider, and Saint Peter's
(28).
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-Mike
Ferraro '01
In
the
men's standings,
Marist finished second
with
54.50
points, followed
by Rider
(52.50),
Siena
(44),
Niagara
(41.50),
Canisius
and Fairfield
(41),
Manhattan
(40.50),
Iona
(39),
and Saint
Peter's
(33).
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Men's tennis
B
Men's
crew
C
Men's swimming and diving
D
Women's basketball
E
Women's crew
F
Women's
lacrosse
G
Women's swimming and diving
H
Women's tennis
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Water polo
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Washington (top) and Marist crossed the
finish line 1-2 in
the
men's varsity four at
this year's IRA National Championships in
Camden, N.J. The
rowers
were (above,
left
to right) Shawn Marion '08,
Jonathan
Martin
'10,
Matthew Keys '08, Kevin Fletcher
'09,
and Holly Adler '09.
Rowers
Excel
Nationally
d
I
t.
II
e rich tradition of rowing at
Marist
t~~~r,;~~:~:~:70~~~1=::~::~~;
a111
nterna
1ona
y
close of the 2007-08 season.
On June 7,
the men's
varsity four turned
in
its
best finish in program
history
at
the top
event in
the
nation, the
Intercollegiate Rowing
Association (IRA) National Championships.
The Red Foxes earned a second-place
finish in
a time of 6 minutes,
20.8
seconds at the event
in Camden, N.j. The rowers in
the
Marist
boat
were Shawn Marion '08 (stroke seat),Jonathan
Martin '10 (two seat), captain
Matthew Keys
'08 (three seat), Kevin Fletcher '09 (bow seat),
and Holly Adler '09 (coxswain).
The second-place
finish
enabled
the Red
Foxes to earn a
medal
at
the regatta
for the
first
time
in
their history. Marist had
never
placed
higher than fifth at any
IRA
event
previously.
In order
to
attain such a lofty result, Marist
The me111's
varsity
four brought
home
Marist's
first medal
in the
lntercolllegiate
Rowing
Association
National
Championships,
beating1
UC
Berkeley,
UCLA,
and Brown.
Crew's
Lisa
D'Aniello
'08
reach
eel
the semifinals
of the world rowing
championships.
had to
beat
out some of the best the country
had
to
offer. The
Red
Foxes' time was 2.8
seconds !better
than third-place
Cornell.
The
University of California at Berkeley, UCLA,
and
Brown
finished fourth, fifth, and sixth,
respectively,
in
the grand
final.
The
Red
Foxes
were edged out by Washington, which had a
time
less than eight-tenths of a second better
than
that of
Marist. Men's
crew won its eighth
consecutive
MAAC
championship during
the
2007-08 season.
"I'm really excited for the
future
of our
crew
team,
and these guys
put in
a lot of
hard
work all year,"
Marist
men's Head Coach Sean
Clarke says. 'They deserve to be fully
rewarded
for
their
efforts. They rowed above and beyond
their capabilities."
On
the
heels of the
magnificent
accomplishment of
the
men's
program,
a
women's
rower
made a dream come
true.
Lisa
D'Aniello,
a crew and
track
star for
the
Red Foxes
who will graduate in
December, qualified
for
the United States Under-23 National Rowing
team in
lightweight doubles.
D'Aniello and
doubles
partner
Kristin
Headstrom, a 2008
Wisconsin graduate, competed at the 2008
FISA World Rowing
Under-23 Championships
in Brandenburg,
Germany, in
July.
After
finishing
fifth
in their
heat on
the
first
day
of competition,
D'Aniello
and Headstrom
won
the repechage
the
following
day-defeating
boats from
Italy,
Poland,
the
Czech
Republic,
Japan, and
Hong Kong-to
advance
to the
semifinals.
They
would end the competition
placing
sixth
in
the "B"
final.
Lisa D'Aniello '08 (left) and doubles partner Kristin
Headstron~,
a 2008 Wisconsin graduate, compete
in the semifinals at the 2008
FISA
World Rowing
Under-23
C:hampionships in Germany.
D'Aniello
served as captain of
the
women's
crew
team
and
helped
the
Red
Foxes win
three
MAAC
championships. In
track,
she
set the school
record in the
mile
in
2006
and then
broke
it at
this
year's MAAC Indoor
Championships.
D'Aniello
also made the Dean's
List eight times and the MAAC
All-Academic
Team each of
the
past three years.
■
-Mike
Ferraro
'01
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The
New
Face
f
the Red
Foxes
The Marist
Athletics
logo
gets a facelift to strengthen
brand
recognition.
T
here's a new fox
in
town.
On June
19,
the Marist Athletics
Department held a press conference at the
McCann Center to unveil its new family of
logos. The event was a culmination of careful
planning and strategy between the Athletics
Department and campus community, as well
as the
dawning
of a
new
era.
In an effort to build a stronger brand and
achieve more consistency with its athletics
logos,
the department worked with Phoenix
Design Works
based
in New York City
to rede-
sign the current athletics
logos
and add more
options.
"We wanted
to
use the unique character-
istics of the Red Fox logo that
have been part
of the Marist tradition for a number of years
to
update our
logos,"
says
Director
of Athletics
Tim Murray. "This project was not about getting
rid of our old
logo;
it
was about taking what we
had and enhancing it to build a
more
recog-
nizable
brand."
Phoenix Design Works created a
new family
of athletics logos
that
wi
II
serve as the founda-
tion
of the Marist Athletics brand, a process
that began
this past January.
The new logos
were created for
the
Athletics
Department's
use
on apparel,
printed
materials,
digital
applica-
tions, and merchandise.
The
new primary logo
mark includes
the
Marist name with a newly
designed fox coming around the "M." Varsity
sports, club sports, spirit groups, and various
departments
will
be given their own "sports
specific" logo. The new family of logos also
includes traditional collegiate marks
that
will
be featured on Marist Athletics apparel.
"We are pretty unique
in
that we are the
only Red Foxes in the country," Murray
says. "We
have
a very distinctive mascot
that we are showcasing
in
our new logo,
along with
the
Marist
name,
to form
what we think will be a strong brand
that our fans, alumni, faculty, staff, and
students will
be
proud of."
Phoenix Design Works has been
instrumental in creating and
developing
some of the most
recognizable
brands
in the world,
including more than
150
of America's best
known
colleges and
universities
such as Arkansas,
Harvard,
LSU, Oklahoma, Tennessee, UMass,
and UCLA.
Mari
st
Athletics
has unveiled a new family
of
Red Fox logos including these on the
T-shirt
and
helmet
of
Obozua Ehikioya
'09,
running
back and
co-captain
for the
Red
Foxes
football team.
"This
project
was
not about
getting
rid
of our old
logo;
it
was
about
taking
what we
had and
enhancing
it
to build a more
recognizable
brand."
-Tim
Murray,
Director
of Athletics
A drawin1~
from Marist's
1965
yea1rbook
The new logo, unveiled
June
19, 2008
Phoenix
has created new franchise identi-
ty branding,
property
development,
and event
branding
for the NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB.
All visual identity, logo marks, and
uniform
design
for
the
Florida Marlins, Colorado
Rockies,
Cin,cinnati Reds, and Philadelphia
76ers were pr.oducts of
the
company. Phoenix
has also created event identity branding for the
Super Bowl, Indy 500, Brickyard 400, MLB
Opening Day,
MLB
All-Star Game, and this
year's U.S. Open tennis tournament.
~
•
__.
BlSJ.
ATBLITICB
Why
a Red Fox?
A 1961 meeting marked the adoption of
the
Red Foxes as the official nickname and
mascot.
Athletics Director Bro. William Murphy
decid-
ed to organize a varsity basketball
team to
play scheduled games against other schools
and thought a nickname and logo would be
appropriate.
While glancing at a sports
magazine,
he
noticed a reynard, more commonly
known
as
a
red
fox, on the cover. The red fox was indig-
enous to the Hudson
River
Valley,
making
it
a
perfect
fit for Marist.
He
decided this
furry
little creature was to become the mascot and
logo of
Marist
College teams.
The reynard was a cunning, intelligent char-
acter
in
a set of stories from medieval France.
Because
the term reynard was so
uncommon,
the
athletics director chose to call the team
the "Red Foxes." Although the football
team
was known
as the "Vikings" during
its
club
days, the Red Fox has been the college
mascot
ever since.
However,
at one
point
the
mascot
did sport
some headgear not normally seen on a fox. In
the 1960s and early 1970s, the Red Fox was
pictured wearing a sailor's
hat:
the sailing team
won the Eastern College Athletic Conference
championship during the 1960s and was
the
dominant
Marist sports team at the time.
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0
t~
es
Keeping Up With Marist Graduates
1954
Bro.
Martin Ruane, FMIS,
took part
in
a
"3rd Age
Renewal
Program"
for
Marist
Brothers
in
Marnziana, Italy,
from Oct. 21 to Dec.
2:1,
2007.
"It
was a fantastic experience spiri-
tually
and culturally,"
he
writes.
I
Laurence
Sullivan
is a past0ral coun-
selor for Catholic campus ministry at
the
College of William and Mary
in
Williamsburg,
Va.
1956
1
John (Jack) Duggan
serves on
the development
committee for St.
Ignatius
Retreat
House
in Manhasset.
He
was also
honored
a.t
Winthrop
University Hospital for his 800-plus
hours as a volunteer
in
its pastoral
care
program.
lmnum•ia:::
1958:
Dr. Roger Fernandez
traveled to
Spain
in
April
to
prese:nt
his
book
Odisea Lirica
Recuerda.
The English
version (Lyrical Odyssey Remember)
is already translated
but not
yet
published.
lnam•uc:::
1963:
Frank
Sutton
is still
welcoming
guests
at Sutton's Place,
the
guest
house
he
runs
in
Manchester,
Vt.
1964l
Deacon Peter
R.C.
Haight
complet-
ed
his
60th year
in the
Boy Scouts of
America Hudson Valley Council.
1965;
Dennis
J.
Feeney's
fifth
grandchild,
Isabella Lauren,
was born
Jan.
15,
2008. He
says both retirement and
grandchildren
are
wondlerful.
196fi►
Bro. John A. Allen, FMS,
complet-
ed
five
years
as
chancellor of
the
Diocese of Laredo and
took
part
in
a
Marist Brothers
renewal
program
in
Manziana,
Italy.
From
January
to March
2008
he participated in
the
Marist
Ad Gentes Orientation-
Discernment
program
in Davao,
Philippines.
I
Frederi,ck Gilmore
retired
and moved
to
Arizona
in
2005
with his wife of
40
yea1rs,
Barbara.
I
Peter Nesteroke
wri.tes
that
he
is "slowing
down
but still
having
a
good time."IAlan
Schultz
is airport
Paul Rinn
'68
was invested asa Knight in the Equestrian Order of the Holy
Sepulchre of Jerusalem at St. Matthews Cathedral in Washington, D.C.,
by Bishop Paul Stephen Loverde of the Diocese of Arlington, Va.
manager and chief flight
instructor
at
Kingston-Ulster
Airport in Ulster
County, N.Y.
He retired
as lab
director
at
the
City of New York
Department
of
Environmental
Protection's
Ben
Nesin
Lab at Shokan, N.Y.
1967
Philip
Ambrosio
welcomed his first
grandchild, Sophia Kathleen Marko,
born Oct.
2,
2007. "We are extremely
overjoyed."IJerome
Bohnert
retired
on Dec. 31,
2007,
after 40 years of
service
in
education, 37 of those as a
school business administrator
and 22
years with the
Paramus
(NJ.) Board
of Education.
He is
also a past presi-
dent of the state association of school
business administrators. He and
his
wife of 39 years,
Dolly,
live in Barngat
and have three grown children and
three grandchildren.
I
Peter Higgins
missed
the
Class of 1967 reunion in
2007 but did
make
it back to Baghdad
to work with the prime minister's
office there. He worked with several
senior Iraqi officials in
preparing
a
briefing
on a national identity card
program for
Iraq. He
worked with
the
PM's special assistant, the director of
identity
and passports,
the director
of
the
Iraqi Census Bureau, the director
of e-government for
Iraq,
and several
other senior people. The highlights
of the trip included participating
in
a several-hour sub-cabinet meeting
at the PM's villa-conducted all in
Arabic. From time
to
time the chair
would ask Peter what
they
had meant
on chart X, in English, of course.
Everyone
he
worked with was very
optimistic and discussed
the
posi-
tive
changes since
he
had been there
in 2005.
The flight
home started at
Baghdad
International
Airport where
there
were iPods for sale in
the
duty-
free shop. Peter
reports
that he might
have a chance to go
to
Afghanistan
this
year.
IThomas
Crimmins
was
honored by the Sewanhaka (N.Y.)
Central
High
School District for his
25 years of service as a guidance
counselor at Elmont
High
School.
I
Robert Johnson
retired in June
2007 but still owns
Kaffe Magnum
Opus, a specialty coffee roasting
company that sells t0 independently
owned coffee
houses
and cafes. He
rode a bicycle
from Poughkeepsie
to
Key West
in
September and October
2007 to show support
for these
coffee
houses
and cafes.
lDennis
Mega
is
happy to
announce the birth of his
second grandchild,
Marcus
Sam Mega,
born Sept. 9, 2007 Marcus Sam was
welcomed
by
his
big brother Maddox,
mom Mirsade, and dad Matthew.
Grandpa Dennis and Grandma
Palma
are thrilled and
looking
forward
to the
day when
the
boys will form the start-
ing backcourt for the Marist men's
basketball teaml
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1968
William Cloonan,
Esq.,
and his
wire,
Kathleen, became
grandpar-
ents in February. Connor William
Lindgren is the son of their daughter,
Kate,
who
is
an
attorney in
Virginia.
Her husband.Jon, 1s a land developer
for
Pulte Development
m
Washington,
D.C.IWilliam
Karl
has reured after
32 years or teaching.
I le
is a full-time
realtor in
the Albany/Saratoga
Springs
area and is a proud grandfather as
well.I
Thomas
Reichert
is continuing
his career
by
working with inner-city
special educauon students at Eastside
High
School in
Paterson,
NJ.I
Eugene
Smith
is the CEO or the Central
Bucks County YMCA
m
Doylestown,
Pa.
His
YMCA
career spans 37 years
and three siates-Pennsyl\'ania,
Connecucut, and
New
York,
includ-
ing New York City.
lie
earned an
M.A.
from Springfield College
and
married
Barbara
in
J
971. They
have
three children and several grandchil-
dren.
He
is
ranked at the masters'
level
m swimming, running (5K, hair and
full marathons), and triathlon.
He
is
a
Vietnam-era
veteran or the U.S.
Marine Corps. 1-fis
nephew, William
Succoso,
1s a
sophomore
at Marist.
1969
Marist Names New Officers for
Alumni Executive Board
The Marist College Alumni Executive Board
is
proud to announce a
new slateofofficers. Joffrey M. Schanz
'94/'99M is
now president, Pat
Mara
'97
vice president,
Alicia
Ross-Grasfeder'98
treasurer, and Maura
Brouillette
'96
secretary.
Jim Daly '72, who has been the president of the Alumni Executive
Board since
2005,
pas!ied the gavel to Jeff Schanz during the board's
annual planning session in June.
#The College
is grateful to Jim for his
dedication, support, a1nd
service during his term as president," says
Executive
Director of Alumni Relations
Amy Woods
'97.Jim
will
continue
to serve on the board as chairman of
its
Membership Committee.
The Alumni Executive
Board supports
the Office of Alumni Relations
by fostering communication between alumni and the College, offer-
ing programs and activities that will further the welfare ofthe College
and alumni, encourag
Ing
and facilitating support of the Mari st Fund
and other developmt1nt programs, and developing a relationship
with undergraduates
:so
that In the future they will play active roles
as
alumni.
Jeffrey Schanz
'94/'99M
Jeff Is assistant
vice president
for alumni relations
at
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
in
Troy, N.Y., and
executive director of the Rensselaer
Alumni Association.
He
is responsible
for planning, managing, executing, and
evaluating all programs of the Office
of
Alumni Relations and Annual Giving and
maintaining a strong
relationship
with
the
Alumni
Association Board of Trustees
who work on behalfof Rensselaer's 90,000
alumni worldwide.
Prior to his position at Rensselaer, he
served as director of alumni
relations
at
Marist and also spentthreeyears
in Marist's Office of Admission. He has
been a
speaker
at
pro1fessional
conferences and is an active member
and leader of the Assoc:iation of Private College and University Alumni
Directors, for whom he maintains an assessment and metrics database.
He received a BA
In
political science and an MPA from Maristand earned
a CAS and an MS degree in educational administration and policy
studies from the Univ,nsity at Albany. Jeff has been a member of the
Alumni Executive Board since 2001 and
has
served as vice president
for the past three yea,·s.
Patrick Mara currently serves as
manager
of government relations
at ML Strategies
in
Washington, D.C. He Isa former Marist student body
president and has bee1,
a
member of the Alumni Executive Board since
2000,
serving as treasu1rerforthe past year. Alicia Ross Grasfeder is vice
president and
chief
administrative officer at State Street Corporation
Corporate
Audit in Boslton, Mass., and has been a member of the Alumni
Executive Board since 2003. Maura Brouillette is the human resources
director for
Sasaki
Associates, Inc., in Watertown, Mass., and has been
a member of the Alum1ni Executive
Board
since 2006.
To see a
list
of
all of the members of the Alumni Executive Board,
visit www.marist.edu1'a1umni/board.htm1.
member,
he
no
longer
rows but swims
and walks wuh rellow
teacher retirees
three
limes
a
week.
1970
for
Dutchess
County (NY.) ARC as
a
res1dent1al
administrator.
I
Peter
Varol recently
retired from a 36-year
career in factoring/finance.
Pete Clarry
retired
from
a 32-year
teaching career m the William Floyd
School District
m
Mastic Beach,
N.Y.
His wire, Debbie, teaches kindergar-
ten. Pete's daughter,
Kim,
is an '04
graduate oruconn
and
'08
master's
graduate from Dowling College and
his son, Chris, expects to graduate in
'09 from Florida Southern College.
I
Richard
A.
Dickinson,
DDS,
1s work-
mg with daughter Grace
Dickinson
Branon. DMD, m St Albans, Vt.,
and ski mg at Jay
Peak.
His daughter
Lindsey
and son
Rich
were each to get
married m 2008.
IJames
Duncan
was
among four
honorees
at the inaugural
De LaSalle
Leadership
Dinner spon-
sored by the St. Raymond
High School
for
Boys
in
Bronx, N.Y.,
and
held
at
the Cornell Club m New York City
in April. During the
past
20 years
Jim
has been a
mentor
to students, served
on the school's Alumni Assoc1at1on
Board,
and, with
his
family,
provid-
ed numerous scholarships.
I
Sean
O'Neill
was elected vice commodore
or
the
Albany Yacht Club, founded
in 1873 and one of the oldest yacht
clubs
in
America.
lJoseph
Sommers
is a retiree from New Jersey public
schools. He enJoys teaching human
biology at
Bergen
(N.j.) Community
College.
A former
Marist
crew team
Robert Brown,
Esq.,
announces
the
b1rth of his first grandchdd,
Keagan
Robert Brown, born
Feb. 9,
2008.1
Richard Scott
retired from the New
York
State Office
of
Mental
Retardation
and Developmental
Disabilities
aher
33 years or service
He
now works
1971
Terry
Nash's
son,
Mau,
has
received
a
Division 1
baseball scholarship to
Iona
College
Terry
reports that Mau
is considered one of
the top players
in
the
Capital
District. He has
played
in the
Mickey
Mantle World Series
in
Texas,
the AABC 17 Under World
Series in New
Jersey,
and the World
Wood
Bat World
Senes in Georgia.
Terry is the principal at
Schalmont
High
School m Schenmady. N.Y.IDr.
Steve
Wysowski
has
been appointed
adjunct
professor
or graduate educa-
tion
at
the
Umvers11y
of New Haven.
1972
William
Romito
retired from
Marlboro High
School in 2005. Since
September 2005, Bill has worked
at
Marist
as a student-teaching
super\'lsor
}D1wu-i:c
1973
Dr.
Dana Delaware
was elected
chair or the Chemistry
Department
at Truman State University for a
term or three years.
I
Daniel Faison
Jr.
became
a grandfather on April 26,
2008
in
addition, his oldest child,
J1llian, graduated in
May
from the
Penn
State Dickinson School or
Law.
I
Michael
Marso
reured in June 2007
aher 34 years of teach mg.
In
foll
2007
he
spent three weeks m France and
Italy.
Thomas Mauro
'74
1974
Thomas
Mauro
has been
named
chief
of the Town of Poughkeepsie Police
Department,
supervising
87
officers.
A
member
of the department since
I
976,
he
1s
a
New
York
state-certified
master
police instructor and instruc-
tor e\-aluator.
He
has also been a Police
Department
training
instructor
since
1979. He earned an MPS in criminal
Justice at
CW.
Post Center or Long
Island
University
in
J
981.
1975
Michael Asip
was appointed direc-
tor or excep11onal educatton
rn
Chesterfield County Public Schools.
Mike leads a depanmem that pro\·1des
special educauon
services for
almost
8,000 students with disabilities in
62 schools in Chesterfield County,
the fourth
largest
school
division
in Virginia. He 1s a doctoral cand1-
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notes
Michael Asip
'75
date in
the
College of William and
Mary's Educational
Policy
Planning
and leadership program. He lives
in Williamsburg, Va., with his wife,
Leslie
Baskin-Asip, and daughter,
Cailin, a
Hollins
University sopho-
more.
His
son,
Danny,
recently moved
to Phoenix,
Ariz.,
to
work with the
Phoenix Suns after graduating from
Muhlenberg College with honors.
I
Pastor Maryann Paradiso Berry
has been selected to be included in
the
2008 edition of Marquis
Who's
Who
in
American Women.
I
Richard
Beaney
recently
moved from Utah
to Massachusetts.
lJoseph
Cirasella
Jr.
is
in
his 15th year at Eastchester
High School in Eastchester,
N.Y.
He is
an 11th grade U.S. history teacher and
the school's
varsity golf coach. He was
named
the
league and conference
golf
coach of
the
year for 2007 and
2008.
His son
Joseph
Ill will graduate from
Iona College in December 2008.
His
son
Justin
is a freshman
in
Manhattan
College's
engineering program.
1976
Jo-Ann
Brown
is a broker and owner
of ACE
Real
Estate, LLC.
IJanet
Lang's
daughter, Alyssa,
is
attending
Northeastern
University.
I
Lesley
Springstun Schaffer
has finished her
first year as a special education
teacher
in
Grants Cibola County Schools in
Grants, N.M.
Her recent
career change
called
upon
her original degree and
special education certificate.
1977
Charles Bang recently
accepted a
new
position at CJ Apparel Group
as vice
president
of finance.
I
Walter
Janeczek
is director of operations at
Cascade Medical Enterprises, LLC.
I Robin
Redeker
is proud that her
oldest son, Harry,
is
a sophomore at
Marist.
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1978
Jack
Boyle, MD, is
senior vice presi-
dent of scientific
services
with Caudex,
Inc.,
a
medical
education
firm.
I
26
MARIST
MAGAZINE
Vincent Capozzi
is a defense busi-
ness development
and
sales manager
for Schott North America. He is work-
ing in Washington, D.C., with
the
Department of
Defense, Department
of State, and Department
of Homeland
Security.I
Noreen
Fennell
is
the
vice
chair of
the
Orange Coumy Citizens
Foundation
Board
of Trustees. She
was recently named the
recipient
of
the
PruCares Award and a grant was
made to
the
foundation
in her honor.
1979
Stanley Kardas
and
his
wife,
Karen,
are very proud of their daughter, Sara,
who graduated from Marist
in
May
2008.1
Kathleen Nort,on recently
began writing a
"baby
boomer"
humor
column for
the
Poughkee:psiejournal.
Boomer alumni can
find it
at www.
poughkeepsiejournal.com/boomergal.
Kathleen and
her
husband,
Gerald
McNulty,
reside
in Red
Hook, N.Y.
Their daughter and son-im-law,
Kara
and Lucas Baron, were also graduates
of Mari st, Class of
2004.
1980
Andrea Firpo,
a social worker with the
FBI, started the
FBI
New York Office's
Victim Assistance Program in 2002
before transferring to thte FBI office
in
Asheville, N.C., in 2007. She
lives
in
"the
beautiful moumains
of western
North Carolina" with her 9-year-old
son, Morgan.
I
Stanley Frangk
is a
partner
in
the
law
firm of Levine,
Hofstetter
and
Frangk
in Poughkeepsie.
He
and his
wife, Debr:a, reside
in
Hyde
Park
with
their three
children,
Denise, 23, Andrea, 21, and Steven,
16.1
Louis Merlino's
ni,ece, Kristen
Merlino, graduated from Marist in
2008. His stepson, William DeMilio,
has just
completed a four-year Navy
tour
of
duty in
Guantana1mo
Bay and
Spain.
I
Elizabeth
Diggdman
Pectal
is controller for Arista Laboratories,
Inc. Arista performs
tobacco
and
igni-
tion
propensity testing.
1981
Rich Michos
was named vice presi-
dent of distribution strategy at IBM.
I
Don
Purdy received
a Master of
Arts in communication
degree in
December
2007
from the University
at Albany, where
he
ha.s served as
an adjunct
lecturer in
the School of
Business's Marketing Department
since January 1998.
IRo,ckJ.
Vitale
is founder and CEO of
Environmental
Standards, Inc., which recently cele-
brated its 20th anniversary
at its Valley
Forge, Pa.,
headquarters.
The compa-
ny is a privately
held
consulting firm
with
more than
60 employees and
specializes in environmental chem-
T.
Brendan Mooney
'71
(right)
visited with Ernie Belanger
(left)
and
his wife, Alicia,
(center)
in
Madrid this past April on his ninth trip to
Spain. Ernie, brother to faculty member and Mari st Abroad Program
founder Bro. Joe Belanger, FMS, directed Marist's
study
program
in
Madrid. Brendan took part in the Madrid program during the 1969-70
academic year, an experience that gave him
"an
indelible love
of
Spain and
its
people," he says,
"so
much
so
that
38
years later
I
am
still returning with my family
and
they are now making friends
of
my
friends and their children." Brendan retired in 2005 after 30 years of
government service.
istry,
geosciences, ecological and
human health risk
assessment, envi-
ronmental
data management,
logistics
auditing, and indoor air quality/mold
issues. It
was recently named
to
the
Inc.
5000
list
of
the
nation's fastest-
growing private companies and was
ranked 71st among the top 100 envi-
ronmental firms in
the Inc.
5000 list.
Rock
and
his
wife,
Valerie Poleri
Vitale
'80, and
their
two children
live
in
Berwyn,
Pa.
1982
Diana Galioto Andrews's
oldest son,
Michael,
is
a freshman at the College
of Charleston in Charleston, S.C.
I
Michael Seider
opened a shop called
Hats
Off to You at 105 Healy Blvd.
in
Hudson,
N.Y.,
12534, 518-828-4488.
The
shop carries
NASCAR,
sports, and
rock
'n'
roll merchandise.
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1983
Jim
Comes's
daughter, Tara, was to
attend Berklee School of Music in
Boston this fall.
Ijames
Gorman's
eldest daughter, Callie, was to start
at Holy Cross this fall.
lJohn
Stephen
retired
from
the state of Connecticut
in June 2003 after 23 years of service.
From 1986 to 1997 he was director
of the Youth Challenge Program and
from 1997 to 2003
he
was youth
services officer.
1984
James
R. Barnes received
the Ernst
& Young
Entrepreneur
of the Year
2008 Award in the
"Business
Services"
category for the New England region.
The
national
Entrepreneur
of the Year
will be chosen
Nov.
15 from among
the winners in 26 regions across
the
United States. Jim is president and
CEO of OAKLEAF,
a leading provid-
er of waste and recycling
services.
The
company serves more than 100,000
locations
through
its network of
more than 4,800
haulers,
recyclers,
and waste diversion providers. Jim
is a member
of
Marist's Board of
Trustees.
1985
Shawn Mulligan
recently had a
new
addition to his family,
child
No. 3,
Kelly John.
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daughter, Marina, will be attend-
ing Marist, as a member of the Class
of 2012, from Singapore American
School.
1986
Thomas
Begg
completed
the
2007
lronman,
a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile
bike
ride
and 26.2-mile
run,
at Lake
Placid, N.Y.
He
founded
the
Glen
Rock
Triathlon Club (www.grti.com).
I
Andrew
Hall
and his wife,
Patricia
Brady
Hall,
had a son, Christopher
Joseph, on Sept.
18,
2007.
He
joins
siblings Kieran, Amanda,
Ryan,
and
Julia.
I
Theresa Kelly
was to start a
new
job
as a
first
grade teacher
in
September.
lJulianne
Ward
came
in
No.
l
in sales at
her
company
during
2006.
1987
Jeffrey Beliveau
moved back to
Dutchess County after spending
the
past
16 years in San Diego.
I
Terrence
Kenny
has been
living
and
working abroad
in
Germany for the
past five
years.
Terry
is a contract-
ing
officer for
the
U.S. government's
Defense
Information
Technology
Contracting Office
in
Europe.
He
received the Commander's Award
for Civilian Service from Maj. Gen.
Scott G West of
the
21st
Theater
Sustainment Command on Jan 20,
2008.1
Marydale Dolezal Leonard
announces
the
birth of her second
child, Grace Alana Leonard,
born May
25, 2007.IRobert
Saunders
and
his
wife,
Ellen Fitzpatrick
Saunders,
welcomed their sixth child,
Kyra
Jade,
their
second daughter, born Sept.
12,
2007.
IJeanmarie
Ward
recently
started Abridged Solutions, Inc., an
HR consulting firm specializing in
Medicare
health insurance. She lives
in Pelham, N.Y., with
her
husband,
Glenn, and two sons, Timothy, 12,
and Cameron, 7.
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1988
Robert O'Connor
reached his
20th
anniversary at CSEA,
Inc.,
on May
2, 2008. He says he is still enjoying
and grateful
for his
Marist degree.
I
Barbara Pushman
married
Tracy
J.
Kaber on Oct. 5, 2007 They reside
in
Hermosa
Beach, Calif.
I
Thomas
Ruede
has
accepted a position as
director of creative
business
devel-
opment at the Suddath Co. in
Jacksonville,
Fla.
His
wife,
Nora
Bomba Ruede,
works at Eagle Ridge
Elementary in Coral Springs, Fla.
I
David
Schifter
has won a national
Emmy
Award for investigative jour-
nalism
for
a series on deadbeat dads
that
aired on Cleveland
tele:vision.
In
addition,
he
is cast as a series regular
on a new Fox series called
Whitaker
Bay.
The young-adult drama was
scheduled to air starting
in
September
2008. David plays the
role:
of Marty
Visted, a single dad facing
the
chal-
lenges of raising teens
and dating
the
wife of the district
attorney.II
Michelle
Young Medley
recently
relocated to
North Carolina with
her husband,
two children, and dog. Shte opened
her
own
mediation
services office.
1989
Carol
Anne Gordon Arriaga
is
employed as
a
contractor
at
Test
ware
Associates
in
Somerville,
NJ, current-
ly working on assignment 21t
Pfizer
in
Bridgewater,
N.J. Other
tha1r1
working,
she is
having
fun watching
her
two
children.Justin andJessic21,
grow
up.
I
Eve Carlin, Esq., is
a legal instructor
for Montreat College, teaching busi-
ness law,
and
runs
the University of
South Carolina law School book-
store
in
Columbia, S.C.
I
Barrie
Daneker
will
be up
for re-elec-
tion
as commissioner
in District
of
Columbia Advisory
Neiglnborhood
Commission
Ward SC07 in November
2008. Barrie
has
served
as
vice chair
of Ward SC and chair o:f
the D.C.
Economic
Development Committee
for Ward
SC
and is a
member of
the
Dupont Social Club.
II
Richard
DiBona
is chief
technolo,gy
officer
and co-founder of
Flimp
Media in
Hopkinton, Mass.
He
was
recently
profiled in an
article in the
MetroWest
Daily News,
a
Masssachus,etts
news-
paper.
I
Marc Eisenhauer
,:ompleted
a study abroad experience in Poland
in June 2007
He visited multina-
tional
corporations and
historic
sites
includingJasna G6ra and Auschwitz.
In December
2007 he earrn!d an MBA
from le Moyne College irn Syracuse,
N.Y.
I
Marc
Hamlin
was promot-
ed to
major
in
the
Tampa Police
Department. Since joining the Tampa
Police Department in
1990,
Marc has
served
in
all three patrol districts, the
Criminal
Investigations
Division,
and
the Special Operations Division. He
spent more than seven years as a
detective and sergeant
in
undercover
units of the Narcotics Bureau and
the Street Anti-Crime Squad.
As
a
captain in District
lll
since 2005, he commanded
the sector encompassing
downtown
and Ybor City.
During
his command,
crime fell 29. 7 percent
in
Ybor City. He is also the
commander
of game day
operations at Raymond
James Stadium and is
heavily involved
in the
planning of
Super
Bowl
XLIII. Marc earned an
MPA
from Troy State University and
is also a graduate of
the
University
of
Louisville's
Southern Police Institute.
I
Craig Lynch
and his wife, Cheryl,
have
adopted
a
baby boy. Jack Powell
lynch became part
of
the family
in
June
2006.1
Margaret Rutherford-
Carriero
works on the creative
team
at the
Villadom
Times
newspaper
in
northern New Jersey. She
lives
in
Mahwah,
N.J., with
her
husband
and three
children.
1990
Judith Connolly Rebholtz
welcomed
the birth
of her
daughter, Braedon
Catherine Connolly-Rebholtz, on
June
22,
2007.
IYolanda
Robano-
Gross is
director of developmental
disabilities
services for PSCH,
Inc.
She
lives
with
her husband,
John,
and
their
daughter, Morgan,
in
Woodmere,
N.Y.ISusan
Schmitt
was
scheduled to move
during
summer
2008
to
Chisinau,
Moldova,
where
her
husband was
to
be
a military
attache for the U.S. Embassy.
I
Gary
Vincent
is a senior project
manag-
er for Age of Travel, Inc.,
in
Atlanta,
Ga.
1991
Julie M. Goss,
who studied busi-
ness administration and marketing
at Marist, was to receive a master's in
acupuncture and oriental
medicine
from the Oregon College
of Oriental
Medicine in Portland
in
August.
After
completing board exams for
acupuncrnre licensure,
she will work
at an
integrative medical
clinic
prac-
ticing
traditional
Chinese medicine
along with Western allopathic medi-
cal practitioners.
1992
Jon
Cera
bone
joined Cablevision
on
Dec.
3, 2007, as
manager
of
interac-
tive
commerce.
He also
welcomed
his
daughter, Ella
Marie, born
July
1, 2007.
IJulia
Morrison Desmond
and her husband, Mark, are
pleased
to
announce the birth of
their
third child,
Charles Morrison,
bornjan.
2, 2008.
Charlie
joins
big
brother Jack
and big
sister Jane.
I
Mike Dumont
and
his
wife, Danielle, welcomed
their
baby
girl.Julia Grace, born
July
11,
2007.
Mike was promoted
to
associate direc-
tor of broadcast promotions
at ESPN.I
Kevin Weigand
isa
marketing execu-
tive for FreeLife
International,
which
markets
Gochi juice. He
lives in
Fort
Myers, Fla.
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Kelly
Cammer
Cleary
was promoted
to executive vice
president at Healthy
Directions, LLC,
in Potomac, Md.,
in
May 2007. Kelly
and her
husband
also
announce
the
birth of their son, Sean
Richard, born
Feb.
13,
2008.IKevin
Gilmartin
welcomed
daughter Rowan
Margaret
into
the
world on Oct.
10,
2007.
I
Carey
Allaband LeRoux,
Esq.,
and
husband
Tim announce
the
birth of their
daughter,
Sophia
Grace,
born
Aug.
17,
2007.1
Susan
McNamee married
Van Snyder in
2003. Their son.Jonah, was born Dec.
19, 2006.
IMarta
Newkirk has
been
named
to
the
board
of directors for
McQuade
Children's Services
in
New
Windsor, N.Y.
I
Amber
Bosco Price
and husband David announce
the
birth of their son, Michael, born May
11, 2007.
IAnn
Ferrante Soutar
and
her
husband,
Keith Soutar,
announce
Long Island Elite has presented its Member of the Year award to William
J. Corbett Jr.
'89 (left,
with Dawn Strain, LIE president) for his dedication
to the group and the community. LIE is an organization dedicated to
fostering the development of Long Island's emerging busi-
ness leaders. The group focuses on community outreach,
fundraising for Long Island charities, mentoring, and
networking.
Bill is the president of Corbett
Public Relations, Inc.,
based
in
Floral Park, N.Y.
In 2002
Long
Island
Business
News
named him one of
the
Top 40 Business Professionals
under the age of 40.
Newsday
recognized him as one of
"Five
People to Watch" in the public
relations profession.
He is
a member of the board of
directors of the Marty Lyons
Foundation and the Core
Committee of the Long
Island Fight for Charity.
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notes
◄
the birth of
their
son, Kellen Patrick,
born
Sept. 26, 2007.
Kellen joins
big sister Abbey.
I
Bartholomew
Steinhorn
and his wife,
Kimberly
•
~
Meehan Steinhorn
'95, welcomed a
~
son.Jacob McDonald, born Nov. 10,
C
2007. Bart received
an
MPA
in
public
H
administration
from Baruch
College
rl
in
August 2006.1
Brenda
Wittman
~
lives in
Avon, Ohio, and works as a
__..,...
certified personal
trainer
and spin-
~
ning instructor. She has two boys,JT,
10, and Avery, 6.
1994
Evans Ashong
and his wife welcomed
baby Ryan-Evans,
born Jan. 11, 2008.
I
Karen Mariotti
Besemer
and
her
husband announce
the
birth of
their
son, Colin
Joseph,
born Nov. 28,
2007.1
Cynthia Carroll-Pearl
and
her
husband are
living in the Atlanta
area with their
new
baby girl, Sophia.
I
Edgar Glascott
is
the
principal at
Poughkeepsie Middle School.
He
coached two Hudson Valley Express
all-star
high
school lacrosse
teams
this
summer. His son,
Kevin
Patrick, is
17
months
old.
Ijames
Hocking
and
his
wife,
Linda,
announce the
birth
of their son, Ethan James,
born
Sept.
8,
2007.1
Colleen Talbot
Jacques
and
Scottjacques
'95 are the proud
parents of Erin Susan, born July 12,
2008.
IKimberly
Jarvis-Saleur has
been working for asset
management
firms in Monaco
since
2001.
Now in
private
banking,
she was
to
become
a partner in a new asset management
and multifamily office
in
Monaco
scheduled to open
in
September
2008.IEugene
Keener
and
his
wife,
Patricia, announce the birth of their
daughter,
Abigail Rose, born March
29, 2007.1
Rob Kolb
and his wife,
Elisa,
announce the
birth
of their
second child, Ava Madison, born Feb.
21, 2008.
IBrian
Laffin
and his wife,
Kim Magrone
Laffin
'02, welcomed
son Patrick
Darren into
the world on
March 3,
2007.
Brian
teaches
histo-
ry and is
the
head
boys' basketball
coach at
Poughkeepsie
High School.
He was named
the
2007 New York
State Section 1 League C Coach of
the
Year and
the
2007 Poughkeepsie
Journal Coach of
the
Year.
lJennifer
Poccia
married
Chris Talkowski ,
on April
19,
2008.1
Kent
Rinehart
and
his
wife, Deborah, welcomed
a baby
boy, Logan
Ian, born
May
18,
2008.
Logan
joins
big
brother
Jackson.
I
Vicki Richter
Robb
and
her husband, Michael,
announce
the
birth of
their
son,
Lukas
William, born Nov.
16,
2007.
I
Barbara Sanchez has
moved to
Waterfront Media and is
now
director of member acquisi-
28
tion for sites like DeniseAustin.com
and Ji l lianMichaels.com.
1995,
Kathleen
Dick Bolamd
and
her
husband, Brian.just bought a
house
in Norwalk, Conn.
I
Mlatt
Bourne
was named vice president of
busi-
ness public
relations
for Major League
Baseball.
Matt
handles
public rela-
tions
matters
for
MLB's business
groups, which includes promotional
activity
around the
launch
of
the
MLB
network in
January 200'9. Previously
he was vice president of
marketing
communications
for the NBA.
I
Chris
Cordaro
relocated
to
lokyo, Japan,
in
September
2006. He
married
Nicole Castronuovo on
Dec.
1, 2007.
IJennifer
Erichson Cllum
is direc-
tor
of
human
resources at McQuade
Children's Services. McQuade has
more than
200
employees at six
loca-
tions
throughout
Orange County,
N.Y.
IAmy
Ellenes
Fontana
and
her
husband, Dominick,
a1nnounce
the
birth
of their son, Samuel Christian,
bornJan.
17,
2008.IMauhew Gillis
welcomed his son, Richard
Joseph,
into the world on Apri
1
24, 2007.
I
Scott
Haywood
andjan:is
Russell
'97
recently
married
at the Marist College
chapel.
I
Linda White
Hocking
and
her husband, James, a1nnounce the
birth
of
their
son, Ethan James,
born
Sept. 8,
2007.IDan
laz:zetti
married
Christine
Lavoie
on Sept. 15,
2007.
I
Scott
Jacques
and
Co,lleen Talbot
Jacques
'94
are
the
proud parents of
Erin Susan, born July 12, 2008.
IJoel
Kraft
and
his wife, Stacy, announce
the birth
of their son, Jacob Carter,
born March 8, 2008.
IMike
Mengler
married
Arti
Mathur
in September
2007.
The
Danbury
(Conn.) New
Times
featured
the wedding
in
one
of its
publications.
I
Margaret
Ryan
is founder/co-director of Harlem
Link
Charter School, for
kindergar-
ten
through
fourth grades, with her
husband. For
more deta:ils,
visit www.
harlemlink.org.
I
Suza1nne Schiano
Jennifer Erichson Clun~
'95
Scully
welcomed
her
second daugh-
ter, Grace,
into
the world on March 29,
2007. Grace
joins
her
big sister, Brooke,
4 years old.
I
Colleen
McGrath
Shanley
and
her
husband,
Kevin,
announce the birth of their first child,
a daughter, Olivia
Rose,
born March 7,
2008.IKimberly
Meehan
Steinhorn
and her
husband, Bartholomew
Steinhorn
'93, welcomed a son,
Jacob McDonald,
born Nov.
10,
2007.
Kimberly
received
an MA
in
liberal
arts with a focus on women's studies
from
Manhattanville College in May
2006.1
Dawn Dim mock
Wesley
is
raising
funds for the
Leukemia
Society
in
Charlotte, N.C., so
that
she can participate in a half-mara-
thon on behalf of a classmate of her
daughter.
1996
Andrea
DeRosa Barber
and
her
husband,
Tim, announce
the
birth of
their
son, Benicio Elliott, born May
21, 2007.1
Christopher Berinato
was promoted to producer at Fox45
News at Ten
in
Baltimore, Md.lBeth
Buonaguro
and Joe
Barone
married
on Nov. 10, 2007.1
Todd
Coulson
began
working as a web develop-
er for Comcast Interactive Media
in
June
2007.IMonica
DeMaio Donlin
and
her
husband, Louis, announce
the birth of
their daughter,
Olivia
Grace, born Oct. 3, 2007.IKathleen
Doody
Gallagher
and her
husband,
Devin, welcomed
their
first child, a
son, Finn Michael, onjan. 9,
2008.1
Jay
Johnston
has moved to Minnesota
to work for Target Corp.
I
Maura
King
and Patrick O'Grady married
in September 2007.ISusan
Ferinde
McWhirter
and
her husband
and
2-year-old daughter, Katie,
recent-
ly moved to State College,
Pa.
She
is
the human resources manager at
Penn State University, supporting
the
Research
Department and the
Graduate School.
I
Kristen
Mooney
McGarry
and
her husband, Kevin,
ran the NYC Marathon and dove the
Great Barrier Reef
in
Australia.
Kristen
also
recently
received the CRPC-
Chartered Retirement Planning
Counselor-designation from the
College for Financial Planning.
I
Laurie Robb
was promoted
to direc-
tor
of communications and training
at
Excellus
Blue Cross
Blue
Shield
in Rochester, NY
I
Jenny
Benedetti
Rousos
had
a
daughter, Gabriella
Renee,
on
May
20, 2008.
I
Scott
Sullens has
joined Aramith, a billards
manufacturer,
as chief sales and
marketing
officer
for
North America.
I
James
Tolfree
and his wife, Christine,
announce the birth of
their
daughter,
Julia
Rose, on Feb.
11,
2007.
1997
Todd
Antenucci
and
Shanay Smith,
Esq.,
'98
married
on
June 22,
2007,
in Peekskill, N.Y.1
Daniel
Bianchi is
a CPS
investigator
for
the
Dutchess
County Department
of Social Services.
He is also a 2008 graduate of Adelphi
University with a master's degree in
social work.
I
Craig Chandler
was
hired
as lT operations program
manager in Microsoft's Advertiser
and
Publisher
Services division
in
March 2008.
IJason
Daingerfield
and
his
wife.Jill, announce the birth
of
their
daughter, Maeve Elsie, on
July
20,
2006.1
David De
Vito
and his wife
announce the arrival of their son,
Andrew Lachlan, born May 5, 2008.
I
Catherine Leibman Kirby
and
her
husband,
Mike, announce the birth
of
their
second daughter, Addison
Jane, born June 17, 2008.1
Donna
Matthews is
a school psychologist
at Ulster BOCES. She works primar-
ily
with
middle
school students
who have emotional
and behavioral
issues.
I
Christopher Merrow
and
his
wife,
Amy Cotter Merrow
'99,
announce the arrival of a son, Brady
Norman, born April 21, 2007.
Brady
joins big brother Noah Christopher,
born June
17,
2003.1
Christopher
Nielson and his
wife,
Meredith
Kamp
Nielson,
announce the birth
of
their
daughter, Amelia Mae, born
Jan.
8,
2008.
I
Kristen
Eberth
Noble
and
her husband,
Brian,
had
a daughter, Adalyn Karina, on May
16, 2008. Mother, daughter, and
grandparents-Jack
Eberth
'69
and
his wife, Susan-are all doing well.
I
Chris
Rawls
and
his
wife,
Robyn
Peet Rawls
'98, welcomed
their
son, Schuyler Christopher, born
Jan.
30, 2008.
IJanis
Russell
and
Scott
Haywood
'95 recently
married
at
the
Marist College chapel.
I
Adam
Towne,
and his wife, Tracy, had a son,
Alexander, on June 1, 2007.
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1998
Gianna Pino Casini
and her husband,
Michael,
announce the birth of
their
daughter, Domenica Maria, bornjan.
23, 2008.1
Dana
Coghlan
married
Charles Stabile on Nov. 4, 2006.1
Michele
Donovan
and Jean Paul Klose
married Sept. 22, 2007, in Clifton
Park, N.Y.
IMichael
Goot
is an educa-
tion reporter for the Daily Gazette
in
his hometown
of
Schenectady,
N
.Y.
I
Russell Heigel
and his wife, Suzanne,
announce the birth of a son,
Nicolas
Anthony, born Feb. 25, 2008.
I
Jeffrey Keene
and his wife, Heather,
announce
the
birth of their son,
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-
Alumni Authors
Half-Past
Nowhere,
a collection of short stories by
Joseph Cavano
'
1
65, has
been published by CPCC Press. Many of the stories are set in and
:around
the Hudson
Valley and several have earned critical recognition.
Vincent Begley
'70's history of
two
prominent New York families, The
Burton and Van Duzer Descendants,
was published
in
December
2007
by
Wilstead and Taylor.
Dr. Robert Sommer
'74's new novel, Where the Wind Blew,
was
published
in spring 2008 by
the
Wessex Collective. He writes columns in
th,~
series
"Midwest Voices" for
the Kansas
City Star.
Penguin
Books published
Patrice Sarath
'84's
novel
Gordath
Wood, a contemporary fantasy-mystery
tale, in
June
2008.
Gorda
th
Wood
Lelis the
story of two young women whose
adventures
bring them from the elite
horse
country of upstate
New York to a
dangerous
medieval fantasy world. Lynn and
Kate must use all their strength and all
their
cleverness
to
survive
in
a
land
beset by war and magic.
Kimberly Knox Beckius
'90's fifth book, The Everything
Family Guide to New England,
was published in April 2008
by Adams Media. Her sixth book, The New England
Coast,
is due this
fall from Voyageur
Press.
Ian O'Connor
'86's book Arnie &
jack: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf's
Greatest
Rivalry was published by
Houghton
Mifflin
in
April 2008.
Kirk
us Reviews
calls it "an exemplary sports histo-
ry." Ian had exclusive access
to
Arnold Pa
Inner
and
Jack Nicklaus
and conducted
some 200
interviews
in
chronicling
the
five-decades
rivalry-on
the:
course
and off-between golf's
two
iconic
figures.
Sports
rlluslrated
ran an excerpt
in
April in its master's
preview
issue.
Ian is a columnist for Foxsports.com
and the Bergen
(NJ.) Record.
if
you would like news of your book included
in Alumni
Authors, please send the title, the name of p~1blisher,
the date of publication,
and a description
of the content to
leslie.bates@marist.
edu or
to
Alumni Authors, do Marist Magazine,
Advancement,
Marist College,
3399
North Rd., Poughkeepsie,
NY
12601-1387.
Feel
free lo have your publisher
e-mail us a pdf of the book's
cover.
Steven,
born
April 15,
2008.1
Michael
Kenney
and Susan Boyle married
Nov. 24,
2007.1
Paul McHugh
and
his wife,
Peggy,
announce the birth
of daughter
Molly
Julia on Dec.
26,
2007.1
Melissa Manso Pennucci
and
her husband, Adam, welcomed their
second daughter, Camryn Lee, born
Jan. 4,
2008. Camryn Lee joins big
sister Adeline. Melissa left her job
of
10
years with World Wrestling
Entertainment
to
be a stay-at-home
mom to her
daughters.
I
Kelly Quinn
Mosbarger
and her husband, Derek,
announce
the birth
of their
daughter,
Madison Quinn, born Feb. 20,
2008.
I
Stefanie
Pacheco
received nation-
al board accreditation
in teaching
as a middle childhood generalist.
I
Bridget Foy Pomerantz
and
Jason
Pomerantz
welcomed a daughter,
Mary Josephine, on
June
8, 2008.
Bridget
is
the daughter of
President
Emeritus Dr. Richard Foy
'SO.Jason
is the son of
Robert Pomerantz,
a
member of Marist's Physical Plant
staff.
I Robyn
Peet Rawl$
and
her
husband,
Chris Rawls
'97, welcomed
their son, Schuyler
Christopher,
born
Jan.
30, 2008.IChristine
Rosenvinge
gave birth to a son, Donald, on Nov.
10, 2007.IShanay
Smith,
Esq.,
and
Todd Antenucci
'97 married on
June
22, 2007, in Peekskill, NY.
I
Ryan
Soucy
and
Gyna Slomcinsky
Soucy
welcomed their son, William Albert,
to
their family.
I
Jane Rosiek Wasyliw
and her
husband,
Christopher, had
a daughter, Eva Marsalla, on Feb. 1,
2008.1
Christine
Winter ~;ilver
and
her
husband,
Brian Silver,,
had
their
second child, a son, Grayi;onJames,
on Dec. 11, 2007.IRebecca.
Spearrin
married Michael
Paholski
in March
2007
1999
Lark-Marie Ant6n
and
her
husband,
Dan Menchini,
welcomed a
daugh-
ter, Amelia
Ines,
on
Dec.
30, 2007.
Lark is
vice
president
of market-
ing and
public relations at the Miss
Universe Organization.
I
Steven
Conroy,
MD,
graduated
from
Lehigh
Valley Hospital's emergency
medi-
cine residency as chief
resident and
was
hired
at Lehigh Valley
Hospital
as core faculty
and
asso-
ciate clinical professor in
emergency
medicine
resi-
dency
for Penn State.
I
Emily Carrozza
Dickson
and
her husband,
Nicholas,
announce the birth of
their
son, Spencer Christopher,
born
Feb. 24, 2008.IDylan
Edgar
and
Karen
Mora
married on Sept. 7, 2007.
Dylan is a senior producer
at City Lights Media in New
York City.lAllison
Rigaud
Eriksen
and
her husband,
Eric, announce the birth of
their
baby
boy, Owen Christopher,
born
Dec.
7,
2007.1
Chantal Poirier
Glancy
and her husband,
James,
welcomed their daughter, Tallulah
James, on Oct. 30,
2007.1
Heather
Woods Guzman
andJames
Guzman
announce
the birth of their son, Ryan
James,
born June 5,
2007.1
Edward
Kenyon lives
in the
Garden City
area of Long
Island,
N.Y.,
and
is
an
officer
in the
New
York
City Police
Department
covering
the
Gramercy
Park area.
lJohn
Killeen
was recently
promoted
to
asset
protection manag-
er
al Polo Ralph Lauren
in
New York
City.
I
Cardi Kramer
Fogarty
and
her
husband, Holt Fogarty
'00,
had
a son,
Pierce
Patrick, on
June
10,
2008.
IJoelene
Lyons Lenyk
and her
husband, Michael,
welcomed
a
daugh-
ter,
Lauren
Michele, born April 24,
2008.1
Charles Leone,
and
his
wife,
Tracy,
had a son,
Patrick
Thomas,
on
Feb.
24,
2008. They
recently
purchased a home in Fanwood,
NJ
I
Kathleen
Wisniewski
McEnroe
and
her husband bought a
house
in
Nassau
County, N.Y.
She earned a Certificate
of Advanced Study in
literacy
stud-
ies from Hofstra University and
now
has 30 credits beyond her
master's
degree. She
teaches
fourth grade
in
New York City.
I
Brian McGovern
and his wife,
Jamie,
announce
the
birth of their son, Patrick Jason,
born
May 27, 2008.
IAmy
Cotter Merrow
and her
husband,
Christopher
Merrow
'97, announce
the
arrival of
a son, Brady Norman, born April 21,
2007. Brady
joins
big
brother
Noah
Christopher, born June 17,
2003.1
Michael Milby
married
Catherine
Tai on May
17,
2008.
They
recently
relocated
from
Southborough, Mass.,
and Michael
left
his job at Wellington
Management
in Boston to join HSBC
Global Asset Management
USA, Inc.,
in New
York
City as an assistant vice
president and credit analyst.
I
Kristi
Valleau
Morris
announces
the
birth
of a
daughter,
Kendall
Ann, born Jan.
16,
2007.
I
Timothy Rifenburg
has
finished his fourth
year of teaching
at
Roy
C.
Ketcham
High School
in
Wappingers Falls, N.Y.
He is grateful
for
all
he received at Mari st.
I
Megan
St.John
graduated on May
16,
2008,
with a master's degree
in
school coun-
seling.
lTom
Schwab
is a
reporter
and
anchor for Regional News Network
To celebrate their 10-year reunion, the
"Boys
ofTownhouse 83," members
of the Class of 1998, got together in Lake George, N.Y., for a weekend.
Pictured are
(leftto
right) Matt Vinciguerra, Ryan McGrath, James Mitchell,
Keith
Sunderland,
Michael Accuosti, Trent Sano, Michael Blanchette,
Robert Hoey, Joseph Debona, and Michael Benevento. Missing from the
photo is Andrew Manning.
FALL
2008
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notes
◄
(WRNN-TV)
covering New York City.
Tom
was recently profiled in an arti-
cle in The
County Seat,
a
newspaper
covering the Hackensack, N.J., area.
•
~
I
Carmelita
Seufert
and her
husband,
~
Evo Rondini
'06, purchased
their first
C
home,
located in
Poughkeepsie,
in
H
June
2007.
IBeth
Cimino Tomlinson
rl
and her husband,
Timothy, had
a
~
daughter,
Rylee
Elexis, on Sept. 13,
~
2007.
I
Charles Williams and
his
~
wife,
Tina Angiulli
Williams
'00,
welcomed their daughter,
Madison
Catherine,
born
April 1, 2008.
2000
Kristyna McMahon
Acerno
complet-
ed a
master's degree in library
science
in
May 2008.
IJaneen
VanBeesel
Allmendinger
and her husband,
Keith,
announce the
birth
of
their
second child,
Lily
Ann,
born
Dec.
31, 2007. Janeen
is
pursuing a
master's degree in
administration
and supervision at
Montclair
State
University
in
New Jersey. She has a
master's in teaching reading.
I
Melissa
Ciarelli
Balu
and her husband, Theo,
announce the
birth
of
their daugh-
ter, Gianna Kalie, born Nov. 9,
2007.1
Jennifer Boudreau
and Robert Djang
welcomed
a daughter,
Mia Leigh,
born
March 6, 2008.
IMegan
Moore
Boyd
and
Daniel Boyd
had their
second
child, a son, Macklin Charles, on Oct.
11, 2007.
IAlicia
Czander,
MD,
and
Griffin Murray married June 14,
2008.
She is
in
her residency at St. Luke's
Hospital
in New York City
and
will
be changing
her name to
Dr. Alicia
Murray.
I
Korin Daniels
and James
Chisholm
married
on March 28, 2008.
I
Holt
Fogarty
and
his
wife,
Cardi
Kramer
Fogarty
'99, welcomed
their son, Pierce
Patrick, born
June
10,
2008.1
Meghan Mc Kenna
and
Robert Bavol
married
on
Dec.
22,
2006. Their daughter, Ava, was
born
Nov. 28,
2007.IKeri Stevenson
Healy
and her
husband,
Sean, announce
the
birth of
their third
child, a
daugh-
ter, Nora
Bea, born Dec.
21,
2007.1
Heather
Suydam
Herrington,
Esq.,
works for Rawle and
Henderson.
The
firm
was founded
in
1783 and is the
oldest continuously
practicing
law
firm
in the nation, according
to
its
web site. She is an associate in
the
firm's Philadelphia
office.
I
Mary Beth
Kohlhepp
and Martin Roche married
Dec.
8, 2007, in Playa
del
Carmen,
Mexico.I
Debra
Flanigan
Lubas
had
a
son, John Joseph, on Nov. 7, 2007
She lives
in
Monterey,
Calif., while her
husband
pursues a master's degree at
the
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.
I
Meredith Kamp
Nielson
and
her
husband, Christopher Nielson
'97,
announce
the
birth of their <laugh-
30
MARIST
MAGAZINE
President
George
W,.
Bush presents
the Medal of
Valor
to
Todd
Myers '99 at
the
Wh1ite
House.
Todd Myers
'Sl9
Awarded Medal of Valor
On a warm, sunny July morning in 2005, Todd Myers
'99
left his house in
Connecticut for
his
job asa West
Hartford
police officer.As he descended
a
hill
on Route
44
in
Avon,
he
saw a dump truck loaded with dirt and
boulders lose control, flip over, and careen through an intersection,
killing four people and striking 20 cars and a
Hartford
transit bus.
Todd ran about
:200
meters toward the wreckage while using his
police radio to call for assistance. After throwing dirt at the flames on
the first car he appl'oached, he used his pocketknife to cut through
the seatbelt of the ~,oman trapped
inside. He
took her to a safe area
just as her car became engulfed
in
flames. Todd suffered first- and
5econd-degree
burns. Next, he made his way to the burning bus, where
he freed the trappe1~ and critically
injured
driver. Todd continued to
assist victims while help arrived.
This past December, President George W. Bush awarded
Todd
the
2005-2006 Medal
o1f
Valor, the
highest
national award of valor by a
public safety officer.
(To
see a short video of
the
occasion, visit www.
whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/12/20071212-4.html.)
Todd, who greW' up in Simsbury, Conn., always knew he wanted
to be a police officer'.
His
father was a Simsbury police officer until
his
recent
retirement.
Todd completed two internships with the Town of
Poughkeepsie
Polic,e
Department
before graduating from Marist in
1999.
He
was hired
lby
the Enfield, Conn., Police Department before
he
graduated from Marist and by June of 1999 was enrolled in the
Connecticut municipal police academy.
He
also has been a volunteer
fireman since he wa:, 16 years old.
About a month after the accident,
he had
a visitor at the Police
Department. It was the woman he saved from the first burning car.
She wanted to thank:Todd
in
person for saving her
life.
"That
has
never
happened to me before," Todd says.
ter, Amelia Mae,
born
Jan. 8,
2008.1
Elizabeth Owens
works for
Becton
Dickenson
as
a
medical
i;ales
represen-
tative.
I
Amy Spero
Petersen
and
her
husband,
David
Petersen,
announce
the birth
of
their
son, Joshua David,
born
Dec. 7,
2007.1
Erin
Smith
was
promoted to
assistan1t director of
production and editoria1l
at the
Grow
Network/McGraw-Hill.
She
received
the company's November 2007
Excellence
in Achievement
Award and
the CTB/McGraw-Hill
Georgia CRCT
Team Achievement Award.
lJessica
DeCicco
Stalters
and her husband,
Anthony,
announce
the
birth
of
their
first child, a son, Andrew Thomas,
born April
24,
2008.
IJennifer
Starzyk
and
Joseph
Verderame
were married July 3,
2004.1
Michael
Walsh
and
Lauren
Sabo
'02 married
on Sept.
29,
2007.
IKoustubh
Warty's
daughter,
Niharika, turned 3 years
old
in
July 2008.
IAdam
Weissman
joined Griffin Public Relations
in
May
2008
as a senior account executive.
In
June Adam started
his third
term as
president of the Hoboken (NJ) Ski
Club and invites all Marist alumni to
come to
a meeting
or visit the club's
web site at www.hobokenskiclub.com
to
learn
about plans for the
'08/'09
ski
season.
I
Lisa Douglas
Whelan
and
her husband,
Erik, welcomed their
first
child, a son, Lukas Anderson,
born
March 25, 2008.
ITina
Angiulli
Williams
and her husband,
Charles
Williams
'99, welcomed their daugh-
ter, Madison
Catherine, born April
1, 2008.
2001
Ben
Amarone joined
Sciele
Pharma
as
a pharmaceutical sales
repre-
sentative.
lJoseph
Catrino
and
his
wife,
Holly
Angelbeck
Catrino
'02,
announce
the
birth of their son, Noah
Joseph, born April
21, 2008.ICheryl
Chaffin Nethercott
and
her husband,
Brian
Nethercott
'0l/'04M, announce
the birth of their son, Gavin
Robert,
born
Oct. 14,
2007.lleah
Cristi
is
teaching seventh and eighth grade
Spanish at Parker
Middle
School
in
Reading,
Mass.
I
Dana
Felice
and
Joe
Podwol
married
on Aug. 12, 2007, at
Cornell University
in Ithaca,
N.Y.
I
Kelley Frink
and
David
Conley
married on Sept. 29,
2007.1
Elizabeth
Higgins
announced the birth of
her
son,John David,
born
May 16, 2006.
He joins big sister Sara.
lJeanneil
Kulik-Warren's
son,
Jake
Nevada,
turned 4 on Aug.
24,
2008.1
Mark
Lawrence
is a financial advisor with
Prudential
Financial. He
bought a
home in Commack,
N.Y
.. in 2005 and
married
in 2006.
He
says
he misses
the
Hudson
at sunrise.
I
Salvatore
(Sam) Mondesando
and
his
wife,
Corinne, announce
the
birth of
their
son, Nicholas Anthony,
born
May 7,
2008. Sam and Corinne married on
Nov. 5,
2005.
I
Melissa
Novick
and
Brendan McCarthy married on June
15, 2007.
They reside
in Las Vegas,
where she
is
a manager
at the Venetian
Hotel.
Melissa
and Brendan
welcomed
their
son,
Jack
Dylan, born
June
5,
2008.1
Chris Sparks
is teaching
human rights at East Hanford
High
School and coaches the baseball team
there.
He is also pursuing a degree in
education administration.
I
Patrick
Spence
has moved on from WTOP/
Federal News Radio. He is a
free-
lance
news writer at WJLA-TV,
the
ABC-TV
affiliate in
the
Washington,
D.C.,
metro area.
I
Mary
Tomm
married Richard Knowlton on June
30,
2007.1
Katie Twist
Rowlinson
and her husband, George, welcomed
a son, George
Henry
VI, on
March
25, 2007.
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flag
denotes
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2002
Karla Beauregard
has a
new
position
in talent relations at World Wrestling
Entertainment.
I
Holly Angelbeck
Catrino
and her husband,
Joseph
Catrino
'01, announce the birth of
their son, Noah Joseph, born April
21, 2008.1
Patrick Driscoll
teach-
es at Tappan Zee High School in
Orangeburg, NY He is the
girls'
cross country and track coach there.
I
Benjamin Hecht
and his wife,
Jennifer Stockwell, announce the
birth of their son, Grey Stockwell,
born Dec. 22, 2007.
IJ.
Curtis Kelly
has become an RN and works in the
Emergency
Department at University
of Massachusetts Medical Center in
Worcester, Mass.
I
Edward
Nini
married Catherine Murphy on
Nov.
10,
2007.IEmily
Green Pacella
is
in
her
fifth year of teaching at Middletown
High School in Middletown, N.Y.
She
is pursuing certification in education-
al administration.
ljessica
Harmer
married Alex Pardee on Dec. 8, 2007.1
Geoffrey Rejent
and his wife,
Kristin
DeCrescenzi
'03, welcomed their
daughter, Kailyn Elizabeth, born
Nov.
29, 2007.1
Kimberly Rowe
has started
her own company, Go Live Give. The
company produces a TV series show-
ing people how to vacation green and
volunteer
in the cities they visit. Visit
the web site, www.golivegive.com,
or
contact Kim at happyearth@golive-
give.com.
I
Susan Safer
graduated
with a master's
in
elementary math-
ematics in May 2007. She teaches first
grade in Manhattan.
I
Lauren Sabo
and
Michael Walsh
'00 married on
Sept. 29, 2007.1
Carrie Matarazzo
and Charles Soll
in married on Oct. 27,
2007.
IJonel
le Formato
and Joseph
Santo married on July 13, 2007.
I
Justin Spraker
and
his
wife, Sarah,
welcomed a baby girl, Gabriella
Grace, born Oct. 5, 2007. Gabriella
joins her big sister,
Hannah
Elizabeth,
born Oct. 8, 2006.IJennifer
Stewart
Jim Tyrrell
'02
received a Doctor of Optometry
degree from New England! College
of Optometry in 2007. She is a staff
optometrist at Austin Ryan Optika
in
New
Paltz and Vision City in
Newburgh. She is a member of the
Vistakon World Performance Vision
Council and performed evaluations
on the U.S. Olympic Track and Field
Team in Hawaii in December 2007.
She was to be a vision cons1ultant
for
the 2008 Olympics
in Beijinig,
China.
She is also a member of the New York
State Optometric Association
and the
American Optometric Association.
I
Jim Tyrrell
was promoted[ to head
baseball coach at Florida Southern
College. Previously
he
was assistant
baseball coach. Florida Southern
was 29-21 in spring
2008
and
finished second in the Sunshine State
Conference.
~B&UN&
~
2003
Kevin Beall
was deployed to
Afghanistan in December
2007
and
was scheduled to return
in
September
2008. Kevin is with the New York
Army
National
Guard Charlie
Company 1/69
lnfantry
Barnalion
out
of Camp Smith in Cortlandt Manor,
N.Y.
His criminal justice degree is
being put to good use,
he
reports.
"My
mission is to train, mentor, and
advise the Afghan National Police."
I
Catherine Coco
and
Brian Sutch
married on Oct. 27, 2007. Catherine
received
an MBA
from Marist in 2008.
I
Patrick Connell
and Li:sa Sakell
married on Oct. 7, 2006.11
Kristin
DeCrescenzi
and her husband,
Geoffrey Rejent
'02, welcoimed
their
daughter, Kailyn Elizabeth, to the
world Nov. 29, 2007.
IJordlan
Eible
and Kevin Binder married on Aug. 31,
2007.1
Kimberly Espey
welcomed a
daughter, Peyton Nicole, into the
world.I
Meredith Fabian
and
Kevin
Bielen
married on July 15, 2006.1
Jenny Farnam
and Joseph Neuhoff
married on May 17, 2008.
I
Amy
Kane
and
Nicholas Balestrino
'04
married
in July
2007.
ITravis
Mason
is pursuing a master's in communica-
tion at Jllinois
State University.
I
Brian
Shaughnessy
graduated
as valedicto-
rian from the federal law enforcement
officers
training academy in Potomac,
Md. He is a U.S. postal inspector
in
Honolulu, Hawaii.
His
duties include
investigating and arresting suspects
for mail
theft,
identity
theft,
and
counterfeiting postal money orders
as well as presenting
his
cases for
prosecution.
2004
Nicholas Balestrino
and
Amy Kane
'03 married in
July
2007. The wedding
party consisted of six fellow Marist
grads.
I
Danielle Barrett
was to
complete a master's in
reading/liter-
ary education at SUNY New
Paltz
in
August. She plans to move
to
Florida.
I
Eli Bisnett-Cobb
moved to San Diego,
Calif., after spending two years as an
athletic trainer with the Minnesota
Vikings
of the NFL. He
is now
an assis-
tant
athletic
trainer
at the University
of San Diego and is "loving
life!"
I
Marissa Cucolo
received a master's
in communication from Marist in
2006 through the College's online
program. She
is
a senior production
coordinator at ESPN in
the
Event
Production Department.I
Gary Finke
and Jennifer Miller married on
July
14,
2007.1
Lauren
Helhhaler
and
John
Healy III
married in September
2007.
I
Meghan
Nilan and Michael Doyle
married on Sept. 8, 2007.IMatthew
McCarty
was promoted to manag-
er of IT Services at Media Logic.
I
Sophia Sarantakos is
a social worker
in New Orleans.
I
Nicole Thompson
and
Daniel Acker
married on Dec.
2, 2007.1
Greg Zurawik
married
Elizabeth Biktjorn on Dec. 8, 2007.
He is the corporate communications
coordinator at Saint Francis Hospital
in
Poughkeepsie.
2005
Robin Degen
marriedJason Corlison
June 9, 2007.
ICaitlin
Donahue
grad-
uated from
Thomas
M. Cooley Law
School on May 17, 2008.
IVictoria
Drake
has started a new position
after 10 years working for a financial
company.
She is now
in
the American/
International Studies Department at
Ramapo
College.
I
Anthony Lombardi
completed the lronman Triathlon in
Louisville, Ky., in 13 hours and 35
seconds. He did it to raise money for a
scholarship that honors a close friend
named Jared Grenier who passed
away in 2003.
Ken Kohler
made a
documentary of Tony's participation.
Anyone seeking more information or
wishing to contribute may write to
jpgscholarship@gmail.com.
Tony is
an
IT
project manager in the Personal
Insurance Division of Travelers in
Hartford,
Conn. Kenny
is an associate
producer at Nancy Glass Productions,
working on a show for HGTV called
Spice Up
My
Kitchen.
I
Robert Reid
retired from the New York
City Police
Department
in February 2007 after 21
years of service.
I
Richard Sassi II
and
his wife, Lisa, had a son, Richard
J.
Ill, on April 6, 2008.1
lst Lt. Patrick
VanHorne, USMC,
is stationed at
Camp
Pendleton,
Calif. He is prepar-
ing for his second deployment.
I
Kerri
Oliveira
married Capt. Nathan
C.
Whitten on May 5, 20051
Ashley
Woerner
lives in Chicago and works
for Publicis. She plays water polo in
a masters' league and is active in the
Chicago Junior League and a Kappa
Kappa Gamma alumni group.
2006
Kellie Cunningham
relocated with
her company, Taylor Global, to Los
Angeles. After two great years work-
ing in Taylor's New York City office,
she decided to take a chance and see
what life is like on the West Coast.
She will continue
to
work on the
Microsoft Xbox and BRP accounts,
specializing in sports and entertain-
ment public
relations.lJessica DeMeo
has worked as an international
assign-
ment consultant at Can us since May
2006. She is pursuing an MBA at
Fairfield University.
I
Craig
Falicon
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is a communications
assistant for
the
New York Giants.
lJulia
Graham is an
account executive at Textl00.
I
Lisa
Herring
teaches
in the
Wappingers
•
~
Central School
District
and is enrolled
~
in the master's
in educational psychol-
C
ogy program at
Marist.lJodi
Iarossi
H
is
an
immunohematology
reference
rl
technologist for the Carolinas Region
~
American
Red
Cross Blood Services
~
in
Durham, N.C.IAndres
Oranges
~
accepted
a new
job
with National
Grid
as a
junior trader
specializing
in
natu-
ral gas and electricity. He started
in
January
2008.1
Meghan Partlow
is
living
in Hawaii,
teaching
kindergar-
ten
and
first
grade special education.
She
ran
in
the
Honolulu Marathon
on
Dec.
9,
2007.IBrendan
Morris is
in his second year at Seton
Hall Law
School in Newark, NJ.IEvo
Rondini
and
his
wife,
Carmelita Seufert
'99,
purchased
their
first home,
located
in
Poughkeepsie, in
June 2007.
IJill
Rutherford
is pursuing a DVM
in
the
Atlantic Veterinary
College
at
the
University
of Prince Edward
Island in
Canada. She expects
to
complete the
program
in
2011.
IMichaela
Sweet
is a marketing
manager and
ticket
sales account executive for the New
Hampshire
Fisher
Cats, an
affiliate
of the Toronto
Blue
Jays.
I
Kevin
Ten
Kate
'03/'06M
purchased a franchise
called Collision on Wheels.
I
Alec
Troxell
has worked for BBDO,
a
large
advertising agency in New York City,
for two years.
2007
Elizabeth Aprea has
been accepted
in the
master
of social work
program
at
New York University.
I
Marybeth
DelaRosa is
a commercial credit
analyst
at TD Bank. She is also an
adjunct faculty
member at Adirondack
Community College.
I
Thomas
DePace
is
director of marketing for
Advance Sound Co.
in
Farmingdale,
N.Y
I
Charlene
Dudginski
is a
seventh grade special education
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More than
80
alumni and guests participated in the
2008
Marist Alumni
and Friends GolfTou1rnament on July
31
at Dutchess Golf and Country
Club in Poughkeepsie. All proceeds from the tournament supported the
Alumni Legacy Schol.arship Fund, which is the only award specifically
reserved for the sons and/or daughters of Marist graduates. One four-
some, above, consisted of (left to right) Juan Campos '74, Joe DeVita
'71,
Bob Hatfield Jr.
'69,
a past president of the Alumni Association, and
Dan Faison Jr. '73.
teacher in Waterbury, Conn.
I
Sheila
Finnegan
has taught in
Hawaii
for a
year.
I
G. Parker
Huntington
started
his
career with JP Morg,an
Chase as
a sales strategy support specialist.
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Himanshu
Patel
and
his
wife,Jigna,
announce
the
birth of
their daugh-
ter,
Mahek
Patel,
born
June
8, 2008.
ISankung
Susso
is
a
New York City
teaching
fellow
working with students
with special
needs. He
is also enrolled
at Mercy College pursing a master's
in
education and expects
to
gradu-
ate in the summer of
2009.1
Derek
Valentine
is pursuing a master's
in
city planning at Boston University
this
fall.
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Several members of the
2001
Master of Public Administration
(MPA)
Goshen extension c:enter cohort gathered at a Middletown, N.Y.,
restaurant to recall
!their
graduate school days and to inaugurate a
scholarship in memory of Nancy Smith
'01M,
who died shortly after
graduation. Smith is
~emembered
as a vibrant person who gave to others
through her work in the health care field and as a devoted daughter
and friend. With the support of these and other classmates, as well
as Smith's parents, the first Nancy S. Smith Memorial Scholarship has
been awarded to current MPA Goshen cohort student Lanette Perez-
Villarroel. Pictured
l◄!ft
to right are
(back
row) Roz Magid son, DeNise
Cook Bauer, Deb Gesner, Danette Shepard, Adrienne Lambert-Jacobs,
(front
row) Caryl Mallory, and Lenora Vaughan.
In
Memoriam
Trustees
Jonah
Sherman
Former Trustee
Charles
J.
Lawson
Jr.
Honorary Degree Recipient
Timothy
J.
Russert
Faculty
& Staff
George
Richard
Burgin
Former
Assisranr
Sofrba/1
Coach
Cesar
Antonio
Cruz
Housekeeping
Thomas
V. Dedrick
Maintenance
Jordan
Hess
Former
Lecturer
Thomas
W. Lanspery
Former
Director
of Purchasing
Friends
Mary
Dietz
Emmett
F.
Donohue
Dr. Sidney
Gordon
Thomas
A.
Johnson
Jr.
Ann E. Love
Candee
F. Marcotte
Dr. Elizabeth
Tucker
Valeda
J. "Val" Wagner
Alumni
Bro. Simeon
Ouellet,
FMS
'SO
Edward
Joseph
Lyons
'51
Richard
J. Connelly
'59
Bro. Michael
Mullin, FMS
'63
Howard
L.
Marcou
'64
Thomas
P. Mullen
'66
William
J. Theysohn
'67
David
C.
Wagner
'70
Robert
Schumacher
'71
Barry
W.
Boomhower
'74
Ethel
W.
Paxton
'75
Robert
Norman
Anderson
Sr.
'76
John
P. Murray
'77
Patricia
Monskie
'78
Marvis
L.
Richardson
'82
Henry
Grouten
'88
Janet
Ryan-Lubbeck
'90
Erin
Patricia
Downes
'93
Christopher
Peckham
'96
Victoria
Vanvelsor-Fraleigh
'96
Eugene
F. McQuillen
'99
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