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1947-1966, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999
&
2004
Show
Y
011r Marist Pride
Your
Mari
st
reunion
is a grand milestone-a sp,ecial
occasion
for you
to commemorate
your
place in
Marist's
history,
reflect
on
what the College has meant
to
you, and
ren,ew
your ties to old
friends
and faculty. Reunion celebrations are also a
time
when class
members
come
together
to increai;e
their financial
support for Marist's
highest
priorities.
Show Your Suppci,rt with a Reunion Campaign Gift
The
Marist Fund Reunion Campaign
supports the core
needs
of
undergraduate
education and provides unrestricted dollars for scholarship assistance, abroad
opponunities, experience-building internships, academic programs, and student life.
Gif Ls of all sizes are extremely valuable
to
our current students!
A Marisl 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, visit
www.m1arist.edu/alumni.
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1ST
CONTENTS
I
Summer
2C09
8
The
Campaign
for Marist
Ground
is
broken on the
Hancoc11
Center,
the
campaign
reaches $53 million, and the
senior class raises a record amount.
10
¥
Red
Fox
Report
Men's rowing takes
its
twelfth Metro Atlantic
Athletic
Conference
title while women's
basketball,
men's
tennis, waler polo, and
baseball
again advance to the NCAAs.
14
A
New
Era for
the
Historic
Cornell
Boathouse
Maris!
has
restored the last remaining
boathouse from famed Regatta Row,
home
to crews competing
in
the
premier college
rowing
event
in
the early 1900s, the
Intercollegiate
Rowing
Association National Championship Regatta.
Editor's Note: When
we interviewed
Dr. Milton Teichman for an
article m
the
fall 2008 issue, among
the many
interesting 1hings
Dr. Teichman told us was
that his
younger
brother,
Paul, taught
physics
at
Manst
from 1967
to
1974
and was highly esteemed by
his
students.
The
Teichman family
thus
has a double connection to
Marist,
and we regret
that
we neglected to
include the
information.
Marist is
dedicated to
helping students develop the
intellect
and
character reqmred for enlightened, ethical, and productive
lives in
the
global community of
the
21st century.
Marist Magazine
is
published
by the
Office of College Advancement
at
Manst
College for alumni and friends of Marist College.
Vice
President
for College Advancement:
Robert
L.
West
Chief Public Affairs Officer:
Timmian Massie
Eduor: Leslie Bates
Executive
Director of Alumni
Relations:
Amy Coppola
Woods
'97
Alumni News Coordinator:
Donna Watts
Art
Director:
Richard Deon
Marist College, 3399 North Rd., Poughkeepsie, NY
12601-1387
www.marist.edu
Cover
photo
of the
Half
Moon, viewed
through
the gazebo on the
Marist
College nverfront, by
James
Reilly
'08
The Fashion
Program
honors model and
pl1otojournalist Lee Miller.
Page5
Faculty Work
Page
7
t~OL't:HKEEPSJ
E
ffEt;ATfA
:: 1925
~
Reenacting the
tercollegiate Rowing
ssociation National
.hampionship Regatta.
Page 19
Ashley Shaffer '08
is
Miss
New Jersey.
Page
31
16
Exploring
History
Maristjoins
New
York State in observing the
400th anniversary of
the
journeys by Henry
Hudson
and Samuel de Champlain that opened the
Northeast to new trade and European settlement.
32
A Marist
Love
Story
Jim Joyce and Mary Monsaert fell in love at Marist.
Thirty-five years
later,
their devotion to
each
other
and their
loyalty
to the College could
not
be greater.
DEPARTMENTS
2
Marist Drive
What's
happening
on campus
20
}rnnm-na:
Alumni News
&
Notes
Notes about Maris! graduates
Suresh
Kothapalli
'91M
receives
the
Distinguished
Alumni Medal
Page
20
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NEWS & N O T E S
IF
ROM
T H E
CAMPUS
School of Continuing
Education Becomes
School of Global and
Professional Programs
M
arist's former
School of
Continuing
Education
is
now
the
School of Global and
Professional Programs.
Dr.
Lauren H. Mounty, who was
named dean of
the
school
in
summer
2008, met with a number of admin-
istrative leaders
to
discuss strategic
plans
for the school and names that
would reflect its
mission.
Marist's
Board of Trustees voted unanimous-
ly
to
adopt
the
new name.
"Our vision for the school is to
be
a
leader
in
providing
innovative,
quality-driven adult education, built
on a strong
liberal
arts foundation,"
says
Mounty.
"This foundation will
enhance
the
ability of professionals
to
succeed in a global economy."
Marist's
Fishkill
Cen,ter celebrated its 25th anniversary
in 2008. Marking t:he milestone were (left to right)
President Dennis J
..
Murray;
Lisa
Cathie
'03,
a gradu-
ate of the first cohmt in Marist's Organizational and
Leadership Comm,~nication program; Dean
Lauren
H.
Mounty; and Dia1ne
Landau-Flayter, center
director.
The school
is introducing
an optional
winter
international residency
in Rome, Italy,
in
January
2010
as part of
its
BA and BS offer-
ings. SGPP is also
introducing
fully online
bachelor's
degree completion
programs begin-
ning in fall 2009.
In
addition,
the
school's MBA
Basics certificate program, designed
to
equip
managers, supervisors, and small-business
owners with
the
latest
techniques
and strat-
Family, friends,
coaches, and
student-
athletes
gathered last fall at
the
College's
waterfront to dedicate
a four-person racing
shell
donated
by Peter and Joan Andrews in honor of their
egies for
managing
in
the
current economic
climate,
will
be
offered the weekend of
Oct.
23, 24, and 25
in
an executive-style
formal.
Maris,t
has
a
long
history of meeting
the
needs of adult learners. In October 2008,
Marist's oenter
in
Fishkill celebrated 25 years
of providing educational
programs to
adults.
For irnformation
on
SGPP programs, visit
www.marist.edu/gpp
or call (845) 575-3202.
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friends, the late Jonah
Sherman,
a longtime Marist
trustee, and his wife, Joan. Joining Joan
Sherman were
1er
son
and daughter-in-law Bruce
and
Peggy
Sherman;
daughter
Amy Sherman;
grandchildren Jesse and Ethan Page; and brother and
sister-in-law
Jim
and Terry
Youngelson,
with
their
son
and
daughter-in-law
Jack Youngelson and Justine
Harris
and
their
children
Nma
and
Elias.
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
Marist Receives NSF Grant
to Revitalize Education in
Enterprise Computing
M
arist
has received
a $400,000 two-
year grant
from
the National Science
Foundation
to build an academic and
industry
community that will revitalize undergraduate
education
in
enterprise computing.
"Enterprise-level
servers around the world
process 80 billion transactions a
day,
and
that number
is
expected
to double
by
2010,"
says Dr. Roger Norton, dean of
the
School of
Computer Science and Mathematics
at Marist
and the principal investigator in charge of the
project.
Enterprise-level
applications are
used
to issue Social Security checks, track credit
card purchases, and oversee the U.S. air-traf-
fic
network. The CIA,
the
military, and state
governments use
the
applications for their
reliability, efficiency, and high level of secu-
rity. However, studies show
that the
skilled
workers needed to support these systems are
retiring at a rapid rate and
most
information
technology and computer science under-
graduate majors currently are not exposed
to
large-scale computing environments.
"While the demand for
large-system
skills
is pressing, the
common perception
is
that
employment opportunities in
large
systems and
in
computer
professions
overall
are declining, leading
to
lagging
interest
by
students and faculty,
exacerbating
the
national
problem,"
says Norton.
Partners in
the
initiative include
Illinois
State University, North
Carolina Central University, the
University of Arkansas, Widener
University, Monroe College, San Jose
State University, Stevens
Institute
of
Technology, the State University of
New
York
at
Binghamt◊n,
Aetna,
Bank
of America, BMC Soft ware, Citigroup,
Computer Associates,
IBM
Corp.,
Morgan
Stanley, Progressive
Insurance,
Travelers Insurance, and Verizon.
The College hosted a national
conference on the subject June 21 to
23 with
more
than
150 participants
from around
the
world. For more infor-
mation on the initiative, visit hup://
ecc.marist.edu.
Marist also
received
a $551,970
NSF grant
to
establish a Computer
Science and
Information
Technology
and Systems (CS/ITS) Cohort
Scholarship
Program
to increase
the
number
of students in the
CS/ITS
undergraduate
majors.
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Karl Minges
'07
and Nichole Boisvert
'09
have each been awarded Fulbright grants.
Two Graduates Receive Fulbright Scholiuships
T
he valedicwrian of the Marist Class of care to individuals with HIV/AIDS.
An aspir-
2009 and a magna cum laude graduate
ing physician, she chose Trinidad and Tobago
from the
Class of 2007 have been named
because
the
country is among the most ethni-
recipients of Fulbright scholarships that will cally diveirse in the Caribbean and has one of
allow
them to
continue their research in the
the highest rates of HIV/AIDS.
medical field.
Boisvert completed minors in chemistry
Nichole Boisvert '09, a biomedical
and creative writing as well as the Honors
sciences major
from
Merrimack, N.H., has
Program. She served as a laboratory teach-
been awarded a Fulbright grant to under-
ing assistant and tutor for several science
take
research in Trinidad and Tobago for the
classes, was a volunteer for many charitable
2009-10 academic year. Boisvert will study
causes both on and off campus, and published
how culture
influences
the delivery of health
her poetry in several outlets. During the
summers of 2007 and 2008, she was select-
ed for a competitive research internship at the
National Cancer
Institute.
She has presented
the results of that research, as well as sociobio-
logical
research conducted at Marist, at several
conferences. Upon completing the Fulbright
year, Boisven plans to attend Georgetown
Medical School.
Karl Minges '07 of Madison, Conn., has
been awarded a Fulbright grant
to
conduct
research evaluating Australia's
Diabetic Health
Promotion Program. Minges became interest-
ed in his research topic while at Marist when,
during the summer between his junior and
senior years, he held an internship at the
International Diabetes Institute in Melbourne,
Australia.
ln addition to his Australian internship,
he completed internships with a doctor of
osteopathy and a psychiatrist. At Marist,
he majored in social work and completed
minors in biology, Spanish, and sociology. A
member of the Alpha Phi Delta fraternity, he
was named to the Dean's List every semes-
ter of his studies and graduated magna cum
laude. He is currently completing a Master of
Public Health degree at Columbia University.
Following his Fulbright year, he intends to
pursue either a medical or doctoral degree
in
clinical
psychology.
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School of Management Awards Prestigiious McGowan Scholarship
C
aileen Collins '10 of Seaford, N.Y.,
has
ln
her winning essay, Collins described
McGowan was
known
for overcoming great
been named a William G. McGowan
a personal experience that made her identify odds
in
taking on
the
telecommunica-
Scholar and Marist's
top
business student
with William G. McGowan, the business-
tions
industry establishment to create MCI
for the 2009-10 academic year. The very
man whose legacy the scholarship honors. Communications Corp. Collins wrote how
competitive scholarship from
the
William G.
this
resonated
with her as a young woman
McGowan Charitable Fund will provide an
in
the traditionally older male world of
Irish
$18,000
tuition
award toward Collins's senior
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bands who nonetheless went on
to lead
her
year as a double major
in business
ad minis-
band's
drum
corps.
tration and accounting.
After graduation, Collins plans
to
work
A committee of School of Management
for one of the Big Four accounting firms and
faculty members selected Collins
from
a slate
ultimately
to
use the experience gained there
of
business
students
nominated
by manage-
to start her own CPA firm.
ment
faculty.
The
commiuee reviewed
Named
in
honor of William G. McGowan,
nominees' academic records, leadership
quali-
a pioneer in the telecommunications indus-
ties, character, and commitment
to
helping
try
and the founder and
longtime
chairman
others.
ln
nominating Collins for
the
schol-
of MCI,
the
William G. McGowan
Charitable
arship award, Associate Professor Gregory
J.
Fund qualifies a select group of 60 colleges
Tully called
her
"an outstanding, highly moti-
and universities nationwide to participate in
vated, personable student."
its McGowan Scholars program.
l
n add
it
ion
to
maintaining a GPA of3.86
The McGowan Charitable Fund estab-
across her two majors and earning a spot on
lished the McGowan Scholars program
to
the
Dean's
List every semester, Collins is heav-
provide
significant scholarship support to
ily
involved in the Marist College Band and
the
country's top students who are pursuing
does extensive community service
through
a business education. The program is based
her work with Campus Ministry. She has also
on
the
experience of William G. McGowan
represented
Marist
in
highly competitive
busi-
during
his
college days. Though admitted
ness case competitions.
to
Harvard
Business School
to
study for an
Since the age of 8, Collins has played
MBA
degree, McGowan
did not have sufficient
snare
drum
in the lnis Fada Gaelic Pipe Band,
funds to complete his studies. However, he
competing in hundreds of competitions and
won Harvard's Baker Scholars award, which
marching in
the
New York City St.
Patrick's
allowed him to earn his degree and launch a
Day and other parades.
successful business
career.
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2009
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Marist Named a "Best Buy" by
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
~plinger's
Personal
Finance
magazine
has
.,
~a
med Marist
one of
the
50
"best
buys"
in
private college education
in
the U.S. for the
third
consecutive year. And Marist's School of
Management was cited as one of
the
country's
top
business schools by
Entrepreneur
maga-
zine
and
the
Princeton
Review.
Kiplinger's
selected 50 best values among
private universities
and another 50 among
liberal
ans colleges across
the
country.
Marist
was named to
the
first list
because it
offers a comprehensive education at
both
the
undergraduate
and graduate
levels.
Criteria
focused on
two
areas, academic
quality
and
affordability, with
quality
accounting
for
two-thirds of the total.
Marist was the only New
York
college to
make
the
list. Five universities in
the
Empire
State were also
named:
Cornell, Columbia,
NYU,
Rochester,
and Syracuse.
Making the
cut with Marist were schools such as Brown,
Dartmouth, Duke, Georgetown,
Harvard,
Penn,
Princeton, Rice, Stanford,
Yale,
the California
Institute
of Technology,
and the Massachusetts
Institute
of
Technology.
One of the Best Schools
for Entrepreneurs
This
spring
Marist's
School of Management
was named
one of
15 top
business schools in
the
country for two
fields
of study-general
management
and operations-by
Entrepreneur
magazine and the Princeton
Review.
The
distinction was highlighted
in the
magazine's
April
issue.
The article,
"Get
Smarter(er):
Taking
Stock of
the
Best Places for Entrepreneurs
LO
Learn,"
included a
list
of business schools
"whose
students overwhelmingly agree that
Histor~• professor and Hudson River Valley Institute Executive Director James M. Johnson
(fourth
from right) was appointed a chevalier in the Ord re des Pa Imes Academiques by the
French Ministry of National Education at
a
ceremony in New York City. Guests included (left
to righ't) HRVI advisory board member Barnabas McHenry, Vice President for Academic
Affairs and Dean of Faculty Thomas Wermuth, HRVI advisory board members Denise D.
Van Buren, FrankJ. Doherty, Patrick Garvey, and Dr. Frank T. Bumpus, and Vincent Tamagna,
Hudson River Navigator.
Freni~h Ministry Honors History Professor
H
istory professor
James
M. Johnson has been
appointed a chevalier in
the
Ord re des
Palmes
Academiques by
the
French
Ministry
of National
Education
for his lifelong
contributions as an educator and
historian
at
the
United States
Military
Academy, Naval
War College, and Marist College.
Johnson, the
executive director of the
Hudson River
Valley
Institute
at Marist,
received
the
aw~1rd
during a ceremony
at the headquarters
of the
French Embassy's
Cultural Services
division in New York City.
Established
in
1808, the
award was created
by
Napoleon Bonaparte
to honor
eminent
members
of the
University
of
Paris. In
1866, the scope of
the
award was
widened
to
include
major
contributions
to French national
education made
by
anyone,
including
foreigners. It is
one
of the
world's oldest civil awards.
Working with the Hudson River
National Valley
Heritage
Area
and
other organizations
over the
past 10
years,
Johnson led
the successful effort to
have
Congress designate the
Washirngton-Rochambeau
Revolutionary Route
a National Historic
Trail. The
685-mile trail
from
Rhode Island
to
Virginia commemorates
the 1781
French-American campaign
that
led to America's victory over the British at the
Battle
of Yorktown. Of
the 20,000 men
who
fought the
British
at Yorktown, 5,000 were
Frenchmen
who
had traveled
what
will now
be
comme:morated
as a National Historic
Trail.
"Without
this
historic alliance," says
Johnson,
"there would not
have
been an American
Republic."
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it
offers superlative preparation"
in
core
business competencies.
"Fifteen
institutions
in
each category were selected based solely on
surveys conducted
by the Princeton
Review
and completed by more than 19,000 current
business school students," the
magazine notes.
Joining Marist
among the best in
the
two
'-------------------------------------l
categories
were
Dartmouth, Harvard,
Purdue,
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute,
Stanford,
Syracuse,
the
University of Virginia, and
Claremont McKenna
Graduate University.
"It's
very gratifying to
know,
first,
that
your
students are very satisfied with
the quality
of
their Marist
education, and second,
that
we
are included
in
such great company," says
Dr. Elmore Alexander,
dean
of the School
of
Management.
"Credit
goes
to
our
faculty
for providing top-notch instruction
in the
classroom and on
line,
and
to our
collaborators
in the
business community for providing great
internships and other experiential
learning
opponun
ities."
The School of Management
is
one of only
473
business schools in the country to
have
its undergraduate and graduate business
programs fully accredited
by the
Association
to Advance Collegiate Schools of
Business.
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
The
Princeton Review
also featured the
School olfManagement
in
its
Best
296
Business
Schools,
2009
Edition,
the
latest
edition of
the
ratings
guide. And
Marist is
included in
The
Best
368 Colleges,
the company's annual guide
to the leading academic
institutions
in
the
nation.
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NEH A1wards Grant to Marist's
Hudson River Valley Institute
The
National Endowment for the
I
Humanities
has awarded Marist College's
Hudson
River Valley Institute a
highly
competitive $500,000 challenge grant for
strengthening
teaching,
study, and
under-
standing: of American history and culture.
The grant was among the largest amounts
awarded in the
agency's 2008 grant cycle.
HRVI and
Marist
were among 248 successful
applicants awarded $15.7 million
in
five
categories. As a challenge grant,
the
NEH
award requires
that
Marist raise three
times
the amount of
the
grant, or $1.5 million, from
non
federal sources over four and a
half
years.
The grant will be used to enhance HRVl's
programs, which
include
a digital
library;
sponsorship of lectures, conferences, and
other
public
programming; publication of the
Hudson
River
Valley
Review;
and development
of
resources
for use in K-12 classrooms.
Founded in 2002, HRVI
designs
its
resources and
programs
to
promote
understanding and appreciation
for the hist0ry,
literature, landscape, art, and culture of
the
Hudson
River Valley.
HRVI
is the academic
arm of
the
congressionally
designated
Hudson
River Valley National
Heritage
Area.
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Antony Penrose of
Sussex,
England,
addresses
the audii!nce at the
Silver
Needle Fashion
Show
following the presentation of designs inspired by tl~e life
and
work of his mother, Lee
Miller,
who was
a fashion model, photographer, and Poughkeepsie native.
Fashion Program Pays Tribute to Lee Miller
L
ee
Miller, a
fashion model,
photographer,
and World War II photojournalist,
was
the
inspiration for
a clothing collection by
Marist
third-year
designers
at
the
23
rd
annual
Silver Needle
Fashion
Show and Awards. The
show's salute
t◊
Miller,
a
Poughkeepsie
native,
was a
highlight
of the program
held
at the
Mid-Hudson
Civic Center
in May.
The
Fashion Program
paid
tribute to Miller
during the
show with the collection and an
appearance by
her
son, Antony Penrose, of
Sussex, England. Penrose
told
the audience his
mother was a
woman
concerned with
beauty
and harmony. "She
knew the
importance of
fashion as a means of expression," Penrose
said, and added that
the fashion
show
marked
the
first time
Miller had
been
honored
in
her
hometown.
A
week
earlier
he had
presented
images of her
work and st0ries
from
her
life to
a nearly full house
in the
Nelly Goletti
Theatre.
Another
highlight
of
the
show
was
the
segment Men
in Knits
featuring
men clad
in
only long
underwear
and
knitted
accessories,
which
delighted
audiences at
both
the
afternoon and evening shows. The
idea
sprang
from
a donation of yarns from Muench
Yarns
in California
that
were ideal for small
items
such as
hats,
gloves, and scarves.
"For
a
twist, I thought it would be fun
tO
ask
students to do
menswear
items," says
Radley
Cramer,
director
of
the
Fashion Program. "Our
knitwear design
instructor, Melissa
Halvorsen,
took it
t◊
a
new level
creatively. We added
the Marist men,
who were far from shy, and
suddenly
we had
men in
longjohns
and knits
on
the runway."
The show,
directed
and designed
by
Fashion
Program
faculty member Richard
Kramer, also
presented the
work of first-year,
second-year, and senior designers. Fifteen
awards
were presented including
many
made
possible
bi,
the program's
scholarship partners:
Alecia
Hicks
Forster, Cutty
Sark,
Dominique
Pino-Santiago,
Dutchess County Home
Bureau,
JR
Morrissey Inc.
and LDJ
Productions, Liz
Claiborne.
Mary
Abdoo,
Maggy London,
and
the
YMA fashion
Fund.
On
dii;play
at
the
show was a collection of
red cocktail
dresses
created by senior fashion
design students. The Fashion
Program
joined
forces with the
Dutchess-Ulster
American
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Red Dress
Project
to help create
awareness
about heart disease.
The red dress is
the
AHA's national symbol
for the
fight against
heart
disease. Project
funding
came
from
the YMA Fashion
Fund.
The
collection was also exhibited at AH A's first
Dutchess-Ulster
Go Red for Women luncheon
in
February
at the Poughkeepsie
Grandview.
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9
SUMMER
2009
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The Dawn of a Brand-New
Digital Day for MIPO
The
Marist
College
Institute
for Public
I
Opinion's web site Pebbles and Pundits
has
a brand
new
look.
The site, www.maristpoll.marist.edu,
offers
the
latest
poll
results
as well as experts'
analyses of poll numbers, current events,
and
pop
culture from around the world.
Pebbles
and Pundits
features a
lively
blog with
commentary from Dr.
Lee
Miringoff, direc-
tor
of
MIPO,
Barbara Carvalho, director of the
Mari
st Poll, and other MIPO staffers on topics
ranging from
business ethics to the
history
of
bluejeans-with
plenty of
baseball
mixed
in.
"Our goal
is to
create a 'one-stop shop' or
'poll
bureau'
that fulfills
all of the public's
research needs and curiosity," says Miringoff.
"From our
poll data
to
Mar
.1st
exp~rt
interviews, it's
our mtent to help users
Po
11
educate themselves
and
form the
best personal
opinions
they
can."
It's not only the
public MIPO
hopes to
educate. There is also a student component to
Pebbles
and
Pundits.
Through hands-on assign-
ments,
Marist
students will use various forms
of
media to
communicate
the
poll's survey
results as well as
their
own ideas-an addi-
tion that
harks
back
to
MIPO's roots.
Founded in
1978, MIPO
became
the
first
college-based survey center in the nation
to
involve undergraduates
in
conducting survey
research.
Students participate in every poll.
Ml PO
offers students employment and intern-
ships and
the
experience of conferences and
seminars with leading
journalists,
pollsters,
and government officials.
With
the
soft launch of Pebbles
and Pundits
securely
under
their proverbial belts, the
MIPO team members
plan
a formal launch
in
the
fall with even more multimedia features
added
to
the site.
To
keep up
to date
on the
Marist Poll's latest survey results, follow MIPO
on Twitter at www.twitter.com/maristpoll.
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Marist students contributed to the restoration of two circa
1800
paintings,
Two Lions by
Vienna-born artist Peter Wenzel, and viewed the paintings during a recent study abroad
course
in, Rome. Students and accompanying staff included
(front
row,
left to right) Michelle
DelBove
'11,
Amanda Wilson
'10,
Meghan Talotta
'12,
Stephanie Figuccio'11, Keith Moreira
'11,
Alida Mattiello
'10,
Ron Hicks
'89,
(back
row, left to right) Pat Murphy, Rev. Richard
La Mo rte,, Tim Massie, Jaime Bonventre
'10,
Brian Beltrani
'10,
Luke Scileppi
'12,
Christopher
Ippolito
'10,
Andrew Gleason
'10,
and
Ryan
Glander
'10.
Students Support Restoration of Paintings in Vatican Museums
P
art:icipants
in
a Marist study abroad
most famous painter of animals in the 18th
pro-gram in Rome did
more
than just
and
19th
centuries." The
two
oil-on-canvas
see parts of the city normally off-limits to
paintings
are of a
lion
and lioness and are
residents,
and
tourists
alike. They
left
a legacy
believed
to
have
been
painted
around the
for
future generations by contributing
to the
year
1800.
restorati,on of two
paintings
in
the
Vatican
The
class's gift
to
the Patrons of
the
Arts
in
Museums.
the Vatican
Museums
paid for the
restoration
Twelve students, College Chaplain Rev. of one painting
this
year while a donation for
Richard ILaMorte,
Nurse
Practitioner
Patricia the second will come
from those
who visit
Murphy, and Ronald Hicks
'89
joined
Chief as part of the
Rome
class next year.
Father
Public Affairs Officer and Adjunct Professor Mark
Haydu,
LC,
the international
director
Tim Massie on a 12-day excursion
to
Tuscany, of the
Patrons,
and Vatican art historian
Dr.
Umbria, and Rome. In addition
to
touring
Romina
Comeni expressed
their
appreciation
Florence, San Gimignano, Assisi, Orvieto, and
and reminded
the
students of the importance
a winery
in
the Tuscan countryside, the group
of the preservation and
perpetuation
of the
got a behind-the-scenes
look
at the Vatican vast and
unique
collection of art contained
in
that provided a once-in-a-lifetime
experience.
the
Vatican Museums.
Following a private tour of the Sistine
If
the
students return
to Rome
with their
Chapel, before it was open
to
the public, and
families in the future, they will be able
to
point
the
Raphael Rooms,
the
private quarters of with pride to two significant artworks in the
Pope Julius II,
the
Marist contingent was Vatican Museums. An accompanying plaque
taken
to the Vatican Museums' restoration will
read,
"Restored
through
the generosity of
labs
to see Two Lions by Vienna-born artist
thestudentsofMaristCollege,
Poughkeepsie,
Peter
Wenzel, whom the Vatican calls "the
New
York."
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Campus Recycling Helps Those in Needl
A
campus committee dedicated to sustain-
greater good," says Steve Sansola, associate
ability collected
more
than 6,000
dean
for
student affairs/adjunct
lecturer
in
pounds of
food and
3,500
pounds
of
clothing, religious
studies.
shoes,
and
accessories
from
students
moving
Presiident Dennis
J.
Murray
created the
out of campus
residence halls during the dos-
CSAC to
advise the Board ofTrustees, faculty,
ing
weeks
of
the
spring 2009 semester
and staff on campus sustainability.
Marist staff,
The
food
went
to
area food banks and
faculty, amd students serve on
the
committee.
the
wearable
items
to
Planet
Aid, a national
CSAC has coordinated a number of events
organization supporting
humanitarian
including lectures and periodic Dumpster
programs
in Africa.
The Campus Sustainability Dives
that
assess
the
efficacy of voluntary
Advisory
Committee
(CSAC) organized the
recycling on campus
by
examining the
drive
with support from
the
Division
of Student amounts. and
kinds
of
trash
generated. When
Affairs and the Physical Plant
office.
the semester opens
this
fall, CSAC and
the
"As
Marist
College continues
to
promote
and
develop
sustainable
practices in
our
day-
to-day operations, our
limited
resources can
be used more
effectively and for
the
6
MARIST
MAGAZINE
campus
Recycling
Committee
will
lead
volun-
teers
in collecting and
recycling
cardboard
packaging from the
incoming
first-year resi-
dent
students. From
a
similar effort at
the
start of
the
fall
2008
semester,
they
collect-
ed
1,500 pounds of
cardboard, enough
to fill
two
10-cubic-yard Dumpsters, which
saved
17
trees
and
more than nine
cubic
yards
of
landfill
space.
CSAC welcomes the
involvement
of
alumni. Any alumni
interested in volunteer-
ing are invited
to
contact Steve Sansola
at
(845) 575-3517.
For
more information on
the
College's
sustainability
initiatives,
visit
~--
www.marist.edu/studentlife/
recycle
or CSAC's
page
on Facebook.
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FACULTY
W
Spotlight: Exploring the Global History ciif People of
African Descent
D
r. Frederick Douglass
Opie,
associate profes-
sor of history and
director
of
the
African
Diaspora Studies
Program at Marist, has written
the
book
Black Labor Migration
in Caribbean Guatemala,
1882-1923,
published by
the
University Press of Florida in
2009.
The book focuses
on a
period
beginning
in the
late
19th century when
many
Central American govern-
ments
and countries aimed
to
fill low-paying
jobs
and develop
their
economies by recruiting black
American and West
Indian
laborers.
Opie offers a revisionist interpreta-
tion
of
these
workers, who were often
depicted as simple victims with
little,
if
any,
enduring
legacy.
The Guatemalan government
sought
to
build an extensive
railroad
system in the 1880s and actively
recruited foreign
labor.
For poor
workers of African
descent,
immigrating to
Guatemala
was
seen as an opportunity
to
improve
their
lives and escape from
the
racism
of
the
Jim Crow U.S. South and the French
and British colonial Caribbean.
Using primary and secondary sources as
well as ethnographic
data.
Opie
details
the
struggles of
these
workers, who were
ultimately
inspired
to
organize by
the
ideas
of Marcus
Garvey.
Regularly
suffering class- and
race-
based
attacks and persecution,
black
laborers
frequently
met such attacks with
resistance.
Their leverage-being
able to shut down
the
railroad-was
crucially
important
to the
revolutionary
movements
in 1897
and
1920.
Opie's first book,
Hog
and
Hominy:
Soul
Food
from Africa to America,
published by
Columbia University Press
in
2008,
is
a
culinary
history
and portrait of
the
social
and
religious
relationship between people
of
Dr. Frederick
Douglass Opie,
associate
professor of
history and
director of the
African Diaspora
Studies Program
African descent and their cuisine.
He
composes a global
history
of
African-American
foodways
and
the
concept of soul
itself.
revealing
soul food to be an amalgamation
of
West
and Central African social
and cultural
influences
as well as
the:
adaptations
people
of African
descent
made
to
the conditions of
slavery and
freedom in the
Americas.
Sampling
from
travel
accounts,
periodicals,
government
reports
on
food and
diet, and interviews
with more than
30
people
born
before
1945, Opie
reconstructs an
interrelated
history of
Moorish
influence
on the
Iberian
Peninsula,
the
African slave trade,
slavery
in
the Americas.
the
emergence of
Jim
Crow.
the
Great
Migration, the Great
Depression,
and
the
civil
rights
and Black
Power
movements.
His
grassroots approach reveals
the
global
origins of soul
food, the
forces
that
shaped
its
development,
and the
distinctive
cultural
collaborations that occurred among Africans,
Asians, Europeans, and Americans
throughout
history.
Opie
is
currently writing a history of
African Ame,rican
and Latino relations in New
York from 1959
LO
2009.
More Fai~ulty Writing
$:a
Professor of
Finance
Kavous Ardalan
wrote
the
book
On
the
Role
of
Paradigms
in
Finance,
published by
Ashgate
Publishing.
tl:n
Professor
of
Psychology
Linda Dunlap
wrote the book An Introduction to Early
Childhood
Special Education:
Birth to
Age
Five,
published by
Pearson
Education.
~
Springer
published the
book
It's Great!
Oops, No
It Isn't:
Why Clinical
Research
Can't
Guarantee
the
Right Medical
Answers by
Dr. Ronald Gauch,
retired associate
professor
of
management.
:l::n
Professor of
Art
Richard Lewis's
book
The Power
of .Art, co-written with
Dr. Susan
Lewis,
was
published
in
a second edition by
Thomson Wadsworth.
16
Dr. Laura R. Under,
associate professor of
media
arts. explores
the
portrayal
of teachers on American
television in
her
book Tea,che
r
TV:
Sixty Years
of Teachers
on
Television,
co--authored
with
Mary Dalton
and
published by Peter Lang Publishing in
2008.
~
Dr. lvettit Romero.
professor
of Spanish
and coordinator of
the Latin
American and
Caribbean Studies Program,
is
the
co-creator
with
Lizabeth
Paravisini-Geben of a new
blog,
Repeating Islands.
at http://repeatingislands.
( I N B R I
F
Associate Professor of Psychology
Sherry
Dingman
has been appointed an American
Psychological
Association
representative
at the
United
Nations for
2009-13.
Based
in
Washington, D.C., APA has assembled
a team of psychologists whose main mis-
sion
is to
contribute to the development
and
implementation
of psychologically
informed global policies that
respect hu-
man
rights
and promote human welfare.
Dr. Onkar P. Sharma
has been in-
vited by the Council for International
Exchange of Scholars to serve on the
2009-10
Information
Technology
Peer
Review
Committee for the Fulbright
Specialists
Program. The committee
reviews applications for the program,
which awards grants to qualified U.S.
faculty and professionals in selected
disciplines to engage
in
short-term col-
laborative projects at higher education
institutions
in
more
than
100 countries
worldwide. CIES administers the Fulbright
academic exchange
program for
the U.S.
Department
of State.
In March,
Marist staff members
raised
$3,654 walking in the American Heart
Association
Dutchess-Ulster
County
Heart Walk. In December, faculty, staff,
and students donated
777
gifts as part
of the annual Giving Tree project, which
provided a merry Christmas
for
23 needy
Poughkeepsie families. In November,
Marist
students, faculty, and staff raised
more than $5,000 to support local food
banks
during
Hunger Month activities, and
Campus Ministry also reported the
largest
collection of food for baskets in the past
12 years.
The
baskets were
distributed
to
families in
Dutchess
County.
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com,
featuring
news and commentary on
Caribbean
literatures
and cultures.
Romero
also co-edited a
book
of essays entitled
Displacements
and Transformations
in Caribbean
Cultures, published by the University Press
of Florida.
It
includes a chapter she wrote,
"Moving
Metaphors:
The Representation of
AIDS in Caribbean literature and Visual Ans."
r6J
Professor of English
Judith Saunders
wrote
the
afterword for
Edith
Wharton's
The Age of
Innocence,
published by New
American Library.
~
A
revised
edition of
Peter
Greenaway's
Postmodern!Poststructuralist
Cinema. co-edited by Associate Professor of
Media Ans
Paula Willoquet-Maricondi,
was
published by Scarecrow Press.
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SUMMER
2009
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The Campaign
for Marist
Ground
Is Broken
on Han ock
Center
M
arist officials
broke
ground May 2 on
the Hancock Center, the
new
academic
building
that
will overlook the Hudson River.
The $32.5
million
project is named for
lead
donor
and
vice
chair of
the
Marist Board
of Trustees Ellen
Hancock
and
her husband,
Jason.
Supported by the Campaign for Marist,
the
57,000-square-foot
Hancock
Center will
provide
much-needed academic space at a
central campus location.
When
it
opens
in
late 2010, the
building
will
serve
three
primary purposes. It will
be
the home of the College's School of Computer
Science and
Mathematics, including
faculty
offices,
nine classrooms.
six conference/semi-
nar
rooms,
and three computer labs. The Marist
College
Institute
for
Public Opinion and the
International
Programs office also will
relo-
cate
there.
The Hancock
Center also will house many
of the existing regional and global technolo-
gy initiatives
for
which
Marist has
earned a
reputation
as a leader,
including the
Center
for
Collaborative
and On-Demand Computing,
the
Open Source
Development
lab,
the
Institute
for
Data
Center
Professionals,
and
the
IBM-Marist
Joint
Study Project.
In
addition,
the
center will aid in regional
and statewide economic development initia-
tives
and contain office space for start-ups,
high-tech
education and
training
facilities,
collaborative workspace
for
joint
projects,
an
executive customer
presentation
center, and
laboratories
with shared access
to
advanced
IBM server technologies and Cisco network-
ing systems.
The
Hancock
Center has been designed
by
Robert
A.
M.
Stern Architects, LLP, an award-
winning
firm that has
created additions to
Harvard,
Stanford, and johns
Hopkins,
among
many
others.
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
From le·ft, President Dennis
J.
Murray, Trustees Ellen Hancock and Rob Dyson, and architect Robert
A. M. St,ern
break ground on the Hancock
Center. Below, students take their turn at wielding shovels.






























The Campaign
for Marist
R
1
eaches
$53 Million
M
arist's capital campaign
has hit
the $53
million
mark, reaching 71
percent
of
its $75
million
goal.
New Gifts
Recently
several significant gifts
have been
made to the
Campaign
for Marist.
Longtime
Marist
Fund
volunteers
Michael
and Genine
McCormick '88/'88 gave $250,000.
Robert
C.
and Mary Abel, parents of Briana '09, estab-
lished
an endowed scholarship fund with a
gift of $100,000.
In
addition,
Mary
Ellen
Kondysar memo-
rialized
her husband, Tony, a member of
the
Class of
1969, in
two ways. She established
the Anthony
J.
Kondysar Scholarship
to help
adult students achieve Marist degrees, and she
provided a gift
in
Tony's name for construction
of the Hancock Center.
Foundation Support
The
Louis Greenspan Trust has been a
longtime
supporter of Marist
through
scholarships and
capital grants
made in memory
of its
found-
er,
Lou
Greenspan.
The
trust
recently made
a
$100,000 contribution
to
the campaign.
The Frank A.
Fusco
and Nelly Goletti
Fusco Foundation awarded a $30,000 grant
in support of the
Campaign
for Marist.
The
contribution continues
the
generous giving
Senior
Class
Raises
Record
Amount
record of
the
foundaLion
toward Marist, as
inili-
ated
in 1994 by iLs late
founder, Frank Fusco.
For the 40th straight year, the McCann
Foundation supported student scholarships
with a grant o.f $50,000. The ongoing commit-
ment is
in addition to
the
McCann Foundation's
campaign gift of $2
million
toward
McCann
Center renovations.
The Dyson
Foundation continued
its
support of
the Marjorie H.
Clark
Lecture
on
Ethics and
th,e Law
endowment with a recent
grant of $25,000, bringing the total amount
to $75,000. The grant is
in
addition to
the
Dyson
Foundation's campaign commitment
of $3
million.
The
Dr.
E,dwin A. Ulrich Charitable Trust
once again supported student scholarships for
business and fine art majors, as well as students
in
Marist's mutsic program, with a $40,000 gift.
Marist
receive:d
a one-Lime
grant
from
the Jane
W. Nuhn Ch:aritable
Trust
that will support
a
reenactment
of the
Intercollegiate
Rowing
Association
Regatta
on
Lhe
Hudson
River as part
of New York'i;
Quadricentennial celebration.
The
Class of 2009 made history
through its
I
participation in
what
has
become a tradi-
tion at Marist-the Senior Class Gift. The class
'------•-
raised nearly $6,000
from
450 seniors, almost
from all ove the Northeast, gathered at the
double
the results
of any other Senior Class
McCann Re eation Center
in
February for
Gift
program
in College
history.
the fourth a nual Semor Class and Alumni
As part of
Lhe
tradition, graduating seniors
Networking ecepuon.
make their first gift to the College through a
Paul Pal er '84, a
producer
at ESP!\, was
donation
to
the Marist Fund. "It's the ultimate
happy
to
sha his experience with eager sports
way to repay Marist for all the amazing
things
communica on and radio/TV/film students.
that haYe
happened
during our four years here," "When
I
was t Marist, one of
the
great things
says Justin
Ritz
'09, who co-chaired
the
Senior
I remember
s
the
way
the
school always had
Class GifL Committee.
alumni retu
to
talk
to
us
about the industry,
The committee kicked off
its
campaign in
our majors, d
more," he
says. "I found
those
November with a wine and cheese reception
experiences
be
inYaluable,
which is why I
m the Tenney Stadium hospitality suite. About am happy
t
uppon these
types
of network-
110 seniors got their first glimpse inside the
ing eYents.
If
can help any of today's students,
stadium's "skyboxes" and
heard
about wine
I'm simply c rying on a great Marist
tradition."
tasting from Lisa McGoYern,
catering manager
After po
·tive
feedback
from the
kickoff
for Marist Dining Services.
event at Ten y Stadium,
the
committee decid-
Next
the
committee followed the lead of
ed
to
host a other campaign event there. In
preYious
gift committees with a
networking
get-
mid-April n rly 100 seniors turned out for a
together for seniors and Marist alumni. More sports-them
beer
tasting.
than 100 Marist sernors and alumni, who came
Another nue on campus the seniors were
The Hearst Foundations awarded Marist
a $100,000 grant to establish the William
Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarship Fund
benefiting
students from underrepresented
populations.
Beginning in fall 2009, a $5,000
annual scholarship will be awarded to an
incoming African American or
Latino fresh-
man
or transfer student chosen on
the
basis of
financial
need,
leadership potential, and prom-
ise for academic success.
Faculty Contributions
Former and current faculty members also
made
gifts. Associate
Professor
of Public
Administration DonaldJ Calista and
Dean
of
the School of Social and
Behavioral
Sciences
Margaret Calista made a
multiyear
commit-
ment to help build
the College's endowment.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Helen
Hayes
and
her
husband.Joseph Regh '67, estab-
lished
an endowed scholarship
fund
to assist
computer science majors. Professor
Emeritus of
Business
Eugene
Me Ian
established the
Eugene
Melan Scholarship
in
Business Leadership at
Marist
College
to
identify
and
develop
students
from
the
School of Management
who
have the
potential
to
become outstanding busi-
ness leaders.
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The Senior Class Gift Committee
consisted of (left to right) Erik
Zeyher, Caitlin Hopkins, Katelin
Mccahill,
co-chair
Julie Lavin,
Susie Gagnon,
co-chair
Justin
Ritz, and
(not
pictured) Stephanie
Espina.
anxious
to
\'isit
before
graduation was the
newly
refurbished historic Cornell Boathouse.
A sold-out crowd of 80 seniors met there
in
late
April to
learn
about pairing desserts with
wines while raising money for the Senior Class
Gift program.
The committee also created a T-shirt to sell
as a
fundra1ser.
The T-shirt could be seen all
OYer
campus during Senior Week.
The actiYities
provided a way for committee
members
to
educate fellow
classmates
about the
importance of continuing their philanthropic
support followmggraduation,
says
Julie LaYin
'09, committee co-chair and Class of 2009 pres-
ident. "These graduates now understand how
their resources were pro\·ided m
large
part from
the generos1t
y
of the alumni who came before
them.
Now their gifts will
help
pro\·ide excep-
twnal
experiences, faciltucs, and scholarships
for the future classes of '.\lanst
students."
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Athletics
The Marist
men's crew
team won
its ninth
consecutive MAAC Championship and twelfth overall.
Red
Fox
Re1~ort
Men's
rowing
took its twelfth Metro
Atlantic
Athl,etic
Conference
title
while women's
basketball,
men's
tennis, water polo, and baseball
again advanced
to the NCAAs.
Men's Rowers Win Twelfth Overall
Conference Crown, Ninth Straight
The Red Foxes' men's crew
team
collect-
ed its
ninth
straighL Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference
(MAAC)
Litle
on April 19
at
Mercer
County Park
Marina in
Princeton
Junction,
NJ.
Marist posted a 6-poim vicLOry
over Loyola as
the Red Foxes
Lotalecl
179 points
to
finish aLOp
BY ANDY
ALONGI
'08
Andy Alongi '08 is assistant
sports information
director
at Marist.
Lhe
field. Marist neuecl a total of 125 points
from five victories
LO
take the
race.
Earlier
in
the season,
Marist
retained the
coveted President's Cup as the squad defeat-
ed Army, winning
three
of five races.
The day
was cut short
due
LO
poor
racing
conditions;
however, the Red
Foxes took victories
in
the
women's varsity 8, the men's novice 8, and
men's
varsity 4.
The
women's basketball team won its fourth
consecuti've MAAC Championship and fifth in six
years. The; Red Foxes faced fifth-seeded Virginia
in the opE;ning round of
the
NCAA
Tournament
at
the
University of Southern California.
From
left, Julianne
Viani, Head Coach Brian
Giorgis, and Rachele Fitz were honored
by
the
Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association at
the end of the season.
Women's Basketball Seizes Fourth
Straight MAAC Championship Title
The women's
basketball team
earned
its
fourth straight MAAC
title
as
red-shin
senior
Julianne
Viani was named
the
tournament's
Most Valuable Player.
The Red
Foxes
defeat-
ed Canisius 78-63
in
the championship game
to
win
the
conference crown and advance
to
Red Foxes To Host First Preseason WNIT Game
The Marist women's basketball team has made
its share of history
in
recent years, and will do so
again when stepping onto the court for the
first
time in the 2009-10 season. The Red Foxes will
host a Preseason Women's National Invitation
Tournament
(WNIT)
game for the first time in their
history when they open the season
against
North
Carolina A&Ton Friday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. atthe
Mccann Center.
The Preseason WNIT features a three-game
guarantee format. Second-round games wlll
be
played Nov. 15-16, semifinals
will
be
Nov. 18-19, and
the
championship
Is set for Sunday, Nov. 22. Teams
that lose in the first two rounds will play consola-
tion games on the second weekend, Nov. 20-22.
The Red Foxes are coming off a 29-4 season in
2008-09, their sixth straight Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference regular season championship, and
fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance.
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their fourth straight NCAA Tournament and
fifth in six seasons. Forward Rachele Fitz '10
and guard Erica Allenspach '11 were named
to the All-Tournament
Team for their efforts
in
the three victories en route to the team's title.
Multiple members of the Red Foxes were
honored at a
postseason
dinner hosted by
the
Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association.
Fitz and Viani were named
LO
the All-Mel
Basketball Writers
First
Team, while
Head
Coach Brian Giorgis was named
the
Maggie
Dixon Coach of the Year.
Fitz
was named
the
Met Writers Division
1
women's basketball
Player of the Year.
Marist ended its
2008-09
season with a
record of
29-4
as the
Red
Foxes fell
in
the first
round of the NCAA
Tournament
LO
fifth-seed-
ed Virginia 68-61.
Men's Tennis Captures
Seventh MAAC Crown
The men's tennis team advanced to its second
straight NCAA Tournament as the Red
Foxes defeated the Fairfield Stags 5-2 in
the
MAAC Championship match on April
19
at the Billie Jean King United States Tennis
Association National Tennis Center in Flushing
Meadows,
N.Y Co-captain
Loic
Sessagesimi
'10
earned the championship-clinching point
at second singles.
He
was named the MAAC
Championship's Most Outstanding Performer
for the second straight year.
Marist fell to No. 10 Florida
in
the opening
round of the NCAA
Tournament in Gainesville,
Fla.
Prior
LO
Marist's championship run, Head
Coach Tim Smith earned his
200'h
dual
match victory as the Marist head coach on
April 13 as the Red Foxes shut out Hartford
7-0 at the East Campus Tennis Pavilion. After
the season closed, Smith was named United
States
Professional
Tennis Association Eastern
Division
College Coach of
the
Year.
Each member of the Marist starting
lineup
was named
to
the All-MAAC Teams.
Sessagesimi was named First Team at second
singles, while Nicolas Pisecky
'11
(third
singles), Landon Greene '11 (fifth singles), and
Mau
Himmelsbach
'12
(sixth singles)
joined
Sessagesimi
on the First Team. Christian Coley
'10
and Marcus von Nordheim
'11
were named
Second Team All-MAAC at first and fourth
singles respectively.
Coley and Rhys Hobbs
'11
were named First
Team All-MAAC
at first doubles, while Pisecky
and Greene shared the third doubles honor
with a pairing from Fairfield. Sessagesimi
and Himmelsbach were named Second Team
All-MAAC
at second
doubles.
Sessagesimi represented the College at
the
2009
NCAA Student-Athlete Development
Conference May 24 to 27 at the Walt Disney
World Coronado Spring
Resort
in Orlando, Fla.
He was one of 233 Division
1
athletes who took
part in the conference.
.MARIST
The Mari st me•n's tennis team captured its second straight MAAC Championship
after a 5-2 victory over Fairfield. The Red Foxes have appeared in seven NCAA
Tournaments. Co-captain Loic Sessagesimi
'10
was named the MAAC Tournament's
Most Outstanding Performer for the second straight year. He also represented
Marist at the
2!009
NCAA Student-Athlete Development Conference.
Water Pole. Takes First
NCAA Tou1rnament Game
in Progran11 History
Mari st head coach Ashleigh Jacobs has never
lost
a MAAC
tournament
game in her two
seasons in Poughkeepsie,
amassing a
4-0
record
in conference tournaments.
In
2009,
the Red
Foxes entered the MAAC Tournament as the
third seed. The Red Foxes posted a 7-6 victo-
ry over
the
second-seeded Wagner Seahawks
to advance to
the
championship game against
top-seeded
Iona.
Marist went on
LO
take the
championship game 11-7 at the McCann Center
Natatorium. The Red Foxes became the first
team in the MAAC Water Polo
League
10
win
consecutive titles, and Katelin McCahill
'09
was named
the
Most Outstanding Player.
Three
players were named
to the MAAC Water Polo
League
First Team, while
goalkeeper Jessica Getchius
'10
was named Defensive Player of the Year.
McCahill, Angie Rampton
'10,
and Samantha
Swartz
'10
were named to the First
Team.
In
their second straight NCAA
Tournament,
the Red Foxes won their first game in program
history
to
take seventh place
in
their third
NCAA Tournament appearance. Marist defeat-
ed eighth-seeded Cal Lutheran
16-11
on
the
final day of the tournament on
the
campus
of the University of Maryland in College Park.
Rachel Sunday
'10
was named Second Team
All-NCAA
Tournament.
The Marist wctmen's water polo team won
its second straight
MAAC Championship.
The team is the first in MAAC Water Polo League history
to
win consecutive titles.
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Mari st won the 2009 MAAC Baseball Championship. MAAC Baseball
Committee
Chair
John
D'Argenio (left)
congratulates MAAC Tournament Most Outstanding Performer Jacob Wiley
'09,
who was also the 2009
MAAC Relief Pitcher of the Year. In June, Wiley was selectE!d by the Cincinnati Reds in the Major League
Baseball
First-Year
Player Draft.
Baseball Earns First MAAC
Championship Since 2005
The Marist baseball team advanced to its lirst
NCAA
Tournament
since 2005 as the
Red
Foxes
defeated
Canisius 13-9 in the MAAC
Tournament on
May
23.
Relief
pitcher
Jacob
Wiley '09 was
named Lhe MAAC
Tournament's
Most Outstanding
Performer
as
he
recorded a
win and two saves.
He recorded
the final four
outs of
the
tournament
in
game 7 to
lift
Marist
over Canisius.
lt
yielded
his
sixth save of
the
season. On June
11,
Wiley was chosen by
the
Cincinnati
Reds
in the 41st round of the Major
League
Baseball
First-Year
Player
Draft. He is
playing
for
the Gulf Coast League Reds.
When
the
baseball
team
returned
to
the
Hudson
River Valley, President Dennis
J
Murray hosted a special commencement
ceremony at
the
campus chapel for
the
team's
eight graduating seniors, who
missed
gradu-
ation because of the tournament.
The Red Foxes came out of
the
winners'
bracket, as
they
got to the championship game
with two one-run victories.
In the
opening
round, third-seeded Marist defeated second-
seeded Canisius 7-6,
lifted
by
an eighth-inning
triple
b)' Jon
Schwind
'12.
In
the
semifinals, the
game went to
11 innings,
but Marist
defeated
top-seeded Manhauan
4-3
off a
long
ball by
Richard Curylo
'10.
Four Red Foxes were named to the MAAC
All-Tournament Team: Brian McDonough
'09,
Kyle Meyer '09, Curylo, and red-shirt soph-
omore Bryce Nugent. Prior to the MAAC
Tournament's opening round,
three Red
Foxes were honored at the conference cham-
pionship
banquet.
Wiley was named
MAAC
Relief
Pitcher
of the Year, while Nugent and
Kyle
Putnam '11 were named Second Team
All-MAAC.
Marist garnered the fourth seed
in
the
Tallahassee
Region
in
the
2009 NCAA
Regional.
The Red
Foxes
held multiple-run
leads
against
Florida State and Ohio State in each of
their
games
in
the 2009 NCAA Tournament.
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President
Dennis
J.
Murray hosted a special commencement cenimony at the campus chapel for the
baseball team's eight graduating seniors, who missed graduation
because
of
the
MAAC
Tournament.
The 2009 grads (from
left)
were Josh Rickards,
Dan
Gallagher,
Kyle Meyer,
Andrew Stanton, Kenny
Anderson,
Jacob
Wiley, Peter Barone, and Brian McDonough.
Melissa Giordano
'09
Women's Club Rugby Team
Ranked Sixth Nationally
The Marist women's club rugby team compet-
ed
in the Division II
National Championships
in
Sanford, Fla. Coming off a very successful
fall 2008 campaign,
the
Red Foxes finished
second overall in the Northeast and earned
the
No. 16 seed
in the
Dll Collegiate
USA
Rugby
National Championships. The
club
is ranked
at No. 6 in official DII collegiate women's
rankings. Four
Red
Foxes were named
to the
Metropolitan
New York Rugby Football Union
All-Star
(U23)
team:
captain Jessica Peterson
'09, captain Andrea Hart
'09,
Laura Litwin
'09,
and Leanne Fusco
'09.
Student-Athletes Recognized
for Academic Achievement
Thirteen Marist student-athletes were named
Academic All-District, a
regional
recognition,
by
ESPN The Magazine's
Academic All-America
program, administered by
the
College Sports
Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Two Marist student-athletes went on
Lo
be
named Academic All-Americans
during
the
2008-09 academic year. The 13 honorees, a
school
record, included
six men and seven
women.
The six men honored were Ricky Pacione
'11
(Baseball, Second Team All-District) and
Joe Touloumis
'11
(Men's Soccer, Second Team
All-District), Max Carow
'10
(Track/Cross
Country, First Team All-District), and Jake
Dembow
'09
(Football, First Team All-District),
Chris Nacca
'09
(Men's Soccer, First Team
All-District)., and Ryan Schneider '09 (Men's
Basketball, First Team All-District).
The seven women honored were Allie
Burke
'11
(Volleyball, First Team All-District),
Brittany Burns
'10 (Track/Cross
Country,
First Team All-District), Teresa Ferraro
'10
(Women's Soccer, Third Team All-District),
and Rachele Fitz
'JO
(Women's
Basketball,
First
Team All-District), and Stephanie Garland
'09
(Women's Lacrosse, Second Team All-District),
Melissa
Giordano
'09
(Softball, First Team
All-District), and Julianne Viani (Women's
Basketball, Second Team All-District).
Each of
the
student-athletes named
to the First Team was deemed eligible for
Academic All-America status. Schneider and
Giordano were
named
Second Team Academic
All-American and Third
Team
Academic
All-American
respectively. They
became the
seventh and eighth Academic All-Americans
in school history.
ESPN
The Magazine
sponsors
the
Academic
All-America
program, the
student-athlete
recognition program of CoSIOA,
which selects
individuals
for the honor.
To
be
eligible, a
student-athlete must be a varsity starter or
key reserve, maintain
a cumulative grade point
average of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have
reached
sophomore
athletic and academic standings at
his
or her
institution,
and be nominated
by
his
or her sports information director.
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Red
Foxes
Open
First
Season
2009 Football Schedule
A// times are
Eastern
Day
Date
Opponent
Time
Promotion
in Pioneer
Football
League
Sat.
Sept.5
@
Sacred
Heart
6p.m.
Sat.
Sept. 12
vs. Drake*
1
p.m.
Home
Opener
The
2009 season is the Mari st football team's first
in
the
Sat.
Sept.
19
@San
Diego*
4p.m.
Pioneer Football League.
The Red Foxes will
face
oppo-
Sat.
Sept. 26
@Bucknell
1 p.m.
nents from 10 different
states
during
their
11-game
Sat.
Oct.3
vs. Campbell*
1 p.m.
Family
Weekend,
schedule,
featuring five
home
games.
Season tickets
are
Take-a-Kid-to-the-Game
Day
on sale
through goredfoxes.com
or call
(845)
575-3553.
Sat.
Oct. 10
vs.
Jacksonville*
1
p.m.
Homecoming
Sat.
Oct.24
@
Morehead St.*
1 p.m.
Sat.
Oct.
31
vs. Valparaiso*
1 p.m.
Post-Game Trick-or-Treating
Sat.
Nov.7
vs. Georgetown
1
p.m.
Senior
Day
Sat.
Nov.14
@Davidson*
1 p.m.
Sat.
Nov.21
@Dayton*
1 p.m.
*
denotes
Pioneer
Football
League
opponent
2009
Season
Ticket
Pricing:
Adult S35
•
Child S 17
•
Faculty
& Staff S28.
For tickets
call (845)
575-3553
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2009
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A New Era
for the ~listoric
Cornell
Boathouse
J
ust
1n
time for New York State's lludson-
Fulton-Champlain
Quadriccntennial
celebrauon of the Hudson Ri\'er
I
his year,
Marist has restored us historic Cornell
Boathouse. Now a popular venue for College
functions, the
boathouse
was once pan of
famed Rcgaua Row, home
10
university rowing
teams competing in the Intercollegiate
Rowing
Assoc1allon's national championship on the
Hudson
1n
Poughkeepsie,
N.Y.,
one of the most
popular
athletic events
1n
the
nation.
The Golden Age of
Collegiate Rowing
The golden era of collegiate rowing began
in
1895,
after
representatives from
Cornell
University, Columbia University, and
the
Univcrstty of Pcnnsyh·ania selected the
Hudson Ri\'er at Poughkeepsie, because of
tts four miles of straightaway, as the sne of
regauas
for
their newly
formed
Intercollegiate
Rowing
Association. Over the
next
50 years,
Poughkeepsie hosted the premier crew event
mAmenca
The Manst College Archives and Special
Collect1ons
web site (http://library.marist.edu/
BY ANDREW
COSS
'09
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archives/regatta) describes the scene:
"Every year
tens
of thousands of specta-
tors would come pouring into Poughkeepsie
10
watch the races. They CO\'ered
the shores next
10 1
he rivfr, many waiting all <la}',
picnicking on
blankets, to ensure they had a good view. The
railroad tracks on the west side of the river had
a natbed train which held grandstands from
which spectators could watch the race. As the
crews rowed up the ri\'er, the tram would keep
pace with
them,
giving
the people
on board
the
best view possible. Hundreds of boats, yachts,
and occasionally
even Navy destroyers sailed
to
Poughkeepsie.
mooring on the sides of the ri\'er
to watch the e\·ent. Poughkeepsie came ali\'e
on the day of the regatta, with parades, bands,
vendors, and banners. The
regatta
was exten-
sively covered
by
newspaper
reporters,
and as
time went on it was e\'en broadcast over
local
and nauonal radio Stallons. But the crowds.
cheers, reporters, parades, and pennants
were not the reasons why
the regatta
became
The Cornell Boathouse,
shown
(far
left) in 1948, was once part off a med Regatta Row.
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so
intensely popular. The
explanation
lay in
the
physical feats
of
the
crew
teams. To
race at
full-speed for
four miles required
such a
breath-
taking amount of
strength, skill, and endurance
that
it
was
awe-inspiring
to
watch."
In
1949
race officials moved
the
regaua to
Marietta,
Ohio,
for
two main reasons. Mariella
had promised to raise
at
least
$10,000
more
for the
regatta
than Poughkeepsie
did.
And
the
race in Marietta
was
to be
held on a
lake,
which
meant that tides
would no
longer dictate the
race schedule.
In Need of Repair
Cornell,
the
University of California, the
University of
Washington,
and
the
University
of Wisconsin each came
to
have boathouses
on
Regaua Row.
Today,
the
Cornell Boathouse
is the
only one
remaining.
Marist acquired the
boathouse
in 1977. An agreement with
the
City
of
Poughkeepsie permitted the
College
to
obtain
title to the boathouse
and surround-
ing
land
in
exchange for allowing local high
school rowing programs to use
the boathouse
until 2002.
But the
boathouse
was
in
poor condition.
"We were already in
the midst
of
renovating
the
entire waterfront area," says
Justin
But
well,
director ofMarist's physical plant. "We wanted
to keep
the Cornell Boathouse,
but
a
number
of renovations were
needed."
Restoration began
in
2004
with some small
improvements.
Workers added
new
windows
and
replaced
rouing outer shingles.
In the
following
years,
they
tore down sever-
al
inner
walls, installed insulation,
replaced the
deck,
repainted
-
Two stairways lead to the upstairs hall.
the ceiling
beams,
and added an elevator. An
environment.al science
lab
on the outer wing
was also
renovated.
Paying Tribute
The origina
I
wooden beams
remain
over-
head.
And a plaque over
the fireplace
further
alludes to thte
building's past:
"The
Cornell
Navy
records its
gratitude to
the
City of
Poughkeepsi,e
and to Peter Henry Troy whose
combined efforts made possible
the
erection
of this boath,ouse."
Troy, a
Dutchess
County native and local
banker, was known among oarsmen,
coaches,
and
rowing
fans for
his
hospitality and unOag-
ging support of
the
regatta.
He
organized the Poughkeepsie
Regatta
Committee and
chaired it
for
25 years,
persuading city offi-
cials to contribute each year to
the IRA's
Board
of Stewards to shoulder some of
the
expense
of the event. He also convinced
the
officials
to build
permanent
lodging for
the
crews,
resulting
in the boathouses
on
Regatta Row.
On
learning that
Troy would resign as
head
of
the
committee in
1940, Lawrence Perry
wrote
in
the New York
Sun
that the time-honored
event
would be losing an irreplaceable
advocate. "The
impress
of
his
personality
upon
this regaua
is
deep and
pervasive. Results
of his construc-
tive
enterprise are found in
the
very spirit of
regatta
day on the
Hudson."
Although the
IRA
Championship never
returned
to
Poughkeepsie,
on Oct. 3 Marist
will
reenact it.
The Quadricentennial Regatta
will
bring
back
teams
from the three original
contenders-Cornell, Columbia, and Penn-
as well as
Marist,
Vassar, Syracuse, Army, and
Navy. The
location
for a special pre-race dinner
for
the
competitors will
be the historic
Cornell
Boathouse.
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Cover Story
Exploring
Hiistory
Mari st joins New
York
State in observing
the 400th anniversary
of the journeys
by Henry
Hudson
and
:Samuel
de Champlain
that
opened
the Northeast
to new trade a111d
European
settlement.
I
f you were at
the
Marist College riverfront
in June,
you saw what Native Americans in the
Hudson
River
Valley saw in 1609: an 85-foot ship with four
masts, sailing north on a wind coming out of the
southwest. The estuary wasn't called the
Hudson
then, but Muhheakantuck, a Lenape word mean-
ing "the river flows two ways."
The:
ship,
the
Half
Moon,
carried English captain Henry Hudson
lead-
ing a Dutch expedition
that
had cros:5ed
the
Atlantic
to find a northwest route to Asia. Entering what
is
now
New York
Harbor,
he sailed as far as
pres-
ent-day Albany before
the
river
became
too shallow
to continue.
Reports from
his exploration led the
Dutch to
establish
trade
within
the:
Hudson River
Valley and to build
the
first European settlements in
Connecticut,
Delaware,
New Jersey, New
York,
and
Pennsylvania
beginning
in
1624.
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The
Half Moon
visited Marist twice this past
spring as part of New York State's commemora-
tion of the 400'
h
anniversary of Hudson's voyage.
The
state's yearlong celebration also marks
the
400
th
anniversary of Samuel de Champlain's
arrival at the
lake
in the Adirondacks that now
bears
his
name, opening the way to trade and
settlement
by
French colonists, and the 200
th
anniversary of
Robert Fulton's
excursion from
New York City to Albany, the first successful
·
long-distance trip by a steamboat.
Marist
has been
involved in the
Quadricentennial in a number of ways.
■
In
honor of the Quadricentennial, Marist
invited New York State Gov. David Paterson
to give
the
commencement address on
May 23 and awarded
the
inaugural Henry
Hudson
Medal to Paterson, New York's first
African-American governor, the country's
first
legally
bl
ind
governor, and a
nation-
ally
recognized
advocate for the visually
and physically
impaired.
The medal will
be
awarded in
future
years
to
pioneers, explor-
ers, and innovat0rs who re0ect the spirit of
discovery
exemplified
by Henry Hudson.
During the ceremony,
the
Half Moon
graced
the Marist
shoreline and heralded
the
graduates
by firing its
cannon.
■
The
Half
Moon,
which
is
owned
and
oper-
ated by
the
New Netherland
Museum in
Albany, docked at
the Martin Boathouse
June
9
through
10 as part of
the
Quadricentennial's River
Day, a
flotil-
la
that stopped
in
river cities during a
weeklongjourney
from
New York City to
Albany. Members of
the public
and Marist
staff viewed the ship's
dockside displays
of centuries-old arrowheads,
jewelry,
and
other
artifacts
as
well as demonstrations of
knot tying, Oint knapping, and musketry
by crew in period
dress.
PHOTO
BY Al NOWAK/ON LOCATION
Quadricentennial Executive Director
Tara
Sullivan
(center)
presented Marist administrators, faculty,
and public relations students with an official Explore NY 400
flag last
fall. Also pictured
in
the front
row (left to right) are Jessica Meyers
'10,
Erica Fazio
'09,
Kimberly Lyons
'09,
Quadricentennial exec-
utive and marketing assistant Nicole Sama, Ashley Southard
'09,
Bari Kurzman
'09,
Barbara Butler
'09,
and Kristina Aven
'09.
In the
back row (left to right) are School of Communication and the Arts
Dean Steven Ralston, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty
Thomas
Wermuth,
Associate Professor of Communication Mark Van Dyke, and Jessica Tougas
'09.
■
During the 2008-09 academic
year, students
in Associate Professor of Communication
Mark Van Dyke's public relations case stud-
ies
classes
worked with
the
state's
Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricenten-
nial (HFCQ) Commission, creating a
marketing campaign
to
publicize the Quad-
ricentennial initiative at local colleges and
on
the
Marist campus.
Victoria Banks '09 says
the
work her
class did on
the
project was amazing.
"I
learned
a great amount about public rela-
tions and was able
to
contribute
to the
growth of a worthy cause. l met great
people through
this initiative. Our class
acted as ambassadors for Marist and
the
HFCQ
in spreading the word about
this
yearlong event, connecting to other schools
and communities, and acting as a model for
them to get involved too."
Marist invited New York State Gov. David
Paterson to give
the
commencement address
on May 23 and awarded him its inaugural
Henry
Hudson
Medal.















The replica ship
Half Moon
provided a striking backdrop during commencement in May.
Quadricentennial Resources
www.hudsonrivervalley.org
www.hudsonrivervalley.org/themes/HFCQ.php
www.exp1oreny400.com
1
ibrary. marist.edu/arch
ives/regatta
www.walkway.org
■
Students in Marist's Hudson Valley History
course completed research projects on the
Quadricentennial theme. Topics included
Native Americans in
the
Hudson Valley
and
their interaction
with Hudson and
Champlain;
biographies
of Hudson and
Champlain;
the
voyages and vessels of the
two
explorers;
the life
of Robert Fulton; and
Fulton's work with submarine warfare. The
student work appears on
the
web site of
Marist's Hudson River Valley Institute (see
www.hudsonrivervalley.org/themes/HFCQ.
php and click on "Marist student research
projects on
the
Quadricentennial").
■
The Hudson
River
Valley
Institute
(HRVI) at
Marist
College will present a
Quadricentennial-themed
conference,
America's First
River: The Hudson,
on
Sept. 25 and 26 at
Marist
and
the Henry
A.
Wallace Visitors and
Education
Center at
the
FDR Presidential Library and
Historic
18
M A R
I
S T M A G A Z
l
N E
Site in
Hyde Park,
NY. The conference
is supported by a $30,000 pledge from
the National Park Service with fund-
ing provided by Congressman Maurice
Hinchey and a $25,000 grant from the
HFCQ Commission. Open to the public,
sessions will focus on the Hudson River as
a corridor of commerce; Dutch-American
relations from 1609
to
2009; the art move-
ment
known as
the
Hudson River School;
Native Americans
in the
Hudson Valley
in
the 17th century; the Hudson River Valley's
Dutclh; and Hudson
River
landscapes and
archirtecture.
Scholars
making
presentations
include Russell Shorto, author of
Island
at
the Center of the World:
The
Epic Story of
Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten
Colony
That Shaped America, and David Hackett
Fischer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in
history for
Washington's
Crossing
and author
of
Champlain's
Dream Conference co-spon-
sors a1re
the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
Institute, the Hudson
River
Valley National
Heritage
Area,
the
National Park Service,
and the New York State Quadricentennial
Office. For information contact HRVI at
(845) 575-3052 or e-mail hrvi@marist.edu.
■
HRVJI
has
produced a spring 2009 issue of
its journal the
Hudson River Valley Review
commemorating the Quadricentennial. The
edition contains 14 articles on subjects such
as Hudson, Champlain, Fulton, Native
Americans at Ticonderoga, N.Y., Dutch
culture as a result of Hudson's
landing,
the 1909 celebration, the Quadricemennial
commemoration, the Walkway Over the
Hudson project, and pan of the journal kept
by RobertJuet, a crew member aboard the
Half Moon during
Hudson's
voyage. Visit
www.hudsonrivervalley.org and click on
"Hudson River Valley Review" for more
information.
■
HRVI
Director Thomas Wermuth and HRVI
Executive Director
James
M. Johnson are
collaborating on
America's First River:
The
History
and Culture
of the Hudson
River
Valley,
a project of
the HFCQ
Commission. The
book will be a compilation of
the
best of
the articles from
the
Hudson River Valley
Review and its predecessor,
the
Hudson
Valley Regional
Review.
■
HRVI coordinated a project document-
ing the
history of
the
Hudson-spanning
Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge,
which opened in 1888 and went out of
use
after a fire in
1974
damaged the tracks.
The nonprofit organization Walkway Over
the
Hudson has partnered with
the
Dyson
Foundation to access
public
and private
funding to transform the 1.25-mile-long
bridge, which
rises
212 feet
above the river,























Visitors to Marist's riverfront viewed the
Half
Moon's dockside demonstrations of knot tying, flint knapping, and musketry by crew in period dress.
into
a path for walking and cycling that
will be the
longest pedestrian
bridge in the
world. The grand opening of the $35 million
walkway on Oct. 2 and 3 will feature fire-
works, a parade, bands, and
flyovers
by
aircraft from
the
Old
Rhinebeck
Aerodrome.
The Walkway organization and the
Dyson Foundation asked
HRVl
to document
the history of the bridge, supported by a
$30,000 grant from the Dyson Foundation.
Jason Schaaf
'97,
education supervisor for
HRVI and an adjunct lecturer
in
history
at Marist, organized
the
project
in
which
about a dozen
HRVI
student
interns,
as well
as
members
of an honors history course,
researched and conducted more
than 42
interviews with people associated with the
railroad bridge,
including
engineers who
drove trains across the span. The students
also
transcribed the interviews.
With help
from their own student interns, staff of
ExploreNY
400.com
HUDSON•
FULTON•
CHAMPLAIN
the Marist Media Center videotaped the
interviews and compiled them for a docu-
mentary. Ultimately the material will be
available in a CD collection for sale at a
visitors' center on the walkway. Meanwhile,
video clips are accessible at www.walkway.
org.
■
In conjunction with
the
Walkway Over
the
Hudson dedication and the HFCQ's focus
on the history of the Hudson, Marist will
reenact
the
first Intercollegiate Rowing
Association National Championship Regatta
held in
Poughkeepsie in 1895. Supported
by
a $25,000 grant from the
Jane
W.
Nuhn
Charitable
Trust,
the Quadricentennial
Regatta
on Oct. 3 will bring back teams
from
the three original contenders: Cornell
University, Columbia University, and the
University of Pennsylvania. Other rowing
powers of the old Poughkeepsie Regatta
such as Navy and Syracuse will
return
to
the
ban
ki;
of the
Hudson,
and
local
teams
Marist, Army, and Vassar will also partici-
pate.
Each
school will select an eight-person
varsity squad
to
compete
in
both men's and
women's
four-mile
races. The regatta will
commence near Roger's Point and finish
just south of
the
Mid-Hudson Bridge. As
in the original regatta, all crew teams will
start side by side at the same time and race
to the
finish.
■
:@OUGHKEEPSIE
:f?EGA
TI A :: 1925
OFFICIAL
PROGRAM
l'Klt.. t:
HHHn
Fl\ F t..'EN"TS
This fall, Mari st will reenact the Intercollegiate
Rowing Association National
Championship
Regatta, which was held in Poughkeepsie from
1895 to 1949. The Marist
College
Archives hold
a
collection of
original Poughkeepsie Regatta
programs, including the
one
above.
SUMMER
2009
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news
to
share, let your
fellow
alumni hear from you.
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
1953
I
After eight years of pariish minis-
try in
West Virginia,
Bro.
Philip
R.
Ouellene has returned
lo
the House
of
Prayer
Community
in
Esopus, N.Y.,
where
he is
doing spiritua
I
direction
and
retreat
work.
ln
Junie
2009 he
celebrated his 61st anniversary as a
Marist Brother.
lnsurn•uc=:
1954
Bro. William A. Lavignoe received
a
new
assignment in September
as director of
two
communities of
retired
Brothers
in Miami, Fla.
Many
of
the
30 brothers
there are
involved
in Christopher Columbus
High
School and SL
Brendan Hitgh
School
in Miami.
1955
Bro.
Declan
Murray has
a
leeling that
his
teaching years, which started in
1954, are about to end. His principal
has
promised
that
he will still be a
full-time faculty member.
1956
John
Qack) Duggan
and his wife,
Anne, continue to enjoy tlheir retire-
ment. Their four kids reside in Denver,
Colo.
John
and Anne reoently cele-
brated
the third
birthday of
their
grandson, Devon
Jack.
To
the
Class
of
'56,
he asks, "Any
thoughts
on our
55,h.year reunion?" Please contact
him with
ideas
at (516) 997-6547.
I
Prof.
James P.
Friel
continues
to
edit A/TIA/Humanities Magazine. He
is completing his memoirs for publi-
cation.
I
Francis Gallogly is living
at
St. Thomas Monastery
on the campus
of Villanova University in Villanova,
Pa.
He
tutors
students and does parish
work in the area.
Ijames
Madden's
daughter, Mary Patricia Grace,
married Ronald Eugene l<ubart on
July
5, 2008, in Marist's Our
Lady
of
Wisdom Chapel.
1957
Edmond
McElroy
(Bro. Eugene
Thomas)
notes that
in 1957
he
designed the three interlocking
tables
that
were outside Greystone for what
was originally a picnic area on
the
Marist College campus.
He recalls
submiuing
his
drawings teo founding
president Paul Ambrose Fontaine,
who in turn gave them
to
'Bro. Nilus
Donnelly,
the man generally credited
with the planning and cons1rruction
of
Marist College presented
Suresh Kothapalli
'91M
with its
Distinguished Alumni Medal during May 2009 commencement cer-
emonies. Suresh is the CEO of iSpace, Inc., a company he founded in
2001 that specializes in information technology and business pro-
cess services for companies in the health care, entertainment, auto,
and financial services industries. Inc. magazine has ranked iSpace,
based in Los Angeles, Calif., among the S,000 fastest-growing pri-
vate companies in the U.S. for the past three years. Shown above are
Suresh (left) and Dr. Roger Norton, dean of the School of Computer
Science and Mathematics, at a commencement reception.
buildings on the campus in the
1950s
and 1960s.
1961
Msgr.
Rev. Joseph R.
Roth, PA,
is
leading efforts
10
build a new Catholic
high school
in
Myrtle Beach, S.C. He
is a
pastor
at St. Andrew Catholic
Church
in
Myrtle Beach and vicar
for education
in the
Diocese of
Charleston, S.C. He is
the
chap-
lain for the S.C. State Fire Fighters
Association,
the
Myrtle Beach Fire
Department, and the Myrtle Beach
Police Department.
1962
William
Lenehan,
former football
and crew coach, turned 70 on Dec. 25,
2008. He is still enjoying his family,
volunteer work, and fishing and
hunt-
ing. He has
not
forgotten his former
athletes.
IM.
John O'Connell is
still
successfully
locating
and connect-
ing with former classmates. They
had their sixth annual
"gathering"
in spring
2008.1
Frank Swetz has
become a grandfather for the first
time. For news about his
recent
book,
see Alumni Authors.
1963
Frank Sutton
says it has been great
10
see Marist alumni at Suuon's
Place, his mini-bed and breakfast in
Manchester Center, VL
~num-ua
~
1964
Fr. Edward Doran
has been appoint-
ed pastor of St. Charles Borromeo
Church in Brooklyn, N.Y.
IJohn
J.
Guiliano
has been
living
at
the
seashore in Apollo Beach near Tampa,
Fla., for four years. He would
like
10
be
in
contact with former classmates.
Reach John at jjguil
iano@aol.com.
I
Bro. Rene
Roy
received
an honor-
ary doctorate in education from St.
Anselm College on May 17, 2008. He
also received
the
Bishop Cheverus
Medal
from
Cardinal Sean O'Malley,
the Archbishop of Boston, on Nov.
23, 2008, for dedicated service
10
the
Church.
1965
Joseph
Lloyd
is spending retirement
years
in
Poughkeepsie,
NY., and Vero
Plllrnli·R
The flag denotes
f
iasses that will celebrate
reunions
in 2009






















Beach, Fla.
I
Stanley Morris trav-
eled with his
wife,
Peggy,
to
Beijing,
Guilin, and Shanghai as an ambas-
sador for the American Association
of Orthodontists in 2007.1
Dr.
J.
Brien O'Callaghan's
wife,
Judy,
was appointed clinical
director
at
Newtown
Youth
and Family Services
in Newtown, Conn., on Sept.
1,
2008.
She
is
also a substance abuse coun-
selor for New
Fairfield
Public Schools
in New
Fairfield,
Conn., and works
with her husband at
Psychotherapy
Associates in
Brookfield,
Conn.
I
Robert
O'Handley has retired
from the Massachusetts
1
nstitute of
Technology
after almost
23
years.
He
now works
full
time with a small
technology
company he co-found-
ed
in 2002,
Ferro Solutions.
I
In May
2009
Larry
Plover
was inducted
posthumously
into the Hall
of
Fame
of
the Mid-Hudson
Civic Center,
a
major
concert
hall
in downtown
Poughkeepsie. During the 1970s
Larry booked entertainment
for
the
Civic Center
and
was
instrumental
in
its
success,
lining up perform-
ers such as
James
Taylor,
Billy Joel,
Joan
Baez, Natalie Cole, Van Cliburn,
Pete
Seeger, and Arlo Guthrie.
He
was
perhaps
best known
for open-
ing
another downtown music venue
in 1970
known as
the
Chance, which
hosted
more
than
2,000 shows in all
genres.
1966
Bro. John
Allen
again is teaching
adults and children
in
a parish in
McAllen,
Texas, after
five
years as
chancellor of
the Diocese
of
Laredo.
IJohn
Gallagher,
who is a lifetime
member of
the Milton,
N.Y.,
engine
company,
was elected
president in
July
2008 of
the
Ulster County Volunteer
Firemen's
Association,
which consists
of more
than 40
volunteer
fire
compa-
nies.
lJoseph
Garcia
and
his
wife are
enjoying
retirement
in Florida.
IA
Ian
Schultz
is
airport
manager
and chief
flight
instructor
at
River
Aviation at
Kingston/Ulster
Airport in
Kingston,
NY. His dream job
is
"retirement!"I
James Wright reports
that
Katherine
Wright
'00 and
James Hunter
'00
welcomed
Theresa Elizabeth on Nov.
8,
2008. The new
baby joins sister
Erin
at
home.
1967
Dr. Ronald
Anderson
and
his
wife
are co-presidents
of one of the Florida
Orchestra's guilds, which helps
support and
promote the
orchestra.
They are
also
Eucharistic ministers
at their church.
I
Robert Johnson's
daughter,
Jennifer,
is executive
producer of
Cold Case,
which airs
Maj. Robin Benziger
'02M
was awarded the first Marist
College School of Mana!Jement
Outstanding Alumna Award
June 2 at The Desm,ond in
Albany, N.Y., for
her
dedlication
to public service and overall
career accomplishmi!nts.
A
25-year veteran of t~ae New
York State Police, she earned
an MPA from Marist., has a
bachelor's degree
ina
crimi-
nal
justice from Buffalo State
College, and graduated from
the FBI National Academy.
Sundays on CBS. His son, Paul,
has
started a
public
life as a member of
the
local
planning board. His wife,
Cathy,
has
started playing guitar, is
taking care of
her
mother, and is also
training their standard schnauzer, a
very
tough
job.
Bob's
business, Kaffe
Magnum
Opus
(www.kmocoffee.com),
continues to grow. Bob
has,
given up
golf but is singing lots of f,olk, Irish,
and bluegrass songs.
He is reading
The Encore Effect by Mark Sanborn.
Anyone who wants
to
vis:it is invit-
ed
to
write
him
at bob@gtc3.com.1
Timothy agle
is an adjunct professor
of education and supervisor of student
and practicum
teachers
at William
Paterson
University.
lJohm
Perring-
Mulligan
moved to Apple Valley,
Calif., and accepted a position at St.
Mary Medical Center.
Jobin
and
his
wife
love
California.I
Fred
)Policastri
welcomed grandson
Tyler
S.chiavone.
Tyler
joins grandchildren Megan and
Lauren.
I
Rupert Ross
says
the
fishing
is
great
in
Pon Aransas, Texas.
1968
Thomas Bauer
retired Juli, 1,
2008,
after 40 years of
teaching
Spanish and
serving as world-language supervi-
sor at Park
Ridge High
School in New
Jersey.
He
is
still coaching football
there and managing the town pool.
I
James
Costa retired
from
1
BM at the
end of 2008.1
Robert Fal
isey
went
into private practice about
three
years
ago in California. He
recently
bought
a
new
yacht and was elected commo-
dore of a
local
yacht club.
I
Edward
Manganel's
first grandchild, Michael
James
Manganel,
arrived on March 24,
2008.
"Future
Marist
grad7"
he writes.
I
Thomas Reichert
has two
daugh-
ters
and
three
grandchildren.
His
oldest daughter is an ad exec in
New
York
City, and his youngest daugh-
ter
is a teacher
in
Newton,
N.J,
IOn
Jan.
14, before an audience of 1,400
in
Washington, D.C., Secretary
of the
Navy
Donald
C. Wimer announced
the
induction of
Retired
U.S.
Navy
Captain
Paul
X.
Rinn
into the Surface
Navy Hall of Fame. Encompassing
more
than
200 years of American
military history,
the honor
has been
conferred on only 86
individuals
for
making an exceptionally
signifi-
cant contribution to
the
Continental
Navy, U.S. Surface Navy, or Surface
Navy warfare. Honorees
include
such
legendary
naval officers
as
Capt. John
Paul Jones,
Adm. David Farragut,
and Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. Paul
was recognized for
his
actions while
serving as the commanding officer of
USS Samuel
B. Roberts
when, on April
l4, 1988, the ship struck an Iranian
mine
in the Persian
Gulf, sustaining
catastrophic damage, progressive
flooding,
loss
of propulsion and elec-
tric power, and personnel
injuries. He
led
his
heroic crew
in
controlling the
devastating damage and
then
navi-
gated through 11 remaining mines
to save the Samuel B. Roberts with-
out the loss of a single life. Paul is
now vice president of management
consulting for Whitney, Bradley
&
Brown,
Inc.,
which
is
headquartered
in Reston, Va., and provides engineer-
ing and technical support services
to
U.S. government
and industry clients.
ln;nm-nw
--
1969
After a career
in
the
public
sector,
James
Conroy
retired
to begin
a
new career
in
commercial
real
estate.
He recently
became
an associate
broker with Prudential Blake Atlantic
Realtors
in Albany.
James
and
his
wife,
Phyllis, are celebrating
their
41st year
of marriage and
have three
grown
children:Jacqueline '91,
Chuck
'00,
and
Jim.
They
have
four grandchil-
dren:
Madeline, Julia,
Sophie, and
Will. He
reports that
life is good and
that he is looking
forward to seeing
classmates at
his
40'h-year
reunion
this
October.
I
Daniel
W.
Fitzpatrick,
the
city
manager
of Englewood,
NJ.,
has
been appointed to the 2009 Board
Daniel W. Fitzpatrick
'69
of Examiners
forthe Malcolm
Baldrige
National
Quality Award
Program.
He
was appointed by the deputy direc-
tor of
the
U.S. National
Institute
of
Standards
and
Technology.
The award,
created by public
laws
in 1987,
is
the
highest
level
of
national
recognition
for performance excellence
that
a
U.S. organization can receive. As an
examiner, Daniel reviews
and
eval-
uates applications
for the
award.
I
Robert
Hatfield Jr.
is in
his
second
year as chairman of
the
Orange
County
(N
.Y.)
United Way.
I
William
Henn
and
his
wife, Patricia, recently
celebrated
their 40th
wedding anni-
versary. Seven of
their
children are
Marist graduates.
I
StephenJohnson
is still working, and his son,
Kevin, is
a member of Marist's Class
of
2012.
I
Gregory King
and his wife,
Rosie,
marked their 36'
h
wedding anniversa-
ry
in
2008. They have three children:
Patrick, Danielle,and Dominic.lBob
Mennonna
retired in 2002,
after 30
years as an elementary and middle
school
teacher
and elementary
school principal in Arlington, Va.,
public schools. Bob
is
on the board
of
directors
of a
nonprofit, Dismas
House
New
Mexico. Dismas House
provides temporary housing for
men
and women exiting prison.
In July
2009 he
was
to
become president of
the board.I
William Rowley
retired
from
his
position
as councilman in
the town of
Islip
on Dec. 31, 2008.
He
continues
to
work as a consultant in
employee
benefits at Profile Coverage
Corp.
lJoseph
Sommers'
son
is
now
a firefighter
in
Hackensack,
NJ., and
his
daughter
is
a
teacher.
1970
Philip
Cappio's
oldest daughter,
Moria, ran her third marathon
in
New York City on Nov. 2, follow-
ing in her dad's footsteps.
I
Stephen
Caramore
coached
his
10-year-old-
son
Christopher's
travel baseball
team
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notes
◄
in
the
summer or 2008. The team
made the National Junior Baseball
League playoffs.
I
Col.
Andrew
Fallon
has a
new
grandson. Sean and
•
~
Melissa Fallon and their son, Mason,
~
welcomed Gavin Christopher on Dec.
C
21, 2008.
He
weighed 6 pounds
and
H
15 ounces and was
19
inches
long.
I
rl
Arthur Jung recently
returned
from
~
his
fifth trip to Antarctica. An envi-
~
ronmental scientist,
he
prepares
~
environmental impact assessments
for
the
National Science Foundation.
I
Bro.John Klein
has
been appointed
general secretary of
the Institute
of
the
Marist
Brothers,
effective March
2010.
He will manage the work of
the
Marist Brothers worldwide. Based
in Rome, he will work closely with
Superior
General
Sean Sammon
'70.
Brother
John has
been a member
of
Marist
College's Board ofTrustees
since 2005.1
Peter Masterson
is a
village trustee and police commis-
sioner in
his
hometown of Williston
Park,
N.Y.
ITim
Sinnott
is the past
CEO of Crossroads Centre Antigua,
an international nonprofit facil-
ity
for
the
treatment
of alcohol and
drug dependencies.
He
is
taking
the
executive
director position
at
Bayside
Marin, a substance abuse
treatment
center
in
San
Rafael,
Calif.I
Edward
Zujkowski's
son, Joe,
is
an associate
at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
and was
named the
December
Player
of
the Month
by the
New
York City
Lawyers
Football
League.
1971
Dr. David
Gordon's
wife, Dr. Barbara
Hill, has been
hired by Zenith
Minerals
of Oklahoma City as a
consulting geologist.
I
Francis
(Steve)
Moore
has
relocated
from southeast-
ern Pennsylvania
to Mount Juliet,
Tenn.
Ijames
Pratt-Heaney
opened
a private wealth management firm
in
Westport, Conn., and was featured on
Fox Business News. His wife,
Susan
Pratt-Heaney
'72,
continues
to
sell
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During the Baccalau1reate Awards ceremony, Julie Anne Lavin
'09
and Erik K. Zeyher
'09
received the 2009
Alumni Leadership Award for the significant contributions they made to the Marist community. Julie
was the president o,f the Class of 2009, created and produced Marist's Campus Cooking Show, and held
internships at the F,~od Network, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Mari
st.
Erik served as student
body president and president of the National Residence Hall Honorary, completed two student-teaching
internships,
and sit!; on the Arlington
(N.Y.)
Central School District Board of Trustees. Both Julie and Erik
were members of the 2009 Senior Class Gift Committee which made history by raising more money for
the Marist Fund than any
other
graduating class. From left: President of the Alumni Association Jeffrey
M. Schanz
'94/'99M,.
Erik, Julie, and President Dennis J. Murray.
her artwork in Southampton, N.Y.
I
Patricia Rittenhouse
is :still
teaching
at Tyburn Academy
in
Auburn, NY.
1972,
George Brown's
wife, Lorna, was
promoted to deputy
chief of
procure-
ment for
the
National Park Service in
Lakewood,
Colo.
ILarry
Lomuto
is
coordinator of psychi:atric admis-
sion at Stanford Univer!;ity
Hospital
in Palo
Alto, Calif.
I
Susan
Prall-
Heaney
continues to sen
her
artwork
in
Southampton, NY. Her
husband,
James Pratt-Heaney
'71,
opened a
private wealth management firm in
Westport, Conn., and was featured
on Fox
Business
News.
I
Michael
Smith is
vice president of Elam, Inc.,
in
Goshen,
NY.,
a
regional
health care
and housing provider for seniors. He
is
also a corporate compliance officer
with Elant.lRodney
Steller,
DMD,
has
been an
assistant
professor of
surgery at Yale Universilty
School of
Medicine
for
the
past eight years.
1973,
Richard
Cairns
joined
the
New
York Metropolitan Ira
nsportation
Authority as
deputy
director/
labor counsel
in
2008.
I
Bruce
Cunningham
retired as a major with
the U.S. Park Police on S,:pt. 27, 2008,
after more than 32 yea
rs
of federal
law enforcement service. He resides
in Papillion,
Neb., with
his
wife, Alice,
and has four grandchildren.
A
fifth
was due in ApriLIWillliam
Davis
is an adjunct
instructor
in commu-
nication arts and career services at
Marist. He was a
full-tinne instructor
in communication
ans at Marist from
1990 to 2000.IRichard
Freccia
was
named as Counselor of the County
for Monmouth County, NJ,
in 2008.
He
is
a school counselor at Allentown
High School in Allentown,
NJ, and is
also a statistician for ESPN Regional
Television on college football and
basketball
broadcasts.
I
Stuart
Neil
was selected for inclusion in the
2008
edition of Who's Who in America.
lJack
Simeone
is associate executive direc-
tor of grant research and development
for Catholic Charities of the
Diocese
of Albany, NY.Jack has
provided
30
years of service to Catholic Charities
agencies in upstate New York.
I
Dr.
John G.
Siolas
was selected by the
Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit
Foundation as a visiting professor
for
the
spring
2008
semester at the
Department of Linguistics of the
University of Athens. An associate
professor
of education in the Graduate
Division
of
the
School of Education
at St. John's University, he
has
been
involved in the
instruction of applied
linguistics and bilingual/multicultur-
al education at St.
John's
since 1985.
~hfim•UJI
.,
1974
Eleanor Bockley
and
her husband,
Karl, traveled
to Wisconsin in
September to attend the wedding
of
Jennifer
Mortensen, daughter of
Beth McDonald Mortensen.
I
Mark
Kleinhans
celebrated
his
30-year
anniversary with
the
IBM Corp. in
November 2008.1
Francis Martin
retired from the U.S. Department of
the
lnterior.
lJohn
Merlino retired
on July
1,
2008, after 34 years in
education.
IJoseph
Scuderi
has
been
a
security guard for more
than
23
years. Currently
he
is
posted
in
A.I.
Friedman,
an art supply store
in
Port
Chester,
N.Y.
I
Lydia
Tringali
says she thoroughly enjoyed watch-
ing
Bill O'Reilly
'71
during election
season. She would like
to
say
hi
to
all
her
fellow alumni.
I
Marie
Upton-
Murphy
bought a house
in
Ocoee,
Fla., and
loves
the area.
1975
Joseph
Cirasella
Jr.
and his wife,
Rosanne,
will celebrate their
25•h
anni-
versary on Sept. 30,
2009. His
son
Joseph graduated
from
Iona
in
June
2008, and his son Justin is
in
the
civil
engineering
program
at Manhattan
College.
I
Gloria
A
pap
Costanza
moved to Suffolk
County,
Long
Island,
and teaches
theology to ninth
and
tenth graders at St. Anthony's High
School
in
South
Huntington,
N.Y.
I
Maureen O'Toole Reimers's
daugh-
ter
Meghan
is
pursuing a bachelor's
degree
and working full time.
Her
daughter Jaclyn
is
an adjunct profes-
sor at
Florida
State University.
1976
Lesley
Springstun
Schaffer
has a
new
home in Grants, N.M., where
she is
in
her second year of teach-
ing
eighth grade special education.
I
Gregory
Welsh
continued his 27-year
career
in the
financial industry
by
joining
Dagher Lambert
Financial
Services
in
2008.
'1i"/h·IZ::
The flag
denotes
classes that
will
celebrate
reunions
in 2009



























1977
Charles
Bang
is chief accounting offi-
cer with
CJ
Apparel Group in New
York City. The company produces
the Caribbean Joe and Ellen Tracy
brands.I
Dr. Marie Donovan
is serv-
ing
as dean ad interim for
the
School
of Education at DePaul University
in
Chicago, 111.
IJeffrey
Nick's son,
Jordan, graduated from Marisl in
May 2009 His daughter, Natalie, will
attend MarisL
in the
fall
of 2009 and
received
a
Presidential
Scholarship
from the College. She also
received
the prestigious Thomas H. Watson
Memorial Scholarship
from
the IBM
Corp. More
than
2,000 students
applied for the scholarship, which
recognizes academic excellence by
high school students planning Lo
pursue a traditional baccalaureate
degree al an accredited four-year
college, university, or military acad-
emy in
the
U.S.
I
Barbara
Stern
is an
active member of Marist's Center for
Lifetime Study.
1978
Sam Letterii is
principal of Krieger
Elementary School in Poughkeepsie,
N.Y.
IG.
Brian Morgan
was appoint-
ed corporation counsel of
the
City
of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., by the city's
mayor,John
Tkaz:yik
'03, in
January
2008.1
Yvonne Sewell
is an associ-
ate professor
at Dutchess Community
College
in Poughkeepsie,
NY.
I
Duane
Smith's
daughter, Megan, is a junior
at Marist, majoring in psychology/
special education.
lrn•m,-na
--
1979
Maria Diaz
Deeken
was designated
2008 Teacher of
the
Year for Region
2 of
the
Association for Career and
Technical Education. Region 2, one
of ACTE's five regions, includes
Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Georgia, Alabama, Florida,
the
Bahamas,
Puerto Rico, and the Virgin
Islands. She
represented
Region 2
at the national ACTE meeting in
December 2008 and was one of the
top five contenders in the nation for
Teacher of the Year.
I
Arthur
Dugan
has
retired from the IBM Corp.
I
Christopher Faille
continues his
work as a reporter, covering the
alternative investment industry.
I
Barbara Skidmore
was admitted to
the Academy
of Cognitive Therapy in
May2008
1980
Robert Feeley's
daughter, Caroline,
is a
sophomore
at Marist.
1981
Matthew
Cole is
now a
"Y
Guy,"
working at the
local
YMCA in
Hendersonville, N.C.
I
Richard
Grainger
was inducted into the
MetLife
tns1i1u1ional
Hall of Fame.
In
attendance were Marist alumni
Joe
Madden
'88 and
Tom Fllavin
'89.1
Katheryn
Green's
daugh1ter,
Bridgit
Mennite, married Jonathan Glick;
both are medical doctors
·in
the emer-
gency room at Bay State Hospital in
Springfield,
Mass.
I
Brian McGowan's
daughter, Chelsea, is a sophomore at
Wells College in Aurora, N.Y.
I
Cicely
Perrotte
and
Rosemary Molloy
'91
are still enjoying their gallery in Red
Hook, N.Y., and Cicely :says she
is
managing to get some painting done.
Grandchildren, choir, and volunteer-
ing for hospice keep her busy.
1982
Richard Keenan
is
senio,r vice pres-
ident, grant development, at North
American Center for Continuing
Medical Education-Princeton
Continuing Medical Education.
I
Patrick Rush
finished
hi.s
31st year
as a Jones Beach lifeguard, working
weekends
at Robert Moses Field No. 2.
1983
Theresa Sullivan Barger resigned
from her editing and writing job of
nearly 20 years with the Hartford
Courant and started
her
own busi-
ness as a freelance journa1list,
public
relations consultant, and B:rant
writer.
I
Thomas
Schaffer
recently expand-
ed his insurance practice to include
financial services.
James Barnes '84 was named
the 2008
Ernst
&
Young
Entrepreneur of the Year in the
award program's nationwide
services category. National
winners were chosen in 10 cat-
egories from 269 winners in
26 regions across the United
States. Earlier in the year, Jim
received the 2008 Ernst
&
Young
Entrepreneur of the Year in the
business services category for
the New England region. In
addition, the Hartford (Conn.)
Business Journal
named him
Person of the Year. Jim is chief
executive officer of OAKLEAF, a
provider of waste and recycling
services nationwide. OAKLEAF
is based in East Hartford, Conn.
lrnuw-ua
--
1984
Liz
Cook Funk
and her husband,
Steve, live in Litchfield,
Conn., with
their four children.
lJack
Grafing
lives in Mineola, N.Y., with his
wife, Diane, and their
two
children,
Jack and Erin. He is also
the
sales
manager of the New York National
Boat Show.
I
Kathleen Lloyd
and
her husband helped to create a new
athletic booster club system for their
school district and
launched
a web
site, www.hauppaugeeaglesfootball.
com. They
hope
to see everyone at
the Class of
'84's
25th reunion in
October 2009.
1985
Donald Goess
recently relocated to
San Antonio, Texas, where
he
works
for UPS as a sales account executive.
His wife, April, is associate
director of
education for the Culinary
Institute
of America's newest campus, which
is in San Antonio.
lJohn
Loughlin
is a lieutenant colonel in the Army
Reserve
and recently completed
a six-
month tour in Iraq. As a member of
the Army Reserve,
he
worked with
the 2009 Presidential Armed Forces
1
nauguration Committee.
I
Michael
Lowen
and his wife, Tara, announce
the birth of their second son, Michael
Halpin
Lowen
Jr., on
June
14, 2008,
weighing 8 pounds and 2 ounces.
Michael, Tara,
Luke,
and Michael
Jr.
live in New York
City and Lido Beach,
N.Y.IClara
Stevens
is proud 10 have
her son, Ryan, attending Marist.
1986
Anthony
DeBarros
was
named
senior
database editor at USA
Today.lTerry
Ketcham
recently
changed
jobs to the
purchasing section at Consolidated
Edison Co. of New York.
I Lynne
McGahan
Lehrkinder
is
a psycho-
logical
counselor at Monmouth
University. She recently hosted an
alumni gathering at her home with
a guest visitor, Pat Patterson.
I
Bill
Losey
appears regularly on CNBC's
On the Money as the resident retire-
ment expert. He was named one of
America's Top Financial Planners in
2008 and 2009 by
the
Consumers'
Research Council of America.
I
Christian
Morrison
just
complet-
ed
his
l4'
h
year at Sacred
Heart
University as
head
track and field/
cross country coach. The team won
its
first conference championship at the
NCAA Division
I
level
in
2008. The
men won the
Northeast
Conference
(NEC)
indoor
track champion-
ship, and both
the
men and women
won NEC outdoor track champion-
ships. Christian was
named
2008
NEC Men's Indoor Coach of the Year,
2008 NEC Men's Outdoor Coach of
the Year, and 2008 NEC Women's
Outdoor Coach of the Year.
These
three
awards raised his career total
of NEC Coach of
the
Year
awards
to
six.
I
Michael
O'Brien
was appointed
executive vice president and director,
New York
Client Service, at Ketchum.
Formerly he was president of the
global consumer practice at Cohn &
Wolfe. Michael focuses on enhancing
and expanding client relations while
also coaching and mentoring client
directors in New York and serving
as a member of the company's New
York executive team. Ketchum ranks
among the largest global public
rela-
tions agencies,
operating in more than
50 countries.
I
Bonnie Ponce's
daugh-
ter, Amanda, completed her first year































notes
◄
at Marist and
loved
it. She was on the
cheerleading
squad and rode with
the
Equestrian
Club.I
David Rakowiecki
completed
a feature film called
Spoiler
•
,......
Alert
that he wrote, produced, direct-
~
ed, and
financed.
He's entering it
in
C
film festivals and seeking distribu-
H
lion.
For more
information,
visit www.
rl
spoileralenmovie.com.
I
Stephen
~
Ryan
married Michele Cordiello of
~
Bellmore, N.Y.,
on Sept. 20,
2008.1
~
Lincoln Terzian
was admitted
lO
the
Grant Thornton, LLP, partnership as
a tax partner
in
charge of the firm's
Northeast
International
tax
practice
on Nov. 3, 2008. Lincoln was previ-
ously a
tax
partner at KPMG,
LLP.
1987
Richard
Goldman
and his wife
welcomed their second child, daugh-
ter Jena, born Dec. 9, 2006. He is an
assistant vice president and account
manager for Citibank Student Loans,
working with schools from the
Albany/Capital
region to
New York
City.
I
LTC
Kevin Kaley
is battal-
ion commander
for
a drill sergeant
basic combat training battalion and
is
mobilized to
Fort
Sill, Okla., for one
year.
I
Marydale Dolezal Leonard
married in 2004 and
has
welcomed
two children with
her
husband,
Michael: Thomas Dale, born May 3,
2006, and Grace Alana, born May 25,
2007.1
Karen Manion
has
moved
lO
Southern California.
She's very happy
and loving
it
there.
1988
CW4
Michael
Carson
was
recently
posted to Katterbach,
Germany,
as
the
battalion aviation maintenance
officer.
The
assignment follows
16
months
in
Iraq,
supporting the Marine Corps
in Al Asad as a MEDEVAC
pilot.
I
Glen Middleton
and his wife, Rocio,
had a son, Scott Charles, on March
31, 2009.
IJohn
Polidoro
and his
wife, Kristin, welcomed a baby boy,
Cameron Bayliss, born Feb. 9, 2009.
Cameron
joins
big sister Madison
Rainey at
home.
~B!IUN~K
~
1989
James Dick
began working for
Hitachi
America,
Ltd.,
in Tarrytown, N.Y.,
in
September 2008. He is
responsible
for the company's compensation and
human resources
information
systems
programs.
Ijames
Heffernan
is still
a sergeant in the NYPD and plan-
ning to retire
in 2010.
I
Deborah
Kuffner
retired in June
2008 from the
Hyde
Park (N.Y.)
School District as a
special education teacher.I
Christine
Domurat Maio
is
a manager, exter-
24
M A R l S T M A G A Z
I
N E
O'me
•
A Homecoming Gift:
Class of 1968 Honors Alumni
Who Served
i1n
Military
A record
number
of alumni
returned
to
campus in October 2008
to
celebrate
Home-
coming and
Reunion Weekend, including
more
than 600 alumni who auended class
reunions.
In honor
of
its
40'
h
reunion,
the Class
of 1968 established an endowed scholar-
ship with
leadership
pledges from Marist
Trustees
Jim
Barnes and Brendan Burke,
Larry Carr, and Pa
1
ul
Rinn.
'03
The
class also
presented Marist
with a
new
50-foot aluminum flagpole
in front
of
Donnelly Hall. At a ceremony on the
Sat-
urday
evening of
Homecoming
Weekend,
Jim Barnes,
speaking on
behalf
of
his
class,
dedicated
the
flagpole in
honor
of all Marist
graduates who served in the United
States
military,
particularly Frank Egan '68, who
Members of Ed Cashin
'52's
family attended the dedication
of a room in Fontaine Hall in his honor. Cutting the ribbon
were (left to right) Ed's daughter Milette
Cashin
Esposito,
Milette's
son
Edward
"Charlie"
Esposito, and Mary Ann
Cashin, Ed's wife.
was
killed in Vietnam.
Paul
Rinn
then
presented
President
Dennis
J.
Murray and
the
College with a
special American Hag. The U.S. Marine Corps gave
Paul the
flag
in Washington, D.C., after it
had
flown
over the
Capitol,
the
Marine
Corps Memorial, and
the
Pentagon
on the anniversary of 9/11
this
past
year. The flag will be
permanently
displayed on
campus. The
Mari5;t ROTC
Color Guard
retired the
College's existing flag and
presented
it to
2008-09
Student
Governme:nt
President Erik
Zeyher
'09.
See
photos
of
Lh1e
ceremony at www.marist.edu/
alumni/home08.ht.ml.
Ed Cashin '52 Remembered
The
weekend also saw
the dedication
of
Room 103
in
Fontaine Hall
to Dr.
EdwardJ. Cashin
'52,
a
noted
historian,
teacher,
and academic
leader
at Marist.
Dr.
Louis
Zuccarello spearheaded
the
event, and many
members of the Class of 1968came
to
pay tribute to
the man
who served as
Marist's
first academic vice
president
from
1963
to
1968.
A number of current
and
former
faculty members also attended.
See
photos
oft
he
dedication at www.marist.edu/
alumni/home08.html.
From top left: Bill Zabicki
'66
and Class of 1968 members Bill Kuffner, John Lynch, Jim Barnes, Brendan
Burke, and Charle:, Milligan with Sgt. Roy Moweary
(far
right) and the ROTC Color
Guard.


























nal communications, with Arrow
Electronics in Melville, NY. She
lives
in Seaford, N.Y., with
her
husband,
Tony Maio
'88,
and
their
daughter,
Kate.
lJill
Seidman
Martin
and her
husband,
Steve, announce the birth of
twin
girls, Ava Pearl and Sara Claire,
on
May
25, 2007.1
Chris Pappas
married
Danny FiLzGerald on Dec.
30, 2007. She is an assistant costume
designer
on the NBC
TV
show 30 Roch.
I
Cheryl Popovich-Golestani
lives
in
Skillman, NJ, with her husband and
four
children. She is president of a
not-for-profit soccer association in
Princeton,
NJ, serving the needs of
more
than
1,000 children.
1990
Laurie Cerveny, Esq.,
is a partner at
Bingham McCutchin, LLP,
in Boston,
Mass.
I
Christopher
McMullan
retired from
the
Dumont (NJ) Police
Department as a sergeant and started
a security and investigations
company.
I
Glenn Onos
was appointed senior
vice president and chief
information
officer of
the
Wilen Group.
lYolanda
Robano-Gross
is the director of
devel-
opmental disabilities services for
PSCH.
She
lives in
Woodmere, N.Y.,
with her
husband.John,
and daugh-
ter, Morgan.
I
Christopher Rohde
was appointed president of Archon
Vitamin Corp. in Somerset,
NJ.
He
is
responsible
for
the management
and
day-to-day operations of the Archon
manufacturing
facility and its 70
employees. Archon
makes
vitamins,
minerals,
herbals, and other nutri-
tional
products.
1991
Marlon
Hosang
married Andrea
Scott on May 30, 2008.
He
was
appointed
principal of
PS
64 in New
York City in
February
2009.IVoula
Kakaletris had
a baby girl, Anna
Sofia, on Nov.
13,
2008. Anna
joins
big sister Kristina.
I
Jay Murray
and
his wife, Georgia, welcomed
their first
child,
a
son,
Taylor Reed, born
Dec.
30, 2008.1
Peter O'Keefe
and
his
wife, Sara, climbed Mt.
Kilimanjaro
in
Africa in August 2008.IGreg
Ordway
is working for Pepsico, and
his
wife,
Erin Hubbard Ordway,
is
a home-
maker.
I
David Scalzo's
son, Cody,
will attend Marisl as a freshman
in
the fall of 2009.1
Keith Simons
and
his wife,
Amy Pfannkuch Simons
'97,
announce the birth of their daughter,
Georgia Frances, born March 2, 2008.
Georgia joins big
brother Keegan
Thomas and
big
sister Anabelle
Elizabeth.
lJeffrey
Thibeault
and
his
wife welcomed their
first
baby,
Presley
McCoy,
on April 19, 2008.
She weighed 6 pounds and 8 ounces.
Steven Trapasso '08 has been serving with the AmeriCorps National
Civilian Community
1
Corps. His team recently was in Nevada, restor-
ing parts of the Truckee River by removing invasive species while
planting native one:s, and repairing sand dunes around the state.
He is one of only a handful of AmeriCorps NCCC members who
hold three positions. As physical training coordinator, he plans an
exercise regimen
fo1r the group. As nutrition consultant, he estab-
lished team goals to eat more veggies, fruits, whole grains, and
preservative-freefo,ods. As project outreach liaison, he represents
NCCC when communicating with various nonprofits.
"NCCC is the best decision
I ever made," he says,
"and
I encour-
age all recent graduates to look into it."
Above: Steven v.i•orked with the Sacramento Tree Foundation
removing debris, invasive species, and barbed wire at a wildlife
refuge in the Sacran~ento, Calif., area.
1992
James
Alecca
is
still distributing
his debut music CD, which was
released Aug. 2, 2005. He celebrated
his 40th birthday milestone on April
28, 2009.1
Kevin
Francii; is
assistant
vice president of global operations
for Wellington Manage:ment, LLP.
Kevin and his wife welc:omed their
third
child, Gavin Ross, on March
18, 2009.1
Martin Hochhauser
is
the
coordinator of the ACT
High
Stakes Testing Center
211
Dutchess
Community College, where candi-
dates
are
tested
for certification in
more than 20
different pirofessions.l
Jennifer Chandler Karn:
welcomed
her third
son, Charles
Burke,
on April
20,
2007. He
joins
brothers
George
and Jack.
I
Dean Mastrangelo, Esq.,
and his wife, Nancy, wekomed their
first
child, Anthony
John,
on
June
24, 2008.IChris
Henn McSweeney
and
her
husband,
Glenn Mcsweeney,
welcomed their fourth son, Timothy
Michael,
on June 16, 200B.1Timothy
Neville and
his wife, Shannon,
welcomed a son, Rowan, born May
20, 2007.
I
Matthew Noti1ne
and
Tara
Robertson
Notine
welcomed their
fourth baby boy, Christopher
John, on
July
8, 2008.
IJennifer
Johannessen
Van Keuren
and
her
husband, Kevin,
welcomed a baby girl, Aisling Nora,
on April 14, 2009.1
Vincent
Zurlo
bought
his
first
house
in 2008. He
now
hopes to
concentrate on writing.
1993
Kirsten Ryan Burko
welcomed a
son,
Brendan Eli Jacob, born Sept.
20, 2008.
IWilliam
Burns
is dean of
the Arts and
Communication
Division
at Brookdale Community College
in
Lincroft, NJ.I
Kevin Gilmartin
has
two
children, Liam Curran, born May
21, 2005, and Rowan Margaret, born
Oct. 10, 2007.
I
Keith Laurie
was
promoted to
corporate
vehicle acquisi-
tion
manager
at Enterprise Rent-A-Car
and relocated
from Columbia, S.C.,
to St. Louis, Mo.
His
responsibili-
ties
include providing
field
support
for
Enterprise
locations throughout
the
U.S. and Canada.
I
Maria Licari-
Cohen
enjoyed producing cooking
segments with
Good
Morning
America
guests,
including
Rocco DiSpirito,
Cat Cora, Ina Garten, and Rachael
Ray.
I
Deanna Reisert
announces
the
birth of her fourth child, Allie
Michelle,
born May 2, 2008.1
Leanne
Murphy Schiller
is
the owner of
Grassroots Marketing and started
www.gogreenwebdirectory.com
for
)P•'ltil-lZ-
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in 2009
the state of
Massachusetts.
I
Gregg
Simat
and his
wife.Janis
Netschert
Simat
'94/'95M,
welcomed a baby
boy,
Tanner
Gregg,
born
Aug. 8,
2007.
I
Rebecca Smith-Lavallee
is assistant director of alumni and
student
relations
at Empire State
College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
She
was formerly a sales manager at The
Sagamore,
a
resort in
Bolton
Landing,
N.Y.IColleen
Susko
and
her
husband,
Mark, have three children: Mackenzie,
Sierra, and Cassandra. She
is
vice
president, corporate compliance and
internal
audit, at Ellis Hospital
in
Schenectady, N.Y.
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Jennifer
Uttley
Andres
announces
the
birth of her
third
child, Brenden
Francis, on Aug. 24, 2008.1
Rachel
L.
Baldwin
has
joined
E. Martin
Davidoff & Associates, CPAs, in
Dayton, N.j., as a
tax
controversy
specialist. She
helps
businesses and
individuals
resolve tax problems
with the Internal Revenue Service.
I
Tracey Belko
married
Robert
Michael
Sawicki on Jan. 19, 2008.1
Pamela
Ann
Clinton
is
now
direc-
tor
of studies at York Catholic
High
School
in
York, Pa., after serving as
Religion
Department chair for sever-
al years.
lJeffrey
Hurley
has started
his own firm, Hurley
Environmental
Consulting.
He
continues
as section
chief of water quality, environmental
health, and safety in the New York
City Department of Environmental
Protection.
I
Kathryn Link Jensen
and her
husband,
Tom, announce
the birth of
twins,
Abigail Hope
and Jacob David, on
July
5, 2008.
IJay
LaScolea
and
his
wife, Cheri,
welcomed their first child, a daugh-
ter,
Abigail Grace, born Aug. 26,
2008. They celebrated their
third
wedding anniversary on June 17.1
Moira Long
and the women's volley-
ball
team
at Plymouth State Universil
y
Rachel L. Baldwin
'94
SUMMER
2009
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notes
◄
won
Lhe
2009
ECAC
Division
Ill
New
England
Championship.
I
Mary
Ann
McGovern
married
Kyle
CuiLe on
July
3, 2008.
Her mother,
•
~
Kathleen, passed
away on March 18,
~
2008, after a brief battle with cancer.
I
Beth
Keenan
Meyers is
a
full-time
S
Realtor
with Prudential, Fox &
Roach
M
in Media, Pa., and is licensed
in
bOLh
~
Pennsylvania
and Delaware. Her web
~
site is www.bethmeyers.net.
lJennifer
~
Nies
married Brian
Howard
on March
l,
2008 They
welcomed a baby girl,
Juliana Marie,
born
Jan. 17, 2009.1
Ericka Plate
lives
in
Cape Cod with
her husband, Matt,
and children
Helena, Ingrid,
Annika, and Parker.
She
recently returned to
school
to pursue a
degree
in nursing and
plans
to
earn a master's degree with
a certification in
nursing/midwi
fery.1
Jennifer Poccia
married Christopher
Talkowski
on April
19,
2008
I
Michele Bafuma Puzzanchera
is
now
grants and
prospect
research coordi-
nator
in the Development
Department
at
Pressley Ridge
in Pittsburgh, Pa.
I
Pamela
Ricigliano-Gnapp
is
the
mother of Anna and Alexa. She owns
a
printing
business and works
from
home.I
Elizabeth Noonan
Ryan
and
her
husband, Ed
Ryan,
welcomed
their
fifth
child, a daughter, Campbell
Elizabeth, born Feb. 17, 2008.IJanis
Netschert Simat
'94/'95M and her
husband,
GreggSimat
'93, welcomed
a baby boy, Tanner Gregg,
born
Aug.
8,
2007
1995
Luis
Carter's
wife, Susan, received
an MS
in nursing in December 2008
from Regis
University in Denver,
Colo.
I
Marla
Colletti-Huber is
relocating to Florida.
I
Dr. Peter
Faustino is
president-elect of
the
New York Association of School
Psychologists.
I
Marc
Gasperi
no
and
his
wife,
Suzanne
Jacobs
Gasperino,
welcomed
their
third child,
Brooke.
She joins
boys Jake
and
Drew.
I
Edward Gilhooly
and
his
wife,
Sheryl, announce the birth of
their
daughter, Kathryn Elizabeth, on June
23, 2008.
I
Brian
Hampel
married
Melani
Bendfeldt
'97 onJuly 2, 2005,
and announces the birth of their son,
Logan
Brian,
born Aug. 2:9, 2008.1
Brian Kenworthy
is senior director
of worldwide engineering. at Deluxe
Digital
Studios.
Brian has
a daugh-
ter,
Victoria Alicia.
I
Marg:aret
Lyko
married Patrick Twist
on Oct.
25,
2008, in Montauk,
N.Y.
The ceremo-
ny
was
performed
by friend and fellow
Marist
graduate
Jeff Baumgardner
'95.1
Lucia McCalmont
announc-
es
the birth
of a baby girl.. Elizabeth
Ann, on March 14,
2008 ..
1
Melissa
Lamb
married
Keith
Donath on Aug.
21, 2004. They
have
two children,
Sophia Lynn, born
June 27,
2006,
and Evan Xavier, born April 18, 2008.
Melissa
is principal
of an elementa-
ry
school within the
New
York City
Department
of Education.
II
Kathleen
Palmer
announces the birth of her
second child,
Ryan Joseph,
on June
15, 2008.
IJoseph
Papeo
and
Gina
Rugilio Papeo
announce the birth of
twins,
Haley
and Nicholas, born
July
2008.ITheresa
Ricke-Kiely
recemly
started a
new
job at Notre Dame as
an associate director of
pliinning
and
development.
lJonathan
S,orelle,
MD,
has
a
minimally invasive
hand
surgery
clinic and surgery center in Las Vegas,
Nev.,
that
keeps
him
extremely
busy.I
Shannon
Bostwick
Steele
welcomed
a son, Blake Alexander,
born
July
16,
2008.
1996
Cylinda
Rickert
Aren,o
and
her
husband, Matthew, we·lcomed a
son, Henry
Reed,
born at
home
on
Two Rising Stars in PR
June 11, 2008.IAnne
Tanner Arent
welcomed
a daughter, Paige Elizabeth,
born Nov. 18, 2005.
I
Stacey
Berrios
is
enjoying a successful career as a
physician
assistant,
traveling
the
world and living life to its fullest.
I
Maura Brouillette
has
been elect-
ed vice president at Sasaki.
I
Rose
Caiazzo moved
from
the
East Coast
to Jackson Hole,
Wyo.,
in
December
2007. She
thoroughly
enjoys
the
great
outdoors there and recently climbed
13,770-foOL
Grand
Teton.
She works
as a mountain bike guide, does
busi-
ness
consulting
on
the
side, coaches
girls'
lacrosse,
and is actively
involved
in
the
com mu nit
y
radio station.
I
Beth
Dooley
Canfield
welcomed twins,
Emma Rose and Kyle Francis, born
April 8, 2008.1
Gregory
Donohue
resides
in Verona, N.J., with his
wife, Kristen, and two sons,
Robert
and Sean. He works
for
Google,
Inc.,
in
New York City
llisa
Goddard
welcomed a baby boy, Thelonious
Lee
McGee, born Nov.
20,
2008.
She was also promoted to
director
of advocacy and online marketing at
Capital Area Food
Bank
of Texas.
I
Jennifer-Katherine
Gomez recently
launched
Chocolatetude, a side busi-
ness specializing in chocolate
novelty
catering. She joined Legg Mason as
a web
project manager
on the
inter-
active
marketing team
in
the
U.S.
Distribution Marketing Department.
I
Alison Southey
Kozlak
and her
husband are enjoying being parents
to
their
three
daughters,
Lauren
and twins
Kerry
and
Julia.
I
Debra
Levantrosser
married George Setman
on Feb. 14, 2009.IBrenda
Gallagher
Liberti
welcomed a
daughter,
Mia
Skye, born June 6,
2008.IChristine
Manna
was
promoted to
director,
corporate communications for North
America, at aircraft
manufacturer
Embraer.
lJennifer
Nagy
married
Ra)'mond Renna in September 2007.
IJulie
Vetter Palmieri
welcomed a
son.John
Bryan, born
July
31, 2008
He
weighed 9 pounds and 3 ounces
and was 21 inches
long.
I
Dennis
Rau Jr.
was promoted
to
super-
visory
detention
and deportation
officer with U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement
in
Albany,
N.Y., on Aug. 17, 2008.
IMarybeth
Vacca Snyder
welcomed a baby girl,
Alexandra Ledina, born Sept. 10,
2007.
I
Brandon
Tierney
launched
a
new
debate-style sports
TV
show
on SponsNet New York called The
Wheelhouse
that airs
nightly
at 5:30.
He continues his
hosting
duties on
1050 ESPN
Radio in
New York City.
1997
Melani
Bendfeldt
married
Brian
Hampel
'95
on July 2, 2005, and
announces
the birth
of
their
son,
Logan
Brian, born
Aug. 29, 2008.
IJennifer
Hoover Bonnano
and
her husband,
Michael, welcomed a
daughter,
born
June 9, 2008.1
Patrick
Casey
Ill
and his wife,
Roxanna
Rainboth
Casey
'98, announce the
birth of twins,
Rowan
Dennis and
Kiernan
Patrick, on
Jan.
29,
2008.1
Amy
Hoey
Conly
and
her
husband
welcomed
their
first child, a son,
Braedan
Matthew,
born
Aug. 18,
2008.1
Willow
Lanpher Dannible
and
her husband,
Tom
Dannible
'98, welcomed a daughter, Melina
Hope,
born
Jan.
3,
2009.
Melina
joins big brother
Jaxson
Thomas.
I
Grayson
DeWitt
and his wife,
Lora
Fischer DeWitt '98,
welcomed a son,
Finn Thaddeus, born Jan. 30, 2008.
PR Week magazine namud two Mari st
alumni to its list of the 2008 top 40
Under 40 public relations executives
in the nation. Jeff Dalhncke
'01
is
director of PR for the P1epsi
Bottling
Group in Somers, N.Y. Tom Coyne
'91
is president of Coyne Public Relations
in Parsippany, N.J.
Jeff Dahncke
'01
his career
evolve
from unpaid free-
lancer
to president of a top PR firm,
with clients
such
as Disney, Goodyear,
and Hard Rock International."
Tom's firm later won two more
accolades from PR Week. At an awards
dinner in March 2009, the magazine
named Coyne Public Relations the
Midsize Agency of the Year. The
company
also
received a first-place trophy in the category Best
Use of Broadcast.
"Jeff
Dahncke hasn't: yet hit 30, but
he's
already
established himself as an industry leader," said
the magazine.
"In
his current role, he oversees
external commu1nications, including media
relations and co,rporate reputation, for the
Fortune 500 company."
OfTom, PR Week wrote,
"Building
Coyne
PR from the gr~1und
up, Tom Coyne has seen
Tom
was recently
named
to the board of direc-
tors of the Council of Public Relations Firms. The
mission of the council, an association of businesses
that provide PR services, is to advance the interests
of member firms and the public relations profession.
Tom Coyne
'91
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I
Christine
Datig
Duffy
and her
husband.Jason
Duffy,
welcomed
a
son, Liam
Jason,
born Sept.
4,
2008.
I
Alison
Kilts
married Tom
Porcelli
on Aug.
12,
2006.IMary
Ann Blanco
Kimes
and her
husband
are
living
a
wonderful life
in
Richmond, Va., with
their
son, Bryan Charles. She recent-
ly had
the good fortune
to
see
New
Kids
on the Block
in
concert twice
during the band's
reunion
tour.
I
Cecilia
Klember
and her
husband
welcomed a baby
girl,
born in June
2008. They
still
reside in
Connecticut
and
she
is
still working
for
Carousel
Industries, a
telecommunications
company.
I
Robert la
Barbera
and
his
wife,
Patricia,
welcomed
their
second
child, Theresa Noelle,
born Dec.
26,
2006.
Their first child,
Patrick,
turned
5 in May.
I
James lord
reports
that life
continues
to
be grand on Cape Cod.
I
Tabitha
Zierzow
Maccalous
and
her
husband,James
Maccalous,
have
a
daughter,
Allison,
who turned
3 in
January. James
is
working
for Siemens
Healthcare
Diagnostics.
IJanice
Kelly McCreay
and
her
husband,
Frank McCreay,
welcomed
a
baby
girl,
Kate
Elizabeth,
born
in August
2007.
IJennifer
Domizio Marsilius
announces the birth of
her
son, Chase
Newman, on Nov.
15,
2006, and her
daughter, Morgan Marie,
on
July
22, 2008.1
Carie
Piskura
married
Rocco
Salvatore
Perugini
on
May
19,
2008,
on
Santorini
Island,
Greece.
The couple sailed on
a two-week
Mediterranean
cruise and were joined
by
family members for
their
wedding
ceremony at
the
Villa lrin
i
in
Fira,
Santorini. Fellow alumni
Kristen
Koehler
and
Elizabeth
Herzner
McGreevy
were
in
Carie's wedding
party.
Carie
is
a tax analyst
for
Orion
Mobility
in
Wilton, Conn.ll(en
Prole
and
his
wife,
Aimee Drayer
Prole
'99,
announce
the
birth of their
daugh-
ter, Madison
Joanne,
born
July 31,
2008.
I
Amy
Pfannkuch Simons
and her
husband,
Keith
Simons
'91,
announce
the
birth of
their daugh-
ter,
Georgia Frances, born
March
2,
2008
Georgia joins
big broth-
er Keegan
Thomas
and
big
sister
Anabelle Elizabeth
at home.
lSandra
Dougall
Stromberg
and her husband,
Christian, announce
the
birth of
their
son, Leland Ronald, on
June
1, 2008.
Sandra works for Kindle Farm School,
an
independenL
school in Saxtons
River,
Vt. She
has
been
promoted to
a
position
on
the
administra.tive
team
and
is
the
coordinator of academ-
ics. The
school educates boys with
emotional
and
learning
cha.llenges.
I
Chris Webb
and his wife,
Rebecca,
announce the
birth of their daugh-
ter, Anya McKinley,
born March 25,
2009.1
Kristen
Woronoff
and
John
Alfano
were
married
July
26, 2008,
in
Mystic, Conn. They
live
in Las Vegas,
Nev.,
where
Kristen
is
a public rela-
tions manager at Wynn Las Vegas
and
John
is
a city
manager
for
Renaissance
Management.
The daughters of Deborah Joyce Barnes
'90
and Shamus Barnes
'91,
Kayla, age 11, and Abigail, age 6, competed in national
snowli>oard
competition
at Copper Mountain in Colorado. Abigail
is
ranked fourth
in the country for her age group,
"Ruggies,"
aged under
7
yea rs.
1998
Michael
Benevento
married
Donna
Raduazzo
on Oct. 4,
2008,
at St.
Thomas Aquinas Church
in
Brooklyn,
N.Y.
I
Kerri
Flannery Bennett
and her
husband, Tom, announce
the birth
of
their daughter,
Abigail
Francesca,
onJune
18,
2008.
IHeather
Ohliger
Brindisi
welcomed twin
sons,
Drayton
and
Phoenix, born
June
27,
2008.IRoxanna
Rainboth
Casey
and
her
husband,
Patrick
Casey
Ill
'97,
announce
the
birth
of
twins, Rowan
Dennis and Kiernan Patrick,
on
Jan.
29,
2008.
IMauhew
Cassidy
and his
wife,
Bethany luniewsky
Cassidy
'00, welcomed
a daughter,
Maya
Grace, born Aug. 16, 2008.1
Elaine
Swanson Coberly
and
her
husband,
Drew, welcomed
a son, Connor
Frank, born
June
18, 2008.1
Sean
Connell
married Patricia Ayone on
June
21, 2008.1
Mark
Conway
was
promoted
to sergeant for
the
New
York State
Police in January
2009.
He is stationed in Somers, N.Y.
I
Tom
Dannible
and
his
wife,
Willow
Lanpher
Dannible
'97, welcomed a
daughter,
Melina I-lope,
born
Jan. 3,
2009. Melina
joins
big brother Jaxson
Thomas.
I
Lora
Fischer
DeWitt
and
her
husband,
Grayson
DeWitt
'97,
welcomed a son,
Finn
Thaddeus,
born
Jan.
30,
2008.
ITerri
Duane
and
his
family announce
the
birth
of
a
third
child,
a daughter,
Ava Grace,
on Feb. 7,
2008.
I
Carisa
Keane
Giardino
and
her
husband, Daniel,
welcomed
a son, Aidan Thomas,
born
June 30,
2008.1
Mathew
Laskowski
was named one of
the
nation's
top
paralegals
in the book
Lessons
from
the Top Paralegal
Experts:
The 15 Most
Successful
Paralegals
and What You
Can Learn Jrom Them.
I
Fernanda
Leventhal
still works as a freelance
translator
and
interpreter.
Visit
www.atanet.org for more informa-
tion.
I
Elizabeth
McCarthy
married
Francis Uim) James Woods
Ill
on
Aug. 4, 2007.1
Kelly Balser Moyher
and
her husband, John,
welcomed
a son, John George Vl, on Aug. 18,
2008.1
Ryan
Soucy
won
his
third
Sports Emmy Award. NBC, where
he is
manager
of operations for
the
Olympic
division,
received
six Sports
Em
mys
for
its
coverage of
the Beijing
games.
He
was
part
of the group
that
won
in
the
Technical
Team
Remote
category.
Ryan hires
and
manages
more
than 300
freelancers
that his
department
brings
to
the
games.
I
Dana
Coghlan Stabile
and her
husband,
Charles, welcomed
a
baby
girl, Vanessa Maria,
born
Nov. 6,
2008.1
Lisa
Tortora
was promoted
to
vice president, INS Multicultural,
at INS Custom
Research, Inc.
I
Media conglomerate Bonnier named
Patrick Notaro
'01
its Telephone
Sales Representative
of the Year.
Chosen from among the company's
1,000 sales reps worldwide, Patrick
was the first American ever to win
a sales award at Bonnier. The
com-
pany flew him from New York to
Sweden, where Bonnier is based,
for the award ceremony
(above)
and an all-expenses-paid
visit to
Stockholm.
"He
received a long ovation for
his emotional
expression
of grati-
tude for the company's
support,
despite the pressures of the
current
American
economic
climate,"
said
the company's on line magazine.
Patrick is
senior
inside
sales
rep-
resentative for Popular Science mag-
azine and works in Manhattan. He
also was nominated for Salesperson
of
the
Year
by Minonline, a weekly
newsletter in the
ad
business.
Darryll
Towsley married
Lisa Alvarez
on Dec.
15,
2007.
He
is vice presi-
dent of counseling for
the
Ayro Co.,
a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs.
I
Alison Willmott
and
her
husband
have been
married
three years and
have a
daughter,
Grace, born Aug.
15,
2006. Her husband
is
in
his second
year of coaching track and
field
at
the
University of Vermont.
1Pam
1M&
~
1999
Jennifer Canonico Avroch
has
returned
to work at Preston School
in
Harrison,
N.Y.
She teaches fourth
grade.
Bryan
Avroch
'00
contin-
ues
10
teach
reading
at the Turn of
River Middle
School
in
Stamford,
Conn. Bryan and
Jennifer's
daugh-
ter,
Marissa,
has
been doing great
since her bone
marrow
transplant.
I
William Brennan
and
his
wife,
Dawn
Lorenz Brennan
'00, welcomed
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2009
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their first child, Liam, born Sept. 13,
2008. Bill 1s the dis1nc1 director of
math, science,
and technolog)'
for Pon
Jefferson,
N.Y.,
schools and
1s
teach-
.~
ing
graduate courses
at
Stony
Brook
~
Univcrsny
I
Christine
Coco
married
C
\Villiam Reidy
Ill
on Dec 6, 2008
I
~
William
Conway is a staff attorney
m
r-<
the M1am1
regional office of the U.S
~
Secunucs and Exchange
Commission
~
in
the
Division of Enforcement.
I
~
Diane
Wasilewski
Cornax
and
her husband,
Peter
Cornax '00
announce the birth of their son,
Lucas,
on Sept.
29,
2008. Lucas joms
big brother Drew.
I
Erik
Dietz
and
his \\ 1fc. Sarah
St.Germain-Dietz
'02, welcomed a bah> girl, Ashlq
Brianne, born July
15,
2008.IDonna-
Marie Facilla
is
1eachmg
fifth
grade
in
the
I
indenhurs1, N.Y., school
distncdMarisa
Forte
mamed Mark
Mangiaracma on Sept 6, 2008.
IJill
Salvucci
llenebury
announces the
birth of
her
son.James Kevm, on
May
17,
2008.ICarolyn
Pulisic Lynch
and
her husband, Kevin. ha,·c a
1hree-year-
old son, BenJamm. and welcomed
another son, Mason, born
m
Ma>
2008.1
Mercedes Martinez
worked
as a paralegal for
1hr
Garden City
Hotel and FMC Management
Corp for
eight years. She is now a paralegal for
Sweene>
Gallo
Reich
& Bolz. LLP
I
William
Mills
and his wife, Ehzabeth,
announce
the
birth
of
their
daughter,
Isabella Taylor, born Oct 14, 2008.1
Steven
apolitani
is a producer and
assoc1a1c
director for Madison Square
Garden Network New York Rangers
Broadcasung.
Steven and his wife,
Jennifer, live
in
Hoboken, NJ, with
their son. Grant.
I
Joseph Patriss
and
his wife, Chelsey
Ferrigno
Patriss
'00, welcomed a son, Collm Joseph.
born
Nov. 9,
2008.IAimee
Drayer
Prolc
and
her
husband,
Ken Prole
'97,
announce the bmh of 1he1r
daughter,
Madison Joanne, on Julr 31, 2008.
I
Lauren
Renga
was promoted to sales
manager of
the Hosp11al11y
Division
of 1825 by Serralunga, a collection
of planters and flowerpots designed
Movers and !;hakers
Nine
Marlst Colle~,e alumni
received
40 Under 40 Shaker Awards
presented by the Greater Southern Dutchess Chamber of
Commerce. The award ceremony took
place
in March at the Mid-
Hudson
Civic Center in Poughkeepsie.
The annual
program
rec-
ognizes
40
peoplu under age
40
who are "committed to shaping
the region and mc1king it a
better
place for everyone." A
panel
of
judges determined winners from
nominations
submitted by the
public.
The
Mari st graduates were:
■
Michelle Almeiida
'99-attorney,
McCabe
&
Mack
■
Katie
Lynn
Cas-tell
'92-social
worker,
Astor Home
for Children
■
James
Kutter
'99-chief
technology officer, The Kutter Group
■
Erin
Reverri
'00-teacher,
Saint Columba/Saint Denis School
■
Edward Summers
'04-presidential
fellow/assistant to the
president, Marist
College
■
Michael Todd
'94-president,
Rainbow Pools
■
Rebecca Valk
'100-associate,
VanDeWater
&
VanDeWater
■
Ann-Marie Van Etten-Donohue
'96-managing
principal/
co-owner of Associates Delivery Service/Associates Golf Car
Servlces/Assoc:iates Box On Site Storage
■
Greg Zurawik
'04-corporate
communications manager, Saint
Francis
Hospital
and
Health
Centers
and
produced
in
Italy.
The compa-
n}
has
sold to nationwide
hotels
and restaurant chains
I
Ma1thew
Sommers
marned Kelly Dawn Kessler
on Oct. 20, 2007. They have a son,
Landen.
I
Allison Glaser
Spillane
and her husband, Jm,1in, announce
the birth of their da·ughter, Hatley
Eltzabeth,
on Aug. 22.,
2008.1
Peter
Toriello
Joined US Pressw1re as
global
director
of sales and business
development. US Presswire creates
and distributes sports imagerr and
maintains an archive of news and
portraits of sports-rdated subjects
including vintage
material.
Previously
Peter was a league manager at Geuy
Images. where he played a ker role
m the growth of its ~ILB. '\BA, and
NFL properties.
I
Mark
Urciuolo is
director of
I
he Acquisi11on
and Third
Party Sales D1v1sion
for
the
NATO
Sea Sparro\\ Project Office
I
Daniel
Wagnes
and his wife, Lisa. announce
the birth oft heir daughter, Delia Ann,
born
Dec. 4,
2008.
IAngela
Witzke
married Carmen Gentile on July
4,
2008.
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Bryan Avroch
continues to teach
read mg at the Turn of River \fiddle
School m Stamford, Conn.
His
wife,
Jennifer Canonico Avroch
'99, has
returned
to
work at Preston School
m
Hamson, '\ Y She teaches founh
grade. Bryan and Jennifer's daugh-
ter, Marissa, has been domg great
smce
her bone
marrow
transplant.
I
Dawn Lorenz Brennan
and her
husband.
William Brennan
'99,
welcomed
the•r first child. Liam born
Sept 13, 2008.IBethany
Lunicwsky
Cassidy and her
husband,
Mauhcw
Cassidy '98, welcomed a daughter,
Ma>a Grace, born Aug. 16, 2008
I
Peter Cornax
and his wife,
Diane
Wasilewski Cornax '99,
announce
the bmh of
their
son,
Lucas,
on Sept.
29, 2008. Lucas Joins big brother
Drew
I
Caroline Davis
graduated
m 2008 with a Master of Arts m
Christian mimstnes from North Park
Theolog1cal
Seminary in Chicago,
Ill.
I
Keri Dixon
mamcd
Louis Mol11crno
on No\' I, 2008, m Spnng Lake. NJ
She 1s comple11ng
an \1PS from the
rash1on Institute of Technology She
sull works at Beaut> Avenues, devel-
oping products and fragrances for
Bath and Body Works, where she
has worked for more than four }·cars.
I
Michael
Galante
was promoted to
associate direcwr of co-markeung
at ESPN on Nov. I, 2008.1
Katie
Daley
Galla
welcomed her second
daughter. Anna \lane. born Aug
4.
2008
I
Michelle Grande
is a d1smc1
manager for Bath and Body Works
in
Boston,
Mass.
I
Elizabeth
I lc1111
married William Dukeman on Aug.
8, 2008.
IJames
Hunter
and his wife,
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your account information, you can request it on line at www.
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you
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Katherine, welcomed
their
second
daughter, Theresa Elizabeth. born in
November 2008. James accepted a
pos111on
at Yale lJnl\-crs1t}
as univer-
sity wcbmaster.
I
Ryan Hunter
was
promoted
10
senior assistant district
auornc> of the Suffolk
County District
Auorncy"s
Office. He prosecutes the
sale and possession of narcotics m
Suffolk County at the felony
level.
I
Hannch Kalyousscf
works at Visions
in New York Cit}
I
Katie Krueger
Lynch
and her husband.John
Lynch
announce the birth of their first child
John Joseph
IV
(Jack), on Sept. 27,
2008.
IJennifer
Matarazzo
left Wei!(ht
Warche,s
Magazine
and 1s now a health
editor for About.com a pan of the
Ne,\ York Times Co.
I
Kristy Miller
marned Richard
SpauldmgJr.
on June
29, 2008,
in
New Preswn, Conn.
They
honeymooned
in MexKo.lAntonella
Mistreua
married her high school
sweetheart, Christopher Bloncourt
in November 2008.1
Karen Patafio
married
Frank Flanigan on Nov.
14,
2008.
I
Chelsey
Ferrigno
Patriss
and her husband.Joseph
Patriss
'99,
welcomed a son, Collin Joseph. born
No,.
9,
2008.1
Erin Pender
became
ac1iv11y
director,
m
February 2008,
of the
firM
SarahCare Adult Day Care
Semces facility
to open
m
New
Jersey.
I
Jennifer
Simmons
married Darnel
Lombardo on July 26, 2008. The}
recently purchased
1he1r
first home.I
Erin
Smith
is
now
d1rcc1or
of produc-
11on
at Children's Progress,
Inc.,
an
educa11onal-sof1warc
company based
in Manha1tan.
I
Helen Stahlin-
Corveleyn
and her
husband,
Graig
Corvelcyn
'01, welcomed
a baby girl,
Grace f:hsabeth, born m No\"ember
2008.
I
Lisa
Douglas
Whelan
and
her husband welcomed a son. Lukas
Anderson, born March 25, 2008.
2001
Christopher
Blasie
recrn·ed a life-
ume membership
in Cambridge
Who's
Who.
lThomas
Byrne III
moved
10
Chicago, Ill., in July 2007
ICatherinc
Collins
married Nicholas Wisz on
Aug. 15 2008.IGraig Conelep1 and
his\\
1fe,
Helen
Stahlin-Corveleyn
'00, welcomed a baby girl, Grace
Elisabeth,
born in November
2008.
I
Sharon Kennedy DePalo
and
her
husband welcomed their first baby, a
son, \nthony Joseph born Oct 29,
2008.1
Rebecca Kizirian DiStefano
and
her
husband welcomed
a
son,
Max1m1han
Jeffrey. born Sept. 26,
2008. I le JOms big s1s1er Erin Tula
I
Martha Hackel!
1s pursuing an
admm1s1ra11on
ccrt1f1cate
at Stony
Brook
University. She 1s a special
educauon teacher al Accompse11
Middle School m Smnhtown, NY
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Raymond A. Landry
'60 will soon have a second
poetry book,
Growing
into Infancy:
Musings
of a Self-
Proclaimed
Legend, available both nationally and
internal ional ly.
Frank Swetz
'62's book
Legacy of the Luoshu:
The 4,000-Year
Search
for the Meaning
of the Magic
Square of Order Three has been published by Carus
Publishing Co.
Joseph Cavano
'6S's
newest
book,
Love Songs in
Minor Keys, was published in April 2009 by CPCC
Press.
He
was
the
featured speaker at a meeting of
the
Charlotte (N
.C.)
Writers Club.
Dr. Chuck Howlett
'68's scholarly work
A History
of the American
Peace
Movement
from Colonial
Times
to the Present
was published in May 2008 by the
Edwin Mellen Press. Co-written with Dr. Robbie
Lieberman of Southern Illinois University,
it exam-
ines
three
centuries in the struggle for peace and
justice in
the
United States. More than 600 pages,
the
survey has been
hailed
as the most compre-
hensive
study of
the
subject published in
the
past
20 years.
Reference
and Research
Book News wrote
that readers
"will be both inspired and educated
by
this
work."
Barry Lewis
'82's book
From Brooklyn to Bucolic:
The Life of Columnist Barry
Lewis has been published
by Royal Fireworks Press.
Barry says
this
collection of
some of
his
award-winning
columns from the
Times-
Herald Record
newspaper
in
Orange County, N.Y.,
has
made
readers
laugh
and
cry and will now embarrass
his family
forever. For more
information,
go
lO
www.barrycolumns.com.
AI1111nni Authors
Patrice
Sarath '84's first novel,
Gordath Wood,
was publishe:d by Ace Books/Penguin in 2008.
The sequel,
R'.ed
Gold Bridge,
is slated for publica-
tion this summer.
Ian O'Conno1r
'86
was a guest on a panel about
great writin!9 at the Associated Press Sports
Editors Northeast regional fall meeting held
at
Marist.
lan O'Connor
'86's book
Arnie and Jack: Palmer,
Nicklaus,
and Golf's Greatest
Rivalry
made the
New
York Times best seller list.
Houghton
Mifflin Co.
published the book in 2008.
Ian
writes a
national
column for Fc,xSports.com.
Kimberly Beckius
'90's sixth book,
The New
England Coast: The Most Spectacular Sights &
Destinations,
was published
in
November 2008 by
Voyageur Prei;s.
Joseph Gray
·•92•s
novel,
North of the Apple: Crime
and Love, was published in December 2008 by
Lumina Press. The novel reportedly features
Poughkeepsie,
with numerous references
LO
Marist.
2002
The Amoveo Legacy
by
Sara
Taney
Humphreys
'92 was
released recently by
Devine
Destinies
Publishing. The novel
is the first
in
a series
about the A moveo
people, an ancient race
of shape-shifters who
1
ive secretly among
humans.
The book
follows the evolving
courtship of a shape-
shifter of the Eagle Clan and a woman who has yet
to
learn
she
is
only half human.
Dr.
Nicole A. Buzzello-More
'95, an associate
professor and program director in the Department
of Business at
the
University of Maryland, Eastern
Shore,
has
edited two e-learning books published in
2007. She has contributed several book chapters, is
on
the
editorial board of a number of journals, has
authored numerous publications in journals, and
has been recognized
with awards from the American
Distance Education Consortium, the Global Digital
Business Association, and
the
Informing Science
Institute.
She is preparing
her third
book to be
released
in
2010 by the
Informing
Science Press.
Alison Kilts Porcelli
'97 recently published a book
with Heinemann
titled
Supporting
English
Language
Acquisition
Through
Choice
Time.
If
you would like news of your book included
in
Alumni
Authors,
please
send the title, the name of the publisher,
the date of publication,
and a short description
of the
content
to leslie.bates@marist.edu
or
to
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Authors,
clo Marist Magazine,
Advancement,
Marist College,
3399 North Rd., Poughkeepsie,
NY
12601-1387.
Feel
free to e-mail a pdf of the book's
cover.
Sarah Fournier Hamilton
and her
husband,
Pat, welcomed a daughter,
Lily, born May
l
0, 2008.
IBrendan
Licata
and
his
wife,
Megan Richard
Licata
'02, welcomed
their third child,
Maura, born Feb. 22, 2008. Brendan
was promoted to division director at
Robert Half
International,
Inc.
I
Denis
McManus
married Jill McCabe on
Aug. 2, 2008. They
honeymooned in
Hawaii.I
Caroline
Nashmy married
Colin Fratrik on July I
l,
2008, in
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
Caroline is a human resources manag-
er
for AKQA in Manhattan, and
her
husband is a physical education teach-
er
and coach in
the
Plainedge
(N.Y.)
School
District.
I
Amy
Ostgulen
married John Glovik on March 29,
2008,
and
has been in Chicago
for
the
past few years.
I
Amy
Snider
married
Adam Schwartz in 2006. They start-
ed
their own business,
Every
Little
Counts, Inc., a women's T-shirt line
centered
around themes of
love
and
romance. The company is based in
Los Angeles
(www.every1it1tlecounts.
net).
I
Karen
Stack-Good.win and
her husband, Garrett, announce
the birth of their first chi'ld, Emily
Margaret, born
Nov.
14, 2008.1
Scott
Thompson
and his wife.Jaime Smith
Thompson, announce the birth of a
son,
Maddux Avery, born Oct. 14,
2008.1
Kyle Wood
married Jennifer
Walsh
in
July 2008. He ,earned a
master's in instructional
11echnolo-
gy
from Western Connectilcut State
University.
Karla De!Valle Beauregard
start-
ed
a new
job
as an administrative
assistant at Silver Point Capital in
Greenwich, Conn.
I
Leeanne
Feile
married Eric Kraus on Sept. 13, 2008.
They
reside in Freeport,
N.Y.1
Megan
DeVita Helmecke
and
her
husband,
Eric,
welcomed a daughter, Abigail
Marie, born
Feb.
11, 2008.1
Kristin
LaBarbera
married Bryan Probst
on
April 12, 2008. She is now a board-
certified
behavior analyst.
I
Megan
Richard Licata
and her husband,
Brendan Licata
'01, welcomed
their
third child, Maura, born Feb. 22,
2008.
ljeremy
Robitsek
married
Kerin
K.
Mooney
on Sept.
27, 2008.
ljonelle
Formato Santo
and
her
husband.Joseph, announce the birth
or
their
son, Joseph Salvatore
IV,
on
Oct. 8, 2008.1
Erin Mitchell
Sherry
welcomed her second
child,
Cooper
James,
born Aug. 23, 2008.1 Sarah
St.Germain-Dietz
and her husband,
Erik
Dietz
'99, welcomed
a baby girl,
Ashley Brianne, bornJuly
15,
2008.1
Louis
Totino married Kate Monaghan
on
Nov. 3, 2007.1 Steven Willem
in
and
Lauren McCluskey
were married
in July 2008
2003
Carla
Baker
married Matthew Tracy
on Sept.
27, 2008.
I
Traci Cillis
is teaching first
grade
at Krieger
Elementary
School
in Poughkeepsie,
N.Y.IAndrew
Cox
is
headed
lO
the
University of
Pittsburgh
School of
Pharmacy,
expecting
to
graduate
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notes
M
In.
emor1am
Faculty
&
Staff
Barbara Bernardo
Former
Senior
Accounring
Clerk
John Bilski
Former
Security
Guard
Margaret
L.
Bunten
Former
Supervisor
Toby Raymond
Carter
Former
Housekeeper
Rev. Rosemary
Hensley-Weir
Adjunct
Professor
of
Religious
Studies
Edward
Hunter
Former
Housekeeper
Betty
E. Johnson-Evans
Food
Service
Steve Lurie
Former
Track
Coach
Brian P.
Mac Isaac
Security
Officer
John
J. Mahoney
Former
Housekeeper
Rose V. Dziuban
Mocarski
Former
Housekeeper
Louise
Nuccio
Adjunct Professor
of English
Dr.
George
J.
Sommer
Professor
Emeritus
Former
Chair
of the English
Department
Gregory
F.
Zaubi
zSeries
Support
Analyst
It's a Tie
in 2013 with a
DocLOr
of
Pharmacy
degree.
I
Erica Deninger
is in
her
sixth year of teaching: al Arlington
High
School in
LaGra.ngeville,
N.Y.
She earned a
master's;
degree from
Mercy
College
in
2006.1
Kristina
Goehring
married
Sean Welke
on March 28, 2008.
I
Amanda
Koscielecki
married Todd Moser
on
July
12, 2008.
I
Pamela May
married
Michael Smoulcey on Oct.
11,
2008. She graduated
in
December
from
SUNY Cortland with a CAS
in
educational
leadership.
I
Melissa
Payne
married Marino DiNunno on
May
31, 2008.IGerald
Quigley
got
married
on Sept.
1,
2:007, and
is
a
recreation
leader
for the Sports and
Aquatics Office of
the
Town
of Islip,
NY
I
Lisa Russo
married
Leonard
Todaro Jr.
on SepL. 21, 2008.
I
Darren Sammarco
is a senior para-
legal
of
the
White Plains Division of
the
medical
malpractice
firm
Heidell,
Piuoni, Murphy&:
Bach, LLP.
I
Adam
Slavin
and his wife,
D,eborah Bloom
Slavin
'04, welcomed
their
first child,
a daughter, Danica Abigail,
born April
28, 2009.1
Kimberly Snyder
married
Eric Schleif
on Oct. 5, 2007
IJill
Penaluna Wieboldt
and her
husband
welcomed their first
child,
a daugh-
ter,
Olivia Renee, born April l l, 2008.
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Danielle Barrell
completed a master's
in
reading/literacy
f,or grades 1-6
al SUNY New
Paltz.
She moved
to
Florida, where she
teaches
special
education
al the K-2"
d
grade
level.
I
Russell Diaz
had a three-page arti-
cle,
"There's
Gold in Those Contracts,"
published in the January 2009 issue of
Campus
Technology
Magazine.
I
Brian
Dobson
married
Olivi.a Haley
'05 on
July 5, 2008. They
recently bought
their
first house, in Ridgefield,
Conn.
I
Sarah Donohue
married
Michael
Constantine
on Oct. 4,
2008.
I
Jordan Gallo
graduated from New
York
Medical College
in
May 2008.
He started
residency training
in emer-
gency
medicine
at Penn State
Hershey
Medical Center.
I
Matthew Gardner
married Claire Aylett
on Nov. 10, 2007.
Wesley Gardner
'07 was Matthew's
best man. Matthew and Claire reside
in Atlanta, Ga., where Matthew works
for Barclays Capital and Claire
is in
graduate school.
lStephenJiampetti
was promoted
in
2007
to
regional
director of the New York State Police
Crime Laboratory in
Newburgh, NY
I
Dee Kaba
joined D'Arcangelo
&:
Co.,
LLP, as a senior auditor
in
the
compa-
ny's Poughkeepsie,
N.Y.,
office.lRajiv
Khurana
retired
as a captain
from
the
New
York City
Police
Department
in
2004 after 20 years of dedicated
service.
He
is
now
a licensed private
investigator in New York.
I
Kristin
Miller
married
Joey
Hellmann
on
March 20, 2009.IPaul
Miller recent-
ly left VHl and bought a
house
on
Long
Island.
I
Michael
Nani received
a master's
in business
management
from Iona College in February 2008.
He moved
into a management
position
within Con Edison in April 2008.1
Renee
Nesheiwat
joined D'Arcangelo
&
Co., LLP,
as a senior auditor in
the
company's
Poughkeepsie,
N.Y.,
office.
I
Kimberly Nieckarz
married
Brian
Austin
on Sepl. 8,
2007.1
Christin
Psak
married
Michael Babic
on April
26,
2008.1
Deborah Bloom
Slavin
and her
husband,
Adam Slavin
'03,
welcomed
their
first
child, a daugh-
ter, Danica
Abigail,
on April 28, 2009.
I
Ross Stoltz
married Christa Gates
on Oct. 6, 2007.
They
welcomed
their first child, Caroline Elizabeth,
on
Oct. l,
2008. Ross
was promoted
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and strong leadership qualities throughout his or her hi,gh school career.
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MAGAZINE
Sarah McKinney
'OS
to web content coordinator al Harden
Furniture,
lnc.,
and
handles
web
management and online campaigns.
I
Liz Swenton
was
recently promot-
ed
to
assistant account manager at
March Communications
in
Boston,
Mass. She
has
worked at the PR agency
since June 2004.1
Nicole Thompson
married
Dan
Acker
on Dec. 2, 2007.
I
Melonie Torres
married Erik Cancel
on Aug.
16,
2008.1
Kirsten Waage
still
has
her personal training job,
myredtrainer.com,
and coaches
junior
varsity boys' soccer
al
East Woods
School in Oyster
Bay,
N.Y.IWilliam
Ward
recently retired
from
IBM in
East
Fishkill,
NY,
after 30 years of
service.
2005
Colleen Casey
married
Todd Ouellet
in
June
2008.1
Carrie Coughlin
Gallagher
and
her
husband,
Dan,
welcomed
a baby girl, Ashlyn Frances,
on Feb. 27,
2009.1
Olivia
Haley
married
Brian Dobson
'04 on July
5, 2008.
They
recently bought
their
first house, in
Ridgefield,
Conn.
I
Eric
Hansen
is
a
copywriter
for the
Media
and Marketing Group, an advertising
agency
in
Voorhees, NJ
I
Andrew
Magda
moved to Boston and started
a
new
job
at Eduventures, Inc.
I
Sarah
McKinney
joined
the
faculty at North
Central College in
Naperville,
Ill.,
as
an assistant professor of accounting.
I
Heather Ripp lived
in England for
two years after graduation and has
been working for an advertising
agency in New York City
for
more
than
a year.
I
Laura Rotondo
married
Jason Chrzanowski
on Oct. 10, 2008.
I
Megan Schoonmaker
completed a
master's degree
in
education with
a focus in curriculum at Western
Connecticut State University
in
January
2009.IJessica
Tortorella
was
promoted
to assistant
product
line
manager,
ck
Calvin Klein Eyewear,
at Marchon Eyewear.
I
Kristen
Warren
was hired by the Onteora
(N.Y.) Central School District and
now
teaches third
grade at Bennett
Elementary School.






































2006
Patrick Bean
earned a
master's
degree
from Duke
University
in December.
He
moved
to Birmingham,
Ala., to
work
for
Southern Co.
I
Deanna
Bushart
moved to Boston
and
is
studying human resources in gradu-
ate school. She
is
seeking a
professional posilion
in
the
commu-
nications
field.
I
Evelyn Clarke
retired from IBM
after
27
years.lMary
Grisey recently
received
a BFA
degree
from the
School of the Art
l nstitute
of Chicago.
Her
concentration was in
fiber and material
studies.
I
Edward
Grosskreuz
graduated
in
May
from
Adelphi
University
with an MA
in
adolescent education in English.
He
is teaching
seventh grade
English
at
Grand Avenue Middle School in
Bellmore, N.Y. He has also
become
the
co-director of the Wellington C.
Mepham
High
School
Drama
Club
and
performed
the role
of Steve
in the
East Coast premiere of
Blue's
Clues
Live/ The
Most Spectacular Place
in
December
and
February through
Plaza Theatrical
Productions,
Long
Island's
only touring
theatre
company.
I
Teresa
Laffin
received
a CPA
license
in 2008 in New
York
State and got
married.
I
Rebecca
Lecius
married
Shaun Haerinck
on Oct.
11,
2008. She
wants to thank her
Marist crew girls
who
came
to the
wedding!
I
Shawn
McClain
began working with
the
Miss Universe
organization in May
2007.
Since
then, he
says, as a "true
nomad
at
heart"
he
has
traveled the
world searching for
his
"soulmate,
the
meaning
of
life,
and
the inner beauty
in each of
this planet's
six
billion
faces." He adds
that he
misses his
halcyon
days
on
the Hudson
and
the
collegial environment of Marist
College.
I
William
O'Connor is
pursuing an
MSlS
at Stevens Institute
of
Technology in Hoboken,
NJ
I
Andres Oranges
has been
promoted
to
the
Derivatives Business
Unit
within the Energy
Trading
Services
Department
at National Grid.
I
Zachary Spalding
and his
wife,
Michele,
welcomed
a
baby
boy,
Ryan
James, born Jan. 24, 2009.
Zach
has
completed
the
New York EMT-B
class
to increase his skills for
his
involve-
ment with
the
Volunteer
Esopus
(N.Y.)
Fire Department.
I
Lisa
Stephens
married Jason Riccardi
on Sept. 15,
2007,
at the
Grandview
in
Poughkeepsie,
N.Y.
I
Alec Troxell
designs
presentations
for the creative
department of
BBDO,
a New York
City
advertising
agency.
I
Bryan
VanSteenbergen
was recently
promoted
to
public
relations manager
at the National
Kidney
Foundation.
I
Christina
Ventura
is program
direc-
tor of the Cancer Services Program of
Putnam
County. She
received
an MPH
in
epidemiology from New York
Medical
College School of
Public
Health
in May 2008.
I
Steven
Waiculonis
works for Citigroup in
its
hedge
fund services
office
in Roseland,
N.J.
The
office handles,
tax
and
accounting services for
hedge funds
and private equity
investment firms.
2007
David
Barton
recently changed
jobs.
He
has
moved from Mayr
Communications in
Paramus,
NJ,
to
Edelman in New Yoirk, N.Y.
I
Douglas
Caruso is
approaching
two years working for
JIP
Morgan
within
its investment barnking divi-
sion, serving as a
margin
analyst and
completing
its management training
program.
I
Sarah Esteves
is
a produc-
tion
assistant
for Shepard Smith's
7
p.m.
program
on Fox News Channel
in
New
York City. She
has been
with the show since Oct0ber
2007
I
Danielle
Graci
was
accepted
al
Rutgers
University
as
a PhD candi-
date
in
communication, information,
and
library sciences with a focus in
media studies.
I
Stephen
Krill
is a
freelance multimedia de.signer for
CNN
in New York.lAnd1rea
ilon
was appointed to the Oran.ge
County
Citizens Foundation's Tax
Reform
Committee.
She ser\'ed as president of
the
Northeastern
Regional
Association
of Assessing Officers for
2007-08.1
Jennifer
Reinhart
is office manag-
er
for
an orthopedic surgeon. In her
spare
time,
she dances and teaches
at
Next
Step Dance Studio on Staten
Island,
which her best
friend
opened
this
year. She
plans
to start the physi-
cian assistant
program
at Wagner
College.
I
Kathleen
Spies
is living
in
Boston, teaching
high schtool
math.
She
is
pursuing a
master's, in
educa-
tion from
Eastern Nazarene College.
2008
Marykathryn
Gielisse
atlends
the
William S.
Boyd
School of Law at
the
University of Nevada,
Las
Vegas.
I
Stephanie Grella
lives
in
21
suburb of
Buffalo,
NY., and
is
pursuing a
PhD in
school psychology
al the University
of
Buffalo.I
Kathleen Hampson
works
for
AOL Time Warner as
a
prod-
uct
delivery
manager/associate
data
engineer.
I
Matthew
Healley
works
for
the
Department
of the
Interior
in Washington,
D.C.,
an,d
moved
to
Arlington, Va.
I
Lauren
Jackson
is working
toward
a
PhD
in bioan-
alytical chemistry at Penn State.
I
Logan
Johnson
took a job at
Target
and is pursuing a graduate degree in
forensic medicine.lHeathtr
Martyn
'1zi1:1tii·l:W:::
The flag denotes classes that will celebrate reunions in 2009
Ashley Shaffer
'08
was crowned
Miss
New Jersey
in Ocean City,
N.J., in June. She will compete in
the Miss America
pageant
in Las
Vegas, Nev., in January 2010.
is working to take over
her
father's
insurance agency
in Poughkeepsie,
N.Y.,
and
has been
volunteering for
the
Arlington Middle School
Theatre
Association.
IJessica
McNamara
teaches
in
the
Highland
(N.Y.)
Central
School District. She
is
developing
a program for talented and gifted
students in grades
3
through
6.
I
Nicole
Pace
took
a two-week
tour
of
Italy
following
graduation and had a
great
time.
lJared
Pennella
is
work-
ing
full
time
as an EMT for a southern
Westchester County EMS agency
while
pursuing
an associate degree
in applied sciences and
paramedicine
at Westchester Community College.
He has
taken
the
civil service exam
for police officers
administered
by the
City of New York.IT
racy Ann Podias
is pursuing
an
MS
in mental
health
counseling at Long
Island
University.
She
hopes
to graduate by summer
2010.1
Darylynn Sargent moved to
Hawaii
during
the
summer of
2008
to
teach.
I
Kevin
Shepheard
'08M was
promoted to assistant director of the
York
County
(Pa.)
Youth
Development
Center.
He
is the youngest senior
manager
in York Count)' govern-
ment.
I
Erin Spada
is an apprentice
instructor with
the
Seeing Eye,
train-
ing dogs
to lead the
blind. She says
it's
her dream
job and she couldn't
have gotten
there
without
Marist.1
Catherine Swartwout
is a
freelance
print and web designer in
the
greater
New
Haven,
Conn.,
area.
She manages
and designs
projects
and
occasion-
ally
works with other companies
LO
complete projects.
Information
about
her
work and portfolio
can be found at
www.cathswart.com.1
Lena Urusova
is organizing an international e\'ent
for
gymnasts with countries such as
Russia,
Ukraine, and France. She is
traveling
in Europe and preparing to
apply for master's programs.
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In.
emor1am
Friends
Arthur H. Agajanian
Walter Cronkite
Betty Evans
Richard
A.
Gregg
The Hon. Milton
M. Haven
Doris
McDonald
Liley
Patricia
A. Madden
Ruth Stafford
Peale
Raymond
A.
Rich
Mary Ann Russell
Jack Weiss
Leonard
Wohlfahrt
John
Anderson
Wolf
Graduates of
the College
John
Joseph
Goggins
'55
Bro. Thomas
P. Kelly,
FMS
'57
Cyprian
L.
Rowe
'57
Larry
Plover
'65
Theodore
Fortino
'66
John
Krull
'67
John O'Neill
'67
George Bennett '68
James
Harvey
'68
Edward
Alan St. Germain
'69
Robert
Douglas
George
Jr,
'70
Christopher
Paul McNamara
'70
David
J. DeRosa
'71
Randall
Graeff
'71
Barbara
Pelton
'71
Philip
E. DeGrandis
'72
John Francis
Foley
'72
John
W.
Mason Sr. '72
Robert Butterworth
'7 5
Debra Hamilton
'75
Jagvir
Jaspal '76
James
V.
Cammans
'77
Susan Calvert Bartels
'78
Catherine
Dalton '82
Frederick
M. Benfer
'83
Bette Walsh '84
Leo
P Roselli
'88
George
T.
Butler
Jr. '89
Richard
Frederick
'89
Tesfaye
Yemane
'94
Becky
Leviton
'01
Maureen
Mahoney
'01
Guy Sino '04
Christopher
J. Moscato
'07
Students
James
R. Connaghan
Charles Edward
Lippincott
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2009
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Philanthropy
A Marist
l.ove
Story
Jim Joyce
and Mary
M11,nsaert
fell in love at Mari
st. Thirty-five
years later, their
devotion
to each othE!r
and their loyalty to the College
could not be greater.
The
Marist campus and
I
~-ludent
body
were
smaller when Jim Joyce and
Mary Monsaen mel in
1974.
Donnelly Hall was
the
main
academic building, and there
were
1,500
students-only
150
of whom were women.
Jim played
football through-
out college, and
Mary
was a
cheerleader for l wo years.
But
they
did not
meet
until the
last
semester of
their
senior year,
when Cupid started moving
things
along.
ll
was actually an en-
trepreneurial
venture that
brought the Joyces together.
Mary
and Brian Wade '74
organized a spring trip
to
Bermuda. "I was thrilled
LO
be
asked
by
Mary to go,"
re-
callsJim
Unknown
LO
him, if
Mary could
recruit
15
people
for
the trip,
she would
have
her expenses paid.
"When
I
showed up at the airport, I
was chagrined lo find oul that
Mary and Brian
had recruited
30 people for the trip. Bul all
was
nol
losl. Mary and I had
dinner
together each night
in
Bermuda,"
he
says. Back on
campus love
bloomed,
and
Jim
proposed during Senior
Week.
They were
married
in
September 1975.
country where I barely spoke the
language. l
would have preferred
to be in England,
but
Brother
[Joseph] Belanger
convinced
me
to
try France," says Mary.
"I
believe the experience helped
me
lo be successful
in
my
life
after college."
Following graduation, Mary
was active with the Marisl
Alumni Association and served
on the School of Communica-
tion
advisory
board.
Jim and
Mary
have
consistently given to
the Marist Fund,
initially
with
minimal amounts and
later
with appreciated
securities.
They always took advantage of
their
companies' matching gift
programs.
In recognition
oft
heir
multifaceted approach to giving,
Jim was named
national
alumni
chairman
for Marist's
annual
giving campaign in
1989.
The
ultimate
recognition of their
commitment to Marisl came
when Mary was named
LO
serve
on the Board of Trustees of
the
College
in
2004.
Jim graduated cum laude
with a BS in businessadminis-
tralionand, thanks
to
a Marist
graduate, was launched on a
TheJoyces
have
set a good ex-
ample for their son, Christopher,
a 2006 Villanova graduate and a
Gannett Newspaper sales associ-
ate. Chris embraces their spirit
of volunteerism. As a Habitat
for
Humanity volunteer, he built
housing in the Carolinas and
New
Mexico,
and he supports
his
university's
annual giving
program.
In
retirement.Jim
and Mary
share a passion
for
golf and are active with
charitable work.
In
this new phase of life, they
also think about what
helped them reach this
point
in
their journey together. "We
have
had
a great life," says Jim,
"and
Marist played a
significant role in helping
us be
who we are.
ln
addition to a great education, we secured
jobs
that led to great careers. And we found
each other."
Jim
and
Mary MonsaertJoyce, both
Class of 1974, met during their senior year.
banking
career. "Ludwig Odierna, Class of'57,
was on campus
recruiting for
Manufacturers
Hanover
Trust
Company,"
Jim remembers.
"He
shepherded me through
the
interview
process
and was
instrumental in
my
being
offered a
job
as a
management trainee in the
credit program."
Jim's first
day on
the job
found him
among Harvard, Yale, and Columbia
graduates.
"I
am forever grateful
lo
Lud for
his
guidance and assistance in
those
early days."
This strong start
led
Jim
toa
29-yearexecutive
BY SHAILEEN
KOPEC
Shaileen Kopec
is
Marist's
senior development
officer
for planned
giving and endowment
support.
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career
in
retail and
commercial
banking with
the Bank of New York, including service as
division president, senior vice president, and
executive vice
president.
Ma1ry was also hired before graduation.
With a BA
in
English and a concentration
in
communications, she was recruited by
the
New York Times
in outside sales and
within
three
years joined the management
team. She continued up the corporate lad-
der, and her
last
assignment before retiring
was as assistant
LO
the director of the
New
York Times Magazine.
Mary had spent her
junior
year
in
Paris, carrying a full academic
load
arnd studying ballet with a professional
company.
"l
was an English major
living in
a
To recognize the importance of this con-
tribution
to their lives, Jim and Mary Joyce
have made Marisl part of their estate plan.
They made this
decision,
says Jim,
"because
we want to
make
sure that in some small way
we continue to keep
the
spirit of Marist alive
well beyond our
days."
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Marist College
Theatre Hall
of
Fame
Induction
Saturday, October 10
Nelly
Goletti Theatre,
Mari
st Student Center
Special Event!
The newly established
Theatre
Hall
of
Fame will induct
its
inaugural
group of honorees. New
honorees
will be added annually.
Jeptha Lanning '53
John
Roche '87
"Dean• Gerard Cox '55
Jennifer
Leigh D>ressel
'91
Tanny
Dumas
Jones
'73
Maria Licari Cohen
'93
Cindy
Davis-Keegan
'81
5:00
p.m. Reception
5:30 p.m. Hall of Fame Induction
6:30 p.m.
Staged reading by
alumni and current students
The
ceremony
is
free and open to all alumni and fri,ends.
For
more
information visit www.marist.edu/alumni/home09.html.
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A schedule of events, class reunion details,
and a
list
of area accommodations are
posted
on
www.marist.edu/a1umni/home09.html.
Columbus Day weekend
is
a busy
time
of
year
in the
Hudson
Valley, so make
your
hotel
reservation
early!
October
8-111,
2008
MARIST


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