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1ST
CONTENTS
I
Summer
2011
FEATURES
8
The
Hancock
Center
Makes Its Debut
A stunni11g
11ew
$35
millio11
building houses the
School of Computer Scie11ce
and Mathematics,
the
Mari st l11stitute
for Public Opi11io,1,
the
School of Ma11ageme11t's
i11vestment
ce11ter,
the
Marist-lBM Joi11t
Study, the Institute for Data
Center Professio11als,
a11d
Marist lnternatio,ial
Programs as well as space dedicated to
economic
development and business incubatio11.
13
A Common Passion
Talented students are pursuing their dreams
of
degrees in computer scie11ce
and information
technology, supported by full
scholarships
from the
National Scie11ce
Foundation
a11d
by the
special
bo11d
among them.
By Jim
Urso
'11
16
The Campaign
for
Marist
Support from private foundatio11s
is
a key part of the
campaign.
Marist
is dedicated 10
helping
s1ude111s
develop the
intellect
and
character
required
for enlightened,
ethical, and
productive
lives
in
the
global
community of
the
21st century.
Marist
Magazi,1e
is published by the Office of
College Advancement at
Marist
College
for
alumni
and
friends
of
Marist
College.
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Prcsidem
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DelGiorno
'88
Chief
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Officer:
Timmian
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Editor: Leslie
Bates
Executive Director of Alumni
Relations:
Amy
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'97
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Coach of
the Years
Since Brian Giorgis
arrived
at Marist
11ine
years
ago,
the
Red Foxes'four
NCAA
Tournament wins
and
seve11
MAAC Tournament
championships
in
an
eight-year
span have
drawn the national spotlight and propelled the
women's basketball program into a source of
pride for the student body and
community.
By Jim
Urso
'11
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Updates
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Marist
graduates
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Philanthropy
Aaron Marcus
called
on
Marist
Athletics
and College Advancement to help him
surprise his
wife, Nancy
McAllister
'91,
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The renovation to the seating areas in the Mccann Ceniter Field House will create a
"bowl"
feel conducive to a loud and exciting collegiate atmosp,here.
The Mccann Center Gets a Makeover
~e
sounds of clanging hammers and elec-
Lowell
Thomas
Communications Center;
I
~~ic
drills familiar
to
those who
passed
Gartland Athletic Commons; the
McCann
Marist's recently completed
Hancock
Center
Baseball Field;
and
the
addition to the McCann
have faded away. However,
the
completion of Center
that
opened
in 1997.
the center
didn't
signal the end of construe-
"The:se
are going
to
be
the
premier offices
Lion
on
the Marist
College campus.
and locker rooms in the
league,"
Murray says.
The Marist Athletics
Department
broke
The rel0>cation
of the basketball offices will
ground this
past
spring on a project that will
also free office space for other sports.
enhance
the
James
J.
Mc Cann Recreation
"It
d,efinitely
will
help
us with recruiting,"
Center with an 11,660-square-foot,
two-story Women':;
Basketball
Head
Coach Brian Giorgis
addition.
The
estimated $8.5 million addi-
says. "It will
help
in terms of watching film
tion
will
provide
new locker rooms and office and editing
film. IL
gives us a
place
to do
that
space for the men's and women's basketball where we are not fighting for certain rooms
teams,
augment
the
experience for fans in
with other sports."
the McCann
Field House, and provide more
ln
April. renovation of the lobby, rest-
convenient
restrooms
and
lobby
space. The
rooms, a.nd Field House commenced to beuer
project
has
the
same architect as
the Hancock
accommodate crowds and,
in
the
case
of rest-
Center, the firm of Robert A. M. Stern.
rooms,
reduce
long waits. The overhaul of the
"It says a
lot
about this
institution
that
Field
House
will create a "bowl" feel condu-
even in
tough times,
we're growing," Director cive to loud noise and an exciting atmosphere.
of Athletics Tim Murray says.
"The
fact that we're changing
the
seats
Much of the
funding
for the new addition to a bowl style is more modern and more up
and renovation came from a substantial dona-
to date," men's basketball point guard Devin
Lion from the
James
J
McCann Charitable
Price says.
"It
will bring more energy to the
Trust, which was established through the
game."
generosity of
local
businessman and
lifelong
Retractable chair-back seats replacing
Poughkeepsie residentjamesJ. McCann. For bleachers on the east and west sides of the
more
than
four
decades,
the McCann Trust
basketball court will reduce the amount of
has benefited
the Poughkeepsie
area
through
available seats. But more bleachers will then
its support for educational,
recreational,
and
be added
to
the north and south end zones
cultural activities. The McCann Trust
has
also
to
regain that capacity.
provided major support over the years for a
The
retractable
chair-back seating will
number
of other significant campus projects offer
mc,re
hand rails and aisle space to meet
including the
original McCann Center;
the
current building regulations. "We always
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An artist's rendering shows the reception
area in the new Mccann Center addition.
The project will provide new locker rooms
for the men's and women's basketball teams.
want
to
make sure people have a safe and
comfortable experience when they come to
our games," Murray says.
While some schools of Marist's stature
have
larger
arenas,
there's
a fundamen-
tal reason why
the
capacity of
the
McCann
Field House will remain at 3,200 even with
the addition of the chair-backs. "We want
LO
maintain our great collegiate atmosphere night
in and night out," Murray says. "We
have
an
outstanding band and dance team, outstand-
ing cheerleaders, and great support from
the
students, the Red Fox Club, and the commu-
nity. At our games, everyone
in
the room
is
part of the action."
Marist has drawn national auention for its
fan support. The NCAA chose Marist as the
overall winner in the 2010-l
l
NCAA
Division
I
"Pack
the House" Challenge, beating
177
participating institutions.
Murray hopes the project will be complete
when students
return
to Poughkeepsie
in
the
fall.
"It's
going LO
be a really exciting
on-campus arena and a
tough
place to
play."
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'11 and Philip
Terrigno
'12



























Mari st College awarded
1,525
degrees at commencement ceremonies May 20 and 21. Above, the ceremony for traditional undergraduates
drew an estimated 10,000 guests to the
campus
green.
1,525
Receive Degrees at Commencemeu,t Ceremonies
M
arist College President Dennis
J.
Lt.
CoL Amy Meeks, associate
director
Murray awarded 1,525
degrees
during
of admissions at the United States Military
two graduation ceremonies in
May
on
the
Academy
at
West Point and a
2002
Marist
campus green.
master's alumna, addressed graduates at the
On
Friday,
May 20, 115 adult students
School of Global and Professional
Programs
received
bachelor's degrees, while
330
men
Commencement on Friday. She was awarded
and women
received
master's
degrees.
The
the
Distinguished Alumna Medal.
following day,
1,080
traditional
undergradu-
Michael
Korda,
editor in chief emeritus
ates were awarded bachelor's
degrees.
for
the
publishing giant Simon and Schuster,
Ellen Hancock Succeeds
Robert Dyson as
Marist Board Chair
T
echnology executive Ellen M. Hancock
has
been elected chair of the Marist
College
Board
of Trustees, succeeding
businessman and
philanthropist Robert
R. Dyson, who
held
the position
for 16
years.
Hancock
chaired
her
first
meetings
Ellen M. Hancock
of
the
board on
Feb.
4 and 5,
2011.
Robert R. Dyson
Hancock
Joined the
Marist board in
1988
and is
the
first woman to serve as chair. She
has been a pioneer in the field of
technolo-
gy,
rising
to senior executive
positions
with
the
IB~'l
Corp., National Semiconductor, and
Apple Computers before becoming chief exec-
utive
officer of Exodus Communications,
Inc.,
then president
of Jazz
Technologies,
Inc. She
serves on the corporate
boards
of Aetna,
Inc., and Colgate-Palmolive Co. She also
serves as chair of the board of
the Institute
for
Advanced Catholic Studies: is a
trustee
of
the Pacific Council on
International
Polic) and
Springboard Enterprises, a women's
,·emure
capital catalyst; and is on
the
advisory board
of
the
nonprofit Rand Corp.
Hancock
and her
husband. Jason, resi-
dents
of
Ridgefield,
Conn., and Los Altos
Hills,
Calif., were
the
lead
donors
for the
Hancock
Center, a $35 million,
technolog-
ically
advanced academic and economic
developme t center in
the
heart of
the
College's
Hudson R1
-er-front campus (see Page 8 for
more on
tl-i.
Hancock Center).
In
announcing
her gift fo1
the
center, Hancock stressed
the
importanc.
of combining outstanding facul-
ty
with st
~-of-the-art
facilities
to
create a
world-clas. college.
Dyson
is
chairman and CEO of the
Manhattan- ased Dyson-Kissner-Moran
Corp.
and presid
.nt
of the
Dyson
Foundation. The
longest-Ser
ing board chair in
\1arist
histoq•,
he led
the
,...ollege
through an unprecedent-
ed
period
f growth
111
academic
programs,
ne,\
facilit'
s, and enhanced national reputa-
tion.
Duri
g
his
tenure,
Marist
constructed
a new libr
T)',
a classroom
building
that
is
home tot
College's School of
Liberal
Arts,
four stude t
residential
complexes, a tennis
complex, a
d
a riverfront park; added a fitness
facility to he James
J.
:VlcCann
Recreation
Center; co~ vened a former steel plant into a
was
the
featured speaker at
the
undergrad-
uate ceremony and was presented with an
Honorary Doctor of
Humane Letters degree.
Korda is
the author of
the
No.
1 best
seller
Power
and
the best-selling
novels
Queenie
and
The
Fortune.
He
wrote the recently published
Hero:
The Life and Legend
of Lawrence
of Arabia
following
extensive
research
among
the
Lowell
Thomas Papers
archived in the
Cannavino
Library
at
Marist.
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center
for
\'isual arts and an gallery; and
renovated
the
chapel, residence halls,
chemistry
labs,
and Student Center.
Dyson also
played
a lead role
in
the
College·s
current capital campaign. which
has
raised more than $141.7
million toward
its
$150 million goal, with
new
endow-
ments
for scholarships, faculty chairs,
and
physical
plant improvements. O,·er
the past
16
years,
Marist
has seen appli-
cations
double
to more
than 11,000
for 950
seats in each year's freshman class. Marist also
added numerous programs for adult
learn-
ers and graduate
degrees,
opened a branch
campus in Florence,
Italy,
and expanded
its
\'irtual campus globally
through
an array of
online
programs.
"Rob Dyson's leadership has brought
us to the point where we have gone from a
regionally
known college
to
an internationallr
recognized institution
of
higher
education that
has
made a name for
itself
in
using technol-
ogy to enhance teaching and learning," says
Marist President Dennis]. :V1urray.
"To get us
to
the next
phase of our de\'elopment,
there
is
no
one with greater \'ision for what can be
accomplished
than
Ellen
Hancock."
Dyson, who is
the
second-longest-ser\'-
mg current board member, was appomted a
Marist trustee
in
1975 and
,,·tll
remam
on the
board as
immediate
past
chair.
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2011
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Catherine DeBlase '11
Awarded National Science
Foundation Graduate
Research Fellowship
M
arist College chemistry
major
Catherine
R.
DeBlase,
the
\'alcdicto-
rian
of the Class of
2011,
doesn·t waste lime.
As a sophomore
in
2009.
the chemistry
ma_ior
earned
the prestigious
Barry Goldwater
Scholarship, an honor that typically
recogmz-
es college _juniors
and
their
sCientific
research
accomplishments. During her final semester
at Marist.
the Hopewell
Junction, \J.Y., nati\'e
garnered another acclaimed reward usually
reser\'ed
for scholars in
the
first or second
year or graduate studies.
De Blase
was awarded
the
2011
l\ational
Science Foundation Graduate
Research
Fellowship
(NSr GRF) to support
her pursuit
of a
doctoral degree
111
organic chemistry
at
Cornell Uniwrsity starting this fall. The
2007
Our
Lady
of
Lourdes
graduate
hecame
the
second Marist undergraduate
to
recei\'e the
highly competitive !\SF CRF, which
desig-
nates
the recipient
as an !\SF Graduate
Fellow,
is
three years
in duration.
and grants
a
$10,500
cost-of-education allowance and
an annual stipend of
$10,000.
''I'll
nc\'er forget two
years ago. seeing Dr.
Cather ne DeBlase
'11
presents research
at Marlst's Celebration of Undergraduate
Resear
·
, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
this pas spring in the Hancock Center.
Jocel) n Nadeau run through
Donnelly
Hall
ecstati with
the
news that
I
was named a
Goldw er Scholar, or s111ing
opposite her as
she sea ched through a list of NSr fellows
to
infoj
m
me, 'You got 11,' says De Blase.
..
Recei\l
ng funding is
great, but there
is
no
substil~te for shanngsuccesses with admin-
istratim
.
peers,
and
the
faculty responsible
for
you• educauon."
Dea
ase began her
undergraduate
research
career t e summer following her freshman
year, \ rking with ;:-.,Jadeau.
an assistant
profess r
of chemistry.
"Ca h)'°s unique abilit)'
to
write creat1w
and compelling chemistry research
proposals
as an undergraduate clearly distinguished her
as a strong candidate
for
both the Goldwater
Scholarship and the !\SF GRF:' says l\adeau.
.. Her
aptitude and enthusiasm for organic
chemistr)' research are
undeniable. I kno,\
she will
hit the
ground
runnmg in
graduate
school, determined
to
sol\'e eyery research
challenge
that
comes
her
way."
During
the
summer of
2009,
DeBlase
participated in the NSF
Research
Experiences
for Undergraduates program at
the
Uni\'ersity
of Connecticut. where her work led
to
a
coauthored paper in
the
scientific research
journal Tctraht'dn>n.
In
summer 2010, DeBlase
took
pan
in
the
Research in Science and
Engineering program
at
Rutgers Uni\'ersity.
DeBlase was awarded
the
Andrew A.
:--1olloy
Memorial Scholarship in Chemistry m
2010
and the
Dr.
Andrew A.
\1olloy
·51 Award
for Excellence
in
Chemistry in
2011.
She was
\'ery
much
engaged in departmental culture
throughout college.
She was a laboratory assis-
tant, a chemistry
tutor,
secretary of the Sll!dent
American Chemical Society, and a regular
participant
at
Open House
Weekend
and
Nauonal Chemistry Week e,·ents.
Her
hrother.
Andrew DeBlase.
who graduated in
2009.
was
also a chemistry
department
standout
and
a
2008
Goldwater
Scholar.
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-Jim Urso '11
Robin Miniter
'11
Receives
Fulbright S,cholarship
to Study Women's Rugby in India
F
our years ago,
Robin
Mi
niter
'11
caught
of traditional
Indian
gender roles. She will
participated
in the
Marist
Emerging Leaders
the
tra\'el bug when she signed on
to
docume:nt,
through
the
lens of her camera and
Program,
and served as
lifestyles
editor,
spend a year in
Florence,
Italy, as part of
intervie:ws,
the
evolution of
these
changes.
photography editor, and staff writer for
the
Marist's Florence
Freshman
Experience.
Then
Mi niter, whose younger sister was adopted College's student newspaper,
The
Circle.
the
lpswich, Mass.,
native,
who completed
from Nagpur,
India,
also established a person-
As
for
what happens after
her Fulbright
her
coursework
in December,
studied in
al connection with
rugby
as a member of grant year
in
India,
Miniter
is contemplating
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, this past spring
Marist'i; nationally ranked club team.
the
pursuit of a
master's
degree.
Her long-
through
a School for
International Training
"1
came to college never
ha\'ing
touched
term
aspirations include employment with
an
program on sexuality and gender studies.
a rugby ball and have since then watched the
international nonprofit
organization engaged
Now, Mi niter is hitting
the
road again, this
sport grow exponentially within
the
past few in work on gender
issues.
time
as
the
recipient of a prestigious Fulbright years al I over the world," says Mi niter.
The Fulbright Program, administered
by
U.S. Student Program Scholarship.
Du
ring
her time at Marist, Mi niter
the
Institute of
International
Education,
is
the
This fall, Miniter
will pursue research on
received recognition for her photography
flagship
international
educational exchange
the deYelopment
of women's rugby in India, an
from the National Association of Photoshop program sponsored by the U.S. government
undertaking
which perfectly
fuses
her inter-
Profesi;ionals, spearheaded public rela-
and is designed
to increase
mutual
under-
ests
in
gender
issues, the
sociology of sport,
tions
initiatives for the
Literary
Arts Society, standing between people
in the United
and photography.
States and
in
other countries. Annually, the
f
Robin Mi niter
'11
is recognized by President
"Sports can
be
a
means
o
limitation
as
Fulbright
Program,
which was founded in
f
Dennis
J.
Murray at the Baccalaureate cer-
well as
o
liberation; it all depends on the
1946,
provides
8,000
grants
to
students,
emonyfor receiving a Fulbright scholarship.
perspective
you take," says Miniter, who
scholars, teachers, artists,
and
scientists in
majored
in
communication with a concen-
155
countries.
Recipients
of Fulbright grants
tration in journalism
and
minors in
global
are selected on the
basis
of academic or profes-
studies
and
women's studies. "Generally,
sional achievement as well as
demonstrated
though, sports create opportunity and are
leadership potential.
vehicles for empowerment.
1
want
to
see how
The primary source of funding for
the
women's rugby, a contact sport which is still
Fulbright
Program
is
an annual appropria-
slowly
being
accepted
in the Western
world,
tion
made
by
the
U.S. Congress
to the
U.S.
is fitting into lndia's unique,
complex social
Department
of State's Bureau of Educational
system."
and Cultural Affairs. Participating govern-
In
her
proposal
for
the ultra-competitive
ments,
host
institutions,
corporations, and
scholarship,
Mi niter
claimed the
rise in
India
foundations in foreign countries and
in
the
of
women's rugby,
customarily a masculine
United States also
provide
support.
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activity, is indicative of a potential
recasting
-Jim Urso '11
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Colleen
Mountford, president of Big
Brothers
Big
Sisters of
Ulster
County, and
her Little
Sister,
Dominique
River-Lyons,
visit
the
Marist
College campus.
Students Shed Light
on Nanoparticles
F
or scientific
researchers,
combating
misperception
regarding
a topic can often
be
more
daunting than the countless hours
of lab study needed
to im·estigate the issue.
Dur111g
the spring
201
I
semester. Associate
Professor of
En\'ironmental
Science Zofia
Gagnon and seven of her students presented
their
research
on
the
effects of nanopani-
cles
on organisms. a commonly o,·erlooked
phenomenon.
to
thousands
of
the most
esteemed professionals
and graduate students
Marist Discounts Tuition
for Partiieipants in
Big Brotlners Big Sisters
I
f you volunteer for
the
nonprofit Big
Brothers
:Sig Sisters organization
in
the
Hudson
River Valley,
you now get the rewards
of helping others plus something more.
Marist College offers a 25
percent
discount
on tuition for most of its graduate and adult
undergraduate programs and waives appli-
cation
fees
for anyone who volunteers as Big
Brothers
or
]Big
Sisters
in three
valley coun-
ties. Little
Brothers
and Little Sisters, when
they reach college age, are also eligible, as are
family members of
"Bigs"
and
"Littles."
Participants
in the
Big Brothers Big
Sisters progirams of Dutchess, Orange, and
Ulster counties
receive the
benefits when
they
register
for degree programs offered
through
Marist's Office of Graduate and Adult
Enrollment.
"I love the idea," says Colleen Mountford,
president
of
Big Brothers Big
Sisters of Ulster
County.
"Not
only
does
it appeal to volun-
teers and
potential
volunteers but also staff,
board
memb,ers
and potential board members,
former
LitLLe
Brothers and Little Sisters,
and
the
parents of some of
the
children we
serve. That's a
lot
of
people
impacted by
this
partnership. Our agency will benefit
from the
volunteers and
potential
board members who
may
just
need this incentive."
In
summer
2010,
the newly
launched
program
was
the
subject of an article on the
education blog of the
New York Times
and Time
Warner Cable's YNN news service.
Founded in New
York
City
in
1904,
Big
in
the
scienufic community at the Amencan
Associatio1 for Advancement 111
'.:>c1ence
(AAAS)
ann ;al meeting
111
Washmgton.
Nanopa tides are used 111
medical.
indus-
trial,
and
CO\
1merc1al
goods such as washing
machines, efrigerators. air conditioners.
toothbrush s, and toothpaste to eliminate
odor-causi
~
bactena. Although
this
ma)'
seem like a
!ignificant
ath·ance 111
creating
healthy an sterile ern·1ronments, concern
exists that t se particles, which are less than
100
nanom ters
in
size,
will
enter natural
water suppl s, and that humans and Olher
organisms,
ill
be
exposed
to them.
Because
Left to right, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Interim Dean of the School of Science Neil
Fitzgerald joins Renae Comulada, Stephanie Ca bey, Associate Professor of Environmental
Science Zofia Gagnon, Seth Brittle, Chau Quach, Rachel Serafin, and Allen Clayton, who pre-
sented their research on the effects of nanoparticles on organisms at the AAAS nationwide
annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
Brothers Big Sisters serves a quarter-million
children annually through
its network
of
nearly
380
agencies across
the
country. Open
since
1975,
the
Ulster County chapter served
145
Big/Little
pairs
in
2010.
The
children in
the program range from age
4 to
18,
while
the
adults are age
19
and
up.
Mentors
report that they have
gotten as
much, ir not
more, from the experience as
the child, says Mountford. "For as
little
as
eight hours a month, a mentor can make an
impact in
a child's life, just
being
someone
to share a child's dreams,
to
open the child
to new experiences and opportunities. And
it
is usually the simple moments
that
make
the biggest impact.''
The
program
is a win-win:
Big
Brothers
Big Sisters recruits more volunteers to
mentor children, and Marist
recruits
more
students. Marist Dean or Graduate and Adult
Enrollment Sean-Michael Green hopes to
extend
the
discount to programs in other
states. A former
Big Brother himself,
he volun-
teers
with the
Dutchess
County branch, is
a
member
of the board of
Big Brothers
Big
Sisters of Ulster County, and ser\'ed pre\'i-
ously on
the
board of
the Piusburgh
chapter.
"The
College was
founded
by Marist
Brothers
who were guided
by
the
principle
or service," says Green.
"We
are happy we
can follow
in that tradition by
supporting the
work of Big Brothers Big Sisters, which serves
children and their families."
For more information,
call Marist's
Office
of Graduate and Adult Enrollment at
(845)
575-3800
or toll-free at
(888)
877-7900
or
visit www.marist.edu/admission/graduate/
bigbrothersbigsisters.
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of
their
minuscule size. there's no way to elim-
inate
nanoparticles from the water supply. In
their toxicological
study of crayfish and
plants,
the students
found
significant effects of
reac-
tive, sih-er nanopanicles on the orga111sms.
including
DNA damage and
the
accumula-
tion of nanoparticles in
the
ttssue of animals.
··we were hoping
that
by alerting the
scientific community, we could ewntually
raise
the
concerns of
legislators,"
sa)'S
Gagnon.
Students carried out
the
research outside
of
their
coursework, startmg
in
the summer
of
2010
and concluding the following fall.
The group gave a poster
presentation
during
a two-hour informal session 111
which other
meeting
attendees could offer questions and
suggestions about the
research.
"That kind
of exposure to mostl)' graduate students
and proressionals
in
that particular format
ts
a
pretty
remarkable opportunnr," says Dr.
Thomas Lynch.
chair of the Et1\'ironmental
Science and Policr program at Manst.
For
e,·eryone 111\'0l\'Cd,
there was a sense
that what they were doing was important.
"I
alwa)'S
ask. 'Who's gomg
to
benefit
from
this?"'
said Alison Sardonim
·11.
"For this pro,1ect,
I
know there
is
a point to my
research
"
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-Jim
l
'1so
'J
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Assistant Director of Field Experience Desmond Murray
(left)
presented the 2011 Intern of
the Year award to Stephanie McDonald
'11.
Celebrating Internships
Tiie
Center
for
Career Services again cele-
1
brated the
dedication
of students serving
in
internships
with
its
annual
Intern
of the
Year
awards
this
past spring.
Marist
College
placed
approximately
1,200 students
in
elective credit and required
internships
during
the
2010-11 academic year.
Several students also completed
internships in
conjunction with an international educational
experience.
The
Intern
of
the
Year Award, given by
Marist's
Center for Career Ser\'icessince
1993,
recognizes
a graduating senior for outstanding
achievement in experiential education, which
includes internships, co-ops, and student
teaching
assignments.
Stephanie McDonald ·11, who was a dual
Spanish
and business administration
major
with an emphasis
in finance
and a
minor
in
global studies,
received the
2011 Marist
College
Intern
of
the Year
honors. McDonald,
of
Morris
Plains, NJ.,
received
the award on
April
28
at the Field Experience Recognition
Luncheon
in the
College's Student Center.
Additional
recipients, representing
each
of
Marist's
academic schools, were Andrew
Wellingwn,
a criminal
justice
major with
a minor in information
technology;
Jessica
Guarino, a
psychology/special
education
major;
Cassandra Gilday,
a biomedical
scienc-
es
major
with a minor in
business;
Alexandra
Bickel,
a
history
major with a minor
in
communication ans;
Sean Dunn,
a comput-
er science major;
Helena
Williams, a fashion
merchandising
major; and Courtney Davis,
a communication ans major with a minor
in
business.
Assistant
Director
of
Field
Experience
Desmond Murray presented the awards
before
an audience of employers and Marist faculty,
staff, and students.
McDonald has been
a
Dean's
List student
6
MARIST
MAGAZINE
for all of
her
semesters at Marist and stud-
ied abroad in Madrid, Spain. She participated
in
three internships: BASF
in Florham
Park,
N.].; AXA Advisors
in Poughkeepsie;
and
Fusion Media in
Brewster,
N.Y. McDonald
was a rnember of the College's Dean's Circle
and
Honors
Program and served as president
of
Alpha
Psi
Omega
Honor Society and vice
president of
the
Marist College Council on
Theatre Arts. She
received
a Marist College
Presidential
Scholarship, the Dr.
Raymond
F.
Weiss '49 Memorial Scholarship, and the
Jennifer
L.
Dressel '91 Memorial Scholarship
for her work
in
Marist
theatre.
Also at the
luncheon,
Stephen Cole, execu-
tive director of
the
Center for Career Services,
presented the 2011 Marist College
Intern
Employer of the Year Award
LO
Hudson
Valley
Business
Journal.
Past recipients of
the
employer award
ha\'e
been
New York State Department
of En•,ironmental Conservation,
MTV
Networks, Target, Morgan Stanley, Maggy
Londo1n
International,
the
Dutchess
County
Sheriff's Department,
the
Center for Enhanced
Performance
at U.S. Military Academy, St.
Francii; Hospital,
IBM, Enterprise
Rent-A-Car,
the American Cancer Society, Central
Hudson
Gas and Electric, Northwestern Mutual
Life,
Paine
Webber, and
Madison
Square Garden.
Allison E.
Burke
'11, a
business
adminis-
tration/marketing
and sports communication
major, was
the
recipient of
the
2010 New York
State C:ooperati\'e
and
Experiential Education
Association Student of
the
Year Award.
It
was
the firi;t year
that
a student at Marist
recei\'ed
this
award.
Ahumni are encouraged
to
contact
the
Center for Career Services at (845) 575-3547
or career.services@marist.edu
to
explore how
an internship program would benefit their
compa.nies.
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Christopher M. DelGiorno
'88
Christopher DelGiorno
'88 Named Vice President
for College Advancement
C
hristopher M. DelGiorno '88 has
been
named
\'ice
president
for
college advancement at
\larist.
He
brings more
than
20 years of experi-
ence in higher education and
nonprofits
and a
thorough
understanding of fund
raising,
major
gifts.
donor relations,
and alumni affairs.
DelGiorno joins Marist from
Bucknell Uniwrsity
m Le\\'isburg,
Pa.,
where he ser\'(:d as executi\·e director
of
leadership
gifts.
In
this
role, he
led a
team of
I
5, including
11
regional direc-
tors engaged in a
natiOn\\'ide
effort
to
build meaningful relationships with
Bucknell alumm, parems, and friends
and secure \'ital
leadership
and prin-
cipal gift support for
key uni\·ersny
priorities in the context of
the
univer-
sit \
·s
current S400
million
campaign.
'
Pre\ ioush-, he sen·ed as director of
recruitment ;nd
professional
de\'elop-
ment and senior maJor gifts officer
at
1
he Lmwrsny of Pennsyh-ania. Earlier.
he
\\as
director of de\·elopment at the
Ronald \lcDonald House of Southern
t\rn Jersey and managing coordinator
for
the
Philadelphia Education
Fund's
College Access Program.
He began his career as an assis-
tant
chrector of admissions at Marist.
He rccem,d a
B.A. in
communications
from :\larist and a Master of
Liberal
Arts degree in nonprofit
leadership
from
the
Uni\·ersity of Pennsylvania,
where
he
also earned a certificate in
fund raising.
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Silver Needle Event
Marks Its 25th Year
E
ven
the
standing
room
was sold out at
the
25th annual Silver Needle Fashion
Show Awards evening event on May 5 at the
Mid-Hudson
Civic
Center in
Poughkeepsie.
Some 2,000 guests attended the afternoon
and evening shows, which were
produced entirely by
Marist
Fashion Program students and
faculty,
led by
Fashion
Program
Director
Radley Cramer.
l'he winning senior design collection
(above)
was by Madeline Sasso (left).
The Fashion faculty presented
President
Dennis]. Murray with a
Silver Needle award to
honor his
continued support and enthusiasm
for
the Fashion
Program.
The student awards went Lo
Madeline
Sasso
for
Senior Design
Collection; Lauren
Duncan
for
Senior Design Portfolio; Monica
Tung for
Outstanding Senior Finale
Garment; and Courtney Andrews,
Saasha Coleman, and
Kelly
Dier
for
Senior Merchandising
Capping
Group Award.
Judges
were Mark DeZao,
executive vice
president
of Easy
Spirit Design and Direct, Nine
West Footwear Corp./The
Jones
Group; Michelle
Gondolini, owner/
designer,
RMC,
USA; Dominique
Accelerated Programs Available Year-Ro nd
N
eed
three
college credits but don't ha\'e other scho~ scan enroll in
these
classes with
ume for
the traditional 15-wcek
class? permission f their home mstnution. and they
J\:o problem: :-.tarist offers 10-week cours-
are a great
·ay to
get extra credits complet-
es on
line
during
the
summer. No
time
for a
ed or stren
then
a graduate application from
10-week
course? Tr)' t,tarist's
four-week
online where\·er a hudcnt
may
be," says Dr.
Lauren
courses offered during
the December
winter
Mounty,
d
ran
of the Sc-hool of Global and
break. Hm·e
prior college credits
but
no bach-
Profession
[Programs.
The
offerings include
elor's degree? Through
\larist's
Organizational topics sue as Introduction
to
Psychology,
Leadership and Communication (OLC)
lnformati n and Computer
Literacr,
program,
you can earn a B.S.
degree in
as
lntroducli
to Literature, and Principles of
little
as two years attending classes one
:\lacroecon mies. For a complete
list
of
the
night per week. There are also
fully
onlinc
courses of
red this
coming
December,
visll
program options for adults
who need
even
www.mari t.cdu/gpp/winter.
more llcxibiln
y.
A new hon of the OLC program beg ms
The
10-wcck and four-week summer and
this
fall.
0
!"
classes
meet
the same night each
\\'lllter options CO\Tr
the
same
material
as a
\\·eek
from to
10
p.m.
for two years,
\\'Ith
the
trad111onal
semester-long
class. "Studems from same cohor continumg together throughout
Pino
Santiago
'99, owner/designer,
Dominique
Daniella;
Rina Stone, creative
director, lnStyle
magazine;
and April Uchitel, executive vice
president of global strategy for Diane von
Furstenberg.
Sponsors of the show included Macy's,
Maggy London,
the
Jones Group,
the TJX
Companies,
lnc,
Capelli, New York, and
Ross.
■
the two years. Courses are
taken
sequentially,
one at a
time. in
six-week
modules.
For more
information
\·isit www.marist.edu/gpp/olc.
The
OLC
program
as \\·ell as other unique
academic and certificate offerings can
be
cuswmized for employers who would
like
to
offer programs on site
LO
their employees.
For
more information, contact Dr. Lauren
Mounty, dean of
the
School of Global and
Professional
Programs, at (8-f5) 575-3202 or
lauren.moumy@maris1.edu.
■
To hear students comment
on their experiences in
four-week courses, scan
the QR code or visit www.
marist.edu/gpp/winter.
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2011
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Makes
It!;
Debut
A
stunning
new
$35
million
building
houses the School
of Computer
Science
and Mathematics,
the
Marist
Institute for Public
Opinion,
the School
of Management's
investment
center,
the Marist-lBM
Joint Study,
the Institute for Data
Center
Professionals,
and Marist
International
Programs
as well
as space dedicated
to economic
development
and
business
incubation.
Completed this past spring,
the
building
was designed
by
the
firm of renowned
architect Robert A. M.
Stern, dean of the Yale
School of Architecture.
Ellen and Jason Hancock cut
the ribbon
opening
the Hancock
Center.
The
Hudson River
is not
the
onlr scene-
I
~-tealer Ctn the Marist College campus
green anrmore. The
river
had to compete with
Marist's majestic new Hancock
Center as the
backdrop
for Marist's
65th commencement
this
past May.
The four-level
Hancock
Center, situ-
ated on a bluff O\'erlooking
the Hudson,
houses
the
School of Computer Science and
Mathematics, the nationally
renowned Marist
Institute for Public
Opinion, the School of
Management's high-tech
Student
Investment
Center,
the Marist-lBM Joint
Study,
the
Institute for
Data
Center
Professionals,
Marist
lnternationa
I
Programs,
and the College's
academic
administration. Several of
the
office·s and laboratories in the
new
building
have been
designed
for use
by entrepreneurs
for
economic
development and
business incubation.
The
Hancock
Center also
features
a National Science
Foundation-funded
enter-
prise
computing research laboratory,
two
additional computer labs, 30 facully offices,
seven classrooms, six seminar rooms, an
exec-
utive presentation center, a sLUdent
lounge,
a
coffee shop, and an outdoor patio.
Completed
this
past spring and dedicated
May 6,
the
$35 million center was
designed by
the firm of architect Robert A. M. Stern,
dean
of
the
Yale School of Architecture. Stern and
his
team were inspired
by
Marist's
three historic
buildings,
which were part of
the Bech
estate
upon
which
the
current campus was built. The
buildings
were
designed by
Detlef
Lienau,
an
innuential
architect of
the latter
half
of
the 19th
century and one of the original
29 founders
of
the
American
Institute of
Architects. The
Hancock
Center's fa<;ade
is
reminiscent
of
the
red brick
and grey stone
that distinguished
Lienau's
work.
Approximately 57,000 square
feet, the
new
building was designed
to be
sensitive
LO
the environment.
lt
has a green
roof
and
an energy-efficient
lighting
system and was
constructed
using
sustainable
building
prac-
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The Hancock
Center
Makes
Its Debut
continued
The Hancock Center received major support from the State of New York and the Empire State Development Corp. to advance technology-based
initiatives
that will economically benefit the region and the state.
tices and materials.
'The
Hancock Center was designed to help
fulfill Marist's
goal of
infusing
information
tech-
nology
into all of our academic disciplines,"
says
President Dennis]. Murray.
"This
world-class
structure completes Marist's academic quadran-
gle and will take
its place
as one
of
the
premier
academic buildings in America."
The center
is fully paid
for, with
nearly
60
percent of
its
cost
underwritten
by fund-raising
efforts and the
balance provided through insti-
tutional
funding. The
building
was supported
by
a leadership gift from Ellen
Hancock,
chair
of Marist's Board orTrustees, and her
husband,
Jason. Slhe has been a
pioneer
in
the
field of
technology, rising to senior
executive
positions
with IBM, National Semiconductor Corp., and
Apple Computers
before
becoming chief exec-
Ulive
officer of Exodus Communications,
Inc.,
and then
president
of Jazz
Technologies, Inc.
She serves on the corporate board of Aetna,
Inc., and! Colgate-Palmolive
Co.
In addition
to Jason
and Ellen Hancock's
lead
gift, a number of other significant gifts
were
received
to ad\'ance construction of
the
building. The
Jeannette
F.
Schlabach Charitable
Trust,
under
the leadership of its trustee Mark
V.
Denniis, C.P.A., awarded a $3 million grant
The building, dedicated May 6, sits on a bluff overlooking the
Hudson
River.
10
M A R
I
S
T
!vi
A
G A Z I
N E
to create
the
state-of-the
art Student Investment
Center on
the building's
first
0oor.
The Booth
Ferris Foundation, the Louis Greenspan
Memorial Trust, and a foundation that choos-
es
to
be anonymous also
provided
generous
grants.
As a high-tech
hub
for applied research and
business incubation,
the
Hancock Center has
received
major
support from
the
State of New
York and the Empire State De\'elopment Corp.
to
advance technology-based
initiatives
that
will economically benefit
the region
and the
state.
This includes
a $5 million grant secured
by
New
York
State Sen. Ste\'e Saland.
Among the
Hancock Center's
features
is
a
;
1,000-square-foot
datacenter that
is partially
~
funded by a $696,931 grant from the National
2
Science Foundation. This gives students and
§
faculty a
dedicated
laboratory with advanced
ii
infrastructure and computing
resources
while
also supporting applied-research
projects
with
industry and academic
partners
in a wide
vari-
ety of areas.
Individuals
contributing to
the new
center
include Immediate Past Chair of
the Board
Robert R. Dyson,
who supported the furnish-
ing of the new
board
room, and Vice Chair of
the
Board Ross Mauri
'80,
who underwrote a
compmer
laboratory.
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The fa~ade reflects the red brick and grey stone that distinguished the architecture of Detlef Lienau, who designed Marist's historic buildings.
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The Hancock
Center
Makes
Its Debut
continued
The
first
alumnus to support
the project
was
the
late Anthony
J.
Kondysar '69, who was
inspired
by
the
center's \·ision and the impact
it
would
have
on Marisl. His wife, Mary Ellen,
made
an additional contribution in
memory
of
her husband,
a prominent
local
business-
man who
attended Marist as an adult student.
Suresh Kothapalli '91M,
Rajesh
Kothapalli
'92M, and Vinod
Kottapalli
'94M are gradu-
ates of
Marist's
M.S.
in
Computer Science
Software Development
program,
and their
generous gift supports the Student
Research
and Collaboration
Room,
which at
their request
is dedicated
to their parents, Rangaraju
and
Suseela
Kothapalli.
Also supporting special rooms
in the
center
are
Dean
of Computer Science
Roger
Norton
and his wife, Cheryl, and Joshua '00 and
Carolyn
Matheus
'02;
Dr.
Carolyn Matheus is a
member
of
Marist's computer science
faculty.
■
Students gather at the cafe beyond the student lounge.
Designed to be sensitive to the
environment,
the
center
has-
energy-efficient
lighting and was constructed using sustainable building materials.
Beauty
and Brains The Hancock
Center
BY ANDREW
PAULSEN
'12
Y
ou would be hard-pressed to find a student
who is not cnjo>·ing
our newest addition
to the campus. Students lm-c the new building
and the assets it brings to Manst for a \,·ide ,·ari-
ety of reasons: from the stunmngstudent lounge
and coffee shop to the truly remarkable views
of the campus and the Hudson Ri\'er \'alley, the
Hancock Center adds many features
to
Marist
that
were prc,·iousl) thought urnmaginablc.
"The
Hancock Center
1s
a
rellection
of the
e"olution of the campus, demonstrating that
the College has Its e)T towards
the
fut urc ," says
April Bourlier
'12,
execuu,-e ,·ice president of
the Student Go\'ernmcnt Association.
The
I
lancock Center conunues the :--larist
\'ision of constructing a campus that encour-
ages the use of technology across all disciplines
to prepare students for the future. All students
will utilize technology
111
whatc,·cr field they
enter after graduation: busmess majors can get
hands-on learning
111
the new im·estment room,
computer science and mformation technology
12
M A R
I
S T M A G A Z I N E
majors an take ad,·antagc of the state-of-
thc-an
~
mputing fac.ilitics
that the Hancock
Center
I
ffers, and communication, political
science,
.
nd other maJors can conduct sur\'eys
for the
~tanst
Poll
that
will headline the news
of today nd tomorrow. There are also numer-
ous spac s throughout the building to facilitate
collabo tion among students and faculty to
conduc research and de,·clop presentations
that wi bring Marist
to
new heights. And,
perhaps 1ost important, it's all encased
111
one
of them st exquisite buildings on any college
campus worldwide.
The Hancock Center also fits mto the
heritag of the College by supporting excel-
lence
111
ducat ion, one of the ideals the :--larist
Brother brought to the Hudson Rl\·er \'allc)
o,·cr
a
c tur)' ago.
I
personally can only antici-
pate wh
t
the
future holds for :--tanst because
of the
ncock Center, but
I
have faith that n
\\'Ill hel transform our school into one of the
premier. Kademic institutions in Amenca, if
not the
1
·oriel.
And1L'W
l~au/sc11
'12 is swdcnt
/Jody
president.
Andrew Paulsen
'12,
student body president for
2011-12, speaks at the building dedication.















A Common
Passion
Talented
students are pursuing
their dreams
of degrees in computer
science
and information
technology,
supported
by full scholarships
from
the National
Science
Foundation
and
by the special bond among them.
BY JIM URSO
'11
A
s class commences on a fall afternoon
in the
Dyson Center,
Director
of the Academic Learning Center Jane Fiore passes
out materials to her Self-Management class. One handout reads,
'The
11
rules
that Bill Gates
believes
students should, but typically do
not,
learn
in
college." Software
mogul
Gates's opinion is particular-
ly
relevant to this class, which boasts some of the most impressive
students
in Marist's
School of Computer Science and Mathematics.
"Life
is not
fair, get
used
to it," reads Rule No.
l.
S
U M M
E
R 2
0
1
I
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A Common
Passion
continued
Student
James
Ara ma could relate. A
native
of
Kenya, Africa,
Arama has overcome
pover-
ty,
divorce,
and geographic
displacement
in
pursuit
of
his dreams.
Arama is one of
12
recipients of presti-
gious
academic
scholarships awarded
by
Marist
College
in
spring 2010. The full scholarships,
sponsored
by the
National Science
Foundation
(NSF),
were designated
for students expressing
financial need
and
planning to
study comput-
er science or information technology systems.
The 12 first-year
students hailed from
Hawaii,
California, Florida, Minnesota, North Carolina,
Massachuseus,
Pennsylvania, and New
York.
The
NSF
funding
will carry this cohort of
students
through
their graduation
in 2014.
"The significant amount of
funding
allows
Marist
to recruit
very talented and
diverse
students from around
the
country, and to help
us increase the
diversity of our college, which
is an integral element of our strategic plan,"
President
Dennis
j.
Murray
says.
The
diversity
of
the
NSF scholarship recipi-
ents has united them in a
unique
way. Associate
Professor
of Computer Science
Ron
Coleman,
who serves as the students'
primary
advisor
and
their
instructor
in
Computer Science
I
and
Computer
Science
11,
says the amity amongst
the group
is
an interesting paradox.
"They
are
similar
in
diversity," he says. "They are
bonded
by
the
sheer
fact that many
of them are very
different from many
of
the
students at Marist.
This
is
the most ethnically diverse class
I've
ever
had
at Marist." The NSF scholarship recipients
shared a
four-day
orientation course, a statistics
course,
two introductory
gaming design and
development
courses, and the Self-Management
course.
The nine men in
the group also
lived
near each other, on
the
ground floor of Leo
Hall.
For Arama,
living in
a small dorm room
in Leo was until quite
recently
a deviation
from
reality.
As a child,
he
dreamed big, even
though
his life was
limited to
a
poverty-strick-
en community.
"1
wanted
to do
everything,"
he
says.
"l
just wasn't sure what 'everything'
was." When
he
was 14 years old, his family
won an
immigration louery
and, with finan-
cial assistance
from his
community
in Kenya,
moved to
the United States. They now live in
Rochester, Minn.
However, the
Aramas would not make
the
voyage to America together. Arama's father
would
leave first
and attempt
to
establish a
workable
living
situation. "It was
difficult
not
having
a father to see us grow up, but we got
over that," Arama says.
"And
yes sometimes
1
thought we would
never
come to America given
the cost
it took to
obtain a visa and a
plane
ticket for a whole entire family in a govern-
ment
fi
lied
with corruption."
Arama's father's resilience inspired him to
be the best
he
could at whatever
he
chose
to
do,
a path
that
would reveal
itself
upon his entrance
to
high school in America. Although
technol-
ogy
use
was supremely
limited in
Arama's
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M A R
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ST M A G A Z
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E
Twelve filrst-year students from across
the United States received prestigious full academic scholar-
ships frorn Marist, sponsored by
the
National Science Foundation. Clockwise, from top, are Morgan
MacHuta1, Jason Wong, Gabriela Rosales, James Arama, Jonathan Shudra, Martin Mena, Justin
Svegliato, Mark
Logan,
De'Ron Billups, Garrett Sutcliffe, and Julio Cabrera. Not pictured is Stuti Bhatt.
hometown,
he
was undeterred by his
lack
of
experience compared to
his
American counter-
parts.
''Vlfhen
I
came
here
and saw
the
amount
of access
to
technology,
1
was
like.
'Yeah, I could
learn this."' For
him,
"everything" was
begin-
ning to take shape.
After
his introduction to
computer
programming during
his
sophomore year of
high school, Arama
became
involved with
the
Black Data Processing Association and the
Youth Computer Training
Program,
which
teach advanced Web programming to high
school students, with a focus on
minorities.
Not long: after, Arama was competing at
the
National
Programming
Competition where
he experienced
the
transformative nature of
working with a cohesive group of
talented
indi-
viduals. "l uncovered my potential by
being
around students who had common passion
and driv,e, and
together
we won
the
National
Programming Competition," he says.
Upon the
recommendation
of a
club
mentor,
Arama decided
to
apply for a comput-
er scien,ce scholarship which would soon
place him in a
new
group of students with a
common passion and
drive.
Even
in
the midst
of watching
his
parents'
divorce
and his
broth-
er's difficult adjustment to American culture,
he remained focused and finished his appli-
cation.
"I
realized
sitting around and feeling
bad
about it wasn't going to do me any good,"
he Sa)'S. "I wanted to prove
to
my
two
broth-
ers that if you work
hard in
life, great things
can happen."
This past
year, when
he
wasn't busy with
course work or clubs, Ara
ma
and
fellow
schol-
arship
recipients Jason
Wong of
Honolulu,
Hawaii, Martin Mena of Croydon, Pa., and
Justin
Svegliato of Massapequa Park, N.Y.,
worked in the Web
Development
subdivision
of the Information
Technology
office, where
they updated
and enhanced the official Marist
Web site. Gates's 10th
rule,
"Television is not
real life; in
real life,
people actually have
to
leave the coffee shop and go
to
jobs," also seems
to resonate
with these students. "l chose
to
do
this
job because
it
will provide valuable experi-
ence for when
1
apply for internships down
the
road," says Mena. All of the scholarship recipi-
ents are involved with the Computer Society,
and many also
take
part
in
activities not related
to computer science.
Arama, Wong, Mena, and S\·egliato
worked
for Melissa
Egan,
assistant director of enter-
prise computing-web. Although there was a
steep learning curve for
the
computer coding
aspect of
the job,
Egan says
il
wasn't long before
these students were finishing her sentences. "I
couldn't ha\·e gotten
luckier,''
Egan says. "They
are anxious to
program
everything they can."
Self-Management
does
not teach computer
programming or gaming design but as the class
begins,
the
camaraderie among
the
scholarship
awardees is
discernible.
"They
are wonderful,"













says Fiore, who serves as a secondary advisor.
"They are all very
funny, bright, interesting,
and
an overall
pleasure
to Leach.
Just being
a
fresh-
man
is
a
huge transition.
All
freshman
students
come
from the
culture of their
family to
the
culture of Marist, and
that's
an even bigger
change for more
diverse
students."
The
relationship
she
has
with her S[Udents
is not just about
teaching.
She is also a
mentor,
guide, and friend. The students share anecdotes
about their days,
both funny
and serious, and
Fiore
and
the
class
provide
feedback. Gabriela
Rosales
of
Hawthorne,
Calif., sits in
the back
and
nonchalantly plays
with the
hair
of Stuti
Bhatt
of South
Yarmouth,
Mass. Morgan
MacHuta of
Honolulu responds
to a
question
about values. Classmate
Mena
excitedly agrees
with her.
"That's exactly what
I
wanted
to
say,
but
you said
it perfectly."
In
computer science
fields,
women are a
minority,
according to Coleman, and the three
women within this scholarship cohort are
the
most
he's
had
in his introductory
program-
ming course al Marist. MacHuta admits she
does think
about the gender gap.
"If
anything,
it's
more of a motivator," she says.
"It's
some-
thing that encourages me to try harder and
prove myself to be
just as competent and able."
MacHuta
must also confront
the
vast
cultural
differences
between her native
Hawaii
and New York. Luckily, Wong
is
also
from
Honolulu, and
the two
can
laugh
about
common misconceptions about their home
culture.
According
to
Corinne Schell '83, direc-
tor of external
recruitment
and outreach, it
is not
uncommon for students who hail from
more remote locations
to experience an easier
transition
to
college
than
some students who
come from
neighboring
states. The latter
group, Schell says, does
not
always expect the
changes
that
come with the shift. Schell, who
recruited eventual NSF scholarship
recipients
in
Hawaii
and California, says
that the
size of
the
school and the support services available
play a vital role in securing the confidence of
families, which
is
essential
in the
adjustment
of students from distant hometowns.
This
confidence
is not
gained only during recruit-
ment
trips
and campus
Lours; it is
nurtured
throughout
S[Udems'
time at the College.
"Other
administrators and
I
have maintained contact
with families of these students," Schell says.
The palpable
fellowship
among
the
schol-
ars can
be traced back
to the spring of 2010,
many
months before
Move-In Day, when each
of the scholarship finalists visited
lv!arist.
Each
worked fervidly
to
impress professors and
college
officials
by
asking
intelligent
questions
and contributing
to
conversations. As
they
sat
in the
Cabaret, the parents and students waited
anxiously for announcement of the scholar-
ship winners.
The Self-Management class, taught
by
Academic
Learning Center
Director Jane Fiore, exposes
students
to a practical self-management model
that enables them to
increase
academic and
personal achievement
in a
college environment,
When the: announcement came, each of
the
finalists experienced different emotions. All
of
the
emotic,ns, however, were
positive.
"My
mom
was in tears,"
remembers
Mark Logan
of
Bradenton,
Fla.
"It
was the most
relieving
feeling in the
world," says Mena.
"Shocking,"
recalls
Julio Cabrera of Miami, Fla.
Bonded
by the experience, a foundation
for
friendship
was built.
T
o providle the scholarships, Marisl first
had to secure
funding
from
the
NSF.
Coleman was instrumental in
preparing
the
grant applica1tion.
"We
really had to explain
in a compelling way why we
believe
we are
suited to
fulfi II
the requirements of the grant,"
says Coleman. "We use video game
develop-
ment and simulations as a means
to introduce
students to cc,mputing, as opposed to
the
more
traditional \vay,
which
is more
business- or
enterprise-oriented computing." Aside from
this
fresh
strategy for
introductory
comput-
ing, the proposal also
included
partnerships
with companies such as
IBM,
Verizon, Aetna,
Pepsi, and other
industry mentors.
Students
benefit from these partnerships by
receiving
highly sought internships. "These projects and
internship
opportunities are a proven path to
employment, with many of our students receiv-
ing top
offers well before they graduate," says
Roger Norton, dean of the School of Computer
Science and Mathematics. After Marist was
awarded
the
grant
in
2008, Coleman spent
time in 2009
traveling to recruit
students and
designing the:
program.
The group's
"similar
diversity"
is
perfectly
represented
by
their
unique
interests
within
and outside the field of computer science. Like
Arama, Cabrera also dreams of one day start-
ing
his
own
business. He
became interested in
computer programming
upon
learning about
hacking and computer security in
high
school.
He
admits
he does miss home
at
times,
but
takes solace
iin
the fact that by receiving his
education he's doing
the right
thing for
his
family, who hope to move out of Florida one
day. "I
miss them,
but if I go back to Miami
I
cannot
provide
a future for
my
family," he
says. "I know I'm doing the right thing, and
that makes
me feel comfortable."
Many of the students are
interested
in
studying abroad. MacHuta hopes
to
combine
her
skills in computer science with
her
affin-
ity
for
Japanese
culture and
language.
Garrett
Sutcliffe of Newburgh, NY., and Wong are
interested
in
video game development.
Svegliato
is thinking about postgraduate study in phys-
ics, and De'Ron Billups of
Los
Angeles, Calif.,
is taking up computer hardware. Many are
looking into the five-year
master's
programs
available within the School of Computer
Science. Others are considering obtaining a
master's
in
business administration.
These interests complement each other
well and will do so
to
a
larger
extent when
students begin classes in Marist's new Hancock
Center in the fall of 2011. Home
to the
School of
Computer Science and Mathematics,
the center
also will provide a collaborative workspace for
joint projects as well as laboratories offering
access to advanced !BM server
technologies
and
Cisco networking systems. As
Fiore looks
out
the
second-0oor window of
Dyson
to admire a
beautiful sunset over the
Hudson,
the students
are
transfixed
by the Hancock Center and all
the
possibilities
it
will unveil.
Each student recognizes that opportunities
are worthless
unless he
or she can capitalize
on them. Arama even suffers some guilt over
the chances afforded
to
him. "Yes
I do
have
some guilt
because I
feel
like
there were some
kids back home who,
if
they were ever given a
chance
to
come
to
America, would excel really
well in whatever
they
do." Billups emphasizes
the fact that
just
because he's been awarded a
scholarship, it doesn't mean he has no
more
to
accomplish.
"It's
harder to keep it than
it
is
to
get it," he says. The notion re0ects another
of Gates's rules:
"The
world will expect you
to
accomplish something before you feel good
about
yourself."
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CAMPAIGN
UPDATE:
...
REPORT FROM
THE OffICE OF COLLEGE
ADllJANCEMENT
Support
from Privat:e
Foundations
a Key
Part of the
S
upport from private foundations has been
an important component of the Campaign
for Marist, with more
than
$9.6
million record-
ed
thus far. The
following are some highlights
of
the
College's success in achieving grants
to
underwrite capital projects, scholarship funds,
and endowments.
Marist was awarded a
$150,000
gift from the
Booth Ferris Foundation of New York City to
support construction of
the
recently opened
Hancock Center. The
Booth Ferris Foundation
has
a long history of supporting academic
programming
and facilities at
leading
colleges
and universities,
with an emphasis on ones that
advance
teaching
and learning in the sciences
and
technology,
such as the Hancock Center.
The
James J. Mccann Charitable Trust
has
contributed
$160,000
in scholarship support
to
continue its exceptional commitment
to
making a Marist education accessible to
local students. For
the
past four decades, the
McCann Trust has been a leader in helping
Marist undergraduates to finance their educa-
tion through the McCann Scholars
program.
Its generosity has enabled several hundred
students
to
attain
their
Marist degrees.
In
addition, the trust has provided scholarships
to Master of Public Administration students
who are in
public
service positions
in
Dutchess
County.
Marist's Nelly Goleui
Theatre
will
be
under-
going a
major renovation
with the help of a
$200,000
grant from the
Frank A. Fusco and
Nelly Goletti Fusco Foundation.
Upgraded
seating and higher-end
decor
will
distinguish
this
well-used venue for musical and theatrical
performances
as well as
lectures
and college
events.
Improvements
are also in SLOre
for
the stage area. The theatre is named for the
European
pianist
and headlining entertainer
whose
300
musical compositions and career-
related
materials are
preserved in
the Nelly
Goletti Music Collection
in the
Marist College
archives. The foundation was established
by
Ms. Goletti's husband,
the
late Frank Fusco.
The
Louis Greenspan Charitable Trust
has
made three grants to Marist amounting
to
$315,000.
Included
is
$150,000
for the Louis
Greenspan
Memorial
Scholarship, which is
awarded
to
undergraduates residing in
the
mid-Hudson region;
a
$65,000
grant for the
construction of
the Hancock
Center; and a
$100,000
grant for
the
McCann Center's reno-
vation
project.
The
late Lou
Greenspan was
associated with Marist College for nearly
four
decades,
beginning
in
1957
when Bro. Nilus
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M A R I
$
T M A G A Z
I
N
E
De r Friends of Marist,
~
e Campaign for
\1arist
continues
to
make
impress1,·e
strides
I
\P\\'ards
our ambitious goal of
$150
million.
Currently
more
1hanj
1-+l.7
million
has been raised in support of
key
institution-
al pr mies.
rangmg from
endo\\'ed scholarships
1hat
make
the
circa n of a
:'\larist
education
possible
for s1Udems
wi1h
financial
need to
leading-edge
facilities like the incredibly impressi\'C
ne\\'
Hani ck Center
featured
on
this issue's
co,·er.
· e campaign 1s sig111ficantly
enhancing and enriching
1he
J
Mari
Lt
experience for all of our students, faculty, and staff
in
\\'ays
T'
B .
,
69
both
big and small.
The resources that
it
is
attracting will help
,m rier
solid fy Maris1's
posnion as one of America's truly exceptional liberal ans colleges and
ensu1 its continued success
in
an
mcreasingly
competiu,·e
marketplace.
As we approach the
final
18
months
of
this landmark
effort, there is bo1h
much
10
celeb
·ate
and much yet
to
accomplish.
In
fact, our hope
is
not
JUSL 10
reach but exceed
our
~
rmidablc goal. To the li1erallr thousands of \larist alumni, parents, and friends
\\'ho m·e already supported the campaign,
1
want to extend my deep appreciation and
grati de for your
important
comribuuons.
F
r
those \\'ho ha\'C not )'Ct participated,
I
urge you to consider how you might
like t become
in\'olwd in
this
tremendously
excitmg effort and assume a \'ital role of
your wn in securing \larist's successful future. Indeed, each and ewry gift we
receh·e
duri
the campaign
brings
us one step closer
10 realizing
the extraordinar>
promise
of
I
h remarkable
instillltion.
,.__
6~
Tim Bric1
'69, Chair
The Campaign
for
!\laris1
Donnelly first contacted him
to
search out
building materials so that
the
Brothers could
afford
to
undertake campus construction.
Among the projects he worked on at Marist
was the original construction of the Mccann
Center.
At
the
recommendation of Chief
Public
Affairs
Officer Titm Massie,
the
Dyson Foundation
committed
$100,000
to
establish
the
Marjorie
H.
Clark Lecture on Ethics and the
Law.
Marjorie Clark was a legal assistant at
Hughes
Hubbard, the
law firm of
distinguished
jurist
Charles Evans Hughes. Justice
Hughes
served
as governor of New York, secretary of state
under
two presidents, and chief justice of the
U.S. Supreme Court. Mrs. Clark served as the
chief assistant to Justice Hughes's son-in-law,
William
lL
Gossett, who was vice
president
and general counsel of the Ford Motor Co., and
she held positions with several other firms in
Manhattan and New
Jersey
during a career that
spanned more than six decades.
-
The
Dr. Edlwin A. Ulrich Trust
has continued
its
longtime
support of Mari st College by provid-
ing
$130,000
since
the
start of the campaign to
support business and fine arts students with
scholarshi.ps and outstanding music students
with stipends for private \'Oice and
instrument
lessons.
The trust was established by and is
named for a successful
local businessman
who
had a passion for art and music and was an
early benefacLOr
of Marist.
-
A dedicated supporter of Marist,
the
Richard
and Gertrude Weininger Foundation
has
contributed
$20,000
10
augment the library
collection dedicated to its founders. Comprised
of more than a thousand books, as well as
numerous reference and electronic
resource
materials,
the Richard and Gertrude Weininger
Collection in Judaic Studies
is
dispersed
throughout Marist's
library
holdings
in
history,
literature,
cultural studies. religion, sociology,
anthropology, political science, global studies,
Holocaust
studies, art, and philosophy. The
grams are made in honor of retired U.S. Naval
officer Paul X. Rinn '68 for
his
heroic service.
Marist recei\'ed a
$23,150
challenge grant
from
the
John Ben Snow Memorial Trust
of
Syracuse, N.Y.,
and the College raised an equal
amount from other foundations
and
individuals
for a total of
$46,300
to support
the installa-
tion of a new
digital
editing platform in the
Lowell Thomas Communications Center. The
School of Communication
and the Ans
now
has
the Avid Unity Media Network, an industry-
leading, collaborative,
shared-storage network
























Campaign
for Marist
and
digital-video-editing
system. Established
in
1948 by newspaper industry
leader John
Ben
Snow,
the
John Ben Snow Foundation
has
long supported the College's communication
programs.
Marist
is being supported by the
Lavelle
Fund for the Blind,
a charitable foundation
that
administers a scholarship program
to
aid
financially
needy tri-state residents
who are
legally
blind. The College
has
received
nearly
$22,000
in
scholarship assistance which is
being shared
by
two visually
impaired Marist
students.
longtime
Marist board member
Bro.
Jim Kearney
serves as a
trustee
of the
Lavelle
Fund.
Marist
was awarded a $100,000 grant from the
Hearst Foundation
to
establish
the
William
Randolph Hearst
Endowed Scholarship Fund.
The
Hearst Fund
supports students from
under-
represented populations
who show exceptional
academic and
leadership
potential.
It
is award-
ed annually to a first-year student and
provides
$5,000
in
scholarship funds for the year, after
which Marist
provides the
same level of support
for
the
remaining years of the student's Marist
career.
It
was founded in
1945
by the
news-
paper
publishing magnate and
influential
politician
William
Randolph Hearst.
™
The
J.M. McDonald Foundation
provided
a
$50,000 grant
in
support
of the
construction of
Tenney
Stadium at leonidoff Field. The stadi-
um
serves Marist's Division
!AA
men's football
team and
men's
and women's Division I soccer
and
lacrosse teams.
It seats more
than
5,000
fans
in both grandstand and
field
seating and
includes
an all-weather
playing
field, 200-seat
press
box,
athletic training room, and team and
officials'
dressing
rooms. J.M.
McDonald, who
established
the
foundation in 1952, contribut-
ed greatly
LO
the
development of
the
modern
retail chain store concept.
Marist was awarded a $50,000 grant
from
the
Margaret A. Cargill Foundation
LO
support
its Department of Environmemal Science and
Policy.
Marist was
pan
of a select group of
insti-
tutions invited to apply for
the
foundation's
inaugural
round of grant
making.
A relatively
new
foundation, it was established after the
passing of
Margaret
A. Cargill, a granddaugh-
ter
of the founder of Cargill, Inc.,
the
global
agribusiness
concern. The foundation is carry-
ing on support for
the
causes
that
Margaret A.
Cargill anonymously donated to during
her
lifetime,
including
the arts, animal welfare,
and-as
in
the case of Marist's grant-em•i-
ronmental
research
and conservation.
■
Dr. George B. Hooper
A Legacy of
Supp Hting Students
•1
11
his
past
February. the Marist community
I
~va saddened to learn withm a matter of
48 hour that two professors
emeriti had passed
away-
r. George B. Hooper. 86, of the School
of Scien . and Dr. Eugene H. Melan, 84, of the
School
f
Management.
Bot
I
men were remembered for
their
comm1tlp1ent
to
excellence as teachers and
scholars
nd
for the professional
influence
they
had on
untless
students. They also showed
unassu ing generosity by supporting some
of Mari
t's
most promising students through
scholars ips
that
carried their names.
Am ng
the
recem recipients of the Dr.
George . Hooper Science Scholarship are
Nichole
·
ois,·ert
'09,
a biomedical
science ma_ior
and recept Fulbright Scholar who is now study-
ing at G rgetown Medical
School. and Andrew
De Blase 9. a chemistry major and Goldwater
Scholar
rho
is current!)· pursuing his Ph.D.
at
Yale. 1 he first Eugene Melan Scholarship in
Busines leadership was awarded to Jesse Shea
·10,
wh se promise
is unfolding
as a Financial
leaders ip Development Program analyst
at
Johnson & Johnson, a Fortune 200 companr-
Geo ge Hooper arri,·ed at Marist
in
1960
and was mong the
\'Cf)'
first la}' facult}'
to
ser\'e
the
Coll ge. He
taught
biology at lvlarist for 31
years at served many years as chair of the
then
Di
·
sion of Science. Rising to
the
rank of
full pro ssor.
he
was named a \larist College
Hernag
Professor
by
the
board of
trustees.
Ren wned among colleagues and students
for his r earch with Drosophila (fruit
flies)-
and for
is trademark bow
tie-Dr. Hooper
held
a
P
D. from Princeton University
in ernlu-
uonar)' 1ology
and pursued a
lifelong
mterest
in
genet s.
At t e
ume
of his reurement, many of Dr.
Hooper
colleagues, former students, and
friends onored
him
by makmg contnbuuons
to
endo\ a scholarship
in
his name. For nearly
20 years some of Marist's LOp
science students
Dr. Eugene H. Melan
have
been recogmzed
and supported through
the Hooper Scholarship. O\'er
the
years, Dr.
Hooper
and
his
wife, Kay, took a special
inter-
est
in
helping
this
endowment grow.
Born
in Philadelphia and raised
in
New
Jersey, George
Hooper
recei\'ed his
bachelor's
degree from Seton
Hall
Uni\'ersit
yin 1949 and
completed his
doctorate
at Princet0n
in 1956.
He sen·ed
in
the Korean \Var and before
joining
\larist taught at Princeton and Bard College.
An m·id outdoorsman, he enjoyed camping,
hiking, and
CT)'
fishing. He also taught fly
tying
in the Poughkeepsie area and wrote a hand-
book
on the subject.
Internationally known for his work
in
the
areas of systems thinking and quality control,
Dr. \1elan came to l\larist in 1988 after an
illus-
trious career at IBM. Named a Distinguished
Professor
of Business
in 1993, he
taught under-
graduate and graduate
business
courses for
18
years
unul his retirement
m 2006 and also led
the
business
internship program to a
higher
le\'el
of opportunity
for Manst
students.
Supporting
the
belief that Marist's
repu-
ta11on is ad\'anced by top-quality business
graduates,
Dr. Melan
established a significant
endowment
LO
idemify and de\'elop students
from the School of Management who ha\'e
the potential
to become
outstanding busi-
ness leaders.
The
College named
the
mitiath·e
the
Eugene l\lelan Scholarship
in
Business
leadership.
and the annual
recipient
receives
a generous scholarship and
the
opportunity
to
interact with some of
the
coumry's leading
business executh·es.
Dr. Melan ser\'ed in the U.S. Na\'y, includ-
ing a tour
in
China, and returned home
to
complete B.A. and M.S.
degrees
at
New York
Uniwrsily and an M.A. at Union College.
During his career with IB\1,
\\'hich
he started
m
1954, he was responsible for operations m
England. France. and Germany. In the
latter
part
of his career. he managed departments
for computer reliability in Poughkeepsie and
Kmgston.
Throughout the course of
his
careers at IBM
and Manst, he wrote
more
than 20
techmcal
papers and two
books
and was responsible for
six patents. At
the
age of 78,
Eugene Melan
earned a doctorate
from the
Uni\'ers11y of
Lancaster.
one of
the
United Kingdom's
top
research
mstit utions.
■
SLMMER
2011
17




Athletics
........



















Coach
of~
the Years
I
n
1939, an aspiring coach and devout
Catholic
took
a teaching position at a
Catholic
high
school in Englewood, N.j.
Although Vince
Lombardi's background
was
mainly
in
football,
his
first coaching
position
at St. Cecilia
High
School was
in basketball.
Lombardi resorted
to checking books out of
the library
LO
learn about
the
sport. Soon, he
reversed
the
luck
of the struggling basketball
program.
Lombardi
would eventually
become
the
archetype to which most coaches would
dream
Lo
be compared, putting a
previously
besieged franchise
on the
map
while driving
it
deep into
the
hearts of Green Bay's citizens.
Lombardi's Packers won five NFL champion-
ships
in
seven years, appropriately
renaming
the city "Title Town."
In the late
1970s, an enthusiastic
kid
and devout Catholic took a teaching post at
a Catholic high school
in
Poughkeepsie,
NY
Aside from his
teaching duties, he
was soon
coaching a whole
host
of sports, some of which
he had no knowledge
of. During his
quarter-
century
tenure
at Our
Lady
of Lourdes
High
School,
Brian
Giorgis coached baseball, softball,
basketball, golf, tennis, and volleyball en route
to
becoming
the only coach in state history
Lo
take four teams in separate sports to the state
Final
Four, and his softball squad captured the
stale crown
in
1990.
"It's
unbelievable.
I
have
never seen anyone
who's up for the challenge and has
the
ability,"
says
Peter Lyons,
a tennis coach at Lourdes
BY
JIM
URSO
'11
who worked with Giorgis from 1998
to
2002.
"He's so analytical;
it's
on a different level than
anyone
I've
e;,,er seen. No
matter
what sport, he
can find the weakness in the opposing
team.
He sees
things that
many
people
don't see."
Since Giorgis arrived at Marist nine years
ago,
the
Red Foxes' four NCAA
Tournament
wins and seven Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference (MAAC) Tournament champion-
ships in an eight-year span have drawn the
national spotlight and propelled a previously
struggling p1rogram
into
a prominent source
of
pride
for the student body and communi-
ty.
The Red Foxes have effectively
become
the
"Title
Town" of the MAAC. And with Giorgis
inking
a new contract to remain at Marist until
at least 2017, the chances of a MAAC
women's
basketball trophy being displayed in another
school's gymnasium in the coming years seem
pretty slim. Hie was inducted into
the
New
York
State Basketball
Hall
of
Fame
in 2010, and in
2011 he was named MAAC Coach of the Year
for the fifth time in
his
career at Marist.
So who
is
the guy
behind
all this,
the
coach
who
can
request
that
Bruce
Springsteen's
"Born
to Run" be added to the Marist Band's
repertoire
and have
it
clone almost
immediately?
What
drives
the
man whose Lombardi-esque roars
pierce thejarnesj. McCann Recreation Center
as clearly as his chuckles on the team bus
during Legally Blonde?
And most importantly,
what keeps him at
the mid-major
powerhouse
he created? For the 55-year-old Giorgis, his
goals haven't. changed much since his arriv-
al. Behind the greatness is a man motivated
by
loyalty to
his community and gratefulness
for his players, colleagues, and friends.
'Tm
just a creature of habit," Giorgis
says. 'Tm
not
one of those people who are always looking for
the step-up, the next
thing. I
am about being
happy
and
looking
forward to going to work
every day."
Giorgis cites both of his parents as a source
of
inspiration,
his mother, Agnes, for raising
six children, all
born
within six
years,
to
be
good Catholic
people;
and his father.John, for
working
full-time
as an engineer for General
Electric
but still managing to find sufficient
time
for his children.
"They
sacrificed so much
in their lives
to
make
sure we
had things,"
says
Giorgis, who was raised
in
Syracuse,
N.Y.
His
parents always maintained a sense of balance,
a manner Giorgis maintains today with his
teams.
Although
John
and Agnes Giorgis
supported their children's
interests,
their kids
would not automatically
receive
a new baseball
glove or cleats each spring. The balance in
the
household
taught the kids
the value of
things,
and by the
time
he hit college,
the
lesson was
ingrained. Giorgis knew he wasn't going for
a
"four-year
party." He was aiming
to
do the
things necessary
so
he
could succeed,
Early
in
his childhood, Giorgis, much
like Lombardi, thought of becoming a priest.
However,
he
soon began
to
enjoy going to the
playground
to
impersonate his favorite New
York
Knicks
star, Willis Reed. And although
he never joined the
seminary, the Catholic faith
The
tenth-seeded
Red Foxes upset seventh-
seeded
Iowa
State 74-64 in the first round of the
NCAA Tournament at
Duke University's
Cameron
Indoor Stadium.














Coach
of the Years
continued
remains his foundation,
"even though some-
times it doesn't
look
it, and
we can fail, and
I
start screaming at our
kids," he
says. "It's my
life."
Close friend and former colleague
Paul
Latino remembers
Giorgis's
insistence
on
attending Mass
during team
road
trips.
A three-sport athlete in high school, Giorgis
played soccer and baseball but describes
basketball
as the sport
he
was always play-
ing.
He
earned
honorable mention
all-county
honors, but
the team
he captained
during
his
senior year
finished
with just
2
wins and
16
losses. However, his
coach
maintained
a
positive
attitude, a
manner that profoundly
innuenced the
soon-to-be
teacher.
Giorgis
played
soccer and baseball at the
State University of New York at Cortland while
studying health education.
While
he always
wanted
to teach, Giorgis's experience with
sports almost led
him
onto the
field
of
play.
His
skills as a baseball pitcher put him on a
path
to
the major
leagues. He
earned a
tryout
for the Pittsburgh
Pirates,
but the road ended
when
he threw
out
his
arm.
Giorgis
earned
his
bachelor's degree
in
health
education in 1977, shortly after
his
parents moved
LO
South Euclid, an eastern
suburb of Cleveland. After graduating
from
Cortland, Giorgis
moved to
his family's
new
home. Then,
aside from
taking
a
leaYe
of
absence
LO
earn
his
master's
degree
in
health
education from Virginia
Tech
University in
1982,
Giorgis made Lourdes
his home
for 25
years.
When he
arrived at Lourdes, one of
the
first
people
he met
was
Latino,
a physical education
teacher and future football coach also
fresh
out of college.
Latina's
family virtually adopt-
ed Giorgis,, and the
two remain
close friends.
According to
Latino,
Giorgis's
success
is
rooted
in
his intense
work ethic. "He could've done
it at any sport he coached,"
Latino
says. "He
outworks everybody." Bill Dahncke, anoth-
er close
friend
and colleague, remembers
approaching Giorgis outside the high school
teaching a group of
neighborhood
kids how
to dribble
a soccer ball. "He was doing it as
intensely
as you see
him
coaching the
[Marist]
girls
today."
For years, friends would get a kick
out of
playing
golf with Giorgis,
who, according
to Dahncke,
could
make
most
bad
golfers
look
respectable.
"But
now
we can't laugh at him
anymore, because he got good at
it. If
he's going
to
do
something,
he
puts everything
into it."
"As
much
as Brian
loved to teach, he
was also a great
learner,"
says
Judy Maher,
a
guidance counselor who worked at
Lourdes
throughout
Giorgis's entire tenure. One of his
foremost llessons came in a sermon given by
Father
Michael
Dibble. The sermon focused on
not
taking
things
for granted, a
lesson
Giorgis
imparts
to
his players
today.
"ls
being down
nine
to
Fairfield in
the
second ha1lf
on
the
road as
bad
as some other
people ha
1
,e it?" Giorgis asked
his team
on
Feb.
6
during
a. road game against
the
Stags, a game
which the Red Foxes would come back and win
54-52, by fart
heir
closest MAAC
contest of
the
season.
His
message carries substantial weight
because the
veteran coach practices what
he
preaches.
He
gets
the team involved
with char-
ity initiatives such as
the
Special Olympics,
Kids' Day
Out, and the Friends of
Jaclyn
Foundation. On Feb. 18, Giorgis emotionally
expressed
his
appreciation for
Rachele Fitz
'10
at a luncheon
preceding
her jersey retirement.
"He's
so analytical;
it's on a different
level than anyone I've
ever seen.
No matter what sport, he can find the weakness
in the opposing
team.
He sees things that many people don't see."
On March 7, following
a 63-45 win over
Loyola
to
clinch Marist's sixth consecutive
MAAC
title,
more
tears
fell
from his
eyes as
he
thanked his
players and
fans.
For Giorgis, his gratitude for
his positive
situation at
Lourdes
almost
kept him from join-
ing
Marist.
During the 19
seasons
he
coached
the girls'
basketball team
at
Lourdes,
he
racked
up
a whopping 451 wins and just 44 losses.
During his final season, his team ranked fourth
in
a USA Today
national
poll. "It wasn't
until
the
nun over
there
said, 'Why
don't
you
try it?
If
it doesn't
work, you'll
have
your job
back,'
that he
was
happy
enough
to
come
here,"
says
Marist Director of Athletics Tim
Murray.
In
the end, Giorgis's
familiarity with the
Red
Foxes
may haYe
brought
him to Marist;
two of
his former
players, Kristin
Keller
'05
and Maureen
Magarity
'03/'05M,
were
already
on
the roster. Latino
remembers visiting
the
McCann
Center with Giorgis
to watch his
former
players. "We saw
the
empty bleachers,
the struggles,"
Latino
says. "I
think Brian knew
he
could do something about it."
For
the
2002-2003 campaign, Giorgis
took
over a
program
that
had
just
lost its fourth-
and
fifth-leading
scorers
in
program
history to
graduation the
prior
year. Under Giorgis
the
team improved its win total from
11
to
13.
The Red
Foxes also earned
their first
win in
a MAAC Tournament game
in
school
history
with a first-round
triumph
over
Loyola."We
joked during the first
year that
he might lose
more
games during
his
first year
than in his
high
school career all
together,"
says
Magarity.
The
following season, the jokes ended.
After
being
picked
LO
finish seventh
in the
conference,
Marist
won
the MAAC title
and
made
its first trip
to
the
NCAA Tournament.
"Even though
he had
no college
coaching expe-
rience,
we
knew
it
would be a matter of time,"
says
Magarity,
who
played for
Giorgis
during
his first
two
seasons at Marist. Upon gradu-
ation, she
became
an assistant coach for
the
Red
Foxes.
While it
was apparent
things were
going
to change,
no
one could have assumed
the role
women's college
basketball
would soon play
in
the community.
Many
of the fans who
regularly
fill the McCann
Center were
loyal followers
of
Giorgis's success at
Lourdes.
"I've
never
played
in an
atmosphere
like
this
before,''
says sopho-
more guard Leanne Ockenden. Even
Giorgis
didn't expect
to make
Marist women's
basket-
ball
into a
local
phenomenon. "I guess you
kind
of
dream that
stuff,"
he
says. "I just
wanted
to
try to
make people
better."
In
March the NCAA
announced
that Marist
was chosen
the
overall winner
in the
2010-11
Marist's
recent
dominance in the MAAC confer-
ence is undeniable, During
this
season's quest,
the Red Foxes beat conference opponents by
well over 20
points
per game en route to an
undefeated
conference
record, the
second
time
in Giorgis's tenure that his
team
has won every
MAAC game
in
a season,

















The team won
its
sixth
straight
Metro Atlantic
Athletic Conference Championship with a 63-45
win over second-seeded Loyola at
the
Webster
Bank
Arena at
Harbor
Yard.
NCAA Division
I
"Pack
the House"
Challenge.
Marisl beat
out 177 participating institutions
including
schools from 32 conferences
and sell-
out crowds by Army,
Baylor, Duke,
Gonzaga,
Louisville,
Michigan State, Navy, Oregon, and
Pacific; the
College
hosted
a sell-out crowd of
3,200 fans at
its
game on Feb. 4 vs. Niagara.
Marist, which
averaged 2,260 fans at its
women's
games this season,
is
the only school
in
the
country
10
sell out its "Pack
the
House"
game four years in a row.
The
Red Foxes'
allure isn't simply about
wins and losses; Giorgis has
instituted
a culture
of
class that the
fans can
be
proud of.
"I
just
can't get enough of this team," says
Dr.
Craig
Fisher, who is
the
faculty advisor for
the
team.
"I
think
people
really love
the girls because
not only do they perform on
the
court, they
do well
in the
classroom and exude a great
deal of respect for
their
opponent and grate-
fulness
for
their community." According
to
the
annual "Academic
Progress/Graduation
Success
Rate
Study of Division
I
NCAA Women's and
Men's
Basketball
Tournament Teams" conduct-
ed by
the Institute
for Diversity and Ethics
in
Sports at the University of Central Florida, the
Marist
women's basketball
team
was one of
just 19 teams
out of 64 in this year's NCAA
Tournament to graduate
100
percent of
its
players.
Using NCAA statistics,
the institute
reviewed
six-year graduation rates for
the
freshman
classes that entered college
from
the
2000-01
through 2003-04
school years.
The
team is
a class act also because of
the
people Giorgis
brings
in, with each
individu-
al contributing
10
the
team
dynamic.
"l
kind
of look at
myself like
Grandpa," Giorgis says.
"Fortunately
I have
staff that our
kids identify
with and
love
10
death."
Part
of Giorgis's
genius
is enlisting a group of assistants whom players
can
identify
with.
"He's
always
had
a lot of
his former
players
on staff," says Magarity.
"I
think
that's
impor-
tant
too.
We
[former players[ know him;
we
know how
tough he can be.
I think that
it's
good for the girls
to
have someone
to
go
10
just to talk." For
Magarity,
who is
now head
women's basketball coach at the University of
New Hampshire, Giorgis's method of
recruit-
ing
the person first made
an
impression.
"At
our
mid-major level,
you're not going
to
get
blue-chip pl,iyers,"
she says. "He taught me you
have
to
brin,g
in kids who are going
to
be
the
face
of your
program
on campus and get out
into the
comimunity."
Erica
Allenspach '11
became
the
new
face
of the
Red
Foxes after
the
graduation in
2010 of
Rachele
Fitz, Marist's all-time
lead-
ing scorer and
rebounder.
At the
beginning
of
the
season, Allenspach faced some
difficulty
taking the
reins, but Giorgis was able
to
ease
the transition.
"After
every
missed
shot, I
was
thinking
100,
much,"
Allenspach says.
"Coach
sat me down1
and said
just keep being
aggres-
sive." It's safe
10
say Giorgis got through. En
route to the 2011 MAAC Tournament
MVP
award, Allenspach a\'eraged
nearly
24 points
per
game,
hitting
24 of 33 shots over three
games,
inclu1ding
12-for-15
from three-point
range.
She was also named MAAC Player of the
Year, an award won
by
a Marist player each of
the
past
four seasons.
At the root of his work ethic and
drive
is
his genuine caring for his
players.
"As much
as it
doesn't look like
it sometimes, you
think
about
them
,constantly,"
he says. "You worry
about what
1.hey're
doing, (you worry about]
some people who are down. You're
really hurt
when you
don't
play somebody as much as
they'd like
LO."
Giorgis, who is unmarried, says he is
"absolutely" still open
to
the
idea
of starting
his
own family.
However,
he has no complaints
about
his
current status; it's
merely
a
reason
to value
the
relationships with players even
more.
"They'ire
much more
like
my family than
I am theirs," he says.
"Whenever
people ask
me whether
l
have
kids,
I
reply the
same way:
'I
have 14 who
I
get
to
give back at
the
end of
the
year.'"
Marist's recent
dominance in the
MAAC
conference is undeniable. During
this
season's
quest, the Red Foxes
beat
conference
opponents
by
well over
:20
points
per game en route
to
an
undefeated
conference
record, the
second
time
in
Giorgis's tenure
that his
team has won every
MAAC
game in a season. Of course, Giorgis
never takes
success
for
granted. While wins
against teams from larger conferences may
boost the
Red
Foxes'
notoriety,
continuously
beating
conference opponents
is
a
more
formi-
dable challenge than it may appear. Defeating
Marist
can make the whole season of a
rival.
When
the team is
on
the national
stage, "it's
an
incredible
experience," Giorgis says, "and
it
keeps
getting harder because people are getting
tired of seeing
us there.''
The
program's
recent
national recognition
includes
stints
in the
AP and ESPN
top 25
polls,
mentions in
the
New York Times,
the
Wall Street
Journal,
and Sports
Illustrated,
and a
trip
to
the
NCAA Tournament's Sweet
16
in 2007.
The
team held
the
longest
winning streak
in the
nation at 27 games before
losing
to
Duke 71-66
in the second round
of the
NCAA
Tournament.
But
great coaches
know
that accolades
aren't everything. "The spirit,
the
will
to
win,
and the
will
to excel are
the
things that endure,"
said Vince
Lombardi.
"These
qualities
are so
much
more
important
than
the
events
that
occur.''
For Giorgis,
motivation is
not
derived
from
the praise
that
comes with excellence,
but from
helping
others achieve greatness. "Are we the
25th best
team
in
the
country?" Giorgis asked
soon after
Marisl
cracked
the
national rank-
ings earlier this season. "I
don't know;
people
pick that. I know one
thing; it's
not why
we do
what we
do."
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En
route
to the 2011 MAAC Tournament MVP
award, Erica Allenspach
'11
averaged nearly
24 points per game,
hitting
24 of 33 shots over
three games, including
12-for-15
from three-
point range. She was also named MAAC Player
of the Year.
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Director of Athletic$
Tim
Murray join$ football mentoring
program
participant5
Tommy
Reilly
'12
a
fd
his mentor,
Jim
Daly
'72,
and Thomas
"Smokey"
McKiernan
'68
and his mentee,
Calvin
McCoy
'12,
,tt the annual spring
football game in Tenney
Stadium.
Te~m
Players
Former
Marist football players
mentor
student-athletes
on careers.
C
vin McCoy '12 spent
the
entire summer of
2010
looking
for
an
i
ternship. He called on the connections of family
members
and
friends,
1:lut
nevertheless
came
up
empty.
On Se~ . 25, \1cCO) suited up for Marist's
third footb I game of Lhc season. Thejunior from
the Bron:--r shed fortwo touchdowns,
including
a 76-yard 1 burst
in
a 45-29 loss to f\lorehead
State. Tho h the two scores marked the first
of f\lcCoy·. collegiate career, the day would be
remember~! for another reason.
After l~e game, McCoy, a business-finance
ma1or with rnnors in econom1csancl philosophy.
was 1ntrncl ·ed lo Thomas "Smokey" Mc Kiernan
'68, one o the founding members of \lanst's
football pr •ram. After graduating, McKiernan
became a s ccessful commodities trader, a
life
f\lcCor drc med of. Thanks to this con\'Crsation.
1\lcCoy 1s s end mg this summer working for
Lhe
Chicago 1\1 rcanule Exchange, a linanc,al and
commodll) <lcm·au\·e exchange.
BY
JIM URSO
'11
\tcK,ernan·s mentorship with McCoy is
the
result of the newly established football mentoring
program, a creali\·e recruiting tool that benefits
the career development of upperclassman football
plarers. The program pairs junior and senior
football players like McCoy wnh mentors
like
\lcKiernan.
"He
was a very nice young man who could
articulate his
ideas:·
McK1ernan says of f\lcCO)
"I
was impressed
that
his parents cared enough
about his educallon to send him
lo
a good prep
school. He
talked
about Maml, lhow he] liked
1t very much. and how
he
loved playing football
at f\lanst."
"It
just blew me out the water," ;-.1cCoy
says.
·1
_1ust
wanted a foot in the door. He
JUSl
placed
me m the door"
For an aspiring financial professional, McKi-
crnan's help ma) haw come
at
just the right time
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In the mid-1960s,
a group of young kids n a Poughkeepsie
campus
decided
they wanted to
play some football. Although
no team e · sted, how hard could it be to start their own?
Street,
JObs
and internships arc harder to come
by than
they
haYe
been
in
the
past:' says Scan
Keating
'87, who also helped t\kCoy
land
the
internship. Keaung, who 1s
managing director
and
head
of
the
New York ofricc for
the
Chicago
Mercantile Exchange Group, got his own start in
the
financial
industry
after
being
introduced
to
l\1cKicrnan by Jim
Daly '72, former director of
admission and former president of the Alumni
Association.
More
than
just an internship, :\1cCoy
gained
a mentor and a friend. McKiernan said he would
check
in
regularly with McCoy this summer.
"It really helps these kids
to
talk
lO
people
who share that common bond," says J\larist Head
Coach Jim Parady. "I want
the
kids to wait until
their
junior and senior years and prove that
they
can
he
successful
in
the classroom
first. I
want
them
to earn
this
opportunity." Well worth
the
hard
work,
the
relationships
integrate
sport and
educauon, an
ideal
rooted in the formation of
Marist football
nearly
a
half
century ago.
In
the mid-1960s,
a group of young kids on
a Poughkeepsie campus demled they wanted
to
play some football. Although
no team
existed,
how
hard could
ll
be
to start
their
own1
"Thank God we were 19 and 20
instead
of
40
or
41,
because we were crazy enough
to
actually
think
we could
do it,"
says Tom
Taylor '66.
Although
they
were
unable
to
attain funding
from
the
school, they nevertheless established
an
independent
club
team
called
the
"Marist
Vikings"
in
1965. Far before a new stadium and
Nike auire,
the
Vikings were practicing
under
floodlights nailed
to trees
and recruiting players
from local
pubs. They
employed
their
own coach,
raised their own
money,
and made lengthy trips
in
a panel truck
to
pick up leftover equipment
that
no
one else wanted. "Although
I
couldn't put
the program on
the budget,"
says former
\1arist
President Dr.
Richard
Foy
'50,
"I was a young
president and
the
culture of this place was 'you
don't wait for old people
to tell
you what you can
do.' I told
them
to try it
because
I knew it would
be a great
learning
experience."
Overt he
next l
1seasons,the Vikings became
one of the
most
powerful teams of
its
era at the
club level. Under Coach
Ron Levine,
Marist went
65-31-3
in the
Eastern Collegiate Club Football
League.
The
entrepreneurial
dimension
of the
team's creation was as vital to the
deYelopment
or sLUdent-athletes
as
the
on-field competiuon.
By the
new
millennium, the Manst football
program
had long
since
recCl\-cd
funding from
the school.
but
another dilemma would
threaten
its existence. Many schools of Manst's stature had
abolished football because ofTHlc IX compliance
issues as well as 11s
expensive
nature.
"That 'roll
up your sleeves, grab the wheelbarrows and
sho"els' au1tude
1s truly
mdicatiYe of
the
culture
of the place. Back then, people
were literally
building buildings in orderto keep the institution
functioning,"
says Mc
Kiernan,
who spent years on
Marist's Board of
Trustees
and fought on behalf
Kevin Fitzpatrick
'12
welcomes his mentor, Jack Eberth
'69,
at the annual spring game.
of
the
progrl m
he
helped build.
In 2009 Marist
decided to
keep
its
football
program
an~ JOm the
Pioneer
Football
League,
a non-scholJlrship football-only conference
with
schools fro
~
coast
to
coast. "The core belief in
non-scholadhip football. playing and
practicing
without a
cl
ect full-ride scholarship, shows an
indication o character building
in
my estima-
tion,"
\lcKi
[nan
says. "It shows these guys are
playing for
re
thrill of competition as opposed
to scholars p football."
Withou scholarships,
though, the
Athletic
Depanmen needed to create incentives for
prospective students and
their
families. "The
only way w were going to separate ourselves
was
Lo
do
mething
different,"
says
Taylor,
a
longtime
a •ocate for
Marist
football. Taylor
played guar and linebacker on
the
Vikings' first
squad and c
rrentlyservesasoffensive !me
coach
"They a e hearing from successful
people
who haYe
d
ne very well," Bob Fmn '66 says of
the memees
The program adds a personal touch
to the
footb
I
program; it
proYides
a connection
they're
com
rtable
with."
Finn, who
along
with
Dan
Hicke '66 runs
Poughkeepsie
insurance
agency
Hid<
y-Finn & Co .. speaks
with
football
players abo
I
what they
should and should not
be doing
to
tCLter
their
chances in a competitive
job market.
Finn bo
tered
his own chances at employ-
ment while ttending J\larist
by\ irtually
becom-
ing
the
CEO fa business. And
that
business was
\1arist
foot ·
II.
In 1964, Finn,
who
was working
as a reside
t
assistant, OYerheard a few guys
deliberating bout the best way to start a football
program. "I ·aid, 'Hey, you guys are going about
this
the wrong
way,'"
says Finn. "They
let
me put
my two cents in then, and 47 years later,
l'm
still
puuing my
two
cents in." Finn
became
the team's
manager, gaming experience in raising money,
hiring coaches, scheduling teams, marketing, and
branding. "It was the greatest course I could haw
e\'cr taken,"
he
says. After
taking
a corporate job
for a year following graduation. Finn quit
to
start
hi
sown
business.
"Godo
it,"
Finn said to
himself.
Now he's
imparting
advice
to
Mari st football
players like Nie Zivic '10. Finn set up Zivic with
preliminary interviews
with various companies,
eliminatingmuchofthestressand
time involved
in
the job search. Zivicmet withcompanyrepresenta-
tiveson
campus and, ahcra few
interviews,
landed
a Job with a firm
near
his hometown. "Working
with
Bob
really
made me
feel comfortable and gave
me a
sense of calm
during
this otherwise scary
lime for
most
graduates," says Zi\'ic. "The
melllor
program
worked for
me
just like
11
was designed
to,
and I
can see
11
helping out
many fellow
Red
Foxes
111
the
years
to
come."
Fmn
says
the
strong connection among
football alumni allows such an
miuauve
10
thrive.
Jack Eberth '69 is another football alumnus
who
shares
this
connection. Asa major gifts officer for
Marist's Office of College Advancement, Eberth
has worked
with Parady
10 connect roughly 60
football players with football alumni
in their
field
of interest since
the
program's
inception.
Eberth
remembers Foy telling
the
football players to
"create their own
little
sandbox to play in." Now,
manyalumni \\
hose
connection
to \1arist is
rooted
in their experiences building and playing in that
sandbox are giYing hack, ensuring
the
entangle-
ment of
learning
and football
remains
intact.
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notes
1952
Francis
J.
Reilly's
wife,
Johanna,
teaches religion
al St. Bernard School
• ,.......
in Uncasville,
Conn. Daughter Eileen
~
McGrath is
teaching
Irish dance
in
C
County Cork and elsewhere. Daughter
H
Meghann is
in
the
New Canaan,
Conn., school system.
Daughter
2
Caitlin works
in
a group
home,
Camp
....-,rt
Horizon, in
South Windham, Conn.
~
Frank is
enjoying
retiremenL from
Leaching
al
Windham High
School
in
Willimamic,
Conn.
1953
Rev. Richard Tinker
recently retired
and
is
"feeling
pretty
good."
1954
Bro. Martin Ruane, FMS,
made
a gift to the
Marist
Fund
in loving
memory
of
his
sister, Norma Ruane,
who
passed
away on Aug.
2, 2010.
1957
Patrick Gallagher has
been
appointed
interim director of Campus Safety
and
Police
for Moravian
College.
He
is
also
heavily involved
in providing expert
witness services
in police
civil cases.
In
September, he
testified in three
courts on
police
shootings and was
deposed
in
another excessive-force
case.
Patrick
and his wife
reside in
Springtown in
Bucks
County,
Pa.
1964
Rene Roy
celebrated a golden jubilee
as a
Marist Brother
in
summer 2010.
1965
Ronald Streck
has
been a
member
of
the board of
directors
of
the Red
Fox
Club since 2007
lJµ;amM~R=:
1966
Walter Behrman
and
hii;
wife, Lois,
welcomed
their
second grandson,
William
Louis
Monaglhan, born
Feb. 10, 2010. Their older grand-
son,
Michael,
is
5. Daughter Allison
and her
family moved to, Litchfield,
N.H. Daughter
Michelle
is a guid-
ance counselor
in
Liberty, N.Y. Lois
retired
in
October 2009:
IThe
jour-
nal
Theology
and Science
p1ublished
an
article by
John Hart
in its November
2010 issue.
"Cosmic Commons:
Contact
and
Community"
discuss-
es
the theological,
ethical, economic,
and
ecological
implicatio1ns
of terres-
trial-extraterrestrial inte:lligem life.
Manuscripts
John has
in progress are
"Cosmic Commons: Cosmic Contact,
Cosmic Charter" and "Pr:axis Ethics:
Community on Common Ground."I
Pete
Nesteroke
and his wife, Sandy,
are happily retired and
living
on the
Russian
River,
77 miles from San
Michael Feddeck '66
has
been
promoted to the rank of Knight
Grand Cross of the Equestrian Order
for the
Holy
Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
The
ceremony took place in
New
York City at Saint Patrick's Cathedral
and was followed by a formal dinner
at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Above,
Archbishop of New York Timothy
Dolan greets Mike's daughters,
Catherine (left) and Annemarie, at
the Waldorf.
Francisco;
he
says they are living the
good
life
"as long as we take our meds
and pay our monthly
health
care bill.
Rock on."IAlan
Schultz
continues
to
be a flight instructor at
River
Aviation
in Kingston,
N.Y.
ITom
Troland
was
the keynote
speaker at
the
annual
meeting of Mid-States
Distributing, a
rural retailing
chain, in Minneapolis
this past spring.
1967
Ron Bedard
retired in 2002 after
32 years of service to the stale of
Connecticut, 13 years of which
he
was
chief fiscal officer for the Go\·ernor's
Office.
Ron
and
his
wife haYe
retired
to Sun City Festival in Buckeye.
Ariz.,
and
10\·e
it. They
have
two grandchil-
dren and another on
the
way as well
as
three
great stepchildren.
I
Bob
Johnson's daughter,
Jennifer, was
writer and co-executive
producer
of
Chase,
a dramatic series on NBC
about a
Learn
of U.S. marshals that
hunt America's most dangerous
fugitives. "Jennifer
has
worked very
hard
to
get
to
this day, and we are
all very
proud,"
says Bob.
I
Rupert
Ross
recently
relocated
to
Lakewood,
Colo.
I
Dr.
George Searles
had a busy
year
in
2010. He published the
fifth
edition of
his
widely used textbook,
Workplace
Communications:
The Basics
(Pearson),
along with five new poems
in
literary
quarterlies. In addition, he
achieved a longtime goal by
running
the Boston Marathon.
He
continues
to
teach
English, journalism,
and
Latin at Mohawk Valley Community
College and creatiYe
writing on Prall
lnstitute's upstate campus
in
Utica,
NY
I
Allan Wiehn
has a
new
grand-
son, Nicholas Allan
Belt Field.
Remembering Bro. Joseph
L. R. Belanger, FMS, '48
B
ro.Joseph
L.
R.
Belanger, FMS, '48. passed
away April 21, 2010, at
the
age of 84. A pillar
ofMarist College, Brother
Joe
was a master teacher,
scholar,
intellectual,
and innovator who serYed
and
resided
at Marist for more
than
50 rears.
his contri ltlons throughout Marist's history,
he was
de
ignated a Marist College Heritage
Professor
1
2004. Known for excellence in the
classroom, Brother
Joe
received the
Trustees
Award for istinguished Teaching in
1993.
Among Brother Joe's most significant
legacies is
his founding
in 1963
of the Manst
Abroad
Program,
which
transformed
hundreds
of students' lives and
helped
holster :--1arist's
reputation
for academic excellence
through
its
high
standards. Almost 50 years later, J\1arist's
International Studies Program supports
Brother
Joe's commitment to encouraging students
to
think
in
new ways and value global awa
rencss.
He
himself
went around
the
globe twice and made 30
trips to Europe.
In 1996,
at age 71. he
tra\·eled
to
Xiamen, China,
to
teach
English for about a rear.
Bro.Joseph
Lucien Roland
Belanger was
born
July
11, 1925, in Lawrence, Mass., and took his
first vows as a Marist Brother on
July
26, 1944.
He was awarded a bachelor's degree in English
with
honors
from Marist in
1948
and earned an
M.A.
in
English from St.
John's
University and
an
\1.A.
in
French
from Middlebury College. A
medievalist
who
focused
on French epics, Brother
Joe
was awarded a Ph.D. in French from New York
University in
1970.
Brother Joe
joined
Manst's
faculty
in
1959
and was made a
full professor
by
1975.
While
his principal
courses were
in
French
language,
literature, and
civilizauon, throughout the years
he
also
taught
English, French
literature
in transla-
tion, American literature, world
literature,
Greek
mythology,
occidental mythology, global studies,
and college wnung.
He
was also very engaged with
the
Science of Man, Manst's
innovative three-rear
degree
honors
program.
Brother Joe
retired
from full-time
Leaching
in
May 1997 and was subsequently named
professor emeritus of f-rench. ln
recognition
of
24
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R
I S T M A G A Z
I
N E
Brothc
~oe·s
inlluence extended beyond
the
classroom.
~e
helped
shape
the
College
through
service on
lr,anr
faculty and college committees
and assiste' with
the
founding of the Modern
Languages
epartment and
the
French major.
He
initiated
th
campus's first
theatreefforts. ln 1961,
he began a 0-year commitment
to
the Foreign
Film
Progr
m, which
is
still offered at Marist.
Bro. Josep
L.
R. Belanger, FMS,
'48
Ever
mindful
of the College
'sCatholic heritage
and theenduringinlluence of the Marist Brothers,
the College's founders, Brother Joe established
the St. J\larcellm Champagnat Endowment for
Catholic ActiviL
ies. In a not
her measure
to promote
undeTSLanding
about the College's heritage,
Brother
Joe
collaborated with
l he
President's
Office
in developing and
installing
permanent plaques
around
the
campus
to
highlight \1arisl founders
and the history of early buildings.
A de\'Otee of Edgar Morin, Brother Joe volun-
tarily translated two
books
by
the internationally
known French philosopher and sociologist. He
took
on this
last
project in
hisearly80sanddesp1Le
health challengescompleLed
the
translation and its
revisions. l
n 2009, shortly before Brother's death,
French
major
David Donoghue '64 founded
the
Brother Joseph
L.
R. Belanger,
FMS
'48 Scholar-
ship to honor
his former
professor and
mentor.
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Strength
in Numbers
Years
of Friendship
Sustain
Eight
from the Class
of 1970
t
A
recepuon
at
Marist during
Homecoming
Weekend m October 2010 celebrated the
40th
anni\'ersary of
the
graduauon of
the
Class of
1970.
But eight members of
the
class had already
toasted the
occasion: they
met
earlier in
I
he
yea rat
the
Desmond
Hotel in
Albany, N.Y.,
traveling
from
their homes throughout the
state. The gathering
marked 1101
only
the
40th anniversary of
their
commencemem but also
the
40th consecuti\'e
year
that
the
men
had reunited.
Eight men
r,om
the Class of 1970 have reunited annually for the past 40 years. Left to right, seated,
are Joseph Arcieri, Richard McGee, Peter Varol, Richard Rossi, and Matt Kiszelewski; standing are
(left
to right) Richard Scott, Ray Campbell, and Fred Apers.
Richard
Mc~ee.
could
not
have been
the
same, or e\'en
ha\'e
been
l\-tore than once a year
the
eight
men
get
together, now
with
their
spouses. Three of the
spouses were nurses at Saint Francis
Hospital,
across Route 9
from \1arist,
when
the
men were
m college. All of
them
listen patiemly as
their
husbands
tell
the same stories each time
they
meet. There
is
always an annual picmc. but
m
addition they go
10
each other's family
parties.
weddings, and
funerals.
"We re
1
lly
believe that we are
a
special
together,
without them. They bonded with
the
group
that
as benefited over
a lifetime
of l\1arist group with each new am val and gave
IL
strength.
friendships
says l\lcGee, who
recemly
renected
Their culinary abiliues arc another
1h111g
on
the
further
on
t
e group:
plus side;
no
one
has
ever gone away hungry
from
"Sowh ISthercasonourgrouphasprospered
one of our gatherings.
With
good friends, good
ovcrthese-t
+years?Well,herearesome1heories.
food,
the
love of a good woman, and a Red fox
There
IS sir ngth in
numbers,
and that strength
victory (at
least
a few),
I
think
we
have hit upon
The powerful bond they share
began
at Marist,
where they
came together man en\'lronment that
fostered community and a positive spirit, says
Fred Apers, the only one of
the
eight
who
lives
in the Hudson Valley. They support each other
in everything,
he
says. "If we need
10
accomplish
something,
we
call each other."
has
been
tr
eel and tested many times over
the
the
secret of our
longevity.
years as
we
xperienced Joys, hardships, deaths,
"Here's to the Class of
1970
1
When
it comes
and jubilati ns. We haw cominued
10
walk
that
10
making a difference
in the
qualit) of our lives,
The entire group consists of Fred Apers.
'bridge o,·e
I
troubled water' together. None of
there i.s
nothing quite
like
a good circle of friends.
us has e,·er felt alone.
We
also keep a sense of
May these friendships
co111inue
to
prosper as we
fun and g d humor in
the
group. lightening
experience
the
unknown and
untested
waters
up e\'en th darkest moments. Factoring
in that
ahead for each of
us."
■
each of us
Ii
s
been
blessed with a loving spouse
who
nunu
d and solidified these relationships
makes it
al
the
more
meaningful.
\Ve literally
Joseph Arcieri, Peter Varol, Richard
Rossi,
Mall
Kiszelewski,
Richard
Sco11. Ray Campbell, and
1968
Tom
Bauer
was
inducted into the
Park Ridge High
School Athletics
Hall
of Fame this
past
fall
for nearly
40 years of coaching high school
football.
lJeffrey
Kegler
would
like
10
hear
from
other
members
of the
Class of 1968.
ILaszlo
Nagy retired
as a school
administrator. He
and his
wife, Cindy, split their time between
the
Hudson
Valley and Naples, Fla.
He is
very active with a
lot
of
tennis,
a
growing
Internet
business, Nantucket
history presentations,
and
traveling.
I
Michael
Nash
has
lived
in Cincinnati
since
1973. He has been
retired from
the
probation
department
for seven
years. Michael
and his wife have been
married
40
years and
have
one son
and
L
wo granddaughters.
He
enjoys
playing
golf.
I
Frank Trumbour
retired on
Jan. 1,
2011.
1969
ues his
college courses.
I
Vincent
Mooney's
daughter, Erin, was married
10
Owen Phipps on Sept. 4,
2010,
in
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. She
ii;
associate
director of the
Holy
Cross,
Fund.
1970
Kevin
O'Grady
was elected
LO
the
city council
in
Wilmington,
N.C.1
Casimir
Podlaski
volunteers as a
teacher
for ProLiteracy
America.
IL
is
also his
18th
year as a mentor in
the
B,is<ol.nn
,
school
,,. em
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1971
James
Eaton
had a TB! operation
in 1993 at Berkshire Medical
in
Massachuseus.
He
recovered
quite
well and is now doing construction
in Gloversville,
N.Y.
He misses
every-
one in Poughkeepsie.lWilliam
Fit's
daughter Cheryl graduated in
2006
from Marist and
received
a
master's
Stephen
Johnson
retired
after 37
in elementary education
from Pace
years of selling for Xerox,
MCl,
and
University's
Manhauan campus. His
Verizon.
Stephen and
his
wife, Sharon, daughter
Laura also
graduated from
plan
Lo
catch up with old friends and
Marist,
Class of
2004,
and is
a
second-
travel
a bit. Their son,
Kevin,
contin-
year resident at Good ~;amaritan
lmwiHR:
The flag denotes
classes
that
Lu
celebrate
reunions
in
2011.
Richard McGee
invites
former classmates lo contact
him al
Richard_E_McGec@11rnyorl1life.com.
Hospital
in West
lslip,
N.Y.
I
Robert
Kelly's
two daughters, Christine and
Erin, were both
married
over
the
past two years.
I
Robert Miller
lost
his
father
at the age of 90 in
March
2010. His
nephews Jonathan and
Ryan joined
the U.S. Air
Force,
and
his niece
Lauren married this
past
May.
He
also welcomed a grandniece,
born
10
his nephew Scou, on Aug. 30,
2010.
IJoseph
Rubino's
company,
J.
M.
Rubino Transit
Consulting of St.
Augustine, was selected
10
conduct
a nationwide research
study for the
Veterans Administration (VA).
The
company was contracted by
the
Transportation
Research
Board
and
works alongside
Westat, a Washington,
D.C.,-area firm.
The
project involves
studying patient
transportation
at
the national network
of VA
medical
Joseph
Rubino '71
centers
and
determining best prac-
tices. The year
2010 marked the
third
consecutive year that
the
company
won
a national research
contract.
1972
Bill
Carey
and his wife,
Robin,
live in North Carolina.
They have
four wonderful sons,
two beautiful
daughters-in-law
and two
handsome
grandsons.
lJim
Cosentino
recent-
ly retired after more than 30 years
with
IBM,
including an additional
two
years as a co111ract
consultant
LO
lBM. He
is
now fully
retired and
enjoying life with
his
wife, Mary, at
home
in
Saugerties, N.Y.
They
also
enjoy spending
time
on
their
boat
during
the
summer
months.
I
Bryan
Glancey is pastor at
St. Andrew's
Episcopal
Church
in Hurlock,
Md.
1973
Bill Davis
was
a full-time
assistant
professor
from
1990 10
2000 and
has been
an adjunct
English
instruc-
tor
since 2000.1
Dan Faison
retired
from
the New
York
State
Division
of
Parole
in February 2010, after 32
years of service.
I
Rich Freccia
is
a
S U M M E R 2 0
1
1
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school counselor at Allentown
High
School
in
central New
Jersey
and is
presidenL or
Lhe Monmouth
County
(NJ) School Counselors AssociaLion.
•
~
IJoseph
Longobardi
compleLed
his
~
37th year
in
education and 20Lh year
C
as a principal in
Pelham,
NY.
I
Morna
H
Crites-Moore's fiber
art was featured
rl
in the
June/July
2010
issue
of Quilting
~
Arts
magazine.
To see examples of
__......c
Morna's an, visit her Web site, www.
~
mornacrites-moore.com.
I
Rafael
Polo
reLired from the federal
govern-
ment
in March 2010
and
moved Lo
Northville,
N.Y.
I
Kurt
Strolis
marked
his
26th anniversary with Finkelstein
and Partners Esq., in Newburgh, N.Y.,
as a claims
negotiator.
1974
Debra
Collier's
son,
Ryan,
earned
an
M.A.
in
history from SUNY
Cortland,
and her daughter,
Megan,
earned a
B.A. in art history
from
Queens
University or Charlotte.
I
Francis
J.
Martin's
wife,
Mrs.
Gerry
K.
Manin,
passed
away
on
June 15,
2010.
1975
Mike
Asip'sson,
Danny,
has moved to
the
New York City metro area, where
he
works for the New
York Jets.
I
Pastor Maryann Paradiso Berry
was
appointed local director for Diet Free
Life (www.dietfreelife.com).
She was
also listed
in
Marquis
Who's Who in the
World 2011.
IJim
Browning
started
a new job
in
August 2010. He is
the
coordinator of clinical
pastoral
educa-
tion
at the
hospital
of
Lhe
University
of
Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia.
lJohn
26
M A R I ST M A (, A Z I
::-.J
E
at PS
l99Q
in Sunnyside, where
he
also served
as the
United
Federation
of Teachers chapLer
leader.
While at
Mari st, Danny was co-editor of
the
Circle, president of the
theaLre
guild,
and vice
president
of
the
Spanish Club.
He believes the
skills he acquired
in journalism and Spanish while
at
Marist
were
key
to getting him
elect-
ed to the council.
I
Jim Kennedy
was
appointed to
the New
York
State
Rural
Health
Council by former governor
David
PaLerson
He
is chief operations
officer for
Finger Lakes
Community
and
Migrant Health
Center
in Penn
Yan, N.Y.IDon
Ball
is
living
in sunny
California.
Wayne Rohde, Bob Brown '70, Gerry Burns
'72,
and Mike Brown
'71
(shown
left to right) got together in Key West, Fla., in
2010.
"We
let
30
years pass, and no we do it every two years,"
says
Gerry.
1978
Virginia Keller's
daughter,
Kristin
Keller
Greiner
'05,
had
Virginia's
first
grandchild, Nolan Louis
Keller.
1977
1979
Quattrociocchi
retired in
2008 as
a
psychologist for
the New York State
Office or
Mental
Retardation and
Developmental
Disabili1ties.
~Mmn•im:=
l97flt
Joe
Carey
is still working for New
York State after 30 yea
rs. He
writes
that
he could have retired but decid-
ed
to
stay a rew
more
years.I
William
Kudlacik
has completed
his
34th
year with the New Jersey Sports
&
Exposition Authority.
He
is direc-
tor of security/parking/traffic for
Meadowlands and Monmouth Park
Racetracks.
Daniel Dromm
was elected to
Lhe
New York City Council
in
November
2009 with more than 75
percent
of
the vote. Subsequently
he
was elect-
ed by his colleagues the chair of the
New York
City Council Committee
on
Immigration. He represents the
25th
Council
District in
Queens, which
includes Jackson Heights, Elmhurst,
East
Elmhurst,
Corona,
LeFrak
City,
and Woodside.
He
notes
that the
elec-
tion marked the
first time
an openly
gay
person has
been elected to
the
council from Queens. Prior to
his
election, he was a New York City
public
school teacher for 25 years
Bill
Gerlach
has been a vice
presi-
dent
al
First Niagara for four years
and
is
on the boards of the
Home
for
the Aged and the Salvation Army.
I
Howard Leitch
is category lead in
the strategic sourcing
department
at
PSEG,
headquartered in
Newark, N.J.
llamu+w
,.,
1981
Matthew
Cole
delivers Meals on
Wheels,
feeding hungry
people.
I
C.
William DeWinne's
daughter
Heather
graduated
from
Texas
A
&
M
University and is working with
Accenture in Austin as a
business
Seriving
in Seaford
A community
honors
Donald
J.
Paulson,
Sr.,
'73
for volunteer
service.
D
ona d
J.
Paulson, Sr., '73 was recogmzed
for ommunity scn·ICe with an Honorary
Patriot
,d
rd al the Woodbury (N.Y) Countr)
Club. The
I
ward is given annuall) to Seaford High
School st dents and community members who
represent e spirit and lives of fi\'e Seaford High
School alj ni lost on Sepl. 11, 2001
Dona 's son, DJ '09, presented him wiLh the
award. DJ
tvas
a student winner o.r the award in
2005.
Donal was cited for his contributions to the
Seaford cormunity. He is president of the Seaford
DJ Paulsojn
'09
presented an Honorary Patriot
Award to his father, Donald J. Paulson, Sr.,
'73.
The award is given annually to Seaford
(N.Y.)
High
School
st
1dents and
community
members who
represent the
spirit
and lives offive Seaford High
School alumni lost on Sept.
11, 2001.
DJ received
the award in
2005.
Lions Club, an assistant scoutmaster in Boy Scout
Troop 239, and a member of the Seaford Wellness
Council, Memorare Knights of Columbus, and the
Seaford Historical Society. He also serves on the
Seaford 9/11 Memorial Commntee.
He was active in the Seaford School District's
"Shared Decision 1\laking,"
coached Seaford Ltule
League and Wantagh/Seaford PAL soccer and
softball, and served asan official fort he Newbridge
swim team.
He also \>.as honored as an "Empire Angel" in
2009 by Blue Cross Blue Shield and by
Lhe
Long
Island Ducks for his community service.
After graduating from Marisl, he earned an
\I.B.A. from St. John's Umversity in 1987. He also
holds a professional certificate in proJect manage-
ment from George Washington University. He isa
manager in the Corporate t--larketing
Department
at Verizon and also an adjunct professor in the
Tobin School of Business at St. John's UniYerslly.
■
p;n~)h-lZ'.
"I
he Jlao:
denotes
clam·s that
will
(clcbralt'
reunions
in
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Ron Vuy
'74
and Mike Cassedy,
two Vikings: from 1965 to 1978,
Marist's football program had club
status and players were known as
the Vikings.
analyst. Bill's daughter Kim is a soph-
omore at Baylor University, enrolled
in
the
business/M.I.S.
program.
I
Maureen O'Brien Gunderson's
daughter,
Janet,
graduated from St.
Bonaventure University
in May
2010
and
married
a fellow alumnus in
July
2010. Her
son.Joe, graduated from
the
College of New Jersey in
May
2007
and
is engaged to a fellow alumna.
They
plan to marry
in
2012.1
Michael
Iantosca
was
promoted
from senior
software
engineer to program advisor,
corporate staff for IBM
Information
Development. He
was also named
product development team lead for
IBM
Information
Development
Tools
design and development
worldwide.
Michael is
responsible for
develop-
ing the corporate strategy
for
IBM
product
documentation tools
and
technology
and
manages the devel-
opment of software
and
systems
used
by
the company's 1,500 full-
time
professional technical writers
who
publish
about a billion words a
year, which
are
translated
into
more
than 45 languages
in support of all
IBM products and services.
lJim
Townsend's
son Stephen, a
member
of the Marist Class of 2010,
is teaching
in
Washington,
D.C.,
in the Teach For
America
program. (For more on Steve
and Teach For America, please see
the
story on
Page 40.)
Jim's son Brian
is
a
member
of
the
Class of 2012 and
is
on
the
Marist cross-country team.
1982
Joe Burleski
was presented with
the
Silver
Bearer
award by the Boy
Scouts of
America in
June 2010. Joe
and his son, Joe
111,
auended the
2010 National Scout
Jamboree
in
Virginia. Both will be auending
the
World Seoul
Jamboree
in Sweden in
July
2011.
1983
Kelley
Gould,
the
daughter of
Kathy
Ansbro
Gould
and
Chris Gould
'04,
enjoyed
her sophomore year at Marist
and is
running
on the cross-country
and
track teams.
I
Claudia Jeremiah's
daughter, Natasha, gradiuated
from
Trinity College
in
the Class of
2010.
IJoseph
Seminara
retired
after
24
years of trading stocks at
Merrill
Lynch and Mellon
Bank.
His wife,
Cecilia, is a lawyer and they
have
an
8-year-old son.
1984
Don
Eustace
and Joan
Lunn
married
onJune
16,
2010.IKathh:en
Lloyd's
son, Charles, was accepted into
Marist's Class of
2015.1
P:aul Palmer
helped
produce
ESPN':; coverage
of
the
NCAA Women's Basketball
Championship from San Antonio,
Texas, in April
2010.
IJoseph
and
Lynn DiNapoli Pareti
celebrate
their 25th
anniversary
in
2011. Their
sons, Tom and James, ane
members
of
the
Mar
isl
Class of 20H, and
their
daughter, Marisa, will be a senior
in high school.
I
Theresa
Abad
Swierzowski's
daughter, Anna, is
a sophomore at Mari st, studying
accounting and business.
1985
Santa
Zaccheo Byrnes
has been
keeping
busy.
When she·
isn't help-
ing to manage her family-'s
gourmet
shop or running her children hither
and yon, you can find
her
working
on
her latest romance
novel.
lJean
Ostrowski Cappiello
started a cookie
The
Carmel
(N.Y.)
Running Club sponsored a SK in October
2010
atthe Putnam
County Veterans Memorial Park to raise funds for Jimmy Burrows, the
son
of
Liz Healy and Paul Burrows
'83/'83.
Jimmy suffers from facioscapulohumeral
muscular dystrophy. Those present included Kathy Ansbro Gould
'83,
Chris
Gould
'04,
Kelley Gould
'13,
Tom Maroney
'84,
Declan Maroney, Liz Healy
Burrows
'83,
Paul Burrows
'83,
Megan Burrows, Jimmy Burrows, Corinne
Strange Schell
'83,
Tim
Schell
'95,
Marist College Cross
Country Coach Chuck
Williams
'00,
Tina
Angiulli Williams
'00,
Madison Williams, John Williams,
Sarah Nierenberg
'11,
Gillian Marie, Katie May, Jackie Meiseles
'11,
Jackie
Gamboli
'13,
and Billy Posch
'13.
company called "The Cookie
Tray:
Chocolate Chip Cookies
for
a Cause"
(www.cookietray.biz).
Each month a
different
charit}' is spotlighted and
a
percentage
of each batch of cook-
ies
sold is donated
to
L
hat
char it}'.
I
Gregory
Hart
was
invested
as a
Knight
of
the
Equestrian Order of
the
Hol}'
Sepulchre by Cardinal Edward
Egan and
New
York Archbishop
Timothy Dolan during a liturgy at St.
Patrick's Cathedral on Oct. 2,
2010.1
Matthew Kastel
is manager
of base-
ball operations and events for
the
Maryland Stadium Authority (Oriole
Park at Camden Yards).
I
Amhony
Phillips
was promoted
to
senior
vice
president
at
the
Northern Trust
Co.
I
Daniel
and
Laurel Dickson
Spuhler's
son, Karl, began attending
Vassar College in
fall
2010, and
their
daughter, Rose, began seventh grade
at Manin de
Porres.
I
Mark
Zangari
has launched www.dollarwisecar-
Katie Stevens, daughter of Clara
Francisco
Stevens
'85,
was one of the Top Ten finalists on Season 9 of Fox's
American
Idol.
Since then, Katie, 19, went on tour, graduated from high school, and moved to Los Angeles.
She
also was invited to be a special guest on Portugal
Idol
in
December 2010; the show flew her over for
appear-
ances on that and sevual other programs. She has been working on an album and is pursuing her music
and
acting career in Los A geles. Clara and friends from the Class of 1985 visited backstage with Katie and other
Idols at the Webster Be nk Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Conn., during the 2010 tour
(below).
Clara says
she and her classmate•s have stayed in close contact ever since Mari st and try to get together at least once
a year. Clara's son, Ryan, is a senior at Mari st and studied abroad in Florence this spring. Left to right, back
row: American
Idol
fin a
lists
"Big
Mike"
Lynche,
Casey James, Aaron Kelly, Siobhan Magnus, Lee Dewyze, Tim
Urban, and Andrew Garcia; second row: Ellen Stigberg Johnston
'85,
Chris Murphy O'Hagan
'85,
Phil Boyle
'85,
finalist Katie Stevens,
•Clara
Francisco Stevens
'85,
Sandy Daniels Murphy
'85,
and finalists Crystal Bowersox
and Didi Bena mi; fro
row: Dee Zappa lo Richter
'85,
Deb Dutil Boyle
'85,
and Teresa Rocco Bolte
'85.
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◄
tridge.com, a state-of-the-art digital
storefront
that
sells discount
ink
and
toner
cartridges. Mark's son, Gerard,
who was 11 years old,
passed away
on
•
~
July 21, 2010.
He
asks for
the
prayers
~
of
the
Marist College community.
s
puinuM&
---
E
198G
~
Dave Margalotti
is
program and oper-
~
ations
manager
for
WNVJ l l60AM
(www.wvnj.com), a northern New
Jersey news/talk/information
station.
Dave
is also
a music consultant for
Slacker Personal
Radio
(www.slack-
er.com), in charge of programming
for soft rock, vocal standards, and
big band/swing music stations.
I
Mike Masterson
has been
living
on Maui for nearly 15 years.
lJohn
McGuinness
and
his
wife,
Maureen,
are
expecting
their
third child
in
the
spring of 201
l.
1987
James
Fedigan
has worked on more
than 70 Broadway shows during the
past 20 years, serving as production
supervisor for
the
lighting depart-
ments.
He has also
worked on many
television
specials including
the
Grammy Awards,
Tony
Awards, and
Emmy Awards. He works closely with
Dutchess County Autism Awareness
and has raised more than $100,000
for this cause over
the
past
nine
years.
James
is married
to Allison
Telford.
They have
three children.
I
Linda
Smith
Jager
was named communica-
tions
director for U.S. Speedskating
in
November
2010. She served as the U.S.
Olympic Committee
(USOC)
press
officer for
the
U.S. short
track
speed-
skating
team
at
the
2010 Vancouver
Olympic Winter Games. She also
works as
the
USOC press officer for
the
U.S. biathlon team.
I
Nicholas
Kalogris
has
been
working for
the
New York State
Division
of Parole
in
support operations for the parole offi-
cers fort
he past
six years. He
has
also
worked as a sports board operator for
Pama] Broadcasting
Ltd.
in
Beacon,
N.Y.,
for
the past
eight years, where
his
duties have
ranged from interviewing
national and
local notables
such as
New York Mets Great
Mookie
Wilson
and famed sports writer Phil Pepe
to
sound engineering for talk shows and
sports broadcasts,
screening calls, and
audio engineering
for a variet)' of
local
talk programming. Some of Nick's
work also aired on Sirius/XM
Satellite
Radio
and WABC
Radio
in New York
City.
I
Carol
Leth in
welcomed
twin
boys, Matthew and Kai, born Sept.
15,
2009. She
recently
celebrated a mini-
reunion with Chris, Sheila, Chrissy,
28
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MAGAZINE
and Teresa,
the
F-9ers!
I
Ron Marz
has been writing comic
books
for the
past 20
years for all the
major
U.S.
publishers,
including
Marvel, DC,
Dark Horse,
and Image.
I
William
Tucker
is
living
and working in
Qindao, China, as
a
headmaster of a
bilingual school with
more than
500
students in grades K-12.
He
says he
misses the
leaves of
the Hudson.
1988
Rev. Fr.
Timothy
Biskupiak, FDP,
married in November 2008. He was
ordained a
priest
of
the
Trinitarian
Catholic Church
in
2010.IIChristine
Petrillo Blaine
was promoted to vice
president of Branded Entertainment
at
Alloy Media&: Marketing
.. She works
with Alloy Entertainment editorial
content and customizes advertiser-
sponsored Web series.
I
Rocco Cocco,
Jr.,
recently
moved to Chapel
Hill,
N.C.
He
married Sharon Weed in
2009 and welcomed a daughter, Katie
Renee, born Jan.
10, 2010.IThomas
and Janice Box Haessl,er
celebrat-
ed their 21st wedding anniversary
in
June 2011.
IJoseph
Madden
is
vice president of public relations for
Metlife's U.S.
Business
01rganization,
which encompasses Metliife's
employ-
ee benefits, auto, home, and
retail
insurance
and
protection products
divisions, including life insurance,
annuities, and retirement products.
He
also
manages
public relations for
Metlife's Mature Market
Institute
and recently was
responsible
for
Metlife's Retirement
Strategies
Group public relations program.
I
Peter Oppenheim
completed
the
JFK
50-mile
ultra-marathon
in November
2010.
IMichael
Petrucci
was promot-
ed to
retail
market
manager
for TD
Bank
for the Essex Cou1nty region
of New
Jersey. He has
23 years of
experience
in
retail
banking.
I
Tom
and
Nora Bomba Ruede
moved to
Jacksonville,
Fla., in August 2009.
Remembering
Dr. Roscoe Balch
D
r.
Roscoe Balch, professor
emeritus of
history.
passed
awa)' in Virginia on April 29. 2010,
at the age of 87. He was a key
member of
the
1-listory Department
facult)' for more than
three decades
(1961
to
1992).
Professor Balch earned a B.B.A.
from Seattle Uni\·ersit)' and an 1-.1.A.
and a Ph.D. from
the
uni\'ersit)' of Washington. He was one of
the
first
lay
faculty to jom Marist College.
He
played an acti\'e role m establishing
initial
academic policies and
the
onginal core curriculum and
in
later
years was chair of
the
History
Department.
In
1986.
students \'Oted him
Professor of
the Year. His
classes
were
usualh· owrsubscribed. with
students attesting that
his
vast
knowledge
of the ~1atcrial
and his blend of
humor and intellect were
two
maJor reasons forthesuccessofhis courses.
Dr. Balch had a keen
interest
in the
history
of
the
region and was
acll\'e
in
ad\'ancing historical prescn·ation and restoration efforts
in the
mid-Hudson area.
He
helped
to
restore Poughkeepsie's histonc Umon
Street neighborhood. and
he
was a successf u
I
ad\'Ocate
fort
he prcsen·auon
of Poughkeepsie's 1918
train
station. a
project
that in\'Oh·ed his students
at ;1.tarist.
His
efforts
many
years ago
pa\'ed the
way
lor
the train stauon·s
more
recent, extensi\'C
restoration.
In recognition ofh1sacademiccontribuuonsduring Marist's formative
years, Dr. Balch was
designated
a :-.tanst College Heritage Professor
in
2004 b) vote of
the
Board of
Trustees.
■
Michael Petrucci
'88
Tom works for the Suddath Co. and
Nora
works at Ponte Vedra High
School.
Their
children are now 12
and
15
and both play lacrosse.
1989
Carol-Ann Catucci
Kinane
recent-
ly began
her
20th year as a special
educator in
the Huntington
(N.Y.)
Union Free School District. Carol-
Ann is married to
Michael Kinane.
I
Michael Kinane,
assistant
to
the
president
for advancement at SUNY
College at Old Westbury, took part
for the fifth consecutive year as a
moderator
during the
Fair Media
Council's annual
"Connection
Day."
The conference brings the
media
together with
the
public for a day of
dialogue on
issues
related to journal-
ism,
community news, and other
local
issues. Michael
was featured alongside
panelists
Donna
Pisciotta, produc-
tion
director at Fox5/My9, Saundra
Thomas, vice president of commu-
Alumni of soccer tea ms coached by Howard
"Doc"
Goldman gathered in
2010
at the home of Joseph
Madden
'88
in Mahopac, N.Y. The group included Jim Ulbrich
'95,
Glenn Mcsweeny
'92,
Matt Scarano
'92,
Neil Kelly
'95,
Dan c.llllahan
'93,
Joe Bettencourt
'91,
Eric Richards
'94,
Jerry Sentochnik
'88,
RJ Kane
'92,
Tom Haggerty
'89,
Ji1n McGee
'92,
Vinny Aspromonti
'90,
John Gilmartin
'88,
Bill Kenny, Joe Madden
'88,
Tim Finegan
'92,
Phil O'Hara, Chris Arrigali
'93,
Kevin Segrue
'88,
Mark Edwards
'90,
Andy Scarano
'90,
George Brown, and reg Healy
'90.











































nity affairs at WA BC-TV,
and David
North,
news
and public affairs report-
er at WALK
Radio, in a discussion of
public service announcements in the
new
media
landscape.
I
Ellen
Ballou
Nesbitt
became assistant director
for the Fund for
Potsdam
at SUNY
Potsdam
in January
2011.
1990
Jennifer
Schiffer
Freeh
and her
husband,
Vince, welcomed
their
sixth
child, a daughter,Julia, born Feb. 24,
2010. Julia joins
her
four sisters and
Alyssa Moeder
'89
one brother at
their home in
Holly
Springs, N.C.
I
Brian Kee:nan
is the
owner of McGillicuddy's
Restaurant
&
Tap
House in
New Paltz,
Darby
O'Gill's in Hyde Park, and
the
Mad
Hauer
in Poughkeepsie.
The
Mad
Haner
is undergoing an extensive
renovation scheduled for completion
in 201
l.
McGillicuddy's
wings were
recently \'Oted Best
in
the
Hudson
Valley for
the
third year i1n
a row by
Hudson
Valley
magazine,
:and Darby
O'Gill's won Best Sports
lBar
for
the
second year.
Barron's
Best
Ba"on's
again names
Alyssa
Moeder
'89
one of America's
top 100 women
financial
advisors.
A
lyssa Moeder '89
has
been recognizedj s one
of America's top 100 women financial a visors
for 2011 by lhe financial
magazine
B rron's.
Moeder is a pnvatc weah h acl\"isorand
senior\'ice prcsidcn inwst-
ments
at
~1emll Lynch. She has 20 years of experience in the
1nancial
services industry, 111clud1ng
17 specializing in wealth mar~·tgcment
advice and sen·iccs to mslllullons and high-net-worth ind· ·iduals.
Sh.e also was reco.
gnized as on.c of Barron's I.op 100 \\.·omen
lnanc.ial
adYisors 1n 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007.
In 2001, Moedeqomed Merrill Lynch after working
at
\\
York
Strategy Group, where she managed funds for highly afnuent mi hes.
Prior to NYSG, she was the Northeast region head of the
itihank
Pm-ate Bank Capnal Markets D1\"ls1on.
She has held posn1onsat ankers
Trust and spcm six years at KPMG Peat Marwick, where he
!clients
included financial scr\'iccscompaniesand real estate and large n nprofit
organizauons. She is founder and chair of the Women's Exe ange, a
networking and memoring program for the women at Merril Lynch.
Moeder's professional designations include Certified F nanc,al
Planner" and Ccrti ficd Public Accoumant. She
is
an msuran e agem
registered by the states of t\e\\ York, New Jersey, ConneCll ut, and
Florida. She also serYes on the board of directors of the G I Scout
Council of Greater '-Jew York. She lives in
;:,,Je\1
York City ith her
husband and their three
children.
■
J1mmil·IZ:
Tlt,·flag denotes da,,n that
11,ll
tdt'bratc
lt'Ulll("1S
in
201
I
I
City of Poughkeepsie
Mayor John Tkazyik
'03 (right)
appointed
Frank
Mora
'92
to a
10-yearterm
as a city judge effective Jan.
1,
2011. Mora was sworn
in accompanied by
his
family including
son
Austin
(far
left),
son Kaden,
and wife Sheri.
He
earned
his law degree
from the University of
Memphis.
~JiW!\•j~g
1991
---
Rosanna
Cordero-Stutz recemly
appeared on CBS's
48 Hours Mystery
for a
homicide
case she worked on.
She
is
a lieutenam in
the
Miami-
Dade Police Department. View the
episode at www.cbsnews.com/video/
watchl?id=70749l3n.
I
Regina
Feeney
received a certificate in archives and
records
managemem from Queens
College in 2010. She was appointed
to
Freeport's Landmarks Preservation
Commission and awarded the 2010
Salvation Army Community Service
Award.
I
Beth Dolis's
nephew, Ryan
Prestiano, will be auending Marisl
in
September 2011.
I
Roy and Monica
Latus Freer
welcomed twins, Ava
Faith and Zachary Jacob, born
July
22,
2009.1
Dr. James Jozefowicz
was
promoted to professor
of economics
at
Indiana
University
of Penns>·h-ania
in
August 2009. He is serving his second
term as president of the Pennsylvania
Economic Association.
Jim lives
in
Indiana, Pa., with
his
wife, Stephanie,
and daughter, Abigail.
IJeffrey
Thibeault
and
his
wife welcomed
their
second daughter, Harper Naomi,
born Sept. 30, 2010.
1992
Tom Badura
is
a Web application
developer in
the
university computing
department at Western Connecticut
State University.I
David D'Arco
and
his wife, Andrea, welcomed their first
child, a son, Sal\·atore Michael, born
May 22, 2009.
IJeffrey
Dolfinger
is
the owner of 24/7 Realty,
Inc.,
one of
New
York State's
largest real
estate brokerages specializing
in the
liquidation of foreclosed properties,
representing
almost every major bank
and many hedge funds.
I
Jennifer Rial
Kerrigan
celebrated her
40th
birth-
day this past year with her husband,
two
children, and
the
great friends
she made while auending Marist.
I
Michael
O'Farrell
is
the
director
of public
relations
at Lawrence &
Memorial
Hospital
in
New
London,
Conn. Pre1·iously
he was
the director
of public
relations
at Mystic Seaport
for
nine
years.
lJoseph
Proto
has
lived
in South Florida for eight years.
He
is
owner of www.electriduct.
com and www.abccook.com.
IJoey
Stanford received numerous
awards
for working on the Four Mile
Fire in
Boulder.
He
is also changingjobs; he
is
being seconded from his employer,
Canonical, to work full
time
on the
Linaro project.
I
Kevin Weigand
is a
school teacher and
personal trainer
in
Fort Myers, Fla.
1993
Jennifer
Sulger Capodacqua
and her
husband, Frank, welcomed a daugh-
ter,
Alyssa Camille, born Oct.
14,
2009. Alyssa
joins big sister Amelia.I
Maria Licari
Cohen
decided to make
a career change. After 13 years at ABC
News, she now does
PR
for a
hand-
ful
of clients and media trains. Her
new
job allows more time at home
with her
two
children.
lJennifer
Smith
Defelice
is
the artistic direc-
tor of Broadway
Bound
Performing
Ans Cemer
in
Merrimack, N.H. New
Hampshire Partners in Education
has
recognized her with its Gold Circle
Award for
three
consecutive years
for volumeering
in
schools. She is a
member of the Professional Dance
Teachers Association and Dance
Teachers of America. Her dancers
recent!)• performed at Disney World
and participated
in Disney
Magic
Music Days.
I
Carl
Marinaccio
is
an active member of Marist
lacrosse
alumni.
I
Barbara Zisa Petrie
and
her
husband.John,
welcomed
their first
child, a son, Ian Joseph, born Feb. 20,
2010.1
Ralph Raiola
began working at
Information
Builders
in
March 2010
as an associate editor. Pre\·iously
Ralph
was an editor for an electron-
ics industry
trade
magazine for 10
years.Ijames
U.W.)
Stewart
co-hosts
SUMMER
2011
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notes
Double
Feature
After
starring
roles in
Sex and
the City
2,
the twin'
daughters
of Teresa
Dezio
'93
are ready
for theh1
dose-ups.
T:
resa
Sorrentino-Dezio
'93
looked
on
in disbe-
ief during a break
in the
filming of
Se and
Cily
2. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davi
r
Cynthia
Nixon, and
Kim
Cattrall
were
singing
to
her
Jt-year-old
daughter,
Sienna.
"The
i1sy bitsy
spider went up
the waterspout:· the glamorous stars
chanted, walkingtheir111dex
fingers
and
thumbs up an 1mag111ary
spout.
Sienna Dezio and
her
twill.
starstruck, but
that
ay
I
admit
that I was'"
I
i
~
Sa\'anna, were sharing
the
role of
Rose,
the
youngest
daughter
of
Charlotte, played by
Krist1n
Davis.
The
day's
filmmg was
al a Long
Island estate. ,\ccordrng
1◊
the
script. the
lour
friends
were having
lunchoutdoorsata
Connecticut inn.
toddler Rose on Davis's lap.
\\'hen
the director yelled "Cut!,'' Nixon
launched into
song and nudged
the
others
to
join in.
As
producer,
Dezi was nomi-
nated three
umes
fo
the l.:mmr
,\ward
for
··Outstand1
g Lifestyle
Show." She became an xpen a1 all
thingsdomestic,srning
pelaborate
craft. cooking, and ga ening seg-
ments
for
the fastidi us Stewart.
After she had
the
1w111
, she
traded
made-for-TV
domes1i
lily
to sta}'
home
with her child
rel
.
;:.;,,~:1,,:.-Q
"I couldn't
bclie\'C it.
These
rour
amazing women were singing to
my
baby
to
keep
her
happy," says
Dezio.
"They sang se,·eral songs,
unt ii
shooting started again. They were
banging out
beats
out on
the table.
Sienna was smiling and clappmg.
It
was surrear·
Dez10
is
no stranger
to
lilm or
fame,
ha\'ing worked
in
production
for
TV shows
head
1
med
by
stars such
as
Ricki Lake, Rohm G1,·ens, and
Queen
Laufah
and, most recently,
as producer
for The
,\1artha
Stewart
Show.
Her
career began years earlier
dunnga
~1anst
internship
at the ABC
soap One
Life
to
Ltvc.
After college, she
acted
in
small roles111soaps,
film.and
music videos before heading
behind
the camera. Al Manha Stewan·s
show,
Dezio \vorked
with
hundreds
of celebrity guests-Brooke Shields,
Jennifer
Garner, Nathan Lane,
Bene
Midler, Rosie O'Donnell, Glenn
Close, and Che,·y Chase, to
name
a
few.
But
her
fa\'orite was President
Bill Clinton, whowason
to
celebrate
the show's 500th taping.
"The staff appeared on
the
show.
so I got
to
clink champagne glasses
with
President
Clinton
and
shake
his
hand," she
recalls.
"I
am
ne\'cr
BY BONNIE
HEDE
STRIEGEL
'85
30
MARIST
MAGAZl:\JL
As her twins grew Dez10 soon
realized they
en_joye
perform-
ing-dancing,
dress]· 1g up.
and
smiling for her earner When the
girls
1urned
2. she
put
er
name
on
a mailing
list for the
~ms Talent
management
compan
hopmg
to
find modeling
Jobs
th,
t
would
be
fun for
the girls and he~ build their
college
fund.
Dez10
lov1.I
~larist and
wants the twins
10
be i the Class of
2029.
Her husband,
Jorn. feels the
The Dezio
family: Teresa, Cheyenne, John, Savanna, and Sienna
same
about
Clemson Urnvcrsll}',
his
alma mater. "We might ha\'e to split
them up:· Dez10
jokes.
A
few
monthsaftersigningupon
the TwmsWorld Website,shego1an
e-mailed casting ca
II
for
brown-eyed.
brown-haired 2-rear-old twins
for
St'x and the
City 2. The
Dczio
girls,
fraternal twins, got an audition.
"There were 20 sets of twins
auditioning that
day
in _1ust
the
one
hour that we were there. I said,
'No
way they're getting this.'
I
thought
it was the last we'd
hear
of 11:·
Dez,o
says.
But they were called
back.
This
time. the
filmmakers wanted to see
her
daughters
cry; the
plot
called
for a child 111
the "terrible twos ...
When
a film
assistant
held
Savanna.
she wailed.
"I heard
the director whisper,
·she
looks
1ust
like
Kristin,'·· Dezio
says.
'That's,,
hen
I
started
thinking
this
could
reallr
happen:·
She got
word
a few
days later.just
a
dar before
she
was
to give birth to
her third
daughter,
Cheyenne, now
1.
They were
on the mo,·ie set
just
three
weeks
after that call,
Dczio
still
recovering from a C-section.
"Geuing this
mo\'ie
was like
hittingthe
lottery.
We were shocked.
It
was
the
first audition
the
girls
had
ever
been
on:· she says.
"It
was also
strangely coincidental,
because
Sex
and the
City was the one
TV
show I
watched
before I
had
kids.
I
never
missed
it."
After getting
the job, the twms
were in\'ited
to
Kristin Da,·is's
Central Park
\\'est
apartment to get
Savanna (center) and Sienna with
Mommy
at their trailer on
the
movie set.
comfortable
with the
actress.
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Savannaand Sienna
began
to call
Da\'ls
"Mommy Kristm."
In typical
2-year-old fashion,
they
were soon
in and out of every room of
the
spacious
apartment,
playmg with
the
actress's makeup
and
costume
jewelry.
Dezio
was hornfied,
but
the
actress,
whom
she describes
as "!lawlessly beauuful. warm, and
kind,"
brushed
off her concerns. "I
love itl" Davis
said.
Later. the
twms
discovered
the
actress's shoe closet,
packed
to the
ceiling
with the
Yery type of couture
pumps made famous
by
Sex and rite
City.
The
toddlers happt
ly
began
try-
ing them
on,
teetenng
on
four-inch
heels
as Dez10
and Da\'ls
looked
on,
laughing.
"They ltwc shoes' I couldn't
believe they
were
m
Knstm Da,·is's
shoe closet,
trymg
on Manolo
Blahntks," De;:10 says. "The girls
were
loving 1t.
and she was absolutely
fine with it."
In late
September 2009, Teresa
and John, a ,·ice president
for the
insurance-consultmg
firm
Enscrv10
Inc.,
were
on the set of Sc'<
and
the
City2withthe,rdaughters. Thet\1 ms
filmed about fiYe scenes.
In
one,
Charlotte is
holding
an mconsolable
Rose and doubting
her
maternal
abilities.
In
another, Charlotte hap-
ptl} reunites
with the
toddler after
a trip. Savanna ended
up
gettmg
the most screen
time.
s1ttmg on
Charloue ·slap at the
mn
and
play mg
in a field
with
Rose's lnsh nanny.
Savanna
(left) and Sienna in a photo
that
landed
them
the
Sex and the City
2audition.
Because
filming invoh
cl
intense
12
hour
da)'s-longer
ours
than
law allows children
to ,·ork-the
filmmakersended up hiri gasecond
set oft
,,·ins
to share the role.
When filming was OYer,
Davis sent
the twins~·
box
of
the jewelry
the} ha
been
playing
with, as a tha
-you
gift. A year
later, the
gir still
remember
the actress, calling
out "\1omm> Kristin" ,·hen
they see her face on T\.
On a
recent
day in
their
hometown
of Monroe, N.Y.,
Savanna and Sienna we
just
normal
1-year-olds dres"ed
in
p111k
leotards, takingthei first ballet
class.
They happily
stre ched with
other
budding
ballerinas nd
tiptoed
m tandem-smiling
br
adly with
theirarmsarched
overhe
-toward
the
enthusiastic high-Ii s of their
teacher.
:-.lost
other da\'s, De
rio
is
either
dnvmg her girls' to
p
school or
south
to
t-lanhattan
fo
modehng
auditions. An agent sign
•d
all three
children after the mo,·i , and each
already has
landed
a
j
umber of
pnnt ads. Cheyenne wa] dressed as
a crab for
Halloween m
Simplicity
pattc·rncatak.)g.
andappe
le·
din
the
October issue of
Am
rican
Baby
magazme
and a Ba
1es
R
Us ad. Sienna appeareq
in
a
Carter's cloth
mg
ad campaign
and
she and Sa\'anna osed
for
the
co,-er of the Harl quin
book His
Daughter
...
Their
~/ti/d.
In mid-March, Sienn and
Sa\·anna posed for an vanti
greet
mg
card, and Siennlwas
photographed for an an
i
le for
the
June
issue of
Parcnts
1agazine.
At audtttons,
the
g1 ls
usually
haw their measureml ts
taken
and smile
for
a
photogr
pher for a
few shots.
If they
get tli. Joh,
they
return another day
"to
t
)'
on prettr
clothes and say cheese:·J ez10 says.
After a shoot, the girls ways ltwe
to
go
to
a carousel at a I cal mall
to
ride
the
horses.
Dcz10 says she
,,·ti)
allow her
daughters
to
work only
as long
as
they
enJO)'
1t.
"They arc happy. n
1ural
kids.
They
enJO)' gomg on a
pecial
day
with mom and dressm , up," says
Dezio. "\\'e always mak
IL
fun. But
thcdarthcydcc,dcthc)'d n't
want
to
do this anymore is
the da
\\-C
stop."
■
ft
Alumni Autho1·s
Vincent
Begley
'70
has two
young-adult
novels
slated for publication.
Flying Lessons
is
due
in
September
2011
from THR
Press,
and
The Time
Before Time,
the Place
Before Place
is
to
come out in spring
2012.
Gloria G. Ausubel
'82
has
published
her
first
book, I
Hear
the People
Listening,
a collection of her
poems
(iUniverse). She composed the
majority
of her favorite poems during her years at Marist,
1980
to 1982, when she
was pursuing a
master's degree in
community
psychology.
The
War Merchants (Strategic
Book Publishing, 2009)
is a
novel
by
Gregg Feistman
'09MA. "Out of
the
ashes of
the
second World
War,"
says
his
synopsis, "a
former
Nazi finance
expert and his half
brother,
an SS colonel,
use
stolen gold
and confiscated treasures to
implement
their vision of the
ultimate
business model to control the world: economic
fascism.
In
the
decadessince,asecretcartel
of
multinational
corporations
have used
it
to
successfully
manipulate
world
el'entsand pull
thestringsof
governments
tostartand
control
local
wars around
the
globe. They
maximize
profits
without
the
waste
and
inefficiencies
of
a
world war. Beautiful public
relations
executive Cassidy Jevon and ace business
reporter
Michael
Kranz
stumble
upon
the Machiavellian scheme. Not
knowing
who
to
trust,
they must
expose
the
global conspiracy
before
the
next targeted
initiative begins: the manipulation
and
takeover
of
Russia." Feistman is
an assistant
professor
of
public relations at Temple
University. For more
information,
visit www.thewarmerchants.com.
Karen Szklany Gault
'86
has
written
The
Complete
GROWINGo~i
Guide to Growing
Your
Own Fruits
and
Berries:
Everything
You Need to Know Explained
Simp1y(Atlantic
Publishing
Co.). The gardeningguidecovers
regional
climates and
how they relate
to
the best
fruits
and
berries to
grow
close
to
home,
the
process
of choosing
and planting
specific kinds of fruit
trees
and
berry bushes,
caring
,
for
fruit
plants, and
harvesting
crops.
It includes
recipes for baking
the harvest.
The
book
is available
for
purchase
at www.karenszklanygault.com.
FRUITS
AND BERRIES
Meg
(Margaret)
Kearney
'86's
third
book,
Home
By
Now(Four
Way Books, 2009),
recently
won the
2010 PEN New England
LL Winship Award and was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry
Prize and the Foreword Magazine Book of
the Year.
"The
characters of Meg Kearney's gritty second
poetry
collection
tra\'el the shadows and edges
of
modern I
ife,"
Four Way
Books
says of
the book.
"Searching for home and
knowing that,
once found,
home
might
dissolve
without warning,
Kearney
carves a
richly
lyric poetry. You will
hear the
voices of this
striking
book right in
your ear,
telling hard-learned
lessons
that are as unsettling as
they
are necessary." Kearney
is the
founding
director
of the Solstice Low-Residency
MFA in
Creative
Writing
Program
at
Pine Manor
College as well as
director of its
Solstice Summer
Writers Conference. For
more
information, visit www.megkearney.com.
Ian O'Connor
'86's
new book
on the career of
Yankees shortstop Derek
Jeter,
The Captain,
is
out
from Houghton Mifnin. His previous book,
Arnie
&
Jach, on the
rivalry between legendary
golfers
Arnold
Palmer
and Jack Nicklaus, was a
New York
Times best seller.
Robert Wright
'92's book
When Angels Cry: The
Loud Cry of tlte Fourth Angel
has been published by
iUnil'erse.
I.
I/"'
If
you would like news of your book included
in Alumni Authors, please send
tlte title, the name of publisher,
tlte date of publication,
a PDF
of the book's
cover,
and a description
of the content to editor@marist.edu
or to Alumni Authors, c/o
Marist Magazine,
Advancement,
Marist College,3399
Nortlt Rd., Poughkeepsie,
NY 12601-1387.
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I
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\I A R I S I M
A
G ,\ Z I N E
"
..
Bobby Marks
'95,
assi!;tant general
manager of the New Jersey Nets,
helps run the day-to-,day business
of basketball operations and assists
with
the
Nets' vast rebuilding and
rebranding effort.
BY JIM
URSO
'11
Game
Changer
As
assistant
general
manager
of the New
Jersey
Nets,
Bobby
Marks
'9S
is helping
to transform
the team.
C
onductmg scoutmg reporb. managmg the salary
cap, and
\Vorking the \Vaivcr wire
are all activities
fam1har to sophisticated fantasy sports gurus.
\\
hilc many sports fans spend countless hour-:, trying
to
develop
a winning fantasy
tcamonlrnc,
for
Bobb) Marks
'95,
building a successful sports lineup
b
far
from
1maginar).
:n 2010,
\I.irk,
\\as prnmo1ed
10 ,1ss1s1am
gl'nc1.1I
managa
,,f
thl'
Ne\\' jcrSC)
~,'ls
I
k
assists Nl'ls
C,rncr.11
\1anag, r Bill) Kmg m 1hr
arc.is of salJr) ,.1p m.mJ~rmcm
suiutm~. pla)l'r per,onnel .• ,ml the
d,1)-lO•da) bu,111l·ss
of bask1b,1II
opcra11ons. \larks's promo11l111
,,,mes
at a 1un<1url' llf pro11111w111
challenge and opp0nunn) In the
LOmmg )ears 1'.l.1rk'.>
\\
Ill
br
.11
the
hdm ,if the :'\ch \,bl rebuilding.ind
rchr,111d111g
effort
\larks 1s d1r<·c1
I) rcsponsihk
Im
pu11mg an improH.-d team on the
r:.Hd\\ood. Aside from
,lllt'rnph
10 upgrade pcr~nnnd, the ~,·ts
rerl'lltl)
began ui11s1rucuon
ol ,,
lll'\I ,ircna 111
Bn1okh n For thl· m·,1
I\\
o )
CJ rs. the :--;cl,\\
ill
pla) home
game, m :--;e\\,1•k
,
J
rhe Barda)'
Ccntl'r 111
Brook
I)
n \I
I
II
open
fo
I
he
2012-201 3
t\B:\ ,,•;ison,
mak1ng1h,·
Nl'ts the first pwkss1onal
sp,,rts
fr,111,
h1,c
111
Brook I) n
Sll1ll!
the
Dodger-, relocated 10
l
os Angele,
,1hcr the 1957 ,t·a,on
l
hl' chance
10
put a nC\\ ll',1111
wgrtlll'rand rebuild 1s\'Cr)
exr11111g.
,a)s \lark,,
)ou can
l
get far m
the :--;1u 1f
)OU
don1 \1an1
to
t,1kc
t
h.mces. For \larb his \I Hlmgncs,
Ill
1,1kc chanLc, h,is helped h1111
arrL\'l'
at his curr,·111
posll
1011
\n,ll1\·eofl111lcFalls.:--J
,\1,1rks
,1,h reuuncd b) \lansl to plJ)
foo1b.1I,
DunngfrcshmanSt:a,:,on,he
pla)
nl
outside lmehaLker. Ho\,<'\ l'r,
hl' ,1 ruggkcl
to
ad1us1
Ill the demand,
ol b, 111~
a ,1ude111-.uhle1e
During
11s sophomore )Car, hb gr.1de,
dcl·mcd him mchg1hle for a1hlr11c~
L
l11ma1cl).
h1,,l'cond ,eason pr,1n·d
10
lw
a turn mg p,11111111
dcl'l:lop111g
the ,kill, that \1ottld ,cn·e h1111
111
the profe,,1on.1l ,,orld Durmg 1h1s
,1re.,.,ful penod. he remembers
undngo1ng a 1r,111sforma11,1n
I
could \e gone bark hor'l~ and 1n.:d
to \\ ,irk om
Ill)
1s,u,·s .u a lo,al
commu111t)
college, h,· ,ays. --but
I
decithl 10 deal\\ nh tl11ngs
there
\1 rkHec.alls the ,trong support
S),tcm supplied h) \lanst Head
Foo1h.1II
C
,,ach
)1111
l',1rad).
It
pro\'1dl'd me wnh
a
101
of
structure
that
I
11
,111sf<1rmed
\\'hl'n
l
c1me 10
I
he
\.cb
,:,,I\
s
1\lark,,,
\\ ho,1111
remams
m comac.1 \\ nh hts former wach
Hl.' ,enc, a, a father hgurc for .1 lot
of u, lf<>lllh,1II
player,!. By the
lime
\lark,, 1
l'l
urned
Ill I
lw ildd as a 11gh1
end for lus 1umor and senior seasons.
\l,m,1
had
transtlloncd
from
DI\•·
s1on
Ill
111
D1, b1on I•\\ 1ommgtht
\ktw
,\thtntK A1hk·t1l
( onference
(\1,\,\(} \l1abc1ngLh,iscn
tofimsh
founh m the wnfcru1lc m 199-¼
MarKS' SC'llOr
)eJr, Man,t
\\011 :,IX
of ,,·1, 'lc.mkrencc g.11nl'slocap1urc
the
1\1,\,\C
Champ1onsh1p.
\\,irks,
whose nwntors ha\l'
indud,d ,C\eral forP1cr
\.8.\
pla)-
ers assats 1h,ll his u>lkge football
LO,Kh h.1d more mllu,nce on him
than
any1,nl'.
In
I lll./5, ii
larks gr,1dua1c<l
\\
LI
h
a drg•c~ m wmmumcauons.
On
the t\londa) follo11
mg h1s ~radu-
a11on. he began a public relauon,
1111ern,h1p
with the Nl'ts. \\ hen
the internship condudl'd at 1hr
end
,,r
st.inmcr, ~la•ks struggled 10
find full-ume emplo) mcm \\\1h his
honi,'IO\\
n
near th,· ll',1111
s foult11c,
and "'ml' excess gr,1du,111,in
monl.').
he <lecitkd to sta) wuh the l\e1s
to
complete a ,ccond. unp,11d mtern•
shtp m the baskc1!).1JI
operation,
dep.1r1111cnt
In
th
s po,111011,
he
assisted
Nm
'rork K111Lks
icon and
Profl',,1011al
Baskc1hall
l lall
ofr-amc
mdutll'C \\ 1lhs Recd
II I\J~ nl\ fir,t real taste of
ba,kc1b.1II h;s:t)Y ld1dan)thmg
.md l'\l'I) 1 h1ng. I pll k,·d guys up .11


































''You
can't get far in the NBA
if
you don't want to take chances."
the airport, dro\'C \Vtllis
to
work,
worked
111
training camps. worked
at practices, helped wtth tra\'el plan-
ning, edited \'ideo." The grunt work
paid off
lnJanuar>
of 1996, he was
offered a full-time paid posiuon as
an operations assistant.
As
he
became more familiar \\'tth
basketball operations, he began
educating himself about player
contracts and collecti\'e bargaming
agreements. "You're
not going
to
last
1f you're stagnant; it's important
to
c\'el"}'
year add something
to
your
resume,'' he says. :--larks
also credns
former Nets President Rod Thorn
wnh helping h1111
acquire more
responsib11it
y and de\'elop the skills
to succeed in basketball operations.
Thorn was president from 2000 to
2010. "I was able to learn about the
salary cap, player contracts, the
collectl\'e bargaining agreement,
and scouting. \\'hen Rod came
in,
I
wasn't ,1ust an administrati\'l:
assistant anymore."
Marks recalls se,Tral occasions
\\'hen changes in management could
h,\\'c resulted in him losing his JOb,
mcludmgthe most recent ownership
change
to
~tikhail Prokhoro,·. ·-rm
JUSt
,·cry fortunate,'' he says
"This
business is all about sur\'h·al." By
2006, he was promoted to \'ice
president of basketball operauons
and 1s the longest tenured member
of the Nets staff.
0
n
the
way to work each morning
from his home in \Vest Orange, NJ,.
Marks drops his two young sons.
Jake and Cooper, off
at
day care. "It
was the one
thmg I
had to do," he
says. On game nights, he ma> not
see them again
until
thr following
morning.
"I
was fortunate to marry
someone who's compatible and
understands
my
Ii
fest yle ," he says
of his wife, 1-lichcllc.
He arri\'l:s by 8:30 a.m. at his
office at the Nets' East Rutherford
complex.
There.
to
the nght
of
hts Marist diploma. hangs a large
hoard displaymg the Nets current
depth chart. A small book cnt1tlcd
framworh
stts 111
a paramount posi-
tion
on hts desk. A plethora of other
sports books arc arranged ncatl)'
behind him.
But he's not in hisoflice as rnchas
before. Current.I}'
he splitsattltn.danc.e
at away games with Kmg. and he
admits the degree of tra\'l'l · \'Ol\'ed
in
his new job 1s an adjustm nt. His
day \'aries depending on th~ ume of
}'ear. For home games, he
at
m·es at
the arena earl}· enough to\\, tch the
other team warm up. "\\'h~tknows.
I
may want to trade for or s1 one of
thoscguys."hesays. Duringt egame.
he evaluates play and wrnesi re.·port.
Another adjustment h s been
delegating some of his pr \'IOusly
held responsibilities. Prior
to
his
app. oint mcnt as assistant
~eneral
manager, he aided in thecoor~ ination
of pre-draft workouts. re ruiting
visits, and background cJ;cks of
different prospects leading
to the
20!0 NBA Draft. After e,· luating
talent, he helped condense t 1e Nets'
group of potential picks and a aly:ed
different draft scenario
\Jow.
Marks ts faced with the c allenge
of m·crsceing
the depurtm
nt
and
makmg more paramount d cisions
regardmg player personnel.
i\tarksad\'isesstudents in erestl'd
in work111g111
professional at! et
ics
to
just d1,·e 111.
"Go sell tickets," e says.
"Go
work 111
any depart ment.~~,·entu-
ally you will be abk lo mee people
wnh111
the orga111zat1on,
find niche.
and then 1f something ope~ s, the)
,,·111
know who you arc."\\' enen'r
he's contacted by someones eking a
career in sports managemcn Marks
always responds.
"I
rememb r being
111
their shoes,'' he says.
Although :--larksdocsn·l
t
nk
he's
ready
to
head a team himsel he says
111
the future he would ccrtai~ ly con-
sider becom111g
a general n nager.
··1 th111k
that anyone who , rks in
basketball opcrauons has t
L
goal.
To run a team. al the end of he day.
that's what all of
us
are stm· 1g for."
\\'hile his job present many
sacrifices, !\larks says
the
wards
are well worth it.
"You
m1gh ha\'C a
game that mght, and that ga 1c may
determine how the next day cs," he
says. ··one day, you may ma <ca big
trade or get a new player. E, ry day
presents a ne,,
challenge."
■
Sports
Center
on
ESPN
America,
which
is
seen
in Europe, the Middle
East,
and
northern
Africa. "Our
fans
over-
seas love American sports
1"
he
sa)'s.
I
April
Buther Wennerstrom
and
her husband
welcomed
a
daughter,
Anjulia
Marie,
born
July 20, 20!0.
I
Brenda
Long
Wittman
is
pursu-
ing a master's
in
special education at
Ashland Universit
}'· She teaches spin-
ning at several gyms on Cleveland's
West Side.
1994
Karen Mariotti Besemer
and her
husband announce
the
birth of
their
twin daughters, Callasandra
Rose
and
Genevie,·e Marie, born
July
2, 2010.
The
twins
join
big
brother Colin, 21/2
years old, at home.
I
Pamela
Clinton
received an M.A. in religious educa-
tion
in
May
2010
from Felician
College.lMaryAnn
McGovern
Cuite
and her husband,
Kyle,
welcomed
their
first
child, a son,
Timothy
Edward,
born Oct. 19, 2010. Timothy
weighed 9 pounds 12 ounces and
was
22 inches long.
lJaneen
Lake-
Piano Dolan
and
her
husband,
Ray,
announce the
birth of their fourth
son, Quinn
Raymond, born
NO\', 12,
2010. Quinn
joins
big
brothers Jack
(8), Charlie
(7),
and Brady (3) at
home.
I
Rob Faris
is
senior ,·ice
president
of programming and
production
for
Outside Television.
A four-time
Emm)'
Award-winning
television
producer,
he is responsible
for
the
creation and
development
of all
the
network's
programming content as well as
managing
its
online and social
media
efforts. As
head
of Outside Television's
operations department,
Rob leads
a
production team
of producers,
direc-
tors,
and writers.
His duties
also
involve collaborating with Outside
magazine's editors on
the
concep-
tion of new series that
reflect the
editorial content of the publication.
I
Patricia
Mocker
Freshwater
and
her
husband,
AJ, announce the birth
of
their
second child, daughter
Emily
Elizabeth, born Nov. 28,
2008. Trish
joined Sodexo in
July
2010
as
senior
communications
manager for
the
company's
talent
acquisition depart-
ment.
I
Moira Breen Long
collected
her
300th career coaching victory as
head
volleyball coach
at
Plymouth
Stale University.
Her
overall
record
at PSU was 301-156 (.658 percent)
in
her
13th
season.
I
Jennifer Poccia-
Talkowski
and
her husband,
Chris,
welcomed a baby boy, Carter
Thomas,
born Dec.
11,
2009. Carter weighed
8 pounds 1 ounce and
was
20 inches
long.I
Michele Bafuma Puzzanchera
launched NonprofitResourceMemo.
org, an
informational
blog for the
nonprofit community
in
western
Pennsylvania and
beyond.
The site
features daily
posts
on topical
news,
research, policy
initiati\'es,
and trends
that impact the
human and social
services sector.
I
Dr.
Christina
Royal
'94/'03M
was promoted
to
associ-
ate vice president of eLearning and
Innovation
at Cuyahoga Community
College. She was also elected
to
the
Educause Teaching
and
Learning
Advisory
Board for a
two-year
term.
I
Tracey Belko
Sawicki
and her
husband, Rob,
welcomed
their
son
Robert Joseph, born
Feb. 24, 2009.
They
also announce the birth of a
second son, Thomas Patrick, born
March
2,
2010.
1995
Amy Anderson
D'Amico
and
her
husband welcomed a son, Xander
Elijah, born Sept. 6, 2010. Xander
joins big brothers Lucas and Jaden at
home.I
Dana
Avagliano
Blount
and
her
husband,
Thomas,
welcomed a
daughter,
Madeline
Claire,
born
April
23,
2010.IJames
Burke
launchedJPB
Marketing LLC, an Internet market-
ing
firm.
JPB
Marketing focuses on
strategy and
design to
help improve
a company's
on line presence and lead
generation.
I
Eric
Cavoli
and
his
busi-
ness
partner
sold their ad,·ertising
agency,
Durham
Group,
to
join
forces
with Cashman
+
Katz
Integrated
Communications. Eric
is vice
presi-
dent
and creative director.
I
Colleen
Pelkowski
Collins
and
her husband,
James, welcomed twins, Aidan
and
Hailey, born March 19,
2010.
The
twins join big brother
Liam,
born
Jan.
4,
2008.1
Michael Dunne
and
his wife,
Jeanne Brennan-Dunne,
live in Sayville, N.Y.
Jeanne
is a
clin-
ical social
worker/coordinator
for
Good Shepherd
Hospice. Michael is
director of clinical and program oper-
ations at Graham Windham Foster
Care Agency in
New York
City.
He
i nYites Marist
graduates searching
for employment
working
with chil-
dren
LO
contact him at
Dunnem@
graham-windham.org.
lJohn
Macari
is
an account executive working in
the
litigation
support services
indus-
try.
I
Kevin O'Neill
('00M) and
his
wife,
Jennifer Dascenzo
'96, have
lived
in
the
Piusburgh area for the
past IO years. They
have
two children.
Kevin works in
downtown
Pittsburgh
at
K&L
Gates law
firm. He manages
the
Web de,·elopment team
and does
a
lot
of other work on Sharepoint,
Metastrom, and
Interaction,
among
other
technologies.
Kevin
has
also
been an adjunct faculty
member
at
the
University of
Phoenix
for
the
past eight years,
teaching
a variety
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2011
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notes
....
of technology and
M.B.A
classes.
When
not geumg
the kids
to base-
ball, dance, basketball,
Cub Scouts,
choir, etc •
he
does
a
lot
of writing on
•
,....c
his
Web slle, www.kmo.name. and
~
volunteers at their church as much
C
as
possible.
I
Lisa Pfenning
and her
H
husband welcomed
their
first
child,
rl
Jackson Dane, born Oct. 7,
2010.1
~
Marcia
Rosbury-Henne
is director of
~
adm1ss1ons,
trans1llons,
and
transfer
~
affairs
at
Holyoke
Community
College.
She also oversees
the college's
Upward
Bound program.
Marcia
has worked
m higher
ed smce
her
early days as
a work-study
student
in Mar1st's
Admission Office, where she perfect-
ed
the
art of stuffing envelopes! She
has been working at HCC since 2006.
I
Brian
Smith
and
his
wife,
Nadia,
welcomed
a
daughter,
Charlotte
Anne,
born \1arch
23,
2010
~M:mN~C
~
1996
Dina
Anello
1s
a director of develop-
ment at Rutgers
Business
School.
lThe
Washington
Business
Journal honored
Greg Bibb
in
llS
40
Under
40
Awards
in fall 2010. The program honors the
Washington,
D.C.. area·s
top
business
leaders
and owners
who are under
40
years of age
and
exhibited outstand-
ing performance for their companies
within
the prenous 12 to 18 months.
Greg 1s
chief operaung officer of
the WNBA Washington Mystics.
I
Joseph
Caplan
publishes the
Van
\Vych Ga:;:ette
communny maga-
zine
as a
media product
of Caplan
Media
Group,
Inc.
The magazine
is distnbuted
10
15 Toll
Brothers
communiues in two states as well
as 20 retail locauons, the
Howland
Cultural
Center
m Beacon,
N.Y
.. and
the
Walkway over the
Hudson
New
York State
Histonc
Park.
I
Michael
Davis
recently moved and JOmed a
new
company.
I
Gregory
Donohue
Greg
Bibb
'96
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and his wife.
Kristen,
we !corned
their
1h1rd
son, Peter James, born m May
2010.1
Brian
Frankenfield
and
his
wife welcomed a
daughter, Kaitlyn,
born Jan. 3, 2010
I
Jennifer
Gomez
is pursuing yoga teacher ceruficauon
from
Lotus
Gardens Yoga School.
I
Cynthia
Ramirez Hernandez
and
her husband, Tra1an.
welcomed
a baby
girl. Chelsea. born Oct. 15.
2009.1
Gary
Spengler
returned
1.0
the United
States
after
living
m
Singapore for
the
past eight years.
He
now hves m
Katy,
Texas. working for Chevron as gener-
al manager of domesuc crude
trading
I
Kevin
Sullivan
was promoted
10
wrner/producer at
ESPN
l997r
Kimberly
Byda
mamed
Jason
Sullivan on
Jan.
30, :w10, at
XV
Beacon
Hotel
in Boston They honey-
mooned in the Cayman Islands.
I
Anastasia Filak
married
Jerem,
Spera on
July l,
2010,
in
Sharon,
Mass
They
honeymooned
m Costa
Rica.
I
In his first season (2010) as
head
coach of the
Xavier
l.iniversit}
men's
soccer
team,
Andy Fleming
led
Xavier University's men's soccer
team to its first Atlantic-10 champ1-
onsh1p and first NCAA appearance.
Picked
to
finish 13th out of
14 teams
in
the conference prior
1.0
the
season,
Xavier defeated each of the top three
seeds m the tournam,!nt en route
to the
title. He
and
his
wife, Amy,
reside
in Cincinnati with
their
son,
Brady who was born in. May
2009.1
Jessica Hulett
became engaged and
expects
to
marry m fall 2011
Ijames
Maccalous
and
his wife,
Tabitha
Zierzow Maccalous,
purchased a
new home m \1assachuseus. Their
daughter, Allison, 1s
5
and
they
are
expecting
a
baby
in July
2011.
I
Alumni Association
President
Patrick
Mara
was elected to the Washington,
D.C.,
Board of Education
I
Michael
McDowell
celebrated
10
years of
marriage
to Suzanne Folkerts
'96 and
13
}·ears
work mg for the Hertz Corp ..
where he is now the IT lnno\·auon
Architect. They
have three children:
Brendan Patrick
(born
:i'.002).
Connor
Gabriel (born 2005), and Shannon
Anneliese (born 2009).
I
Charles
Melichar
was
named
associate vice
chancellor
for
communications
m
the
D1\·1s1on
of
Development
and Alumni
Relations
at Vanderbilt
Um\·ers11}',
For
the
previous five years, he was vice
president
for
public relations
and
communicauons
at Colgate University.
He
JOmed Colgate m 2003 as direc-
tor of media relauons.
lJoe
and
Kara
Chrzescijanek O'Donnell
welcomed
a son, Christian
John James, born
March 3, 2009
I
Kyle Reeves
start-
The winners of the 2010-11 Alumni Leadership Awards are
(center)
Heather Christine Staats
'11
and Matthew Gerard Lubrano
'11,
shown
with President Dennis
J.
Murray and Alumni Association President
Patrick
D.
Mara
'97.
Matthew spent
four
years
in
Marist's Student
Government Association, including service as student body president.
An accounting major, he held three internships. He will begin Marist's
M.B.A. program
this
fall and will work
for
KPMG
in 2012.
Heather has
been a writer and editor for
The Circle
and a member of the Student
Government Association, most recently as executive vice president.
As an English adolescence education major, she student-taught at two
schools. She will join the 2011 Teach For America Corps as a middle-
school English teacher.
ed
his
own consulting agency,
Kyle
Reeves
Consulung. which specializes
m online markeung and lead genera-
t10n.
I
Daryl Richard
and his family
moved
to
West Hartford,
Conn.,
in
Jul> Daryl is the national VP of pubhc
relations for United Healthcare, a
$42 btlhon company. Daryl manag-
es a
team
of 15
PR professionals
and
leads
the company's nallonal as well
as local PR and communll} relations
programs across 50 states
1998
Stephanie
Mercurio Doran
moved
to the beach m Florida five rears ago
and
loves it.
She
lived
m New York
City following graduation and, after
workmg in Journalism for three years.
she went back to school for a master's
m
educauon. She feels very passion-
ate about
making
education
accessible
to all children.
I
Michele Donovan
Klose
and her husband. Jean Paul
welcomed their first child, a son.
Zachary
Joseph,
born
Sept. 15,
2010.
I
Fernanda Leventhal
1s a translator
and interpreter
I
Steven
Lindeman
1s an English-language instruc-
tor at Syracuse Universny.1
Gina
Marchesani
1s pursuing a master's
m school counseling at Springfield
College.
I
Kenneth Menard
has
worked on
Monday
Night Football
on
ESPN for the past four years.
The
past three years, Ken has been the
lead
ISO/replay
producer.
When
the
season 1s over,
he
produces NCAA
events such as basketball, base-
ball. softball. hockey. and
lacrosse.
I
Melissa
Manso Pennucci
and
her
famil1 moved mto 1hc1r
new
home
m Wilton. Conn.
I
Kerry Peterson
became engaged on Oct I, 2010. to
Tsgt.
Jason
Brooks.
Jason
1s part of
the
civil support team m
the Delaware
\Jauonal Guard. The} plan to marrr
on Sept 9, 2011.
I
Alison
Bradley
Wilmott
and
her
husband,
Brett,
welcomed a
daughter,
Teagan,
born
Oct. 15, 2010.
llisa
Wiggins Yauch
and her husband, Paul. welcomed a
daughter.
Ava,
born July
I,
2010.
They
are "getting
used to parenthood!"
1999
Jennifer
Canonico Avroch
contmues
to
teach
fourth
grade
m
I larrison,
N.Y.,
and her husband,
Bryan
Avroch
'00,
continues to teach literaq at a middle
school m Stamford,
Conn The}·
enJ0}'
spending
lime with their daughter,
Marissa
I
Bill and Dawn Lorenz
Brennan
welcomed a daughter, Lila
Grace, born Aug. 27, 2010.
ITiffany
Constantine
married Tim
Trainor
on April
17,
2010,
in Key
West,
Fla
I
Brad
and
Beth Clarke Cookinham
'99f03M welcomed
a babr bo}, Irle
born May 25, 2010 Tyler Joins big
brother Brayden at home.
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Deskiewicz
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is
living
at the beach
and loving it.
I
Tara Griffin
Duggan
welcomed
twin
girls to
the
family,
Aine
and
Savannah,
born in September
2008.1
Rachel
Murphy
earned a
national
"Drug-Free
Hero" award
for her work
as direc-
tor
of New York State's "Your Story
Matters"
campaign at www.iamrecov-
ery.com.
I
Matt
and
Lindsay
White
St.
Lucia
welcomed
their
second
child,
a boy,
Nathan
Richard,
born
Jan
10,
2010.
2000
Bryan
Avroch
'00
continues
to
teach literacy
at a
middle
school
in
Stamford, Conn., while his wife,
Jennifer
Canonico Avroch
'99,
continues
to
teach
fourth grade in
Harrison,
N.Y.
They
enjoy spending
time with
their daughter,
Marissa.
I
Jennifer Matarazzo Berger
and her
husband.Jason,
just
purchased their
first
home, in
Oceanside, N.Y.
They
welcomed
their
first child,
Maggie
Rose,
on
March 4,
2011. She was
6
pounds
6 ounces and 20 inches
long.
I
Dana
Paravati Carullo
and
her husband,
Jared, welcomed a
son, Tyler
John,
born
Aug. 28, 2010.
I
Erica
DeTraglia
began
a new job
as chief
clerk
of Surrogate Court in
the Dutchess
County (N.Y.) Office
of Court Administration.
Erica
and
her
husband,
Douglas,
welcomed a
daughter,
Amelia,
born
Sept.
4,
2010.
I
Gregory
Dicembri
enlisted with
the
U.S. Air Force
Reserve
on Sept. 10,
2001, and
has
since been deployed
overseas
three
times: Al Dhafra Air
Base
in
United Arab Emirates
in 2006,
and Kirkuk AB
lraq
in
2008 and 2009.
Gregory
has been
a member of the
FDNY since 2007 and was married
July
10,
2010.
I
Heather Dilts
married Terry Russell in September
2010. Heather is the senior market-
ing
manager for direct
response
company Allstar Marketing Group.
I
Liza Porcelli Fonti
and
her husband,
Alex,
welcomed
twins,
Laila Eden and
Nate Andrew, born April 10, 2009.1
Michael Galante
was promoted from
associate director of co-marketing
to
director of co-marketing at ESPN.
I
Amanda Garrison
is a behavior
ther-
apist, providing one-to-one education
to students with autism spectrum
disorders. She works at Ridgefield
High School in Connecticut. She also
works at Noah's Ark Animal Hospital
in
Danbury,
Conn.
I
Heather Suydam
Herrington
was named a 2010 Rising
Star-in
the
top 2.5 percent of attor-
neys under
40
in Pennsylvania-by
the publication Super Lawyers.
I
Ryan
Hunter
is
in
his seventh year
as a senior assistant district attorney
in
the
Narcotics Bureau at
the
Suffolk
County (N.Y.) District Attorney's
Office.
I
Melissa Keenan
married
Sean
Rafferty
on Aug.
29, 2009.
Melissa
and Sean welcomed
a baby
girl, Caitlin
Patricia,
born
June 23,
2010.IStephen
Pifferi
ma1rriedJoyce
Wick on Oct. 3,
2009, in Di:<
Hills,
N.Y.
They
reside in
Nanuet, NY
I
Jessica
DeCicco
Stalters
and her
husband,
Anthony,
announce the birth
of their
second son.Jack Anthony,
born May
18,
2010.1
Rachel
Tollen Schnabl
and her
husband welcomed a baby
girl, Olivia,
born
Oct.
1, 2009. They
were expecting
a
baby
b,:,y
in
May
2011.
IJon
Murray
is
the proud
father of
new
baby
Eli
Mrurray.
His
comedy duo, Stuckey&:
Murray,
was
a semifinalist on the
201Qi
season of
Last
Comic Standing.
I
Niharika, the
daughter
of
Koustubh
Warty
and
his
wife,
Manjari
Gangwar, is
now
5
and
started
kindergarten
in
September.
Their
son,
Laksh,
recent-
ly
turned
2
and keeps
theirn
on
their
toes.
Manjari
recently
completed
11
years
at
Computer Associates,
Inc.,
and Koustubh
is
in his
1;11h
year at
Computer Associates,
Inc.
I
Adam
Weissman
became
an account super-
visor at SGW
Integrated
Marketing
Communications in Montville, NJ.
lni'Jtf\•UK
=:
2001
Ben
Amarone
was appoimed
assis-
tant director of admissions for QU
Online at Quinnipiac Uni1Jersily.
He
is responsible for serdng as an initial
contact for
prospective
QU Online
students; identifying, counseling,
recruiting, and enrolling qualified
adult students; ensuring
that
admis-
sions documentation is completed
and
processed;
and
traveling
to
corporate events, conventions, confer-
ences, and forums to recruit students
and provide information about QU
Online. Before joining Quinnipiac,
he
was a pharmaceutical s.ales
repre-
sentative for Shionogi Pharma,
lnc.
I
Danielle Blydenburgh
and
David
Vallejo
married on Nov. 6, 2009.1
Kristin Burke
married
Jeff
Jarvis
on
July
10, 2010, in Cold Spring, N.Y.,
at Our Lady of
Lorello.
II
Thomas
Byrne Ill
and his wife welcomed
their first child, a daughter, Margaret
Coyle
(Maggie),
born Feb. 26, 2010.
Maggie
was 7
pounds
3 ounces. Mom
and Mags are doing great!
II
Amanda
Kelly
Coyle
and her husband,
Ryan,
welcomed
their
second set of twins.
Mallory and Wesley were born
July
20, 2010. Amanda received a master's
in
strategic communication and
lead-
ership from Seton
Hall
in
September
2010.
She will lead a
missiion trip
to
~WU-&
The
flag denotes
classes
that
1vi11
celebrate
reunions
in 2011.
Ben
Amarone
'01
Appalachia
to build and
repair homes
during the
summer of 2011. This will
be
her
12th summer volunteering
in
Appalachia.
lleah
Duggan
Cristi
is
in her
seventh year as a Spanish
teacher at
the Parker Middle School
in Reading, Mass.
She
is
also enjoy-
ing
her
2-year-old daughter,
Skylar.
I
Matthew Daigle
has a new job and
a new child! Beckett
Rhys
was born
June 2, 2010. Beckett
is
the
second
child of Matthew and his wife,
Lisa.
Mau is
a
senior public
affairs
special-
ist
at a McLean,
Va.-based
government
contractor,
LMI
(www.lmi.org).
I
Joseph DeGraw
is a
second-year
graduate student at the University
of Wyoming, pursuing a
master's
in
finance.
I
Amy Ostgulen Glovik
and
her
husband,
John, welcomed
their
first child, a son.Jenson Michael,
born
July 7,
2010.
IJames
lnfranca
teach-
es
at
Garden City
(N.Y.)
High
School,
where he
has taught for
the past nine
years.
He
resides
in
Roslyn,
N.Y.
I
Raymond
Philo,
M.P.A.,
retired
as
chief of police
for
the New
Hartford
(N.Y.)
Police
Department. Chief
Philo
served for 30 years in
the depart-
ment,
17 as chief. He accepted a
position
as
director of
research
in
the
Department of Economic Crime
and Justice Studies at Utica College
in
Utica, N
.Y.
He is
responsible
for coor-
dinating all
research
activities
in
the
department and seeking out
funding
opportunities to sustain
the research
capabilities within
the
department.
Additionally,
he
will continue as an
adjunct
professor
of criminal justice
at Utica College,
where
he has taught
for the
past
10 years.
I
Marybeth
Post
Rivera
taught fifth-grade science
and social studies this past year in
a
highly
diverse and multicultur-
al
classroom.
She says
ll
was very
rewarding.
I
Christopher
Rounds's
doctoral dissertation,
"Ireland
for Sale:
The Marketing and Consumerism of
the
Irish-American
Identity,"
is
under
contract for
publication
as a book.
I
Brian
Smith
is sports editor
at
the
Montclair
Times,
which
has
won the
New Jersey
Press
Association's
General Excellence
award for
five
of
the
past 10 years.
I
Patrick
Spence
is
a writer and producer
at
WJLA-TV,
an
ABC affiliate
in Washington,
D.C.
He
also
freelances
as a news writer
for
the Voice
of America,
the
U.S. govern-
ment's
radio broadcasting service.
I
Christy
Barr
Yaccarino
is current-
ly
the
administrator of health and
welfare plans on Campbell Soup Co.'s
Corporate
Health and
Welfare
Team
at Campbell's World
Headquarters.
2002
Douglas Guarino
received
the
national
Sigma
Delta
Chi Award
for
Public
Service
in
Newslener
Journalism
in 2009.1
Matthew
and
Melissa Discount Pelletier
welcomed
a
daughter,
Abigail Georgiana,
born
June 12, 2010.1
Deanna Howansky
Russo
and
her
husband adopted
a
daughter,
Meredith, in 2008
and a
son, Tai, in 2009.
IJennifer
Stewart
became a partner at Norwalk Eyecare
in Norwalk, Conn., in
January
2010.
I
Shannon Walker
married Eric
Mastroianni
in
April 2010.
I
Eric
Welsh
recently
married and is moving
to
Philadelphia.
2003
Meghan
Dickson Arocho
and
Steven
Arocho
'04 announce
the
birth
of their son, Alex Anthony, on
Jan.
18, 2011. He weighed 7 pounds
l ounce and was 20 inches
long.
I
Christine
Barnett
and
her
husband,
Sean Gagnon, welcomed their first
Sean Stellato
'02
was joined by two
of his clients, Patriots linebacker
Gary Guyton and Giants quarterback
and former Holy Cross All-American
Dominic Randolph, on the field
following a Patriots/Giants game at
the new Meadowlands Stadium in
September 2010. Sean is a National
Football League Players Association
contract
advisor.
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2011
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child,
a daughter,
Brielle Grace.
I
Paul Cookinham
is
chief compliance
officer for Carnegie,
Inc.
I
Christina
Hope
completed an M.S.
in
Internet
• .....-4
business systems at Mercy College
~
in
August 2010. She
is an
adjunct
C
lecturer
at Mercy
in
the Web strategy
H
and design M.S. program.lMatthew
r-<
Relyea
became
engaged to
Dr. Jennifer
~
Lynn
Gianico.
lPatrick
Robitaille
~
and
his
wife.Jaime, welcomed
a
baby
~
girl,
Taryn
Elizabeth,
born
Oct. 29,
2010.
IBlake
Run nails
is completing
a
master's of economics program at
the University of South
Florida.
He
hopes
to
be
admitted
to
a
finance
Ph.D. program
in the
fall of 2011
and become a finance
researcher
and
university
professor.
I
Ruth Spengler
married Michael Medeiros on Sept. 5,
2009.
Ruth
and
Michael welcomed
their
first child, a girl, Annabella Ruth,
born
July
31, 2010.IRosanna
Veras
works at Cemex as an
investor
rela-
tions assistant.
2004
Steven Arocho
and
Meghan Dickson
Arocho
'03 announce the birth of
their
son, Alex Anthony, on Jan. 18,
2011. He weighed 7
pounds
1 ounce
and was
20
inches
long.
I
Marissa
Artiano
married
Jason Pugh on July
31, 2010,
in
California,
with all eight of
her
Marist roommates in attendance.
Marissa also
passed
the
C.P.A. exam
in
California.
I
Timothy Bruderek
relocated
to
New York City to
further
his
career
in
the
e-commerce/online
marketing
field.
He
pm·iously worked
for a
large
e-commerce
prO\·ider
back
in his
hometown in
Pennsylvania
and
now
works for Createthe Group, a
boutique e-commerce design agency
in
SoHo.
lYahaira
Conde-Cadestin
and
her husband,
Eric, welcomed
a
baby
girl, Aliza Renee, born Nov.
11,
2010.
She weighed 8 pounds
10 ounces.
I
Laura
Castagna
and
Will Copeland
married Aug.
14,
2010.
Maura Sweeney O'Donovan
and
Cathy Morino Gardner
were
members
of
the
bridal party.
Laura
is
a
special education
teacher
and
Will
is
an
accountant
for Ernst
&:
Young. They
li\'e
in New York City.
I
Robin Burdick Commerford
and
her
husband,
Tim, welcomed their
second child,
Ryan
Callahan, born
Nov. 25, 2009.1
Alisa Cooper
and
Dr. Brett Spain
married
on Mar. 6,
2010,
in San Sebastian, Puerto
Rico.
Alisa is a career counselor
al
Long
lsland
Uni\'ersity's
C.W. Post campus.
Brett
was elected chief
resident
of the
Family
Medicine Residency at
Good
Samaritan Hospital
in
New
York.
I
Christielyn Diller
was promoted
to
director of communications at
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MAGAZINE
Sharing
Expertise
Globally
Melanie
Tindley
'O ,MBA
served
in IBM's
Corporate
Service
Corps,
a philanthropic
ini
:iative
that
sends
employees
abroad
to
offer their busines!i
skills.
M
elanie1 indley'04t-1BA
\Vas
selected forthe2010
IBM
C rporate Ser\'ice Corps (CSC), a highly
compe
:itive
leadership development program
that sends lBM e
11.ployees
to cities and countries around
the world in a pri ate-sector \'Crsion of the Peace Corps
To date, 1,000 1B
lt
employees from more than 50 countries haw
participated 111
this ph anthropK 1niuatin\ which enables them to share
their bus111ess
cxpertis with not-for-profit organi::ations, entrepreneurs,
small lms1ness owners and gO\-crnmcnt agencies in markets globally.
CSC participants )end three months preparing for their four-week
assignments. Tindley \ as part of a team that completed an assignment m
October 2010 on a Yisi to Kolkata, India. It was the eighth team that IBl\l
sent to India and
\I
as c mposed ol 10 IB\1 employees from
SC\-Cll
different
countries.
Visiting IB)11
empl yecs pronde recommendauons and consultatt\·e
advice to their host cli nts after immersing themseln:s in the local com-
munit)' and culture.
Fo
example, the team sent to Kolkata offered specific
business, marketing, f nd-ra1s111g,
and \·oluntecr recruitment strategics:
compL.1tert.rainingand~r
ate nab; customized. Website!>···
and databases,a.nd
lT secumy plans for si. clients who prLwide
social services to the people
of
India,
such as aban ned and underpri\'lleged
children, mentall) di
and homeless individ Is, and deal children.
\tclame is an IBt-.-1
ystcm a\·ailability leader 111
Charlotte,
'\J.C.
■
Learning
to
do bu
sines!'
in
the context of a new culture, Melanie Tindley
'04MBA
is
dressed
in
ajtraditional Indian sari.
her current job.
I
Brian Dobson
and
Olivia Haley Dobson
'05
welcomed
their first child,
a boy.,
Brian Paul,
born May 17, 2010.
He
was 8 pounds
15
ounces. Brian
received
his M.B.A.
from the
University of Connecticut
and is a securities analy:st at Nomura
Securities
International,
covering
lodging and cruise
Ii
ne stocks.
I
Raymond
and
Kriste•~ Schnitzer
Ferranti
have
two
wonderful children,
Raymond
and
Mia,
and were expect-
ing
their
third child in April 2011.1
Kelley Gould,
the
daughter of
Chris
Gould
and
Kathy Ansbro Gould
'83, enjoyed
her
sophomore year at
Marist and
is
running on
the
cross-
country and
track
teams.
IAdaze
Wilson lmafidon,
the owner of
AW.I. Security&: Investigations,
Inc.,
is extending his security business
in
western Africa.
He
is the owner of
Defender Security Co. in Abuja and
Lagos, Nigeria.
lShauna
Mcinerney
bought a condo. She is working as
an R.N. and plans
to
start a master's
program to become a school nurse/
health educator.
I
Erik Nielsen
and
Nicole
LaPeruta
'05 became engaged.
IJessica
Revoir
receh·ed an M.A.
in
corporate and public communica-
tion
with an additional certificate
in public relations
from
l\lonmouth
University
in
West
Long
Branch, NJ.,
in Januar)' 2010.
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News Channel.
He
writes for
him
on
Studio Band
the
Fox Report.
John
fills in to produce
Studio
Bat
3
p.m.
when needed.
I
Catherine Solazzo
is running
a
marketing team in the
East region
with
IBM.
Every summer.
she
manages
a
team
of interns and
recruits
from
Marist.
In 2010
she
was able
to hire
Melissa
Greco
'10.
Melissa was an intern for Catherine
for two summers. Catherine will
be
back at Mari st to
recruit more interns.
2005
Julia Braun
graduated with honors
from
Pace Law
School in 2009. She
works
for
a law firm in Manhattan,
specializing in a\'iation law and
representing Jet Blue.
I
Owen
Daly
is
serving in Afghanistan with the
3rd Marine Airwing Forward.lJohn
Delaat
was
promoted
to
program-
ming
screening scheduler at ESPN in
May 2010.1
Olivia Haley Dobson
and
Brian Dobson
'04
welcomed their
first
child, a
boy,
Brian Paul, born
May 17,
2010. Brian was 8
pounds
15
ounces.I
Christine
Kaye
Foti
relo-
cated
to
New
Hampshire.
I
Suehay
Gonzalez
and
Curtis Alicea
'06
(formerly
known
as Cunis M}'ers,Jr.),
married on July
17,
2010, at
the
Marist
Chapel.
I
Matt Grant is
a
reponer
for
Fox
4
in Fon Myers, Fla. Mau
received
an M.S.
in
journalism
from Columbia
University in 2007 and had been a
reponer/anchor in
Jefferson
City, Mo.
He loves sunny southeast Florida.
I
Robert
Vijay Gupta
was
named
a TED 2010 Fellow. TED
is
a small
nonprofit
devoted
to
"ideas wonh
spreading." The annual TED confer-
ences,
in
Long
Beach/Palm Springs
and Edinburgh, bring together "the
world's most fascinating
thinkers
and
doers, who are challenged to give the
talk
of their
li\'es"
(www.ted.com).1
Marybeth
Kunsch
was promoted
to
manager at
KPMG.INicole
LaPeruta
and
Erik
Nielsen
'04
became engaged.
IJoanne
Mahoney-Consorte
moved
to Virginia soon after graduation.
She has welcomed two grandchil-
dren
in
the
past
two years, Brielle
Nicole Walters and Ty Walters.
I
Jessica
Tortorella
recently
married
Hector
Lafont.
Hector
and Jessica
met at Marchon Eyewear, where
the}'
arc both employed. They also
purchased a
home
in Commack, N.Y.
I
Kristen Warren
is
teaching third
grade at
Bennett
Elementary School
m
the
Onteora (N.Y.)
Central School
District.lAdrienne
Zych
and
Neil
Bhatiya
'06
married
May
14, 2010,
at New York City
Hall.
Alum
us Honored
Edward
Summers'~
4/'06M is honored
by the Tri-State
Consortium
of Opportunity
Programs
in Higher
Education
as its 2011
Outstanding
Alumnus.
E
dward Su,lmers '04/'06MPA has been named
the
2011 High1r Education Opportunity Program Out-
standing Ajumnus by the Tri-State Consortium of
Opportunity Prog ·ams in Higher Education, a professional
organization of op1rortunit y-program administrators from
New York, New
Jerrey,
and Pennsylvania. Summers, along
with other clisting1 ishecl alumni from
the
New Jersey and
Pennsylvania prog1 ams,
\Vas
honored
at an awards banquet
in Tarrytown, N. , in March 2011.
Summers isa full-t11 c member
of the President's Cab11 ·t al ~1ansl
College, servmg as ass tant lo the
president, an ad1unct rofcssor of
public admimstration nd policy,
program. director
fo.
r
1'.J
nst A.
fr.
JCa
programs, and progr,
1
director
for Manst Prcs1dcnll
I
Relerral
Scholars. He pronde
cxecull\'C•
lcYcl support to Pres1 ·nt Dennis
J.
'.\lurrm· and
1s
res
lms1ble
for
mamtamingstrongues ct ween the
College and alumm, go -crnmental
olliuals. and commun t\· leaders.
He collaborates with a ~umber of
Lampus departments, work,. on
special pro_1ects
ass1g ed by the
president. and represent the College
at off-campus meeungs and e\ents.
As director for Mansl Africa
programs. he is responsible for
de\-cloping shun-term academic
sen·icc-learnmg tnps abroad. For
the past fi\·e years he has led a trip
to
South Afnca on which students
gamed hands-on experience work-
mg 111
underden'.loped communi-
ties and wnh nongo\-crnmental
orgamzauons. His students
han'
raised money and \·olumeered for a
number of organizations that locus
on pronding housing. health care,
and education for homclesschildren
and families. Summers b currently·
designing a ser\lce-lcarning pro-
gram to Ghana focused on politics,
communny
deq:Jopmen1. and
entrepreneurship
He graduated from \larist
with a B.A. in political science and
rece1wd the Alumni Leadership
A\\ard at Baccalaureate. \\'hile an
undergraduate. he studied abroad
in Florence, Italy I le was also
\"CT)
actiYe in lobbying acU\ities for
HEOP, '\e\\ York State's Tuuion
Assistance Program, and other
higher education ini1iati\es. I le
completed his 1\1.P.A
degree from
\larist and is a Ph.D. candidate for
a degree in urban and public pohc)
at \lilano the New School for
\lanagement and L,:rhan
Polic)'.
a di\'ision of the ;,,:e\\'
School
Uniwrsi1y. I
le
is writing
his doctoral dissenauon.
"The Shifting Politics of
Edward
Summers '04/06M
Econom 1c De\'e lopmcnt 111
l he Cu 1es
of Beacon and Poughkeepsie, t's:e\\
York: Re\·isiting Power, Politics, and
Policy Makmg."
He has presented papers on a
\·ar1et
y of subjects. He recently co-
presemed a paper on open-source
technology and the role of higher
education. "The Case ol Sakai," at
the Annual American Society for
Public ,\dm1111strauon
Teaching ol
Public Admm1stration Conference.
He co-presented two papers at the
Nauonal :\ssoc1a11on
of Presidential
Assistanis 111 Higher Educauon
Annual Conference. ··PAs fostering
Change \ou Can Bdie\C In·· with
Elisabeth Ta\',irez and
·•Promoting
Campus Inclusion as a Presidential
Assistant" \\ 1th Dr. Adrid Hilton.
In June 2010, he gaw the keynote
address for the 2010 Rotary Youth
Leadership Conference at \loum
St. \lary's College in Newburgh,
r-..
.Y.,
entitled
··Leadership
in the
21st
Cenlllr):
What
Young
Leaders
Need to Know to he Successful in
the Global Society."
In
\larch 2009
he co-presented the paper "Chimps,
t\luus, and Cowards: The Politics of
Race in Obama'sAmerica' with
Ivan
B Turnipseed at the 21st Annual
Black Graduate ~tudem Conference
in I lous1on, Texas. And in \Jlwember
2008, he moderated a faculty panel
chscussion.
"The
Politicsand Policies
of President-Elect Obama and the
Black Commun
it(
at the t\onheast
Regional Conference of the National
Black Graduate SI udent Association
in
131oomsburg.
Pa.
I
le
is an actin' volunteer in the
community, sen•ing as president of
1he board of directors of the Catha-
rine Street Communit) Center and
1reasurer of 1he Eleanor RooseYeh
Center at \'al Kill.
1-te
also ser\'es on
1 he boards of Dutchess Out reach and
Protect the Dream Youth Programs.
tie
is a member of the Dutchess
Regional Chamber of Commerce's
··1
Iudson Valley
Young Professionals"
Ad\'isory Council. \\ here he chairs
1hc Public Policy Committee
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notes
~Ui!mNJI-
...
2006
• ,.....i
Neil Bhatiya
and
Adrienne Zych
'05
~
married May 14,
2010,
al New York
C
City Hall.llaura
Coppola
recently
H
completed various successful posi-
~
lions
al MTV and ABC. She now
~
works for
The Martha Stewart Show
.,A"'4
in New York City.
During her first
~
three seasons, she was a production
assistant
for
the
audience depanmenl.
Laura
entered
her
founh season with
the show in summer 2010 and was
promoted
to audience coordinator.
I
Clinton
DeSouza
was named
head
football coach at Spackenkill
High
School
in
Poughkeepsie.
I
Meredith
Engle
graduated with an
M.P.A.
from
Marist in May
2010.
IJessica
Foley
was
recently
recognized for five years
of service at
Tufts
Medical Center
and Floating
Hospital
for Children.
I
Julia
Graham
accepted a
position
at
Weber Shandwick where she works
in the
technology
practice based
in
New
York.
For the
past two
years,
she has been
named
a top
tech PR
pro
in PRSourceCode's
Top
Tech
Communicators awards. The award
is
based on
nominations from tech-
nology
journalists.
I
Colleen
Kelly
became engaged
LO
Andrew Crocker
of
Honolulu, Hawaii.
They plan to
marry in January
2012 on the beach
in Waikiki. Colleen was promoted in
September 2010
10
assistant
manag-
er of
the Royal Hawaiian,
a
Luxury
Collection
Resort
in
Honolulu.
I
Kevin
Kerley
and
Mallory
Kule
'08
became engaged. They plan
LO
marry
in
August 2011.
I
Ben
Marcelliano
marriedJillianJefferds
'07 in August
Chris Gentile
'07
38
M A R
I
S T \1 .-\ G :\ Z I N E
Patricia A. Maxim
'06
2010.
I
Patricia
A.
Ma;dm,
0.0.,
graduated from
the
We:st Virginia
School of Osteopathic Medicine
(WVSOM)
with the
degree
Doctor of
OsLeopathic Medicine
in
May 2010.
While at WVSOM, Maxim earned a
Navy scholarship and wa:s a member
of Sigma Sigma Phi. She was also a
member of Psi Sigma Alpha, a national
osteopathic scholastic
honor
society
open
10
students
in the
top 15 percent
of
their
class. She was honored as a
military graduate and conn
missioned
as an officer
during th,e
WVSOM
Senior Awards
Banquet.
IJennifer
Casale
Ott
lives in
Kentucky and
is
an English teacher at Paul Laurence
Dunbar
High
School in Lexington,
Ky.
I
Patrick Rafferty
would like to
say hello to all his fellow
alumni from
the NYPD/Marist cohort program.
In his 25th
year with the NYPD, he
has decided
10
retire ai; a captain
out of
Patrol
Borough Bronx He
currently works for
the
Department
of Homeland Security-U.S. Secret
Service out of the New York field
office.
Patrick has
been married
10
his wife, Lisa,
for
15
years
and
they
have
two
wonderful daughters, Alexis
and Alissa.
He
often thinks of all
the
laughs
had during the cohon program
and wishes all
the
members of that
class
much
success and
happiness.
I
Jennifer
Stryker
has been working as
an associate producer at
The Dr. Oz
Show since March 2010. Previously
she worked at
The Tyra Banks
Show for
two seasons as an associaLe
producer.
2007
Corey Allen
became engaged and
moved
LO
Tulsa, Okla.,
to
pursue a
job as a full-Lime
special education
teacher.
I
Todd
Bivona
completed
the
2010 New York City Marathon
as a guide for Team
Reeve&:
Achilles
lnternaLional,
for a
friend
in a special
hand cycle/hand crank bike. He
also completed his first marathon
in Boston
in April 2010. In 2011 he's
done
Lhe
Manhattan
Half
Marathon
and the NYC Half Marathon.
He
also
did
the
Long Branch Half Marathon
with
his
friend, who completed
the
13.1-mile course on his own in
his
special hand crank bike. Todd enters
the
New
York races as a part of
the
Marist Alumni
Racing Team.
For
more on
the
team, see Page 39.1
Ryan
Cowdrey
has been employed
by Pinsfield Community
Television
in Pinsfield, Mass., since May
2007
In addition,
he runs his
own busi-
ness as a production
technician
and
is im·olved with all
levels
of produc-
tion. He operates a fully equipped
studio, four additional control rooms
throughout the city,
a
mobile produc-
tion
Lruck,
mulLiple
edit suites, and
about 20 live sites
Lhroughout
the city.
I
Catie
Fargione
and
Wes Gardner
became engaged Aug. 22, 2010. They
both live in Boston.
I
Kaitlyn
Fuoco
is working at DOB
in
New York as
an assisLant producer in the broad-
cast
production department. She
has
been working on a variel
y
of business
pitches. This summer, Kaitlyn also
freelance-produced
a spot to promote
a fund raiser benefiting cancer aware-
ness and
the
Entertainment lndusLry
Foundation, Lhe parent company
of Stand Up
to
Cancer, which ran
online and on Taxi TV in New York
City
taxicabs.
I
Kelly Glynn
married
Matthew LaBarre on Aug. 21.
2010.1
G.
Parker Huntington
is a client sales
support specialist at JP Morgan
Chase
in New York Cit)'.
IJillian
Jefferds
married
Ben
Marcelliano
'06
in
August
2010.1
Dorothea Larrabee
was
promoted
10
associate editor at
Popstar!,
a teen/tween entertainment
magazine
based in
New
York City.
I
Nicholas Lombardi
and
Victoria
Fresolone
married Aug. 14,
2010.1
Beth Maffia
and
Andrew McArthur
'09 became engaged on June 26, 2009.
I
Jason
Thalacker
was accepted into
the Peace Corps. He
left
for China
on June 29, 2010. where he'll serve
as an English education \'Olunteer
for
two years.
I
Derek
Valentine
received
a master's
in
city planning from
Boston University and is working as
a senior land use planner for
the
city
of Newton, Mass. He lives
in
Boston.
Ijames
Winslow
remains a captain
in the
NYPD.
He
is the
command-
ing officer of
Lhe
Manhattan Court
Section.James·s
son, Matthew,
turned
3 in February.
I
Laura Wolfe
was
to
graduate in May 2011 as a Doctor of
Osteopathic medicme from Lake Erie
College of OsteopaLhic
Medicine.
A RisiQg
Star
Chris
Gentile
'07
is recognized
by the Healthcare
Businesswomen's
Association.
T
he Healthcare ti'usinesswomen·s Associalio.n
honored Chns
ntile.
pro1ect
lead, Quintiles.
as one of the
industr)
·•Rising Stars .. for 2010.
The
Healthcare
B sinesswomen·s Association 1s
in
its fourth
decade
a~ global nonprofit
dedicated
10
ad\'ancing women m ~eahh care worldwide. Rising
Stars are
professional
· n various sectors oft
he health
care industr)'- The as. ociation·s corporate
partners
are
inYited,
each year. o nominate a Rising Star.
The
nomination
demonstr
tes corporate
recognition
of the
performance, commiLJ ent to excellence, and energy
and enthusiasm of
the Rising
Stars.
With more
than
decade of experience in the
pharmaceutical industry,
Gentile
has
held posnions
in
sales,
training.and r
anagemcnt
withorganr:ations
such as \lerck &Co. GSK.and
Reliant.
C,cn11le_1Lnned
Quinules Commercial 1n 200-+
as a trninmg account
cxccuLi\-C.
Her career progressed
from
associate
director of
trainrng. launching
more
than
14
TIC\\
projects, training 6-+0 employees. and completing
25.000 student contact hours,
to
where she
1s
now
successfully managmg her
third
pro_1ccL
sales
Learn.
During
her
time wiLh Quintiles. Genult: has
rcce1wd
the
company·, Global Prcsrdcms Club
award.
two
Commercial
President's
Club awards,
fi\·e Customer Care awards, and the 2008 Manager
Excellence Award. She also sen-ed on the Qu1nulcs
Commercial
Divers1L)
lnclus1on Council.
Gentile rcsrdcs in Jackson.
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with her
husband.
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Running
Beyond
~~arist
The Marist
Alumni
Racing
Team
gives graduates
an opportunity
to continue
the camaraderie
and competition.
f
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!
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5
Lisa D'Aniello
'08/09M
A
s graduation
day
approaches each year fo Marist
College studem-athletes, so does an abrup,t end
to
the
organized competition they have en1raged
in
for a long
period
of
their
lives. When Marist track-af
d-field
athletes turn
in
their uniforms,
though, Head
Col ch
Pete
Colaizzo
'86
hands
them
another
piece
of athleti attire.
In 200-f, Colaizzo formed the
Colaizzo, who's been ssociated
\fanst Alumni Racing Team for for-
with l\lanst as first a st dent and
merstudcnt-athleteswhoconunueto
then a coach for 25 year· But since
run competiuvely. The
idea
came to
the program's 1ncepuon, number
Colaizzo when he realized many of
of former student-at hi tes ha\·e
his former athletes were performing
turned
in
impressi\·e
per
brmances
strongly m high-profile races.
"I
in
races while donning
he
Marist
wanted them to keep running for
red and white.
\lanst," he says.
·1
wanted them to
'·Wnha
lot oft he acti
eyounger
keep supporting our program
that
guys, we've made it mo serious,"
theyweresoloyaltoforsomanyyears
says \like Rolek
'08.
E\ n with a
and get that Manst name out
there."
busy schedule consisting~ fteaching
The birth of
the
Alumni Racing during the day and att~)ding law
Team\\asnotmet wnh much fanfare
school at night, Rolekstil squeezed
·1 JUst
ordered a bunch of T-shirts
in enough training
to
ish
35th
for kids to wear during races," says
out of an elite internatio
1al
field of
10,000 runners in the
~YC
Half.
BY JIM URSO
'11
He finished the race i 1:06:51,
.. .. ..
..
.. ..
.. ..
.. .. .. ..
.
.. ..
..
.. . .. .. . ...
.
which equates
to
5:07 p ·r
mile
for
a staggering 13.1 miles. good for
13th among Americans in the race
and the \1aristalumni record fort he
half
marathon.
"This was a
major
breakthrough performance and
has
him
dreaming of an Olympic
Trials
mark m
the
marathon," says
Colaizzo.
"While
I
believe it to be a
long
shot.
I
now feel
11
is wnhin
the
realm of possib11iues."
According
to
Colaizzo, main-
taining
running as a fixture
in
one's
life
can ease
the transition
from
college to adult life. "Most of these
guys run competitively for a
long
time
and
then
there's this abrupt
end," he says. Reflecting on his four
years at Marist. Rolek.a former
Teach
For America corps member, agreed.
"I
just really missed
the
routine of
coming down
to
the McCann Center
and running at two in the afternoon
with the boys,"
he
says.
Role
k's performance in
the
NYC
Halfbroke
the
alumni record of\1ike
:\1elfi
'99, another of Marist's most
successful alumni
runners. It
was
the
accomplishments
of at
h
letessuch
as l\lelfi that originally influenced
Colaizzo to form the team.
In
2001,
\1elfi
was
named
the Road Runners
Club of America Open !\tale Run-
ner of the Year. Two years earlier.
during his senior year, Melfi was
named Marist
male
sportsperson
of the year, an award once captured
by
f\:BA player Rik Smits '88 and
seldom
given
to
runners. Melfi, who
is employed as a special educauon
teacher.
sars competill\'e racing
has
helped him
work wnh disabled
students on a daily basis.
"The
job can be really hard at
times,"
says ~1elfi. "In competill\'e
running. ach1e\·ing
goals takes
time
and commitment. From running,
I've
learned
the
importance of
patience, something
I
need at m)
JOb ewry single da)."
For Lisa D'Aniello
'08/09M,
her
athletic acti\'ity was cramped by
being stricken with mononucleosis
soon after graduation. After
recu-
perating, the Alumni Racing Team
pro\·ided
D'Anielloan
opportunity
to
reestablish
sport as an
integral
part
of
her life.
A member of
the track
and crew
teams
at Marist,
D'Amello
called Colaizzo for
training ups
as
she \'entured
into
new
territory.
"I
had never run a marathon before,"
she says.
"Pete !Colaizzo]
reallycares
for his athletes. He
puts
in an effort
to stay
in touch
and always asks
how
training
is
going." As D'Anielloin her
Marist singlet
passed
people during
a marathon, onlookers yelled "Go
Red Foxes" as she passed
by.
"fa·en
though I didn't kno1, who
they
were,
still feeling that connection is great,"
she sars.
Colaizzo·s commitment is the
catalyst for
moments
like this. The
former
Poughkeepsie
Journal
writer
e\'en started a blog,
http://runredfox.
blogspot.com, which captures the
trials and
tribulations
of Marist
track-and-field and cross-countr)'
teams and the accomplishments of
alumni, strengthening the
relation-
ship between
former
and current
members
of
the program and
fostering a community of people
with a common passion.
"Sen'ral
of
my teammates
from
track
and
from crew are sull some of my best
friends," D'Aniello says.
Other recent successes include
one of the most decorated runners
in ~tarist h1storr. Girma Segni
'09/'l0t-l. who
finished
26th owrall
1n
the
New York Cit) Marathon
with
a
ume
of2:26:39
in
November 2010
His finish notches the
highest
NC\\
York City Marathon finish by an)
Marist alum A month earlier, Da\'id
Raucci
·10
won the Atlantic Cit)
Marathon with a
time
of 2:24:04.
"I am proud of what they do out
of college,
.. says Colaizzo, "and
I
am
proud of
the
program they helped
build"
■
wins the Seaford
(N.Y.)
Wellness
Council's annual
SK run in 2009.
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notes
2008
Rebecca
Allison
founded a rowing
program at Western Connecticut
State
• ,.....
University,
where she
is
enrolled in a
~
post-bac program for medical school.
C
She serves as the
team's head
coach,
a
H
role she has wanted to
take
on since
~
she rowed at
Marist.lAndrew
Balli
,..........
has been a
production assistant at
......,....
MLB Network since 2009.
His
work
"'-l...i
includes video editing on a daily basis
for live game
productions
(Thursday
Night
Baseball)
and nightly
studio
broadcasts (MLB Tonight and Quick
Pitch).
I
Wilfred
"Spongy"
Benjamin
and
Lauren Lomauro
'09
became
engaged on
Feb.
9, 2011.
I
Valerie
Buscema
works at East
Rockaway
High
School on Long
lsland,
teach-
ing ninth-, tenth-,
and
twelfth-grade
social studies.
I
Alison Candamil
completed a
two-year
commit-
ment
to
Teach For America and
is
now teaching
and anending gradu-
ate school in New York City.
lJenna
Fischer
and
Ryan Restivo
became
engaged in August 2010. The)' plan
to
marry on July 20, 2012.Jenna is a
school counselor on Long
Island
and
Ryan
is a
producer for MLB
Advanced
Media.
I
Taryn Fitsik
was promoted
to
on-air reporter at WTEN-TV,
an
ABC
affiliate
in Albany,
N.Y.
She began
at WTEN
in
September
2008
as an
associate producer,
became
a field
producer
in
2009,
and
now is a gener-
al-assignment
reporter in the
57th
largest market in the country. "It's
taken
a lot of hard work and persever-
ance but is an example of how
it
pays
off in the end,"
Taryn
says. She has
covered a wide range of stories
includ-
ing politics at
the Capitol, Election
2010, city and county events, econom-
ic
progress in
the
Capital region, and
health
care and education. She says
it's
a job that has taught her a
lot
on
a wide array of subjects. "It's some-
thing new every day." The internship
program at
Marist
was a great gate-
way for entering the
media
field, she
adds.
Taryn
recently
became
engaged
and
plans
an October 201
l
wedding
at Lake George, N.Y.
IMarykathryn
Gielisse
was to graduate
from
the
William S. Boyd School of Law at the
University of Nevada
in
May 2011.
She will be returning
to
New York
to
practice
law.
I
Lindsay Henoch
and
Shayne
Temple
married
on
May
15, 2010, in
Morristown, N.J,
The
bridal
part)' included
Andrew
Villani
'08,
Meredith
Brown
'08,
Liz
Connolly
'08,
Lauren DiMisa
'08,
Peter Ponzio
'08,
Nicole Martin
'07,
and
David
Arsenault
'10.1
Lauren
Jackson
is a Ph.D. candidate
in
analytical
biochemistry.
She is \'ice
4-0
MARIST
MAGAZINE
l
Johanna
Valente
'10
l'ight),
with assistant
Nupur
Dave, leads a class at Passaic
High
School in Passaic, N.J.
Life Lessons
Marist
alumni
tea ch-and learn-in the highly
competitive
Teach
For
America
program.
W
hen Steve Townsend ·10 applied for a posi-
tio] with the nonprofit Teach For America,
he hought its
imense admissions
process
would
be
the m st strenuous element of
the
whole
t\VO-
year program.
\
ess
than
a year later, Townsend
found
himself
doings mething even more stressful: sining
in
a
classroom in
Lute
C. Moore Academy Senior
High
School
in
Washington, .C., with a very concerned studem, wait-
ing
for a gang o
teenagers
outside
to
dissipate.
"lthappensalot," ysTownscnd.
"[ waited until se\'en 'clock for the
gang to lem·e. l got th student home
by 9 o'clock."
Townsend and fellow 2010
graduate Johanna \jr.!ente arc.·
l\. \'O
ol fi\'e Marist alu
01
currently
in Teach For Amer a, a di\'ls1on
of Americorps. TF ·s goal 1s
to
eliminate education I inequity by
recruiting college
aduates who
hm·e demonstrated
track record
of leadership capabil'
y.
Acceptance
into
the program 1s h ghly sclectiw;
in
20!0, the progra accepted onl)
12 percent of its 46,000 applicallls,
according to TFA. At more than 120
colleges and uniwrsiues. more than
5 percent of the seniorclassapphcd,
including 12 percent of all seniors at
h·)' League schools. says TFA. "Teach
For America has become an cine
brand that will help build a resume,"
obscn-ed Michael Winenp in a July
2010
,\'ell'
for/1
Tllnc,
article.
The 2010 corps 1s made up
of more than 4,500 recent college
BY
JIM
URSO
'11
graduates, graduate students, and
professionals from all 50 states
and a range of backgrounds. Corps
members commll
to
teaching for
two years m one of 39 urban and
rural regions across the country
Townsend teaches biology, human
anatomy, and physiology in inner-
ell )'
Washmgton, D.C. \'alcnte
teaches nmth-grade math at Passaic
High School
111
Passaic,
\l.j.
"Teach For America was a
wonderful opponun 1t
y
to cha I lenge
m)'self
to
he the best teacher
I
hope
to
become," says \'alente.
"It
exposed
mctoacommunit)'lO help. I needed
them as much as they needed me."
Since 1995, 12 t-larist alumni
have participated in TFA. Accord mg
to
Stephen Cole, execuuw director
of career scn·ices at :'-.1arist,
there
are a number of reasons wh)' more
t-.lanst sll!dentsare applying. One 1s
the state of the econom)·· "Students
are tr}·ing to see if there are wars
that the}· can put their education
to work, he sa\'S. Teachers recc1w
~alaries, health insurance, and
retirement benefits.
Another reason, Cole pomts







































ou1. is 1he culture of ser\'1ce
that is
culti\'ated al Manst. "We have such
acli\'e programs
like
Campus
Min-
istry
and all
the
outreach programs
that are going
on:·
he says. "Sen•ice
is pan oft
he
fabric or what
makes
a
~1aris1
student."
TFA l}'pically recruits students
from a
mullilude
of majors
based
on leadership experience. Both
Townsend
and \'aleme built a
breadth of leadership experience
throughout
I
he,
r
four years a1 Man st.
Townsend, a criminal
justice
and
psychology
major.
scn·ecl as student
body
president
during
his
senior
year and also held
internships with
Assemblyman
Marc
Molinaro.
the
U.S.
SecretSen·ice. and 1he
Dutchess
County Office of Probation. Valente
sen·ed as
president
of
the Dance
Club.
Both
students studied abroad.
"It
helped
me
tremendously
...
says Valente of
her
time working
in
leadership roles
for
the Dance Club.
"It prepared me
by
gi\'ing
me
great
communicauon skills and making
me a
beuer
leader. I
needed to
stand
up and
represent
350 people
in front
ofh,ghcr-upsm
the
administration."
Accordmgto
Townsend,
the TFA
applicauon process was more rigor-
ous than the one he underwent
for his
Secret Sen·ice internship.
ll
consists
of
three
phases: a mult
,faceted
on line
application. a 30-mmutc
phone
1mer\'lew,
and a full-day.
m-person
1mer\'iew The
in-person
1nten·1ew
includes
teaching
a sample
lesson.
completing
a problcm-solvmgact
I\'·
ny.
participating in a group
discus-
sion with other TF,\ applicants, and
mter\'iewingone on one with a TFA
representative. Once apphcams are
accepted,
they
are g1\'en lO days
to
decide. The resumes of students
who say yes arc
then
sent
to
schools
111th
needs matching the strengths
of each
teacher.
Townsend at first thought the
program was
mainly for
educa-
tion majors. But, he says. "the
rcpresentall\'es
I
talked with spoke
of
leadership,
1he achie\'emcnt gap
m schools. and urban education. I
figured
Icould
use
some of 1he
things
I
learned
about leadership
to help
young
people."
Once admitted. applicants are
required
to attend
a six-week 1each-
ingboot camp at one of eight regional
trainmg facilities.
lownsend
had
six weeks to
learn his
subject area.
Although
Valente majored in educa-
tion, she admits she
knew nothing
•
Steve Townsend teaches b lo logy,
human anatomy, and physiology in
Washington, D.C.
about
tcachmg
man
urban region.
"The professional de\·elop 1ent
I
recei\·e from Teach For Ame ica has
been
0\'er
the top,
and has ·posed
me
LO
best
pracuccs
that
I c
appl}'
immediately. I
behe\'e e\'ery cacher
could
take
somethmgaway om
itl"
Townsend.
too.
1s
learni
g.
He's
become cognizant of the t ubled
community on
the
outsk1rl. of
his
classrooms and
the
way
1t
srupts
the
educational ennron tent of
his students. A constant
rei1mder
is 1hc
bu1ton
on the
wall
,
~
all of
Townsend's classrooms th
when
pressed dispatches an em rgency
team with an armed police fficer.
In an alternauve
high
school
such as Luke
C.
Moore.
hi
ndling
"at-risk" students
is
a
balan ·ng
act
between strictness and dili?J nt
dis-
cernment of
the
issues facinBr
young
people. "l\·e learned
to undlirs1and
people and 1he predicament, they're
in. You can't
be
so quick 10
il
stitute
your own agenda because y
don't
know what these kids wem
L
~rough
the night before."
Early
in
the year, he i·rsis1ed
one female student
be rem0\'
rd
r
rom
class by security. "It was h r third
time
takmg biology."
he sa . "She
was
so
disrupti\'e."
Townser d later
readmt1ted her into
his cla• s, and
smcc
then
she
has
shown~ mark-
able 1mpr0Yemcnt. She pa ted a
\'i\·id picture of
the life
of any of
his students. "She asked
ml
'Why
ha\·en·t you quit yet7 All of o rot
her
teachers quit,' ··
he
recalls.
"I just
shrugged n off. She then
looked
up and said.
'Well,
you're
tj~e
best
teacher !'Ye
e\Tr had.' That'
when
il hit
me. These kids arc soj sed
to
bemg
quit on and
told
th
l
have
no
chance"
I
Since
he
began, one of his
students has been murdered and
fi\'e have
spent time in jail. "It's
the
saddest thing in 1he
world.
but you
hm-e
to
use n
as an example:·
he
says. "I ha\'e
10 tell them
1hat if they
go down the same
road,
we're not
g01ngto be ha\'ing1hiscon1·ersation
...
Throughout his <la)'. he spends as
much time
talking
lO
probauon
officers. community workers. and
teen
parents as he spends
teachmg
science.
Valente must also
balance
stern-
ness
and consideration.
Herstudents
arc lull of energy but extremely
behmdacademKally. Manystudents
ha\'C increased rcsponsibilnyoutside
the
classroom. mcluding
1obs and
caring for siblings.
Howe\'er.
as a
ninth-grade
teacher.
she
1s
able
to
create
high
standards for her stu-
dems, who a
re
st i
II
mold able. "These
studems haw so
much
potcnt1al
LO
be
on
track
with cwrv other student
thei rage: she says. O~e of
her
biggest
challenges
is
communicating: she
doesn·t
speak the languages of many
of
her
students. who are of Spanish.
Dominican.
and f'ilipino descent.
According 10
both teachers,
the right
approach
lO
teaching
can spur enthusiasm
to
learn and
impro\·e within e\'en
the
most
L
roublcd students. "St udentsand the
educat1onal system are changing.'
says Tlm·nsend. "We ha\'e
to
change
the
ways we challenge
I
heir
minds."
Townsend
and
Valente ha\·e
both benefited from resources
pro\'lded
by
TFA. "The organization
1s
so efficient," says Valente. "Its sole
purpose 1s
to help
rou." Teachers
can also count on each other as a
resource. "There arc about
200
of us
[in
111)
region
I."
says Townsend. ·-rm
really close
\1·1th
a
lot
of them. You
kno1\
that there's
always someone
else
who·s
had a worse
day. It
helps
LO
know
that
other people are gomg
through it
with
you."
Townsend, who
is
now
pursumg
a master's in education
with
a con-
centration
in
public administration,
mamiains
high morale by
collecting
"pennr
moments."
"There
are no big moments like
in the mo\·ies,"
he
asserts. ''It's 1he
little things
that
gel you by:·
Valente agrees. "You re going
to
fail and you're going to succeed," she
says.
"It
'sjust
how
you get from Point
A
to Point
B. and
knowing
you are
makmga difference.
No manerwhat
you
do
m life. that's an
important
lesson."
■
president of
1he
Graduate Women
in
Science NU Chapter al Penn
State. Lauren was also
1he
co-chair
for
the
89th National Graduate
Women in Science Conference
held
in
June
2010.1
Mallory Kule
and
Kevin Kerley
'06 became engaged
in summer 2010.
They plan to marry
in August 2011.
IJessica
McNamara
is in
her
third
year of teaching in a
talented
and gifted program
in
the
Highland
Central School District.
I
Jesus Santos
teaches
algebra at
F.D.
Roosevelt
High School
in Hyde
Park.
N.Y.IAmanda
Schreiner
and
Sean
Murphy
became
engaged in January
20!0. Amanda says Sean proposed on
campus near
the
Gartland wall. "IL
was a beautiful Maris! moment!"IAlix
Smith
began working al Rubenstein
soon
after
graduation as an assistant
account executive
in the
Culture/
Entertainment
Group. She
then
was
promoted to the Digital/Social
Media
Group, working
in
online
reputa-
tion
management and
social
media
campaigns.
In June
2010, she was
promoted to associate account exec-
uti\'e and now
works
in the
Real
Estate Group,
promoting
New York
City
luxury properties.
I
Michelle
Tropeano
received a
master's in
sport administration from
Belmont
University
in 2010. She
is
an assistant
a1hle1ic
trainer at Fairleigh Dickinson
Universit>·
in Teaneck, NJ., with
the
Division I Knights.
I
Eric Zedalis
was
promoted
10
become the
first full-
time sports information
director
at
Division
II
Goldey-Beacom College
in
Wilmington, Del.
2009
Kadeine Campbell
is pursuing a
doctorate
in
genetics and
develop-
ment
at Cornell University.
I
Chris
Cardella is
living
in
Connecticut and
working
in therapeutic foster
care. He
says he feels blessed
to
have
received
a job
immediately
after graduating
with a
master's
degree. Chris
loves
being a social worker and is also
busy
at his church. "Life is great!"
he
says.
I
Ashley Coleman
recently moved
from New York to Massachusetts to
work for
the
TJX Companies,
Inc.,
in
the
gift ware division.
I
Amanda
Esposito
is pursuing a master's
in
teaching
in elementary and early
childhood education at St. John's
University, expecting
to
graduate
in
May
2012.1
Kelsea Fortner
is serl'ing
in
Ecuador with 1he
Peace
Corps until
summer 2012. She lives and works
in
the coastal cil y of Santa Elena. doing
community outreach and
de\'elop-
ment
work with the youth of
the
community.
Projects include
youth
groups, sex education and
HIV
aware-
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1
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In Memoriam
Trustee
H.
Todd
Brinckerhoff
Life Trustee
Dr. John
E.
Tessieri
Faculty
and
Staff
Roosevelt
Alston
Housekeeping
Dr. Roscoe
Balch
Heritage
Professor
Professor
Emeritus
of History
Bro.
Joseph L.R.
Belanger,
FMS '48
Heritage
Professor
Professor
Emeritus
of French
Albert
Frederick,
Jr.
Football
Coach
Dr. Howard
Goldman
Heritage
Professor
Professor
Emeritus
of Physical
Education
Director
of Physical
Education
Director
of Athletics
Dr.
Lawrence
V.
Gregor
Professor
of Biology
Peter
Einar
Hanssen
Adjunct Professor
of Art
Dr.
George
8.
Hooper
Heritage
Professor
Professor
Emeritus
of Science
James
E.
Hudson,
Jr.
Housekeeping
Ellen
Keegan
Administrative
Assistant
Patricia
Laffin
Academic
Learning
Center
Assistant
Nancy
A. Lemmermann
'97
Academic
Advisor
for the School
of
Communication
and the Arts and
Tutor
for the Writing Center
Dr.
Eugene
H.
Melan
Professor
Emeritus
of Business
Norman
E.
Olin
'70
Assistant
Professor
of Mathematics
and Art
Anna Maria
Volino
Administrative
Assistant,
Media Center
Rev. Richard
Rhys
Williams
Associate
Professor
of Religious
Studies
Harold
"Harry"
Wood
Vice President
for Admission
and Enrollment
Planning
Friends
Andrew
A. Callahan
Isabella
Maven
Connolly
William
M.
DeMattio
Thomas
R.
Hasenpflug,
Sr.
Robert
C.
Jackson
Vincent
J.
Krocinski
Bishop
Anthony
F. Mestice
Marguerite
Townsend
Palmore
Carolyn
K.
Parker
Allan E. Rappleyea
Francis
U.
Ritz
Eleanor
V. Schroeder
Jane
Sullivan
Kathleen
A.
Wermuth
Robert
H. Wermuth,
Sr.
Wilbur
J.
Whitman
42
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ness in
high
schools, medical brigades,
and of course
learning
to play futbol
and dance salsa.
IJennifer
Franz
has been coaching Lacey Township
(NJ.)
Lacrosse
League.
I
Megan
Frey
is a dually certified
teacher
who
has
experience working with emotion-
ally disturbed children. She is also
an assistant women's lacrosse coach
at Mercy College.
ljohn
Garrity
I1I
has been appointed executive direc-
tor of the Dutchess County
Historical
Society,
located in Poughkeepsie.John,
who majored in
history
at Marist, has
worked with the
historie;al
archives at
the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
Institute in
Hyde Park,
N.Y.,
and as
an archivist
intern
at
the
Churchill
Archives Centre at Churchill College
in Cambridge, England. A resident of
Dutchess County all his
life.John is
responsible for the overall adminis-
tration
as well as
the
management of
personnel, programs, events, collec-
tions, and fund raising for the society.
I
Valerie Giannini
and L1:onard
Beard
married on June 26,
2010.1
Briana
Kennedy
is currently working toward
a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology
at
the
University of Delawane.1
Katelyn
Lohne
and
Fernando Marreiros
married on Aug.
14,
2010, at the
Marist
chapel.
They purchased a home
together in late August in Woodbridge,
Conn. Both
are employed
at Yale
New
Haven Hospital.
I
Lauren Lomauro
and
Wilfred
"Spongy"
Benjamin
'08 became engaged on Feb. 9, 2011.
I
Tiffany
Lozano
is
pursuing a
law
degree at
Hofstra
Law School. She
interned at both
the
Corporation
Counsel on
Long Island,
doing munic-
ipal work, and the civil rights firm
Leeds, Morelli and Brown in Carle
Place,
NY.I
Kimberly Lyons
is pursu-
ing a master's in public: relations at
Boston University. She chaperoned
a Marist trip to Greece and Turkey
in spring 2010. She also volunteered
John Garrity
Ill
'09
in Chennai, India,
in
summer 2010,
teaching English, building schools,
and working with the
leprosy
popu-
lation.
I
Donna Brunetti McKnight
will graduate
this
year
with a master's
in mental health counseling and is
already working in the field after
being
hired by
her undergraduate
fieldwork site.
IJeffrey
Morganti
intended to become a doctor after
graduation, but during his senior year,
he switched
to
business. He is now
a control analyst at
UBS
Investment
Bank.
I
Erica
Pires
was on The Price
is Right in California. The episode
aired Nov.
3,
2010.ICaitlin
Runn
is
pursuing a Ph.D.
in
pharmacology
at
the Uni,•ersity of
Iowa.
She recent-
ly received
the University of Iowa
Training Grant in Pharmacological
Sciences,
which will fund her research
for
two years.
I
Christine
Schenck
is pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry
at Columbia University.
I
Kelsey
Schaefer
married Mark Schmiesing
on May 1, 2010, at St. Rose Catholic
Church in Maria Stein, Ohio. They
reside
in
Fort
Loramie,
Ohio. Kelsey
is employed by Vrable Healthcare
as the director of admissions and
marketing at Heritage Manor Skilled
Nursing and
Rehab
Center
in
Minster,
Ohio. She is also pursuing an M.B.A.
from Wright State
University.lSteven
Viola
earned
a master's
degree
at
New
York University and is an eighth-
grade math teacher at the Bronx Prep
Charter School
in the
South Bronx,
N.Y.
2010
Kayla Abitabile
is
pursuing a
degree
in
physician assistant studies
at Albany Medical College and will
graduate in May 2013.
I
Richard
Arleo landed
a staff position with
Brunoboys.net, a Web site for fanta-
sy
football advice, where he writes
position rankings, answers ques-
tions,
and runs weekly live chats.
After joining Brunoboys, Richard's
biggest break came when
he
joined
Patch.com as a freelance sports
writer for
the town
of West [slip, N.Y.
After covering all fall sports for West
Islip,
he
also began writing for the
Sachem, Three Village, Patchogue-
Medford, Dix Hills, Sayville, and
Bayport-Blue Point Patch sites. He
travels
to games and is responsible
for photos and a game story for each
event. Work has been ,·ery consistent
and Richard believes Patch is a great
new tool in the journalism world. He's
grateful to
have
been able
Lo
break
into journalism during such a
tough
time and
hopes
to gain valuable
experience and advance in
the
field.
ljaime
Bonventre
completed
her first
109-mile
bike marathon at El Tour de
Tucson in Tucson, Ariz., on
Nov.
20,
2010. She trained with
the
New
Jersey
chapter of Team in Training
(TNT)
and her team, consisting of broth-
er Stephen, friend and ClA student
Sebastian, and friend Wendy, raised
more
than
$16,000 for
the
Leukemia
&
Lymphoma
Society.
Jaime is looking
forward
to
being a mentor for the 2011
TNT cycling
events.
I
Bruce Buckman
is pursuing a doctorate
in
physical
therapy
at Sacred Heart University.
I
Kathryn
Budzinski
works in
the
Office of Undergraduate
Admission
at
Marist. She completed her first travel
season, which consisted of recruiting
high school students
in
New
Jersey,
Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, and
Washington, and on Long
Island.
I
Caitlin
Byrnes
is pursuing a master's
in
school counseling at SUNY New
Paltz and expects to graduate in 2012.
I
Melissa
Cipriano
is attending grad-
uate school at New York Universit}'-
1
Richard
Curylo
is an operation-
al
risk
analyst at TD Ameritrade
in
Jersey City, NJ.
I
Matthew DeFazio
is attending Pace Law School.
I
Danielle Delcore
is volunteering
at High Hopes Therapeutic Riding
Center in Old Lyme, Conn. She
works with individuals with physi-
cal,
mental, and social disabilities to
instill
confidence
and strength
in each
rider.
I
Ryan DeVito
is pla)·ing base-
ball
in
the Hudson Valley
National
Adult Baseball Association.
He
is
also developing a Web site
that
will
offer off-campus housing to college
students across the country.
I
Allison
Duffy
was published in the 2010
World Series Program.
IRiley
Eckert
was offered a job in New York City
one week after graduation. She says
she moved from her small-town life
in western New York to
the
big city.
Riley
is now
working for Mindshare
as
an associate buyer for client Summit
Entertainment
(yes,
the
creators
of the Twilight
saga).
I
Kate
Elman
thanks Marist for providing her with
the experiences and education that
landed her a
teachingjob,
right out of
college.
lKate
Fox
finished her first
season as an assistant women's soccer
coach at Assumption College while
working part
time
at Core Concepts,
lnc.,
in its marketing and graphics
department.
lJustin
Frei
is enrolled
in the
M.P.A.
program at Marist and
expects
to
graduate
in
August 2011.
I
Raymond Hunsucker
is
a first-
year student at New York College
of Osteopathic Medicine, working
toward
a degree
in
medicine.
lJared
LeBeau is
auending
law
school at
the
University of San Diego School
of Law.
I
Stephanie
Moshier
is
pursu-
























ing a master's
in
special education at
Grand Canyon University in Arizona.
I
Bryan
Nelson is
a production coor-
dinator for a promotional company.
Clients
include
a world-renowned
back surgeon
and
an independent
baseball
team in
New Jersey.
I
Nicole
Paonessa
is
preparing
for
graduate
school with the
hope
of obtaining a
degree in forensic
psychology.I Gina
Pernicano
is a sports
reporter
for the
Journal
News
in Westchester County,
N.Y. Gina covers events
throughout
Westchester and Rockland ranging
from volleyball to stickball.
In
the
office, Gina and her coworkers
take
scores and statistics for games and
athletes and
format
them for print
and on line ,·ersions. She says
it's
very
rewarding
to
see all of her
hard
work
throughout
the week app,ear
in the
newspaper
for friends
and
family
to
read.
I
Hilary Porter
was
hired
just
four
days
after graduation. She plans
to
pursue
an M.P.A.
IJusti1n
Santore
works for Fusion Media,
an
event/
media management com1pany that
provides conference
support to clients
such as
Pepsi,
American
Ex press,
and
Dollar General.
I
Elizabeth Santucci
works
in
the public relations depart-
ment
of
Ti
ff
any & Co. She
is looking
into relocating closer to New York
City.
lJillian
Scangas
beigan work-
ing
at New England Sports Network
in
July. She
interned
there
the
summer
before her senior year. She says
that by
staying
in
touch with
many
people at
the
organization,
she was
able to inter-
view for multiple jobs and
finally
land
her current position.
Jillian
works
on
the
nightly sports show editing
video, writing scripts, and working
with talent.
I
Alexandra Schultze
is
living in
London, pursuing
her dream
of working in the fashion indus-
try.
I
Kait
Smith
works at a national
women's
magazine
with a circulation
of 1.2
million.
I
Elizabeth
Staines
is
teaching children with autism and
loves every
minute
of it.
I
Michael
Steier
works at Whalers Sports and
Entertainment.
I
Adrienne Taddeo
opened
her
own
business.
Remembering Dr. Howard Goldman
T
his past fall,
the
College communit)'
mourned
the passmg of
Howard
"Doc" Goldman and
remembered h1s33 years of dedicated sen ice
to
Marist
as professor of physJCa
I
education, d
I
rector
of athletics,
and first coach ol
the men's
soccer program. A resident
of Rhinebeck, \J.Y.,
Dr.
Goldman
passed
away on Oct.
28, 2010, at
the
age of 79.
Howard
Goldman earned a B.S.
at
Teachers
Col-
lege at Cortland and master's and doctoral degrees m
physical
educauon at
Indiana
Uni\'crs1ty.
He
was among
the first la)' faculty to Join :--tarist
College.
He
ser\'ed as
dm:ctor of
the physical
educauon program for 35 years
and during
that time
de\'eloped every course offered
m
that
department.
Gold man was
named the
College ·s second at
h leucs
director in
196 3.
He
oversaw a number of s1g111[icant
impron:mcnts and began
longstanding
trad1t10ns
dur-
mgh1s 13-yeartenure. Notably, the McCann
Recreauon
Centcropcned
111
1977
todramaticall)'improwathletic
offerings
at
1-lanst, \\
1th
first-ratefacihties for basketball
and s,,·1~nmmgand
di\'lng.
Goldman
inaugurated the
Preside
·s Cup, a rowmg race that
has been
held on
the Hu
on
R1,·cr
on
the
first Saturday
111
April for
the
past
rs
years.
Th1
"[oundmg father" of 1-larist soccer. Doc
C,oldma served as
the
men·s
head
coach
from 1963
to 1995 ndcomp1ledano\'crallrecordof222-263-39.
He led t
e
Red
Foxes to
a
pair
of NCA,\ D1\'lsion
11
Tourna1
ent appearances, as
well
as Eastern College
Athletic onfcrencc and first-e,·erTri-Statc
Conference
c.·h.amp1.·o~sh1ps
..
In
addition
to
o,·ersee1ng
the
soccer
progran
he
was
responsible
for and msut
utcd
pro-
grams
II
cross country, track, golf, football,
lacrosse,
sailing. asketball, and
tennis
as
well
as Manst's
mtramu I program.
ln re
ogniuon of his
manycontributions
to Man st,
he was
I
es1gnated
b)'
\'Ole
of the
\larist
Board of
Trustees
a professor emeritus of phrsical education
and a M inst College
Heritage
Professor.
■
In Memoriam
Alumni
(listed by
graduation
year)
James K. Gormley
'53
Bro. Declan
Murray,
FMS
'55
Bro.
James
E. Stevens,
FMS
'63
Daniel
J. Fogarty
'64
Matthew
McCamish
'64
Ronald
Mulholland
'64
James
F. Redeker
'65
Patrick
R.
Hoffman
'67
Edward
J. Lowe,
Jr.
'67
Ralph
E. Perretta '67
Donald
C.
Bard
'68
Robert
V.
Condon,
Jr. '68
Dominick
Favata '68
Harry
Joseph
Carroll
'69
Albert
Alexander
Anthony
DeBrita
'70
Thomas
D.
Kelly
'70
Richard
E. Ferry
'71
Bartholomew
P. Medvecky
'71
Norman
Rifkin
'71
Stanley
G. Sheeder
'71
Josephine
Mautone
Engel
'72
John F. Foley
'72
Eleanor
J.
Hamilton
'72
Joseph McKee
'72
Christopher
A.
Riley
'72
Robert
E. Salomone
'73
William
J. Egan
'74
James R. Gardiner
'75
William
A. Goldsmith
'75
Elizabeth
A. Kelly
'75
Judith M. Scofield
'75
Warren
V. Greene
'77
Gerard
Nocton
'77
Thomas
R. Malone
'79/'90
Irene
Dowling
'81
Michael
H. Doherty
'82
Roslyn
J. Craw '83
Gregory
A. Holstein
'83
John
T.
Sajnacki
'83
Douglas
Shiflet
'84
Ronald
E. Thomas
'84
Charles
P. Zieg '86
Linda
S.
Ferdinand
'87
Gale
C.
Colden
'89
Catherine
Johnnes
'89
Audrey
Bloom
'93
Amy
Bell
letterman
'93
Robert
C.
Gette '94
Sherrie
T.
Apple '94
Bonnell
Beatty '96
James
Crichton,
Jr.
'96
Dr.
Joseph
A. Phillips
'96
Richard
B.
Updike
'97
Scott
J.
Henkel
'00
Anthony
R.
Johnson
'01
Arthur
Getter '03
JoAnn
Marie
Delessio
'04
Brendan
Patrick
Ross
'07
Jeffrey
Francis
'10
Students
Katherine
E.
Bluhm
Alyssa
Martino
SUMMER2011
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Philanthropy
Winning
Nancy's
Heart
Aaron
Marcus
called on the Maris1t
Athletics
and College
Advancement
offices
to help
him surprise
his wife, Nancy
McAllister
'91,
with
a
very special
anniversary
present.
The 2010-11 Mari st volleyball team, coached by Tom
Hanna
'91 (back
row), gathered after defeat-
ing Manhattan in
New
York City to join an anniversary celebration for Aaron and Nancy McAllister
Marcus
'91 (front
row, center). To commemorate Nancy's years on the team, Aaron established the
Nancy McAllister Marcus
'91
Volleyball Scholarship, the fir:st athletic scholarship to be named for
an alumna.
A
fter 11
years
of
marriage,
the romantic
~park
is
still
there for
Aaron and Nancy
Marcus.
OnOct.16,2010,Aaronsurprised his
wife with a
unique
and touching anniversary
gift. But first,
there's
a
back
story.
Nancy McAllister
met
Aaron Marcus on
her
first
day
of work asa
legal
assistant at Goldman
Sachs.
It
was
May 1994,
and she sat two desks
away
from him
in their New
York
City office.
Nancy had graduated
from Marist
in 1991,
where she majored in Spanish and played
three
years on
the
women's volleyball varsity
as an outside
hitter.
(She took a
leave from the
team
in
her
junior year to study in
Madrid.)
One of Nancy's
classmates,
Tom
Hanna
'91,
was her
team's assistant coach and
the
organizer of
the
men's volleyball
club.
A
close-
knit
group of women's and men's volleyball
players,
which
included
Nancy and Tom,
developed;
and over
the
years, as spouses and
children
became pan
of everyone's
lives, the
Marist friendships
endured.
BY
SHAILEEN
KOPEC
Shaileen Kopec is Marist's
senior
development
officer
for planned
giving
and endowment
support.
44
MARIST
MAGAZINE
Now the parents of Gabriela and Jackson,
Nancy and Aaron have been
living in
California
for
the
past
three
years and will soon mo"e
their family to Austin, Texas.
Their
friendship
with Toim and his wife, Kristin (they are the
parents
of Caroline and Jillian), extends co a
perpetu:al
interest in how
the
Marist's women's
volleyball
program is
doing. Today no one
is
more
qualified
to
report
on that
than
Tom,
who was
named
Marist's
head
volleyball
coach
in
June
:2006.
Last.July.as
the Marc
uses' next anniversary
was app,roaching, Aaron
wanted
to
give his
wife something special.
In
thinking
about
the ongoing support
he
provides
to
his alma
mater,
B,rown,
in
the
form
of a full four-year
scholarship for a student with
financial
need,
Aaron decided to establish a scholarship in
Nancy's
honor
at
her
alma
mater
and in
the
sport
that
she
loves,
volleyball. Behind-the-
scenes work began in the Marist Athletics and
College
Advancement
offices,
with
instructions
from
Aaron to keep it all a secret.
In mid-October,
the Marcuses flew
to
New
York City fora weekend anniversarytrip.
Their
first stop was
to
catch Coach
Hanna's Red Foxes
triumphing over Manhattan's Jaspers on
the
rival's Riverside
campus. But
the
Marcuses'
farewell to Coach Hanna was short-lived.
Unknown to Nancy, Aaron would soon escort
her
to a
post-game dinner
with
the
team.
The surprise of seeing 13
Red
Fox
dinner
companions (plus coaches) was decidedly
topped by Aaron's announcement to
his wife
of
his
anniversary gift-the establishment of
the Nancy McAllister
Marcus
'91 Volleyball
Scholarship. As a
memento
of
the
occasion, a
framed
volleyball
jersey
with Nancy's
number
(17) was
presented to her. The
inscription
honoring her prominently notes:
"The
First
Athletic Scholarship Named
for
an Alumna."
"I
had no idea
what Aaron
planned
for our
anniversary and could
not have been more
surprised," Nancy says. "Aaron
never
ceases
to
amaze
me with his
generosity, especially
when it comes to
things
we are passionate
about.
I had just
said to
him
earlier that
day
how
lucky
I
felt
to have
been pan of
the
Marist
volleyball
team.
"It was where
I made
some of my
closest
friendships
and
1
couldn't
imagine having
enjoyed the college experience without
the
support system of Tom,
then
a good
friend
and
the
assistant coach, and
the team. I
am
honored
to
have
my
name
on a scholarship
at
Marist that
will
help the
volleyball
team
continue to be successful
in the
years
to
come.
Go
Red
Foxes
1"
When
the
$100,000 gift was announced
by the
College, Aaron said, ·we are
delighted
to in\'eSt
in
Coach
Hanna
and
the
women's
volleyball program. Over
the
past five years,
Coach
Hanna
has built a first-class program.
Our gift is
designed
to
help
him continue to
build
a
tradition
of excellence bothonthecourt
and in the
classroom.
We
truly hope
that
our
gift will encourage others
to
make significant
contributions to the women's volleyball team
specifically,
and
to
Marist athletics generally."
The Marc
uses'
contribution will
initiate
an
endowment to sustain the scholarship
in
the
years ahead and also
underwrite
a four-year
scholarship for a 2012 incoming
freshman
volleyball
player.
"We are humbled and
honored by this
generous gift and commitment to our pro-
gram," says Coach
Hanna.
"We appreciate
Aaron and Nancy's
unparalleled
commitment
to
volleyball at Marist College and their
belief
in
the
direction of
the program."
As of last October, tennis
isn't the
only
intercollegiate sport at
Marist
where love
is
part of the
game.
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The Hancock Center 2011
Sharing the, Vision
V
ISION.
Marist's
founders had it, conceiving of a college that 65
years later has educated more than 32,000 men and women
and prepared them for a lifetime of accomplishments. You,
too, can create a plan that will shape the lives of tomorrow's students.
-
By remembering Marist in your estate through a bequest or by
Construction
on
campus circa 1958
developing a trust during your lifetime, you can found a scholarship,
establish
an endowed professorship
or faculty chair, maintain Marist's beautifu I campus, or support academic facilities. Through your gift,
you can honor a loved one, a family member, or your own achievements. Your financial advisor can
explain the advantages of donating asset:s
such as cash, stocks, or real estate to Marist College.
Most important, your generosity willl have a lasting impact on many lives. What you plan today
will help provide the best education possible for
future
generations of Marist students. And providing
for tomorrow is what vision is all about.
For information about planned giving opportunities at Marist,
please contact Shaileen Kopec, Senior Development Officer for Planned Giving
and Endowment Support, (8~J5) 575-3468 or Shai/een.Kopec@Marist.edu.
















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