1ST
CON
TENT
S
I
Spring 2016
FEATURES
12
3
7
Years of Visionar
y
Leadership
:
Honoring the
Legacy
of President
Dennis
J.
Murra
y
As
he prepares to
step
down, President Dennis
f.
Murray
talks
with
longtime
colleague
Dr. Lee
M. Miringojf,
director of
the
Marist College Institute for Public
Opinion,
about
the
challenges
and rewards of serving
the
Marist
College
community
for nearly
40
years.
20
B
ry
ant Gumbel
Honored
for E
x
cellence
Media
luminaries
and
network
chiefs
joined Marist
alumni and
friends
at a New
York
City gala
to benefit
the
College's Center/or
Sports Communication.
22
A
New Era for
the
School
of
Science
The new
science
and allied hea
l
th building serves
students
in biology, biomedical
science,
medical
technology, and athletic training
as well as
those
in two new
graduate
degree programs-a
master
of
science
in physician assistant
studies
and a
doctorate in physical therapy.
24
Ac
a
demi
c
P
r
oject
s
That Benefit
Nonprofit
s
Marist's Center for Civic Engagement and Leadership
creates
opportunities for students and faculty to make
a
difference in the
community
through programs
l
inked
directly to
academic coursework
and
skill
development.
26
Hogwarts on the Hudson
Marist
Dining Services transforms the Co
ll
ege's
Dining Hall into the Great
H
a
ll
at
H
ogwarts with
Harry Potter-themed food, decor, and
costumes.
Marist is
dedicated to he
l
ping
students
deve
l
op
t
h
e
inte
ll
ect, c
h
aracte
r
,
a
n
d ski
ll
s
required
fo
r
en
li
ghte
n
ed, et
hi
ca
l
, and
productive lives in t
h
e
global community of
the
21st century.
Mari
s
t
magazine
is
published by
the Office of Co
ll
ege Adva
n
ce
m
e
n
t
at Marist College for alumni and friends of Marist Co
ll
ege.
Vice President for College Advancement:
Christopher D
e
/Giorno
'88
Chief
Pub
l
ic
Affairs Officer:
Gr
e
g Cannon
Editor:
Leslie Bates
Executive
Director
of A
l
umni Re
l
ations:
Am
y
Coppola Woods
'
97
A
l
umni
News Coordinato
r:
Donna
Watts
'
JS
Art
Director
:
Richard
Deon
Cover
P
h
oto
:
Matthew Gillis
Mar
i
st Co
ll
ege
3399 North
Rd
.
,
Po
u
g
h
keepsie,
NY
12601
-
138
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www.marist.ed
u
,
edito
r
@ma
ri
st.edu
Marist's Fourth President
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Bryant Gumbel
H
onored
Page20
NFL
Footprints
Pag
e28
27
Mari
s
t
Poll Return
s
to New H
a
mp
s
hi
re
The Marist
College
Poll
embarked on its
quadrennial journey
with Marist students to
New Hampshire in February to
give
them
a close
look
at
the political process
surrounding
the
first-
in-the-nation primary
they
had been polling.
28
Red
Fo
x
Roundup
Marist adds to its
NFL
footprint,
senior men
'
s
lacrosse
player Joseph Radin is the first player in program
history to be
chosen
in the Major League Lacrosse
draft, women's
swimming
and diving
captures
its
seventh straight MAAC Championship, and women's
cross country wins the ECAC Championship.
ALUMNI PROFILES
30
A
merican Stor
y
teller
Jim Defelice
'77
reflects on his
string
of
best sellers and the writing
process.
32
Paper
Fig: Small Can B
e
Bi
g
Marist Trustee Laurie Dejong
'87
runs a
global events
management
company and
a
foundation dedicated to the health
and
empowerment
of communities
in Africa.
34
Doing
More
Good
Jason Schuler
'04's company
handcrafts
soda
syrups
and partners
with
generosity
.
o,i to help
make clean water more accessib
l
e worldwide.
DEPARTMENTS
2
M
ar
i
s
t Dri
v
e
What's
happening on
campus
9
Advanc
e
ment
News
Alumni News & Not
es
Fond
Remembrances
An
t
hony
G.
Direnzo
'73
reca
ll
s
his
arrival
on campus as
a
freshman and his return
for a class reunion four decades
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NEWS
&
David Yellen
Named Marist's
Fourth President
D
AVlD YELLEN,
dean
and
professor
of
law
at
the Loyola University Chicago
School of
Law, has been named the
fourth
president
of Marist College
following
a
unanimous vote
Feb.
6,
2016,
of
the
College's
Board ofTrustees.
He
will succeed
President
Dennis
J.
Murray, who announced
last
year
his plan
to step
down
from
the position
on
June
30
after
37
years
leading
Marist.
"David Yellen
is
one of
the nation's
top
legal
educators, an innovative
leader
highly
respected among
his peers,
and a
man
of great
integrity
and commitment
to
public
service," said
Ellen Hancock,
chair
of the Board of Trustees. "His work as a
law
school
dean
,
a faculty
member,
and an
attorney gives
him
a
unique
appreciation of
the
distinctive blend
of
the liberal
arts and
preprofessional
programs that defines
the
Marist experience and
positions him
well
to
lead
the College
to
ever-greater
heights."
Yellen writes and speaks frequently on
legal
education, and
National
Jurist
recently
named
him
to
the
number
7
position
on
its
list
of the
"25
Most
Influential People in
Legal Education," calling
him
"an innovator
for his
leadership in
the
national
dialogue
addressing today
'
s challenges facing
legal
education." Under
his tenure,
National
Juri
s
t also
named Loyola
University Chicago
School of Law one of the
nation's
10
best
law
schools for experiential
learning,
and
Yellen
and
his
school
both
earned reputations as
innovators in
the
delivery
oflegal education.
Yellen implemented
new degree programs,
including
on
line, helping
Loyola Chicago
earn
the distinction
of enrolling
more
on
line
students than any other
law
school
in
the country.
He
also created
the Dean's
Diversity Council, which
helped increase
by
more
than so
percent the number
of
students of color enrolled at
the
school.
Outside of academe, Yellen was
appointed special master
by
Cook County
David Yellen and his wife
,
Leslie Richards
-
Yellen
,
joined President Dennis
J.
Murray and
his wife
,
Marilyn, on the Champagnat Green
duiing a recent visit to the campus
.
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
N O T E S
FROM
T H E CAMPUS
of
Representatives
.
Criminal Division
Presiding
Judge Paul P. Biebel Jr.,
working to identify
inmates
who
may
be entitled to
new
trials,
having
suffered
tor-
ture by
a former C
h
icago
police
commander.
He
also serves on
the Illinois
Sentencing
Policy
Advisory
Council and
is
a
member
of
the board
of
directors
of Cook County
Justice
for
Children.
He has
written
extensively on
sentencing
issues and served as an
advisor on white-collar
David Yellen
,
dean and
professor of law at the Loyola
University Chicago School
Yellen will assume
office on
July
1.
He
and
his
wife,
Leslie Richards-
Yellen, who
is chief
diver-
sity
and
inclusion
officer
and
partner
at the
law firm
of Hinshaw
&
Culbertson
LLP,
will
relocate from
Chicago
to Poughkeepsie
sometime in
the
spring.
Yellen
is
originally from
New
jersey,
and
Leslie
grew
up
in
Iowa. The
couple
,
who
met
as
law
students at
Cornell,
have
three adult
of Law
,
has been named the
fourth president of Marist.
crime
to President Bill
Clinton's
transition
team. As
an attorney,
he has
also argued a
federal criminal case
before the
US Supreme
Court.
Yellen earned
his JD,
cum
laude,
from
Cornell
Law School,
and
his
BA,
magna
cum
laude, from Princeton
University
.
Prior to his decade leading the
Loyola
University Chicago
School of Law, Yellen
served as a
member
of
the
faculty at
Hofstra Law
School, where
he held the
Max
Schmertz
Distinguished Professorship
and
served as
dean from
2001
to
2004
.
He
served
as
the Reuschlein Distinguished
Visiting
Professor
at
Vi
ll
anova University
School
of
Law
and
has
also
taught
at
Cornell Law
School and New York
Law School. Before
launching his
academic career, Yellen
clerked
for
a
federal
judge,
practiced law in
Washington, DC, and served as counsel
to
the Judiciary
Committee
of the US House
daughters, Jordan,
Meredith, and Bailey.
"I am
honored by
this opportunity to
lead
an
incredibly dynamic institution
with a growing
national
and
international
reputation for educational excellence," said
Ye
ll
en. "Under
President
Murray's
leader-
ship, Marist
has
achieved many great things.
I look
forward
to
working with the College
'
s
talented
students, faculty
,
and staff as well
as its dedicated alumni, parents, and friends
to build upon those
accomplishments.
It
was
clear
to
me from
the outset of this
pro
-
cess
that
Marist
is
a special
place,
where
the
traditions of
its
founders find contin-
ued
expression through
the
great work of
everyone associated with
the
College, both
in and out of
the
classroom.
Leslie
and
I
are
excited
to
join this wonderful community."
Upon Yellen
'
s taking
office
,
Murray will
assume the roles of
president
emeritus and
professor
of
public policy.
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Top: A crowd including many alumni veterans
Partnering
with IBM and
Linux Foundation
packed the lobby of
Donnelly
Hall for a Veterans Day
ceremony. Right: Speakers at the Veterans Memorial
dedication were (far left) Alumni Association President
Paul X
.
Rinn
'
68
,
President Dennis J
.
Murray
,
and John
Lynch
'
68 (far right
),
and the guest speaker at the
luncheon was William Zabick
i
'
66
(
second from r
i
ght)
.
R
oss
A. MAU
RI
'80, vice chair of
the
Marist Board
of
Trustees
and gen-
era
l
manager
,
z
Systems
,
IBM
Corp.,
announced the first
Linux-only mainframe,
LinuxONE,
at
LinuxCon
in
Seattle,
WA,
this past August. IBM has
chosen Marist,
along with Syracuse University's School of
Information
Studies,
to host clouds that
will
provide developers
==-=
.=
access to a virtua
l
:
:_:
:=,_=:
Veterans Honored on Campus
IBM LinuxONE
at
.:..-=-=.=-:-:.
no
cost.
M
EMBERS OF THE ALUMNI EXECUTIVE
BOARD,
which
represents the
Marist
College Alumni Association, were
pleased to
see their
hard
work come to fruition on Nov.
11,
2015, when a
new
Veterans Memorial was
dedicated
on campus
.
The bronze plaque
atop a gray granite
monument,
which
rec-
ognizes all
members
of
the Marist College
community who
have
served
in the Armed
Forces,
is located in front
of
the Class
of
1968
flagpole
near Donnelly Hall.
The
d
e
dication began
with a flag
raising
by
ROTC
cadets while student a cappella
gro
ups the
Sirens and Time Check sang
The Star Spangled
Bann
er.
Vietnam veteran
John
Lynch
'68
read
the poem
"Bury Me with
Soldiers," wr
itt
en
by Fr.
Charles
R.
Fink,
a
Roman Catholic
priest
and Vietnam veteran.
"S
h
owing our gra
titud
e
for our
veter-
ans' sacrifices
and their
contr
ibutions
to
our way of
lif
e
is not only the right
thin
g
to
do
,
it's the
smart
thing to do," President
Dennis).
Murray
told the
crowd
.
"George
Washington once said,
'
The willingness with
which our young
people
are
likely to
serve
in any war,
no matter how
justified, sha
ll
be
directly proportional to how they perceive
the veterans of earlier wars were
treated
and
appreciated
by their nation.'
"
US Navy veteran and
Alumni
Association
President Paul X.
Rinn
'68,
who
played
an
integral role in
estab
lishin
g
the memorial,
also spoke. "Marist
College
faculty
members
,
students, administrators,
and alumni
h
ave
served
the nation in
every
war since World
War II.
Marist
is by no
means a
military
college
that teaches strat
-
egy and tactics.
However,
it
is
an
institution
that teaches character, ethics,
integrity
,
and
leadership
as
well
as service
to
our
com-
munity
and cou
ntry.
TI1is monument
is
a
tribute to those who
h
ave
served
a
nd
a
reminder to those present that
the
price
of
free
dom
and
liberty is not
free."
Following the dedication
ceremony,
guests
moved into the Student Center
where military memorabilia from many
eras
was displayed
.
The
annua
l
Veterans
Day luncheon
was
hosted by
Marist
Student
Veterans Organization President Britany
Diesing
'16.
The
guest speaker at
the luncheon was
Bi
ll
Zabicki '66, whose 25 years
in the US
Army included tours
of
duty in Vietnam,
Thailand,
Saudi Arabia, and
Honduras
as
well as
multiple
assignments
throughout
the
United
States. He has
served in combat as
well as
in
combat service support
leadership
positions.
"Vetera
n
s,
today is our day,"
Zab
icki
said.
"The
sacrifices
m
a
de by us
a
nd
our
families to
defend
our
great
n
at
ion
and
i
ts
great
people
d
eserve
to
b
e
recognized.
The
assem
blage
here today
i
s
here for
you
and
a
ll
you
have done to keep America the land
of the free and the home
of
the brave.
"
i!l
Additionally,
Marist joins
th
e
Linux
Foundation on
the Open
Mainframe
Project,
which will
bring together
indus-
try
experts to
drive innovation
and
the
development
of
Linux
on
the mainframe
.
Marist,
the
University ofBedfordshire, and
the
Center for
Information
Assurance and
Cybersecurity at
University of Washington
are
th
e
first academic
institution
s
partici
-
pating
as
members in the Open Mainframe
Project.
"We are excited for
the
opportunity
to join
such
influential
and
leading
-e
dge
technology projects,
"
said
Bill Thirsk,
vice
president of Information Technology
/
CIO
at
Marist.
"
Collaborating
with
IBM
and the
Linux Foundation provides Marist
students
the ability to
l
earn
how to manage
and
cap
it
a
li
ze
the most powerful available server
technology
a
nd
to
b
e
a part of the
creation of
new open
source software
systems that
will
change
how the
world connects,
transacts,
and competes."
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Marist Again a "Top Producer"
of Fulbright Scholars
M
A
RIST
again
has b
ee
n named
one of the top schools for producing Fulbright scholars.
The
US
Department
of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
recently
identified
Marist as one of
the
US colleges and
universities that produced
the
most
2015-2016 Fulbright US students. Four Marist alumni-Kerianne Baylor
'
14, Kelsey
Boeshore
'
15
,
Cara Mooney 'is, and Genesis Abreu
'15-wo
n
Fulbright awards for
2015-2016,
putting Marist on par with only
24
other master's institutions
nationall
y.
Marist was also named a Top
Producer
for 2014-2015.
The Fulbright
competition
is administered at Marist through
Pat
Taylor, graduate school and fellowship
adv
isor in
the Center for Career Services.
The
Fu
l
bright Program, the
US government's
flagship international
educational
exchange
program
,
is
sponsored
by the
Bureau of
Educational
and Cultural Affairs of
the
US
Department
of State
.
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2016
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4
Mar
i
st
has received
a $680,730
National
Science Foundation
(
NSF) cybersecurity
grant
to
support
the
groundbreaking work
of
Dr
.
Casimer DeCusatis
, assistant
professor of
information
technology
and systems
.
DeCusatis
'
s project,
"
Application-Aware,
Software-Defined Networks for Secure Cloud
Services
(SecureCloud),
"
seeks
to design an
innovative
cyberinfrastructure for c
l
oud-
computing networks and develop new
s
oftware
to
enhance
data
secur
i
ty without
degrading network performance. SecureCloud
is a
response to the growth of new, high
l
y
sophisticated
cybersecur
i
ty threats that have
accompanied
the emergence of clo
u
d comput-
ing
.
The
SecureCloud
pro
j
ect
develops, tests,
and deploys a
fully automated
security
system
implemented t
h
roughout t
h
e
clo
u
d infra-
structure.
The system is being prototype
d i
n a
software-defined
networking
(SON)
test bed at
Marist
and
will first be deployed
in
regional
and
statewide
networks
across
New
York
.
Dr
.
Paula Checchi
,
assistant
professor of biolo-
gy,
has
received a
Nat
i
onal Institutes of Health
(NIH) Academic Research Enhancement
Award
.
The program
wi
l
l provide $261,319
to fund Checchi
'
s
project
, "
The Role of
Higher-Order
Chromatin Structure
in
Gamete
Formation
.
"
The project
'
s
long-term goal is to
identify the regu
l
atory
mechanisms that control
meiotic chromosome
dynamics and to prevent
errors
from being transmitted to
offspring. Such
errors can cause
fertility problems and birth
defects and even
lead to cancer
.
The
N
I
H funds
will
be used for
equipment,
conference travel
,
supplies, and
to pay undergraduate research
trainees
who will
conduct most
of
the
experi-
ments.
Dr
.
Dav
i
d Woolner
, Marist
associate
professor of
h
isto-
ry
and
Senior Fellow at
the Roosevelt
I
nst
it
ute, is
a co-editor,
along
with Dr.
Jo
h
n M. Thompson, of the
essay
collection
Progressivism
in America: Past, Present
,
and
Future
(Oxford
University Press
,
2016), a
comprehensive overview of progressive poli-
tics,
combining
historical
analysis,
a discussion
of policy
priorities today, and a survey
of
the
challenges
ahead.
Woolner, one of the foremost experts on
FDR
and
the modern American presidency,
also co-wrote, with
historian and author Alan
Brinkley, one of the book
'
s essays,
"
Franklin
Rooseve
l
t and the Prog
r
essive
Trad
i
t
i
on.
"
The book features
essays
by leading schol-
ars
,
analysts,
and commentators
i
ncluding E.
J.
Dionne, Jonathan Alter, Joseph Stiglitz, and
Rosa
Brooks.
►
AWARDS
THE 2015 MARI ST COLLEGE PRESIDENT'S
AWARD
recognized four individuals
for outstanding community service in
the Hudson River Valley
.
P
i
ctured (left
to right) are Mike and Sandy Arteaga;
Ralphynne Vance and Frank Flowers
,
who jointly accepted the honor for the
late John M
.
Flowers; and Rob Dyson,
immediate past chair of Marist
'
s Board of
Trustees and board member since
1975.
MARI ST TRUSTEES ELIZABETH
M. WOLF
(center) and
MICHAEL C.
DUFFY
(right) congratulated Dr. Eitel
J. M. Lauria
,
professor and graduate
director
,
information technology
and systems
,
on receiving the
2015
Board of Trustees' Faculty Award for
Distinguished Teaching.
Marist and Partners Win Award
for Learning Analytics Project
M
ARIST AND
ITS GLOBAL PARTNERS
in the Apereo Learning
Ana
l
yt
i
cs
Initiative,
which include the
University of
Amsterdam
and Unicon,
have been recognized
by higher-education research
and advisory firm
Eduventures
for
their pioneering
work
in the field of
open
learning
analytics.
The Apereo LAI received
a
2015
Eduventures Innovation Award in the
category of
"Creative Use of
Technology"
for
its
open source
l
earning analytics
platform, designed
to provide institutions with
a cost-effect
i
ve academic early a
l
ert and
int
ervent
i
on sys-
tem. The technology
allows
institutions
to
identify
students early
in the semester
who
are
potentially
at
risk
of
not
completing courses,
making it possible
for
instructors
or
advisors
to intervene to help the
student succeed.
"
Apereo LAI's
open-source
strategy is helping dramatically reduce the
cost of
deploy-
ing these
systems
while
faci
lit
ating g
lob
a
l
co
ll
aboration across
higher
education
in the
learning
analytics
space,"
said
Josh Baron,
Marist's ass
i
sta
nt
vice president
of
information
technology for digital education.
The work began in
2011
under the Open Academic Analytics Initiative
(OAA
I
), a
project
supported
through the EDUCAUSE Next Generation Learning Challenges program
and
primarily funded by the
Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Eitel Lauria, professor
and graduate
director in
Marist's
School
of Computer
Science and Mathematics
,
who
served
as
lead data
scient
i
st
for the project, designed the original
analytics framework
and
predictive models that now
comprise
the
early
detection
"engines"
of the
Apereo
LAI platform.
"It
i
s great
to see the research
work we
did under OAAI moving into
l
arger-sca
l
e
production," Lauria
said.
Following the
successful conclusion of
OAAI in
2013,
Marist partnered with the
ot
h
er
members
of
the Apereo LAI to bring together different
open source
projects then
under development to
form
the basis of
the
learning
analytics
platform. Since then,
the
platform has
continued
to
evolve and was
chosen this past June by Jisc,
a
United Kingdom
nonprofit
organization
that
prov
id
es
higher-education digital
services, for
deployment
on a
national
scale
.
Through this project, the platform
will
be re
-a
rchitected
to allow
Jisc
to run it
as a
cloud
-
based
serv
i
ce
that
will
be
available
to
all
UK-based higher-education
institutions
starting
in late
2016.
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Indian graduate students led the Mar
i
st College community in a week
-
long celebration of
Diwali
,
the Hindu Festival of Lights
,
which showc
as
ed Indian culture and concluded with a
reception in the Cabaret featur
i
ng sing
i
ng
,
dancing
,
food
,
and a fashion show.
Marist Celebrates Diwali
M
ARIST'S CENTER FOR
MULTI-
CULTURAL AFFAIRS,
Office
of
Academic Technology, and
School of
Communication and
the Arts hosted
a
week-long exhibition
revolving
around
Diwali, the
Hindu
Festival of
Lights,
this
past
November, showcasing various aspects
of
lndian
culture.
"To
me, Diwali is
a festival where you
forget your old enmities and start fresh, and
we wanted to share this with
the
students
in
a fun and exciting way," explained
Dixita
Sharegar
'16,
one of
the
graduate students
who
helped put together the
exhibition.
"The exhibit
let us show
and
teach people
that there
is more
to our culture
than
just
the spicy food and the Bollywood
dance."
In
addition
to
observing
this important
holiday,
which celebrates good over evil,
the
event
helped
the Center for Multicultural
Affairs carry out its
biggest
goal:
to
give
Marist's
Indian population
a way
to interact
with and
become immersed in the
College
community
.
ln
fall
2015,
190
Indian
students
were enrolled at Marist.
"Diwali
is their biggest holiday; it's like
their
Christmas, so
we
wanted
to do
some-
thing
big,"
said
Iris Ruiz-Grech, director
of
the Center for Multicultural Affairs. "The
population
of
Indian
graduate students on
campus
has
tripled
in the past
five years, so
this was also a way to
understand the
cul-
ture and create
more
awareness
that
there
is
a
large population
of
Indian students on
this campus."
To
bring the
celebration
to life, the
Center for Multicultural
Affairs teamed
up
with
the
schools of Communication
and the Arts, Computer Science and
Mathematics, and Liberal Arts as well as
the
Office of Academic
Technology to
create
a
multimedia
cultural experience.
Marist's
Indian
graduate students
played
an active
role
in planning the
exhibition, as well as
executing every facet of
it.
"We wanted this event
to be
a
platform
where the graduates get to interact with
the
undergrads,"
said
Saranya Radhakrishnan
'16.
"Sharing our culture and traditions was
a
means to
communicate and
be
a
part
of
the Marist community. We
hope that
this
exhibit
inspires
other students
to
share
their
own culture and
invite us to be
a
part
of
it."
The
celebration commenced with an
opening reception
in
the
lobby
of
the
Lowell
Thomas Commun
i
cations Center.
An
exhi-
bition brought together interested
students,
faculty, and staff
to
view cultural artifacts,
clothing,
art, and videos.
Not only were
these items important
to the
culture,
but
to
the
students as
we
ll
;
they selected what would
be displayed
and
even contributed
their
own
clothing
and
accessories
.
"Back
in India,
this festival
is
celebrated
with
lots
of
lights,
colors, and excitement,
and
I
wanted to bring t
h
at celebration
h
ere," said Surya
Va
l
luri
'16.
"We
wanted
to
celebrate
the
same way
here to
show
people
what
Indian
festivals are and
touch
all corners of
the
I
ndian
culture."
To
make the
exhib
i
t
i
on
more interactive,
the
students volunteered
to demonstrate
traditional
cultura
l
Indian
activities each
day. T
h
ey showed guests
how to
create
rango
l
i,
art
made from
colored sand, and
offered
henna
tattoos,
turbans, bindis,
and
tilaks.
A festive closing recept
i
on
fi
ll
ed
t
h
e
Cabaret with s
in
ging,
dancing,
and food
.
The Indian
students
not
only
performed
various
musical numbers but
also
modeled
the
i
r
favorite garments
in
a fashion show.
"The exhibit and
the fina
l
reception
have made me
feel
like
a
part
of
the
Mari st
community," said
S
h
aregar. "
I
got
the
oppor-
tunity to
work
with
great
people
and
learn
a
lot,
and everyone was
welcoming
and ready
to
help."
-Emily
Belfiore
16
Gerard E
.
Dahowski
'
6s
E F
After
37 years of
dedicated
service,
Gerard E.
Dahowski
'
65
has
stepped
down from
Marist
'
s
Board
of Trustees
.
He
chaired
the board's Finance
Committee
for
more
than
35
years
.
He has
s
pent
more than
30
years in
financial
services,
most
recently with
Wells Fargo
.
He began his career in banking and previously
served as comptro
ll
er of Dutchess Bank and
Trust and as a trust officer
with
Fishkill National
and Premier National Bank.
Each holiday season,
Marist
'
s student club
Campus Ministry
works with social service
agencies
throughout Dutchess County to
identify families
'
needs and
children's wishes
and
then lists them on ornaments that decorate
several Giving Trees around campus.
Students
,
faculty
,
and staff pick an
ornament-a
wish to
fulfill
-
and
deliver these
wrapped
gifts to Our
Lady
Seat
of Wisdom Chapel
for a special
Giving
Tree
Mass.
The gift
s,
ranging from
household
neces
sit
ies
to children
'
s
bike
s
and games
,
are then distributed through the partner
agencies
to the children and
families in
time
for
Christmas
.
This year
,
966 g
i
ft
s
were collected
for
30 families,
including
122 children
.
A record 200 Marist students and
staff
members participated in community
service
projects throughout Dutchess, U
l
ster, and
Putnam counties to observe
Marist
'
s ninth
annual Community Serv
i
ce Day
on Oct. 10
,
2015. The
i
nitiative was coordinated by the
Off
i
ce of Housing and Residential Life and
Campus Ministry
in
conjunction with
eight
local agencies. Above
,
Marist
students
helped
maintain local hiking trails.
~
SPRING
2016
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Marist Welcomes
New Dean of School
of Professional
Programs
M
ARIST's SCHOOL
focusing on
nontraditional
students and
programs has
a
new dean.
Dan
i
e
l
A. Szpiro
,
PhD
,
has been named dean
of
t
h
e School of
Professional Programs
/as
s
i
stant
vice
president
for academic affairs.
Szpiro
joined Marist after
12
years at Cornell
University
and
the Jack We
l
c
h
Management
Institute
at
Strayer
University, where
he
served
as associate
dean
of executive educat
i
on
in the
Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate
School of
Management and
dean
of executive education,
D
r
.
Dan
i
el
A
.
Szpiro is dean of
t
he School
of P
r
ofe
s
s
i
on
a
l P
r
ograms
.
respectively.
From
1999
to
2004,
Szpiro
was ai:i associate
professor
with
Queen
's
School
ofBusiness at
Queen
's
University
in K
i
ngston
,
Canada, and,
for most of that
period, the director
of
Queen
's
National
Executive MBA program. Prior
to joining Queen's,
he
was a faculty
member
with
the John
Molson
School
of Business at
Concordia University
.
Before pursuing
an academic career,
he
spent
many
years
in the
consumer electronics
industry
.
Szpiro received a
BSc from the
Un
i
versity of
Waterloo,
an
MBA from Queen
's
Un
i
versity,
an MS
in international
accounting and
finance
from
the London School
of
Econom
i
cs,
and a
PhD
in
business
administration
from the University
of Western
Ontario.
His
accomplishments
include leading
the
development
of cutting-edge student sup-
port processes for online education and the
implementation
of
new tools
and
platforms
to enhance student engagement.
He has led
sessions and courses for executives
in many
development
and graduate
degree programs in Nort
h
America and overseas
and
has
delivered
executive
development
courses for
leading organizatio
n
s
such as
Home Depot,
Wal mart, AstraZeneca,
Generali,
Erste
Bank, Goodyear,
FedEx, and Cevital.
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Ron Lipton
,
adjunct lecturer for the School
of Science
,
received the
2015
Jose Torres
Rena
i
ssance Man Award from the Veteran
Ring
10
Boxer
'
s Associat
i
on
.
Boxing Instructor
Lipton Honored
R
ON LIPTON,
adjunct
lecturer
for
th
e
School of Science,
received the
2015
Jose Torres Renaissance
Man Award from
t
h
e
Veteran Ring
10
Boxer
's
Association
Sept.
13, 2015,
at
the
Marina
Del Rey in
the
Bronx, NY.
Former
heavyweight
boxing champions
and
boxing
champions from all weight
divi
-
sions
were in
attendance along with
HBO
and
ESPN
commentators,
boxing historians
,
and
movie
stars.
Dr. Cornel West, professor of philosophy and Christian practice at Union Theological Seminary and professor
eme
ri
tus at P
ri
nceton Un
i
versity
,
addressed a crowd of nearly
1,400
students, faculty
,
staff
,
and members of
the su
r
rounding community in the Mccann Center Arena on Sept.
30, 2015.
West
(
center) met with students
pr
i
o
r
to his lectu
r
e
, "
Race, Class
,
and Justice in America: Where Are We Now?
"
His visit to Marist was featured
i
n a
s
egment on
60
Minutes on March
20
,
2016
,
that was produced by CBS News Specials Producer Alv
i
n
Patrick
'
86
.
Lipton, the
boxing
instructor
for the
Physical
Education
Department
,
is
a three-time New
Jersey
Golden Gloves
finalist who
finished
his
boxing career
with a
record
of
39
wins
with 38 knockouts and
only
three
l
osses.
He
was
the paid
sparring
partner
for
many
world champions
and Top 10-rated fighters
including
Muhammad Ali
and Joe Frazier as they
pre
-
pared
for
major title
fights.
As a
professional boxing
referee
he has refere
ed
more than
100
matches
involving
champions and
Top
10
contenders
includ
-
ing Evander Ho
l
yfield,
Oscar De La Hoy
a,
Pernell
Whitaker, Tommy
"T
he
Duke
"
Morrison, and
Roy
Jones
Jr.
in
venues all over
the
world.
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#NYFW
#Marist
#NYFW
Mari st fash
i
on students got firsthand experience at New York Fashion Week by working at
"
Mari
s
t
&
Son Jung Wan
," a r
ep
ri
se sho
wi
ng of the
spring
2016
collection of designer Son Jung Wan (center
,
with President Dennis J
.
Murray)
.
Fashion Students Return to NYFW for Son Jung Wan Show
T
HE COLLEGE
ret
u
rned to New York
Fas
h
io
n
Week for
th
e t
hi
rd t
im
e
in
two
yea
r
s to
h
os
t
"Ma
ri
s
t
&
S
o
n Jun
g
W
a
n
," a
re
pr
ise show
in
g o
f
Korea
n d
es
i
g
n
er So
n Jun
g
Wan's s
p
r
in
g
2016
co
ll
ect
i
o
n
at Sky
li
g
ht
at
Moyni
h
an Station.
Doze
n
s of Mar
i
s
t
fas
hi
on s
tu
de
n
ts got
first
h
a
n
d NYFW ex
p
er
i
e
n
ce s
upp
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p
rod
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backs
t
age a
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of t
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p
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c re
l
a
ti
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s
t
ea
m
, a
nd
cove
r
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n
g t
h
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vent as credentia
l
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d m
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di
a.
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rl
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n th
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nin
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th
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we
r
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tr
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t
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to a s
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but
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fro
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d b
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st a
lumni
,
at a recept
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n
at t
h
e
n
ea
rb
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mm
erste
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ll
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.
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pt
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a
l
so fea
tu
red t
h
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l
a
t
es
t
s
ur
vey
r
es
ul
ts o
n
fas
hi
o
n t
re
nd
s a
nd
a
ttitud
es a
nd
a
li
ve,
int
e
r
ac
ti
ve "Fas
hi
o
n
Wa
r
s
"
s
u
rvey fro
m th
e Mar
i
st
P
o
ll.
F
o
ll
ow
in
g
th
e re
p
r
i
se s
h
ow,
P
res
id
e
n
t
D
e
nni
s
J.
M
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r
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ay a
nd
Fas
hi
o
n P
rogra
m
Dir
ec
t
o
r R
ad
l
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r
a
m
e
r pr
esented So
n Jun
g
W
a
n w
i
th th
e Co
ll
ege
'
s
fi
rst S
il
ver Need
l
e
Inn
ova
ti
o
n
Awa
rd in
recog
niti
o
n
of
h
er
crea
ti
v
it
y a
nd
s
u
ccess
in
creat
in
g a g
l
o
b
a
l
fas
hi
o
n b
ra
nd
.
A
t o
th
er recent NYFW
r
e
pri
se s
h
ows, Mar
i
s
t pr
ese
n
ted S
il
ver
Need
l
e
I
co
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wa
rd
s se
p
arate
l
y
t
o
d
es
i
g
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e
r
s
Betsey
J
o
h
nso
n
a
nd
Na
n
e
tt
e
L
epo
r
e.
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e
H
am
m
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r
s
t
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in B
a
ll
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ecep
-
tion, g
u
ests were treated to the first public
s
h
owing of t
h
e deb
u
t co
ll
ect
i
on from VLC,
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nc. C
hl
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Li
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n
d L
u
cas So
n
g
'14,
na
ti
ves
of C
h
o
n
g
qi
ng
,
C
h
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n
a
,
bro
u
g
h
t both Chinese
a
nd
weste
rn influ
e
n
ces to t
h
eir designs.
Th
e rece
pti
on a
l
so saw a prese
n
tat
i
on
fro
m
t
h
e Mar
i
s
t
Po
ll
, w
hi
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-
i
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p
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b
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fas
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mp
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n
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p
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so
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Th
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n
ce got
i
nvo
l
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wit
h
t
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p
o
ll
ing through
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ve "Fas
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n
w
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c
h
com
p
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n
g
d
es
i
g
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s a
n
d sty
l
es were presented on giant
v
id
eo sc
r
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n
s so g
u
es
t
s co
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vote for t
h
eir
favor
it
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s
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r
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i
on students
Bryn Gorberg
'17,
Sarah Katz
'
18,
Kristi Licursi
'
17
,
Nicole Burgagni
'
17,
Cara Benevenia
'
17
,
Annika Leitch Lodge
'
18
,
Kristen Wong
'
17
,
and
Emma Gage
'
17
.
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:
MARIST
DR
:
One of the "Colleges
That Create Futures"
M
ARIST
IS
ONE OF THE NATION'S BEST
INSTITUTIONS
at offer-
ing
its undergrads
outstanding academics and experiential
learning
opportunities, according
to the Princeton Review.
The
education services company
profiles
Marist in
its book
Colleges
That Create Futures:
so Schools That
Launch
Careers by Going
Beyond
the Classroom
and on
its
site at
princetonreview.com
/
college-rankings/colleges-that-create-futures.
Out of several
h
u
ndred
colleges
that the Princeton Review
considered for
the book, the
50
schools
that made the
cut comprise only about
2
percent
of
the nation's
approximately
2,600
four-year colleges
.
Other
institutions on the
list include Princeton,
MIT, and
Stanford.
The
selection
process
factored
in data
from
the
company's surveys
of
administrators
at
hundreds of universities between
2013
and
2015
and of
18,000
students attending
the
schools.
The Princeton Review
also conducted
200
interviews
with faculty
,
administrators,
and alumni
of
schools in making
its
choices of
the
final so colleges featured.
Specifically,
the Princeton Review
editors weighed
information
about
the
colleges
'
career center services;
internship,
externship, cooperative
learning,
and collaborative
research opportunities
;
and student engagement
in
community service and study abroad
programs.
"Simply
put, Marist
and
the
other colleges we chose for
this book
are stellar at
putting
the
'
hire' in
'higher' education," said
Robert Franek,
senior
vice president-pub
l
isher
at
the
Princeton Review
.
"We commend these schools for
the
extraordinary opportunities
they are giving
their
students for
practical, hands-on learning
that complements their academic experiences."
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RANKINGS AND DISTINCTIONS
Mari st is again one of the nation's best institutions for
undergraduate education
,
according to the Princeton Review.
The College is featured in The Best 380 Colleges
2016,
the 13th
consecutive year it has been recognized in the respected annual
college guide
.
•
Money magaz
i
ne has named Marist one of the
"
so Colleges That Add the Most
Value.
"
Mari st ranks 34th on that list and 167th in the magazine's ranking of the 736
"
Best
Colleges
"
in the nation
.
•
For the 10th consecutive year, Kiplinger
'
s Personal Finance has included Marist on its list
of the country
'
s
"
Best Private College Values,
"
where the College is ranked 57th
.
•
Forbes magazine ranks Mari st 323rd out of 650 on its list of
"
America
'
s Top Colleges
.
"
•
Marist
'
s master of public administration (MPA) program has been
accredited by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and
Administration
(NASPAA),
the recognized global accreditor of
master's degree programs in public service education.
NASPAA
ACCREDITED
The
Comm!Hlon
Of'I ,,,....
Review
&
Acc:red1tauon
•
Marist is again among the nation
'
s leading colleges and universities for international
education
,
according to the
2015
Open Doors Report on International Educational
Exchange
from the Institute of International Education
.
For the
2013
-
14
academic year,
Marist ranked
nationally
among Master's Colleges and Universities:
t
21st
for
the
number of study abroad students
t
26th for
the
level of undergraduate participation in study
-
abroad programs
t
7th for the number of students studying abroad mid
-
length
t
10th for
the
number of students studying abroad long
-
term.
•
Study.com named Marist a
"
Best School for a Degree in Digital Media."
•
Mari
st
has one of the top undergraduate accounting programs in the nation
,
according
to
the
2015
"
Best Bachelor's in Accounting Programs"
rankings
from Accounting
.
com.
•
Marist also
appeared
on
USA Today
'
s
2015
list of
"
10
Best Small Schools with Big
Tailgating Traditions
.
"
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M
A
RIST
MAGAZINE
J. Donald Warren Jr
.
, PhD,
is
professor
of accounting and holds the Schlobach
Distinguished Chair
in
Accounting.
Warren Named
to Schlobach
Distinguished
Chair in
Accounting
J
.
DONALD WARREN JR
.
, PHO
,
has
joined
Marist's
School of
Management
as
professor of
accounting and
Schlabach
Distinguished
Chair
in
Accounting.
He
is
program
director of
the master
of
professional
accountancy
program
and
director
of
the Center
for
Enhanced Audit
Techniques.
Warren also assists the dean of
the
School of Management
in developing
a
speakers
'
series to address topics
in
account-
ing
,
auditing, and ethical
issues
facing the
accounting
profession.
Previously
Warren was a member of the
accounting faculty
in
the
Barney
School of
Business at the University of
Hartford
.
He
also taught
in
the
Rutgers
Business School
and served as
the director
of the master
of
accountancy
in financial
accounting
program.
Warren
retired
from
Pricewaterhouse
Coopers
LLP
after a career of
31
years.
His
responsibilities
with the
firm
included
direc-
tion of the
IT
audit practice and serving as a
national
consulting
partner
on accounting
and auditing
matters. He
also served as the
firm's liaison to the
Securities and Exchange
Commission
.
Additional
work experience
includes
the
US
Government Accountability Office
and
the Financial Accounting
Standards
Board.
His
research interests
include
con-
tinuous
audit methodologies and
processes
and
their
related
technologies.
TI1e
Schlabach Distinguished Chair was
established with the generous support of
the Jeannette
F.
Schlabach Charitable Trust
and
its trustee, Mark
V.
Dennis,
a
longtime
member
of
the
Marist College
board
and a
prominent
certified
public
accountant
in
the Hudson River
Valley.
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Marist Receives
Major Gift from
Bill O'Reilly '71
The $1 million gift establishes
an endowed scholarship honoring
distinguished history professor
Dr. Peter P
.
O
'
Keefe that will
support exceptional students
with financial need.
M
ARIST COLLEGE
has
announced
the
establishment of the
Peter P
.
O'Keefe,
PhD,
Endowed Scho
l
arship,
made possible
through
a generous
$1
million
gift
from
William).
O'Reilly
'71,
the
noted
Fox News
anchor and
best-selling
author.
The scholarship will
provide full finan-
cial support
to
one student annua
ll
y,
begin-
ning with an
in
coming
member
of
the
Class
of
2020.
O
'
Keefe Scholars w
ill
be
students
who
have demonstrated
special
promise
in academic and
leadership roles
and
who
wou
ld
not
otherwise
be financially
ab
l
e
to
attend Marist. Examples of
potential recipi-
ents
include class valed
i
ctor
i
ans, salutator
i
-
a
ns
,
National Merit
finalists,
student-body
presidents, school-newspaper editors, Eagle
Scouts,
Gold
Award
recipients,
athlet
i
c-
team captains, and other young
l
eade
r
s.
"D
r.
O
'
Keefe was an exceptiona
l
teacher
,
scholar, and
mentor
,"
said
O'Reilly
,
w
h
o
studied
under
O'Keefe
during the distin
-
guished
professor's
34-year career. "I am
pl
ease
d to be
ab
l
e to
es
tablish
a scholarship
in his honor
so
that
others can
benefit
as
I
did
from a great Marist education
.
"
In
addition to the
fund's financial
sup-
port, O'Reilly will personally meet
w
ith
the O'Keefe Scho
l
ars
to provide
advice and
guidance as
th
ey
navigate their
co
ll
ege years
and
prepare
for successfu
l
careers and
li
ves.
"We
are very gratefu
l
to Bill,
a
l
o
n
g-
time
supporter of
the
Co
ll
ege, for this
most generous gift," said Marist
President
Dennis)
.
Murray. "W
ith
a
ll
of
his profes-
siona
l
accomplishments,
it
's great
for Bill
to remember students w
h
o
h
ave Marist as
their
top
college cho
i
ce
but
are
unable to
attend without financial support."
"I am
truly touched by this
wonder-
ful tribute
from one of
the most talented,
entrepreneuria
l
, and engaged students
I had
the privilege
of
teaching
at
Marist,"
sa
id
Professor
Emeritus and
Heritage Professor
O'Keefe. "
It
is
a wonderful example of giv-
Pictured left to right are author and Fox News anchor Bill O
'
Reilly
'71
,
former Senior Development
Officer Shaileen Kopec, Professor Emeritus and Heritage Professor Dr
.
Peter P. O
'
Keefe
,
and Vice
President for College Advancement Christopher DelGiorno
'
88 on the set of
The O
'
Reilly Facto
r.
ing back that Bill is
setti
n
g with
this new
sc
h
o
l
arship, which w
ill
a
ll
ow
more
talented
students
to discover
and
nurtur
e
their inter-
ests and
passions
at
Marist,
as
he did
.
"
At Mar
i
st,
O'Reilly majored
in
history
,
wrote a co
lumn
for
the student newspaper,
the
Circle, and played on
the
College's
first
c
h
amp
i
o
n
sh
ip
footba
ll
team.
Of his time on
the Marist
footba
ll
team,
which
h
e
made
as
a
freshman, O
'
Reilly
h
as
written that
"t
h
e
ordeal
turned
out
to
be a
defining moment
of
my life because
i
t
taught me that
the
most
challenging and worthwhi
l
e
things
can on
l
y
be
accomp
li
shed w
ith
great sacrifice and
discipline.
"
O
'
R
ei
ll
y
developed
a
passion
for
hi
s-
tory
w
hi
ch
drove
his int
erest
in
journal
-
ism
.
Today
,
he is the
anchor of
The O'Reilly
Factor, the most
-wa
tched
cab
l
e
n
ews
pro-
gram for
the past
15
years.
H
e
is the
aut
h
or
of
the best-selling
"
Killing"
series of
histori-
cal
nonfiction books
with subjects
ranging
from Lincoln to Jesus to, most recently,
Ronald Reagan. O
'
Reilly has
accomplished
the rare feat
of
having two
of
his books in
the
No.
1
and
2
s
p
ots simu
lt
aneous
l
y o
n
the
New
York
Times
best
-s
eller list for hard-
cover
n
onfiction.
The
Times
has
called
him
"arguably
the most popular history
author
in America." Many
of
his books have been
made into
equa
ll
y successfu
l
TV movies.
After graduating
from Marist
,
O
'
Reilly
taught high school
hi
story
before
going
into
broadcasting. He went
o
n
to
earn a
mas-
ter's
in
broadcast journalism
from
Boston
University a
nd
an MPA from the Kennedy
Sc
h
oo
l
of Government
at
Harv
ard
.
H
is
career
h
as
included stints
at
CBS News,
ABC News, a
nd
I
nside
Edition, which
he
hosted, before he moved to his
current
home
at
Fox
News
.
Throughout his
career,
O'Reilly
has
maintained
strong
ties to
Marist.
In
2001,
the College
awarded
him
an
hono
rary
degree,
and
h
e
regularly returns
to
cam-
pus to
a
tt
end
football
ga
m
es and
give
lo
cker
room
pep talks to the players. Previously, he
establis
h
ed
th
e
Winifred
&
William O'Reilly
Scholarship
a
t
Marist, which
honors hi
s
parents
an
d
provides support to
stude
nts
with financial need
and a
demonstrated
commitment
to
community
service.
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A Gift Advances
Scholarship in the
School of Management
Ed Smith (left)
,
professor of art and art gallery director
,
and John Ansley, director of Archives and Special
Collections (right)
,
welcomed Anne Donaghy
,
daughte
r
of Lowell Thomas Jr. and granddaughter of Lowell
Thomas
,
to the Marist College Art Gallery for the
exhibit
"
Hidden Treasures
:
Photographers and the
Lowell Thomas Papers
"
in
2013.
T
H
E
PR
EN
TI
N
G
F
AMI
LY
R
es
e
a
r
c
h As
s
i
s
t
a
ntship
F
und
in
Bu
s
in
ess
h
as
b
ee
n
e
st
a
bli
s
hed
throu
g
h
a ge
n
e
r
o
u
s g
ift
o
f
$
1
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0
,
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from th
e
B
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rn
a
rdin
e
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.
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e
ntin
g
Li
v
in
g
Trust.
Th
e a
im of th
e
fund i
s
to
a
dv
a
n
ce
sch
o
l
a
rship in
th
e Sc
h
oo
l
of
M
a
n
age
m
e
nt
a
nd prom
o
t
e co
mp
e
titiv
e,
fac
ult
y-
m
e
nt
o
r
e
d or co
-
sponsored facult
y-
stud
e
nt
researc
h
.
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a
rd
s
will b
e
m
a
d
e
on th
e
m
e
rit of faculty
p
rojec
t
s a
nd th
e
n
a
tur
e
of th
e
r
esea
r
c
h to b
e c
onduct
e
d
b
y st
ud
e
nt
ass
ist
a
nt
s,
with fa
c
ult
y se
l
ec
ting as
s
istants
fro
m
a
m
o
n
g
full
-
tim
e
und
e
r
g
r
a
du
a
t
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bu
s
in
ess
m
a
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or
s
o
r
st
ud
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nt
s e
n
ro
ll
e
d in th
e M
B
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pro
gra
m
.
Th
e
fund
co
n
t
inu
es
th
e
P
re
ntin
g fa
mil
y's
l
o
n
g assoc
i
a
ti
o
n with
M
a
ri
s
t
a
nd th
e Co
ll
ege's
bu
s
in
ess
pro
g
r
a
m
s
in p
a
r
-
ti
c
ul
ar a
nd h
a
s b
ee
n
es
t
a
blished b
y
th
e fa
mily
as a
m
e
m
o
ri
a
l t
o Be
rn
a
rdin
e (
B
e
rni
)
Pr
e
ntin
g a
nd d
a
u
g
ht
e
r
Ma
r
y Ne
ll Pr
e
ntin
g
'95
MBA
.
Grant To Make Historic Lowell
Thomas Films
Accessible Worldwide
L
OWELL THOMAS JR.
and the Lowell
Thomas Residuary
Trust
have issued
a
g
e
nerous
gr
a
nt in the
a
mount of
$654
,
000
to
support
the preservat
i
on and
digiti
z
ation of a signifi
ca
nt
c
olle
c
tion of more than
3
,
000
cans of film
that
were
previously donat
e
d to
the College
b
y
Lowell Thomas Jr. and
his
family.
B
e
rni
,
th
e w
i
fe
of Prof
ess
or Em
e
ritu
s
of Busin
ess
a
n
d
H
e
ri
tage
Prof
esso
r T
e
d Pr
e
nting
, c
ontribut
e
d
mu
c
h t
o
th
e
d
eve
l
o
pm
e
nt of th
e ea
rl
y
Coll
ege c
om
-
munit
y, as
h
ave
m
a
n
y s
p
o
u
ses
of fa
c
ult
y
m
e
mb
e
r
s
ov
e
r
th
e yea
r
s.
M
a
r
y Ne
ll
co
mpl
e
t
e
d h
e
r MB
A
d
eg
r
ee
whil
e
pur
s
uin
g a ca
r
ee
r in b
a
nkin
g,
fin
a
n
ce, a
nd m
a
rk
e
tin
g
.
T
ed
pl
aye
d
key
rol
es
o
ve
r
37
y
e
a
rs
a
t M
a
ri
s
t, designin
g
th
e
und
e
r
gra
du
a
t
e
bu
s
in
ess
pro
g
ram
, es
t
a
bli
s
hin
g
and
a
dmini
s
t
e
rin
g
th
e
MBA pro
g
ram
,
and planning for
th
e Co
ll
ege's s
u
ccess
ful
e
ff
o
rt t
o ac
hi
e
v
e acc
r
e
dit
a
ti
o
n
fr
o
m
t
h
e Ass
o
c
i
a
ti
o
n
to
Adv
a
n
ce
C
o
lle
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i
a
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hool
s
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f
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s
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ess.
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The
grant will allow john Ansle
y,
dir
ec
tor
o
f Archi
v
es
a
nd
Special Collections
in the James A.
Cannavino Library
, a
nd
his colleagues to
make
the
historic
collection accessible to researchers worldwide.
Marist
is home
to
the definitive
collection of
Lowell Thomas's materials,
the
result of a
bequest
from
the Thomas
family.
The Lowell Thomas
Papers, as
the
collection
is
known
,
includes
not only
manuscript materials but
also films
,
audiotapes,
photos
,
and artifacts,
preserved
and
made
accessible
through
the
support of several federal grants
.
The
legendary broadcaster
,
after whom a
build-
ing
at Marist
is named, lived for most
of
his life
in
Pawling,
NY, just
25
miles
southeast of Marist.
He
was
the
College's commencement speaker
in
1981
and
was awarded an
honorary degree
at
the
ceremony.
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A Longtime Champion of Marist Retires
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R
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r Pl
a
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v
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g a
nd Endowm
e
nt
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upp
or
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h
a
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n K
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p
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tir
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d on S
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pt.
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K
o
p
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r
ke
d
at
M
a
ri
s
t in nin
e
diff
e
r
-
e
nt p
os
i
t
i
o
n
s ove
r four d
eca
d
es,
includin
g
33
yea
r
s
o
f
full
-
tim
e e
mplo
y
ment.
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o
p
ec
w
as
on
e
of th
e
Coll
e
g
e's
lon
ges
t
-
se
r
v
in
g
prof
ess
ion
a
l
s
t
a
ff
m
e
mb
e
r
s a
nd
co
n
-
t
r
ibut
e
d
g
r
ea
tl
y
t
o
its
s
u
ccess
, s
a
id Pr
es
ident
D
e
nni
s
J
. M
ur
ray. "S
h
e
h
as
pro
v
id
e
d
ex
traor
-
d
in
ary se
r
v
i
ce to
th
e Co
ll
ege a
nd h
as
b
ee
n
a
pi
o
n
eer a
nd rol
e
m
o
d
e
l
fo
r w
o
m
e
n. Durin
g
h
er
t
e
nur
e
,
S
h
a
il
ee
n d
eve
l
o
p
e
d
a
d
ee
p in
s
ti
-
tu
t
i
o
n
a
l kn
o
wl
e
dg
e a
nd stron
g
n
e
twork
o
f
r
e
l
a
ti
o
n
s
hip
s, a
nd
s
h
e
will b
e ex
tr
e
m
e
ly
dif
-
fi
c
ult
to
r
e
pl
ace."
Ko
p
ec
b
ega
n
wo
rk
a
t th
e
C
o
ll
ege
in
19
72
as Ma
ri
s
t
'
s
fir
st
full
-
tim
e a
lumni dir
ec
t
o
r.
S
h
e
l
ater serve
d
as
M
a
ri
s
t
's fi
r
s
t full
-
tim
e
publi
c
r
e
l
a
ti
o
n
s
dir
ec
tor
,
th
e A
dmi
ss
i
o
n Offi
ce's
firs
t
d
irec
t
or o
f
e
n
ro
llm
e
nt
co
mmuni
ca
tion
s,
and
d
ir
ector of
d
eve
lopm
e
nt.
In
1991
s
h
e
b
eca
me
t
h
e Co
ll
ege
'
s
fir
s
t f
e
m
a
l
e v
i
ce
pr
es
id
e
nt
,
l
e
ad
-
in
g
th
e
Offi
ce o
f
C
oll
ege
Ad
va
n
ce
m
e
nt for
1
3
y
e
ar
s
. Among other achiev
e
ment
s
,
s
he
s
u
cc
e
ss
full
y c
ompleted th
e ca
pit
a
l
campaign
to build th
e
James
A. Cann
a
vino Libr
a
ry
a
nd
si
g
nificantly in
c
r
ea
s
e
d the
number
of
e
nd
o
w
e
d s
c
hol
a
rship funds
a
t M
a
rist.
B
eg
innin
g
in
20
0
4,
Kop
e
c
l
e
d
e
fforts to
build
a
robust
pl
a
nn
e
d giving program.
In
a
ddition, sh
e
was
a
k
e
y memb
e
r of the
Camp
a
i
g
n
for M
a
rist's fundraising t
ea
m
a
nd
a
lon
g
tim
e
p
a
rtn
e
r with th
e
Hud
s
on Ri
ve
r
Va
lle
y
Institut
e
in th
e
d
eve
lopm
e
nt
of
its
notabl
e e
nd
o
wment.
"
Sh
e
truly embodi
e
s th
e
M
a
rist v
a
lue
s
o
f
exce
ll
e
n
ce
in
e
du
c
ation
, a
sense
o
f
c
om
-
munit
y, a
nd commitm
e
nt
to
se
r
v
i
c
e,"
th
e
pre
s
ident s
a
id.
Kop
e
c
m
e
ntor
e
d numerou
s
f
e
m
a
le
administrator
s
informally
a
nd
through
th
e
Marist Professional Wom
e
n
'
s Mentor
Pro
g
r
a
m
.
In
2
009
sh
e
w
a
s hon
o
r
e
d with th
e
de
s
i
g
n
a
tion of Provinc
e
Affili
a
tion by
th
e
M
a
rist
Broth
e
rs of th
e
Unit
e
d Stat
e
s
,
a form
of honor
a
r
y
m
e
mb
e
rship
for
her
c
ontribu-
tion
s
t
o
th
e
Broth
e
rs
a
nd th
e
ir ministries
.
"
Sh
a
ile
e
n'
s
impa
c
t
a
t M
a
rist ov
e
r the
Shaileen Kopec retired from Marist after four
decades in Advancement and Admission
.
past
43
yea
rs
ha
s
b
e
en trul
y
immea
s
ur
a
bl
e,"
said Chris D
e
lGiorno
'
8
8
,
v
i
c
e
president
for colleg
e
adv
a
ncement. "Her
e
x
c
eption
a
l
r
e
l
a
tionship
-
building s
k
ill
s
, big-pi
c
tur
e
stra
-
t
eg
i
c
thinkin
g
,
a
nd
ge
nuine
p
a
s
s
ion
for th
e
Coll
e
g
e
's mission h
a
ve b
e
en
e
normou
s a
ss
e
ts
,
contributing richly to the College
's s
u
c
c
e
ss
.
She will be
g
r
ea
tl
y
mi
ss
ed.
"
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1979
-
2016: A College
Transformed
Celebrating
37
Years of
As
he
prepares to step down
,
President Dennis
J.
Murray talks
with longtime colleague Dr
.
Lee
M. Miringoff, director of the
Marist
Institute for Public Opinion,
about the challenges and rewards
of serving the Marist College
community for nearly 40 years.
Dr. Dennis/
.
Murray announced
in
e
arly
2015
that
he
would step
down
on
June
30, 2016,
following
37
years as
president of Marist
College
.
His tenure has been
extraordinary not
only for
its length-mor
e
than five
times
the average
tenur
e
of
seven years-but for
its
monumental achievements (see
"
Highlights
19
79-2
016
").
He has been th
e
Colleg
e's
rock
,
and students
and
alumni
have made him
their
rock
star. Almost
90
percent
of the College
'
s
alumni
have received diplomas
signed
by him
.
Of the faculty
who were
on
campus when Murray arrived
in
19
7
9
,
only a handful remain.
One of these is Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, who joined Marist in
1975
and, through his meticulous
directorship of the Marist College
In
stitute
for Public Opinion, has become the other person
besides Murray whose name is most
synonymous
with Marist.
R
ecent
l
y,
at the request of
Marist
maga
z
ine, Miringojf sat down
with
Murray in Greys tone, the former
carriage
hous
e
that
serves as
th
e
president's
office,
to
ask for
his
reflections
on the past four decades.
LM:
Welcome
to President
Murray's
hayloft. I'm Lee
Miringoff, politi-
cal science faculty at Marist and
director
of
the Marist Institute
for
Public Opinion. I've been
at
Marist 41
years and
with me is
a
relative newcomer
of
not quite four
decades, Dennis
J.
Murray
.
Now,
first
question
,
Dennis,
and
l don
'
t
think
a
nybody
on campus
knows
the answer
to this. One-word
answer: What
is
the
")"
7
DJM:
Joseph. Dennis Joseph Patrick
Murray. My
confirmation
name
was Patrick so that
's
the full name. Let me
note that we're sitting
in
a
carr
i
age
house
that was built in the 1860s,
and
my office is
on
the top floor, which was indeed
a
hayloft.
I think I
can
safely claim to be the
only col-
lege
or
university president who occupies
such a space
.
LM:
Duly noted. Let me
start off
by
saying
how much I
appreciate
this
opportunity to
speak with you at
this
very special
time
.
For
m
e
it's a
little
bittersweet. You were in your
early
30s;
I
was a
little bit
younger when we
m
e
t.
As
the
countdown continues to
th
e
time
you
become president
emeritus,
is this
a
bit
-
tersweet time
for you as
this
change comes
7
DJM:
No,
I don't
view
it
as
bittersweet
,
but
rather
the next phase
of
my prof
ess
ion
a
l
life. I'd
given it a
lot
of
thought
a
nd b
ecame
convinced
that the timing
was right
not
only
for
me but
for the College, and
I
obviously
believed that
Marist was at a
high point in
a
ll
its history.
When
I told the bo
a
rd I
thought
this would
be
a good
time to
start thinking
about
transitioning
,
many
of
them
said,
"No,
we want
yo
u to
stay on a
littl
e
bit longer
,"
but I
was pretty
firm
in my belief
that
this was the
right time. Then they
suggested
the possibil
-
ity
of staying on as
president
emeritus; teach-
ing
a
little bit;
advising
the board;
go
ing back
to some research
they
know
I
always wanted
to
do
;
and
it became
a very attractive option
for
me. I take
a
lot
of
prid
e
in
everything our
faculty, staff, alumni, students, and
board
have
accomplished
here, but I'm
actually
looking
forward
to the next phase in my life
.
Dr
.
Dennis
J
.
Murray is one of the longest
-
serving and most accomplished presidents
HIGHLIGHTS
1979-2016
in the history of American higher education.
According to the American Council on Education
,
the typical college president
'
s tenure is seven
years
.
Since
1979
,
Murray has led Marist College
th
r
ough a period of exceptional growth and
transformation. From a small local college with
limited resources
,
Marist has become a complex
comprehensive institution with solid finances
and a global reach. Although he is quick to give
credit to others, his accomplishments are rivaled
by very few college or university presidents
.
"
For 37 years, Dennis Murray has led a transformation
of Marist College that is unprecedented in American
higher education
,''
Marist Board Chair Ellen Hancock
sa
i
d
. "
On behalfofthe Board ofTrustees
,
I salute
him for his tremendous accomplishment in making
Mari st one of the finest institutions in the country
,
and I look forward to his continued involvement
with the College
."

































Visionary Leadership
LM
:
To
d
esc
rib
e
it
,
it'
s
m
o
r
e o
f
a
tr
a
n
s
iti
o
n
t
h
a
n
a
n
o
p
e
nin
g a
nd clo
si
n
g o
f
a
d
oo
r.
DJM:
I
d
o
b
e
l
ieve
th
a
t ifl
we
r
e go
in
g
t
o
h
ave
a
h
ar
d fini
s
h
o
n Jun
e 3
0th
,
it r
ea
ll
y wo
uld
pro
b
a
bl
y
b
e
diffi
c
ult for m
e
to d
ea
l
w
ith
,
but I'm rea
ll
y
l
oo
kin
g a
t thi
s as
ju
s
t
a
n
o
th
e
r
opport
uni
ty to
d
o so
m
e
n
e
w thin
gs;
diff
e
r
e
nt
th
in
gs.
I h
o
p
e,
in thi
s
n
ew ca
pa
c
it
y
, t
o
d
o
one or
t
wo
m
a
j
or t
hin
gs fo
r
Ma
r
is
t th
at wi
ll
fur
th
er
h
e
lp
deve
l
op o
ur in
st
ituti
o
n
.
LM:
Let's t
u
rn t
h
e clock back a
li
tt
l
e
bi
t to t
h
e
1970s. Yo
u
were o
n
t
h
e West Coas
t
, a Los
A
n
ge
l
es
b
oy
.
W
h
y
did
yo
u
a
ppl
y, a
nd
w
h
a
t
we
r
e yo
ur
fi
r
s
t im
p
r
essio
n
s of Ma
ri
s
t
as yo
u
got to k
n
ow
i
t
initi
a
ll
y?
"
Having served on several college
and corporate boards, I have
seen many of the nation's top
executives in action. President
Murray's impact on Marist and
on American higher education is
comparable to that which some of
our greatest leaders in business
and government have had on
their respective organizations
and fields. His leadership has
transformed Marist into a world
-
class educational institution with
a well-earned reputation for
integrating advanced technology
into teaching and learning, while
also maintaining the fundamental
ideals of the College
'
s Marist
Brother founders. His dedication
to the Mari st community has
engendered an unsurpassed pride
and devotion on the part of its
students, faculty, staff, and alumni
,
and his mark on Mari st will be felt
for generations.
"
-Ellen Hancock
,
Chair
,
Board of Trustees
DJM:
I
was
n
ot
r
ea
ll
y aware of Ma
ri
s
t
Co
ll
ege, a
nd
my reco
ll
ec
ti
o
n b
ack
in
t
h
ose
years was
th
at
I
was
n
't
r
ea
ll
y
m
uc
h
a
w
are of
P
o
u
g
h
keeps
i
e, NY.
I
was a
pp
roac
h
e
d fir
s
t
o
f
a
ll b
y a
h
ea
dhun
ter;
th
e Co
ll
ege
h
a
d hi
re
d
a
n
exec
uti
ve sea
r
c
h fi
r
m. I h
a
d
a
p
re
tt
y goo
d
rep
u
tat
i
o
n
as o
n
e of
th
e yo
un
g
hi
g
h
e
r
e
du
ca-
t
i
o
n
a
dmini
stra
t
ors
in
So
uth
e
rn
Ca
li
fo
rni
a
a
n
d t
h
ey so
m
e
h
ow
b
eca
m
e awa
r
e o
f m
e.
T
h
ey ta
l
ke
d t
o
m
e a
b
o
ut
Ma
ri
s
t
Co
ll
ege
,
a
p
l
ace t
h
ey
d
escr
ib
e
d
as
h
av
in
g so
m
e c
urr
e
nt
c
h
a
ll
e
n
ges,
b
u
t
a p
l
ace
th
ey a
l
so
b
e
li
eve
d h
a
d
a
l
ot of
p
ote
nti
a
l. At thi
s ti
m
e, Mar
il
y
n, m
y
w
if
e,
w
as
pr
eg
n
a
nt
w
ith
o
ur fir
s
t
c
hild
.
O
f
co
ur
se,
l
o
nl
y k
n
ew
L
os
An
ge
l
es.
M
y fa
m
-
il
y
h
a
d b
ee
n th
e
r
e a co
upl
e o
f
ge
n
era
ti
o
n
s.
Ma
ril
y
n
's fa
mil
y
h
a
d b
ee
n th
e
r
e
fiv
e o
r
s
i
x
ge
n
e
r
a
ti
o
n
s, w
hi
c
h i
s ve
r
y
unu
s
u
a
l
fo
r
a
n
yo
n
e
in
So
u
t
h
e
rn
Ca
li
fo
rni
a, so
th
e
r
e
w
a
sn
'
t
a
t
t
h
at
tim
e a
l
o
t
of a
pp
ea
l.
So w
h
e
n l
was fi
r
s
t
a
pp
roac
h
e
d l wrot
e
b
ack a
nd
sa
id,
"
Th
a
nk
yo
u
,
I'm h
o
n
o
r
e
d
,
but I'm d
o
in
g we
ll h
e
r
e
,
a
n
d
I'm pr
etty s
ur
e
m
y ca
r
ee
r i
s go
in
g
t
o a
d
va
n
ce
.
"
Th
e searc
h firm
was
p
e
r
s
i
s
t
e
nt
a
nd
wro
t
e
b
ack a
nd
sa
id
, "
W
e rea
ll
y
thin
k y
ou
o
u
g
ht
t
o
t
ake a
l
ook at
thi
s co
ll
ege
.
" A
nd thi
s
i
s
th
e
h
o
n
est-
t
o-Go
d
's t
ruth: I t
e
ll p
e
opl
e
thi
s,
but
i
t so
und
s
lik
e s
u
c
h
a co
in
c
id
e
n
ce,
i
t
'
s a
lm
os
t
imp
oss
ibl
e.
I
was
in
o
ur d
e
n
;
it w
as a Sa
turd
ay
m
o
rnin
g a
nd I
was
r
ea
din
g,
but I h
a
d th
e
publi
c
t
e
l
e
vi
s
i
o
n
s
t
a
ti
o
n
o
n
a
nd th
ey were
re
runnin
g a
Fo
x
M
ov
i
e
t
o
n
e News
r
ee
l,
a
nd
th
ey sa
id
-
I'll n
eve
r
fo
r
ge
t
af
t
er
r
ea
din
g
thi
s
l
e
tt
e
r
-
th
ey sa
id
, "
L
e
t
's go
to P
o
u
g
hk
ee
psi
e,
NY,
th
e
int
e
rn
a
ti
o
n
a
l
row
in
g
r
ega
tt
a."
Th
ey
■
mongtheman
e
Grown its annual
economic impact
on the Hudson
River Valley to
$507
million
e
Created a standard of academic excellence
now recognized by the Princeton Review
,
US
News
&
World Report, Forbes,
and
Kiplinger
'
s
Personal Finance
,
among others; most recently
the Princeton Review included Marist as one
of only so schools in its new
Colleges That
Create Futures,
along with top institutions like
Princeton
,
Notre Dame
,
and Stanford
e
Increased applications
sevenfold and become
dramatically more selective
,
from accepting nearly
78
percent of
1,624
applicants
in
1980
to accepting
only
38
.
5
percent of
9,751
applicants in
2014
e
Grown
enrollment from
1
,
842
to
6,365
-
a
245
percent
increase
e
Produced
balanced budgets
for
37
consecutive
years
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1979
-
2016: A College Transformed
Coretta Scott King spoke
to
the
Marist College community in
1998
.
were s
h
owi
n
g
the
o
ld
newsreels from the
international rowing regattas that took place
along our stretch of
the river in the
ea
rl
y
1900s
.
So
I thought,
"
This was
on
n
ationa
l
television; let's take
a
trip to New York,
see
what
it's like."
So, she re
lu
ctant
l
y went a
l
ong
and one
thing led to
another, and
I was
ulti
-
mately
offered
the job
h
ere
.
I told
Marilyn
we'd only
be here three
years
because
college
presidents
don't last
l
ong. She still
to this day
reminds
me
of
that
statement, and
h
ere we
are
37
years
later.
LM:
That
l
eads
me
into
my next question.
When
I first heard
of
President Dennis
Murray coming
to
Marist,
my
office was just
across the way
here. I heard this
gunslinger
from the
West
is
go
in
g
to take three to five
years, get
the
co
lle
ge
on firmer footing,
a
nd
then move
on.
And then
yo
u
turned that into
one of
the longest, most successful runs prob-
ably
in
higher education
history
or certa
inl
y
close to that
in
terms of the tenure. Walk
us through
a
little
bit h
ow
Marist
c
han
ged;
h
ow you change
d
,
a
nd h
ow yo
u
stayed for
this incredible run.
DJM
:
Well, that's
the question I
get asked most
by presidential
co
ll
eagues around
the
coun-
try
.
"How
in
the
world cou
ld
you
have had
such a
long run in
one
place?
"
And
I
tell
them,
there are
probably two parts
to the answer.
First of all, it was just a good fit
because
of
its
culture, student focus,
the
environment, and
the beautiful
l
oca
ti
o
n h
ere on
the
Hud
so
n
.
There were
just a
lot
of
things that fit
we
ll.
But the
ot
h
er
thing I tell them is that I had
an
advantage
that few
co
ll
ege
presidents have.
1
was
a
bl
e
to
b
e
pr
esi
d
ent
of
thr
ee
different
institution
s
without moving. When
I
think
of Marist,
I
think of it
a
lmost
in three
dif
-
ferent, distinct phases. When
I
first
came,
it
was a
sma
ll
,
local college
;
there were
some
major is
sues
it
was
d
ea
lin
g
with in terms
of
finances,
adm
i
ssions,
a
nd phy
s
i
ca
l p
l
a
n
t
needs
.
So there was some work that
h
a
d
to
be done. Thank
goo
dne
ss
we had the support
of the Dyson Foundation
a
nd
the McCann
Charitable
Trust
,
both of
whic
h
were critical
in moving Marist
in
a
n
ew
direction.
R
o
b
Dyson
and
Jack G
ar
t
l
and,
both
longtime
trustees,
each
played
a
transformational
ro
l
e.
Jack
's
son, Mike,
now
also a
trustee, has
carr
i
ed on that tradition. And of course,
the
Marist Brothers
gave
us
a great
heritage
on
w
hi
c
h
to
bui
l
d.
Murray presented
rare
photos of Tibet from
the Lowell Thomas Papers to the Dalai Lama
at
a Washington
,
DC
,
reception in 1995
.
LM
:
A lot
of
the
students
were
from New York
and
they
were
com
mut
ers.
DJM
:
Very
much
a
loca
l
insti
-
tution,
a
nd
the physical plant
just wasn't goi
n
g
to be
com-
petitive
for w
h
at a
modern
-
day
co
ll
ege or
university had
to be.
So
that first phase was
e
Increased total
assets from
$22
to
$687
million
-
a
3,023
percent
million
-
somewhat of a turnaround
phase,
and
I think
that lasted literally
a
decade through
the
'Sos.
In the
l
ate 'Sos, early '90s,
I
think we were
becoming
a very good
regional
co
ll
ege, and
our
b
ase, o
ur
student
draw, was
in
creas
in
g
l
y
becoming
tru
l
y t
h
e Northeast and
to
some
extent the Eastern Seaboard. At
that point
in
the
early
'90s,
I
thi
n
k we started to recognize
as a co
ll
ege
that
the
population demographics
didn't
look
good
for the
Northeast
in terms
of st
ud
ents go
in
g
from
hi
gh sc
h
oo
l
to
co
l
-
l
ege, and eit
h
er we were going to suffer
that
demographic decline
lik
e everyone else or
we we
r
e going
to do things differently
.
So
we
made
a strateg
i
c
decision
.
We
wanted
to
become
m
ore
of a
n
a
ti
ona
l
a
nd
in
l
ater
years even an
international institution
,
and
that
certainly really
paid
off for
the
College.
The
second
phase
was expanding
to
become
a respected reg
i
onal institution.
O
n
e
key milestone during that period
was
the
cons
truction
of
the
Cannav
in
o
lib
rary,
wh
i
ch opened
in
2000.
Located
at the
heart
of t
h
e campus,
it
symbo
li
zed
the
centra
l
role
of academics
to the
College experience, and it
really
c
h
a
n
ged
the
way
people
viewed
Mari
st.
Our trustee
and a
lumnu
s
Dick
Co
l
e
l
ed
the
fundraising
campa
i
g
n
that made the
lib
rary
possible.
Building has
always
been
a
hallmark
of
the
College, ever s
in
ce
the
Marist Brothers
const
ru
cted
buildings with their
own
h
a
nd
s.
Over the past several
d
eca
d
es, we've
transformed the
cam
pu
s
b
y
renovating th
e
Student Center and adding Tenney Stadium,
e
Increased
e
Increased
endowment
unrestricted
from
$0
.
5
to
cash from
so.,
$227
million-
to
$60
million
-
increase
a
3,086
percent
a
45
,
300
percent
a
59
,
900
percent
increase
increase
increase





















the
Hancock
Center,
the mu
l
tipurpose
aca-
demic building
that's
now home to
our Music
Program, and student
townhouses. Our big-
gest
project to date is the residential housing
complex current
l
y
being constructed
on
the
north
end of
the
campus.
We also,
with great
support
from
state
and
l
oca
l
government,
worked
in partners
h
ip to create Longv
i
ew
Park on
the riverfront
and
the pedestrian
walkway
under Route
9
.
Over
the past 15, 18
years
we've truly
become more and
more
of a
national,
even an
international
institution,
with a full
branch
campus
in F
l
orence,
Italy. Who would have
ever
thought of that?
LM:
There are a
l
ot of
t
hi
ngs that
h
ave go
n
e
on over the years
we never wou
l
d've thought;
we'
l
l
get to
that
in
a few
moments. I'd be
professionally remiss
if I didn
'
t
ask you
to
cite
some
numbers in terms
of what
the
enroll-
ment was
like
when you started, what it's
like
now, what the endowment
was like;
acreage
on campus; just a sense of
how things have
grown
here.
DJM:
That
was another
major issue
related
to
finances
.
We admitted something
like
77
percent
of all
the
applicants;
I think there
were
only
1,100, 1,500
applicants
back then.
Th
i
s year
we
'
ll have
over 10,000 applicants
a
n
d
admit
somewhere
around 35
percent,
whic
h
has made t
h
e Co
ll
ege
much more
selective.
LM:
You've always
been
able
to
keep a connec-
tion with
our
heritage
and yet
be transfor-
mational
at
the
same
time. From
a
leadership
standpoint,
obviously
you
were conscious
of that. But t
h
e balancing
and
the
h
olding
on to our roots
a
n
d
yet
breaking down bar-
riers, it's q
u
ite an
i
nteresting part of
your
adm
i
nistratio
n
.
DJM
:
T
h
e
Marist Brother
s
gave
us
many
important things,
particularly the
three
core
values around which to
build
a college: excel-
lence
in education, a sense of community, and
a commitment to service. These three
ideals
are completely compatible with a
modern
university
.
I
also
like
to say, only somewhat
facetiously, that
the Brothers
really knew
how to pick
out a great
piece
of
property,
w
h
ich
gave
us the
opportunity
to bui
l
d a
great
American
campus.
This
l
ocation on
t
h
e shores
of t
h
e
Hudson, w
h
ic
h
insp
i
red
the painters of the Hudson River School,
has provided
a truly
unique
setting for our
campus.
LM
:
I think part
of
it is how
people
her
e
buy
into that mission,
which
is, I think,
very
unusual
for organizations.
People
really buy
into t
h
e
notion
of what Marist Co
l
lege is.
It's not
a
p
l
ace where you work,
it's
a
part
of
your
life.
You
referenced the facu
l
ty before in
terms
of its
growth;
in terms
of
diver
-
"
In his 37 years as president of Mari st
,
Dennis
Murray has had a tremendous impact not only
on the College
,
but also on the entire Hudson
River Valley. From his decision to reorient the
campus toward the river to his service with civic
organizations of every type, his establishment of
the Hudson River Valley Institute, and his work
as co-chair of Gov
.
Cuomo's Regional Economic
Development Council, Dennis has long had a
special appreciation for the region
'
s history,
culture, and natural beauty. More important,
he has shown us all how to leverage these
attributes to make our valley a better place to
live, learn, and work.
"
-Rob Dyson
,
Immediate Past Chair, Board of Trustees
est
by not listing MIPO
first
because
of a
ll
the programming
we've
done here
at Marist
College,
there
's
no doubt that
MIPO
has
done
more than anything
to help position
and
brand Marist College
in the high-qualit
y
way
I
wou
l
d
've
wanted
it done. I do
remember
very
distinctly that
one of the first things
I
did-I
tell
people
this story a
lot-when I
first
became president
was ask
to
see the resumes
of all
the
faculty, and
I
was
flipping through
them thinking,
this one and
that
one.
I
came
across yours and
I
saw your credentials-Phi
Beta
Kappa undergraduate, PhD
from
MIT-
and
I
saw you were
doing
some kind of exit
po
l
l,
standing out
in
front of
local polling
places
collecting
data
and
then
going on
WKIP,
the local
radio station,
to
announce
your
predictions. I
thought,
"This
is a great
idea,
I
really like
this,
how
can we take this
to
the
next level?" Thirty-seven
years
later
,
you are
the most respected
college
poll
in
the country and
the world today
and
have
no doubt done more
than any
other part
of
DJM
:
That is
one of
the most
remarkab
l
e
things about Marist.
People
today forget what
an extremely young
institution
we are, and
that
's
what
makes the
success
that
everyone
here
at Marist
has had
even
more remarkable.
The
College started offering education in
19
29,
but
that
was really only with
the Marist
Brothers. We were actua
l
ly doing
that
under
the auspices of Fordham University
during
that period. It
was
not until 1946 that
we
got our charter from
the
state of New York
to be
an official college, and
real
l
y we
did
not become
a co
l
lege
as
most peop
l
e
think
of
it until the late
'6os, early
'70s,
when
they
admitted
laymen
and
u
l
timate
l
y
l
aywomen
.
So when you
l
ook at
the
youth of
the
Col
l
ege,
it's
really remarkab
l
e
how
far
we've
come.
When
I
started,
t
h
ere were about 93 acres;
today
there
are 224 acres
.
The budget
was
around $12
million; today it's
$180
million.
There was very
little
endowment; $400,000
or $500,000; at our
peak
we were
up to
$236
million
.
The big
challenge
we had
financially
back then
was simp
l
y cash and
cash flow;
there was
not more tha
n
$100,000 of
free
cash.
sity,
there
h
ave
been
so
many unique
programs,
centers of excel
l
ence, from
the
Hudson River
Valley
Institute
and
Writer Elie Wiesel was one of many distinguished
guests who spoke at Marist in lectures free and
open to the public over the years
.
LM:
And the selectivity, of course.
e
In
c
r
e
a
s
ed
e
Built or
e
mployment
renovated every
from 350 full
-
major building
and part
-
t
i
me
on campus
po
si
tions to 1
,
324
(56 new
(
8
4
3 full
-
time
/
481
buildings,
part
-
time
)
-
a 278
24major
percent increase
renovations)
our
l
eadership
in technology to the
student-run
Investment
Center and the
Marist
Poll. Did
you build these around
faculty who were
here
or was some of
it
bringing in people who
would
then
fill
the need,
as
in the
case of the
Fashion
Program
7
D
JM:
I
t
h
ink it happened in
a variety of
d
i
fferent
ways,
and you're
being mod-
e
Seen three of
e
Developed Longview
its buildings
-
Park on the Marist
Greystone
,
Kieran
campus, a stunning
Gatehouse
,
and
riverfront space created
St. Peter
'
s
-
added
through innovative
to the National
partnerships with
Register of Historic
town, state, and federal
Places
governments


































1979
-
2016
:
A College Transformed
Dennis and Marilyn Murray and
Bro
.
Paul Ambrose Fontaine
,
FMS,
presented Pope John Paul II with a book
about the Hudson River Valley in
1997.
"
As one of the longest-serving college presidents
in our country, Dr
.
Murray has worked
relentlessly to transform our college and campus
while staying true to the ideals the Marist
Brothers handed down to us over a century
ago. Marist is an institution that prides itself
on community, service, and ethical leadership;
Dr
.
Murray exemplifies these qualities in
tremendous ways, and perhaps no one better
epitomizes what it means to be a member of
the Red Fox family. Thank you for making a
difference, President Murray."
-
Andre
w
Paulsen
'
12
,
former SGA President
Marist to
help brand
the College. And at
the
same
time,
whic
h
is
most important to me,
it wasn't just
PR, it was part
of our educa-
tional
experie
n
ce
.
The way
you and
Barbara
Carvalho
made it part
of a
learning
experi-
ence
has benefited
so
many
of
the
students.
That
was really a
Hallmark moment
in
the
lif
e of
the College. Again,
you just ran with
it
and
built
MIPO
to the
extent you
have today.
We
tried
to
do that in
other areas, too.
It
wouldn't
be
enough just
to
h
ave within our
School of Liberal Arts, our
Political
Science
Department,
the
great
polling
in
st
itu
te
that
we have today
.
We
had to do
it
in
computer
science
.
With
IBM down the
road, it
didn't
take a strategic genius to see that
maybe there
was an opportunity
in
this field. Our
Joint
Study research
partnership
with
IBM has
brought
the College a world-class technology
platform. Trustees
like
Jim Cannavino, Ellen
Hancock,
and
Ross
Mauri
have been instru-
mental
in
making that happen. The
Hud
so
n
River
Valley
Institute
clearly
has become
one
of the
best regional history programs
in
the
nation. Mus
i
c
,
which was a
big part
of
life
on
campus for the Mar
i
st
Brothers
in
the
early
days, continues to offer students a
rewarding
HIGHLIGHTS
1979-2016
experience through our
many
choral and
in
strumental groups
.
Our Fashion
Program,
which was,
interestingly
enough, supposed
to have
only
been
at Marist a s
h
ort time
until
we
helped the
students from Bennett College
complete
their
degrees,
has really
turned into
another very significant
program
.
LM:
Hu
ge,
huge.
DJM
:
Those
e
l
ements again created a
unique
educationa
l
experience, as we
talk
about
in
our values statement,
that
very few other co
l
-
l
eges and
universities have. Our partnership
with
the FDR Presidential Library
for
histori
-
ans;
the
Cary
Institute
of Ecosystem Studies
out
in Millbrook for the
scie
nti
sts
.
It
goes
on and on and o
n
.
In
a
ll
cases,
there clearly
were facu
lt
y who
had to provide the leader-
sh
ip
for these things,
as yo
u
a
nd
Barbara
did
with
MIPO, but
also
in
a
ll
of
them
we
tried to
in
corporate st
ud
ents. T
h
at's one of
the
things we insisted upon
for all of
these
partnerships that
we
have today, that there
had to be
studen
t
invo
lv
ement,
that they had
to benefit from that
experience.
This is truly
one of the
distinctive parts
of
Mar
i
st.
LM:
Talking
about st
ud
ents,
there's
a
distinc-
tive
element
I think
you bring to the
relation-
ship of
the president to the
st
ud
e
nt
s.
You
seem to know every student on campus. They
take
se
l
fies wit
h
you; you've
danced in
their
videos.
How do
you pick
up
this awareness
of so
many
of
the
students
here
7
Here, the
president
i
s
not
some
distant person
.
DJM
:
I
don
'
t think people
give students
enoug
h
credit; they
'
re pretty
smart, and
I
think
they know
if
a
president
or a faculty
member,
or anyone e
l
se
,
really cares about
t
h
em.
Fortunately,
Marilyn and
I have
enjoyed our
interactions
with the students.
I
love
sports so we
love
going
to the
sport-
ing
events. We enjoy music. Of course our
b
and a
nd
chora
l
programs
are
n
ationally
recognized.
Certainly
the new
e
l
ement
is
the se
l
fies.
Some
people
say
,
"That must
drive
you crazy."
It really doesn't.
I've a
l
ways felt
if
someone
wants a
picture
with you, it's an
honor.
And
i
t's a great way to
meet
students
. I
do
it
everywhere, from on campus
to running into
students or alumni in the city.
I
was over at
Mike
Arteaga's Health
&
Fitness
Center
the
other
day
and
there
were a group of students
working
out,
so we
had to do
a selfie over
there. I never minded
that.
LM
:
They
l
ove
it. They
really
l
ove it.
DJM
:
And
I l
ove
it,
too
.
LM:
You've
b
een a centra
l
figure in the
Hudson River
Va
ll
ey. You
'
ve
been involved
with
growt
h
of
the region; in many
ways
,
you've
made
Marist a window to the
Hudson
lit
era
ll
y a
nd
figuratively.
Co
ll
eges are
not
islands,
and you've
been involved
with the
statewide economic development
program.
What
is it
about Marist and you
that
made
you so much a
part
of this community
7
e
Expanded its
Hudson River
Valley campus
from 93 acres to
224
acres
-
a
141
percent increase
e
Established a
branch campus
in Florence
,
Italy
,
that offers
undergraduate and
graduate academic
programs
e
Established 53 new academic programs and many centers of academic
excellence
,
e.g., the Marist Institute for Public Opinion
,
the Hudson
River Valley Institute
,
the Marist
-
lBM Joint Study
,
the Raymond A
.
Rich
Institute for Leadership Development, the Institute for Data Center
Professionals, the AACSB
-
accredited School of Management, the
NASPAA
-
accredited MPA Program, the ARC
-
PA
-
accredited Physician
Assistant program, the Schlabach student
-
run Investment Center,
e
Completed
i
t
s
first
compr
e
hensive
capital campaign
,
which raised mo
r
e
than
$
159
m
il
lion
and partnership with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
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DJM
:
Well
that
was an easy one for
me
sim-
ply because
of the
way I was raised. As
a
young
high
school
boy in
1960,
I heard John
F.
Kennedy
give
his
acceptance speech at
the Democratic Convention,
and
that
was
the New
Frontier
speech
that he
gave
.
Back
then
he
said something
to the
effect of "the
new frontier
of which
I
speak
is not
a set
of
promises-it is
a set of challenges," and
that
ultimately
apparently
led to the
great
line in
his
inauguration when he
said, "Ask
not what your country can
do
for you, ask
what you can
do
for your country."
That
was a
transformational
moment in my
life,
hearing
that
speech in
1960
.
Belief in
service
,
giving
back,
doesn't have to be
your whole
life, but
it
should certainly be a
part
of everyone's
life.
Coming
to
Marist with the Marist
Brothers
and
their
commitment
to
service, which
I
think was an
important part
of
the
culture
here,
it
was easy for me
to recognize that
col-
leges
should
not be isolated,
that
they
should
be parts of their communities, and everyone
who
'
s part of a college or any organization
or anyone who
is lucky
enough to
be part
of
an organization
like this
should
be
giving
back
and
being
of service.
So I've
enjoyed
that.
I've been
on
lots of boards. Marilyn's
been
on
boards.
We
try
to
do our
share.
I'm
particularly proud
of
the way
our students
are
involved. They raise money for
St.
Jude
Children's
Research Hospital,
for
AIDS
research,
for
the
Wounded Warriors
pro
-
gram.
1
just met with a group of students this
week who are on
their
spring
break.
When
a
lot
of
people
are going
to
a
resort,
they're
going to a small village
in
Mexico to
help
impoverished young
people there. That
'
s
part
of Marist, and
I
really enjoy
that part
of
my
job:
being
of service.
I've
also enjoyed
the
greater
Hudson
River
Valley and in
helping to play
a role
in defining it.
Franny
Reese,
another great
trustee,
played
an
important
role
in the life
of Marist College; was a
founder
of Scenic
Hudson;
and
played
a
big
role
in the
Storm
King Mountain case, which really changed
environmental
law
and
policy in this
country.
She was one who
helped
educate
me
about
the
unique nature
of
this
area.
Once I
got
that, I
really began
more than
ever
to realize
we weren't
branding
our area
well
enough, so
that
'
s when
I
started over
35
years
ago coining
this concept of
the
"Hudson
River
Valley" as
a
brand.
Eventually Maurice
Hinchey, the
congressman, was able to get
the
National
Heritage
Area
identified in
this area, and
it was called
the
"Hudson
River
Valley"
National
Heritage Area.
State
Sen. Steve
Saland
initiated the Greenway
Conservancy,
and
it became the
"Hudson
River
Valley"
Greenway Conservancy.
And of course
he
went on to become
one of New
York's most
distinguished
senators and a great supporter
of Marist College.
We made
a
lot
of
inroads in that
area,
and
now it's
very
rewarding when
you
pick
up
a
national travel magazine
and you
read,
"Go
to the Hudson River Valley in New
York,
it's
a great,
unique place." This is
what
Franny
and
I
worked on.
That has also
helped brand Marist
College. As
much
as
we
like Poughkeepsie
and Dutchess County,
and
they're
great
places to live, learn,
and
work, our footprint
is bigger
than that. Our
footprint
is really
the
Hudson River
Valley.
I think in many
ways we
have become
the
respected
college
in
the
Hudson
River Valley.
In
fact, a
lot
of
people
ask
me how I
knew
that Marist had
arrived, and
I love telling
that story of
the
New York Times
crossword
puzz
l
e
where the question that
you
had to
answer
to fill in the boxes
was a
respected
college
in Poughkeepsie,
New
York. Everyone
was
trying to
squeeze "Vassar"
in the boxes
but the
answer
was really
"Marist."
LM:
And a few of those rankings have come
out.
DJM:
111e most recent
one
is the Princeton
Review's
Colleges That Create Futures.
Out
of
the
3,000
colleges and
universities in
America, they
chose
on
l
y so, and Marist
was
in that
50
.
When
you
look
at
the list, it
truly is the
elite and very old
institutions in
this
country.
In particular
when you
look
at
the
schools grouped
by
enrollment and
see Marist
listed
alongside
places
such as
Stanford, Princeton,
Notre
Dame,
and
Duke
in
the
category
of
col-
leges
and
universities
with
5,000
to
10,000
stu-
dents, it is really
great
to
see, again,
such
a young
college
running with the
best in
America .
•
Moved its NCAA
prog
r
ams from Division
II to D
i
vision I and
added 10 new teams
e
Won the overall Metro Atlantic Athlet
i
c
Conference (MAAC
)
Commissioner
'
s Cup
12
times
,
the men
'
s individual Cup
(
2 men
'
s and
8 women
'
s)
8 times
,
and the women
'
s individual Cup
1otimes
"
Dennis Murray
'
s intellect, integrity,
leadership, and vis
i
on will leave a
legacy at Mari st College that will
extend far into the future and affect
generations of Marist students to come
."
-Paul X
.
Rinn
'
68
,
Alumni Association President
Another
testament to the quality
of our
academic
programs is that increasingly
our
graduates
receive prestigious fellowships
such as
the Fulbright, Goldwater,
and
Teach
for America.
LM
:
You
talk
about an almost
ripple-like
effect
from this
center
of
energy
where we
are
right
now, in
your
hayloft, and then we have the
pick of
the
community,
the region,
and
the
ripples are global
now
for
Marist. It's really
a
fascinating expansion for one college.
DJM
:
No doubt,
but it does have to
start at
home. You have to start in your own neigh-
borhood,
in your own community, and you
build
out from there.
I think that's
what
Marist
has
done
.
Every year we've gotten a
little better;
our reach
has
extended a
little
bit. I don't think that's over
with.
I think there
are still
l
ots of opportunities.
That
goes
back,
to
some extent again, to the Marist
Brothers
who, worldwide, are serving
in
82
countries
around the world. So we
probably have
a ways
to
go
to
catch up with
them.
LM:
Your years as
president
of Marist
have
also spanned
major
changes
in
the world,
America,
our culture.
Recessions,
wars, and
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n
changed
the
way
we relate to
each other;
more recently, in terms
of race
relations
.
How
as
president do
you
deal with those
kinds of
As chairman emeritus of IBM
,
Thomas
J. Watson Jr. received a Lowell Thomas
Centennial Award from Marist in 1992
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1979
-
2016
:
A College Transformed
Brian Par
k
er
'1
9
takes a selfie with the
president on Move
-
In Day
2015
.
"Dr.
Murray's tenure as the leader of Marist spanned almost
four decades because he grew with the times, grew
with the institution, and the institution grew with him.
Dennis and Marilyn leave a legacy of the thousands upon
thousands of young men and women who graduated from
Mari st ready to participate in life with a solid foundation.
"
-James
A
.
Cannavino, Past Chair, Board of Trustees
changes, as
they
in
the broader
society are
also
part
of
where we
are
livin
g?
DJM
:
In many ways
a good college or
univer
-
sity
is
a
microcosm
of
the broader
society,
so
it
's
not surprising that
those issues
are
reflected on our campus.
I think
we've
been
through
three
recessions and a
major
eco-
nomic
downturn
while I've
been president,
and those
posed
challenges
to us
.
We saw our
assets
decrease s
i
gnificantly
just like
every-
one else
did
in
those periods. But
fortunately
we were strong enoug
h
by that time
,
and we
were able to
keep moving forward
and cou
ld
adjust. We are
impacted by
world events.
I'll
never forget the Twin Towers coming
down
-
where we were and
h
ow we were trying to
help our students make good
decisions
at
that
particular time.
The issue
of race relations
has
create
d
a
new item
of tension on
many
college
camp
uses
.
Some of
the
world
political
events caused a
lot
of turmoil on campuses,
but
as much as we
have
experienced those,
I've
a
l
ways fe
l
t
that the
st
ud
e
nt
s
h
ere, and
the
facu
l
ty and staff,
have
h
an
dl
ed
them
appro-
pri
a
tely
;
we've
done
i
t
through discussions,
dialogues, and
mutual
respect. I've a
l
ways
been a believer in
the
concept of continuous
impro
ve
ment,
and
I tell
our students
that
we
do want to
improve
and to
help us
figure out
ways we can
improve that
are consistent wit
h
the values of a
university
and the culture we
have here
at
Marist College. We
have
made
good progress. I
think
we
have to diversify
our faculty and our administration
more,
so
there
is
work to
do. The
students are right
about
that. They have
to work w
it
h
us
to help
bring that
about
in
the coming years
.
LM
:
Let
me switch gears for a second. You
talked earlier about Marilyn. You can't think
of Dennis Murray's
37
years without
thinking
of Mari
l
yn,
yo
ur
children, now your grand-
children.
How did
you
blend
the Marist fam-
ily
with
the
Murray fami
l
y,
because there's
a
huge
overlap
there?
DJM
:
We just
made it happen.
Being a college
or
university president
takes a
l
ot of
hours
out of your week,
but
we also found
tim
e
for
family. We'd
try
to bring our family to events
and activities. They grew
up
with Marist.
I
think
overall we
had
a
good work life/family
balance. It
was
becaus
e
we didn't separate
Mar
i
st from our family. We kind of
made
eac
h
part
of t
h
e other, and that worked very
we
ll.
LM:
I think
we a
ll
have
a v
i
ew of
the Red
Fox
spirit. Talk a
littl
e
bit
about what
the Red
Fox
spirit
means
to you
.
LM
:
And that's
the
synergy. On
many
occa-
sions over the years we've
been
at events,
and we'l
l
sort of go off
into th
e
corner
and you'll whisper
to me
or
me
to you,
"
I
really
can't
believe
we're
h
anging around
people
like this,
"
such as
the
White
House
Correspondents
Dinner last
year or the
Bryant
Gumbe
l
Sports Communication
Lifetime Achievement Award in
New York
City. As yo
u l
ook
back
over
the
years and
think
of
the
spec
i
a
l p
eop
l
e you
have met
a
l
ong
the
way, who stands out?
DJM
:
I never imagined I
would
be
meeting
U.S. presidents,
the
pope, the Dalai Lama, the
Lowe
ll
Thomas Award recipients, governors,
senators, and corporate
l
eaders including
Tom Watson of IBM,
Dr.
Len Schleifer of
Regeneron,
Charles
Dyson,
and of course
Ray Rich,
who established the
Raymond
A.
Rich
In
stitute for
Leadership Development.
LM
:
As you trave
l
around t
h
e country and
the world and you
run into
Marist alumni,
numbers
which I assume are growing all the
time, you've shaken so many of their hands
and now you see them out
in
the world
and
succeeding. Te
ll
me
a
little bit
about
how
that works.
HIGHLIGHTS
1979-2016
DJM:
I think it
goes
back
to community.
People
generally care about each other and
support each other
in
times of
need
.
Students
form
lif
etime
bonds not
only with fel
l
ow
students
but
wit
h
the
institution.
Faculty
s
h
ow
remarkable
dedication
to
t
h
e College
and
their
students. The Board of Trustees
i
s
committed
to the
success of the College, and
a
lumni
are always
there
to
help.
DJM
:
I'd have
to say
the most
rewarding and
grat
i
fying
part
of a
nn
o
un
cing
that I
was
go
in
g
to
step
down
h
as
been the
warm
l
etters
I
received from graduates, and
in
some cases
not
on
l
y
graduates
but
from
people
saying,
18
e
Won
a
total of
118 conference
championships, made 47 NCAA
Tournament appearances,
including women
'
s basketball
at
the Sweet Sixteen
in
2007,
and
won
11
games in NCAA
Tournament play
MARIST
MAGAZINE
e
In addition, Murray has been an active
community leader who over the years has
been
involved
in virtually every major
community organization
;
Hudson Valley
magazine named him one of
"
35
People Who
Have Created a Lasting Legacy,
"
a list that
also
included Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt,
Laurance S. Rockefeller, and Frederick
William Vanderbilt
e
His service has been recognized with numerous awards
,
including
the Franciscan Award from the Sisters of
St. Francis, the Americanism Award from the Anti
-
Defamation League
,
and the Family of the Year Award
from Family Services; in
1996,
he received the Eleanor
Roosevelt Val
-
Kill Medal at a ceremony also honoring
Queen Noor of Jordan
,
Lea Rabin of Israel
,
and Frances
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"You
'
ve
impacted not
only
my l
i
fe
,
but
you've
imp
ac
ted the life
of
my
son or
daughter who
also
a
ttended Marist.
"
To h
ave
that multigen-
erational
impact, I don't think
you get
that
in
too
many professions. That part has been
extremely satisfying.
I think most rewarding
is when you see
the
pride
the
alumni
take in
their alma
mater-their
willingness
to help
in
any way
they
can
to
give
back. I can think
of very, very
few instances in my
37
years
when
I've
gone
to
an alum
and
asked
them
to do
something
for their
a
l
ma mater and
they have been unable or unwilling to do it,
which
is
a great sign.
Again, we started with
a
modest
student
body, but they
h
ave
over
time come
to love
this
place. That has been
very
fulfilling.
LM
:
No one
pulls up the ladder
after
them,
they leave
it
down for the next. Let's ta
l
k a
e
H
e w
as
a
ppo
i
nted
to and
s
e
r
ves
a
s
co
-
ch
air
of Gov
.
Andrew Cuomo
'
s
M
i
d
-
Hudson
R
e
g
i
on
a
l Economic
Dev
e
lopm
e
nt
Council
e
Dennis and Mar
i
lyn
Mur
r
ay have been honored
with the designation of
Province Affiliation by
the Marist Brothers of the
United States
,
a form of
honorary membership
,
for their contributions
to the Brothers and their
ministries
"
I told Marilyn we
'
d only be here three years
because college presidents don't last long.
She still to this day reminds me of that statement
.
"
"Over his 37 years as president, there is so much to say about the changes
and improvements at Marist. Sure, you can talk about the percent change
in the endowment or in the enrollment, but what is really going to matter
to everyone individually is the relationship that he was willing to spend
time building with us while accomplishing these extraordinary feats.
Someone else can be the president of Marist College, but no one can ever
be Dr. Dennis
J.
Murray, and that is why we are so sad to see him step down,
but so lucky to have had him, and to continue to have him, for a few more
years. He has taught me so many important lessons about life, like he has
to countless other students, and for that
I
cannot thank him enough."
little bit
about
the future. When next
year's
entering
class
comes
to
campus,
what would
you
like them to be to
l
d
about
President
Dennis Murray?
DJM:
We
ll
,
probab
l
y
not
a
l
ot. Co
ll
eges and
the
young
people who
attend
them
are always
l
ooking toward the future,
and
that should
be the focus of
our
institution
.
LM:
I thought that might be t
h
e case.
Give
me
a
litt
l
e legacy.
To recognize and celebrate
President Dennis
J.
Murray's
extraordinary leadership and the
immeasurable impact he and his
wife, Marilyn, have had on Marist
and the Hudson River Valley over
the past 37 years, the Mari st College
Board ofTrustees has initiated a
fundraising effort to establish an
endowed scholarship in their honor.
Those wishing to contribute are
invited to contact Chris DelGiorno
'
88, vice president for college
advancement, at (84S) S7S-3412 or
Chris.DelGiorno
@
marist.edu.
-
Timos Pietris
'
71, SGA President
DJM
:
One thing I love
about young
people
when they
come
to
a campus
is
when
they
arrive
for their freshman
year, what
is there
is what they know
about
the
college. We've
seen
these new buildings pop up
every other
year
and t
h
e campus deve
l
opment, but
for
each
freshman class, it was
always
there
.
So
I think the most important thing is that
we
pass
along
that
genera
l
cu
l
ture
about Marist,
t
h
ose va
l
ues that we talked
about;
that
we
keep those
very
much
alive.
LM
:
Anything
about
that Murray
guy who
worked
hard, helped build this
co
ll
ege, and
made it
what
it is today
7
DJM
:
I've done the best I possibly
could for
this
college, and
it's
very gratifying
for me to
see
everyt
h
ing that we have become
.
But
I
also
know
full well that without dedicated
faculty,
hardwork
i
ng
staff, a committed
board
,
and
alum
n
i
who care,
the
College
simply
wouldn't
be
anywhere
near what it is today. I've
also
been blessed to have
a great
team
around
me
who
have been
supportive and
in many
ways
are
more ta
l
ented
than I
am
.
That's the
Marist
unity
and
that's
why
we
've
been
so successful.
LM:
To
end
t
h
is interview, Dennis, I'd just
like to say how honored I
am on
behalf
of all
the lives
you've
touched during
your
nearly
four decades. To say
what you
have
said
to
so
many people whom
you've
touched dur-
ing
your
time here
,
"Thank you for all you've
done
for
Marist
College," which
is the
vintage
Dennis
l
ine. I
wou
l
d
l
ike to
amend
that to
say
thank
you for a
ll
that
you wi
ll
do
and
to
wish
Godspeed to
you and your family
dur-
ing this
transition.
It
's
been
an
unbelievab
l
e
run.
Congratulations.
DJM
:
Thank
you very
muc
h
.
It's been
a
p
l
ea-
sure working with you
and
a
n h
onor
t
o
b
e
president
at
Marist College
.
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INAUGURAL MA RIST COLLEGE
Media luminaries and network chiefs joined Marist alumni and friends at a
New York City gala to benefit the College
'
s Center for Sports Communication.
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Le
genda
r
y new
s
man and spor
ts
broadcaster Bryant Gumbel received the inaugural
M
ari
s
t
College
Lif
e
t
ime E
x
cellence
i
n Sports Communication Award
.
K
ATIE COURIC, JANE PAULEY, AND KELLY
RIPA
were just some of
the high-wattage
media persona
l
ities
who
turned
out
to
help
celebrate their friend
Bryant
Gumbel
as
President Dennis J.
Murray presented
the
legendary newsman
and sports broadcaster
with
t
h
e
inaugural Lifetime Exce
ll
ence
in
Sports
Communication Award
on
be
h
alf
of the
Marist
Co
ll
ege Center for Sports
Communication at a
special
ceremony at
the New York Athletic Club on
Oct.
15,
2015.
"l can't
think
of a
more deserving recipi-
ent of
this inaugural
award
than Bryant,"
said Murray. "Throughout
his
career,
he
has
brought a
hard-news sensibi
l
ity to sports
journalism. Beyond the scores and standings,
20
M A R
I
S T
M AG A Z I N E
Bryant
recognizes that the
truly
important
stories and,
indeed, the most
compe
ll
ing
ones,
have more to do
with sport as a
power-
ful force for
both
good and ill
in
our society.
His
career exemplifies
the
kind of
in-depth
work and
high
ethical standards that mark
the
work of
the Marist
College Center for
Sports Communication and to which our
students aspire
.
"
Dr.
Keith
Strudler, director
of
the
Center
for Sports Communication, welcomed
the
crowd
of
some
350
media personalities,
network
chiefs, and ot
h
er executives and
Marist trustees,
a
l
umni,
and
parents who
he
l
ped honor Gumbe
l
wh
il
e
raising funds
to endow
the
center and
provide
support
for
its diverse
activities and student
scholarships.
MSNBC Pres
i
dent Phil
Griffin
served as
the
evening's
master
of ceremonies
.
The
award was established
to recog-
nize
individuals who
have
exemplified
excellence over
time in the broadly
defined
field of sports communication,
acknowledging
the
social value of sports
and
the importance
of
those
who cover
them.
"Tonight was specia
l
for
so
many
reasons, but most notably because it
allowed so
many
people to
thank Bryant
for
his legacy
of excellence
in broadcast
journalism a
n
d
sports
media,"
said
Strud
l
er. "The Marist Col
l
ege Center
for Sports Communication
is proud
to
be
a
part
of
this
great
night,
and
it
inspires us
to train students to follow
in Bryant's
footsteps
.
"
G
UMBEL
HAS
LONG BEEN RECOG-
NIZED
for
his
groundbreaking
and
industry-defining
work
.
For the
past
20
years,
he has hosted HBO's
Real
Sports with Bryant Gumbel,
a
show
that has
earned
28
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mys,
a
2006
DuPont-Columb
i
a
University
award
for broadcast
journalism, and a
2012
Peabody Award
.
Through Gumbel's
stewardsh
i
p,
the
program has
expertly
examined
the
vast
intersection
of sport and
the
world around
it, h
i
gh
li
ghting
the
joys,
complexities, accomplishments, and
injus-
tices in
and around
the
sports
landscape.
Gumbel
has interviewed the most influential
names
in
the
sports world,
from
Muhammad
Ali to
Jack
Nicklaus, and
his work has both
spurred change and encouraged
humanity
in the
global
industry
of sports.
At the
event,
Gumbel's
former
Today
show colleagues,
including
Cour
i
e,
Pau
l
ey,
CNN
President Jeff
Zucker, and former
Today Executive
Producer
Steve Friedman,
joined guests such as
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with Kelly and
Michael Co-Host Kelly
Ripa
and
Real
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Today
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guests, including CBS News Specials Producer Alvin Patrick
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nials,
with Frankel
donning
a Colonial-era
coat and tri-corner
hat
for a rap tribute
to
Bryant
inspired by
the
hit
Broadway
musical
Hamilton.
The event's success was
thanks in large
part
to
those foundat
i
ons,
businesses,
and
organizations that supported
the
Center for
Sports Communication
direct
l
y or
through
event sponsorship
,
including the Dyson
Foundation,
which provided
a generous
grant to
the
center's endowment;
platinum
sponsors
HBO
Sports, NBC News, CNN,
Agua Enerviva, W
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Estate,
Pike
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PR,
and
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O'Connell's
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Mar
i
st
'
s
$
33 million science and allied health bu
i
ld
i
ng opened
i
n January
2016
.
Science and Allied Health
Ma
r
y VanDeM
ar
k
,
p
r
ofe
s
s
i
onal lectu
r
er
i
n
th
e
Med
i
cal Laboratory Science Dep
art
m
ent
,
i
nstructs students
.
A New Era for the
School of Science
The new science and allied health building serves students in biology, biomedical science
,
medical technology, and athletic training as well as those in two new graduate degree programs-
a master of science in physician assistant studies and a doctorate in physical therapy.
M
ARIST'S NEW SCIENCE AND ALLIED
HEALTH BUILDING
opened
its doors
in
January
2016.
With
four floors
and a wide
range of innovative technological advances,
the building fosters
learning
and
research
for
both Marist
'
s students and faculty.
Equipped with state-of-the-art
labo-
ratories and
classrooms
and
profess
i
ona
l
research technology,
the building
comfort-
ably
houses
35
biology, biomedica
l
science,
medical technology
,
and athletic
training
lecture
and laboratory classes. The chemistry,
environmental science, and
physics depart-
ments
will remain in
Donnelly Hall,
where
they
have
seen an increase in space allotted
to them.
"It's really exciting to go to class in a
brand new lab
where everything
is brand
new,"
said Christopher Minck
'16,
a senior
who
is
taking two
lab classes in
the
new
building, which
has
DNA analysis and ani
-
mal studies capabilities. "I think Marist is
acknowledging the work that the science
students and faculty
put in.
I
am truly appre
-
ciative of that and wish
I
cou
l
d be
taking
22
M A
R
I
S T
M AG A Z
I
N E
classes
here
for
more than
one semester."
The building
wi
ll
a
l
so
be home to two
new
graduate
programs,
each
dedicated
to
developing
skil
l
ed
medical profess
i
onals
:
a
master
of science
in physician
assistant (PA)
studies and a
doctorate in physical
therapy
(DPT)
.
The programs
are the first graduate
and
doctora
l
programs wit
h
in
the
School
of Science and represe
n
t
a
prom
i
sing
new
direction
for the department.
"[The expansion] was
based
on our stra-
tegic plan
of developing graduate
programs
in the School
of
Science,"
said
Dr. James
DuMond, dean
of
the
School of
Science
.
"Both of those
programs
would need addi
-
tional
space
.
We
made
sure that we could
leverage
all of the facility for multiple pro
-
grams.
The
students
have
a nicer,
newer,
and
more
well-fitted facility to be able to explore
their research
desires."
DuMond said
the first
cohort of
PA
stu-
dents is
comprised of
45
students scheduled
BY EMI
L
Y BELFIORE
'
16
to begin their
program
in May
2016.
In
the
following years the
two-year
program will
expand
to
60
students
per
year.
The DPT
program
will
launch
in the fall of
2017
with
45
students.
"PAs are ranked as the
number
five top
job in
the
United States right now and physi-
cal
therapists
are
ranked
as fourteenth, so
they're
great careers,"
DuMond
exp
l
ained
.
"When
the
students come out, they will really
be
serving our
population because
they will
be primary
care
providers. It
'
s a
huge
step
for Marist to go
into
this
particular
field."
One
of
t
h
e goa
l
s of the
new
science
building is
to provide students and faculty
with
hands-on
training and greater oppor
-
tunities for experiential
learning.
To fulfill
this, students will examine
"
live
patients
"
-
actors who will feign illnesses that students
must diagnose
and
treat-and
simulate
live
trauma
experiences
using
mannequins in the
Simulation Suite. They will also work with
cadavers
in
the Gross Anatomy Laboratory.
Students and faculty can also work with
IBM's
"Watson
"
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ogy platform in


























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Dr
.
Andrew Ryder of
t
he Biology Departmen
t
lead
s
a clas
s.
the
Cog
niti
ve Co
mputin
g a
nd R
esearc
h
Laboratory.
Not on
l
y
does
th
e
buildin
g a
id
students
a
nd
faculty,
it
will
a
lso
help Marist
m
ee
t
the
d
ema
nd
s
for
h
ea
lth
care
in the Hudson
Valley. Students will
b
e
given the opportu-
nit
y
to
e
n
gage
in
community-based
learn
-
in
g ex
p
e
ri
e
n
ces
throu
g
h
extensive
clinic
a
l
rotations.
The
building
will
a
l
so
provid
e
training
for area
health
care professionals
in th
e
facility.
"
This building
shows
a
hu
ge co
mmit
-
ment
on
b
e
h
a
lf
of
M
a
ri
s
t, th
e
Board
of
Trustees, and
th
e
upp
e
r
a
dmini
s
tration
to
s
upport the
sciences
a
nd
expansion
into th
e
h
ea
lth
care
field,"
ex
claimed DuMond
.
"
It
wonderfully reflects Marist's
dedic
a
tion
to
it
s
departments,
a
nd most import
a
nt
,
its
students and faculty."
i!l
Left
:
Lockers are for use by students
t
ak
i
ng
courses in gross anatomy as part of the
physician as
s
istant
{
PA
)
and doctorate
i
n
phys
i
cal therapy
{
DPT) p
r
og
r
ams. Belo
w:
D
r.
James DuMond
,
dean of the School of Science
,
teache
s
Topics in Biology
.
School of Science
Signs Agreement with
University of Nicosia
Medical School
T
HE SCHOOL OF
SCIENCE
host
ed
representatives from the University
of Nicosia
in
December
2015
to discuss
developing ties between the institutions
and
in
creasi
ng
opportunities for Marist
students. As
part
of
th
e
visit, Dr. James
DuMond
,
de
an
of the School of Science,
and Dr. Andreas Charalambous,
execu-
tive dean, University of Nicosia Medical
School, signed an
agreement
guarantee
-
ing
interviews
to all Marist students who
meet basic requirements and are recom-
mended by the Marist College
Health
Professions Committee.
The University
of
Nicosia, located
in the
capita
l
c
ity of Cyprus, is a major
European research university offering a
wide range of
educational
programs for
approx
im
ately
5,000
students. The fully
accre
dit
ed
four
-ye
ar medical degree is
a
new program offered in
co
llaboration
with
St. George
'
s Medical School, University of
London. The degree
is
taught in English
in new
state-of-the-art fac
ilities
.
"As
part of the School of Science's
ongoing commitment to providing the
best opportunities for our students, I
am
very pleased that we have signed this
agreement
with the University of Nicosia
Medical School which is known for their
commitment
to
a
high-qu
ality educational
exper
ience,
excellent student outcomes,
and
their beautiful international setting,
"
DuMond said
.
"
We are very impressed by the
exce
ll
ent
faculty, the state-of-the-art
faci
liti
es,
the culture of student care
and
support, and, of course, the spectacular
campus overlooking the Hudson River
,"
Charalambous said.
"Throug
h
this
agree-
ment, we hope to welcome talented stu-
dents from Marist College to our medical
school. We
also
hop
e
that this
agreement
is the first step for the development
of a
full institutional relationship
with
Marist
,
involving research
and
the
exchange
of
staff and
facu
lt
y."
i!l
There
are a number of
naming
opportunities in
the
sc
i
ence and
allied health building as
well
as
in
the
North
Campus
r
esidential
housing
complex currently
under
construction
.
For
furthe
r
information, please
contact
the Office
of
College Advancement
at
(845) 575-3264.
SPRING
2016
23




























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Students {left to right) Joseph Theall
'
16
,
Monica Couvillion
'
16
,
and Javier Gomez
'
18
meet with Dr
.
Melissa Gaeke
,
d
ir
ecto
r
of the Cente
r
for C
ivic
Engagement and Leadership
.
T
HE MARIST COLLEGE VALUES STATE-
MENT
says the College "fulfills
its mis
-
sion by pursuing
three ideals:
excellence
in
education, a sense of community, and a com-
mitment
to
service
.
"
Through
the Center for
Civic Engagement
and Leadership
(CCEL),
Marist continues
to
accomp
li
sh
these ideals
while creating valuable
learning
opportuni
-
ties for students and
benefiting
the
neighbor-
ing
community
.
"1l1e College
has
always
had
a strong
commitment
to the
community," said
Dr.
Martin Shaffer,
dean
of
the
School of
Liberal
Arts. "The aim of
the
CCEL
is to help
our
students and faculty
do
work
in
the com
-
munity
that
is linked directly to
academic
coursework and skill
development. The
CCEL's programs
provide
a great opportunity
for Marist students and faculty
to make
a
difference in our community.
"The CCEL comes from
the idea
to
help
the campus do work
in the
community
that's
more tied to academics.
It
'
s a great opportu-
nity for Marist and
the
community to come
together."
24
M
A R I S T
M AG A Z
I N
E
Marist's Center for Civic Engagement
and Leadership creates opportunities
for students and faculty to make a
difference in the community through
programs linked directly to academic
coursework and skill development.
Founded in
fall
2014,
the
CCEL aims to
address social
issues through
collaborat
i
on
among students, faculty, staff, and com
-
munity members. Its
goals are
to
cultivate
and support a cu
ltur
e of community-based
learning
(CBL) and foster an
interest in
public
service careers among students. A
Civic Engagement Committee
led by
Shaffer
and
Dean
Margaret Calista of
the School
of
Social
and Behavioral Sciences
designed
the
program to provide resources
for faculty to
implement
CBL components in
their
classes
while
immersing
students
in
work with area
BY EMILY BELFIORE
'
16
nonprofits to develop
skills
in their
career
fie
ld
s.
During the
2015-16
academic year,
20
courses
involved
425
students
in
49
CBL
projects.
"Traditionally, a student
might
go
to
a
food
pantry
and
help them bag
food-which
is
a good
thing, but it
was
not necessarily
related to the
student's academic
field,
"
explained Shaffer. "Now our students are
h
elping
nonprofit
organizations and the
people they
serve
but
also
improving
their
academic and
professional
skills, which
eventua
ll
y
might be used
in
a
job.
Marist
students
in
CCEL courses
h
ave
developed
public relations campaigns, created volunteer
database
software, conducted surveys, and
engaged
in
strategic
planning
and
program
evaluation work."
Under
the
l
eadership of
Dr.
Melissa
Gaeke,
CCEL
director,
who
has
15
years of
previous
civic-engagement experience at the
University of Southern California, the CCEL
developed the Faculty Fellows Program
and
the Marie
and
Rupert
Tarver Summer
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Program provides assistance
and resources to faculty who
are integrating community
partners in the
i
r
lesson
plans
.
In
the first two years of
the
Faculty Fellows Program,
19
faculty from a wide range of
academic
disciplines have
participated in the faculty
development workshops and
incorporated CBL compo-
nents into their
classes
.
The Marie and
Rupert
Tarver Summer
Internship
Program was established
in
2014
by two
longtime
fac-
ulty members who choose
to rema
i
n
anonymous.
The
program,
named
for two
Tarver Interns who served in summer
20
1
5
were (left to
ri
ght
)
Kris
t
en Semple
'17,
Nicholas Bayer
'
16,
Breanna Lechase
'16
,
Gabrielle Eberle
'17
,
and Gabriell
e
Gerbe
r
'1
7
.
community
leaders,
supports
undergraduate students, guided by a Marist
faculty member,
in
a paid
internship
at a
local
nonprofit for eight weeks during the summer.
The first Tarver
Intern,
Dahley Turner
'
15,
worked with Liberty Partnerships
during
the
summer of
2014.
The following summer, the
Tarver Internships
Program provided
five
students with full-time internships. Each
student received
three
tuition credits and
free on
-
campus
housing
for the
duration
of
the internship.
In addition to working with a
nonprofit,
the
interns
collaborated with a faculty
advisor to develop a project that targeted
a key issue within their organization. For
her project, Breanna Lechase
'16,
a
doub
l
e
major in political sc
i
ence and economics,
performed an analysis for
Hudson River
Housing
'
s Employment Assistance Training
Station (EATS), which
helps
residents achieve
economic stability and self-sufficiency.
Her
work evaluated the
labor demand
in the
local
area and gave recommendations
based
on
her
findings on
how
to further
develop
EATS.
Lechase administered a survey
to identify
local entry-level jobs, skills employees
look
for in applicants, and firms
interested
i
n
partnering with
Hudson River Housing.
L
e
chase's internship
not
only
developed
her skills
but
also
helped her
realize
her
true
passion: teaching.
"
When
I
got to
the
educa-
tion research part of my project,
I
got to
make
lesson plans for [Hudson
River Housing] to
do,"
Lechase said. "That was when
I
realized
that
I
really love teaching, so that was
the
best part
for me."
In her internship,
Gabrielle Gerber
'17
teamed up with United Way of the Dutchess-
Orange
Region
(UWDOR)
to improve its
social media presence
.
Gerber, who
is
major-
ing in
both
advertising and economics and
minoring
in studio art, aimed to
increase
awareness about the organization through
advertising
,
social
media,
and community
outreach.
She created
materials
for
its
funded part-
ners
to
use
in advertising and
promotions,
developed
ads and a
new business
card for
UWDOR,
helped
with events, wrote articles
for a blog, and documented events via social
media
and photography.
"Gabby was an
incredible intern
and
a wonderful
team member,"
said Melissa
Clark,
manager
of community mobiliza-
tion at UWDOR. "She took our social
media
strategy to
new
heights and truly
has had
a
lasting
impact on our organization."
"
The most rewarding
part
was
definitely
realizing that this is what I want to
do. I
just
loved
working
there,"
said Gerber
.
'
'I've
gained such valuable experiences by
being
ab
l
e
to
work
in
a real
place
and
produce
things that
thousands
of
people
will see."
Gerber, Lechase,
and their fellow Tarver
I
nterns
shared their internship experiences
at the first annual Tarver Summer
Internship
Luncheon on Sept.
23, 2015,
in
the Cabaret
on campus.
"The students gave very
impressive
and
detailed presentations
,
" said
Shaffer.
"You
could see
the
confidence
they had in the
projects they had
completed. The Tarver
Internship
was a great transformative experi-
ence for those students."
Tarver
Interns
continue to
help
area
organizations while
honing their
own skills.
On
Jan.
20, 2016,
Gerber and another Tarver
Intern,
Kristen Semple
'
17
,
conducted a ses-
sion, "#HowtoHashtag," at a UWDOR work-
shop called "Making Social Media Work for
Your Nonprofit.
"
More than 80 professionals
from area nonprofits attended.
Despite being a fairly new addition to the
curriculum, the CBL
projects
are proving
to be
very
beneficial
to students
.
In
surveys
taken
in
the beginning
and end of the fall
2015
semester of students in courses with
a CBL component,
nearly
87
percent
said
that the CBL activity
helped them
make con
-
nections between the
course content and
everyday
life; they
also said
they improved
their interpersonal
skills and gained valuable
insight on
how
to work cooperatively with
diverse individuals
and groups.
Students were also able to create valued
projects
during
their courses.
Professor
Jennie
Donohue's Public Relationship
Campaign Management
class produced
a
PR
campaign for the
Dutchess
County
Community Action
Partnership
,
an orga-
nization that
offers a wide range of programs
and services
to help low-income
residents of
Dutchess County.
Another
notable
project
came from Katie
Johnson
'16,
a student work-
ing
with
the
student-run
public
relations firm
North
Road
Communications
,
who teamed
up
with the CCEL to create a new Web site
for the National Alliance on Mental Illness
(NAMI) Mid-Hudson.
Gaeke
hopes
to engage every Marist aca-
demic
department in
the center
'
s activities.
"It
'
s very gratifying to hear students, or even
faculty who are participating in the Fellows
Program
,
share that their civic engagement
experience meant something, that it
helped
them see something
in
a
different
way
,
" said
Gaeke. "It's also
important
when community
members
share
that
they were able to accom
-
p
l
ish
something
because
they were able to
partner
with
us."
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Wizardry and Wands
Hogwarts
on the
Hudson
Marist Dining Services transforms the College's
grand Dining Hall into the Great Hall at
Hogwarts with Harry Potter-themed
food,
decor, and costumes.
Students and staff posed for photos with
cutouts
of book characters Harry
,
Hermione,
and Ron. Walls were decked with banners and
"
flaming cauldrons
."
BY ALYSSA HURLBUT
'
19
H
IGH
CEILINGS
descend into
walls,
and walls
into
archways
that hug
the
center of
the
room.
Chandeliers dangle
above,
radiating
a
dim
l
ight. The lig
h
t
trickles toward the
ground
until it merges
with the
light
of
the lanterns
strung along
the wall.
Oh,
and
tables. Long, long tables
stretch across the wooden
floor. Throw
a
few
flaming
cauldrons and wizards
into the mix
and
Harry Potter wou
l
d be
ab
l
e
to ca
ll
t
h
e
place home.
The transformation of Marist
'
s Dining Hall
into
the Great Hall at
Hogwarts drew more than
2
,
000
students
,
faculty
,
staff, and alumni.
Maybe
the
Marist College
Dining Hall
isn't an exact replica of
the Great Hall
a
t Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry,
the
sett
i
ng
of
J.
K.
Rowling
's
blockbuster
Harry Potter
fiction series.
But
on Feb.
3, 2015,
it
came
pretty
close.
Emily
Baksa
'
14,
marketing
coordinator
for Sodexo food services, crafted
the idea
to
illuminate the similarities between
the
Marist
Dining Hall
and
the Hogwarts Great
Ha
ll
by transforming the din
i
ng
faci
l
ity into
Hogwarts itself. Signs
,
Facebook reminders
,
and countdowns
promoted
the event.
Baksa
even engaged the
help
of Marist student orga-
nizations
to
bring the night to life
,
including
ROTC
and SGA.
The
groups embraced
the
26
M
A R I S
T
M AG A Z I N E
culture
of Hogwarts by
dressing in
costume and
staging
pictures
.
Tab
l
es were
strung
toget
h
er an
d
set with
p
l
ates and si
l
verware;
registers
were
decorated
with
the Marauder
's
map;
Harry, Hermione,
and
Ron
cutouts stood
waiting
for photos; flaming
cauldrons ran
along wa
ll
s;
front pages of
Th
e
Daily
Prophet
decorated the
archway across from the
deli
station;
Sodexo
workers were
decked
out
in
wizard costumes; and
Harry Potter himself
put in
an appearance
in the form
of
student
body president Timos Pietris
'17.
The
amb
i
ence
was just the beginning.
The menu
featured go
l
den snitch
cake
pops,
mini
Victorian cakes,
Ollivanders
wands
(chocolate-covered
pretzels),
a
Hagrid
"Happee
Birthdae Harry"
cake,
mandrake
pots,
vegetarian
Gillyweed ba
ll
s, and
t
h
e
ever famous
Butterbeer. Raffles
of
Harry
Potter books
and
gift
cards
to
on-campus
cafes
provided incent
i
ve to dress the part,
resulting in hundreds
of
Harrys
swarming
the Great Hall.
In
all,
2,161
guests attended-the event
was open to students, staff, faculty, and
a
l
umni-while the average Wednesday
dinner draws
about
1,692
.
"We
were
so
happy
with
the turnout,
"
said
Baksa.
"The
atmosphere
in the
room was
phenomenal
,
between
all
the decor
,
music,
and enthusiasm
from students, faculty, and staff."
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Diners enjoyed Potter
-
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The Marist Institute for Public Opinion
Marist Poll Returns to NH
Students Julianna Boniello
'17
(left) and
Stephanie Chouljian
'
17
{right)
greeted former
President Bill Clinton after a rally for Hillary
Clinton
in
Nashua, NH.
T
HE MARIST COLLEGE POLL
e
mbarked
on its quadrennial journey w
i
th Marist
students to New Hampshire
in
February
for the
presid
en
tial
primary
.
Described as
"Dis
neyland
for
political
geeks," the state
gave
students an up-close-and-personal
look
at the
political process
surrounding
the
first-in-the-
nation
primary
they
had been polling. They
int
eracted with
highly
respected
political
journalists
including NBC's
C
hu
ck
Todd,
CNN's
Ron Brownstein
,
and McC
l
atc
h
y's
Washington journalists Steve
Thom ma
and
David Lightman
.
They attended
many
of
the top-tier presidential
candi
dates'
events,
including
those of Hillary Clinton
(where
they
snapped a
photo
with
former President
Bill Clinton), Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz,
Marco
Rubio
,
and john Kasich. The Marist
students also got
a
wave from businessman
Donald Trump just before
his
Meet the Press
interview.
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Marist students spoke with Chuck Todd on the set of
Meet the Press
at the NBC News broadcast
center in Manchester, NH.
Lydia Denis
'
17
IMARIST
POL
Nick Bayer '16
Student Brooke DiPalma
'
18
posed
with
Sen.
Ted Cruz after a campaign
rally in
Manchester
,
NH
.
Marcia Kramer of WCBS-TV interviewed Dr
.
Lee
M. Miringoff
in
Milford, NH, as Marist students
recorded the interview.
'
Tm
starting to realize how influential New Hampshire is. Just the other day
we
were down at the Radisson
,
and we had the former Secretary of State,
governors
,
media moguls walk right by us. It just really shows the power of
our democratic system because New Hampshire is such a small state, but
it
has such a big voice in this whole spectrum
."
Brooke DiPalma
'
18
"
The amount of celebrities that we
'
ve seen in the past
24
hours is just abso
-
lutely mind
-
boggling
.
What's
really
cool
,
for me at least, is that it gets
you
to really feel like these big politicians are real, maybe not so ordinary
,
but
real people
.
You hear about them, and everyone
'
s talking about them, but
there is
something
that's totally unique and totally different about standing
10
feet away from one of these people who might wind up being the next
president of the United States, which is absolutely phenomenal.
"
"
We were able to meet Hillary Clinton, and it really was an honor just to see
her and how she interacted with the crowd. It was something really cool,
and something I will never forget
."
Julianna Boniello
'
17
"
I think something great about these experiences is you can learn things
that
you didn
'
t learn in the classroom, go back to school, and think, oh, I
see how this connects. So I think it
'
s a really good immersive experience
."
Casey Clarke
'17
"I
have loved this trip so far! From meeting Chuck Todd, going behind the
scenes of
Meet the
Press-which is my lifetime goal
,
to work behind the
scenes as a political analyst for a media organization
-
I was just starstruck,
especially seeing these candidates whom I wouldn't have the opportunity
otherwise to see."
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Athletics
Red Fox Roundup
BY MIKE FERRARO
'
01
Mike Ferraro
'01
is Marist'
s
sports information
dire
c
tor.
Marist Adds to NFL Footprint
I
N
2015,
the Marist
College football
pro-
gram's
impact
on
the
National
Football
League continued
to
grow.
Jason Myers
'13
won the place-k
i
cking
job
with the Jacksonville
Jaguars in late August
of
2015 and
became
the second former Marist
football
player to
appear
in
an NFL game
this
past season.
The
first was Terrence
Fede
'13,
who was selected
in
the 2014 NFL
Draft by
the Miami
Dolphins.
In
the second week of the 2015 sea-
son, Fede and the
Dolphins traveled to
Jacksonville to face
Myers
and
the Jaguars
,
marking the first
time
two Marist graduates
shared an NFL field. Myers connected on
three field goals,
including
a 28-yard attempt
with 40 seconds remaining which
proved
to
be the
game-winner
in the Jaguars'
23-20
triumph.
On the season, Myers connected on 26
of
his
30 fie
l
d
goal attempts and scored
no
points.
His
53-yard field goal with
no time
remaining
lifted Jacksonville to
a 22-20 win
at
Baltimore
on Nov. 15.
Fede finished
his
second NFL season
with 16 tackles,
including
10 solo stops.
He
had
a
career-
high
six stops
in
a
13
-10
victory
at Washington on Sept. 13.
Both Myers and Fede
have maintained
their loyalty to the Marist football program
through contact with current players and
coaches,
in
addition
to
well wishes through
social media. Marist
held
a Terrence Fede
Bobblehead Day giveaway for
its
Nov. 7,
2015, game against
Stetson. A
Jason Myers
Bobblehead Day giveaway
is
scheduled for
the Oct. 29, 2016, game against San Diego.
Radin Chosen in MLL Draft,
Named to Prestigious Watch Lists
M
EN'S LACROSSE SENIOR JOSEPH RADIN
became the first p
l
ayer
in program
history
to
be
selected
in the
Major
League
Lacrosse draft
when
he
was chosen
by
the
Charlotte
Hounds in the
sixt
h
round with
the 45th overall selection on
Jan
.
22.
On Feb. 23,
Radin
was
named
to the
Watch
List
for the
prestig
i
ous
Tewaaraton
Award, which
is presented
to the top lacrosse
player in
the United States. One week earlier,
Radin
was selected as one of 20 candidates
for
the
men's
lacrosse
Senior CLASS Award.
The
award goes to a senior wit
h
notab
l
e
ac
hievements in
community, classroom,
character, and competition.
Radin
is coming off a
historic
2015 sea-
son.
His
55 goals set
a
Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference single-season record as
he
helped
lead the Red
Foxes
to
their second
NCAA
Tournament appearance in
progr
am
history.
Terrence Fede
'
13 (left) greets Jason Myers
'
13
after the Miami Dolphins faced the Jacksonville
Jaguars on Sept
.
20, 2015. It marked the first
time two Marist graduates shared the field in
an NFL game.
He
also
broke
the school's single-season goals
record, which
had
stood for 29 years.
Radin
was
named
MAAC
Offensive Player
of the
Year
last
season.
He is
off
to
a fast start
in
the 2016 sea-
son, with 10 goals in the Red Foxes' first two
games.
He
was
named
MAAC Offensive
Player
of
the
Week after each of
the
first
two
weeks of
the
season.
Radin
was
named Preseason Pla
yer
of
the
Year
this
season, and
the Red
Foxes were
picked first
in
the coaches'
preseason
poll.
Men's lacrosse senior Joseph Radin became the first player
in program history to be selected in the Major League
Lacrosse draft when he was chosen by the Charlotte
Hounds in the sixth round with the 45th overall selection
.
Radin
'
s 55 goals set a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference single
-
season record as he helped
lead the Red Foxes to their second NCAA Tournament appearance in program history.
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Wilkinson Named Finalist for National
Coach of the Year
M
EN'S LACROSSE
HEAD
COACH
Keegan
Wilkinson was one of six
finalists
for
the
United States
Intercollegiate Lacrosse
Association
Division I
Coach of
the Year.
In
2015,
Wilkinson led Marist to its
first
NCAA
Tournament
victory
in program
history,
its
first MAAC championship
in
10
years, a season-ending
national ranking in
two polls, and a
14-4
overall record.
The
2016 season
marks
Wilkinson's
ninth
working at
Marist. He
served as assistant
coach from 2008
to
2011 and
has been the
program's head
coach since
the
2012 season.
In his
first four years at
the helm
,
he posted
a
record of
36-25
overall
with a 17-7
mark
in
conference
p
l
ay and
two
MAAC Coach
of the
Year
awards.
Women
'
s Swimming and Diving
Captures MAAC Title
T
HE
WOMEN'S
swimming and
diving
team
won
its
seventh consecutive MAAC
championship on
Feb. 13
,
and
1
7
th
in school
history.
This championship was
perhaps
Marist's
most dominant. The Red Foxes racked up
a total of 976
points
and
broke their own
record for
largest margin
of victory
by finish-
ing 446
points
ahead of second-place
Rider.
Of the 20 events at
the meet,
Marist captured
15 gold medals.
The Red
Foxes
took home
several
major
awards from
the meet. junior
Meredith
Wurtz was named MAAC
Women
's
Swimmer of the Year, and sophomore Megan
Berardelli was
named
the conference's Most
Outstanding
Diver. Larry
Van Wagner
was
named
Women's Coach of the Year for
the
seventh
time,
and Melanie Bolstad was
honored
as
Diving
Coach of the Year for
the fourth
time
.
Men
'
s lacrosse head coach Keegan
Wilkinson was one of six finalists
for the United States Intercollegiate
Lacrosse Association Division I
Coach of
t
he Year
.
Junior Manuel Garcia of the Marist men
'
s swimming and
diving program will be invited to compete for a spot on
Mexico
'
s Olympic swim team.
Garcia Qualifies for Olympic Trials
J
UNIOR MANUEL GARCIA
of the Marist
men
's
swimming and
diving program
will
be invited to
compete for a spot on Mexico's
O
l
ympic swim
team. On
Feb. 25 at
the ECAC
championships,
Garcia recorded
a
time
of
56.13 seconds in the 100-meter
butterfly.
Those
who
make the
cut at
the
Olympic
trials
for
Mexico
will
represent
Mexico
in the
2016
Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
Garcia is
the second Marist swimmer
in
program history to be
invited
to the
Olympic
trials. He is
a
native
of Mexico City.
Basketball Records Fall,
Milestones Reached
O
N SEPT.
18, senior Tori
Jarosz learned
that
she was granted a sixth season
of eligibility
by the
NCAA, enabling
her to
continue a career that
included flashes
of
brilliance but
also a transfer and
injuries.
She certainly
has made
the
most
of
her
opportunity.
Jarosz
scored
her 1,oooth
career
point
on
)an. 25 against Saint
Peter's
and
then broke
the program's
a
ll
-ti
me blocks record
three
days
later
against Siena. She also set the
pro
-
gram's single-season record for rebounds and
blocks this
year. With averages of 18.8
points
,
12.1
rebounds, and 3.0
blocks per
game
in the
regular
season
,
Jarosz turned in
one of
the
most productive
years
in program history
and was
named
MAAC
Player
of the Year.
On Feb. 14
at Canisius, senior Sydney
Coffey set
the women
's
basketball
single-
game
program
record
by
scoring 38
points.
The
previous record
of 37
by
Charlene
Fields
'93
had
stood for
23
years
.
Coffey
had
scored
her 1,oooth
career
point in Marist
's
season
opener at
South Dakota
State on Nov.
13.
On the
men's side, junior
Khallid Hart
scored
his 1,oooth
career
point
on )an. 2
against Canisius.
Hart became the
30th
player
in
program history
to
reach this
milestone.
Women's Cross Country Wins
ECAC Championship
The women
'
s swimming and diving team won its seventh consecutive MAAC championship
.
T
HE WOMEN'S
CROSS COUNTRY TEAM
won its
second ECAC championship
in program histor
y
on Nov. 21. Sophomore
Mara Schiffhauer
led
the
Red
Foxes with a
seventh-place finish overall. Schiffhauer-
along with senior Nicki Nesi, freshman Emily
Burns,
and
junior
Elizabeth Wasserman-
earned
ECAC
All-East
honors.
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The second annual
WALKWAY OVER THE
HUDSON MARATHON
is scheduled for June
12,
2016.
In last year's inaugural
marathon, competitors
included several Marist
College student
-
athletes
such as Richard Willi
'16
of
the cross country/track and
field teams.


















































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PROFILES
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'77
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J
IM DEFELICE
'
77
always sa
id
he
was
going
to
write a
book. In
1987
he
quit his
full-time
job to
give
it
a shot.
Now,
15
New York Times
best
sellers
and
more than
so
books later, he's
still at
it.
Although a successful author for
nearly three decades, he
i
s
most likely
best
known for
three recent
New York
Times
best
sellers, all
published by
William Morrow.
American Sniper
is the autobiography of
Navy
SEAL
Chris Kyle, who recorded
the most
career sniper kills
in
U.S.
military
history
.
Written with Defelice, it was
a No.
1
New York Times best seller
both
at the
time
of its
initial
publi-
catio
n
in
2012
and again
upon
the
release
of
the film based
on the
book.
Directed by
C
l
int Eastwood and star-
ring Bradley Cooper,
the
movie was
nominated
for six
Academy Awards
(it won for
best
sound editing) and
broke box
office records when
it
went
into
wide release in
January
2015.
Code Name:
Johnn
y
Walker,
pub-
li
shed
in
2014,
tells the
story of an
Iraqi
who
worked as a trans
l
ator for SEALs and other
American
military
forces
throughout Iraq
from
2003
to
2009,
comp
l
et
in
g
more
than
a thousand
missions.
American Wife,
published in
2015,
is the
heartbreaking
account
by
Taya Ky
l
e with
Defelice
of
lif
e fo
ll
owi
n
g the
murder
of
her
husband,
Chris, in
2012.
Kyle and a
friend,
Chad Litt
l
efie
ld
, were shot and
killed
at a
Texas
s
h
ooting
range
by Eddie
Ray Routh,
a veteran
they
were trying to
help. In
2015,
Routh
was convicted of capital
murder
in
the shootings and sentenced
to
life in prison
witho
ut
the possibility
of
parole.
Defelice was
a
l
ready a
n
estab
li
shed
writer of
military nonfiction prior to
American Sniper.
His
earlier books
include
Omar
Bradley: General
at War, a biography
published
in
2011
by Regnery. Defelice's
wife,
Debra Scacciafero,
was key
to the project
,
spend
in
g
more than
a year in
the
archives
at West
Point
cond
u
ct
in
g research.
Defelice
Jim Defelice
'
77
a
l
so wrote
Rangers
at
Di
eppe
:
The First
Combat Action
of
U.S. Army Rangers in
World
War
II,
published by Berkley/Penguin
in
2008,
which
Publi
s
h
ers
Weekly called
"ca
r
ef
ully
researched
and vivid
l
y
told.
"
Defelice
a
l
so
created and writes
the
action-adventure
mass
-
market
ser
i
es
Dr
eam
land
with Dale
Brown
and worked with
Richard
Marcinko,
the
former Navy captain who founded SEAL
Team
6, on
the
Rogu
e
Warrior series.
"I
didn
'
t think that I
would write
this
man
y
books
,"
Defelice reflects
over
lun
ch
in
a
pub
in
Warwick, NY, where
he
and
his
family
live.
An English
major in
college,
he
wrote
plays
for
his
theatre
class
with Jerry Cox
'ss
as we
ll
as
articles for New York
newspapers.
Enrolled
in
the Science of Man,
a
n innova-
tive
honors
accelerated-degree
program
,
he
graduated
magna
cum
laude in
only
three
years.
He
went on to earn a
master
's
in
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English at SUNY Albany in
1982.
He
con-
tinued working as a
reporter
and editor at
several newspapers, rising to executive editor
and genera
l
manager
at Taconic Newspapers,
a
publishing
group
based
in Mi
llb
rook, NY.
"One
day I
said to myself, 'Th
i
s
is
really
great, but I'm
not
writing a book. And if I'm
not writing a
book
now-if
1 don't
wr
it
e
now-l'm never going
to
do
it.'"
After
leaving the
editor
position in
1987,
he
indeed wrote a
book.
"It wasn't published,
so I'm
the
only one who thought
it
was good,"
he says.
However,
his second
book,
Coyote Bird,
was
published in
1992
by St.
Martin's
Press.
He
'
s
been
writing
books, both fiction
and
nonfiction, ever since
.
He
also develops video games, coming
up
with concepts for them or writing scripts.
He
is one of the founders of
Redacted
Studios
,
located
in
Californ
i
a, and recently worked on
Afro Samurai
II,
which
debuted in
fall
2015.
"It's something
different. lt's
a
new
way
to think about story telling,
"
he
says.
Whether working on a
book
or a video
game, his motivation is
the
same. "The
reason
I write
is
to
find
something out that
I don't
know
before I
start."
Over the years,
he has maintained ties
with Marist.
He has
shared
his
experiences
with students
by
speaking to writing classes
and serving on alumni career panels
.
American Sniper
came about after
Peter
Hubbard,
an editor at William Morrow,
asked
Defelice
to write Chris Kyle
'
s story.
A
major
factor
in Defelice's decision
was
Chris
himself.
"l always ask somebody
before
I work with them what they want.
'
What do
you want from this book?
'
And whatever they
say is cool, I just want to
understand.
If
some-
body
wants to make
$1
m
illi
on, well, that
might
not
happen,
but
at
least I
know where
you're coming from. What Chris wanted
to
do was
honor the people he had
served with."
But Defe
li
ce
told
Kyle
if he
were going
to do it, Kyle would
have
to
be honest
about
everything, from combat
to life
at
home.
Defelice also wanted
to
show what
li
fe was
like not only for Chris,
but
also
his
family.
Within a week or two of
their phone
ca
ll
,
Taya Kyle relates in
her book, the
two men
got to work.
Defelice
spoke
to
C
h
ris every
day for at
least
an
hour
over a
period
of six
months.
He
went
to Texas to
ta
l
k wit
h
the
Kyles in their
home
several
times,
and
they
stayed at
his home in
Warwick as well.
"Specia
l
thanks
and appreciation go
to
Jim Defelice for
his patience,
wit,
under-
standing, and writing ability," Chris Kyle
wrote
in
the Acknow
l
edgments section of
"The reason I write is to find something out that I don
'
t know before I start."
American Sniper.
"Wit
h
out
hi
s
help, this
book
wou
ld
not be
what
it is today. I
a
l
so
want to express
my
sincere appreciation to
Jim's
wife and son for open
in
g
their home
to
Taya and
me
as
this book developed
.
"
Code Name:
Johnny
Walker
was Chr
i
s
Ky
l
e
'
s idea
.
Hubbard
asked Defelice to write
it,
and he agreed
.
Defel
i
ce
interviewed the
Iraqi
known as
Johnny
Wa
l
ker in California,
where Navy SEALS with whom Johnny
had
worked so close
l
y had
helped
arrange for
him
and
his
family
to
relocate.
Following
the success of
American
Sniper,
Chris Kyle went to work w
ith
the
same
publisher
on
American Gun: A
History
of the
U.S.
in
Ten
Firearms.
At
the time
of
his
death,
the book
was unfinished.
Defelice
was called
upon to pull it together.
When
it
was
published in
2013,
it too became
a
New
York Times
best
seller.
Taya Kyle also acknowledged Jim
in
her
book.
"
To
Jim Defelice:
What a tremendous
blessing to
have
had your skill, your
humility,
your compassion, and grit with
American
Sniper, Am
e
rican Gun,
and
now
American
Wife.
With Chris and me both, you have been
friend, writer, counse
l
or who
h
as
laughed
with
us
through the
tears.
You
have
taken on
more
work for
less money
a
nd
recognition
than
anyone
probably
s
h
ould ...
1
am
honored
to know
you and
to
work
with
you.
I
l
ook
forwar
d
to
our
next
l
i
terary
adventures!"
Things
haven't
slowed
down
for Defelice.
Due
out
in
2016
i
s
Fighting Blind,
a
memoir
he
has written with Capt.
Ivan
Castro, a
blind
Green Beret who
has run marathons
and
ultramarathons,
biked
across
the
U.S., and
trekked with an expedition of veterans
to
the
South Pole, a
ll
since
l
osing
his
s
i
ght
in Iraq
in
2006.
Defelice has been
writing
both the
book
and a screenp
l
ay
based
on the story.
In
addit
i
on, a
new
series with Da
l
e Brown
ca
ll
ed
Puppetmasters
w
ill
debut in
fa
ll
2016.
Defelice is
a
l
so working
on
a
nonfiction his-
tory
of
the Pony
Express,
to be
published by
Wi
lli
am Morrow
in
2017.
Despite a
ll
the
collaboration, the work
is ultimately solitary. "The thing
is,
writers
spend an enormous amount of time
by
them-
selves, being very boring,"
Defelice
says. "In
order to get anything
done, that
'
s what you
'
ve
got to do.
I've been
lucky to be
involved
with
interesting
people,
and to
be
able to go pretty
much all over the world."
But,
he
adds, "that's not rea
ll
y what the
job is.
The
job
really is
sitting
in
a room
talking to yourself for
hours
and
hours
and
hours."
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2016
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Laurie DeJong
'
87 (center) greets patients at the health center opening in Kasese
.
Y
ou
DON'T HAVE
TO
BE
A
BIG COMPANY
to
make
a
large
impact.
That's
the
example
Laurie Dejong
'87
sets
for
those
who want
to make the world a bet-
ter place
.
Since
she
began working in East
Africa in
2009,
the Paper Fig Foundation
she
established
has
constructed a
health
center
to
bring medical
care
to
a
population
of
50,000
that
had no
other access.
The
foundation also
runs programs that
support education
for
children, vastly
improve infrastructure,
and
empower women
by training them in
skills
that generate income.
Paper Fig puts to work the resources
of
Dejong
's
business, LDJ Productions,
a global
events
management company whose clients
include
New
York Fashion Week, L'Oreal
,
Nickelodeon,
Yahoo!,
and
the
New York
Times.
Most of
the
foundation's focus
is
on
the region
of East
Africa.
De)ong's work
in
Africa
began
after she
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A R I S
T
M AG A Z I N E
BY LESLIE BATES
was named to
Enterprising Women
maga-
zine's
list
of Enterprising
Women
of
the Year
in
2009
.
During the
award ceremony, she was
introduced to the
PEACE
THROUGH BUSI-
NESS
initiative
of
the Institute
for Economic
Empowerment
of Women and
its mentoring
program. She mentored
a
fashion designer
from Rwanda,
which
ultimately led LDj
Productions to
collaborate on
launching
a
Fashion Week, modeled
after New
York's, in
Kigali.
The
success of
Kigali Fashion
Week
led to working with designers from Uganda,
Burundi,
Kenya, and Congo.
The idea was
to boost
economic act
i
vity-Dejong
notes
that New York Fashion Week
generates as
much
as
$80
million per
season just
in the
neighborhood
where
it
takes place-as
well
as opportunities for women.
Because
of
her
work
to
advance women's entrepreneurship,
Dejong recently was recognized
as one of
two
winners of the
2016
Enterprising Women
Advocacy Award.
It
was
following
an event
in
Uganda
that
the LDj team
expanded
its
role
in Africa
.
Dejong had taken her
group to a
lodge in
a
rural
area of southwestern Uganda for a
safari.
"When we got
to the lodge, I
said, Tm
here with three
carpenters,
two
electri-
cians-is
there
a school that
needs help? Is
there
somebody
who
can set
us up to do
a
volunteer activity?'
It
's
very
hard to
go
to
Africa
and
not do
something
.
"
She
was introduced to the unofficial
mayor of the local
village,
Kasese,
where
terrible flooding had
killed
many residents
and
destroyed the health
center. "When you
get
to the
rural areas,
there's
just so
much
need,"
she says
.
"It's just overwhelming.
It's life or death there
.
"




















LDJ Productions decided to
concentrate
on
helping Kasese.
"We
really focused our
efforts on
this one
community
in
a
very holis
-
tic way,
so
that we're looking at education,
economic
development,
and empowerment."
The
community
leader became
a
key member
of the
Paper Fig team, planning projects
and
assessing their
impact.
Paper
Fig, with
funding from Newman's
Own Foundation,
has now built
a
health
cen-
ter, stocked with
medications and staffed
by
doctors two days a week. The foundation
is
also
bringing designers from nearby
cit
-
ies to teach
skills
such as basket weaving,
sewing, and
beading to local women
whose
only source of
income is illegally
gathering
firewood
in
a state
park
and selling
it. The
women are often arrested and
raped by
guards or
in
some cases eaten
by wildlife,
Dejong
says.
The
empowerment
pilot pro-
gram
involves 150 women
who,
if they
com
-
plete the training,
will have the
opportunity
to
present business plans, receive microloans
to
start
businesses, and sell their products
at a
nearby lodge that draws many tourists
from
Europe and
Australia
.
Patients wait for the opening of the health center in Kasese
,
Uganda
.
The foundation is
also
upgrading the
farmer
'
s
market to make
conditions
more
sanitary and
providing funds for men
and
women to
make
school
uniforms
for children.
This spring,
Dejong
and a
team member
from
her husband
'
s company,
Factory8-her
husband is Marist
alumnus
JR Morrissey
'88-were scheduled
to
go
to Kigali to
teach a
patternmaking class. The training will
focus
on
10
people with the idea that those
10
will
each teach as
many
as
three others.
The
goal
is
sustainability,
Dejong
says.
"The
idea is not to
go
do it for them; it
'
s
to
go over
there
and
train them to do it for
themselves,
so eventually
they won
'
t need us
.
"
Dejong, who
serves on
Marist
'
s Board
of
Trustees
,
and
her husband
aren
'
t the
only
members
of
their
family
-
or the
only
Marist
graduates-involved.
Their daughter, Joie,
a
Marist
freshman,
was
15 when
she
first went
to Africa
and
now loves working with the
foundation
.
Their
son,
Jack,
a sophomore at
the University of the Arts in London, will join
them there this
year.
And De)ong's
assistant,
Dale Mauri
'15,
has
also
joined the
company
on a
recent trip to Uganda.
Although Dejong never pressures
employees
to
go
on the trips, she
says get-
ting people to
step
out
of
their comfort zone
has been
an
unexpected joy
.
"We
haven
'
t had
one
person
go
there who hasn't
said
this has
been life-changing."
The
foundation
'
s
name
alludes
to
enlight-
enment.
A paper fig is
a
seashell-Dejong
collects shells-but also
refers to the sacred
fig tree under which Siddhartha Gautama,
the founder ofBuddhism, is said to have been
sitting when he became
enlightened.
Dale Mauri
'15
(
far left
)
attends a women's empowerment meeting in Kidado Village
,
Uganda
.
Dejong speaks at conferences on the topic
of sma
ll
companies making
a
large impact
and
believes LDJ is a good example
of
that.
"We
'
re a company
of 16 people. We've had
some really
nice
support
from
family, friends
,
and
the
fashion community, and some other
foundations. It doesn't
take
that much
of an
effort
,
1
think, resource-wise, to do
what we
'
re
doing.
"
The
company contributes a
percent-
age of
its net profits to the
foundation (www.
paperfigfoundation.org).
Dejong
says
she learned
all
of her busi
-
ness skills, including budgeting,
along
the
way. After
graduating
from Marist with
a
degree in
social
work,
she
did in-house
events
for Calvin Klein before joining her husband's
company as
president
in
1992. When their
children
were born, she became
a
full-time
mom. She then
started
LDJ Productions,
which began to
grow
rapidly in
2002.
Originally from Northport, Long Island,
she has lived in New York City
since
1987.
She will begin a three-year
executive
educatio
n
program at Harvard Business
Schoo
l
in September
.
"I
think it will teach
me the skills I need to learn because now I'm
running the business
and
the foundation. The
foundation is just a different
world.
It's been
humbling because
we
have so much
to
learn.
"
Also in
2016,
Dejong will travel to
Africa three times. The
foundation
has
set
its
sights
on four
ambitious
projects
slated
for
the next
few years:
building
a
5-kilometer
road,
already
underway
,
up
a
mountain to
the health center; installing
a solar
panel
on
the health
center;
building
a
well;
and con
-
structing
a bridge over a fast-moving river
that divides the
community.
They
also
plan
to purchase
a
building in Kasese in which to
house the women's
empowerment
program
.
Every project has had its
challenges,
whether bureaucratic
or
physical. But
Dejong perseveres.
"If
I'm
going
to make
a
commitment, I'm going to find
a way
to make
i
t happen," she says.
'Tm
pretty re
l
entless.
You have to be
.
"
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Alumni
Jason Schuler '04
is
founder and
president of
Drink More Good.
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Jason Schuler '04
Doing More Good
Jason Schuler's company handcrafts soda syrups and partners with generosity.org
to help make clean water more accessible worldwide.
W
HEN JASON SCHULER
'0
4
was an
undergraduate business major work-
ing away on spreadsheets and research for
classroom projects,
he had no
idea
how useful
those
homework
sessions would
be in
the
future.
Twelve years after graduation,
he's
the
president and founder of Drink More Good, a
four
-
year
-
old company with a philanthropic
mission that
'
s had fast albeit
hard-earned
succes
s
by using locally sourced and organic
ingredients to create handcrafted soda syr
-
ups, bitters
,
and tea and tisane concentrates.
"I n
e
ver really had aspirations to own
my
own busin
e
ss, almost just kind of fell into it,
"
sa
y
s Schuler, who
had
a
long background
of
working in restaurants and
bars. He
came
up with the entrepreneurial idea after a cus
-
tomer in a
Peekskill,
NY
,
restaurant
asked
him to
bottle
one of
his handcrafted
syrups
for a Christmas present.
"
I
went
home
that
night
and researched
how to bottle syrups without killing my
family and friends,
"
Schuler
laughs
. "
Then
I thought,
'
This might
be
an idea worth
pursuing
.'"
With some start-up money from a
friend
,
he began making
his products in
the
kitchen at the restaurant. That
'
s where the
lessons
from Marist
business classes
kicked
in
-
analy
z
ing markets
,
doing
spreadsheets,
and fi
g
uring
out
how
to
pitch
to
investors.
"
l
pulled out some old files and it all came
into play
,
" Schuler says.
"
I
really
have
a
lot
of gratitude for what
I learned
at Marist."
M
a
king soda syrups wasn
'
t what
he
e
nvi-
sion
e
d as
his
future while at Marist. After
g
radu
a
tion
,
he went
to law
school but found
out that it wasn
'
t for him.
He
moved to Los
An
g
eles, where
he
got more experience in the
bar industry and
learned
a
lot
about making
bitters and
s
yrups from scratch
before mov
-
ing back East.
His
business
,
now up to five employees
,
has
g
rown quickly.
It's
even gotten a
nod
and
promotion
a
l
boost from Martha Stewart.
Drink More Good was a 2014 finalist
in
the
Martha St
e
wart
"
Americ
a
n Made
"
competi
-
tion. According to Stewart
'
s Web site, the
progr
a
m spotlights
"e
ntrepreneurs, artisans,
a
nd
s
m
a
ll
-
business owners who are creating
BY KATHLEEN NORTON MCNULTY
'
79
/'
14 MA
beautiful
,
inspiring, useful products;
pioneer-
ing new industries;
improving local
com
-
munities;
and changing the way we eat
,
shop
,
work, and
live."
The coming year
brings two new develop
-
ments
for
the
company
.
Schuler has launched
a
business incubator,
offering consulting ser-
vices to
take
food start-ups
from
concept
to
market. And Drink More Good now
provides
co-packing services: other packaged-food
companies
have
contracted with Drink More
Good to produce syrups and bitters.
"
From the start
I
knew
I
never wanted to
outsource my production
,
so
I
just positioned
my
company
to
eventually take on the
pro
-
duction for other companies in addition to
increasing our own,"
he
says.
Making
the product
is only
part
of
Schuler
'
s story.
He wanted to
h
ave a suc-
cessful
business but make
the world a
better
place,
too.
The company
has partnered
with gen-
erosity
.
org
,
an organization
making
clean
water accessible worldwide. Since Schuler
started the company
in
2012,
Drink
More
Good
has
raised more than $26
,
000 for the
organization and funded five wells.
In January
2014,
Drink
More Good set
up
shop at 383
Main St. in Beacon,
NY, a
2,000
-
square-foot space where company
products
are sold and cafe space welcomes
customers
in the
front, and
products
are
handcrafted
in the kitchen in the back. Other
entrepreneurs including self-employed bakers
and caterers rent the kitchen as well.
Besides the
store and
the
compan
y
Web
site
,
Drink
More Good
'
s wares can
be
found
at Whole Foods stores
in
New York
,
New
Jersey,
and Connecticut, farmer
'
s
markets in
Queens, Brook
l
yn, and Westchester County
,
and on
Amazon.com.
Among frequent customers for Schuler
'
s
ginger ale
,
root
beer,
or other
flavored
syrups
are Soda Stream users because
they
can make
healthier soda drinks without artificial ingre
-
dients
,
especially high fructose corn syrup
.
The
"giving" part of
his
business pl
a
n
fueled
his passion
and kept
him
going during
the "zombie" period, as he calls it
,
when
he
tended bar until the
wee
hours,
worked all
day
on
his new
company, and
parented his
young son,
Luca Jae
Schuler.
The
dedication
and work
have paid
off
and
he
offers students and recent graduates
some advice: try things
until
you
hit
on some
-
thing
you're
passionate
about; work
hard;
and
have
a
mission beyond
yourself.
Before
Drink
More
Good had
even
turned a
profit
,
he
signed a contract to donate
a
portion
of
profits
to generosity.org
. "
My
business
advisers
thought I
was crazy
,
but I
wasn
'
t
wi
ll
ing to
compromise,"
he
says.
"
I
wasn't going
to
start a company unless
it
would
make
a
difference."
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Schuler blends ingredients in the Drink More Good shop and kitchen in Beacon, NY.
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Rocking
the
Runway
Tricia Perrotti '92 and Kellyn Leveton '03 design and
market clothing lines for the Adam Levine Collection
N
EW YORK FASHION WEEK
got a
little
taste of
Marist during the
Adam
Levine
Collection
run
-
way show
in
fall 2015. Tricia (Rizzuto)
Perrotti
'92 and
Kellyn Leveton
'
03
presented the Maroons frontman's
new
clothing
lines for
Shop
Your Way Brands
/
Kmart
on
Sept. 16 in
ew York City.
"It was amazing,'' said
Perrotti
,
marketing director
for Shop Your Way
Brands
/
Kmart. "Th
i
s
is
the first time
Kmart ever
presented
a collection during NY FW
,
so that
was exciting for everyone in our office
.
"
The
show debuted
both the men's
and women's
collections and featured a
total
of 48
looks.
More than
350 guests attended, and
the
collections generated a
lot
of
press
.
"We
had
a
lot
of
buzz
on social
media
-
from
red
-
carpet celebrities,
to our models,
to our
parent brand,
Kmart," said
Perrotti.
"
It
was great seeing all of the
posi
-
tive
feedback
and support for
the
collection
.
"
As marketing director, her responsibilities
include
overseeing
brand development
and positioning
,
promo
-
tions and special offers, and
public relations
for
both
the
Adam Levine
and Nicki
Minaj
collections. For
the run
-
way show, she
handled
everything
from
guest and press
lists, invitations
,
and
model
selections
to
working with
the design team
on se
l
ecting
lo
oks, securing
partners
to provide
accessories
,
managing the
video
production
team,
promoting
via social media, and supplying photos
and
other
content
to the press.
Though Levine was
on
tour
with
his band in
Asia
and
not present
at
the
show, "he was very
happy
with
how
everything
turned
out,"
Perrotti
said.
Tricia Rizzuto Perrotti
'
92
(left
)
and Kellyn Leveton
'
03
presented
Maroons frontman Adam Levine
'
s new clothing lines for Shop
Your Way Brands
/
Kmart at New York Fa
s
hion Week in fall
2015.
Perrotti
joined Shop
Your Way Brands
/
Kmart
in
early 2015 after
holding marketing positions
at Gannett
,
BY EMILY BELFIORE
'
16
1957
The success of
G. Patrick
Gallagh
e
r
'
s
new book,
Success/ ul
Police Risk
Management,
h
as kept
him
on the road.
Pat is
also
work-
ing
on
reports in
conjunction with
agreements
with the ACLU
and
various
police departments. He
resides in Bucks
County,
PA. s
Joe
Strang
lives in Pacific Grove,
CA,
and operates
Joe
'
s
Pruning, which
specializes
in the
care of
fruit
trees. Joe
also
teaches workshops
at
nurseries
and garden clubs
in his
community.
1963
Francis
Calla
h
an
relocated from
Connecticut
to
Cape Cod and
plans
to reestablish his personal-training
business,
SilverFox Fitness,
LLC. s
Bro. John
Na
sh
turned
75
in
2015
and retired from
his
psychotherapy
practice in Poughkeepsie.
Now a
full-time
archivist
in
Esopus, NY,
for
the
Marist Brothers, he
super
-
vises
the
scanning of
the Brothers'
photographs
and
documents
and
organizes
recent
acquisitio
n
s.
Brother
John
also
is
working with
Marist
to
set
up
a Web
page
for
the
Marist
Brothers' archives.
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1966
Theodore
Fl
y
nn
is the
chair of
the
New England Center for
Homeless
Veterans.
He
also
is
the chair of the
Board of Selectmen for the town of
Duxbury, MA,
and serves as vice
chair of
Old
Colony
Hospice
in
Randolph,
MA.
s
Mich
a
el Ward
has retired
after 45 years of
physical
therapy practice
and
is
selling
his
business
.
Michael
is now
enjoying
more time
w
i
th his nine
grandchil
-
dren
and
traveling. He is looking
forward to
returning to
Marist
in
October
for
his
50th
class reunion.
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Tricia (Rizzuto) Perrotti
'
92
(center)
,
marketing
director for Shop Your Way Brands/Kmart, talks
with members of her team before the Adam Levine
Collection runway show
.
Meredith Corp.,
Primedia, America Media,
and
Time
Inc.,
among others.
She majored in
communications
at Mar
i
st
with
a concentration
in public
relations/
advertising.
She says Marist provided
many
resources
that have
helped her throughout her
career, such as job
placement
services,
networking
events, and
internships. "I've
a
l
so
been on the other side, where students
have
come
to
me
for job
help, informational interviews,
contacts,
and
networking. There
is a
mutual respect
among our
alumni
,
and
most
are very willing
to help
a
fellow Red
Fox
-
you just
have
to ask!"
Perrotti
says she also took advantage of avai
l
able
opportunities on campus
including
an internship w
ith
Marist
public relations
,
working for
the
Marist
In
stitute
for
Public
Opinion, working on
the College newspaper,
and volunteering for
the Marist Fund
and as an assistant
director of a TV show about
Red Fox basketball.
"l
think
experiencing all
different types
of ro
l
es
from writing
to production helped me become
a sea-
soned and
well-rounded media professional."
For
Leve ton, her
job as
design director of the
Adam
Levine
women's collect
i
on
is
a
dream
come
true.
"
I
knew
that
I
wanted
to
work as a
designer in the
apparel
industry,"
said
Leveton
.
"
I
knew I
always wanted
to
make fun,
wearab
l
e
clothes for
everyone
to
enjoy
.
"
She came
to
the Adam
Levine line in
2013
after working
her
way
up from
a
position
as an assistan
t
designer
in menswear to
jobs at companies such as
Perry Ellis,
Hart-S
c
haffner
Marx, and
Bill Blass
.
Kellyn Leveton
'03,
design director of Shop Your Way
Brands, works closely with Kevin Christiana, Shop
Your Way creative director
.
Leveton was
a
Marist fashion design major who
won the Outstanding Garment
award at
the
2003
Si
l
ver Needle
Fashion
Show. She cred
it
s
the Marist
Fashion Program with giving
her
"a
base
for
under-
standing garment construction, fabrications,
presenta
-
tion
skills, and
the design process
."
She
noted that
while at Mar
i
st she also fulfilled
the
requirements for
a studio art
major, which
gave
her
a strong foundation
in Photoshop
and
Illustrator, tools she
still
uses
every
day.
In
addit
ion
to her professional
work,
she
also
has
a side
project,
Sweet
Potato Pepper
,
that
sells appare
l
and accessories to
benefit rescue
animals.
Perrotti recalled that the two Marist
grads on
l
y
recent
l
y
discovered that they shared
an alma
mater.
"One
day
I
sa
id
something
out loud
about
Marist
-
Ke
ll
yn and
I
sit
next
to each
other
- and she sa
id
,
'Wa
it
,
are you
talking
about
me?
'
I
said,
'No,
1 was
talking
about
me,
I
we
nt
to Marist
.'
And
that's
how
we
realized
we
both
were alumni, and why we work
so well
together!"
Perrotti
added that Levine
is
a
big part
of
the
design process.
"Adam
really
wears
these clothes
and
is
actively involved
in their design
and
development.
So you can affoz:d and wear
the
same
thing
h
e
does,
and
it's not
a 'knock-off.'
H
e's wearing
the
same
item
that
you would
buy from
your
local Kmart.
"To
quote
Adam,
he
said, 'Attention
Kmart
shop-
pers-you now have
style.'
And that's
exact
l
y
how we
want our
customers
to feel.
"
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1967
1970
1973
Tho
m
as C
r
i
mmin
s
retired after
48
years
in
education, the
l
ast
32
years
as
a g
uid
ance
counselor and coach
at
Eimont Memorial High School on
Long Island
.
He and
his
wife of
40
years,
Cathy,
are
busy with their five
children and three grandchildren.
They also enjoy volunteer work at
their church and
in
the commu-
nity. "I always wanted to become a
teacher,"
he
writes, "and the Marist
Brothers and
great
faculty at Marist
College prepared me well. Thank
you to all of
you."
K
e
nn
e
th Reid
has been
enjoying
retirement from
his
social work
position
over the
past
10
years.
He has run his travel
agency since
1997
and,
thanks
to cell
phones
and
tablets, continues
to
do so while
traveling all over
the
world.
He
is
spending
67
days
in
South America
and
plans
another world cruise for
2017.
"Life
is
great,"
he
says,
"and
Marist gave
me the be
st
education
ever
Bro
. Pa
tri
c
k
McNa
m
ara
was
elected
provincial
of the Marist
Brothers of
the
United States.
1974
Jim
Keega
n
retired after
39
years
in
education.
He taught
for
11
years
at
Marist
high
schools
in
Eugene,
OR, and Chicago,
IL.
For
28
years,
he worked
in
the
public
schools
in
Oregon and was a
principal
for
22
of
those
years, primarily
in high
-
poverty schools. Jim and
his
wife
recently
moved
to
Portland
where
their youngest daughter
te
ac
he
s
in the
public schools.
Their
oldest
daughter is
a
health
care consultant
for
the Mercer
Corp
.
and
lives in
Chicago.
Jim
works
part time
as
a
leadership
coach for Education
Northwest and is an adjunct faculty
member
at
the
University of Oregon
.
El
T
h
omas M
a
u
ro
retired from
the Town
of
Poughkeepsie Police
Department
after
40
years.
He
served as chief of
police
starting
in
2008.
He is
an adjunct
instructor
for
the department
of
history,
govern-
ment,
and economics at
Dutchess
Community
College
.
1977
William
A
h
e
a
rn
's
daughter
,
Sarah,
was accepted
to Marist
's
Class of
2020.
1980
M
i
c
h
ae
l
Freer
was
appointed
undersheriff
of
the
Ulster County
(NY) Sheriff's Office.
El
Da
v
i
d
Met
z
has joined Old
School Creative as
principal
and executive
producer.
Old
School
is
a
marketing
com-
munications firm
founded
in
2006
that
specializes
in
creating
biogs,
sales/collateral
material, news
releas
es,
ads, Web sites, and-now
with
David joining
the firm-video
content creation.
1982
Cat
h
ari
n
e Maggs
('02
MBA)
recently left the restaurant business.
She
has returned to banking
and
is
enjoying
it.
1985
J
a
n
e
t
Law
ler
experienced a great
screenwriting year
.
Her
screenplay,
"The
Tenant,"
placed
in the
se
mifi-
nals of the
2015
Austin Film
Festival
and the
quarterfinals
of
the
2015
Nicholl
Fellowship
Competition.
The
Nicholl Fellowship
is run
by
the Academy of Motion
Picture
Arts and Sciences, the organiza-
tion
behind the
Academy Awards.
El
M
a
u
ree
n
O
'
R
o
u
rke
,
E
s
q
.,
dean
of
Boston University's School of
Law,
has
been named
one of
the
top
25
most
influential people in legal
education
by the
National
Jurist.
The honor marked th
e
first
time
a
BU
Law d
ea
n
was on
the list. The
announcement
noted
that O'Rourke
ha
s s
pearheaded legal
e
ducation
reforms at BU.
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Jerome Pickett '98, senior vice president and chief security officer of the
NBA, shown with President Dennis J. Murray, gave the keynote address
at the Catharine Street Community Center
'
s 25th annual Martin Luther
King Breakfast at the Mid
-
Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie.
NBA Executive Jerome
Pickett '98 Speaks to
Students, Community
J
EROME
PICKETT
'98, senior v
i
ce
president
and chief secur
it
y officer
of
the
National
Basketball
Association, shared
his
story of strugg
l
e
and success as
the
keynote speaker at
the
Cat
h
arine Street Community
Center's 25th annual Mart
in
Luther King Breakfast
on
Jan.
22, 2016, at
the Mid-Hudson
Civic Center
in Poughkeepsie.
Pickett,
a
native
of
nearby
Newburgh, NY,
recalled
a childhood spent
dealing
with racial
profiling,
such as
being
watched as
he
shopped
in local
stores, as
well
as with cr
iti
cism from schoolmates for wearing suits
to
class
and sounding "too white."
Rather than
buckling
under
other
people
'
s
negative
expectations,
Pickett told the
audience of approximate
l
y 500,
these
experiences fueled
his determination to
succeed on
his
own
terms.
At Marist,
he majored in
criminal justice and cold-called
the
Secret
Service to secure a summer
internship,
whic
h
led ultimately to him becom-
ing, at age 22, one of
the
youngest agents
in the history
of
the
agency.
"All of this because of my will to fig
ht
,
my
reluctance
to quit, my
ability
to not let
peer
pressure
sway me, and
in no
small
part, due
to the
heroes
in
my life," Pickett
said.
"
Dr. King's dream realized."
Later, Pickett
returned
to
campus, where
he met
with groups of stu-
dents
interested in
his personal
experiences and
his professional
career.
Pickett
spent 16 years with the Secret Service,
during
which
he
received
numerous awards including the US Secret Service Medal of Valor for
his
heroic
actions
during
9
/
11,
before
joining
the
NBA
in
2014.
D
i
scussing
the
keys to
his
success,
Pickett
said
that
even as an intern,
when
his days
were consumed with photocopying and ot
h
er
mundane
tasks, his
approach was always about being the
best
at whatever
he
was
doing.
In
stead of wishing
he
were
doing more
interesting work,
Pickett
said, "I
decided I
was going to
be
the
best
photocopier
there
is."
Now, as a
high-level
executive
leading
a
large,
globa
l
team
of
profes-
s
i
onals,
Pickett
said that, more than skills,
he
interviews job candidates
with an eye toward
their
ability to fit into the culture of his organization.
The
former are easier to
develop
than
the latter, he
said.
Pickett
stressed to
students that they are being judged by potential employers on everything
they do,
so a clear commitment and work ethic are vitally important. "Show
them that you are determined to work
until
the job is done.
"
In
addition to
his bachelor's
degree from Marist
,
Pickett holds a mas-
ter's
degree in
homeland
security from American Military University.
He
serves as a
member
of Marist's Alumni Executive Board.
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38
M A R
I S T
M AG A Z I N E
l
iumf\•U&
--
1986
Mar
t
i
n
Mc
P
arland
was promoted
to
chief of
police
for
the Rockaway
Township, NJ,
Police Department.
1987
Col.
R
o
b
ert Hughes
retired from
the
US
Army
after 28 years of active
service.
1988
Sea
n
No
bl
e
and
his
wife, Marleni,
have had
a
busy two
years.
They
welcomed a
baby
girl,
Gabriella,
born in
2013
.
He
also formed
his
own company, Supreme Furniture
Services,
based in
New York City.
s
R
obert O
'
Connor
comp
l
eted
the
Scheinman Arbitrator
Development
program
at Cornell University
.
He
also completed arbitrator
train-
ing
at
the
Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service
in
Washington,
DC,
with the objective of becoming
a
labor
arbitrator.
~
oBnN·UW
--
1991
Denise (
D
eCicco
)
Kasper
was
named director
of community
relations
for
the
Arbor
Ridge
at
Stanleyville
retirement
community
in
North Caro
l
ina.
1992
J
uli
e (D
u
mont
)
Rabinowitz
was
promoted
to
director
of policy,
operations, and communication
for the Maine Department of Labor
,
responsible
for overseeing policy
development, legislation,
financial
and
IT initiatives,
and public aware
-
ness
and regulatory compliance
communication.
1993
Meli
s
sa Anzalon
e
got
married
Feb. 15,
2015.
s
E
ileen Casey
recently joined
the
board of direc-
tors at Crittenton Women
'
s Union,
a Boston
nonprofit
that works to
financially empower women and
disrupt
the poverty cycle.
s
Brett
Pre
s
t
o
n
was recently appointed
as city court judge for
the
City of
Johnstown,
NY.
1994
Dr
.
Jeff Schanz
('99 MPA) served
on a
panel
discussing
"
The Future of
Alumni Relations
-
Opportunities
and Threats
"
at the Graduway
Dr
.
Jeff Schanz
'
94
('
99 MPA
)
Global
Leaders Summit at
the
University of Oxford
in
the UK
in
November 2015. Jeff
is
assistant
vice
president
for alumni relations
at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
in
Troy, NY.
1995
Kevin O
'
Ne
ill
('oo
MS) is the IT
services manager at Crown Castle
in Canonsburg,
PA. He
oversees a
SharePoint
Intranet
as well as
IT
training
media
.
~
B'U\NS
--
1996
Laura Sto
ll
recently
fulfilled
a lifelong
dream
of
moving
to
California's San
Fernando
Valley.
She consults for Ernst & Young
by
day and advises for Today
Improv
by
night. Laura
and
her
husband,
two children
,
and
pink-and
-
white
pit bull
will play valley tour guide
to anyone who comes
to
visit and
says the
password
"
Red
Fox
.
"
1997
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(
Rou~McCanne
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her husband
welcomed a
daughter,
Sophia Winsome,
born Oct.
30
,
2014
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Chris Raw
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and his wife
,
Robyn
(
Peet
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98
('05 MBA), con-
tinue
to live
in East Fishkill
,
NY,
with their three children, Maya
,
Schuyler, and Evangeline. Chris has
taught for
18
years
in
Spackenkill
schools
in Poughkeepsie. s N
icol
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(
Schlott
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Sulli
v
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and her
husband
,
Tomm
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daughter,
Erin
Christine, born Aug. 9
,
2014. Erin
joins big brother
Thomas
at home
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An Unforgettable Experience
Patrick Ramsey
'
13 (
'
14
MA), No
.
23,
was a member of
the Washington Generals, the longtime opponents
of the Harlem Globetrotters.
W
HEN HE GRADUATED
from Marist
in
2014,
Pat Ramsey,
a
member
of
the men's basketball
team, wasn
'
t ready to
stop
playing.
"J
had my mind
set on
playing professional basket
-
ball after
graduation.
I
didn
'
t know howl
was going
to
do it, but
I
knew I wanted to make it happen."
He
would joke
with teammates
and
friends that
he
was going
to declare
for
the Washington Generals,
the
lon
gtime
opponents
of
the
world-renowned exhibi-
tion basketball team the Harlem Globetrotters. The
Globetrotters,
currently on a
9oth-anniversary tour,
have delighted
audiences
worldwide with both their
prowess
and
their
antics on
the
court.
Ramsey, who graduated
cum
laud
e
with
a
BA in
communication
in
2013 and earned a
master's in inte-
grated
marketing
communication
in
2014,
began
giv-
ing the idea
of
the Generals
serious
thought.
In
spring
2014
he
got
in touch
with the team's general
manager,
providing him
with game and workout film. Although
the
Generals had
no openings,
Ramsey
stayed
in
touch.
Eventually
he
was offered a
position
with
the team
on
its West
Coast
tour. He
joined
the
Generals on
Dec.
25,
2014, and
his
first game was the
next day.
Although the Generals
were
portrayed
as "the
bad
guys,"
Ramsey
says,
they played
a significant role
in the
Harlem Globetrotter
game experience. "You\e
there to
provide
everyone with a
fun
and enjoyable show
.
I've
had
games where
l had to
get jumped over or even
have
my
jersey 'torn off.' No
matter
what arena, we
were
the
ones getting screamed at and
booed by the little kids
.
It
sounds
bad having little
5-year-olds scream and boo
you,
but it provided
e
ntertainment
for
me
every
night."
The job also
gave
him the opportunity to travel. He
visited 25 states as well as
Canada, Argentina, Uruguay,
Paraguay,
and Chi
l
e
.
"From
playing in the Staples
Center
in front
of ce
l
ebrities,
to
visiting
Las Vegas, Alaska,
and
Disneyland for the first time,
every
new city has
cre-
ated
new memories. I've played
in
over
10
NBA arenas
and even
had
a 'game'
inside the bowl
at
the Venice
Beach Skate Park."
Playing in
such
arenas in front of huge
crowds
was
"a
surreal
experience,"
he
says.
One of his most memorable
encounters
took place
in Santiago, Chile.
"[
was wearing one of my Mari
st
Basketball
shirts after
the
game and
the tour man-
ager who accompanied
us from Chile
approached
me
about
it. He told me that he
went
to
a
Marist Brothers
school.
lt's
crazy
how
the
Marist name is recognized
worldwide."
Life
on
the
road could
be
challenging at
times.
"You
have
a
new home
every
day. Moving from hotel
to hotel,
city
to
city, can
be tough, but rewarding
at
the
same
time. The
c
l
osest
thing
you
have to home
is
the
bus. Airports became second nature, too."
Last
year the
Harlem Globetrotters were in the
news when two well
-
known former players, Marques
Haynes
and
Meadowlark Lemon, passed
away,
Haynes
at 83 and
Lemon
at 89.
There was
also
media
coverage
when
the Globetrotter
organization
did not renew its
contract with
the Generals.
Although Ramsey
i
s
no
l
onger emp
l
oyed
by the
Generals, he
says
his time with the team has
given
him friends,
experiences, and
memories that will last
forever.
"[
never imagined l would be traveling
and
playing
with the
H
arlem
Globetrotters. Over the years they
have become
a sports and
popular
culture
i
con.
I've had
parents
come
up to me describing how they remem-
ber the Generals
and going to games
while they were
young."
It
was
awesome,
he
says,
to have had
a chance
to
"provide
memories
for
the
younger generation
that
will
last
a
li
fetime
.
"
~
Globetrotter fan
:
Pat at ages
,
in February 1997.
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introduced Michelle Obama at the White House.
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Launch first Lady's "Bette,
Make Room" Initiative
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F
IRST
LADY
MICHELL
E
OBAMA
recently
a
nn
o
un
ced
a
new
campaign
with
the
help
of
a
Red Fox
.
C
hri
s
Mel
b
erger '13
was
g
i
ve
n
the
h
onor
of
introducing
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nd hugging-the First L
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dy
at
th
e
campa
i
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launch
for
th
e "Be
tt
er
Make
Room
"
initiative
on Oct.
19,
20
1
5, at
the White House.
Th
e
public
awareness campaig
n i
s
part
of
the
Fi
r
st
Lady
's
Reach
Higher program to inspire
eve
r
y st
udent in
America
to com
pl
ete
his
or
her
education
past high
school.
Better Make Room targets Gen
era
tion
Z, 14- to 19-year-olds.
"
It
was surrea
l
," sa
id
Melb
e
rger.
"W
hen
l
met her
she was fu
nn
y,
ca
lm
, and
inviting.
S
h
e
m
ade
me feel
very
welcome
."
Meeting
the First
Lady
is not the
on
l
y acco
mpli
s
hm
e
nt
Me
lb
erger
has
under
his belt.
Since graduating
from Marist
wit
h
a
m
aj
or in digital
m
e
dia
and grap
hi
c
design,
h
e
h
as co-founded
his
ow
n
on
lin
e
clothing
brand
,
Nea
t
Dudes LLC, which origina
l
l
y
b
egan as
hi
s se
nior th
esis
.
Melberger
is
a
l
so an associate creator/deve
l
opment strategist for Vine,
a
n
a
pp
that
a
llows user
s
to
create and s
h
are 6-second v
id
eos
.
Vine is
one
of
22 soc
ial m
ed
ia
,
business,
a
nd nonprofit partners that helped launch
Better
Make
Room. Melberg
er
was amo
n
g a gro
up
ofV
in
e
r
s se
l
ected
to
a
tt
e
nd th
e
White
House
event and raise awareness for the
ca
mpaign
.
"T
h
e ca
mpai
g
n
seems
lik
e a
great opportunity to showcase events
that
mi
g
ht not
get
the recognition th
ey
deserv
e,"
said
Melb
e
rger.
"
Athletes
,
comedians, actors, and
m
ore get
the
ce
l
e
brit
y spot
li
g
ht
,
why not
a c
h
i
ld
who is
a
first-generation co
ll
ege graduate
7
Or
someone who graduated
from
high
school going against all
th
e odds?
It
'
s a
nice
way
to
showcase
hard
work
a
nd dedication."
~
-Emily
B
elfiore
16
Distinguished Engineer. Richard
Rebecca Valk
'
oo
took
a
position
as
C
I
O/CTO
for
a
new cloud
-
based IBM bus
i
ness
partner called Smarter
Risk
.
The
company
provides integrated
risk
detection and mitigation
serv
i
ces
using
advanced
data
analytics.
2000
Patrici
a
Groe
b
er
(MPA)
was
appointed first
deputy
superinten-
dent of
the
New York State
Police.
Sh
e
is
second
in
command of
the
4
,
800
-
member
division. She is
a
l
so
MARIST
MAGAZINE
Marist Crew Alumni News
Marist crew alumni competed in the Quaker City Regatta in Philadelphia
Aug
.
1
-
2
,
2015.
Pictured are Bob Creedon
'
74
,
Jerry Shaeffer
'
73
,
Bob Sneeden '75
,
Jim Cockroft
'
73
,
Jim Foley
'
82,
Matt Rogers
'
74
,
Joe Schrotz
,
Jack Boyle '78
,
and Danielle Connolly.
Crew alumni were also among the major sponsors of an event that paid
tribute to Bill Austin
,
Marist's third crew coach
,
and his wife, Jane
,
in
spring
2015.
The Austins were honorees at the annual Family of the Year
dinner held by Poughkeepsie
-
based nonprofit Family Services.
the first
woman appointed
to the
position in the 98
-
year
history
of
the
State
Police.
a
G
u
ildry Sa
n
ta
n
a
and
his
wife welcomed a
baby
g
i
rl, Ana
l
isa, born May
29, 2015
.
a
R
e
b
ecca Va
lk
joined
Iseman,
Cunningham,
Riester
&
Hyde LLP
as an associate
.
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,.,
2001
C
h
ris
t
o
ph
er B
l
asie
('07
MA)
and
his wife
,
Kimberly,
welcomed a
daughter,
Madison Carmela
,
born
Nov. 27, 2015.
2002
S
h
a
nnon
Gi
bb
s
was
promoted
to director
of communications at
Te
ll
uride
Ski
Resort in Telluride,
CO.
a Marie
l
(Sosa) J
u
arez
and
her
husband,
Carlos,
welcomed
a son,
Xavier, born July
20, 2015.
Mar
i
el
was se
l
ected
to be
a
member
of
t
h
e
New York City
Veterans Advisory
Board
.
a
Nico
l
e
P
a
lm
ieri
is
vice
president at SomethingNew
,
LLC,
a
national
recru
i
t
in
g company
specializing
in
sales and
marketing.
2003
C
h
r
i
s
tin
a Ho
p
e
married Brian
Eide!
on
Oct.
11
,
2015,
in
Somers
,
NY.
a
Ant
h
ony LoC
u
rto
and
his
wife
,
ico
l
e (
D
av
i
s
)
'
0
4
,
welcomed
a
daughter,
Valentina,
born
Sept. 6,
2015
.
a
J
im McGrath
earned a
doc
-
torate
in English
from
Northeastern
University.
He is
a
postdoctoral
fe
l
low in public digita
l
humani-
ties
at
the John
Nicholas Brown
Center
for
Public Humanities
and Cultural
Heritage
at Brown
University.
a
Brian S
u
tch
and
his
wife,
Cat
h
eri
n
e (Coco
)
('08 MBA),
welcomed twins
on Aug. 26
,
2015.
Patrick Ryan
and
Rowan
Coco
joined
big brother Kevin
at
home
.
a Mic
h
e
ll
e (S
l
esinski) Wo
l
ff
and
her husband,
Aaron
,
welcomed
their
second child
,
Lucy
Theresa
,
born Dec. 17,
2014.
Lucy
joins
big
brother Wesley
at
home.
Michelle
was
recently promoted
to operations
manager
for
the Dutchess
County
Animal
Hospital
and
has
been with
the
company for
more
than seven
years.
Aaron is
an
IT
specialist at
the Anderson
Center for Autism
in Staatsburg, NY;
he's been
with
the
center
for more than
four years
.
2004
Mic
h
ae
l
A
bi
ta
bil
o
was
promot
e
d
to principa
l
at
Jackson
Lewis
P.C.,
in
the law firm's
White
Plains
office.
a
La
u
ra Brinkman
married
David
Wade on
Aug.
9
,
2014
.
They
welcomed their
first child, Andrea
Jane, born Aug.
5, 2015.
a La
u
ra
(
Castagna
)
Cope
l
a
nd
and h
e
r hus
-
band,
W
ill
,
welcomed a
baby
girl,
Charlotte
May,
born
May
3, 2015.
Nico
l
e (
D
avis) LoC
u
rto
and
her
husband
,
A
n
t
h
o
n
y
'
03
,
welcomed
a
daughter, Valentina, born
Sept.
6, 2015.
0
Kevi
n
Q
u
i
nn
and
his
wife
,
Kristin, welcomed a baby
boy
,
Brendan George, born
June
29, 2015. Kevin
recently
joined
the
New York
Racing
Association as
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At Marist
'
s
2013
commencement, Professor Emeritus of History Jerry
White (center), shown with President Dennis J
.
Murray and Board of
Trustees Chair Ellen Hancock, received the President
'
s Award and
served as honorary grand marshal.
Remembering
John
Gerard "Jerry" White
P
ROFESSOR EMERITUS OF
HISTORY JOHN
GERARD "JERRY" WHITE,
a
longtime
faculty member and cherished
member
of the
Marist
College community,
passed
away
Jan.
6, 2016.
White
retired in
2013 from
his full
-
time position
as assistant
profes
-
sor of
history
after a remarkable so-year career.
He taught
and
inspired
generations of Marist students, sharing with
them his passion
for the
arts, especially
his beloved
opera. After retirement,
he
continued
to
teach part time
and serve as a
mentor
and
friend to his
students.
"Jerry was one of
the
true giants of
the Marist
faculty
who helped
build the
College's
reputation
for talented,
dedicated teachers
and
intellectual rigor,
"
said
President
Dennis
J
.
Murray.
"
He
was a
true
renaissance
man with
a
deep
appreciation
for the
breadth and
richness
of
history
.
He
was
incredibly
well-read,
possessed
a
masterful
knowledge
of the arts, and was a gourmet cook."
"Jer
ry had
a well-earned reputation among students and
his peers
for
his
special ability to
make
connections across
time periods
,
putting
today's cultural,
political
,
and economic circumstances
into
context.
His
classes were always
quick to
fill
up
."
Beyond teaching
history
,
White shared
his love
for and expertise
in
opera, a subject on which
he lectured
extensively.
Just
about every
week
during
spring semesters,
he
would
bring
a group of students
to
New York City
to take in
performances at
the
Metropolitan Opera.
His
long-running
class on opera offered through Marist's Center for
Lifetime
Study
was its mo t popular
course.
White was
born
in
Brooklyn,
NY, in
1932. He
attended St.
Joseph's
Boarding School
in
Sullivan County, NY, and
then La Salle Academy
in Manhattan.
After earning a
BA from
Belmont
Abbey
College
in
1953, he
entered
the
U.S.
Navy, where he
attended
Officer
Candidate
School
in
Newport,
RI,
and
became
a
pilot. After leaving the
Navy
in
1958
,
he
earned an MA at Fordham University and joined
the Marist
College faculty in
1963.
Upon
his retirement, Marist's Board of Trustees honored him
with
the title
of
professor
emeritus.
He was honorary
grand
marshal
at
Marist's 2013 commencement, where
he
received the President's Award.
On
March s,
2016,
his many
students, friends, and colleagues
gathered
in Marist's
Student Center Cabaret
to
celebrate
his life
and
teachings. Those in
attendance
had
an opportunity
to
share stories
about
their beloved
friend and
mentor.
For
more
about White's
life
,
please
see maristconnect.marist.edu/
jerrywhite.
Plans
are
underway to
create a scholarship
in his memory.
For
information
or
to make
a gift,
please
visit
maristconnect.marist.edu
/
give and
direct
your gift to
the Jerry
White Memorial
Fund.
t!.l
In M
e
moria1n
Alumni
Bro
.
Thomas
J
.
Lee
,
FMS
'54
James P
.
Morrissey
'
54
William J
.
Egan
'
57
Daniel J
.
Hanley
'
61
Edward D
.
Douglas
'
66
Rev
.
Ken
n
eth A. France
-
Kelly, OP
'
66
I. Fred Capuani
'
69
Bro
.
Richard J
.
Sharpe
,
FMS
'70
Steven
L.
Feldman
'71
Dr. Mark J. Rowinski '71
Paul D. DeCabia '72
Gerard A
.
Egan
'73
John
W
.
Hawkes '74
Joh
n
G
.
K
n
app
'74
Alexander Kostenko Jr. '74
Frederick G
.
Miller Sr
.
'74
Bryan
G
.
Tarsa '74
Rosemarie Emery Zengen '74
William
L.
Jones J
r.
'75
Nancy O
'
Brien Donohue '76
/'
01
MA
Brian J. Bennett
'77
James
A
.
Burke '78
James M
.
Das
h
er
'78
Charles
G
.
Hoagland
'78
Vincent
J
.
Gordon
'79
Maurice H
.
Friedman
'
80
MBA
C
h
ristine A
.
H
offman
'
82
MA
Patty Ann Jackson
'
83
James
M
.
McDonald
'
84
Patricia Okra
s
ki
'
84
Klara B. Sauer
'
84 MPA
Shelley
A. Breslin
'
85
Margaret
Finlay Celentano
'
85
Deborah A
.
Simone
-
Spain
'
85
Ann Lewandowski Macrillo
'
86
Elizabeth F.
Kopser
-
P
e
rreault
'
88
MBA
Jennifer A
.
Bixby
'
03
Patricia
M. Trocino
'
03
Helen Miller
'
04
Louis D
.
Wood
'
04
Chr
i
stina M
.
Porpora
'
11 MA
Katherine
A
.
Bilsky
'
12
James
Tracy Hermann
'
13 MPA
Friend
s
Doris J
.
Bo
s
hart
Ruth
Dickier
John
M.
Flowers
Abel Garraghan
Catherine Hooper
Susan Lusito
Alarico
"
Eric
"
Mascarenhas
H
e
n
ry
C.
Meagher
Dieter Rennhack
Jo
s
eph B
.
Taphorn
Monroe
M
.
Weinstein
Employee
s
Dr
.
Richard A
.
Atkins
Former Professor of History
and
Chair, Division
of Humanities
Connie Mccaffrey
Housekeeping Supervisor
Dr. Richard B. Phillips
Senior Public Services Librarian
John Gerard
"
Jerry
"
White
Professor Emeritus of
History
Please visit maristconnect.marist.edu/inmemoriam
for online remembrances of members of
the Marisr College communiry.
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Five Mari st College graduates attended the 50th reunion of St
.
Ma
r
y
's
H
i
gh School, a Marist Brothers school in Manhasse
t
, NY: (left to right)
N
e
il D
r
oogan
'7
1
,
Tim Keneally
'
69, Bill Rowley
'
69
,
John Nunz
i
ata
'
70
,
a
nd Bro. John Kle
i
n
'
70
.
Colton
Michael, born
Jun
e
2013,
and
are awa
iting
the arrival of Co
l
ton
Michael
's
sister,
due in May
2016
.
s
Kevin Kerley
and
his wife,
Mallory
(Kule)
'08,
welcomed identical twin
boys, Grayson
and
Xander, born Jan.
7, 2015
.
Kevin
and
Mallory recent
l
y
celebrated
10
years together since
meeting
at
Marist
in
2005.
They
married in
2011
.
s
Christine Olver
accepted a
position
at
Macy's Inc
.
in the media relations department.
Christine
handles national media
re
l
at
i
ons for
the Thanksgiving Day
Parade, the Fourth
of)uly
fireworks,
and ot
h
er
iconic
events.
s
Shawn
Casadiego
married
Jessica Castro
'08
in April
2015.
The
coup
l
e
we
l
-
comed a
baby
girl,
Aria, born
in
December
2014.
They reside in
Franklin
Square
on Long Island
.
2008
Je
ss
ica Castro
married
Shawn
Casadiego
'07
in April
2015.
The
coup
l
e
welcomed
a
bab
y
g
irl
,
Aria,
born in December
2014.
They reside
in Franklin Square on
Long I
s
land.
s
Mallory
(Kule)
Kerley
a
nd
h
er
husband,
Kevin
'
06
,
welcomed
identical twin boys, Grayson
and
Xander,
born Jan.
7,
2015.
Kevin
and
Mallory recently
ce
l
ebrated
10
years
together
since
meeting
at
Marist in
2005.
They married in
2011.
s
Catherine (Coco) Sutch
(MBA) a
nd
her husband,
Brian
'03,
welcomed twins on Aug.
26,
2015.
Patrick Ryan
and
Rowan
Coco
joined big brother Kevin
at
h
ome
.
2009
Amanda
Esposito
marr
i
ed
Marc
Sausa
on Sept.
5, 2014,
at
G
l
e
n
I
s
land Harbour Club
in
New
42
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I
ST
MAGAZINE
Rochelle, NY. Members of their
bridal
party
includ
ed
Alison
Jalbert
,
Lauren Plante
,
Pamela
Keenan
,
and
Ryan Smith
.
s
Kelsey
(Schaefer) Schmiesing
and
h
er
husband,
Mark, welcomed
a
baby
boy, McCoy Mark,
born
Aug.
3,
2015.
McCoy joins big sister Alivia
at
home.
Amy Wy
s
oczyn
sk
i
'
11
~
MUN·UR
2011
Alexandra
Hodovanu
was pro-
moted from
ass
i
sta
nt
merchand
i
se
planner in
uphol
stery and
recliners
to assistant merchandise planner in
lug
gage
at Macy's.
s
John Rodino
r
ece
iv
ed a
master's degree
in
Spanish
lin
guistics
from St. Louis
University, Madrid
.
John teaches
Spanish
at
Seton
H
a
ll
Preparatory
School in New
Jers
ey and
translates
for a
S
pani
s
h
publishing
company
in
New York.
s
Elizabeth Trizano
married Michae
l
Gil
l
espie
on
Nov.
14,
2015.
Elizabeth recent
l
y
became the
socia
l
media direc-
tor of Kobrand Wine
&
Spirits.
s
Amy Wysoczynski
participated
in
Miami University's
Eart
h
Expeditions
globa
l
field course
in
Baja.
She studied at
the Bahia de
lo
s
Angeles UNESCO World
H
eritage
s
it
e and
in the
Sea
of
Cortez.
Amy
,
a
science
teacher
at
Lawton
C.
Johnson Summit Middle
Schoo
l
in
Edison, NJ, took
the
graduate course
in pursuit
of
h
er
master's degree
from Miami University's Global
F
i
e
ld
Program.
2012
Kelly Mangerino
feels very for
-
tunate to
h
ave graduated
from the
game studies
program
at
Marist
and
to
h
ave
become
a
part
of some
very
successful
franchises like
FarmVille
and
the Mafia
3
team.
Ke
ll
y
a
l
so
has written two books,
The
Spirit: Awakening
and
The Spirit:
Reckoning,
published by Big Sky
Press. 'Tm thankful for
everyth
in
g
Marist has helped me
accomp
li
s
h
,"
she writes.
s
John Petersen
passed
away
in
a swimming accident
while
serving as a Community
Economic
volunteer
with the Peace
Corps
in
Namibia, Africa. For more about
John, p
l
ease see
maristconnect.
marist.edu
/
johnpetersen.
2013
Cynthia
Elliott
began working
as
a French teacher
in
Rome, NY
,
immediate
l
y following
grad
u
a-
tion. On the
int
erview committee
for
h
er
position was the parent of
a
Marist
student, and across
the
hall
from Cindy's classroom
i
s
another
Mari
st graduate. She
l
oves
teaching
and attr
ibut
es
much of
her
success
to the
connections she
has made in her
career,
the people
s
h
e
met
at
Marist,
and
her Marist
experiences.
s
Robert P
e
terpaul
recently
h
ad the opportunity
to
speak
in Washington, DC,
before
Congress.
On behalfofhis
fam
il
y's
organization,
the Thomas Peterpaul
Foundation (www.thomaspeterpaul.
com),
he
spoke about
pediatric
cancer.
He
asked
that the
U
.
S.
s
upport
a
nd
pave the
way for
new
adva
n
cements
in the
way
patients
are
treated.
s
Daniel
Torres
was
Dan
ie
l To
rr
es
'13
ap
point
ed
deputy
supervisor of
the
Town of
New
Paltz. Daniel is the
you
n
gest
deputy
supervisor
in
New
Paltz
hi
story.
H
e
was
elected
to the
New Paltz
Town Council
in
2013.
201
4
Bobby Califano
married
Bethany
Hau
enste
in
of Sussex
County, NJ.
Bobby is
a
network technician
for
the Hyde Park
,
NY, Centra
l
School
District.
s
Tyler
Hub
i
s a
business
development manager
for
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When Pedro L Figueroa
'
93 visited
his daughter
,
Geanna H. Figueroa
'19,
at Marist this past
fall,
he
r
ealized that her
room in
Sheahan
Hall
is
only three doors down from
the
r
oom
he
had as a freshman in
1
989. They
took
the photo above
,
which they
titled
"
Floor Mates,
26
Years
Apart.
"
Pedro's
wife,
Jeanny,
is also a
Red Fox
,
a member of
the
Class
of
1
993.
Corp
.
in
New
York
City and
is
actively giving
back to his com-
munity
as a volunteer
firefighter.
s
Robert King
is media relatio
n
s
coordinator for the
Phi
l
adelphia
76ers.
s
Armani Martin
and
T
aylor Kuzma
'
15
are engaged.
Armani is training professiona
l
and
future professiona
l
ath
l
etes
including
Marist footba
ll
alumn
i
Mik
e
Kagafas
,
Loui
s
Cotrone
,
and
MattTralli
.
2015
Matthew Amato
is pursuing
a
master's in
environmental science,
concentrating
in
environmental
engineering, at
Rutgers
University.
s
Danielle Carpiniello
is work
-
ing toward
a
teaching
certificate.
s
Mar
y
Ca
s
e
y
is
enro
l
led in
Marist's integrated market
i
ng
communicatio
n
s graduate
pro-
gram and expects
to
grad
u
ate
in
2017.
s
Gregory Cremi
n
s
is pur-
suing a
master
'
s
degree
at
Marist.
s
Samant
h
a
DeVito
worked on
the
USNS
Comfort,
a
seagoing medica
l
treatment
facility,
and in Ethiopia
conducti
n
g
medical programs
with
her
employer,
Operation
Smile.
s
A
m
a
nda
Fiore
is working
in New
York City,
pursuing
a career
in
communications.
s
Sarah Fliss
is
taking
the time to
travel, read books
,
and try the
things she
wants to
.
s
Mackenzie Flood
is pursuing
a
master's degree in
social
work
at
the
Columbia School of
Social
Work. s
Lauren
Garner
started
working in
an account coordinator
position
at
teamD
i
gital
Promotions
in
Connecticut
following her
gradu
-
ation
in December
2014
.
Lauren
works
on
d
i
g
i
tal promotions
for
MasterCard.
s
Stacy Giannetto
works
at
UPS
and
is
exp
l
o
r
i
n
g
MBA
studies at
Marist.
s
Maria
Gironas
spoke on a
panel
on
mus
i
c
pub
l
icists
and
music
journalism at
t
h
e
SXSW
conference and
festiva
l.
s
Eliza
b
eth
Hehir
is
studying social
work
at
Stony Brook
University
and
h
opes
to become
a
l
i
censed
social
worker assisting veterans.
s
Justin Hermann
('15
MS)
joined
IBM
as a
technical
sales
trainee
in the
New York City area and
is
act
i
ve with MART, the Marist
A
l
umni Recruiting Team.
s
Taylor
Kuzma
and
Armani Martin
'14
are engaged.
s
Chantal Lizzi
l
oves
her
job as a
pharmaceutica
l
sales
rep but is
"very
much missing
Mar
i
st."
s
Krista
l
Seidita
says
the
Marist Abroad Program
gave
her
the travel bug,
and she
did
some
travel
i
ng before sett
li
ng into her
career.
s
Kelsey Taylor
moved to
New York City following graduation
and
is
pursuing an MS
in physicia
n
assistant studies at
Pace
University.
s
Jaclyn Vasaturo
will earn a
mas-
ter
'
s
in
social
work
in 2016
from
New York University Silver Schoo
l
of Social Work after complet
i
ng the
one
-
year advanced standing
pro-
gram
.
S
h
e
is interning wit
h
Henry
Street
Sett
l
eme
n
t, a sc
h
oo
l
-based
mental health program.
s
Ke
nn
eth
Wasley
(MPA)
is
work
i
ng o
n
a
drug
enforcement
task force w
i
th
members
of
the
New
York
State
Police
and New York City
Police
Department.
i!l
Football Achievements
Celebrated
Former players returned to
ca
mpus
for Marist's
an
nu
a
l
Football Alumni
R
ecog
nition
Day
o
n
Nov
.
7, 20
15
, at
Tenney
Stadium
at
L
eon
idoff
Field.
Th
ey ga
th
ere
d
with fami-
li
es and
friends in
a
tent
a
t th
e
sout
h
e
nd
of
the field
as
Marist
faced
Stetson
o
n th
e g
ridiron.
At
h
a
lftim
e, a
lumni
from the
1970 team,
th
en ca
ll
ed
the
Vikings,
an
d
the 1990 team
were
h
onored as
they
ce
l
-
ebrated s
p
ecial ann
i
versar
i
es:
the
45t
h
an
ni
ve
r
sary of
the
Viki
n
gs
'
und
efeated season a
nd
the
25t
h
an
ni
ve
r
sa
r
y
of the Red
Foxes
'
ACFC
C
h
amp
i
o
n
sh
ip
.
Former Mari st football coaches
(left
to
right) Michael Malet
,
Ron Levine
,
and
Rick Pardy are pictured
.
Alumni from the
1970
team, known as the Vikings, celebrated the 45th
anniversary of their undefeated season.
Alumni from the
1990
team marked the 25th anniversary of the Red Foxes
'
ACFC Championship.
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Members of the Class of 1965
returned
to Mari
st
for their so
-
year reunion celebration
.
Alumni Honored, Remembered
at Homecoming and Reunion 2015
H
OMECOMING AND REUNION WEEKEND
2015
began
with a
moving
ceremony
on
Friday, Sept.
25, 2015,
dedicating Marist
's
Communication
Internship Placement Office in
m
emo
ry
of Professor Emeritus of Communication
Robert
C.
Norman. Former students, colleagues,
family
members
,
and
friends
gathered
to
cel-
ebra
te
Norman's
legacy
and
the impact he had
on
Marist's
communicat
i
on
program
.
Norman
joined the Marist College faculty in
1961
and
became
a
driving
force
in
estab
li
shing
the Communications
Department
and
later
the
Communication
Internship Program. He
also
took
a special
interest in
Marist Athletics and outside
the
classroom
was affectionate
l
y known as "The
Voice
of
the Red Foxes" by
student-athletes and
fans.
Guest speakers included Ernie
Arico
'76,
Dave
Shaw '80,
Internship Program Director Gerry
McNulty '79, Carolyn
Lepre, interim dean
of
the School of Communication and
the Arts,
and
President Dennis J.
Murray.
Arico, now
a
teacher
at the
Florida Pr
e
p
Academy,
remembered Bob
fondly:
"
Bob was like a second father to
me. He
was
more
than
a
teacher
and
internship director. He
was an
inspiration,
a role
model
,
and a
mentor
who
taught
me many
of the
important
ethica
l
values
needed
to
be
a good writer, editor,
broadcaster
,
and teacher."
Former students, colleagues, family
mem-
bers, and friends
initiated
the
Robert
C.
Norman
Scholarship, awarded annually to a student
pursu
-
The Communication
Internship
Placement Office
was
dedicated
in
memory of Robert C.
Norman, professor emeritus of
communication and founding
director of Marist's Communication
Internship Program. Pictured (left
to right) are President Dennis
J.
Murray, Communication and
Media Studies Internship Program
Director Gerry McNulty
'79,
Bob
Norman's son Jim '86, Jim's wife
,
Sue, and their son Sean
'
18.
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ing a major within the School of Communication
and
the Arts.
To
read
more about the
dedication
and
to
see
photos, p
l
ease visit
maristconnect.marist.edu
/
bobnorman.
On Saturday
morning
,
three dedicated
Marist
graduates were
honored
with Alumni Awards.
Stephen M.
Townsend
'10
received
the Marist
College Young
Alumnus Award,
Augustine
"Gus"
J
.
Nolan
'52
received
the
Marist
Co
ll
ege
Distinguished Service Award,
and
Bro. John
W.
Klein, FMS '70 received
the Dr.
Linus
Richard
Foy
'so
Outstanding Alumnus
Award. To
learn more
about
the honorees, please
visit
maristconnect.
marist.edu
/a
lumni
_awa
rds.
Close
to
2,000 alumni, family
members
,
and
friends
gathered on
the
Campus
Green
for
the
Alumni Family Picnic,
while a similar-size crowd
cheered on
the
football team at
nearby
Tenney
Stadium.
A record number
of
more than
875
people
attended
reunion
celebrations on Saturday
evening,
including
25 graduates of
the
Class of
1965
who were
presented with
Mari st watches
in honor
of
their 50th reunion. To
see
photos
from
many
of
the weekend's events,
please
visit
maristconnect.
marist.edu
/
hom
coming
.
Following the picn
i
c,
the
seventh annual
Theatre Hall of Fame induction took place in the
Nelly
Galetti Theatre
,
recognizing those
who
have made
outstanding contributions to theatre
at
Marist.
Inducted
for 2015 were
John
Sheehan
'69,
Joyce Touchette '79,
Tom Greene
'85,
Jimmy
Johansmeyer
'
95, and Edward Grosskreuz
'06
.
i!l
Save the date: Homecoming and
Reunion Weekend is Oct. 21-23, 2016
The recipient of the
201s
Alumni Legacy
Scholarship was Gabriella Landicino
'
19
,
shown
with Paul X. Rinn
'
68, president of the Alumni
Association, and President Dennis
J
.
Murray.
Gabriella is the daughter
of
Lucia
(Scala)
'
89 and
Carl Landicino
.
Left to right: Augustine
"Gus"
J
.
Nolan
'52
received the Marist College Distinguished
Service Award
,
Stephen M
.
Townsend
'
10
received
the Marist College Young Alumnus
Award, and Bro. John W
.
Klein, FMS
'
70 received
the Dr. Linus Richard Foy
'so
Outstanding
Alumnus Award
.
Hall of Fame for 2015
were
(left to right) Edward
Grosskreuz
'06,
Joyce Touchette
'79,
Tom Greene
'
8s,
Jimmy Johansmeyer
'95,
all
inducted
on
campus
,
and (inset) John Sheehan
'69,
who
received his award at his home.

































Tom Duffy '75 Honored
T
OM
DUFFY
'75,
founder of the law firm Duffy
+
Partners,
was
given
the
Champion
of Justice
award
by
Community
Legal
Services (CLS) at
its
26th annual "Breakfast
of Champions"
in
Philadelphia.
The
award
recognizes
an
individual who is pivotal in
sup-
porting
CLS
'
s
mission
of ensuring
that low-income Philadelphia
residents
have
equal access
to justice by providing them with
advice
and
representation in
civil
legal matters. In 2013, Duffy named
CLS
the recipient
of a
new
"
Duffy Fellowship," which underwrites
the
cost of a staff attorney's salary.
Three Duffy Fellows
currently
work
in Philadelphia legal-service organizations
.
The Duffy Fellow
at CLS
helps residents navigate public benefits
such as cash assis-
tance,
SSI
disability,
food stamps,
and health
in
surance.
i!J
Marist alumni who participated in a Light the Night Leukemia Walk
to honor Jaclyn Abatecola
'03
included, left to right
,
front row:
Claire (Genna) Navarra
'
03,
Marigrace (Joannou) Cirringione
'03,
Jillian (Duffy) Black
'03
;
middle row: Kristen Kavanaugh
'03,
Jennifer
Gebert
'
03
,
Kristin (Davide) Castaldi
'
04,
Danielle (Santulli) Maher
'
03,
Michele (Knapp) Bresnahan
'
03,
Kristen (Porter) Schick
'
03,
Lisa
(Russo) Todaro
'
03
;
back row: Jason Castaldi
'
03
,
Joshua Kisselbrack
,
Kevin Schick
'
04,
and Steven Black
'
03.
Red Foxes Fight tor Jackie
M
ORE
THAN
100
PEOPLE,
including
20
Marist
a
l
umni, partici-
pated in
a
Light the
Night
Leukemia Walk on Oct.
10
,
2015
,
to
honor their
good
friend Jaclyn
"Jackie"
Abateco
l
a
'03.
The
20
alumni
should
have been
celebrating
with Abateco
l
a at
her wedding that
evening
,
but instead,
she
was in the hospital undergoing treatment
for Acute
Myeloid Leukemia
(AML).
The
group
of wa
l
kers,
who
called
themselves
"The
Jack Pack," raised more than
$39,000
to honor
their friend
'
s
fight
and support
the Leukemia
&
Lymphoma Society.
Abatecola was
in remission
for a
month before finding out on
Christmas
Eve that the leukemia had
spread
to her spinal fluid.
After
another
hard battle,
she
is
once again
clear of
all
AML. Despite the
"all clear," she still
has
a
long road
ahead. She
was to undergo
another
round of chemotherapy
to ensure
she
remains in remission
and
then
was
to be transferred to Memor
i
al Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center
for a
bone marrow transp
l
ant
.
To follow her progress
and
to
send
positive messages, please
visit
www.facebook.com
/
fightforjackie.
i!l
-Bobbi Sue
Tellitocci
'04
/'
14
MA
Congratulating Tom Duffy (third from right) on his CLS Champion of Ju~tice award
are (from left) CLS Leadership Council Chair Joseph Tate; CLS Deputy Director_
Debby Freedman; CLS Leadership Council Member Alan Feldman
;
CLS Executive
Director Cathy Carr
;
and CLS Board Chair Michael Li Puma.
Bettencourt
Retires
A
FTER
SO YEARS OF
TEACHING
BIOLOGY
at Marist, Dr
.
Joseph S.
Bettencourt
announced
he would retire
from full-time teaching in
2015.
He will
continue
to teach
for
several more
semes-
ters but u
l
timately plans to
spend
more
time with his
family at
his home in Maine.
Bettencourt began teaching in 1965
as an
instructor
of
bio
l
ogy,
becoming
an
Dr
.
Joseph Bettencourt (left)
assistant
professor in i968
and chair of
the
received the
2003
Board
Bio
l
ogy Department. He
earned a
bach-
ofTrustees Distinguished
e
l
or's in biology from Suffolk University
Teaching Award from
and an
MS
and
PhD in
zoology
from the
President Dennis J. Murray.
University
of New
Hampshire.
_
He has taught
a wide variety of
courses including General Biology,
Immunology, Parasitology,
Comparative
Anatomy, Histology,
and
Developmental Biology,
as
well
as
I
ntroduction to the Health Professi_ons. He
received
the
Marist
Board
of
Trustees Distinguished
Teaching
Award
in
2003.
Bettencourt
also
received and directed
a
number of
grants
including
National Science Foundation equipment grants.
He
was a
lead teacher in the
NSF Science on
the Move Program
and
took part in the Dutchess
County
BOCES
Summer
High
School of Excellence
program.
"Dr.
B" is perhaps best known
to students and alumni as the advisor for
those
entering
the health professions,
a
position he held for
47 years. Many
alumni
remember him fondly
and credit
much of their
career success
to his
teaching
and guidance.
"I cannot
think
of one
person who
stands
out more in my
career as a
mentor,
educational
pillar,
and
friend than Dr. Bettencourt,"
said
Dr. Jennifer
Stewart
Ellison
'
02,
optometrist and owner of Norwalk
Eye
Care
in
Norwalk,
CT. "While at
Marist, he patiently
guided
me through
my (numerous!) career
choices, while always
keeping his
candy
bow
l
full
of
my
favorites.
He
went
above and
beyond
as a
professor
for all students,
tirelessly
spending evening
and weekend
hours
with
us
preparing
for
exams and
lab practicals
.
I happily
return
every year
to
speak
to
the
Intro to Health Professions class
(I
have not
missed
a year
in
eight years) and especially
look
forward
to
catching
up
over
dinner
with
Dr. B before I
speak."
"Dr.
Bettencourt's tenure
at Marist College
has helped
shape
both the
Science
Department,
and
the
College as a
whole, into
an
incredible place for
students
,
and
his
knowledge,
humor,
and
true
compassion
will be missed.",
Plans
are
underway to
create a
scholarship honoring Bettencourt
s
dedication to teaching
and
mentoring. To make
a gift,
please visit
maristconnect
.
marist.edu
/
give and
direct
your support
to the Dr. Joseph
Bettencourt
Scholarship
Fund.
CJ
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. .
Alumni Authors
BRAVE
dw
HEAT
·•-•..,•--•o,.-•_..
__
,.,
...
"____
.
Bill Bozzone
1
7
6
1
s
first co
ll
ect
ion
of short sto-
ries
h
as
been published by
Whitepoint
Press
.
Off Somewhere
i
s
written
under his
pen
name,
Z
.
Z.
Boone
.
Karen
Anderson
'
84
'
s
n
ewest
book,
The Peaceful
Dau
ghter's
Guide to Separatingfrom
a
Difficult
Mother,
was published by the Difference Press.
Sara
(Taney)
Humphreys
'
92
'
s
11th novel,
The
Good, the Bad, and the Vampire,
is
available at
on
lin
e
book
retai
l
ers
.
H
er 10th
n
ovel,
Brave the
H
eat,
a contemporary romance, was published
in
2015 (Sourcebooks Casab
l
anca). S
h
e
has
signed a
three-book
deal
with Sourcebooks for a
p
ara
nor
-
mal
romance series,
Dragon Heat
, a
spin-off of
her
Amoveo
L
ege
nd
series
(sarah
umphr
eys.co
m
).
Mikael
Carlson
'
96
re
l
eased
his
fifth novel,
The
Eyes of Others,
published in June
20
15.
Benjamin Brenkert
'
02
's
first
book,
A Catechism
of the
H
eart:
Memoir of a Gay Jesuit,
will
be
released by Bloomsbury Press in
2016.
T
h
e
Hi
story
Press
h
as
published
H
istoric
Amusement
Parks
of
Long
I
s
land:
118
Miles of
Memories
by
Marisa
L.
Berman
'
04.
Courtney Giardina
'
06
,
a contemporary
romance author, released her first
novel,
Tear-
Stained
Beaches,
in February 2013 and followed
it with
H
old
in
g
On
to
Georgia
in October 2014.
Both novels
are
based
in
her home
state of North
Carolina.
Greg Hrinya
'
09
has
written
a
book
about
the
Brook
l
yn Nets,
The s-Year
Plan:
The Nets'
Tumultuous Journey from New Jersey to Brooklyn
(Wheatmark).
Hrinya
spent t
h
e
past six years
working as a credentialed
media member
with
the
Nets
.
Kelly Mangerino
'
12
has
wr
it
ten two fantasy
novels
,
The Spirit: Awakening
and
The Spirit:
R
eckoning,
about a princess who inherits
a
king-
dom on her 18th birthday (authorKMriley
.
com).
Sean
-
Michael Green
'14
MBA
ha
s
written
The
Things
I
Learned in College: My
Y
ear
in the
Iv
y
L
eague.
"The book," Green writes,
"
i
s a
narrative
nonfiction
account of an academ
i
c year
that
I
spent exploring
eac
h
of the eight
Iv
y
league
insti
-
tutions.
[ liv
ed
with students, attended classes,
and participated in campus
life
."
Alumni are invited to
share
news of their books
in Alumni News
&
Notes.
Pl
ease
send
your
news
to maristalumni@marist.edu
,
submit it at
maristconnect.marist.edu
/
update, or mail it to
Alumni
Relation
s,
Marist College,
3399
North
Rd.
,
Pou
g
hke
e
psi
e,
NY
12601-1387-
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•
Dr. Kadeine Campbell
-
Peterson
'09
celebrated attaining her doctorate
in genetics and genomics from Cornell University with her husband,
Joshua Peterson
'
09
,
and their son
,
Jack Maverick
.
She began her
career as a science research and advanced biology teacher at Packer
Collegiate Institute
i
n Brooklyn
,
NY
,
in fall
2015
.
Laurie Cerveny
'
90,
a partner at Morgan Lewis
,
and her daughter
,
husband (third, fourth, and fifth from right, back row)
,
and son
(front row) were among those present when her husband
'
s company
recently launched its IPO on the NASDAQ
.
Four alumnae say they used their network of fellow Red Foxes to
land positions at VH1. Left to right are Briana Flynn '15, a production
assistant
;
Katie Meena
'
12,
an associate producer; Ali Read
'
14,
a junior
shooter
/
editor
;
and Caity Driscoll
-
Siciliano
'06,
a producer
.






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Reflections
Fond Remembrances
A graduate recalls his arrival on
campus as a freshman and his return
for a class reunion four decades later.
B
Y
ANTHONY
G
.
DIRENZO
'
73
I
T WAS SEPTEMBER
1969
and,
like
so
many
of
my
classmates,
I was leaving home for
the first time. My parents
and
I were
about
to embark on a
road trip from our modest
home
in Cambria
Heights, Queens, to upstate
New York
,
to
a
place
called
Poughkeepsie in
Dutchess
County.
I had been
accepted
to
Marist College.
Our
means
of
transporta-
tion was a
1951
Buick Deluxe
equipped
without GPS,
seat-
belts,
air conditioning, air
bags,
electric windows, or
FM
radio.
Being
the
son of a
policeman, I
was not
one
to be
indul
ged
in
luxury.
Shopping malls
were
nonexistent,
as were Costcos,
Starbucks, Taco Bells, Cheese-
cake
Factories, Subways, Pizza
Huts, bottled
water, or
diet
soda
.
Land was still
up
for grabs and
reasonable
in price. The
air
was
sweet; at
least, that's the
way
I
remember it.
When we finally
reached
our
destination, the parking
lot
was empty.
The
sound of Crosby,
Stills, and Nash was echoing
from a speaker
in
Champagnat
Hall. The
campus
was
a
montage
of
rustic
simplicity, founded
by the Marist Brothers.
The
rooms were
decorated in
early
Ikea, not
large but
comfortab
l
e,
devoid
of
flat-screen
televisions, Blackberrys, iPods, iPhones, iPads,
laptops, personal
computers, fax
machines,
and microwaves
.
As we were saying our goodbyes
in the
courtyard,
I
will
never
forget
my
father's words.
"You've
been
given
the
opportunity of a
life-
time. I
would give anything
to
trade
places
with you.
"
I did not understand the depth
of
his
words
.
For the first time in
my life, I
saw tears
in
my mother's eyes.
During orientation, freshmen were encour-
aged to get involved,
meet
with
the upperclass-
men,
and explore
the
remarkable,
natural
settings
that
Marist
had
to offer: Greystone,
the Cornell
Boathouse,
the outdoor
pool
(yes,
there
was an outdoor pool)
,
Donnelly Hall, Our
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Lady
Seat of
Wisdom Chapel, the Ratskeller,
the
Grotto, Leonidoff Field,
and
the Student
Center, all against the
backdrop
of a panoramic
view of
the Hudson
River.
That
was
more
than 40 years ago.
I
f
I
embellish those
times
with
nostalgia, that is
the game
memory plays
when
it
yearns for
innocence.
When we go searching for our
past, we look
for
landmarks that
still
remain.
When
those things
are
no longer there, the
best
we can
do is to
reclaim what made them
ours
in the
first
place.
Until
I
attended our 4ot
h
-year
reunion,
I never realized how much I missed those
days
.
Being on campus for
the
reunion
had
the
aroma of something
I
had
known
long
ago.
For the next few hours, l felt
young again.
The mystery
and the
magic had returned
.
Those
familiar faces
I
saw
that day
carried an
uncanny
emotional resonance. My
mind
was
flooded
with
memories
of road
trips,
ath
l
etic
Campus scenes in
1969
:
Champagnat
(
top)
,
freshman hazing (left
).
events,
freshman hazing
(did someone forget
to
remind
the
administration
it
was
illegal?)
,
coursework, student
protests, dorm
rooms
,
professors, term papers, mid-terms
,
disap-
pointment, heartbreak,
and friendships.
l left
that day with
a stronger sense of belonging
,
affection
,
and wonder.
As
is true
for
many,
the
life
that
I
envi-
sioned was
not the life I've led.
After graduating
with a
degree in
English,
I
relocated to Tyrone
,
PA. I
was fortunate
to be
selected for a teach-
ing position through the
Marist College Lay
Vo
lunt
eer
Program. The
experience
helped
me to
secure a teaching
position in
a Catholic
high
school on Long
Island. In
1979,
l
applied
and was accepted
to
the New York City Police
Department,
starting
my
career
in the
East
New York section of
Brooklyn.
For
the
majority
of
my
career,
I've been
assigned to Manhattan
South
.
I
found
my
calling teaching both
recruits
and veteran
members
of
the
service
at
the
New York City
Police
Academy.
From what
I
witnessed at
my
reunion that
afternoon,
the
Class of
1973
had been blessed
with strong foundations,
rewarding
careers,
longevity
,
and
loving
families. On the following
day, I
saw
my
father and
told him how
fortu-
nate I had been
and
how
grateful
I
was for the
sacrifices
both he
and
my mother had to make
to
give
me
the opportunity, an opportunity
they were
never
afforded due to circumstances
beyond their
control.
In the closing
scene of
the
classic
movie
Casablanca, the
iconic
actor
Humphrey
Bogart
whispers
to Ingrid
Bergman, "We will always
have Paris.
"
We will always
have
Marist.
It
was
our
pearl.
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Sharing the Vision
V
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Marist's founders had it, conceiving of a college
that 70 years later has educated more than 39,000
men and women and prepared them for a lifetime of
accomplishments
.
You, too, can create a plan that will shape the lives of tomorrow
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s students.
By remembering Marist in your estate through a bequest or by developing a trust during your
lifetime
,
you can found a scholarship, establish an endowed professorship or faculty chair, maintain
Marist's beautiful campus, or support academic facilities. Through your gift
,
you can honor a loved
one
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a family member
,
or your own achievements
.
Your financial advisor can explain the advantages
of donating assets such as cash
,
stocks, or real estate to Marist College
.
Most important, your generosity will have a lasting impact on many lives. What you plan
today will help provide the best education possible for future generations of Marist students.
And providing for tomorrow is what vision is all about.
For information about planned giving opportunities at Marist College,
please contact the Office of College Advancement, (845) 575
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