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CONTENTS
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ll
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016
FEATURES
14
A New Leader for
the
Coll
e
ge
David Yellen begins his tenure as
Marist's fourth president.
17
North C
a
mpu
s
Housing Opens
A
newly
comp
l
eted
residence hall is the.first of
four
buildings designed to meet demand for student housing
while enhancing
the qua
l
ity of
li
ving on
campus
.
18
M
a
ri
s
t
Presents
Francesca Liberatore
The College
says "Ciao,
Fashion Week!" as students
produce a reprise
show
for
emerging
I
ta
l
ian designer
Francesca Liberatore,
who
received Marist
'
s Silve
r
Needle
I
nnovation Award. Students a
l
so present
the
31st
annua
l
Si
l
ver
Need
l
e
R
unway Show.
20
Game On
Alumni
make their mark
i
n p
r
ofessional
sports
as the
first
Maristgraduates p
l
ay in M
L
B and the NFL.
Mar
i
s
t is d
e
di
ca
t
e
d to
h
e
l
pi
n
g students
dev
e
l
op
t
h
e
int
e
ll
ec
t
,
c
h
aracter,
a
nd
sk
ill
s
r
e
q
u
ir
e
d
for en
li
ghte
n
e
d
,
et
hi
ca
l
,
a
n
d prod
u
c
t
i
ve
li
ves
in th
e
g
l
oba
l
co
mmun
i
ty
of
t
h
e 21st ce
n
tury
.
Marist
m
agazine
is p
u
b
li
s
h
e
d
b
y
the Office of
Co
ll
ege
Advancement
at
M
a
rist
Co
ll
ege
for
a
lumn
i
a
nd friend
s
of Mari
s
t
Co
ll
ege.
Vice Preside
n
t
fo
r
Co
ll
ege Adva
n
cement:
Christopher
D
e
/Giorno
'
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C
h
ie
f
Pub
li
c Affai
r
s
Officer:
Greg Cannon
Editor
:
L
es
li
e
Bat
es
Executive
D
i
r
ec
tor
of Alumni
Rel
a
tio
n
s:
Amy Coppola Woods ·97
Alumn
i
News Coo
r
dinato
r
:
Donna
Watts
F
e
ldman
'
J
S
Art
Dire
c
tor:
Ri
cha
rd D
eon
Cover
pho
t
o:
Michael
Ne
lson
M
a
rist
Co
ll
ege
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Rd
.,
Poug
h
kee
p
sie, NY
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ditor
@
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Wes Moore Speaks
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Red Foxes in the Pros
Page
20
23
Red
Fox
Roundup
Marist
softball
wins a program-record
45 games
and
earns
its third Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference championship; men
's
rowing brings
home its 17th MAAC tit
l
e; and
Marist leads the
MAAC in Academic
H
onor
R
oll
selections.
DEPARTMENTS
2
Mari
s
t
Drive
What's happening on
campus
10
Advancement News
24
Alumni News & Note
s
32
Reflections
Remembering Lowell Thomas
Jr.
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NEWS & N O T E S
FROM
T H E CAMPUS
The Class of 2020: 30 States, 30 Countries
M
ARIST
we
l
comed
1,246 members
of
the
Class of 2020
in
A
u
gust. Forty-two
members
of the
class
starte
d
their
co
l
-
lege
careers
in Italy
as
part
of the
Freshman Florence Experience.
President David
Ye
ll
en, who
took
office
July 1, provided the traditional
welcome at
the
a
ll
-class gat
h
er
in
g
in
the McCann Center's Grey
Gym, address
in
g
his first class
as
l
ea
d
er
of the College.
Wit
h
more than
22
p
erce
nt
of the class
id
e
ntif
y
ing
as
st
ud
e
nt
s
from tradit
i
o
n
ally
underrepresented
gro
up
s,
the class
i
s
the
mo
st
Marist Again Rated
Among the Nation's Best
M
AR
IST
COLLEGE
jumped four spots to
No
.
9 on
U.S.
News
&
World
R
eport's
latest r
a
nkings of the "Best
R
eg
ional
Universities"
for the northern United States
,
one
of
th
e
most influential lists
of
top American
colleges and
univ
ers
iti
es
.
The
2017
U.S.
News
&
World
R
eport
rankings are
based
on
peer
assess
m
e
nt,
gra
du
a
tion
and retention rates,
class
size,
aca
d
em
i
c
quality of
the
freshman class, student selectivity,
and a
lumni
giv
ing.
Th
e
news comes on top of other recent rankings recogni-
tion for the College. Two Marist online
degree programs-
th
e
MBA
a
nd the BA
/
BS in liberal
studies-are
included
in
U.S.
News
&
World
R
eport's
"
Best Online Education
Programs
.
"
For the 14th straight year,
the Princeton Review named
Marist one of
the n
a
tion
's "
Best
Co
ll
eges."
The Princeton
R
eview
also
profiled
Marist
in
its
book
Colleges
That Cr
eate
Futures:
so
Schools that Launch Careers
b
y
Going B
eyond
the
Classsroom
.
i!J
WES MOORE
,
best-
selling author
,
youth
advocate, and a
decorated Army
combat veteran
,
addressed the Marist
Class of
2020
on Oct
.
26
.
His book
The
Other Wes Moore
was
required reading for
the class as part of the
2
First
-
Year Seminar.
._
,._Fl'
.
After the lecture
Moore met with
students (right).
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
diverse in the history
of the Co
ll
ege
.
In
addition, Marist welcomed
168 transfer
st
ud
ents and 12
new
students
in the bachelor program
at
the Florence
campus.
Marist
conti
nu
es
to become more
diverse geograph
i
cally as
well. Nearly
57
percent
of
the
in
coming
class
comes from outside
of
New York State,
represent
in
g 30 states,
from Florida to
H
awai
i
a
nd
Texas
to Minnesota,
a
nd
30 co
untri
es,
including Brazil,
France,
R
wa
nd
a, Nepa
l,
and Uzbekista
n.
i!J
Bloomberg Ranks Marist
Poll No. 1 for Accuracy
D
URING
A VOLATILE PRESIDENTIAL
PRIMARY
SEASON
where public
opinion
polls were under int
e
ns
e
scru-
tiny
,
the Marist Coll
ege
Po
ll
and
its media partn
e
rs
,
NBC
News and
the
Wall Street
journal
,
received the high
est
prai
se
from one of
the nation
's
most
respected
news
organizations.
Bloomberg Politics
ranked
the
NBC
News/Wall
Street
J
ournal/Ma
rist
Poll
No.
1
for
its
accuracy,
beatin
g
out 12
other
polling
organizations. The
honor
generated
acco
l
ades
from NBC ews
Politic
a
l Dir
ec
tor
a
nd
Moderator of
Meet
the
Pr
ess
Chuck
Todd. Following
the r
e
l
ease
of the ratings,
Todd
tweeted
, "B
ig
kudos
to
our state
polling
partner, Marist,
for
earning
NBC
/W
SJ
/Mar
ist the
TOP 2016 accuracy grade
so far."
The
NBC
News
/Wa
ll
Streetfournal/Marist
Poll
con-
ducted 18 surveys
in
13 hotly
co
nt
ested
battleground
states
during the primary
season.
Under the direction
of
Dr. Lee
M. Miringoff,
D
r.
Barb
ara
L.
Carvalho
'79, a
nd
the Marist
Poll
staff,
300
Marist College
students p
ar
ticip
ate
in
the Marist Poll
as
t
e
lephon
e
interview-
ers,
research
and polling
ass
ist
a
nts
,
and office workers.
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Marist
'
s first Physician Assistant Program cohort took part
in
a traditional White Coat Ceremony in the Nelly Goletti Theatre on May
19
,
2016
.
White Coat Ceremony Launches Inaugural PA Class
T
HE
45
MEMBERS
of Marist's inaugural
Physician Assistant Program
cohort
gathered
in the
Nelly Go
l
ett
i
Theatre
on
May
19,
2016,
to participate in the
White
Coat Ceremony. The event marked
the
start
of their journey toward the
master
of science
in physician assistant studies, the College
'
s
newest graduate degree.
The students, one by one, donned
the short white coats
that
they will wear
throughout the
two-year program.
As
Program
Director Kathleen
S
.
Lill,
MS,
PA
-
C
,
explained,
the
white coat symbolizes
medicine's historic trans
i
tion
from an era of
magic
and superstition
to
the science-based
practice that
began to prevail in the mid-
19th century. But
the
coats are practical as
well as symbolic
.
"These coats
have large pockets,
which
you
will fi
ll
wit
h
reflex hammers, stet
h
o-
scopes,
flashlights,
and other
instruments,"
Lill
said
.
"They w
i
ll be
stuffed w
i
th notes,
books, flash
cards, and other paraphernalia.
They will also get smudged with coffee and
ink
stains."
Dr. Dennis
Murray,
in his
final semester
before stepping down after 3
7
years
lead-
ing Marist, welcomed the students and told
them their service as
health
care providers
would
he
l
p
fulfill Marist's commitment
to
serving others. "We are
truly
glad
that
you're
part
of our community,"
he
said, "and we're
really
excited about
this new program
and
your
presence here."
"You are a
unique, diverse
group
of very
talented individuals,"
said
the
program's
medical director,
Stephen A.
Katz, MD. Many new PA
students
have
professional exper
i
ence
in the hea
l
t
h
care
field.
More than 36
percent
are
people
of
color, and 60
percent
come from outside
New York State. They
range in
age from
22
to 55.
After
receiving
their coats, the students
assembled to
take the Physician
Assistant
Professional Oath, which
begins
with
the
pledge to "hold as
my primary responsibility
the health,
safety, welfare, and
dignity
of all
human beings."
For
information
about
the
new
master
of science
in physician
assistant studies pro-
gram, visit
http:
//
www
.
marist.edu
/
science
//
physassi
t
i.
i!l
Two Graduates Awarded Fulbright Cirants
T
wo 2016
MARIST GRADUATES
are
studying abroad on Fulbright U
.
S.
Student
Program Grants.
Jaquan
Jacob Arzu '16
was
awarded the
grant to
ltaly
to
pursue
an MPA at SDA
Bocconi School of Management
in
Milan. A
native of the Bronx, NY, Arzu was enrolled
at Marist through
the Higher Education
Opportunity
Program
(HEOP), majoring
in political science with concentrations
in
both
public affairs and international stud-
ies. He
was also active
in
the Marist College
Student Government Association,
the
Zeta
Psi
Fraternity, and
the B
l
ack Student
Union. Arzu
has been involved in
commu-
nity
grassroots
movements
from an early
age, working with
the Northwest Bronx
Community and Clergy Coalition and
the
national
organization
Dignity in
Schools
when
he
was in
high
school.
He interned
with
Dutchess
County
Legislator
Francena
Amparo
in
2013 and served as a congressio-
nal
Hispanic
Caucus
intern in the
office of
Rep
.
Jose
Serrano
in the
summer
preceding
his
senior year.
He hopes
to
pursue doctoral
Jaquan Jacob
Croix James
Arzu
'16
Laconsay
'16
studies
in
regional and
urban planning that
will
equip
him to
address contemporary
issues in
U.S. cities such as
deferred main-
tenance
and affordable
housing
.
Croix James Laconsay
'16 received
a grant
to pursue research
on chemical
bonds
with
Dr.
Sason Shaik at the
Hebrew
University of
Jerusalem in Israel. Born
in San Francisco
and
raised in Hawaii,
Laconsay majored in both
chemistry and
philosophy,
with a
minor in mathematics.
He was
a
l
so a
recipient
of
the Dr. J
.
Richard
La Pietra Sponsored
Student
Research Fund
to
Enhance Excellence
in
Chemistry Studies
and a
member
of
the Deans'
Circle and
par-
ticipated in
a Nat
i
onal Science Foundation
Research
Exper
i
ence
for
Undergraduates
at
Texas
A&M University
in the
summer
of 2015
.
Outside
of
the lab, Laconsay
was
active
in Marist's
Campus Ministry as a
member
of its
Advisory Board,
served as
vice
president
of
membership
for Marist's
Toastmasters
International,
and
partici-
pated in
Marist Ambassadors for two years.
His long-range
goal is to become a
professor
of chemistry, focusing on computational
organic chem
i
stry, w
hil
e
sustaining
h
i
s
investigations into the phi
l
osophy
of sci-
ence.
'
foe Fulbright
Program,
the
U.S. gov-
ernment's
flagship internationa
l
educa-
tional
exchange
program, is
sponsored by
the Bureau
of Educational and Cu
l
tural
Affairs of
the
U.S.
Department
of
State. The
Fulbright competition
i
s administered at
Marist
through Pat
Taylor, graduate school
and
fe
ll
owship advisor
in the
Center for
Career Services.
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FALL
2
01
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Wendy Ni
'
19
(second from left
)
presented an engineering project at
the White House Science Fair hosted by
President Barack Obama in Apr
i
l
2016.
Wendy Ni '19 Presents Project
at
White House Science Fair
M
ARIST STUDENT SI YA (WENDY) NJ '19
was
one of
more than
130
st
ud
en
t
s
from across the co
unt
ry who displayed their
work at
the
White
House
Science
Fair
in
April
2016.
The
fair, an annual eve
nt
that began in
2010
as part of
President
Barack Obama's
Educate to Innovate
initiative,
showcases
the work of
young
people
who
desire
to exce
l
in
science and
mathematics.
Ni
began
work on
the
engineering
proj-
ect while in
high
school at
Baruch
Co
ll
ege
Campus
Hi
gh Sc
h
oo
l
in
New
York
City.
She
found
herself drawn to
science and
math-
ematics because she
liked how both
subjects
have
exact answers,
unlik
e
literature,
"where
there
are
many interpretations to
one work,"
she said. "l
do
we
ll
in those
(science and
math) classes, so
I like
it
even
more."
Ni was part of a
team
of
11
members
who applied for and
received
a
Lemelson-
MIT
ln
ve
nT
eam
grant for their proposal
of
a sem
i
a
utomati
c
vacuum cleaner that
wou
ld
clear
New York C
it
y subway
tracks
of
trash that
can cause
delays
and fires.
In the
Lemelson-MIT
compe
tit
io
n
,
teams
co
m
-
prised
of s
tud
ents, e
du
cators, a
nd m
entors
receive up to
$10,000
to
invent technological
so
l
utions for real-wor
ld
problems.
N
i
's
team
a
nd it
s
two teachers dedicated
their
free
time
after sc
h
oo
l
and o
n
week-
ends
to
work on a quarter-scale
prototype
designed to
attach
to
an exist
in
g
flatbed
car of a
train
a
nd
use
li
g
ht
and
u
l
trasonic
sensors and four
pneumatic
cy
lind
ers
.
"Lucki
l
y, we a
l
so
h
ad
many mentors,
espec
i
a
ll
y
two from
Con Ed
i
son,
who taught
us
a
b
o
u
t
building machines
and
presenting
to businesses,"
Ni said
.
In
June
2015,
they presented their
vac
uum
at
MIT's EurekaFest,
a
nd
over the
fo
ll
owing
m
o
nth
s, a
team of
13
st
ud
e
nt
s
at
Ni's high school
continued refining
the
d
evice.
When
the time
came
to display the
proj-
ect at
the
White
House
Science Fair, Ni was
both nervous
and excite
d
. "Altho
u
gh
I had
presented the
vacuu
m
to big
crowds many
times before, the
White
House
and the
people there
were different," she said. Only
three people representing
h
er
h
ig
h
school
were a
bl
e
to
go, a
nd
she
was
one of
them.
The
three
had
to
work together quickly to
set
up the
vacuum, answer
questions
from
the press,
and
m
ake t
h
eir
presentation.
Several
n
ews out
l
ets
int
erv
i
ewed
Ni, including the
Huffington Post,
the
Washington
Post,
a
nd
CNN.
Ni a
l
so
had
the opportunity
t
o speak wi
th
Bill
Nye, "The
Scie
n
ce
Guy,"
and
President
Obama, among
other
important
figures who attended
the
fa
ir.
As
a
first-generation
co
ll
ege student
whose parents immigrated to
New York
C
it
y from
China, Ni has
found challenges
when
it
comes
to
exce
llin
g
in
sc
h
oo
l.
"It can
be
a
little hard because there isn't
a
n
yone
in
my
fam
il
y whom
I
can ask
questions
about
co
ll
ege, suc
h
as w
hi
c
h
co
ll
ege
I
s
h
ou
ld
go
to or which
cl
asses
I
s
hould
take,"
she sa
id
.
"Still,
my mother has been
very supportive
of
my
choices
.
"
Ni's
goa
l
s a
r
e
now
focused on
her
sc
hool
work a
nd
a
ppl
yi
n
g
to
work
for the
IBM joint
St
ud
y at Marist. Eventually, she
would
like to develop
software at a company
s
u
c
h
as
IBM, Google,
or
Amazon.
i!l
-Adriana Belmonte
'17
Career Trek Offers an Inside Look at Ciloba
T
HE
SCHOOL OF
MANAGEMENT
offered
students the chance to
p
ar
ticipate in its
third
annual
Career
Trek,
a
day
trip to New
York City offering
a
n insider p
ers
pectiv
e
on
industries
and careers
through
visits
to
19
prominent firms
,
on Oct.
6,
2016.
The purpose
of
the day is to help
stu-
dents learn
about a career
in their
chosen
field of
study and
specifically in
a
particular
company, according
to Dr. Joanne Gavin
,
assistant
dean
for
undergr
a
duate programs
and
professor
of
management. The
students
also
learn how to
apply
for internships
and
:;;.;...
_
._
_ ___.
"
jobs in
those
companies.
Employers hosting student visits included IBM, JP
G
av
in
started
the Care
er
Trek
in
col-
Morgan
,
Goldman Sachs, Ogilvy & Mather
,
Ernst
&
1 b
h h
S
h I
f
Young
,
the American Institute of Certified Public
a
oration
wit
t
e
c
00 O
Management.
Accountants
,
BATS
,
Sony, AOL
,
BBC, and Bloomberg.
"
I did this to he
l
p st
u
dents
get
the right
job
and a start on
their
careers," she said.
"
This
4
MARIST
MAGAZINE
is
a
great
opportunity
for students
to m
eet
and
network with
a
l
umni
who want
to help
them
get good
jobs
."
Employers hosting
student visits
included IBM
,
JP Morgan
,
Goldm
a
n
Sachs
,
Ogilvy
&
Mather, Ernst
&
Young,
the
American Institute
of Certified
Publi
c
Accountants
,
BATS, Sony, AOL
,
BBC,
and
Bloomberg
.
Gavin noted that
almost all
of
the
company
visits are hosted by School
of
Management
alumni or
parents
of Marist
students.
Approximately
100
students
partici
-
pated, divided into seven tracks that
each
visited
different
companies.
At the
end of
the day, the
students
had the
opportunity
to network with more than
100
School
of
Management alumni.























and
th
e
defense
of children,
possibilities
for greate
r
collaborat
i
on and exc
h
a
n
ge, the
nature
of Marist education at the
university
l
evel, and
new
structures of governance.
Presenters included Bro
.
Juan
Antonio
Ojeda Ortiz,
FSC. c
u
rre
ntl
y genera
l
secre-
tary
for Cat
h
o
li
c education
in
Spain;
Bro
.
Mane
!
Me
nd
oza
Prario, FMS
,
director
of
the
Mar
i
st
Brothers desk
at
the
Un
it
ed
Nations
Hu
man
Ri
g
ht
s Council
in
Geneva
,
Switzerland; Bro
.
Clemente
Juliatto, FMS,
former rector of
th
e Cat
h
o
li
c
Pontifical
U
ni
vers
it
y
in Parana,
Braz
il
; and Bro
.
Joao
Carlos do
Prado,
FMS,
director
of
the
Marist
Brot
h
ers Mission Secretariat in
Rome, Italy.
!
Bro. Pablo
Franco Go
n
za
l
ez,
FMS, president
A conference at Marist College of the Mari st International Network of lnstitutions
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o
_
f
_
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-
ig
_
h
_
e
_
r
_ _.
of
the
n
etwork, a
lso
a
ddr
essed
th
e group.
Educat
i
on drew administrators from colleges and universities around the wo
r
ld.
"The
universities
r
epresented
ran the
Leaders from 22 Marist Institutions
Meet in Poughkeepsie
M
ARIST COLLEGE
HOSTED
l
eaders
fro
m
22
Marist Brothers-affiliated
universities around
the
world
in
July
2016.
The Marist
Int
ernationa
l
Network of
Institutions
of
Higher
Educat
i
o
n
co
nf
erence
drew
almost
40
presidents
,
rectors, deans,
and provosts from
institutions in Argentina,
Australia, Braz
i
l, Colombia,
the Democratic
Republic
of Congo,
It
a
l
y,
Mexico, Nigeria,
Peru, the Philippines,
Spai
n
, a
nd
Timor-
Leste
as
well as the U.S.
The network is made up
of
institutions
founded, sponsore
d
,
owned, or adminis-
tered by
the Marist
Brothers.
"
The
group
meets
every two years wit
h
the
purpose of
buildin
g stro
n
ge
r bond
s,
discussing ways
in
which
co
ll
a
b
ora
ti
on
might be mutually beneficial,
exp
l
or
in
g
th
e exc
h
ange of fac
ult
y an
d
students, and
exa
minin
g
topics
of common
interest,
"
said
Bro. Sean Sammon,
FMS,
'70,
Maris
t
College's representative
to th
e co
nf
ere
n
ce.
A trustee
of t
h
e
College,
h
e was forme
rl
y
super
i
or genera
l
a
nd
vicar genera
l
of
the
Mar
i
st
Brothers internationally
and a
leader
of
one of the
Bro
th
ers'
U.S.
p
rov
in
ces
. H
e
also served as
president
of
the
Conference
of Major Superiors of Men, a group
that
rep-
resents the
l
eaders
hip
of Cat
h
o
li
c
religious
congregatio
n
s wit
hin
the United States.
In
sess
ion
s conducted
in
three lan-
guages,
English, Portuguese,
and
Spanish,
co
nf
ere
nc
e
p
artic
ip
a
nt
s
focused
o
n
a
r
eas
including models of networking,
c
hild
rights
Firms
Aft
er
h
ea
ring
about
the benefits that
the
e
v
e
nt would provide to students, Joe
Guid
a
'i7
thought it was
a
"
no-brainer
"
to
atte
nd
,
especially as
a
business
administra-
tion
m
ajor.
Guida
said
that h
e
most
enjoyed
being
able
to visit
with
three different
com
p
a
ni
es.
Guid
a
led the finance track
,
which
met with Goldm
a
n
Sachs,
Neuberger
B
e
rman
,
and
BATS
.
He
was
"v
ery intrigued
to
see
how
each company
tailors
its envi-
ronment in order to
accomplish
its
goa
l
s.
Never
would
I have had the
opportunity to
visit with
three prestigious
companies and
network with the many
eager emp
l
oyees
willing
to provide
advice."
Christina
O'Neil
'17,
a
business mar-
keting
major who led the
marketing track, said she
thought it was
a very
well-
run
and well-executed
eve
nt.
"
The
alumni
I talked to
all
went out of their way to
help us
and give
a
dvice not
only
about
their
companies
Students had the opportunity
to network with more than
100
School of Management alumni.
gamut
from
what might
best be
described as
small commun
it
y co
ll
eges
to
l
arge
national
universities
of
30,000
students
with
sc
h
oo
l
s
of educatio
n
,
medicine
,
a
nd
information
technology," sa
id
Sammon. Many offer
pro
-
grams s
imil
ar
to
Marist Co
ll
ege's,
h
e added,
suc
h
as fas
hion
design, physician
assistant
studies, and
information
technology
includ
-
ing
on-campus
research
and
design
fac
iliti
es
for
Microsoft, Dell,
a
nd
other
comp
ut
er
compan
i
es.
During the
conference, the group
enjoyed a
private
tour of
the FDR
Presidential Library
and
Museum,
a
reen
-
actment of Eleanor and Franklin
Roosevelt's
"cookou
t
"
for England's King George VI and
Queen
E
li
zabe
th
during their
visit
to
th
e
U.S
.
, a cru
i
se on
the
Hud
son, and a wa
l
king
tour
of
downtown
New York City.
The
group also elected a new set of offi-
cers a
nd
set
the
lo
cat
i
on for
it
s
next meeting:
Lima, Peru,
in
2018.
C:i
but
also
the industry
as a whole," she said.
"So
me took
our resumes,
but
everyone said
to
connect
to th
e
m
on Linkedln
a
nd to
mes-
sage
them
.
They
were all very genuine, and
I
know that if I n
ee
d
a
job
come May,
I
could
correspond with any of
them
throughout
this
year and
they would h
e
lp me
."
Guida described the final network
-
ing
event at the end of
the day
as a
nother
aspect
he
greatly enjoyed.
"
Hear
i
n
g
Marist
a
l
umni
's
stories and career
paths
was
inter
-
esting and
insightful,
"
he
said
.
"They were
extremely
proud
and willing
to
provide
us
current students with
the
advice and
g
uid
-
ance
we need to find
our
own future
career
successes.
Overall
,
the
Career Trek was
extremely
ben
eficia
l
for
me
as
it
was a
day
of
career
insight
,
growth, and opportunity."
C:i
-Adriana
B
e
lmont
e
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MARIST
DR
.
Marist Contingent
Joins NYC
Pride March
T
HIS
PAST
JUNE,
Marist College made
history by participating in one
of
the
largest LGBT (lesbian,
gay,
bisexual, trans-
gender)
Pride
events
in the
world,
the
New
York City
Pride March.
Marist College took part in one of the largest LGBT Pride events in the world, the New York City
Pride March
,
in June
2016.
Participating was
an
initiative
of
the
College's
Diversity
Council
led by
council
m
e
mber
and
Director
of Student-Athlete
Enhancement
Alyssa Gates. Among the
many
goals of
the
council
is to
assist
in the
development
of activities
that promote,
emphasize, and celebrate
diversity
at
Marist.
The ultimate
goal
is to
go
beyond what is
required through
equa
l
opportunity
and
affirmative action
programs to truly recog-
nize and value what
makes
each
individual
unique.
"I was
honored to
represent
Marist in
the
2016
Pride
March and am proud
to
work
for an
institution that
chose
to be
a
part
MARI ST TRUST
President David
Faculty Award f
professor of psy
of
this historic
event," said
Gates
.
"Many
of the
alumni
who participated noted how
far
Marist has
come
in their
support
of the
LGBT community
and
how proud they
are
to be Red Foxes!
"
Among those
alumni were
Brad
Whitmore
'06
MPA
and
his husband,
Gary Hulbert
'15.
"As extremely
proud
Marist alumni,
my husband
and
I partici-
pate in
a
number of Mar
i
st
events,"
said
Whitmore. "When
the
opportunity was
presented to march
with
Marist
at NYC
Pride, we
couldn't say
no-especially in
the wake of the horrific hate
crimes and
murders in Orlando
.
Thanks to the
work
of
the Marist LGBT
group on campus,
ANTI RACISM ESSAYIST AND EDUCATOR TIM WISE
(far right) spoke on
"Beyond
Diversity:
Understanding and Dismantling Racism
"
to a packed Nelly Goletti Theatre at Marist on Oct.
s,
2016.
He also met with student leaders of the Black Student Union (BSU) and Appreciating Races Creating
Opportunities (ARCO) and faculty prior to his lecture (above).
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ARIST
MAGAZINE
Dr. Dennis
Murray, students, and alumni,
we were
able
to march proudly together. It's
a
moment we won't
soon
forget."
Marist
faculty and staff
joined
alumni
and students
in
solidarity. "Particularly
in
the wake
of
the Orlando tragedy, I valued
the
chance
to let the
wider
world know what
a strong sense of community we
have here
at
Marist,"
said
Dr. Moira Fitzgibbons,
English
professor
and
interim
assistant
dean for the
School
of Liberal Arts.
"Many spectators
seemed really
happy to
see our group tak-
ing part in the parade.
Some
people in
the
crowd
waved
around
Marist IDs
so
that we
could
recognize our fellow Red
Foxes!"
i!l
-Bobbi
Sue
Tellitocci
'04/'14
M
MA RIST CELEBRATED THE 10TH
ANNIVERSARY OF ITS CAMPUS
SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM
with
events Oct.
10-24, 2016,
on the theme
"Environmental Justice for People and
Planet.'' Keynote speaker Aaron Mair,
president of the Sierra Club, spoke
on national environmental justice
issues. Shown with Mair (third from
right) are members of Marist
'
s Campus
Sustainability Advisory Committee: (left
to right) Dr. Richard Feldman
,
associate
professor of environmental science;
Dr. Geoffrey Brackett, executive vice
president; Co-Chair Dr. Jessica Boscarino,
assistant professor of political science
;
Madison Colledge
'18;
Shelby Parette
'18,
and Co-Chair Steve San sol a, associate
dean for student affairs.













More than 200
Help on 10th
Community
Service Day
M
ARIST'S COMMUNITY SERVICE DAY
began
10 years ago when
Patricia
(Patti)
Houmiel,
associate
director
of
hous-
ing
and residential
life,
collaborated with
then-Campus Minister
Jamie
Williams.
They knew that
nonprofits in the Hudson
Valley
needed things done
and
needed
people
to
do them.
Creating Community
Service
Day
seemed
like the best
way
to
get
students
involved.
"It's an opportunity for the students
to go out
in
the community at
least
once,"
Houmiel
explained. "The
hope
is that they
like it and want
to
come
back
to continue
volunteering."
On Oct.
17, 2016,
more
than
200
stu-
dents
and staff
participated in the
10th
annual Community
Service
Day at
nine
sites around the
Hudson
Valley. Their tasks
varied from yard work
to painting projects.
Some volunteers worked at
the
Mid-Hudson
Children's Museum
in Poughkeepsie,
where
they made blanket forts and costumes,
while others washed windows at the Marist
Brothers center
in
Esopus, NY. Still oth-
ers
maintained hiking trails
for the New
York-New Jersey Trail Conference. This
year, several students also
helped
out at a
local
Buddhist
monastery.
Campus
Minister Miche
l
le Khawam
enjoyed seeing
the
students get
involved.
"It gives
me joy to
see
the Marist
commu-
nity
coming together
to
give
back
and do
service," she said
.
Students also worked at
the
Children's
Home
of
Poughkeepsie.
"It's a
reward
for
the
kids to work with Marist students,
but
at
the
same time
it's beneficial
for Marist students
to
interact with
them," Houmiel
said.
Houmiel,
who
drove the
students
to
and
from the volunteer sites, enjoyed
listening
to the students talk about
their
experience
on
the drive back to
campus. "Wherever
they go,
they
gain a
bigger perspective,"
she
said. "The
relationships
we
build
with these
sites are so
important,"
she added. "The sites
we work with look forward
to
this day, and
we go
back
to many of
the
same sites year
after year."
The
students, too,
look
forward
to the
day
and
to
returning
to the
same sites.
Students spruced up the Marist
Brothers center in Esopus, NY
.
Students maintained trails at Breakneck Ridge in Cold Spring
,
NY
.
Dawn
Bruzzese
'17,
who participated
for a second
time, described it
as a "great
opportunity and experience." This year she
worked at the Winnakee
Land
Trust, where
she
helped paint trail
signs and clear
land
in
preparation
for trail expansion. Afterwards,
Bruzzese
and
her
group
traveled
along one
of
the trails to
see the significance of
their
work.
"I
was happy that I was
ab
l
e
to be
a
part
of something
that
affects
the lives of many,"
she said. "It
is
an amazing feeling to get
to
help
other
people."
Justine
Carra
'17,
a
member
of
the
Campus Ministry Advisory
Board,
was
excited at
the idea of
giving
back.
She
worked at Esopus,
helping to
clean the
Marist Brothers center as the
Brothers
transitioned to autumn
retreat
mode.
"I
love
going to Esopus
because
it's so
beautiful.
I
was so happy to be
back
there for
the
day!"
she said. "Brother Owen (Ormsby)
spoke
to us
at the beginning of
the day
and
told
us
that the
most
important
thing
that
he hoped
we would gain
from
the
day
was
a sense
of
community.
That
is
the purpose
of coming
together to do
service. With
that
in mind,
we started our
day
of service with
a
more
open and friendly attitude.
It didn't
seem
like
we were changing
lives, but
what
we did
to help,
and the fact
that
we all
did
it together,
was so special."
t!J
-Adriana Belmonte
'17
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IN BRIEF)
Johns Hopkins University Press has published
Dr
.
Karen Schrier
'
s
Knowledge Games: How
Playing Games Can Solve Problems
,
Create Insight
,
and Make Change
(2016).
In the book, Schrier
examines the intersection of games, problem
solving and crowdsourcing, and what happens
when knowledge emerges from games and
game players rather than scientists
,
profes
-
sionals
,
and researchers. Schrier is assistant
professor of media arts and director of Marist
'
s
games and emerg
i
ng
-
media program
.
Dr
.
Juris Pupcenoks
,
assistant professor of
political science
,
has written
Western Muslims
and Conflicts Abroad: Conflict Spillovers to
D
i
asporas
(
Routledge,
2016)
.
Pupcenoks explains
in the book why political violence in response
to conflicts abroad occurs in some migrant
communities in the West but not in others
.
D
r.
John Scilepp
i
'
67,
professor emeritus of
p
s
ychology, and
Dr
.
Elizabeth Quinn
'
95
/'
95
MA
,
associate professor of psychology, have
e
dited
Empowering Students: A Contemporary
and Essential Approach to Education
(New
A
c
ademic Publishing
,
2016)
,
a collection of
essays on psychological research and empow
-
e
rment strategie
s
to bring about better
a
cadem
i
c outcomes
.
The book aims to help
t
e
achers
,
administrators
,
and parents transform
school
-
aged youth into enthusiastic
,
intellectu
-
ally curious
,
self-directed learners motivated
toward academic success
,
self
-
d
i
scovery
,
and
civic engagement.
:
MARIST
DR
:
Women and Society
Conference Marks 25th Vear
O
CTOBER
2016
marked
a
milestone
on campus:
the
25th
anniversary of
the
annual Women and Society Conference
at Marist College.
Dr. JoAnne
Myers,
department
chair for
political
science,
and
Dr. Sue Lawrence,
department chair for media arts, initi-
ated
the program
in 1991 with the
hopes
of commencing an
interdisciplinary women's
studies
program
as well as showcasing
academic feminism.
"We started
it because
we wanted
to
actually start a women's
Keynote Speaker
studies
program,
"
said
Myers
.
They recognized
the
need
for the
Dr. Hazel Carby
inclusion
and
integration
of women and women's scholarship at a time when Marist had
an ample amount of
male
scholarship
.
"Mar
ist
was in 1989,
'90,
'91
sti
ll
very
much
a bastion of
male
scholarship," said Myers
.
"We
had
to prove to our colleagues that there was such a
thing
as women's scholarship."
The conference founders wanted to
displa
y
real and
legitimate
work
being
conducted
in
women's studies.
The best
way to show
it,
they
thought,
would
be to
organize a two-day
conference. Their efforts sparked interest from women regionally and across
the
country.
At the
same
time that the
conference was drawing a strong
response,
Marist
imple
-
mented the
women's studies
program
as an
interdisciplinary minor.
The women's studies
minor marked
its
20th anniversary
in
2011 with a panel
featuring
women's studies faculty,
not
only to celebrate
the program
's
past but
also to unite the women's studies community
at Marist.
In
2002
Dr.
Shannon
Roper
,
associate
professor
and
department
chair for communica-
tion, joined
Myers
in
coordinating
the
conference and in 2010
became its director.
More
recently
Dr.
Angela Laflen and
Dr.
Kristin Bayer,
both
co-directors of women's studies,
have
organized
the
conference. The keynote speaker at
the
2016 conference was
Dr. Hazel
Carby, the Charles
C.
and Dorothea S.
Dilley
Professor of African American Studies and
Professor
of American Studies at Yale.
t!l
-Alexis Watson
'17
In its second year
,
Marist College
'
s
MILITARY HISTORY
PRE
-
COLLEGE COURSE
hosted 10 high school students
from across the country. The students had the
opportunity to experience college lectures, research
,
and writing assignments as well as field trips to Historic
Huguenot Street, West Point, Philipsburg Manor, and
other regional historic sites. Their encampment at
Marist
'
s Col
.
Oliver Hazard Payne Mansion in Esopus, NY
,
led by the Living History Education Foundation
,
included
dres
s
ing and training in Civil War period uniforms, firing
a cannon and rifled musket, and meeting with reenactors
who portrayed President and Mrs. Lincoln.
n
COMMEMORATING A HISTORIC TRAIL
Col
.
James M
.
Johnson
(Ret
.
)
,
the Dr. Frank T. Bumpus Chair in Hudson River Valley History
at Mari st (back row), participated in a ceremony dedicating an
exhibit at the Franklin D
.
Roosevelt State Park in Yorktown, NY
,
on
Aug
.
22
,
2016
.
The exhib
i
t interprets the French camp of August 1781
at Hunt
'
s Tavern and Crompond at the park
.
U
.
S
.
Secretary of the Inter
i
or Sally
Jewell (left), Congresswoman Nita Lowey (17th District) (center
),
and New York
Parks Commissioner Rose Harvey (right) made remarks about the Washington-
Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail (W3RNHT). Johnson
,
dressed as a member of Dillon
'
s Irish Regiment in the service of French
King Louis XVI, presented an overview of the French and American march
to Yorktown, VA, and the story of the approval of the W3RNHT. Reen actors
portraying Gen. George Washington on his horse Old Nelson
,
a 3
-
pounder
cannon crew from New Windsor Cantonment State Park, and five members of
the 5th New York Regiment provided salutes and a
feu-de
-
joie
-
a
firing of joy
-
to
honor the trail and its architects.
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1ST
Garry Trudeau and
Michael O'Looney '87
Address Class of 2016
A
T CEREMONIES ON FRIDAY
AND
SATURDAY,
May 20 and 21,
1,655
members of
the
Class of 2016 received their
degrees from
Dennis}.
Murray
during the
College's 70th commencement exercises
and Murray's 37th and
final
as
president
of Marist.
Before
bestowing 1,118 bachelor's
degrees
on
Saturday, Murray recited
a
favorite
quote from the
a
n
cient
Greek
mathematician
Archimedes, a staple of
his
commencement remarks over
the
years:
"Give
me
a
place to
stand, and
I
wi
ll
move
the
world."
Afterward, he tipped his cap to
the
Class of 2016 and wished
its members the
best.
''I've always said
that being president
of Mari st
has never been
a
burden," he
said,
"but an
honor
and a
privilege."
New
York
Sen. Chuck Schumer joined
the ceremony
to
congratulate Murray on
his
tenure
and wish
the
graduates we
ll,
exhort-
ing them
to
"Go for
it!"
Pulitzer
Prize-winning
Doonesbury
car-
toonist Garry
Trudeau spoke
to the
gradu-
ates about the
importance
of
keeping their
eyes open and seeing
the
world for all
that
it is.
"Welcome surprise," said
Trudeau,
who
received
an
honorary Doctor
of
Humane
Letters degree.
"Revel
in
wonder, and avoid
the tunnel vision that
can at
times
seem
necessary to
success."
On Friday
evening, 537 graduate and
adult
members
of
the
Class of 2016
received
their degrees
and
heard
from speaker
Michael O'Looney
'87, who was awarded
the Distinguished Alumni
Medal, the
high-
est award
presented
to a Marist graduate.
A former reporter
and anchor for
the
CBS Evening News and WCBS Te
l
evision
in
New York
City, O'Looney
went on
to
serve
as
the
New York
Police Department's deputy
commiss
ion
er
for public information. He
later moved into the financial
services sector
where he
was a
top
communications execu-
tive for Merrill Lynch
and
Barclays. He
cur-
rently runs global
communications for
Elliott Management
and serves on
the
Advisory Board for
Marist's
School
of
Communication and the
Arts.
A
l
so
during Friday's
cer-
emony,
U.S. Marines
veteran Matt
Plumeri
rece
iv
ed
his degree
accom-
panied by Gulliver, the
retired special-
i
zed
search dog
who served
with him
in Afghanistan. In
2014,
the
Marist
community
rallied to
raise more
than
$10,000
in
a
matter
of
days to help
Plumeri
adopt and care
for Gulliver
after
the dog was retired from military
service.
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ADVANCEMENT NEWS
Marilyn and Dennis Murray were honored for their 37 years of service to Mari st at a
tribute
and reception on May
6,
2016.
A Tribute to Dennis
and Marilyn Murray
foundations.
Valley
has been
truly
immeasurable,
and this
scholarship
helps perpetuate their
commit
-
ment to help
future generations enjoy the
benefits
of a world-class Marist education."
Also announced at the tribute was th
e
naming of the Student Center
in
honor
of the
Murrays.
The proposal
to
name the building
the
Murray Student Center was unanimously
approved
by the
Board of
Trustees
after first
being
suggested
by
a group of student, fac
-
ulty,
and staff
leaders.
While the Murrays were
aware of
the
scholarship,
the
·
amount raised
·
and
the
naming
of
the
Student Center were
both
surprises when
they were
announced
dur-
ing the
evening.
"Marilyn and
I
are very grateful
to
every
-
one who supported
these wonderful
tribute
efforts,
"
Dennis
Murray said. "It is certainly
nice to have
a
building named in
your
honor
,
but
the
best honor
of all
is the
scholarship,
which will expand opportunities for
talented
T
wo
LEGACIES
of
Dennis
J.
Murray's
ten-
ure
as
president
of Marist
were unveiled
at a
tribute held
May
6, 2016,
on campus
in
honor
of
Dennis
and
his wife, Marilyn. He
stepped
down June
30
after
37
years
lead-
ing the
College and
has been
appointed
by
the College's Board of
Trustees
as
president
emeritus and
professor
of
public policy.
"
Dennis
and
Marilyn have
a
lw
ays
placed the
greatest
emphasis on
increasing
access
to
Marist for
talented
and
deserving
students,"
Hancock
said, "which
is
why an endowed scholarship
is
such an appropriate way
to honor
their legacy."
The Student Center has been named
,
and a scholarship
endowed
,
to honor the Murrays.
From
the
stage of
the
Nelly
Galetti
Theatre
,
the tribute co-chairs, Trustees
Genine McCormick '88 and
Jim
Barnes '68,
announced
that more than
$2
million had
been
raised for
the Dennis
and
Marilyn
Murray Endowed Scholarship. Launched
with a generous lead gift from Chair of
the
Board
E
ll
en
Hancock
and
her husband,
J
a
son,
the
scholarship
h
as
been
supported
to
date by more than
445
alumni,
parents,
friends-including more than
350
people
who attended
the
event-corporations, and
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MARIST
MAGAZINE
The scho
l
arship
fund will
support a
cohort of
Murray
Scholars each academic
year.
The
award
in
g criter
i
a will
be deter
-
mined by the
Murrays
in
coming
months.
"The
tremendous
outpouring of support
for this special
initiative is
a
direct reflection
of
the Marist
community's
respect,
admi-
ration,
and
l
ove
for Dennis
and
Marilyn
Murray,"
said Vice
President
for
College
Advancement
Chris
DelGiorno
'88. "The
ir
impact
on Marist and
the Hudson River
and
deserving
students
to
afford a Marist
education, a cause
that has been
so
important
to
us
from
the
very
beginning.
We want
to
thank the
entire
Marist
community for all
they
have done
for
us,
but
more important,
for all
they have done
for Marist College over
the years."
To contribute
to the Dennis
and Marilyn
Murray
Endowed Scho
l
arship,
please
visit
maristconnect.marist.edu
/
give and
direct
your support
to the Dennis
and
Marilyn
Murray
Endowed
Scholarship
.
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Three Endowed Scholarships Established
E
XPANDING SUPPORT FOR SCHOLAR-
SHIPS
is among Marist College's
high
es
t
fundraising
prioritie
s.
The Office of Colleg
e
Advancement
is pleas
e
d to
announce three
n
ew e
ndowed
sc
ho
l
arsh
i
ps
generously estab-
li
s
h
e
d by
alumni and
parents
.
Dr.
J
ero
me
F.
Cuyler
'66
h
as
made
a
gift
to create the
Dr. Jerom
e
F.
Cuyler
'66
Scho
l
ars
hip
.
After
gra
duatin
g
from Marist,
he pursued his MD
at
Weill
C
o
rn
e
ll
Medicine
and
has
h
ad a
successful career in
m
edici
ne
a
nd h
ea
lth
care administration.
The
schol-
ars
hip
will
be
awarded an
n
ually to under
-
represented students with financ
i
al
need
who
pl
a
n to major
in
the
School
of Science.
Pr
e
f
e
rence
will
b
e
given
to
students
from
Mount St. Michael
Academy in the Bronx
,
NY, Marist
Hi
g
h School in Bayonne
,
NJ,
a
nd
st
ud
e
nts
transferring from
Dutchess
Community College in
Poughkeepsie
.
The
Ruttura
Family Scholarship
h
as
be
en esta
bli
she
d
with
a
gift from
Peter
an
d
Donna
Ruttur
a,
parents
of Stephanie
Ruttur
a
'19.
The
Rutturas
wanted
to help
current
a
nd
future Marist
students
ac
h
ieve their
ed
ucational
goals.
The scho
l
arsh
i
p
will
b
e
awar
d
e
d
annually
to
students
majoring in
fashion, with
preference
given
to
students
from
Long Isl
a
nd
,
NY, where
th
e
Ruttura
family
lives
and works.
The Rutturas
are active
members
of
Marist's Parents
Council.
The
Darryl!
'98
and
Lisa
Towsley
Family Scholarship
h
as
been
created
b
y
Darryl!
S. Towsley, Esq., LLM
'98.
The
scholarship will
b
e awa
rded
annually to freshmen
pursu
-
ing
an undergraduate
d
egree
in
the t
eac
her
special education
program. Applicants must be
academically
strong and
have documented financi
a
l
need.
Preference will be
given
to
residents
of
New
York
's
Capital District, where Darryll works
as a vice
president of financial
counseling at
Ayco, a
Goldm
a
n
Sachs company, and where
the Towsley family resides.
The College is
g
r
atefu
l
for the
genero
us
support of these committed alumni and
par
-
ents. Scholarships continue
to
make
a
m
ea
n-
ingful difference in the lives
of the recipients
and
their
families
.
For
more information
a
bout
establishing a scholarship,
please
contact
Chris DelGiorno
,
vice
president
for
college advancement, at
(845) 575-3412
or
christopher.delgiorno@marist.edu.
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M
ARIST DEDICATED THE
ROTUNDA
in
honor
of
l
oca
l
civ
i
c
l
ea
d
ers and
philan-
thropists
H
erb a
nd
S
u
e
Red!
o
n
Sept.
29, 2016.
President David Yellen thanked the
Redls
for the
ir l
o
n
gstand
in
g comm
itm
e
nt
to increasing
access
to
hi
g
h
er ed
u
catio
n
and for
"
all the
doors they've
opened to
l
oca
l
students."
The
Herb
and
Sue
R
ed
!
Sc
hol
arsh
ip
,
which was fo
und
ed
in
1994,
h
as
provided
vita
l
assista
n
ce
to talented
stu
d
e
nt
s
with
financial need,
a
ll
ow
in
g
th
em
to
co
mpl
ete
their
co
ll
ege e
du
cat
ion
a
t
Marist. To date,
5
7
st
ud
ents
have
b
ee
n
awar
d
ed
106
R
e
d
!
Scho
l
ars
hip
s
.
The
R
e
dls h
ave a
lso m
a
d
e a
generous
philanthropic
co
mmitm
e
nt
to the
College
in
support of
the renovation
of
the
Student Center
.
"Marist
is proud to dedicate this
space
and ce
l
ebrate its stature as
the Red! Rotunda,
"
Yel
l
en said.
The
Red! Rotunda serves
as
the
cross-
roads of Marist,
welcoming
thou
sands of
Mar
i
st stude
nt
s, a
lumni
,
prosp
ec
tiv
e s
tu
-
d
ents and
parents,
an
d
other visitors from
a
ll
across
the
country and the world
.
The
R
e
dls
are
lon
gtime
friends
of
Marist
a
nd
respected
l
eaders
in
the
Hud
son
Ri
ver
Valley
comm
unit
y
.
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Right
:
President David Yellen (far right) thanked
Herb and Sue Redl for their commitment to
higher education at a ceremony dedicating the
Rotunda in honor of the Red ls
.
Below: Herb and
Sue Red I and their daughters
-
(left to right)
Kari Red I Daniels
,
Kelley Red I Hardisty
,
Kim Redl
Lawrence
,
and Kristi Red I Deasy
-
were honored
guests at the dedication
.
Darryll
'
98
and Lisa
Towsley
David Yellen with Jerome F. Cuyler, MD
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Celebrating the Founding
Members of the Legacy Society
M
ARIST
has
again
honored
a specia
l
group of
donors
who
h
ave
included
Marist Co
ll
ege in
their
estate
plans through
bequests or other char
it
able
means.
On April
23, 2016,
the
College
held its
third annua
l
induction and recogn
iti
on ceremony ce
l
-
ebrating members of
the
Mar
i
st Co
ll
ege
Legacy
Society.
The
117
members
of
the
society represent
every facet of
the
College community
includ-
ing
trustees, alumni, facu
lt
y, staff,
retirees,
parents,
and friends.
Their
gifts
include
bequests,
c
h
aritab
l
e gift ann
uiti
es,
trust
provisions,
and
the naming
of
the
Co
ll
ege
as
beneficiary
of
life insurance
policies and
retirement p
l
ans.
Mari st honored Founding Members of
the
Legacy Society at
the
society's third annual
induction
and
recognition
ceremony.
T
h
e
theme
for the special event was
"Ce
l
ebrating Marist's Music Legacy,"
hon-
oring 35 years of Marist Singers, 30 years
of Marist Ba
nd
, and 20 years of Marist
Orchestra. Prior
to
the induction ceremony,
members had
an opportunity to hear from
30-year Marist Band director Arthur
Himmelberger
and enjoy
performances by
student musicians, soloists, and the Gospel
Choir
in
the Symphonic
Hall
w
it
hin the new
music
building.
Guests were also treated to
complimentary t
i
ckets to "Harmony on the
Hudson,"
Marist's annual spring concert at
the Bardavon 1869 Opera
House later
that
evening.
New
members
were
inducted by
Marist
Executive Vice
President
Geoffrey Brackett.
"You are members of a
distinguished
group
because
you
h
ave demonstrated a special
commitment
to
Marist's mission and the
need to
secure
its
future,"
he
said.
Eleanor
(Rundie) Bock
l
ey '74 and
her
husband,
Karl, were among
those inducted.
"I received an excellent education at Marist
and want to
help
future generations
do
the
same," said Bockley. "What
I
am today
is due
in
no small
part
to what
I learned
and how I
matured
at Marist. We are
part
of the Marist
family and want to
leave
a
legacy
of support
for
my
alma
mater."
Anyone interested
in learning
more
about
the Legacy
Soc
i
ety or
in
remember-
ing
Marist in
their
estate
plans
is invited to
co
nt
act the Office of College Advancement
at
maristadvancement@marist.edu
or (845)
575-3863.
~
-Bobbi Sue Tellitocci
'04
/
14
M
The event, which had a
"Celebrating
Marist's Music Legacy
"
theme,
took place
in
the
Marist Executive Vice President Geoffrey
Brackett (left) inducted new members
including Eleanor (Rundie) Bockley
'
74 and
her husband, Karl.
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MAGAZINE
Symphonic Hall
in
the music building
.
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Crew Shell Dedicated in Memory
of Noel "Buzz" de Cordova Jr.
O
N APRIL
24, 2016,
members
of the
College community gathered at
Longview
Park
on the
Marist
waterfront
to
dedicate
a crew shell
in memory
of
longtime
rowing supporter
Noel
"Buzz"
de
Cordova
Jr.
The magnificent
Vespoli 8-oared
racing
shell was
made possible by the
generous sup-
port of
the Jane
W.
Nuhn Charitable
Trust
which funds countless arts, environmental,
and social organizations
throughout the
Hudson River
Valley.
In
rowing
tradition, the
shell received a Champagne christening by
members of
the
Nuhn
Trust
and
de
Cordova
family
before being launched
on the
Hudson
River for the annual
President's
Cup
Regatta.
Buzz
de
Cordova
Jr. had
a
lifelong dedica-
tion to the sport of rowing.
He
rowed
in the
famed Intercollegiate
Rowing
Association's
national championship
regatta,
which
became known as the
Poughkeepsie Regatta
because
it originated in
Poughkeepsie,
for many years as coxswain of Cornell
University's varsity crew.
He
was also a
highly
respected
business
and community
leader
who served as a
Poughkeepsie
town
councilman and as a
direc-
tor/member/trustee
for
numerous
organizations
including
the
Jane W.
Nuhn Charitable
Trust.
Chris
DelGiorno
'88, vice
presi-
dent
for college advancement, spoke
on
behalf
of
the
College during the
dedication
ceremony. "Marist
is hon-
ored to
dedicate
this shell
in
Buzz's
memory.
It
will serve as a
perpetual
reminder of
the trust's dedication
while keeping Buzz's legacy
alive
on
the Marist College
campus."
He
said
the College is
grateful
to
Nuhn
Trustees Michael de
Cordova and
Edward VI< Cunningham.
A Vespoli a-oared racing shell, made possible by support
from the Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust
,
was dedicated to
Noel
"
Buzz
"
de Cordova Jr. Special guests at the dedication
were (left to right) Claire de Cordova; Michael de Cordova
,
a Jane W
.
Nuhn Charitable Trust trustee
;
Noel "Trip
"
de
Cordova Ill; and Edward Cunningham Jr.
,
Esq
.,
son of Nuhn
Trustee Edward VK Cunningham
.
Director
of Athletics Tim Murray also
addressed
the large
crowd, which
included
friends and family of
Buzz de
Cordova and
the Nuhn
trustees,
student-athletes,
parents,
and alumni. "In
the spirit
of Buzz's
intense
competitiveness,
devotion to the
sport of
rowing, and
his love
for the
Hudson
Valley,
this
shell will serve to
honor him
and as
inspiration
to
our rowers
here
at Marist."
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Tellitocci
'
04
/
'14
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Marist Million Challenge Completed
T
,~E
COLLEGE HAS ~OMPLETED THE
MARIST MILLION
CHALLENGE,
a
fundraising initiative
established
by the late
Raymond A. Rich to ensure the long-term
future
of
football
at
the College. The
goal
was
reached through the generosity of
approxi-
mately
200
alumni, friends, parents,
and
fans
of the football program.
"Since
coming to Marist, I have been
struck by the community's enthusiasm for
Red Fox football," Marist President David
Yellen
said. "The
success of the Marist
Million
campaign
is a testament to that
support, and we
are
grateful to all who par-
President Emeritus Dennis J. Murray
said. "I
ticipated in this important
effort."
know he would be pleased that his
generous
Shortly after the opening of Tenney
gift inspired such a broad outpouring of sup-
Stadium, Marist received a
$1
million cha!-
port from former players and coaches
and
lenge
grant
from Rich, one of the
20th
MAR IS T
other alumni
and
friends of Marist.
century's
leading businessmen
and
MILLION
I particularly want to
acknowledge
industrialists as well
as a
good friend
-
FmmL mLL£m
-
the leadership of Matt Daly
and
Tom
to Marist College. As part of the challenge,
Coyne in reaching the challenge Ray Rich
the Rich estate matched eac
h
dollar raised
had set forth."
exclusively for use by Marist football up to $1
Gifts received through the generosity of
million, creating the $2 million endowment.
donors will help
elevate
the program
and
"Ray
Rich was a great friend of the College
provide a vibrant atmosphere for future Red
and, in particular, of Marist football," Marist
Foxes. The $2 million endowment will
cre-
ate a sustainable source of support for the
Marist football program while providing
student-athletes with opportunities to excel
academically
and
athletically.
"The
success of the Marist Million cam-
paign will help ensure that footba
l
l remains
a vital program here for future student-
athletes and fans alike," Marist Director of
Athletics Tim Murray said.
"Our
program is
stronger for the
generosity
of so many alumni
and
friends."
Shown (left to right) are Marist Head Football Coach Jim Parady, Associate Head Coach/Defensive
Coordinator Scott Rumsey
'
91,
and Tom Coyne
'
91
and Matt Daly
'91,
whose generous gifts
"
completed the drive.
"
"The great
support that the
entire
Marist
College community has shown for our foot-
ball program is
an
inspiration to all of our
players and coaches
and
will continue to
be for generations to come," Marist Head
Football Coach Jim Parady said.
"We
are
grateful to everyone who participated in the
Marist Million campaign."
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A New Leader
for the College
.---
David Yellen begins his tenure
as Marist's fourth president.
NE
HUNDRED DAYS
into
the presidency
of
David
Yellen, Marist senior
Brandon Lee Heard
is
impressed.
As Student Government Association
president,
Heard
already
has
spent
time
with
the new president
during
freshman Move
In, luncheons,
and meetings
.
"I think
that
President Yellen will
be
amazing at Marist,"
said
Heard.
"Not only
through the
ideas that
he has
shared, but
in his
character.
He has
the ability
to
really
relate to the
students,
whether it
be
on social media or through
his
interaction with
them.
"He
has
the ability
to
comfortably chal-
lenge
you, to
make
you think outside the
box
and be more innovative."
Yellen's
leadership
style was one of
the
things Marist's presidential search commit-
tee praised when it announced Yellen as the
unanimous choice of the Board of Trustees
to become the College's fourth
president.
The search
began
following
Dr.
Dennis J.
Murray's
decision
in February
2015
to
step
down
on June
30, 2016,
after
37
years
.
"David's skills,
interests,
and
leadership
style are
ideally
aligned with Marist's mission
and heritage," said
Ross
Mauri
'80,
chair of
the
search committee and vice chair of the
Board of Trustees. "What the search com-
mittee saw throughout
his
career as an edu-
cator and a
lawyer
was a
mutually beneficial
commitment to
both
student success and
public service."
Yellen's commitment to student suc-
cess was evident
in the
advances
he led
at
his previous inst
i
tution,
Loyola University
Chicago School of
Law,
where
he
served
as dean for
11
years.
He
implemented
new
degree programs,
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.
As a result of
his
achievements,
National
Jurist
has
ranked
him
as
high
as
numbers
on
PHO
-
M
~HAlL NH
>N
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
.
"
National
Jurist
also
named
Loyola Chicago one of the nation's
10
best
law
schools for experiential
learning.
Prior to
leading
the Loyola University
Chicago School of Law, Yellen was on the
faculty at
Hofstra
Law School, where
he
held
the Max Schmertz
Distinguished
Professorship and served as dean.
He
was the
Reuschlein Distinguished
Visiting
Professor
at Villanova 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, D.C., and
served as counsel to the Judiciary Committee
of the U.S.
House
of
Representatives. He
also
argued a federal criminal case
before
the U.S.
Supreme Court.
"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 Marist's
Board of Trustees.
His dedication to
public service
has
included
volunteering
in
Chicago as a
special
master
appointed
by
Cook County
Criminal
Division Presiding
Judge
Paul P.
Biebel
Jr. to identify
valid claims
by inmates
of confessions coerced as a result of torture
by police
.
He
also served on
the Illinois
Sentencing
Policy Advisory
Council and
was 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 crime
to President Bill Clinton's transition team.
Despite
a distinguished career, he
is not
interested in the spotlight. "It's never about
him,"
said
Jim
Faught, associate
dean
for
administration at Loyola University Chicago
School of Law. "He
has
a very
low tolerance
for attention
that is thrown in his direction.
His
style
is collaborative,
supportive.
His
Pr
e
s
i
dent
David Yellen
w
elcomed
the Clas
s
of
2
020
and took
a selfie at
the all
-
class
gathering in
theMcCann
Center
'
s Grey
Gym .
door is always open to faculty and students
and staff."
"He
has
a very soft way of entering a situ-
ation," said Fr. Michael Garanzini, chancellor
at Loyola Chicago. "He's a
natural
at leading
an academic community."
In coming to Marist, Yellen has returned
to the region where he grew
up.
Born in
Jersey City,
he lived in Ridgefield,
NJ, until
he was
10
and then in
Paramus,
where
he
attended Paramus High School.
He
earned
a B
.
A. magna cum
laude
from
Princeton
University.
He
went on to receive
his J.D.,
cum
laude,
from Cornell Law School, where
he
and
his
wife, Leslie Richards-Yellen,
met
as
law
students. She
is
director of
inclusion
for the Americas in the New York offices of
multinational legal firm
Hogan
Lovells.
In
August she assumed the presidency of the
National Association of Women Lawyers,
an organization founded in
1899
that works
to advance women in the
legal
profession.
The
couple
has three
adult
daughters,
Jordan,
Meredith, and Bailey.
Jordan,
27,
is
an attorney
practicing
corporate
law
in New
York City. She graduated
from Haverford
and,
like her
parents, earned
her law
degree
from Cornell. Meredith,
26,
attended Loyola
University Chicago and is
now
a first-year
medical student at the University of
Illinois.
Bailey,
22,
graduated this past spring from
Claremont McKenna College and
lives in
San Francisco.
A
LTHOUGH AT MARIST
only since July
1,
Yellen
already
has
an astute
under-
standing of the College. "My main impres-
sions are
it's
an
unbelievably
close-knit and
positive community,"
he
says. "I've also
been
struck
by
what an
important institution
in
the Hudson
Valley Marist
is.
We're so closely
tied to all the other major organizations and
play
such a big role
in
the
quality
of
life
and
the
advancement of
the region."
He
says
the
College's strengths are appar-
ent "to anybody who sets foot on campus
or
talks to
anybody
here.
At a
time
of great
FALL
2016
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President David Yellen and his wife, Leslie Richards-Yellen, with their daughters
(left
to right)
Mered
i
th
,
Jordan
,
and Bailey
change and stress
in higher
education,
we're
an
institution that's doing incredib
l
y
we
l
l.
Enrollment, academic
programs, financially,
the physical
campus,
in
all
of those regards
we've
been
on an
upward trajectory
for a
long
time,
and
that
's
not
a common
story right
now in higher
education."
He
also sees the challenges ahead. "The
world of
higher
education
is
changing
so
much
and so fast.
And
as a still
fairly
young
school
without
a
big
endowment,
we're
very
tuition-dependent, so
we have to
continue
to be
efficient and
innovative and develop
programs that meet the needs
of current
students. Whether
it's new programs or
new delivery methods,
we
have
to continue
to
be
ahead of
the
curve
.
Because in higher
education
today, if
you're standing sti
l
l,
you're
falling
way behind
."
His priorities, he
says,
will be
shaped
by
the
2018-2023
strategic
plan that
a commit-
tee of faculty, staff, students, a
l
umni,
and
trustees will
develop
over
the
coming
year.
He is
confident
that
certain
broad themes
will
be part
of
the plan.
The first is to
continue
to have
sound
finances. "You can't
overstate the importance
of
running the institution
effic
i
ently and
generating
the revenue
you
need to keep the
campus
beautiful
and
the programs
vibrant."
Second
is to
continue
to
grow
the innova-
tion culture at
Marist.
"
Whether its distance
learning
or
more
graduate
programs or new
cross-disciplinary
work, we have
a very good
culture of
innovation, but if
anything,
we
need
to enhance
that
going
forward."
A
third priority is diversity.
"We've
made
good
progress;
22
percent of the freshmen
are students of color
which, I be
li
eve,
is the
highest
we've ever
had
.
But there
'
s more to
be done to be more diverse in
students,
in
faculty and staff."
A
fourth
is to build Marist's reputation.
"There are so
many things that we deserve
acclaim for and are getting accla
i
m for more
than
ever
before, but I think it's
fa
i
r to say
that
our
reputation in the broader academic
16
M
A
R
IST
MAGAZINE
community
hasn't
yet caught
up
to
the
reality
of how
great we are."
A fifth is
to enhance
the
connection with
alumni.
"As
I'v
e
been meeting
so
many
of our
alums,
there's
such great
love
and enthusi-
asm
for Marist,
and
I want to find new
ways
to bring
and
keep
a
l
umni involved in the
College
i
ncluding but not limited to financial
support.
To reach the next level
as a college
we
rea
ll
y
need to be less tuition-dependent
and
generating
more of our revenue from
current gifts or endowment
income. And
that
's
a
long-term project. We're
still a young
college
so we don't have
a
big
alumni
base
of
o
l
der peop
l
e who've
been
accumu
l
ating
wealth."
O
N
THE
WALL
in Ye
l
len's
office
in
Greystone
are
two mementos
of
highlights in his
career as an attorney and
legal
educator: a
small,
framed
photo
of
him
standing
next
to
Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Bader G
i
nsb
u
rg
a
n
d beside it, matted
and
framed,
the white quill pen that the
Supreme
Court g
i
ves as a souvenir
to
each
lawyer who
argues a case
before it.
Richard Foy
'so
,
Marist
'
s president from
1958
to
1979,
President David Yellen, and Dr. Dennis
Murray, president from
1979
to
2016,
gathered
for a photo at the annual Alumni Awards
ceremony during Homecoming and Reunion
Weekend
2016
.
But the photo
of Ginsburg
doesn't tell
the best
part of the story
.
When
he
was
dean
of
Hofstra Law
School,
the
school
hosted
Ginsburg in
2001
as she
taught in its
sum-
mer program in
Nice, France. She wanted
to try parasai
l
ing
on
the beach,
Yellen
recalled. "She's
been
very adventuresome
in her
l
ife-whitewater
rafting, riding an
elephant."
Ginsburg
was
nervous
about
try
-
ing it,
so
Yellen
offered to go with
her.
"Our
spouses
thought
we were
both
crazy. So we
walked
down to the beach
from
the hotel
we
were staying
in
and got strapped
into this
tandem parasai
l
thing,
stood on
the dock
in the Mediterranean,
and zoomed
up
into
the
air.
We
were
up
there for
10,
15
minutes."
Of
th
i
s,
he has no p
i
ctures. "But some-
times I wou
l
d have Loyola
alums at
the
Supreme Court
either
to
watch an argu-
ment or be
admitted
to the
court
bar,
and
she would stop
by
a
little
reception we'd
have
and she would tell
this
story, and their jaws
would
drop."
The bookshelves in
Yellen's office
hold
a
keepsake from
another
memorable
occasion
in his
li
fe: the ticket
stub for a seat on the
so-yard
l
ine of
Super Bow
l
XLVI,
in
2012,
when
h
is beloved Giants defeated
the
Patriots
21-17,
In returning to the
New
York metro
area,
Yellen is back
in
the land
of
the
Giants.
'Tm
a
big, life
l
ong Giants
fan.
I'm happy
to be back
where
I
can go
to
a game
now
and
then
and get a
ll
their
games on
TV" He
was
lucky
enough to
have the
opportunity to
pur-
chase
two
tickets to Super Bowl XLVI from
a
student of
his
at
Loyola
Chicago whose father
was
Lovie Smith,
coach of the Chicago Bears
.
"My
brother
and
I
went to the game, which
was
a real treat."
He is now
a
l
so
back in the home
terri-
tory
of
his musical idol, Jersey native Bruce
Springsteen
. "
Definitely, his music has been
one of
the
great
passions in my life
since col-
lege
.
I've been to
about
25
concerts over
the
years
.
"
He has
already
downloaded the Boss
's
newly published
autobiography on
his
Kindle
.
Cou
l
d this mean
Springsteen as Marist
commencement speaker? "I would
love to try
.
If
a
n
ybody reading this
has
any connections
to h
i
m, please let me know."
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North Campus Housing Opens
A newly completed residence hall is the first of four buildings designed
to meet
demand for student housing while improving the quality of living on campus.
D
ONNA VA
R
AMO '18
a
l
ways
ap
p
reci-
ated
t
h
e se
n
se
of
com
munit
y
t
h
at
th
e
Ga
rtl
a
nd
Co
mm
o
n
s
townh
o
u
ses
p
rov
id
e
d
h
er as a res
id
e
n
t. W
h
en s
h
e
h
ea
rd
t
h
at
h
e
r
sop
h
omore
hous
in
g
wou
l
d be to
rn
dow
n
and
replaced with a
newer
ed
i
tion,
s
h
e
h
ad
mixed
emotions.
But
as soon as
s
h
e vis
i
ted fr
i
ends
in
t
h
e
n
ew
n
o
r
t
h
ca
mp
us
h
o
u
si
n
g co
mpl
ex, s
h
e
u
n
ders
t
ood w
h
y a
ll
of
h
er
class
m
ates wanted
to
l
ive
there
.
"Eve
ryt
h
ing
about
i
t is
grea
t
," s
h
e said.
t
h
e
q
u
a
l
ity
of
l
iving
on campus
.
"We
knew
t
h
at
there was
a
n
eed for
m
ore
h
ousi
n
g, a
n
d
we a
l
so k
n
ew
t
h
a
t
Gar
tl
a
nd h
a
d
o
u
t
li
ved
it
s
usefu
l
ness,"
said Sara
h
Eng
l
ish, director of
h
ousing a
n
d
resident
i
a
l
life. The Gart
l
and
Commons
t
own
h
o
u
ses were
bui
l
t
in
1985.
No
new
campus
h
ousing
h
as
been
comp
l
eted
si
n
ce
t
h
e
F
ulton Tow
nh
o
u
ses opened on
the
east side
of
R
oute
9
i
n
2008.
O
n
e of
the new
residents, E
ll
ie
Virgilio
'18,
spoke of
h
er experience so far
in t
h
e
new
h
ousing, which featu
r
es
primarily
four-
person
apartments, all wit
h
sing
l
e rooms,
t
h
ro
u
g
h
o
u
t
five
floors.
"
I l
ove
t
h
at
it
's
brand
n
ew," s
h
e
sa
id.
"Every
thin
g
i
s
clean
and
u
nu
se
d
.
I h
onest
l
y
fee
l li
ke I live in
a
hotel.
"
With
ha
ll
ways featuring carpeted floors
and stylish wa
ll
paper,
it's easy
to
see why.
I
n
add
i
t
i
on, because
a
ll
of
h
er classes are
in
t
h
e
Dyso
n
Ce
n
ter
a
nd L
owe
ll
Thomas
Com
muni
ca
t
ions Center
,
t
he
l
ocat
i
on
i
s very
co
n
ven
i
ent
for
h
er.
Virgi
li
o's
h
o
u
semate, Nico
l
ette Muro
'
18,
had
similar feelings.
"
I
was
really
excited
to
live here,"
s
h
e sa
id
. D
u
r
in
g
h
er sop
h
omore
year, s
h
e
li
ve
d
i
n
t
h
e
Lower
New
Town
h
o
u
ses
but
sta
t
e
d
that
s
h
e a
lr
eady
li
kes
h
er
new
hous
i
ng m
u
c
h
better beca
u
se of
its
setup and
fres
hn
ess
.
"
I d
i
d
n
't
wa
n
t
t
o
li
ve w
i
t
h
e
i
g
h
t
p
eop
l
e, so
the size is
great."
Eac
h
a
p
artme
nt h
as a
li
v
in
g
room, ba
t
h-
roo
m
, k
it
c
h
e
n
e
tt
e,
a
nd
access to
a
l
a
und
ry
facil
i
ty
.
The k
it
c
h
enette
is
e
q
u
i
pped
w
i
t
h
a stove,
r
efrigerator, microwave,
and
dish-
was
h
er.
In
or
d
er
to
create a commun
i
ty
atmosp
h
ere,
t
h
e
b
ui
l
d
in
g
provides
a
l
arge
common a
r
ea and stu
d
y
l
o
u
nges.
T
h
e comp
l
ex
was
d
es
i
g
n
e
d
by i
n
terna-
tionally
renowned
firm
R
o
b
ert A. M
.
Stern
Arc
h
itects.
Th
e
firm
a
l
so
designed
Marist's
new
sc
i
ence and a
lli
ed
hea
l
t
h b
ui
l
ding, the
aca
d
emic
b
uil
d
i
ng
h
o
u
si
n
g t
h
e
Co
ll
ege's
mu
s
i
c
prog
r
am,
th
e
re
n
ovat
i
o
n
s to t
h
e
Student
Center, the
campus gates, the
H
a
ncock
Ce
n
ter,
and
t
h
e
pedestr
i
an walkway
under Route
9
.
"Peop
l
e
love it,"
said
Josep
h
Guardino
'06,
assistant
d
i
rector
of
h
ousi
n
g and
resident
i
al
life,
of
t
h
e
new reside
n
ce
h
a
ll.
"
One
student
looked like
she won
the lottery
.
The feedback
has been nothing but pos
i
tive,
especially
from alumni,
who
just can't
be
l
ieve it."
i!l
"
It
's
clea
n
er and
it
a
ll l
ooks so
put toget
h
er.
1
wo
ul
d
h
ave
bee
n
t
h
e
h
app
i
est
perso
n
o
n
eart
h
if
I h
a
d
go
t
te
n t
o
li
ve t
h
ere
so
ph
o
m
ore
year."
A PLACE TO REMEMBER
The
constr
u
ct
i
on
of t
h
e
$100
milli
o
n
comp
l
ex
began
i
n
fa
ll
2014
w
i
t
h
the demo
li
-
tion of Gartland Commo
n
s
.
T
h
e first
of t
h
e
four
pl
a
nn
e
d buildin
gs o
p
e
n
e
d in
A
u
g
u
st
2016,
p
rov
i
d
in
g
292
b
e
d
s fo
r
Ma
r
ist
j
uni
o
r
s
a
n
d
sen
i
ors
. I
n January
2017,
t
h
e
seco
n
d
building
wi
ll
open w
ith
175
beds. The fina
l
two b
uildin
gs w
it
h
a
total
of
324
b
eds are
sc
h
ed
ul
ed
to o
p
e
n
t
h
e
ir
doors i
n
A
u
g
u
st
2017.
Th
ese
w
ill f
eat
u
re a
cafe,
fit
n
ess ce
nt
er,
and
mu
l
t
i
p
u
r
p
ose
ac
ti
vi
t
y room
as
we
ll
as
a
courtyard a
n
d
river
views.
The project
wi
ll
ex
p
and
t
h
e ava
il
ab
il
ity
of
hous
in
g on
cam
pu
s by
a
lm
os
t
11
p
e
r
cent,
elim
i
na
ti
ng
t
he
n
eed
t
o
house
st
u
dents a
t th
e
R
es
i
de
n
ce I
nn in P
o
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g
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ee
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s
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e.
Mar
i
st's
m
i
ssio
n
was to
sat
i
sfy
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for stude
n
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g
BY ADRIANA
BELMONTE
'
17
"The Nelly Goletti." "Hancock." "Dyson."
The names of places on the Marist College campus
are a special
language
that only
Red Foxes
share
.
Long
after students
have
graduated,
they
r
e
member
those spaces
on
campus that shaped
their Marist e
x
perience
.
Perhaps no buildings
bring
bac
k
more memorie
s
than the residenc
e
halls where
first-time roomm
a
tes go on to b
e
come longtime
friends
.
The names of these buildings, spoken on
campus
daily by
thousands of students, become
a
permanent
part of not only the campus
le
x
icon
but also the memories of every Marist graduate
and the history of the College
.
For the first time Marist is offering naming rights
for it
s
spectacul
a
r new residence halls on the north
end
of
the campus.
Have
you ever considered the
possibility
of
naming
a
building
at Marist
College
but thought the required contribution might be
beyond
your reach? Gifts to name a
building
at
Marist can be honored over a period of years and
may be funded through a variety of appreciated
assets
.
Donors
may name a building for themselves
or someone they wish to
honor
or memo
ri
alize in
a meaningful
,
lasting
way.
Each of the four magnificent new residenc
e
h
a
ll
s
ha
s
been designed by
internationally
recognized
firm
Robert A
.
M
.
Stern
Architects
.
The
firm
also
designed Marist
'
s new science and allied health
building
,
the music building, the Student Center
renovation
,
and the
Hancock
Center
.
While Marist has benefited greatly from the
generous support of major philanthropists in
the
region, none
of
its
buildings bear the
name
of a Marist graduate.
Associating
the names of
accomplished Marist alumni with these
landmark
buildings would be an important milestone in the
College
'
s
history
and would send a strong message
to current and future students
,
as well a
s
the tens of
thousands of visitors the
College hosts
each year
,
about
the unusually
strong
bond Marist
alumni
enjoy with their alma mater
.
To
inquire
about pricing guidelines
and learn
more about available opportunities, please
contact Chris De/Giorno, vice president for college
advancement, at
(845) 575-3412
or
christopher.
delgiorno
@
marist.edu.
FALL
2016
17












MARIST
THE SHOWS
M
ARIST STUDENTS
had the
oppor-
tunity
Sept.
9,
2016,
to
work at
the
epicenter of
the
global fashion
industry,
New York Fashion Week, where
they helped
produce a special reprise showing of
Italian
designer
Francesca
Liberatore's spring
2017
collection at
the Dock
at Moynihan
Station.
In
addition to giving students
real-world
experience on
the
fashion
industry's biggest
stage,
the
show
was
also an opportunity for
Marist to highlight its deep
and varied con-
nections to Italian
education, fashion, and
art.
"I
have
always
dreamed
of working in
the
fashion industry, and
the
Marist College
Fashion Program has
afforded
me the
opportunity of a
lifetime,"
said
Mary
Kate
Dichiara,
a junior fashion
merchandising
major
from Croton, NY, who worked as a
personal
assistant to Liberatore's publicist,
the
famed fashion
industry
insider Kelly
Cutrone
,
for the show.
"The chance
to
work alongside Kelly
Cutrone, a woman whom
I have
admired
and who also geared
me
toward pursuing my
career
in
fashion,
is
an experience I couldn
'
t
have
anywhere else,"
Dichiara
said.
"
I
am so
thankful
and
honored to take part
in
such
an amazing event!"
More
than
so Marist fashion students
were involved in every aspect of planning
and staging the reprise show
.
Several spoke
about their experience with the
Huffington
Post,
which streamed the
interview live
on
Facebook.
"This is the kind of
hands-on
experience
that
is the hallmark
of a Marist education,
"
said
Fashion Program Director Radley
Cramer. "The opportun
it
y for our students
to
work
closely
with
top designers,
publicists,
and
producers to put
on a New York Fashion
Week show enriches
their learning
and
pre-
pares
them for careers
in the industry
in a
way that
nothing
else can."
Immediately before
the models walked
the
runway, Cramer and Marist
President
David
Ye
ll
en
presented
Liberatore with
President David Yellen (left) and Fashion
Program Director Radley Cramer
(right)
presented the Marist Silver Needle Innovation
Award to designer Francesca Liberatore.























the Marist Silver Needle
Innovation
Award in
recognition
of
her
role as an educator and
mentor to young
designers.
Liberatore
exemplifies the spirit of the award as
both
a
bold designer
and a
dedicated
educator,
teaching fashion design at universities in
the
Middle East, South America, and
throughout
Europe,
including her native Italy.
With
its
reprise show featuring
Liberatore, a
past
winner of
Italy's presti-
gious Next Generation design competition,
Marist took the opportunity to celebrate its
many connections
to
the worlds of
Italian
education, fashion, and
the
arts,
including its
distinction as
the
only American college with
a full branch campus
in
Florence. At a recep-
tion following the show, guests enjoyed works
on display
by
Bruno
Liberatore,
Francesca
'
s
father and a renowned sculptor, as well as
sculpture and other works of art
by
Marist
faculty and students,
including
ones who
exhibited at special exhibitions
during
last
year's Venice Biennale.
For
many
in the audience of
more
than
600,
it
was their first
up-close look
at
the
workings of
the
fashion
industry's biggest
event. Attendees
included
Marist fashion
students
,
metro New York area high school
students interested in fashion, Marist alumni
working
in
fashion design and
merchandis-
ing, and industry guests.
During the planning of the show, Marist
students traveled to New York City to meet
with Cutrone for detailed
discussions
of
strategy and operational assignments
to
plan and publicize a show on fashion's
big-
gest stage.
Marist students are
no
strangers to
fashion shows and NYFW.
They produce
the Fashion Program
'
s annual Silver Needle
Runway Show each spring and
in recent
years
have helped
with reprise shows of collec-
tions by Silver Needle Award winners and top
designers Betsey Johnson, Nanette Lepore,
and Son Jung Wan.
"This year, their involvement was even
greater," says Cramer. "The students
do
backstage tasks including
sending
models
out, getting them ready
,
organization, seating
people
,
and social media."
Francesca and Bruno Liberatore
both
attended a special reception following
the
show at
nearby Gotham Hall, hosted by
Marist
,
where students
mingled
with
indus-
try insiders, took
in
the art on exhibit, and
enjoyed performances by aerialists
in
Venice
Carnival costume.
Cutrone spoke to
the New York Post's
Page
Six about
her
experience working
with the Marist students. "At a time when
people are questioning the future of fashion,
it's
amazing to know
the
next generation
is
willing and able
to
step
up, represent,
and
take it
forward."
i!l
A collection by Chloe Havercroft
'
16
received the award for Jury
'
s Outstanding Concept at the
Silver Needle Runway Show at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center.
T
HE
MA
RIST
FASHION PROGRAM'S 31ST
and writing the script. "The show
has
taught
ANNUAL SILVER NEEDLE RUNWAY SHOW
me how
to work with all
different
kinds of
showcased the work of
70
sophomore, junior,
people," she said.
"
Through
this experience,
and senior design
majors.
I have
a good
understanding
of my strengths
The first Silver Needle
Runway
Show
took
and weaknesses.
It ultimately
gave
me the
place in
1986,
where a
mere
100
people
were
opportunity to
discover
what
I truly love to
in attendance in an academic
building
on
do,
and
that is
the greatest benefit."
campus. Over
30
years
later, more
than
1,000
"It
'
s
really
an acknowledgment of their
people
attended each of two shows at
the
exceptional work," said
Radley
Cramer,
Mid-Hudson Civic Center
in Poughkeepsie.
director
of the Fashion
Program.
"Having
Designs
were juried on show
day by
a team of
their garments worn
by
models and seen
by
industry
guests, and awards were
presented
the
industry and the community shows
that
at
the
second show.
The
win-
BY ADRIANA BELMONTE
,
17
you are good at what you
do
.
ners
this year, all
members
. . . . . . .
.
.
.
. . .
.
. . . . . . . . . . .
.
. .
.
. . . .
.
.
It
is a real confidence
boost,
of the Class of
2016,
were Taylor
Harris
for
and something
nice
to
have
on your resume.
"
Outstanding Garment, Mackenzie Kramer
Lulu
Colon-Fuentes
'17
has
been
involved
for
Outstanding
Senior
Design Portfolio,
in
the
show since she
began
at Marist. As a
Renee Pedigo
for Outstanding Senior
Design
fashion
merchandising major
with a con-
Collection, Chloe
Havercroft
for
Jury's
centration
in
fashion
promotions,
she says
Outstanding Concept, and John Scott for
the runway show has
been
beneficial. "It
has
Outstanding Silver Needle Capstone Award
.
helped
me get
internships
during
my
four
Fashion
students and faculty
produce the
years at
Mari
st and
hopefully
will
help me
entire show.
In
addition to
designing the
gar-
l
and a job."
ments that
the models
wear, students serve
She will
be
one of
the
directors of the
as
directors
and manage press, seating
,
and
production team for the
2017
Silver Needle
other front-of-house responsibilities.
Roughly
Runway Show.
"I've always
been
very inter-
100
students work
backstage,
fitting
the mod-
ested
in
fashion show
production,"
she said.
els and
making
sure things run smoothly. A
In her high
school
back in Puerto Rico,
she
student
promotional team
generates social
organized
sophomore-,
junior-, and senior-
media content.
year fashion shows.
Shelby Tuper
'
17
was
the
assistant creative
"
I
see
myself in
the future working
in
the
director for the show, overseeing
the
script
fashion
production industry,
and Marist
has
and sound
team,
creating
the
show concept,
given
me the
opportunity to
learn
from
the
choosing
the decor
and
design
of
the
venue,
very
best."
i!l
FALL
2016
19


















Red Foxes in the Pros
O
N THE AFTERNOON
of Monday, Sept.
5,
Kevin McCarthy was winding down
his
fourth
professional
season in the Kansas
City
Royals
organization-or so
he
thought.
With
the
Omaha Storm Chasers, the
Royals
'
Triple-A affiliate, playing their final
game of the season, McCarthy figured
he
would
be heading home to
New
York
soon
afterward. But following
that
game, Omaha
manager
Brian Poldberg called McCarthy
into his
office and
had
a
message.
Don't
get on that
flight to
New York.
"Right there,
I had
a good feeling
I
was
going
to
get called
up,
"
McCarthy said.
McCarthy, who
played baseball
at Marist
from
2011
to
2013,
later received
flight
infor-
mation to Minnesota, where
he
joined
the
Royals
for their game against
the
Twins the
following night.
On
Friday,
Sept.
9,
he
was
called on
to pitch
with
two
outs in
the
eighth
inning
against the Chicago White Sox.
He
faced Chicago shortstop Tim Anderson, and
retired him
on a ground
ball to third base.
And
with that, McCarthy
became
the
first
former Marist
baseball
player to
play
in
a
Major League Baseball
game.
The
fol-
lowing night
,
he was
again called on
to
face
Anderson
,
and struck
him
out to end the
sixth inning. When the
Royals
took
the lead
with
a
three
-
run
seventh
inning
and
held
on
for a
6-5
victory, McCarthy earned
his
first
major league
win.
"So
me
of my favorite memories from this
year were seeing
my
family
in
Minnesota
the
day I
got called
up
,
and
my
friends
in
Chicago
when
I debuted
and got my first major
league
win," McCarthy said.
McCarthy
appeared
in
10
games out of
the
bullpen
over the season's final four weeks.
One enabled the Marist
baseball program
to
come together
487
miles
away from campus.
On Sept.
21,
Marist
Head
Baseball Coach
Chris Tracz
'05
boarded
a
plane
for Cleveland
to
see
the Royals
face
the Indians
.
Tracz
had
rooting
interest
on
both
sides
.
One
of
Cleveland's
two
bullpen
catchers
is
2011
Marist graduate Ricky
Pacione,
a four-year
standout for
the Red
Foxes who is
in
his
third
year with
the
Cleveland organization.
McCarthy
pitched
one
inning
in Cleveland's
4-3
victory.
"It was great
to
see
both Ricky
and Coach
1
Tracz," McCarthy
said.
"
I
consider Marist
to be my home
away from
home,
so to see
some guys
I
shared
my
time with at Marist
was very special to
me.
"
BY MIKE FERRARO
'
01
Mike Ferraro
'
01
is
a
ss
istant athletic director
/
sports
information at
Marist.




















Terrence
Fede '13
became
the
fi
r
st
former
Marist football
player
to be
selected
in the
National
Football League
Draft when he was selected
in the seventh round
by the Miami Dolphins
in
2014
.
McCarthy joined a growing
list
of
Red
Foxes to make an impact in
the profes-
sional ranks
in recent
years. Terrence
Fede
'13
became the first
former Marist football
player to be selected
in the
National Football
League
Draft
when
he
was se
l
ected in
the
seventh round
by the Miami Dolphins in
2014
.
Last year, Jason Myers
'13
signed a free-
agent contract with the
J
acksonvi
lle Jaguars
and won
their
kicking job
in preseason
camp.
Fede is now in his third
seaso
n
with the
Dolphins,
while Myers
is
in
his
second with
the Jaguars. Both
have had
strong
individual
highlights-Fede had
a
blocked punt in the
final minute
for a game-winn
in
g
safety
against Minnesota
in his
rookie season, and
Myers
had
a game-winning 53-yard field goal
w
ith
no time
remaining
in
a v
i
ctory over
Baltimore last
season.
On Sept. 20, 2015,
Jacksonville hosted
in
Miami
in the
first NFL game
featuring
a
Marist
graduate on eac
h
team
.
Myers
hit
three
field goa
l
s,
including
one
in the final
minute
for
the
decisive
score in the
Jaguars'
23-20
triumph.
Being
a
professional
athlete
has brought
some
unique
experiences.
In
addition
to
getting to
travel
all across
the
country,
both
Fede
and Myers
have played
NFL games
internationally. Fede made
hi
s NFL
debut
in London in
2014, and Myers
has played
a
game
in
Eng
l
and each of
the last two
seasons.
Marist
h
ad a
Terrence
Fede
Bobb
l
e
h
ead
Day
giveaway for a
h
ome game against
Stetson
l
ast season. Myers returned
to campus for
his Bobblehead Day on Oct.
29,
when t
h
e
Red Foxes
faced
San Diego.
"
The Marist
community,
from team-
mates to
coaches
to
sc
h
ool staff,
h
as
been
very supportive si
n
ce
I
have
started,"
Myers
said. "Marist
is
a sma
ll
,
tight
commun
it
y.
Being able
to
represent
Marist
on a national
l
evel
is
spec
i
al, a
nd I
am
proud to be in the
position I
am
in."
The
bond between both Myers
and
Fede
and
the Marist
footba
ll
program
has
rema
in
e
d
strong
.
Fede
cre
dit
s
former
teammate
R
ya
n
Dinnebeil
'
12 for producing
a
hi
gh
li
g
ht
video
from his time
at Marist
leading to professional
worko
ut
s
.
He has trav-
e
l
ed
back to Marist on multip
l
e
occasions,
including the program's Spring
Footba
ll
Game in
2015.
Myers has
offered to
intro-
duce the Marist
kickers
to
M
i
c
h
ae
l
Husted,
a
ret
i
red
nin
e-year
NFL
kicker
whom he trains
with
.
Both Myers
an
d
Fede
constantly
l
end
their
support
to the
Mar
i
st football
team
and
players through
socia
l
media.
"
I
just
want the
b
est
for Marist
Co
ll
ege
and
the
Ath
l
etic
Department," Fede
said. "It's
just something
I
love doing.
I
know Marist
Co
ll
ege
is
a sma
ll
schoo
l
that
i
s
on the rise
.
Whatever
I
can do to
get
us in the
lim
e
li
g
ht
,
I'll
d
o
it.
I want
ath
l
etes
who can
come
to
Marist
and
realize that
if
you
work hard
and
do the
r
i
g
ht thin
gs
on
and
off
th
e
field, you
Jason
Myers
'
13 is in his second season
with
the
Jacksonville Jaguars
.
"I
just want the best for Marist
College
and the Athletic Department.
I
know Marist is a small school that
is on the rise. Whatever
I
can do to
get us in the limelight,
I'll
do
it."
-Terrence Fede
'
13
can
make it professionally
.
And
if
you
don't
make
it,
you get a great education."
Marist
Head
Coach
Jim Parady has
seen
both Fede
and
Myers play professionally
.
When
the Dolphins
faced
the
New York
Jets at MetLife Stadium
in
East
Rutherford,
NJ, on Nov. 29, 2015,
Parady's
family and
the
family of
Associate Head
Coach/Defensive
Coordinator
Scott Rumsey
'9
1
were able
to
get onto
the field during pregame thanks
to the
h
e
lp
of Marist football
a
lum
Charles
Wande '03, a
Jets
employee. Two weeks
later
,
Parady flew
to
Jacksonville to
see Myers as
the
Jaguars defeated the Indianapolis
Colts
51-16.
"They've
both
given time
to
our current
players
throug
h
text,
email, and conversa-
tions,
"
Parady said
.
"T
h
ey've continued to
s
h
ow great su
pport
for our program."
Marist has
a
l
so
made
i
ts
mark in
Major
League Lacrosse. Mike Begley
graduated
in
2015 after wi
nnin
g a
Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference
champ
i
ons
h
ip and an
NCAA
Tournament game as a se
ni
or.
This past
year,
he played for
the
Boston
Cannons and
b
ecame
the first
former
Red
Fox
to play
in
an
MLL
game.
Begley finished
with seven
goals and two assists in
nine
games and was
listed
on
the
Cannons' 23-man
protected list
for the
2017 seaso
n
.
In
2016,
Joseph Radin
'16
became the first Red
Fox selected
in the
MLL
Draft
when
he
was chosen
in the
sixth
rou
nd
by the Charlotte
H
ounds.
"T
h
e atte
nti
o
n
it brings
for
Marist
can
help in
so
many
ways," Myers said.
"At
hl
etica
ll
y a
nd
academically,
it has to be
some sort of
free
advertisement,
right?
But
it really
shows
that
great at
hl
etes who work
hard
can
make it
from any
level."
Several former Red Foxes
are active
l
y
pursuing
prof
ess
ion
a
l
opportunities:
■
Zach Shank
'
14,
who
played
shortstop and
third base
for
the Red
Foxes from 2010 to
2013, was
se
l
ected
in
the
same 2013
Draft
as
McCarthy. A
28th-round se
l
ection
by
"The Marist community, from
teammates to coaches to school
staff, has been very supportive since
\ have started. Marist is a small, tight
community. Being able to represent
Marist on a national level is special, and
I am proud to be in the position I am in."
-Jason Myers
'
13
FALL
2016
21






























Game On
continued from
previous page
the Seattle Mariners, Shank has reached
the Triple-A
level
the
l
ast
two
seasons,
putting
him
one step
away
from the major
l
eagues
.
This season, Shank was honored
as "Mr.
Mariner" when the organization
doled
out
its mino
r
l
eague awards.
■
Jonathan Schw
i
nd
'16
completed
his
sixth
season
in
the Pittsburgh Pirates organiza-
tion
in
2016.
This year, Schwind won the
Pirates' Community Commitment Award
at
the Double-A level
and was
presented
the
award in a
pregame
ceremony at
PNC
Park in Pittsburgh.
■
Also in baseball, Steve Laurino '15 com-
pleted his
seco
nd
season in the Baltimore
Orioles organization this year.
■
Tori
Jarosz
'15/'
16
MA, who played basket-
ball
at
Marist from
2011
to
2016, a
pp
eared
in
preseason
camp
with the Dallas Wings
of
the Women's National Basketball
Association
this past
spring.
Jarosz has
gone
on
to
play professionally in Puerto
Rico
and
now Lithuania.
Tori Jarosz
'
15/'16
MA appeared in pre-
season camp with the Dallas Wings of the
Women
'
s National Basketball Association
this past spring
.
Jarosz has gone on to
play professionally in Puerto Rico and
now Lithuania.
One o
f
Clev
e
l
a
nd
'
s two bullpe
n
c
a
tchers
i
s
(
right) Ricky P
a
cion
e '11, a
fou
r-
y
ear
standou
t
for the Red Foxes who
i
s
i
n h
i
s thi
r
d yea
r
w
i
th
the Cleveland organization
.
Marist Baseball
Head Coach Chris Tracz
'
05 (left) caught up with
Pacione in Cl
e
veland recently
.
■
Chavaughn Lewis
'15,
the
all-t
im
e
leading
scorer
in the history
of
the Marist men's
basketball program, has
appeared in
the
NBA Summer League
the
l
ast
two
years.
Lewis
suited
for the Philadelphia
76ers
in
2015, and
the Detroit Pistons in
2016.
He
played the
2015-16 season
in Lithuania
What was it like to pla
y
in Puerto Ri
c
o
and then Lithuania?
P
l
ay
i
ng professionally in Puerto Rico was
a
l
ot
of
fun because
of
the
compet
i
t
i
veness
of the league
,
and of course
the beautiful
location
.
It
was an easy transition for me as
""'"'WATSON
.
,,
Q&A
with Tori Jarosz
What has your career path been?
After graduating
from Marist, I was
invited to
attend
the Da
ll
as
Wings'
preseason training
ca
m
p. In Ju
l
y,
I
continued
my professional
career
by
signing with
the Gigantes de Carolina
in
Puerto Rico. I
currently
play
for
Hoptrans
-
Sirenos
in
Kaunas, Lithuania
.
How i
s
playing at pro level different
than playing at college level?
Professiona
l
basket
b
a
ll
is definite
l
y
faster
paced
and
muc
h
more physical
than the college game.
Fortunately, I had
an
amazing coaching staff at
Marist. After
our
season ended,
they
worked with
me to help
better prepare me for t
h
e
next level.
What was it like to pla
y
in the WNBA
s
umm
e
r l
e
ague?
Participating in the
Dallas
Wings'
preseason
training camp was an
unbelievable
expe-
rience.
I
had
the
opportunity
to
continue
developing my
game
while
competing
amongst some of
t
h
e
best p
l
ayers
in
the
country.
22
MARIST
MAGAZIN
E
my first professional
experience outside of
t
h
e
U.S. because Puerto Rico is
somewhat
Americanized.
In Lithuania,
our season
is
really just getting started, but so far
I love
the
city of Kaunas, as well as
my
coaches
and
teamm
ates.
What does
y
our a
v
e
rage
d
ay
look lik
e
?
How man
y
hours of the day do you
practice?
My average
day begins
around 8:oo a.m.
I'll
wake up
and
make
a
big breakfast before
h
eading
to my
first
practice
of
the day.
and
will play the
2016-17 season
in
Belgium.
■
Adam Kemp
'14
played in the
NBA
Summer League
for
the Detroit Pistons in
2015.
He will be
spending
his third
season
overseas
in
2016-17
in
Belgium.
■
Jared Jordan
'07
was
se
l
ected
by
the
Los
Angeles Clippers in the second round
of
the
2007
NBA Draft. Now in his
10th season
of professional basketball,
Jordan
will
play the
2016-17 campaign in
Germany
.
His
career
has
also
brought him
to Lithuania, Greece,
and Spain.
He
also
played
one year
in the
NBA
Development
League and
has
appeared
in
NBA
training
camps and s
umm
er
leagues
with several
organizat
ion
s.
Several more
former
men's
and women's
basketball players
are conti
nuin
g
their
careers overseas.
A
significant
number
of
football
players have
gone
on
to
play
either
overseas or
in
arena
leagues in
the United
States.
i.!l
Morning
practice typically
consists of
training
with our strength and conditioning
coach, followed
by
shooting.
In
the evening
we
practice
again, and it
is
strict
l
y
basketbal
l.
In total,
we spend
a
bout
four
hours
per
d
ay
practicing.
Wh
at
do you do in
y
ou
r
fr
ee
t
i
me?
Sometimes
between practices,
players
are
asked to attend community service events
or other team functions.
If
not, I usu-
ally
have
some downtime that
I
like to
fill with reading, watching Netflix, and
going
to my
favorite
local
cafe. On our
"off
days," I
enjoy exploring
the
city
an
d
learning more
about
the
culture
here
.
Wher
e
were
y
ou born and wh
e
r
e
did you grow up?
I was born and raised in Westchester,
New York, which is right outside
New York City.
I'm
currently living
in
Kaunas,
the
second
largest
city
in
Lithuania
.
The
population
in Kaunas
is
just over 300,000 so
in
comparison
it
's
very small
but
charming.
W
hen was the first time
y
ou b
e
c
a
m
e
int
e
rested in basketball?
I
became interested in
basketball around
the first grade. My parents signed
m
e
up for
multiple recreational
leagues
and clinics.
In
the fourth grade, they enrolled me in CYO
basketball,
and
later AAU
basketball. They
never pushed
the sport onto me.
Instead
,
they
supported
me
and gave
m
e every
resource that
they
cou
l
d
to
help
me
pursu
e
my passions
.
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Athletics
Red Fox Roundup
The Marist
softball
team won a program
-
record 45 games and earned its third Metro Atlantic
Athletic
Conference championship in program history. Along the way
,
the Red Foxes broke 12 team
records while
having
individuals
set six career records and four single-season records
.
I
N
2016,
THE MA RIST SOFTBALL TEAM
turned
in
the
most
impressive season
in
its
25-yea
r history.
Marist won
a
program-record 45 games
and earned
its third Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference
cha
mpionship in program his
-
tory. Along the way, the
Red
Foxes
broke
12
team
records
while
having indiv
i
duals
set
s
ix
career
records and four single-season
records.
It
was
a
season full of
mil
estones
and
remarkable individual
a
nd
team
acco
mplish
-
ments:
■
Marist
h
a
d
sep
a
r
ate
winning streaks of
10
and
17 games. Between March
22
and
May 4, the Red Foxes won
27
out of 28
games.
■
Colleen McWilliams '16
hom
ered
in thr
ee
co
ns
ec
utiv
e
p
l
ate appearances against
Hartford
on April
1
3.
■
On April 16,
He
a
d
Coach
Joe
Ausanio
earned
hi
s 200t
h
career victory.
He
was
named MAAC Coach of
the
Year.
■
The
next day, Jayne Oberdorf
'
1
7
pitched
a
n
o-
hitt
er
in
the
R
e
d
Foxes
'
8-o triumph
over Quinnipiac. She went on to earn
MAAC Pitcher of
the
Year and MAAC
Tournament Most Valuable
Player honors.
■
Claire Oberdorf,
Jayne
'
s younger sister,
was
named to the
Nationa
l
Fastpitch
Coaches Association Top
10
Freshman
List. She received MAAC
Rookie
of
the
Year
as
well.
The men
'
s rowing team won
its
17th MAAC
championship
in
program history
.
■
Kyrsten Van Natta
'
16,
who started
a
ll
219
games
Mar
i
st
played during her
career
and
set
a
program record with 145 runs
batted in
,
took home MAAC Defensive
Player
of
the
Year
.
■
Maureen
Duddy
'16 established
program
records for
runs
scored and stolen
bases
and
tied the program
's
a
ll
-time record for
hits. Her 1
20 ca
reer
sto
l
en
bases
set
the
MAAC all
-
time record
.
Marist earned
the
top seed for
the
MAAC Championship and advanced
to the
final behind back
-
to
-
back
shutouts
by Jayne
Oberdorf.
In the
champions
h
ip game,
the
score was tied
a
t
two apiece
in the bottom
h
a
lf
of the seventh
inning
when
Brittany
BY MIKE FERRARO
'
01
Mike
F
er
rar
o
'01
is assistant athletic director/sports
information at
M
arist.
Colombo
'
18 hit
a
hard
ground
ball that
d
e
flect
e
d in
the infield
.
Janna Korak
'17
raced
home
from second
base
and
s
lid
under the
t
ag
to
give
th
e
Red
Foxes
the
championship
.
ln
NCAA
Regional play, the te
a
m trav
-
eled
to the University
of
Tennessee
where
it
faced
the host
school and
Ohio
State on
Saturday, May 21, which was graduation
d
ay
at Marist. Two
da
ys
l
ate
r,
a special graduation
ceremony was
held
for
the
senior
class
of
Duddy, McWilliams,
and
Van N
a
tta with
President Dennis Murray. The degrees
were
the
final ones
handed
out
by
Murray, who
transitioned to president
emeritus on
July
1.
Men's Rowing Wins
MAAC Championship
A
day
after softball
won its
MAAC cham-
pionship, Marist's men's rowing team
won
its
17th
MAAC
championship
in program
history
.
The total t
i
ed
women's swimming
and
diving for the most MAAC
champion-
ships of any
team
on campus.
Tom
Sanford was honored
as
MAAC
Coach of
the Year
,
while the men
's
varsity
eight and second varsity eight
boats were
both named AII
-
MAAC.
Marist Leads MAAC in Academic
Honor Roll Selections
For
the 15th
straight year,
Marist led the
MAAC
in
se
l
ec
tions to the
conference
'
s
A
ca
demi
c
Honor Roll in
the 2015-16 school
year. A
total
of 261 student-athletes-the
highest number
of
honorees in
school
h
i
s-
tory-were honored
for
having
a
cumu
l
ative
grade
point
average of at
least
3.2.
The 261 student-athletes
r
e
presented
56
percent of Marist's student-athletes who were
eligible for
the
honor.
The
total showed the
College's growing commitment
to
geographic
diversity,
as student-ath
l
etes
from
25 states
and
10
countries
w
ere
represented.
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2016
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n
Otes
Keeping Up with Marist
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raduates
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t
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M
A R I S T
M AG A Z I N E
40th
lu
.
.
Friends Golf our
Close to 100 alumni and friends took part in the 40th annual Alumni and Friends Golf
Tournament Oct
.
3
,
2016
,
at the Powelton Club
i
n Newburgh, NY. Proceeds benefited
t
he Alumni Legacy Scholar
s
hip Fund. Each year the scholarship fund provides
financial support to an incom
i
ng freshman or transfer student whose parent(s)
graduated from Marist
.
Golfers included (left to right) Jim Marriott
'
86
,
Tony Lorello
'
86
,
George Gambeski '77
,
and Marist President David Yellen
.
1966
Dr. John H
a
rt
is
a
member of
the NASA Astrobiology Institute
Focus
Group
on Astrobiology and
Society
.
Additionally, John has had
7
books
and
more than
70 articles
and essays
published.
Most recently
he
served as editor of The Wiley-
Blackwell
Companion to
Religion
and Ecology
(2016), and
he is the
author of Encountering ET/: Aliens
in
Avatar and the Americas
(2014)
and Cosmic Commons: Spirit,
Science and
Space
(2013).
He
con-
tinues
his
35-year
work
and activism
with
the International Indian Treaty
Council.
1981
Sh
a
ron (John
s
on
)
Struth
has
signed a
deal with Kensington
Publishing for
a
fourth book in her
Blue Moon Lake romance
series.
The
series
includes
Share the Moon
(2014),
Twelve
Nights
(2015),
Harvest
Moon
(2015), and
Bella Luna.
For
more information visit www
.
shar-
onstruth.com.
1985
Phil Boyle
is director
of strategic
accounts with Connecture,
Inc. His
wife,
Deb
(
D
u
til
), is
an
instructor
at
Manchester Community College.
1986
Meg Kearne
y's
book
Trouper,
a
true story
about
a three-legged
stray
dog,
continues
to
win awards.
Published by
Scholastic
in
2013 and
illustrated by E. B. Lewis, it won
the 2016 Missouri Association
of
Guests included Ed Anderson
'
71,
who started the tournament 40
years ago
,
and his wife, Joan
.
Christopher Heath
'
96 (left) donated
and auctioned off a golf foursome
with carts at any TPC (The Players
Club) course in the United States
.
Chris and Rev
.
Richard LaMorte
,
recently retired from the position
of campus minister at Marist,
facilitated the live auction together
.
School
Librarians'
Show
Me Readers
Award as well
as
the
2015
Kentucky
Bluegrass Award. Trouper
also was
selected one of
the
National Council
for the Social Studies'
Notable Social
Studies Trade Books for Young
People
of 2014, one
of the most
Diverse
and
Impressive Picture
Books of
2013
by the International
Reading Association,
and one
of
the
2013-14
season's best picture
books by the Christian
Science
Monitor,
the Cooperative Children's
Book Center, and Bank
Street
College
of Education.
It
was also
a 2013
Association
of Children's
Librarians of Northern California
Distinguished Book
and
a nominee
for
the
2014-2015
Alabama
Camellia
Children's Choice Book Award
.
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1989
Jam
es
Dick
jo
in
e
d
Novartis
in
East
H
anover, NJ, and
was
recently
promoted to
associate
dir
ector,
compe
n
satio
n
in
November 20
1
5.
1990
K
im
(S
n
y
d
e
r
)
Kno
x
B
ec
kiu
s
i
s
pleased to
s
h
are
that
she
h
as
b
ee
n
named
a co
ntribut
i
n
g ed
it
or at
Yankee
Magazine.
1992
Kevi
n
Fr
an
cis
acce
p
te
d
a
n
ew
position
as d
ir
ector of operat
i
ona
l
tools
at
Fidelity Investments
in
Durham,
NC. Kevin a
nd hi
s
family
relocated
to
the Raleigh
a
r
ea
thi
s
past
summer.
a
Ma
r
c
Li
e
pi
s
was
recently
named
vice
president
of
communications for V
I
CELAND,
the new
cable c
h
a
nn
el
from Vice
Media.
Previously,
Marc
was
a
pro-
ducer
and writer for
Jimm
y
Fallon,
Tina
Fey and Amy
Poehler's
ho
s
t
-
ing of
the
Go
ld
en
Globes, Meredith
Vieira,
and
ABC's recent reboot
of
The
$100,000
Pyramid.
1993
P
e
dro
F
i
g
u
e
ro
a
was recently
pro
-
moted to divisional
h
ead
of White
Sugar Tradi
n
g (USA) at E.
D
.
&
F.
Man Sugar,
In
c
.
,
the
world's
l
a
r
gest
sugar, coffee, an
d
molasses trading
multinational
co
mp
a
n
y.
P
e
dro
also was e
l
ecte
d
t
h
e 2016-2017
president
of
the
New York Sugar
Club, a
prestigious
we
ll
-recognize
d
industry
forum
that
includ
es suga
r
producers, merchants,
and food
manufacturers throughout the
U.S.
and abroad.
It
comes as a true
honor
for
P
edro,
who
h
as spent
more than
20 years
in
the
indu
stry.
a
A
ndr
ea
Pr
ez
iotti
recently traveled through
Southeast Asia,
visiting Cam
b
od
i
a,
V
i
et
n
a
m
, a
nd Ind
o
n
esia
.
S
h
e
has
a
l
so fo
und
ed a
br
a
nd
co
nt
e
nt
consu
lt
ancy, Modern Vintage
Ink.
a
R
a
lph R
a
iol
a
was
promoted to
m
a
n
ag
in
g editor for
In
formation
Builders'
g
l
obal
marketing team.
R
a
lph l
eads a
four-person team
of
co
nt
e
nt
s
p
ecia
li
s
t
s
in
producing
marketing
co
llat
era
l
to
promote
the
40-year-o
ld
software com
p
a
n
y
.
Pedro F
i
gueroa
'
9
3
Two Marist alumni who are also Marist staff members received the
2016
Shaker Award from the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of
Commerce, bestowed this past spring to
40
people under the age
of 40 who have shown a strong commitment to the Hudson Valley.
Honored were Freddy Garcia
'
09/'14
MBA
(second
from left) and Diane
Hart
'
08 MPA (second from right), who were congratulated at the
event by Dennis J. Murray
(far
left), Marist's longtime president who
stepped down June
30,
and Geoffrey
L.
Brackett, Marist executive
vice president. At Mari st, Garcia is a Presidential Fellow and Hart is a
project coordinator.
Chris Mccann '83
Expands Role as Head of
1-800-Flowers.com
C
HRIS
MCCANN
'83, president
of 1
-
800-Flowers.com,
has
added
the title
of CEO
to his
role
at the
leading
gourmet food and
floral
gift
provider. He
succeeded
his
brother, Jim,
the company's
founder, who
became
executive
chairman. The transition
took
place June 30.
"I ~ave
learned
a great
deal
working alongside
Jim
over
the
years
,
as we
took
one storefront
shop on Manhattan's
East
Side and
grew
it into
a
leading,
omnichan-
nel
gift
retailer,"
said
Chris,
who
is
also a Marist
trustee
.
Since
joining
Chris Mccann
'
83
the
company
in
1984, Chris
has led
company
operations
across all of
its brands
and
businesses
.
The
com-
pany's brands include Harry
&
David, the Popcorn
Factory, Cheryl's,
Fannie May, 1-800-Baskets.com, Wolferman
'
s, FruitBouquets.com,
and Stock
Yards.
~
1994
U
.
S
.
A
r
m
y
Maj
.
John
"
Ja
y"
Ga
v
igan
is
o
n hi
s
fifth
co
mb
at
deployment.
H
e
is
serv
in
g as
dir
ec-
tor
of commun
ic
a
t
ions
in the Office
of
Sec
urit
y a
nd
Coopera
ti
o
n
a
t th
e
U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
a
Ke
v
in
Str
a
nah
a
n
received
hi
s
board
cer-
tification in
security ma
n
age
m
ent
from ASIS
Int
e
rn
at
i
o
n
a
l
in April
20
1
5 an
d
earned
hi
s secon
d
board
ce
rtifi
ca
tion
from the
organization
in
April
2016
.
Kevin is
one of
only
three
p
eo
pl
e
in
Co
nn
ect
i
c
ut
, a
nd
o
n
e
of
259
in
the
sec
urit
y
indu
stry
worldwide, to
h
ave ea
rn
ed
dual
b
oa
rd
cer
tifi
ca
tion
s
in
both
sec
u
-
rity management
a
nd inv
est
i
ga-
tion
s.
K
ev
in
and
hi
s
family reside
in Trumbull,
CT.
John
"
Jay
"
Gav
i
gan
'
94
1996
N
eil
M
cN
e
ill
e
nt
ered
his
sixt
h
year
as
the
prin
c
ip
a
l
of
the Middle
School
for Art and
Philosophy in Brooklyn,
NY.
He
a
ls
o
b
egan
hi
s
14th
year as
the
Counci
l
of Supervisors and
A
dm
i
ni
strators
district representa-
tive for Commu
ni
ty
School District
1
8.
1997
A
li
s
on
(
Kilt
s)
Por
ce
lli
recent
l
y
published
h
er second
book
with
H
e
in
ema
nn
in April
2016,
Purpose]
ul
Play:
A
Teacher
'
s Guide
to
I
gniting
Deep
and
Joyful
Learning
Across
the Day
(co-a
uth
ored
with
Kristine Mraz
and C
h
eryl Tyler).
1998
Tra
cy
Pau
r
o
ws
ki
married Bill
Truelove on Feb. 13,
2016.
2000
Erin Smith
i
s an a
d
vocate for
those
livin
g
with
ce
li
ac
disease. She
was a
featured
speaker at
both the
Ce
li
ac
Disease Foundation national
con-
ference
in
Pasadena, CA,
in
May
20
16
and
the
Cana
di
an Ce
li
ac
Association
n
at
i
onal conference
in
Jun
e 2016,
where
s
h
e s
h
ared
h
er
p
ersona
l
ex
p
er
i
ences w
ith
others
.
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VI .
a: . • .
a,
C
.
-
~
E
;:j
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~
2001
Dave Dobbins
and
his
wife,
Krista,
welcomed a
new
addit
i
on
to their
fami
l
y, Beckett
Austin, born
Sept.
8,
2016.
"
Jeanneil Kulik
married
Richard Ferretti
at
th
e
Bellagio
H
otel on
May
24, 2013.
Jeanneil
a
nd
Richard welcomed
a
b
a
by bo
y,
Richard
Neil,
born
Sept.
4, 2014.
Richard
joined
big brother
J
ake at
home
.
"
Kelly
(Becker)
Murray
('01
MA)
l
eft
the Hudson Valley
after
graduating from
Marist to take
h
er
first e
l
ementary schoo
l
principal
position
in the district
s
h
e a
tt
en
d
ed
as a c
hild
. S
h
e
recently
m
ove
d b
ack
to the
Hudson
Va
ll
ey
with
h
er
two
children, C
l
a
ir
e a
nd Finn
,
to
become the
principal
at Noxo
n R
oad
Eleme
nt
ary Sc
h
ool
in
the Arlington
Central Schoo
l
District.
2002
Kou
rtn
ey (Gilliga
n
)
Fall
be
ca
m
e
a special education
teacher
with
the
Kingston (NY) City Sc
h
oo
l Di
s
tri
c
t.
2003
Jillian Ohlenschlaeger
married
Kiernan Laughlin
o
n Jul
y
2
,
20
16
.
Marist a
lumni
in
atte
nd
a
nc
e
inclu
ded
H
eta (
Desai
)
Shah
,
Brian
McA
lpin
,
Laura
(Pe
nt
z)
Como
,
and
Kristi
n
a (Goe
h
ri
ng)
Welke
.
2004
Allison (Affron
ti
) Newto
n
a
nd
her
hu
s
b
a
n
d,
Brad
,
welcomed a
son, Brady Camden,
born
May
1
8,
20
1
5.
Brad
accepte
d
a
n
ew
p
os
ition
as a
business
development
manager
for
defense
contractor
H
arris Co
rp.
20
0
5
Jimmy Board
h
as
been
h
o
n
ore
d
as o
n
e of t
h
e
H
ouston
Business
Journal's
2016 40
Under
40
Award
wi
nn
ers.
The
40
were se
l
ecte
d fr
o
m
Jimmy Board
'
os
26
M A
R
I
S
T
M AG A Z I N E
Alumni Earn Teaching Distinctions
Craig Adelhardt '00
Craig Adelhardt 'oo
Dana Colella '14
CRAIG ADELHARDT
'
oo
has
been selected one of
62
Woodrow Wilson
New
Jersey
Teaching
Fellows
for
2016
by the Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation.
The highly
competitive
program
recruits recent
graduates as well as career changers with strong
backgrounds in
science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)
and
prepares
them to
teach in high-need
secondary schools. Each
Fellow receives
$30,000
to
complete a specially designed master's
degree program based
on a year-long classroom experience
.
In
return
,
Fellows commit
to teaching
for three years
in
the urban and rural
New Jersey
schoo
l
s that
need
strong STEM
teachers, receiving
ongo-
ing
support and
mentoring.
i!J
DANA COLELLA '14
has
received a
2016
Excellence
Award
for
her
efforts
as
a special education
teacher
at
Success
Academy Charter Schools, a
network
of
public
charter
schoo
ls
in New
York City.
Colella,
a
native
of Wantagh, NY,
was
one
of
85
selected
for the ETHOS
Excellence
Award from
among
1,400
facu
lt
y and staff
members across
34
Success
Academy
sc
hool
s.
She teaches
at
Success Academy
Springfield Gardens.
"Mar
ist
prepared me
for
my teaching career by
giving
me
the
tools I needed
to effective
l
y
plan
and
deliver instruction to
all students,
regardless
of
their
learning
sty
l
e or
needs,"
said Colella, who
majored
in
e
l
ementary and specia
l
education. "Mar
i
st a
l
so
provided me with numerous
fieldwork opportunities
to be in the classroom,
l
earning
through
observation
and working
hands-on
with students
in local districts."
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J;
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t;rt"~1'm:•
The
Success
Academy
Charter Schoo
l
s
network
.,
,
serves
more than
14,000
students across
the
city.
i!.l
Dana Colella
•
1
4
Andrew Paulsen '12
ANDREW PAULSEN '12
has received Teach
For America's
2016
Alumni
Award for
Excellence
in Teaching.
Andrew Paulsen
'12
Nine recipients
were
chosen out of
11,000
a
lumni
teachers
who
have
excelled
in the classroom
after
fulfilling their two-year
commitment
to Teach For
America,
according
to
an announcement
from the
organization. TFA
is
a selec-
tive nonprofit that places teachers in high-need
classrooms across
the
country.
Paulsen,
a former
Student Government Association president,
was chosen for
his work
as a
high
school
teacher in Newark, NJ.
"Due
to Mr. Paulsen's mentorship
and investment,"
the
announcement said, "his students
have
access
to networks
and opportunities
like
participating
in
an early
co
ll
ege
program,
going on
overnight
co
ll
ege
trips,
and
attending the
20
1
3
presidential
in
auguration."
i!J
mor
e
than
500
individu
a
l
s
nomi
-
n
a
t
e
d. Judges
sco
r
e
d nomin
ees o
n
l
ea
d
e
rship
,
overcoming
c
h
allenges,
a
nd
co
mmunit
y
involv
e
m
e
nt.
Jimm
y
i
s a
m
a
n
ag
in
g
dire
c
tor
at
)LL
,
a
financial
a
nd prof
ess
i
o
nal
serv
i
ces
firm
s
p
ec
i
a
li
z
in
g
in
co
mm
e
r
c
i
a
l r
ea
l
es
t
a
t
e se
r
v
i
ces a
nd
investment
m
a
n
-
age
m
e
nt."
Lorraine Lopez-Janove
('10
MPA
)
i
s exec
utiv
e
dir
ec
tor of
the
Hum
a
n Ri
g
hts
Commission of
Sullivan County,
NY.
2006
Kimb
e
rly Benanti
m
arr
ied
Anthony
Hohmann
'
07
in
Southampton, NY,
o
n Jun
e 6,
2014
.
Peter
Scaturro
'07
a
nd
Matthew
Rinaldi
'07
se
rv
e
d
as
b
est
m
e
n
.
Kimberly
a
nd
Anthony
w
e
l
co
m
e
d
a
d
a
ught
e
r,
Sienna
Ro
se,
born March
14, 2016.
"
Courtney
Giardina
publi
s
h
ed
h
e
r third n
ove
l
,
Behind
the Strings,
a co
nt
e
mp
ora
r
y
romance
no
ve
l
e
n
co
mpa
ss
in
g
lif
e
in
the
co
un
try
musi
c
world,
in
M
ay
2016.
H
e
r fir
s
t
,
T
ear-Stained






























Lorraine L
op
ez
-
J
a
n
ove
'
05
/
'
10 MPA
Beaches,
appeared
in
2013,
followed
in
2014
by
Holdin
g
On to Georgia.
For information on all three
novels
,
visit www.courtney.giardina.com.
a
A
ndr
es
O
ra
n
ges
began
teaching
part time
in
Manhattan.He also
took
on a
new role at Deustche Bank
in January
2016
as vice
president
of
the
IHC
for market
risk
manage-
ment.
2007
A
l
yssa (
Br
ac
k
e
tt
) Ca
ru
s
o
and
her
hu
sba
nd,
Dou
g
la
s,
welcomed
a
baby
boy,
Garrett
Robert, born Apri
l
15
, 2016.
Alyssa
a
nd Doug met
at
Marist
in
2003
and
married in
2014.
B
e
th
a
n
y (
Bohlin
)
Hod
g
e
('11
MA)
ha
s
been in charge of U.S.
business
development for G Adventures, a
Canadian small-group
tour
opera-
tor,
s
in
ce
2012.
Living in Providence
and working
in Boston
,
Bethany
esta
blishes national partnerships
and
manages Arctic
and
Antarctic
ex
pedition programs
.
Bethany's
job
has not
only
instilled
enthusiasm
for sustainable tourism
but has
also
tak
e
n her
around
the world
,
including
recent trips
to
Ice
l
and,
Peru, Jordan,
and
Israel. a
A
n
thon
y
Hohm
a
nn
married
Kim
b
erly
B
e
nanti
1
06
in
Southampton, NY,
on
June
6, 2014.
Peter Scaturro
and
Matth
e
w Rin
a
l
d
i
served as
best m
e
n.
Anthony and
Kimberly
welcomed a
daughter, Sienna Rose,
born
March
14
, 20
16.
a Karl Minge
s
earned a
PhD in behaviora
l
medi
-
cine at Yale University
in May
2016.
He
is
cu
rr
e
ntly
on the faculty at
Yale
University School of
Medicine,
con-
ducting
health services
research.
Karl and
his husb
a
nd
a
dopted
their
son,
Dominick
Emery,
in June
2016.
a
Lind
s
a
y (
Furman) Scariati
and
h
e
r husband,
Jame
s,
welcomed
their
third
child, a
daughter, Lilah Joy,
born April
29, 2016
.
They
currently
reside outside
the Philadelphia
area
.
2008
T
hom
as
Di
x
on
a
nd his
wife,
C
a
itlin
(
Garrit
y),
welcomed twin
girls, born
Jun
e
2015.
a
S
a
m
a
nth
a
Es
ti
s
married Thomas Rolston in
Our
Lady
Seat of Wisdom Chapel
on
the Marist
campus
in
August
20
14.
They welcomed a son and
"future
Red
Fox," Aidan,
born
May
2016.
a
Kath
e
rin
e
Roos
('11
ME)
married
Brian Savard at Longfellows
in
Saratoga Springs, NY, on July
3, 2016.
a
Tra
ci Sa
li
s
bur
y
self
-
publi
s
h
e
d her
first
book
, a
memoir
called Authentic Sexy Truth: One
Woman. One Truth. lots of Brave.
It's
available at amazon
.
com and
kdp.com.
2009
Sarah
(T
ierney
)
Dustin
accepted a
new position
at Colgate University.
a
J
a
ck Scanlon
,
a
former
Marist
football
player, played profession
-
ally
in
the
German Football
League
during the
2011
season.
Over
t
h
e
past
four years,
he has been with
Siemens
Healthcare,
consulting
and
managing imp
l
ementations of
diagnostic
imaging
equipment.
He
is transitioning
to
a role with
Philips
H
ealt
hcare
to
manage the
services
relationship
between Philips
and
the University of Pennsy
l
vania
H
ea
lth
System (Penn
Medicine)
.
a
A
l
e
xander Sutton
married
Amy
Whee
l
er
1
10
on
May
21, 2016,
i
n
upst
ate
New
York. They celebrated
with many
friends
a
nd
family,
including
a
number
of their clos
-
est friends from
Marist. Alex is
a
senior knowledge analyst at Boston
Consulting
Group
and Amy
is
an
e
l
ementary schoo
l
co
unselor
at the
Conservatory
Lab
Charter School.
2010
Kri
s
Baskiewic
z
and
his
wife,
Sara
,
welcomed a son, Easton
Jam
es,
born May
11,
20
16
.
a
Dr.
Alison Novak
published
a
book
,
Media, Millennials, and
Politi
cs:
The Coming of Age of the Next
Political G
e
neration.
a
Grant
Thonack
was part of the team that
A golf outing organized by Nick Ortega '10, Pat Massaroni '10, and Tom Durante '12 brought together 64
Marist alumni to raise money for the Alumni Legacy Scholarship Fund. The tournament took place at Dyker
Beach Golf Course in Brooklyn, NY, on Sept. 24, 2016.
Nick Webster '11 (right) and Dave Marthy
'
15 represented Marist
atop Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs, CO, in August 2016.
Grant Thonack '10 was part of the
team at FiOS1 News that won three
New York Emmy Awards in March
2016 for the program
Restaurant
Hunter.
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.
-
C
E
;:j
-
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28
won three
New
York
Emmy
Awards
i
n Marc
h
2016
for t
h
e
program
Restaurant Hunter.
The
awards
recogn
i
zed
t
h
e
overall work
of
the
program's host
and
two
episodes of
the show. Grant is
an
editor of the
show and
works for RNN Studios in
Rye,
NY.
" Amy Wheeler
married
Alexander
Sutton
'
09
on May
21,
2016,
in upstate New York. They
ce
l
ebrated with many friends
and
fami
l
y,
including a number of their
closest fr
i
ends from Marist. Amy
is
a
n
e
l
ementary sc
h
oo
l
counse
l
or
at
the
Co
n
servatory
Lab Charter
School and
Alex is
a
sen
i
or k
n
ow
l
-
edge analyst at
Boston Consu
l
ting
Group.
2011
Sarah
Bonacci
and
Phil
Lofaro
'
13
are engaged
.
"
Joseph
Rahtelli
and
Kaitlyn Van Aken
'
12
are engaged.
They plan
an
October
2017 wedding
in Stonington, CT. "
Madeline
(Maddy) Sasso
started
a clot
hin
g
Madeline
{
Maddy) Sasso
'11
and
accessories compa
n
y,
P
i
nkly
Perfect
(www
.
pinklyperfect.com),
which has been
getting
press
atten-
tion from
a
number of media
outlets
inc
l
uding Business
News
Daily
and
Glamour.com.
2012
Kayla
Burton
married Christopher
F
l
an
n
e
r
y
in March 2015 in Winter
9/11 Cross and Plaque
Commemorate Alumni
M
ARIST ALUMNI who were
killed in the
9
/
n
attacks
are remembered on campus. The
College's 9
/
11
Cross, fashioned
from
an
I
-
beam
from
the
Twin Towers,
is on
display
in
Our
Lady Seat of
Wisdom Chapel. On
the
wall above
the cross
,
a plaque
bears the names
of
the
six
Marist
graduates:
Thomas
G. Crotty '81,
Daniel
M. Coffey
In the chapel, a plaque bears
the names of the six Mari st
graduates who were killed in
the 9/11 attacks.
'69,
Jacqueline K.
Sayegh
Duggan
'89,
Vincent
D
.
Kane '86
,
Kevin J.
Pfeifer
'83,
and Carmen
A. Rivera
'
02
.
The College's
9/11
Cross,
fashioned
from an I
-
beam
from the Twin
Towers, is on
display in Our
Lady Seat of
Wisdom Chapel.
On Sept.
10,
2016,
the
eve
of
the 15th
anni-
versary of
the
attacks, Father
Richard LaMorte
read the names
of
the
alumni and
offered
a
prayer
during
a
Red Fox Club barbecue
at
the Marist
waterfront.
The
following
day, Capt. Pau
l
X.
Rinn
USN (ret.) '68,
president
of
the Alumni Association,
read the
six
names
and
led
a
moment of
silence at a
meeting
on campus of
the
Alumni
Executive Board.
CJ
Park,
Fl.
Kayla recent
l
y celebrated
her th
i
rd
anniversary
with Florida
Hospita
l
where she works
in mar-
keting. The
couple
resides
in
Winter
Park, FL.
"
Joe Defrancesco
is a
software developer in the baseba
ll
operat
i
o
n
s
department of the
New
York
Yankees.
" Michael Murphy
(MPA) is pursuing
an additio
n
a
l
master's in security manage-
ment through
CUNY
John Jay. "
Kaitlyn Van Aken
and
h
er
co
l
-
lege
sweetheart,
Joseph Rahtelli
'
11,
a
r
e engaged
.
T
h
ey are
p
l
an-
ning
an
October
2017
wedding in
Stonington, CT.
"
David
White
comp
l
eted
three
years of studies,
receiving his doctor
of
physical
therapy
(DPT)
degree from the
University of
Hartford
.
Dave has
accepted a
position with
Concentra
Corp
.
in Wallingford, CT,
and
plans
David White
'12
to
continue expanding
his profes-
sio
n
a
l
career
by
specializing
in
advanced
studies
in the PT field.
Remembering Bro. Donald
J.
Kelly, FMS '6S/'86 MS
B
RO. DONALD).
KELLY, a
mathematics professor
at Marist College
for 32 years
,
passed
away on Aug. 3, 2016. Known to colleagues
and
friends
as Brother Don,
he
was
7
4.
A
Marist
Brother
since
1962, Brother Don
graduated from Marist
College in 1965 and went on to
receive master
'
s
degrees
in mathematics
from
Hunter
College
in
1969
and applied
statistics from New
York University
in
1974. He taught
for
many
years at
the
high
school
level,
including
at
Msgr.
Pace High
School
in
Miami,
Marist
High
School in
Chicago,
and two
terms of
serv
i
ce at
Christ the King
High
School in Queens,
NY,
where he
also
served as chair of
the Mathematics
Department. Brother
Don returned to
Marist
to teach in
1984.
While
teaching
Bro
.
Donald
J.
Kelly, FMS
'
65/'86 MS
full-time, he
earned
an additional
master's degree in
computer science from Marist
in
1986
and a
PhD
from
Polytechnic Institute
of NYU
in 1993
.
The Kelly
family
requests that donations in
Brother Don
'
s memor
y
be made to the Bro. Donald). Kelly,
FMS,
Memorial
Scholarship at
Marist
College, 3399 North
Road, Poughkeepsie,
NY 12601.
Donations
can also
be made
at
maristconnect.marist.edu
/
give
.
Please indicate
"Other
Designation"
and specify
"
Direct my Gift"
to the Bro.
Donald
J. Kelly, FMS,
Memorial
Scholarship.
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2013
Phil
L
ofaro
and
Sarah Bona
c
ci
'11
are engaged.
s
Joana Sun
is in
her
fina
l
year of pursuing a mas-
ter
'
s
in nursing in
the family
nurse
practitioner track at University of
Massachusetts Medical School
in
Worcester, MA
.
2014
N
icole Domkiw
married
Cody
Wilkinson
.
s
Adam Kemp
launched
a fitness app, Adam Kemp Fitness,
focusing on comprehensive vertical-
jump training and useful
hea
l
th
and fitness information. A former
Marist basketball player,
he
signed
to play
professional basketba
ll
with
KK Feni
Industries
of Macedonia
after graduation and
moved to
the
former Yugoslavian
Republic
of
Macedonia.
In
2015
he
earned a
spot on
the Detroit Pistons
NBA
Summer League team and
played his
second professional season for BC
Astana of the VTB United League
in Astana, Kazakhstan.
He
recently
married
model
Anna Targoniy.
Pat
R
a
m
s
e
y
'
13 (
'
1
4
MA)
,
a former Red
Fox teammate,
is
also part of
the
Adam Kemp Fitness
team.
Nathan
i
el Brusa
'
15
2015
Na
t
haniel Brusa
was
recently
h
ired
as junior copywriter at
Pinckney
Hugo
Group, a full-service
mar-
keting communications firm.
s
Bri
a
nne Kain
is
an admission
counselor at the College of Mount
Saint Vincent. A former Marist tour
guide, she
runs the
tour-guide and
first-visit experience at
the
school.
s
Regina Leary
(MA) was
promoted
to
anti-money-laundering consul-
tant
at U.S. Bank Corporate Trust.
s
Jacq
u
eline Lopez
is
an anchor
producer
at Bloomberg.
s
Mary
Treadwell
is
pursuing an MPA.
s
Kali Vozeh
continues to play
rugby,
currently for North Shore Women's
Rugby in
Lynn,
MA.
Pizzani Award recipients Jaclyn Murphy
'16
and Randy Strickland
jo
i
ned family members of the late James Pizzani '64
.
Left to right are Murphy; Eleanor Pizzani, James
'
s wife
;
Barbara Pizzani Potter, James
'
s sister; and Strickland
.
Pizzani Award Recognizes Two
Who Advance Marist Athletics
T
wo OUTSTANDING ADVOCATES for
Marist
Athletics
have been
recognized with
the James
E.
Pi
z
zani Award
.
The
award was presented
to
Jaclyn
Murphy
'
16
,
women's
lacrosse manager
,
and
Randy
Strickland
,
operations assistant for Athletics, on
May 2
,
2016, during
the Marist Department
of
Athletics
Senior Awards
Banquet
at Christa's
Restaurant in Poughkeepsie.
Paul Rinn '68
Leads Navy
Safe Harbor
Foundation
C
APT.
PAUL
X.
RINN
,
USN
(RET.)
'68,
president
of Marist
'
s
Alumni Association
,
has
assumed
the
position of executive
director
of
the
Navy Safe
Harbor
Foundation.
Rinn
has
served on the
board
of
directors
of Navy Safe
Harbor
since 2013 and
has been active
in
fund growth and
distribution throughout that
period.
A former senior vice
president
at
the
international
consulting firm
Whitney,
Bradley,
and Brown,
he is
currently
presi
-
dent
of
Rinn
Speaks LLC.
The
Navy Safe
Harbor
Foundation
Board
of
Directors is
committed
to the mission
of
providing
immediate
financial assistance and
lifetime
sup-
port to
post-9
/
11
wounded, critically
ill,
and
injured
members
of all
branches
of
the
U.S.
Armed Forces,
The
Pizzani
Award
is given annually
to
a
man
and woman whose service,
dedication,
and
loy
-
alt
y
to
the
advancement of Mari st Athletics goes
abo
v
e and beyond all expectations and embodies
the
spirit of its
namesake. James Pizzani
was a
1964 Marist
graduate who
died in 1988
after a
nine-month battle
with cancer.
t!l
ensuring
that they have the
resources
they need
during their recovery
and
transition back
to
their
communities
.
All
board members participate
on a
pro
bono
basis. The
foundation
,
in
existence since
2009,
has
given financial and
logistical
support
to more than
400 families,
providing more
than
$1
million in relief
assistance
.
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In Memo1·iam
Alumn
i
Bro
.
Martin
T.
Ruane
'
54
Bro
.
Gregory
F
.
DelaNoy
,
FMS
'
55
John
J.
Nolan
'
55
Bro
.
Nicholas
A
.
Caffrey,
FMS
'
61
John J. Woods
'
61
Michael B
.
O
'
Neil Sr.
'
65
Jerome A
.
Andrulonis
'
66
Cornelius A.
Freer
'
66
Kenneth Galbraith
'
66
Bruce
C. Lafko
'
66
Thomas F.
Crimmins
'
67
Walter
C. Maxwell
'
67
Richard T
.
Kirby
'68
William
J
.
Gartland '71
George
A.
James
'71
Jame
s
M
.
Walsh '72
Geraldine
Roche
Morganteen '73
Donald J. DeBrosky
'74
Dr
.
Gary
S.
DeFraia
'74
Edward
E. Maitner
Jr
.
'74
Anna
Kardas
Otten
'74
Gino S
.
DiMartino
'78
Steven
Freeman
'78
James R
.
Doherty
'80
Elise M. Linden
'
83
James
J
.
Murphy
'
85
Andrew
J.
Israel '89
Elsie
L. Butler
'
90
Thomas
M
.
McNally
'
90
Robert
P.
Mirabelle
'
90
John
Edward
Dougherty
111
'95
Keith
D.
Mitchell
'
98
John
Roger
s
'
05 MBA
Mircea M
.
Yanhaevermaet
'16
Friends
Andrew Candelario
Elaine
H
.
Crosby
Jo
s
eph F.
Dolan
Peter
J.
Foy
Jr
.
Cecilia
Hart
Barbara
J
.
Leahey
LeonMaissel
Janice
Crimmins Meagher
Dieter Renn
hack
Lowell Thomas
Jr.
Employees
Dorothy
Boodakian
'
99
Administrative Assistant, Career Services
France
s
S
.
Dangelo
Former Assistant Bookstore Manage
r
Bro.
Donald
J
.
Kelly
,
FMS
'
65
/'
86 MS
Assistanr Professor of Marhemotics
1984-2016
Dr. Danielle Langfield
Assistanr Professor of Political Science
2011-2016
Bro
.
Jo
s
eph Sacino
,
FMS
'71
Former Member, School of Management 1982-7994
Larcenia Crawford Stroman '94
Security Officer, Retired
Students
Courtney P. Fisher
'
19
Patrick
M
.
Henneberry
'
17
Branden
R
.
Rutland
'
19
Please visit maristconnect.marist.edu/inmemoriam
for online remembrances of members of
rhe Maris/ College community
.
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Reflections
Remembering
Lowell Thomas Jr.
O
NE OF THE GREAT ADVENTURERS
of our
day has died. Lowell Thomas Jr.,
explorer,
filmmaker,
best
-se
lling
author, Alaskan
bush
pilot, U.S. Army Air Corps veteran, philan-
thropist, athlete, Alaska senator and
lieutenant
governor, conservationist, and
loving husband
and father,
passed
away on
Oct. 1,
2016,
just
five
days
shy of
his
93rd
birthday.
Lowell
Thomas Jr., the
son
of renowned
broadcaster Lowell Thomas and his wife,
Frances, was
born
on
Oct.
6,
1923, in London,
where
his
father was
in the midst
of
his
Allenby-Lawrence travelogue
tour.
From
that
day, Lowell Jr
.
was
immersed in his
father's
work
a
nd love
of adventure.
He traveled
exten-
sively
before
entering
Dartmouth
College
in
194
2
and
later
that year
joined the
U.S.
Army
Air
Corps,
where he trained pilots during
World War
II. He returned to Dartmouth
in
the fall of 1946 after
his
service with
the
Army
Air Corps, and while finishing
his
final year
at
Dartmouth, he competed nationally
on
the College's ski team and
presented lectures
across
the
U.S.
based
on
his travels.
Upon
completing
his degree, he traveled to
I
ran
and Turkey,
where he
collected
materials for
travelogues
he presented
on a U.S.
tour during
the winter of
1948
-49.
In the
fall of
1949, Lowell
Jr. and
his
father
became the last Westerners
to travel
to
Tibet
before it was overrun by
communist China in
1950. This was
the
most
significant
time between
father and son, and
it built
a
powerful bond they
would
maintain
for
the
rest of
their lives
.
Lowell Jr. wrote his
first of several
books,
Out of This
World: Across the
Himalayas
to Forbidden Tibet, about
the
experiences
he
shared
with his
father, and
it became
an inter-
national best
seller.
Lowell
Jr
.
continued
travel-
ing
the world
after
marry-
ing Mary Taylor
Pryor.
They were married
for 64 years,
until
her death in
2014.
H
e
and Tay
crisscrossed
the
globe
in their
Cessna
180
,
(1923-2016)
Lowell Thomas Jr. was an adventurer
who traveled the world, a pilot who
served his country, and a public
servant and conservationist who
was dedicated to his home state of
Alaska. He was also a generous
Marist benefactor.
BY DR
.
JOHN ANSLEY
Marist
College Archivist
shooting
films in
Europe,
Africa, and the
Middle
East.
In the
early
19
70s,
he
entered
public
service as a state senator
in
Alaska and
later
as
the
state's third
lieutenant
governor
(1974-1978).
Always known
for
his honesty
and
integrity, he was referred to
as
"
Dudley
Do
-
Right
"
by his
fellow senators. After
leaving
politics, he
owned and
operated
an
Alaskan
bush pilot
service.
He was
a
talented
and
courageous
pilot who rescued many
climbers
from
Denali, North America
's
tallest
peak. He
was
later invited to join the Alaska
Aviation
Museum Hall
of
Fame.
Lowell Jr
.
also
had
a
lifelong passion
for
Alaskan
wildlife
and
devoted much time
and
money to protect his
state's
flora,
fauna,
and ecosystems.
He
was
recognized for his
work
when he was inducted into the
Alaska
Conservation
Hall
of
Fame. His lifetime love
and
talent
for skiing also
led him to be inducted
into the Alaska Ski Hall
of
Fame
.
In
2005,
he
was
recognized by the Dalai Lama
as
"o
ne
of
Lowell
Thomas
Jr. and Sr. with
interpreter
Tsewong Namgyal
in
Tibet in
1949
the
genuine grandfathers
of the Tibet move-
ment in
America" when
he
was awarded
the
International
Campaign for Tibet's Light of
Truth Award.
1he
Marist
Co
ll
ege community
will
be
forever grateful
to
Lowell
Thomas Jr.
and
his
family for
the
kindness and support they
have
shown
the
College over
the decades.
It
is thanks to his
generosity
that we have the
Lowell Thomas
Communications
Center,
for
which
he made
a
leadership
gift, and
many
of
the
collections
in
our
Archives
and
Special
Co
ll
ections,
including the Lowell Thomas
Papers, the Lowell Thomas
Capital Cities
Collection,
the Lowell Thomas
Memorabilia
Collection,
and
most recently, the
Lowell
Thomas Jr. Collection. He
visited
Marist
a
number of times. In 1999, he narrated
a
remarkable
film
presentation
to commemorate
the
50th anniversary of
the historic trip he
and
his
father
took to Tibet. He returned to
Marist
in
2006, with
his daughter,
Anne, to visit the
Marist
Archives.
He is
survived
by his
children, Anne
Donaghy
and
David Thomas;
grandchildren;
and great grandchildren.
t!l
Left
:
Lowell and Tay Thomas, their Cessna
180
in the
background, in
1958
.
Center: Lowell Thomas Jr
.
prepared to cut the ribbon dedicating the Lowell
Thomas Communications Center on March
14,
1987.
Looking on were (left to right) Dr. Dennis
Murray, then president; Douglas Edwards
,
CBS
newsman and
1986
recipient of the Mari st
College Lowell Thomas Award; and Mari st
Trustee Robert Dyson. Right
:
Thomas and his
daughter, Anne Thomas Donaghy
,
visited
the
Marist College
archives in
2006.











Sharing the Vision
Construction on campus circa 1958
V
ISION.
Marist's founders had it, conceiving of a college
that 70 years later has educated more than 40,000
men and women and prepared them for a lifetime of
accomplishments. You, too, can create a plan that will shape
the lives of tomorrow
'
s students.
By remembering Marist in your estate through a
bequest or by 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, 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) 575-3264.



























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