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1ST
CONTENTS
I
Spring 201
7
FEATURES
12
Celebrating the Inauguration of David Y
e
llen
David Yellen is formally installed as the
fourth president of Ma
r
ist College.
13
Hannah Storm Honored
with Sport
s
Communication Award
Stars from the wor
l
ds of broa
d
cas
ti
ng, s
p
o
r
ts, a
n
d
literature joined Ma
ri
st a
l
umni a
n
d f
ri
ends at a
New York City gala to celebrate S
t
o
r
m and support
the College's Center for S
p
orts Commun
i
cation.
14
Hud
s
on River S
c
hool
A boat-based class lets students experience
the
H
udson
R
ive
r
ecosystem fi
r
sthand.
16
Staying on Course
For sprinter Santosh Kris
h
nan
'20, running
a
s
part of Marist's men
'
s track and fie
l
d team
is key to treating his cystic fibrosis.
17
Betty O
'
Brien
'
s Scrapbook
The four-inc
h
-thick,
1
22-page scrapbook
is a u
n
ique addit
i
on
t
o prima
r
y sources
availab
l
e on Marist Co
ll
ege
h
istory.
20
Road Scholars
Kyle Mikesh
'
1
6 and Cameron Sc
h
uh
'
J
S
biked across
the
U
nited States to raise money for A
L
S research
.
Ma
ri
s
t i
s
d
e
di
ca
t
e
d t
o
h
e
l
pin
gs
tud
e
n
t
s
d
eve
l
o
p th
e
in
t
e
ll
ec
t
, c
h
a
r
ac
t
e
r
,
a
nd
sk
ill
s re
quir
e
d
fo
r
e
nli
g
ht
e
n
e
d
, e
thi
ca
l
, a
n
d prod
u
c
tiv
e
l
iv
es
i
n
th
e g
l
o
b
a
l
co
mmunit
y o
f t
h
e 2
1
s
t
ce
ntur
y.
Mar
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m
agazi
n
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s
publi
s
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d b
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th
e O
ffi
ce o
f
Co
ll
ege
Ad
va
n
ce
m
e
nt
a
t
Ma
ri
s
t
Co
ll
ege fo
r
a
lumni
a
nd fri
e
nd
s
of
Ma
ri
s
t
Co
ll
ege.
V
i
ce
Pr
es
id
en
t
for Co
ll
ege A
d
va
n
ce
m
e
n
t:
Chri
s
toph
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r D
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/Giorno
'
88
C
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Publi
c Affa
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s Office
r:
Gr
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Cannon
Ed
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or
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L
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Bat
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Exec
uti
ve
Dir
ec
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of A
lumni R
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Alumni Road Trip
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20
22
R
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d Fox Roundup
ALUMNI PROFILES
24
From Marist to Mortaritaville and Back
H
EO
P
, Mar
i
st, and the military shape the work
of
U.
S. Army vete
r
an Marie
l
Sosa
J
uarez '02 in
counseling combat veterans and their families.
26
Reel
Life
Successful film screenwriter and producer
J
ohn
S
ulli
va
n
'0
0
watched movies as a kid, won awa
r
ds
fo
r hi
s
pl
ays a
t
Marist, and never s
t
opped writing.
DEPARTMENTS
2
Marist Drive
What's hap
p
ening on campus
7
Advancement News
28
Alumni News
&
Notes
Gabrielle Kelliher
'18
was named
Second Team
CoSIDA Academic
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NEWS
&
N O T E S
FROM
T H E CAMPUS
Students, Alumnus Receive Fulbright, Goldwater Honors
Marist students again have won honors including Fulbright awards and Goldwater scholarships.
D
ARRJEL
MCBRIDE
'17,
an English/writ-
ing major from the Bronx,
NY, and
a
participant in the Arthur
0.
Eve Higher
Education Opportunity
Program
(HEOP)
at Marist, was awarded
a Fulbright U.S. Student
Program
grant to serve
as an English Teaching
Assistant (ET A)
in
South
Africa
.
McBride is also a
Gates Millenium Scholar
.
As a
Humanity in
Action
Scholar, she will spend
a
month in Atlanta, GA,
this
summer
with other
students
from the
United States and
Europe exploring
issues
of justice for
underrepresented
populations
.
She
has been
accepted
by
New York
University's
master's
program in interna-
tional
education.
HEOP is
a comprehensive academic
support
program jointly
sponsored
by
Marist and
the
New York State Education
Department.
Samantha
Monroe
'17,
a
psychology
/
special education
major from
Simsbury, CT,
was awarded a Fulbright ETA grant to teach
in
Malaysia. She and McBride
make
a total
of 23 Marist students to receive a
Fulbright.
1he
Fulbright
Program, the
U.S. govern-
ment's flagship internationa
l
educational
exchange
program, is
sponsored
by the
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
of
the
U.S. Department of State. The
bureau
cited Marist as one of
the
U.S. colleges and
univ
e
rsities that produced the
most recipi-
e
nts
of
its
U.S. Student
Program
Grants for
2015-16. Four Marist alumni won Fulbright
awards for 2015-16,
putting
Marist on
par
with just 24 other
master's institutions
nationally.
Marist
was
also
named
a
top
producer
for 2014-2015.
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ARI
ST
MAGAZINE
A
Darriel McBride
'17
B
Samantha Monroe
'17
C
Andrew Paulsen
'12
D
Alec Lee
'
18
and
Carolyn Turcotte
'
18
E
Elio Velazquez
'
18
F
Brendon Boldt
'
18
All of the students who apply for
Fulbrights-12 applied
this
academic year-
are very
motivated,
says
Pat
Taylor, Marist's
graduate school and fellowship advisor
in the
Center for Career Services. Taylor
administers
the
Fulbright competition at
Marist. She credits Marist's
high Fulbright
numbers to the institution
's
"tendency
to
go global."
"
A majority
of
these
applicants
have
studied abroad," Taylor says, "but some see
it
as
their
only opportunity to go abroad."
A
Marist
alumnus
has received
a
dif-
ferent
Fulbright
honor. Andrew
Paulsen
'12
has been
offered a
Fulbright Distinguished
Awards
in
Teaching grant to Taiwan.
Paulsen is
one of approximately 35
U.S.
citizens
who
will
travel
abroad
through
the
program in
2017-18.
Fulbright
is not the
only
highly
competitive
honor Marist
students
and alumni earned
this
year. Two
Marist
students
have been named
Goldwater
Scholars: Alec
Lee
'
18
,
an environmental science and
pol
-
icy major from
Albany, NY, and Carolyn
Turcotte '18, a
dual major in biomedic
a
l
science and chemistry/biochemistry from
Hopewell Junction,
NY.
The Goldwater is
"the
premier
recogni-
tion
of
undergraduates in
STEM (science,
technology, engineering,
mathematics)
fields
and who show
promise in
pursuing
these fields," says
Taylor.
Recipients receive
$7,500 for
their
junior year
and again for
their
senior
year.
Out
of 1,286 students
nominated nationwide
in
2017, only 240 were
chosen.
Prior to
2017, four
Marist
students were
awarded
the Goldwater
Scholarship.
In
addition, Elio Velazquez
'18,
a
busi
-
ness
administration
major
from
the
Bronx,
NY, and an
HEOP
rising senior, was named
a Congressional
Hispanic
Caucus intern for
summer 2017.
The
paid
internship places
college students
in
a congressional office
or
federal
agency for eight weeks, allowing
them to learn firsthand
about
the nation's
legislative process.
In
a first for
Marist, Brendon Boldt
'18,
a
computer science
major
from
Osseo,
MN,
was awarded
the DAAD RISE
scholarship
in
Germany
.
The
scholarship, funded
b
y
the
German Federal Foreign Office,
matches
students from North America, Great
Britain
,
and
Ireland
with
PhD
student
men
-
tors at top
German universities
and
in titu-
tions
for summer research
internships
.
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Pulitzer Prize-
winning
Washington
Post
columnist and
MSNBC political
analyst Eugene
Robinson spoke at
the May 20 ceremony.
Emma Joan Tai is
'17
was the Class of 2017
valedictorian.
Marist Trustee Bro
.
Sean Sammon
,
FMS
'70,
former superior
general of the Mari st
Brothers, addressed
graduates at the
May
1
9 ceremony.
Celebrating
the Class of 2017
''W
HEN
PEOPLE OF CHARACTER
and
intelligence
apply
themselves to the
toughest
challenges,
the
world
becomes
a
bet-
ter place," President Dav
i
d Yellen
said
during
the College's
71st commencement, "and you,
the
Class of 2017, are
people
of character and
intelligence.
You've
helped make
Marist a
better
place,
and
now
you will go out and
do
the same
for our
nation
and
the
world."
Presiding
over
his
first Marist commence-
ment
since
taking office last Ju
l
y, Yellen con-
ferred degrees
on
1,194 members
of
the
Class
of 2017
during the May
20th ceremony for
traditional-age
undergraduates
on the Campus
Green before
an audience of approximate
l
y
10,000 fami
l
y
members
and friends.
"
I've been
so
impressed
with
who
you are as
people and what you've accomplished," Yellen
said,
mentioning
academic success, accom-
plishments
in
athletics and
the
arts, and study
abroad. "But even
more than
your academic
achievements,
I've been impressed by the
great
character you've shown,"
he
said,
noting
vo
l
un-
teer,
fundraising,
and other community work
as well as
personal
obstacles overcome
.
"You've
grown
tremendously during
your
time
at
Marist,
but please
remember
this is
just
the beginning
of your journey. As you
move
ahead
in
your
career, education, and family, you'll
have the
opportunity
to
achieve great things and
make
a
real difference in the
world."
During the
ceremony,
Pul
i
tzer Pr
i
ze-
winning
Washington
Post
columnist, MSNBC
political
analyst, and chair of the
Pulitzer Prize
Board
Eugene Robinson
was
presented
with an
honorary Doctor
of
Humane Letters in recogni-
►
tion
of
his
achievements
in bringing his
"decades
'
of
international
experience as a
reporter,
editor,
and author
to bear
on
the
critica
l
issues of the
day-matters
of
politics, race, cu
l
ture,
and
the
state
of the American Dream."
The
ceremony's other featured speaker was
Valedictorian Emma Joan Talis of Whitehouse
Station, NJ, who graduated summa cum
laude
with a
degree in
applied
mathematics.
The
previous
evening, Marist Trustee Bro.
Sean
Sammon,
FMS
'70,
the former superior general of
the
Marist Brot
h
ers, addressed
For video of commencement
addresses, visit www.
marist.edu/publicaffairs/
commencement2017,html.
451 graduates at
the
ceremony for
graduate and adu
l
t members
of
the
C
l
ass of 2017, also on
the
Campus
Green.
Brot
h
er
Sean
was awarded
t
h
e Marist College
Distinguished
Alumni Medal,
the
hi
ghest award
given
to
a
Marist
graduate
.
The College presents it to individua
l
s
who exemplify Marist's
ideals
of excellence
in
education, a sense of
community, and a commitment
to
service
.
t!J
TEN STUDENTS IN MARIST'S FASHION PROGRAM RECEIVED
YMA
-
FASHION SCHOLARSHIP FUND AWARDS
of $5
,
000 each
at the fund
'
s 80th annual Geoffrey Beene National Scholarship
Awards Dinner at Manhattan's Marriott Marquis
in
January
.
The students, joined by Paul Annunziatta of the YMA Board of
Governors, are Sarah Katz
'18
(not pictured) and (left to right) Maria
Stephens
'19
,
Alexis Alexander '19, Samantha Jablonski '18, Kathryn
Rizzo
'17,
Bryn Gorberg
'
17, Alanna O'Connell
'
17, Gianna Bazzano
'
18, Julia DiMarzo
'19
,
and Tara Kilcawley
'
20.
Students in the Marist Fashion Program produced the
31ST SILVER
NEEDLE RUNWAY SHOW
at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center May 5
.
A
total of 2,000 guests attended the two shows. Garments
(above)
by Cara Benevenia '17 won the award for Outstanding Collection.
SPRING
2
0
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( I N
BRIEF)
The U.S
.
Department of
Justice, Office of Just
i
ce
Programs recently
awarded a $1S0,000
grant under the W.E.B
.
DuBois Program of
Research on Race
a
n
d Cr
i
me to
Dr. Tia
Sheree Gaynor
, assis
-
tant professor of publ
i
c
Dr.
T
ia Shere
e
administration. The
Gaynor
fund
i
ng supports the
project
"
lntersectional Subjection and Law
Enforcement: Exam
in
ing Perceptio
n
s He
l
d by
LGBTQ People of Color
i
n New Orleans
,
LA
"
which seeks to empirically eva
l
uate how po
l
ic-
ing has been u
s
ed to subjugate individuals w
it
h
intersecting identities in New Or
l
eans
.
Dr. Paula Checchi,
assistant professor
of b
i
o
l
ogy, has been
awarded $26
1
,3
1
9 in
researc
h
funds by t
h
e
Natio
n
al
I
nsti
t
utes of
H
ea
l
th, spec
i
f
i
ca
ll
y
the National I
n
stitute
of Ge
n
era
l
Med
i
ca
l
Dr. Paula Checchi
Scie
n
ces.
Th
e grant
funds her project
"
Role of
H
ig
h
er Orde
r
Chro
m
ati
n
Structure
in Gamete Formatio
n
"
and suppo
r
ts researc
h
opportunities for students.
Regina Samelson
Regina Samelson
,
a survivor of Bergen-Be
l
sen
and Ravensbruck concentration camps
,
s
p
oke at
Marist
'
s 27th annua
l
Ho
l
ocaust Reme
m
b
r
a
n
ce
event Apr
i
l 6 in the Nelly Ga
l
etti Theatre
.
She
was interviewed onstage by B
r
ittany
H
ampton
'
19
.
Marist College
'
s School of Management
recently had its accredi-
tation extended by the
Associat
i
on to Advance
AACSB
ACCREDITED
Collegiate Sc
h
ools of Busi
n
ess (AACSB)
,
the
oldest and most prestigious g
l
obal accred
i
t
in
g
body for bu
s
iness schools that offer undergrad
-
uate
,
master
'
s
,
and doctoral degrees in b
u
s
in
ess
and accounting
.
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MAR
I
ST
MAGAZINE
The Marist College Center for Sports Communication hosted three-time Emmy Award
-
winning
sports broadcaster
JAMES BROWN
and CBS News Specials Producer
ALVIN PATRICK
'
86
in a
conversation with
DR
.
KEITH STRUDLER
,
center director, on Feb
.
6 in the Nelly Goletti Theatre.
Shown are (left to right) Patrick, Strudler
,
President David Yellen, and Brown.
KEVIN MERIDA
,
editor-in-chief of ESPN
'
s The Undefeated (fifth from left)
,
met with Mari st
communication and business students during a Feb
.
27
visit to the campus.
DR
.
MYRA YOUNG ARMSTEAD
spoke on The Hudson River Valley in the Antebellum African-
American Imagination in the annual Charlotte Cunneen
-
Hackett Lecture in Hudson River Valley
History
.
Armstead is the Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical
Studies at Bard College and the author of Freedom
'
s Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and
the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America and Mighty Change, Tall Within
:
Black Identity in the
Hudson Valley
.
The talk was presented by the Hudson Rive
r
Valley Institute
.
























Michael Conte
'
12
,
assistant director of the survey center and data management (right)
,
showed Mark Halperin how to make a survey call as
Halperin and a crew from Showtime
'
s The Circus visited Marist to chronicle the Mari st Pol
l.
Halperin Visits the Marist Institute for Public Opinion
M
ARK HALPERIN,
co-host ofShowtime's
The Circus and senior
political
ana-
lyst
for NBC News and
MSNBC,
went
behind the
scenes at
the Marist College
Institute for Public Opinion to
give view-
ers an
inside look
at one of
the
country's
preeminent
polling
operations
.
As
part
of
their
coverage for
The
Circus,
Ha
l
perin
and a crew of
produc-
ers and videographers
visited the Marist
campus for
three days
and chronicled
the
Poll
as
it prepared its latest national
sur-
vey.
The
survey,
which focused on
recent
international
events and
President Donald
Trump's
job performance, was first released
during Halperin's
appearance on
MSNBC's
Morning
foe
on
April
14
at 6 a.m. and
then
on
The
Circus
April
16
.
Earlier
in April, the Marist
College
Poll hosted
"Changing
America: What's
at Stake?," a
discussion
of
the first
100
Dr
.
Barbara
L.
Carvalho and Dr. Lee M
.
Miringoff (third and fourth from left) of the
Marist Poll moderated a panel in Washington
that featured (left to right) NBC News Senior
Political Editor Mark Murray
,
New York
Times
White House Correspondent Maggie
Haberman, Amy Walter, national editor for the
Cook Political Report,
and E
.
J
.
Dionne Jr.
,
Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and
columnist for the Washington Post, shown with
Marist President David Yellen.
days
of
the
Trump administration,
Congress, the courts,
the press,
and
public
opinion.
The panel, moderated by
Dr
.
Lee M. Miringoff
and
Dr. Barbara
L.
Carvalho of
the Poll,
took
place
at
the
Newseum
in
Washington,
DC,
and fea-
tured
E.J.
Dionne Jr.,
Senior Fellow at
the
Brookings Institution
and columnist for
the
Washington
Post;
New
York
Times
White
House
Correspondent
Maggie Haberman;
NBC News Senior Political Editor Mark
Murray;
and
Amy
Wa
l
ter, national
editor
of
the
Cook
Political Report
.
The April 6
event was
livestreamed
on the Marist Poll
web site.
Also
this
spring, Yahoo
partnered
with
the Marist Poll to produce
"Weed and the
American Family," a
look
at Americans'
attitudes about
marijuana use.
With a
focus
on the
American family,
the
survey
addressed the
impact
of
marijuana use
on
relationships, the
changing social
norms
surrounding
the use
of
the drug,
and
the
debate
over
its legalization.
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For the second straight year
,
a group of Mari st students spent the day
serv
i
ng meals to more than
350
clients of Eva
'
s Village
,
a nonprofit
in Paterson
,
NJ. The students included Class of
2017
members {left to
right)
SAM GREENE
,
CHRIS MILES, CHRISTINA MANCA, DANIELLE
DELAPAZ,
and
SAM LENHART
.
The impetus behind the trip came from
Greg Garville
'
74 and his wife, Christine Donnelly Garville '74
,
who
i
nitiated the first such effort in
2016
through their support for the Eva
'
s
Kitchen Fund-a-Meal sponsorship program
.
Garville is a member of
the advisory board for Marist
'
s School of Management
.
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Princeton Review Names
Marist a Top School for
Game Design
M
A
RIST
has
earned
the No.
34
ranking
on
the Princeton
Review
'
s
2017
list
sa
l
uting the top so undergraduate
schoo
l
s
for the
study of game
design.
The Princeton Review
(www
.
PrincetonReview.com) chose
the
schools
based on
a survey it conducted
in
2016
of
150
institutions
offering game
design
coursework
and/or degrees
in the United
States,
Canada,
and some countries abroad
.
"Marist's game
design program provides students innova-
tive
and
thoughtful training that prepares our
students for
this
billion-dollar industry,"
said Lyn
Lepre, dean of the School
of
Communication
and
the Arts, where the program is housed
jointly
with the School
of Computer Science and
Mathematics
.
"What
makes Marist's program
truly stand out
in the
crowd
is
that our
facu
l
ty
truly
l
ove games and gaming, and
this
attitude
is
expressed
in their teaching
.
The
co-curricular
PlayLab is
also a
standout feature, providing
students with
a
space
to
play, develop, design,
and
learn
a
l
ongside peers
and facu
l
ty."
The Princeton Review is
also known for
its annual rankings
of co
ll
eges
in dozens
of categor
i
es,
which it
reports on
its site,
and
in its books including
The Best
381
Colleges
and
Colleges
That Create Futures,
both of which feature Marist. The
com-
pany is not
affiliated
with Princeton Un
i
versity.
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Robert A
.
M
.
Stern Architects has designed an addition and renovation for the Steel Plant Stud
i
os
.
St
ee
l Plant Transformation Begin
s
C
ONSTRUCTION BEGINS
this
summer
on an addition and
renovation to the
Steel
Plant
Studios to
provide more
space for
Marist's
Fashion program,
which
will move
there
from Donnelly Hall,
and improve space
for
the Department
of Art and Digital
Media.
Highlights
of
the two-story
project
include
MPorium,
the highly
successful
boutique
and entrepre-
neurship lab
operated
by Marist
merchandising
students, and a cafe
with
tables, seating, and attractive
indoor landscaping.
Studios with
14-foot
ceilings and
plentiful natural light
will offer a
warehouse-like,
industrial
aesthetic
where Fashion students will
design
and sew garments. A
Fashion resource
center will offer
books,
software, and
textile
samples for
research
and
inspi-
ration. The
project will feature
space
useful to both the Fashion
and
Art
departments
such as computer
labs
and
photo
studios.
The
architect for
the project is
Robert
A.
M.
Stern Architects,
the
same firm
that designed the new residence
halls
at
the north
end of
the
campus,
the
sci-
ence and allied
health building, the Hancock
Center, and
the renovation
and expansion of
the
Student Center.
Naming opportunities are available. For
information please
contact Chris
DelGiorno
'88, vice
president
for college advancement,
at (845) 575-3412 or christopher.delgiorno@
marist.edu.
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Scholarships Again Funded b
y
Goldman Sach
s
-Duet
Famil
y
Technology Scholarship Fund
T
HREE MEMBERS
OF THE CLASS OF 2021
will receive
four-year scholarships
to
study computer science
or information tech-
nology
and systems,
thanks to the
generosity
of Trustee
Don Duet
'88
.
Duet recently
con-
tributed
$250,000
through Goldman Sachs
Gives
to
support a
new
cohort
of Go
l
dman
Sachs-Duet
Family Technology Scholars
entering
Marist this fall. This is the fourth
group of
Technology
Scho
l
ars
he has
sup-
ported
over
the past four
years
and
each
cohort
has met with
considerable success.
In its
structure and
mission, the
Goldman Sachs-Duet
Fam
i
ly Technology
Scholarship
closely
aligns
with Marist's
cur-
rent National
Science Foundation-funded
technology scho
l
arships.
The
NSF
program
has brought
a
diverse
and
talented group
of students
to Marist, providing them with
four-year scholarships.
The students benefit
from
an extensive support
network of
advi-
sors and
mentors
and access
to internship
opportunities
with many of t
h
e
College's
Fortune
500
corporate
partners
.
Currently
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rising
seniors are
participating.
"The Goldman
Sachs-Duet
Family
Technology Scho
l
arships and
the
NSF
Technology Scho
l
arships have had
a
tre-
mendous
effect
on
enrollments," says
Dr.
Roger Norton, dean of Marist's
School of
Computer Science
and
Mathematics.
"Since
the
sc
h
olarships
began,
enro
ll
ments have
more than doubled
.
"
The Goldman
Sachs-Duet
Family
Technology
Scho
l
ars
are often
mentored by
Goldman Sachs technology
executives and
rece
i
ve
opportunities for
summer employ-
ment with the firm
.
The fund was
established
in
2013
by
a
significant
gift
from Go
l
dman Sachs Gives
.
The origina
l
gift
from the
global
investment
firm's donor-advised fund was made
at the
recommendation of Duet, who was t
h
en
Go
l
dman Sachs'
global chief operating officer
of the Technology Division.
"Mar
i
st
provided me wit
h
a
top-quality
education
that has
served
me well in
l
ife
and,
in part
i
cu
l
ar, my career," Duet
said at
the
time
the
fund
was established.
"
This
gift from
Goldman
Sachs Gives will give students from
underrepresented
groups who
have
financial
need
access
to the
same education and expe-
riences
that
have
served
me
so
well.
"I see an ever-greater
need
for graduates
in STEM
(science, technology, engineering,
and
mathematics) majors
who
have
a
deep
understanding
of
these
complex
fields
.
My
hope is that these
scholarships will support
just that
kind of
higher learning."
Duet has supported Marist in
additional
ways.
In
2016
he hosted
a successful
recruit-
ment
event for
Marist's Admissions
effort for
the third
straight year at
Goldman
Sachs.
He has
spoken at
Marist's Raymond A. Rich
Inst
i
tute
for
Leadership Development
in
Esopus, NY, about
leadership in technology
and on
Marist's Poughkeepsie
campus about
the future of cloud
computing.
He
also
has
been
a
keynote
speaker at
the Enterprise
Computing Community Conference at
Marist.
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New Major Gift
s
and Pledge
s
M
ARIST CONTINUES TO BENEFIT
from
the
generous support of alumni,
parents,
and friends.
Among recent
com-
mitments:
■
Kevin
Maclellan '89 and
his husband
,
Brian
Curran,
have made
a generous
pledge to establish the
Donald
&
Virginia
Maclellan International Scholarship
.
Created
in memory
of Kevin's
parents
,
the
scholarship will give deserving
undergraduate
students the opportunity
to study abroad for a semester. Maclellan
cited
his
abroad experience as a
key
factor
in his
career success,
much
of
which
has been internationally
focused.
Today,
Maclellan
and
his
family
reside
in London,
England, where
he
serves as
chairman of NBCUniversal, global
dis-
tribution and
international. In
October
2016, Maclellan
was
on campus as a
guest of
the Raymond A. Rich Institute
for Leadership Development. He
spoke
to
students about
his Marist
experience,
his career success,
and
the
fast-changing
global
media landscape
.
■
Dr.
Frank
T.
Bumpus,
who
recently
celebrated
his
95th
birthday, made
a generous gift
to Marist
's
Hudson
River
Valley
Institute to
support
its
ongoing operations
.
A longtime
supporter of
HRVI, he
established
the
Frank
T.
Bumpus
Chair
in Hudson
River
Valley
History,
which
is held by Dr.
James
M.
Johnson.
■
The James J.
McCann Charitable Trust
has
issued a generous grant for the McCann
Scholars
program. The trust
's
total giving
to the program now
exceeds $2.1
million.
The trust is led by Marist Trustee Michael
G
.
Gartland
and
Richard
V.
Corbally
.
■
Alumni
couple
Joshua
and
Carolyn
Matheus '99/'02
have made
a generous
gift
to
establish a
new
endowed schol-
arship
to
support women studying
in
STEM
majors
offered within
the
School
of Computer
Science
and
Mathematics
and
the
School of Science. Josh, a
member
of
the
Computer Science and Mathematics
Advisory Board, is
a vice
president and
I
Technology
Fellow
at
Goldman
Sachs,
and Carolyn is an associate
professor
of
information
systems and
internship
coordinator at Marist.
■
Trustee
Patrice
Connolly Pantello
'76
and
her husband, Ron
,
have made
a generous
pledge to
establish
the
Connolly-Pantello
Family Endowed Scholarship.
The
scholar-
ship will support
talented
students
with
financial
need majoring in
School of
Science
disciplines. The Pantellos
were
inspired
by
Pat's
mother,
Mary Patricia
O'Sullivan Connolly, who was an Army
lieutenant
stationed on a
hospital
ship
off
the
coast of
France in
World War
II
and
Ron's
father,
George A. Pantello,
who served as
Director
of
Pharmacy
at
the
University of
Miami Medical
School
until his death.
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Advancement News
May
11
,
2017
Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne Mansion, Esopus NY, Marist College Institute for Leadership Development
Legacy Society Recognition Luncheon
Legacy Society members
gather
on the steps leading to the loggia.
Dr
.
John Scileppi
'
67, Dr. Lynn Ruggiero
'
76, Patrick Gallagher
'57,
Mary Kealoha Gallagher
,
Suzanne Dale Wilcox, John Wilcox
'
61,
Shaileen Kopec
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Sharon and Stephen ('69) Johnson
Paula and Sean ('90) Kaylor
Tom Wade and Bro. Sean Sammon, FMS
'
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Bro. Donnell Neary, FMS
,
Bro. Michael Flanigan
,
FMS, and Barbara LaPietra
Charlotte and Gene
(
'
76) Gumienny with
President David Yellen
Dr. Jerome Cuyler and Bro. John Nash, FMS
'63
Ted Prenting with Drs. Linda and Gregory Dunlap
----
McPherson estate
Legacy Society Celebrates
Bicentennial of
the
Marist Brothers
M
A
RIST
COLLEGE
PRESIDENT
DAVID
YELLEN
recognized members
of
the
Marist
College Legacy Society
at a
luncheon he
l
d
at
the
Colonel
Oliver Hazard Payne
Mansion in May. He
welcomed
new inductees
,
presenting them
with
Legacy
Society
pins
.
The theme
for
the
gathering,
"Ce
l
ebrating the
Bicentennia
l
of
the Marist Brothers
,
1817-2017,"
featured
histor
i
c
photos
of
the
Marist
Brothers property in Esopus,
NY, and
the
Marist
College
campus.
Bro.
Sean
Sammon, FMS
'70, Marist College scholar
in
residence and former superior
general of
the Marist Brothers, reflected
on the
l
i
fe
and
philosophy
of Saint Marcellin
Champagnat.
"He had
a
dream
and
he
l
d
firm
to t
h
e
be
li
ef
that to teach
young
people
you
had to love them
first, and
l
ove them
all equa
ll
y."
Brot
h
er
Sean shared the
early
h
i
story of what
became
Marist Co
ll
ege:
"
I
n
1905,
Brother
Zepheriny was alerted
by the
pastor of Saint
Ignatius
of
Loyola
Parish in
New York City
that
the McPherson estate
in
Poughkeepsie was on the
mar
-
ket. Zepheriny, who was
looking
for a place where young Marist
Brothers
cou
l
d
be
educated, was interested, but
there
was a
hitch.
At the
dawn
of
the
20th century,
th
e
Marist
Institute in France
had
been
s
uppressed by
the government. As a consequence,
the
funds of
the Brothers had
been
frozen
;
no money
of theirs could
leave the
country.
Fortunately, Zepheriny was similar
to
Marcellin-a
man
of action.
H
e
borrowed
the money to buy the
McPherson estate from
his
sister
in
France
a
nd then
sold it
to
the Brothers here in
the States.
Three
years
later
,
he borrowed money from
a
lawyer in
Poughkeepsie to purchase the
adjacent Bech estate.
A
few years afterwards,
Monsignor
Sheehan, then
pastor
of Saint
Peter's Parish
,
he
l
ped the Brot
h
ers
acquire
property
to
the
south of
the Bech
estate.
These
three
parce
l
s of
l
and form
the main
campus of
today's
Marist College. A
dream, ingenuity
,
and a willingness
to take risks: these
are
the bui
l
d
i
ng blocks
of any Marist
project."
To learn more about the
Marist College Legacy
Society, contact Joan
Gambeski
'83,
Director of Gift
and Legacy Planning, at
joan.gambeski
@
marist.edu
or
845.575.3942.
By including Mar
i
st Co
l
lege
i
n their
l
ong-range
p
l
ans,
Legacy
Society
members
embrace
the
vision and generos
i
ty
of
the
College's founders
by
supporting
the
education
of Marist
students
for
generations
to
come.
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MARIST
Board Cha
i
r Ellen Hancock installs David Yellen as Marist
'
s p
r
es
i
dent as Immediate Past Chair
Rob Dyson look
s
on
.
C
e
l
e
brating the Inauguration
of Da
v
id Yellen
David Yellen is formally installed as the fourth president of Marist College.
M
ARIST
COLLEGE formally
installed
David
Yellen as
its
fourth
president
in
a ceremony Nov.
5,
2016,
in
the McCann
Arena attended
by nearly
1,000
members
of
the College community, delegates from other
colleges and
universities,
elected officials,
and others.
Yellen, who came
to
Marist after serving
for
11
years as
dean
of
the Loyola
University
Chicago School of
Law,
succeeds
Dennis
Murray, who stepped down in
June
2016
after
37
years
in
office and
is now president
emeritus.
"The
board has tremendous respect
for
your reputation as an outstanding attorney
,
educator, and
leader," Board
of Trustees
Chair Ellen M.
Hancock
said
before installing
Yellen. "Your strong commitment
to
social
justice and service
is
very
much in
keeping
with the traditions of
the
Marist
Brothers,
and we are confident
in
your ability
to lead
this great
institution into the
future, while
honoring
its past."
In
his presidential
address, Yellen
recalled
that
when
he
was considering co
ll
ege
presi-
dent
opportunities, "I was
interested in
finding a school that was successful, but
not
complacent; one that was rooted in the deep
values of
higher
education, but committed
to
embracing change.
I
found all of
that
at
Marist."
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Yellen went on to
discuss the
College's
many
strengths,
built upon
the
three
core
principles
of
its Marist Brothers founders:
excellence
in
education, a sense of commu-
nity,
and a commitment of service.
He
also
acknowledged
the
challenges facing all of
higher
education.
"So change
is
coming," Yellen said.
"
The
years ahead
will not be quiet
ones.
They
will
not
always
be
easy.
But
we should embrace
the challenges and opportunities ahead on
our journey."
Earlier
in the
ceremony,
Kurt
L.
Schmoke,
president
of
the
Univers
i
ty of Ba
ltim
ore and
a
former mayor
of
Baltimore, delivered the
inaugural
address.
"What a wonderful culture you
have
here at Marist," Schmoke said, "a focus on
blending liberal
arts w
ith
pre-professional
education; a commitment to
quality research
and
teaching;
recognition
that
your students
are citizens of
the
world and
not
just the
local
area; alumni and friends who support the
College
in multiple
ways; and a
deep belief in
the
value of
diversity. Those
are great
pillars
upon
which strategy
is built. They
comprise
part
of
the Marist
culture of
which
you
should
be proud."
Schmoke
,
himself
a former
law
school
dean,
went on
to
say of Yellen, "you
have
se
l
ected o
n
e
fine human being
and
l
eader
Dr. Elizabeth Quinn
'
95/'95 MA
,
associate
professor of psychology, carries the College
mace in the procession.
Kurt L. Schmoke
,
president of the University of
Baltimore, delivers the inaugural address
.
to be
your
president. I
was once asked
to
describe David
as succinctly as
possible.
My
rep
l
y
to that request
was
two
words:
optimistic
pragmatist."
Yellen's family-wife Leslie Richards-
Yellen
and
daughters Jordan, Meredith
{who was
unable to
attend in
person
and so
participated
via video), and
Bailey-together
read Edgar Albert Guest's poem
It
Couldn
'
t
Be Done,
which concludes
"Just start
in to
sing as you
tackle the
thing
that
'cannot
be
done,'
and you'll
do it."
Other
speakers
included Brandon
Lee
Heard
'17,
president
of
the
Student
Government
Association;
Paul
X.
Rinn
'
68,
president
of
the Alumni
Association; and
Dr. Elizabeth L. Quinn
'95/'95
MA,
associ-
ate
professor
of
psychology
and chair of
the
Faculty Affairs
Committee.
Inauguration
Weekend also
included
sym
-
posia led by Marist faculty, deans, trustees,
and admin
i
strators on
Socia/Justice
:
Reform
and the Marist
Tradition
and
Technology:
Disruptive
Opportunity.
Across the hall
in
the
Murray
Student
Center,
dozens
of
under-
graduates
presented posters based
on
their
undergraduate research.
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Stars from the worlds of broadcasting, sports,
and literature joined Mari st alumni and friends
at a gala to celebrate Storm and support the
College's Center for Sports Communication.
Honoree Hannah Storm (center) was joined on the red carpet by
(l
e
f
t to
ri
ght) President David Yellen
,
Leslie Richards
-
Yellen
,
Dan Hicks
,
Lisa Kerney
,
Patrick Kerney
,
and Dr. Keith Strudler.
Hannah Storm Recei
v
es
Lifetime E
x
cellence in
Sports Communication Award
E
SPN
legend Bob Ley, tennis
great
Patrick McEnroe, and
best-selling
author
and screenwriter Nicholas Sparks were
among
those
who turned out April 20
to
honor Hann
a
h
Storm as Marist
President
David Yellen presented
her
with
the Lifetime
Excellence
in
Sports Communication award
at New York City's Edison
Ballroom.
TI1e award recognizes
individuals
who
have
exemplified excellence over
time
in
the broadly defined
field of sports commu-
nication, recognizing
the social
value
and
importance
of sport and
those who
cover,
analyze, and
narrate it.
But, as
Dr. Keith
Strud
l
er,
director
of
the
Marist College Center for
Sports
Communication, said
in
kicking off
the
evening's
program,
"The
Lifetime Excellence
Award in Sports Communication
isn
'
t
really
defined by
the
boilerplate language in the
program."
Rather,
Strudler said,
it is defined
by its
recipients.
Storm's family, friends, and colleagues
took
to
the stage
to
share
humorous
and
heartfelt
stories about
her
career and
her
impact
on the
industry
as a
trailblazing
woman
in
what,
particularly
early
in her
career, was a
field dominated by men
.
NBC
Sports
broadcaster
and Storm's
husband, Dan
Hicks, led
off
the dais, while Storm's
father
and former American Basketball
Association
Commissioner
Mike
Storen closed the
eve-
ning
,
telling the
audience
that his
greatest
legacy
wou
l
d be
as
Hannah Storm's
father.
In between
,
other speakers
included
former
NBA Commissioner David Stern, ESPN
host
and
r
e
porter
Wendi Nix, and ESPN
SportsCenter
anchor Lisa Kerney, who served
as
master
of ceremonies for
the
event, at
which she
praised
Storm for
being
a con-
summate professional, a role
model,
a friend,
and an advocate
.
Several
others
noted the importance
of
promoting
research
and education
in the
field
of
sports
communication, allowing Marist
to prepare the next
generation of sports
broadcasters to
follow
in Storm's
footsteps.
According
to
Strudler,
many
of
the
speak-
ers'
remarks
sent a strong
message
about
the
importance
of education in the competitive
world of sports
media.
"Not
only were
all
the
speakers excel-
lent
and
memorable
,
as would
be
expected,
but they
also stress
the importance
of
the
kind of work
that happens
at
the
Center for
Sports
Communication, offer
i
ng
students
exceptional
l
earning opportunities
in
and
out
of
the classroom,
"
he
said. "There
is no
greater
ambassador for that message than
our worthy award
recipient, Hannah
Storm
.
"
Storm
has long been recognized
for
the quality
and range
of her work, includ-
ing
coverage of
major
stars-LeBron
James, Derek Jeter, Roger Goodell
,
and
MARIST
Hannah Storm accepts the Lifetime Excellence
in Sports Communication Award from Marist
President David Yellen.
many
others-and events,
like the
Super
Bowl, Wimbledon, and
the
NBA
Playoffs.
She has spent
the past decade
at ESPN,
where she
hosts
SportsCenter's Face to
Face with
Hannah
Storm,
a
newsmaker
interview-driven
show, weekdays at
10
a
.
m
.
,
and
SportsCenter Sunday Morning
during
the NFL season. She also
hosts
Face to
Face
interview
specials, which
have
aired
on ESPN and ABC since 2012.
In
addition,
she
has
covered major
news
events for ESPN
such as Major League Baseball's visit to Cuba,
the funeral of Muhammad Ali, and
the
2016
Olympics.
She is
also an author and
the
founder of
the Hannah Storm
Foundation, which sup-
ports
children and
parents
of children suf-
fering from
debilitating
vascular
birthmarks
and
provides
scholarships for
journalism
students at
her
alma
mater
,
Notre
Dame
.
All net proceeds from the
event sup-
ported the
Center for Sports Communication
at
Marist
endowment. Sponsors
included
Marist
Trustee
Rob Dyson
and
the Dyson
Foundation; Gottlieb
Real Estate
;
the James
J.
McCann Charitable Trust;
the
National
Basketball
Association;
Hickey-Finn;
1-800-Flowers
.
com; Trustee Steve
Effron;
ESPN;
Bond,
Schoeneck
&
King; the
Pike
Co.;
Daniel O
'Co
nnell's
Sons; Agua;
J.W. Hulme
Co.;
Apple
Montessori Schools;
BSN Sports;
JTR
Transportation; and
the Red Fox
Club
.
Trustee
Jim Barnes
'68 chaired
the
event.
The inaugural Lifetime Excellence in
Sports Commun
i
cation Award was
pres
e
nted
in
2015
to Bryant Gumbel.
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Cover Story
Hudson River School
A boat-based class lets students experience the Hudson River ecosystem firsthand.
T
HE
HuosoN RIVER became
a classroom this past fa
l
l
for 18 students
from a variety of
majors in the
inaugural
Honors
course Environmental
Explorations of
the Hudson,
offered by
the
Department of Environmenta
l
Science and Policy.
In lab
sessions aboard Marist College
'
s 28-foot research
vessel, the students examined the
natural
processes that
have
shaped the
river and how
humans
impact and manage these
processes.
Guided by fac-
ulty members
J
.
Theodore
Fink, AICP, and
Dr.
Zofia
Gagnon,
chair of the
Environmental Science and Policy
Department,
they sampled river water for
microplastics, studied the quality of the
Hudson
and
its
relationship to city
and
town
water supplies and wastewater
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examined
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versity to understand food webs,
used
seine
nets to
catch and
ident
i
fy
fish,
and
toured
former and existing riverfront
industrial
sites.
The
course
is
designed
to
build
environmental awareness
through hands-on
activities. Students also
learn
that, dating
back
to the early 18oo
'
s,
the Hudson R
i
ver Valley
has played
a
significant role in inspiring actions
to
preserve and
protect nature
'
s
beauty
and resources and that the area
has
a well-earned
historical reputation
as the
birthplace of environmental movements.
Readings
for the course included
material in special collections of the Marist College Archives: the
Hudson
River Conservation Society
,
Inc
.
and the
Hudson
River Environmental Society.
The course will
run
again
in
fall 2017, along with a
new
boat-based course for
environmental science and
policy
majors
.
Purchase
of
the
vessel was
made
possible
by a grant
from
the Cargill Foundation
.
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Student Life
Staying on Course
F
OR
MANY
PEOPLE WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS,
exercise
is difficult. The inherited
disease
caused
by
a faulty gene
clogs the lungs
and
digestive
system,
making
it
hard
to
breathe
and achieve
proper digestion.
For Santosh
Krishnan
'20,
a sprinter on
Marist
's
track
and
field team, running is his number-one
treatment.
"Marist
track
and
field is
one of
the best
things to happen to me because the team
keeps me healthy
,"
says Krishnan,
known
as
"Tos
h
"
by his teammates
.
"I
love being
on
the
ground after a workout,
hurting like hell,
and
huffing
and
puffing because I
know
it
's
the
best thing for
me."
The only way
to
get rid of
the thick mucus
that
clogs
his lungs is to break it down
and
spit it out.
He clears his
airways
by using
a
nebulizer, wearing
a vibrating vest, and
running.
"Every
day, I inhale hypertonic
saline
through
a
nebulizer,"
Krishnan says.
"
It
acts
like
scissors and
breaks down
the
mucus that
may
contain bacteria or germs so
I
can spit
it
out.
The
other
thing I do is
wear a vest.
It
shakes a
lot,
vibrating constantly, and shakes
my
lungs
to
help break down my mucus
.
I
just
take
20
minutes
a
day to
sit
down
and relax
and
do my treatments, maybe
even
read
a
book during this time
and
just let the mucus
break down. Luckily
for
me, I don't have the
worst
case. Some
people need the
vest and
nebulizer multiple times
a
day,
and
it's
so
bad
that
some can't get
to the point
of exercising
or
breathing normally.
"
The disease,
along with
its pulmonary
issues,
also affects
the digestive
system,
blocking the pancreas from breaking down
fat and
protein. Krishnan takes
enzymes
in
the
form of
pills to
allow
him to digest food.
"Not only fat and
protein but vitamins
aren't
absorbed as well as a
normal person
so
I take
six or seven extra v
i
tamins
and
multiv
i
ta-
mins per day
.
"
His liver has to
work
hard to process the
extra vitamins,
nutrients,
and enzymes.
If
he
were
to drink
alcohol,
his liver
could
be
at risk
to
eventually exhaust. "Even
if I
want
to enjoy a cup
of wine
(when
I'm
21) with
my family,
I have to
check with my
doctor
.
"
Krishnan was diagnosed with
cystic
fibrosis
(CF) at
nine months
old. "Because
of
that, I wasn
'
t absorbing vitamins
and such
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RIS
T
MAGAZINE
For sprinter Santosh Krishnan
'20,
running as part of Marist's men's
track and field team is key to treating
his cystic fibrosis.
Santosh Krishnan
'
20
for a
long time,
and
this
affected
my brain
to the point where I was placed in special
education growing
up. I didn
'
t speak until I
was s because my brain just d
i
dn't develop
fast enough.
Without
enzymes,
nutrients,
and vitamins,
I just
wasn't
functioning the
same as everyone else.
"Finally,
during my junior
year of
high
school
I
was
taken
out of special education
because I proved that I
could work
in
school
like
everyone at
that point. I was
just a
little
behind the learning
curve at
first because I
started
out behind."
CF
also
i
nfects the
sinuses
.
As
a youth,
Krishnan had two
surgeries on
his nose to
drain the mucus that was backed up in his
sinuses. "I couldn't
breathe through my nose
for the first
10
years of
my life. My
sinuses
are a
lot healthier now
since
the surgeries.
"
Still, he
was
luckily
able
to play
sports
and
do just
about anything
that
other
kids
could
do
.
His talent for running revealed
itself when he was in fourth
grade. "The state
BY STEFAN MORTON
'
17
of Connecticut
mandated
a mile
run
for gym
class. I
found
myself out in
front of everybody
else, almost a
minute
ahead.
People
were tell-
ing my mom I
would
be
a
runner
,
and she
told
me I'd
rock
the track in high
school.
In my
fifth-grade
track meet I
won
the 100
-
meter
dash by
a significant
amount. That made me
love running
even
more. And to boot, it
turns
out
running improves my
condition. So why
not
continue
to be
competitive
in running in
middle
school and
high
school?"
With
the
support of
his
mother, Krishnan
joined
his high
school
track
and field team.
"I was
putting down
some average times to
start-mid-sos
in the
400-meter
dash
and
mid-2os
in
the
200-meter
dash. As I
got
better I thought it
would
be
cool to go
to
college for
it.
"
During his junior
year
he reached
out
to
college coaches
including Pete
Colaizzo '86,
head
coach of
Mari
st cross-country and track
and
field programs.
"I
didn
'
t tell him
about
CF until I
was
here
,"
says Krishnan.
"
I didn
't
see
it
as a
disadvantage to my
running, and
I
knew
if I told
any coach,
they
wouldn't know
what
it
was, anyway."
"I was
totally
surprised when
I learned
about
Tosh
's
CF," says
Colaiz
zo
.
"My first
reaction was,
'
I don't want to put this
kid in
any
danger.' But he handles it
seamlessly and
without issue. In
fact,
he had no
CF-related
issue
at all
that I am
aware of
during his
freshman
year
.
"
Prior to
a race,
Krishnan
says
he does
"
normal
track stuff"-listening
to
music,
warming
up-and uses
an albuterol
inhaler.
"
I
actually
had to tell the
NCAA about all the
enzymes
I
was
taking
,
in
case
I
am a subject
for drug testing."
Colaizzo says
Krishnan is
a super-great
kid and an
inspiration to both him
and
the
team.
"Tosh
is
an earnest young
man
and a
very
hard
worker.
Because of that, he is
well
liked
and well
respected
among
his team-
mates. We
anticipate
that
with
hard
work
and
dedication, he
will continue
to
work
his
way
up the ladder
on
our team.
"We are
thrilled to have him in
our
Marist track
family, and
we're
all rooting
for him
each and every
day."
i!l
Stefan Morton
'17
was a distance
runner
on
the
Marist track
and field
team.



















Reflections
Betty O'Brien's
Scrapbook
The four-inch-thick, 122-page scrapbook is a unique addition
to primary sources available on Marist College history.
M
ORE THAN
so
YEARS AGO,
when Marist
College
was populated by
young
Brothers and
male lay students, Elizabeth
"Betty" O'Brien
bought herself
a
large loose-
leaf binder,
covered
it with red-and-white-
striped fabric and eyelet
lace trim,
and as a
finishing touch
put
a gold-foil
Marist
seal
on
the
cover.
She then began to fill her per
-
sonal scrapbook,
not
realizing
that
someday
it
would
become an unofficial Marist time
capsule.
Serving almost all of the
lay male
classes
at
Marist
,
Mrs. O'Brien-as
she
is fondly
identified by
alumni of
her
era-was a
main
-
stay of
the Registrar's Office
for eight years.
Hired in 1963
and soon
named the
College's
first recorder,
O'Brien was
one of
Marist's
first
female
administrators.
Her trailblazing
at the
longstanding male
school
did not
go
unnoticed.
She
made the
campus
livelier, recalls
former
Director
of Admissions and
Dean
of Students Tom
Wade, who helped hire
O'Brien when he was
a young
administra-
tor working for
Director
of
Admissions Bro.
John Malachy
.
"A warm, caring
person" was
his
first
impression
of
her.
O'Brien's
impact
as a
female presence in
Donnelly Hall was
echoed
by Tony Campilii
'62/'79
M, Heritage Executive
and former
CFO/vice
president for business
affairs.
"She added a
flair to the
campus
that never
existed
before,
"
he
says
.
"Everybody
loved
her. Students were drawn to her
and she
became
a
motherly
advocate
for them."
"We
were
family,"
recalled Bro. Joseph
L.
R. Belanger, FMS
'48,
the
venerated
long-
time faculty
member, in
2001, "and
the heart
of
that
family
was Betty O'Brien. She was
'
Mother' to
all
the
students, and
like
a good
mother
she
loved them
all equally.
She
would
BY SHAILEEN KOPEC
bargain
and finagle for
them
all, even
the unde
-
serving, and get
them
through
and
launch
them
on
their
careers."
Preserving
ves-
tiges
of Marist's for-
mative
years as a
lay
institution, the four-
inch
-
thick,
122-page
scrapbook
is
a
unique
addition
to primary
sources available on
Marist College
history.
After
Mrs.
O
'
Brien
's
passing in
2000,
the
scrapbook was
held by her daughter,
Valeda
Wagner,
who was married
in
the
Marist
Chapel
to Bruce
Wagner '66. Before Val's own
passing,
she gave the
book to
Marist and was
assured
that it would be in
good
hands in
the Archives
and Special Collections of the
James A. Cannavino Library.
The book is
a
Marist trove
of
memories.
Shaileen Kopec retired from Manst College
in
2015
after
a 43-year
career
that included 14
years as vice
president
for
college
advancement.
She con
tinu
es
to reside
tn
Poughkeepsie, NY, with her husband, Tony
'77
MBA.
the
Sophomore
Class
Hootenanny. Some
of
these invitations
origi-
nated in the
College's
legendary print
shop,
while others were
reproduced
in
vibrant
purple ink
from a
bygone ditto machine.
Programs
were saved
from
many
commence-
ments,
and
there is
one
from a
1966
Marist fun-
draising dinner honor-
ing Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop
of New York, and
Joseph
A. Beirne,
pr
es
ident
of the Communication Workers of
America,
as "Great Contemporary Americans."
The
seating chart
lists
as
many
as
1,000
guests
in the
Grand Ballroom
of the Commodore
Hotel in
New York City.










































B
e
tt
y
O
'
Bri
e
n
's
S
c
r
a
pbook
Announcements of
historic note
include
groundbreaking ceremonies for Champagnat
Hall
on
Oct. 1, 1964,
and
dedication
ceremo
-
n
i
es for
the William H. Martin Boathouse
on
Nov.
s,
1964
.
Capping
the
semester was
the momentous
announcement on
Dec
.
3,
1964
,
of Marist's
full
accreditation as a four-
year
liberal
arts college
by the
Middle
States
Association
of Colleges and Universities
.
A
MONG
severa
l
Poughk
e
epsie
Journal
press clippings is
one
dated Dec.
10
,
1967, and
headlined
"
Marist Starts Computer
System
."
The
article
reports that
according
to Bro. Ni
l
us Donne
ll
y
(legendary for
h
is
Marist building
achievements
,
but
cited
in this
article as
director
of
the
computer
center)
, "
Marist
is inaugurating its
first com-
puter
system
in
order
to
'
provide
computer
orientation
to the
student'
in
an
increasingly
electronic world ...
The
computer, a
16k model
which is the largest
of
the
1401
IBM
series,
has
a working
memory
of
16,000 banks
of
informative items. At the moment the
col-
lege has
six
packs
which operate
much like
magnetic tapes .
.
.
each
pack is
capab
l
e of
retaining two
million items
of
information
.
"
President Emeritus Linus Richard Foy
'
so recalls
that
one of
the first uses
of
the
c
omputer was
to
automate
the
work
of t
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then
a groundbreaking appli-
cation
for higher
edu-
cation
.
In
anticipation
of
this, the Registrar
'
s
Office
was
moved
from
Donnelly
Hall to the
former Adrian
Lounge,
which was
repurposed
to
house
the
new
com-
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~
ful
for
the
enthusiasm
,
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efficiency
,
and genuine
interest in
students
which are shown
by
our
favorite recorder
.
"
puter
center.
It would be
Betty O
'
Brien
'
s po
r
trait from the 1968
a challenging
transition
Marist yearbook
For all the
illumin
a-
tion
of Marist
'
s
past,
the dominant theme
of
t
h
e
book is the
l
ove
that
students
had
for
O'Brien. The
Class
for
the work
environ-
ment, but
"Betty
was
very open
to
i
t,
"
Foy
says
.
"S
h
e
led by
example
with
a
pos
i
t
i
ve
attitude
.
Her
acceptance
provided
l
eader-
ship
to the
staff and other administrators
"
at Marist. According
to the
Journal
article,
O'Brien
indicated "all
those
connected with
the program have taken
a
12-week
course
in
operat
i
ng the machi
n
e
.
"
O'Brien
also
kept her Marist
emp
l
oyee
contracts
in the
scrapbook.
Beyond busi
-
ness
records,
they
chronicle Foy's annual
thanks
for
her dedicated work
on
behalf
of
the students
and
the Co
ll
ege.
He notes
i
n
one, "Now that
you
have been with us
for
some
time,
there
may be
a
tendency to take
you for granted,
but believe me, those
of
us
in
administration
who remember the
old
Quang Tri
,
Vietnam
,
September 1969:
From left
,
Bill Kuttner
'
68
,
Mike Santimauro
'
68,
John Casserly
'
67
,
Brendan Burke
'
68
,
and J
i
m Barnes
'
68
of
1970 bestowed
on
her
their own
honorary degree,
signed
by
Class
President Mic
h
ael
Towers. The
Class of 1967
dedicated its
yearbook
to her
,
and
part
of a
l
etter
from Alan Bruens,
the
class's
corresponding secretary
,
explains
why:
"
All
too
often
,
those
whose
dedication
has merited
si
l
ent
but nonethe
l
ess sincere
pra
i
se go
unrecognized by those who
are
affected
most. In
view of
this
,
the Class
of
'
67
has
se
l
ected you, Mrs. O'Brien,
to take
the
spotlight-to you
the
'
67
R
e
ynard
will
be dedicated."
Most touching
are the
dozens
of
notes,
cards, and
letters
sent
to
O
'
Brien
from
former
students,
thanking her
for
timely help
and
encouragement
during their
years at Marist.
Pre-Internet
,
almost all
these
keepsakes are
neatly handwritten
on
formal
stationery. The
words "kindness," "generosity,"
"
thoughtful
-
ness,
"
"patience,
"
and"
friendship"
appear
over and over. Some
letters
are
long
and
thoughtful.
But
even simple
requests
for
transcripts
conclude
with the writers tell
-
ing O'Br
i
en how important
she
has been to















them. Also saved are
invitations to
students'
graduation
parties
and alumni weddings.
O'Brien had
an
especially close rela-
tionship with the Marist Brothers, both
the
students and
the College's
adminis-
trators
.
As Brothers left
for
teaching
or
new
administrative assignments,
many
took
time to
write
letters
of gratitude and
friendship
to her.
Even as
they moved
far
from Poughkeepsie-whether it be
to
Texas
or Taiwan-they sought a connection with
this special woman.
In 1966,
three
Brothers
in transit
to
the Far East
sent
her
a
post-
card from
Hong
Kong.
After mentioning
"a
slight earthquake" and
receding floods
from a recent
typhoon
,
they
wrote, "Finally,
we'd
like to
express our sincerest thanks and
appreciation for all
the
wonderful services
you rendered
us
at Marist, and above all for
the wonderful
person
you are!"
O
'
BRIEN
was the "keeper of
the
grades,"
and
during the mid-196os this
was
an
unusually
weighty
responsibility. The
Vietnam War was
underway
and
before
a
draft lottery
was
instituted in 1969,
young
men
enrolled
in
college at
this time
were
exempt from
military
service as
long
as
they remained in
good academic standing.
Compounding the
pressure
on students
to
succeed was the
uncommonly high number
of courses then required at
Marist,
a car-
ryover from
its days
as a seminary.
Bill Zabicki
'66
recalls taking 17
courses
his
freshman year;
many
were
two
credits
each. (The College's accreditation
by Middle
States
in 1964
spurred a realignment
of
Marist's typical
course
load.) O'Br
i
en was
acutely aware of
these
challenges, says
Zabicki.
"
Professional
and caring
in her
approach, she
respected the incoming
fresh-
man in
a
most
special way,
realizing that he
was entering a
challenging period
of
life,
at
a
time when
our country
was
[under]
the
clouds of war."
From left: Tom Wade
,
Bill Zabicki
'66
,
and President Emeritus Richard Foy
'
so view O
'
Brien
'
s
scrapbook in fall
2016
during Homecoming and Reun
i
on Weekend.
Reflecting
on
the recorder's legacy,
Zabicki says,
"
It is impossible to
capture all
that
Mrs.
O'Brien meant to Marist
and
its
students. She was an
integral part
of so
many
lives,
selfless and
dedicated in her duties,
and
tireless in her willingness to make the Marist
experience
the best it cou
l
d be. Though
alumni
might have differences
of opinion
over who was
the best
coach or faculty
mem-
ber, Mrs. O'Brien stood alone
in her
category
of that special someone who will always
be
remembered by
everyone."
And,
he
adds,
"
She
was
unanimously
voted Class of
'66
Sweetheart
in
our senior
year."
After
graduation, Zabicki served as a
U.S.
Army
officer
in
South
Vietnam. He wrote to
O'Brien several
times from there,
and a
l
etter
in the
scrapbook
dated March 18, 1969,
shows
his
wry
wit:
"I
have
already
had one final
exam
in
NVA (North
Vietnamese Army)
ground assaults-and
I
fared
quite well. You
don't know when the
'exa
ms' are
schedu
l
ed,
so you
have to be ready
at all
times. (By the
way, can
I receive
graduate
credit for
them
7
!)"
Zabicki went on
to
a 25-year
career
in the Army, retiring
as
a
lieutenant
colonel, and
then
a
15
-year
federal
career as
transi-
tion
services
director
with Fort
Sam
Houston in
San Antonio,
David M
.
Flynn (left), director
of admissions
,
and Dr
.
Daniel
Kirk
,
chair of the Department
of Psychology (right
),
presented a plaque to O
'
Brien
upon her retirement in
1971
at a dinner in her honor at the
Lamplighter Inn attended by
60
guests
.
TX, preparing
families
for life
after
military
service.
Also in the
scrapbook
is
correspondence
from Brendan Burke
'68,
who
had
just arrived
in Quang Tri, South Vietnam,
as a first
lieu-
tenant in the U.S. Marine Corps
7th
Motor
Battalion. He
communicated several
times
with O'Brien in the
year
he
was stationed
there. From halfway
around
the
world, Burke
wrote on
March 18, 1969,
"The
most interest-
ing news to
you will
probably be that
also sta-
tioned here is John
Casserly,
who
graduated
in 1967. He, myself,
and
two
other officers
live in the
same
hootch. I didn't believe it
when
I
saw
him
for
the first time."
Six
months
later, the two posed
for a
photo in Quang
Tri
with
three other Marine
officers from
Marist-Bill Kuffner
'68,
Mike
Santimauro
'68,
and
Jim Barnes
'68.
Harbored in the
scrapbook all
these
years,
the
snapshot
is
well-known among Marist alumni who are
Vietnam
veterans.
Following military
service,
Burke had
a
30-year
career
as a
human resources pro-
fessional
in New
York City, starting at NBC
and
retiring
after 25 years at
ABC. He
also
served
Marist
as
president
of
the Alumni
Executive
Board
and
was
a
longtime member
of
the Board of Trustees.
Looking back
almost
so
years,
Burke
says,
"
I
continue
to be
emotionally
moved
by the
amazing
mixture
of
the Marist
College
and
the Marine Corps
experiences.
That
combination
involved issues like loyalty, hon-
esty,
intelligence, respect,
and, yes,
bravery. I
know
unequivocally
that
Betty O'Brien
knew
that too,
and she will always
have
a
place in
my heart. God bless Marist
College, the U.S.
Marine
Corps, and
most
of
all, God bless
Betty O
'
Brien.
"
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SPRING
2017
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Alumni Adventures
Kyle Mikesh '16 and Cameron Schuh
'
15 biked across the U.S. to raise money for ALS research
.
K
YLE
MIKESH
'16
AND
CAMERON SCHUH
'15
made it
on
their bikes
a
ll
the way up
Colorado's
Million Dollar Highway, from
7,000
to 11,000
feet
over
a "brutal"13-m
il
e
climb, without a
mishap,
and
down
as
well.
It was just
o
n
e
of the many memorable
moments
of
their
61-day, 3,400-m
il
e
ride
across
the U.S. from
Pl
ymout
h,
MA,
to
Ventura, CA,
to raise money for research
on amyotrop
hi
c
l
ateral scleros
is
(ALS)
in
memory
of a
close friend, Michael Hamill,
who passed
away after a
lon
g
battle with the
illness.
Mikesh and Schuh, who were
teammates
on
Marist
's
men's rowing team, began their
ride
on
July 17
,
2016, at
Plymouth Rock.
Although they packed the minimum
amount,
they nevertheless rode with
30
to
40
pounds
of camp
in
g gear.
"
We
got
used to wearing the
same thing every
day,
"
Schuh says
.
"When
I
came
back home,
I
realized that I didn
'
t need
all
this
stuff
in my closet."
"
Rather than
s
plur
ge
on fancy
n
ew car-
bon lightweight Lance Armstrong racing
bikes
,
we
each
made the
c
hoi
ce
to
custom-
ize
an
old
reliable,"
Schuh wrote in their
blog
o
n
Day
4.
"Steel tubing, ball bear
in
gs,
20
M
A R
I S
T
M AG A
Z
I N E
sturdy
frames, tough
whee
l
s.
My bike
i
s a
1986
Schwinn
Sprint,
and
Kyle's
is a
1990
Centurion
lronman. Both bikes had to be
converted
to touring models
with a
little
ingenu
it
y and e
lb
ow grease."
The pair
camped, stayed with
friends
and family, or
bunked
with volunteer
hosts
through the Warm Showers program.
"We were camping on
top
of
mountains
with
some of
the best
scenery,"
Mikesh
says.
"[
felt like
a
kid.
We camped
in Arizona
and
just
l
ooked
up
and saw
the
stars.
We went
where
other
people
with cars were
unable
to
go
.
"
"There were some
places
where
l
felt as
if we were literally the
first
people to
camp
there," Schuh says.
Despite
enduring
hot
and co
ld
tempera
-
tures, the two quickly
adapted.
They
generally
biked from dawn to dusk
and were at
the
mercy of the
sun. Somet
im
es,
during the
hottest part
of
the day, they
coo
l
ed off
by
hanging out
in
a
Walgreen's or
going
to the
movies."[
'saw'
Star
Tr
ek,
but
20
minutes into
BY ALEXIS WATSON
'
17
AND ADRIANA BELMONTE
'
17
the movie
I
promptly passed
out and
woke
up
once the
movie
was over," Mikesh wrote
in the blog. During
co
ld
nights
,
they relied
on
their
sleeping
bags.
Dinner
consisted of
peanut butter
and
jelly sandwiches,
ramen noodles,
or
rice.
"
It
wasn't a
healthy dinner, but we
were
bik
-
ing
a
lm
ost
75
miles
a
day
,"
says Schuh, who
lost
25
pounds during the trip
.
Breakfast
and
lunch
were at
local diners,
where
they
charged
their phones
and caught
up
with
friends and fami
l
y
back home.
Their
route
took
them south to Virginia,
then
west
through Kentucky,
Illin
ois,
Missouri (where
in
Columbia
their bikes
were
vandalized and
their things
sto
l
en), Co
l
orado,
Arizona,
through the
Four Corners where
Uta
h
, Colorado, New
Mexico,
and
Arizona
meet,
and across
the
Nava
h
o and
Mohave
deserts before
end
in
g
in Ventura,
CA.
In the
end,
the
two ra
i
sed $3,000
towards
ALS research and a
l
so
broadened their per-
spectives.
Schuh
says
h
e
realizes more
and
more how
valuable
the trip
was for
him
as a
23-year-old just one year
into the real world.
"One of the
most impactful
changes
it
had
on
me
was a
much better understanding






























Left
:
Kyle Mikesh
'
16
(left) and
Cameron Schuh
'
15
in Ventura
,
CA,
the end of the road
.
of America
as
a
nation
a
nd
just
how
diverse
the peop
l
e a
ll
across
our country are, espe-
cia
ll
y
during suc
h
a
di
v
isi
ve electio
n
year,"
he
says.
For Schuh, who
l
eft a
sales job right
before
h
ea
din
g o
ut
o
n
the road, the
trip
a
l
so
broug
ht
clarit
y,
careerw
i
se.
"
Among
t
h
e
many
ep
iph
a
ni
es
I
h
a
d
o
n
t
h
e trip was
that w
h
e
n
I
go
t b
ack
I n
ee
d
e
d
to
crea
t
e
a
fulfilling
prof
ess
ion
a
l
lif
e for
mys
e
l
f where
I
can
make
a
d
a
il
y
po
sit
i
ve
imp
act o
n
the world
aro
und m
e,
rather than just going
through
the motions
in th
e '
bu
s
in
ess
world
'
as
I
was
before.
I
can
n
ow
say that
I'm
rig
ht
where
I
want to
b
e-
I
l
ove
my
work a
nd
what
I
do
now."
Sc
huh li
ves
in
Long Beach, NY, and
works
two jobs.
Durin
g
the da
y
h
e
is
a
n
ana-
lyst
for
residentia
l
so
l
ar co
mp
a
n
y
1st L
i
g
ht
Energy,
meeting
wit
h h
omeow
n
ers
to
d
es
i
g
n
a
nd
finance
so
l
ar
arrays for
th
e
ir
h
omes.
In
the eve
n
ings
he teaches piano from
a s
m
a
ll
st
udio
in
his
apartme
nt.
Mikesh
li
ves
in
Westport,
CT, a
nd
co
m
-
mutes
to
Stamford whe
r
e
h
e
is
a
project
coor-
dinator
on
the
accou
nt
team for Daymon
Worldw
id
e's
des
i
g
n
age
n
cy,
D
ay
m
o
n
Creative
Serv
i
ces.
Mikesh and Schuh s
t
op for lunch a
t
a church barbecue in Delaware
.
Sc
huh
a
nd
M
i
kesh are writing
a
book
togeth
e
r
and
ha
ve
more
a
dv
e
ntur
es
a
h
ead.
"
Kyle
a
nd I h
ave
b
ee
n
talking
abo
ut doing
a
s
imil
ar
bike tr
ip
aga
in in
a
few years,
but
this
tim
e o
ut in
As
i
a," says
Schu
h
.
"
W
e
h
ear
d
from
seve
r
a
l
ot
h
er cycl
i
s
t
s
we
m
e
t durin
g
our
trip that trave
lin
g
through
certa
in part
s of
Ch
in
a,
Indi
a,
a
nd
Nepa
l
i
s
unriv
a
l
ed in
its
b
ea
ut
y a
nd
adventure. We
a
lso
have
a
much
sma
ll
er
trip planned
for t
hi
s
s
umm
e
r
with
a
few other friends to spend
a
week
hikin
g t
h
e
Appalachian Trail."
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Schuh and Mikesh kept a blog during their bike trip: alscoasttocoast.wordpress.com. Here are some excerpts:
JULY 25, 2016
WASHINGTON,
DC
Cameron
:
Nearly everyone we
'
ve met ha
s
be
e
n helpful, kind, friendly
,
a
n
d ha
s e
nriched
our experience in some way
,
as I
hope
we
have
theirs
.
One
story comes to
mind
in
particular
,
which
happened
as we
took the
wrong
ferry
from Manhattan into Sandy
Hook
,
NJ, and
in
s
tead
found our
-
selves
in Hoboken. When
they
noticed our mistake
,
t
h
e crew
and captain called
in
a
se
rie
s
of
favor
s
and
for t
h
e next hour
we
were
whisked from
boat
to
boat
along
the
New York
Waterway
system
.
We only
found
ourselves on course
because of the good
deeds
of ferrymen
-
a
statement
you
would expect
to
see
in
an old
-
world travelogue
rather than
the 2016
blog po
s
t
of
two
college grads.
SEPT. 3, 2016
MILLION
DOLLAR HIGHWAY
Cameron
:
Now
,
the
Million
Dollar Highway i
s
n
'
t
s
omething
we
had
to do.
It
'
s adding
mileage and
elevation and
probably
a
day onto our trip.
It
'
s a
dangerous rout
e
a
n
d the mo
s
t difficult
climb
we
'
ll
have faced,
go
i
ng
from 7
,
000
to 11
,000
feet over a
brutal 13
-
mile climb
.
The highway wa
s
terrifying
,
dangerous
,
and
ex
tr
e
mely
difficult. The road had
no
s
houlder
,
and in some
plac
es
the
edge
of
the road drop
s
down into a
cliff
.
Looking
down wa
s
di
zzyin
g
,
and looking up disorient
i
ng
.
However,
th
e
views were
breathtaking
.
Absolutely the
b
es
t
,
most rewarding views we've
had.
Traffic was
moving
very slowly and
drivers
were
very
courteous
toward
s
us. We
s
tayed
in
the
middl
e
of the
lane mo
st
of the
time
,
and cars
would
take the opportunity to
pas
s
only when
appropriate
.
We
didn
'
t
s
lip, fall
,
or
di
e,
and overall (apart
from the threat of
the
shee
r
drop
-
offs) we felt
safe
.
Colorado
'
s Million Dollar Highway:
"
terrifying,
dangerous
,
and extremely difficult
.
"
SEPT. 11, 2016
GRAND CANYON
Cameron:
We took a shuttle to
Yaki Point
to
cat
ch
the
final
gl
im
p
se
of
daylight.
As we watched
in
s
ilence the day turn to
night
,
the
who
l
e
trip to dat
e-a
ll
3,000
mile
s
of experience
and
hard
s
hip
-s
unk
in with the setting
s
un
.
We
took
the long way
to
get h
e
re
, s
ure
,
and yet we
'
ve
see
n
and
l
earned a
lot along
the
way.
And
while we
may never be
compelled
to do
suc
h
a
thing
again,
to
cross
deserts and farmlands to reach
a
far
-
off
coast, when we
look back and reminisce on
the
trip
we won
'
t
be rem
e
mbering the moments of pain or difficulty
,
the
h
e
at
and
th
e
hills and
the long
weeks without
s
how
e
rs
or
bed
s
to
slee
p
in. We
'
ll be rem
e
mb
e
ring that mom
e
nt
watching
the
s
un
sh
rink
into a
sliver
and vanish behind the
vast walls of
the
canyon
.
SEPT. 15, 2016
SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
Cameron
: Days
58, 59
,
and 60
have been
the
mo
st
challenging
a
nd
most demandi
n
g days
s
o far
,
but to hav
e
the
biggest
chal
-
lenge occur
right before the final
sta
ge
seems
appropriate
.
We
'
ve
been plagued
with
mishaps
and equipment
failure
s
and been
at
t
h
e
mercy of the
e
l
ements
for days
straight.
The last rest day
we
took
was
i
n Denver
,
but
we
'
re
persevering
with one
goal in mind
:
the Coast.
Sev
er
al thing
s
were
n
ew
to u
s
on
thi
s
leg of
the trip
.
First
,
I had never
in
my life
considered
the climate
to
be
an adversary.
But now
,
with 90
-
degree
+
days and no
shade or
respite from
the sun
to be found
,
with
20+
mile
s
pe
r
hour
headwinds
,
with
sand and
a
s
h and grit
whipping
us
with every chance, well
,
I
think
of
it
as a foe
to overcome.
To
combat the sun and shade
we wear
long
sleeves
and
sunscreen
,
and I drape my bandana
under my helm
e
t to provide maximum
shade
.
We try
to
rest
from 2
to
5
to
stay away
from the hottest part
of
the day
.
To
combat
the
winds
,
we switch
off drafting
on one another
,
with a mile
-
on, mile
-
off
sw
i
tch
,
to share
the
load.
OCT, 27, 2016
VENTURA
,
CALIFORNIA
Kyle:
It took Cameron and me
only
five hours to get from
Sa
n
Francisco
I
nternational Ai
r
port to JFK in
NYC!
What took u
s
two
months
to achieve was a
s
hort ride
on this
plane
.
That
feeling
was hard to
describe
...
Cameron
and
I had
see
n
and
learned
so
much from the p
l
aces we
sa
w along our bike trip
.
It
seemed sad
to
just
fly
over
all
those
places
and
peopl
e
without
sayi
ng hi.
i!l
SPR
IN
G
2
01
7
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Athletics
The Mari
s
t women's swimming and diving program won its eighth consecutive Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship
.
Red Fox Roundup
Women
'
s Swimming and Diving
Wins Eighth Consecutive
MAAC Championship
T
HE
MA RIST
women's swimming and
div-
ing
program
won
its
eighth consecutive
Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference cham-
pionship
on
Feb.
11.
The Red
Foxes captured
the title by
amassing 810
points
over
the
four-day event,
194 more than
second-place
Rider. The
con-
ference
title
was
the 18th for the program, the
most of
any
program in
conference
history.
Under
the leadership
of 41st-year
head
coach
Larry
Van Wagner, the men's
and women's
swimming and
diving programs have
com-
bined to win
a
total
of 36 championships
across a
II
conferences.
Meredith Wurtz
'17 and
Sara Nestrowitz
'18
were honored
as
Co-Sw
i
mmers of t
h
e
Meet. It was the
second
straight
year
Wurtz
earned
this
award, as she
was the
sole
recipi-
ent of
it in
2016.
Wurtz
(so
freestyle,
100
freestyle)
and
Nestrowitz
(soo
freestyle,
1000
freestyle)
each captured
two individual
BY MIKE FERRARO
'
01
M
i
k
e
F
e
rrar
o
'
01
i
s
a
ss
i
s
tant athl
e
ti
c
dir
ec
t
o
r
/s
p
o
rt
s
inf
o
rmati
o
n at Mari
s
t.
22
MARI ST
MAGAZINE
MAAC
championships
.
Both Nestrowitz and
Wurtz were
each a
part of two
championship
relay
teams.
Megan Berardelli
'18 was
named Most
Outstanding Diver
for
the
second straight
year.
Berardelli
won
both
the
1-
and 3-meter
boards
and
l
ater
went
on
to
compete at
NCAA Zone Championships. Vanwagner
was
lauded
as
MAAC Coach
of
the
Year for
the
eighth
time in his
career. A total of
11
Red
Foxes were named to the
conference
'
s All
-
Academic Team
,
which
is
open to those with
at
least
a 3.20 grade
point
average (GPA) on
a 4.0 scale
with
at
least two prior
semesters
at
the institution.
The team was honored with
a
luncheon
organized
by President David
Yellen at
the
Raymond
J
.
Rich Institute
for
Leadership
Development in
Esopus on April 5.
Recor, Rigothi Named Sportspersons
of the Year
J
.D.
RECOR
'
17
AND
JULIA RIGOTH!
'17
were honored
as
male
and
female
Sportsperson
of
the Year
at the
Marist
Athletics Department's Senior Awards
Banquet, held
May
1
at Christos
Restaurant
in Poughkeepsie
.
Recor helped lead
the
men's lacrosse
program to
a MAAC championship and
victory
in
the NCAA
Tournament in
2015.
He
concluded
his
career as
the
MAAC's all-
time leader in
assists with
131
and was second
in program history in points
with 226.
In
201
7,
he became the second student-athlete
in
school
history
to
be named
a
finalist
for
the Senior
CLASS
Award, which measures
J.D. Recor
'17
and Julia Rigothi
'17
were honored
as male and female Sports person of the Year
at the Mari st Athletics Department
'
s Senior
Awards Banquet.



















competition, character,
community,
and
classroom activities.
A rower, Rigot
hi
was
a four-year member
of
the Varsity Eight
and a
two-year
captain.
In her
career,
the Vars
i
ty
Eight was
hon-
ored as
MAAC Boat
of
the Week five
times.
Rigothi was
also a standout
in international
competition. She was a gold
medalist
at
the
2016
Roya
l
Canadian Henley Regatta in
the
U23
Women's Quad. Last
summer, she
competed at
the
U23
World
Championship
United States National
Team
Trials
in the
Women's
Double
.
Abigail
Witczak
'17 of
women's lacrosse
and
Greg
Kocinski
'17
of
baseball
earned
the
James
Pizzani
Award.
1he Pizzani
Award
is
given
to those
who
best
embody the
quali-
ties
of
the late James Pizzani
'64, which are
consistent with
the
College's core
ideals
of
excellence
in
education, a sense of com-
munity,
and a commitment
to
service.
Kate
Mosca
'17
(women's swimming and
diving)
and Jae Wong '17 (men's soccer) earned
the
President's Academic Achievement Award,
which
is presented to the
senior student-
athletes
with
the
highest GPA. 1he Strength
and Conditioning Awards
were presented
to Alyssa
Pitonzo
'17 and
Olivia Pitonzo
'17
of women's
lacrosse
and
Frankie Brier
'i7 of
men's lacrosse.
Academic Achievements
O
NCE AGAIN,
Marist student-athletes are
shining
in the
classroom as well as on
the
playing fields
.
Gabrielle Kelliher
'
18
of
the
softball
team
was
named Second
Team CoSIDA Academic
All-American,
becoming the 18th
CoSIDA
Academic
All-American in
school
history.
Including Kell
i
her
,
a
total
of six student-
athletes
were named
CoSIDA
Academic
All-District
this
season, as Chris
Apicella
'18
(football),
Brandi
Coon '19 (softball),
Pizzani Award winner Ab
i
gail Witczak
'
17
(center
)
is shown with (left to right) Mar
i
st head
women's lacrosse coach Jessica O
'
Brien
'
08
and Eleanor Pizzani.
Baseball Captures MAAC Championship
T
HE MA R
I
ST BASEBALL TEAM
reac
h
ed NCAA Reg
i
o
n
a
l
s for t
h
e sevent
h
time
i
n program
history. The Red Foxes won three games
i
n three days to captu
r
e t
h
e Metro Atlantic
Athletic Conference
championship,
which culminated w
i
t
h
a 5-1 tr
i
ump
h
over Iona on May
27
.
Tony Romanelli
'18
was named the tournament's Most Va
l
uab
l
e Player for his outstanding
work out of the bullpen. Romanelli earned saves in a
ll
three of the Red Foxes' victories. In
Marist's first
game,
a 6-2 victory over Canisius on May 25,
R
omane
lli
tossed three score
l
ess
innings. The next day, he struck out t
h
e game's fi
n
a
l
two batters i
n
Mar
i
st's 11-8 wi
n
over
Fairfield. In the
championship
game, he struck out the game's final batter, who represented
the tying run. Scott Boches
'17,
Frankie Gregoire
'19,
Matt Pagano
'16, and
Andrew Rouse
'18
earned
All-Tournament Team honors.
Head coach Chris Tracz
'05
became the program's all-time leader in victories. This year
marked Tracz's fourt
h
NCAA appeara
n
ce as a Red Fox. I
n
h
i
s standout career as a pitcher,
he helped Mar
i
st capture MAAC championships in 2001, 2002, and 2005.
Charlie Jerla
'18
was honored as MAAC Pitcher of the Year with
a
9-1 record. Jerla and
Gregoire were both named First Team AII-MAAC, while Tyler Kapuscinski 'i9 earned Second
Team AII-MAAC honors.
Andrew
Rouse
'
18
(baseball), Manuel Garcia
'17 (swimming and
diving),
and Steven
Rizzo
'18 (cross country/track and
field)
were also
honored.
To
be
eligible for CoSIDA
Academic
All
-
District
consideration,
student-athletes
must have
a
GPA
of at
least
3.30
on
a 4.0
scale,
have
spent at
least two prior
semesters
at
their
current
institution,
and
have played
in
at
least
so
percent
of
their team
's
games.
Six
teams-men
'
s
and
women's track
and
field
,
women's cross
country,
women's
soc-
cer, women's
tennis,
and
volleyball
-ea
rned
NCAA
Public Recognition
Awards for
their
multiyear Academic Progress Rate
(APR).
Teams earn
Public Recognition
Awards for
earning
APR
scores
in the top
10
percent
of
their respective
sports
nationally. The APR
measures
eligibility, graduation, and
reten-
tion
each semester or academic
term. The
most recent multiyear rates
are
based
on
scores from
the
2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15,
and
2015-16 academic years
.
The total of
six
teams marks Marist's highest total in
10
years.
In the
fall 2016 semester,
the GPA
for
the
Athletics
Department
was 3.27.
A total of 16
student-athletes
had
a
perfect
4.0
GPA,
and
72.1
percent
(430 out
of
596)
had
at
least
a 3.0
GPA
.
OfMarist's
23 varsity
programs,
21
had
a
team GPA of
at
least
3.0.
For the
2015-16
schoo
l
year, a school-
record
261 student-athletes
were named
to the MAAC Academic Honor Roll. The
Red
Foxes
l
ed
the conference in honorees
for the 15th straight
year.
Marist's honorees
represented
its
growing geographic
diversity,
with student-athletes
from
25 states and
10
countries recognized.
CJ
Gabrielle Kelliher
'
18
was named Second Team
CoSIDA Academic All
-
American
.

























Alumni
PROF-I
LI]
HEOP, Marist, and the military shape
the work of U.S. Army veteran Mariel
Sosa Juarez '02 in counseling combat
veterans and their families.
From Marist to
Mortaritaville and Back
E
VEN AS A TEENAGER
in
Crown
Heights,
Brooklyn, Marie
l
Sosa Juarez '02 was
p
l
anning for
the future
.
Unsure
s
h
e'd
be
accepted
by
any colleges, she visited the
local
Marines recruitment office
during her
senior
year of
high
school.
"I was
thinking more
of security and a
way to go at a
living,
get out of the neighbor-
hood,"
she recalls.
She was accepted
to
Marist
through the
Arthur
0.
Eve
Higher
Education Opportunity
Program
and
remained
focused on
life
after
college. She chose to
major in
social work
because
"it was something obta
i
nab
l
e, and
I knew
I
could get a job afterwards."
She took an additional step
toward
estab-
lishing
a secure future
.
During her
senior
year at Marist, she enlisted
in the
U.S.
Army.
Her
focus and planning
paid
off. After
graduating from Marist and serving four
years
in
the Army, she is
now
a readjust-
ment counselor therapist and
licensed
clinical social worker with the Department
of Veterans Affairs in Staten
Island,
NY. She
lives
in
Brooklyn
with
her husband
and son,
with a second child due this summ
e
r.
It
wasn't
the
easiest of roads
.
Two weeks
after graduation Juarez was in
basic
training
at Fort
Jackson,
SC, a 52,000
-
acre
hot
and
buggy campus
in the
middle of the state near
the capital city of Columbia.
"
'
Relaxin
'
Jackson,'
"
she smiles.
After
basic
training
Juarez
went
to
Fort
Eustace, VA, to
become
a cargo specialist.
Then
she was stationed at Fort Campbe
l
l,
KY, with
the
101st Airborne
Division.
As a cargo specialist she operated fork-
lifts, moving materials
on and off airplanes.
No
driver
'
s
license
was required, which was
good,
because
she
didn't have
one.
In
March 2003
her unit, the
372nd
Transportation Company, was
dep
l
oyed
to
Salad Air Base
in Iraq
.
Her
job entailed
loading
and
unloading
supplies such as food,
clothing, and equipment on and off trucks
and C-130 airplanes.
After a few
months
she was assigned to
administrative work in
the
Supply
headquar-
24
M
A R
I
S
T
M AG A
Z
I N E
-
. - - . .
.
And
then I
was able
to
fall asleep. Repeated
Juarez's gift to Ma
r
ist's Higher Education
Opportunity Program established the HEOP
Fund
.
ters.
"
Because
I had
a
bachelor
'
s,
I
was picked
up from what they call the
line
platoon and
put in the headquarters."
She remembers ordering items such as
battering
rams.
"
You worked as part of a
bat-
talion
.
You worked together
to
get enough
tools
and equipment for everybody
.
"
In
February 2004
her
unit returned to
Fort Campbell, and
in
October
to
Balad. The
air
base had developed
from a place with a PX
and one eatery
to
a
bustling
garrison with a
coffee shop,
Pizza Hut,
Baskin Robbins, and
Subway
.
It
was almost
like being
stateside.
"
Except you
had
to walk around with a Kevlar
and a
helmet in
your arms." And a rifle
.
"
Mortaritaville
is
what we called the
place.
"
The
constant
threat
of
incoming
mortars
took its toll.
"There was a
long
time where
I
would wake
up in
the middle of
the night
over there, and
the
only thing that would
make me
feel
better
was using
my inhaler. I'd
have
trouble
breathing
so
I'd
use my inhaler.
BY LESLIE BATES
exposure to that, it kind of jars you."
After her
second
deployment to Iraq,
•
her
Army time was up and she was officially
discharged in January
2006. She served a
year and a
half
with the Army Reserves whil
e
pursuing
a
master's degree in
social work
at New York University. She
began
working
for
the Department
of Veterans Affairs at
the Staten
Island
Vet Center
in
2006 as an
outreach coordinator for outpatient counsel-
ing clinics
.
Once she completed her master's
in 2010, she became a readjustment counselor
therapist for the VA and earned a
license
in
clinical social work. She
is
also a mayoral
appointee
to the
New York City Veterans
Advisory Board.
Today, as a
readjustment
counselor
therapist, Juarez provides
individual,
couples
,
and group therapy for combat veterans and
survivors of military sexual trauma and
bereavement
counseling for surviving fam-
ily
members.
She too
had
to readjust. "They train you
how
to
become
this soldier. They don
'
t really
train you
how to
become a civilian
.
I
know
I've spent more years as a civilian than as a
service member, but there's something to
being in the military:
they tell you what
to
wear, where
to be,
where to go, and you come
out and your
time is
your own.
The
world
is
your oyster, and there are so
many things
you can
do
.
It's incredibly
overwhelming. So
trying to
make
the right decisions and figure
out
this path that
'
s going
to be
successful is
really, really daunting
.
I
spent a
lot
of time
trying
to
find
my
footing
in the
world again."
She
married in
2014,
had her
first child
in
2015, and expects
her
second on July
4.
She
has
remained friends with
her
freshman
college roommate, Tenille Clyburn '02
,
and
others she
met
at Marist.
"HEOP was a
magnificent
program. To
be this inner
-
city
kid in this
environment
where a
lot
of
people
are well-off
is
a culture
shock
by
all
means.
And some
people don
'
t
adjust to it. A couple of students
dropped
out.
But
those of
us
who stayed
really bonded


























toget
h
er. We're still friends
now. Half
of
those
girls
ca
me
to
my
wedd
in
g."
She
a
l
so
h
as
kept
in
touch with former
H
EOP
Associate Dire
c
tor
Kris
tin
e
Cu
ll
en,
n
ow ass
ist
a
nt
dean in Marist's
Sc
h
ool of
Prof
ess
ion
a
l Pro
g
rams
.
Cullen remembers
Ju
arez
as
vibrant, full
oflife, a
nd
fun
-
loving.
When
Juarez
enl
i
sted, Cu
ll
en wo
rri
ed for
h
er
safety.
But
s
h
e
knew
Ju
arez was
preparing
for
h
e
r future
. "
She didn't
want
to
start off
in her
career
with
stude
nt l
oa
n
s,
with
h
aving
t
h
at
burden
h
er."
Marist College Veterans
Day Address
Nov. 11
,
2016
/
Mariel Sosa Juarez
'
02
It
is
an honor to
stand
before
you
as keynote
speaker
this
Veterans Day
.
My years at Maris! were
some
of my most
memorable
,
and
they
shaped
and
influenced
my military
experiences.
I
'
m proud to be both a Mar
is
! graduate and
an
Army veteran
.
In the
early spring
of
1998
I
was sitting in a Marine
recruiter
'
s
office thinking
, "
What now?" You see
,
math was
never my
strong
suit
.
So
I
'
m
staring at
the ASVAB
[Armed
Services
Vocational Aptitude Battery
,
an aptitude test
]
thinking
, "
Why didn
'
t they tell me this was in German?"
At the time
,
I
was
a senior in the High School of Fashion
Industries
where I
quickly ob
se
rved
that
these
students
are
really into sewing
,
and I just like to
s
ketch
.
Fast
-
forward four
years,
graduation is nearing, and I
'
m thinking of my
future-
and
fashion designer
was
not
in
it.
In
the midst
of
all the marketing
colleges
do
,
I
came
across
a pamphlet from this place in Poughkeepsie named
Maris!
College
.
I
thought,
Mari
s
!
,
Mariel,
M
-
A
-
R
:
tho
se
are
good letter
s.
This is a
good
sign.
The pamphlet
was a
drawing
of the campus and its lovely rolling green hills. Drawings:
another
good
si
gn
.
So
I
applied and convinced
my
mother
to take a
campus
tour while we
waited for
a
re
s
ponse
.
When we
got to the
campus, it was everything I
hoped
a college would
be
,
absolutely
beautiful and
completely
different from Brooklyn. You
know,
Brooklyn
was
not
the
hipster
haven it i
s
today
.
It
was
Bed
-
Stuy do or die
,
not
Bed
-
Stuy rent
or buy
.
After the college tour
I
find the Admissions office and ask
,
all
bright
-
eyed and
bu
s
hy
-t
ailed,
"
Did I get in? Is Mariel going
to Maris!?
"
and the
Admi
ss
ions guy looks
me and
s
ay
s,
"
Nah,
your SAT scores
are meh. Your English
scores
are OK, but the
math
,
not
so
much
."
After
he
saw
the
light
die
in my eyes
and my deflated
bu
s
hy tail
,
he told me
about
the Higher Education
Opportunity Program
,
a program that
could
help
students
like
me,
st
udents
with
potential
,
who
need
additional
academic
nurturing
.
So, I
became
a
little hopeful
and
applied
.
Folks,
my
entire SAT score was
my English
score
,
so you
can
understand my
exasperation when
I
'
m in the
recruiter
's
office staring at the
military
entrance exam
thinking
,
"
Now
what?
"
Th
e
military
was
my backup. It
was
my fail
-sa
fe ticket
out of the
hood,
and once again
,
my mortal
enemy
,
math
,
was
s
tanding in my
way.
The recruiter wa
s
kind
enough to
direct me to the library
where I could
u
se
study
books to improve my
chances. So,
like
a
dutiful troop I
went and stared
blankly at the practice books
thinking
,
"
Yeah
,
I
'
m going to teach myself? Ha!
"
I
left
the
library
in a
daz
e,
and as
s
oon as I
walked
through the
door
of
my
apartment,
the phone rang. It
was
Maris!
College
,
specifically
the HEOP program
,
telling me I
got in!
While Juarez was
in
Ir
aq, s
h
e sent
flowers
to
Cullen and
the HEOP
office.
"
How
she
did
that,
I d
o
n
'
t
eve
n
know
,"
Cullen
l
a
u
g
h
s
.
"
But
she sent
flow
e
rs to
the office
.
"
Th
e
occasion?
"O
ut
of apprec
iati
on a
nd
g
ivin
g
back," Cullen
says
.
"That's
th
e
kind of
person
s
h
e was.
She realized the
oppor
tuni
-
ties
s
h
e
h
ad, and apprec
i
ated every
thin
g
that
s
h
e
was
g
iv
e
n
a
nd
worked
for.
"
Juarez
a
l
so
has
given
back in
ot
h
er
ways
.
While in Iraq
she sent
a
donation to
HEOP
(see s
id
ebar)
.
And this
past fall, she
returned
to Mar
i
st
to deliver the keynote
for
Marist
's
2016
Veterans
D
ay
lun
c
heon
at
th
e
invit
atio
n
of
the Alumni Relations
office.
In
h
er
s
pee
c
h
she
praised HEOP
as a
p
rogram
that has
h
e
lp
ed
a
nd
co
ntinu
es
to h
e
lp
many.
"I a
m
proud to
be
a
product
of
it,
Marist,
a
nd
the military;
it do
es
not
esca
p
e
m
e
that
eac
h
of
m
y acco
mpli
s
hm
e
nt
s
was possible
because
I
was part
of a
larger
group
made
up
of
com
mitt
ed, cari
n
g ci
ti
zens a
nd
service
members
,
slowly
c
h
ang
in
g
the
world."
i!J
Mariel Sosa Juarez
'
02
was the keynote speaker a
t
Mari
s
t
'
s
20
1
6
Veterans Day observance
.
I became
a student
at Maris!, making
some
of the best
friends who I
still
have today, all the while gaining a
stellar
foundation
in
social work
(a
major I chose because it had
the
least
math requirements)
,
building a family among the HEOP
staff
and students, having the ultimate
experience
I just know
I wouldn
'
t have had elsewhere, because Maris!
College
i
s
special.
It
'
s
beautiful and
challenging and there wasn't
a day
that I wasn
'
t grateful to be given the opportunity
to
grow and
learn at Maris!.
September
2001
the
tower
s
are
hit
in
downtown
Manhattan
,
where
that very
summer
I had worked as a
greeter at Express
,
one of
the clothing
s
tores located
in
the
basement of
the World
Trade Center. Again, it
'
s
my senior year
and I
'
m left
with
a choice: graduate and find a job as
a social
worker when, at
the time
,
Home Depot paid more
,
or
enlist
in
the
service and
give back to my country in
a
way that no one
in
my family had never done
.
In
2002
I
enlisted in
the Army as a specialist. Basic
training
was exciting,
after that brief moment
where
I
thought
,
"
I have a bachelor
'
s
degree
.
Why
in
the
world
are
you yelling
at me?
"
In
advanced
infantry training
(All),
I
learned to
operate a forklift,
among other heavy
equipment.
I
chose to
become
a cargo specialist,
becau
se
why
the hell not?
I knew
as a
soc
ial
worker, which
I
intended
to become after
my contract was up, I
'
d be beh
i
nd
a desk
most days
,
so why
not do
something
completely different?
After All I
was stationed at
Fort
Campbell,
KY
,
and
in
2003
I was in
Iraq
,
where at
10
a.m
.
it'
s
110
degrees,
stationed
in
Balad Airfield where
some
folks go for R&R and others
,
like me
,
know it
as
Mortaritaville
,
a place
where
incoming
mortars can hit
you
on the
way
to the PX
.
I
'
m nervous and
afraid
wondering if
I
'
ll leave this place
whole, yet
proud that
I
was
becoming
a
part of hi
s
tory,
surrounded
by
some
of the
bravest people I
'
ll
ever
meet
,
doing my part to support those
on
the front
lines
to the be
s
t
of
my ability
.
And it
was
in Iraq where I heard
,
mi
s
takenly
,
that
Maris! was considering ending its
relationship
with
the
HEOP program
and
I thought
, "
No way!
HEOP
is why
I am
here today
.
It'
s
the program that gave me
an opportunity
to
change
the d
i
rection of my life.
"
So
I
w
rote
a check and
mailed
it to President
[Dennis]
Murray with a letter saying
"
You
can
'
t
end this program. This program changed my life
."
After a few
weeks I received a letter from Dr. Murray saying
"
Mariel
,
don
'
t
be
crazy,
no one
's
doing that. We love HEOP
.
Thank
s,
though!"
It was HEOP that brought me to Maris!
,
and the
social
work program
was where
I
earned
my
stay
here, and because
of both
,
that foundation helped
ease
my own anxiety and
that of new friends
in
basic training. It was that
education
that
kicked in when
battle buddies turned to me to intervene
when a
friend
was suspected
of an
eating
disorder
.
It
was
that
socia
l
work foundation that fortified me in Iraq
,
when
my battle buddy confided in me her
suicidal
thoughts
.
And it
continues to shape my current work with returning combat
veterans and their families in my role as a clinical social
worker.
Maris! was where I learned to take risks
,
social work was
where I applied myself, and the Army was where it all came
together. Having
served
my country
with
dignity
and
honor is
what
I am most proud of
,
especially during thi
s
volatile
time
.
Reflecting on the
experiences
that got me here today is what
keeps me grounded and hopeful.
Margaret
Mead
said,
"
Never doubt that a
small
group
of thoughtful
,
committed citizens can change the world.
Indeed
,
it
is the only thing that
ever
has
."
Although the HEOP
program may not have been at risk
,
it
felt significant
to
advocate for it and to be able to back up that advocacy
with
financial
support
the
way
it
supported
me through my four
years
here
.
It
is
a program that has helped and continues
to help
so
many
students.
I am proud to be a product of
it
,
Maris!
,
and the military; it does not
escape
me that
each
of my accomplishments
was
po
ss
ible because I
was
part of
a larger group made up of committed
,
caring
citizens and
service
members
,
s
lowly
changing
the world.
And
so,
here I am
,
2016;
two Iraq
tours
later
,
with a
master
'
s
in
social
work
,
a
husband
,
a
son,
and an incredible
career
with the Department of Veterans Affairs
.
I
stand
before
you
to
say
that a
significant
life
is
obtained through
risks; that honor i
s
achieved
through humility and reflection;
and that people may turn to
you
for
inspiration
de
s
pite
your
insecurities.
Thank
you.
i!J
SPRING
2017
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Alumni
PROFILE
26
M
A R I S T
M AG A Z I N E
Reel
Life
Successful film screenwriter
and producer John Sullivan '00
watched movies as a kid, won awards
for his plays at Marist,
and never stopped writing.
J
OHN
SULLIVAN
was still a student at
Marist when
he
first attempted to
break
into
screenwriting
in 1998.
"I just
loved films
as a
kid
,"
says
the
39-year-old, who
lives in
West
Hollywood,
Los Angeles, CA, with
his
wife.
"My
parents
knew they
could go out and
I
could
be
occu-
pied by
just
having
a
movie
for
me to
watch."
Like
many, he didn
'
t
know
that
writing
films was an actual job.
"
Then
,
in high
school,
I
found out
differently," he
says.
"
I fell
in
love
with
the
movie
Speed
and
thought 'writing
screenplays is something
I
should try to
do.'
"
At
the time,
scripts were often command-
ing
six and seven figures.
Sullivan
eventually
found those
deals, but his is not the
story of
the
quick pop. It's
one of
determination
,
early
low
-
budget selling,
and pushing forward
.
"I
didn't think the
Universals and Warner
Brothers
out there wanted to
talk to me
,"
he
says.
"So
I
sent to
the low-budget people."
One bit
and offered $500.
The movie
was
never made but it
was a great
deal
of
money
to
him
at
the
time.
"I felt
my
confidence growing, and
it had
a
lot to do with
what
I learned
at college,"
he
says.
"Fo
r
example, one
class helped
open
my
mind through the
analytical criticism
that
went on.
I remember
we watched
Robocop
,
and you
wouldn't normally think
of that
movie
for a
film class
.
"
Sullivan recalls
that
the professor made the
class realize
that the
movie was
a
throwback to
some of
the clas-
sic movies
in the 1930s
and
1940s
film-noir
genre.
"I
never thought
about
it that
way,"
he
notes. He
cites as another example
the class
Women
in Film
.
"I
remember talking
about
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Blue Steel
in
the class and
how
it
gets
into
the
dehu-
manization of a woman at
the hands of the man.
"Looki
ng deeper
with
the
help of these classes
~
allowed me to
inject more
layers into
my writing .... You
look
at the importance of
things like
character
inter-
actions. I think it's
eas
ier
Sullivan's work includes
Phantom Theater, Fear of the Dark, Recoil
,
and
Security
starring Antonio Banderas and Ben Kingsley.
to
write the action parts
in
movies; it's
harder to
write
the
relationships."
Sullivan says he
loved his
education and
his
time at Marist.
The
plaque
he received
when he won the
John P.
Anderson Award for
Playwriting
in
1999
remains in his
hallway
.
His
winning one-act play,
The Devil and Mike
Faust, was
b
ased
at a college
like
Marist and
focused on
"a
kid who sells his soul for a term
paper.
"
The following year
he
won
the
award
for Best
Play
for
The Restless Nights of Roxy
Thrill,
his one-act about
"an
'Sos hair
b
an
d
reuniting
after breaking
up,
and
trying to
reclaim
their glory."
Graduating with a degree in commu-
nications
in
2000,
he
kept
trying the low-
budget
route. Sullivan's second sale was a
script called
Fear
of
the Dark which
he
recalls
brought him
$5,000.
F
ear
of the
Dark
centers on a
teen
-age
d
boy
who tries to calm
his
younger
brother
when
it
comes to fear of
the
dark and
ulti-
mately
starts
to
question the dark
himself.
Sullivan remembers watching
a co
py
of it.
"You see
many
things you might
hav
e
done differently
than
what
they did," he
says.
"B
ut,
on the other
hand
,
it
was made!
It
was
a good feeling."
Despite
the sale of
the
script, Sullivan
didn't quit his day
job as office manager at
the
famed
talent
agency Gersh, a setting from
which
many
a screenwriter
has
emerged.
Roughly
six
months later,
he sold a script
ca
ll
ed
Rapid. Imagine the
agents' surprise
when they
read
the trades, saw the name John
Sullivan, and asked
the
guy who sometimes
changed
the
li
ghtbulbs
if it
were
him
and
if he'd really made
a six-figure
deal.
It was
and
he had.
Sullivan,
whose production company is
called Blackout Films, went on
to
have more
movies made
from
his
scripts,
including
two
direct-to-video sequels of a
horror
franchise
and an action picture,
R
ecoil,
starring
"Stone
Co
ld
" Steve Austin and
Danny
Trejo.
His
career turned a corner in
2015
when
he
found out a script
he
worked on wou
ld
feature Antonio
Banderas
and Oscar winner
Sir Ben
Kingsley.
"
That
was an unbelievable
day!"
In the
action genre,
Security
tells
the
story of security guards in a
mall trying to
protect
a girl from
the bad
guys outside
.
The
film
is
scheduled for release
in theaters
and
on Netflix
in June.
Currently
he
's
working on a "fun
thriller"
called
Final Exam,
based
on college expe-
riences, which
he
will
produce under his
Blackout
Films
banner,
and on
the thriller
/
comedy
Phantom Theater with
director
Byron
C.
Miller, another
project he
will
produce.
No
matter
what,
no
one can
ever say Sullivan was an over-
night success.
"Ma
ny
steps
have taken
awhile,"
he
says. "But
I've b
ee
n
patient
and
I
always kept writ-
ing-and
writing!"
Cl
John Sullivan
'
oo with his father,
Dr
.
James Sullivan
'66
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Dr. Richard Couto '64 Awarded
Marist's Top Alumni Honor
Paul X. Rinn '68 presented Dr. Richard Couto '64 with
Marist's Distinguished Alumni Medal.
D
R
.
RICHARD COUTO
'64
received the highest
award given
to
a
Marist
graduate,
the Marist College Distinguished
Alumni Medal, on Feb.
6,
2017.
The
award
is presented to
individuals who
exemplify
the College's ideals
of excellence
in
education, a
sense of
community, and a commitment
to
ser-
vice.
Alumni Association President Paul X
.
Rinn
'68 awarded
the medal to Couto, who was unable to travel because of
a
serious illness,
in central Virginia. Richard Couto passed
away
three weeks later.
Four former Marist classmates and one former
student
traveled to Couto's home from
as far away as
Michigan to take
part in the medal presentation
ceremony:
Dr. Bill Reger-Nash
'65
from West Virginia, Dr. Ronald Diss
'64
from Virginia,
John Reynolds
'64
from Michigan,
and
Bro. Rene Roy, FMS
'64
from
Massachusetts.
In
addition,
Paul Browne
'71,
vice
president
for
public
affairs at the
University
of Notre
Dame
and a
past
recipient of
the Distinguished Alumni Medal, did
not miss the opportunity to honor his
former
teacher from Mt.
St. Michael Academy in the Bronx, NY. Richard
was joined
by his
wife,
Patricia, his daughter, Barbara,
and
her husband,
two grandchildren, and
several
former
students
from the
University
of
Richmond.
Diss,
who submitted
the
award
nomination, thanked the
Alumni Association
for
honoring Couto:
Richard was
overwhelmed
with
joy and gratitude at
the
presentation
ceremony on Monday, and
I'm
sure
hisfamily,former
students, classmates, and colleagues
will continue to celebrate this
recognition
for years
to come.
The presentation of this award
at
Richard's
bedside was
a solemn event conducted with dignity
and warmth by
Paul Rinn and punctuated
with con-
tributions of stories and fond memories
by
those in
attendance.
It was
a
day
that will be
long remembered.
Since graduating from Marist in
1964,
Couto
dedicated
his life's
work as an educator,
researcher,
and author
to better
the
conditions of
those living in one
of
the poorest
areas of
the
United States. He worked for more than so
years
to improve
lives in Appalachia through his teaching,
scholarly
research,
intervention programs, and related professional
services.
Couto
grew
up in Lawrence,
MA,
and after graduating as a
Marist Brother
obtained a
master's degree from Boston
College.
He
earned a
PhD in political
science from
the University
of
Kentucky
and
began his
academic career
directing Vanderbilt
University's
Center for
Health Services in
1975 .
He focused his
efforts
on low-income
areas
of Appalachia
and
the rural South where he is
considered a
pioneer in the
service-learning
movement
and a
champion of the
social
change emphasis within
it. His Kellogg National Leadership
Fellowship
from
1982
to
1985
recognized his work
and
permitted
him
to extend
his
studies
internationally.
He
was a
founding faculty member
of
the Jepson
School at
the
University of
Richmond
where
he held the George M.
and
Virginia
B.
Modlin
Chair
in Leadership
Studies
(1991-2002).
There he developed a
curriculum
that integrated
classroom
instruction with community
services.
He
also
taught
at
Tennessee State University
Institute
of
Government. His most
recent
appointments
were with Union Institute
and
University
and as a founding
faculty member
of
the
Antioch University
PhD Program in Leadership
and Change.
As
a
renowned
scholar, he garnered
universal
respect and
recognition
as evidenced
by his legislative
and expert-witness
testimonies before the
U.S. Senate.
He
served as a consultant
to
many
agencies and
numerous institutions
of
higher
education
and
his published
work
includes
13
books,
200
journal articles
,
book
chapters,
reviews,
and academic
reports
on
poverty, public
policy,
and
responsible leadership.
t!J
Alumni Association President Rinn (left) joined Richard
Couto's former classmates and student who traveled to
Virginia for the award presentation (in front, from left)
:
Dr
.
Bill Reger
-
Nash
'
65
,
Dr. Ronald Diss '64, John Reynolds
'
64, (in
back, from left) Bro
.
Rene Roy
,
FMS
'
64
,
and Paul Browne
'71
,
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Homecoming and Reunion Weekend
2016
Highlights
H
OMECOMlNG AND
REUNl0N
WEEKEND 2016 was
held
Oct. 21-23. On
Friday evening, Marist students, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends
gathered in Fontaine
Hall
to dedicate a classroom in honor of John
G.
"jerry" White. On Saturday
morning,
the
fifth
annual Alumni Awards
ceremony took
place, recognizing Peter
T
.
Higgins
'67 with the
Dr. Linus
Richard Foy 'so Outstanding Alumnus Award;
Daniel P
.
Kuffner '68 with
the Dr. Dennis j
.
Murray Distinguished Service Award; and Neil S
.
Bhatiya
'06 with the Marist College Young Alumnus Award.
Later in
the day,
the
eighth annual
Theatre Hall
of Fame
induction
and
reception honored five
graduates for their outstanding contributions to theatre at Marist: Glenn
Casale
'
72, Bill
C.
Davis
'73,
Scott Altomare '94, Tauren
Hagans
'96, and
Laurie Benner Bruderek '04. On Saturday evening, all graduating
classes
ending in'\" and "6" celebrated reunions at
locations
on and off campus,
and on Sunday a special reception was
held
after a Mass in
Our
Lady Seat
of Wisdom Chapel to celebrate the retirement of Campus Minister Fr.
Richard LaMorte
.
Photos
from many of
the
weekend's events are available
at
http:
/
/maristconnect.marist.edu/homecoming.
~
Alumni honored for achievement and service were (left to right)
Peter T
.
Higgins '67-Dr. Linus Richard Foy
'
so Outstanding Alumnus
Award; Neil S. Bhatiya '06-Marist College Young Alumnus Award
;
Daniel P. Kuffner '68-Dr. Dennis J. Murray Distinguished Service Award.
}D
w1M&
1967
George
J
.
Sear
l
es, P
hD
,
contin-
ues to teach English and
Latin
at Mohawk Valley Community
College.
He
has remained
profes
-
s
i
onally active
during
the
past
several years,
delivering
the key-
note
address
at the 2015 Technical
Education Colloquium
in Honolulu
,
publishing several
poems
and a
new
college English text, and seeing one
of his earlier books,
Workplace
Communications: The Basics
(used
on
more
than 200 campuses)
published
in a Mandarin transla-
tion from Tsinghua University
in
Beijing. Since
turning
70
he's
won
more
than 25 age-group awards
in
George J
.
Searles
'
67
sK
road races. George is
married to
Ell
i
s Gage (Ladycliff'69);
they have
two
so
n
s.
Alumni inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame were (left to right)
Bill C. Davis
'
73, Scott Altomare '94, Tauren Hagans
'
96, Laurie Benner
Bruderek
'
04, and (not pictured) Glenn Casale '72.
During Homecoming and Reunion Weekend 2016
,
Marist students
,
alumni, faculty
,
staff
,
and friends gathered in Fontaine Hall to dedicate
a classroom in honor of Professor Emeritus of History John G
. "
Jerry
"
White, who passed away in January 2016
.
Cutting the ribbon on the
classroom were his godson Courtney Caldwell (far right) and Zachary
Sargent '18 (left) and Jack Barry
'
17, honors students who took classes
with Professor White.
1968
Jim
Farley
has recently published
eight
novels
and a
new philosophi
-
ca
l
/e
pistemolo
g
ical
work. All are
avai
l
ab
l
e on Amazon.com.
1971
Bill Spenla
retired as global
direc-
tor,
talent
management
and
lead
-
ership
development
w
i
t
h
Axalta
Coating Systems and
has
since
founded a
professional human
resources
services
business
ca
ll
ed
P4
Advisors (Peop
l
e,
Potential,
Possibilities
,
Performance). Bill
and
Mary
Jane
'7
1
remain
the first
Marist graduates
to marry
.
They
li
ve
in Kennett
Sq
u
are,
P
A, a
nd
e
n
joy
vis
itin
g their c
hildr
en, Brad and
Carley, and
their
fam
ili
es, especially
the
three
gra
ndchildren.
"
Life
is
good."
1973
David Liggera
retired
in
2016 after
38 years of service with
the IRS.
He now has
a
part
-t
ime job
wit
h
MAX
IM
US
Federal
, a
company that
supports
multiple
federa
l
agencies
and foreign governments.
"'
John G.
Sio
l
as,
PhD,
and Catherine Tsounis
h
ave wr
itt
en
The Greek American
Experience
111
,
a comprehensive
exploration of
Gre
e
k language
and culture,
published by
the
Pan
-
Macedonian Studies Centre.
SA
VE
THE DATES
Homecoming
&
Reunion Weekend
OCTOBER
6
-
8
,
2017
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Professor Emeritus of Communication and Marist College Heritage
P
r
ofessor Jeptha Lanning taught at Marist for
29
years
.
R
e
membering
Dr. Jeptha Lanning
P
ROFESSOR EMERITUS OF COMMUNICATION and Marist College
Heritage
Professor
Jeptha
Lanning
passed
away on Feb. 5, 2017.
After receiving a BA from
Marist, Dr
.
Lanning taught
English at Mount
St. Michael Academy
in the
Bronx, NY, while completing an MA
in
English at St.
John
's
University.
He
returned
to
Marist
in
1964 after
completing
his
doctoral studies at Catholic
University
of
America in
Washington,
DC.
At Marist,
he taught American literature, drama,
theatre, speech,
and
public relations
and was
the first moderator
of the Marist College
Theatre Guild.
In
addition to serving as chair of
the
English
Department
in the 1970s,
he
was
instrumental in developing the
Communication
Arts major. From
1979 to 1991 he was director of the Marist
Abroad
Program
and,
in
the
1980s,
again chaired the Arts and
Letters Division,
which encompassed the departments of English, communication, foreign
languages,
art,
music,
and fashion
design. Jep taught
at
Marist
for 29
years, retiring in 1993.
~
Ron Vuy
'
74, community manager
of the World Tennis Club Inc
.
in
Naples
,
FL
,
greeted Claire Schmitz
'
19 of Marist
'
s tennis team who was
visiting her uncle, Bob Schmitz
,
at
the club
.
1974
R
ay
mond DuP
o
nt
retired
after 34
years
with IBM
and
17
years with
ClearCube Technology.
H
e
plans to
continue with his
activ
iti
es su
pport
-
ing the poor through the Society
of
St. Vincent
d
e
Paul.
1984
Kathl
ee
n Llo
y
d
's
so
n
, Cha
rli
e,
was
commissioned
in the
U.S. Navy an
d
is
an ens
i
gn on
the
U
SS
Forrest
Sherman
(DDG-98).
1985
D
o
nald
E.
Go
ess
'8
5
received
hi
s
doctorate in
ed
u
ca
tion
a
l
admi
ni
s-
tration from the
University of
Texas
at
San Antonio
(UTSA)
in
May
2015
.
He is
a
l
ect
urin
g
professor
at
UTSA.
He resides in San Antonio
with
his
wife,
April, the director
of
ed
u
ca
ti
on at
the
C
ulin
ary
Institute
~
ski trip became a mini-Marist reunion on top of Bromley Mountain
in
Peru, VT, on Jan. 7, 2017, bringing together Paul Ceonzo
'
79
,
Thomas
Kaelin '79
,
Jim Flynn
'
79
,
Jay Sparkes
,
Tom Crane
'
79
,
Ken Easlon '78
,
and
(not pictured) Keith Hollman
'
79 and Gregory Clifford
'
79.
of
America
San
Antonio
campus.
They have three
l
arge
Labradors
a
nd
o
n
e
boxer mix they rescued
.
1986
Mic
h
a
el O
'
Bri
e
n
was
appointed
chief client officer at global commu-
ni
catio
n
s
firm Ketchum. O'Brien,
a
partner,
was formerly
director
of
client
development
for North
America."'
ESPN.com columnist
Ia
n O
'
Conno
r
won
three recent
n
ational
writing
awards.
He took
first place in the Golf Writers
Association
of
America's
an
nu
a
l
contest
for
a co
lumn
on
the death
of
Arnold Palmer.
H
e
won first
place in
the
Pro
Football
Writers
Association
of
America
's
annual
co
nt
est
for
a
feature
on
Green Bay
Packers icon
Bart Starr.
And he
was named
one
of America's top
10
sports co
lumni
sts
by
the Associated
Press Sports
Editors.
l
rnnm-uw:
1987
Su
sa
n Sullivan
-
Bi
sceg
li
a
was
appointed associate just
i
ce of
the
vi
lla
ge of
Wappingers Falls,
NY.
S
h
e
is
a
l
so a
licensed pilot
and
a
n
attorney at
her
own firm.
The
Poughkeepsie Journal
featured
h
er as a
Women's History Month
Trailblazer in February
2016.
1989
C
h
r
i
s A
l
g
o
zz
in
e
('95
MS)
ret
i
red
from IBM in
July
2015 after 26 years
and rejoined
the
Marist commu-
nity
as a f
ull
-t
im
e facu
lt
y
member
in the
Schoo
l
of Computer Science
and Mathematics. As a professional
l
ecturer of
information
systems,
h
e
is
teaching upper-level
electives.
"'
Ke
n
F
o
ye
is lecturer
of Eng
li
sh
at
the
H
akodate camp
u
s of
the
Hokkaido
University of Education
in
Japan.
He
also
recently
became an
o
bl
ate of St.
Benedict
(a
l
ay
member
of
the Benedictine religious
order)
affil
i
ated with a Benedictine
mon
-
astery
in
Japan.
1989
Rodn
ey Mc
R
ae
was
appointed
executive
director
of
the
Nassau
County (NY)
Hum
an
Rights
Commissio
n
by the
Nassau County
Commission
Board
of
Directors
in
February
2015.
1990
To
m
McCa
rth
y
and
his
wife,
Michelle
,
became the new
own-
ers of the
Wildflower Inn
Bed and
Breakfast in Great
Barrington, MA.
Ted Millar '98 (left), an adjunct instructor in literature at Marist and a
teacher in the Mahopac (NY) School District, and Linda McCauley Freeman
(right), former poet
-
in
-
residence for the Putnam County (NY) Arts Council
,
created the Ulster County (NY} Poetry Project with a grant from Mid
-
Hudson Arts
.
The project aims to give area residents the chance to share
,
read, and publish their work through monthly workshops at the Marlboro
Public Library in Marlboro, NY.
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ST
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While studying in Italy during the fall
2016
semester
,
Shamus J
.
Barnes
'
18
welcomed family members for a visit. Shown are three generations
of Mari st alumni: (left to right) Shamus, his father Shamus M
.
Barnes
'91,
his sister, Kayla Barnes
'
19,
his mother, Debbie (Joyce) Barnes
'90
,
and his
grandfather, Marist Trustee Jim Barnes '68.
1991
A
n
t
h
o
n
y Azzara
is
a
film/TV
production
accountant
working
on
Matthew Weiner's new proj
-
ect
The
Romanojfs.
s
D
r
.
Kris
ti
n
(Sie
b
rec
ht
)
B
o
h
an
was
honored by
Coastal Carolina University as one
of
its
2017
Inspiring
Women.
She is
a
psychologist working with
g
irl
s
and
women who
suffe
r
from
eating
disorders, body-image issues,
anxi
-
ety, and
depression.
She
is
also
the
founder of the Coastal
Montessori
Charter School
in
Pawleys Island,
SC.
lJ1
1:1m·UR
~
1992
J
ose
ph
S
tanfo
r
d
was
appointed
director
of
in
formation
technology
and
network for Rocky Mountain
Ham Radio, which maintains
a
private
emergency
intranet
on
mountain tops from
Cheyenne,
WY
,
to
Sandia, NM, and
throughout
Co
lor
ado.
1994
Kathl
ee
n D
o
noh
oe
's
debut novel,
Ashes of
Fiery
Weather,
was pub-
lished in August
2016
by Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt.
lil
wh·HR
1997
Kat
hr
y
n P
a
lm
e
r
h
as
begun teach-
ing
fashion
design
after spending
15
years
working
in
the New York City
fashion industry.
s
Bl
a
nc
a Vas
qu
ez
married Jason Rajkowski
o
n
July
29,
2016.
1998
Ma
tth
e
w L
as
kow
s
ki
is
a
parale-
ga
l
in the Financial Restructuring
Group
at
Stroock, Stroock
&
Lavan,
LLP, in New York
City.
s
D
a
ni
e
ll
e
(
Battilor
o) Va
phid
es
was promoted
to managing director
at
Accenture.
1999
D
y
l
a
n
E
d
ga
r
is
servi
ng
as execu-
tive producer
of a
production
stu-
dio
at
Vayner Media.
s
K
a
thl
ee
n
(Wisn
i
ewsk
i
) McE
nro
e
has been
teaching
for
12
years.
She teaches
third
grade
at
a
Queens, NY,
e
l
eme
nt
ary school.
I
n
addition
to
teaching,
she
has decided to turn
her photography hobby into
a
busi-
ness. Her first photo was published
in
Forbes
magazine in December
2016.
Rickey Ruff
'17
addresses
Marist students
,
faculty
,
and
staff at CU RSC A.
2000
Chri
s
Byth
ew
ood
is a writer on the
Fox series
Shots Fired.
The
series
is
a 10-hour
event
which premiered
in
.
March.
2001
Jenni
f
e
r
B
ra
di
s
h
and her hus-
band, Andrew Kernan, welcomed
their first
c
hild,
a
daughter named
Genevieve Grace, on April 8,
2016.
s
Trace
y
Carangelo
moved
to Los
Angeles to pursue her passion for
spiritual arts
and creative endeavors.
An entrepreneur, she founded the
Muse Crypt (TheMuseCrypt.com)
in April
2015.
s
Lind
a
Fakhour
y
was named one of the
2017
Forty
under
40
"Movers and
Shakers"
by
the Dutchess
County (NY}
Chamber
of Commerce
.
s
Domini
c
k
Giord
a
no J
r.
owns
and operates
Kool Toys
&
Games. Specializing
in
co
l
l
ect
ib
l
es and pop-culture
memorabilia, it
i
s
now
in its 10th
year
of business.
s
R
ay
mond Philo
(
MP
A)
co-authored
the textbook
The
Corr of
the American Justice
System:
Lessons
and
the Anatomy of
an American Tragedy
.
Pub
li
shed
by
Kendall Hunt Publishing, the book
became
avai
l
ab
l
e
in January
2017.
lil
wh·UR
~
2002
Jo
se A
ron
-
Di
az
got
married on
June
4,
2016,
and
was promoted to
associate
director of business
solu-
tions
at
the Rockefeller Foundation.
s
Mich
ae
l
E
lli
s
on
('12 MPA)
Sports agent Sean Stellato
'
02
(far
right) represented four players who
played in the Super Bowl including
(left to right) Brandon King, Nate
Ebner, and Ryan Allen.
2003
J
ess
i
c
a
T
hornhill
's
great great
a
unt
,
Elisabeth Hesselblad,
a
Swedish
nun
,
was canonized in June
2016
.
s
Sta
cey
Willi
s
conti
nue
s
to
travel the world, having developed
a
passion for international travel
after
spending
the spring
semester of
her
junior
year
in Madrid, Spain, back
in
2002.
She
has
since traveled to
more than
30
countries.
2004
►
became
engaged
to Nicole Ettlinger
•
in December
2016.
S
ea
n B
a
rne
s
spent 10
years
in the
New York commercial real
estate
busin
ess,
which
l
ed
to a
career
in
h
otel restoration with Structure
Tone.
H
e
purchased McCoy's
Upholstery, which
serviced
the
a
uto
market for upholstery
and
convertible tops,
in
Woodside,
~
Rickey Ruff
'17
is Keynote
at Research Conference
R
ICKEY
RuFF
'17
was
the keynote speaker at
the
Celebration of
Undergraduate
Research, Scholarship,
and
Creative Activity
(CURSCA) conference April
19,
2017,
in
the
Murray Student Center.
Ruff
is a global
manufacturing
and sourcing
manager
at
Ralph
Lauren
Corp.
He has
carried out roles in
design development,
technical
design
,
global
business,
and
production
and currently
works on Ralph Lauren's
runway
collection.
He
was
the first person in the history
of Marist to
play
football for
the Red
Foxes while
majoring in
fashion.
CURSCA is
Marist's
annual showcase of student scholarly and
creative work,
providing
a forum for students to share
their
work with
,
and
be
celebrated
by, the
College community.
L-:J
Bo
ok
your hotel room now!
Columbus Day Weekend is a busy time
of
year in the Hudson Valley.
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VI .
==" • -
a,
C
NY. Sean added corporate theater
seating and
hotel
upholstery to
the company's services
.
Within 18
months, Sea
n
and
his
father,
Jim
Barnes
'68,
have transformed the
auto upholstery shop
into
a
hug
e
production shop for the New York
marketplace. a
Stephen Geraght
y-
Harrison
re
l
ocated to Denver, CO,
in November 2016, after living in
Florida for 12 years, to start a new
role as
compensation
manager for
Children's Hospital Colorado. a
Jessica Revoir
married Anthony
Tortorice on Dec.
10,
2016
.
A wed-
ding Mass was held at St. Veronica's
Roman Catholic Church in Howell,
NJ,
followed by a Christmas-themed
reception at the English Manor in
Ocean Township,
NJ.
Jessica is
vice president of marketing at First
New Alumni
Board
Elected
N
EW
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Executive
Board officers
were elected on March
11,
2017,
and will assume
their positions
this summer
:
president,
Daniel
E.
Moran
II
'
03; vice
president
,
Eileen
Gilfedder Altobelli '82; secretary,
Michael
C.
Accuosti '98;
treasurer,
Anthony W. Lorello
'
86; and
mem
-
bership
chairperson,
Robert
P
.
McAndrew
'
79
.
The Marist Alumni A
s
sociation
is extremely grateful to Paul X
.
Rinn
'
68 for
his dedicated
service as
president for the past
three
years
.
His
vision of a veterans
memorial
on campus
became
a reality in 2015
when Marist installed and
dedicated
a granite fixture next to the
flag pole
near Donnelly Hall.
As a
retired
U
.
S
.
Navy captain, Rinn
is
very pas
-
s
ionate
about recognizing veterans
and active
military. He
a
l
so
played
an integral role in Marist
'
s search
for a
new president. The
year
-
long
process included
many meetings
and conv
e
rsations in conjunction
with Marist's
Board of
Trustees,
faculty
,
staff
,
alumni
,
and students.
The Marist
Alumni
Association
is
happy that Paul Rinn will continue
his involvement with the associa
-
tion as a
member
of the
Greystone
Board
.
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32
MARIST
M
AGAZINE
President David Yellen, Leslie Richards
-
Yellen, President Emeritus Dennis
J.
Murray, and Marilyn Murray led Marist alumni
,
friends
,
and families up
Fifth Avenue in New York City on March 17, 2017, for the 256th St. Patrick
'
s
Day Parade
.
The Marist contingent was once again joined by the Amerscot
Highland Pipe Band of Staatsburg, NY
.
Carrying the banner were Student
Government Association President Brandon Heard
'17
(left) and Nicholas
Homler'13.
Financial Federal
Credit Union, and
Anthony works in law
enforcement.
a
Dr
.
Eddie Summers
('06
MPA)
is the
chief strategy and
planning
officer for Long Island University.
a
Bobbi
Sue
and
T
ravi
s
Tellitocci
('14
M/'14 M)
welcomed son
Hudson
in July
2016. Travis
took
a
new
job as
assistant commissioner for football
and basketball at the Ohio Valley
Conference and
they now live in
Nashville, TN.
2005
Jennifer Tiller
joined the House
Agricultural Committee
as
profes-
sional
staff
for nutrition
and
welfare
issues.
She has been working in
Washington, DC,
since 2012
.
2006
Andrew Marley
has been
work-
ing
for
the past
10
years at
Liberty
Mutual Boston. He
and
his wife,
Amy, reside in Hopkinton, MA. a
Rebecca
{Nowak) Smith
and
her
husband,
Brendan
'07, welcomed
their
second child, a
boy,
on
April
14,
2017.
Tanner
Eugene Smith joins
big brother
Cameron
.
Becky works
as a development
specialist
for the
March
of
Di mes.
]D
anrn•i-=
2007
of study,
receiving her
Doctor of
Education from Drexel
University
in Philadelphia, PA. Her disserta-
tion
focused on
how
faculty
use
web-based technologies,
both
within and outside
learning man-
agement systems (LMS), and
how
that
affects student engagement. She
teaches
at Dutchess Community
College and
is
an academic coach.
She
has taught
online for Marist
in the past.
a
Melinda Martinez
was recognized
as one of the
2016
40
Under 40
Rising
Stars by
the Hispanic Coalition
NY,
Inc.
Melinda is the director
of the
Liberty Partnerships Program
at
Marist College. a
Matthew Sacco
has
accepted a
position
as
program
officer
in
the U.S. Department of
State's Bureau
of Educational and
Cultural
Affairs.
a
Brendan Smith
is
working as a project specialist for
Brooks
Brothers
Corporate.
He
and
his
wife,
R
e
b
ecca (Nowak)
'06,
wel
-
comed
their
second child on April
14, 2017. Tanner Eugene joins
big
brother
Cameron.
2008
Stephanie Novia
and
her husband
Jon
Bassi welcomed their first child,
Owen,
in
October 2016.
a
David
Hochman
and
his
wife, Cari,
welcomed
a son. Nicholas Daniel
was born
on Sept. 24, 2016,
in
Hackensack,
NJ.
a
Jon Infanti
and
Gina Pennisi
'10
tied the
knot on
Sept. 9, 2016.
a
R
ac
h
el
Klauber
was
married to Jason Rainha
on Sept.
10,
2016.
a
Casey Paluskiewicz
and James
Hegarty
were married on
Sept. 24, 2016,
in Piscataway,
NJ. The
couple resides in Woodbridge, NJ.
Fr.
Matthew Reiman
'09
officiated
the
wedding Mass.
2009
Fred
dimir
Garcia
('i4 M) was
recognized as one of
the
2016
40 Under 40
Rising
Stars
by
the
Hispanic
Coalition NY,
Inc.
Freddy
is
a
Presidential Fellow
at
Marist
College.
a
Alison
Jalbert
joined
Pratt
&
Whitney as a
technical
writer in
September 2016, work
-
ing
on
proposals,
reports, and
other
documents in the
company's
Military
Engines
unit.
a
Amy
Martin
has been
a
police
officer
in
Virginia for
more than
two years
and
is pursuing
a rank of
detective.
She
received her master's
in forensic
psychology
with a concentration
in intelligence
studies
in
2014.
a
Christina Te
llo
was married on
Oct.
15,
2016.
Meaghan Calnan
is director
of
communications at
National
Geographic,
overseeing public
relations
activities for
their travel
and
licensing divisions.
a
Linda
Gaines
completed
three
years
Eric Wrigley
'
13/'14 MBA and his combat
robotics team,
Bots FC
,
came
in
third at the Orlando Maker Faire with his robot Mega Melvin
.
He hopes to
become a contestant on the ABC
show
BattleBots.
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Mari
s
t Kiva Team Helps
Entrepreneurs
D
URING
HIS
TIME
AT MARIST, Chris
Buccella
'06
double
-majored in
econom-
ics and
information technology. So when he
l
earned a
bout
Kiva,
a
nonprofit
organization
that
facil
it
ates
microlending
in
more than
Bo
countries,
he
imm
e
di
ate
l
y
became interested,
describing it
as "t
h
e
int
e
r
sec
ti
o
n
of
eco
nomics
and
technology."
Buccella, a software engineer
at Synchronoss
Techno
l
ogies
who
li
ves
in Poughkeepsie, NY,
cre-
ated
the
Marist
Kiva
l
en
din
g
team
in
2008.
The
goal,
he
says, was for the
Marist team to outrank
other collegiate
l
en
din
g
teams such
as
Vassar
and Siena
.
"We've
done that quite
h
and
il
y, and
have
even surpassed
l
arger teams suc
h
as NYU."
He
int
roduced
Dave Bedoukian
'06
of
Danbury
,
CT, to the organization.
"
At the
time,
I
was just
start
in
g
to travel
internationally
for
bu
s
in
ess,"
says
B
e
douki
a
n,
sales
director
at Bedouk
i
an
Research.
"When
you see some of
the poorest places,
yo
u
natu-
rally
want to
h
e
lp
but
are
n
'
t
sure
how
.
While
charities are great,
with Kiva
you know exactly
where your
money
goes. It's very rewarding
to
see
the updates
and success
of
th
e sma
ll bu
s
in
esses
you've
helped
."
Bedoukian
ca
ll
s
it
an
honor
to
be
co-captain
w
ith
Bucce
ll
a
.
"One of
the
great
things
abo
ut
K
iv
a
is
that when you
lend
even
$25,
you are opening
up a world of opportunity for someone e
l
se
that's
really
a 'teac
h
a
man
to
fish'
story,"
h
e said
.
"Over
97
percent of the
time,
you are
paid back
when a
business succeeds. Our goal
is to build the
team,
rally the troops
,
and
have Marist become
a
n
even
stronger
platform
to
help
entrepreneurs
in the
developing world
.
"
BY ADRIANA BELMONTE
'
17
John Martin
"Kevin"
Carolan
'
54
David Bedouk
i
an
'06
Loans
a
r
e
mad
e
through
microfinanc
e
insti
-
tutions
a
nd
nonprofits which
Kiv
a
calls
"
field
partners,"
acco
rdin
g
to Kiva's
web
site
.
The part-
n
ers
screen borrowers and
distribut
e
loans, usu
-
ally
before the
lo
a
n h
as
be
e
n
completely
fund
ed
on the Kiva site
so
that
borrowers can
ben
efit
ri
g
ht
away.
Partners
collect
r
e
paym
e
nts from
borrowers
a
nd
repay Kiva, which
d
eposits
repay-
ments into
l
e
nd
ers'
individual
Kiva
accou
nt
s
.
Kiva
a
l
so
l
e
nd
s
dir
ec
tl
y
to
borrow
ers
once a
loan has been fully
crowd
funded.
Kiva's web
s
it
e
provides
inform
a
tion
about
the borrower,
a
nd
then
it
's
up to
the Kiva user
to
d
ecide
which
l
oans
to
support.
Kiva users fund
a
loan
in
$25
increments until the
goa
l is r
eac
h
ed.
Most
l
oa
n
s,
Bucce
ll
a
says, are for
busin
ess
needs, but
some
l
oans are a
lso
for
personal
us
e,
such as educat
i
on
.
"On our
team
,
our focus areas are
female
borrowers in the
agricu
ltur
e a
nd
food
sector,"
he
says.
"
Often
a
borrower will need a loan at
the
start of
the planting
seaso
n
for supplies and
then
pays back
the
loan
after
the harvest is
sold."
One loan involved
a group
of Indonesian
farmers who wanted
to rent
a tractor and
pur
-
chase fertilizer.
Another,
one
of Bedoukian
's
favorites,
was to
a
man in Mexico
seeking
to
restore his
taco
truck.
"We
all
put
our
$25
in
,"
Bedoukian
says. "We
forgot about
this for
a
whi
l
e,
but then saw
an
updat
e
of
his that business
was
booming!"
As of February
2017,
the Marist
Kiva
lend-
ing t
ea
m has made
1,500
l
oans
totaling nearly
$38,000.
Th
e
most
recent statistics are available
at
www.kiva
.
org/team/marist/impact.
"You
can
l
end
to
any
country,
any
profes
-
sion,
any gender,
so
you can support
whatever
you're the
most p
ass
ionate
about or
what
seems
the most interesting," Bedoukian
says. "With
eve
n
$100
to
start you can initially
lend to
four
diff
ere
nt businesses
.
Aft
e
r the business
suc-
ceeds, you
ca
n take
that
same money
and
l
e
nd
it
out again." More
information is
available at
www
.
kiva.org/team/marist.
i!l
Remembering Kevin Carolan '54
J
OHN MARTIN "KEVIN" CAROLAN
passed away on March
28, 2017,
in
Murfreesboro, TN.
He
was
85
.
Originally from New York City, Kevin and
hi
s
wife, Donna,
raised their family in
Poughkeepsie,
NY.
After
graduating
from Marist College
in
1954
as
a Marist
Brother, he
went
on
to
obta
in
a
master's degree
in m
at
h
from St.
John
's
University
in
1960.
From
1955
to
1961
h
e
taught mathematics
at Car
din
a
l H
ayes
Hi
g
h
School
in
New York City.
In
196
2
he returned to
Marist where
he held
a
variety
of roles and
retired in
2002
as associate professor of
math
e
mat-
ics after servi
n
g
the College
with
distinction for
40
yea
r
s.
In
2003,
Kevin was among a very
specia
l
group
of
facu
lt
y
designated
as
Marist
Co
ll
ege
H
e
rit
age
Professors in recognition
of
their
unique
contributions
to the
early
development
of
Marist
a
nd
their
co
mmitm
e
nt
to
exce
llence
.
Kevin is
survived
by
h
is wife,
his
son Sean an
d hi
s
wife Magdalena,
hi
s
dau
g
hter
Sarah and
h
er
husband Trevor de
C
l
erc
q
,
two
sisters, four gra
nd
c
hildr
en, and
many
niec
es a
nd n
e
ph
ews.
A funeral Mass was
held
in Tennessee in
late March.
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&
Friends GolfTournament
SEPTEMBER
25, 2017
Powelton Club, Newburgh, NY
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34
2010
A
m
a
nd
a Cicer
o
('12 MPA) was
to grad
u
a
t
e fro
m l
aw sc
h
oo
l
t
hi
s
spring
and
w
ill b
egi
n
working as
an
assista
n
t d
i
str
i
ct attorney at t
h
e
Bronx D
i
str
i
ct Attorney's Office
in
September
2017.
O
n
March 3, she
a
n
d
C
hri
s
toph
e
r
Y
u
s
ko
'
0
7
ce
l
-
ebrated
their five-year anniversary.
a
Lea
h B
o
bb
a
nd
Steph
e
n
Ma
ron
ey
we
l
comed twins, Stephen and Aella,
on March 6,
2017.
a
G
in
a
P
e
nn
isi
a
n
d
Jon I
n
fa
nt
i
'
0
8
we
r
e ma
rri
ed
on Sept. 9,
2016.
a
C
h
risto
ph
er
Ritters
an
d h
is
w
ife, a
n
a
lu
m
n
a of
the Culinary Institute of America,
were married on May
7, 2016
.
They
recently purchased their first home
.
a
Osam
u
Ta
n
i
m
oto
cont
i
nues
to paint, focus
i
ng on sacred art.
He is painting for t
h
e Diocese of
Nagasaki and wi
ll
curate an ex
hibi
-
tion of
sacred
art in Tuscany, Ita
l
y,
in the
summer
of
2017.
a
C
olin
Walker
completed his doctora
l
degree in
2016
with
a
d
i
ssertat
i
on
focusing on
stude
n
t veterans tit
l
e
d
"
Phenomenological Study of Student
Veterans' Accu
l
t
u
ratio
n
to Hig
h
er
Education." He is
an
assistant
professor of digita
l
production
at
Valdosta State University after bei
n
g
a
lecturer of mass media for four
years
.
2011
James Ferrig
n
o
and
R
ac
h
e
l
Ma
l
ea
d
y
were married on Sept.
10,
2016,
in Rockland Co
un
ty, NY.
Many Marist
alumni
from the Class
of
2011
attended the weddi
n
g
.
a
Nick Fie
r
ro
joined the
I
nternal
Audit Department
at
Go
l
dman
years at Ernst an
d
Young in its
R
isk Ma
n
age
m
e
n
t/l
nd
e
p
en
d
e
n
ce
Department.
a
John Rod
in
o
is
t
h
e
h
ead teac
h
e
r
at St. Bernar
d
's
Schoo
l
in New York City, w
h
ere
h
is
st
u
dy abroad
experiences
in Spain,
Ec
u
a
d
or, a
nd
Argent
in
a wh
il
e a
Marist student
"are
an
asset."
He
p
l
a
n
s to take
h
is st
u
dents to Ecuador
each
spring.
a
Jessica Steve
n
so
n
('13
MA) marrie
d
C
h
r
i
s
t
opher Mi
l
es
in
San Clemente, CA, on Dec
.
17,
2016
.
She now resides in Nas
h
vi
ll
e,
TN,
w
i
t
h h
er
hu
sba
n
d a
n
d two dogs.
ln
a:m,-uw:
~
2012
Car
l
y
D
eCo
u
rsey
t
ra
i
ned for sev
-
era
l
mont
h
s and fi
ni
s
h
ed the
2017
Boston Mara
th
o
n
on t
h
e Da
n
a-
Farber team, raising money for
cancer research. For more informa
-
t
i
on on Car
l
y's fund-ra
i
si
n
g
initia
-
tive, vis
i
t www.rundfmc.org/2017/
car
l
yd.
a
Joa
nn
a F
o
ss
h
as been
Sachs.
H
e previous
l
y spent five
Joanna Foss
'
12
The Associat
i
on of Public Historians of New York State presented the 20
1
6
Hugh Hastings Award to Denise Roe
'
11 MPA
,
Madison County clerk, on
Sept
.
15
,
2016
,
in recognition of Roe
'
s distinguished service to the public
h
i
sto
r
y community of New York State.
Danielle Delao
'
12
(
center)
,
an advocate for domest
i
c vio
l
ence surv
i
vo
r
s
,
spoke at Mar
i
st on Feb. 22 about her own experience in an abusive
relationship. After the presentation
,
she joined a panel for a discuss
i
on
and
Q & A with Kathy Peluso
,
coordinato
r
of training and outreach fo
r
Family Services
'
Center fo
r
Vict
i
m Safety and Support
;
Lt.
Gary Hulbert
'
15
of the Town of Poughkeeps
i
e Police Department
'
s Community Pol
i
ci
n
g
Unit
;
Edward Freer
,
Deputy T
i
tle IX coord
i
nato
r
at Marist
;
and D
r
.
Naom
i
Ferleger, director of counseling services at Mari
s
t
.
elected executive board
student
represe
n
tative for the Association
for Applied Sport Psychology
(AASP),
an
international profes-
sional organization that promotes
the field
of sport
psychology. She
is
a
doctora
l
student
i
n
counseling
psychology with
a subspecialty
in
sport psycho
l
ogy
at
the University
of Missouri
and
is
a
mental health
performance
coach
in the
University
of Missouri Athletic Department,
working with athletes and
coaches.
a
Li
nd
say Mes
h
was honored
at
the
40 Stars Under 40
event
hosted by
the
Queens Courier.
She
is
an asso-
ciate
at
Forchelli
,
Curto,
Deegan,
Schwartz, Mineo
&
Terrana LLP,
concentrating
her practice in t
h
e
areas of
real
estate
finance
,
banking
,
foreclosures, a
n
d
creditors'
rights.
2013
Erin Graet
z
er
spent
two
years
after graduation
in
eastern North
Caro
l
ina
as a
Teach For America
Corps member. She teaches first
grade with the
New
York City
Department
of
Education and will
graduate from CUNY Queens in
May
2017
with
a
master's in literacy.
a
Aimee Niensta
d
t
was admitted
to the New York State Bar in March
of 2017.
Aimee
graduated cum
laude
with
a
juris doctor degree from Pace
University Law
School
in May
2016.
ln August
2016
Aimee
joined
the law
firm of Catan
i
a,
Mahon, Milligram
&
Rider, PLLC
,
in Newburgh, NY,
as
an
associate
.
Whi
l
e at
Pace Law
School, Aimee was
an articles
editor
for
Pace Law Review. Her
article
"
The Insufficiency
of
the Law
Surrounding
Food Allergies
"
was
pub
l
ished in the
R
eview
.
2014
Christina D
'
Arco
is pursuing her
PhD
i
n immu
n
o
l
ogy
at
New
York
Medical Co
ll
ege.
She
also
had
an
article
published in the
scientific
journa
l
Vaccine.
2015
A
l
ma Ha
dd
a
d
i
is
enrolled
in the Integrated Marketing
Communication
Program
at
Mar
i
st and
expects
to graduate
in May
2018.
a
Co
u
rtne
y
Lawlor
accepted
the full-time position
of
retai
l
assistant at Frontier
Ranch,
a Young
Life
camp for
high
school
students in Buena Vista, CO.
a
Ca
r
a Mooney
has been
an English
Teaching Assistant in
South
Korea
through a Fu
l
bright
grant. She
documented recent
events in South
Korea
at
www.caramooneyphoto.
com, where she also writes about
her
international travels
and
displays
her photography. a
Connie M
y
ers
-
Kerr
(MA) was
hired
by Columbus
State Community
Col
l
ege as an
adjunct faculty
member in the
Communication Department to
instruct students in the
College
Credit Plus program. She teaches
at
Franklin University
as well as
Columbus State.
2016
Nao
m
i
B
atson
celebrated six
months of
employment
with
Central
Hudson
.
She
was
hired immediately
fo
ll
ow
i
ng
graduation
from Marist.
a
Kevin B
ru
ck
n
er
joined IBM
as a
software
engineer
for
content
design
and
development
at
the
company's
Poughkeepsie site
.
a
Kevi
n
Byrne
(MPA)
was e
l
ected
to the New
York State
Assembly in the
94th
Assemb
l
y
District. a
Sy
d
ne
y
Coffe
y
MA
RI
ST
MAGAZ
I
NE
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Michael D. Johnson
'13
and Brittany M
.
Macleod
'13
(above sign) went on a cruise to Cuba and the Dominican
Republic in March
2017
that integrated community outreach and service in place of traditional excursions. After
touring Santiago De Cuba, they participated in two service activities near Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic
:
volunteering at a recycled paper collective and (above) helping local university students learn English.
joined t
h
e roster of t
h
e Ringwoo
d
Lady Hawks of t
h
e Ringwood
H
awks
Basketba
ll
Association in Austra
l
ia.
e No
rm
a
n
Co
tt
r
ill
worke
d
b
ri
e
fl
y
for Wor
l
d W
r
es
tlin
g E
n
te
r
ta
inm
e
nt
(WWE)
before
b
e
i
ng ca
ll
e
d up
on to
serve o
n
t
h
e
civi
li
a
n
si
d
e of
t
he U.S.
Army, prod
u
c
in
g
t
ra
inin
g
m
a
t
e-
r
ia
l
for wa
r
fig
h
ter exe
r
c
i
ses
.
Th
e
posit
i
o
n
e
n
a
bl
es
him
to
u
t
ili
ze
hi
s
Marist
educatio
n
a
nd p
r
i
o
r milit
a
r
y
ex
p
erie
n
ce
.
a
D
a
ni
e
ll
e
Dak
e
i
s a
n
in
te
rp
ret
i
ve g
uid
e a
t th
e Na
ti
o
n
a
l
Se
p
te
mb
e
r
11
th
Me
m
oria
l
M
u
se
um
.
S
h
e
is carryi
n
g out researc
h
for more ma
t
er
i
a
l
to
a
dd
to
h
e
r
m
u
seum tour
.
a
R
e
b
ecca
D
av
i
s
(MA) is
a
sc
h
oo
l p
syc
h
o
l
og
i
st.
a
Le
o D
y
l
ews
k
i
(M
P
A) was
r
ece
n
t
l
y
promo
t
e
d
to
li
e
u
te
n
a
nt
af
t
er
serv
in
g
as a
p
atro
l
o
ffi
ce
r
a
nd
se
r
gea
nt. H
e
says
hi
s MPA
d
egree fro
m
Ma
ri
st
was a major factor ass
i
s
tin
g
in
h
is
p
ro
m
ot
i
o
n
.
a
K
er
in Haft
i
s
wo
r
k
in
g a
t B
roa
drid
ge
Fin
a
n
c
i
a
l
So
luti
ons
i
n fi
n
a
n
cia
l
ope
r
a
ti
o
n
s as
an A
R
a
n
a
l
ys
t.
S
h
e
pl
a
n
s
t
o a
t
te
nd
gra
d
ua
t
e sc
h
oo
l t
o ea
rn
a
n MBA
.
a
L
a
ur
a
J
e
n
se
n
(
MA
)
w
as
hir
e
d b
y
Laura Jensen
'
16
Marist alumni, retired faculty
,
and friends gathered in Naples, FL
,
on
Feb.
22, 2017,
to welcome President David Yellen to the Marist community.
Florida Alumni Chapter President Ernie Arico
'
76 (right) presented Marc
Hamlin '89 (left) with the Florida Alumni Chapter Award in honor of his
achievements and with gratitude for his dedication to Marist. Since
1990
Hamlin has been with the City of Tampa Police Department where he is
now ass
i
stant chief of operations. He was instrumental in arranging the
partnership between the Tampa PD and Marist's MPA program that has
been a feeder for students into the MPA program.
Pin
c
kn
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Hu
g
o Group
as a
n
a
s
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s-
t
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acco
unt m
a
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ager.
a
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li
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M
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as
b
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o
rkin
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in th
e
hum
a
n
serv
i
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fi
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ld
,
h
e
lpin
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uth in th
e c
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ty o
f
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u
se
. a
D
a
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l
McNa
m
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(
M
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s e
n
joy
in
g
w
o
r
k as a
l
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g-
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eave
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pl
ace
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nth
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l
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udi
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t Su
ffe
rn
(NY) M
iddl
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oo
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whi
c
h i
s
in th
e sc
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s
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t h
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r
e
w up
a
tt
e
ndin
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a N
icol
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N
az
i
(
MA
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p
ro
m
o
t
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d t
o ass
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s
t
a
nt
v
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ce presi
d
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nt
of Na
t
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l
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k of
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w
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tt
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ndin
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p
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m
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n
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na
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GA
.
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eceive
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Y
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t
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as
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cat
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rd t
o a
tt
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nd th
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ve
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it
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f
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y o
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full
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tuiti
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s
ch
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l
ars
hip
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dicini
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s
thrill
e
d t
o
b
e wo
rkin
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in
t
h
e
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a
rmin
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l
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(NY) Sc
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s
tri
c
t
as a ce
rtifi
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d
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ntar
y e
du
ca
ti
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p
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ci
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ca
ti
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n t
eac
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fo
r
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es
1
-6.
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s e
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ro
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a
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CW Pos
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a
n
d
pur
s
u
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a
m
as
t
er's
in lit
e
r
a
c
y.
a
Jon
a
th
a
n
S
c
h
w
ind
pl
ays
b
a
s
e
b
a
ll
w
ith th
e
Pi
t
t
s
bur
g
h Pir
a
t
es orga
ni
zat
i
o
n
.
In
2016
h
e rece
iv
e
d
t
h
e
Pi
ra
t
es'
Co
mmunit
y Co
mmi
t
m
e
nt A
wa
rd
a
t th
e
Doubl
e
-
A le
ve
l
a
nd
was
p
rese
nt
e
d th
e awa
rd in
a
p
rega
m
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cere
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y
at
P
NC
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in
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(MS) joi
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l
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lution
s as
a we
b
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fr
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nt
-e
nd d
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l
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p
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r.
a
N
in
a
V
ult
ag
gio
(
MB
A) was a
pp
o
int
e
d
v
i
ce
pr
es
id
e
nt
o
f
sa
l
es a
nd m
ar
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t
-
in
g fo
r G
o
rill
a
M
ar
k
e
tin
g.
i!l
Boo
k your hotel room now!
Columbus Day Weekend is a
busy
time of yea
r
in the Hudson Valley
.
In
Memo1·ia1n
Alumni
Bro. Julian E
.
Roy
,
FMS
'
52
Edward R
.
Ca
s
tine
,
Jr.
'
55
Gerard A. McCann
'
55
Bro
.
Franci
s
F
.
O
'
Mall
e
y
,
FMS
'
57
Bro
.
Robert
J.
Kamarad
,
FMS
'
58
Bro
.
William P
.
Lally
'
59
Lt. Col. Thoma
s
F. Ert
s,
USA (Ret
)
'
61
John M. Collins
'
63
Jame
s
V
.
Gargan
,
E
s
q
.
'
63
Dr
.
Richard A
.
Couto
'
64
J
e
rome A
.
Weyant
'
65
John P
.
Glackin
'
66
Charle
s
R
.
Ca
s
sidy
'
67
Irving Lowe
'
68
Re
v.
Jo
s
eph G
.
O
'
Connell
'
6
8
V
i
ncent Avallone, Jr
.
'
69
Peter P
.
Mack
'
69
Willard Snyder
'
69
Milton A
.
Jacoby '70
Edward L. Lynn
,
Jr
.
'70
Robert T
.
Silvestri '72
Margaret Bel
l
ino Cox '7
3
Nicholas Squicc
i
arini '73
Robert V
.
Moran '74
Richard F
.
Nero '74
/'
82 MBA
Sayel R
.
Zeidan '74
Alan V. Cwik '76
Winifred Saitta Dunn '78
Margaret M
.
Corley '79
J
e
nny Krevolin '79 MBA
John A
.
Trumpetto
'
80
B
e
atrice Newkirk Duple
ss
is
'
81 MBA
Arlene R
.
Corso
'
82
John Bahret
'
84 MPA
Mark R
.
Ayers
'
86
Ann Voshardt Salituro
'
88
Jeff
e
ry C. Benchich
'
89 MBA
Timothy J
.
Bell
'
90
Ann Marie Caputo Rung '90
Robert F
.
Roe
'
92 MPA
Katie L. Patenaud
e '
98
Antonia Koroxeno
s
Adair
'
03
Roberto Rio
s,
Jr
. '
10
Alexander F. Killian
'
13
Deborah J
.
Dick
s
on
'
14
S
cott 8. Fri
e
dman
'
14
Friends
Dr
.
Erich Bloch
Ray F. Boedeck
e
r
Rocco Dino Carid
i
Kate Doherty
John C. Foster
Marilyn Fo
s
ter
Ina B
.
Friedman
Paul Ganci
Charles P
.
Kerrigan
B
e
rnard Kessler
,
Esq.
Jacqueline Melan
Elsie Mula
Daniel W
.
Sullivan
Ann D
.
Whalen
Employees
Kevin Marti
n
(
Joh
n
) Caro
l
an
'
54
Associate Professor of Ma
t
hematics, School of
Computer Science and Mathematics 1962-2002
Dr. Jeptha H
.
Lanning
'
53
Professor Emeritus of Communication,
Heritage Professo
r
7964-7993
Margaret Monti
Information Technology Card Services Coordinator
Please visit marisrconnect.marist.edu/inmemoriam
for online remembrances of members of
the Marist College community
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&
notes
Chapters Hold
Receptions
Alumni from the Boston, New York
Metro,
and
Washington-Baltimore
chapters
of the Alumni Association
gathered
for holiday
receptions
this
past December. The Boston chapter
gathered
at the famed Liberty Hotel,
Julie Lavin
'09
hosted the
New York
group for
the
second year
in
a
row
at
the
New Amsterdam Theatre in midtown
Manhattan,
and
Christopher Heath
'95
sponsored and
hosted
alumni at CXIII
Rex in Old Town Alexandria,
VA.
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the future
ofMarist
College.
This photo of the
Marist Brothers
"
construction gang
"
appeared in an ad for
Marist College in the
Ju
l
y 26th
,
1968
,
issue ofTIME
magazine.
Charitable
Gift Annuity
R
a
t
e o
f Return
for One
Life
*
Minimum
age of
do
n
o
r
: 60
Minimum
co
ntributi
o
n:
$
10,000
Age
Return
Age
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60
4.4
75
5.8
65
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May
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17
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Returns
and tax
b
e
nefits
are subject to c
h
ange
and
are based
on
p
e
rsonal
c
i
rcumstances. Funding
a
c
h
aritable gift annuity with appreciated stock
could
provide th
e
added benefit of avoiding
some capital gains
tax
iuhen
the
assets are
transferr
ed
directly to
Marist.
DURING THIS BICENTENNIAL YEAR,
as
the Marist Brother
ce
l
ebrate
the
200
th
a
nni
versary
of
the
ir
o
rd
er's
formation by Saint
M
a
r
ce
ll
in
C
h
a
mp
ag
n
at
in
1817,
we
in
v
ite
yo
u
to
h
e
l
p bu
il
d
u
pon
th
e Co
ll
ege's v
i
s
i
ona
r
y fo
und
at
i
o
n
by joining the Marist
Co
ll
ege
L
egacy oc
i
e
ty
.
M
e
mb
e
r
s of
t
h
e
L
egacy
Soc
i
ety
includ
e
Ma
ri
st
in
their
l
o
n
g-ra
n
ge p
l
a
n
, cont
ributin
g
to
the
so
lid
bui
l
ding b
l
oc
k
of
l
ea
rnin
g
that
b
egan
with the
M
a
ri
st
Brothers
.
For examp
l
e, a
numb
e
r
of
L
egacy
Soc
i
ety
m
e
m
be
r
s a
r
e e
t
ab
li
shi
n
g c
h
a
rit
ab
l
e g
i
ft
a
nnuiti
es
t
h
at
provide
them
o
r
th
ei
r
designees with
guara
nt
eed,
part
i
a
ll
y
tax-free
in
co
m
es for
li
fe
as
we
ll
as
i
mmediate tax
d
ed
u
ct
i
o
n
s
.
We
invit
e yo
u t
o
l
ea
rn m
o
r
e abo
ut
the
L
egacy Soc
i
ety
whose
m
e
mb
e
r
s,
l
ike the Mari t
Brothers,
a
r
e
m
aki
n
g
we
ll
-p
l
a
nn
ed a
nd m
ean
in
gfu
l
co
ntributi
o
n
s
to
s
up
po
rt
the future
of
the
Co
ll
ege a
nd M
a
ri
st s
tud
e
nt
fo
r
ge
n
erat
i
o
n
s
to
co
m
e.
MARIST
LEGACY SOCIETY
For a
co
mplim
e
ntar
y
and
co
nfid
en
tial illu
s
trati
o
n hi
g
hli
g
htin
g
th
e
benefits
of c
h
ar
itabl
e
g
ift
annuitie
s
and
o
th
e
r
g
ift plannin
g
opportunities, please
co
nta
c
t J
oa
n
Gambeski
'83,
Dir
ec
t
or of
Gift
a
nd L
egacy
Plannin
g, a
t j
oa
n.
ga
mb
es
ki
@
m
a
ri
s
t.
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