Friday 30 March 2001
Dear Jaspers,
The jasperjottings email list has 1,054 subscribers.
Don't forget:
Saturday 3/31 Communications Reunion CMSV
(Fran Brodereick 718-405-3453)
Sunday 4/1 Hartford Club Communion Breakfast
(Robert Kiely c/o Alumni Office
718-862-8013
Sunday 4/1 Staten Island Club Communion Breakfast
(Angelo Tomasetti 718-987-8715)
Sunday 4/1 Daylight Savings Time Begins
Wednesday 4/11 Accepted Students Day
(Pete Sweeney c/o Ben Benson
718-862-7431)
Wednesday 4/4 Celebration of Feast of St. John Baptist De La Salle
Sunday 4/15 US Income Tax filing deadline
(Contact your federal representative
to complain)
Wednesday 4/18 Lunch Stuart FL
(Bill Mathias 561-287-0022).
Saturday 4/28
Manhattan College Games for Individuals with Disabilities
(Sheilah Urrutia 718-862-7215
surrutia@manhattan.edu)
Monday 5/7 [Hold the date] Jasper Open Summit, New Jersey
(Ben Benson, 718-862-7431)
Weekend Reunion Friday - Sunday 6/1-3 @ the College
Classes of 36,41,46,51,56,61,66,71,76,81,86,91,96
(contact Grace Feeney at gfeeney@manhattan.edu)
Monday 6/18
33rd Mid-Atlantic Industrial & Hazardous Waste Conference
(Dr. Nada Assaf-Anid
nassafan@manhattan.edu)
Saturday 7/21 (thru 7/30) Alumni Safari to Kenya
(Maria Khury-Anton '77, 718-543-500
vacations@khury.com)
Monday 7/30 (thru 8/3) 19th Annual AP Workshops
TEACHING OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT
(Dr. Pamela Kerrigan 718-862-7209 pkerriga@manhattan.edu
ALL BOILER PLATE is at the end.
Signing off for this week.
I was interested to read in a private email that the current education model, derogatorily called "yack in the box", came to us from Germany where the politicians wanted to train young boys for service in the military. Thus, when the government educates children what are they really trying to teach them. I am rooting for the "home school"-ers to lead us to the separation of Children and the State! Just like Church & State. And, if we cut the costs and power of the government, that's just an added side benefit. Government is our one big problem.
Reflect well on our alma mater, this week, every week, in any and every way possible, large or small. God bless.
"Collector-in-chief" John
ICQ#72967466
reinkefj@alum.manhattan.edu
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CONTENTS
2 Removals
1 Formal announcements
0 Jaspers publishing web pages
1 Jaspers found web-wise
0 Honors
0 Weddings
0 Births
0 Engagements
0 Graduations
3 Obits
3 "Manhattan in
the news" stories
0 Resumes
1 Sports
11 Jasper emails
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These are done automatically by the listbot software in response to a bounce. I don't even see the "bounce" so you have to be alert for Jottings going "MIA".
Heberto J. Ochoa (1969 BA)
Ronald H. Alvarez-Torre (1965 BA)
AND on the Postcard front:
Cards to Jaspers Anthony D'Angelo (1967 BA) and Michael Daly (1993 BS) came back to me.
[JR: Keep you're eye on your email. These ISPs are not all that good at it.]
[FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT JASPERS]
Copyright 2001 AFP-Extel News Limited
Regulatory News Service
March 28, 2001 Wednesday 12:58 AM Eastern Time
HEADLINE: IQ - Ludorum PLC - Board Appointment
IQ - Ludorum PLC 28 March 2001
IQ-Ludorum plc ('IQ-L' or 'the Company') appoints new Non-executive Director IQ-Ludorum plc, a leading Internet gaming software development company, is pleased to announce the appointment, subject to shareholder approval, of Pietro Tomassi as Non-executive Director. Mr Tomassi, aged 61, has over thirty years of experience with leading high technology companies such as Union Carbide and SAP. Mr Tomassi has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Manhattan College, New York; an MBA from Fordham University, New York; and has studied Programmes in Management, Leadership and Strategic Alliances at the Wharton School of Business. He has also completed the Cornerstones of Leadership programme for top management and the Strategic Alliance programme at the Wharton school of Business.
Mr Tomassi's career includes five years as a Captain and Squadron Commander with a US Air Force Space Operations Unit; and management positions with the Union Carbide Corporation, the Beiersdorf America Corporation and the Bertelsmann Corporation. Most recently Mr Tomassi has been the Managing Director of SAP Andina and Caribe where he oversaw an organisational restructuring that, within eighteen months, increased sales by 200%, total revenues by 100% and made the business profitable. During his time with SAP Mr Tomassi built the Andina and Caribe Region from a staff of 35 to four regional offices with a total staff of approximately 170, generating revenues of over $60 million.
IQ-Ludorum Chief Executive, Gurcharan Singh, commented: "The appointment of Pietro Tomassi brings to IQ-Ludorum an individual of exceptional talents and a proven track record of business success. His appointment is in accordance with our goal of strengthening our management team following our recent successful flotation on the AIM market. Mr Tomassi's achievements make for impressive reading and we look forward to what we are confident will be a valuable input to the growth and development of the Company."
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[According to MCOLDB: 1966 BS]
[JASPERS PUBLISHING WEB PAGES]
[JASPERS FOUND ON & OFF THE WEB BY USING THE WEB]
http://www.ksixteen.com/pmbios.htm
Jim Keaney
Jim is based in Stratford, CT has covers projects in the northeast and mid-Atlantic region for Ksixteen. He has worked over 14 years in construction project management, including nine years with Turner Construction Company. His experience includes the management of the 1 million sq. ft. Swiss Bank Tower in Stamford, CT and the 850 bed high security Garner Correctional Institution in Newton, CT. Jim is a graduate of Manhattan College where he earned a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering. Jim has been on the Ksixteen team for two years and has worked on three school projects.
[MCOLDB says 1990 BE & "Lost"]
[No Jasper Engagements reported]
[No Jasper Graduations reported]
[Collector's prayer: And, may perpetual light shine on our fellow departed Jaspers, and all the souls of the faithful departed.]
Thomas Turcich, class of 1967, died of a heart attack on 25 March 1999. See email #8 for more information.
[MCOLDB: 1967 BA]
Copyright 2001 North Jersey Media Group Inc.
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
March 23, 2001, FRIDAY; ALL EDITIONS
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. L5
HEADLINE: OBITUARIES
BYLINE: The Record
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CHARLES J. HAYDEN, 80, of Emerson died Thursday. Before retiring in 1979, he was a supervising engineer for New York Telephone, 1 where he worked for 38 years, and was a member of the Telephone Pioneers of America. He was a graduate of Manhattan College. He was an Army veteran of World War II. He was a parishioner of Assumption R.C. Church, Emerson, and a member of Knights of Columbus Trinity Council, Hackensack. Arrangements: Becker Funeral Home, Westwood.
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LOAD-DATE: March 23, 2001
[MCOLDB: 1942 BA]
from Times Union Albany, NY
Bradley, William F.
TROY -- Mr. William F. Bradley, 78, of Sunset Avenue, Troy, died Sunday at Samaritan Hospital surrounded by his loving family.
Born in Troy, he was the son of the late William and Margaret Powers Bradley. Mr. Bradley was a veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He enlisted in 1942 after leaving West Point. He served with the 97th Infantry Division in the United States and the European Theatre and Japan. He was honorably discharged in 1946, joined the inactive reserve and was recalled to active service in 1950. He served in the 24th Infantry Division in Korea, where he was wounded in action. He was awarded numerous decorations including the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantry Badge, the European Theatre Badge with two stars and the Korean Service Medal with three stars.
Mr. Bradley graduated from LaSalle Institute in Troy, attended Manhattan College and the Military Academy at West Point. He was the president of the former William F. Bradley and Son Plumbing Contractors which was located for many years in South Troy.
He was a member of the New York State Korean Memorial Advisory Committee. He was the president, board member and quarter master of the NE New York Chapter of the Korean War Veterans Association and very instrumental with the New York State Korean Monument of Albany and the Troy memorial. He was the past New York State Commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, he was a member of the Wynantskill American Legion, the Watervliet VFW and a member of the DAV. He was also a member of the Plumber and Steamfitters Local #7 of Albany and a member of Wolferts Roost Country Club.
He is survived by his wife, the former Joan Flanigan; two daughters, Stephanie Mielnik and her husband, Kenneth of Pittstown and Beth Jolicoeur and her husband, Randy of Valley Falls; one son, Kevin Bradley and his wife, Diana of Saratoga. Brother of Powers Bradley of Kinderhook and the late J. Herb Bradley, Helen Marie Mosher and Betty Bradley. Grandfather of Danielle, Nicolle, Travis, Randi, Molly and Meghan. Also survived by several nieces and nephews. Funeral service will be held Wednesday morning at 8:45 from the Wm. Leahy Funeral Home, 336 3rd Street and at 9:30 a.m. from the St. Michael's Church where a Mass of Christian Death and Burial will be celebrated. Relatives and friends are invited to attend and may call at the funeral home Tuesday from 4-8 p.m. Interment, Albany Rural Cemetery. Contributions in Bill's memory to the building fund of LaSalle Institute, 174 Williams Rd., Troy, NY 12180 would be appreciated. For directions and guest book, please visit www.legacy.com.
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[MANHATTAN IN THE NEWS OR FOUND ON & OFF THE WEB]
[News1]
Copyright 2001 Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc.
The Palm Beach Post
March 27, 2001 Tuesday FINAL EDITION
SECTION: ACCENT, Pg. 1D
HEADLINE: HE'S GOT THE #1 BOOK IN AMERICA
BYLINE: Scott Eyman, Palm Beach Post Books Editor
In the summer, one of the most popular novelists in America lives in Westchester, N.Y. But in the winter, he comes back to Palm Beach.
James Patterson has become rich and famous with six novels featuring Alex Cross, a Washington, D.C., detective and psychologist. Patterson's name on a novel generally means sales of a million hardcovers, rarefied territory indeed, putting him on the same plateau as John Grisham and Stephen King.
His latest book, the first novel of a new series called 1st to Die featuring four women in a loose crime-solving confederation, opened at No. 1 last week on The New York Times list of bestsellers. The second of Patterson's novels to be adapted into a film starring Morgan Freeman, Along Came a Spider, will open next month.
These are good days for Patterson, even without the backyard vista overlooking the Intracoastal.
"When I was in business, writing was an escape, an avocation," he says, lounging in his back yard. "It's never been a job. To be able to be home, to watch my child grow every day, is such an enormous pleasure."
Patterson's father drove a bread truck and later sold insurance, but he wanted more, both for himself and his son. Books were always around their house in Newburgh, N.Y.; the parents belonged to the Literary Guild and the Book of the Month Club. When Patterson's father retired, he wrote a novel that remained unpublished, but the son has always been proud of the father for pursuing his ambition.
With a blue-collar background, earning a living was a paramount consideration, so after college (a bachelor's from Manhattan College, master's from Vanderbilt), Patterson got a job at the J. Walter Thompson ad agency. Like his father, it was what he did, but it wasn't what he was.
"It was fine. It was a job. I got into a position where I could hire people I liked; it was like a liberal arts college. And I kind of liked the high adrenalin pressure. You go in on a regular basis and sell people something they'll pay millions of dollars for. It's one of those professions that can be great or very negative. It is what it is. I wanted to do it well. If it was a Toys 'R' Us commercial, I wanted to do it well, to the highest common denominator.
"I've been clean for five years now."
Patterson became chairman of J. Walter Thompson, North America, in 1990 but didn't leave until '96, holding onto his ad gig long past any financial necessity. "My life wasn't broken. Why should I have tried to fix it?"
Patterson had begun writing in the mid-'70s. His first book, The Thomas Berryman Number, won the Edgar Award in 1976, when he was 27 years old, but until the first Alex Cross novel, Along Came a Spider in 1992, Patterson struggled to repeat his early success.
What did advertising teach Patterson about fiction? "It forced me to become aware of the audience. In advertising, you get feedback, one way or another. It's the opposite of creating art, where you really don't think of the audience's reaction. If I had to break it down to a single specific sentence, it would be that I stopped writing sentences and started writing stories."
It wasn't hard, Patterson says. "I always liked commercial fiction. I loved The Exorcist, I loved The Day of the Jackal. I decided to concentrate on writing a page turner. Commercial fiction is a roller-coaster ride. I don't take it that seriously. Kiss the Girls wasn't a great novel; it was a scary novel."
Alex Cross is a middle-aged black man - not the traditional hard-bitten loner, but sensitive and understanding of women.
In the first 50 pages of the first draft, Alex Cross was a white woman.
"I decided it wasn't working, but I was nervous about writing a black character. But as it turned out, a lot of readers thought I was black and still do."
While he was growing up, his grandparents owned a small restaurant, and he got to know the black cook. "The cook lived in a small house with me. I got to know the entire family, and that's where the Cross family comes from. I can only write about the streets of Bed-Stuy (Bedford Stuyvesant, a section of Brooklyn) superficially, but that middle-class family of blacks, I know."
Patterson's stylistic trademark is a propulsive sense of pace accompanied by often grueling violence, helped along by chapters that last only two or three pages, a style that arrived almost by accident.
"I had written 40 chapters of my book Midnight Club, and I was planning to flesh them out. I read them at one sitting and thought, 'Huh! I'm gonna leave it alone.' Since then, I purposely leave out a lot, and I justify it by citing Hemingway talking about how he learned to write by looking at Cezanne. The last thing I want is four pages on the FBI Building."
Among his peers, Patterson is considered to be one of the kindest, most supportive writers, and he's also regarded as having a special gift.
"The easier it looks to the reader, the harder it is for the writer," says best-selling suspense writer Michael Connelly, creator of Harry Bosch and author of the current bestseller A Darkness More Than Night. "Otherwise, there would be hundreds and hundreds of people doing it, but there's only four or five.
"I've seen him criticized for his spareness, but the critics are wrong. Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves the plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind."
Patterson is a genial man, unfailingly polite, and there is a sense that he is interested in his career but not fascinated by it. Life has taught him that, contrary to what most writers imagine, there are more important things than the next book.
When he was a younger man, Patterson loved a woman named Jane. One Sunday morning, he and Jane went out for breakfast and stopped at the post office. She suddenly collapsed and went into a seizure. Patterson thought she was dying, and indeed she was, but not right away. The brain tumor took two years to kill her.
They knew they had a limited amount of time. "The story we told each other focused on the short term," he says. " 'Wasn't today lucky?"Didn't we have a nice day together?' "
After Jane died, Patterson threw himself into his work. "I didn't want to be alone, and I couldn't concentrate to write fiction." At one point, there was a six-year gap between novels, but he's making up for lost time.
Last year, Patterson published two books, and this year, he's threatening to turn himself into an industry, publishing three books, with the next one, a love story called Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, coming out in July. (Rather obviously, Patterson writes every day, usually a spurt in the morning, followed by another one in the late afternoon.)
A love story?
"Seventy percent of my readers are women," he says.
His wife, Sue, and 3-year-old son, Jack, were the inspiration. "Even before we had Jack, I thought it was a neat idea for parents to videotape themselves for their children. Sue has been keeping a diary for Jack, so I thought of a story that could go with that idea."
With his sales figures, Patterson could easily refuse to be edited, but he still takes it like a man. "My general attitude is, 'Send me your notes.' And for the first half-day I curse by myself, then I come around. I can deal with criticism. I want to hear what's bothering my editor, but I don't want solutions. That's my business."
Patterson and his wife never thought about moving to Palm Beach until Jack was born. That, and the fact that Sue Patterson's parents live in Delray Beach were prime motivations. Jack is scheduled to attend school here rather than New York, so Patterson's time in the north will be increasingly limited.
For now, Alex Cross looks like he will star in a continuing series of movies, and Patterson has sold 1st To Die to NBC for a miniseries planned for the November sweeps.
You'd think with his advertising background, he'd be comfortable with show business, but he has the classic writer's attitude toward Hollywood: distrust.
"Hollywood has never been a place for writers. I went on the set of Kiss The Girls, but on a movie set a novelist ranks below the caterer. Everybody knows why the caterer is there, but why is the novelist there? The only thing I love about the Hollywood experience is cashing the check."
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[JR: 1969 BA]
Copyright 2001 Chicago Sun-Times, Inc.
Chicago Sun-Times
March 25, 2001, SUNDAY, Late Sports Final Edition
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. 152
HEADLINE: A BRAVE SPIRIT;
Gene Melchiorre played Peoria like no one else, giving Bradley its greatest success -- and darkest moment
BYLINE: Jim O'Donnell
Gene Melchiorre is 72, 5-8 1/2 and has a slight problem with his hearing. He has white hair, a quick, focused sense of humor and a face that hints at elements of John Wooden, Casey Stengel and Gene Kelly. Put him on any Metra platform around Chicago, and he would look like the grandfather next door. Put him at any sunset dinner in the land, and he would look like he belongs. He has five children, 15 grandkids and plans to celebrate his 50th wedding anniversary in December. He also has a devoted 70-year-old "baby" brother named Deno. Gene Melchiorre also has a ghost.
The ghost's name is Squeaky. He is a good ghost, he is a bad ghost.
Good Squeaky could shake down the basketball rafters from Chicago Stadium to Madison Square Garden to the championship games of the NIT and the NCAA. He was the greatest No. 23 the game ever had seen. Good Squeaky played in Peoria like no man since Pere Jacques Marquette got out of his canoe to peruse the brush.
In his day, some longtime locals will say, Good Squeaky certainly made as much impact as current Peoria exports Sergio McClain, Frank Williams and Marcus Griffin have made at the University of Illinois.
"The greatest small man in the history of basketball," the fabled Adolph Rupp of Kentucky once said of Melchiorre.
"As formidable a little guy in the pivot as there was in his era," Red Auerbach said last week.
"A magician anywhere on the floor, but especially around the key," Johnny "Red" Kerr said.
Squeaky Melchiorre was good. So good that he drove the Bradley Braves to the finals of both the NIT and NCAA in the same 1949-50 season. So good that one year later, the Baltimore Bullets made him -- despite his rounded, undersized chassis -- the No. 1 pick in the 1951 NBA draft.
Not a first-round pick. The No. 1 pick. Higher than Bill Russell would go five years later. Higher than Michael Jordan would go three decades later.
That good.
But Good Squeaky never played a minute of professional basketball. After his senior season at Bradley concluded in March 1951, Melchiorre never played another minute of big-time basketball.
All because of Bad Squeaky.
Bad Squeaky's appearance in the life of Gene Melchiorre was fleeting, but it was more than enough to do enduring harm.
In July 1951, two months after earning a degree in business administration from Bradley, two months before rookie camp with the Bullets was to begin, Melchiorre's "A" game was confiscated.
Confiscated by a knock on the door in the central Illinois night. Confiscated by the long arm of New York City law and indignation. Confiscated by free enterprise gone awry, naivete and an ambition-laced college environment.
Given up by Bad Squeaky. In a fateful rendezvous that even now, 50 years later, according to die-hard Melchiorre supporters, still could be brought to a just and appropriate conclusion by Bradley University.
"Hell, Squeak's lived his life now for 50 years like he's in some kind of witness protection program," said Stan Albeck, the former Bulls head coach who was both a fraternity brother and freshman understudy to Melchiorre at Bradley.
"Squeaky's more than paid the price for whatever he did," said Pete Vonachen (Bradley, Class of '48), the Peoria restaurateur who delivered the funny, mood-easing eulogy at Harry Caray's funeral.
"It's simply time for all of us to take the final steps toward healing and to do it while most of us are still alive," said Bob Carney, another Melchiorre protege and Bradley All-American who led the Braves to the 1954 NCAA championship game.
They are among the determined, high-profile phalanx of Bradley basketball alumni and boosters who want the university to retire Melchiorre's No. 23.
High above the southwest end of Peoria's Carver Arena -- the modern-day home of the Bradley Braves -- seven numbered banners hang in a cluster. Each commemorates one of the school's basketball All-Americans. Melchiorre's is not among them.
Two numbers are honored twice because Bradley only began retiring jerseys in 1976. No. 33 represents both Carney and Hersey Hawkins. No. 31 is for Chet Walker and Joe Allen. Singles include No. 11, Mitchell "J.J." Anderson; No. 15, Paul Unruh; and No. 45, Roger Phegley.
The omission is not by accident or oversight. Through the administrations of four consecutive presidents of Bradley, the university steadfastly has declined to hoist a banner in honor of its scarred superstar.
"I view this as being about much more than just Squeaky Melchiorre the Bradley All-American," said Dr. David Broski, who completed his first year as the university's president in February. "I view this as being about gambling and sports. And the crux of the issue -- and the message we send both our students and our student-athletes -- is as important today as is was back then."
Back then.
Back when a private Midwestern university was scrambling to find an identity in the country's collegiate consciousness. When a dukes-up Illinois River town was looking for culture, pride and even more homegrown excitement. When forces of evolving new national pastimes, post-World War II education and institutional vanities were conspiring to bring good men down.
Back then, when Squeaky Melchiorre was the undisputed king of the most representative Main Street in America.
Lydia Moss Bradley was blessed with a buck, but terribly unlucky in family life. All six of her children died before the age of 16. Husband Tobias Bradley was killed in a carriage accident shortly after the Civil War.
That left the Peoria widow with an empty home, a lot of money and plenty of time to contemplate the aesthetic and moral deficiences of her native town, then without question Illinois' second city.
She decided to open an orphanage to honor the memory of her children. After further consideration, she instead chose to fund a new college. William Rainey Harper, then the president of the University of Chicago, was a key adviser. He suggested her new school complement the industrial drive and sweat-equity sensibilities of Peoria.
It was decided that Bradley College would be a school of horology -- the art of watchmaking. In 1897, the technical institute began operation, also offering some liberal-arts curriculum. It was very much a local operation, "a bow-tie bicyclers college," in the words of Peoria journalist and historian Jerry Klein.
The school boasted a modest but determined athletic program. One early star was David Blair Owen (Class of '29), a marqueed runner who would play an enormous role in much of the triumph and tragedy that lay ahead. When he graduated, Bradley's enrollment had yet to top 1,000 students.
"Owen would prove to be much more a promoter than educator," said Bob Pille (Class of '50), the retired Sun-Times sportswriter. "But when he returned to Bradley in time to assist in the promotion of the Famous Five, the school would never be the same again."
The Famous Five was actually six -- Chuck Orsborn, Kenny Olson, Les Getz, Dar Hutchins, Ted Panish and Carl Schunk. Under the direction of A.J. Robertson -- the most honored figure in the school's athletic history -- that Bradley basketball team would post records of 18-2 and 19-3 in 1937-39.
The Five received invitations to play in the first two NITs in the original Madison Square Garden, an overnight train ride away in New York City. That they lost two of three in those Garden encounters didn't matter. The promotional possibilities of a top basketball team playing in the media capital of the world were not lost on Owen, who had returned to Bradley in 1936 as an English instructor and director of publicity.
The late Jack Brickhouse, the team's radio play-by-play man, once said: "If you can imagine what it was like to be a Peorian in those days, tuning in your radio, this fantastic new device, to tales of this magical basketball team playing 1,000 miles away in the Mecca of all basketball against the greatest teams in the country, you can imagine the possibilities of the night."
Owen had his momentum interrupted, as most Americans did, by World War II. But as the war wound down, while serving on the staff of Adm. Chester A. Nimitz in the Pacific, Lt. Owen received some beckoning news from the Illinois River valley: He had been chosen to become the third president in the history of Bradley University.
Far northeast in Illinois, on the hardcourts and green streets of Highland Park, a talented, self-assured Italian-American teenager had no way of knowing. But the deities of basketball -- and life -- had begun to diagram his fate.
"Gene has always been the most natural athlete I've ever seen," said Deno Melchiorre, his older brother's archivist, mitigator and enduring protector.
"He was a starting wingback on the Highland Park football team. A great basketball player. A great baseball player. A natural the first time he picked up a tennis racket. To this day, a great golfer."
Gene Melchiorre himself downplays the fraternal accolades. But he was a remarkable athlete despite being relatively short, carrying hints of a doughboy's girth and having pigeon toes. He was the fifth of sixth children born to a gardener who moved his family from Joliet to Highland Park in 1936.
"Basically, the Italians came to the North Shore to work for the rich people," said Ron Maestri (Class of '63), who completed a long run as baseball coach and athletic director at the University of New Orleans last year.
"Most of us grew up in Highwood. Some, like the Melchiorres, were next door in Highland Park. Almost all of us went to Highland Park High School. We were all surrounded by an unbelievably supportive athletic and recreational framework, both from our parents and from the community as a whole. The Melchiorres became legendary, and Gene was our hero."
His legend first nudged the national consciousness as the star playmaker for the Fort Sheridan Ramblers, an Army basketball team that won 58 of 63 games during his two-year tour (1945-47) at the North Shore post.
"The Fort Sheridan years were like a finishing school in basketball for me," Melchiorre said.
He also would meet a fellow enlistee who would play a major role in all of the good and bad that was to come -- Pvt. Bill Mann of Chicago.
"Bill had been a star at Austin (High School) and we just meshed from the first time we played together," Melchiorre said. "When we were getting out of the service, we decided that wherever we were going to go to play college basketball, we were going to go together."
Several schools took a shot at recruiting the star duo.
"I thought we had the boys," said Ray Meyer, then in the midst of his first decade at DePaul. "I was told that Mann and Melchiorre were there to register for our first day of classes. But it never happened."
Said Melchiorre: "I don't recall any contact from DePaul. Believe me, with coach Meyer's reputation and his success, Bill and I would have walked the train tracks to Chicago to play for him."
At Bradley, with Owen in the president's office, there was a post-war surge in enrollment. The school advanced from college to university status in 1946 and began offering graduate degrees. Basketball became a top priority.
"Owen's vision was simple," said Pille, who enrolled as a freshman in 1946. "He saw basketball as a way to increase the school's prestige. And with that increased prestige would come more students, meaning more alumni, more alumni contributions and more growth."
It was a fast-lane, dicey formula for academic expansion and enhanced standing. Owen was one of the first post-World War II college administrators to try it, but certainly not the last. And the young prexy was more than willing to cut a deal to land the two prized Army cage veterans.
"Since my tuition and most of my other costs were going to be covered by the G.I. Bill, I didn't need a basketball scholarship and neither did Bill," Melchiorre said. "So I said I'd come to Bradley if Deno got my scholarship. And that's what we agreed to."
The accommodation would not be the last made on the school's two-way trip to the stars.
Melchiorre arrived on Peoria's West Bluff in 1947 to a campus brimming with change. Postwar optimism reigned, fueled in part by Owen's energies and the G.I. Bill.
Robertson, though aging and ailing, had reset the table for on-court achievements. His 1946-47 team finished 25-7 and made it back to the NIT, where it was one and done against West Virginia.
The next season, with freshmen Melchiorre and Mann augmenting sophomore stars Unruh and Mike Chianakis, Robertson's last squad went 28-3. Though the team received no postseason bid, the future looked limitless.
"We all figured they were going to try and get some great young coach, and they did," Melchiorre said.
The great young coach was Forrest A. "Forddy" Anderson, whom Owen pirated away from Drake. He arrived at Bradley at 28, already known nationally for his spectacular wartime successes as the boy-wonder head coach at the Navy's Great Lakes station.
"Forddy was an absolutely brilliant tactician and practice coach," Chianakis said. "He seemed very much the right man for the right job."
Added Melchiorre: "Forddy was way ahead of his time in a lot of his thinking. He was very precise in his patterns. A lot of movement off the ball, a lot of quick, sharp passing, a lot of clear expectations where everyone was supposed to be at all times." "A great team to watch," said Kerr, then developing into one of the most highly recruited big men in the Midwest at Tilden Tech. "High-energy, fast break-oriented, fluid without a lot of wasted motion, fun and successful. And Squeaky was the man."
Anderson's first edition burst out of the blocks with a 12-0 record and finished the regular season 25-6.
The NCAA tournament in that era was an eight-team, six-night affair that most schools viewed as an afterthought. The glitz and glamor lay in the Garden's NIT, where former New York sportswriter Ned Irish and his minions worked a sophisticated network of national contacts to maintain the tournament as the country's premier postseason college showcase.
Back into that familiar venue strode Anderson, Melchiorre and the team in March 1949 to tip off against New York University in a first-round game. The Braves beat NYU and Western Kentucky but were upset in the semifinals by Loyola.
Then, with only a final consolation game against Bowling Green left to play, Chianakis unwittingly made a new acquaintance in the lobby of Manhattan's Paramount Hotel.
The man was a fellow Greek-American, a former football player at Kentucky. He was involved in a new kind of postgraduate business. The sort of business that could forever stain a life.
Neither Chianakis or anyone else among the Bradley troupe could know it at the time, but Squeaky Melchiorre's long drop from basketball grace was about to begin.
"Blame me, not Squeak. If I hadn't stopped to talk to the guy, who knows? Maybe none of this would have happened. Maybe Squeak would have gone on to a long and successful career in the NBA, and we all would have been spared a lot of grief."
The speaker is Chianakis, now 72 and living in Lisle. He has led a long and honorable life, primarily working as a director of YMCAs in Peoria and Canton.
"The guy" was Nick Englises, a short, chubby fellow then in his mid-20s. He was a Brooklyn native and understood that there could be gold in relationships with college basketball players.
"He played the Greek thing real quick, as if he knew it would be effective with me, and it was," Chianakis said.
Englises was fast and ingratiating. He offered Chianakis an evzone, a statue depicting a Greek national guardsman, as a token of their new friendship. He also wanted to meet other Bradley players.
"Squeak and Billy (Mann) weren't too far away, so we went to his room and talked," Chianakis said. "That's where our troubles began."
Englises and his associates -- his brother Tony and a Harvard law student named Saul Feinberg -- were detailed and persuasive in their pitch.
They wanted the three Braves to shave points against Bowling Green. They cited the meaningless nature of the game, the fact that many other college players were doing it and the hint that Bradley simply was using the players to further its own commercial interests.
"They were good, but we were skeptical," Chianakis said.
Bowling Green was favored by six points. The Englises crew just wanted Chianakis, Melchiorre and Mann to ensure that Bradley would lose by no fewer than seven. The players were offered $ 500 each.
No one said no. According to Charley Rosen in his book Scandals of '51: "After the players left the room, the gamblers called in $ 5,000 on Bowling Green."
Late in the game, Bowling Green was ahead 80-70. Melchiorre made a pair of free throws. In the final minute, Bradley's Bob Garber put in an inconsequential basket to make the final 82-77.
The first try at point-shaving had failed. The angry gamblers gave Chianakis and Mann $ 25 each. Melchiorre received nothing.
But the hook had been landed. And with Bradley basketball positioned to scale unprecedented heights the next season, the school's traveling promotional revue was about to take on even more commercial undertones.
A team, a campus and a city came together to energize Peoria as basketball practice for the 1949-50 season opened.
"From last season will stem further advance of the university to national recognition," Owen told one newspaper. "We are a laboratory for democracy."
"Bradley appears to be in a class by itself," wrote UPI college basketball authority Ed Sainsbury.
"Gene Melchiorre is the most dangerous pivot player modern basketball has ever seen," said Leonard Levin of the New York Daily Mirror.
"The expectations were high," said Unruh, then entering his fourth and final season. "But we seemed perfectly capable of meeting them."
On campus, again with Owen pushing, construction of Bradley's new Robertson Memorial Fieldhouse was nearing completion. The ingenious 7,800-seat facility was an aircraft hangar left over on the northwest edge of campus from a World War II Army Air Corps training site and then double-sized.
Five-year season-ticket sales, many for coveted theater-style seats, helped pay for the new fieldhouse. Robertson's concessions manager was a young alumnus named Pete Vonachen. No fewer than three local radio stations -- in a city of 111,856 -- signed to carry Braves play-by-play. One announcer was young Francis Doyle "Chick" Hearn.
Under Owen's intense direction, full-time enrollment at Bradley had more than doubled in four years, edging toward the 3,000 mark.
When Bradley lost the dedication game at the fieldhouse to Purdue in December, few perceived it as more than an aberrant bump in the road. By midseason, Bradley was 15-3. Two weeks later, more than 4,000 fans formed a caravan northeast to Chicago Stadium to watch Melchiorre and Co. beat DePaul 67-56.
On Feb. 23, Bradley was 24-3 and finally ranked No. 1 in the nation, ahead of Holy Cross, Ohio State and Duquesne. The team took a 27-3 record into the postseason.
In the NIT, Bradley maintained course, scooting by Syracuse and St. John's. The championship game was a different story. CCNY hammered out a 69-61 victory.
"We all felt we should have beaten CCNY," Melchiorre said. "We all wanted another chance at them."
That chance would begin only three nights after the loss in Madison Square Garden. The Braves had to fly to Kansas City for a qualifying game into the NCAA tourney against Clyde Lovellette and Kansas. Bradley won 59-57, with Unruh scoring three clutch baskets toward the end. The Braves then defeated UCLA and Baylor to earn the right to return to New York and a second chance against CCNY.
The game might have been the greatest of Melchiorre's career. In the end, it certainly had to be the most disappointing.
With less than two minutes left, CCNY led 66-61. Melchiorre stole the ball twice and scored three times in that closing span. Joe Stowell added a free throw. Inside of 40 seconds, the CCNY lead was down to 69-68.
Bradley needed a big play, and once again -- who else -- Melchiorre provided it. He came up with a loose ball and drove for what appeared to be the winning basket. Just inside the free-throw line, as he pulled up to shoot, he was hammered by three CCNY players.
The trailing referee -- Bradley's pick from Springfield, Ill. -- made no call. The lead referee, a New York-based sporting-goods salesman who did business with CCNY, also held his whistle. CCNY's Irv Dambrot fired a length-of-the-court pass to teammate Norm Mager for an uncontested layup.
CCNY won 71-68.
Despite the double-bridesmaid postseason, Bradley was welcomed back to Peoria the following afternoon. More than 10,000 fans cheered a motorcade down Main Street. The grand 32-5 season appeared to be forever in the record books.
Until the first whiff of scandal descended upon the West Bluff.
How much business the Bradley Braves did with gamblers during the 1949-50 season remains open to speculation.
Melchiorre and Chianakis declined to contest the record. Basketball historians and various files suggest three games were doctored, all victories, over Texas Christian, Washington State and St. Joseph's (Pa.).
In all of those games, the players received between $ 100 and $ 600 to shave points -- win by less than the number of points by which they were favored. In the parlance of the fixers of the era, that was called a "double," when a team won but its hidden sponsors cashed their bets by taking the opposition plus the spot.
At no time were the Bradley players accused of losing games on purpose.
Besides Melchiorre, Chianakis and Mann, other players allegedly in the circle that first season were Charlie Grover and Aaron Preece.
Unruh, who years later admitted to taking a $ 100 "gift" from a gambler during an East Coast trip in January 1950, never was implicated in the scandal. But to this day, he questions whether a prevailing attitude could have affected his teammates in some of the games that purportedly were played straight:
"When you look at the record of that season, we lost the three biggest games we played -- to Kentucky in the Sugar Bowl championship game and the two to CCNY in the NIT and NCAA championship games. How could the cloud they were playing under not affect their overall attitude toward every game we played that season?"
"How could we have won so many games if it did?" Melchiorre responded.
Bradley also was favored in the NCAA title game, and Melchiorre reportedly received a $ 10,000 offer to stay under the points. He declined. He also was said to have been offered $ 1,000 to stay under in a critical midseason game at the Garden against Manhattan and turned it down.
"Squeak never did anything that would directly harm the school," Chianakis said. "He lost no basketball games on purpose."
The scandal was almost a full year from breaking when the 1949-50 season ended. Besides being hailed as conquering heroes back in Peoria, many on Anderson's first golden team began to prepare for life after college.
Melchiorre was pinned and later engaged to Kay Boles, an attractive coed he met after a golf outing in Pekin. Unruh and Chianakis graduated. Mann, who already was married, began to explore legitimate business opportunities for him and Melchiorre in Peoria.
Expectations for that 1950-51 season at Bradley were gigantic despite the graduations. Owen, the school president, founded the school's "B-Club," a boosters organization that was raising more than $ 25,000 a year to fund all of the university's athletic scholarships.
Those expectations seemed right on course when Bradley blasted out to a 15-0 mark. But then the winds of January blew ominous when Mann broke his wrist against Wichita State. And troubling news of some serious new problems in college basketball began to drift toward the Illinois prairie from the game's hallowed epicenter in the East.
The great scandal of 1951 broke because a Manhattan College player refused to take a bribe. Junius Kellogg, a 6-8 World War II veteran, was offered $ 1,000 to dump a game against DePaul at the Garden. He went to his coach, who went to authorities.
New York police detectives had Kellogg play along with the intermediary, a former Manhattan player named Hank Poppe. Manhattan won the game, but DePaul was a winner with the points. The next morning, the NYPD arrest Poppe. The scandal had broken.
Eventually, like an earthquake, the investigation of the NYPD and Manhattan district attorney's office spread across the country. The first shock, in January and February, netted four New York schools -- Long Island, Manhattan, NYU and CCNY.
The second wave reached Peoria and Toledo in midsummer. The third -- and some still say the greatest of them all -- took down Rupp's vaunted Kentucky Wildcats in October.
"Believe me, there were many, many more players doing business around the country back then than were exposed in the scandal," Rosen said last week. "Frank Hogan (the Manhattan district attorney) elected to concentrate only on teams that were implicated in games played in Madison Square Garden."
But in Peoria, in January, the growing scandal was of secondary concern to almost all around the Bradley program. The biggest worry was Mann's wrist. Without him -- and later with him at less-than-optimum effectiveness -- the Braves struggled. Despite a seven-game winning streak that ended a 28-4 regular season, the Braves' March prospects were dwindling.
Those prospects had been significantly diminished by Owen himself. When the early stages of the scandal continued to compromise New York-area schools, the Bradley president announced that his team would not return to such a "depraved setting" as Madison Square Garden. That meant no NIT. The words would come back to haunt him.
Because Oklahoma A&M had won the Missouri Valley Conference crown, the NCAA tournament also wasn't an option for Bradley. That still didn't stop the resourceful Owen. Looking to milk the last nickel out of the Melchiorre era, he scheduled two postseason events of his own: an eight-team National Campus Basketball Tournament at Robertson Memorial Fieldhouse and a three-game "goodwill" trip to Hawaii.
Though the extra schedule would keep his students playing until well past midterms, Owen showed little concern. After all, he was running a laboratory for democracy. And when it came to his little athletic lab, there was no more democratic money-maker than his basketball team.
For Melchiorre, the spring of 1951 was a time of emotion mixed with anticipation. His college career ended after the trip to Hawaii. His marriage to Miss Boles was scheduled for the following December. The Baltimore Bullets were about to tab him as the man most likely to save the teetering franchise.
"Once in a while, you might wonder if anything would happen, if the (scandal) would hit us, but you hoped not," Melchiorre said. "We just moved on with our lives."
Historians suggest the Braves did business in only one game during Melchiorre's final season before the news from New York exploded. That came in an early-season contest at Robertson when they were 10-point favorites against Oregon State. Bradley won 77-74, and at least one book says their sponsors cleared $ 150,000 on the game.
In Rosen's Scandals, Melchiorre is quoted as saying: "Nick Englises paid us off the next day in the Morrison Hotel in Chicago. . . . (They) kept after us, but we never did business again. . . . It was beginning to dawn on us that the whole thing wasn't as safe as Englises had said."
In May 1951, with graduation four weeks away, Melchiorre and Mann opened a sporting-goods store boasting their names in downtown Peoria. "We had some backing from local businessmen," Melchiorre said. The store -- featuring a large neon figure overlooking Fulton Street of Melchiorre uncorking his lethal hook shot -- was an immediate success.
GRAPHIC: Melchiorre ended up marrying his college sweetheart, Kay Boles. "She's just the greatest," he said of his wife of 49 years. Called "the greatest small man in the history of basketball" by Adolph Rupp, Melchiorre graced the cover of the 1951 NCAA Basketball Guide. Buoyed by the success of Melchiorre and his Braves, Bradley opened the doors to the Robertson Memorial Fieldhouse on Dec. 17, 1949. Melchiorre and young coach "Forddy" Anderson (right) were magic at Bradley, going 91-19 together. From the first time they met as teenage enlisted men at Fort Sheridan in the fall of 1945, Melchiorre and Mann shared a special chemistry. Despite the snub over the retired number, Gene (left) and Deno Melchiorre still stay active with Bradley. Mike Chianakis (from left), Gene Melchiorre and Billy Mann are booked in New York on Aug. 17, 1951, for their involvement in a gambling scandal. Flanked by their attorneys, Mann, Melchiorre and Chianakis arrive at their sentencing hearing in New York on Dec. 7, 1951. Judge Saul Streit cited their exemplary records and suspended their sentences. See related chart page 149. ; TOM CRUZE; ASSOCIATED PRESS
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March 27, 2001
MEN’S TENNIS DEFEATS SACRED HEART 5-2
RIVERDALE, NY – Despite the cold weather, the Manhattan College men’s tennis team had a strong outing against Sacred Heart University on Tuesday afternoon with a 5-2 victory. Playing singles first due to the threat of darkness, the Jaspers swept the top four singles to clinch the match victory. Senior John Espinosa (Astoria, NY) led the way with a 7-6, 7-6 victory at first singles. Junior Tona Chavez-Geller (Oaxaca, Mexico) won at second singles for Manhattan, 7-5, 6-4. The two then combined to win at first doubles 8-2.
With the win, Manhattan improved to 7-2 on the year. The Team returns to action on Friday when they host Vermont at 3:00 pm.
SINGLES
1. John Espinosa (MC) d. Marjan Kaljeij (SH)
7-6, 7-6
2. Tona Chavez-Geller (MC) d. Jeff Bricker (SH) 7-5, 6-4
3. Ajay Kumar (MC) d. Steven George (SH)
2-6, 6-4, 10-8*
4. Paul Wawrzyniak (MC) d. Pat Darragh (SH)
6-3, 6-4
5. Klim Fedosienko (MC) lost to Jeff Bowers (SH) 2-6, 6-4, 10-8
6. Dean Won (MC) lost to Ryan Darrach (SH)
6-1, 6-3
DOUBLES
1. Espinosa/Chavez-Geller (MC) d. Kaljeij/Michael Marie (SH) 8-2
2. Wawrzyniak/Fedosienko (MC) d. Bricker/George (SH) 8-5
3. Kumar/Won (MC) lost to P. Darragh/Ryan Peters (SH) 8-5
* A Super Tie-Breaker was played in lieu of 3rd sets.
March 27, 2001
WOMEN’S LACROSSE WINS FIRST GAME OF THE YEAR
Junior Maegan Cosgrove Stars In Goal For The Lady Jaspers
RIVERDALE, NY – The Manhattan College women’s lacrosse team ended a five-game losing streak by winning its home opener, 9-7, against Albany on Tuesday afternoon. Junior Maegan Cosgrove (Farmingville, NY) was outstanding in goal for the Lady Jaspers as she shut down Albany with 12 saves on 21 shots.
The game was close as the two teams traded goals through most of the first half until Albany scored at the 12:38 mark and 12:03 of the first half to take a 4-3 lead. Trailing for the first time, Manhattan responded with 3 consecutive goals, including two from Rory Maguire (Bellerose, NY), to take a 6-4 lead at the half.
In the second half, Manhattan extended its lead to 8-4 before Albany scored three to close to within one, 8-7, but captain Liz Tiffany (Blauvelt, NY) iced the game for Manhattan with a goal with 57 second remaining.
Offensively, Manhattan was led by Melissa Medina (Pearl River, NY) and Maguire. Both finished with five points, three goals and two assists. Liz Tiffany finished with two goals.
With the win, Manhattan improved to 1-5 on the year. Albany dropped to 2-3. They return to action on Wednesday when they host Wagner at 3:30 pm at Gaelic Park.
Scoring By Period
1 2 Total Saves
Albany 4 3
7 Albany – Liz Gress - 8
Manhattan 6 3 9
Manhattan – Maegan Cosgrove - 12
Shots Albany – 21 Manhattan – 27
Scoring Summary (goals-assists-points)
MANHATTAN – Melissa Medina (3-2-5), Rory Maguire (3-2-5), Liz Tiffany (2-0-2),
Alana Fevola (1-0-1), Maureen Tiffany (0-1-1).
ALBANY – Irit Gross (2-0-2), Andrea Esposito (0-2-2), Dawn DiMicco (1-0-1),
Alexis Esposito (1-0-1), Amanda Heller (1-0-1), Maria Ferrucci (1-0-1), Alexis
DiDomenico (1-0-1).
March 26, 2001
JAMES AMANDOLA EARNS MAAC GOALTENDER OF THE WEEK HONORS
Junior Totaled 27 Saves in Two Games
RIVERDALE, NY – James Amandola (Patchogue-Medford H.S./Medford, NY) earned Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference men’s lacrosse Goaltender of the Week honors on Monday afternoon. Amandola led the Jaspers to a 1-1 record over the week and proved instrumental in each game. He made 16 saves and allowed 10 goals in a 10-3 loss to Marist but came back to make 11 saves and allow just two goals in an 8-2 victory over Siena. Amandola averaged 13.5 saves per game, a 6.00 goals against average and a .692 save percentage on the week.
The Jaspers are now 3-3 and return to action on Wednesday at home versus Sacred Heart at 3:00 PM.
March 25, 2001
MEN’S BASEBALL WINS 8-2 BEHIND FOLEY’S STRONG OUTING
1B Eric Sullivan Adds 3 Hits and 3 RBI’s
RIVERDALE, NY – The Manhattan College baseball team defeated Rider 8-2 on Sunday afternoon to salvage the final game of the weekend’s three game set. Rider scored first in the top of the third inning and led 1-0 going to the bottom of the 5th when the Jaspers would erupt for 7 runs.
In the 5th, junior Wendell Anderson (East Hartford, CT) led off with a doubles and after a walk and a sacrifice bunt, Dennis Tranchina (Massapequa, NY) doubled both runners home. After a single and two walks forced in one run, junior Eric Sullivan (Ronkonkoma, NY) cleared the bases with a double. Anderson would follow with an RBI double scoring Sullivan.
Manhattan would add one in the 6th, and Rider would score 1 in the 9th inning.
Senior Tom Foley (Blue Point, NY) pitched exceptionally well for the Jaspers, going 8 innings, giving up only 5 hits, 1 run, 1 earned run, walked none, and struck out 8. Foley improved to 3-1 on the year. Sophomore Tom Turner (Brooklyn, NY) pitched the 9th for Manhattan.
Sullivan finished the day going 3-4, 1 double, 1 walk, 3 rbi’s and 1 run scored. Anderson finished the day 2-3, with a double and 2 walks, 1 run scored, and 1 rbi.
Manhattan improved to 6-7, 1-2 MAAC while Rider dropped to 6-11 overall, 4-2 in the MAAC. The Jaspers return to action on Wednesday, March 28th against Albany at 12:30 for what has been changed to a doubleheader.
March 25, 2001
MEN’S LACROSSE WINS 8-2 BEHIND STELLAR DEFENSE
Three Different Jaspers Score Two Goals Each
RIVERDALE, NY – The Manhattan College men’s lacrosse team defeated Siena 8-2 on Sunday afternoon. The Jaspers scored the game’s first four goals in the first quarter before Siena got on the board. The second quarter would be played without a goal giving Manhattan a 4-1 lead at halftime.
In the second half, Siena would score to close to within two goals, but Manhattan would regain control with two goals in the third quarter before tacking on two more in the fourth.
The Jaspers defense played exceptionally well led by junior goalkeeper James Amandola (Medford, NY) who had 11 saves on 28 Siena shots.
Chris Garlich (St. Louis, MO), Rich Sauer (Williston Park, NY), and Wayne Sitar (Commack, NY) each scored two goals. Sitar also added an assist. Ryan Cosgrove (Suffern, NY) added one goal and one assist. Michael Conforto (Congers, NY) also added a goal and an assist. Mike Gilson (St. Louis, MO) and Dan Tichy (Bayport, NY) both added an assist.
With the win, Manhattan improved to 3-3, 1-1 MAAC. Siena dropped to 0-2, 0-1 MAAC. The Jaspers return to action on Wednesday when they host Sacred Heart at 3:00 pm.
March 25, 2001
WOMEN’S LACROSSE DROPS 12-10 DECISION AT MT. ST. MARY’S
Junior Rory Maguire Scores 3 Goals And Adds 2 Assists
EMMITSBURG, MD – The Manhattan College women’s lacrosse team dropped a 12-10 decision at Mt. St. Mary’s on Sunday afternoon despite playing their finest game of the year. Junior goalkeeper Maegan Cosgrove (Farmingville, NY) continued her outstanding early season play as she kept Manhattan in the game with 17 saves.
Junior Rory Maguire (Bellerose Village, NY) had an outstanding game with 3 goals and 2 assists. Freshman Alana Fevola (Pearl River, NY) had a breakout game with 3 goals for the Lady J’s.
With the loss, Manhattan dropped to 0-5 on the year. They return to action on Tuesday, March 27th against Albany in a game postponed from last Tuesday.
Scoring Summary
1 2 Total
Manhattan College 6 4
10
Mount St. Mary’s 8 4
12
SCORING (Goals-Assists): MAN, Fevola 3-1, Maguire 2-1, Kirkby 2-0, Medina 1-2,
Muthig 1-0, Tiffany 1-0; MSM, Morley 4-1, Rusk 4-0, Gargan 2-1, Harris 1-1,
Steinbraker 1-0.
SHOTS: Manhattan 20, Mount 37.
SAVES: MAN, Cosgrove 17; MSM, Harrington 11.
GROUND BALLS: Manhattan 17, Mount 30.
DRAW CONTROLS: Manhattan 8, Mount 16.
March 25, 2001
WOMEN’S SOFTBALL DROPS PAIR AT VILLANOVA
Senior Amanda Rogers Sets New College Doubles Record
PHILADELPHIA, PA – The Manhattan College women’s softball team dropped both ends of a doubleheader at Villanova on Sunday afternoon, 6-0 and 3-1. Villanova jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning of the first game and coasted to the 6-0 win behind a combined 1-hitter from Keri Stoller and Theresa Hornick. Sophomore Candica Aulogia (New Windsor, NY) pitched well in relief for Manhattan as she went 5.0 innings giving up only 2 unearned runs on 4 hits and 1 walk.
In the second game, Manhattan scored in the top of the first on a double by leadoff batter Amanda Rogers (New Fairfield, CT) and a sacrifice fly by Suzanne Masotto (Southbury, CT). Villanova responded with 2 in the bottom of the first and 1 in the bottom of the second. The remainder of the game would be a pitching battle between Manhattan freshman Brianne Illanovsky (Matamoras, PA) and Villanova’s Kari Singley and Theresa Hornick. Illanovsky finished having pitched six innings allowing three runs, two earned, on six hits and two walks.
Rogers double in the top of the first of the second game set a new Manhattan College record. She now has 43 career doubles.
Manhattan dropped to 6-8 on the year while Villanova improved to 12-2. The Jaspers return to action on Thursday when they host Stony Brook at 2:30 pm at Gaelic Park.
March 24, 2001
WOMEN’S LACROSSE LOSES TO HOWARD 10-8
Goalie Maegan Cosgrove Grabs 14 Saves in the Lost
WASHINGTON, DC – The Manhattan College women’s lacrosse team lost to Howard 10-8 on Saturday afternoon. Melissa Medina (Pearl River, NY), Amy Kirkby (Camillus, NY), and Rory Maguire (Bellerose Villiage, NY) each scored two goals for Manhattan. Moira Muthig (Nyack, NY) and Alana Fevola (Pearl River, NY) added one goal a piece to round out the scoring. Maegan Cosgrove (Farmingville, NY) grabbed 14 saves in the loss.
Manhattan dropped to 0-4 on the season and returns to action on Sunday at Mt. St. Mary’s at 1:00 PM.
March 24, 2001
BASEBALL DROPS TWO TO RIDER
RIVERDALE, NY – The Manhattan College baseball team dropped both games of a double header to Rider on Saturday afternoon 13-0, 7-3. Game one was scoreless until Rider scored two in the fourth. The Broncs added one run in the fifth and sixth and exploded for seven runs in the seventh. Tim Superka (North Catasanqua, PA) led the Broncs going 3-5 with four RBI and two runs scored. Scott Rich (Hamilton Square, NJ) went 4-5 with one RBI and two runs scored.
In game two, Rider jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first, but Manhattan answered with two runs in the bottom of the second. Rider scored two runs in the third and Manhattan would not score again until the bottom of the seventh. Paul Pulidore (Rockville, NY) went 2-4 while Wendell Anderson (East Hartford, CT) went 1-3 with a RBI, pitched four innings, gave up one run and struck out three batters.
Rider improved to 6-10, 4-1 MAAC while Manhattan dropped to 5-7, 0-2 MAAC. The two teams meet again on Sunday afternoon at 2:00 PM at Van Cortlandt Park.
March 24, 2001
WOMEN’S SOFTBALL SPLITS WITH ST. JOHN’S
Sophomore Candice Aulogia Earned her First-Ever Collegiate Win
RIVERDALE, NY – The Manhattan College softball team split a double header with St. John’s on Saturday afternoon, losing the first game 7-0 and taking the second game 4-2.
St. John’s senior Gina Calabrese (Long Beach, NY) threw a complete game, allowing only one hit and striking out seven. The game was scoreless until the Red Storm added three runs in the third and four runs in the fourth. Junior clean-up hitter Kelly Houghton (Millsboro, DE) led St. John’s going 2-3 with three RBI and a double.
In game two, Manhattan sophomore Candice Aulogia (New Windsor, NY) pitched a complete game allowing one earned run, eight hits and striking out six for the first collegiate win of her career. Manhattan scored all four runs in the bottom of the second. Senior Jessica Mack (Marlboro, NJ) went 2-4 on the afternoon, contributing Manhattan’s only hit in game one. Senior Amanda Rogers (New Fairfield, NY) highlighted the day with a two RBI double. Rogers is currently tied for first All-Time in Manhattan College history with 42 career doubles.
St. John’s stands at 13-16 while Manhattan is now 6-6. The Lady Jaspers return to action this Sunday at Villanova for a 12 Noon double header.
March 24, 2001
Track & Field Teams Excel In Arizona
Jaspers Win Weight Throw and 800 Meters
TEMPE, AZ – The Manhattan College men’s and women’s track and field athletes performed exceptionally well at the Baldy Castillo Invitational Track & Field Meet at Arizona State University on Friday and Saturday.
Sophomore Jacob Freeman (East Greenwich, RI) continued his dominance of the weight/hammer throw as he placed first in the hammer throw with an NCAA “B” qualifying throw of 64.28 meters.
Freshman Rickard Pell (Stockholm, Sweden) won the 800 meters in 1:48.63. This was an NCAA “B” qualifying mark as well as qualifying him for the IC4A Championships.
Senior women’s high jumper Cheryl Drechsel (Port Jefferson Station, NY) set a new Manhattan College record clearing 1.75 meters as she placed 6th in the event. She broke her own record of 1.72 meters set in May of 1999.
March 24, 2001
Women’s Tennis Beats Rhode Island To Improve To 7-3
KINGSTON, RI – The Manhattan College women’s tennis team defeated Rhode Island (3-2) on Saturday afternoon to improve to 7-3 on the year. The Lady J’s swept all three doubles to take the doubles point and then quickly won the #3, #4, and #5 singles matches to clinch the victory. Rhode Island would win the remaining three matches including an outstanding three-set match at third singles.
Manhattan’s second doubles team, Mary Jane McGuire (Sebring, FL) and Melissa Sunga (Bergenfield, NJ) continued their outstanding play this spring as they won their fourth consecutive match. They have not lost as a doubles team. Both players also swept to straight set singles victories.
SINGLES
1. Nanaxhi Chavez-Geller (MC) lost to Marla Pasquale 7-5, 6-3
2. Jasmine Whu (MC) lost to Ally Erasmous
3-6, 6-2, 7-5
3. Melissa Sunga (MC) d. Cyndi Taylor
6-4, 6-3
4. Mary Jane McGuire (MC) d. Jess Collins
6-1, 6-2
5. Courtney James (MC) d. Heather Harris
6-2, 6-1
6. Daisy Hamburg (MC) lost to Danielle Kapner 6-2, 6-3
DOUBLES
1. Chavez-Geller/Whu (MC) d. Pasquale/Erasmous (RI) 8-5
2. Sunga/McGuire (MC) d. Erasmous/Collins (RI) 8-3
3. James/Hamburg (MC) d. Kilgore/Clapham (RI) 8-1
March 23, 2001
Men’s Tennis Drops 6-1 Decision To Binghamton
RIVERDALE, NY – The Manhattan College men’s tennis team lost to Binghamton 6-1 on Friday afternoon. The Jaspers won at #1 doubles behind senior John Espinosa (Astoria, NY) and junior Tona Chavez-Geller (Oaxaca, Mexico), but Binghamton won at #2 and #3 doubles to take the doubles point.
In singles action, the lone highlight for the Jaspers was Klim Fedosienko’s (John F. Kennedy H.S., New York, NY) win at number five singles in a match that was decided by a super-tiebreaker instead of a third set, 1-6, 6-4, 10-8.
Manhattan dropped to 6-2 on the year while Binghamton improved to 7-8.
SINGLES
1. John Espinosa (MC) lost to Dmitriy Litvak
6-3, 6-4
2. Tona Chavez-Geller (MC) lost to Brad Davidoff 7-5, 6-0
3. Ajay Kumar (MC) lost to Steve Spencer
3-6, 6-0, 10-6
4. Paul Wawrzyniak (MC) lost to Randall Shu
6-2, 6-3
5. Klim Fedosienko (MC) d. Brian Hoffner
1-6, 6-4, 10-8
6. Dean Won (MC) lost to Evan Gotlob
6-1, 6-3
DOUBLES
1. Espinosa/Chavez-Geller d. Spencer/Sylvain Ruest 8-7 (7-3)
2. Wawrzyniak/Fedosienko lost to Litvak/Shu
8-4
3. Kumar/Shant Wartanian lost to Davidoff/Hoffner 8-0
March 23, 2001
LORENTO TAKES MANHATTAN
By: Darlene F. Camacho
Assistant Sports Media Relations Director
In the fall of 1997 Ronkonkoma native Mike Lorento arrived at Manhattan College and immediately questioned his choice to become a student-athlete for the Jaspers. Despite feeling a little overwhelmed and homesick, Lorento stuck it out and is extremely glad he did.
On March 20th Lorento broke the College’s career hits record (158) after going 3-3 in a 7-5 win over Yale. With at least 34 games left in his senior campaign, Lorento is poised to become Manhattan College’s first-ever member of the 200 hit club.
When asked to reflect on his three seasons as Jasper, Lorento finds his freshman year nothing short of ironic. “ I can’t believe I actually debated leaving as a freshman,” Lorento said. “Of course that was after the first day of school. Two weeks later, after I met my team, I loved it here.”
And in turn, Manhattan College loves Lorento’s contribution to the baseball team. A two-time All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Third Baseman, Lorento led the team in batting average, hits, slugging percentage, on base percentage and putouts as a junior. He is also serving as a team Tri-Captain for the second consecutive year.
Lorento feels that his statistical accomplishments are just an added bonus to the success of the program. “I usually have goals at the beginning of each season but they are secondary to the team’s objectives,” Lorento said. “I would sacrifice any individual accomplishment if it meant the team would win.”
Lorento emanates unselfish leadership and attributes much of his success to his family. “My father is the most influential person in my life. He has only missed four or five games in my entire career, and I just can’t thank him enough for it,” Lorento said. “My father loves baseball just as much as I do. He coached me until I was 17 years old. He’s taught me so much and he, my mother and my sister have been extremely supportive of me. I am very lucky.”
In addition, Lorento acknowledges the coaches that have been instrumental in his success. He played three years of varsity baseball at Connetquot High School for Head Coach Bob Ambrosini, served as team captain as a senior, and helped Connetquot to the Class A State Championship.
“Coach Ambrosini is a amazing. He really knows his baseball,” Lorento said. “He gave me tremendous confidence playing at the next level. I can only hope I’d be as successful a coach as he is.”
His Connetquot experience aided him in making the adjustment to Division I athletics, but Lorento recognizes current Head Coach Stever Trimper as an integral part of his success. “Manhattan College baseball has improved so much since my freshman year,” Lorento stated. “I think we are stronger as a team this year than ever before and that has a lot to do with Coach Trimper.”
Ironically, Trimper thinks the same of Lorento. “He is probably the greatest player I have ever coached and we are a better team because of him,” Trimper said. “He is an outstanding leader on and off the field. He will leave an impression on our team and on our record books.”
Lorento’s full impact on Manhattan College baseball is still to be determined, but one fact is certain. Sometime between his freshman year and now, his career changed from impressive and ironic to outstanding and impeccable and neither he nor Manhattan College would have it any other way.
March 22, 2001
PAUL DOMBROWSKI NAMED VERIZON ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT SECOND TEAM
Senior Defender Maintains a 4.00 Grade Point Average in Environmental Engineering
RIVERDALE, NY – Senior defender Paul Dombrowski (Floral Park H.S./Floral Park, NY) was named to the Verizon Academic All-District I Fall/Winter At-Large Team. Dombrowski maintains a 4.00 GPA in Environmental Engineering while playing for the men’s soccer team. For the 2000 season, Dombrowski started in 4 of the 13 games he played in and tallied one goal. Dombrowski is also a three-time MAAC All-Academic honoree.
March 22, 2001
KATIE CORRAO NAMED VERIZON ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT SECOND TEAM
Junior Defender Maintains a 3.964 Grade Point Average as a Three Year Starter
RIVERDALE, NY – Junior defender Katie Corrao (Commack High School/Commack, NY) was named to the Verizon Academic All-District I Fall/Winter At-Large Team. Corrao maintains a 3.964 GPA in Biology while starting for the women’s soccer team. For the 2000 season, Corrao started in 14 of the 15 games she played in and tallied one assist. Corrao is also a two-time MAAC All-Academic honoree.
March 21, 2001
MEN’S LACROSSE LOSES IN RAIN AT MARIST
POUGHKEPSIE, NY – The Manhattan College men’s lacrosse dropped a 10-3 decision at Marist on Wednesday afternoon. The game was tied throughout most of the first quarter until Marist scored with 59 seconds remaining to take a 2-1 lead. The Red Foxes would control the second quarter in which they outscored the Jaspers 2-0 to take a 4-1 halftime lead.
Junior goalkeeper James Amandola (Medford, NY) played well for the Jaspers as he recorded 15 saves as Marist outshot Manhattan 39-22.
Sophomore Nick Silva (Chesterfield, MO) scored a goal and had an assist for the Jaspers. Dan Tichy (Bayport, NY) and Michael Conforto (Congers, NY) both scored a goal for Manhattan.
With the loss, Manhattan dropped to 2-3 overall, 0-1 MAAC. They return to action on Saturday against Siena at 6:00 pm in a game which will be played at West Point.
From: Healey, John (1962 BCE)
Subject: RE: Approve List Member jhealey (jasperjottings))
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:09:34 -0500
John,
I am a 1962 Civil Engineering Graduate of Manhattan. Bill Murphy (63E) and I met recently and he was good enough to connect with the Jasper Jottings. I had been aware that the Jottings existed but did not know how to make contact.
Please let me know if more info is needed. Thanks.
John J.Healey
[JR: No that's fine. I just want to make sure that we control who participates. We have to have some standards! Although, I always remember Groucho Marx's great line "I wouldn't want to be a member of any club that would have me as a member." So we don't want to be too exclusive. Just no spammers and mlm-ers. ;-)]
Date: 23 Mar 2001 14:49:06 -0000
From: Mike Toner
Subject: Re: jasper jottings 03/23/01
Dear John,
You wrote -
>My only A in my distinguished (it must have been dis-
tingished
>because I spent enough time in the Dean's office and it wasn't ex-
>tinguished) career was in Engineering Drawing. Only 2 credits too.
>And, immediately obsoleted by computer graphics.
Was this with Professor A.C. Finger?? I think I only got through that one because a good friend - Tim Mayglothling - BEE '71 - provided a lot of help.
You also wrote -
> (Hey it's cold in the garage. I'm hallucinating.
Earlier you were seeking sympathy for the cold, dark basement - so is it a basement or a garage? Maybe if you changed some of your politics, you'd be allowed in the heated spaces of your home...<VBG>
Thanks, as always, for your work as CIC. And now I've killed another half hour that should have been devoted to client projects....
peace...mike Toner
buffalo, ny
BEE '72
[JR: <1> Can't honestly say as I remember. But, I do remember the teacher saying I had a feel for it. Maybe I shoulda been an artist? All I know is it was one of the few courses I "got"! <2> In truth it's neither. I live in a one-story ranch no basement and there's not enough room in the garage for me. But, it's a state of mind when Wednesday night rolls around and jasper jottings needs a "fill up". <3> Change politics, not likely, I guess I am the family eccentric, but it seems so commonsense to me. ;-) Oh well.]
At 03:41 PM 03/16/2001 +0000, you wrote:
Hello. I'm sure the last thing you need is more suggestions, but I have one anyway!
I use AOL. When Jasper Jottings arrives, AOL deems it "too long" and puts the bulk of the message in an attachment taht needs to be downloaded.
Today's edition, for example, got about as far as your "no taxxation" (sic!) quote.
Downloading is really a pain in the butt. I know you can't "fix" what AOL does, but I thought that you might move the listing of the names and classes of those with news to the top of your note. News on alums is the most valuable part of the note to me (and, truth be told, the political commentary the least valuable -- but that is the the subject of another email at another time!). That way, I could see that in the note and could only download the "whole" thing when it included someting I wanted to see.
Thanks for considering this... and for all your work each week.
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:20:27 -0500
To: Tom Bechet '74
Subject: Suggestion for AOL
Hi Tom,
Following up on your suggestion, please try tapping on this url.
http://ferdinand_reinke.tripod.com/jasperjottings20010323.htm
It has this week's jasper jottings. If you can get to it and find it useable, then you can unsubscribe from "jasperjottings", that carries the big bulky text file, and subscribe to "AnnounceHTMLJJs", that carries just the pointer to an HTML version.
Since I want the capability to move where I store the HTML jottings (i.e., free sites some times are unavailable or go out of business), I don't want people to assume where it is and then be "lost" if I have to switch sites.
I also like to know how many people are subscribers. That gives me my "psychic" income. ;-)
Hope you find this a good solution. If not let me know and we can try something else.
[JR: Anyone can subscribe to the "announce html jasper jottings" that tells you where on the internet I have hidden each week's jasper jottings.]
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:20:27 EST
Subject: Re: Suggestion for AOL
I went to the web page and made it a "favorite place" in AOL terms. As long as the address remains the same, I can just click on that when I see that you've sent a new jottings.
Thanks!
[JR: See that's why you need to subscribe to the announcing list because I can't guarantee it's in the same place. In the announce list, I actually send a short message that gives you the url where it is. I currently use either of two free sites reinkefj.topcities.com or the one you saw. I have to be a little flexible here because these fellows tend to be pretty volatile. I'll send you an invite to the announce list and then you can see the correct url for any given week. I try to stick to one site but this week for example topcities was having a problem so I went to ferdinand_reinke.tripod.com. I have ided 15 free web sites where I have established accounts as potential "hosts" for a jasper jotting issue. See it's not easy being a cic. ;-) what ever you'd like to do is fine with me. It is also hosted in the jasperjttings.listbot.com archive as a text file. So it is available.]
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:38:46 -0500
From: Ed Plumeau, '52A
Subject: Manhattan College, Kansas
Your 3/23/01 edition carried an e-mail concerning Manhattan College in Manhattan Kansas. In the summer of 1953 I was attending the Army General School in Ft. Riley, Junction City, Kansas. Manhattan was the nearest big town and the local American Legion Post was more than hospitable to active service personnel. The college offered cut-rate tickets to their athletic events and one of the churches in town had "strawberry socials" almost every Sunday -- that was a large soup bowl with a biscuit on the bottom, a pile of home-made ice cream covered with fresh strawberries and a huge gob of real whipped cream. Again, half price to the military. I have fond memories of Manhattan Kansas and the nice people I met there. Even if the Snake River would flood the town halfway up Main Street. But the two "Manhattan Colleges" did cause a problem -- people would ask why a New Yorker chose to attend college "on the prairie".
[JR: OK I leave off haranguing about the nice people, but they still are giving me aggravation when I do my searches. Next to the lack of ability to screen material by date, it's my single biggest pain.]
Date: 23 Mar 2001 16:51:47 -0000
From: Frank A Flynn
Subject: Re: jasper jottings 03/23/01
Please remove me from your mailing list. I am too far away to get much benefit of the information you provide.
Frank A Flynn, 57 EE
[JR: Done]
Date: 23 Mar 2001 16:53:01 -0000
From: Cronin, Ellen
Subject: RE: jasper jottings 03/23/01
Hi John "Collector in Chief"
I would like to have Jasper Jottings sent to <privacy invoked> instead of my work account. Keep up the good work. I enjoy reading Jasper Jottings on a weekly basis.
Thanks,
Ellen Cronin
[JR: 1996 BS & Done]
From: jack goll
Subject: thomas turcich 1967
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 13:12:33 -0500
you identified him as jasper found #13
i tried to find info but got lost in the maze
i went to grammar school with him in Astoria & he was also a brother member of Arnold Air Society (AFROTC) @ Manhattan
can you provide any info on his last known whereabouts?
thanks for being there & also for providing jasper jottings
regards, jack goll
[JR: Done. I followed the link to the identifying information and copied him on the email. Maybe we'll hear from him?]
From: jack goll
Subject: Re: thomas turcich, arnold air society, class of 1967
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:16:54 -0500
i located his mother:
Gloria Turcich
560 Terrace Drive NE
Rio Rancho NM 87124-4919
She indicatated that Thomas Turcich, class of 1967, died of a heart attack on 25 March 1999.
If this is published in the Manhattan alumni newsletter she asked that a copy of the newsletter be sent to her.
jack goll 1968
[JR: Good reporting; lousy result. I didn't draw any inference when the email address I had bounced just before receiving your email. Sorry you had to find out about your friend that way. I'll send her a copy of jasper jottings as it applies to her son, with our collective condolences. Any New Mexico Jaspers may want to look in on her from time to time and embrace her in the Jasper community.]
Date: 26 Mar 2001 13:58:09 -0000
From: John Baumann (1949)
Subject: Re: SSW Florida Alumni
John -thanks for the notice of our Lunch (3/25) on the weekly Jasper Jottings Bulletin Board. The results were satisfying. Co -Hosts John Odorico ' 49 EE and John Baumann ' 49 BCE wish to thank Grace Feeney, Br. John Muller, FSC, the 19 Jaspers and the 6 wives for helping to make this affair successful. This was the 3rd consecutive year for this lunch and we hope to continue for many more.
Br. John plays a very good game of golf for someone claiming to be rusty, so Jaspers be warned. He also did provide a good insight into the College's past achievements and its visions for the future.
Several of the attendees had never heard of "Jasper Jottings " so everyone was given the address for subscribing to it. I intend to watch the following weeks to see if they follow up on this info.
Those attending this lunch were:
Co- Hosts- John Odorico' 49 & John Baumann' 49
Steve
Christie' 73 Jim Connors'
57
Jim Debraggio'56 Ed Delaney' 51
Will Doran' 54 Al Doyle' 51
Art Droba' 74 Jim Feeney' 57
Dean Noll' 50 Phil O'Connell' 49
Tom Sullivan' 50 Chuck Theisen' 53
Joe Wall' 49 Joe Zagursky' 60
Again John thanks for the fine & informative jottings , keep up the good work.
God Bless , John Baumann ' 49 BCE
[JR: Did the good brother cheat you babes in the woods out a few dollars by under-reporting his ability? Surely, given the Biblical prohibitions on gambling, you all couldn't have been wagering now. I am SHOCKED (as in the movie Casablanca) to discover, why the very idea, that good little Jaspers would be GAMBLING. I'm speechless. Any way, you must have missed the theology class where were learned never to bet on anything that can talk, buy anything from the government that they want to sell you, and never to invest anything with anyone who's lips move. ;-) Something like that about the three ontological laws of theology. That was a very good course. I hope for a better report of the class from someone who stayed awake in it.]
[JR: Jaspers Delaney, Doyle, and Noll are "lost". Can you help the College "find" them. And, I couldn't identify Jaspers Sullivan and Wall, so check their diplomas. ;-) Thanks for the report.]
Date: 26 Mar 2001 14:39:16 -0000
From: Paul M. Leone
John:
Last week's jasper jottings had an e-mail from Peter Krupp ('76) wishing to make contact with my brother Bill ('76), however Peter's e-mail address was not forwarded to me to pass on. When you have a chance, can you please send it to me.
It is my understanding that re-establishing contacts among former classmates is one of the goals of jasper jottings. So it appears that your efforts are succeeding. Keep up the good work.
Paul Leone ('78)
[JR: Done. FYI, Bill's marked as "lost".]
Date: 26 Mar 2001 14:57:36 -0000
From: Rebollo, Richard
Subject: RE: jasper jottings 03/23/01
J.R.,
Being in my 8th year of marriage, it's too late for expensive gifts to get the mother-in-law on my side, so I just try to be my charming, despotic self (See back e-mail on behavioral traits of Class of 91' EE's...) I think 3 grandchildren are gift enough, but then I've been watching that commercial of the guy with the classic refrigerator and car and get deja-vu'! Besides, how could one possibly find a truly astounding gift for the woman who has everything!?
I, of course, did what most guys in my shoes do: I gallantly allowed my wife to pick out the gift!
Thanks,
Rich
[JR: Behavioral trait of all engineers is to take the easy way out. :-) ]
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:00:20 -0500
From: Joseph Walsh
Subject: Jasper Jottings List (Return to)
Dear John, thanks for your thoughtfulness of a post card telling me I had dropped off the JJ list. On March 1 AT&T, which had bought IBM Global Services a year and half ago, changed <privacy invoked> domain name to <privacy invoked>. So, I informed all my penpals but not Jasper Jottings. So, here's the current email address: <privacy invoked>. I have a second, <privacy invoked>.
Am thinking of buying a new computer and don't if I can keep everything the same, but I'll try. Thanks again for the card. Have a nice Easter.
[JR: Score one for the post cards]
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