Sunday 12 Aug 2001

Dear Jaspers,

The jasperjottings email list has 1,031 subscribers by my count.

Don't forget:

Monday 9/17 James Keating O'Neill Golf Classic
    (www.jkogolf.org -- that's ORG not COM).

9/23 Weekend - Businessmen's Retreat

ALL BOILER PLATE is at the end.

Signing off for this week.

Why is Mississippi the “bottom state”? Bottom in all the ratings I mean. Why can’t the politicians make this state a lab experiment in free enterprise? The people should demand it! I would propose that all the libertarian think tanks come up with a list of actions that implement a truly free market economy. I’d bet a dollar to a dime that the state would vault to the top. In driving around, I saw that the indoctrination stations (i.e., the state schools) were beautiful temples to government but the houses that people lived in could have been in a third world country. The disparity was stunning. The anointed solons know what’s good for the people of Mississippi – poverty!

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
reinkefj@alum.manhattan.edu

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        2      Obits
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Forte, Francis A. MD

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Penders, Jack

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?

Renkens, Brooke

News2

1936

Dorn, Andrew W. Sr.

Obit2

1953 BBA

McEneney, Michael F.

Email3

1955

Benson, Ben

Email3

1962

Dillon, Joe

Email3

1966

Cahill, Tom

Email2

1966 A

Maloney, Tom

Email4

1966 BA

Morrell, Mike

Email2

1969 BA

Patterson, James

Email4

1970

Chandler, Bill

Email3

1991 BA

Stillwell, Sara L.

Wedding1

1992 BS

Breen, Janine Smith

Birth1

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Smith, Daniel J.

Birth1

2001

Dunphy, Kimberly

News1

MC Faculty

Barry, Brother Austin

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Cahill, Tom

Email2

1970

Chandler, Bill

Email3

1962

Dillon, Joe

Email3

1936

Dorn, Andrew W. Sr.

Obit2

2001

Dunphy, Kimberly

News1

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Forte, Francis A. MD

Email1

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Maloney, Tom

Email4

1953 BBA

McEneney, Michael F.

Email3

1966 BA

Morrell, Mike

Email2

1969 BA

Patterson, James

Email4

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Penders, Jack

Email2

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Renkens, Brooke

News2

1993

Smith, Daniel J.

Birth1

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Stillwell, Sara L.

Wedding1

 

 

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[JASPER WEDDINGS]

[Wedding #1]

Copyright 2001 The Buffalo News  
The Buffalo News
August 5, 2001 Sunday FINAL EDITION
SECTION: LIFESTYLES, Pg.E5
HEADLINE: STILLWELL - STOECKL

Bishop Henry J. Mansell of the Diocese of Buffalo performed the marriage ceremony for Sara L. Stillwell and Dr. Andrew C. Stoeckl at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in St. Joseph Cathedral. A reception was given in Ellicott Square for the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Stillwell of Fort Myers Beach, Fla., formerly of Williamsville, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Stoeckl of East Aurora.

The bride, a fourth-grade teacher in Windermere Boulevard School, Amherst, is a graduate of Nardin Academy and Manhattan College and has a master's degree in education from Buffalo State College. The bridegroom is a graduate of Canisius High School, Boston College and University at Buffalo School of Medicine. He is an orthopedic surgery resident in UB Consortium Hospitals. They are traveling to Bermuda and will be at home in Buffalo.

LOAD-DATE: August 7, 2001    

[MCOLDB: 1991 BA]

 

 

[JASPER BIRTHS]

[Birth #1]

From: "Rebollo, Richard
Subject: RE: Jasper Jottings 2000-08-05 (from the road)
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 09:16:38 -0400

John,

There is another Jasper in the world:

Janine Breen (Smith) had a baby boy on Friday, 7/27:  Christopher Ryan Breen; weighing in at 10 lbs, 2 oz.  I think she graduated from Manhattan in 93 with a CIS degree and her older brother Dan Smith is an old friend and fellow BSEE. 

We all love to hear news like this, and it's the same reason I love to share it!

P.S. Don't forget my wife is due on Thanksgiving, so keep a place for me at the dinner table...

Richard A. Rebollo
CICG Technology Group

[JR: You’ll be too busy to eat Thanksgiving dinner. Please pass along our best wishes. Good reporting.]

[MCOLDB: Janine Smith Breen 1992 BS! If it’s Daniel J. Smith then it’s 1993 BS but that doesn’t quite match your facts???]

 

 

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[JASPER OBITS]

[Collector's prayer: And, may perpetual light shine on our fellow departed Jaspers, and all the souls of the faithful departed.]

[Obit #1]

Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company  
The New York Times
August 7, 2001, Tuesday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section B; Page 7; Column 1; Classified
HEADLINE: Deaths

BARRY, BROTHER AUSTIN

BARRY-Brother Austin, FSC. On August 2, 2001, at Lincroft, NJ. Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at Manhattan College. Beloved brother of Mrs. Virginia Lahy and Mrs. Betty Wiest, of Newburgh, NY, and the late Brother Raymond Barry, FSC. Family will receive friends for the wake at Christian Brothers Center, 4415 Post Rd, Bronx, NY, on Sunday, August 5 from 3-5 and from 7-9 PM and on Monday, August 6, from 2-5 PM and from 7-9 PM. Mass of Christian Burial at Christian Brothers Center Chapel at 10 AM on Tuesday, August 7. Interment to follow at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, NY.  

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[Obit #2]

Copyright 2001 The Buffalo News  
The Buffalo News
August 3, 2001 Friday FINAL EDITION
SECTION: LOCAL, Pg.B9
HEADLINE: ANDREW DORN SR., NIAGARA MOHAWK RETIREE

Andrew W. Dorn Sr., 89, a manager for Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. and an officer in the Buffalo Auxiliary Fire Corps, died Wednesday (Aug. 1, 2001) in Sisters Hospital after a brief illness.

Born in Newark, N.J., he grew up in North Tonawanda, where his parents operated a tavern and rooming house on Oliver Street.

Dorn was a graduate of St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute, where he played football and was a member of the swimming team. He was a lifeguard at Crystal Beach and played as a postgraduate on the North Tonawanda High School football team.

He attended Manhattan College on a football scholarship, playing end on the varsity team, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1936. A business major, he was first in his class.

He had a 42-year career with Niagara Mohawk. When he retired in 1977, he was manager of the division of customer accounting and administrative services.

He joined the Buffalo Auxiliary Fire Corps in 1942 and was a battalion chief when he retired in 1984. He helped battle the general-alarm fire that destroyed St. Michael's Catholic Church in 1963. He also served as a director of the Fire Bell Club of Buffalo.

He and Carol Gannon were married in 1937. She died in 1978.

He married Ruth Lownie Battaglia in 1979.

In addition to his wife, survivors include four sons, John of Kenmore, James of Towson, Md., Jeffrey of Snyder and Andrew W. Jr. of Fredonia; a daughter, Gretchen Immerese of Florida; two stepsons, Carl "Skip" Battaglia of Rochester and Paul Battaglia of Snyder; a sister, Marie Maxwell of Clawson, Mich.; 21 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Blessed Trinity Catholic Church, 317 Leroy Ave., after prayers at 10 in Dietrich Funeral Home, 2480 Kensington Ave., Snyder. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Town of Tonawanda.

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[News1]

Copyright 2001 Bergen Record Corporation  
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
August 7, 2001 Tuesday All Bergen Editions
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. l04
HEADLINE: GRADUATES
SOURCE: The Record
BYLINE: LORRAINE MATYS

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MANHATTAN COLLEGE School of Business * Hackensack: Kimberly Dunphy, graduate degree.

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[News2]

Copyright 2001 Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Inc.  
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE
August 07, 2001 Tuesday, ALL EDITIONS
SECTION: SPORTS; PRESS BOX; Pg. D3
HEADLINE: PRESS BOX

 GOLF

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COLLEGE

Renkens lands job at St. John's

Brooke Renkens, the former Holy Name and Manhattan College standout, has been hired as an assistant women's basketball coach st St. John's University.

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[EMAIL FROM JASPERS]

[Email 1]

Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 06:52:13 -0400
Subject: Re: Jasper Jottings 2000-08-05 (from the road)
From: "Francis A. Forte, MD"

To: ferdinand reinke <reinkefj@bigfoot.com>
on 8/5/01 6:22 PM, ferdinand reinke at reinkefj@bigfoot.com wrote:
> Sunday 05 Aug 2001

Please onsubscribe me from this lisy

Thanks

Forte

[JR: Done. Would you care to share the reason why with us?]

[MCOLDB: ?]

 

 

[Email 2]

Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 07:12:44 -0400
From: Mike Morrell
Subject: Tom Cahill '66

Please inform Tom Cahill that I am alive and well and just retired after 34 years with the NYC Board of Education serving all of my career on Staten Island. I have no word on the whereabouts of Jack Penders (somewhere in CT, I presume). I'd love to hear from him.

[JR: Done]

 

 

[Email 3]

From: Michael F. McEneney
Subject: Some News
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 17:18:21 -0400

Dear John,

               I am pleased to report that the August 3rd outing at Saratoga was a great social success. About 140 Jaspers, Spouses and friends enjoyed a beautiful day under the tent. The rain held off until after the 9th race and a good time was had by all.

              My day started by being a half hour late picking up Grace Feeney in Riverdale for the ride up. We got a flat on the Thruway in Rockland County (that I had to change myself!) which delayed us another 20 minutes. Never-the-less we arrived in time for the first race. After all of that I didn't cash a winning ticket and lost my glasses as well!

              Bill Chandler '70, the new president of the Alumni Society, hosted a cocktail party and dinner at "The INN at Saratoga" a stately place. The dinner was outstanding with a few speeches, a short one by Joe Dillon '62, and inspiring one by Coach Gonzales and finally a tribute to Ben Benson '55 who is retiring as Director of Alumni Relations at the end of the year.All of these festivities inspired a group of "more senior" Jaspers to give a loud rendition of Manhattan Men. It was the end of a great day.

            On a more somber note, on Tuesday I attended the Mass of Resurrection for Brother Austin Barry who was 84 and a legend at Manhattan. Up until a few months before his death he was still overseeing the maintenance of the Brother's Residence. Brother was at Manhattan for 58 years! Many of those in attendance, both Alums and Christian Brothers, had a particular Austin Barry story. He will be missed by all.

           And finally a reminder that the Businessmen's Retreat will be held at the Cardinal Spellman Retreat House in Riverdale the weekend of Sept. 21, 22,  23. This is a great opportunity to pause and take stock of our lives: spiritual, family and work, More to follow!

            John, I hope your job search is going forward with some degree of success and thanks for keeping Jasper Jottings going during what must be a difficult time for you.

                                Best,
                               Mike McEneney, Esq. '53, BBA

[JR: Guess you missed the lecture about betting on things that talk? Sad to see about Brother Austin Barry who taught me the difference between an “error” and “blunder”. That and the “chain girls” job was to bring the cold beer on hot days. Job search slow but like all things this too will pass.]

 

 

[Email 4]

Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 07:21:46 EDT
Subject: James Patterson

John,

I wanted to alert you that there was a long article on fellow alumnus James Patterson in yesterday's Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45783-2001Aug7.html).  About two thirds down the article, it mentions "He graduated from Manhattan College."

I really appreciate your efforts.  Thanks.

Tom Maloney '66A

 

Copyright 2001 The Washington Post  
The Washington Post
August 08, 2001, Wednesday, Final Edition
SECTION: STYLE; Pg. C01
HEADLINE: The Best Seller; Novelist James Patterson Knows How to Make a Book Ka-Ching
BYLINE: Linton Weeks, Washington Post Staff Writer

Old porcelain bathtub? Check. New York apartment? Check. Persian cat? Check. Black Labrador retriever? Check. (Cat and dog are named Guinevere and Merlin, for bonus points.) Leather-bound diary? Check. Sobbing? Check.

James Patterson has written a novel, "Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas," that trots out just about every trite-and-true trope known to romantic fiction.

And you're just on the first page.

Read on. Window seat? Check. Heartbreak? By the bucketful. Heart attack? Yes. Death? You betcha. It's the story of a woman who falls in love with a man who is in mourning for another woman.

"Suzanne's Diary" has everything. Including a spot this week at the tiptop of many bestseller lists -- Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, the Associated Press, Barnes & Noble and others. It debuted on the Washington Post hardcover fiction list at No. 5 on Sunday.

Patterson, 54, has hit a home run. Now he's taking his fist-pumping trot around the bases, visiting city after city to hawk his new humongoseller and to bask in the rich, very rich applause.

He is wearing black pants, Top-Siders, a T-shirt and a pink sweater on a recent stop in Washington. It's an awfully hot day for a sweater. "Do I look pretty in pink?" he asks no one. He lifts his wire-rim glasses, rubs his blue eyes and presses on.

First stop: a Fox television studio, where a pleasant chap asks Patterson how writing this book was different from penning his creepy, cut-them-up Alex Cross mysteries, such as "Kiss the Girls" and "Along Came a Spider," or his new Women's Murder Club series.

Patterson, who is publishing three books this year, says he usually finishes his mystery novels in five or six drafts. "Suzanne's Diary" took 10 or 11 drafts. The author is pleased with the outcome. "I've had a dozen people say to me, 'This is the best book I've ever read in my life,' " Patterson says, quickly adding, "I think that's a little over the top."

Others are not so generous. "The operative word with 'Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas' is slick," according to USA Today.

Publishers Weekly called it a "women's weepy" that is "good enough to lightly pluck the heartstrings and to impress with its craft -- and its calculation."

Patterson knows from calculation.

"I'm doing these roller coasters," he says of his books. "People go out. They have a good time. The end."

Why is it, given that Patterson can write as graphically about the torture and abuse of women as anyone, that some 70 percent of his readers are women?

"As women have gotten into the workforce," he explains, "I think they are hooked on the adrenaline rush. There is an adrenaline rush to my books."

Time and again, he speaks of his love for the opposite sex. "I like women. The way they talk," he says. "I understand their vulnerabilities."

Asked if he deliberately set out to manipulate emotions in "Suzanne's Diary," he says, "I think what you say may be true."

He adds, "I just want to give them a good time."

Lunchtime in Sterling and more than 100 women -- and a few men -- have shown up for a good time: James Patterson is signing books at Borders.

He loosens the loving crowd up with a story.

One night he was having dinner at a fancy Italian restaurant in Washington with Sen. Fred Thompson, Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman. Someone walks up to the illustrious group of actors and asks for the autograph of . . . James Patterson. Patterson tells his fans, "Eastwood said, 'I need a hit movie. Bad.' "

Another story: Once he was invited to a bookstore to sign several hundred books. They turned out to be written by another bestselling author, Richard North Patterson.

The crowd chuckles.

Then James Patterson gets down to business. He tells the group that his new book is "James Patterson meets 'Bridges of Madison County' meets 'Horse Whisperer.' " There are some oohs and aahs.

He says another Alex Cross book will be out in November. He asks his fans to call out the title: " 'Violets Are Blue'!" they shout.

A woman raises her hand. Is there a poetry book in your future?

"Absolutely not," he says.

It's a tantalizing question, though. "Suzanne's Diary" has two poems in it.

The first is written by the main male character, Matthew Harrison, to his wife, Suzanne.

You are the explosion of carnations

in a dark room.

Or the unexpected scent of pine

miles from Maine.

The poem continues for 34 more similar lines. At the end of it, Suzanne writes to her son, Nicholas, in her diary, that the poem proves once and for all that Matt -- her husband, Nicholas's dad -- "is a stunningly good writer."

Harrison is so good, in fact, that he submits another of his poems, "Nicholas and Suzanne," to the Atlantic Monthly in the novel and the magazine accepts it. On his birthday!

The first and last stanzas:

Who makes the treetops wave their hands?

And draws home ships from foreign lands,

And spins plain straw back into gold

And has a love too large to hold . . .

Who has the gift of making much?

From everything they hold or touch,

Who turns pure joy back into life?

For this I thank my son, my wife.

Time for a reality check. Peter Davison, the real-live poetry editor of the real-life Atlantic Monthly, says, "That poem would never be published in the Atlantic Monthly in the 21st century."

Realism, however, is not James Patterson's long suit.

He's given to saying things like "I don't care that much about detail" and "I don't know anything about guns."

And he'll be the first to admit that he doesn't really know Washington, though his popular Alex Cross series -- which has sold millions of copies -- is set here.

"It drives me crazy," he says, when people insist on realism in fiction. It's more important that a story "rings true emotionally."

The novels really ring for Gloria Guio, 32, of Ashburn. She has read "close to all" of Patterson's novels. At the bookstore to get her "Suzanne's Diary" signed, she says she wept when she read it. "He's a page-turner," she says. "He's an awesome writer."

For Erica Lewis, who works in Sterling, Patterson's gruesome 1997 book "Kiss the Girls," in which women are kept as sex slaves in an dungeon, is the favorite. "I couldn't put it down," says the 24-year-old. "I love his novels."

When Lewis's fiance, Jeff Phillipy, 27, is asked why so many of Patterson's readers are women, he responds, "A lot of guys don't read."

Patterson is a reading guy. "I do a couple hundred books a year," he says.

He started reading seriously when he was a teenager.

Born in Newburg, N.Y. -- "a disaster of a town now" -- he was the lone boy of four children. "My father wanted to be a diplomat or a novelist," Patterson says. "But he was a cautious guy."

His father eventually wrote a novel, but couldn't sell it to a publisher. "It was a well-written mystery," Patterson says. "I told him he better schlock it up a little bit."

When Patterson was a senior in high school, his family moved to the Boston-Cambridge area. There young Jim discovered bookstores. He wasn't drawn to potboilers. Instead he read Jean Genet, John Rechy and James Baldwin, "people who have a lot of interesting thoughts."

And during the summer he worked at a mental hospital.

He graduated from Manhattan College and won a four-year fellowship to Vanderbilt. There he wrote fiction.

After Vanderbilt, he went to work in 1971 for the ad agency J. Walter Thompson as a junior copywriter. In the office he met a woman named Jane. They fell in love. She developed brain cancer and died before they could marry. He says the memory of that tragic loss helped him write "Suzanne's Diary."

When Jane died sometime in the 1980s, Patterson threw himself into his work. "I didn't want to have a minute to myself," he says.

Patterson, as it turns out, was a natural at the super-successful ad agency, churning out button-pushing commercials for Kodak, Burger King and Toys R Us.

One of his favorite campaigns was for Bell Atlantic. He based a TV ad on a real-life reunion between his father and an unknown brother born out of wedlock. "We did spots that were pretty emotional," Patterson says. "We did little movies that were a lot more impressive than what I've seen in Hollywood." (Two of his books, "Kiss the Girls" and "Along Came a Spider," have been made into movies starring Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross.)

At the ad agency, Patterson rose to become chairman in 1990. But, he says, with the help of a therapist he began to understand that he had been his happiest when in the company of a woman. "Here I was putting no effort into finding someone else," he recalls.

He gave up his position at the ad agency in 1996 and married the next year. He and his wife, Sue, have a 3-year-old son named Jack. "It's a very nice, sweet relationship," Patterson says of his marriage. The family lives seven months a year in Palm Beach, Fla., and five months a year in a New York home overlooking the Hudson.

Even as he climbed rung after corporate rung, Patterson wrote fiction. He published his first novel, "The Thomas Berryman Number," when he was 27. It won the 1976 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Since then he has published 19 novels. In 1992 he co-wrote "The Day America Told the Truth," a nonfiction book based on lifestyle surveys. He has finished two more novels that will come out in the next year or so.

Asked about the critical reviews of his books, he says that the harsh words would concern him "if I was writing 'War and Peace.' " His work, he says, falls somewhere between Tolstoy's masterpiece and "the brochure you get for the groceries."

All he asks: "I want people to say, 'I couldn't put it down.' The end."

Sometimes he's self-effacing, other times supremely self-confident. "Underneath," he says, "I'm actually incredibly competitive."

While he champions some lesser-known writers such as Kent Anderson and Dennis Lehane, he speaks of many popular novelists with candor.

"I used to like John Irving," he says.

A recent Richard North Patterson novel was very good, he says, "but it could be about 100 pages shorter."

He has enjoyed the novels of Boston mystery writer Robert B. Parker in the past, "but he keeps telling the same story over and over."

"I always wonder with Tony Hillerman," he says, referring to a writer who sets most of his mysteries on a Native American reservation, "how many more murders can happen in a tiny area? Pretty soon everybody would be dead."

And he has clear ideas on how to sell books. Stores, he suggests, should simplify their displays and carry fewer titles. "A lot of people are scared of bookstores."

But most of all, James Patterson, former chairman of J. Walter Thompson and crafter of emotion-stirring TV ads, knows how to sell his own works.

"I hope the book will touch you. I think it will," he tells the adoring folks in the bookstore.

Quickly adding, "It really is a great gift."

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A Final Thought

”The Nebraska Supreme Court overturned the state's method of imposing capital punishment on Friday, tossing out the use of three-judge panels who were not required to reach a unanimous decision before handing down a death sentence.” Now if we could just get the government out of the killing business entirely, we’d all be a lot safer and wealthier.

 

 

 

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