Sunday 23 June 2002
Dear Jaspers,
The jasper jottings email list has 985 subscribers by my count.
Don't forget: … …
July 29- August 2 - Manhattan College 20th Annual AP
Workshops:
TEACHING OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT
Dr. Pamela Kerrigan 718-862-7209
pam.kerriga@manhattan.edu
Friday, August 2, 2002 - Capital District - Day at the Races
Someday, August 5 - Construction Open Golf Tournament Eastchester,
call Joe Van Etten at 212-280-0663
Monday, August 5 - Construction Industry Golf Open & Tennis Match
call Joe Van Etten
'57, (212) 280-0663
Thursday, August 15 - Monmouth Park Racetrack
Saturday, August 24 - Alumni/ae Soccer Games Gaelic
Park
call Tom Lindgren '78, (914) 948-5399
or
John Sanchez, (718) 862-7936
(women);
Bill Walsh (718) 862-7844 (men).
Thursday, September 5 - Washington DC Golf Outing
call Chuck Martin '63, at (703)
706-3130.
Friday, September 20 to Sunday, September 22 Alumni Men's Retreat
call Joe Gunn '76, (718) 321-4907
or
Kevin Dolan '68, (718)
432-8714.
Monday, September 23, 2002 - 2nd O'Neill Memorial Golf Classic
call (718) 726-3153. <-
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There will be a hiatus for two weeks while I go abroad on a business trip for the first week in July. There probably will be a backlog in material in the weeks following. I’ll try to keep the disruptions to a minimum.
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ALL BOILER PLATE is at the end.
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http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/05/26/stranger.kidney.ap/index.html
“Would you give a kidney to a stranger? People like Steve Aman are, in increasing numbers, giving parts of their own bodies to help complete strangers survive. And without such help people like Pete Dobrovitz probably would not be alive today.”
The fact that the donor and bone were Catholics really shouldn’t matter. That they were a perfect match adds a measure “miracle” to it. Like to think I could, but I’m not so sure I could. You’d have to have an extra measure of faith that you wouldn’t need it back?
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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CONTENTS
0 Formal
announcements
0 Messages from Headquarters (MC
Press Releases)
1 Jaspers publishing web pages
3 Jaspers found web-wise
0 Honors
0 Weddings
0 Births
0 Engagements
0 Graduations
3 Obits
2 "Manhattan in
the news" stories
0 Resumes
2 Sports
10 Emails
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Callan, Edwin J. |
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McEneney, Michael F. |
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Weigel, Robert Leo |
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Lenihan, Philip M. |
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Lestingi, Joseph |
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Ludford, Joseph |
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Weldon, Edward J., Jr. |
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Minardo, Philip G. |
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Schimmenti, Matthew P. |
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Loreto, Paul D. |
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Speitel, Thomas W. |
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Kreidenweis, Sonia M. |
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Lowell, Carolyn |
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Knirsch-Blasl, Dawn Marie |
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Pollina, Barbara Ruiz |
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Pollina, Philip |
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Lenihan, Philip M. |
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[FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT JASPERS]
[Messages from Headquarters (Manhattan College Press Releases & Stuff)]
[JASPERS PUBLISHING WEB PAGES]
http://www.lenihan.org/backgrounder.html
Philip M. Lenihan, CBC -
Backgrounder
Cupertino, CA 95014-2855
[MCOLDB: 1957]
[JASPERS FOUND ON & OFF THE WEB BY USING THE WEB]
http://www.atmos.colostate.edu/dept/facmembers/kreidenw.html
Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Associate Professor
Education
Ph.D., 1989, California Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering
M.S., 1985, California Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering
B.E., 1983, Manhattan College, Chemical Engineering
Career Overview
Professor Kreidenweis joined the Colorado State University Department of Atmospheric Science in the Fall of 1991 to initiate and head the new Atmospheric Chemistry Program. The Program supports a core of introductory and advanced courses in Atmospheric Chemistry, Aerosol Physics, and Air Pollution; teaching and research laboratories for gas-, aqueous-, and particle-phase measurements; and the CSU Dynamic Cloud Chamber and associated research programs focusing on aerosol characterization, aerosol-cloud interactions, cloud microphysics, cloud modification, and instrument development.
Professor Kreidenweis received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Before coming to CSU, she held a faculty position in the Department of Chemical Engineering at San Jose State University, where she was awarded the Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award in two consecutive years for her accomplishments in research and teaching. She has also served as a consultant to the Atmospheric and Geophysical Sciences Division of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She received the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 1993, the CSU Engineering Dean's Council Award in 1995; and an USRA/Goddard Space Flight Center Visiting Fellow Award in 1999. She has served on numerous scientific panels, and is currently a memeber of the National Research Council's Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry. Her research interests focus on the nature and behavior of particulate matter in the atmosphere, including the role of aerosols in global chemical cycles, effects of aerosols on visibility, the influence of aerosols on the Earth's radiation budget and climate, and the relationship between aerosols and cloud microphysical and optical properties.
Research Interests
Tropospheric Chemistry, Aerosol Dynamics, Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions, and Visibility
Prof. Kreidenweis' research activities are focused on the nature and behavior of particulate matter in the atmosphere, and its visibility and climate. Her research program has two major components aimed at investigating these questions: an experimental component, which includes both laboratory and field measurements, and a modeling component.
The experimental component is focused on characterizing aerosol physical properties. Prof. Kreidenweis' group has participated in several field campaigns sponsored by NSF, NASA, ONR, and the National Park Service. The 1992 ASTEX and 1995 ACE-1 field campaigns measured marine aerosol concentrations and size distributions. The data were used to examine the role of aerosols in the marine sulfur cycle and the role of clouds in processing atmospheric particulate matter, and to help develop a database of global aerosol characteristics that can be used to study climate change issues. They have participated in several studies aimed at understanding visibility degradation in National Parks: the 1995 Southeastern Aerosol and Visibility Study in Great Smoky Mountains National Park; the 1998 Grand Canyon Visibility Study; and the 1999 Big Bend Aerosol and Visibility Observational Study. In those projects, measurements of aerosol number concentration, size distribution, and hygroscopicity were used to study the relationships between sources of particulate matter, particle properties, meteorology, and visibility. Members of Prof. Kreidenweis' group have also participated in several airborne missions that addressed the relationships between aerosols and formation of ice in the atmosphere. The 1996 SUCCESS mission examined the effects of aircraft emissions on contrail and cirrus cloud formation, and deployed for the first time an airborne continuous ice nucleus counter developed by colleagues at CSU. The counter was again deployed in the 1999 FIRE-Arctic mission in Alaska, examining links between particles and ice clouds. An upcoming wave cloud study in Spring 2000 will measure upwind ice nuclei and in-cloud ice crystal concentrations to quantitatively address relationships between these populations.
The ice nucleus counter is also being used in laboratory investigations that examine the formation of ice in particles of varying compositions, from sulfate to soot and mixed particles representative of those in the troposphere. The results have important implications for hypotheses that relate increased anthropogenic aerosol emissions to changes in cirrus cloud extent and optical properties. Other recent laboratory investigations used tandem humidified differential mobility analyzers and cloud condensation nucleus counters to relate particle hygroscopicity to cloud drop formation.
In collaborations with colleagues at other universities and laboratories, Prof. Kreidenweis and her group have developed aerosol - cloud interaction models for marine stratocumulus and continental convective systems, which are being used to examine processing and redistribution of atmospheric gases and particulate matter in clouds. Feedbacks of such processed aerosols on subsequent cloud formation are also modeled, and show that the sign of the feedback can be either positive or negative depending upon the initial aerosol and the nature of processing. Prof. Kreidenweis is also interested in the analysis of satellite and lidar aerosol data, and especially in using in situ measurements to better understand and model the properties of the detected particles and their effects on the global radiation budget.
http://www.catalog.hawaii.edu/personnel/emeriti/u-z.htm
SPEITEL, Thomas W., Professor of Education, CRDG; BS 1967, Manhattan College; PhD 1975, Hawai'i
http://www.catalog.hawaii.edu/personnel/emeriti/u-z.htm
WELDON, Edward J., Jr., Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering; BS 1958, Manhattan College; MS 1960, U of Florida; PhD 1963, U of Florida
Your assistance is requested in finding these. Please don’t assume that I will “catch” it via an automated search. Sometimes the data just doesn’t makes it’s way in.
Copyright 2002 Detroit Free Press
All Rights Reserved
Detroit Free Press
June 19, 2002 Wednesday 0 EDITION
HEADLINE: Brother George Synan: Heart of De La Salle
High
BYLINE: JEANNE MAY FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Brother George Synan, whose influence on De La Salle Collegiate High School in Warren stretched over 65 years, died Friday at De La Salle Hall in Lincroft, N.J.
He was 91 and had lived at the hall, a Christian Brothers retirement center, since 1997, when he retired from De La Salle Collegiate.
"He was just Mr. De La Salle -- or Brother De La Salle," Brother Joseph Jozwiak, president of De La Salle, said Tuesday.
"Brother George endeared himself to people -- parents, students, those who came in contact with De La Salle -- because one of Brother George's gifts was he always remembered people's names. He would identify someone just by seeing them. If they had graduated 5 years ago or 25 years ago, he would recognize them." Brother George first turned up at De La Salle as a teacher in 1936, when the school was in Detroit, and stayed until 1945. He left to teach in other Christian Brothers high schools in the northeast, but returned in 1957.
For the next 40 years, he served as teacher, vice principal, athletic director, subdirector and pro-director of the school.
He stopped being a regular classroom teacher toward the end of his career but never stopped working for De La Salle.
"He was always available to go to classrooms to substitute for teachers," Brother Joseph said. "He would teach the students the school song, and he would attend all the games -- basketball, football, you name it.
"If he knew a relative of yours was in the hospital, he would be there. If a person would die, he would go to the wake to pay his respects."
Brother George was born in New York City and joined the Christian Brothers in 1928. He graduated from Manhattan College and earned a master's degree there in 1944.
Survivors include a brother, George, and three sisters, Isabella Valance, Virginia Ryder and Mary Ryan.
The funeral will be at 10:45 a.m. today at St. Edmund Catholic Church, 14025 Twelve Mile Road, Warren, where friends may call for 45 minutes before the service.
"Even though he was born in New York, we felt this was home to him," Brother Joseph said. "We felt it only right he would be here for his last time home."
He will be buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Detroit.
Arrangements are by the Wujek-Calcaterra Funeral Home, Sterling Heights.
The family suggests memorial donations to the Brother George Synan Scholarship Fund, De La Salle Collegiate High School, 14600 Common Road, Warren 48093.
Contact JEANNE MAY at 586-469-4682or may@freepress.com.
LOAD-DATE: June 19, 2002
Copyright 2002 The Washington
Post
The Washington Post
June 15, 2002, Saturday, Final Edition
SECTION: METRO; Pg. B07
HEADLINE: Obituaries
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Robert Leo Weigel, 75, a retired IBM advisory systems engineer who worked on Apollo rockets and Trident submarine command and control systems, died June 10 at Holy Cross Hospital after a heart attack.
Mr. Weigel, a Chevy Chase resident, was a native of Utica, N.Y. He attended Fordham University for a year before serving with the Army occupation forces in Germany after World War II. He graduated from Manhattan College with a degree in electrical engineering in 1951 and did graduate work at Syracuse (N.Y.) and George Washington universities.
He began his career with the Philco Corp. in Philadelphia and in 1952 went to General Electric in Syracuse. In 1954, he joined IBM's Federal Systems Division, moving to Washington in 1960 and retiring in 1990.
He was a member of Knights of Columbus Rock Creek Council; Eta Kappa Nu, an electrical engineering honor society; and the Fossils. He was a licensed amateur radio operator and a volunteer at the National Air and Space Museum and in the Arimatheans at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Washington.
Survivors include his wife of 43 years, Jeanne Brooks Weigel of Chevy Chase; three sons, Peter, of Germantown, Richard, of Narberth, Pa., and Robert Carl Weigel of Honolulu; and three grandchildren.
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LOAD-DATE: June 15, 2002
http://www.sharonherald.com/localnews/hed/0203/hed031202.html
The Sharon Herald Co
Sharon, Pennsylvania
Harry W. Fridley
WE retiree, coin club officer belonged to Covenant church
A funeral service will be held Thursday for Harry W. Fridley, a resident of Woodland Place, Coolspring Township; and of Highland Road in Sharon. He died at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 9, 2002, in UPMC Horizon, Farrell. He was 87.
Mr. Fridley was born Jan. 25, 1915, in Norwich, Pa., to Samuel and Jennie Kilmer Fridley.
A 1933 graduate of Kane (Pa.) High School, he attended Peddie Prep School in Princeton, N.J., before transferring to Manhattan College in New York City, where he received his bachelor of science degree.
Upon graduation, Mr. Fridley taught school in Brookfield, Pa., and was the coach for football, basketball and track. The breakout of World War II brought him to Sharon, where he began his career in 1941 with the former Sharon Transformer Division of Westinghouse Electric Corp. He retired in 1983 with 42 years of service as the supervisor of quality control.
He was a member of Covenant Presbyterian Church, Sharon; Westinghouse Retirees; and was a past president of the Shenango Valley Coin Club, also Sharon.
His first wife, the former Sylvia R. Overholt, whom he married Sept. 19, 1935, died Dec. 28, 1989. His second wife, the former Dorothy Lundin, whom he married in June 1992, died in January 1999.
Surviving are: two daughters, Mrs. John (Anne) Cutler, Pensacola, Fla.; and Mercer; and Mrs. Vanston "Jody" (Stacia) Andagan, Sacramento, Calif.; one sister, Naomi Jenkins, Kane, Pa.; one brother, Walter Fridley, Phoenix; nine grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
Besides his first and second wives, he was preceded in death by his parents; one son, Dr. John S. Fridley; two brothers; and three sisters.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Dr. John S. Fridley Memorial Scholarship Fund in care of Shenango Valley Foundation, 41 Chestnut St., Sharon 16146.
FRIDLEY
Harry W., 87, of Coolspring Township and Highland Road, Sharon.
Calling hours: 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday (3-13-02) in SAMPLE-O'DONNELL FUNERAL HOME Inc., East State Street at North Oakland Avenue, Sharon. Friends may send condolences by e-mail to Sample@infonline.net
Service: Funeral service at 11 a.m. Thursday (3-14-02) in the funeral home, with the Rev. Richard Herman, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church, Sharon, officiating.
Burial: Hillcrest Memorial Park, Hermitage.
[JR: 1938]
[MANHATTAN IN THE NEWS OR FOUND ON & OFF THE WEB]
Copyright 2002 Daily News, L.P.
Daily News (New York)
June 15, 2002, Saturday SPORTS FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 9
HEADLINE: RUDY BACKS ACCUSED MSGR. PAL REV CITED IN '75 SEX ABUSE STRIPPED OF O
FFICIAL DUTIES
BYLINE: By BRIAN HARMON and DAVID SALTONSTALL DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Rudy Giuliani has no better friend than Msgr. Alan Placa - the priest who served as his best man, officiated at his father's funeral and stood by the former mayor as his second marriage dissolved on infidelity charges.
Yesterday, it was Giuliani's turn to defend Placa, who was stripped of his priestly duties on Long Island in the aftermath of allegations he sexually abused a 17-year-old youth in 1975.
"Alan Placa is one of the finest people I know," Giuliani said in a statement. "If most people did half the good that Alan's done, the world would be a wonderful place." Placa - a lawyer who until April served as point man on sexual abuse allegations for the Diocese of Rockville Centre - has vehemently denied all charges.
"He is very upset," said Michael Hess, Giuliani's former corporation counsel and a friend of Placa's. "It is totally unfounded, and he denies it completely."
Attempts to reach Placa yesterday were unsuccessful.
A spokesman for Nassau District Attorney Denis Dillon confirmed that a sexual abuse complaint stemming from 1975 had been lodged against Placa by Richard Tollner, 43, now a mortgage broker in Albany.
Bishop got complaint
Tollner, who could not be reached for comment, told investigators this month that Placa fondled his private parts on numerous occasions while Placa was his teacher at St. Pius X Preparatory Seminary in Uniondale, L.I., sources said.
That complaint was forwarded to Bishop William Murphy, head of the diocese, who took action against Placa on Thursday from Dallas, where he was attending the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting.
"He's still a priest, but he can no longer celebrate Mass, administer sacraments or participate in any other priestly duties," said Joanne Novarro, spokeswoman for the diocese.
The fall from grace was all the more stunning because Placa headed the diocese's three-person intervention team on sexual abuse for more than a decade.
Allegations of abuse went directly to Placa, a diocesan lawyer who became something of a national expert on handling such claims long before the current scandal engulfed the Catholic Church.
But several victims' families reported being put off by Placa, whom they accuse of covering up misdeeds and transferring pedophile priests to other parishes after treatment.
Sources told the Daily News yesterday that a Suffolk County grand jury is looking into Placa's involvement in financial settlements with past abuse victims there. The diocese covers Nassau and Suffolk counties.
"Placa had a great deal of influence into the terms involved," one source said.
Statute expired
The chance of Placa being prosecuted in Nassau on sexual abuse charges is remote. Dillon's office has investigated numerous claims of abuse by priests, but all are beyond the statute of limitations, which expires when a victim who was a minor turns 23.
"Any time anybody brings anything to us, we have to take a look at it," said Dillon's spokesman, Rick Hinshaw, who declined to elaborate.
Giuliani and Placa were students at Manhattan College, where Placa edited the school paper and Giuliani was active in student government.
Placa served as best man at Giuliani's first wedding, to Regina Peruggi. He also is credited with finding the loophole that allowed the Vatican to annul that marriage: Giuliani and Peruggi are second cousins, a fact not noted by the priest who officiated at their marriage.
When Giuliani married Donna Hanover, it was Placa who officiated. And when that union blew up in 2000, it was Placa who ministered to Giuliani, who was suffering from prostate cancer.
"Over the years," the former mayor said yesterday, "people aware of our friendship have stopped me on the street to tell me that Alan is the finest priest they have ever known. He has helped thousands of people as a priest, as a teacher and as a friend."
GRAPHIC: Msgr. Alan Placa
LOAD-DATE: June 15, 2002
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_25/b3788009.htm
Title: BIG GUNS AIM FOR CHANGE
Summary: As head of North Carolina's Crime Control & Public Safety Dept., Richard H. Moore led recovery efforts after two destructive winter storms and five hurricanes. But little had prepared him for the financial firestorm he faced after he became state treasurer in 2000, as executive greed torched trust in Corporate America and reduced one marquee company after another to ashes. The sole fiduciary of North Carolina's $60 billion state pension fund began to grill money managers about how they looked after the interests of the 600,000 cops, teachers, and other state employees in the fund. And the more he learned about deceptive analysts, conflicted money managers, and self-serving corporate execs, the more alarmed he became.
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Source: Business
Week
Date: 06/24/2002
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CLIP
Still, institutional investors have forced dramatic
change on Wall Street in the past. In 1969, they blasted brokerages for a
massive debacle in handling paperwork that resulted in their trades not being
processed for days or being lost entirely. Their fury eventually fueled
legislation that ended brokerage houses' fixed commissions in 1975 and changed
the face of Wall Street for good. This time, their impact will be felt far
beyond the financial-services industry. "This is a much more far-reaching
crisis of confidence," says Manhattan College finance professor Charles R.
Geisst and author of Wall Street histories.
FROM THE COLLEGE’S WEB SITE: Your resume can be sent to employers who contact our office seeking to fill positions. For more information contact the Recruitment Coordinator at (718) 862-7965 or Email to JGlenn@manhattan.edu
June 22, 2002
JASPERS TAKE ON WORLD'S BEST AT USATF CHAMPIONSHIPS
PALO ALTO, CA - Three members of the Manhattan College track and field team completed amongst the world's best athletes in the USA Track & Field Junior National and Senior National Championships held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA on Friday.
All-American Jacob Freeman (East Greenwich, RI) placed 11th in the hammer throw with a mark of 65.97m (216'05"). First place honors went to Olympic silver medallist and American record holder Lance Deal from the New York Athletic Club who threw a winning 74.49m.
In the women's javelin, Lauren Primerano (Trenton, NJ) placed 12th with a mark of 37.50m after facing Serene Ross, who set a new American record with a toss of 60.06m (123') yesterday.
In the Junior National Championships, outstanding distance runner Dan McGrath (Lynbrook, NY) earned Junior All-American honors after placing ninth in the 10,000m race with a time of 31:27.22.
The 2002 USA Outdoor Championships will be broadcast on Sunday, June 23rd from 5:30-7 p.m. on ESPN2.
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June 18, 2002
HOLLAND ANNOUNCES 2003 WOMEN'S LACROSSE SIGNEES
RIVERDALE, NY - Manhattan College head women's lacrosse coach Missi Holland announced the signing of nine newcomers to the 2003 team.
Joining the Lady Jaspers on attack next year will be Anne Staudt (Kellenberg Memorial H.S./Point Lookout, NY), Catherine Dunbar (Floral Park Memorial/Floral Park, NY) and Dana Milone (Southside H.S./Rockville Centre, NY). On defense, Kate Basler (Holy Trinity/Seaford, NY), Tori Loiacono (Tappan Zee H.S./Tappan, NY) and Maura Burns (Holy Trinity/ Merrick, NY) will help Manhattan, while Molly Pheterson (Brighton H.S./Rochester, NY), Erin Warren (Pearl River H.S./Pearl River, NY) and Katie Whyte (Bethlehem Central H.S./Slingerlands, NY) will cover the midfield.
"They are a talented group," said Holland, "I think they will add an immense amount of energy and skills to the squad because of their speed and strong passion for the game."
The newcomers will help replace the four seniors the team lost to graduation in the spring. Last season the Lady J's advanced to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships as the third seed after posting a 4-11 overall, 3-3 MAAC record. Unfortunately, Manhattan suffered a heartbreaking lost to Le Moyne College, 14-11 in the semi-finals.
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June 18, 2002
MAGNUS AHLEN NAMED TO THE VERIZON ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA THIRD TEAM
STORRS, CT - Manhattan College track and field athlete Magnus Ahlen (Karlstad, Sweden) was named to the 2001-02 Verizon Academic All-America University Division I Third Team, announced today by Verizon and CoSIDA officials.
After being named to the All-District I First team in May, the engineering major advanced to the national ballot, where he was selected for his outstanding 3.917 GPA and performance with the Jaspers.
During the 2001-02 season, Ahlen set a new Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference indoor record in the long jump with a first place leap of 7.48m and placed second in the 55m dash in 6.64 seconds at the MAAC Championships. At the MAAC Outdoor Championships, he placed fourth in both the high jump with a leap of 1.80m and in the triple jump with a mark of 13.36m and finished sixth in the javelin throw with a toss of 49.47m.
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Copyright 2002 Bergen Record Corporation
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
June 16, 2002 Sunday All Editions
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. S15
HEADLINE: IHA places five on team; St. Mary's, Fair Lawn, Saddle Brook also
fare well
SOURCE: The Record
Here's the shock of the season: Immaculate Heart athletes dominate the first-team All-Bergen County softball team, with five players on the squad.
OK, so it's not a shock, since the Blue Eagles went 31-1, won the NNJIL Division C title, the Bergen County championship for a second straight season, and reached the Parochial A final. They gave up just seven runs, the fewest in a season in State history.
The Blue Eagles, though, weren't the only team in Bergen County with an array of outstanding players. St. Mary's had three first-teamers, while Fair Lawn and Saddle Brook each had two.
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P -- JILL MEDEA, IHA, Senior: There was no denying her ability in the pitcher's circle, but Medea may have even surprised herself. She walked a batter in the first game of the season, but then didn't issue another base on balls the rest of the way (396 batters). During that span, Medea struck out 125 batters, finished 18-0, and compiled a 0.12 earned run average. She gave up just 37 hits, only seven of the extra-base variety, in 111 innings; and just five runs (two earned). She pitched 14 shutouts, three no-hitters, and a perfect game. Medea, who finished 41-2 in her career, is headed to Manhattan College.
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From: Edwin J. Callan
Subject: Re: This week's issue is at
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 10:00:12 -0400
John: Thought I'd send a little note, partially in response to Helm's eMails. Just completed a 3250 mi trip from Orlando to Bn Reunion in Albany NY via PA, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Ottawa,& Montreal (of which 2100 was "under the yellow" as NASCAR would say, due to the car). The reunion was great: 30+ guys and 20 or so wives and family. Finally got to meet one whom I'd hadn't seen since 7 Dec 44 when we were in a hole in France (Alsace) and got two rounds dumped in with us. Six of the nine were hit, including him. He went the hospital route Bar-le-Duc, Aix,Paris, England, and home for six months, but recovered well. Me, I'm still the bad penny that turns up. Also re the NYFD, I have my certificate signed by Fiorello as Volunteer Fireman Hook&Ladder co 106 (Brooklyn) from Mar 42. Just a line in passing. Keep up the good work. Ed Callan
From: Dawn Marie Knirsch - Blasl
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 14:26:42 EDT
Subject: Re: This week's issue is at
Hi
I would like to thank you for taking the time to coordinate this Jasper connection. I read some of the emails sent to you regarding "the political comments" you make and would like to respond to them personally.
First of all, are you spending 30 hours of you own time to keep the Jasper news going? Isn't nice to have someone amongst our community who wants to do something without attaching a fee or even kudos?
Second of all, you have a lot of nerve even commenting with someone is doing something productive. Manhattan did not teach us to be so unappreciative. Perhaps, you can start you own efforts - and add whatever makes you happy?
Lastly, Instead of commenting why not just hit the delete button and don't read it anymore. How hard would that be? Perhaps, it is easier to be negative and use your energy in that fashion.
You are entitled to your opinion when you are putting forth effort and valuable time. God knows, I get more garbage in my inbox and what I don't want to read I don't. You guys are a real disgrace. I hope you Mr. Reinke deletes you just for being assholes. The holier than thou attitude surely is not a Jasper trait!
Dawn Marie
class of 89
[JR: Now, now, Dawn, no need to get your shorts I in a knot. Here in the “cave” everyone’s allowed to express themselves. You’re right though, it is eqasy to skp over the parts you don’t like. Weather that is French archers, “politics”, or resumes. This is what we make of it. Most of all we should be “tolerant”. As my few friends will tell you, I have very thick skin. I figure I can do this for five years easy. After that, it’s anyone’s guess. So we should be lining up a successor “fool” now. ;-) thanks for your support.]
From: Liz Velasquez
Subject: RE: This week's issue is at
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 11:05:48 -0400
Organization: Manhattan College
I just wanted to respond to you about the email to Unsubscribe from Margaret Mary Hennessey. Margaret Mary worked in the College Relations office and in May she graduated from MC with her Master's in Counseling. She is leaving MC soon and has probably set up and automatic reply to emails coming in. She will be missed.
Liz Velasquez '98
Researcher
Manhattan College
[JR: So she was reading it because it was her job, not because she was interested in Manhattan stuff. That’s ugly. Imagine being forced to read this stuff? Thanks for the explanation.]
From: Matthew P. Schimmenti
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:10:59 +0000
Dear fellow Jasper,
Re: "Jasper Jottings"
Please subscribe me to Jasper Jottings.
[JR: Done!]
From: Paul D. Loreto
Subject: RE: Hello from a 1968 Jasper
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:18:17 -0700
John:
Please add me to your Jasper Jottings subscription list. Thank you for taking the initiative on this project and all your hard work.
Paul D. Loreto, Attorney
Huntington Beach,CA.92647
[JR: Wait til you read a few weeks. You may want to retract your thanks. I’m an equal opportunity nudge. Lawyers, rank right after government officials / politico, in my favorites to gripe about. (See below for an example!) Welcome aboard.]
From: Michael F. McEneney
Subject: Jasper in the News
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 23:32:11 -0400
Dear John,
The following Article appeared in the June 10 ,2001 Edition of the New York Law Journal (Page 1, Col 1). The Judge is a 1964(?) graduate of Manhattan. Leave it to a Jasper to impose a unique sentence that includes an essay!
Best,
Mikie
McEneney, Esq. '53 BBA
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Delinquent Juror's Punishment Includes Essay
A man who ignored several jury summonses and refused to pay a $250 fine has been ordered by a Staten Island judge to pay a $1,000 fine, perform 40 hours of community service and write a 1,500-word essay about why people must serve jury duty. Justice Philip G. Minardo found that the man, Kevin Crimmins, was guilty of criminal contempt "for his wilful failure to obey numerous jury summonses," and for failing to pay the fine. Mr. Crimmins, who has failed to appear for jury duty since a notice in 1998, was placed on a year's probation and also ordered to pay a $110 surcharge, a $10 crime victims' assistance fee and the outstanding $250. The court said that if Mr. Crimmins completed his probations conditions by Oct. 7, his conviction would be purged. The topic of the essay is "Why a Person, a Citizen Must Serve Jury Duty and Why a Person Should Perform Whatever Other Obligations That the Law Imposes on a Citizen," according to the court. The opinion in Commissioner of Jurors v. Crimmins, 8092/02, will be published Thursday.
[JR: First, Mike, thanks for a great find. I would have never seen it or know its Jasper connection. Having said that, I am appalled. The punishment smacks of Catholic school days. Additionally, as a citizen, I don’t want people “forced to serve the State”. If a citizen doesn’t feel that jury duty is important, not only don’t we want he there, but we shouldn’t compel him to serve. Slavery in any form is wrong. Now, moving on, the jury duty system is poisoned by the pre-trial examination of jurors. If you don’t agree with what the judge and lawyers tell you, off you go! Everyone has forgotten Peter Zenger established freedom of the press, when a jury refused to convict despite the law, the judges, and the lawyers told them. Knowing about “Jury Nullification” is enough to get tossed off a panel. And, finally, the law has become “opaque” to the average person. There’s always some law to fall afoul of. Add the regulations and whims of minor bureaucrats, and you can win. So, instead of justice, we dispense pleas bargains. Watch the show, Philly, and throw up. Every indictment should be tried. Period. Lock ‘em up and throw away the keys. And, repeal all the mickey mouse laws. Start with the drug ones. IMHO. Thanks for good one to vent on. And, MCOLDB says 1963.]
From: Joseph Lestingi
Subject: Greetings from Tucson, Arizona
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:03:40 -0700
Hi John,
I apologize for the confusion that my original blank e-mail message caused. I responded that way because I thought I was signing up for the list.
Anyway, I enjoy receiving your list and thank you for your excellent work.
I retired from the University of Dayton (UD) June 2000 after being dean of the school of engineering from 1992-1997. While on a leave of absence from UD, I worked for SDRC as a trainer teaching I-DEAS, a mechanical design automation program, at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan from August 1998 to June 2000.
Prior to working at UD, I was dean of the school of engineering at Manhattan College from 1983-1992.
My wife and I now live in Tucson, Arizona in SaddleBrooke, a resort community. If you like dry weather, then you want to come to Tucson. SaddleBrooke is located in the Santa Catalina mountains at an elevation of 3,250 feet. For more information on SaddleBrooke, see <www.saddlebrooke.com>.
In addition to playing four softball games per week year round, I am writing a training manual for a CAD program named Solid Edge.
I would be happy to hear from any Jasper, particularly those in the southwest.
Regards,
Joe
[JR: No problem, it was funny. Like one of those Vermont jokes. About being taciturn. The auto reply would have been OK when we were using LISTBOT, but when it went pay, I assumed the duties since I was “cheaper”. I have maintained my near zero cost claim. Besides when did I ever get a chance to razz an engineering dean? “Mr. Reinke are you in my office AGAIN.” “No, Dean Weil, it just appears that way. You know you can’t believe everything your eyes tell you.” (Stolen from his engineering introduction about expected results being dangerous because they were not scrutinized.]
From: Carolyn Lowell
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 21:43:39 EDT
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper
Hello John!
Yes, please sign me up for your emails. I would love to hear about any Manhattan news. Also, I have not received any alumni info in about three years, so please pass that along, if you don't mind. I do still receive some things from the College of Education but not any other alumni news.
Thanks so much. I look forward to your future emails!
Carolyn Lowell
Orlando, FL 32811
[JR: Glad to have you. If you haven’t received any donation solicitations then maybe you still have some course work to do?]
From: Joseph Ludford
Subject: Re: This week's issue is at
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:54:02 -0400
Dear John,
Well said comments on Stephen Hawking. Have a good trip.
Joe Ludford, 58E
[JR: Ya never know how things turn out. ]
Date: 21 Jun 2002 23:56:38 -0000
From: Yahoo! Reminder
Subject: Birthday Reminder
Birthday Reminder from the Calendar of reinkefj
Birthday Pollina, Isabella Nydia
Saturday June 29, 2002
Notes: From: Philip Pollina (1994 BA) Subject: Birth Announcement Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 08:23:51 -0700 Hello John, A New Jasper arrived on June 29th! Her Name is Isabella Nydia Pollina, weighing in at 8 lbs 2.5 ounces and 20.5 inches in length. Her MC alum parents, Philip ('94) and Barbara (nee Ruiz) are overjoyed. Isabella's big brother, PJ (18 months), does not yet know what to make of his little sister... Regards, The Ever-Expanding Pollina Family
[JR: Thinking of you Philip. Wish the baby a happy from your “extended” “electronic” family.]
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Now Here's a Good Question
Neal Boortz
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
"Here's another vote taking place in Washington this week. It's another vote you have heard absolutely nothing about. It's a vote on a constitutional amendment. This one is called the Tax Limitation Amendment. It's very simple. It would just require a two-thirds vote of both houses of the Congress for any new tax or increase in existing taxes."
Wow, what a great idea. Let's make it easier for the Congress critters to exercise some backbone. I, for one, will put fingers to keyboard to support this at the Federal, State, County, and Local level.
And that’s the last word.
For the hiatus to start on!