Sunday 06 April 2003

Sunday 13 April 2003

Dear Jaspers,

The jasper jottings email list has 1,031 subscribers to the full edition (319 AOL-ers plus 707 non) and 5 to the "slim pointer" message by my count.

Don't forget:

Th Jul. 24 '03 - MC Young Alumni Happy Hour
Mad River Bar @1442 Third Ave.
RSVP: MurphGuide@yahoo.com

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I guess our men lost to the NCAA champs.

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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. -- Lord Byron.

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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          Announcements
            0          Bouncing
            0          Headquarters
            1          WebPages
            3          Found
            0          Honors
            0          Weddings
            0          Births
            0          Engagements
            0          Graduations
            2          Obits
            6          News
            0          Resumes
            7          Sports
            11        Email

[PARTICIPANTS BY CLASS]

Class	Name	Section
1936	Ahern, Patrick V.	News4
1989	Apruzzese, Jean Marie	Found1
1972	Arlotta, Fr. Jack	News4
1992	Banks, Deborah M.	Email06
1970	Bassett, Fr. Frank	News4
1969	Battista, John M.	WebPage1
1971	Beegan, James	News4
1991	Begley, Christine	Email09
1997	Blanchard, Harry	Email10
1994	Boone, Julieanne	Email11
1950	Brady, James W.	News5
1950	Brew, George	Email03
1969	Dandola, John	Email08
1953	Dolan, Fr. Michael	Email01
1888	Donahue, Joseph P.	News4
1888	Dowling, Austin	News4
1960	Finn, Peter G.	News4
1994	Hamilton, Fr. Eugene	News4
1955	Hammer, Fr. Jefferson	News4
1888	Hayes, Cardinal Patrick	News4
1964	Henry, John	Email02
1970	Horgan, Brian J.	Email04
1953	McEneney, Michael F.	Email01
1974	McLeod, Donald	Email01
????	Meara, Eileen	News1
2000	Meltzer, Melissa	Email07
1888	Mundelein, George	News4
1933	Nucci, Patrick C.	Obit2
1980	Paolicelli, Fr. Lawrence	News4
????	Pompey, Aliann	News6
1950	Power, Pierce J.	News5
1988	Resk, Patrick	Found3
1934?	Stern, Hal	Obit1
1975	Trizzino, June	Email05
1967	Tweedy, John	Email08
1999	Zebrowski, Nicole	News6

[PARTICIPANTS BY NAME]

Class	Name	Section
1936	Ahern, Patrick V.	News4
1989	Apruzzese, Jean Marie	Found1
1972	Arlotta, Fr. Jack	News4
1992	Banks, Deborah M.	Email06
1970	Bassett, Fr. Frank	News4
1969	Battista, John M.	WebPage1
1971	Beegan, James	News4
1991	Begley, Christine	Email09
1997	Blanchard, Harry	Email10
1994	Boone, Julieanne	Email11
1950	Brady, James W.	News5
1950	Brew, George	Email03
1969	Dandola, John	Email08
1953	Dolan, Fr. Michael	Email01
1888	Donahue, Joseph P.	News4
1888	Dowling, Austin	News4
1960	Finn, Peter G.	News4
1994	Hamilton, Fr. Eugene	News4
1955	Hammer, Fr. Jefferson	News4
1888	Hayes, Cardinal Patrick	News4
1964	Henry, John	Email02
1970	Horgan, Brian J.	Email04
1953	McEneney, Michael F.	Email01
1953	McEneney, Mike	Email01
1974	McLeod, Donald	Email01
????	Meara, Eileen	News1
2000	Meltzer, Melissa	Email07
1888	Mundelein, George	News4
1933	Nucci, Patrick C.	Obit2
1980	Paolicelli, Fr. Lawrence	News4
????	Pompey, Aliann	News6
1950	Power, Pierce J.	News5
1988	Resk, Patrick	Found3
1934?	Stern, Hal	Obit1
1975	Trizzino, June	Email05
1967	Tweedy, John	Email08
1999	Zebrowski, Nicole	News6

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[JR: The following people have "bounced off" the list. Some bounces expose my poor administrative skills and I can not "who" bounced off. Thus the subscriber total may change more than are shown in this section. I have done what I can to notify them. If you can help "reconnect" – or "connect" new people -- I really appreciate it. And as always, I need your "news".]

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[Messages from Headquarters
(Manhattan College Press Releases & Stuff)]

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[JASPERS PUBLISHING WEB PAGES]

[WebPage1]

http://www.mydoctor.com/battista/

JOHN M BATTISTA, MD
Specializing in Family Practice
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I treat my patients like I myself like to be treated. I spend time with you in discussing your problems. I am affiliated with the major hospitals in the North Pinellas County, Clearwater area including Morton Plant and Mease Hospitals, and Largo Medical Center. I do not like to wait and assume you don't so my office staff give you quick service.

My favorite hobbies:
Astronomy
Baseball
Computers & Internet
Gardening
History
Hockey
Magazines
Nostalgia
Photography
Rocketry
Softball
Sports
Walking

Here are some links to my favorite sites:
Long distance
Other medical site
Inexexpensive Calling
Computers etc.

[MCOLDB: 1969 ]

[JASPERS FOUND ON & OFF THE WEB BY USING THE WEB]

[Found1]

http://www.draadvisors.com/frames/fs_locate.htm

Jean Marie Apruzzese is Managing Director and Controller of DRA. She is responsible for accounting, investor reporting, and supervising acquisition due diligence. From March through July 1994, Ms. Apruzzese was a Senior Property Analyst for Dreyfus Realty Advisors. From May 1992 through February 1994, she was a Property Analyst with The Clifford Companies, where she was responsible for financial analysis of a diverse portfolio of real estate assets. From July 1989 through April 1992, Ms. Apruzzese was a Senior Auditor responsible for overseeing real estate audits with Eisner & Lubin CPA's, a New York based public accounting firm. She graduated from Manhattan College in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting and Management.

[Found2]

http://andy.mooville.net/archives/2001-06.html

[JR: Amazing to find one of my Jottings quoted, by some one with no connection. Strange but amusing. ]

In "Jasper Jottings", the following editorial was found in the context of Manhattan College's president lament of his college's students drinking contrary to state law:

[JR: Editorial: As a libertarian, I think the prohibitions on substances are absurd. The notion that we can keep people from drinking, smoking, or otherwise drugging themselves is futile at best, and authoritarian at worst. The war on drugs is a joke. I can remember when underage drinking was controlled by how much money you had and a big bartender who told you to get out. I was in Nevada as a youth when there were no age restrictions on gambling, on drinking, on prostitution, nor were there any speed limits either. That’s freedom -- to make mistakes and the education of being held accountable. We are training our citizens that they are not responsible for their own actions. It’s time to reverse that trend. With all respect to Brother President, it’s part of the student’s education that they are responsible for the choices they make. It'’s hard. But, so is real life. The young will come up against bigger problems so they should cut their teeth on the easy ones. Just say no!]

( Jasper Jottings, May 18, 2001 )

That about exactly describes what I would like to see in the United States of America: a return to self-responsibility and the end to the paternalistic "I know what's good for you, honest" government.

June 1, 2001

[JR: Now if I just could figure out how he got it. This demonstrates the raw power of the search engines. ]

[Found3]

http://www.middleberg.com/middlebergnews/biosphotos/resk.cfm

Patrick Resk
Chief Operating & Financial Officer

Patrick Resk is the Chief Operating & Financial Officer for Middleberg Euro RSCG where he is responsible for strategic planning (including mergers and acquisitions), senior executive recruitment, and all aspects of Financial management.

Prior to joining Middleberg, Patrick held various senior financial posts within different operating companies of PolyGram Records and the EMI Music Group. While there, he directed the financial planning, reporting and administrative functions. Additionally, Patrick managed the successful implementation of new and improved reporting systems, as well as negotiating and administering several partnership and third party deals.

Earlier in his career, Patrick worked for Ernst & Young, the international public accounting firm. He was responsible for a variety of audits and financial consulting services for entertainment, media, distribution, and healthcare/not-for-profit clients.

A graduate of Manhattan College, Patrick holds a B.S. degree in Finance and B.A. degree in English Literature. Additionally, he is a Certified Public Accountant.

[MCOLDB: 1988 ]

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

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.

[Obit1]

Copyright 2003 Plain Dealer Publishing Co.
Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio)
April 8, 2003 Tuesday, Final / All
SECTION: METRO; Pg. B7
HEADLINE: Hal Stern, Rocky River Citizen of Year

BYLINE: Alana Baranick, Plain Dealer Reporter

Rocky River - Services for Hal Stern, past president of Rocky River Seniors Council Inc. and Rocky River Kiwanis, will be at 9:30 a.m. today at St. Christopher Catholic Church, 20141 Detroit Road, Rocky River.

The 88-year-old Rocky River resident and former leader of the St. Christopher parish council died March 30 at St. John West Shore Hospital in Westlake.

For 25 years, Stern assisted people at the Rocky River Seniors Center with their income taxes. He and his wife, Kathleen, were honored as the center's Volunteers of 1997.

Stern was named Rocky River Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year in 1966 and received the Cox Spotlight Award for community service in 1989.

He grew up in Yonkers, N.Y., as the son of German immigrants.

In the summer of 1914, Stern's pregnant mother traveled back to Germany to attend her father's funeral. She was unable to get back to Yonkers right away because World War I began. As a result, Stern, whose given name was Harold G., was born in Frankfurt, Germany.

His fluency in German came in handy during World War II, when he served with the 1298th Military Police Company in Europe. His duties included interrogating German prisoners of war.

He participated in five campaigns and attained the rank of first sergeant.

During the Great Depression, Stern attended Manhattan College to prepare for a career as an engineer. When he completed his studies, engineering jobs were hard to find.

In 1936, he landed a job as a salesman for the P. Lorillard Tobacco Co. He worked for the company in Tampa, Fla., and Birmingham, Ala., before coming to Rocky River in 1962 as a regional manager. He retired in 1975.

His wife died in 1998 after 57 years of marriage. A son, Michael H., died of cancer in 1973.

Stern is survived by his son, H. Patrick of Telford, Tenn.; daughters, Kathleen Quint of London, England, and Irene Ruekert of Waukesha, Wis.; 15 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and a sister.

Donations can be made to the Rocky River Senior Center, 21012 Hilliard Blvd., Rocky River 44116, or Rocky River Kiwanis Scholarship Foundation, c/o Ralph V. Bishop, 2908 Gasser Blvd., Rocky River 44116.

Arrangements are by Zeis-McGreevey Funeral Home of Lakewood.

To reach this Plain Dealer reporter: abaranick@plaind.com, 216-999-4828

LOAD-DATE: April 9, 2003

[MCOLDB: Missing, but would guess 1934? ]

[Obit2]

Copyright 2003 Post-Standard, All Rights Reserved.
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
April 8, 2003 Tuesday Final Edition
SECTION: OBIT; Pg. B4
HEADLINE: NUCCI
Patrick C. Nucci March 30, 2003

Patrick C. Nucci, 91, passed away in Naples, FL. Born in Syracuse, he graduated from Christian Brothers Academy in 1929 and from Manhattan College in 1933. He received his Masters at University of Buffalo. Mr. Nucci was the Deputy Director of the opatnucc Syracuse Chapter of the American Red Cross. Mr. Nucci previously was with the Onondaga County Welfare Department and Probation Department. He was a member of the National Academy of Certified Social Workers. He was the President of the Syracuse Exchange Club and a member of the Monarch Club. Mr. Nucci enjoyed retirement and was an avid golfer. He was also a supporter of the Philharmonic in Naples, FL.

Mr. Nucci is survived by a son, Frank G. of Florida; a sister, Tina De Staffan of Syracuse; a granddaughter, Kimberly F. Denero of FL; a niece, Patricia A. De Staffan of Syracuse; several nieces and nephews. He is also survived by a loving companion, Pauline Riemer. There were no calling hours. A funeral mass was held at St. Daniel's Church on Saturday at 10 a.m. in Syracuse; burial in Assumption Cemetery followed. In lieu of flowers please make your donation to the Syracuse Chapter of the American Red Cross, 220 Herald Place, Syracuse, NY 13202.

GRAPHIC: PHOTO; NO CREDIT; NUCCI

LOAD-DATE: April 9, 2003

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[News1]

Houlihan/Lawrence. (Management Who's News Personnel).(Brief Article)
03/26/2003
Real Estate Weekly
Copyright 2003 Gale Group Inc. All rights reserved. COPYRIGHT 2003
Hagedorn Publication

Houlihan/Lawrence announced that Eileen Meara has joined the firm as a licensed sales associate.

Prior to joining Houlihan/Lawrence, Meara served as a paralegal with Merrill Lynch.

Meara holds a B.S. in economics and finance from Manhattan College. She is a member of the Juvenile Diabetes Association.

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[News2]

Smith's numbers were top grade both on court, in class
SEAN REILLY
04/06/2003
SPORTS SPECIAL
The Star-Ledger Newark, NJ
WARREN
016
(c) 2003. The Star-Ledger. All rights reserved.

* End of an era: Mountain Lakes (19-5) will graduate the top two scorers in school history, senior guard Valerie Krah (1,188 points) and senior forward Michelle Bernal-Silva (1,158 points). Krah will play next season at Tufts while Bernal-Silva will continue her career at Manhattan College.

While it had its two standouts in the lineup, Mountain Lakes won three Colonial Hills Conference championships and reached the semifinals of the Morris County Tournament for the first time. The last three seasons for Mountain Lakes ended with defeats to the Group 1 champ as it lost to Wildwood in the state final in 2001 and '02 and was eliminated this season by Butler in the sectional semis.

[News3]

http://kraybill.home.mindspring.com/50/02mancollpkwy.html

Manhattan College Parkway in history:

This winding roadway once linked a 19th-century settlement called Warnerville on Broadway and the crest of Riverdale. It carried an historic name, Spuyten Duyvil Parkway, until 1953. That year marked Manhattan College's centennial, and the Parkway was renamed in honor of the occasion. Manhattan College stood on a 12-acre plot, acquired in 1922 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools who had previously taught in Manhattanville, hence its name.

Excerpted from History in Asphalt, by John McNamara

(Bronx County Historical Society, 1991)

[News4]

http://www.cny.org/archive/er/er112300.htm

A Jasper Tradition
By ANNE BUCKLEY

Manhattan College in the Bronx is noted for a number of things, not least enduring among them the invention of the seventh-inning stretch. That goes back to 1882 when the varsity was playing a semipro team and Brother Jasper, the first athletic director, noticed the students in the stands getting restless. He called time out and ordered everybody up to stretch. It worked, and it still does, having spread to professional baseball. As for the wise Christian Brother who came up with the idea 118 years ago--why do you think today's Manhattan College teams are nicknamed the Jaspers?

Recently, I heard another Manhattan College story which deserves to be enshrined. Almost every single graduating class has had a priest among its alumni. Cardinal Patrick Hayes was Class of 1888. His friends at Manhattan included George Mundelein, who became the first Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago; Austin Dowling, the future Archbishop of St. Paul, and Joseph P. Donahue, who became an auxiliary bishop of New York and Cardinal Francis Spellman's vicar general.

"In 1865 it was a sort of junior seminary," Manhattan's president, Brother Thomas J. Scanlan, F.S.C., remarked when I asked him about the vocation history of the college. "In the 1920s half the priests in the archdiocese were Manhattan graduates," he said. "I got here in 1987 and it's a point of pride."

How does it happen? "I wish I knew," Brother Scanlan said. "We'd do more of it."

The list is long of New York priests who were undergraduates there. A random sampling: Auxiliary Bishop Patrick V. Ahern, a student in 1936 and '37; Msgr. Peter G. Finn, Class of '60; Father Jefferson Hammer, '55; Father Jack Arlotta, '72; Father Lawrence Paolicelli, '80.

Father Eugene Hamilton, who struggled with cancer and was ordained on his deathbed in 1997, was Class of '94.

The truth is, there are not great numbers of young men choosing seminary after college these days. "Each year, there is at least one ordination of a graduate," Brother Scanlan said. And more often than not, he is a man who has had a career, maybe for 15 years, before answering the call to priesthood. This year there were two: Father Frank Bassett, Class of '70, who was an aviation engineer, and James Beegan, '71, who was a stockbroker.

Brother Scanlan is happy that there are men from St. John Neumann Seminary Residence, the archdiocesan preseminary program, who are students at Manhattan and are a quiet reminder of the priesthood vocation.

Manhattan College has a strong religious studies program and a tradition of imparting values to its students, he said. But he sees the need for a different approach now than in the past. "We struggle to educate and show the values to the generation that has been exposed to the culture of today for 17 or 18 years when they come to us," he said. "They are searching. They are not interested in institutions. They are interested in doing good. There was a time when we met them in church. Now we are finding students interested in service. We meet them there, and then move to reflection."

The campus ministry program is active and creative in providing opportunities for service under Brother David Lee, F.S.C. Recently he took a group to South Africa where they did carpentry for people, taught kids, built a Web site. They were doing good...and reflecting on the value of giving oneself.

"We're dealing with the mystery of God," said Brother Scanlan.

Manhattan's "chronology of vocations," he said, "is a wonderful mark of achievement for the college, a contribution to the Church."

Maybe there's a kind of seventh-inning stretch going on in the vocation picture these days. But the De La Salle Christian Brothers are determined to continue the action.

[News5]

http://www.crainsny.com/department.cms?departmentId=38

With Americans at war, return to Korea seems right

By James Brady

Published on April 07, 2003

On the assumption that North Korea could be the new Iraq except bigger, by the time this appears I will have been over there for a week or 10 days.

Not really my idea. But with tensions building, the loonies firmly in charge in radioactive North Korea, and the 50th anniversary of the Korean truce coming up July 27, I thought I ought to do a piece for Parade magazine. You know, a reminiscence, a little punditry, a cell phone chat with one of the 37,000 GIs still there as a Yank trip wire just in case Kim of the North goes bananas.

My editor, Lee Kravitz, however, had a "bigger" idea. Why didn't I go to Korea and write it there?

I thought about it, consulted my daughters (one wanted to come along, the one with three kids, which may explain it) and the indefatigable Dr. Globus, and got the OK.

I left Korea July 6 of 1952 and never wanted to go back. But now with Americans at war in Iraq, an assignment in Korea seemed to be right. What I didn't want was to gape at Seoul skyscrapers and marvel at the economic boom or be briefed by experts.

If I went back, it was because I wanted to visit ground I already knew. Low, sandy hill Yoke near Panmunjom where we fought in the infamous "outpost war" against Chinese regulars. And Hill 749 on Kanmubong Ridge (it adjoins more famous "Heartbreak Ridge") up in North Korea's Taebaek Mountains where I learned to fight during 1951-'52.

Both these hills now lie along the DMZ of an uneasy peace. That was where I wanted to go, to see some young GIs and maybe encounter the 23-year-old Marine lieutenant I once was.

Kravitz bought into it and assigned Eddie Adams, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer from Vietnam (also an old jarhead) to go along.

But first I called Pierce Power. Pierce is a retired lawyer who lives in Cutchogue on the North Fork and was one of the Marine rifle platoon leaders who actually took Hill 749 in '51. We went to Regis and Manhattan College together, joined the Corps together.

"You nuts?" he said.

"Tell me what you remember."

"I remember I got wounded on my birthday, Sept. 13. I remember they thought Hill 749 was just a company problem. Maybe a platoon could take it."

In the end, it took two full Marine regiments, the 7th and then Pierce's 1st, to take Hill 749.

I got there in November and we fought to hold that hill through the autumn and winter into spring. We didn't dare lose 749.

To Marines, it had become a sacred place, a lousy little ridgeline that is forever part of our lore. Where half a century ago on four September days, 90 Marines died and 714 were wounded taking it from the North Koreans. And where I grew up.

[JR: Power, Pierce J. Esq. (1950) & Brady, James W. (1950) ]

[News6]

From: Nicole Zebrowski
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 7:47 AM
Subject: MC News Article

Hi John,

I found this article in the Village Voice- please pass it on!

Thanks,
Nicole Zebrowski '99

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Women in Sports

by Peter Gambaccini

Aliann Pompey On the Fast Track

April 9 - 15, 2003

Her Métier is Running Aliann Pompey On the Fast Track

In the world of track and field, Aliann Pompey has been underestimated since she first materialized at Manhattan College's Riverdale campus in the late 20th century. But Pompey was impossible to overlook in 2000, when, from 10 meters behind at the midway point in the 400-meter run at the NCAA Indoor Championships, she ran down Miki Barber of South Carolina to become Manhattan's first-ever female national collegiate track titleholder.

And in 2002, against the best that Britain and other track powers could muster, Pompey took the 400-meter gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, upsetting the favorite, former world indoor champion Sandi Richards of Jamaica. Pompey's Commonwealth triumph resulted in her being named Guyana's 2002 Female Athlete of the Year and sent her back to her homeland for "a homecoming celebration that lasted a whole week," she beams. "I met with a lot of schoolchildren and did a lot of TV shows and radio interviews. I was the first female to win Commonwealth gold and the second person ever from Guyana. The first was Phil Edwards [an 880-yard runner] 68 years ago."

On January 25, Jearl Miles-Clark, a two-time Olympic gold medalist for the U.S. in the 4 x 400 relay, came from Tennessee to New York's Armory Track & Field Center with the publicized goal of smashing the world and American records in the 500-meter run. Not one pundit suggested that Aliann Tabitha Omalara Pompey, now a Bronx resident and a Manhattan College MBA candidate, was on hand to do anything more than fill out the field behind Miles-Clark. The Tennessean seemed to have the race well in hand through 400 meters until, sure enough, Pompey swooped past and jetted to the finish line more than a full second in front. Taciturn and deadpan, Pompey declared, "I try not to go out in a race thinking about second place."

Joe Ryan, who has coached Pompey for seven years, first perceived her as "very quiet, extremely quiet," adding, "Your initial impression upon meeting her would be 'there's no way that this girl is an athlete.' However, having said that, when she is on the track, she's an absolute tiger. There's a real contrast between the person you see on the track and off of it. It's very, very pronounced. She's the most humble athlete I've ever coached, and in the sprinting game, that's very, very unusual. But when that gun goes off, she's kind of like a fighter pilot. There's a real, real fire in her eyes. It's fantastic to see."

It's not just her lack of swagger that makes Pompey an anomaly among 400-meter stars. Pompey is 5-6 but weighs only 106 pounds. Miles-Clark, the leading American, is an imposing 5-7 and 132 pounds, the same size as Ana Guevara of Mexico, the top 400-meter athlete in the world in 2002. Marie-Jose Perec of France, the 1992 and 1996 Olympic gold medalist in the 400, was a powerfully long-legged 5-11.

It's her "scrawny" size that drew Pompey, now 25, into track in the first place. She's the oldest of eight children in a family that moved from Guyana to the Albany County town of Cohoes in 1992. Her sister Allison was a track star in Cohoes. "Everyone knew her. They used to think she was the reason I started track," explains Pompey, who makes clear that the reason was "I was really light in high school. The doctor told my dad I need physical activity, maybe to get out more and put more weight on."

So, at the end of her junior year, Pompey joined her sister on the track team. Her success was stunning and virtually instantaneous. Ask her when she first realized she had talent in the sport and she'll mention the qualifying meet for the New York State Championships her senior year, when, for the first time, she beat her sister, in a 200-meter race. "I said, 'Wait a minute. She's been good all these years. This is her thing.' Maybe there's a little bit more to this than just running around in an oval." Pompey went on to win the 400 at the state championship. "I was the first person in my high school to do that," she says, smiling at the memory and adding, "I haven't put on much weight, but what I did put on was muscle." Meanwhile, Pompey was a happy bargain for Manhattan's track program, which had signed her when, recalls Ryan, "there really wasn't any indication that something like that championship was going to happen."

Most of Pompey's major wins in the 400 have come in nerve-rackingly dramatic come-from-behind fashion. She once vowed to change that tactic, but now demurs, insisting she has little choice. "It's not a tactic as much as it is a running style," she says. "I'm not a true sprinter. I can only go out in the 200 at a certain pace and maintain for the last 200." Miles-Clark has competed well in the 200, and Perec actually won the 200-meter gold in Atlanta in '96, but Pompey realizes that, for herself, "I'm more of an endurance runner than a speed runner. I've tried going out faster before, and the last 200 was truly horrible. It's just best, basically, to go out at a comfortable pace, and I finish well." She's not a distinctive 400-meter "stylist" by choice, in her words: "It's not like I'm trying to do something new. It's just the way my body's built."

Her size may actually hold the key to her track success. "If she's with girls that are much larger, over the last 50 meters she's probably going to beat them," Ryan says. "She doesn't generate as much lactic acid as the bigger sprinter. Consequently, she's fatiguing a lot less over the last part of the race."

Pompey can be spotted doing hill work in Van Cortlandt Park or other parts of Riverdale. An eager trainer, she runs in Manhattan's Jadwin Gym track in the winter, but in warmer weather will sprint on Columbia's Wien Stadium track, near the north end of Inwood Park. Ryan, who says that after seven years Pompey "can almost read my mind," says his biggest challenge may be getting her "to back off from working too hard. That's where injuries come."

Having begun running somewhat belatedly, with modest expectations, Pompey relishes her success at the world-class level. "It's been really good. Everybody has a low moment in their lives," she observes. "There have actually been some times when I really felt that the only thing I had going for me at times was track, whether that was realistic or not."

But running "took a back seat" to her education until she suffered her first big injury, a stress fracture in her tibia, near the knee, after being tripped in a meet in Nebraska in 1998. "I was stubborn," she recalls. "I was running on it until I couldn't bear the pain, and I had to sit out a whole year. That really hurt." And she learned how important track was to her—the ordeal left her "completely distraught." She recalls, "Track was this big thing for me all of the sudden. I thought I wouldn't be able to do it anymore."

But in 2003, she's as good as she's ever been, and will compete for Guyana in the World Championships in Paris this August. Recovering and returning to the track, says Pompey, "I knew I was really blessed to be doing this because it's something that I like. It's like I'm playing a game for a job now."

[JR: Great. Thanks, I didn't pick this up. See automated searching doesn't find all the good stuff. Participants need to catch what they see and share it with all of us to add that texture that automated methods can't add. ]

[RESUMES]

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

Actual jobs at MC are at: http://www.manhattan.edu/hrs/jobs

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[SPORTS]

FROM THE COLLEGE’S WEB SITE: http://www.gojaspers.com [which is no longer at the College, but at a third party. Web bugs are on the pages. (That’s the benefit of being a security weenie!) So, it’s reader beware. Your browser can tell people “stuff” about you, like your email address, leading to SPAM. Forewarned is forearmed.]

[SportsSchedule]

The only reason for putting this here is to give us a chance to attend one of these games and support "our" team.

Date Day Sport Opponent Location Time/Result
4/13/03 Sunday Softball   Canisius*   Buffalo, NY   11:00 AM
4/13/03 Sunday Baseball   Canisius*   HOME   12:00 PM
4/15/03 Tuesday W. Lacrosse   Rutgers   Away   3:30 PM
4/16/03 Wednesday Softball   Monmouth   HOME   3:00 PM
4/16/03 Wednesday M. Tennis   Marist*   Poughkeepsie, NY   3:30 PM
4/16/03 Wednesday Baseball   Army   West Point, NY   3:30 PM
4/17/03 Thursday Golf   Canisius Invitational   Easton, MD   TBA
4/17/03 Thursday M. Tennis   Stony Brook   Stony Brook, NY   TBA
4/18/03 Friday Golf   Canisius Invitational   Easton, MD   TBA
4/19/03 Saturday Golf   Canisius Invitational   Easton, MD   TBA
4/19/03 Saturday Track & Field   Army Quad (W)   West Point, NY   TBA
4/19/03 Saturday Track & Field   Princeton Quad (M)   Princeton, NJ   TBA
4/19/03 Saturday Baseball   Saint Peter's* (DH)   Jersey City, NJ   12:00 PM
4/19/03 Saturday M. Lacrosse   Marist*   Poughkeepsie, NY   7:00 PM
4/21/03 Monday Baseball   Saint Peter's*   Jersey City, NJ   12:00 PM
4/21/03 Monday M. Tennis   Siena*   Albany, NY   3:00 PM
4/22/03 Tuesday Golf   Peacock Invitational   Heron Glen Golf Course   10:00 AM
4/22/03 Tuesday W. Tennis   Wagner   Staten Island, NY   2:00 PM
4/22/03 Tuesday Softball   Saint Peter's*   HOME   3:00 PM
4/22/03 Tuesday Baseball   Sacred Heart   Bridgeport, CT   3:30 PM
4/23/03 Wednesday Baseball   Hofstra   HOME   3:30 PM
4/23/03 Wednesday W. Lacrosse   MARIST*   HOME   3:30 PM
4/24/03 Thursday Golf   MAAC Championship   Lake Buena Vista, FL   TBA
4/24/03 Thursday Track & Field   Penn Relays   Philadelphia, PA   TBA
4/24/03 Thursday Softball   Stony Brook   Stony Brook, NY   3:00 PM
4/25/03 Friday Track & Field   Penn Relays   Philadelphia, PA   TBA
4/25/03 Friday W. Tennis   MAAC Championship   Flushing, NY   TBA
4/25/03 Friday M. Tennis   MAAC Tournament   Flushing, NY   TBA
4/25/03 Friday Golf   MAAC Championship   Lake Buena Vista, FL   TBA
4/26/03 Saturday Golf   MAAC Championship   Lake Buena Vista, FL   TBA
4/26/03 Saturday M. Tennis   MAAC Tournament   Flushing, NY   TBA
4/26/03 Saturday W. Tennis   MAAC Championship   Flushing, NY   TBA
4/26/03 Saturday Track & Field   Penn Relays   Philadelphia, PA   TBA
4/26/03 Saturday W. Lacrosse   SIENA*   HOME   11:00 AM
4/26/03 Saturday Baseball   Iona* (DH)   New Rochelle, NY   12:00 PM
4/26/03 Saturday M. Lacrosse   SACRED HEART   HOME   2:00 PM
4/27/03 Sunday Golf   MAAC Championship   Lake Buena Vista, FL   TBA
4/27/03 Sunday W. Tennis   MAAC Championship   Flushing, NY   TBA
4/27/03 Sunday M. Tennis   MAAC Tournament   Flushing, NY   TBA
4/27/03 Sunday Softball   St. John's   Jamaica, NY   12:00 PM
4/27/03 Sunday Baseball   Iona*   New Rochelle, NY   12:00 PM
4/29/03 Tuesday Track & Field   Broadmead Invitational   Princeton, NJ   TBA
4/30/03 Wednesday Baseball   Columbia   New York, NY   3:00 PM

[College Sports]

WOMEN’S LACROSSE LOSE TO FAIRFIELD, 17-4

FAIRFIELD, CT (April 9, 2003) – The Manhattan College women's lacrosse team lost to Fairfield University 17-4 in this afternoon's Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference contest at University Field. more...

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WEDNESDAY'S SOFTBALL GAME POSTPONED

BRONX, NY (April 9, 2003) - Wednesday's softball game between Manhattan College and Fordham University has been postponed due to rain. The game has been tentatively rescheduled for Wednesday April 23. Manhattan's next game is slated for Saturday April 12 at Niagara.

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MEN'S LACROSSE VERSUS SIENA MOVED TO WEST POINT

The Manhattan College men's lacrosse home game versus Siena held tomorrow, April 9 will be played at Shea Stadium in West Point, NY beginning at 7:30 pm.

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BASEBALL ANNOUNCED SCHEDULE CHANGES

RIVERDALE, NY (April 8, 2003) - Wednesday's baseball game between Manhattan College and Lafayette College has been postponed due to poor field conditions. The game has been tentatively rescheduled for Thursday at 3:30 PM at Gaelic Park. Also, the Jaspers have added a game against Yale on Tuesday, April 15. The game will be played at 5:00 PM at the Yale Bowl.

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BUYEA NAMED MAAC ROOKIE OF THE WEEK

EDISON, NJ (April 8, 2003) – Freshman outfielder Christina Buyea (Harriman, NY) was named MAAC Rookie of the Week for the week ending April 6, as announced by conference officials.

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[News Sports]

http://www.chieftain.com/friday/sports/index/article/7
The Pueblo Chieftain Online
Publish Date Friday April 4th, 2003
Central's Garcia goes DI
Jessie Garcia
By TRACY RENCK
The Pueblo Chieftain

Ever since she was a little girl, she dreamed of someday getting to play NCAA Division I soccer someday.

Well, Thursday Jessie Garcia's dream became a reality. The Pueblo Central High School striker signed to play next fall for Manhattan College in Riverdale, N.Y.

"This really hasn't sunk in yet," said Garcia during a break from practice Thursday at Corwin Middle School. "I always wanted to play Division I and I can't believe I will get the chance to do just that."

The coaches in the Manhattan College women's soccer program are no strangers to Pueblo. A year ago the Lady Jaspers signed Pueblo Centennial star Brandy Luther to a scholarship.

"Brandy and I were talking and she wanted me to go there," Garcia said. "We have been playing soccer together since we were in sixth grade and I think it is going to be great to get to play with her again. I thought I might go to play soccer at Monroe Community College (in Rochester, N.Y.), but then everything just came together with Manhattan. I am just excited to go up there and try to earn a starting spot."

As a sophomore at Central, Garcia scored 27 goals en route to winning the South-Central League Most Valuable Player award. Last season, meanwhile, Garcia scored eight goals for Class 5A Grandview High School in Aurora.

This year, Garcia has three goals for Central, which is sporting a 2-3-1 record both overall and in league.

"I know Jessie will make it at the Division I level," Central coach Traci Tafoya said. "She has the burning desire to be a great player, and that is the key."

Garcia is an honor student at Central, but she undecided on what she will major on in college.

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The Journal News (Westchester County, NY)

April 3, 2003 Thursday

SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. 24S

HEADLINE: Former Iona Prep teammates meet in biggest game of their collegiate careers

BYLINE: Joe Lombardi, Staff

In many ways, their careers - and lives - have been almost intertwined.

It all started when Delfico, who grew up in Hawthorne, decided to enroll at Iona Prep in New Rochelle.

After a year there, he told his best friend and neighbor, Justin Jackette, how much he liked it and that he should do that same thing.

So instead of attending Westlake, both wound up as teammates at Iona Prep. And so perhaps it was appropriate that the most meaningful game of their collegiate basketball careers came against each other.

With the MAAC Tournament championship - and an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament - on the line, Jackette's Manhattan College Jaspers downed Delfico's Fairfield University Stags 69-54 March 10 in Trenton, N.J.

Manhattan (23-7), which drew a No. 14 seed, went on to lose to No. 3 Syracuse 76-65 in a first-round NCAA tourney game March 21 at the Fleet Center in Boston.

Fairfield, meanwhile, also saw its season end against a Big East team as the Stags (19-12) fell to 90-78 to visiting Boston College in an opening-round NIT game played before 6,585 fans at the Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Conn. Delfico paced Fairfield with a team-high 14 points to finish the season averaging 8.9 points and 4.2 rebounds per game.

While both players were stars in high school, they effectively adjusted to becoming role players for winning programs at the collegiate level.

The 6-foot-2 , 215-pound Jackette, a shooting guard/wing forward, was Journal News player of the year as a senior at Iona Prep in 1997-98 when Delfico was a junior. Jackette averaged 23 points scored per game his senior year to finish as Iona Prep's all-time leading scorer with 1,355 points.

Delfico, a 6-5, 225-pound power forward averaged 19 points and nine rebounds during his career at Iona Prep.

Both players led Iona Prep to CHSAA Class B championships their senior seasons.

The two players' collegiate careers both ended this season because Jackette had to sit out the 1999-00 season under NCAA rules after transferring to Manhattan from William & Mary.

Glenn Roth contributed to this report.

Joe Lombardi is sports editor of weekly publications of The Journal News. He can be reached at jlombard@gannett.com.

LOAD-DATE: April 4, 2003

[EMAIL FROM JASPERS]

[Email01]

From: Donald McLeod
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 7:20 PM
Subject: RE: Fr. Michael Dolan

John/Mike

Sorry about that but I copied the article. I should have added that he is assigned to Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, <privacy invoked> , Lexington Park MD 20653. Phone: <privacy invoked> , Fax: <privacy invoked> .

Hope this helps.
Don

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From: Michael F. McEneney
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 11:08 PM
To: Donald McLeod
Cc: John Reinke (1968)
Subject: Re: Fr. Michael Dolan

Dear Don,

Thanks for the information on Father Mike. We hope that he will be able to con-celebrate Mass on the Friday night of reunion weekend with two of our classmates. The Mass will be for the deceased members of the Class, of which there are nearly 100.

            Thanks again for the help,
                             Best,
                             Mike McEneney

[Email02]

From: John Henry 64A
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: FW: Try#3: jasperjottings20030406.htm

This character is not a Manhattan College athlete or student. She attends Manhattanville College in Purchase New York

[JR: Yup, you'd think fact checking, might catch it! ]

[Email03]

From: George Brew
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: Try#2: jasperjottings20030406.htm

Thanks for keeping me informed of all that relates to Manhattan College. Please keep it coming. George Brew '50Bus.

[Email04]

From: Horgan, Brian J. (1970)
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 1:53 PM
To: 'letters@shreveporttimes.com'
Cc: 'aenglish@gannett.com'; 'mcraft@gannett.com'; 'John Reinke'
Subject: Factual Error in March 30th

Your March 30th Editorial by Gregory Hudson contains a serious error. Protesting basketball player Toni Smith is a student at Manhattanville College, which has no relationship to Manhattan College.

I am amazed that such a basic factual error would be published.

Brian Horgan

[JR: Well said. ]

[Email05]

From: June Trizzino
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 9:55 AM
Subject: address correction

John,

We recently discovered a glitch in my email address. I won't try to explain the problem. I'll keep it simple. Please send emails only to <privacy invoked> . Do not send emails to <privacy invoked> . That is a shared email address for company business only. Thanks.

June Trizzino - '75

[Email06]

From: Deborah Banks
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 11:41 AM
Subject: New E-Mail Address

Hi John

Just want to notify you of my new e-mail address. It is <privacy invoked>. I didn't want to bounce off the list. I enjoy the newsletter greatly....your doing a great job! Thanks. Deborah M. Banks BS '92.

[JR: I'm glad you find it interesting. I hope the new email address works for you.]

[Email07]

From: Melissa Meltzer
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 2:55 PM
Subject: Email change

John,

Please change my email address from <privacy invoked> to <privacy invoked> for the newsletter email.

I love your email updates.

Thank you,

Melissa Meltzer 2000

[Email08]

From: John Dandola (1969)
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 4:55 PM
Subject: Jasper to Add to your list

John

Please add John Tweedy '67 to your list for JJ.

His e-mail address is <privacy invoked>

I ran into him at a Saint Patrick's day event in Queens.

[JR: See what happens when you hang out in such places! ]

[Email09]

From: Christine Begley
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 09 April 2003

Hi John,

Please sign me up to receive the Jasper Jottings.

Thanks,
Chris Begley '91

[JR: Done. Welcome. ]

[Email10]

From: Blanchard, Harry
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 1:50 PM
Subject: RE: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 09 April 2003

Sure, this sounds great. I have since moved out of New York and currently am living in Charlotte. It would be great to keep up with the school and it's activities. Thank you for the email, and I look forward to future publications! Regards, hjb Jasper Class of 1997

Harry J. Blanchard
Vice President
Wachovia Corp.
Structured Transactions and Analytical Research

[Email11]

From: Julieanne Boone (1994)
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 09 April 2003

Count me in for the newsletter.
Julieanne Boone

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