Sunday 20 April 2003
Dear Jaspers,
The jasper jottings email list has 1,030 subscribers to the full edition (317 AOL-ers plus 708 non) and 5 to the "slim pointer" message by my count.
Don't forget:
Th, May 1, 2003 - Fundraiser For Kevin
O’Shea
MADISONS 1584 York Ave.
between 83rd and 84th Streets
Tu May 6,2003- Seventh Jaspers in Law Enforcement
Guest Speaker Hon. John Keenan 51
call Bob Van Etten 66 973-565-4330
Th Jul. 24 '03 - MC Young Alumni Happy Hour
Mad River Bar @1442 Third Ave.
RSVP: MurphGuide@yahoo.com
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From:
Betty Anne Murphy
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 5:20 PM
Subject: Kevin O'Shea fundraiser
Hello John. Joe Dillon forwarded your address to me. My good friend, Kevin O'Shea is a Manhattan College graduate (class of 1970). FYI, Kevin's address is 345 East 94th Street, Apt 26C, NYC 10128 for your records.
Kevin suffered a devastating injury in May of 2001 while attending a golf outing for the Boys and Girls Club of Broward County. While stepping into a hotel pool he lost his footing and fell back onto the outside apron of the pool. Kevin is now quadriplegic.
There is a fundraiser for Kevin on Thursday, May 1, 2003. The details are covered in the attachment. I would appreciate it if you would include this announcement in your weekly Jasper email distribution.
Many thanks for your kind support.
Betty
Anne Murphy
917 763-8355
516 484-4984
FUNDRAISER FOR KEVIN O’SHEA
Thursday, May 1, 2003
MADISONS
1584 York Ave. between 83rd and 84th Streets
(212) 570-5454
6:00 P.M. - Midnight
******
Open Bar - Hospitality Buffet - DJ - Dancing - Piano -Sing Along - Door Prizes
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The Friends of Kevin O'Shea Committee respectfully suggest a door donation of
$100 per person*. This donation will help to defray the cost of Kevin's
monthly living expenses and his continuing and inspiring rehabilitative
response to his devastating paralytic injury of May 2001. Please make all
checks payable to:
R. Hansen ITF the Kevin O’Shea Supplemental Trust
If you are unable to attend but wish to make a contribution, please mail your
check to: Madisons, 1584 York Avenue, NY, NY 10028
*Through the generosity of Madisons, Big City, Sessions 73, Anheuser-Busch and other distributors, 100% of the proceeds from this event will be contributed to Kevin’s rehabilitation.
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Happy Easter. And, a special prayer for the 151 people who died to free Iraq.
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Taxing fare
Posted: April 15, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing."
– Anonymous
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Like many other Americans, I believe that the U.S. Tax Code has, at its core, one part greed and one part leftist social engineering. It is admittedly an ingenious contrivance of insidious, almost imperceptible incrementalism. For those whose personal or political objectives require capital, of course, having their hands as deep in the public till as possible is attractive. But if one examines the scope of the federal government's policies as they relate to our pocketbooks, it becomes clear that the Tax Code is but a part of a greater, pernicious whole.
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Erik Rush is a columnist and award-winning author whose first novel, “The Angels Fell,” a mystery-thriller, was released in 2002. He’s also been involved in music production, biomedical research, marketing and local politics.
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I am sure everybody rendered unto Caesar on-time, but I sure don't like it, because most of it is wasted!!!
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
4 Bouncing off the list
0 Messages from Headquarters (like MC Press Releases)
1 Jaspers publishing web pages
3 Jaspers found web-wise
0 Honors
0 Weddings
1 Births
0 Engagements
0 Graduations
4 Obits
6 "Manhattan in the news" stories
0 Resumes
12 Sports
10 Emails
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[FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT JASPERS]
[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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[JASPERS PUBLISHING WEB PAGES]
[WebPage1]
http://www.capitalinvestors.com/bios/mcdonnell.html
Jack McDonnell
PaylinX
John J. McDonnell, Jr. is a pioneer in the telecommunications industry, with over 30 years' experience. He is the founder, as well as president and CEO of TNS.
Immediately prior to founding TNS, Mr. McDonnell was president and CEO of Digital Radio Network, Inc., a local access bypass carrier for POS transactions. He has also served as group vice president for the Information Technologies and Telecommunications Group of the Electronic Industries Association (EIA).
Before serving at EIA, Mr. McDonnell held positions as vice president of international operations and vice president of sales for Tymnet, with responsibility for both private network sales and public network services.
Mr. McDonnell was previously director of technology and telecommunications for the National Commission on Electronic Funds Transfer. One of the founders of the Electronic Funds Transfer Association (EFTA), Mr. McDonnell remains active, currently serving as Chairman of the Executive Committee.
Mr. McDonnell holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Manhattan College and a M.S.E.E. degree from Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute.
[JASPERS FOUND ON & OFF THE WEB BY USING THE WEB]
[Found1]
http://am-lean.sourceemail.com/bio_michaelquigley.asp
Michael E. Quigley, PH.D.
Michael Quigley is Professor of Business and Organizational Leadership at Brevard College, Brevard, North Carolina. His primary role is in coordinating the development of a new and innovative undergraduate major in Organizational Leadership, designed for business and industry. The program enrolls over one hundred students after just three years in operation. The curriculum is inspired by the work of the late Dr. W. Edwards Deming, and seeks to integrate action and theory in preparing young adults for professional life in the 21st century.
Dr. Quigley is also Director of the Center for Transformational Leadership, which exists for the purpose of offering an educational program in leadership knowledge, skills, and competencies for professional people. This program consists of professional seminars held here at the College, and on-site training.
In 1980, Michael first met Dr. Deming and in the years of friendship and professional mentorship that followed, Dr. Quigley has enthusiastically sought and extended the Deming legacy of holistic systems management, statistical process control, theory of knowledge and learning-based organizations.
Originally from the United Kingdom, Dr. Quigley was educated on both sides of the Atlantic, and holds degrees from London University (UK), Lancaster University (UK), Manhattan College in New York, and a Ph.D. from Boston College. After twenty-two years of college administration as Dean of Graduate Studies at Rivier College in New Hampshire, he continues to work with organizations in business and education, both as a consultant and a public speaker. In May 2001, Dr. Quigley was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Rivier College, twenty years after the same honor was bestowed on his mentor, W. Edwards Deming.
Dr. Quigley has worked with a variety of businesses, including James River Corporation, Ektron Kodak, Printpack, Busch Entertainment, The Northeast Public Power Association (NEPPA) and the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative in Plymouth, New Hampshire. He is currently assisting the public schools of Transylvania County (NC) and Cherokee County (NC) to implement the Baldrige principles of excellence in education. He is also a visiting professor in Graduate Education at Manhattan College, New York.
Dr. Quigley maintains a full teaching schedule. He has published widely over the years and is a regular contributor to the leadership journal Executive Excellence that is received by more than forty thousand business executives worldwide. The Journal recently listed him as one of the top one hundred experts in North America in Organizational Leadership.
http://tbogg.blogspot.com/
Behold the Lord, Jesus Christ, who tries so hard to get our attention
Well this caught my attention. Here are step by step plans to fight Planned Parenthood by those who would deny a woman the right to make a choice about her own body.
Interesting reading.
Oh. And who runs STOPP?
James W. Sedlak
Jim and his wife, Michaeleen, reside in Stafford, Virginia. They have three grown children and ten grandchildren. Jim holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from Manhattan College (Bronx, NY) and a Master of Science in Industrial Administration from Union College (Schenectady, NY). He is a Third Degree member of the Knights of Columbus, Council 7877, Stafford, Virginia.
and Edward E. Szymkowiak
Ed started his pro-life activities while in college, volunteering at Birthright in Ithaca, N.Y. In 1988 he became a volunteer at Birthright's office in Woodhaven, N.Y. In 1989, as member of Operation Rescue, Ed experienced police brutality and imprisonment at the West Hartford II rescue in Conn. In 1995, he lost a teaching job after opposing Planned Parenthood workshops aimed at his students at the Sullivan County Alternative School in Liberty, N.Y.
Ed, with his wife Linda, also served as a Natural Family Planning instructor. They reside in Spotsylvania, Va. with their five young (naturally planned!) children. Ed holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the State University College of New York in Fredonia, and a Master of Science degree in secondary mathematics education from the State University of New York in Binghamton. He is a Second Degree member of the Knights of Columbus.
Between Jim and Ed they have eight children. The have eight children...they didn't personally give birth to eight children.
Contribute to Planned Parenthood here.
posted by Tom at 11:18 AM
[JR: Kudos to a fellow Jasper who is obviously made an impact. ]
http://www.ecfs.org/ab-directory.ihtml?letter=k&alpha=yes
John Kroeger
B.S. Manhattan College, M.S. Manhattan College
Fieldston
Math
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From: Michele Anderson
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 8:31 AM
Subject: RE: jasperjottings20030413.htm
Michele Anderson (formerly Barile - Class of '93) and husband Matthew are the proud parents of Jack Conrad Anderson, born January 24, 2003.
Thanks,
Michele
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[OBITS]
[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]
From: Ed Plumeau '52A
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 11:39 AM
Subject: Obituary
John: I regret to tell you and your readers of the recent death of a fellow MC graduate. Ernest (Oreste) R. Barra, MC Class of 1931, died April 6, 2003 in Stuart, Florida at age 93. He was born and raised in Yonkers, one of 10 children. He had degrees from MC, NYU, Bonaventure U. and Columbia. He was twice a Fulbright scholar. He taught Latin in Huntington HS, Bronxville HS and Monticello HS.
He taught Italian in the adult education program of the Martin County (Fla.) school system for 15 years. He had his first novel published at age 90 and recently his second novel. He was working on his third novel at the time of his death. A life-long bachelor, he is survived by several nieces and nephews and a sister-in-law. Burial was at Gate of Heaven Cemetary, Hawthorne, N.Y., on 4/12/03.
He was a loved and valued member of the MC Treasure Coast (Fl.) alumni group and was faithful in attending our monthly lunches.
Pray for the repose of his soul. Ed Plumeau '52A
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Copyright 2003 Stuart News Company
The Stuart News/Port St. Lucie News (Stuart,FL)
April 10, 2003, Thursday
SECTION: Martin County; Pg. B4
HEADLINE: OBITUARIES
ERNEST R. BARRA
Ernest (Oreste) R. Barra, 93 years old, died April 6, 2003 in Stuart, Florida.
Born in New York City, Mr. Barra grew up in Yonkers as one of 10 children in an Italian family. He earned degrees from St. Bonaventure University, Manhattan College, Columbia University and New York University. He was a Fullbright Scholar and received two grants to study abroad in Rome, Italy and Athens, Greece. He taught Latin at Huntington High School in Huntington, NY, Bronxville High School in Bronxville, NY and Monticello, NY. At Huntington High School he was also the tennis coach, winning the State High School Championship in the 1960's. He was a freelance writer for the Yonkers Herald Statesman newspaper. He taught Italian for 15 years in the adult education program of Martin County School District in Stuart, Florida. At 90 years old, Mr. Barra had his first novel, Biretta published with Vantage Press, and recently The Rectory with Athena Press, London, England. Many of his political and social views were published in The Stuart News and The Palm Beach Post.
During a book interview, Mr. Barra was asked about his philosophy. He replied, "Quamdiu Spiro, Scribam," - "As long as I breathe, I will write."
He is survived by his nephews Greg Westhoff of Old Greenwich, CT; Anthony Piscetta of New Milford, CT; Anthony and David Barra of Yonkers, NY; and, by his niece Barbara Shwartz of Mamroneck, NY. A sister-in-law, Virginia Barra, also survives in Yonkers.
Mr. Barra will be interred at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, NY on Saturday, April 12, 2003. There will be no calling hours at the funeral home. F. Ruggiero & Sons, Inc. 732 Yonkers Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10704. (914) 375-1400 www.ruggieroandsonsfh.com
LOAD-DATE: April 10, 2003
[JR: Thanks Ed. Published at 90, Wow! He must have been a hell of a guy. ]
From: John Nason
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 9:29 PM
Subject: Bill Hughes R.I.P.
Dear Classmates:
This note came from the wife of Bill Hughes '52EE. (He was known as "Frank" at the College but somewhere along the way he began answering to his middle name.) Bill was at the College last June to celebrate his 50th Jubilee.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Lu Hughes"
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 3:50 PM
Subject: The Passing of Bill Hughes
> Dear All,
> This is from Tom Hughes. For those of you that may not have heard, Bill
> Hughes, my Father, passed away suddenly on Fiday, April 11th. Funeral
> Services will be held at St. Peter's Church in Fallbrook, California on
> Wednesday, April 16th at 1030 AM. My mother asks that in lieu of flowers,
> donations may be made to the Manhattan College Foundation, Fordham
> Preparatory School, or the St Vincent de Paul Society of St Peter's Church
> in Fallbrook. Replies to this email will obviously be read by Mary Lu.
>
> God be with you all,
>
> Tom Hughes
> Son
>
From: Deborah Scotto (1979)
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 6:33 AM
Subject: obituary from Times Herald Record today
SR. MARY THERESA SULLIVAN New Windsor, N.Y. Sr. Mary Theresa Sullivan of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, entered into rest on Tuesday, April 15, 2003 in Calvary Hospital, Bronx. She was 75. Daughter of the late Edward and Elizabeth Sullivan of County Cork, Ireland, she was born on September 7, 1927 in Manhattan. Sr. Mary entered into the religious community on September 8, 1945 at Mount St. Joseph, New Windsor. She was a graduate of Cathedral High School, Assumption College, and Manhattan College. Her profession of first vows took place on April 26, 1948, and her profession of final vows on April 26, 1951. She spent her life in the ministry of education as a teacher, serving at numerous schools. In 1948 she taught at Mount St. Joseph Academy in New Windsor; from 1948 to 1951 at St. Michael's Elementary School in Manhattan; from 1951 to 1953 at St. Frances of Rome in the Bronx; from 1953 to 1958 at St. Mary's School in Kingston; from 1958 to 1961 at St. Michael's in Manhattan; from 1961 to 1965 at St. Frances of Rome; from 1965 to 1969 at St. Michael's in Manhattan; and at J.S. Burke Catholic High School in Goshen from 1969 to 2001, as a teacher of French and English, where she also served as librarian. Survivors include her brother, Edward Sullivan of Livingston, N.J.; and her sister, Catherine Kneble of Reston, Va. Visitation will be held from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16 at Mt. St. Joseph, 880 Jackson Avenue, New Windsor. A Communion service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 17 at the Mt. St. Joseph Chapel. Interment will immediately follow in the Mt. St. Joseph Cemetery, New Windsor. Donations on Sr. Mary's behalf may be sent to The Presentation Sisters Mission and Ministry Fund, 880 Jackson Ave., New Windsor, NY 12553. Arrangements under the direction of Brooks-DiDonato Funeral Home.
Copyright 2003 Newsday, Inc.
Newsday (New York)
April 12, 2003 Saturday NASSAU AND SUFFOLK EDITION
SECTION: NEWS, Pg. A30
HEADLINE: John Sheehan 79, Salesman, Helped Poor
BYLINE: By Joshua Berkman. STAFF WRITER
For John Philip Sheehan, the art of the sale involved much more than a winning smile and a firm handshake. It required researching the market, asking clients questions, caring about their needs and believing his products could help people live better lives, family members said.
His passion for the latter made him a crackerjack salesman of medical devices for more than 30 years, and later in his life, a champion for the interests of senior citizens and the economically disadvantaged. Sheehan, 79, died at his Greenport home April 5 after a long battle with leukemia.
"The mark of a good salesman is making people like themselves better after they've spent time with you," said his son James Sheehan of Philadelphia. "He had an uncanny ability to be interested and enthused about whatever somebody cared about."
Born in Brooklyn in 1923, John Sheehan graduated from St. Augustine High School. He earned a track scholarship to Manhattan College, but left during his freshman year when he enlisted in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, serving in New Guinea and the Philippines.
After his discharge in 1946, he eventually began his career in sales, marketing and product development. He worked for Baxter Laboratories, Johnson & Johnson and Cordis Corp., and he helped market high-tech medical products such as an artificial kidney and suture staples.
Meanwhile, he kept busy with community activities, including political campaigns for both parties and a train commuters advocacy group, even as his own health began to decline. When he was 49, he was diagnosed with diabetes, and two decades later leukemia.
"People didn't realize how ill he was," said his wife of 52 years, Vivian Young Sheehan. "He would come home from chemo with a smile and ask people how they were."
Sheehan learned to manage diabetes with a careful diet, but he became troubled at the difficulty people faced in getting information and services from health-care providers.
After he retired in 1984, he helped organize several programs in New York State that counseled seniors and uninsured working parents on getting all of their entitled benefits. He served on boards for various organizations, including the Riverhead Health Center, and was active in IPRO, a statewide organization devoted to improving services for Medicare beneficiaries.
"When he had to take on an issue, he did it with great grace and elegance," said Sheila McCullagh, IPRO's director of consumer protection and outreach. "On a personal level, he didn't have to worry about the prescription drug benefit, but he was very concerned with how the average person would get along."
Besides his wife and son James, Sheehan is survived by four other sons, Brendan Sheehan of Leavenworth, Kan., and Andrew, Robert and Timothy Sheehan of Austin, Texas; two daughters, Barbara Sheehan of Philadelphia and Maureen Liebowitz of Greenwich, Conn.; and 10 grandchildren.
A funeral was held Tuesday at St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church in Greenport. He has been cremated and placement of his ashes will be determined at a later date.
GRAPHIC: Photo- John Philip Sheehan
LOAD-DATE: April 12, 2003
[News MC]
04/13/2003
The City Weekly Desk; Section 14
The New York Times
Page 1, Column 2
c. 2003 New York Times Company
J. PIERRE GAGNE swept his arms across the misty horizon, taking in the former garbage dump under his feet, the soaring arches of the Whitestone Bridge above him and the gray tips of the Manhattan skyline eight miles in the distance.
'''The Power Broker,' page 775,'' Mr. Gagne said, referring from memory to a page in Robert A. Caro's famous book about Mr. Gagne's hero, Robert Moses.
Mr. Gagne, 50, is interested in that part of the book about the famed public works chief because it discusses Ferry Point Park, the land on which he now stands and on which, he figures, he can forge his own immortality. Moses' asphalt-and-steel legacy included the West Side Highway, Triborough Bridge and Jones Beach; Mr. Gagne's dream, more modest, would feature putting greens and golf balls.
Ferry Point Park is a 414-acre parcel in the southeast Bronx between the Whitestone and Throgs Neck Bridges; it borders the Throgs Neck neighborhood on the east and slopes down to the East River on the south. It is here, on the undeveloped eastern section of the park, that Mr. Gagne and three partners, including the legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus, are engaged in an on-again, off-again effort to build a $50 million, championship-quality public golf course.
The project, originally expected to cost $22.5 million and to open as early as 2001, is now on again, thanks to a decision last October by the State Department of Environmental Conservation about the amount of landfill the developers can use.
The course is now scheduled to be completed by fall 2005 and to open the following spring, but there is still risk, opposition and much undone work. Mr. Gagne needs to bring tons of dirt and rubble to make his course real; as golf lovers watch the 67th Masters Tournament today, he will be preparing for the hectic part of the construction season, when as many as 200 trucks bearing landfill will arrive daily at his site. He worries about the security of the finished course, too, and, despite the recent regulatory victory, some environmental concerns persist.
Surprisingly, the biggest concern traces back to Mr. Gagne's hero, Robert Moses, who wanted to turn a marshland into Ferry Point Park. He did so, but he did it by filling the marsh with garbage, which has been rotting and exuding methane gas, the major environmental problem that Mr. Gagne faces.
Despite that baggage and despite the revulsion that many people have for what they see as Moses' highhanded destruction of neighborhoods, Mr. Gagne still likes the man. ''I liked the mover and shaker attitude he had,'' said the developer, who first learned about Moses when a college professor recommended he read the Caro book. He has been aiming for his own chance to move and shake ever since. His chance is Ferry Point Park.
The other day, a tanned, suave Mr. Gagne stood near the southeast edge of the golf course of his dreams and evoked what he considers the two greatest public works of the borough, the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden. ''Over 130,000 cars a day pass over the Whitestone Bridge and see this property,'' he said. ''This is the gateway entrance to the Bronx. This will become the Bronx's third jewel.''
Finesse, and Engineering
To build a 222-acre golf course and park on top of an old garbage dump requires a degree of finesse that Moses, who amassed near-dictatorial power in the mid-20th century, never needed.
But Mr. Gagne (pronounced gah-NYAY), who was born in Montreal to French-speaking parents, moved with his family to Tarrytown, N.Y., at age 9, and has a degree in engineering from Manhattan College, brings some assets to the task.
''His strength, in contrast to other developers with financial or legal backgrounds, is that he has technical skills that are important in these sorts of complicated projects,'' said Michael Divney, the owner of a White Plains planning and engineering consulting firm where Mr. Gagne held his first job.
Early in his career, the projects he zeroed in on were golf courses. Mr. Gagne believed they were the places to which aging baby boomers would turn when their basketball and softball days were behind them.
''He was always talking about the future of golf courses, about the potential for high-end public golf courses in the Northeast because there weren't enough of them,'' said Steven J. Caspi, owner of Caspi Development in White Plains, where Mr. Gagne worked as a consultant from 1982 to 1992. As it happened, Mr. Caspi's company was hired by Japanese investors to help develop the Golf Club at Purchase, in Purchase, N.Y. Mr. Gagne, a golfer since he was a teenager, worked diligently on the building of that lush private club.
Mr. Gagne, who now lives in Greenwich, Conn., with his wife, started his own development company in 1993. Four years later, New York City asked for proposals to build a public golf course at Ferry Point Park. With partners Jonathan Stern and Paul Kanavos of Flag Financial Corporation of New York, who handle the financing, and Mr. Nicklaus, with whom Mr. Gagne worked on the Purchase project, he won the bid. Under it, Ferry Point Partners must pay a minimum of $1.25 million a year to the city once the course opens, more if revenues are high. Thirty-five years after opening day, the city assumes ownership.
''I jumped up and down and screamed and hollered in joy,'' Mr. Gagne recalled about the moment he got the news. ''I said, 'Yahoo!'''
If all goes according to plan, the course promises to be a beautiful thing, a 7,000-yard rolling belt of green, long enough to accommodate a Professional Golfers Association tour event, or Olympic golfing if New York wins the 2012 Games.
''Because the site is close to the water and is relatively flat, we felt we could create something very natural, very non-manmade,'' said Mark Meijer, who is helping plan the course with a firm run by Mr. Nicklaus. ''Jack's concept is to create a Scottish links look with windswept dunes and native grasses between the fairways.''
The greens and fairways will be planted with state-of-the-art bent grasses: dense, low-growing grass that can endure shoe spikes and help balls roll. There will be a driving range. Mr. Gagne hopes New York Waterway will build a pier near the course for ferry service from Wall Street. He plans to put up clubhouses, with graceful, steep shingle roofs in the style of Stanford White, for weddings and corporate events. As part of its deal with the city, the developers will also refurbish a seven-acre community park in Throgs Neck and build a 19-acre waterfront park and esplanade outside the course in Ferry Point Park.
It is an impressive product and Mr. Gagne sells it hard. The other day, as he pointed at a rocky shore strewn with shredded tires and broken bottles, he conjured up the Cote d'Azur. ''If you go to the beaches in the south of France, they're in a crescent like this,'' he said. ''So that at any point you have a beautiful view of the whole beach.''
Visitors, Wanted and Unwanted
Last year, there were about 755,000 rounds played on the city's 13 municipal courses. The city collected $4.2 million from the private vendors running those courses, whose receipts totaled $21.9 million.
But while fees on the municipal courses are about $20 a round, Mr. Gagne currently plans to charge city residents $65 to $100 a round and others $120 to $150. For those prices, people will expect to enjoy one of the best things about golf, the feeling that the outside world has been left behind, that the course is a special, insulated world where the only dangers are misplaying dimpled balls and wagering too boldly on a putt.
Will they come at those prices? Given that there are 18.7 million people within 50 miles of Ferry Point Park, and that the course will allow a maximum of 60,000 rounds a year, Mr. Gagne believes they will. ''To have a Jack Nicklaus signature golf course 20 minutes from Manhattan will be a rare gem,'' he said. ''A hundred bucks, 150, 200, it's going to be easy to get that.''
But the high-end approach has another risk. With acres of lush green, Mr. Gagne worries that unwanted visitors will be tempted to invade the grounds. ''Keeping 222 acres in the Bronx pristine is not easy,'' he said.
The course area is protected by the East River to the south and the Whitestone Bridge and the Hutchinson River Parkway to the west. Most of the north is St. Raymond's Cemetery. But on the east is the very live working-class neighborhood of Throgs Neck, and on the northeast edge are the Throggs Neck Houses, a 33-building public housing project with 5,500 residents.
As part of the contract with the city, ''We're rebuilding the ball fields over there,'' Mr. Gagne said during a tour of the property, waving a finger toward the projects. There will be a high iron fence around the course, along with 24-hour foot and Jeep patrols. ''Whether we'll have dog patrol as well,'' Mr. Gagne said, ''is unknown at this time.''
Much, but not all of the nearby community has long been sold on Mr. Gagne's plan. ''Just the specter of it has raised real estate values,'' said James Vacca, the district manager of Community Board 10 and an enthusiastic supporter. ''People who advertise their apartments for rent advertise them as 'overlooking soon-to-come golf course.'''
But some people have reservations. ''You don't put in a luxury golf course and call it a city park,'' said David Lutz, executive director of the Neighborhood Open Space Coalition. ''The residents of that community make, what, $15 an hour? It takes a lot of hours to afford to play a round of golf.''
Dwayne Jenkins, president of the tenant association at Throggs Neck Houses, has a different concern -- dangerous gases pushed out of the ground and into the air by the construction. ''I think the golf course could be a great asset to the community of the Bronx,'' he said. ''But the health issues that must be addressed must be addressed.''
The central health worry is ''methane migration.'' Rotting garbage produces methane, which normally disperses at low concentrations straight up through the ground and into the atmosphere. But when someone deposits tons of fill on top of the garbage, as Mr. Gagne is doing, the gas can be forced sideways, as if someone were pushing on a wet sponge. At the spots near the edges of the fill where the migrating methane finds an opening to vent upward, the gas can become concentrated, potentially to levels where it will explode if exposed to a spark.
In early 2001, the State Department of Environmental Conservation told the developers to dig a gas-venting trench around the site to prevent this problem. Nonetheless, in recent months methane levels have often been high at 2 of the site's 19 monitoring wells. If the high levels persist, the developers may have to start pumping air into the discharging gas to dilute it, said Dan Gilbert, a department spokesman.
Whatever happens, taxpayers will pay. The developers' contract requires the city to deal with any methane problems and to pay for any future lawsuits that result from toxic hazards at the site. The city has budgeted $7 million for the methane dispersal and has so far spent $2.4 million of that, for construction of the trench and other items.
Environmentalists, who have gone to court more than once over the project, have other complaints. The New York City Environmental Justice Alliance and the New York Public Interest Research Group, worried about local access to the esplanade, the methane migration and the possibility that hazardous wastes have been dumped at the site in past decades, sued in state court for a full environmental review and other relief. They lost that case and the appeal in 2001.
But the environmental challengers were soon newly infuriated. In late 2001, the Department of Environmental Conservation said the developers had deposited more fill on the site than had been authorized. The developers denied the claim, but in December 2001 the agency ordered a halt to construction and required Mr. Gagne to apply for a change to his permit. He did, asking that he be allowed to deposit a total of 1.5 million cubic yards of fill, 1 million more than already brought in.
''There's been this gradual ratcheting up,'' Matthew Malady, a lawyer with the Justice Alliance, said of the amount of landfill needed. ''The type of development we see now is completely different than the development we were talking about when this first got off the ground.''
Still, despite environmentalists' opposition, the Department of Environmental Conservation approved Mr. Gagne's landfill request last October. On Nov. 1, the work restarted.
''The opponents of the plan have had their days in court,'' said Adrian Benepe, the city parks commissioner. ''We believe the project has passed all the tests.''
Mr. Gilbert added, ''The project is currently on schedule and has no outstanding violations.''
The Secrets of the Course
Even if the legal and regulatory skies are momentarily clear, Mr. Gagne still faces a ton of work. A good golf course is not flat; it has slopes and gullies and elevation changes. But, here, digging down to create contour will not work because down means garbage, the legacy of Moses. Unearth it and, environmental rules dictate, it must be hauled away and dumped at a legally approved site. ''Every time we take one cubic yard off this site, that's $130,'' Mr. Gagne said.
These circumstances have sharply altered the plans. Originally, for example, there were to be four large bodies of water on the course; now, the project calls for two small ponds.
Moreover, if digging down costs too much, the only way to create the necessary dunes and hills is to build up. Thus, for the next year at least, the biggest chore for Mr. Gagne is to dump clean dirt and rubble, which must meet state standards for ''clean'' fill, on top of the existing soil.
Toward that end, Mr. Gagne's team tracks nearly every construction and demolition project in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. When they hear about a school project in Yonkers or a road-building effort in White Plains, they work phones and CB radios to coax convoys of dump trucks here.
Besides being a landscaping necessity, this dirt means money to Mr. Gagne because construction companies pay to dump. He says that he receives $7 per cubic yard for the landfill, and the government's decision to allow more fill means he will receive millions more in fees. (The money will help to ease the project's growing cost, although critics say these revenues should go to the city, especially given that it is footing the project's environmental bill.)
Once the basic shape of the course is set, fine layers of gravel and sand will be placed on the fill, followed by topsoil and grass.
''The final layer will be cleaner than the top layer of Central Park,'' said Mr. Gagne, who has been to many, many meetings about the project and has developed a few such nicely quotable phrases.
It's a big project. It has made Mr. Gagne a player -- nowhere near as big as Moses, but a player.
Page 775 of ''The Power Broker'' chronicles a 1947 meeting at which Moses threatened to resign as parks commissioner if the city's powerful Board of Estimate did not let him hire expensive private engineers for Ferry Point. The board argued that he should use engineers already on the city payroll. But the board members, who knew Moses' resignation would upset Mayor William O'Dwyer and cost them their political careers, buckled.
Mr. Gagne likes that. ''This is exciting,'' he said, sitting in the white Jeep bumping along the site of his future course as dump trucks in the distance poured dirt along the 16th fairway. ''This is world class. This will be remembered forever. Just like Robert Moses is remembered forever.''
Photos: J. Pierre Gagne, who is trying to build a golf course on Ferry Point Park. His hero is Robert Moses. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)(pg. 1); The legendary Jack Nicklaus is one of Mr. Gagne's business partners in developing the site. (Agence France-Presse); At a neighboring public housing project, feelings about the planned golf course are mixed. (Above, George M. Gutierrez for The New York Times; bottom, James Estrin/Tne New York Times)(pg. 14) Map of the Bronx highlighting the proposed golf course. (pg. 14)
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Back to the Second Shift
By ELLEN L. ROSEN
04/13/2003
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WHEN Flo Wiener had her second child 12 years ago, she was ready for a break from practicing law. She quit her job at the New York State Attorney General's office and chose, as she puts it, to ''do the June Cleaver thing.'' She stayed home for nine years, but as her children grew older, she began contemplating a return to the work force.
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Maryann Dennen followed this route. After her oldest child was born 13 years ago, Ms. Dennen, an accountant, returned to her job at Merrill Lynch where she ''worked for a month or so before realizing that the job wasn't conducive to having kids.'' She left and stayed home for nine months, but then began teaching corporate finance at Manhattan College in Riverdale. After her second child was born in 1992, she stopped altogether and subsequently had a third child. In 1995, when her youngest was almost a year old, she started her own accounting and financial services company.
''I was given the opportunity just from meeting people in Bronxville,'' she said. ''I was doing community work, whether for the Junior League or schools, so clients found me.''
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Photos: Those who segued back to work: Maggi Landau, top left, runs Rainbow Media; Grace Flowers, top right, owns a floral design business; Sally Genster Robling, right, works at American Standard. Nancy Collamer gives advice on changing careers. (Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times); (John W. Wheeler for The New York Times); (George M. Guttierez for The New York Times)(pg. 1); Sally Genster Robling, with children Anna, and Jack, went back to corporate marketing after a year's hiatus, left. Beth Smayda, who works at MBIA in Armonk, says volunteer work helped her land the job.; Nancy Collamer, a career counselor based in Old Greenwich, Conn., gives a seminar at the Larchmont temple for women on going back to work. (Photographs by John W. Wheeler for The New York Times); (George M. Guttierez for The New York Times)(pg. 6)
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SJC considers sports violence case
By Kathleen Burge, Globe Staff, 4/13/2003
It began so quickly that officials had to replay the videotape to see what happened. Long legs pounded the floor. Two teams tangled together in one writhing mass. Elbows jabbed and fists pummeled.
The coaches ran onto the lacquered floor to pull body from body. And when calm returned to the basketball court in Boston University's Case Center on that evening in December 1998, one of the opposing players felt blood dripping down his face.
Now, more than four years later, the state's highest court is considering Kenneth Kavanagh's broken nose.
Was his injury an unfortunate accident from a melee that spontaneously sparked and raced through both teams? Or was Boston University responsible for Kavanagh's damaged nose, broken by a pugnacious player, fueled by its aggressive coach?
This is the first time the SJC has considered this issue and the justices' decision, expected in a few months, will have potentially broad ramifications for collegiate sports. It is also one of the most recent cases asking the court to refine the ever-expanding body of tort law which lays out what legal duties are owed by property owners, party hosts, employers, and business owners, among others.
In his legal brief to the SJC, Kavanagh's lawyer, Michael J. O'Reilly quoted a 1984 SJC decision in which the court noted that such law changes ''with the evolving expectations of a maturing society.'' In that case, the court ruled that Ware police officers had a duty to remove a drunken driver from the roads.
''I find it inconsistent that you would recruit a student, have them play in a basketball program . . . Then when something like this happens, they say, `We had nothing to do with it,' '' O'Reilly said in an interview.
The year after his injury, Kavanagh, a visiting player from Manhattan College, sued BU, arguing that the school owed him an environment to play basketball free from ''violent assaults.'' The case was thrown out by a judge before trial.
Last week, Kavanagh's lawyer argued before the Supreme Judicial Court that a jury should be allowed to decide the questions at the center of the case: whether BU coaches should have known that point guard LeVar Folk, who allegedly assaulted Kavanagh, was likely to act aggressively, and whether his behavior was encouraged by head coach Dennis Wolff.
And, he argued to the SJC, athletes like Folk, coaxed to BU on an athletic scholarship, should be considered legal representatives of their schools because they are required to attend practices, are monitored more closely than other students, and the school profits from their performances on the court.
Larry S. Elswit, a lawyer for Boston University argued to the SJC that the school was not responsible for Kavanagh's broken nose -- especially because Kavanagh was not a BU student. Many of the legal cases that Kavanagh's lawyer cited involve students injured by their own school, Elswit said in an interview.
And even if the SJC decides that BU had a legal duty to protect Kavanagh, Elswit said, there was no way to predict that a fight would break out. Moreover, he said, legal trends show judges assigning colleges and universities less responsibility for their students, not more.
''I think over time, colleges have moved away from the idea that they have parental responsibility for their students,'' Elswit said in an interview. ''The courts have acknowledged the evolution . . . and accepted that we're not parents and we're not insurers.''
Patricia Henry, senior associate director of athletics at Harvard University, said she would be concerned if the SJC rules that schools can be held legally liable for injuries like Kavanagh's broken nose. Instead, she said, school athletic departments should be working with students, coaches, and referees to prevent violence during games.
Fights can be influenced by many factors, she said: students, coaches, referees. ''It's awfully hard to wean out one entity being more responsible than another,'' she said.
And, she said, the potential cost of lawsuits is worrisome.
When the SJC heard the case, the justices questioned O'Reilly's argument that Wolff should have substituted players for those team members, like Folk, who were too aggressive.
''Doesn't that run contrary to the whole notion of a sports competition?'' asked Justice Roderick Ireland. ''As long as the referees don't find that they are committing inappropriate behavior, don't you want your players to be aggressive?''
O'Reilly agreed, but reminded the justices that Kavanagh had said under oath that the 1998 game was ''an unusually physical game, the most physical game he had ever participated in.''
''So maybe we should expand this lawsuit and include the referees as parties, too,'' Ireland said.
During the second half of the game, after a contested rebound, the fight broke out. Wolff described the fight when he was questioned under oath: ''[A BU player] was going for a lay-up, being fouled from behind, flailing with his elbows, a huge scramble, and then both coaching staffs trying to separate players.''
When officials scanned the videotape and determined Folk had punched Kavanagh, they ejected him from the game. A courtside doctor packed Kavanagh's nose with gauze to stop the bleeding and held ice to his face.
He later returned to the game. His nose has never fully healed, causing difficulty breathing, his lawyer said.
The fight, broadcast on Fox News, prompted his friends and teammates to tease him, said Kavanagh, who later went on to play professional basketball in Europe.
''It's just an embarrassing situation,'' he said. ''You get punched on national TV. You're bleeding. You have a bag of ice on your face.''
Wolff talked to Folk after the game, expressing his disappointment with the fighting, the coach said in a deposition. But he didn't discipline Folk beyond the automatic one-game suspension required by National Collegiate Athletic Association rules, he said.
Kavanagh sued the school, Wolff, and Folk, although Folk was never served with notice of the lawsuit. In 1999, Suffolk Superior Court Judge Mitchell J. Sikora Jr. dismissed part of the lawsuit; in 2001, he threw out the rest.
Elswit, BU's lawyer, argues that Kavanagh and his lawyer had a motivation other than refining the state's tort law to sue the school.
''Two words: Deep pocket,'' Elswit said. ''People look at institutions as easy money that would rather roll over and pay a few bucks than fight.''
If the court rules for Kavanagh, he said, schools would suffer. ''I think it would have a disastrous impact,'' he said. ''Insurance premiums would skyrocket. I think schools would be forced to respond by contracting the kinds of activities that they now offer.''
Kathleen Burge can be reached at kburge@globe.com
This story ran on page B1 of the Boston Globe on 4/13/2003.
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April 11, 2003 Friday
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 2A
HEADLINE: Engineer finding solutions for Larchmont
BYLINE: Michelle J. Lee, Staff
The one-month mark has passed for Michael Lepre, the new Larchmont village engineer, and so far, things are going well.
Lepre, who previously worked for the Westchester County Department of Public Works, said he is adjusting well to managing a small municipality and likes the experience.
"You get more rewards, the satisfaction of helping people out," said Lepre, 43.
Lepre, who lives in Rye Brook, replaces former village engineer Joe Morgan, who retired in February from engineering in New York and took a similar job for the Las Vegas Valley Water District.
A graduate of Manhattan College in New York City with a bachelor's and a master's degree in civil engineering, Lepre has worked in engineering for 22 years.
He worked with private companies for 12 years and worked with Westchester County government as an associate engineer and supervisor of the civil/environmental section for 10 years.
As an associate engineer, Lepre did environmental work all over the county. He designed landfill liners and covers for Sprout Brook ash fill in Peekskill and worked on a storm water plan for Westchester County Airport in White Plains, among other projects.
"I always enjoyed working with him. Anything we needed done he got done. He was an expert in the environmental field and storm water," said Hugh Greechan, director of project management for Westchester County, who worked with Lepre for 10 years. "We miss him, frankly. But the new job will offer new challenges to him and I encouraged him to go, to accept the position."
Previously Lepre worked for HDR Engineering in White Plains, Ralph G. Mastromonaco P.E. Consulting Engineers in Croton, the New York Power Authority in White Plains, Dolph Rotfeld Engineering in White Plains, Bilotta Construction Corp. in Harrison, and the Foster Wheeler Energy Crop in New Jersey.
Through the course of his different jobs, among the things Lepre learned include how to deal with solid wastes, contaminated soil remediation and disposal, and restoring lakes, rivers and streams.
Mayor Ken Bialo said Larchmont was very lucky to get an engineer with Lepre's expertise.
"I think what impressed the board most in the several interviews is he is serious to his approach to the job and at the same time easy to talk to and very personable," Bialo said. "In the month that he has been with the village, the thing that I like best is that when he sees a problem, he doesn't rest until he gets it solved or on the way to being solved. He just doesn't like to be stymied. He always finds a solution."
Engineering runs in Michael Lepre's blood. His grandfather, Al Calenda, worked on the Empire State Building as an electrical designer for Meyer, Strong, and Jones Engineers.
During World War II, his mother, Marion Lepre, worked as an electrical draftsman for Meyer, Strong, and Jones Engineers, where she met her husband Richard, an architect.
While growing up in Port Chester, Lepre said he admired his mother's perseverance. "She had five children, went out of the business for a while, and in the mid-'70s she went back," he said.
Marion Lepre eventually became an electrical designer for Westchester County government in 1986, where her husband also worked as an architect until he retired a year before Michael Lepre began.
"I think I was the only engineer who went to work with (his) mother," Lepre said with a laugh.
Although Lepre lived in a separate house, the two commuted to work together until she retired in 1994.
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Meet the engineer
Name: Michael Lepre
Age: 43
Started job: March 10
Lives in: Rye Brook
Interests: The Niagara Power Project, New York Power Authority hydroelectric projects, the American Revolutionary War.
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Author(s): Rutgers Medical Faculty, New York.
Title: Documents in the matter of an application to the honourable the
legislature of the State of New York for a charter for Manhattan College.
Description: 33 p.
Publisher: New York, Seymour, 1829.
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Call Number: W 19 R976d 1829
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[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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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.]
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
4/21/03 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
JASPERS LOSE 4-0 AGAINST YALE
NEW HAVEN, CT (April 15, 2003)- The Manhattan College baseball team lost 4-0 against Yale on Tuesday. The Jaspers (14-14, 6-4) got a strong pitching performance from Kyle Wirtz (Branford, CT). Wirtz pitched 7 2/3 innings, giving up three earned runs and striking out three.
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WOMEN’S LACROSSE LOSE TO RUTGERS 21-2
PISCATAWAY, NJ (April 15, 2003) – The Manhattan College women's lacrosse team lost 21-2 to Rutgers University this afternoon at Yurcak Field.
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NIAGARA SWEEPS MANHATTAN SOFTBALL, 4-1 & 5-2
BUFFALO, NY (April 14, 2003) – The Manhattan College softball team dropped a MAAC doubleheader to the Niagara Purple Eagles this afternoon by scores of 4-1 and 5-2. Manhattan falls to 7-18 overall and 2-4 in the MAAC, while Niagara improves to 4-15 overall and 3-3 in the MAAC.
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JASPERS COMPLETE THREE-GAME SWEEP OF CANISIUS WITH 6-1 WIN
RIVERDALE, NY (April 14, 2003) – The Manhattan College baseball team completed a three-game sweep of the Canisius Golden Griffins this afternoon with a 6-1 victory at Van Cortlandt Park. Manhattan has now won five games in a row and improves to 14-13 overall and 6-4 in the MAAC. With the sweep of Canisius, Manhattan has vaulted four spots in the conference standings to third place at 6-4. LeMoyne leads the pack with a perfect 10-0 record and Marist sits in second place at 9-3.
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CANISIUS SWEEPS MANHATTAN SOFTBALL, 12-0 & 2-0
BUFFALO, NY (April 13, 2003) – The Manhattan College softball team was shutout in both games of a doubleheader at Canisius College this afternoon. The Lady Jaspers lost 12-0 in the first game and 2-0 in the second game to fall to 7-16 overall and 2-2 in the MAAC. Canisius improves to 11-19 overall and 4-3 in the league.
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College notebook
Saturday, April 12, 2003
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By Mark Jaffee
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Narus gets first win: Manhattan College freshman Alex Narus of Wolcott picked up his first collegiate win Thursday after he pitched four solid innings of relief in an 8-1 decision over Lafayette.
"In high school Alex threw a hard fastball, but when he got here he started working on a hard slider," said Manhattan coach Steve Trimper. "In college you need a slider and that is leading him to getting a lot of strikeouts. He's getting a lot of movement."
Narus also saved a recent 6-4 win over Delaware State when he whiffed the side in the ninth with runners on second and third.
"Alex is pitching with a lot of confidence and he's one of the hardest working guys I've had in a long time," Trimper said.
Manhattan second baseman Gary Diaz of Naugatuck is hitting .292 (26-for-89) with 19 RBI and a team-high 18 RBI. Diaz, a shortstop last season, had four hits and nine RBI in a recent win over Fordham.
"Second base is Gary's natural position," said Trimper. "He has quick feet and a good arm. He's also doing very well as a No. 2 hitter."
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Recruits drawn to FAMU
Gillespie hopes winning will help him get more stars
By Heath A. Smith
04/11/2003
The Tallahassee Democrat
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The Lady Rattlers will also be courting a recruit this weekend. Ariel Towns, a 5-11 forward from Pasadena (Calif.) City College is one of three recruits FAMU women's basketball coach Debra Clark hopes to sign.
"We have a short list," Clark said. "If one, two or three decide not to come then we have another list that we have been tracking as well."
Towns earned the nickname "The Franchise" by Joe Peron, her coach at Pasadena City College, because of her play on the court.
This past season, Towns averaged 16 points and 13 rebounds a game and recorded 14 double-doubles. Towns raised her game to another level during tournament play, averaging 27 points and 19 rebounds a game.
Her postseason awards included South Coast Conference Most Valuable Player and second team All-State honors.
Towns would provide depth in the frontcourt with the graduation of forward Deidre Bateman and insurance if MEAC Player of the Year Kim Watson is not granted a medical redshirt.
"We are recruiting like she (Watson) won't be back," Clark said. "We are looking to bring in one, possibly two centers next week."
Clark didn't sign any players during the early signing period in the fall, but did bring in two transfers. Elana Green, a 6-1 forward/center from Manhattan College and Quadaria Russell, a 5-11 guard/forward from UNC-Charlotte will both be eligible to play next season.
"We've got some added depth in the frontcourt coming in, but we need some more," Clark. "At the guard position we have some good players returning."
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Prosser says no to Pitt
By John Biles
Date: Apr 11, 2003
The University of Pittsburgh's hastily conducted search for a new mens basketball coach is set to conclude in the next 24 - 48 hours. However, Skip Prosser of Wake Forest will not factor into the equation.
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Assistant coach and "player's choice" Jamie Dixon seems to be Pitt's consolation prize, although Bobby Gonzalez of Manhattan college may still be contacted to sign a contract. Dixon was granted an interview, but his lack of experience clearly scares Pitt officials.
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Published Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Baseball claims first shutout
BY SEAN SINGER
Staff Reporter
The baseball team picked up its first shutout of the season Tuesday, defeating Manhattan College 4-0 at Yale Field.
Coming off a 16-1 loss to Columbia University (15-17, 6-6 Ivy), the Elis (12-15, 3-5 Ivy) rebounded: six pitchers combined to limit the Jaspers (14-14) to six hits and no runs.
On offense, the class of 2003 led the way: Chris Elkins '03, Darren Beasley '03, Mike Hirschfield '03 and Dave Fortenbaugh '03 combined for seven of the Bulldogs' nine hits, all four runs, and three RBIs.
On the mound, Yale's pitching staff was running on all cylinders.
"Everybody just had their best stuff today," said starter John Janco '06 (1-2) , who gave up one hit in three innings. "[We] threw strikes [and] got ahead in the count."
The Bulldogs took the lead for good in the bottom of the fourth inning when Fortenbaugh, who led the team with a .384 batting average entering the game, hit an RBI single.
One run was all the Eli pitching staff needed.
Eric Naison-Phillips '03 (2-0) picked up the win in one inning of relief, and Colin Ward-Henninger '05 (0-2), Doug Shimokawa '04 (1-2), Mike Elias '05 (3-2), and John Hollis '06 (0-3) finished the Jaspers.
"It's always good when you pitch well," Beasley said. "When we're pitching well, it just gives everybody confidence."
Yale picked up three insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth with RBIs from Elkins and Beasley. Elkins' RBI was his team-leading 19th.
After relying on the bottom of the order against the Lions, the heart of the lineup came through against Manhattan. When the team's top offensive players perform, it sets the tone for the rest of the team, Beasley said.
Kyle Wirtz (2-4) took the loss for the Jaspers, despite a strong performance, going 7.2 innings while giving up nine hits and three earned runs. On defense, after six errors against the Lions in the doubleheader's nightcap Sunday, the Bulldogs only made two Tuesday.
Beasley said coach John Stuper told the team it was the best overall game it had played this season.
With the win against Manhattan in the books, the Bulldogs face Harvard (8-15, 3-5 Ivy) in two doubleheaders Friday and Saturday in Cambridge.
The Crimson, the Elis, and Brown (8-20, 3-5 Ivy) are in a three-way tie for first place in the Red Rolfe Division, one of the Ivy League's two baseball divisions.
"We swung the bat pretty well today towards the end, so we'll definitely be swinging when it comes to Harvard," Janco said.
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April 11, 2003 Friday
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. 6C
HEADLINE: TRACK AND FIELD NOTEBOOK
BYLINE: Jeff Montez, Staff
Pellet, Schwamb jumping ahead
Croton-Harmon seniors setting school records
Having one area-leading athlete is impressive for a school the size of Croton-Harmon.
But having two puts a smile on the face of boys coach Mike Doehring.
Seniors Andrew Pellet and Brian Schwamb have been among the area's best and are school record-setters in the high, long and triple jumps following a strong indoor season. They are looking for even greater success outdoors.
"It's nice going to a meet and have everyone go 'Oh boy,' " Doehring said.
Pellet will focus his time in the pentathlon, hoping to qualify for the event at the Loucks Games and the state championships.
He set the Croton-Harmon pentathlon record with 3,026 points last season, but missed states by seven points.
His older brother and Croton-Harmon graduate, Mike, is a senior shot putter at Manhattan College.
Andrew is coming off a season when he was the Class C indoor champion in the high jump with a mark of 6 feet, which he equalled to qualify for the state meet. In the Tigers' only official meet so far this season, against Irvington on April 2, Pellet ran the 110-meter hurdles in 16.3 seconds and the 400 hurdles in 58.6.
"Pellet is an all around athlete," Schwamb said. "He can do it all. I just concentrate on one of them."
Schwamb will continue to perform in the jumps and on the Tigers' relay squads. He was the indoor county champion in the long jump with a 20-5. Schwamb, who will attend St. Joseph's in Philadelphia in the fall, jumped a personal-best 21-4y as part of a long-jump relay with Pellet at the New Balance Games on Jan. 25.
"We go back and forth and joke about who's going to jump farther," Schwamb said. "We both excel, especially at the larger meets."
Schwamb didn't show any signs of rust against Irvington, leaping 20-8y in the long jump. He also ran on the 4x100 relay with Pellet, which finished in 50.7. He looks to consistently hit 21 and break the 22-foot barrier.
Both will compete tomorrow at the Green Dragon Relays at Cornwall.
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Jeff Montez writes a weekly high school track and field notebook. Reach him at jmontez@thejournalnews. gannett.com or 914-694-3531.
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
April 15, 2003 Tuesday All Editions
SECTION: SPORTS; LACROSSE NOTEBOOK; Pg. S09
HEADLINE: BC enjoying its share of sunny days
SOURCE: North Jersey Media Group
BYLINE: J.P. PELZMAN, STAFF WRITER
Bergen Catholic is 5-0, marking the best start in its lacrosse program's history.
Still, it's hard to decide which fact is more impressive: that the Crusaders have five wins, or that they've actually played five games.
With the awful weather that has turned spring into a rumor for much of the past two weeks, it's nice to have an artificial turf field, as does Bergen Catholic.
"We're probably the only team in the state that has played five games," ninth-year BC coach Joe Haemmerle said. "With any luck, it will help us out in the stretch run, too." He explained the Crusaders' schedule won't be back-loaded with makeup games.
The Crusaders already have avenged last year's two losses to Montclair, including one in the first round of the State tournament. An 8-5 victory over Montclair on April 5 was the Crusaders' first-ever win over the Mounties.
Senior goalie Paul Bottinelli, who is headed to Lehigh, made 16 saves for Bergen Catholic in that game.
"It felt good for everybody," Haemmerle said of the win, noting that Bottinelli and the Crusaders' other seniors also remembered a 15-7 loss to the Mounties two years ago.
BC didn't suffer a letdown after that victory, following with an 11-8 win over Pingry on Thursday and a 9-2 victory over Millburn on Saturday. BC trailed Pingry, 3-2, after one quarter, when Haemmerle made an interesting decision.
He replaced outstanding senior Sam Johnson on face-offs with sophomore Mark Siracuse. "We ran off five consecutive goals," Haemmerle said. " [Pingry] couldn't get the ball."
Senior midfielders Brian Murray (12 goals, nine assists) and Christian Schaefers (15 goals, two assists) lead the team in scoring, taking advantage of the special attention teams are paying to Johnson, who is going to Rutgers on a football scholarship. Murray and Schaefers will play lacrosse at Manhattan College.
"He's just doubled immediately as soon as he touches the ball," Haemmerle said of Johnson. "As soon as he makes a move to the cage, everybody collapses on him. [But] we have a lot more [scorers] now."
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The Times Union (Albany, NY)
April 11, 2003 Friday THREE STAR EDITION
SECTION: CAPITAL REGION, Pg. F7
HEADLINE: A mound of records piles up for Spa Catholic grad
BYLINE: Bill Arsenault Special To The Saratoga Tu
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Bronder pitching in Freshman right-hander Steve Bronder of Ballston Lake (Shenendehowa) has pitched in nine games with one start for the Manhattan College baseball. The 6-foot, 175-pounder has a 1-2 record with a 3.92 earned run average. He's given up 22 hits in 20 2/3 innings and 10 runs (nine earned). He has walked 10 and struck out 12.
Manhattan, 10-13 overall and 3-4 in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, hosts Canisius for two games Saturday and one Sunday.
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[EMAIL FROM JASPERS]
[Email01]
From: Van Etten, Robert [1966]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:16 AM
Subject: RE: jasperjottings20030406.htm
John,
Please post Seventh Annual Meeting of Jaspers in Law Enforcement Tuesday May 6,2003- 6:00-8:00PM At Chase Downtown,One Chase Manhattan Plaza,NYC Executive Dining Room-60th Floor
$40 per person includes open bar and dinner
Guest Speaker Hon. John Keenan 51
Federal District Court Judge SDNY
Questions call Bob Van Etten 66 973-565-4330
or E-mail <privacy invoked>
[Email02]
From: George Brewer (1964)
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 10 April 2003
John, go ahead and put me on the list. Sounds good. As an aside the first house I ever owned was at 6 Beryl Ct in Kendall Park...gb...
[JR: Small world. Given how Kendall Park houses have gone from >15k in the fifties when they were build to the 250+ today, I bettacha you would have never guessed that. Note to the reader, Kendall used every oddball part known to man. If the locals ever run out of shower valves, you have to redo the bathroom to change the plumbing to standard. Good thing there wasn't a distress sale on metric parts in the Fifties or it would be really hard to find parts. ]
[Email03]
From: George Bumiller
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 12 April 2003 - Include me
John,
Thanks -- please include me.
George
==
From: George Bumiller
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 10:43 PM
Subject: Comment about "Permanent" email address.
At 03:15 PM 04/12/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>FYI, Everyone has a free lifetime ISP-independent email address
John,
Many colleges provide this service, as you note. Thanks for mentioning who does it, "Bigfoot"
Having been in email and communications for many years, I've two comments.
First, the one I made to the college in July a year and a half ago...well, a little more, on the activity among at least one ISP restricting the use of a "permanent" "From:" address.
I've used my IEEE email alias for many years. I've used it while I used Netcom which later joined with another ISP, and finally became Earthlink. When I got my IEEE (professional organization) alias, I used it as my "From:" address...not_just_as_Reply-to_.
Finally, a few years ago, I got Bell Atlantic DSL. I was one of the first in NJ. It was great. I still used my g.bumiller@ieee.org as "From:". Then a while later, on the Friday before 4th of July week, Verizon said that they would require (13 days later) everyone to use a "Verizon" domain. Some folks were using it for business, and this was intolerable. They backed off and gave us a month when everyone with their own alias complained. Then they started bouncing back my email, and everyone elses. Would not budge, even though I wrote to Larry Babbio, their chairman, who I'd worked for. Reason given was "to reduce spam'". That's really a lie...it doesn't do that. (I then got a cable modem, and Optimum OnLine lets me use my ieee address as you can see.)
But I emailed Manhattan and NYU since I have aliases at both. Suggested that they complain to Verizon, since it prevents one from using the college alias as "From". And get the other universities and colleges to do the same.
Suggest that you bring this to the attention of the administration...they may listen to you. By the way, since last November one can take their home (wired) telephone number and get service from any company providing local telephone service. Why not as much for folks using a "permanent" email address.
Second, the IEEE does something quite nice and useful with their alias and email forwarding.. And believe that Optimum OnLine will start to do this shortly (if not already).
That's check all email going to their subscribers for viruses. They give notice to you when something comes in with a virus, even in the attachments. This way, you always have the latest check on your email. Still doesn't prevent infection from a downloaded file, but still quite useful.
Sorry to take so much space. But I feel strongly that Verizon is abusing their customers and worse. The only reason that I can think of for their action is to "lock in" their customers.
And it's difficult to educate all those you correspond to by email to put your 'manhattan' address in their address book and just use that, when you mail shows 'verizon.com'
George '56
[JR: Yes I agree they are trying to "lock in" their user base. My prediction is that they will not survive doing this. And I am a stockholder. Arghh. The marketplace will punish them for a lack of flexibility. Just as you'd move, I would not sign up with them when they pitched me. ]
[Email04]
From: George J. Tyler Esq. (1969)
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 1:35 PM
Subject: RE: jasperjottings20030413.htm
Thanks that was a great brain break George
[Email05]
From: Ann Burke '77
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 1:17 AM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 12 April 2003
In a message dated 4/12/03 3:16:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, john.reinke@att.net writes:
> Dear fellow Jasper Burke at <privacy invoked>
Dear John,
Please know that I am already a subscriber (<privacy invoked> ), and very much enjoy reading Jasper Jottings each week.
Keep up the good work!!!
Best,
Ann Burke '77
[JR: Sorry didn't realize it was the same person. Thanks.]
[Email06]
From: Frederick H. (1959) Abrew
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: jasperjottings20030413.htm
John,
Two things. First change the address you have for me to <privacy invoked> . Second let me comment on your thoughts regarding individual freedom and substance abuse. As long as society expects government to take care of them when in their life choices they get themselves in trouble, then I want a significant part of my tax dollars aimed at trying to prevent the behavior. If we as a society are prepared to place the responsibility of an individual's action upon the individual, then I have no problem with people doing whatever they believe is best for themselves. Unfortunately at this stage of development of the republic, I see no way of going back to the ideals of individual responsibility. In fact the politicians and the educational establishment are doing everything possible to insure that doesn't happen.
Fred Abrew '59E
[JR: I was just amused that some one had picked up and had no apparent connection how he found it. To the topic, we have to begin turning the society back to personal responsibility. I am not sure how we get it to the "tipping point" but a cadre of Jaspers advocating the pov would be a good start. ]
[Email07]
From: Ned Browne [1998]
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 11 April 2003
John,
No intrusion at all! Sign me up. I always enjoy news from a fellow Jasper!
Ned.
[JR: Done. And, welcome. ]
[Email08]
From: Burns, Robert W. (1960)
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 9:16 PM
Subject:
I would be happy to receive your newsletter.
Thanks,
Bob Burns 60'S
[JR: Done. And, welcome. ]
From: Maureen Butler
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: Hello from a 1968 Jasper on 16 April 2003
John:
Please sign me up.
Thanks,
Maureen Butler ('82)
From: Betty
Anne Murphy
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 5:20 PM
Subject: Kevin O'Shea fundraiser
Hello John. Joe Dillon forwarded your address to me. My good friend, Kevin O'Shea is a Manhattan College graduate (class of 1970). FYI, Kevin's address is 345 East 94th Street, Apt 26C, NYC 10128 for your records.
Kevin suffered a devastating injury in May of 2001 while attending a golf outing for the Boys and Girls Club of Broward County. While stepping into a hotel pool he lost his footing and fell back onto the outside apron of the pool. Kevin is now quadriplegic.
There is a fundraiser for Kevin on Thursday, May 1, 2003. The details are covered in the attachment. I would appreciate it if you would include this announcement in your weekly Jasper email distribution.
Many thanks for your kind support.
Betty Anne Murphy
917 763-8355
516 484-4984
[JR: You've reached me, and touched me. A neighbor's son-in-law -- some years ago -- fell on some steps at home, fell back, hit his head and died. We don't realize how fragile we really are. At least Kevin has his life. Hopefully he can see the blessing in the circumstances. As requested, the announcement has been included and highlighted in the upcoming 4/20 and 27 issues. If there's anything we can do, just ask. Please keep us updated.]
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A Final Thought
Lawmaker Suggests Moving Tax Deadline Closer to Election Day
Monday, April 14, 2003
By Elizabeth A. Shack
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WASHINGTON — Tax Day can be painful, but Rep. Roscoe Bartlett doesn't think it's painful enough for politicians.
That's why the Maryland Republican is introducing a bill to move the tax filing deadline from April 15 to the first Monday in November, the day before Election Day.
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He thinks that the change would help people realize what their taxes are paying for and encourage more of them to vote -- and to vote differently. And, boy do I agree!
Curmudgeon
And that’s the last word.
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