Sunday 14 September 2003
Dear Jaspers,
The jasper jottings email list has 1,101 subscribers (after subtracting the two deliberate duplicates) by my count.
Don't forget:
Weekend of September 20th - Cardinal
Spellman Retreat House in Riverdale
Mo Sep 22 '03 3rd Annual James Keating O'Neill Memorial Golf Classic.
Hamlet Wind Watch Golf & Country
Club in Hauppauge, Long Island
More info at www.jkogolf.org .
Due to a reported glitch in the
reservation system,
I suggest you confirm your reservation.?
We Oct 9 '03 NYC Club Fall "03 Networking Reception
details and registration on alumni
events calendar
Mo Oct 13 '03 Columbus Day Golf Outing
details and registration on alumni
events calendar
We Oct 22 '03 Career Fair
details on Career Services web
page
recent alumni welcome to attend-
please contact
Nick.Schaefer@manhattan.edu to register
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001597539_loner23.html
Saturday, August 23, 2003 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M.
'Cantankerous' loner's will stuns those who feared him
By Tomas Alex Tizon
Los Angeles Times
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Two old tractors remain on the property of the late Wesley Howard, who died in March and left an estate of more than $11 million to create a youth sports park. Most of his belongings were auctioned off following his death. Howard, 87, spent his life on the farm in Medford, Ore.
MEDFORD, Ore. — Old Man Howard spent decades chasing children off his farm, shotgun in hand, watching little legs spin like windmills into the distance.
Generations considered him the meanest man in Jackson County. To others, Wesley Howard simply was an oddity: a loner who never married, who never left Oregon and who lived his entire life in the same place he was born, a century-old farmhouse without phones or toilets. Children saw it as haunted; passers-by photographed it as an artifact.
In March, at age 87, he died of a stroke, enigmatic and inexplicable to the end. Howard, it turned out, was rich. Few knew. He bequeathed his estate, worth more than $11 million, to create a youth sports park on his 68-acre farm.
The surprise gift has cast Howard in a new light, causing residents to question whether they knew the real Wesley Howard.
An editorial in the Medford Mail Tribune opened with this line: "We'll never know if Wes Howard had a Scrooge-like epiphany or if there was always a charitable soul hidden beneath his gruff exterior."
Gene Glazier, who lived across from the Howard farm for five decades and whose children were chased off the property, said he was "blown over" by Howard's last act.
A few of Howard's neighbors had a different take. Ivan and Twyla Bryant, who lived across from Howard for 44 years, recalled a gentle, extremely private man who constantly was harassed by neighborhood children.
The Howard property lured the curious; some children would poke around his barn and orchards. Others would hit golf balls to break his windows. They would pick his grapes and eat his peaches. They would sneak into his fields and hunt for quail and pheasant.
"You can torment anybody to where they have to do something," Twyla Bryant said.
On Halloween, Twyla Bryant said, any child brave enough to knock on Howard's door would receive an apple and a pencil and even, if you looked carefully, a slight curve of a crooked smile. That was as close to Howard's house as most people ever got.
Which is why, on a recent weekend, 1,200 people gathered at the Howard farm for an auction. His house was opened up. For many, including neighbors who had known him for decades, it was the first chance to glimpse the interior of a very private life.
Howard's land used to be a real farm, with alfalfa and oats on one side, cattle on the other. But the land had lain barren for the past 30 years, neighbors said, except for a vineyard and fruit trees that Howard tended until the mid-1990s.
The house was built in 1890 and hadn't been painted in decades. Moss climbed up the sides and onto the roof. From the road, about 50 yards away, the house looked, as one neighbor said, "ready to fall."
After his father's death in 1972, Howard lived alone and apparently had a strong aversion to throwing things away.
"Let me show you something," Twyla Bryant said, leading a visitor to the back of Howard's house. "Look under there," she said, gesturing to a crawl space under what used to be a back porch. "All of them that he ever wore."
Crammed into the space were countless pairs of boots, each worn to the thinnest fabric and sole.
The interior of the house was like a time capsule. Both floors were stacked ceiling-high with neatly bundled newspapers and magazines dating to the early 1900s. Medford schools have no record of Howard attending classes, but he obviously liked to read, his preferences leaning toward Field & Stream and Outdoor Life.
Walking space in the house had been reduced to "snail trails" from doorway to doorway.
Some of Howard's boyhood toys were upstairs: wooden wagons, miniature wheelbarrows, some cast-iron blocks and a slingshot he apparently made himself. The rubber band had disintegrated. There were old baseball mitts, a leather football helmet and pictures of athletes from the 1930s and '40s.
Howard cooked on a pot-bellied wood stove. He drank from a hand-dug well. He used a two-hole outhouse, apparently one hole for women (when his mother was alive) and one for men.
Wayne Amundson, hired to watch the house after Howard died, said a neighbor once asked Howard why he didn't have plumbing. "So I'd never have to call a plumber," Howard was said to have answered.
Jack Gundlach, now 45, was one of the kids who used to trespass on Howard's land. The boy would cut through the farm to visit a friend who lived on the other side.
"Old Man Howard would bring out his shotgun and shoot rock salt at us, yelling and running around in his pickup," Gundlach said. "He was a cantankerous old boy. ... We just thought he didn't like kids."
Gundlach was at the auction, trying to buy the .410-gauge shotgun with which Howard used to chase him off. Many of Howard's possessions were considered artifacts, and Gundlach was outbid. Oil lamps went for $60 each, butter churns for $120. A 1905 Daisy BB gun sold for $260. The auction raised $70,000, all of which will go to the Howard Memorial Sports Park.
Planning of the park has been left to a newly formed board of directors. Soccer and baseball fields have been mentioned as possibilities.
According to documents, Howard's 68 acres were worth $8.2 million. He owned 10 more acres nearby worth $1.8 million. He had municipal bonds worth much more than $1 million, plus more than $70,000 in a checking account. Family friends said Howard inherited much of his money.
He received numerous offers for his land over the years.
Twyla Bryant said Howard would laugh at the offers.
"Howard was content with who Howard was," she said.
Gundlach said he was moved by the old man's last act. Like many, he was re-evaluating Wesley Howard.
"It changes everything," he said. "It changes my ideas of him, guaranteed, and it makes me think that maybe I shouldn't have been such a rotten kid."
Copyright © 2003 The Seattle Times Company
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I found this interesting. We never can know what is in some else's heart. Why do I always think I can discern people's motives. Maybe I can learn this lesson from some one else's torment. Keep giving the benefit of the doubt always? WWJD.
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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[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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BROTHER WILLIAM HOGAN, F.S.C., ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF PHYSICS, DEAD AT 80
RIVERDALE, N.Y. -- Brother William Hogan, F.S.C., a retired associate professor of physics at Manhattan College and longtime director of the College’s computer center, died Sunday, August 24, 2003, after a long illness. Br. William spent the majority of his time here as the director and creative force behind the College’s computer center. He also was a member of the faculty of the school of science and taught physics. He was 80 years of age and had resided at the La Salle Provincialate in Lincroft, N.J.
Br. William, whose career at Manhattan spanned nearly 30 years, was invested with the religious habit of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in September of 1944. He joined the College in 1964 from St. Mary’s University in Winona, Minn., where he was a physics professor. Br. William in 1946 completed his undergraduate work in chemistry at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
While holding teaching positions at Good Shepherd Parochial School in New York City and St. Joseph’s Bishop Bradley in Manchester, N.H., Br. William completed a master’s in physics from Fordham University. He went on to complete a doctorate in physics from The Catholic University of America in 1962. Throughout the various stages of his schooling, Br. William, who taught religion, chemistry and mathematics at one point, held teaching positions at other institutions including De La Salle Institute in New York and St. Joseph’s College in Detroit.
A native of New York City, Br. William devoted a majority of his academic career to Manhattan College. As the director of the computer center, he trained and directed the entire staff and was dedicated to the center’s advancement. Br. William retired from the College in 1989.
A wake for Br. William was held at De La Salle Hall in Lincroft, N.J. on Wednesday, Aug. 27. The Mass of Christian Burial was held the following day also at De La Salle Hall. Br. William is survived by two siblings, James and Mary Louise.
[JASPERS PUBLISHING WEB PAGES]
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http://www.esmagazine.com/FILES/HTML/ES_staff_profiles/0,2541,,00.html
Staff Profiles
Peter Moran, publisher, is a 12-year employee of Business News Publishing's hvacr division. He has been Engineered Systems' publisher for six years. Moran is an alumnus of Manhattan College in New York City, and he earned an M.B.A. from Iona College. His background in sales and marketing management is perfect for the "orchestra leader" nature of the job. He emphasizes that the goal of Engineered Systems is to become the top publication serving engineers in the hvacr and mechanical system industry.
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[JASPERS FOUND ON/OFF WEB BY USING WEB]
[Found1]
http://www.dell.com/downloads/us/corporate/sec/10K-97.htm
John K. Medica. Mr. Medica joined the Company in March 1993 as Vice President of the Company's Portable Products Group. He was named Vice President, Chief Operating Officer -- Japan in March 1996. For ten years prior to joining the Company, Mr. Medica held various positions with Apple Computer Corporation, last serving as Senior Director for Macintosh portable engineering. Prior to joining Apple, Mr. Medica served as a project manager for Altus Corporation in San Jose, California. Mr. Medica received a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Manhattan College and a Master of Business Administration degree from Wake Forest University.
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http://www.stanford.edu/~corelli/
Richard J. Corelli,
M.D.
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy
Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA
Education
Medical Degree from Stanford University
Medical Center 1970-1975
Internship L.A.County
- USC Medical Center 1975-1976
Psychiatry Residency at Stanford
University Medical Center 1976-1979
Experience
Certified by the American Board of
Psychiatry & Neurology in Psychiatry
Clinical Associate Professor of
Psychiatry at Stanford University Medical Center
Candidate C.G.Jung
Institute of San Francisco 1984-1997
Expert Medical Reviewer Medical Board of
California
Chief Department of Psychiatry &
Behavioral Sciences El Camino Hospital 1986-1987
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Bill Crispino
Technical Writer & Editor
Documentation Specialist
Dedicated to meeting your highest standards.
Available for permanent, consulting, or freelance work.
Qualifications
I have over 15 years experience writing and producing technical documentation
and instructional materials for print, video, and electronic media. My work
assignments have included:
Writing installation, system administration, and end-user guides for software
applications
Producing educational videos and multimedia presentations for information
technology professionals
Writing detailed operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting manuals for
complex electronic equipment.
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[WEDDINGS]
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2003 MediaNews Group, Inc.
Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
September 9, 2003 Tuesday
SECTION: WEDDINGS/ENGAGEMENTS
HEADLINE: Coyne - Braca
Sara Braca, daughter of Joseph and Annette Braca of Shelton, was married to Christopher Coyne, son of Patrice and Martin Coyne II of Harrington Park, N.J., Dec. 28 in St. Joseph Church, Shelton.
Stephanie Mulreed was matron of honor for her sister, and Lindsey Paola and Jennifer Jubyna attended. Matthew Coyne, the bridegroom's brother, was ring bearer.
Andrew Coyne was best man for his brother, and Martin Coyne III, Michael Coyne and Peter Coyne, also brothers of the bridegroom, and Christopher Braca, the bride's brother, ushered.
Following a reception at Grassy Hill Country Club in Orange, the couple departed for a honeymoon in Tahiti. They reside in Alexandria, Va.
The bride, a graduate of Dartmouth College, is an associate at JP Morgan Private Bank, Washington.
The bridegroom is a graduate of Manhattan College, and is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at George Mason University.
Robert Taylor Photography
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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.
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Mayoral candidates' announcements
Friday, September 5, 2003
The following are formal candidacy announcements from politicians running for the position of Mayor of Waltham:
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Robert F. McGurrin
I am running for mayor because I believe that I have the talent, the ability, the skill and the courage to lead Waltham to a new era of open, responsive and effective city government. In seeking your support I would like to share my backround and experience with you so that you will have a better understanding of who I am and why I can succeed. I seek to bring effective change to our city, not just change for the sake of change.
By way of personal history, my mother, Nora (O'Dowd) McGurrin came to America as a young woman from County Mayo, Ireland. After she and my father, Robert, married, they moved to Waltham and lived on Adams Sreet. Before I was born they moved to Lexington Street. I grew up across the street from where the St. Mary apartments are now. Like many of their generation, my parents graduated from high school but were not able to attend college. My parents instilled in me values which have remained with me all my life -- treat people with respect; treat people the way you want to be treated; love and value education; work hard; be charitable; live nobly; always remember that to whom much is given, much is expected.
Valuing education and working hard I graduated first in my class from St. Mary's High School. I received my Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College and my Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University. After graduate school I joined Raytheon's then Missile Systems Division. I have been at Raytheon 35 years and presently work in Marlborough. I am married to the former Sheila Marie Fratantuono. We have a daughter, Mary McGurrin Novack of Waltham, and a son, Robert J. McGurrin of Arlington.
During my past 35 years at Raytheon, I have led organizations and projects that had budgets and personnel that far exceed those of the City of Waltham. I was vice president of Engineering for Raytheon's former C3I Business and vice president and Deputy Manager of C3I's Integrated Systems Division. The breadth and depth of my experience in the private sector coupled with my 15 years on the school committee provide you a unique opportunity to elect someone who will energize and focus Waltham City government.
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Copyright
2003 The Journal News (Westchester County, NY)
All Rights Reserved
The Journal News (Westchester County, NY)
September 7, 2003 Sunday
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 3B
HEADLINE: EASTCHESTER
BYLINE: Stacy Brown, Staff
Supervisor candidates' views split
Each hopeful has different opinion of town's top priorities
Town voters face a competitive primary race for supervisor Tuesday as Councilman Anthony S. Colavita, a Republican, and Robert Fois, a Conservative, seek to unseat Supervisor James Cavanaugh.
Cavanaugh, a five-term Republican incumbent who was last re-elected in 2001 in a close race against James Doody, is seeking both the GOP and Conservative lines for the November general election.
The candidates have expressed different views regarding the top issues in the primary.
"There are several key issues to this primary, but the one that stands out more than any is the issue of overdevelopment," said Colavita, whose father, Anthony J. Colavita, served as supervisor from 1970 to 1979. "There has been too much commercial and residential development in areas that are far too dense for it."
Fois said town spending and bonding are top concerns as he tries to win over voters for Tuesday's vote.
"I would begin a serious downsizing and efficiency of operations in Town Hall if elected," Fois said. "I would cease use of outside legal and planning consultants."
Cavanaugh said taxes remain the primary issue. "When I go door to door, people continue to say they want taxes kept under control," he said.
Colavita has criticized Cavanaugh for accepting pay raises when the council didn't.
In 2001, Colavita declined a pay raise of $578, but has since received a raise of that amount.
"I've never voted for a raise for myself," Colavita said. "When I received one, and that was because the board approved a budget which automatically gave me a raise, I donated the $578 raise to the Eastchester Volunteer Ambulance Corps."
Colavita criticized Cavanaugh for recently trying to fire two parking enforcement agents while voting to give himself a pay raise at the same time.
Cavanaugh, 49, is paid $98,093 a year. The supervisor serves a two-year term.
"What happened was that we found that those agents were doing such a poor job and that we were spending more on their salary than they were producing in tickets," Cavanaugh said. "We were losing money and that's a bad deal for the taxpayers."
Fois, 41, is a freelance reporter and public relations writer. He joined the race in June, saying he supported Colavita's candidacy but wanted to give voters a choice on the Conservative line.
Fois, who lost a 1999 bid to unseat Democratic county Legislator Vito Pinto, is a former editor of the Empire State Report, a public policy magazine based in Mount Vernon.
Eastchester's last Conservative primary was in 2001, when Linda Doherty defeated Rita Blanco for the party's town clerk endorsement. Doherty went on to win as one of Cavanaugh's running mates.
The town's last Republican primary was 16 years ago when Bob Russell, Gerald Jacobs and John Albanese vied for two seats on the Town Board.
Philip "P.J." Denning, a Tuckahoe village trustee, will appear on the Democratic line for supervisor in November. Denning did not have a primary opponent.
Reach Stacy Brown at sbrown@thejournalnews.com or 914-637-2240.
PERSONAL FILES
Yonkers candidates
REPUBLICANS
Phil Amicone
Age: 53
Occupation: deputy mayor
Government/political experience: Yonkers deputy mayor, 1996-present; White
Plains buildings commissioner, 1987-1996; Yonkers Planning Board chairman,
1987-1993; also worked for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Endorsements: Local 628 International Association of Firefighters, Right to
Life Party's Westchester Committee, Mayor John Spencer and anti-abortion
activist Steven McDonald.
Education: Master's degree, New York University, 1974; bachelor's degree,
Manhattan College, 1971.
Family: Wife, three children.
[Reported As: 1971 ]
Vincenza Restiano
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Michael Spano
Age: 38
Occupation: State assemblyman from Yonkers
Government/political experience: State assemblyman, 1992, 1994-present; Westchester County legislator, 1993; and former Republican 4th Ward and district leader in Yonkers.
Endorsements: Thirteen, including Yonkers Federation of Teachers; Yonkers Captains, Lieutenants and Sergeants Association; and Service Employees International Union Local 704. Spano is the endorsed candidate of the city's Republican and Conservative committees, and already has been given the Independence party line.
Education: Sacred Heart High School, 1983; attended Manhattan College.
Family: Wife, three children.
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DEMOCRATS
Sam Borrelli
Age: 53
Occupation: Engineer
Government/political experience: Deputy public works commissioner, 1993-1994; Democratic 6th Ward leader, 1994-present; and district leader, 1988-present.
Endorsement: Congress of Italian American Organizations
Education: Bachelor's degree, Manhattan College, 1983.
Family: Wife, three children.
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Joe L. Farmer
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Pauline Galvin
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John Liszewski
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CONSERVATIVE
Vincent Natrella*
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Copyright
2003 The New York Times Company
The New York Times
September 5, 2003, Friday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section B; Page 1; Column 2; Metropolitan Desk
HEADLINE: Rest, Prayer, and a Happy Hour; At a Home in the Bronx, Retired
Priests Ponder Eternity
BYLINE: By DANIEL J. WAKIN
Gone are the days when a thousand eyes looked at them as they raised the host every weekend, when they guided their people through birth, marriage and death, when their collars cleared a path through the secular world.
Life has grown more humble for the priests now unpacking boxes at the new John Cardinal O'Connor residence for retired members of the clergy in Riverdale, the Bronx. It is a life filled with time for matters of the spirit, when the mind turns to thoughts of eternity.
The day stretches before them for reading theology, praying, contemplating -- not to mention the 5:15 p.m. cocktail hour, the 50-inch television in the common room and the bright-green-felt pool table, a nostalgic touch for former sharks from seminary days. The walk-in doors of whirlpool baths on each floor also beckon.
On Monday, Cardinal Edward M. Egan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York plans to dedicate the residence, to which 22 men have moved since late July.
The new home is a blessing for elderly priests who might not want to linger at a relative's house or in converted rooms at archdiocesan high schools, or in rectories with treacherous bathtubs and staircases.
"I thank God I'm here, because I didn't know where I was going to go," said Msgr. John D. Burke, 74, who retired as pastor of the Holy Child parish on Staten Island for health reasons. The normal retirement age for priests in the archdiocese is 75, though they can serve indefinitely if they wish.
Monsignor Burke has brought his collections of rocks and movies. He is auditing a class on St. Augustine's commentaries on the Psalms at Manhattan College. He misses saying Mass in the parish, but has found something else at the residence.
"I have more time right now to pray, to really go over the spirituality I was taught," he said, remaining after lunch in the dining hall. "By the grace of God, I'm here to be able to prepare for eternity." He paused, chuckled, and continued, "Because I don't know how I can prepare for eternity in a parish of 5,000 families."
The residence occupies the grounds of a century-old former monastery that most recently housed the St. John Neumann pre-seminary program for students preparing to enter the archdiocese's major seminary, St. Joseph's in Dunwoodie, Yonkers. As the number of pre-seminarians dwindled, they were moved to St. Joseph's.
For the same reason, the Diocese of Brooklyn converted Cathedral College into a pastoral center in the 1980's and installed a residence for retired priests. The diocese, which includes Queens, is opening another residence next month in Forest Hills.
Turning seminaries into retirement homes is a fitting symbol at a time when the priesthood is aging and new ordinations fall far behind the number of priests who die. The Official Catholic Directory lists 449 ordinations in the United States in 2002 and 8,152 priests who are in retirement, absent or on sick leave. In 2001, 662 priests died, according to the most recent Vatican statistics.
This year, 4 men were ordained as priests of the archdiocese; 11 priests retired. About half of the 558 active priests are more than 60 years old. Retired archdiocesan priests number 189, said Deacon Donald M. Quigley, the archdiocese's coordinator for retired priests. Most live on their own, with relatives or in nursing homes.
The residences themselves have begun appearing in increasing numbers in the last 20 years, and testify to the aging of the overall population, said Msgr. George F. Zatarga, the vicar for senior priests in the Brooklyn Diocese. He, Mr. Quigley and counterparts in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have recently started a committee to work together.
"The aging situation among the secular population and religious population has happened so rapidly," Monsignor Zatarga said. "We've all been caught off guard."
At the new residence in Riverdale, a basketball hoop in the parking lot is the only reminder of its seminary days. No retired priest has yet been observed making layups, Mr. Quigley said.
The building has 30 suites and 3 guest rooms. Names on the mailbox in the lobby suggest the Irish manpower that fueled the church in New York at midcentury: Duffy, O'Connell and Daly, Quinn, Conlin and Burke. The average suite covers 500 to 600 square feet, and includes a sitting room, bedroom, storage closet and small sink and refrigerator area.
Inside, the paint smells fresh. It is churchly quiet in the arched central hallway. The walls outside are an austere gray stone. The men take turns acting as main concelebrant during the morning masses in a small chapel.
Cardinal Egan is said to have been deeply involved in the renovation, even choosing carpeting and wallpaper. Caring for retired priests is clearly a priority for him. As bishop of Bridgeport, Conn., he built a residence for retired clergymen in Stamford.
Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for Cardinal Egan, said the cardinal's attention to retiring clergy belied the feeling among some priests that he was insensitive to them. "He is very committed to the care of the priests of the Archdiocese of New York," Mr. Zwilling said.
The renovation cost about $9 million, he said. It was paid for by private donations and the proceeds from the sale of a rundown former retirement home on 34th Street and First Avenue in Manhattan. The archdiocese operates another retirement home for priests about a mile from the O'Connor residence that offers more medical care.
At the O'Connor home, the men receive three meals a day, a modest amount of care (the home is for independent, not assisted, living) and Hudson River views. Some leave to say Mass at nearby parishes. Most of all, they have company. A life of celibacy, in an age of fewer and fewer priests, can make a rectory a lonely place.
At lunch one day, Mr. Quigley sat at a table with Msgr. Edward M. Connors, 82, a former pastor and superintendent of education whose father became a New York City fireman in 1918 and rose to chief of department, and the Rev. Christopher Daly, 69, who worked in Westchester parishes and taught at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains.
Father Daly, who retired early because of failing eyesight, has come full circle. He grew up five blocks from the residence. In the 1940's, he served as an altar boy at the monastery.
The talk turned to weighty matters, to feelings of aging and death. "The leaves are turned golden and red, but they're still on the trees," Father Daly said. Funerals have become common, the monsignor noted. "You think about where you came from and where you are going," he said.
Something of a debate opened up.
"We've been preaching life after death for all these years, so we shouldn't be afraid of it," Father Daly said. "It's like walking down a corridor and opening the door."
Monsignor Connors responded with the line that people who believe in the afterlife are not always in a hurry to get there.
Father Daly offered that he has a "Do Not Resuscitate" sign by his bed. "You can't be afraid of these things," he said.
Monsignor Connors replied quietly, "Everybody's afraid of the human situation."
GRAPHIC: Photos: Msgr. Edward M. Connors gets something to eat at the John Cardinal O'Connor residence. Monsignor Connors said that people who believe in the afterlife are not always in a hurry to get there.; At the John Cardinal O'Connor residence in the Bronx, retired priests spend much of the day reading and praying. (Photographs by Librado Romero/The New York Times)(pg. B1); The Rev. Alfred Croke, 75, reads in a chapel at the John Cardinal O'Connor residence.; The John Cardinal O'Connor residence for retired clergy is to be dedicated on Monday by Cardinal Edward M. Egan. The Bronx home occupies the grounds of a former monastery. (Photographs by Librado Romero/The New York Times)(pg. B5)
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Copyright
2003 Newsday, Inc.
Newsday (New York)
September 5, 2003 Friday QUEENS EDITION
SECTION: NEWS, Pg. A46
HEADLINE: NEWSDAY QUEENS PROFILE: Arthur Griffin
BYLINE: Sheila McKenna
ROLE
Unit coordinator of the Queens Homeless Outreach Team of Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens; member of the board of directors of Maspeth Town Hall; chair of the legislative committee of the Queens Mental Health Council; officer and past president of the County Tyrone Society; parishioner at Transfiguration R.C. Church in Maspeth.
BIOGRAPHY
61; born in Morningside Heights, reared in Maspeth; B.A. and master's degree in psychological counseling from Manhattan College and a master's degree in philosophy from Fordham University; has worked for Catholic Charities for 25 years; married, resides in Maspeth.
COMMITMENT
"I believe in my roots of faith, in my upbringing of Catholicism. I've worked with Catholic Charities for 25 years, partially because it is Catholic in its intent. The mission of Catholic Charities is to work with people who have it rough, the unfortunate and those who are often turned away. My counseling skills have allowed me to listen to them. I'm patient and they like to talk to me. They know they're going to get some kind of help, even if it's just a sandwich. But the word is around that we listen and they come see us."
FOCUS
"The team has seven people and we go out each day and ride through the borough, anywhere. As far down as the Rockaways, to the bridges, the overhangs of the Expressway. We bring sandwiches, juice and clothes. But the point of our engaging them is to try to see some of them leave the street. Sometimes it's through a detox resolution and we take them to the hospital. But whatever it takes, we are building up a relationship."
GRAPHIC: Newsday Photo / Moises Saman - Arthur Griffin
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[MCOLDB: 1964 ]
[News5]
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=62772#
International issues, UN delegates and Ropar students
Express News Service
Ropar, September 9: SIX students of Sahibzada Ajit Singh Academy, Ropar, a residential school, have returned after attending the Global Young Leaders’ conference, 2003, that concluded at UNO headquarters in New York recently.
The conference was organised by the Washington DC Council, in association with the White House and the United Nations. Those who participated in the conference are Naveen Mehta, Preetinder Singh, Jaspreet Kaur, Gurpreet Kaur, Ritu Sharma and Tasveer Kaur.
As many as 360 students from 80 countries participated in the conference held at Washington DC and at New York for six days each. Academy director Sukhjinder Singh said several international problems like terrorism, poverty, economy, international trade and finance, AIDS, inter-country disputes and environment problems were discussed.
American Senators, the representatives of the UN, ambassadors of various countries and teachers of world-famous universities also participated in the conference.
The students were given topics related to international problems and asked for solutions and views on prominent personalities. At the end of the conference, they were taken to the headquarters of the United Nations to pass a resolutions on global problems to be sent to the White House, UN Secretary General and Ambassadors of different countries, Singh said, adding that the students were also awarded Youth Leadership Awards at Manhattan College, New York.
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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
[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.]
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
9/14/03 Sunday M. Tennis Boston College
Invitational Chestnut Hill, MA TBA
9/14/03 Sunday W. Tennis Fairfield Fairfield, CT 8:00 AM
9/14/03 Sunday W. Soccer Stetson
University DeLand,
FL 11:00 AM
9/17/03 Wednesday M. Tennis Rider* HOME
TBA
9/18/03 Thursday M. Tennis Fordham Rose Hill, NY TBA
9/18/03 Thursday W. Tennis Fordham Rose Hill, NY TBA
9/19/03 Friday W. Tennis Albany
Invitational Albany, NY TBA
9/19/03 Friday M. Tennis ECAC
Championships TBA TBA
9/19/03 Friday Volleyball UMBC
(Villanova Tournament) Villanova,
PA TBA
9/19/03 Friday Golf Manhattan Fall
Invitational Riverhead, NY 1:00 PM
9/20/03 Saturday M. Tennis ECAC
Championships TBA TBA
9/20/03 Saturday W. Tennis Albany
Invitational Albany, NY TBA
9/20/03 Saturday Volleyball Villanova
University (Villanova Tournament)
Villanova, PA 10:00 AM
9/20/03 Saturday W. Soccer Fordham
University HOME 1:00 PM
9/20/03 Saturday Volleyball University
of Pennsylvania (Villanova Tournament)
Villanova, PA 5:00 PM
9/20/03 Saturday M. Soccer Hartwick College
Oneonta, NY 5:30 PM
9/21/03 Sunday W. Tennis Albany
Invitational Albany, NY TBA
9/21/03 Sunday M. Tennis ECAC
Championships TBA TBA
9/21/03 Sunday M. Soccer Adelphi University Garden City, NY 4:00 PM
9/24/03 Wednesday W. Soccer Wagner
College HOME 3:30 PM
9/24/03 Wednesday M. Soccer Virginia
Military Institute Lexington, VA 4:00 PM
9/25/03 Thursday Volleyball SUNY Stony
Brook Stony Brook, NY 7:00 PM
9/26/03 Friday M. Tennis Northeastern
Invitational TBA TBA
9/27/03 Saturday M. Tennis Northeastern
Invitational TBA TBA
9/27/03 Saturday W. Soccer Northeastern
University Boston, MA 6:00 PM
9/28/03 Sunday M. Tennis Northeastern
Invitational TBA TBA
[Sports from College]
MEN'S TENNIS DOWNS FDU IN SEASON OPENER, 6-1
Teaneck, NJ (September 10, 2003)- The Manhattan College men's tennis team opened up its 2003 fall season with a win over the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights, 6-1, today on the FDU campus. Four Jaspers were double winners as Manhattan, which improves its record to 1-0...
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VOLLEYBALL TAKES HOME OPENER, 3-0
Riverdale, NY (September 9, 2003) - The Lady Jaspers capture a win in their home opener against Central Connecticut tonight. They won in a commanding fashion, winning 3-0, with scores of 30-14, 30-24, and 30-22. Luka Van Cauteren (Oetingen, Belgium) fell just short of a triple-double recording 17 kills, 21 assists and 8 digs with a .577 hitting percentage...
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JOHN "DOC" JOHNSON RETIREMENT DINNER
Manhattan College is throwing a retirement dinner to honor John "Doc" Johnson, who dedicated 56 years of his life to Manhattan College and Manhattan Athletes.
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MEN'S BASKETBALL TO PARTICIPATE IN ESPN BRACKET BUSTER SATURDAY
Riverdale, NY (September 9, 2003)- The Manhattan College Men's Basketball team will participate in the ESPN Bracket Buster Saturday event, taking place on Saturday, February 21st at a time and place to be determined. The Jaspers are the only school from a conference in the northeast to be invited to participate in this showcase of Mid-Major teams.
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MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TENNIS MATCH AT FDU POSTPONED
Riverdale, NY (September 9, 2003)- The Men's and Women's Tennis matches scheduled for today at Fairleigh Dickinson has been postponed.
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[Sports from News & Web]
Copyright
2003 Bangor Daily News
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
September 9, 2003 Tuesday All Editions
SECTION: C; Pg. 4
HEADLINE: Consolante back with UM women's soccer team
BYLINE: LARRY MAHONEY AND PETE WARNER, OF THE NEWS STAFF
DATELINE: ORONO
There was obviously some disappointment.
But University of Maine junior sweeper Linda Consolante was also happy to be back with her Black Bear teammates after being one of the final players cut by the Canadian World Cup soccer team.
Consolante had a memorable summer during which she debuted for the Canadian National team and played every minute for her silver-medal-winning Canadian team at the Pan Am games in the Dominican Republic.
The 2002 America East Defensive Player of the Year returned to the World Cup team after the Pan Am games and was one of the last players cut. She returned to Maine on Saturday, learned she had been cut late that afternoon and then played in Sunday's 4-0 Black Bear win over Manhattan College (N.Y.).
"It's great to be back. I missed the team so much. It's an amazing feeling," said Consolante following the triumph.
"It would have been a wonderful experience to go to the World Cup and play against those teams even though I would have probably been sitting on the bench most of the time," she said. "There's always disappointment [when you don't make it]. Playing in the World Cup is every player's dream from when they are little to now. But it's a win-win situation because I'm returning to a team that is so close and has so much potential to do well this year," said Consolante.
And, as she pointed out, "I'm still young. I'm only 21. There's another World Cup in four years and there's the Olympics next summer."
Consolante said she wasn't the youngest member of the World Cup team "but I was the least experienced. I had only been with them a month."
The imposing 5-foot-11 Beaconsfield, Quebec native, who also played for the Ottawa Fury in the W-League, said she learned a lot over the summer.
"The facilities in the Dominican Republic weren't that great so you had to learn to adapt to things really quickly and play through anything," said Consolante, who scored a goal in the 3-2 semifinal win over Mexico. "When you get to the level of the full national team, if you make a mistake, you don't have any time to think about it.
"One of the coaches said something to me along the lines of, 'If you practice harder than you play, then when you play, you'll be able to deal with anything," said Consolante.
She has returned with additional confidence and intensity and hopes to lead the Bears to their first America East playoff appearance.
Coach Scott Atherley and his players are understandably ecstatic to have her back.
"Having her back is huge," said sophomore striker Heather Hathorn.
"She calms the whole team down. We feel so much safer and so much more confident with her back there," said senior striker Kate Crawford.
"Her presence, never mind her ability, provides so much confidence within the team," said Atherley.
The 3-0 Bears return to action this weekend when they face Dartmouth and Harvard in the Harvard Invitational Tournament at Cambridge, Mass.
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[EMAIL FROM JASPERS]
[Email01]
From: James J. Gilmartin
Sr. (1964)
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: http://ferdinand_reinke.tripod.com/jasperjottings20030907.htm
John once again the network proves helpful. in this edition you have the address of classmate dr. frank annunziata (1964), for whom i have been thinking about for quite a while. i will take the opportunity to reconnect. thanks very much.
[JR: Your most welcome. Let us all know how it works out, since that is what makes this "hobby" fun. ]
[Email02]
From: Richard A. (1990) Cote
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 2:56 AM
Subject: RE: http://ferdinand_reinke.tripod.com/jasperjottings20030907.htm
John,
I appreciate your support of our soldiers in Iraq. They are doing good work there and need our backing. Please do not forget the Soldiers in Afgahnistan too. I am a Jasper (90) serving with Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force in Afghanistan. Many times I feel this is the new "forgotten war". Every day we are destroying the Al Qaida's abilitiy to conduct organized terror attacks against America and destroying the ability of the Taliban to strangle the people of Afghanistan. As a New Yorker to other New Yorkers this is where evil came from that attacked our city and I ask you to remember us in your prayers.
Thanks for you work on Jasper jottings I read it from my office/bunker and get great enjoyment from it.
Sincerely.
MAJ Richard A. Cote
Class of 1990
[JR: I support all our troops regardless of what particular hell-hole they are in. My godson is somewhere in harm's way, so I take it very personal when our politicians take on more an more, give you people less and less of what you need, and then focus on the "crisis de jour" here at home. I suggested that someone compile a list of all the Jaspers in harm's way. I would like to see the powers that be re-think some of the commitments that we are in for; it is called the Department of Defense. Not for fear, or lack of confidence, but we are not looking out for Number 1. I think we should shove the UN out the door, and significantly rethink all the ATO's we have signed on to. The fact that you enjoy my modest efforts is all the "income" I need to push out a few more issues. Keep up the good work and keep your "leafs" down.]
[Email03]
From: Francis J. (1981) Wickham
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: http://ferdinand_reinke.tripod.com/jasperjottings20030824.htm
John:
I enjoy reading you weekly update. Thanks for providing this service.
I just wanted to alert you that the last few issues were formated, at least in my email reader, with many extra new lines. I have included a short sample below. Do you send out several different formats?
Frank Wickham
EE class of 1981
[JR: Thanks. It really is a chore, which when I get email like the one above goes very smoothly. No just one format. I am not convinced that the intermediate mail handlers don't foul things up. You can look at the web page and that shows what went out the door here. The AOL-ers complain the most about strange formats and "attachments". All I can say is how it leaves here. You mileage may, and does, vary. ]
[Email04]
From: Margaret C. Walsh (1979)
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 9:14 AM
Subject: Fw: NYC Alumni Club Event Oct. 9
Hi fellow Alumns, hope you all enjoyed a great summer. On October 9th, the Manhattan College NY Alumni Club is hosting the Fall '03 event. We are returning to that wonderful venue Mutual of America, and we have an extraordinary guest speaker - no other than Mr. Bobby Gonzalez (the basketball coach) himself!
This will be a sell out event, so I encourage you to sign up immediately if you plan to attend. Details are found below.
I look forward to seeing you again.
Regards,
Meg Walsh, Chair NYC Alumni Club
[JR: Reported last week. And added it to the calendar. ]
[Email05]
From: Robert P. (1977) Conti
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 9:23 AM
Subject: RE: http://ferdinand_reinke.tripod.com/jasperjottings20030907.htm
John,
Please change my email address from <privacy invoked> to <privacy invoked> . Thanks!
Regards,
Bob Conti '77
[JR: Done ]
[Email06]
From: Donald
M. (1961) Stebbins
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 11:58 PM
To: jasper john
Subject: Enabling
Dear Jasper John,
Big government has indeed been an enabler- to a large extent enabling most people to lead freer, healthier and more productive lives.
As the columnist Joe Conason recently wrote:
Quotes
"Liberal policies made America the freest, wealthiest, most successful and most powerful nation in human history. Conservatism in power always threatens to undo that national progress, and is almost always frustrated by the innate decency and democratic instincts of the American people... If your workplace is safe; if your children go to school rather than being forced into labor; if you are paid a living wage, including overtime; if you enjoy a 40-hour week and you are allowed to join a union to protect your rights -- you can thank liberals. If your food is not poisoned and your water is drinkable -- you can thank liberals. If your parents are eligible for Medicare and Social Security, so they can grow old in dignity without bankrupting your family -- you can thank liberals. If our rivers are getting cleaner and our air isn't black with pollution; if our wilderness is protected and our countryside is still green -- you can thank liberals. If people of all races can share the same public facilities; if everyone has the right to vote; if couples fall in love and marry regardless of race; if we have finally begun to transcend a segregated society -- you can thank liberals. Progressive innovations like those and so many others were achieved by long, difficult struggles against entrenched power. What defined conservatism, and conservatives, was their opposition to every one of those advances. The country we know and love today was built by those victories for liberalism -- with the support of the American people.
Another article bring the wisdom of Libertarianism into question is the recent New York Times review of a new book about the Triangle Waist Company fire of 1911. Free of government regulation, the owners created a fire trap leading to the horrible death of 146 people.
Sincerely
yours,
Donald M. Stebbins
1961 BS
'Triangle':
Washington Square Murder
By KEVIN BAKER
TRIANGLE
The Fire That Changed America.
By David Von Drehle.
Illustrated. 340 pp. New
York: Atlantic Monthly Press. $25.
Before Sept. 11, the most infamous disaster in the history of New York was the Triangle Waist Company fire, which killed 146 garment workers on the afternoon of March 25, 1911. The toll at the Triangle was much lower than at the World Trade Center towers, of course, but the wound was a deeper one because it was largely self-inflicted. As David Von Drehle makes clear in his outstanding history, ''Triangle,'' the overwhelmingly young, female victims of the fire -- at least 123 were women, and of these at least 64 were teenagers -- were betrayed by the greed of their employers, by the indifference of the city's political bosses, by an entire matrix of civic neglect and corruption.
Girls who routinely worked 84 hours a week for as little as $7 were immolated because their bosses kept stairway doors locked to prevent theft. In a city that had added nearly 800 skyscrapers over the past 10 years, the fire department had no ladders that reached above the sixth story and pumps that could spray only a ''gentle rainfall'' on the fire that raged through the eighth, ninth and tenth floors of the Asch building in Greenwich Village. The social reformer Frances Perkins remembered the mood in New York afterwards as one of guilt, ''as though we had all done something wrong.'' Over the next 25 years a determination to expiate that feeling would bring about seismic changes in American life.
Von Drehle, a reporter at The Washington Post, has written what is sure to become the definitive account of the fire. Previously, that distinction belonged to the labor historian Leon Stein's fine work, ''The Triangle Fire'' (1962). But Stein's account focused primarily on the fire itself; ''Triangle'' is social history at its best, a magnificent portrayal not only of the catastrophe but also of the time and the turbulent city in which it took place.
The fire followed close on the heels of ''The Uprising of the 20,000,'' an epic four-month strike led by the fabrente maydlakh, the ''fiery girls'' of the fledgling International Ladies Garment Workers' Union -- young, predominantly Jewish women who thrilled themselves and their fellow workers with their fervent street-corner oratory. The shop owners tried to crush them by hiring pimps and prostitutes to attack their picket lines, as ''a way of saying that the strikers were no better than whores themselves.'' The police, controlled by the owners' allies in Tammany Hall, then arrested the strikers for disturbing the peace, roughed them up and hauled them before Tammany magistrates, who fined and jailed them. The unionists flummoxed this strategy for a while by winning the sympathy of WASP social reformers like Perkins and a bevy of society women too powerful for even Tammany to lay hands on. Class differences eventually proved greater than gender solidarity, but not before the union was able to gain a real foothold in many shops for the first time.
One of the factories it could not penetrate was the Triangle, whose owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, had led the resistance to the strike. Like many of the owners, Blanck and Harris were immigrants themselves, who had worked their way up from the bottom and now churned out thousands of shirtwaists, an early form of women's blouse that was a highly popular item in the booming new business of ready-to-wear clothes. By 1909 it was a $1.3 billion industry ($23 billion in today's dollars), but a fickle one, which turned on the smallest efficiencies and on ''sweating'' every cent out of labor costs.
One of these efficiencies was arson. Everywhere that Blanck and Harris went, fire seemed to follow -- four of them, between 1902 and 1910, at three different locations, and each one just happened to break out in the early morning hours, when the factory was deserted, and at the end of a season, when the heavily insured partners needed to unload tons of unfashionable inventory.
They did not start the fatal blaze that March 25, but as Von Drehle points out, the need to burn off excess stock periodically meant that no fire precautions had been taken -- no sprinklers, no fire drills. The stairway door was locked to prevent annual worker theft that Harris later estimated as ''$10 or $15 or $12 or $8, something like that.'' The fire was probably started by another of Harris's efficiencies -- the enormous scrap bins beneath the long factory work tables that provided as much as a ton of kindling for a stray cigarette butt. Within six minutes, the fire had consumed some 9,000 square feet of factory floor, trapping most of the workers on the ninth floor. The 18-inch wide fire escape collapsed, spilling two dozen women down onto the glass skylight and an iron picket fence below. Dozens more were simply consumed by the fire, or leapt down the elevator shaft or from the window ledges, falling so hard they ripped right through the fire department nets.
The fire lasted only 15 minutes, but it would never be over. Blanck and Harris managed to beat a manslaughter rap with the help of a smart lawyer and a tainted judge. They made $60,000 from the fire -- more than $400 per dead worker -- and two years later were caught locking another stairwell door in yet another firetrap factory. The families of the dead had to settle for $75 each.
But the Tammany sachems, no doubt influenced by the 350,000 people who turned out for the funeral procession four days after the fire, subtly began to shift their weight to the side of the workers. Perkins made common cause with Al Smith and Robert Wagner, two members of the machine who ran the state legislature but who had grown up in immigrant slums themselves. In recent years, some right-wing commentators have challenged the significance of the Triangle fire, attributing subsequent improvements in working conditions and wages to voluntary, market-based decisions. Von Drehle puts paid to this frivolous bit of revisionism, showing how revulsion over the fire led directly to legislation ''that was unmatched to that time in American history . . . entirely recasting the labor law of the nation's largest state.'' Perkins and Wagner would go on to play key roles in the New Deal and the founding of the American welfare state.
Always, though, Von Drehle keeps his eye on the factory workers. He is at his elegiac best in describing what these young women must have seen as they clung to life on the window ledges, looking out over Washington Square Park on a gorgeous, sunlit spring day: ''This, then, was their universe: panic and fire behind them, horror and helplessness on the faces far, far below -- and something cool, something beautiful, just out of reach beyond the heat waves and the blinding smoke.'' Almost a hundred years later, it is still enough to bring tears of rage and sorrow.
Kevin Baker is the author of a historical novel, ''Paradise Alley.''
[JR: Ahh, dd, tsk, tsk. You attribute the results of the American experiment to government and not to the efforts of the American people. Recognize that the dead old white guys were liberals in the classical sense. The recognized the need to restrain government as the ultimate oppressor. They also saw the various forms of existing governments as flawed. Unfortunately, what would be called "classical liberalism" was perverted in to socialism. Today's "liberals" share only the name with the dead old white men of the revolution. I am not a fan of today's "conservative" movement, because no matter who I vote for Democrat or Republican, all I get is bigger government. "Classical liberalism" gave us the American experiment. As far as "schooling", in your first point, as opposed to a sweatshop, I would assert that today's "public education" is nothing more than government reeducation camps, worthy of a Stalinist regime. Quoting Walter Williams, nah, you've read it before. I am a Libertarian, because I trust the "people", more than the "government". ]
[Email07]
From:
Francis Zappone
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 2:06 PM
Cc: Tom Acunzo; Gordan Burdett; Phil Carey; Tom Conklin; Tom Conklin; Michael
Daly; Claude Fusco; Don Gregory; Ken McNamara; Bill Murphy; Ferdinand Reinke;
John Sullivan; Frank Zappone
Subject: Reunion
Hi Ferdinand!!
We are a growing number of MP Boys getting geared up for a 40th reunion on Spring 2004. I got your email via Bill Murphy and Bronx Board. Please let us know if you are interested in following up on this idea. Also, if you have email addresses for any classmates please send. Thanks. Look forward to hearing from you.
Frank
[JR: Because a large number of Manhattan Prep guys went on to the College, I am going to pass this "organizational notice" along for this week. I have no intention of confusing the focus of this ezine, but I want to give it a fair chance to take root. Maybe I'll volunteer to manage a Prep ezine. Please send me an email with "prep" in the subject and I'll pass it along. I have tried to support any group of Jaspers trying to start a regional organization, Arizona, nc, boston in this email, and florida. So hopefully they will germinate. It's hard work, but some one else has to do it. ]
[Email08]
From:
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 9:44 PM
To: Francis Zappone
Subject: Re: Prep Reunion
How about meeting on Arthur Ave. In the Bronx some night. I can do 9)17,19,22,10)2,6,7,13,17.
From: Joe P. (1967) Dillon
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:23 PM
Subject: RE: http://ferdinand_reinke.tripod.com/jasperjottings20030907.htm
John-would appreciate your listing upcoming alumni events: (1)Alumni Men's Retreat;Sept 19-21;details and registration on alumni events calendar;(2)NYC Club Fall "03 Networking Reception,Wed,Oct 9;details and registration on alumni events calendar;(3)Columbus Day Golf Outing,Mon Oct 13;details and registration on alumni events calendar; (4) Career Fair,Wed Oct 22;details on Career Services web page;recent alumni welcome to attend-please contact Nick.Schaefer@manhattan.edu to register to attend. Thanks.
[JR: Had the retreat and NYC; added the other two. You may want to specify "recent". Like "young", some of us old farts think of ourselves as eternally "young" and "recent", even if the job market doesn't. ]
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FINAL WORDS THIS WEEK
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/duggan6.html
The First Victims of the US State
by Jack Duggan
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Re. THE EROSION OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP by Henry Lamb
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Since the government took over local schooling around 1940, black illiteracy has doubled and white illiteracy quadrupled, despite the fact that we spend three or four times as much relative money on schooling as we did before 1940. Today, 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't read at all. In 1940, 20 percent of blacks and 4 percent of whites were illiterate. This isn't the Land of the Free, it's the Land of the Ignorant.
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My favorite quote is from Walter Williams about the Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan designing black education. Vouchers are an idea who's time has come. You might be able to make a case that everyone benefits from an educated population; although I take some convincing that it has to be done at gun point. Taxes are extracted by force. There is no way you can convince me that the "government" should be doing the "educating". It's in the best interest of the government to teach "bigger government". People had children and they should be responsible for them. We have to get off the "dumbing down" treadmill. America is based on freedom. Just as the best basketball players are in the NBA, when we allow "freedom", we get unbelievable results. IMHO!
Curmudgeon
And that’s the last word.
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