Sunday 06 June 2004
Dear Jaspers,
In the move to distribution via the Yahoo Group Distribute_Jasper_Jottings, all the invitations are out!!! As of July 1st, there will be only two ways to get your Jottings fix, via Yahoo Group Distribute_Jasper_Jottings or on the http://www.jasperjottings.com.
Response has not been overwhelming. So far 270 have accepted invites out of ~1100.
If you want to use a different address, please send an email to Distribute_Jasper_Jottings-subscribe@yahoogroups.com from that address with a little identifying information.
Forwarding thru @alum.manhattan.edu and @bigfoot does work. For those worried about spam, I use the free utility website SPAMMOTEL (http://www.spammotel.com) to generate throwaway email addresses that forward to my real address. Should SPAM come thru on a SPAM MOTEL address you can just turn it off. Neat.
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This issue is at: http://ferdinand_reinke.tripod.com/jasperjottings20040606.htm
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Sa Jun 12 '04 National Alumni Council meeting
please contact Peter Sweeney ’64 (973) 353-7610
Fr July 30, '04, 11:30 A.M. Saratoga Race Course
Paddock Tent, Saratoga Springs, NY
Chairman: Bill Chandler ‘70
Club Leader: Rev. Erwin Schweigardt ‘61
Mo Aug 2, '04 -- Seventh Annual Jasper Construction Golf Open
at Lake Isle Country Club, East Chester, New York.
Further details to follow. Joseph E. Van Etten
(MC????)
Sa Aug 7, '04 -- Pete Matzke Memorial 5-Kilometer Road Race
http://www.me.stier.org/matzke/masterpage.html
The 1996 graduate and engineering student at
Manhattan College died in
an accidental fall on the Cornell University campus
in August 1997.
The Maine-Endwell Central School District is located
four hours northwest of New York City.
Mo Sep 20, '04 -- The 4th Annual James Keating O'Neill Memorial Golf Classic
Hamlet Wind Watch Golf & Country Club in Hauppauge, Long
Island.
More info on this year's event will be posted online www.jkogolf.org .
By July online registration will be available as well.
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My list of Jaspers who are in harms way:
- Afghanistan
- - Feldman, Aaron (1997)
- Iraq
- - Esposito, Steven G. (1981)
- - Mortillo, Steven F., son of Mortillo, Steve (1980)
… … my thoughts are with you and all that I don't know about.
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38735
One man wore jacket and tie at high-school graduation
Dennis Prager, one of America's most respected and popular nationally syndicated radio talk-show hosts, is the author of several books and a frequent guest on television shows such as Larry King Live, Politically Incorrect, The Late Late Show on CBS, Rivera Live, The Early Show on CBS, Fox Family Network, The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity & Colmes.
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As usual when explaining the origins of the Age of Stupidity, one answer is secularism.
At my older son's graduation from a religious Jewish high school a few years ago, every single man in the audience wore a jacket and tie and the women were similarly formally dressed. Secularism not only induces stupidity ("Wisdom begins with awe of God," the Psalmist correctly noted), it also de-sanctifies almost everything. In the radically secular age in which we live, nothing is holy. Not even schools.
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There are certain phrases that ring true – the Law of Gravity, Culture of Death, the Non-aggression principle, the Law of Unintended Consequences, "Liberal" (as long as we do it the "liberal" way), "Pro Choice" (on certain topics, no choice on others) and many others that I haven't catalogued. . To this I'd add the "the Age of Stupidity"! I see what my nephews are "learning" and compare it to what I learned and find it sadly wanting. I hope that I am not part of this age. I'd rather be a fossil from the Age of Aquarius. At least we had understandable music. I hope that as Jaspers we all use our grey matter for something other than to hold up our hair. When the time comes, I hope I can help reverse the "Stupidity", or at least not add to it.
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
john.reinke@att.net
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CONTENTS
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Bouncing off the list |
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Messages from Headquarters (like MC Press Releases) |
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Jaspers publishing web pages |
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Good News |
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Obits |
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Sports |
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Cicero, Philip S. |
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Nason, John |
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Haugh, John |
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McEneney, Michael F. |
Obit2 reporter |
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McEneney, Mike |
Obit1 reporter |
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Hays, Don |
Obit1 reporter |
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Murnane, Mike |
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Abrew, Frederick H |
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McEneney, Ed |
Obit1 reporter |
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O'Connell, Bill |
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Stebbins, Donald M. |
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Insull, Bob |
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Mawn, Joseph |
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Holodak, Jack |
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McDermott, Pete |
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Sedlak, James W. |
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Sullivan, Joseph C. |
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Bodigheimer, Ron |
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Coyne, James J. |
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Rappe, Thomas D. |
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Lyttle, Rev. Gregory |
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Chin, Dennis J |
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Fenton, Dennis M. |
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Michelotti, John |
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Ballester, Jose |
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Rappe, Thomas J. |
Obit2 mentioned |
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Moore, Kevin |
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Rappe, Josephine |
Obit2 mentioned |
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Rappe, Michael C. |
Obit2 mentioned |
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Leddy, Mary E. |
Obit2 mentioned |
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Rappe, Joseph |
Obit2 mentioned |
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Kirley, Gene |
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Kozersky, Alex |
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Lynch, William |
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Lynch, William |
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Cosgrove, Maegan |
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Abrew, Frederick H |
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Ballester, Jose |
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Bodigheimer, Ron |
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Chin, Dennis J |
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Cicero, Philip S. |
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Cosgrove, Maegan |
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Coyne, James J. |
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Fenton, Dennis M. |
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Haugh, John |
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Hays, Don |
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Holodak, Jack |
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Insull, Bob |
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Kirley, Gene |
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Kozersky, Alex |
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Leddy, Mary E. |
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Lynch, William |
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Lynch, William |
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Lyttle, Rev. Gregory |
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Mawn, Joseph |
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McDermott, Pete |
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McEneney, Ed |
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McEneney, Michael F. |
Obit2 reporter |
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McEneney, Mike |
Obit1 reporter |
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Michelotti, John |
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Moore, Kevin |
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Murnane, Mike |
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Nason, John |
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O'Connell, Bill |
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Rappe, Joseph |
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Rappe, Josephine |
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Rappe, Michael C. |
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Rappe, Thomas D. |
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Rappe, Thomas J. |
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Sedlak, James W. |
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Stebbins, Donald M. |
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PR Newswire
June 2, 2004, Wednesday 9:03 AM Eastern Time
SECTION: FINANCIAL NEWS
DISTRIBUTION: TO BUSINESS EDITOR
HEADLINE: Alex Kozersky Appointed National Sales Director of CIGNA Behavioral
Health
DATELINE: EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., June 2, 2004
CIGNA Behavioral Health (CBH) announced today that it has appointed Alex Kozersky to the position of National Sales Director, responsible for sales and new business development in the eastern region, including all states east of the Mississippi River. "We are excited that Alex has agreed to lead our eastern region national sales team and help us grow our business in this important area," said Keith Dixon, Ph.D., CBH president and chief executive officer. "Alex is a proven veteran with extensive experience in the marketplace that will help us to better meet the needs of our customers in this important area." Since joining CBH in 2000, Kozersky has used his background in account management to boost sales and product development for the company. His experience is varied and includes tenure in customer service, provider relations and customer reporting, as well as managing a customer base of more than 100,000 employees. In his new role at CBH, Kozersky will work closely with employers, consultants and brokers to increase sales and develop new business. Kozersky received his bachelor's degree in Government and Communications from Manhattan College and will be based in New York.
CIGNA Behavioral Health (CBH), Inc., a subsidiary of CIGNA, provides behavioral care benefit management, EAPs, and work/life programs to consumers through health plans offered by large U.S. employers, national and regional HMOs, Taft-Hartley trusts and disability insurers. CBH, with headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minn., operates five care management centers around the U.S. in support of a national network of more than 47,000 independent psychiatrists, psychologists and clinical social workers and more than 4,000 facilities and clinics. For more information, visit http://www.CIGNABehavioral.com.
SOURCE CIGNA Behavioral Health CONTACT: Gwyn Dilday, CIGNA, +1-818-500-6370, gwyn.dilday@cigna.com URL: http://www.prnewswire.com
LOAD-DATE: June 2, 2004
[Liz Velasquez '98 reports: He is class of 1992 (Thanks, Liz) ]
[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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[JR: The following people have updated their information. To conserve space, "please change my email from X to Y" which isn't very interesting, and to alert you that they are here, I have listed them here. As always, I need your "news" and "recruits".]
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Bill O'Connell (1959)
[JR: A business site that is worth looking at, especially if you have a business! But interesting for those interested in business.]
http://wwwext.amgen.com/corporate/AboutAmgen/dennisFenton.html
Dennis M. Fenton, Ph.D.
Dennis M. Fenton, Ph.D., is Amgen's executive vice president of Operations. In this capacity, Fenton is responsible for operations, manufacturing, process development and quality. He also serves as corporate compliance officer. Fenton has held many executive positions within the company; most recently, he was also responsible for Amgen's research organization and information management. He is a member of Amgen's executive committee.
From February 1995 to February 2000, Fenton served as senior vice president, Operations. From August 1992 to January 1995, he served as senior vice president, Sales and Marketing and Process Development. In addition, Fenton served as vice president, Process Development, Facilities and Manufacturing Services from 1988 to 1992 and from 1985 to 1988, he served as director, Pilot Plant Operations and Clinical Manufacturing. He joined Amgen in January 1982 as a research scientist.
Fenton is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, the Society for Industrial Microbiology, the American Chemical Society and the Parenteral Drug Association. He also serves on the board of directors of the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
From 1977 to 1981, Fenton was employed by Pfizer Central Research, working on new product development. In 1977, Fenton obtained a doctorate degree in microbiology from Rutgers University. He received his bachelor's degree in 1973 from Manhattan College in New York.
[Reported As: 1973 ]
[No Honors]
[No Graduations]
[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.
From: Don Hays [1956]
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 6:04 PM
To: John Reinke (1968)
Subject: Re: This issue is at: /jasperjottings20040523.htm
John,
Mike Murnane, B '56 passed away this morning and the funeral is Saturday in Poughkeepsie. I need to get that information to Mike McEneny, who communicates with you regularly, and I can't find Mike's email or phone number. I'd appreciate your help. I can be contacted at <privacy invoked> , or <privacy invoked> .
Thanks
Don Hays
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From: "Jasper John '68 @ Jasper Jottings.com"
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 6:45 PM
Subject: FW: This issue is at:
Don, I have BCCed him on this message. I'll look for his number. John
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From: Ed McEneney
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: This issue is at:
John,
This is Ed McEneney 59B, Mike's kid brother. I called Mike with the message and the contact information. He called Don who is driving in from Ohio and made the connection. My brother will make the wake and the Mass.
Jasper Jottings works! John, thanks for being there.
Ed McEneney 59B
p.s.: my e-mail address is <privacy invoked> and my brothers is <privacy invoked>
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[JR: To many m's, c's, and nn's to distinguish in a rush. I was really flummoxed.]
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Michael J . Murnane
Michael J. Murnane Michael J. Murnane, 69, a resident of the Town of LaGrange since 1967, formerly of Ossining, N.Y., died Wednesday, May 26, 2004 at Westchester Medical Center. Mr. Murnane was former owner of Community Hearing Services in Poughkeepsie. He was a member of the B.P.O.E. #275, Lion's Club in Poughkeepsie, KOFC #304, Florentine Council, Weblo Scout Leader, past principal of the CCD Program at St. Theresa's in Briarcliff Manor, former basketball and soccer coach in LaGrange, member of Holy Trinity Church where he was an Extraordinary Minister, past president of N.Y.S. Hearing Aid Society, and past president of Overlook Estates. Mr. Murnane was a loving and devoted husband, father and grandfather. A loyal friend to all who knew him. He will be missed. Born June 7, 1934 in New York City, he was the son of Cornelius and Ellen Murray Murnane. He received his BS in Business from Manhattan College. On Sept. 20, 1958, in Sacred Heart Church, Bronx, he married Maureen V. McMahon. Mrs. Murnane survives at home. In addition to his wife, he is also survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Denis and Anne Murnane of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.; a daughter and son-inlaw, Maura and Edward Castle of Horseheads, N.Y.; a brother, Eugene Murnane of Jackson, N.J.; grandchildren, Danny, Caitlin, Tommy and Erin Castle and Meghan, Conor, James and Aidan Murnane; and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by a sister, Julia O'Connor. Calling hours will be 2-4 and 7-9 p.m., Friday, May 28, at William G. Miller and Son Funeral Home Inc., 371 Hooker Ave., Poughkeepsie. A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered 9:45 a.m., Saturday, May 29, at Holy Trinity Church, 775 Main St., Poughkeepsie. Burial will be in the family plot at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y. Memorial donations may be made to Manhattan College, Manhattan College Parkway, Riverdale, NY 10471 or Liver Transplant Center, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY. If you need directions or wish to send condolences, please visit our website at www.wmgmillerfuneralhome.com.
Published: 5/28/04
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[JR: Wish I could say that it was other than a blunder that I emailed both Mike and his brother. I had called the phone numbers and faxed to a number I had. No response. Which was unlike Mike. He often responds to me within minutes. I sometimes think he has nothing to do but sit and watch the Jottings Batman-like terminal. But anyway, the word got thru and missing a unique opportunity averted. I continue to urge my fellow alums to keep Jottings updated. I use Plaxo and Corex Cardscan to prompt for updates. They have good privacy policy and I have tested them with "dead drops" and have no evidence that they spam. I am sure that not everyone has a kid brother standing by to catch the failings of an administratively challenged CIC. ]
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From: Mike McEneney (1953)
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:21 AM
To: John Reinke (1968)
Subject: Don Hays
Dear John,
My brother Ed called me to tell that he had received your message and I called Don. Mike and Don were Freshmen when we were Seniors and we took them under our wing (or lead them astray) and have stayed in touch over the years.
Thanks for hooking us up.
Mike
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[JR: Glad it worked out for the best. Wish I could say it was "skill", but it's a sin to tell a lie. ]
From: McEneney, Michael F. (1953)
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 12:46 AM
To: John Reinke (1968)
Subject: Obit
Dear John,
Today's NY Daily News (6/02/04) has an Obituary on page 32 for Thomas D. Rappe '71.Tom was a retired Deputy Chief in the NYC Fire Department, and was the head of great family of Jaspers. Tom attended Manhattan while he was raising his family and working for the Fire Department. His wife Josephine '80, was a long time employee in the Registrar's office at the College and was always ready to help a beleaguered student who needed a closed course in order to graduate. Their oldest son, Thomas J. was a member of the Class of '79, Michael C. was a member of the Class of '80, their Daughter Mary E. Leddy was a member of the Class of '82 and their youngest son Joseph was a member of the Class of '85.
The family was long time residents of Woodlawn and was active in St. Barnabas Parish as well as in the Community, before moving to Briarcliff Manor. Up in Briarcliff, Tom became a member of the Volunteer Fire Department and oversaw much of the Training in that Department Tom had a great sense of Humor and will be missed by all. May He Rest In Peace.
Best,
Mike McEneney, Esq. '53 BBA
PS. I have a copy of the Obit if you do not find it.
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[JR: At this point, I couldn't find it on the NYT site. A flurry of searching and I found it on The Journal News serving Westchester, Rockland and Putnam Counties in New York.]
http://dbease.pojonews.com/dbEase/cgi-bin/go_get.pl
RAPPE, THOMAS D. - Thomas D. Rappe, of Ossining, retired Deputy Chief, FDNY, died of pneomonia on May 30, 2004 at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow. He was 72. Mr. Rappe served as a Deputy Chief for the New York City Fire Department. He was with the FDNY for 37 years before retiring in 1995. Chief Rappe was born May 12, 1932 in Manhattan to Frederick and Catherine Conroy Rappe. He was educated in New York and graduated from Manhattan College in 1971, earning a Masters degree. Tom served in the Army from 1953 to 1955. He received the National Defense Service Medal upon discharge. He was a member of FDNY Fire Chiefs Association, UFDA, Emerald Society FDNY, Stueben Society, the Briarcliff Fire Department, and St. Theresa’s Church. Chief Rappe loved and was very proud of the Fire Department, and enjoyed Irish music, watching movies, and going to Broadway plays. He is survived by his wife Josephine of 47 years; children Thomas, Michael, Mary and Joseph; and seven grandchildren Michael, Matthew, Jennifer, Alex, Marc, Morgan and Kevin Patrick. Calling hours are on Tuesday 7-9 PM and Wednesday 2-4 and 7-9 PM at Waterbury & Kelly Funeral Home, Briarcliff. The Funeral is Thursday 10 AM at St. Theresa’s Church, Briarcliff. Interment will follow at Gate of Heaven Cemetery. Friends may send memorial donations to The New York Firefighters Burn Center, 21 Asch Loop, Bronx, NY 10475. WATERBURY & KELLY FUNERAL HOME 1300 Pleasantville Road Briarcliff Manor (914) 941-0838
Published: Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004
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[JR: IN the search, Jasper Rappe is recognized on the Manhattan Engineering site of those involved in the WTC disaster. ]
http://www.engineering.manhattan.edu/Jaspers_WTC-recovery-3.html
Manhattan College graduates played an extraordinary role in the World Trade Center recovery program. We list below those Jasper alumni who, as members of the New York City Police and Fire Departments, played a role in the World Trade Center recovery efforts.
This list is also a work in progress as we continue to work to update and make complete the list of all Jaspers who were part of the recovery effort. We ask that any of our alumni who know of Jaspers that need to be included on either this list or the previous list please contact us and share that information.
The School of Engineering and Manhattan College are proud of the efforts of our Jaspers, and we shall continue to use these listings to help acknowledge their activities.
Visit the Manhattan College ATTACK ON AMERICA site for additional College information regarding the World Trade Center disaster or visit our other Jaspers at the World Trade Center site.
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Thomas D. Rappe NYFD
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[JR: Naturally, I wonder if there is a link between his death and both the WTC from a chemical or airborne perspective as well as the PTSD of the WTC and the NYFD losses. One will never know for sure, but it seems that it would take a toll on the body and spirit. Tonight I'll say a prayer for all the victims – dead or alive – known or unknown – of this horrific crime against humanity. Seems like we are forever condemned to the follies of government "protection". And, getting kicked in the unmentionables by our adversaries. But that is for another time and place. ]
[JR: Another lesson here is that: if you read about a fellow Jasper, then even if it says "MANHATTAN COLLEGE" in bold print, please don't assume it will be picked up in my automagic mechanical scans. As this item demonstrates, even knowing it existed; I had a hard time finding it. Please take a moment, "capture it", and send it along. If we have two, or twenty two, copies of stuff that is better than missing one irreplaceable one. Like this one.]
It is quite obvious that there are strong feelings and opinions toward the flags used in "The Healing Fields," both pro and con. The sole purpose of this letter is not to take either side, nor to voice my opinion. It is simply to inform the people about the derivation of the program.
It was originated by a fellow college alumnus of Manhattan College (Riverdale, N.Y.), Mr. John Michelotti '73.
While recuperating from emergency bypass surgery in the fall of 2001, John Michelotti had a vision. Facing his own mortality, he thought about the victims of 9/11 and how they should be honored. What he developed was a means of remembering them, and what resulted were two flags: the Flag of Heroes and the Flag of Honor.
The Flag of Honor contains the names of all the victims of 9/11. The Flag of Heroes has the names of all the emergency personnel who gave their lives so that others might live. Mr. Michelotti devoted countless hours and thousands of his own dollars to develop, manufacture and distribute the flags. He has donated a Flag of Heroes to every firehouse, police station and EMS division in NYC. A flag adorns the offices of Gov. Pataki, senators Schumer and Clinton, and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's offices. Former Mayor Giuliani and Mayor Bloomburg also have the flags.
In the letter accompanying the flags, Mr. Michelotti writes: "My goal is to have them hang in every building in America so that those who died will always be remembered. This would be a national tribute, a people's tribute, to the victims." Mr. Michelotti continues to work toward his goal and hopes to eventually raise money to benefit the survivors.
Robert R. Lynn
Forty Fort
LOAD-DATE: May 31, 2004
[JR: I didn't know, or didn't remember, there was a Jasper connection! ]
Orlando Sentinel (Florida)
May 30, 2004 Sunday FINAL
SECTION: SPORTS; SUNDAY SHOWCASE; Pg. C8
HEADLINE: FACT & FICTION SOME SPORTS STORIES ARE GOOD -- OTHERS ARE TOO
GOOD TO BE TRUE
BYLINE: Josh Robbins, Sentinel Staff Writer
Just as sports spawn legendary feats, they also spawn legends -- most false, some true.
We're not talking about Cassius Clay promising he'd win the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston or Joe Namath guaranteeing the New York Jets would defeat the heavily favored Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.
These were moments of sheer boldness, to be sure, but they don't qualify as legends. We know Clay and Namath made their predictions.
But Babe Ruth's "called shot" during Game 3 of the 1932 World Series? Now that's an urban legend. No one knows what, exactly, happened before The Bambino blasted his home run to center field.
"The best part about it is that we're still talking about it all these years later," said Ernestine Gichner Miller, the author of The Babe Book: Baseball's Greatest Legend Remembered and a member of the board of directors at the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore. "There's so many parts to baseball lore, but perhaps the one incident or event that still is causing controversy is Babe's called shot.
"I think if you come back 100 years later, it still will be debated."
Few of these urban legends ever become as widely known as Ruth's called shot, but that doesn't make them any less entertaining.
"The ones that survive have a fundamental quality," said John Llewellyn, a Wake Forest communications professor whose research interests include the study of urban legends. "The only problem with them is that they don't have facticity. But as a story, as a compelling bit of business, the ones that survive are always champs, which is part of how they come to be propagated so easily. They want to be propagated."
There's the story about the MIT student who walked into Harvard Stadium every day one summer. He wore a black-and-white striped shirt and blew a whistle as he threw birdseed everywhere. Then when Harvard played its first home football game that season and a referee first blew his whistle, birds descended onto the field, forcing a 30-minute delay in the game.
Hilarious, right?
One problem: It never happened, said Kathleen Thurston-Lighty, the author of Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT.
Therein lies the fun with sports' urban legends. Sometimes you find yourself wishing they actually happened.
The Babe at Wrigley Field
Did Ruth really call his shot run before hitting his homer?
To this day, legends swirl around Babe Ruth.
He starred as a pitcher during the early years of his career, then later blossomed into the first great power hitter in baseball history. His on-field exploits and larger-than-life persona helped popularize the sport.
But one moment in Ruth's remarkable career surpasses all others: his supposed "called home run" in the third game of the 1932 World Series.
As legend goes, Ruth pointed to the flagpole in Wrigley Field's center-field stands -- then hit a home run to that precise spot off Cubs pitcher Charlie Root.
"I think it's one of those things where we'll never know the honest truth, unfortunately," said Bill Francis, a senior researcher at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. "The truth went with Babe to his grave, I guess."
There is no question the Cubs and Ruth had taunted each other mercilessly, and that Chicagoans weighed in, too. Before Game 3, Cubs fans occasionally threw lemons toward Ruth in right field.
Game 3 was tied at 4 when Ruth strode to the plate in the fifth inning.
"There was a great heckling that was constant," Miller said. "The level of agitation, even though he was experienced at this kind of thing, was really at a pitch that it had never been before."
Ruth held up one finger of his right hand after Root threw a called strike, according to the account in Robert W. Creamer's acclaimed 1974 biography of Ruth, Babe: The Legend Comes to Life. After throwing two balls, Root delivered another called strike, prompting the Cubs to increase their heckling and Cubs pitcher Guy Bush to run onto the grass in front of the Cubs' dugout. Ruth then waved, perhaps to motion the Cubs back into their dugout, and held up two fingers.
Or maybe he was pointing to center field.
"There's definite gesturing," said Miller, who has seen a recently discovered a fan's home film from that at-bat. "There's definite fingers in the air. There's definite arm motion that was unusual arm motion."
Creamer wrote that Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett remembered Ruth saying, "It only takes one to hit it." Lou Gehrig, who was in the on-deck circle, recalled that Ruth said to Root, "I'm going to knock the next pitch right down your . . . throat."
Ruth then blasted his home run to deep center field
It has been said that Ruth at first denied calling his shot. Eventually, though, he took credit for the prediction.
Root always maintained Ruth never called his shot, though Root acknowledged Ruth held up fingers after the two called strikes.
"But he did this before every pitch," Root told Bill Bryson, the author of the 1989 book The Babe Didn't Point and Other Stories About Iowans and Sports. "If he had really pointed, everybody who knows me knows that Ruth would have been on the seat of his pants on a knockdown pitch."
Creamer, who concluded that Ruth did not point to center before his home run, found that only one article written on the day of the game mentioned that Ruth had gestured toward center field. But, in the end, Creamer opined that the debate over whether Ruth called his shot misses the larger meaning.
"It is an argument over nothing, and the fact that Ruth did not point to center field before his home run does not diminish in the least what he did," Creamer wrote. "He did challenge the Cubs before 50,000 people, did indicate he was going to hit a home run and did hit a home run. What more could you ask?"
Our verdict: Ruth did not point to center but did predict a home run.
Time for the 7th-Inning Stretch
Can we credit Taft for starting tradition?
Fairly or unfairly, the presidency of William Howard Taft does not loom large in the minds of Americans. Taft served only one term as president after being elected in 1908.
But Taft, who later became the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, often has been credited with one major apolitical innovation: inventing the seventh-inning stretch at baseball games.
Legend has it that Taft attended a Pittsburgh Pirates game in 1910 and stood after the conclusion of the top of the seventh inning. The crowd, out of respect for the office, also stood, thus giving rise to the seventh-inning stretch.
But the Baseball Hall of Fame's Bill Francis said references to the seventh-inning stretch go back to the 1860s. Alternatively, Francis said that Brother Jasper, the first baseball coach at Manhattan College in New York City, is said to have popularized the seventh-inning stretch during the 1880s.
Our verdict: Taft did not invent the seventh-inning stretch.
Basketball Conspiracy Theorists, Unite!
Did NBA tamper with Ewing, Jordan? Over the past two decades, conspiracy theorists have directed their attention to the NBA.
In 1985, the New York Knicks won the NBA draft lottery and, with the first pick in that year's draft, selected the best player available, Georgetown Hoyas center Patrick Ewing.
In 1993, Michael Jordan announced his retirement from basketball, even though his Chicago Bulls had won three consecutive titles.
Both incidents gave rise to urban legends. The NBA must have rigged the lottery to ensure the Knicks -- the team in the nation's largest TV market -- would be able to pick Ewing, right?
And Jordan was somehow forced into retirement by NBA officials because he had been gambling, right?
"Both of them are preposterous," Brian McIntyre, the NBA's senior vice president for basketball communications, said of both urban legends. "I have no idea how things like that get started or even moved around. The world lives in a lot of gossip, as witnessed by the success of the supermarket tabloids and Oliver Stone."
Our verdict: Both legends are false.
Look Out, Dawg
Was Harvard coach really a bulldog killer?
Percy Haughton was regarded as one of the best football coaches in the early 1900s. He coached at Cornell, Harvard and Columbia during the first quarter of the 20th century and was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.
Today, though, Haughton is best known for an urban legend surrounding the 1908 Harvard-Yale game.
Then Harvard's coach, Haughton is said to have choked -- and killed -- a bulldog in front of his players as a motivational tool (Yale's mascot is a bulldog).
Another version of the legend says Haughton tethered a bulldog to the back of a car, then drove away.
A decade ago, Tim Bonang, who then worked for Harvard sports information department, was assigned to write an article for the annual Harvard-Yale program on this urban legend.
Bonang studied the matter closely and found no references to the alleged incident in books on Harvard athletics or in 1908 press clippings.
"Knowing Harvard and having a sense of that period of time, there was embellishment," Bonang said. "I think likely he didn't strangle a live bulldog or kill a bulldog. That's just my feeling. But obviously I didn't know him.
"Legend and lore, especially with the passage of time, has a tendency to grow and the tendency to be told with accompanying alcoholic beverages."
Bonang hypothesizes that the bulldog -- if Haughton indeed used a bulldog as a motivational prop -- was made out of papier-mache.
Our verdict: No actual bulldogs were harmed.
Love That Guacamole
Do we really eat all those avocados?
The Super Bowl is our country's biggest single sporting event, and that's no urban legend.
What is urban legend is the claim that two-thirds of all avocados sold in the U.S. each year are purchased in the three weeks leading up to Super Bowl Sunday.
That's not true, said Jeanette O'Toole of the California Avocado Information Bureau in Irvine, Calif.
O'Toole said 335 million pounds of avocados were consumed in the U.S. in 2003. In the three-week period before the 2004 Super Bowl -- yes, the organization tracks such figures -- 43.5 million pounds of avocados were consumed.
"We did the calculation that that was enough guacamole to cover Reliant Stadium's field seven feet deep from end zone to end zone," O'Toole said.
Though that's lots of avocados, it's not two-thirds of all avocados sold in the U.S.
Our verdict: The two-thirds claim is false.
Manute Bol's Tall Tale
Can it be that Bol really killed a lion in Africa?
Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan dazzled NBA fans during the 1980s, but no player cut as distinctive a profile as spindly 7-foot-7 center Manute Bol.
Bol, who hails from the Sudan, fascinated many because of his background. The Dinka tribesman, as legend went, once killed a lion.
Is that true?
Bol said yes.
"First of all, the lion was asleep," he told the Washington Post in 1986. "Otherwise, I would have been killed.
"A lion killed one of the cows. Then I saw this lion. I don't know if it was the same lion, but he was under a tree. I threw a spear -- we carry about 10 of them. I wasn't close to the lion, but I hit him. He jumped up and hit the limbs of the tree, and he looked all around for whoever got him. Then he fell down and died. I was behind a tree."
Our verdict: Bol did kill a lion.
A Real Football Giant
Was Andre the Giant a football prospect?
Before Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Undertaker emerged on the pro wrestling scene, there was Andre the Giant.
He was, yes, the giant of the wrestling world during his peak in popularity in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Rumors surround Andre and the NFL's Washington Redskins.
According to various Internet sites, most of which are obsessed with professional wrestling, the 7-foot-4, 520-pound behemoth either was offered a tryout by the Redskins, given a tryout or actually tendered a contract.
To sort out fact from fiction, the Sentinel called the Redskins' media-relations office, and an individual there sought out the help of Bubba Tyer, the team's longtime trainer.
It turns out that George Allen, the Redskins' coach for six seasons during the 1970s, once saw Andre at a promotional event and seriously considered giving the Frenchman a tryout.
But a tryout was never held.
Our verdict: Andre the Giant never tried out for the Redskins.
Farewell to Football
Did FSU almost lose football?
Florida State's football program struggled in the mid-1970s before Bobby Bowden became coach in 1976.
It's been said that school administrators, with their athletic department in debt, seriously considered dropping football before Bowden's hiring.
"It was never considered," said Stan Marshall, who was FSU's president from 1969-76.
Marshall noted that he did call a meeting with members of FSU's booster club to let them know that money had to be raised for the athletic department.
"I may have said something like the alternative would be to reduce the emphasis on football," Marshall said.
"But at no point did anybody ever mention the possibility of dropping football. It was the farthest thing from my mind."
Our verdict: FSU officials never seriously considered dropping football.
Farewell to Pants
Did UF player lose his pants?
The 1967 Orange Bowl saw the Florida Gators beat Georgia Tech 27-12. And some fans said they also saw UF running back Larry Smith lose his pants during a 94-yard touchdown run.
In its account of the game, The Tampa Tribune noted that Smith's pants "began slipping downward around the 50.
As he completed the run and stopped, his right pant leg, which should have been just below the knee, was at his shoe top, his left at his ankle.''
In a 1998 interview with the Sentinel's Chris Harry, Smith set the record straight.
"Did they fall down?" Smith said. "No, they didn't."
Steve Spurrier, the quarterback of that UF team, attributed the confusion to the hip pads that Smith wore. The pads jutted above the waistline, and Spurrier believes they contributed to the illusion.
Our verdict: No pants problems here.
Rest in Peace, Jimmy Hoffa
Is former Teamsters boss buried at Meadowlands?
When something peculiar happens at the Meadowlands, the home of the NFL's New York Giants and New York Jets, sportscasters occasionally attribute such bad luck to the ghost of Jimmy Hoffa.
Hoffa, former president of the Teamsters, vanished July 30, 1975, and never has been seen again. One legend has it that Hoffa is buried somewhere underneath a Giants Stadium end zone. That Giants Stadium was being built at the time -- its inaugural game was held on Oct. 10, 1976 -- gives conspiracy theorists something to cling to.
About every six months, a journalist brings up the issue to the spokesman for the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, Jim DeBosh. "We've never considered digging up the stadium or anything like that," DeBosh said.
Because the issue comes up occasionally, DeBosh has had an opportunity to develop a theory about the urban legend.
"They never found his body," DeBosh said. "He disappeared in Michigan. So I always thought that anyone who wanted to do him in would not drive a thousand miles and risk getting caught.
"Until they identify his remains, I guess there would still be that urban legend."
Our verdict: Hoffa's body is not at the Meadowlands.
LOAD-DATE: May 30, 2004
[JR: I liked this one so I thought I'd include it. ]
The Houston Chronicle
May 29, 2004, Saturday 2 STAR EDITION
SECTION: RELIGION; Pg. 01
HEADLINE: Church tries dual ministers
SOURCE: Staff
BYLINE: RICHARD VARA, Houston Chronicle Religion Editor
First Unitarian Universalist Church members hope they have a match made in heaven as they bring in a second minister to lead the congregation.
The Rev. Jose Ballester, 52, will team with the Rev. Gail Lindsay Marriner beginning in August to lead the 500-member church in the Museum District. Ballester is currently an interim pastor in Palm Beach, Fla., but is anxious to move to Houston to begin the team ministry.
"This is something people have not tried before where two people will be equal co-ministers who are not married or partnered and don't come in as a team," Ballester said.
Marriner, 42, who has been at First Unitarian for six years, is also anxious to begin co-ministering, as well.
"This is not typical; it is quite unusual," Marriner said. But the team ministry allows for flexible response to the needs of the church and unexpected events, she said. Marriner said she will concentrate on pastoring the church while Ballester will work on social action and justice programs.
During March, the church's search committee invited three candidates to each spend a weekend at the church. Committee members wanted to see how well Marriner and each candidate interacted.
The committee included the team ministry approach in its job description for a second minister. Marriner and retired senior minister Robert Schaibly informally had a peer-to-peer relationship that the church liked, Marriner said.
Ballester was invited back for a week.
"There was more possibility, energy, excitement, potential for reinvention," Marriner said. "The chemistry was there."
To help the team mesh, Marriner said, they will work on a mutual agreement on responsibilities and duties. If problems arise, they have agreed to seek counseling or a therapist.
"We are going into it both knowing how to work in a team ministry," Marriner said. "Both of us are more comfortable being in lateral-shared power rather than hierachical, top-down (model)."
Ballester used the team ministry approach when he served on the denomination's Service Committee, a social-action ministry based in Cambridge, Mass. From 1992 to 2001, he traveled the country to help Unitarian Universalist congregations or interfaith groups deal with disaster relief, inner-city gangs, migrant workers or other needs.
Ballester said he always approached problems and solutions using a cooperative team strategy rather than coming in to give orders or dictate remedies.
He said he will take the same approach to ministry in Houston. Ballester intends to study the city and its problems and decide what programs the church can offer. He wants to find out about issues such as hunger and how to deal with it.
"I will go about this very slowly and build this up for the future," Ballester said. "I don't see a major project happening probably for a year or a year and a half."
Social action is what drew Ballester into the small, 155,000-member denomination. He grew up Roman Catholic in New York City and attended Catholic schools, receiving his bachelor's degree from Manhattan College in 1974.
"Starting in college, I began falling away from my faith," Ballester said. But in graduate school at Emerson College in Boston, he was introduced to Unitarian Universalism. He started attending church services and began thinking of ministry as a career. After working with the Boston Opera for three years, he finally gave into his longings for a ministerial career.
Ballester attended Andover-Newton Theological School in Boston, graduating in 1984. He served several churches in the Massachusetts area before joining the Service Committee, and then returned to parish ministry three years ago.
Marriner believes that the combination of her pastoral work in the church and Ballester's social-action focus will strengthen the 104-year-old congregation.
"If everything goes the way I am hoping, the church will be walking its talk in a way it has never been able to do so," she said. "It will have been nurtured and fed on the inside and coached and led to take the wonderful, empowering message of Unitarian Universalism to people outside."
GRAPHIC: Photo: The Revs. Gail Lindsay Marriner, left, and Jose Ballester will team to lead the First Unitarian Universalist Church here.
LOAD-DATE: May 29, 2004
[Reported As: 1984]
Connecticut Post (Bridgeport, CT)
May 26, 2004 Wednesday
SECTION: LOCAL/REGIONAL NEWS
HEADLINE: Warde High taps new headmaster; Veteran Madison principal hailed for
leadership
BYLINE: ANDREW BROPHY abrophy@ctpost.com
FAIRFIELD
The Board of Education Tuesday night hired the principal at Daniel Hand High School in Madison to be the new headmaster at Fairfield Warde High School.
James J. Coyne, 54, of Old Saybrook, will replace Warde High Headmaster John Dodig, who is retiring.
Coyne, to be paid $134,944 in 2004-05, begins his new job July 1 at the 1,425-pupil school.
Supt. of Schools Ann Clark said Coyne was "an outstanding educational leader who sincerely cares about the success of all kids."
Margaret Mary Fitzgerald, the school district's human resources director and a member of the search committee, said Coyne knows how to hire and develop staff members and was "positively committed to teaching and learning."
"Student success was celebrated and evidenced in really every area of the classroom," Fitzgerald said of Daniel Hand High.
Philip Halligan, a Board of Education and search committee member, said he was impressed with Coyne during search committee interviews.
"There was an ease about him. There was a thoroughness about him. He's a very good fit for this community and [Warde] high school," Halligan said.
Coyne thanked the school board "for the very warm welcome and the confidence you've shown in me." He was named on a 7-0 vote.
Coyne has been principal at Daniel Hand, which has 1,028 students, since 1990. He was principal at Dr. Robert Brown Middle School in Madison from 1987 to 1990 and was assistant principal at Coginchaug Regional High School in Durham from 1985 to 1987.
Before that, Coyne taught at Brookfield High School, Stamford High School, St. Mary's High School in Greenwich and the Transfiguration School in New York City.
He received a bachelor of arts degree in urban studies from Manhattan College and a master of science degree in secondary education from the University of Bridgeport. He received a sixth-year educational leadership degree from Southern Connecticut State University.
During his years in Madison, Coyne oversaw the design and construction of a new Hand High building.
The Fairfield position "presented a wonderful opportunity for me and the family," Coyne said.
"I had been at Hand for 13 years. We did a lot of work there," Coyne said. "I felt the work I set out to do there was accomplished. It was a good time for me to look for a new challenge."
School board Chairwoman Catherine Albin said she was impressed by a visit to the Madison school recently, adding that Coyne would be a "tremendous addition" in Fairfield.
Andrew Brophy, who covers Fairfield, can be reached at 330-6255.
LOAD-DATE: May 27, 2004
[Liz Velasquez '98 reports: James Coyne is MC class of 1971 (Thanks, Liz) ]
MEET the new head honcho
Village Herald - NY,USA
... He received degrees from Manhattan College, Adelphi University and New York
University, and earned his administration certifications from Hofstra. ...
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11820055&BRD=1601&PAG=461&dept_id=479863&rfi=6
By Brian T. Dessart May 28, 2004
Cicero to take over as Lynbrook superintendent
On July 1, the Lynbrook School District will officially welcome its new superintendent, Dr. Philip S. Cicero, who will replace retiring superintendent William Metkiff. Metkiff, who was named superintendent in 1991, announced in mid-November his plans to retire at the end of the school year.
"I think ... that as the new person, you need to understand the values and beliefs of the district," Cicero said. "You need to talk to all the constituents who comprise the district -- that is a learning process, and you learn by listening. You have to show you really want to be part of the school district."
Cicero enters the Lynbrook district with an impressive resume. He received degrees from Manhattan College, Adelphi University and New York University, and earned his administration certifications from Hofstra. He was named assistant superintendent of the Island Park School District in 1994, and eventually took over as superintendent, a position he held for three years. Cicero is currently superintendent of the Center Moriches School District in eastern Suffolk County, and will leave after having served a four-year stint.
"His education background is superior," said Lynbrook School Board President Phyllis Caruso. "He has been a superintendent in two districts, and his personality is a good fit for Lynbrook's community."
During his time in Center Moriches, Cicero was responsible for the renovation and upgrading of the district's facilities. At the high school, he was a key factor behind the construction of a library media center, a gymnasium and a track-and-field facility. The middle school saw the addition of a new wing for the grades six through eight. On the elementary level, a new computer lab and playground were added. Cicero was also responsible for hiring counselors, a social worker and a dean on the elementary level to help better meet the needs of the students.
As superintendent, Cicero served on a variety of committees, including those sponsored by BOCES and the Nassau and Suffolk Councils of School Superintendents. This year he was a member of the New York State Council of School Superintendents' Wellness Committee. Cicero was selected for the Lynbrook position from a pool of 11 applicants considered by the Lynbrook Board of Education, narrowed from a field of 41 reviewed by SCOPE, an executive search firm. "Our challenge was to find someone who would take Lynbrook to a better place than we already are academically," Caruso said. "We are pretty near the top right now."
Cicero and his wife, Joanne, live in North Bellmore, but are no strangers to Lynbrook. In the 1970s, Cicero was a member of the Mur-Lees baseball team, and it was then that he met his wife. His father-in-law still lives in Lynbrook. Cicero is an accomplished athlete, having competed in the Long Island Marathon and Half Marathon as well as the New York City Marathon. He regularly takes part in 5K and 10K races and biathlons.
The Lynbrook Board of Education invites the community to say farewell to Metkiff and to welcome Cicero on June 9 at 9:00 p.m., in the high school cafeteria, following that night's Board of Education meeting.
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CHAPLAIN squad serves ailing vets
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... He was chaplain at Manhattan College, an independent Catholic school in the
Riverdale section of the Bronx, when a VA chaplain invited him to visit the
Bronx ...
<http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/197914p-170905c.html>
Saturday, May 29th, 2004
The Rev. Gregory Lyttle was looking over the list of names that make up the special flock he shares with five Protestant ministers, one rabbi, one imam and several ordained volunteers. There were 218 names, all of them one-time U.S. military personnel who are now patients at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center. All but 18 of them identified themselves by their religion - among them, 31 Baptists, one Episcopalian, three Muslims, two Presbyterians, 15 Jews, two Church of God, one Native American, 90 Catholics, three Pentecostalists and the rest scattered among various Christian denominations.
Nobody put down "atheist," which came as no surprise to Lyttle, a Catholic priest who is coordinator of the chaplain program at the Bronx VA, located in Kingsbridge.
"Maybe they're not all religious in a ritualistic way," he said, "but everyone who has gone into war has spiritual needs, even if they don't know how to express them."
For patients at the hospital, the second-largest VA medical center in the country, Lyttle and his seven fellow full-time chaplains provide everything from one-on-one prayers to full formal daily services in a chapel equipped with a rotating stage that transforms the sanctuary into a Christian, Jewish or Muslim setting at the touch of a button. As the stage turns, the Christian symbols give way to a Star of David and menorah or, with another touch of a button, Muslim art.
On Monday, while millions of fellow Americans are celebrating with parties and parades, patients at the Bronx VA will mark Memorial Day with a worship and patriotism service led by the Rev. William Kalaidjian, a United Church of Christ minister and one-time police chaplain. Charles Davidson, a Reform rabbi, will deliver a special memorial prayer for all the U.S. war dead, including the more than 800 so far in Iraq.
Lyttle, who became a full-time hospital chaplain eight years ago, is the only Catholic cleric at the Bronx VA, but, he says, in many cases the spiritual needs of old soldiers and sailors can be met by any of his colleagues. Kalaidjian, for example, works closely with men and, occasionally, women who have suffered spinal cord injuries, and he tries to make sure he is with them if they undergo surgery.
"I don't ask what religion they are," Kalaidjian said, "and I don't think many of them know or care what I am."
In some cases, though, pastoral care is not so ecumenical. If a patient wants penance or the celebration of the Mass, for example, a Catholic priest is required. Lyttle keeps a notebook on his desk, listing any special requests by Catholic patients for his services.
He also devotes special attention to the terminally ill of whatever faith, in every way - from praying with them, offering encouragement or, in a few cases, anointing the sick, a ritual once known as the last rites. "I even performed a wedding last December for a dying veteran," he said. "That isn't something you see very often."
Unlike most chaplains, who set out early in their careers to provide spiritual services to the sick, imprisoned or other institutionalized constituencies, Lyttle was recruited after working for years with college students.
He was chaplain at Manhattan College, an independent Catholic school in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, when a VA chaplain invited him to visit the Bronx medical center. One thing led to another, and in 1995, after 14 years at Manhattan College and a year of part-time work at the Bronx medical center, he joined the VA full time. "I just traded one rewarding job for another," he said.
Lyttle, who was born in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx and whose father, Jack Lyttle, was swimming coach at Fordham University for 40 years, said he decided to become a priest at age 8. He was ordained 21 years later.
In becoming a chaplain, he joined one of the oldest of religious professions - the chaplaincy was officially established in 742 at the Council of Ratisbon, which at the same time barred chaplains from carrying weapons.
Lyttle considers his work a combination of social and spiritual service. But he has found one great difference between his former job and his current one.
"I heard more confessions in my first week here," he said, "than I heard in all of my 14 years at Manhattan College." ###
[JR: I could take that two ways. Maybe three! MC students lead the lives of saints? MC students need a chaplain who is "available" to them? (He has time to do something else.) Or, maybe he is "invisible". With all the angst that goes on, (if when I was there is typical), then he needs some help. ]
[Liz Velasquez '98 reports: Rev. Gregory Lyttle is class of 1972 (Thanks, Liz) ]
AMERICAN Legion Post 304 Announces Parade Plans
Manhasset Press - Manhasset,NY,USA
... The Fourth Division will assemble on Bournedale Road North, facing west,
(starting at the junction with Plandome Road) includes the Manhattan College
Pipe Band ...
http://www.antonnews.com/manhassetpress/2004/05/28/news/
American Legion Post 304 Announces Parade Plans
James R. Russell, commander of the Manhasset Post 304, American Legion and John F. Keitz, parade chairman, have announced the parade order and schedule for the traditional Manhasset Memorial Day Parade, and for the attendant memorial services. All Manhasset residents, their families and friends are invited to join the Legion in this remembrance of the great sacrifices of American heroes. The theme of the parade this year, "So Freedom Can Prevail," is a reminder that our military is presently engaged halfway around the world in order to preserve our freedom and way of life from the effects of terrorism. Continued vigilance and readiness is the price of freedom. Additionally, it is a reminder of the ultimate sacrifices made by previous and present generations to preserve this freedom. We must never forget what they did and why the died.
The Legion will place American flags on the graves of veterans in local cemeteries and will participate with other Legion posts to decorate veteran's graves at Pinelawn National Cemetery, in preparation for the Memorial Day ceremonies. Memorial wreaths will also be placed at the five memorial monuments in Manhasset. Plandome Road has been appropriately decorated for the occasion.
A memorial service will be held on Sunday, May 30, at the Congregational Church of Manhasset, 1845 Northern Blvd., Manhasset at 10 a.m. in honor of our war dead. All are urged to attend and join with the Legion in remembrance of the great sacrifice of these citizen soldiers.
On Memorial Day, Monday, May 31, the parade will start promptly at 10 a.m. There are over 50 organizations scheduled to march including six bands and more than 30 pieces of fire apparatus and other vehicles.
The route of the parade will be along Plandome Road from Plandome Court to Memorial Place, with excellent public viewing along the entire length. Those planning to march in the parade are expected to be present, ready to march in their designated assembly areas no later than 9:30 a.m.
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The Fourth Division will assemble on Bournedale Road North, facing west, (starting at the junction with Plandome Road) includes the Manhattan College Pipe Band; the Tower Foundation; Church of Our Savior Lutheran Nursery School; the North Shore Nursery School: Manhasset Soccer Club; Knights of Columbus; the Guild of Saint Francis Hospital; and the North Shore Right to Life Committee. The Division Commander will be William G. Martin.
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The parade will conclude in formation at Memorial Field, where a special area will be designated for public viewing of the Memorial Services. The program will begin with the National Anthem, played by the Manhasset High School Band under the direction of Randy Knudsen and sung by Legionnaire A. Scott Wilson.
The Reverend Nicholas Zientarski, associate pastor, Church of Saint Mary will give the Invocation. The Poppy Queen, Katherine Gilman, will then be introduced.
The presentation of the floral tributes by the public will follow after which Chaplain William G. Martin of Post 304 will read the Roll Call of the honored dead, accompanied by drummer Lee Meryash of the Manhasset High School Band. Taps will be rendered by Justin Gaither and Mr. John Keneally, both with the Manhasset High School Band, and SFC Richard Hall and Sgt. Kenneth Barnet both of the 319th, Statue of Liberty Band.
Vice Commander Anthony W. Buzzitta will present school awards to James Alexander, St. Mary's High School and to John Ryan Love, of Manhasset High School. The Boys' State Scholarship will be awarded to Mr. Daniel Vogel, Manhasset BSA Troop #97, and to Michael Gavalakis, and Mr. Adam Care, both representing Manhasset High School.
Barbara Pierce, president of the Manhasset Auxiliary 304, will preside over the girl's awards. Marilyn Furlong, Americanism Chairlady, will present school awards to Stephanie Shieh of Manhasset High School and Katherine Moreno from St. Mary's High School. Doris Bezkor, Girl's State chairlady, will present the Girl's State Award to Miss Katherine Gilman of Manhasset High School.
After brief remarks by Commander Russell, the Reverend David Lowry, pastor, Christ Episcopal Church will give the benediction. To close the service, Legionnaire A. Scott Wilson will lead the audience in singing God Bless America accompanied by the U.S. Army 319th. Statue of Liberty Band directed by CWO Stephen Joseph, band master.
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CIC'S SUGGESTION: Everyone who works for a major corporation should send resumes placed here into their HR system or department. While you may not see the value, it may be that one thing that delivers an opportunity to a fellow Jasper that changes their life.
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
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
6/6/04 Sunday Baseball NCAA Regionals TBA TBA
6/9/04 Wednesday Track & Field NCAA Championships Austin, TX TBA
6/10/04 Thursday Track & Field NCAA Championships Austin, TX TBA
6/11/04 Friday Track & Field NCAA Championships Austin, TX TBA
6/12/04 Saturday Track & Field NCAA Championships Austin, TX TBA
6/24/04 Thursday Track & Field USATF Juniors Buffalo, NY TBA
6/25/04 Friday Track & Field USATF Juniors Buffalo, NY TBA
6/26/04 Saturday Track & Field USATF Juniors Buffalo, NY TBA
6/27/04 Sunday Track & Field USATF Juniors Buffalo, NY TBA
7/9/04 Friday Track & Field US Olympic Trials Sacramento, CA TBA
7/10/04 Saturday Track & Field US Olympic Trials Sacramento, CA TBA
7/11/04 Sunday Track & Field US Olympic Trials Sacramento, CA TBA
7/12/04 Monday Track & Field US Olympic Trials Sacramento, CA TBA
7/13/04 Tuesday Track & Field US Olympic Trials Sacramento, CA TBA
7/14/04 Wednesday Track & Field US Olympic Trials Sacramento, CA TBA
7/15/04 Thursday Track & Field US Olympic Trials Sacramento, CA TBA
7/16/04 Friday Track & Field US Olympic Trials Sacramento, CA TBA
8/27/04 Friday W. Soccer Binghamton North Rockland, NY 4:00 PM
THREE JASPERS QUALIFY FOR NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
Riverdale, NY (June 2, 2004) – Three Jaspers from men's Track & Field qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships that are to be held in Austin, TX from June 9-12. Senior Thomas Jacob Freeman (East Greenwich, RI) and sophomore Zoran Loncar (Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro) will compete in the Hammer Throw and senior Rajne Svenssohn (Karlstad, Sweden) will compete in the Decathlon.
Freeman set new records at the NCAA East Regional this past weekend breaking the old Hammer Throw Record by 14 feet. He is ranked first going into the championships after his toss of 71.12m. Freeman threw the furthest out of any Hammer Thrower at any other regional meet by at least ten feet.
Loncar's throw of 62.14m placed him sixth at the NCAA East Regional last weekend. He is currently ranked 14th overall going into the championship.
Svennsohn qualified for the NCAA earlier in the season at the Sea Ray Relays held in Knoxville, TN. He earned 7,313 points earning second place. Svenssohn is ranked 14th going into the Championships.
The team also finished well at the NCAA East Regional placing 14th out of 122 teams.
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MANHATTAN WINS SECOND STRAIGHT MAAC COMMISSIONER'S CUP
Edison, NJ (June 1, 2004)– Manhattan College, which captured seven Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference titles during the 2003-04 academic year, took home the conference's biggest prize, earning the MAAC Commissioner's Cup for the second straight year. Manhattan also won the men's crown, while Loyola College was awarded the women's title for the first time since the 1996-97 season.
The MAAC Commissioner's Cup is awarded annually as a symbol of overall excellence in athletics in the 25 championship athletic events conducted within the MAAC. Each institution is scored in all championships that it fields a varsity team. However, only the scores from the men's and women's basketball participation, plus the other top six men's and other top six women's championships shall be used to determine an institution's total points.
Manhattan finished with a total of 116.50 points, 15 points ahead of runner-up Marist College. On the men's side, Manhattan captured the league crown with 63.50 points, 16 points more than second-place Marist. Loyola finished in the women's cup race by compiling 58 points, just four points more than Marist.
“It is a great achievement from a program committed to athletic and academic excellence,” Commissioner Richard J. Ensor said. “Bob Byrnes, and all the Manhattan student-athletes, athletic administrators and coaching staffs are to be congratulated on their superior efforts on the field and in the classroom this past season.”
The Jaspers captured three women's and four men's championships this past season. This past fall, Manhattan earned the title crown in volleyball. In the winter, the Jaspers claimed the top prize in men's basketball as well as men's and women's indoor track. In the spring, Manhattan captured the men's tennis, men's outdoor track and women's lacrosse championships.
The rest of the field finished as follows: Marist (101.50), Loyola (100), Fairfield University (96), Niagara University and Rider University (86), Iona College (80.50), Siena College (76), Saint Peter's College (58.50) and Canisius College (55).
In the men's standings, Manhattan won for the first time in school history. Marist finished second with 47.50 points, followed by Fairfield and Niagara (42.50), Loyola and Rider (42), Siena (37.50), Iona (36), Saint Peter's (32.50) and Canisius (16).
On the women's side, Marist was second with 54 points, followed by Fairfield (53.5), Manhattan (53), Iona (44.50), Rider (44), Niagara (43.50), Canisius (39), Siena (38.50), and Saint Peter's (26).
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BASEBALL FALLS TO LEMOYNE IN MAAC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Fishkill, NY- Manhattan fell to LeMoyne, 6-4, in the Championship Game of the Anaconda/MAAC Baseball Championships, held at Dutchess County Stadium. The Jaspers complete their season 25-27-1. Manhattan won two games in the tournament for the first time in program history after qualifying for the tournament for the second time in as many years.
Manhattan loaded the bases with one out in the ninth. Matt Cucurullo plated John Maser with an RBI single and Chris Gaskin brought home Nick Derba with a RBI sacrifice fly, but the Jaspers could not push across any more.
LeMoyne got on the board first on an RBI single by Steven Suarez and a two-RBI single by Brian Hansen to take a quick 3-0 lead after two innings.
Dolphin starter Alan Drechsler was perfect through the first five innings, before Sylvester Gutierrez led off the sixth with a walk. He carried the no-hitter into the seventh before Sam Deluca connected on a two-out double off the right field wall. Matt Cucurullo followed with a two-run blast to right.
Jesse Darcy (3-5) went the distance for Manhattan. Drechsler (10-0) went eight-plus innings, allowing three earned runs.
Josh Greco, Frank Cappello, Cucurullo, and Josh Santerre were named to the MAAC All-Tournament team for the Jaspers, who reached the MAAC Championship game for the first time in program history.
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FREEMAN CAPTURED FIRST PLACE AT THE NCAA REGIONAL
Gainesville, FL (May 28, 2004)-Thomas Jacob Freeman captured first place in the Hammer Throw after his second throw of 71.12m at the 2004 NCAA Regional held at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. Earning a first place finish advances Freeman to the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships that will be held in Austin, TX from June 9-12.
Zoran Loncar earned sixth place in the Hammer Throw with his fourth throw of 62.14m. Loncar fell just one place away from continuing to the NCAA Championships. The top five athletes in each event advances to the Championship. Michael Freeman threw 60.26m for an eighth place finish and Anders Constantin placed 14th after his throw of 55.81m in the Hammer Throw. Janek Augustynowicz leaped 7.17m in the Long Jump finishing in 11th place. The final Jasper to compete was Magnus Ahlen who finished 18th in the Long Jump after his leap of 7.03m.
Lady Jasper Therese Forsberg competed in the 1500m preliminaries earning 19th place finishing in 4:32.69.
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MANHATTAN DEFEATS NIAGARA 12-7 TO ADVANCE TO FIRST MAAC CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND
Fishkill, NY (May 28, 2004)- Chris Cody pitched a complete game to put Manhattan into its first ever MAAC Championship round at the Anaconda/MAAC Baseball Championships at Dutchess County Stadium. The Jaspers will take on LeMoyne Saturday at 1:00 p.m. Chris Gaskin went 3-5 with four RBI to lead the offensive charge in the 12-7 victory.
Manhattan jumped on Niagara starter Ryan Virtue in its first at bat, plating four runs in the bottom of the first. After Nick Derba led off the inning with a single and Gary Diaz followed with a walk, Sam Deluca drove home Derba with a RBI single. Gaskin followed with a two-run double, chasing home Diaz and Deluca before Matt Cucurullo plated Gaskin with a RBI single.
The Purple Eagles responded with two runs in the top of the second, and knotted the score at 4-4 with two more in the top of the fourth.
In the Jasper half of the fourth, Manhattan broke the game open with four runs of its own. After John Fitzpatrick led off the inning with a double, Josh Greco brought home pinch runner Nick Carbone with a single. After two outs, Derba connected on a two-run homer to left, bringing home Greco and making the score 8-4 in favor of the Jaspers.
After Niagara scored once in the top of the sixth, Manhattan answered with two runs in its half of the inning when Gaskin singled home Diaz and Derba with a single up the middle.
The Jaspers extended their lead to 12-5 in the bottom of the seventh on a RBI double by Greco, and an RBI groundout by John Maser.
The Purple Eagles scored twice in the top of the eighth, but could get no closer.
Cody (5-1) allowed five earned runs while striking out eight. Virtue (6-3) took the loss, allowing eight runs, all earned, over 3.2 innings.
Derba (3-5, 2 RBI), Deluca (2-4, RBI), Greco (2-4, 2 RBI), and Frank Cappello (2-3) joined Gaskin with multi-hit games.
Deluca's two hits gives him 70 for the season, and breaks the Manhattan single season record.
The Jaspers must defeat LeMoyne twice on Saturday to capture their first ever MAAC Championship.
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Newsday (New York)
June 2, 2004 Wednesday CITY EDITION
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. A61
HEADLINE: THE BUZZ
LEADING OFF
After winning four men's and three women's Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference titles during the 2003-04 season, Manhattan College also took home the biggest trophy, the MAAC Commissioner's Cup.
Manhattan won championship titles in men's basketball, men's indoor track, men's tennis, men's outdoor track, women's volleyball, women's indoor track and women's lacrosse to earn its second straight Commissioner's Cup, which is awarded annually as a symbol of overall excellence in varsity athletics in the 25 championship events conducted within the MAAC.
The Jaspers, who finished with 116.50 points overall, also won the men's league crown for the first time with 63.50 points. Loyola tallied 58 points to take the women's title. Marist finished second in the overall, men's and women's standings.
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Ottawa Citizen
May 31, 2004 Monday Final Edition
SECTION: Sports; Martin Cleary; Pg. B6
HEADLINE: Season-ending upsets: Mar Huskies' great year
SOURCE: The Ottawa Citizen
BYLINE: Martin Cleary
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- Manhattan College Jaspers, including freshman outfielder Reid Purdy of Kanata, lost to LeMoyne College Dolphins 12-7 in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference baseball final. A win would have put the Jaspers in the NCAA division 1 championship tournament. In the semifinals, Manhattan defeated second-seeded Niagara University Purple Eagles. Starting freshman pitcher Ryan Virtue of Stittsville, who entered the game with a 6-2 record in 17 appearances and a 4.86 ERA, took the loss for Niagara, giving up eight runs on nine hits in 3.2 innings.
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May 30, 2004 Sunday Final Edition
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. D12
HEADLINE: "AWESOME' AL GIVES DOLPHINS TITLE;
DRECHSLER PITCHES LEMOYNE COLLEGE TO THE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP.
BYLINE: By Tom Leo Staff writer
DATELINE: Fishkill
A year ago, LeMoyne College pitcher Al Drechsler watched the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship game from the stands.
He was in street clothes, sitting with his parents while recovering from surgery on his right arm.
"That's why it meant so much to be out here, pitching in the championship game," Drechsler said. "I remembered the feeling I had last year, watching the guys celebrate on the field without me."
This time around, Drechsler was in the middle of the celebration after pitching the Dolphins to a 6-4 victory over Manhattan Saturday at Dutchess County Stadium. The win improved LeMoyne's record to 36-19 and qualified the Dolphins for the Division I NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive season.
NCAA Tournament pairings are scheduled to be announced at noon Monday, televised on ESPN2.
Drechsler retired the first 15 Jaspers he faced, losing his bid for a perfect game when he walked Sly Gutierrez, Manhattan's leadoff hitter in the sixth inning. He didn't allow a hit until there were two outs in the seventh, when Sam Deluca doubled off the right-field fence. Matt Cucurullo followed with a two-run homer to right to end Drechsler's shutout bid.
"Al pitched awesome," LeMoyne coach Steve Owens said. "It was so important that he came out and just completely shut them down early. Then, when we got him a lead, he pitched even better."
"Oh my gosh, I can't even begin to tell you how good Al was today," said Dolphins catcher Brian Hansen, who was voted the tournament's Most Valuable Player after going 8-for-12, including 2-for-3 Saturday. "He basically used only a fastball and a curveball, and a couple of changeups to some of their left-handers. But he was hitting his spots and changing speeds so well, he had their hitters up there guessing all day."
Drechsler's story is somewhat remarkable considering what he's been through. He missed all of last season when the tendon snapped in his right elbow. He underwent "Tommy John" surgery in the spring and had a tendon taken from his wrist and moved to his elbow.
He didn't join the Dolphins this spring until after the season started because he's also a member of the LeMoyne basketball team. Since Drechsler started pitching again, he has been terrific. He compiled a 10-0 record, including Saturday's win, and joined teammate Matt Scherer and former teammate Brian Mattoon as the only Dolphins pitchers to win 10 games in a season. In 702/3 innings this season, Drechsler allowed only 52 hits and 21 earned runs.
Drechsler said he still throws around 90 mph, like he did before the surgery, but his velocity isn't as consistent as it once was. That's made him have to pitch more instead of just rearing back and relying on his fastball.
Drechsler allowed only the two hits and three runs in eight innings Saturday. He struck out four and walked two before getting ninth-inning relief help from Nick Marascia.
"It's more about control," Drechsler said. "Before the surgery I was throwing hard, but if you don't get ahead of guys, or get behind 2-0, they're going to hit you. The big difference this whole year has been getting ahead of guys and making them hit my pitches.
"Even today, I didn't feel like I had my best velocity," Drechsler added, "but I was hitting my spots, and my defense played great behind me. It was a spectacular day for our team."
Offensively, the Dolphins went ahead 3-0 with four singles in the second inning off Manhattan starter Jesse Darcy, who had handed LeMoyne one of three conference losses during the regular season. Steven Suarez drove in two runs with a single to right-center, and Hansen - getting his sixth consecutive hit after a 5-for-5 effort Friday - drove in another run.
LeMoyne took a 6-0 lead with three runs in the sixth, getting runs on an outfield error after a single by Andre Enriquez, a sacrifice fly by Suarez and an RBI triple by Aaron Bulkley.
Manhattan made it 6-2 in the seventh on Cucurullo's home run. The Jaspers scored two runs in the ninth, but Marascia struck out Josh Greco with the tying runs on base to earn LeMoyne its second straight MAAC championship. LeMoyne's 36 wins are a single-season school record.
"I'm so proud of our players," Owens said. "They proved, without a doubt, they are one of the best teams in the Northeast and the best team in the conference."
Next comes the NCAA Tournament. The Dolphins lost their first two games and were eliminated in last year's Mid-Atlantic Regional. LeMoyne players have said all season long that their goal was to get back to the NCAAs and win some games.
"We don't even know who we're playing yet but we're just so excited to be going back," Owens said. "We're going to play as well as we can to represent LeMoyne College."
Joining Hansen on the MAAC All-Tournament Team were four LeMoyne players: Enriquez, Suarez, Scherer and outfielder Jeff Justice.
GRAPHIC: PHOTO; Carlisle Stockton/Contributing photographer; BRIAN HANSEN of LeMoyne College bats against Manhattan College on Saturday in the MAAC championship game in Fishkill. Hansen went 2-for-3 in the game and 8-for-12 in the tournament. He was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player. LeMoyne advanced to the Division I NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive season. Color
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Newsday (New York)
May 29, 2004 Saturday CITY EDITION
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HEADLINE: THE BUZZ
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AWARDS
Curtis Anderson, a 6-6 guard/forward from Cincinnati who spent a year at Laurinburg Prep, has signed a basketball letter of intent with Manhattan College. Anderson averaged 15.5 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.4 steals last season.
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
May 28, 2004 Friday All Editions
SECTION: SPORTS; COLLEGE SPOTLIGHT; Pg. S06
HEADLINE: Glen Rock's Pasternak is all aces
BYLINE: By JOHN ROWE, STAFF WRITER, North Jersey Media Group
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Medea wins MVP
Jillian Medea, a sophomore pitcher from River Vale, is the softball team's MVP at Manhattan College. A second-team All-MAAC player and a first team all-academic pick, she set the Jaspers' record for strikeouts in a season.
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Newsday (New York)
May 27, 2004 Thursday
CITY EDITION
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. A77
HEADLINE: COLLEGE BASEBALL;
Development of a hitter; Manhattan's Cucurullo put in the work and as a senior,
he leads the Jaspers into MAAC tourney
BYLINE: BY JOHN BOELL. STAFF WRITER
Manhattan College's Matt Cucurullo can truly appreciate where he is now.
The senior, who is just two short of setting the school record for hits in a career - in a program that has a 132-year history - has come a long way from his freshman season, when he batted a measly .174.
The centerfielder/designated hitter has overcome numerous injuries, the possibility of losing his starting position and even surgery.
"My freshman season, I came in and struggled all year long," said Cucurullo, who leads third-seeded Manhattan (23-25-1, 16-9) against No. 2 Niagara (26-25, 16-9) at 3 p.m. today in the opening game of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament at Dutchess Stadium in upstate Fishkill.
"I think I had the lowest [batting] average in the conference," Cucurullo said. "I was real down. I didn't think I was going to play any longer, and I wasn't into playing summer ball."
Things didn't get much better for Cucurullo early in his sophomore season, when he felt pain on the inside of his right knee while playing in a fall game against Fordham at KeySpan Park in Brooklyn.
"I was running back, catching a fly ball," Cucurullo said, "and it just killed me."
Cucurullo, who had surgery to remove scar tissue where the hamstring meets the knee, missed the rest of the fall season, and was affected by the prospect of not seeing his name on the lineup card on a daily basis in the spring.
"The bottom line is that I wasn't ready to play Division I ball. I wasn't in great shape, and I had taken things lightly," Cucurullo said. "I never wanted to take things for granted and feel that way again."
So Cucurullo, who never would have been mistaken for Arnold Schwarzenegger, started training with weights.
"He worked tremendously hard in the weight room," said Manhattan coach Steve Trimper, one of the few Division I coaches to offer Cucurullo a scholarship out of Iona Prep. "He actually put on 15 to 20 pounds. He was a little stronger, but the biggest thing is that he matured."
Cucurullo, now 6-1 and 195 pounds, agreed. "What the injury did was allow me to take a step back, and get my thoughts together off the field," he said. "I relaxed and got the mental part of the game together ... Everything has worked out."
He came back for his sophomore season and was second on the Jaspers in batting (.370). His 68 hits tied a single-season school record. Cucurullo also set a single-season record with 25 stolen bases and was named to the All-MAAC first-team.
"That was his breakout year," Trimper said. "That carried over to his junior season."
Cucurullo, who bats left and throws right, hit a team-high .365 that third season with 50 hits, 36 RBIs and 15 stolen bases in the first 38 games. However, the finance major suffered a stress fracture in his foot and missed the remainder of the year, including the Jaspers' first trip to the MAAC Tournament last season.
"We limped without him," Trimper said, "so we're happy to have him this time."
The 2004 preseason All-MAAC selection is hitting .350 (56-for-160) this season with eight home runs and 48 RBIs. Cucurullo became just the second Jasper to post 200 hits in a career Friday, when he went 2-for-4 in his final home game during a 14-12 win over Fairfield.
Cucurullo is likely to pass Manhattan's all-time hits leader, Wendell Anderson (201 hits, 1999-2002), during the double-elimination tournament.
"It's nice and all, but I don't think about it that much," said Cucurullo, who could garner some interest in next month's Major League Baseball amateur draft. "There are five seniors, and the fact is, every one of us wants to win [the MAAC Tournament] badly and make the [NCAA] regionals. Without a doubt, that's our main goal."
MAAC
BASEBALL TOURNAMENT
At Dutchess Stadium, Fishkill
Double-elimination format
Today
Game 1: No. 2 Niagara (26-25, 16-9) vs. No. 3 Manhattan (23-25-1, 16-9), 3 p.m.
Game 2: No. 1 LeMoyne (33-19, 24-3) vs. No. 4 Marist (25-28, 17-10), 7 p.m.
Tomorrow
Game 3: Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2, 11 a.m.
Game 4: Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2, 3 p.m.
Game 5: Winner Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4, 7 p.m.
Saturday
Game 6: Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 5, 1 p.m.
Game 7 (if necessary): 4 p.m.
GRAPHIC: Photos Courtesy / Stockton Photo, Inc. - 1) When the Jaspers' Matt Cucurullo got injured, 2) he took stock of himself and went from hitting .174 as a freshman to the verge of becoming the school's all-time hits leader in his senior year.
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QUAKER Valley's Rogers wins back-to-back gold
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... When I was younger and followed track, I was like, 'I want to be like Gail Devers,'
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By Kevin Gorman
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, May 30, 2004
SHIPPENSBURG -- Standing atop the medals stand, Jasmine Rogers clapped her hands and pumped both fists when the public address announcer revealed that she had tied a PIAA Class AA record in the 100-meter hurdles.
The Quaker Valley senior had little time to celebrate her accomplishment. She had another race to run. Another gold medal to win. And precious time to prepare in between.
Rogers stole the show at the PIAA track and field championships Saturday at Shippensburg University's Seth Grove Stadium, winning gold in back-to-back events and later adding a silver in the 400-meter relay. Quaker Valley finished third in team standings with 34 points.
Rogers won the 100 hurdles in 14.37 seconds, tying Winchester Thurston's Cassie Richards mark, set in 2000. Center sophomore Lindsay Dolan was second (15.01).
Rogers then won the 100-meter dash in 12.36.
"I think I probably could have run a little bit faster if I would have spent more time warming up, but I'm satisfied," Rogers said. "I was like, 'That might not be a great time.' Then I was like, 'It doesn't matter. I've got two gold medals.' "
While waiting for her first medal, Rogers warmed up for her second by running on the infield while the event was completed. A PIAA official even yelled at her to stay seated until she informed him there was another race to run.
Winning the 100 hurdles and 100 meters is a rare feat at the state track meet. Olympian Gail Devers became famous for it, and Rogers counted Devers as an early inspiration.
"When I was younger and followed track, I was like, 'I want to be like Gail Devers,' " said Rogers, who will also play volleyball at Manhattan College. "Now that I'm older, I don't want to be like a superstar. I want to be myself."
Penn Hills junior Sha-tira Snell also claimed two gold medals, winning the 100 hurdles in 14.30 seconds and running the first leg on Penn Hills' winning 400-meter relay. Snell did so despite shin splints that caused both legs to be wrapped, and also finished eighth in the 300 hurdles.
"She does it every meet, so she's used to it," said Jasmine Cottle, Snell's teammate on the 400-meter relay. "She's Superwoman."
The Penn Hills all-underclass team of Snell, sophomores Channing Richardson and Jasmine Cottle and junior Raquel Bender won the 400 relay in 47.81 seconds.
Freshman Charity Werl replaced Snell in the 1,600 relay, and gave Penn Hills a chance to tie McDowell (33 points) for the PIAA AAA team title. But Bender started too fast and lost her lead in the final 200 for an eighth-place finish. Penn Hills took third in team standings with 24 points. A first-place finish in the relay would have given the Indians 33 points, but eighth-place finishers receive only one point.
Schenley sophomore Kaetlyn Brown was the only City League athlete to medal, winning gold in the AAA 400 meters in 56.26. Upper St. Clair sophomore Katie Orchowski was third in 57.06.
"People kept telling me all year, 'You could be the state champion,'" said Brown, who was second in the 400 as a freshman last year. "There were a lot of expectations on me this year. Last year was a huge learning experience."
Freeport junior Lacey Cochran won the AA 400 in 56.99, then took second in the 200 (25.79). It was the sixth PIAA medal for Cochran, a three-time WPIAL champion, but her first gold.
"I knew I was going to win it because I wanted to win it," Cochran said. "I told myself I was going to win it and I made it happen. ... It feels great. It's perfect."
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Kevin Gorman can be reached at kgorman@tribweb.com or (412) 320-7812.
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ROCKLAND Scholar-Athlete: Nanuet's DeFalco
The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA
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By LISA SOKOLOWSKI
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: May 29, 2004)
There was a bit of peer pressure surrounding then-fourth-grader Jennifer DeFalco. Her friends started playing softball the year before, and when the spring rolled around, there was enough buzz encompassing the sport to get her to try out.
So she went out for a team, found herself at shortstop and hasn't moved since.
"I think it really was just how much fun I had," said DeFalco, now a senior captain at Nanuet. "Softball's really fun. It takes a lot to play it. It's not like other sports. You're having fun, but it's so much pressure. If you mess up, everybody can see it. It also gives you a chance to play offense and defense in such different extremes."
DeFalco's nine-year career came to a sudden halt on Wednesday when the Golden Knights suffered a heartbreaking 3-1 loss to Eastchester. DeFalco, whose .319 batting average ranks third on the team, went 1 for 3 in that game.
"She has such a positive attitude," coach Eric Lanks said. "She never got down on herself when things went wrong. That's what you need in a game like softball. If you're a 300 hitter, that's a good average, and you're failing seven out of 10 times. She would always keep positive and keep looking forward."
And minutes after walking in the door after that loss, DeFalco still displayed that attitude.
"It's a tough way for it to end," she said. "When you're a senior, you don't want it to end. It's sad, but at the same time I can't be very unhappy. It was a great season in every aspect."
DeFalco's competitive softball days ended on Nanuet's field that day. Although Manhattan College, which DeFalco will attend in the fall, does have a softball team, she doesn't anticipate playing on it.
She will have her hands full with books and papers, though. She is planning on majoring in Spanish and secondary education.
"It fit me and my parents well," DeFalco said about choosing a college. "Everything I am academically, I owe to them."
So that would mean she owes them her 97.62 average and her first-decile ranking. She took three advanced-placement classes this year, a choice she made and her parents, Guido and Mary, supported.
"When I was a kid, I just really felt like knowledge was power," she said. "I had a need to know things. I've been very lucky. It's from my surroundings, my family. They did something right."
Her love of languages stems back to that time. It was in sixth grade, when she was first introduced to Spanish through a school program. After that, she started noticing the use of the language in the community and thought it was "so cool" when she not only heard it being spoken, but understood what was being said.
So she helped out at an after-school program at the George W. Miller Elementary School teaching Spanish for eight weeks with her teammate, senior first baseman Erin Moreau.
But even with all these experiences quickly becoming memories, she'll have some great ones to take with her in the end.
"Mostly, I'll miss walking down from the field every day, coming down after practice or a game and just talking about the game," she said. "I'll miss the nice moments with my friends and with my family. You really do pass a lot of milestones. It just prepares you better for the future."
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The Journal News Rockland Scholar-Athlete of the Week program honors students for their academic, athletic and community achievements. Each week a winner is selected from the nominees submitted by athletic directors. Only seniors can be nominated and the award can be won only once. Nominations must be received by 5 p.m. Monday for consideration that week.The Journal News Rockland Scholar-Athlete of the Week program honors students for their academic, athletic and community achievements. Each week a winner is selected from the nominees submitted by athletic directors. Only seniors can be nominated and the award can be won only once. Nominations must be received by 5 p.m. Monday for consideration that week.
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PIAA Track Notebook: Rogers doubles pleasure
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Gail Devers. "I was so happy," said Richards, who will play
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Quaker Valley star wins sprint, hurdles
Sunday, May 30, 2004
By Colin Dunlap, Tri-State Sports & News Service
SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. -- After winning the Class AA girls' 100-meter dash yesterday, Quaker Valley's Jasmine Rogers threw both arms in the air.
One for each PIAA gold medal she won.
Rogers finished first in the 100-meter hurdles in a meet-record 14.37, tying the mark set by Winchester Thurston's Cassie Richards in 2000. Rogers bounced back -- just 12 minutes later -- and won the 100-meter dash in 12.36.
"The guy [who was handing out the 100-meter hurdles medals in between races] kept asking me why I was running around and jumping around," Rogers said. "I told him that I had to stay warm and I had to get warmed up for the 100 because I had to run again in like five minutes."
Even with the quick turnaround, Richards managed the hurdle-sprint sweep, much like her childhood idol, Olympian Gail Devers.
"I was so happy," said Richards, who will play volleyball and run track at Manhattan College next year.
"After the second [gold medal], I was just so happy, I was trying to find my mom in the crowd, but I couldn't see her. I heard her screaming, though. I'm just so happy to do this today."
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GILLEN winning, but school wants more
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
... who, along with Robert Hite and DeForrest Riley, led Winton Woods to the
2002 state finals, will play his college basketball at Manhattan College under
former ...
<http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/05/30/spt_sptshoop1koch.html>
Sunday, May 30, 2004
Gillen winning, but school wants more
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ANDERSON TO MANHATTAN: C.J. Anderson, who, along with Robert Hite and DeForrest Riley, led Winton Woods to the 2002 state finals, will play his college basketball at Manhattan College under former Xavier assistant Bobby Gonzalez.
Anderson played last year at Laurinburg (N.C.) Prep Institute, the same school that produced current UC player Asrangue Souleymane, and Vincent Banks, who will join the Bearcats next season as a freshman.
"He had a great year for us," Laurinburg coach Chris Chaney of Anderson. "We had 10 guys sign with Division I schools on our team. At one time, we were ranked No. 1 in the country. He was, if not our best player, one of our best players."
Anderson, at 6 feet 5, 205 pounds, can play forward or guard. He averaged 15 points, six rebounds and four assists at Laurinburg.
Manhattan was 25-6 last season, losing by four points in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to Wake Forest. The Jaspers play in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
Chaney said Banks, a 6-3 shooting guard from Atlanta who led Laurinburg with an average of 18 points a game last season, should be able to help the Bearcats right away.
"He's going to do very well at Cincinnati," Chaney said. "He's one of those guys I think they've been missing the last couple of years. He's such a great scorer. He can score in a variety of ways. He's going to be a special player for them."
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E-mail bkoch@enquirer.com
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CONFERENCE Tournament Update - Saturday's Games
Mississippi States Sports Page - USA
... 14) Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference: Le Moyne won the tournament championship
and the NCAA Regional automatic bid by defeating Manhattan College. ...
<http://mississippistate.theinsiders.com/2/263159.html>
By Gene Swindoll
Date: May 30, 2004
What's happened in the latest conference baseball tournaments and how do the results affect Mississippi State's chances of making the NCAA Regionals? The below opinions are mine only and are based on common sense and also the NCAA's reputation for doing what is politically correct. So, when you see strange predictions, it's due to the latter. The RPI's that I used are from BoydsWorld.com website, effective May 27th.
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14) Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference: Le Moyne won the tournament championship and the NCAA Regional automatic bid by defeating Manhattan College.
In: Le Moyne (36-19, 158). Bubble: None. Conference RPI is 29. (1 in NCAA)
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Gene Swindoll is the publisher/owner of Gene's Page, the source for Mississippi State sports on TheInsiders.com sports network. You can contact him by emailing swindoll@genespage.com.
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From: Ron Bodigheimer '69
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:58 PM
Subject: Fwd: why we fight!
a follow up to "sobering message.
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Now I know why.
I sat in a movie theater, watching "Pearl Harbor" and asked myself, "Why weren't we prepared?"
Now I know why.
Civilized people cannot fathom, much less predict, the actions of evil people.
On September 11, dozens of capable airplane passengers allowed themselves to be overpowered by a handful of poorly armed terrorists because they did not comprehend the depth of hatred that motivated their captors.
On September 11, thousands of innocent people were murdered because too many Americans naively reject the reality that some nations are dedicated to the dominance of others. Many political pundits, pacifists and media personnel want us to forget the carnage. They say we must focus on the bravery of the rescuers and ignore the cowardice of the killers. They implore us to understand the motivation of the perpetrators. Major television stations have announced they will assist the healing process by not replaying devastating footage of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers.
I will not be manipulated.
I will not pretend to understand.
I will not forget.
I will not forget the liberal media who abused freedom of the press to kick our country when it was vulnerable and hurting.
I will not forget that CBS anchor Dan Rather preceded President Bush's address to the nation with the snide remark, "No matter how you feel about him, he is still our president."
I will not forget that ABC TV anchor Peter Jennings questioned President Bush's motives for not returning immediately to Washington, DC and commented, "We're all pretty skeptical and cynical about Washington."
And I will not forget that ABC's Mark Halperin warned if reporters weren't informed of every little detail of this war, they aren't "likely -- nor should they be expected -- to show deference."
I will not isolate myself from my fellow Americans by pretending an attack on the USS Cole in Yemen was not an attack on the United States of America.
I will not forget the Clinton administration equipped Islamic terrorists and their supporters with the world's most sophisticated telecommunications equipment and encryption technology, thereby compromising America's ability to trace terrorist radio, cell phone, land lines, faxes and modem communications.
I will not be appeased with pointless, quick retaliatory strikes like those perfected by the previous administration.
I will not be comforted by "feel-good, do nothing" regulations like the silly, "Have your bags been under your control?" question at the airport.
I will not be influenced by so called, "antiwar demonstrators" who exploit the right of expression to chant anti-American obscenities.
I will not forget the moral victory handed the North Vietnamese by American war protesters who reviled and spat upon the returning soldiers, airmen, sailors and marines.
I will not be softened by the wishful thinking of pacifists who chose reassurance over reality.
I will embrace the wise words of Prime Minister Tony Blair who told the Labor Party conference, "They have no moral inhibition on the slaughter of the innocent. If they could have murdered not 7,000 but 70,000, does anyone doubt they would have done so and rejoiced in it?
There is no compromise possible with such people, no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must!"
I will force myself to:
- hear the weeping
- feel the helplessness
- imagine the terror
- sense the panic
- smell the burning flesh
- experience the loss
- remember the hatred.
I sat in a movie theater, watching "Private Ryan" and asked myself, "Where did they find the courage?"
Now I know.
We have no choice. Living without liberty is not living.
-- Ed Evans, MGySgt., USMC (Ret.)
Not as lean, Not as mean, But still a Marine.
Keep this going until every living American has read it and memorized it so we don't make the same mistake again.
[JR: I have no knowledge of the provenance of this appending. It certainly makes good points. We have to do better, demand better, and "recognize" better.]
From: Kevin Moore [1980]
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 10:35 AM
Subject: JASPER JOTTINGS 5/16/04
Dear John,
Your point is well taken on the culture of death that values elephants more than children.
As I previously mentioned (some time ago) I presently am affiliated with the helpers of god’s precious infants, a prayer and counseling group dedicated to helping the unborn and their mothers. If anyone is interested in joining us or wants more information they can log on to the helpers web-site at http://members.aol.com/infants1 /
Kevin Moore
[JR: Thanks, but, it's not an earthshaking observation about the collective stupidity that is going on. Just every once in a while it becomes so blatant that it bears notation. Good luck on your work. ]
From: William Lynch [1996]
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 11:03 PM
Subject: Fw: Returned mail: delivery problems encountered
John,
All of the read receipts which you asked for, concerning the latest issue of "Jasper Jottings," are bouncing back to me as undeliverable to you. I thought that you would want to know.
Best regards,
Bill Lynch
MBA '96
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From: Jasper John '68 @ Jasper Jottings.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:00 AM
To: 'William Lynch'
Subject: RE: Returned mail: delivery problems encountered
Bill, Sorry. Something has gone "different" this week on the inet mail services. (That's one reason I want to go to Yahoo Distribution.) Evidently, a large number of emails bounced -- some to known good addresses -- but instead of coming back with an indicative (small) message they are bouncing back with the whole issue. That's overwhelming my inbox. I am cleaning it as fast as I can, but the big clump of gunk keeps streaming in. Argh. Please just nuke any that come your way. Most frustrating is I have no idea who got what so I will just have to depend on our fellow alums to realize they missed something and go to the web site, or stick up their electronic hand and ask "may I have another"! (Sir, optional.) Thanks for your patience. I know how aggravated I get when this stuff happens. John
From: Donald M. Stebbins (1961)
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 11:03 PM
To: John Reinke (1968)
Subject: Mr. Helm's comments
Dear Jasper John,
Just two comments in answer to Mr. Helm's comments on my submission on the Crusades.
1. I majored in physics, not business.
2. Mr. Helm's ad hominem arguments are hardly a surprise, since Conservatives and right wingers always indulge in them as a first refuge. After all, they have no facts in their favor and all logic would refute their arguments, so they have no place else to go.
Donald M. Stebbins BS 1961
ddstebbins
"restore democracy now"
[JR: Well as an injineer, I am not favorably impressed by physic-cysts, cause they invent stuff that has to be engineered to work, nor bysiness guys who take a perfectly good product and sell it for something it is not intended, nor histerical-orians who get all the "facts" wrong. Only us injineers have the "truth". Seriously, it isn't personal, but history is written by the winners. Facts are interpreted by the tellers. We have again stuck nose into a hornet's nest. Like most "destructive testing", we will never know what would have happened down a different course. That's the problems with choosing a course of action; it eliminates all the other options. That's why often temporizing is a good strategy. One has to think that our timid responses have emboldened our enemies. Maybe this was the best course and the best result. I know from casino gambling, the best result is often not "winning", but not "losing" too much. That's why "cut your losses and let your winners run" is popular strategy on Wall Street. ]
[JR: Upon reflection, that ad hommynim attacks come from either side of the political aisle today in what passes for reasoned debate. ]
From: Yahoo! Groups Notification
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 11:08 PM
To: ManhattanCollegeAlumni-owner@yahoogroups.com
Subject: APPROVE -- mcosgrove34 <mcosgrove34@yahoo.com> wants to join ManhattanCollegeAlumni
Hello,
The following person would like to join the ManhattanCollegeAlumni group:
Email address: <privacy invoked>
Comment from user:
Hi,
My name is Maegan Cosgrove and I graduated Manhattan in 2002. I would like to join this group. Thanks
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From: Jasper John '68 @ Jasper Jottings.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:08 AM
Subject: FW: APPROVE -- <privacy invoked> wants to join
ManhattanCollegeAlumni
Dear fellow Alum Cosgrove,
I, of course, "approved" your entry into this venue. May I call your attention to the "Distribute_Jasper_Jottings" group? That is where I push my weekly Jasper Jottings ezine.
I set this group up, and similar Google groups, to "occupy" the namespace for the College. Hence, I restrict my "pushings" here to what comes from the College officially.
Hope this helps,
John
From: Mawn, Joseph 1963
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 9:56 AM
To: Distribute_Jasper_Jottings-owner@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Welcome to Distribute_Jasper_Jottings
Thanks, John for the invitation to receive the jasper jottings thru Yahoo. And thank you for all you do. I enjoy receiving the news about Manhattan and look forward to it every weekend. Thanks again. Joe Mawn
[JR: Glad you find it interesting. The kudos belongs to all the alums that write, read, and recruit. I'm just labor. ]
From: Jasper John '68 @ Jasper Jottings.com
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 11:54 PM
Subject: Your invitation to Distribute Jasper Jottings has failed Yahoo's edits
or checks or says that you don't accept invites.
Please send an email to Distribute_Jasper_Jottings-subscribe@yahoogroups.com to subscribe. John'68
[JR: Many invites "bounced" with strange error messages. Anyone can "register" themselves by sending an email message to Distribute_Jasper_Jottings-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ]
From: William Lynch [1996]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 12:02 AM
Subject: OK JR, I am down with that
Dear John,
I have joined your Yahoo distribution network. Gawhead, drag me kicking and screaming into the 21st century!
Later,
Bill Lynch
MBA '96
[JR: Thanks, I am really looking forward to eliminating the Saturday – Sunday nightmare trying to distribute Jottings. I won't miss that. IF this works. As a trained by mister Murphy technology weenie, I know what can go wrong, will. ]
John --
Thank you for all the work you do. I have been reading Jasper Jottings through my AOL account. I received, this morning, the invitation to switch to Yahoo. In checking things out, I went to the jasperjottings.com web site for the first time. It is much easier to view the stuff here, so I've decided not to sign-up for Yahoo group, but to read things online.
So, please note my e-mail <privacy invoked> in case you switch from this server. My full name and class: James W. Sedlak 1967S.
Thanks again for all you do.
-- Jim
[JR: That's fine. Whatever works best for you. Just remember to check in with news and recruit any alums you run into. Your welcome indeed, but if I didn't do it someone else would. The credit goes to all the readers, writer, and recruiters who have made this what it is. Where else could you learn about the French McDonalds and the Crusades? ]
[JR: That's why the readership numbers will be sort of meaningless. I'll have to investigate web bugs for tracking. ]
From: Frederick H Abrew [1959]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 9:08 AM
To: John Reinke (1968)
Subject: Jasper Jottings
John
I read your writings and efforts via: http://www.jasperjottings.com
Fred Abrew
McMurray, PA 15317
[JR: Glad to have you. At least you didn't call it "rantings". Keep in touch. ]
John,
Looks good.
Pete McDermott '67
[JR: Thanks. ]
From: Dennis J Chin [1973]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 9:22 AM
Subject: RE: Welcome to Distribute_Jasper_Jottings
John, I think that switching to Yahoo is the right way to go. I don't know how you could of endured a 6 hour "pain in the ass chore" every week!
Send out a special email soliciting this change over, your problem I think will be that not everyone will be "comfortable" enough with computers to make the switch over.
Try and see how it goes. Distribution will be a lot simpler via the Yahoo way.
Dennis
From: Kirley, Gene [1990]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:20 AM
Subject:
keep up the good work John.
[JR: As long as I have readers and I can. Thanks. ]
From: Sullivan, Joseph C. (1968)
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:54 PM
To: 'Distribute_Jasper_Jottings Moderator'
Subject: RE: File - Welcome
Thanks, John, for all you do. Joe Sullivan.
[JR: Appreciate the good thoughts. ]
From: John Haugh [1953]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:55 PM
To: publisher@jasperjottings.com
Subject: Thanks
John,
Thanks for inviting me to be a member of the Yahoo Group, Distribute_Jasper_Jottings. I am grateful to you for keeping the Alumni informed about the happenings of the members and Manhattan College. I wish you success on the new method of distribution.
Regards,
John Haugh - Class of 1953
[JR: Appreciate the good words. If, big if, the new method works, it will free up time to do some different things to improve the quality IMHO. But, I had to free up some time and reduce the aggravation. Now we will see how many of our fellow alums feel the same way. ]
From: Jack Holodak (1966)
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 5:02 PM
To: Distribute_Jasper_Jottings-owner@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Welcome to the "Distribution" Beta Group
John,
First Yahoo trial successful. Compared content and is A-Okay.
Jack
[JR: Great! ]
From: Bob Insull (1963)
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 9:13 AM
To: editor@jasperjottings.com
Subject: Re: Terrorizing the Terrorists
At the risk of being labeled with one or more of the epithets (“… progressive, civil libertarian, ACLU, anti-American suspect … do-gooder and America-hater” [all of which, except for the anti- America pair, I proudly confess]) leveled in my classmate Lou Apoldo’s e-Mail of 5/23/04 I feel a strong need to reply.
Lou, where were you during the Moral Theology and Ethics classes of your years at M.C.? Is resorting to hate tactics the way to bring about the peace we’re obliged as educated Christians to espouse and promote? Have we as a society not advanced in the hundred years since Blackjack Pershing’s “modest proposal” to a point beyond the exercise of religious abuse as a means of “winning?” Indeed, what could winning possibly mean if we reduce ourselves to committing the very same offenses we find so odious in our “enemies?” (If I terrorize the terrorists does that not make me a terrorist?)
Within the circles in which I have sway I have decried the heinous actions of those who have so callously killed their captives (and so I feel no compelling need to offer myself as a “ …human shield for the Coalition forces in Iraq”). And yet I can’t help but recognize that, universally, the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin and we scratch at it with great peril to our own personal and spiritual way of life (witness the invidious smiles on the faces on the perpetrators of the Abu Ghraib indecencies). To resort to the tactics you espouse demeans the values we hold dear as Americans and abrogates our (literally) God-given duty to love one another.
Shame on you. Lou.
Bob Insull
B.S. '63
[JR: Far be it from me to step into a good cat fight. But, I do remember something about the "just war". Even then "rules" in a fight seem impractical and implausible. I have some problems with being labeled a "terrorist" for striking terror into the hearts of the bad guys. I am compelled to love my neighbor, but someone plotting my demise may not be so "neighborly". I'm just an injineer, so I vote to fight to win. I'd have preferred to avoid the fight but now that it is here. Nuke 'em, figuratively. ]
From: John Nason [1952]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 7:44 PM
Subject: JasperJottings.com
I'm getting JasperJottings.com. You asked that I let you know.
John Nason '52
[JR: John'52, I appreciate the feedback. Nice to know when something works. John'68 ]
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FINAL WORDS THIS WEEK
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38731
Consequence Day
Posted: June 1, 2004
Col. David H. Hackworth, author of his new best-selling "Steel My
Soldiers' Hearts," "Price of Honor" and "About Face,"
has seen duty or reported as a sailor, soldier and military correspondent in
nearly a dozen wars and conflicts – from the end of World War II to the recent
fights against international terrorism.
<SNIP>
Perhaps the mothers of America should form a Consequence Committee to pass on issues of war and peace. Clearly the decision to go to war is far too important to be left to our shortsighted, agenda-driven politicians and Pentagon eager beavers.
<SNIP>
Heinlein said it best, "only vets should be allowed to vote". Maybe we will wise up.
And that’s the last word.
-30-
GBu. GBA.