Sunday 18 July 2004

Dear Jaspers,

As of July 1st, there is now only one way to get your Jottings fix via email. You must join the Yahoo Group Distribute_Jasper_Jottings.  If you want to receive it via email, you must send an email to Distribute_Jasper_Jottings-subscribe-- AT --yahoogroups.com from that address with your name and class as identifying information.

563 have registered on the Distribute site.

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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.

We Nov 3 Treasure Coast FL Alumni Holiday Inn
--- on US 1 in Stuart, Florida  at noon
--- contact Ed Plumeau '52A c/o Jasper Jottings

Sa Nov 6, '04 MC Gulf Coast Alumni golf tournament
--- Pelican Pointe Golf and Country Club, Venice, Fl
--- George Brew '50 Co-Chairman

We Dec 15 Treasure Coast FL Alumni Holiday Inn
--- on US 1 in Stuart, Florida  at noon
--- contact Ed Plumeau '52A c/o Jasper Jottings

We Jan 26 Treasure Coast FL Alumni Holiday Inn
--- on US 1 in Stuart, Florida  at noon
--- contact Ed Plumeau '52A c/o Jasper Jottings

We Mar 16 Treasure Coast FL Alumni Holiday Inn
--- on US 1 in Stuart, Florida  at noon
--- contact Ed Plumeau '52A c/o Jasper Jottings

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My list of Jaspers who are in harms way:

- Afghanistan
- - Feldman, Aaron (1997)

- Iraq
- - 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.app.com/app/story/0,21625,1000971,00.html

Woman says she didn't know children were throwing coins from car
Published in the Asbury Park Press 7/11/04
By JOSEPH PICARD
TOMS RIVER BUREAU

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A Beachwood woman charged Thursday by Lakewood police with bias harassment, after officers said she encouraged children in her car to throw pennies at Orthodox Jews there, said yesterday that police are misrepresenting her role in the incident.

"I did not know that was what the kids were doing," said Frances A. Stiles, 42, of Mizzen Avenue. "I will admit to being irresponsible for letting the children under my care throw anything from a car window. But I did not encourage them to throw pennies at Jewish people."

Lakewood police charge that Stiles was giving the pennies to two 15-year-old girls and an 11-year-old boy to throw at Orthodox Jews walking along Route 9 around 6 p.m. Thursday. No one was injured by the coins, police said.

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Joseph Picard: (732) 557-5738 or jpicard-- AT --app.com

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This is unacceptable. There is no place in the American dream for such behavior. Where did the children get the idea that it was "acceptable" or "funny" to do such evil. This is the essence of the religious wars the dead old white guys tried to keep us out of. This is the naked aggression that all us Libertarians hate. I would suggest that the full power of the State be leveled at this problem. Throw the book at her, and the kids, as necessary. Make an example that this behavior is not tolerated by society. Let's examine our own actions for any hint that we give even tacit approval to such. We have to exorcise this curse of human nature.

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--AT--att.net

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[CONTENTS]

 

2

Formal announcements

 

1

Updates

 

1

Messages from Headquarters
 (like MC Press Releases)

 

1

Jaspers publishing web pages

 

5

Jaspers found web-wise

 

0

Good News

 

1

Obits

 

5

"Manhattan in the news" stories

 

0

Resumes

 

2

Sports

 

10

Emails

 

[PARTICIPANTS BY CLASS]

Class

Name

Section

????

Vetrano, Stephen

News5

????

Williams, Paul

News2

1933?

Callahan, Patrick

Found3

1950

Brew, George

Email04

1954?

Duffy, Jay

Found3

1957

Dans, Peter

Email03

1960

Drohan, David F.

Announcement1

1967

Jones, Clarence J.

Email02

1968

Laker, Ken

Email07

1968

Lawrence, Richard A.

Email07

1969

McCarthy, Tom

Email01

1973

Chin, Dennis J

Email09

1981

Esposito, Steven G.

Email10

1983

Loughman, William J.

Announcement2

1988

Athanasidy, Patrice E.

Found2

1990

Roberts, Keith J.

WebPage1

1994

Kuzma, Eileen P.

Found1

1995?

Joseph, Jean

Found3

1998

Zelnik, Geoffrey

Email05

2004

Raines, Zakiya

Email06

 

 

[PARTICIPANTS BY NAME]

Class

Name

Section

1988

Athanasidy, Patrice E.

Found2

1950

Brew, George

Email04

1933?

Callahan, Patrick

Found3

1973

Chin, Dennis J

Email09

1957

Dans, Peter

Email03

1960

Drohan, David F.

Announcement1

1954?

Duffy, Jay

Found3

1981

Esposito, Steven G.

Email10

1967

Jones, Clarence J.

Email02

1995?

Joseph, Jean

Found3

1994

Kuzma, Eileen P.

Found1

1968

Laker, Ken

Email07

1968

Lawrence, Richard A.

Email07

1983

Loughman, William J.

Announcement2

1969

McCarthy, Tom

Email01

2004

Raines, Zakiya

Email06

1990

Roberts, Keith J.

WebPage1

????

Vetrano, Stephen

News5

????

Williams, Paul

News2

1998

Zelnik, Geoffrey

Email05

 

 

 

 

FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

[Announcement1]

Drohan, David F. (MC 1960) appointed to Cytomedix BofD

PrimeZone Media Network
July 13, 2004 Tuesday 6:33 AM EST
SECTION: DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
HEADLINE: Cytomedix, Inc. Appoints Additional Senior Health Industry Executive to its Board;  Second Recent Appointment Further Enhances Company's Board and Efforts to Commercialize Chronic Wound Care Treatment

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 13, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Cytomedix, Inc. (OTCBB:CYME) today announced the appointment of David F. Drohan to its board of directors, filling a board vacancy.

Drohan currently serves as senior vice president of Baxter Healthcare Corporation (NYSE:BAX) and president of Baxter's Medication Delivery business, a position he has held since May 2001. In this capacity he has direct general management responsibility for the development and worldwide marketing of intravenous products, drug-delivery and automated distribution systems, as wells as anesthesia, critical care and oncology products -- representing $4 billion in combined annual sales.

He joined Baxter in 1965 as a territory manager in New York, and throughout the years has held a succession of senior positions. In 1983, he became vice president of sales for the Parenteral Division, and in 1987, was promoted to president of the Pharmacy Division. After serving as president of four of the seven business units within I.V. Systems, in May 1996, he assumed the position of president of I.V. Systems. In December 1996, he was named corporate vice president of Baxter Healthcare Corporation and in 1999, became president of I.V. Systems/Medical Products. Prior to joining Baxter, Drohan worked for Proctor & Gamble.

"The addition of Mr. David Drohan today follows the recent appointment of Cardinal Health executive Mark T. McLoughlin and further highlights the importance we place on people with highly successful senior healthcare industry experience to support and enhance the commercialization of our AutoloGel(tm) System for the treatment of chronic wounds. Not only does Dave have a wealth of hands-on experience related to all aspects of a $4 billion annual sales portfolio of medical devices and drugs, but under his leadership the businesses have grown at very healthy rates over many years. His involvement with Cytomedix is a vote of confidence in the future of Cytomedix and in the potential of our Autologel(tm) technology. In addition, his counsel and close guidance on all aspects of our operations and strategy, his familiarity with and access to other medical device and drug industry senior leaders and his dexterity in developing strategic relationships will be valuable assets for Cytomedix. We are honored and grateful that he has agreed to join our board," said Dr. Kshitij Mohan, chief executive officer of Cytomedix.

"I am delighted to join Kshitij and his team in their efforts to bring this unique and elegant technology to patients worldwide to heal otherwise non-healing chronic wounds," Drohan said.

He is a member of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy's board of trustees, chairman of the Lake County Economic Development Corporation and president of the board of the Riverside Foundation. He also serves on the Baxter Credit Union board and on the Founders board of Lake County Partners.

He earned his bachelor's degree in industrial relations from Manhattan College, New York.

About Baxter International

Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) is a global health-care company that, through its subsidiaries, assists health-care professionals and their patients with treatment of complex medical conditions including hemophilia, immune disorders, kidney disease, cancer, trauma and other conditions. With 2003 sales of $8.9 billion, and approximately 50,000 employees in more than 100 countries, Baxter applies its expertise in medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology to make a meaningful difference in patients' lives.

About Cytomedix

Cytomedix, Inc. is a biotechnology company specializing in processes and products derived from autologous platelet releasates. The current product offering is Autologel(tm), an autologous platelet gel composed of multiple growth factors and fibrin matrix, which is used to treat chronic wounds and supported by an extensive base of patents. The Company is working with healthcare providers to offer an advanced therapy at the point-of-care in multiple settings. It has commenced a well-controlled, FDA- approved clinical trial to seek a specific clinical indication for Autologel(tm) for the treatment of non-healing diabetic foot ulcers. Additional information is available at: http://www.cytomedix.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

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CONTACT:   Cytomedix, Inc. Dr. Kshitij Mohan (501) 258-2743 Maier & Company, Inc.  Gary S. Maier    (310) 442-9852      

LOAD-DATE: July 14, 2004

[Liz Velasquez '98 reports: 1960 (Thanks, Liz) ]

 

 

[Announcement2]

Loughman, William J. (MC1983) AirGate PCS, Inc. Appoints Chief Financial Officer

Business Wire
July 13, 2004 Tuesday
DISTRIBUTION: Business Editors
HEADLINE: AirGate PCS, Inc. Appoints Chief Financial Officer
DATELINE: ATLANTA, July 13, 2004

AirGate PCS, Inc., (Nasdaq/NM: PCSA), a PCS Affiliate of Sprint, today announced that it has appointed William J. Loughman as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Prior to joining AirGate, Mr. Loughman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Baran Telecom (formerly o2wireless Solutions) in Atlanta. During his tenure there, he also served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Loughman was the former General Manager for AT&T Wireless in Atlanta and Director of Business Development for the Southeast region. His previous positions include Director of Operations in Europe and the Middle East for Motorola; Vice President - Finance and Executive Director for Bell Atlantic Mobile; Vice President, Controller for Metro Mobile CTS, Inc.; and Controller for Cellular One in New York.

Mr. Loughman received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Manhattan College in Riverdale, New York.

"Bill brings a broad range of operational and financial management experience to AirGate," said Thomas M. Dougherty, President and Chief Executive Officer of AirGate PCS. "His extensive background in the wireless industry, particularly in the Carolinas, makes him an excellent addition to our management team. With the completion of our debt restructuring, we now are focused on growing our subscriber base and providing quality Sprint PCS products and services to subscribers in our territory in the most efficient manner possible. We look forward to Bill's contributions and are confident that his financial expertise and knowledge of our industry will be invaluable to AirGate as we execute our strategy."

AirGate PCS, Inc. is the PCS Affiliate of Sprint with the right to sell wireless mobility communications network products and services under the Sprint brand in territories within three states located in the Southeastern United States. The territories include over 7.4 million residents in key markets such as Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina; Augusta and Savannah, Georgia; and Asheville, Wilmington and the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

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CONTACT: AirGate PCS Inc., Atlanta Thomas M. Dougherty, 404-525-7272 

LOAD-DATE: July 14, 2004

[Liz Velasquez '98 reports: 1983 (Thanks, Liz) ]

 

 

Updates

[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".]

None

 

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

[Headquarters1]

MANHATTAN COLLEGE AWARDS UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES THROUGH ADULT DEGREE COMPLETION PROGRAM

RIVERDALE, N.Y.  -- Manhattan College awarded 40 Bachelor of Science degrees in organizational management from its Adult Degree Completion program Wednesday, May 19.  Students who completed their studies in May 2004 participated in the ceremony held in the College’s main chapel as part of the 162nd annual Spring Commencement program. 

The adult degree completion program is designed to offer an alternative academic opportunity to non-traditional students by addressing the needs of working adults wishing to complete their college degree. College credit can be given for prior college study, professional training, completion of nationally recognized examinations and evaluation for life experience.

During the ceremony, in which more than 100 graduate students also were awarded master’s degrees in biotechnology, education and engineering, an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree was presented to Manhattan College alumnus Peter Quinn ’69, writer, historian and corporate editorial director at Time Warner. 

In his speech, Mr. Quinn aimed to convey his own Manhattan College educational experience to the new graduates.  He said, “Manhattan’s influence spills across the city and the metropolitan region.  It informs and enlivens the ceaseless discourse taking place in classrooms, courtrooms, firehouses, offices – everywhere the graduates of this school continue the process of self-enlightenment they began here.”

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Births

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Engagements

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Graduations

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[OBITS]

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

Your assistance is requested in finding these. Please don’t assume that I will “catch” it via an automated search. Sometimes the data just doesn’t makes it’s way in.

Obit1

The Providence Journal (Rhode Island)
July 8, 2004 Thursday
All Editions
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. C-06
HEADLINE: OBITUARIES

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Narragansett

BROTHER ROBERT J. KILEY, FSC, 72, of the Christian Brothers Center, Ocean Road, the former assistant athletic director at La Salle Academy, Providence, died Tuesday in St. Elizabeth Home, East Greenwich.

Born in Providence, he was a son of the late Martin J. and Mary A. (Markey) Kiley. Brother Kiley entered the order of the Brothers of the Christian Schools on Sept. 1, 1962, in Narragansett, and made his final profession on March 22, 1968, at Manhattan College, New York City.

He had previously served in the Navy, until 1955.

He had been assigned to La Salle Academy for 16 years, and had been its assistant athletic director before being reassigned in 1992 to the Christian Brothers Center. He retired in 1999.

Brother Kiley had previously been assistant director of food services at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, New York City.

He had attended Marquette University, Stonehill College, and Maryhurst Culinary School, and received a certificate in food-service management from Cornell University.

He leaves a sister, Kathleen A. Accattatis of Milton, Mass.; and several nieces, nephews, and grandnieces and grandnephews. He was the brother of the late John E., Joseph F., Rita M. and Hugh J. Kiley Sr., and Christine M. Osborne.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Chapel of Our Lady of the Star, Christian Brothers Center, 635 Ocean Rd. Burial will follow in Christian Brothers Center Cemetery.

LOAD-DATE: July 9, 2004

 

 

[News from Web and Other Sources]

News1

Chicago Tribune
July 14, 2004 Wednesday
Chicago Final Edition
SECTION: WOMAN
NEWS ; ZONE C; MAGAZINES. ; Pg. 6
HEADLINE: `Plastic Prozac': Soothe your soul by playing with dolls
BYLINE: By Marla Paul, Special to the Tribune.

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ADDitude: Starting college is an adjustment for any kid, but when she has ADHD, the challenges of a new, unstructured environment are especially complex. "The abyss is greater than many people believe," warns Ross Pollack, director of the Specialized Resource Center at Manhattan College in Riverdale, N.Y. ADDitude, a bimonthly magazine for people with Attention Deficit Disorder, offers strategies for kids to succeed in college. Preparations should start in the summer with parents meeting the director of the school's learning disabilities support center as well as the child's academic adviser, writes Lois Gilman.

LOAD-DATE: July 14, 2004

 

 

News2

The Journal News (Westchester County, NY)
July 9, 2004 Friday
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. 23A
HEADLINE: ESG WRESTLING QUALIFIER
BYLINE: Glenn Roth, Staff

Williams is determined to excel

Mamaroneck resident hopes to make mark for Hudson Valley

It's a typical summer night wrestling workout as a spry Paul Williams is leading the way. In fact, only a select few can even keep up with his pace and match his power.

The room is filled with current and former pupils.

"I've never seen anyone with the type of intensity he has and it's in everything he does. He lifts, runs, wrestles and coaches with intensity," said New Rochelle graduate Gary Bruzzese, who wrestles for Ithaca College.

The 40-year-old Williams, who stands 5 feet 6 inches and weighs 163 pounds, can bench 330.

He lifts weights three days a week and rides the stationary bike to keep himself in tip-top shape.

The Mamaroneck resident's dedication and determination has led him to the Empire State Games, which are set for July 28-Aug. 1 in Binghamton.

He will represent Hudson Valley in open men's greco wrestling. At the qualifier, Williams placed first in the 167-pound division. Greco consists mainly of upper-body throws and headlocks.

Williams has been the assistant wrestling coach at New Rochelle High School for the past eight seasons. He got his start in the sport during his sophomore year at New Rochelle-based Blessed Sacrament and went on to wrestle for Manhattan College.

"Most people at his age are not as intense as he is," said New Rochelle graduate Eddie Ortiz, who wrestles for SUNY Cortland. "That probably makes him one of the best coaches in Section 1.

"When he ran practice, you knew you were in for a rough day."

Williams will be competing in the Games for the second consecutive year. Last summer, he took fifth in the 152-pound freestyle division.

And why does he keep competing?

"That's a good question, I ask myself that too," said Williams, who teaches physical education at Davis Elementary School located in New Rochelle, "I do it to keep myself young and in shape. When I compete I like to prepare myself and get in good shape.

"I set an example for the kids on the team. They see me working hard and putting the time into it."

Williams commented that competing at the Games is not about winning but gaining respect by working hard.

Bruzzese, who qualified for the open men's freestyle in the 187 division, said the strong work ethic he possesses today he got from watching Williams.

"He's the hardest working guy I know," Bruzzese said, "and I think he set that example for all the kids."

Ortiz echoed Bruzzese's sentiments.

 

"When he wrestles, the guy does not quit," Ortiz said. "I don't think anyone can pin him. He's so tough."

One wish that Williams has is that his wife and 8-year-old daughter accompany him to Binghamton.

"I'm hoping they come out," he said. "I'm kind of hoping that they do. It would be a big thrill for me to see them in the stands. It would make me want to win more and give me some extra motivation."

LOAD-DATE: July 10, 2004

 

 

News3

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
July 8, 2004 Thursday Final Edition
SECTION: NEIGHBORS WEST; Pg. 14
HEADLINE: ACHIEVERS

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Honor society

Alexandra Nigolian, a 2002 graduate of Westhill High School and daughter of Gary and Cindy Nigolian, of Westvale, was named to the dean's list at Manhattan College for the fourth consecutive semester. She will be entering her junior year this fall.

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LOAD-DATE: July 9, 2004

 

 

News4

MContheWEB: A (curious) Conversation with six De La Salle Christian Brothers

http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1024.htm

Conversation with six De La Salle Christian Brothers

Citation Information: A Conversation with six De La Salle Christian Brothers. The interview with the DeLaSalle Christians Brothers took place on December 3, 1999 at DeLaSalle Hall, Lincroft, New Jersey.      A conversation with six De La Salle Christian Brothers. All are Irish Americans over 75 years old. All of their parents were immigrants to the United States. The Brothers were asked to talk about their personal histories and their experiences of discrimination and acceptance.

Family histories: My parents knew each other in Ireland. Came here in the 1920's, married here and lived in a high-class ghetto, Ascension parish (lower West Side, New York City). The parish was mostly Irish; I went to a Brothers' (DeLa Salle) school. When the neighborhood went down, we moved up to the Bronx.

I was born in Scotland and lived there until I was six. My mother was raised in Ireland and both her parents were born in Ireland. There were no jobs in Ireland so they went to Scotland. My father came to the United States to gain passage for our family in 1928. His first stop was at Halifax, Nova Scotia, then on to New York City. He didn't go through Ellis Island. The authorities came on board to check us. They asked if you were Scotch or Irish. My mother told him to say he was both. Scotch or Irish did not refer to your nationality; it referred to your religion. If you were Scotch, you were Protestant, if Irish, Catholic. Catholics were discriminated against.

Both of my parents were born in Ireland. My mother was from Kerry. My father from Meath. They met in the United States. My father went to Canada first, then moved to Highbridge, an Irish, Jewish, Italian ghetto just north of Yankee Stadium.

My mother was from Donegal; my father was from County Louth. They came to the United States married and lived in Glen Cove, Long Island. My mother was a chambermaid, my father an electrician. After I was born, my father got a job in Connecticut. He died up there of the flu in 1918. My mother was left with three children and couldn't cope so she took us back to Donegal. Then my mother and sister returned to find work in the United States as housekeeper and chambermaid. They went all the way to California and then back to Rumson, New Jersey, working for Major Bowes.

I went to Industrial school in Ireland; I walked four miles to the school with my shoes off to save them. In 1926, my aunt took my brother and me to the United States; I hadn't seen my mother for a long time. I didn't remember what she looked like. I remember walking off the gangplank and this woman came over and hugged me; she was my mother. I remember taking a taxi and it was the first time I saw a Negro man.

I went to Holy Name school; lived in poverty. My mother was not able to pay the $29 rent so she was renting out some of the rooms. We moved to 103rd St. and got another month's free rent. You never told the landlord you were moving. That was a common practice of the Irish at the time. Then we moved to 101st Street, then to 98th St.; we were always moving someplace. We finally settled at 766 Columbus Ave. I still went to Holy Name (Irish parish) school.

We were called 'Micks' (a derogatory term). There were some Italians there and some conflict. I went back to Donegal in 1985 for my 50th anniversary (of profession as religious brother). It hadn't changed a bit.

Shift now from Holy Name parish to St. Gabriel's on the East Side. My mom came from Tiperrary and my dad from County Louth. My grandparents were from County Monaghan. As a kid I never knew my grandparents. My parents never spoke of their parents. I used to wonder, "What's a grandfather?". In my father's family, there were 3 boys, 2 girls. My dad did not get along with his father. My grandfather would not give him any money to go to the United States.

My father came before 1916 (Easter rebellion in Ireland). He had a tough time getting a job.

A friend fixed him up with my mother and they moved to St. Jerome's parish in the Bronx in the late 1920's. There were Germans, Italians, Polish and, of course, Irish and one black, a blacksmith. We never communicated with the blacks; we were not prejudiced; we were ignorant. Our parents were not that concerned about it (blacks).

As kids we never heard of a Protestant church; our parents told us not to go into a Protestant church; we didn't question it. We went to the Brothers' ( De La Salle Christian) school and paid 50 cents a month, if you could afford it. We got a good education practically free.

My parents had five boys in a row. My father was a handyman, working in maintenance in a nursing home, then in Brooklyn in Fanny Farmer's Candy. I went to Barrytown High School (a novitiate for training De La Salle brothers); I wonder now if I was escaping from my home. My mother never knew what a Brother was.

We didn't experience any type of bigotry except as kids when we went to the Jewish section; we'd start a fight. It wasn't bitterness; it was recreation. My mom or dad didn't speak against any group.

My father came over here (United States) because he had a sister here. He settled in Greenpoint, New York. He was born in 1888, came over here in 1917 and got involved in the draft (World War I). He was a supply sergeant, went to France and came back here after the war. My mother came from County Mayo. She was one of six children and worked with her sister as a domestic. She had a talent for cooking and worked for Lady Astor for a number of years. My parents met at someone's house. My father got a job as a security man with National City Bank on Madison Avenue; at Christmas time he would bring home the equal of half his salary in gifts. He could remember people's names.

I went to St. Cecilia's school, run by the Brothers (De La Salle). There were a number of Italians there. There was boys' department and a girls' department. It was a large five-story building and had no electricity so we were sent home when it was dark and rainy. Women (Sisters of St. Joseph) taught the first six grades; the Brothers taught the last two and a half. There were a lot of Irish in the parish and the next parish; St. Anthony's also had a lot of Irish. I may have seen one Protestant church in St. Anthony's parish. There were no blacks at all. Another nearby parish was St. Stanislaus where nuns taught kids in Polish; even today there are lots of Polish still there. I went to school at St. Cecilia's for eight years; my cousin was in the Brothers and I thought I'd like that way of life. My father was active in the parish and served at Mass a lot, so I went to the Brothers Prep School in Barrytown, ninety-five miles north of New York City. It was a paradise. Good facilities, good teachers, good food.

I'm not like the rest of this crowd. I'm not a New Yorker; I'm a Bostonian. We're very different from New Yorkers. Both of my parents were born in County Kerry but did not know each other in Ireland. My mother was born in 1884. My father was in the United States Navy; shoveled coal all around the world, then left the Navy, AWOL. Then he joined again using his brother-in-law's name. My parents married in 1914. I once asked my mother if marrying my father was a step up. Mother said she was making more money than Father when they married ($4 vs. $3). My mother was the youngest in her family and went though school in Ireland. She landed in the United States in 1905; she was a housekeeper. Their first child was born in 1915, the second in 1916, the third in 1918, the fourth in 1920, the fifth in 1922. We all went to school near the Irish section in Boston. Blacks lived not far away. My mother recounted for me her first time seeing a black person in Boston. She was fascinated. I went to Boston Latin school and took Greek and Latin. There were two black kids there. They were the brightest kids I ever saw.

Experiences of discrimination and acceptance:

There was discrimination against Catholics more than against Irish. A lot of the time we were growing up was the Depression and all were going through the same hard luck; it was shared, not discrimination, an awkward time. When they first got to the United States, they got jobs but when Wall Street went under (1929), for seven or eight years it was tough.

My father belonged to the Rainbow Division of the 69th, he was humorous and his relationship with blacks was often funny; the way he'd speak about them as persons but in a generous way. He didn't think portraying blacks in minstrel shows was putting them down. It was part of the culture. There was a certain affection and friendliness. I didn't experience any antipathy against Jews or Blacks but a lot of jokes. He'd leave Highbridge at 4:30 or 5 am to make a 7:30 appointment in Greenpoint. His job was steady; we never experienced the poverty others did. My mother controlled all the money; my father would give her his check. My father worked in construction but he was also a precinct captain for Jimmy Hines in the local Tammany club. When he needed a job, he went to Hines with out a job and said he wanted one. Hines wrote something on a piece of paper, sealed it in an envelope and told him to take it to the Municipal Building tomorrow. At home, they steamed it open and it said, " Take care of him; he's a good guy." My father got a civil service job until he retired.

When I was a kid, I didn't know what he ( Hines) did, but that was sure the name. "Go see Jimmy" when you needed this or that; one of the things he did was to make sure every kid in the neighborhood got a Christmas present. You'd go the 24th Precinct on 100th Street, get a ticket from the cop, which then let you get on line Christmas morning after Mass at Hines Club at 96th and Columbus Ave. When you went in, you got a pretty decent present. The police were another support system for the Irish. Hines gave big parties; he was also a judge; got elected to Congress and reelected when he was in jail, like Curley in Boston.

Hines in New York, Curley in Boston (James Michael Curley, established a Tammany Club in Boston, was elected mayor in 1914, dominated Boston politics for forty years), Hague in New Jersey (Frank Hague was elected Mayor of Jersey City in 1917 and was mayor until 1947) were just the beginning of minorities moving into power. Curley was a hood in some ways. In Boston, the Brahmins (elite Protestant families) had already taken control of the city.

Political leader Pete McGinnis in New York City got my father a job; we could go to Rockaway (beach and amusement park), for 2,4,6,8 weeks on my father's salary. If you had a job, you felt secure. We waited every week for that paycheck so we could go out to the store, often to buy food for somebody else. Duggan Bakery during the Depression would distribute what was not sold.

During the Depression, I took up shining shoes. I went under the Queensborough Bridge and brought back the fire creosote blocks. There was no hot water so I had to plan ahead to heat water on the stove. I was walking through my old neighborhood recently and told my companion that I was afraid. I was never afraid to walk there in the old days. My companion said, "That's because in the old days you were one of them."

My uncle was asked in interviews for jobs if he drank. As far as which ethnic group was ahead of the other, the Jews were ahead. They owned the stores. In my first teaching position, I put on a minstrel show in blackface and thought nothing of it. We didn't have associations with blacks so what we learned about them came from the radio (Amos and Andy) and the movies. It was mental conditioning. The term 'nigger' was often was used as a put down and as a race identifier.

I thought it was the name you called blacks, like Irish or Polish. When I was about five years old, a black family moved into the apartment above us. They had a boy about my age and I was happy to have a friend to play with. The first day we were together, I said to him, "you're the first nigger I ever had as a friend." He started to cry and hit me. He never played with me again.

I lived on 109th Street and had absolutely no relationship with blacks. They were in the next block over and the Jews lived in Highbridge like the Koreans today. They owned the shops.

We went to Rockaway for the whole summer and associated with them ( blacks); there was a section where cops kept them in their place; cops made sure they stayed in their area. There was one beach where they stayed and then went home. Where to live, where to go, was handed down by relatives, and by parish association also. In Rockaway there was no sign saying blacks and white here or there, but the police wouldn't tolerate being in the wrong place.

There wasn't any prejudice between Irish and blacks. Prejudice that did exist was religious prejudice. The Protestants thought Al Smith (Alfred Emanuel Smith, Irish Catholic Governor of New York, Democratic Presidential Candidate, 928) was Satan, even though he didn't make it.

Manhattan College, (Founded by De La Salle Brothers in 1853) was first set up at 131st and Broadway. That was the same time as the Know Nothing Party in politics. Manhattan College grew out of a school called School of the Holy Infancy. The name, Manhattan Academy was deliberately chosen so as not to identify with the church. The name, Manhattan, bettered the chances that Albany (seat of state government) would approve its start up. Eighteen trustees were required. Eight were Brothers, ten were lay persons. Eight of the ten laymen were non-Catholic. In the 1960's, when we were trying to get government assistance for the College, we had to prove we were an independent institution and not under control of the Church because the Blaine Amendment from the last century prohibited state aid to institutions under religious control. New York State today has the most discriminatory laws about education in the country.

We were never taught anything about prejudice. Not even in our religious formation (training to become Brothers). Think of the thousands of sisters and priests that closed, or opened, our minds to racial problems.

 The interview with the DeLaSalle Christians Brothers took place on 12/3/99 at DeLaSalle Hall, Lincroft, New Jersey. Arrangements for the interview were made by Dr. Lawrence Huggins, Professor of Management at Manhattan College and friend of the DeLaSalle Christian Brothers Permission to record and reproduce interview information was given by all of the men who spoke.

[JR: Ahh, the inet junk closet. I will never understand what it means to be "new". Fascinating stuff. To me. ] 

 

 

News5

PEOPLE in business
The Express Times - Easton,PA,USA
Sunday, July 11, 2004
... Vetrano has a master's degree from Penn State University; a bachelor's degree from Manhattan College and is a graduate of Leadership Lehigh Valley. ...
http://www.nj.com/business/expresstimes/index.ssf?/base/business-1/108953665120910.xml

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The American Red Cross of the Greater Lehigh Valley has announced the following promotions and additions to its staff.

Stephen Vetrano of Allentown, senior director of programs and general services was named deputy executive director.

He has seven years experience with the chapter and previously was with the American Red Cross in New York City.

Vetrano has a master's degree from Penn State University; a bachelor's degree from Manhattan College and is a graduate of Leadership Lehigh Valley.

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[Findings from Web and Other Sources]

WEBPAGES

[WebPage1]

http://www.maggianolaw.com/Profiles/Roberts.htm

Keith J. Roberts, Esq.

Partner

Keith J. Roberts is admitted to the bar in the in the States of New York and New Jersey. He is the presiding Municipal Court Judge in the Borough of Fairview, NJ, having been appointed by the Mayor and Council in February, 2002.

Mr. Roberts is a graduate of Manhattan College (90) where he was awarded a BA in the study of Government, and served as Chief Delegate to the Model United Nations on behalf of the study body.

He received his Juris Doctor from New York Law School in 1993, after completing internships that year with the Office of the Brooklyn District Attorney and Kings County New York Supreme Court Justice, Hon. Reinaldo E. Rivera.

After admission to the Bar in the States of New York and New Jersey in 1994, Keith became associated with the Bergen County labor litigation firm, Giblin & Giblin, Esqs., located in Oradell, NJ. Over the next five years, between 1995 and 2000, he became extremely active in the area of labor litigation, and successfully defended and prosecuted complex civil claims which included administrative actions, and collective bargaining contract grievances. In addition to Superior Court trials, Keith also successfully prosecuted 20 bench trials before the Office of Administrative Law.

Keith J. Roberts has appeared as designated trial counsel on behalf of the following public entitities:
   • Township of North Bergen
   • Bergen County Utilities Authority (BCUA)
   • North Bergen Municipal Utilities Authority (NBMUA)
   • North Bergen Board of Education
   • County of Sussex
   • Newark Board of Education

Since 1996, Mr. Roberts has developed a strong practice in the area of Personal Injury and Complex Insurance Litigation, while focusing on the area of PIP Arbitration.

In January of 2000, Mr. Roberts established his own firm located at 85 Kinderkamack Road in Emerson, New Jersey. The practice was limited to Personal Injury, Insurance Litigation, and PIP arbitration. As a solo practitioner, he successfully prosecuted and settled millions of dollars in claims for personal injury clients.

On behalf of Medical Providers treating auto accident victims, Keith has successfully prosecuted millions of dollars of outstanding medical benefit insurance claims pursuant to the No- Fault PIP Arbitration process.

In February 2002, Mr. Roberts was the only attorney in the State of New Jersey appointed to serve on the New Jersey Auto Insurance Commissioners Task Force on PIP (PIPTAC). As a member of this Committee, Keith is participating in the administrative, and potential statutory reform, of New Jersey’s No Fault Automobile Insurance System, as well as the No Fault PIP Arbitration process.

In January 2003, Keith merged his practice, thereby entering the firm of Maggiano, DiGirolamo, Lizzi & Roberts, as a Managing Partner in the area of PIP litigation and arbitration.

Mr. Roberts is currently serving as counsel to MRI facilities, surgical centers, neurologists, orthopedic surgeons, physiatrists, chiropractic physicians, dentists, oral surgeons, multi-disciplinary facilities, and physical therapists

Mr. Roberts is an expert in the field of Personal Injury, PIP litigation, and complex insurance litigation. He is a member of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Trial Lawyers Association, and was recently inducted into the National Society of Who’s Who among American Professionals..

In February 2002, he was appointed Municipal Court Judge for the Borough of Fairview, located in Bergen County, New Jersey, where he is currently serving a three-year term.

 

 

FOUND

[Found1]

ZJASPERFOUND: Kuzma, Eileen P. (MC1994)

http://www.harwoodlloyd.com/attorneys/bio.cfm?attorneyID=38

Associate

Education
Manhattan College, B.S., cum laude, 1994
Pace University School of Law, J.D., Ranking Scholar, 1997
.   Certificate in Health Care Law, 1997

Bar Admissions
Admitted to the New Jersey Bar and the United States District Court, 1997
Admitted to the New York Bar, 1998

Specializing In:  Insurance Defense and Litigation, Municipal Law, Public Entity/Civil Rights Law

HACKENSACK, NJ Office
Hackensack, NJ 07601

[JR: She has email from a web form if you want to give her some business or just get in touch. ]

 

 

[Found2]

http://www.patricepr.com/index.html  

Patrice E. Athanasidy
1988  MC Alumni

Freelance Media Specialist 7/98 to present
Clients include(d):
Sony Electronics (writing for internal publications and B2B website)
College of Mount Saint Vincent (web editor and public relations writing)
Good Counsel, Inc., (grant writing, marketing and public relations)
Knights of Malta (editor and writer for newsletter)
Dr. Suzanne Wilcox (public relations, newsletter)
Catholic New York (correspondent)
Pace University (journalism department adjunct)
Manhattan College (all types of writing)
NACAR (website creation and maintenence)
St. Frances of Rome Church (website creation)
Church of St. Elizabeth Seton (church bulletins)
Wisdomwrks.com (website update and maintenance)
Respironics (proofreading)

[JR: Maybe you need help and (as a consultant) one can never have enough customers! ]

 

 

 

[Found3]

http://www.holyname.com/ALUMNI.HTML

Patrick Callahan MC1933?

Retired since l986, we have nine children, all college grads with multiple degrees, married to Catherine Kenneally, a Holy Name parish resident. Earned general excellence medal at graduation, wish I still had it (stolen some time ago), started a career in sales and marketing after attending De La Salle Institute and Manhattan College. We are now enjoying retirement with many children up to two great grandchildren surrounding us as we go about volunteering in as many activities as we are capable. I owe my religion, confidence, education and attitude to the great training by the FSCs......and the marvelous experience of growing up during the depression years with loving parents under difficult circumstances.....98th St. was a great place! Best regards, Pat.

 

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Jay Duffy MC1954?

I remember the things that chickory-chick-cha-la-cha-la (see Frank C. 1952)mentions but we spelled Schlumbums with a c & he forgot Cushman's "hard" rolls & hot-cross buns, the Pepsi dances at Riverside Drive, swimming in the Hudson, & more. I finished Manhattan College (Engineering) in 1958 & got a pair of traveling legs. I was able to do more school work along the way & recieved an MBA some years later in S.F. After bouncing around with many engineering & construction firms for a number of years, I went with Bechtel 30 years ago & learned what bouncing around really meant. One of these days I hope to join the ranks of the Frank Chickorys. I lost my brother Ed in Dec 2001. I believe he graduated from Holy Name in 1948. He was getting close to 30 years with ConEd & was contemplating retirement. We also lost Pete Toner a couple of years back. He would have graduated in 1948 with Ed. My sister Marie lives in Buffalo. She would have graduated a couple of years after me. I'll ask her to tune in here. Last I heard Jeep Hanley was living in Burlington, VT., & Judy McGrath in Sacramento, CA.

 

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Jean Joseph MC1995?

Since Holy Name, I have graduated from Xavier High School and Manhattan College in Riverdale, NY. I am currently a physical therapy coordinator for HEALTHSOUTH. 

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[RESUMES]

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--AT--manhattan.edu

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

[No Resumes]

 

 

 

[SportsSchedule]

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

Date Day Sport Opponent Location Time/Result
8/27/04 Friday W. Soccer   Binghamton   North Rockland, NY   4:00 PM

9/1/04 Wednesday M. Soccer   Fordham   HOME   3:30 PM
9/1/04 Wednesday Volleyball   St. Francis (NY)   Brooklyn Heights, NY   7:00 PM
9/3/04 Friday W. Soccer   Army   West Point, NY   7:00 PM
9/3/04 Friday Volleyball   American#   HOME   7:30 PM
9/4/04 Saturday Volleyball   Michigan#   HOME   11:00 AM
9/4/04 Saturday Volleyball   Maryland-Eastern Shore#   HOME   2:00 PM
9/5/04 Sunday W. Soccer   Yale   New Haven, CT   1:00 PM
9/6/04 Monday M. Soccer   Seton Hall   South Orange, NJ   3:00 PM
9/10/04 Friday Cross Country   Boston University Invitational   Boston, MA   TBA 
9/10/04 Friday Volleyball   Syracuse$   Syracuse, NY   7:00 PM
9/11/04 Saturday Cross Country   Princeton Battlefield   Princeton, NJ   TBA 
9/11/04 Saturday Volleyball   Cleveland State$   Syracuse, NY   10:00 AM
9/11/04 Saturday Volleyball   New Hampshire$   Syracuse, NY   2:00 PM
9/11/04 Saturday M. Soccer   Virginia Military Institute   Lexington, VA   4:00 PM
9/12/04 Sunday W. Soccer   Quinnipiac   Hamden, CT   1:00 PM
9/15/04 Wednesday Volleyball   St. John's   Jamaica, NY   7:00 PM
9/17/04 Friday Volleyball   Fordham%   Bronx, NY   7:00 PM
9/17/04 Friday W. Soccer   Hartford   Hartford, CT   7:00 PM
9/18/04 Saturday Volleyball   Canisius%   Bronx, NY   9:00 AM
9/18/04 Saturday Volleyball   Wagner%   Bronx, NY   2:00 PM
9/19/04 Sunday M. Soccer   Maine   HOME   10:00 AM
9/19/04 Sunday W. Soccer   Fordham   Bronx, NY   1:00 PM
9/21/04 Tuesday M. Soccer   Virginia   Charlottesville, VA   7:00 PM
9/22/04 Wednesday Volleyball   Columbia   New York, NY   7:00 PM
9/24/04 Friday Volleyball   vs. Wagner&   New Haven, CT   TBA 
9/24/04 Friday W. Soccer   Robert Morris   Pittsburgh, PA   TBA 
9/25/04 Saturday Cross Country   Paul Short Invitational   Bethlehem, PA   TBA 
9/25/04 Saturday Volleyball   vs. Sacred Heart&   New Haven, CT   12:00 PM
9/25/04 Saturday Volleyball   at Yale&   New Haven, CT   6:00 PM
9/26/04 Sunday W. Soccer   St. Francis   Loretto, PA   2:00 PM
9/27/04 Monday M. Soccer   St. Francis   Brooklyn, NY   7:00 PM
9/28/04 Tuesday Volleyball   Fordham   HOME   6:00 PM

 

[Sports from College]

BASEBALL SUMMER UPDATE #1: JULY 15, 2004

The Manhattan baseball team is coming off a season that saw the Jaspers qualify for the MAAC Tournament for the second straight year, as well as the team's first ever trip to the MAAC Championship game. Several Jaspers are currently playing summer baseball, as well as several playing professional baseball. GoJaspers.com will periodically update what the team is doing over the summer.

New York-Penn League: Mike Parisi, a ninth round draft pick of the St. Louis Cardinals (270th overall pick), signed a contract with the Cardinals and was assigned to its Short Season Class A affiliate, the New Jersey Cardinals. Parisi picked up his first professional win on July 13, going six innings and allowing four hits and two runs while striking out three in a 6-3 win over the Staten Island Yankees. CLICK HERE for the Staten Island Advance writeup of the game. On the season, Parisi is 1-2 with a 6.23 ERA in four starts. He has fanned 10 batters in 17.1 innings of work. The Cardinals are 11-13, good for fourth place in the McNamara Division.

Cape Cod League: Chris Cody is playing for the Chatham A's in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League. He has appeared in five games for the A's, posting a 2.92 ERA in 12.1 innings of work. He has yet to receive a decision, but has tallied 16 strikeouts. The A's are 11-12, and sit in third place in the Eastern Division.

Coastal Plains League: Steve Bronder is playing for the Outer Banks Daredevils. Bronder leads his team in ERA, posting a miniscule 1.96 ERA over 12 apprearances, including two starts. His 12 appearances are second on the team, as are his 32 strikeouts. He has tallied a 2-1 record in the mound, as well as one save, in 23.0 innings of work. The Daredevils are 13-18, good for third place in the North Division.

Chris Gaskin, a 23rd Round (696 Overall) selection by the Chicago Cubs, began the season with the Gastonia Grizzlies before breaking a bone in his hand after playing just five games. In those five games, Gaskin posted a .438 batting average, with one homer and 10 RBI. The Grizzlies are currently 18-17, and stand in second place in the West Division. He has not signed with the Cubs at this time.

New England Collegiate Baseball League: Josh Santerre is playing for the Vermont Mountaineers. Santerre, a native Vermonter, has posted a 4-1 record and a 3.50 ERA in six appearances, making five starts. He has fanned 20 batters in 36.0 innings. His best start came against Newport on July 9, when he went 7.0 innings allowing one earned run while tallying four strikouts. The Mountaineers are 13-16, good for fifth place in the Northern Division.

Jesse Darcy is playing for the Torrington Twisters. He has appeared in five games, making one start, and has posted a 1-1 record with an ERA of 7.36. He has struck out 11 batters in 11.0 innings of work. The Twisters are 10-17 and are in seventh place in the Southern Division.

Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League: John Maser is playing for the Metro New York Cadets. He has appeared and started in 22 of the teams 23 games, and is fourth on the team, batting .268, adding nine RBI thusfar this summer. He is also a perfect 5-5 in stolen base attempts. The Cadets are 13-13, and sit in first place in the Kaiser Division.

Northeast League: Matt Cucurullo signed a professional contract to play for the Elmira Pioneers. He played in 19 games for the Pioneers before he was released late last week. He batted .254 with seven RBI and a stolen base during his stint, including lining a single on the first professional pitch he saw.

 

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MANHATTAN PLACES 88 ON NEW YORK LOTTERY/MAAC ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL

Edison, NJ (July 14, 2004)- A total of 803 athletes were honored for their achievements both academically and athletically recently as the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference announced the 2003-04 New York Lottery MAAC Academic Honor Roll. Manhattan placed 88 students on the list, up from 71 in 2002-03, to place third overall.

To be eligible for the New York Lottery MAAC Academic Honor Roll, an athlete must hold a grade point average of 3.20 or higher on a 4.0 scale and be in his or her second year of athletic eligibility. The Honor Roll is open to both full-time and associate members of the MAAC with athletes represented in all 25 sports that the conference sponsors.

The Jaspers' men's and women's track teams each placed 11 members on the list, to pace Manhattan's teams, followed closely by women's swimming (9) and men's lacrosse (8).

Marist College headed the list of honored student-athletes with 119, followed by Iona College with 101 and Manhattan with 88. The rest of the list is as follows: Siena College 85, Niagara University 78, Fairfield University 76, Canisius College 56, Rider University 54, Saint Peter's College 48 and Loyola College 36. Among the associate members, La Salle University, which competed in the MAAC Football League, had the most with 13.

Nick Carbone Baseball Sr. 3.49 Secondary Ed. Litchfield, CT
John Fitzpatrick Baseball So. 3.45 Management Yonkers, NY
Josh Greco Baseball Sr. 3.40 Business Kensington, CT
Phil Kuhner Baseball Jr. 3.20 Computer Engineering Queens, NY
Mike Konovelchick Men's Basketball So. 3.20 Undecided Litchfield, NH
Nikoletta Deutsch Women's Basketball Sr. 3.52 International Studies Budapest, Hungary
Serra Sangar Women's Basketball Jr. 3.35 Finance Istanbul, Turkey
Tim Hand Men's Golf Jr. 3.27 Finance Yonkers, NY
Danny Sirico Men's Golf Jr. 3.26 Finance Hawthorne, NY
Marty Tobias Men's Golf Sr. 3.20 Phys Education/Biology Yonkers, NY
Nick Crowley Men's Lacrosse So. 3.45 History East Walpole, MA
Sean Crowley Men's Lacrosse So. 3.30 Undecided East Walpole, MA
Thomas Farrelly Men's Lacrosse So. 3.73 Accounting Latham, NY
Christopher Hawkins Men's Lacrosse Sr. 3.33 Electrical Engineering Hicksville, NY
Gerard McCloskey Men's Lacrosse Jr. 3.31 Marketing Centereach, NY
Konstantine Rountos Men's Lacrosse Jr. 3.21 Biology Danbury, CT
Eugene Tanner Men's Lacrosse Jr. 3.20 Finance Medford, NY
Brett Warmington Men's Lacrosse Jr. 3.78 Finance Hudson, OH
Maura Burns Women's Lacrosse So. 3.28 International Studies Merrick, NY
Jamie Carter Women's Lacrosse Jr. 3.33 Communication Williston Park, NY
Nora Jacquette Women's Lacrosse Sr. 3.36 Communication/Journalism Ambler, PA
Victoria Loiacono Women's Lacrosse So. 3.35 Physical Education Tappan, NY
Anne Staudt Women's Lacrosse So. 3.75 Secondary Education/Biology Point Lookout, NY
Christina Bergonzo Rowing So. 3.20 Chemistry Brooklyn, NY
Christina Diecidue Rowing So. 3.67 Education Centereach, NY
Christine Crespo Rowing So. 3.38 Communication Bronx, NY
Jaclyn Melillo Rowing So. 3.79 Physical Education Hastings, NY
Megan Roe Rowing Jr. 3.32 Communication Philadelphia, PA
Shannon Stevens Rowing Sr. 3.36 Special Education Saratoga Springs, NY
Brandy Luther Women's Soccer So. 3.95 Secondary Education Pueblo, CO
Catherine Mitchell Women's Soccer So. 3.31 Physical Education Windsor, CT
Chelsea Volpe Women's Soccer Sr. 3.30 Physical Education Baldwin, NY
Christina Buyea Softball So. 3.53 Accounting Harriman, NY
Coleen Horgan Softball So. 3.77 Elementary Education Pearl River, NY
Megan Jurkowski Softball So. 3.44 Biology Seymour, CT
Margaret Lafex Softball Jr. 3.76 Elementary/Special Education Syracuse, NY
Jennifer McCracken Softball Jr. 3.66 Physical Education Wappingers Falls, NY
Jillian Medea Softball So. 3.45 Computer Info. Systems River Vale, NJ
Marina Ysaac Softball Jr. 3.82 Business Queens Village, NY
Vanessa Conway Women's Swimming Jr. 3.38 Psychology Worthington, OH
Kim Delgrosso Women's Swimming So. 3.23 Elementary Education New Rochelle, NY
Molly Hogan Women's Swimming Sr. 3.68 Managerial Science Torrington, CT
Natalie Johnston Women's Swimming So. 3.30 Undecided Holbrook, NY
Bethany Karbowski Women's Swimming So. 3.83 Psychology Seekonk, MA
Heather Kennedy Women's Swimming So. 3.34 Elementary Education Baldwin, NY
Marguerite Mohan Women's Swimming Sr. 4.00 Chemical Engineering Brooklyn, NY
Maureen Stransky Women's Swimming So. 3.58 Business Management Oakdale, NY
Lauren Sullivan Women's Swimming So. 3.68 Special Education Delmar, NY
Klim Fedosienko Men's Tennis Sr. 3.60 Finance/Economics New York, NY
Pawel Wawrzyniak Men's Tennis Sr. 3.65 Physical Education Forest Hills, NY
Shaleen Dastur Women's Tennis Sr. 3.77 Marketing Florida, NY
Jessica Kulack Women's Tennis Sr. 3.73 Biology Meridian, ID
Mary Jane McGuire Women's Tennis Sr. 3.44 Communication Sebring, FL
Krista Thorsen Women's Tennis Sr. 3.27 Psychology New City, NY
Magnus Ahlen Men's Track Sr. 3.80 Engineering Karlstad, Sweden
Chris Bloom Men's Track Sr. 3.39 Special Education York, PA
Anders Constantine Men's Track So. 3.80 Computer Engineering Uddevalla, Sweden
Dan Gazzola  Men's Track Sr. 3.59 Business E. Greenwich, RI
Daniel Kohler Men's Track Jr. 3.29 Physical Education Bethlehem, NY
Nils Pettersson Men's Track So. 3.57 Civil Engineering Boden, Sweden
Tyler Raymond Men's Track So. 3.38 Business Finance Scotia, NY
Matt Reilly Men's Track Sr. 4.00 History Burnt Hills, NY
Russell Stevens Men's Track So. 3.48 English/Secondary Education Westbury, NY
Rajne Svenssohn Men's Track Sr. 3.66 Business Karlstad, Sweden
Joe Van Dyke Men's Track Sr. 3.20 Sports Medicine Millington, NJ
Michanne Campbell Women's Track Sr. 3.49 Special Education Mount Vernon, NY
Caryn Capalbo Women's Track So. 4.00 Elementary Education Exeter, NH
Nicholle Davis Women's Track So. 3.81 Engineering Nashua, NH
Rene Foti Women's Track So. 3.83 Communication New Windsor, NY
Teresa Frierson Women's Track Sr. 3.40 Communication North Ridgeville, OH
Alison Horgan Women's Track So. 3.43 Psychology Delmar, NY

 

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[Sports from Web]

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[EMAIL FROM JASPERS]

Email01

http://www.vietvet.org/army001.htm

Andy Nicastro is looking for Tom McCarthy.

When I was a student at Manhattan College (Riverdale, New York City), I knew Tom McCarthy. That was between 1960 and 1964. Since then we have lost contact, and I would like to try to look him up again.

Tom came from Yonkers, New York. I know that at some point Tom went to Vietnam as a paramedic (or some such function).

If you might know of his whereabouts, or can give me some further leads, I would be very grateful if you could pass the information to me.

One possible lead may be the Manhattan College Alumni Association, but I do not know an e-mail address for that organization. If you can help me with this, I will try there.

Please contact me, Andy Nicastro at: <privacy invoked> 

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From: Jasper John '68
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 8:55 PM
To: Andy Nicastro
Subject: [jasperjottings] Hi, maybe I can help find Tom McCarthy?

Hi Andy,

I run an ezine for Manhattan alums. If you are still looking, then I'll query my 1,000 readers for help. I'll also ask my sources in the College for some help. OK?

John'68

[Liz Velasquez '98 reports: We have three Tom McCarthy’s in our database. One is from Manhattan Prep so he is ruled out. The next is from the class of 1959 and lives in Bronxville. The third which could be the one he is looking for is from the class of 1969, he currently lives in Breezy Point, NY and according to our database is a Professor of Marketing at St. John’s University. (Thanks, Liz) ]

 

 

Email02

From: Clarence J. Jones [1967]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: http://ferdinand_reinke.tripod.com/jasperjottings20040620.htm

John,

I thank you for your time, effort and great energies expended in keeping us alumni Jaspers informed.  I do not wish to interact via Yahoo when I am in the midst of fixing a machine that stalls with Juno and Compuserve.

Thanks again,
Clarence J. Jones
Class of 1967.

[JR: I know the feeling when "machines get even"! ]

 

 

Email03

From: Peter Dans [1957]
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 2:05 PM
Subject: Reflections on America

Hi John:

Thanks for including Dinesh D'Souza's reflections on America at the beginning of the 7/11 issue of Jottings.  Just as converts are often more serious about their Catholicism than "cradle" Catholics, immigrants often appreciate America's blessings more than native-born citizens  There was an excellent tribute to America by Elie Wiesel in the July 4th issue of Parade that was along the same lines.  My Italian immigrant grandmother, who was a cleaning woman, taught me to love America and its history.

Best regards,
Peter E. Dans '57S

P.S. I'm glad that you have an easier time distributing the "Jottings" and that you didn't make it difficult for us to Google it.

[JR: You're most welcome, but, maybe I should have found a "solution" that would keep better counts. ]

 

 

Email04

From: George Brew [1950]
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 2:31 PM
To: events-- AT --jasperjottings.com
Subject: Golf Tournament

The Manhattan College Gulf Coast Alumni Chapter is sponsoring a golf tournament on Saturday, November 6, 2004 at 1:00 PM at the Pelican Pointe Golf and Country Club, Venice, Florida. Further details will be sent by the college in the near future.

George Brew '50 Co-Chairman

[JR: We look forward to further details. ]

 

 

Email05

From: Geoffrey Zelnik [1998]
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 1:17 PM
To: Distribute_Jasper_Jottings Moderator
Subject: Re: File - Welcome

John,

We use this group virtual bulletin board at my real estate firm and it works perfectly for what you are trying to do.

Regards,
Geoff Zelnik, MBA
Class of '98

[JR: You, you'd think it would be easy. But, our fellow Jaspers may not be as "smart" or as "motivated" as a bunch of real estate people. ]

 

 

Email06

From: Zakiya Raines '04
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 8:48 PM
To: Distribute_Jasper_Jottings-owner-- AT --yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Distribute_Jasper_Jottings] This issue is at: http://www.jasperjottings....

Good Evening,

   I remember getting an e mail about going to see a broadway play.  I wanted to know more about that, what ae the options, how much is the discount...etc...

sorry about the repetition,

Zakiya Raines '04

[JR:  ZR: I  don't remember anything about a play, sorry. John'68 ]

 

 

Email07

From: Richard A. Lawrence [1968]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 7:33 PM
To: reporter-- AT --jasperjottings.com
Subject: Ken Laker

Hi John,

        I saw the attached article on Ken Laker in the Awards supplement to the July 2004 issue of the IEEE Spectrum. The original article is at: http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/newsinfo/emberson_laker.pdf

        Ken graduated with us in 1968 with an EE major and has also served as President of the IEEE. He was elected as President elect of the IEEE for 1998 and served as President in 1999.

Regards,
Rich

[JR: Thanks. I have covered Ken in the past. From his picturer, he looks to have changed and added a few pounds. Not like us! Right? ]

 

 

Email08

From: <privacy invoked> 
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: This issue is at: http://ferdinand_reinke.tripod.com/jasperjottings20040606.htm

You may continue with my mailings.

[JR: Maybe I should go back to MC and take a "communications class". This is typical. I repeat. If you want Jottings by mail, you join the Yahoo group. If you want to "block" further email, select "no email". If you just want special (rare) email, select "special notices". Seems clear to me? Hey John Fay, can you translate it into Gaelic?   ]

 

 

Email09

From: Dennis J Chin [1973]
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 10:32 AM
Subject: RE: [Distribute_Jasper_Jottings] This issue is at: http://www.jasperjottings.com/jasperjottings20040711.htm

"399 have registered on the Distribute site."

John, 399 is pretty bad out of a total of over 1000! Don't people read their mail or is it a matter of "computer know how"?

Don't give up.

Dennis, Jasper73

[JR: "Give up?" I'm an "injuneer"; we don't give up. Were like the ant! There goes the dam. I think it is a great success. That means that 400 actually read it! ;-) If our fellow alums are anything like me, around Columbus Day, they'll realize that bball season is starting and where is that Jasper "thing". Without a web beacon service, I can't tell how many are reading the web version in either place. I just completed sending reminders to all 5,000 addresses I have in my spammer's tool. (I fouled up 150 and so far have one nasty reply!) So we should see a spurt. Next I have to go thru my Eudora logs and reinvite all those. My guess is that of the 1100 active prior to Yahoo that we'll be back to a 1,000 by the end of the year. If I get too frustrated, I'll implement a subscription algorithm on the web site to force "registration". Direct marketers say anything better than 3% response (of any type) is great. So 400 / 1100 is over 30% ]

 

 

Email10

From: Esposito, Steven G. (1981)
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 7:54 PM
Subject: Fwd: must see 4th ID Statue From Tikrit

<Forwarded text>

This statue currently stands outside the Iraqi palace, now home to the 4th Infantry division. It will eventually be shipped home and put in the memorial museum in Fort Hood, Texas.

The statue was created by an Iraqi artist named Kalat, who for years was forced by Saddam Hussein to make the many hundreds of bronze busts of Saddam that dotted Baghdad.

Kalat was so grateful for the Americans liberation of his country; he melted 3 of the heads of the  fallen Saddam and made the  statue as a memorial to the American soldiers and their fallen warriors.  Kalat worked on this memorial night and day for several months.

To the left of the kneeling soldier is a small Iraqi girl giving the soldier comfort as he mourns the loss of his comrade in arms.

Do you know why we don't hear about this in the news?  Because it is heart warming and praise worthy.  The media avoids it because it does not have the shock effect that a flashed breast or controversy of politics does.    But we can do something about it.   We can pass this along to as many people as we can in honor of all our brave military who is making a difference. 

http://www.hood.army.mil/4id/Iraqi/news_images/memstatu/MEMSTATU2.jpg

[JR: A neat contribution. ]

 

 

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FINAL WORDS THIS WEEK

http://www.gcc.edu/news/faculty/editorials/herbener_bloom_7_8_04.htm

FACULTY OPINIONS...
July 8, 2004
Kerry in Full Bloom
By Jeffrey Herbener, Ph.D. is chairman of the department of economics at Grove City College. He is asociate editor of The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
The Center for Vision & Values
Grove City College
Grove City, PA 16127

<SNIP>

The bankruptcy of the activist view of government is in full bloom again, thanks to the John Kerry campaign.

For starters, Kerry promised to raise the minimum wage. Even if Kerry is an Economics 101 dropout, one would think that witnessing labor unions lobby for higher minimum wages during his many years in the Senate would have aroused his suspicions about who benefits from such legislation. Since union members are already being paid well above the minimum wage, union officials must recognize what Kerry seems not to see: that raising the minimum wage makes the lowest-wage workers unemployable and, thus reduces their competitiveness with union workers.

Creating an underclass of low-skilled, unemployable persons is, perhaps, the most socially malignant way imaginable to raise union wages.

<extraneous deleted>

Try as they might, however, activists cannot deny the logic of economics. Otherwise why limit proposals for raising the minimum wage to a paltry $7 an hour? Seventy dollars an hour would be better and $700 better still. Neither would they limit their beneficence to America—they could declare a living wage for everyone and conquer world poverty with the stroke of a pen. That they don’t advocate such patent nonsense is proof that they cannot deny logic in the end.

<extraneous deleted>

Since the government, at best, aggravates and, at worst, creates the social ills it presumes to cure, the proper policy is clear—wealth and power must remain with people, not become even more centralized in Washington, D.C. To use the coercive power of the state to force people to subsidize what they would not fund voluntarily is a repudiation of the birthright of Americans: the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

<SNIP>

One of the many disagreements I have with "church leaders" is their concept of "social justice". I was always amused that in theology class we were taught "social justice" and in economics class we were taught why it wouldn't work. "Raise the minimum wage" is one of my particular flash points. Like the Louisiana legislature's repeal of the Law of Gravity (No joke it actually passed!), it is just as easy for the politicians to repeal economic laws. (If the economists would just give it a catchy name, then maybe people would remember it. I suggest that it should be called the "minimum Wage for Unions and the Mandatory Unemployment for the Poor" Act. "Union minimum wage / Poor maximum Unemployment" Act!) The analogy is that we are pulling up the ladder to economic freedom a dollar at a time. When I was at AT&T a long time ago, the elevator operators "ran" the cars. They dressed in a uniform, greeted people, and pushed the buttons of the all-automatic cars. This was an "O" level job that paid the minimum wage. When the HR department needed "N" level clerks (which as I recollect paid a dollar an hour more), all "O"'s who had satisfactory performance (i.e., showed up sober, bathed, on-time and had not lost their elevator (don't laugh it happen to my cousin!), were automatically put on a list and interviewed for the new jobs. Every quarter about 15% of the operators moved up to these higher level positions. Education didn't matter. If they needed schooling, then they were sent. (The old joke at AT&T was if the Bell System suddenly needed 10 ballet dancers, they would just send the 10 top rated Chief Opperators to ballet school. A Chief Operator, a very senior and skilled job, would normally be a fifty year old sedentary woman.) But that was the ethic – inside candidates were considered first. I remember the fellow who had the elevator operators. When the Congress passed the minimum wage increase, he was forced to ask for a bigger salary budget. That made management reconsider if the operators were needed. He argued for them as a resource. It was a pool of trusted people who could be used for other things in a pinch. But, in the end, the dollars won out. All the O's went. Some into other jobs. But, some went home. Casualties to the minimum wage. I never forgot them or that lesson.

So when any politician says "minimum wage", think of those AT&T Elevator Operators who went home. My cousin never worked again. Maybe all she could do at that time was be an elevator operator, but what gave Washington the right to kill "her" job. She would have had a steady income, a good life, and nice pension today. Instead, she survives on her husband's pension and social security. That's social justice.

And that’s the last word.

Curmudgeon

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GBu. GBA.