Sunday 20 March 2005

Dear Jaspers,

660 are active on the Distribute site. There are 42 bouncing.

As of 3/3, the Jasper Jottings site had 220 page views yesterday. Total page views this month: 8154

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This issue is at: http://www.jasperjottings.com/jasperjottings20050320.htm

The sausage making blog is at: http://tinyurl.com/3skhy

which is short way of saying http://ferdinand_reinke.tripod.com/JasperJottingSausage

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CALENDAR OF JASPER EVENTS THAT I HAVE HEARD ABOUT

Wkend Apr 2-3 '05
--- Relay For Life '04 was a first time event for Manhattan College, and
--- we helped raise close to $20,000. How will you get involved and make
--- this year's Relay For Life even more successful
--- Form teams with alumni (Class of '79, 82, etc.)
--- Form Teams with family and/or co-workers
--- Sponsor student teams on-campus
--- Find companies that can help underwrite the event
--- Speak on your experiences of Cancer in your life at the event
--- Be part of the planning team for Relay for Life '05
----- Contact Kinah Ventura-Rosas at 718-862-7477
----- or e-mail at kinah.ventura AT manhattan.edu

Sat April 2nd - Gulf Coast Alumni club luncheon at noon
Location: University Park Country Club, Sarasota, Fl.
Contact: Neil O'Leary '60 c/o Jottings

Sa Jun 18 -- at -- 8:30am George Sheehan Five Mile Run Redbank, NJ
--- In Honor of George Sheehan -Manhattan College class of 1940
--- Meet at Brannigan's Pub in Red Bank, NJ after the race
--- Info: Jim Malone Class of 1983

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http://ferdinand_reinke.tripod.com/2005-03-08-001.pdf

William Dooley ’75 is leading a charge by something called the “Manhattan College Financial Services Advisory Council” to attempt to fully fund an “endowed chair in the business school”. I don’t know the details. I’m sure after I am called I will know the difference between an endowed chair and a regular one. From my infrequent visits to Hooters for their great chicken wings, I am aware of God’s ability to endow many things. But, I never heard of Him performing such a miracle to a chair. In His Infinite Wisdom, and I am sure He doesn’t need my help but wouldn’t they be uncomfortable? Anyway, more when I get it. If you like to read the letter, I scanned it for you personally. If you’re interested in helping, contact Jasper Dooley c/o the cited address, phone, or fax. {Sigh, no email. Maybe that’s what the chair is for? To sit on to get an email address. What’s next? One of them newly fangled creeeedit cards. Or even, gasp, pay pal. Nah be still my heart. Next they’ll move Manhattan back to the Borough of Manhattan from the Bronx. And get a mascot like Notre Dame’s leprechaun. Get a national TV contract and go Big Time. Gosh, belay all that. Back to snail mail.}

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My list of Jaspers who are in harm's way:
- Afghanistan
- - Feldman, Aaron (1997)
- Iraq
- - Sekhri, Sachin (2000)
- Unknown location
- - Lynch, Chris (1991)
- Uzbekistan
- - Brock (nee Klein-Smith), Lt Col Ruth (1979)

… … my thoughts are with you and all that I don't know about.

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[JR: Information concerning John (MC1989) Bellew's Childrens' trust fund]
John Bellew Children's Trust
Account #8445178
c/o Citibank
460 Park Ave
NY NY 10022
ATTN: Tom Moran.
[JR: Questions are being directed to Jasper McGann, Kevin [1989] c/o Jottings ]

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Exhortation

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050316/D88RPPSO1.html

N.Y. Teen Wins Science Competition
Mar 15, 9:41 PM (ET)

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WASHINGTON (AP) - A 17-year-old New York City boy won a national science competition Tuesday for creating a sensor that detects exposure to toxic agents such as nerve gas.

David Bauer, a senior at Hunter College High School, earned a $100,000 college scholarship in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search. He developed a way for rapidly detecting exposure to biochemical agents, with hopes that his discovery could be a lifesaver.

A total of 1,600 high school seniors submitted entries in all disciplines of science, including physics, math, engineering, social science and biology.

An almost equal number of boys and girls entered the contest.

Timothy Credo of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Ill., won second place. The 17-year-old from Highland Park, Ill., developed a more precise way to measure the velocity that particles travel in an accelerator. He won a $75,000 scholarship.

Kelley Harris, 17, of the C.K. McClatchy High School in Sacramento, Calif., won the third-place $50,000 scholarship for her research on proteins that bind DNA.

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I am always amazed by the results of the American Education system. True, this is the cream. But, it just goes to show that even with the wrong paradigm, (i.e., heavy government involvement in education), you can sometimes get the right answer. Even a stopped clock is right twice per day. But, what about all the one’s who are left behind? Stuck in the “system”. Doomed to a life that coulda been something. For those, who say our current greatness can’t last, that the empire will go the way of Rome, the seeds of greatness are contained in these young adults. If high schoolers can do impressive things like this, then imagine if we could really energize the whole corpus of talent. Sigh. Do we all exploit the limits of human potential in us, around us, and in humanity? I remember playing that early Wally Crowther game with the twisty mazes. If you eat the bird cause you were hungry, you never proceeded into the maze. The bird drove off the snake. Some people never got the idea to catch the bird, bring it to the room with the snake, and then the bird drove off the snake. You were then free to proceed into the maze. That game taught me that I could be blind (to the possibilities), dumb (in not even considering that there were other possibilities), and stupid (in I go do the same things many times and expect different results). This story makes me wonder if somewhere in America there’s a kid dealing drugs who could have cured cancer, if there is a child living in the poverty of rural India who could be the next Bill Gates, or if we’ve missed the opportunity entirely. The sin in abortion is that we just don’t know what God would Grace us with if we just weren’t so blind, dumb, and stupid. At least, I know my fellow Jaspers aren’t as “b, d, and s” as I am. At least, I hope not. Maybe there’s even redemption for me if I could just see. I’m not as good as the Centurion in the Gospel. Hope we all can become that way.

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
reinke--AT—jasperjottings.com

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[CONTENTS]

	1	Headquarters (like MC Press Releases)
	2	GoodNews
	3	Obits
	8	Jaspers_in_the_News
	4	Manhattan_in_the_News
	5	Sports
	8	Emails
	1	Jaspers found web-wise

[PARTICIPANTS BY CLASS]

Class	Name	Section
????	Falkena, Eric	Wedding2
????	Regan, Michael J.	JNews8
????	White, Thomas F.	Obit3
1942	Marchi, John J.	Email08
1950?	Ross, James J.	Obit2
1953	Mc Gowan, Andrew	Updates
1953	McEneney, Michael F.	Email05
1953	McEneney, Michael F.	Email06
1959	O'Connell, Bill	Email04
1961	Gearity, John E.	Updates
1961	Mc Kenna, John	Updates
1966	Dugan, Thomas J.	Email08
1966	Macstravic, Joseph	Updates
1968	Maiorino, Louis	Updates
1969	Quinn, Peter A.	Email05
1970	McCourt, Dennis	Found1
1971	Gorton, Joseph J.	JNews4
1972	McGowan, Thomas F.	Updates
1974	Bruce, Clifford	JNews6
1974	Terminello, Lou	JNews5
1976	Greeley, Joseph R.	JNews2
1976	Ryan, Timothy J.	Updates
1977	Allan, William R.	JNews3
1981	Esposito, Steven G.	Email02
1986	Craig, James P.	Updates
1989	McAleer-Nolan, Patricia	Updates
1989	McCarra-Fitzpatrick, MaryAnn	Email03
1989	McCarra-Fitzpatrick, MaryAnn	Updates
1991	Lynch, John W.	Email06
1991	Valenti, Anthony	JNews7
1998	Corsetti, Deana M.	Wedding1
1998	Shaw, Michelle-Marie	JNews1
1999	Devlin, Pete	Email07
2004	McCarthy, Annie	Updates
xFac	Sabol, Fr. Casimir	Obit1

[PARTICIPANTS BY NAME]

Class	Name	Section
1977	Allan, William R.	JNews3
1974	Bruce, Clifford	JNews6
1998	Corsetti, Deana M.	Wedding1
1986	Craig, James P.	Updates
1999	Devlin, Pete	Email07
1966	Dugan, Thomas J.	Email08
1981	Esposito, Steven G.	Email02
????	Falkena, Eric	Wedding2
1961	Gearity, John E.	Updates
1971	Gorton, Joseph J.	JNews4
1976	Greeley, Joseph R.	JNews2
1991	Lynch, John W.	Email06
1966	Macstravic, Joseph	Updates
1968	Maiorino, Louis	Updates
1942	Marchi, John J.	Email08
1953	Mc Gowan, Andrew	Updates
1961	Mc Kenna, John	Updates
1989	McAleer-Nolan, Patricia	Updates
1989	McCarra-Fitzpatrick, MaryAnn	Email03
1989	McCarra-Fitzpatrick, MaryAnn	Updates
2004	McCarthy, Annie	Updates
1970	McCourt, Dennis	Found1
1953	McEneney, Michael F.	Email05
1953	McEneney, Michael F.	Email06
1972	McGowan, Thomas F.	Updates
1959	O'Connell, Bill	Email04
1969	Quinn, Peter A.	Email05
????	Regan, Michael J.	JNews8
1950?	Ross, James J.	Obit2
1976	Ryan, Timothy J.	Updates
xFac	Sabol, Fr. Casimir	Obit1
1998	Shaw, Michelle-Marie	JNews1
1974	Terminello, Lou	JNews5
1991	Valenti, Anthony	JNews7
????	White, Thomas F.	Obit3

[Messages from Headquarters

(Manhattan College Press Releases & Stuff)]

Headquarters1

At your request we have been monitoring the following page for changes:

http://www.manhattan.edu/news/news_releases/index.html

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER DAVID SHIPLER TO DISCUSS HIS RESEARCH AND BOOK ON THE WORKING POOR AT MANHATTAN COLLEGE’S FOUNDER’S WEEK

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former New York Times correspondent David K. Shipler will speak at Manhattan College April 19, 2005 at 4:00 p.m. as part of Founder’s Week, the College’s annual celebration in honor of its founder, St. John Baptist de La Salle. This event, which is free and open to the public, will be held on campus in Smith Auditorium.

In line with the College’s mission to teach children of the poor and the working poor with special attention to educating first-generation students, Shipler plans to discuss the research and ideas that support his latest book, The Working Poor: Invisible in America. “Nobody who works hard should be poor in America,” writes Shipler. In The Working Poor, he examines the lives of American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty and illustrates their everyday existence and living conditions.

Shipler worked for The New York Times from 1966 to 1988 and reported from New York, Saigon, Moscow and Jerusalem before serving as chief diplomatic correspondent in Washington, D.C. A former officer in the U.S. Navy, Shipler also has written for The New Yorker, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. He was awarded the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land, which explores the mutual perceptions and relationships between Arabs and Jews in Israel and the West Bank. Shipler also executive produced, wrote and narrated a two-hour PBS documentary based on Arab and Jew, which won a 1990 duPont-Columbia Award for broadcast journalism.

Shipler, who has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is also the author of Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams and A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America. He was one of three authors invited by President Clinton to participate in his first town meeting on race. Shipler, a graduate of Dartmouth College, has taught at Dartmouth, Princeton University and American University, and has received honorary degrees from Middlebury College and Glassboro State College.

Shipler’s lecture, sponsored by the College’s office of mission, the peace studies department, the school of business and student government, is part of Founder’s Week, April 18 through April 22. During this week, the College will host several events celebrating the founding of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools by John Baptist de La Salle in France (1694). De La Salle founded the community of Brothers to teach the young boys of the poor and the working poor; thereby organizing the first schools for marginalized urban children of France. Manhattan College continues that mission through special attention to first-generation college students and provides a contemporary, person-centered educational experience with reflection on values and principles.

For more information about this lecture, please call Dr. John Wilcox, vice president for mission, at (718) 862-7442. If you are a member of the press and wish to cover this event, please call Melanie A. Farmer at (718) 862-7232.

[JR: I'll be ok as long as nobody mentions "social justice", "minimum wage", or other state-ist propaganda. ]

Honors

Honor1

None

Weddings

Wedding1

Jan. 10, 2005

Steven and Deana Tucker

Corsetti – Tucker

Bolton Landing – Deana M.