Dear Jaspers,
709 are active on the Distribute site.
This month, we had 104 views on 10/11 and 4,846 over the last month.
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October 19th - Career Fair October 13th & Philadelphia Club Networking Reception October 21st - Manhattan Madness October 26th - Westchester/Putnam 2005-06 Men's &
Womans's Basketball Preview October 27th - SW Florida Club Golf Outing October 30th - Alumni Brunch at Open House
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November 2nd - New York City Club Fall Networking Reception November 5th - Broderick Scholarship Dinner November 16th - Treasure Coast Club Luncheon November 18th - Miami Club Luncheon
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December 3rd - Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner December 10th - Gulf Coast Club Christmas Dinner
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January 18, 2006 - Treasure Coast Club Luncheon
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March 15, 2006 - Treasure Coast Club Luncheon
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My list of Jaspers who are in harm's way:
- Afghanistan
- - Feldman, Aaron (1997)
- Iraq
- - Lara, Angel (2002)
- - 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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"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience." -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, born in 1547. |
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<snip> The world famous "Big Eye" paintings had their beginning in San Francisco over 50 years ago, by the artist Margaret Keane. In time they also became known and referred to as "Waifs," "Keane," "Sad Eyes," and many other titles, all depicting the unique styles of this very creative woman. You may be surprised to hear the artist is a woman. You see, for many years she was married to a man who claimed credit for what she painted. To prove she was in fact the artist and not her former husband, she painted in court before a Federal Judge and jury, an original oil on canvas painting. When her ex-husband was asked to paint by the judge, his reply was: "I can't today, because I have a sore shoulder." Needless to say Margaret won the case and she continues to paint those Big Eyes we have come to love so dearly. <snip> Those who can do; those who can't have a sore shoulder! Chortle, chuckle, and demand proof. Trust but verify! If you haven’t seen the pictures, then I urge you to do a little web surfing. There’s something captivating about them. Pathetic pseudo children. But not as pathetic as someone who claims another’s creation as their own. I love when people get what they deserve. It’s one thing if it’s a misunderstanding. Oh, I put ketchup on your hot dog. Or, some one bumps you in passing without any sign of recognition. Hey live and let live. But when someone steals a creation, lies about it, and makes everyone waste time, then the old NYC juices get flowing and it’s time for a hanging, or a beating, … … or as one Brother expressed it in high school … … some practical demonstration of the wages of sin. So today, when I read this little clip, I was pleased that there was some justice some where for some one. As practical lesson, I learned that should I succumb to the devil and not be completely candid, factual, or honest, some one can demand that I “paint a picture”. Then in addition to punishment, I’ll feel dumb. It’s easier to tell the truth and avoid the added penalties later on. I’m sure my fellow alums never have these problems but you should see the pics. |
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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http://www.manhattan.edu/news/news_releases/index.html http://www.manhattan.edu/news/news_releases/101205_2.shtml October 12, 2005 MANHATTAN COLLEGE TO HONOR DR. WILLIAM G. CLANCY, RENOWNED ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON, AT ANNUAL ACADEMIC HONORS CEREMONY The Aspen, Colo., resident is a respected surgeon, sports medicine specialist and dedicated professor. RIVERDALE, N.Y. - Manhattan College alumnus Dr. William G. Clancy Jr. '63 will be presented with an honorary Doctor of Science degree at the 2005 Fall Honors Convocation on Sunday, October 16 at 4:00 p.m. in the Chapel of De La Salle and His Brothers. During the ceremony, some 100 seniors will be recognized for their academic excellence through induction into Epsilon Sigma Pi, Manhattan's oldest college-wide honor society. Membership in Epsilon Sigma Pi is considered the highest scholastic honor that can be earned by a Manhattan College student. Clancy, a physician with Orthopaedic Associates of Aspen and Glenwood, is an internationally recognized orthopedic surgeon and an expert in the field of sports medicine. Considered by many of his peers as a leading knee surgeon, the Brooklyn native has invented several surgical procedures and is a past president of the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine (2000), as well as a recipient of the prestigious George D. Rovere Education Award for excellence in teaching. From 1974 to 1989, Clancy held several prominent positions at the University of Wisconsin including professor of orthopedic surgery, head of sports medicine and head team physician. He also was a clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Alabama Birmingham and the University of Virginia while at the Alabama Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center from 1989 to 2004. As a former track and field athlete, it was a natural career move for Clancy to merge his interests in sports and science. This winning combination took him to the U.S. Olympics, where he served as the U.S. team orthopedic surgeon at three competitions, including the U.S. Hockey Team's gold medal win at the 1980 Winter Olympics. He was also team orthopedic surgeon for seven world championships in Nordic skiing and hockey. Clancy, who completed his residency at St. Luke's Hospital Center in New York, served as the medical director for the U.S. Ski Team in Nordic jumping and the U.S. hockey team. In addition, he was the co-medical director for the LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association) and for the PGA Tour. Clancy, who attended State University of New York, Downstate College of Medicine, finished his military service as a Lieutenant Commander and head team physician at the U.S. Naval Academy. An author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles on sports injuries and surgical procedures, Clancy has been a visiting professor at several universities throughout the U.S., Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, France and Japan. Clancy earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Manhattan College in 1963. As a student-athlete, he was a national champion in track, winning gold and bronze medals in the U.S. Track and Field Championships in 1960 for the New York Athletic Club (NYAC) and for the College. Manhattan College, founded in 1853, is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, along with graduate programs in education and engineering. ## http://www.manhattan.edu/news/news_releases/101205_1.shtml MANHATTAN COLLEGE'S SCHOOL OF EDUCATION TEACHER PROGRAM GAINS PRESTIGIOUS ACCREDITATION RIVERDALE, N.Y. - Manhattan College's School of Education has been awarded accreditation for its teacher preparation program by the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC). With this recognition, all three of the College's professional schools - business, education and engineering - are nationally accredited. TEAC accreditation further validates the quality of Manhattan's teacher education program, its comprehensive curriculum and the committed faculty. The national nonprofit accrediting agency notified Manhattan of its initial approval in early October. "The accreditation notification was the culmination of much hard work, and enabled the College to meet a New York State Education Department regulation that teacher education programs be accredited," says Dr. William Merriman, dean of the school of education. "This also assures the public that the College prepares competent, caring and qualified professional educators." To achieve accreditation, faculty members from the school of education spent the last three years working on student assessment, data collection and interpretation, and the writing of a self-study. TEAC's academic audit verifies the accuracy of the evidence that student learning meets high expectations and that the program is following processes that produce quality. The quality of the evidence and the quality of the system that produced it are key factors in achieving TEAC's approval. Throughout all stages of the accreditation process, TEAC and education faculty at the College maintained constant communication. The teacher preparation program at the College provides undergraduate and graduate levels and teacher certification in one of six areas: childhood education, dual childhood/special education, adolescent education, physical education, five-year childhood/special education and graduate special education. Manhattan's school of education is consists of 18 full-time faculty members and currently enrolls 531 students. Recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and by the U.S. Department of Education, the TEAC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving academic degree programs for professional educators - those who will teach and lead in schools, pre-kindergarten through grade 12. Its primary work is accrediting undergraduate and graduate professional education programs in order to assure the public about the quality of college and university programs. About Manhattan College Manhattan College, founded in 1853, is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, along with graduate programs in education and engineering. ## |
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[Collector's prayer: And, may perpetual light shine on our fellow departed Jaspers, and all the souls of the faithful departed.]
Your assistance is requested in finding these. Please don’t assume that I will “catch” it via an automated search. Sometimes the data just doesn’t makes it’s way in.
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http://www.nyjnews.com/obituary/obit.php3?id=1845933 CONTI, RONALD VINSON - CONTI, RONALD VINSON Ronald Vinson Conti, 59, of Greentown, PA, died on October 9, 2005. Ronald was born August 10, 1946 in New York, NY to Vincent and Diamantina (Conforti) Conti. He was a graduate of Manhattan College and NYU and has a Masters Degree in Education. He has worked for the Department of Social Services in PA for three years. Ronald loved teaching the care and breeding of animals. Ronald is survived by his mother Diamantina of Nanuet, NY, his girlfriend Colleen Gill and her children Joey and Lauren, his sister Dianne and her husband Angelo Basso of New City, and four nieces: Andrea, Juliette, Lauren and Corinne. Predeceased by his father Vincent in 1996. The family will receive friends on Wednesday from 3-8 pm at the Higgins F.H. in New City, NY. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Thursday at 10:15 am in St. Francis Church, West Nyack with Burial to follow at Ocean County Memorial Park in Toms River, NJ. Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Thoracic Oncology Dept. c/o Dr. Vincent Miller, Memorial SloanKettering Hospital, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021. MICHAEL J. HIGGINS FUNERAL HOME 321 South Main St. New City (845)634-6110 Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 [Mike McEneney says: I believe that Ron was a member of the Class of 1970. (Good enough for me!) Thanks, Mike. ] [JR: I went to high school with Ron. Not a lot I can say. I have included the pic of him with the big turtle on my Prep64 website. And, will remember him that way. (I have a similar pic just like taken of me at the turtle farm on Grand Cayman. I LOVED that dumb turtle for some reason. maybe it reminds me of myself slow, hefty, and ugly!) I would like to add the obits of the others of our flock who have passed on, but have no way to find them. I'd like to put everyone's pics on the site. But, I guess I'll just have to settle for what I got. In my faded recollection of high school, I remember him as a sharp dresser, with a Continental style, and a good dancer. Light on his feet and quick witted to deflect the many punishments inflicted on us. I remember him as a "lawyer" type and opposed to all the other stereotypes I carried along. As I say, all that old stuff is a blurr, and this was a sad reminder of our own mortality. Sigh, rest in peace, and if you have "stolen home" put in a good word for the rest of us, 'cause we'll be along shortly. ] = From: "Don Wszolek" I was shocked to hear news last evening of Ron Conti's passing. I had last seen Ron at our 20th Reunion in 1984. But in the tragedy of this event I can vividly recall many of those good times and events with Ron from our Prep and college days .... I am grateful to Marty Galle for calling me ASAP after he received Bob Van Buren's email recounting the news. Since it was 6:15 PM, Marty and I were able to meet at 7:00 PM and went to the funeral parlor to pay our last respects to our old friend and classmate. I know if there had been an earlier alert, we probably would have had a larger contingent attending. Ron's immediate family and friends were truly grateful, and comforted in the knowledge of how well Ron was thought off and remembered by so many of his classmates. Bob Van Buren came down from Massachusetts and arrived later than anticipated at the wake, thus Marty and I missed seeing him there. Bob and I did attend the funeral mass this morning at St. Francis of Assisi Church in West Nyack. What better patron Saint for a man who loved the care and feeding of animals so much! Ron's sister Dianne read a heartfelt and uplifting eulogy whose fabric was woven from the threads of Ron's life and experiences. (do you remember that Rons' band, or a band he played in, actually made an appearance and played at the 1964 World's Fair!...maybe it was the same day that Tony Green and I liberated the Dingelager Pavilion from having too much beer!!). Dianne also related how "her big brother Ronny" would enlist her to help him "get a few extra bench press reps in" when he was working out...actually probably saving him getting unceremoniously pinned under 200+ lbs.! Ron's adult life combined a gift for teaching biology and working with troubled youth, with a lifelong love and care for common and exotic animals. He was an expert herpetologist, and throughout his life always had a collection of exotic pets that he nurtured and cared for, as well as exhibited and conducted lectures. The dreary and wet weather of the last few days was a fitting backdrop to this reverend and somber occasion, for Ron was truly called from us "before his time". Wait for us old friend with John DuBois, Tony Kelsey, Tony Ferrara and Bill Kral. Ave atque vale, frater. On a final note, I think Frank Z.'s proposal about a joint donation in Ron's name is an excellent one...let's see if we can do what makes the most sense. The Waz [JR: Don is a fellow Prepster64 and MC1968. And, captures the moment much better than I could. ]
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http://www.mcquadrangle.org/media/paper663/news/2005/10/12/News/ Monika K. Hellwig, Former Commencement Speaker, Passes
Away Dr. Monika Hellwig passed away on Sept. 30 This week the Manhattan College community was notified of the unfortunate and sudden death of Monika K. Hellwig. A former president of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, and last year's Undergraduate Commencement speaker, Hellwig passed away on September 30 in Washington, D.C. Hellwig will be remembered for her dedication to the scholastic pursuit of modern Catholicism, and her thorough work in the field. Graduating from both the University of Liverpool and the Catholic University of America, she was a professor at Georgetown University for over three decades. Her dedication to the university earned her distinction as the college's Landegger Distinguished Professor of Theology in 1990. Alongside her work at Georgetown, Hellwig was visiting lecturer at the University of Notre Dame, University of San Francisco, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Boston College. In 1984, the Catholic Theological Society of America bestowed her with the John Courtney Murray Award, and a decade later received the Reverend Theodore M. Herburgh Award by the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities for her contributions to Catholic higher education. In 1996, Hellwig was named Executive Director of the Association, later becoming president. Hellwig remained president of the organization until last August. At the ACCU, Hellwig oversaw the response of 200 Catholic universities to the death of Pope John Paul II, assisting schools in their response to the late Pope's Pontifical encyclical, Ex corde Ecclesiae. Her work with the ACCU was acknowledged by Georgetown University, appointing her as a Senior Research Fellow of the Woodstock Theological Center. Dr. Hellwig's scholarly work includes numerous books, among the various lectures delivered throughout her academic life. Some published works were Understanding Catholicism, Jesus the Compassion of God; The Eucharist and the Hunger of the World, A Case for Peace in Reason and Faith; and Guests of God: Stewards of Creation. Throughout her career, Dr. Hellwig made initiatives aimed at opening opportunities for women in theological scholarship, and sought greater peace and understanding through religious study. Hellwig also focused on inter-religious dialogue as a means of reconciliation and understanding throughout all faiths. According to a press release from Bethlehem University, one of many schools receiving assistance from Hellwig's devotion to Catholic universities, said, "Bethlehem University has had a great friend in the person of Dr. Monkia Hellwig and we now mourn her loss. We are grateful for her time with us as a visionary leader in Catholic higher education." Last May, Hellwig delivered Manhattan College's 2005 Undergraduate Commencement address, and received an honorary degree in Pedagogy. As the figurehead of the association called the voice of Catholic higher education, her absence from the scholastic community will be mourned by all.
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[JR: I'm going to try a new section for "updates". These are changes that "pop" in from the various sources that are not really from the news. I thought it might be valuable to alert old friends seeking to reconnect or "youngsters" seeking a networking contact with someone who might have a unique viewpoint that they are interested in. This is a benefit of freeing up time trying to make email work by "outsourcing" the task to Yahoo.]
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Browne, Ned (1998)
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[JR: I'm going to try a new section for "negative updates". These are changes that "pop" in from the various sources that are not really from the news. I thought it might be valuable to alert old friends or "youngsters" that someone they maybe interested in has “drifted off”. Yet another benefit of freeing up time trying to make email work by "outsourcing" the task to Yahoo.]
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NEWSxx: Considine, Martin D. (1970) is VP Tech in Saint Louis http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/newsarticle.asp?dist=nbk¶m Martin D. Considine Joins Peabody As Vice President Of Technology 10/6/2005 2:54:08 PM ST. LOUIS, Oct 06, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Peabody Energy today announced that Martin D. Considine has been named Vice President of Technology, with responsibility for increasing the utilization of Peabody's coal reserves in Btu Conversion projects. Considine reports to Executive Vice President of Resource Management and Strategic Planning Roger B. Walcott Jr. With Btu Conversion, the energy stored in coal is converted into other high-demand energy forms including electricity, pipeline-quality synthetic natural gas, liquid transportation fuel and hydrogen. Considine has 28 years of business development experience, most recently serving as a consultant to General Electric in acquiring ChevronTexaco's gasification technology. He previously held positions with Texaco and ChevronTexaco, including Senior Vice President of Business Development for worldwide power and gasification projects, which included licensing activities. Considine holds a Master of Business Administration from Pace University in New York, as well as Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Chemical Engineering from Manhattan College in New York. Peabody Energy (BTU) is the world's largest private-sector coal company, with 2004 sales of 227 million tons and $3.6 billion in revenues. Its coal products fuel more than 10 percent of all U.S. electricity and 3 percent of worldwide electricity. CONTACT: Beth Sutton of Peabody Energy, +1-505-287-2636 SOURCE Peabody Energy ### From: MarketWatch Alerts
[mailto:alerts@marketwatchmail.com] Martin D. Considine Joins Peabody As Vice President Of Technology By PR Newswire 10/6/2005 2:54:08 PM ### ### |
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From: Mike McEneney [1953] Dear John, While reading the Saturday NY Times (10/8/05) on a rainy day here at the beach house, I came across an article on page B1 of The Metro Section entitled "Holding Back the Flood" - Looking for a Way to Preserve the Trade Center's Slurry Wall. The article refers to George J. Tamaro, '59 BCE as the ". . . father of the slurry wall..." My interest in the wall stems from the fact that I worked in the area when the World Trade Site was condemned, later demolished, the wall constructed and the Buildings eventually erected. Many a lunch hour was spent window shopping at the many surplus electronic stores, the legendary Washington Market and of course the original Job Lot and Push Cart. When they were closed to make way for the Trade Center, I continued to be drawn to the area and became a "sidewalk superintendent". Little did I know at that time that so many Jaspers had such important roles in this project. I have a copy of the Article if you need it. Best, == October 8, 2005 That the World Trade Center's slurry wall could withstand the catastrophic collapse of the towers - holding back groundwater that threatened to inundate the building foundations - became an article of faith in the days after Sept. 11, 2001, when faith was needed. Turned into a symbolic icon by Daniel Libeskind's master plan, part of the western slurry wall will eventually serve as a visible, even tangible, centerpiece of the underground 9/11 memorial museum being planned within the trade center foundations. "Now that the slurry wall has been laid bare and infused with meaning," said Stefan Pryor, the president of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, "it's our obligation to preserve it and ensure that all who come to the site have the opportunity to view it and pay tribute at it." Faith alone will not keep the wall standing, however. Substantial permanent reinforcement is needed to take the place of the demolished garage floor slabs that once served as lateral bracing and the steel tendons that currently tie the wall back to bedrock, capped by the familiar "high hat" anchors poking out from the concrete at roughly 45-degree angles. The goal, said the engineer Guy Nordenson, is to design a structure that will leave as much of the slurry wall as possible exposed to public view. That is why workers began extracting four-inch-diameter samples from the slurry wall on Sept. 19, a job that was finished Monday after 30 cores had been pulled out. The last sample, about 10 inches long, was a mottled blue-gray, with the stone aggregate of the concrete clearly distinct from the cement binder. Also captured within this cylindrical chunk was a small section of steel reinforcing bar, or rebar, about the width of a nickel and just as shiny, almost as if it were new. Already prodded and perused in the field, the samples will undergo compression tests - getting squeezed in a machine until they crumble. They will also undergo petrographic and microscopic examination in the laboratory, including tests for chlorides, sulfates, fire damage and other evidence of deterioration. The results should be known in four to five weeks, said Milan Vatovec of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, an engineering firm working on the slurry wall project with Guy Nordenson & Associates Structural Engineers and the architectural firm Davis Brody Bond. What the samples reveal about the wall's condition will help determine the engineering solution to its long-term preservation as a museum artifact. It boils down to two broad choices: buttresses in front of the wall to resist the tremendous inward pressure from the surrounding groundwater and soil, or buttresses, known as a counterforts, behind the wall. In either case, horizontal bracing will also be needed since the wall was designed to be supported every 10 feet or so by the floor slabs of the underground garage, which have now been demolished. There is no slurry in the slurry wall; at least, not any longer. But it was a critical element in the construction of the trade center foundations in 1967 and 1968 by Icanda, an Italian-Canadian contractor, as a kind of reverse bathtub to keep the water out. That project began with the excavation of 70-foot-deep trenches in 22-foot-long sections. Slurry, a soupy suspension of water and clay, was pumped into the trench to keep the soft soil from closing up again. A prefabricated rebar cage was then lowered into the slurry-filled trench. Finally, concrete would be injected, displacing the slurry, which would be reused. Each trench corresponded to what is now a 22-foot wall panel. George J. Tamaro supervised the job for the Port of New York Authority, as it was then known. He was chosen because "he spoke Italian (the technology was largely Italian, and many of Icanda's workers had come straight from Italy for the job), he had actually seen a completed slurry wall and he was a superb engineer," James Glanz and Eric Lipton wrote in "City in the Sky" (Times Books/Henry Holt & Company, 2003). Though the slurry wall survived 9/11, numerous steps had to be taken to reinforce it temporarily. New tendons, anchoring the wall to bedrock, were installed and capped by steel "high hats" arrayed in columns of alternating widths, the narrower columns disclosing where the joints are between the wall panels. And in 2003, workers sprayed on a liquid concrete known as shotcrete to protect the surface of the wall. As a result, what is visible today bears almost no superficial resemblance to the original slurry wall except at panels 37 and 38, which escaped the shotcrete treatment because an interim staircase was placed in front of them. There, near the joint between the panels, the nearly 40-year-old rebar cages are plainly visible, like skeletons in an X-ray. One day, this raw and ravaged part of the wall might be framed within a museum exhibition hall, with a skylight above. "This could be the perfect area where you'd talk about the days after 9/11 when people were asking, 'Will the bathtub survive?' " said Anne Papageorge, a senior vice president of the development corporation. Even the new shotcrete surface is important, said William J. Higgins of Higgins & Quasebarth, the preservation consultants to the project, because the period of historical significance at the site is regarded as running from Sept. 11, 2001, through the completion of recovery and stabilization. Though he is legendarily the father of the slurry wall, Mr. Tamaro, now a partner at Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers, is first and foremost an engineer. And he would frankly rather support the wall with floor slabs than see it broadly exposed to view. "I'm not trying to kill the scheme," Mr. Tamaro said, "but I do think one should be careful in what one does with the wall to make it an architectural statement." Unsentimentally, he explained: "I have a problem with the reverence given to the wall because I don't think it relates to the collapse of the towers in any way. It did its duty. I think it should be buried again and protected." [JR: Hmm great article, great find since the automated searches didn’t. But I’m not sure I’d want to be “the father of the slurry wall”. That’s better than being the “CIC”! And, probably a whole lot more important. I remember the WTC and the area with good feelings. And, I still think “we” should have built that WTC back up and made it one more story higher for good measure. And, I’d have happily paid a tax for that. Heck, I’d have even kicked in a few bucks. 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http://iberkshires.com/story.php?story_id=18251 MCLA New Faculty - October, 09 2005 North Adams– Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts has welcomed six new faculty members in a variety of disciplines for the fall 2005 semester. In addition, three other faculty members have moved from part-time status to full time. The faculty have joined the Departments of Biology, Computer Science, Education, English/Communications, Environmental Studies, Fine & Performing Arts, Sociology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Modern Language and Philosophy. The new faculty members include the following: <extraneous deleted> • Edward Curtin has also transitioned into a full-time role within the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work. He has taught at MCLA on a part-time basis since 1996 and has also served as an adjunct professor at Berkshire Community College and Anna Maria College. Curtin holds an M.A. in sociology from The City College if New York, an M.A. in religious studies from Manhattan College, a B.A. in classics from Iona College and secondary teaching certification in social studies and English. <extraneous deleted> ### [mcALUMdb: 1969 ] |
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From: Mike McEneney [1953] Dear John, On page 23 of Sunday Business Section (10/9/05), of the NY Times is a very nice article about another Jasper from the '60's, Charles J. Maikish. I have a copy if you need it. Best, = The New York Times LESS than a year after Charles J. Maikish helped to guide J.P. Morgan Chase through the aftermath of Sept. 11, the firm held its annual disaster recovery drill. The practice situation involved a hurricane striking New York City and submerging Lower Manhattan in 20 feet of water. Knowing the strength of Mr. Maikish's personality, the consultants running the drill killed off the executive vice president for real estate business services -- Mr. Maikish's job -- within the first five minutes (he was struck by a car on Park Avenue) just to see how his staff could function without him. ''I was sitting there biting my tongue,'' recalled Mr. Maikish, who was picked earlier this year to oversee rebuilding throughout Lower Manhattan. In the crisis simulation, the strain of keeping his mouth shut became more than he could bear. When Mr. Maikish blurted out a suggestion to a team member, he recalled, ''the moderator said: 'You're not supposed to be talking. You're dead.' I said, 'This is a seance.''' Indeed, it is difficult to imagine a minor inconvenience like his own demise derailing the Bronx-raised Mr. Maikish, 59, whose official title these days is executive director of the brand new Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center, a position created late last year by Gov. George E. Pataki and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Mr. Maikish's mission is to coordinate the approximately $20 billion transformation of a square mile of real estate below Canal Street over the next three to five years. He and his staff of eight occupy a worn-looking suite of offices in a high-rise opposite the World Trade Center construction site. The number of workers will soon swell to 30, including representatives from government agencies involved in the construction, as they prepare to coordinate more than 20 projects starting in the next six months. For Mr. Maikish, this new position completes a loop of jobs that began in 1968, when he was a young engineer working for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on the construction of the original World Trade Center. He remained with the agency for the next 27 years, first as an engineer; then, after earning his law degree at night, as a lawyer; and later as the director of ferry transportation. Eventually, he was put in charge of the World Trade Center itself -- a year before the 1993 bombing that virtually destroyed the towers' underground infrastructure. It was a seminal moment for Mr. Maikish personally -- he lost four colleagues -- and professionally. ''It was an incredible task that we had at that time; he was everywhere,'' said William H. Goldstein, the former deputy executive director for capital programs at the Port Authority. ''He had the same suit on four days later. We declared him an environmental hazard.'' Mr. Maikish managed the recovery and acted as the public face of the trade center. Afterward, he overhauled evacuation procedures, paying special attention, for instance, to stairwell lighting and safety drills. (He noted that in 1993, it took four to five hours to evacuate the buildings using the stairwells; on Sept. 11, he said, it took 40 minutes to evacuate the portions of the buildings below the strike lines, even though the exodus was not easy.) Mr. Maikish also continued to manage a $750 million capital reinvestment program to modernize the trade center and to increase its sagging occupancy rates. By the time he left the Port Authority in 1996 for a job in the private sector, occupancy rates had climbed to 96 percent from 79 percent. At J.P. Morgan Chase, he consolidated the firm's physical operations as they expanded as a result of several major acquisitions. ''What I enjoy most is transforming something,'' Mr. Maikish said. ''All those acquisitions required that those businesses be absorbed and integrated within the firm both physically and programmatically, and that was exciting.'' He would eventually manage 1,400 full-time employees and 3,000 contract workers in 60 countries and oversee a $2.2 billion budget. His compensation was far more than the $200,000 salary he now earns in the Lower Manhattan construction post. Then came Sept. 11. From Chase's offices on Park Avenue at 47th Street in Midtown, he watched the second plane strike. He grieved along with the rest of city, while attending to the needs of Chase's 14,000 employees in 12 downtown sites. But it was difficult to stay away from the trade center. ''It's sort of that feeling -- your baby's hurt, you've got to get down there. It was hard. It really was,'' he recalled. ''I knew the staff. It was essentially the same staff that was there in '93.'' Many didn't survive. ''There were over 100 people I knew who were killed in the trade center,'' he said evenly, his back to the window that gives glimpses onto the northeast corner of the site. Forty-eight of them were Port Authority employees. ''There were a host of memorial services and funerals to go to,'' he said. ''I went to four or five a week from October to January, and January first, I said I can't do this anymore, so I just stopped.'' Through his volunteer work -- he is a founding member of the Alliance for Downtown New York and has been pushing a turnaround effort since before the 1993 bombing -- he remained involved with the future of downtown and familiar with its players. People started noticing how qualified Mr. Maikish appeared to be to coordinate the reconstruction effort. ''We knew we had to find somebody who could establish credibility immediately,'' said Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff. ''Charlie brings it to the table right away, particularly given his history with the Port Authority and Lower Manhattan's business community. He was really the obvious choice.'' THE governor's office agreed. ''He's obviously bright; he knows the construction business, but he listens very, very well, and when he makes a recommendation, people know he's not coming from a particular agenda,'' said John K. Cahill, chief of staff for Governor Pataki. The governor appointed Mr. Cahill in May to lead the overall planning of the downtown rebuilding effort while Mr. Maikish is coordinating the day-to-day construction. Mr. Maikish describes his style as ''collaborative decisiveness.'' But in addition to having an ability to cut through chaos, he is also said to have a reflective streak. Nearly four decades ago, after earning an associate's degree in civil engineering at Manhattan College in the Bronx, he enrolled in a seminary and studied for the priesthood but switched to philosophy. Being a priest, he realized, ''is about being able to tolerate solitude, and that's difficult and not something I had anticipated.'' (Still, this man who spends all day talking to people acknowledged being an introvert: ''It means that basically people drain the energy out of you,'' he said, whereas ''extroverts actually take energy from people.'' As an introvert, he said, ''you really have to work at having a public face.'') Mr. Maikish keeps his office nearly as barren as ground zero: aside from standard-issue office furniture, it contains a collection of three hard hats -- one from his original tour of duty helping to construct the World Trade Center -- a map of Lower Manhattan annotated with construction projects, and a black and white photograph of his 22-year-old mustachioed self among a group of trade center construction workers in 1968. Mr. Maikish, who is married and has three adult children, owns homes in Battery Park City and in the Rockland County town of New City. He acknowledged that ''absent this opportunity I probably would have stayed at Chase, in the corporate world.'' Nonetheless, he relishes the chance to assist in the birth of ''a whole new community from whole cloth.'' URL: http://www.nytimes.com GRAPHIC: Photo: Charles J. Maikish, executive director of the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center, will coordinate the transformation of a square mile of real estate below Canal Street over the next few years. The projects will have a total cost of about $20 billion. (Photo by Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times) LOAD-DATE: October 9, 2005 [JR: Great find, Mike, again the auto searches wouldn’t see it. ] [mcALUMdb: 1971 ] |
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JNEWSxx: McElwain, Lou (1980) is New Advisor to Board of Prominence Networks http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=97661 HOLMDEL, NJ -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/12/2005 -- Prominence Networks, a developer of products that guarantee end-to-end quality for real-time IP voice and video applications, today announced the addition of Lou McElwain, area vice president of Commercial Markets for Cisco Systems, to its Advisory Board. Lou McElwain is presently Cisco's vice president of sales for the Commercial East area. His team includes the Channels, Customer Advocacy, Marketing, Inside Sales, Cisco Systems Capital and other cross-functional teams that deliver the full suite of Cisco solutions. McElwain joined Cisco in 1995 and has held numerous positions at the company. Prior to his current role he was the vice president of the New York Metro area that included some of Cisco's largest financial services customers. Prior to that he was vice president of Field Sales Operations, Asia Pacific. In that role, McElwain was responsible for multiple sales support teams in that region including Core Technologies, Voice Solutions Development, Major Opportunities/Global Accounts, Inside Sales, Corporate Marketing and the Asia Pacific Channel Team. He was also previously the managing director for the Southeast Asian countries, and relocated to Singapore from New York in mid-1999 to handle this role. In this capacity he led the country sales teams for Southeast Asia that included Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and others. His efforts helped drive Southeast Asia to become one of the fastest-growing sales operations for Cisco in 2000. Prior to joining Cisco, McElwain was at IBM from 1980-1991 where he held a number of support and sales positions. He also held sales positions at McCaw Cellular and Compression Labs (CLI). McElwain has run four New York City marathons, holds a bachelor's degree from Manhattan College, New York and an MBA in Marketing from Pace University, New York. "We are delighted and honored with the addition of Mr. McElwain to our Advisory Board," said Sid Nag, Prominence's founder, president and CEO. "We have added considerably to the strength of Prominence Networks management team. With Lou McElwain's experience in sales, marketing, development, financial management and strategy, Prominence now has experts at its disposal to cover all areas of business management." Prominence Network's MediaIP Service Delivery products are an application-aware solution that controls and manages voice and video traffic between enterprise sites. These advanced, active QoS control products are seamlessly integrated into the call flow via MediaIP's advanced signaling capabilities. The MediaIP's active network element uses its application and network awareness to dynamically aggregate IP Voice and Videoconferencing calls using reserved bandwidth and performs end-to-end, Intelligent Call Admission Control (ICAC) to ensure quality. About Prominence Networks Prominence Networks was founded April of 2000 by President and CEO Sid Nag, a 20-year communications industry veteran. While working with the early adopters of IP Telephony he realized the limitations of existing QoS methods, and that a more robust solution was required. The company's technology has also been integrated with leading voice and video providers, including Cisco, Polycom, RadVision and Tandberg. Prominence Network's management team consists of industry veterans from Cisco Systems, AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies and NetSolve. Located in Holmdel, NJ, Prominence Networks is privately funded by an active, experienced team of senior technology executives, and private equity firms. For further information, contact us at www.prominencenet.com. Contact: Prominence Networks Duanne Vowles 732.203.9750 ext. 29 SOURCE: Prominence Networks ### From: Google Alerts
[mailto:googlealerts-noreply@google.com] Prominence Networks Appoints New Advisor to Board Market Wire (press release) - USA ... McElwain has run four New York City marathons, holds a bachelor's degree from Manhattan College, New York and an MBA in Marketing from Pace University, New York ... ### [Mike McEneney says: I believe that Louis J. McElwain is a member of the Class of 1980. (Good enough for me!) Thanks, Mike. ]
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JNEWSxx: PETROSKI, HENRY (1963) cited The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York) Henry Petroski has built a literary career on paying attention to the objects the rest of us tend to overlook. The bridge that spans two land masses. The fork tines that spear our meat. The cup holders that hug our soda cans. Toothbrushes, pencils, potato peelers, zippers, Post-It notes, safety pins, duct tape. You name it: Petroski has poked it, dismantled it or researched it and then written books about it. A native of Brooklyn and Queens, Petroski grew up in the 1950s, when many of New York City's bridges had yet to take their place in the city's skyline. In high school and college, he watched the great spans rise and became curious about their construction and function. Petroski eventually became an engineer specializing in fracture mechanics, or how things break. Technical stuff, to be sure, but Petroski quickly realized he could explain the intricacies of engineering to a lay audience. Articles in mainstream print media, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, eventually led to a successful book-writing career (in addition to a distinguishing teaching career at Duke University, where he is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering). He has written 11 books, including a memoir, "Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer." Petroski visits Syracuse this week to kick off the 11th season of the Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series. In a recent telephone interview from his home in Maine, he agreed to talk about his influences and inspirations. You grew up in Brooklyn and Queens. Did being surrounded by so many bridges have anything to do with you going into engineering? I watched the Throgs Neck Bridge being built; actually that was built during the time I was commuting to college. I used to go over the Bronx-Whitestone (bridge) a lot also. Did you find yourself, especially with watching the Throgs Neck go up, fascinated with the process? Yeah. I also watched the Verrazzano-Narrows being built. I used to drive along the Belt Parkway to go to Brooklyn and Staten Island, and that was being built then. Lucky I never got into an accident. It was my father's car. (Laughs.) Trying to watch the bridge and drive. What kind of kid were you? Did you take apart your parents' transistor radio? Well, that's in the memoir. The memoir ("Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer") is about delivering newspapers as a teenager, and it's an exploration of what influences led me to become an engineer. So that's part of it - taking apart things and not always being able to put them back together. What were some casualties of your curiosity? I remember my mother got a new electric skillet. I think I broke it before she used it. Well, I mean it functioned. But the light went out. I think I broke the bulb. What were your earliest aspirations? Did you want to invent things? Understand things? I think my earliest times I probably would have been happy to work in a garage on cars. But then I got interested ... well, teachers told me I was good in math and science. This was all about the time Sputnik was launched in 1957. I was becoming a candidate to apply for colleges about the same time. So engineering, science or math seemed like the logical thing to do. And I think it was consistent with, you know, my interest in things. How and where did writing come into the picture? I took a course in literature. You know, engineers had to take courses in the social sciences and humanities. Some students complained about it. But I really enjoyed them. And I remember - I think it was in my senior year - I was taking a course in literature. I had previously gotten to like reading. In high school, I didn't read very much, but in college I began to read voraciously. So taking a course in literature was really something I was looking forward to. ... Then I went to graduate school, and I began to write poetry. Late at night. I began to write poetry and read a lot of poetry, too. Do you remember whom you read? Wallace Stevens I liked a lot. Shakespeare, his sonnets. I used to write sonnets like crazy. And when I was courting my wife, I began to write sonnets and wrote a lot of them to her. I eventually began to publish poetry, too. I wrote all through graduate school, and at the end I began to submit them to little magazines, literary magazines. Did having your poems published give you a different kind of satisfaction than your day job? Well, no, I always was equally interested. ... Writing a technical paper was not that much different from writing a poem, and vice versa. The writing experience, there were a lot of similarities. There's a different audience, obviously. But in writing you have to consider your audience. I enjoyed equally the challenge of writing both types of things. I would think in writing technical papers there's a very prescripted formula you have to follow. Oh, there is. But there is when you're writing a sonnet, too. I wrote formal poetry generally. I enjoyed what Robert Frost said, that writing free verse is like playing tennis without a net. I enjoyed writing formal poetry. How did you get your foot in the door with the mainstream print media? I think all the poetry was preparation and training and really did me well. I published a lot, by the way. I probably published over 100 poems. At the time, The New York Times used to publish poetry - on its editorial page, if I remember. And that was always something I wanted to do, but they never accepted anything. But then I started looking at the op-ed page and thought, "That'd be a nice place to publish.'... So I began to write little op-ed pieces. A lot of them were satires. And I was lucky that I got one published on the op-ed page, and that got me interested in prose. Were you writing about science for the op-ed page? Yeah, science and engineering mostly. I remember the first one I had on the op-ed page was, I think, in 1977. ... About the energy bill. Energy was a big issue back then, and it was a pretty imaginative approach to solving the energy crisis. Things like changing the laws of thermodynamics. It was sort of a piece that played with the fact that the laws of physics and the laws of Congress could somehow be melded together. And then came books? I started to think about writing a book that would be accessible to the general reader, and also meaningful to students and practicing engineers, about what is engineering? Because it wasn't obvious to me. I studied engineering, taught it and practiced it. Exactly what it was, I couldn't explain it that readily. ... And at the same time, there were a lot of failures happening. Planes were falling out of the sky, Skylab was falling, automobiles were having problems with gas tanks, like the Pinto. All these things were coming together, so the book I ended up writing was to try to explain why it is that failures in engineering occur. And that book was my first book. It was called "To Engineer Is Human." That book was very successful. Were you surprised by the success? Well, you write these things, and you think this is the best thing ever. You're surprised when it doesn't succeed. I'm being a little facetious, but not totally. I worked hard on the book. I knew it was different. I've always wanted to write things that were different. As you wrote your 1990 book, "The Pencil," did you have moments where you wondered why you were writing a whole book about the pencil? Oh, yeah. I'm reliving that now, because I'm writing a whole book about one thing. It was originally supposed to be about engineering. The pencil was only supposed to be a vehicle to really write about engineering. But the more I got into the pencil and looking about aspects of its history that would inform engineering, the more I realized that the history of the pencil itself had not been written about. And those aspects of it that had been written were often wrong. How do you come up with things to write about? I'm not sure, to tell you the truth. I really wanted to write about engineering, and I wanted to find an object that would be a good vehicle for introducing ideas about engineering. And the pencil is sort of a symbol of engineering, in that it's erasable. Engineers start designing something, but they keep changing it, erasing this part and making it better. So I saw that metaphor as having potential. How did your next book, "The Evolution of Useful Things" (1992), evolve? Things are always changing, and why do they change? What is it that's driving the change? And I focused on the idea of failure. When something doesn't work, or it fails, that means it's got to be improved, it's got to be changed. ... All these little things that I write about in that book were really case studies or examples to illustrate the point. Why is it important for you to write about engineering in a way that those of us who aren't engineers understand it? Do you consider yourself an ambassador for engineering? Well, not so explicitly. But in the opening of the first book, "To Engineer Is Human," I explain how all these neighbors of mine, who were not engineers, were asking me questions like, "Why don't you engineers know how to do things right? Why are things failing and breaking? What's happening?" So, in that sense, I was trying to explain engineering. Not necessarily in a defensive way. But to explain why these things do happen. And I think I'm still trying to do that, in a way. The details Up close with Henry Petroski - Laura T. Ryan GRAPHIC: PHOTO Joel Page/The Associated Press HENRY PETROSKI is at work in his home in Maine. He also has a residence in North Carolina, where he teaches at Duke University. Joel Page/The Associated Press IN HIS 1992 BOOK, "The Evolution of Useful Things," engineer-author Henry Petroski set out to prove the hypothesis that form follows failure.". . . I should be able to pick up anything on my desk and test it," he says. "And if it doesn't hold up, then I've got to throw out this bigger idea." Joel Page/The Associated Press LOAD-DATE: October 12, 2005 [REPORTEDAS: 1963 ] |
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http://newstranscript.gmnews.com/news/2005/1012/Business/065.html Peter K. Sweeney of Marlboro has been elected to Manhattan College’s board of trustees. Sweeney is vice president at Parsons Brinckerhoff, Riverdale, N.Y., a global engineering, construction management and operations management firm. He also serves as program director for the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. Sweeney, who graduated in 1964 from the college with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, has more than four decades of experience in engineering and construction. He has won several professional awards, including a U.S. Navy Commendation Medal and a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey World Trade Center Award for Exceptional Service. He holds a number of advanced degrees, including a doctorate and master’s degree in public administration from the Robert F. Wagner School at New York University and master’s degrees from Manhattan College and New York University. [REPORTEDAS: 1964 ] [JR: I know Pete and, while I am sure that he would rather have been named bball coach, I have no doubt that he will bust a gut applying his considerable talents to the challenges facing MC. ]
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TELEGRAM & GAZETTE (Massachusetts) The following area students and faculty members have received honors or awards: <extraneous deleted> Manhattan College Beta Gamma Sigma Worcester: Thao Thi Nguyen. <extraneous deleted> LOAD-DATE: October 11, 2005 |
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MNEWSxx: xMC Fac a finalist to be college president http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? October 7, 2005 PITTSFORD — A St. John Fisher College alumnus, the school's current interim leader and a top administrator at the University of Scranton are the three finalists for Fisher's presidency. The three are scheduled to meet with students, faculty, staff and alumni later this month for two-day interviews. After that, Fisher's board of trustees will make the decision. According to a memo sent this week to faculty and to information posted at Fisher's search Web site, the three are: <extraneous deleted> Beth E. Barnett, provost, vice president for academic affairs and a professor at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. Barnett's résumé includes positions at Columbia University and Manhattan College. <extraneous deleted> The board of trustees and search committee indicate that the next president will likely take Fisher "to university status, encompassing multiple schools." The next president also will be expected to triple Fisher's $32 million endowment and attract more students of color and students from a wider area. The private college expects to name the new president before year's end, with the person starting in the spring, said Thomas F. Bonadio, an alumnus and co-chair of the search committee. # From: Google Alerts
[mailto:googlealerts-noreply@google.com] St. John Fisher picks three finalists for presidency Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA ... of Scranton in Pennsylvania. Barnett's résumé includes positions at Columbia University and Manhattan College. Donald E. Bain, interim ... ### ###
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MNEWSxx: Jasper Student quoted http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15352288&BRD=1281&PAG=461 10/08/2005 NEW HAVEN — Rail passengers going through Union Station Friday said the terrorist threat to bomb the New York subway system didn’t stop them from using it, although it made many anxious. Betty Kelly of Long Beach, Calif., who came to visit her father in Hamden, rode the subways despite the threat. "I was scared; a little nervous," Kelly said. "But I didn’t want to pay for a cab." Emma Haynes of Brooklyn, N.Y., came to visit her parents in Old Saybrook Friday. "I heard about the threat on the news last night," Haynes said. "It made me a little nervous, but not so much that I didn’t come." Haynes, like many travelers, noticed heightened police presence. She said the subways seemed less crowded too. "Maybe people were avoiding them," Haynes said. "I was a little worried, but there were extra police around." Ashley Pierson of Old Saybrook, a student at Fordham University in New York, said friends planned to use the subways to go see a musical, but instead used alternative transportation. "A lot of us won’t use the subways because with the inspections, it will take too long," Pierson said. David Rochford of Guilford, who attends Manhattan College, said he only noticed a heightened police presence at Grand Central Terminal. "They were checking bags in midtown," Rochford said. "I wasn’t nervous. This is the world we live in now. You have to have faith in the police." New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his police chief insisted they did the right thing by going public with the threat, despite suggestions from Washington that they overreacted to dubious information. In Iraq, authorities detained a third suspect in the plot and investigated whether a fourth had traveled to New York as part of the plot, according to a law-enforcement official familiar with the case. The official said the man’s trip to New York was described by an informant who spent time in Afghanistan and proved reliable in the past. But the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said authorities had not confirmed if the fourth man exists. Alarmed by the informant’s report of a plot to attack city subways with bombs hidden in bags and possibly baby strollers, U.S. forces in Iraq arrested two suspected plotters who had been under close surveillance until Thursday morning, officials said. The third escaped but was captured Friday. With the men in custody, city officials deployed thousands of extra officers throughout the subways and warned New Yorkers to keep their eyes open. The announcement sparked behind-the-scenes jostling with homeland security officials in Washington, who downplayed the threat and said it was of "doubtful credibility." But Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly vigorously defended their decision. "We did exactly the right thing," Kelly said Friday. Those arrested had received training in Afghanistan, the law-enforcement official said Friday. They had planned to travel through Syria to New York, and then meet with operatives to carry out the bombings. The official said the threat was "specific to place," and the window for the attack was from Friday through at least the weekend. A federal official said one of the suspects arrested in Iraq apparently told interrogators more than a dozen people of various nationalities, including Afghans, Syrians and Iraqis, were involved in the plot. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. In Baghdad, spokesmen for the U.S. military and the U.S. Embassy declined to comment on the arrests. Department of Homeland Security spokesman Brian Doyle said the government has no information that a fourth person possibly connected to the plot "is either here or even exists." Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the military obtained intelligence information "during the normal course of our operations." The intelligence led to a military raid in Iraq this week by Iraqi security forces, backed by U.S. troops, Whitman said, but added that there was no direct link between the raid and the New York subway threat. Kelly, Bloomberg and other city officials declined to release details of the alleged plot. Doyle reiterated the department’s reservations about the intelligence, saying agents "couldn’t put a credible factor on it." Bob Smekal of Glastonbury, a retail consultant, had to go to Manhattan for business Friday. "I didn’t see the headlines — like the New York Post saying ‘Subway Bomb Plot’ until I was already in New York," Smekal said. "I took the subway. I was a little nervous when I saw headlines like that, but I think police had it under control." ### From: Google Alerts
[mailto:googlealerts-noreply@google.com] Terror threat brings high anxiety for rail commuters New Haven Register (subscription) - New Haven,CT,USA ... David Rochford of Guilford, who attends Manhattan College, said he only noticed a heightened police presence at Grand Central Terminal. ... ###
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Core Curriculum to Be Reviewed: Two Years May Result in Changes According to Manhattan College's website, the School of Arts has their own core curriculum that guides the students through a "common learning experience". Setting the curriculum is a long and tedious process, but in the end can be the difference between earning a prestigious reputation and losing students to more esteemed schools. Dr. Monika Hellwig passed away on Sept. 30 Monika K. Hellwig, Former Commencement Speaker, Passes Away This week the Manhattan College community was notified of the unfortunate and sudden death of Monika K. Hellwig. A former president of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, and last year's Undergraduate Commencement speaker, Hellwig passed away on September 30 in Washington, D. Two Years After War Begins, Some Still Protest Weekly Downtown Across from Ground Zero, where the war on terror began, a group forms every Sunday and Monday to protest the war in Iraq. In the two years since the war began, the dedicated members of the Lower Manhattan Peace Coalition have met two times a week, every week, to protest what they believe is an unjust war. Multicultural Student Union Revived The Multicultural Student Union has a new executive board this year looking to make some changes. In recent years, its involvement in campus activities has slipped and the once thriving club fell in membership. When it was first started in the 1980s, MSU sponsored food-drives, a fashion show and talent show; it had awareness days for hunger and AIDS; heritage months were celebrated by activities put together by the members of this group and fund raisers were put together for various causes. Brandi Carlile at Quadstock Musicians that have the opportunity, drive, and ability to perform at venues across the country, including colleges and coliseums, are far and few between. In a world with literally thousands of aspiring song writers, only a handful actually make it. The road can be a harsh place; driving from city to city and playing show after show can take its toll on a person's body and mind. Guess Pass Policy Needs Updating It is not really a nerve-racking thing to get a guest pass from the RA, or even really to have it signed by a Residence Director. You get the form, you fill out the form, have the form signed. It is all very basic. However, what seems to be the problem among most students is the strictness that the school places upon having guests, which goes far beyond simply having a form signed. Manhattan Crew in the Midst of Season Having already completed their first meet on September 24, the Manhattan Crew teams are gearing up for the season ahead and encouraging new members to become involved, all with the help of their captains, Rich Rinelli and Liz Earley. Most college students dread the sound of their alarm clocks waking them up for their first classes, and try to grab as much extra sleep as possible.
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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
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10/16/05 Sunday Golf Violet Classic Suffern, NY 10:00 AM
10/16/05 Sunday W. Soccer Loyola (MD)* Baltimore, MD 1:00 PM
10/16/05 Sunday M. Soccer Fairfield* Fairfield, Conn. 1:00 PM
10/16/05 Sunday Volleyball Niagara* HOME 2:00 PM
10/18/05 Tuesday Golf Saint Peter's West Orange, NJ 2:00 PM
10/18/05 Tuesday Cross Country Manhattan/Iona Invitational HOME 3:00 PM
10/21/05 Friday W. Soccer Niagara* HOME 3:00 PM
10/21/05 Friday Volleyball Rider* Lawrenceville, NJ 7:00 PM
10/22/05 Saturday Golf St. Mary's Fall Classic Finksburg, MD 9:00 AM
10/22/05 Saturday M. Soccer St. Peter's* HOME 1:00 PM
10/22/05 Saturday Volleyball Loyola (MD)* Baltimore, MD 7:00 PM
10/23/05 Sunday Golf St. Mary's Fall Classic Finksburg, MD 9:00 AM
10/23/05 Sunday W. Soccer Canisius* HOME 10:00 AM
10/26/05 Wednesday Volleyball Fairleigh Dickinson HOME 7:00 PM
10/27/05 Thursday W. Swimming Suffolk West (Scrimmage) Brentwood, NY 6:00 PM
10/28/05 Friday W. Soccer MAAC Championships% Lake Buena Vista, FL TBA
10/28/05 Friday Cross Country MAAC Championships HOME 2:30 PM
10/28/05 Friday M. Soccer Rider* HOME 3:00 PM
10/28/05 Friday W. Swimming Stevens Tech Hoboken, NJ 7:00 PM
10/29/05 Saturday Crew Head of the Fish Regatta Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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10/29/05 Saturday W Crew Head of the Fish Regatta Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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10/29/05 Saturday W. Soccer MAAC Championships% Lake Buena Vista, FL TBA
10/29/05 Saturday Volleyball Sacred Heart HOME 2:00 PM
10/30/05 Sunday W. Soccer MAAC Championships% Lake Buena Vista, FL TBA
10/30/05 Sunday M. Soccer Loyola (MD)* HOME 10:00 AM
10/30/05 Sunday Volleyball Saint Peter's* Jersey City, NJ 2:00 PM
10/31/05 Monday W. Soccer MAAC Championships& Lake Buena Vista, FL
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If you do go support "our" teams, I'd appreciate any reports or photos. What else do us old alums have to do?
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http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6265 BATTLE OF THE BOROS TOURNAMENT CANCELLED Due to inclement weather and unplayable field conditions, the Battle of the Boros Baseball Tournament has been cancelled, and will not be made up. # # # WOMEN'S SOCCER POSTS THIRD STRAIGHT SHUTOUT, BLANKING VMI, 4-0 Lexington, Va. (October 10, 2005)- Manhattan won its third straight game today, downing Virginia Military Academy, 4-0, this afternoon at Patchin Field. Lauren Zdunczyk assisted on the first two goals and scored the third, as the Lady Jaspers improve to 6-8-1, while the Keydets fall to 6-8-0. # # # PFEIFER AND WATSON EARN MAAC VOLLEYBALL WEEKLY HONORS Riverdale, N.Y. (October 10, 2005)--For the first time this season, Manhattan Volleyball had two players receive weekly honors from the conference in the same week. Senior middle hitter Maggie Pfeifer (Liberty, Mo./St. Pius X) earned her fourth MAAC Offensive Player of the Week recognition in 2005, while sophomore outside hitter Ashley Watson (Mountain View, Calif./Los Altos) was named MAAC Defensive Player of the Week for the first time in her career. # # # DeFINO AND NEWKIRK GARNER MAAC WOMEN'S SOCCER WEEKLY HONORS Riverdale, N.Y.- Manhattan College sophomore goalkeeper Alicia DeFino has been named MAAC Defensive Player of the Week, and rookie forward Caitlin Newkirk has been named MAAC Rookie of the Week, it was announced today by the conference office. # # # WOMEN'S TENNIS VS. RIDER POSTPONED The women's tennis match scheduled for Sunday, October 9 has been postponed due to inclement weather. The game will be made up at a date to be determined. # # # http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6277 VOLLEYBALL DROPS THREE HIGHLY-CONTESTED GAMES AT FORDHAM Bronx, N.Y. (October 11, 2005)--Manhattan Volleyball dropped three highly-contested games to Bronx rival Fordham University in a non-conference match at the Rose Hill Gym. Lady Jasper senior outside hitter Megan O'Dorisio tallied her eighth double-double of the season by pounding out a match-high 17 kills to go with 10 digs in Manhattan's final tune-up before the start of MAAC play this upcoming weekend. # # # http://www.gojaspers.com/article.cfm?doc_id=6276 WOMEN'S TENNIS TO MAKE-UP SAINT JOE'S MATCH ON OCTOBER 13 Riverdale, N.Y. (October 11, 2005)--The Manhattan Women's Tennis match against Saint Joseph's University, which was originally slated for October 8, has been rescheduled for October 13 at 3:00 p.m. The match was postponed this past weekend due to weather conditions. more... # # #
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[JR: At the risk of losing some of my aura of omnipotence or at least omni-pia-presence, you can see Jasper Sports stories at: http://www.topix.net/ncaa/manhattan/ so for brevity’s sake I will not repeat them here. I will just report the ones that come to my attention and NOT widely reported. No sense wasting electrons!]
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Asbury Park Press (New Jersey) MAYBE next year, sitting in a dorm room at Yale or Boston College or some other major university, Justin Wheat can spare a laugh at the events of Oct. 3, 2005. For now, however, the Christian Brothers Academy senior is reeling in the frustration of a bad week that got worse, and more bizarre. With sickness allowing little sleep the night before the Shore Coaches Invitational on Oct. 1, Wheat went out too hard and struggled to finish 29th in 17:23, almost a minute off his Holmdel Park best. Despite a team victory in Division A, the meet was costly to the Colts, who dropped two spots in the Nike Team National's Northeast rankings from No.3 to No.5 after the race, due largely to the impressive showing by Morris Hills in winning Division D. Then, on Monday, a collision with a Manalapan student while running around the school's soccer field during a CBA-Manalapan game left Wheat's already sore hamstring hurting. "I honestly don't think the kid was trying to harm anyone," Wheat said. "He collided with A.J. Zapcic, who collided into Greg Leach, and Leach hit into me. I was having some tightness in my hamstring, and I thought I could run through it, but my right leg was planted and my knee twisted when Leach hit me." The injury will force Wheat out of today's Manhattan College Invitational and a matchup with the Northeast's No.1 (Fayetteville-Manlius, N.Y.) and No.3 (Morris Hills) teams. While the Colts will get a shot at Morris Hills at the Meet of Champions, with three New York teams ranked in the top four of the region, a good showing at Manhattan seems key to the team's hopes of returning to the national meet in Portland, Ore. "This weekend was, not only for me, probably the biggest race of the season," said Wheat. "We're going against two unbelievable teams in F-M and Morris Hills. I feel like I'm letting my team down. It's no fun sitting on the sideline." Treatment for his injured leg seemed to progress nicely throughout the week for Wheat, who expects to be running again in time to compete at the Brown Invitational on Oct. 15. <extraneous deleted> LOAD-DATE: October 12, 2005 |
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From: Robert Helm [1951] Good Evening, Ladies and Gentlemen: 1. I have long thought that this stuff is trash and have been put down as an alarmist ! I think that the evidence presented in this e-mail that my Lady sent me should at least be read. (As many of you know, she usually subjects this type of material to a "Snopes" critique which usually determines that the material is untrustworthy. Not this time !) 2. I would not be surprised if Splenda is also junk. It is bad enough that almost everything is over sweetened with "High Fructose Corn Syrup", but this artificial junk has been forced on us for years. I hope that the New Mexico people do not cave. If they do, all such trash will be foisted upon us, just as we are forced to drink water which is first cleaned and then saturated with fluoride so that our teeth are preserved while our bodies are not. 3. I intend to list all the web sites and read all the findings before the FDA bans it from our computers. My respects to all. FNS sends = From: Helen A. Helm Viva New Mexico! - We, the People, won! On October 4th New Mexico's Environmental
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From: Amy (Heintz) Roat '91 John, This Thursday, Oct. 13, from 6-9 pm, The Philadelphia Metro Jaspers are getting together at Smith and Wolensky at the Rittenhouse Hotel for a Networking Reception. See www.Manhattan.edu for details. It promises to be a good time. Amy (Heintz) Roat '91 [JR: Sigh, hope it was. Maybe next time, I’ll get the info in time to push it out so that some one can act on it. I cite as an example, the Old Jaspers in Florida lunch who give we their announcement months in advance. ] |
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From: Mike McEneney [1953] Dear John, The October 2005 Edition of CATHOLIC NEW YORK has two articles that mention my classmate William F. Harrington, Esq. '53. The first is on page 14. Bill was honored at the Dunwoodie Seminary fund raising dinner together with Cardinal Avery Dulles. The dinner was held at the Seminary on September 15th. Bill is a member of the Seminary's board of trustees, as well as the board of Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Cardinal Egan was very generous in his praise of Bill. The second article is on page 70. It announces that Bill and his wife Carolyn will receive the Mother Mary Walsh Award at the 13th Annual Mary Higgins Clark Luncheon at 11 AM on October 26th at Abigail Kirsch in Tarrytown. Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter Carol Higgins Clark will be special guests. Bill and Carolyn will be honored for their work in Westchester County on behalf of the needy. Tickets are $100. For further information you may call (914) 941-1710, ext 133. Bill is a Jasper that we all should be very proud of! Best, [JR: Good finds. CNY doesn’t post their stuff to the net so they are invisible to the search engines. Short sighted IMHO but not much I can do. That’s why a wise guy recogs his limitation. Great job Mike vacuuming up the other stuff. Thanks, if I had ten like you, this would be a cinch. ]
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Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:50 AM Hello, The following person would like to join the Distribute_Jasper_Jottings group: Email address: Mellisa Cain <privacy invoked> Comment from user: Hi. I'm a 2003 graduate. [JR: Happy to have you join us. ] |
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http://www.rml-law.com/a_pjo.htm PAUL J. OTTERSTEDT Paul received a B.E.M.E. degree, summa cum laude, from Manhattan College in 1983, an M.S.M.E. degree from Columbia University in 1987, a J.D. degree from St. John's University School of Law, magna cum laude, in 1994, and an M.S.E.E. degree from Polytechnic University in 2000. Paul was a Thermodynamics Engineer with Grumman Aerospace from 1983 through 1986, where he was involved with computer-aided thermal and hydrodynamic analysis and design of spacecraft thermal control systems including heat pipes and other advanced technologies. Paul was a Staff Engineer at Limco Manufacturing from 1987-1989, where he performed thermal and structural analysis and test of aerospace heat transfer equipment. Paul was also a Mechanical Engineer at AIL Systems from 1989-1991, where he performed thermal analysis of aircraft electronics. While at St. John's Law School, Paul was a member of the law review. Paul has been previously associated with Hoffmann & Baron on Long Island, New York and Baker Botts in New York City. Most recently, Paul was a Senior Intellectual Property Attorney with IBM Corporation, where he worked at the T.J. Watson Research Center, in the corporate Intellectual Property & Licensing Department, and in the Software Group. He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and is admitted to the Bars of New York and New Jersey, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and federal district courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey. Paul's practice focuses on patent prosecution, opinion work, and licensing. He handles a broad spectrum of electrical, mechanical, and computer-related inventions, including speech recognition systems, electronic circuitry, medical devices, and computer-aided design systems. Paul is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma honor societies. [REPORTEDAS: 1983 ]
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http://muniwireless.com/applications/849 Guest Commentary: There Is A Large Pink Suede Elephant In The Middle Of The Room Municipalities can and should spend tax dollars to build out free high speed citywide wireless systems if that is deemed a need or benefit to a community by its citizens and elected officials. Now that we have recognized the Elephant in the Room we can explore it further. I am not sure who decided (well, let me take a guess, could it be the incumbents?) that it was inappropriate for a municipality to expend tax dollars on this particular city service. After all, do cities not expend tax dollars on all city services? What do the following items have in common: parks, ball fields, senior centers, municipal golf courses, libraries, water parks, performing arts centers, swimming pools, football stadiums, baseball stadiums, basketball arenas, opera houses, convention centers, marinas? The list goes on. What each of these have in common is that they are all projects that are built around the country in municipalities large and small every day using tax dollars. They have something else in common too. While not an essential service such as Police or Fire, each has been deemed important by the given community for economic, social or quality of life reasons. Each of these services can be, and often is, provided by the private sector in one community and the government in another. At the end of the day, it is up to a given community to decide which services it feels are important to be delivered by their local government and which ones they are satisfied with the private sector providing. So again I ask, why is a municipal wireless system singled out as the one municipal service that is inappropriate on which to expend public funds, and exactly who decided that? What is even more interesting is the fact mentioned earlier that the various projects listed above are not essential yet deemed important for economic, social or quality of life reasons. I would contend that a free municipal wireless system fits into all three of the categories mentioned, but in today’s world is also knocking on the door of being an essential service. As such, it should be deemed even more worthy of public funds, not less. One more item to consider: deployment of municipal wireless systems has two components, capital and ongoing operational costs. There will be those that will be quick to point out that many of the projects mentioned above like a municipal golf course, performing arts center or swimming pool often have user fees attached to access, so why should a municipal wireless system be free? There are a few distinct differences: The projects listed have very targeted user groups that in many cases may only reflect a small percentage of the community. High speed connectivity to the Internet in most communities will directly impact and benefit 80%-90% of the citizens. While the majority of the projects noted above have a user fee, that fee is usually set relatively low and is designed to attempt to cover the operational cost of a facility, not the capital cost. A classic example is the municipal golf course with an $18 fee while privately run ones in the same community might charge $40-$60. At best, the $18 covers maintenance, and maybe not even that. In the case of the municipal wireless system government services will be able to achieve sufficient savings through productivity and service level improvements that the savings to the city will cover the entire operational cost of the system, allowing the municipality to deliver the service 100% free. Dollar for dollar, Municipal Wireless systems delivered free to the public may offer the largest return on investment to the community, economically, educationally and socially of any investment a municipality can make. Spending tax dollars on deploying free public wireless systems is a sound and just investment in the future of communities across America. The sooner municipalities move to ignore the spin doctors of the incumbents and trust the judgment of their constituents about where and how to spend tax dollars the better off they will be. About the author Jonathan Baltuch is the President of MRI, which specializes in creating and implementing brand identity and economic development blue prints for municipalities. MRI brings unique entrepreneurial skills and insights to governments allowing them to shape growth for the benefit of their citizens. MRI has created the “Cyber Spot” program for the City of St. Cloud, the first citywide 100% free municipal wireless network in the country. You can reach him at . ### Well, I don't think that government at any level should be doing anything outside their core mission. Running a golf course, a library, or a muniwifi are all outside IMHO. I think that people have to see every single tax dollar as extracted from unwilling participants by force. If you don't think so, just NOT pay some tax or other, and watch the guys with guns show up. The IRS just bought a 1,000 automatic rifles for their customer friendly agents. You don't see WalMart doing that! The free market place allows people to exchange their dollars to satisfy their needs using whatever strange calculus they see fit. High speed inet, low speed inet, or no inet should be delivered by a free market. At no time should the government tell us that we have to do something for our own good. People are the sovereign. I think the classic test for a bad idea is if the government has to do it. In my particular locality, the people of the town didn't go to the local movie theater so it shut down. But, the government supported library, similarly unused, extracts money from me year after year. Despite lower usage as reported by their own counts, financial irregularities, and all sorts of other nonsense. I can't influence government. So, I am against all government programs categorically. I don't want one red cent of anyone's tax dollars going for any "elephant" -- pink, blue, or green. There ain't no such thing as free lunch. And I object to anyone characterizing something the government imposes as "free". We are paying dearly in many dimensions for that and other "free" services. ps, By forcing people to pay for things thru taxes, we engage in the "fallacy of what's unseen". That is what's unseen is what the individual would have done with the money had the tax collector hadn't taken it. So at the margin, there may be a senior citizen, who's forced out of their home, by property taxes. Let's assume that muni wifi adds $1/month to each taxpayer, what about that poor senior citizen who could have stayed in their home for $12 per year? What about the parent who couldn't take their child to McDonalds because they had to pay the added tax for MuniWifi? It's all about the margin. We fool ourselves by pretending that this doesn't happen. The government has no pot of money; just what they steal from us. So we see the "free" benefit, but we don't see the "true" cost because of the "fallacy of what's unseen". p.s. the author never responded. |
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