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This issue is at: http://www.jasperjottings.com/2006/jasperjottings20060507.htm
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Reinkefj at the College’s email forwarding service alum dot manhattan dot edu! Use email-sending webform http://public.2idi.com/=reinkefj anytime.
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SPORTS: No.
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JASPER EVENTS THAT I HAVE HEARD ABOUT
Thursday, May 12th
Spring Social Manhattan College Latino Alumni Club Ibiza Lounge
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Saturday February 24, 2007
Hold the date for 2007 Manhattan Alumni of the Treasure Coast Jasper Open Golf Tourney
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My list of Jaspers who are in harm's way:
- Afghanistan
- - Feldman, Aaron (1997)
- Iraq
- - Lara, Angel (2002) - - 1st Recon BN, H&S Co, S-6 - - Unit 40535 - - FPO, AP 96426-0535
- 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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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
"A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out." -- Harry Browne (1933-2006), Liberty A to Z:
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Exhortation
http://earth.google.com If you’ve never seen google earth, then you should get out on the internet a little. It certainly will expand your thinking. I can see my three cars parked on the street in front of my house. My easy to pick out cause of the red roof in a neighbor hood of black ones. Maybe there’s a new niche, advertising on the roof! Like Joe’s Pizza that way. Hmm. I am sure that you, my fellow alums, will be inspired. By the way, you’ll never guess what is at 40°53’24.22” N 73°54’05.37”W at an elevation of 90 feet? The elevation of 21 feet to 90 feet doesn’t jibe with my memory schlepping up the hill for my D’s in theology for barbarians. You may remember it differently. I guess it was better than the alternatives.
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
0 Messages from Headquarters (like MC Press Releases) 1 Good_News 0 Obits 4 Jaspers_in_the_News 3 Manhattan_in_the_News 4 Email From Jaspers 3 Jaspers found web-wise 0 MC mentioned web-wise 0 Blaire’s Blog
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PARTICIPANTS BY CLASS
Class	Name	Section
????	Helenek, Henry	JFound2
1949	Reynolds, Peter	Birth1
1950	Reynolds, Tom	Birth1
1951	Kelly, Raymond	JNews3
1953	McEneney, Mike	Birth1 (reporter)
1953	McEneney, Mike	Email03
1953	McEneney, Mike	JNews1 (reporter)
1961	Stebbins, Don	Email01
1963	Petroski, Henry	JNews1
1965	Brancale, Frank	Updates
1967	Nipper, Thomas P.	JFound3
1968	Cramer, Vincent	Email02
1968	Kaufman, Richard	Email02
1971	Calvaruso, Joseph	JFound1
1972	Genereux, Paul C.	JNews2
1979	Finnerty, John	Updates
1980	Fredericks, Sue	Email03
1980	Wolf, Peter	JNews4
1991	Reynolds, Tommy Jr	Birth1
2006	Fatah, Osama Abdel	Updates
2007	Mack, David	Updates
2007	Vogel, Liane	Updates
2008	Lara, Carolyn	Updates
2009	Cohn, Erin	Updates
2009	Constante, Karen	Updates
2009?	Keeler, Lindsey	Updates
2009	Murtaugh, Emily K.	Updates
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PARTICIPANTS BY NAME
Class	Name	Section
1965	Brancale, Frank	Updates
1971	Calvaruso, Joseph	JFound1
2009	Cohn, Erin	Updates
2009	Constante, Karen	Updates
1968	Cramer, Vincent	Email02
2006	Fatah, Osama Abdel	Updates
1979	Finnerty, John	Updates
1980	Fredericks, Sue	Email03
1972	Genereux, Paul C.	JNews2
????	Helenek, Henry	JFound2
1968	Kaufman, Richard	Email02
2009?	Keeler, Lindsey	Updates
1951	Kelly, Raymond	JNews3
2008	Lara, Carolyn	Updates
2007	Mack, David	Updates
1953	McEneney, Mike	Birth1 (reporter)
1953	McEneney, Mike	Email03
1953	McEneney, Mike	JNews1 (reporter)
2009	Murtaugh, Emily K.	Updates
1967	Nipper, Thomas P.	JFound3
1963	Petroski, Henry	JNews1
1949	Reynolds, Peter	Birth1
1950	Reynolds, Tom	Birth1
1991	Reynolds, Tommy Jr	Birth1
1961	Stebbins, Don	Email01
2007	Vogel, Liane	Updates
1980	Wolf, Peter	JNews4
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Messages from Headquarters
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GOOD NEWS
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From: Mike McEneney [1953] Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 12:11 AM To: John Reinke Subject: Good News Dear John, I just learned tonight that on May 1st Liam Thomas Reynolds was born to Tommy Reynolds, Jr '91 and his wife Laura. Liam joins his sisters Madison and Meg at the Reynolds home. Tommy reports that Liam weighed in at 9 pounds, 2 ounces and was 22 inches long. A future Jasper? Liam is the grandson of the late Tom Reynolds '50, and the grandnephew of the former president of the Manhattan College Alumni Society, Peter Reynolds, '49. Both Mother and baby are home and doing well. Best, Mike McEneney, Esq. '53 {JR: I’m sure Brother President is putting the forms in the mail as we speak. Our congrats to the Mom for a job well done. And to all the “uninvolved” get to work! ;-) Why do the Dads get kudos for the Mom’s effort? It always seemed out of balance to me. Like the old joke if men had babies, the human race would have gone extinct ages ago. }
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OBITS
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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Jasper_Updates
[JR: Alerting old friends seeking to reconnect or "youngsters" seeking a networking contact with someone who might have a unique viewpoint that they are interested in.]
Brancale, Frank (1965) Public Information Officer U.S. Small Business Administration Glendale, CA 91203 # # #
Cohn, Erin (2009) Seaford, New York 11783 # # #
Constante, Karen (2009) # # #
Fatah, Osama Abdel (2006) # # #
Finnerty, John (1979) Married 1child live in NH. Joined to hear about what other Alumni are doing and to find out what is going on at MC # # #
Keeler, Lindsey (2009?) Mesa, AZ 85215 # # #
Lara, Carolyn (2008) # # #
Mack, David (2007) # # #
Mehta, Ms. Krina D. (2006) Forest Hills, NY 11375 # # #
Murtaugh, Emily K. (2009) Frankfort, NY 13340 # # #
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From: Mike McEneney [1953] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:13 PM To: John Reinke Subject: Jasper in the News Dear John, The Science Section of today's (5/2/06) NY Times (page F3) has a story on a Manhattan Engineer, Dr. Henry Petroski, '63. The title of the Article is "Engineering a Safer, More Beautiful World, One Failure at a Time". I found the article very interesting. I have a copy if you need it. Best, Mike = The New York Times May 2, 2006 Tuesday Late Edition – Final SECTION: Section F; Column 1; Science Desk; SCIENTIST AT WORK/Henry Petroski; Pg. 3 HEADLINE: Engineering a Safer, More Beautiful World, One Failure at a Time BYLINE: By CORNELIA DEAN DATELINE: DURHAM, N.C. For an engineer, Henry Petroski seems strangely enthusiastic about failure. Not his own, of course. Fear of failure is what sent him, with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, to graduate school rather than to work, and then to a career of teaching and writing, not designing and building. From his vantage point, failures in design and construction present perfect teaching opportunities. They are object lessons in the history and practice and beauty of engineering. ''Failure is central to engineering,'' he said in an interview. ''Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.'' So whether the subject is the building specs in ''The Three Little Pigs,'' the development of the flip-top beverage can or the storage of nuclear waste (a current focus of his), Dr. Petroski thinks and writes in terms of failure. Failure looms even in ''The Pencil,'' his 400-plus-page look at the invention, evolution, crafting and use of the writing implement whose points are so prone to breaking. The book was a surprise best seller. Dr. Petroski, who is 64, has preached his gospel of failure in books, lectures and articles for publications as diverse as Forbes and American Scientist, where he has a regular column. In the process, he has amassed numerous honors and awards, including membership in the National Academy of Engineering. He has also achieved the status that a reviewer in the journal Science predicted for him after the publication in 1985 of his first book, a catalog of calamity called ''To Engineer Is Human.'' He is ''the meistersinger of the guild.'' That first book has on its cover a photo of a famous failure, the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, a graceful span across Puget Sound. Its roadway was so narrow and light that it swayed and twisted even in 40-mile an hour winds. It collapsed in 1940, a few months after it opened, in a disaster famously captured on film. According to Dr. Petroski, the lesson of that bridge is not that it failed, but that it was deemed invulnerable to failure, a judgment that is always a mistake. Or take Frank Gehry's design for the Walt Disney Concert Hall building in Los Angeles, which Dr. Petroski describes in his latest book, ''Success Through Failure,'' published this year by Princeton University Press. According to Dr. Petroski, the high gloss of one side of the building reflected so much light at a condo across the street that residents suffered blinding glare and 15-degree temperature increases until the offending wall was resurfaced in a matte finish. This problem is the kind of ''latent failure'' that emerges only when a design is in use. And then there is the rolling suitcase Dr. Petroski's wife, Catherine, a writer, bought on a recent trip. She chose it because of its convenient design, he recalls. Only when she used it did she discover it does not roll smoothly when it is full. Moral: a device does not have to fail utterly to be a failure. In designing and building, engineers calculate how components of their design must perform, and how much stress they can endure before they will give way, an analysis Dr. Petroski says they apply to tasks as varied as driving across a bridge and bending and unbending a paper clip. The paper clip exercise is one he often uses in Introduction to Structural Engineering, one of the classes he teaches at Duke, where he has appointments in both engineering and history. The analysis of engineering's failures offers some good lessons, Dr. Petroski writes. For example: Success masks failure. The more a thing operates successfully, the more confidence we have in it. So we dismiss little failures -- like the repeated loss of a space shuttle's insulating tiles launchings -- as trivial annoyances rather than preludes to catastrophe. Systems that require error-free performance are doomed to failure. Computer simulations and other methods of predicting whether components will fail are themselves vulnerable to failure. Devices can be made foolproof, but not damn-fool-proof. This engineering maxim is one of Dr. Petroski's favorites. Today's successful design is tomorrow's failure, in that expectations for technology are continually on the rise. A device designed for one purpose may fail when put to another use. (Is it fair to call that a failure? Dr. Petroski smiled. ''Good question,'' he said.) In a sense, Dr. Petroski can attribute his career in engineering to a kind of failure, the failure of the United States to beat the Soviet Union into space. Born in Brooklyn in 1942, he was in high school in Queens in 1957 when the Soviet satellite Sputnik became the first artificial moon to orbit the earth, plunging the United States into a science and engineering panic. Engineers would be hot commodities, his guidance counselor told him. ''You were supposed to be able to get a job,'' he recalled. So he earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at Manhattan College, graduating in 1963. But even though he had summer jobs in engineering, including a stint in the pre-computer-era agency that synchronized New York City traffic signals, he worried that he might fail when working on actual devices people would actually rely on. ''Engineering is a huge responsibility,'' he said. ''I didn't really feel prepared.'' So he enrolled in graduate school at the University of Illinois, where he earned a doctorate in theoretical and applied mechanics in 1968. After a few years of teaching at the University of Texas, he joined Argonne National Laboratory, where he worked on failure -- the fracture mechanics of metal components of nuclear reactors. It was not exactly what Dr. Petroski had studied, but that did not matter a great deal, he said. In the first place, the field was relatively new, so many people were new to it. And secondly, ''the whole philosophy of engineering education is to prepare you to do things you had never done'' because that's what engineering is -- a search for new ways to meet new goals. At Argonne he discovered one thing about himself and acknowledged something else: he was interested in the policy implications of engineering work and he really loved to write. He started reading more widely on policy issues, and he itched to do more writing, both poetry and prose. But his schedule at Argonne offered him little free time. ''We would go into our offices very early in the morning and break for dinner,'' he said. So when reactor research began to slow down after the accident at Three Mile Island, he thought about another academic job, one in which he would have time in the summer to write. He accepted an appointment at Duke, and he and his family -- his daughter, Karen, is a lawyer, and his son, Stephen, is a mechanical engineer -- moved to North Carolina in 1980. For Dr. Petroski, acceptance of uncertainty and possible failure -- he calls it ''coping with the imponderable'' -- is what separates the ''given world'' of the scientist from the ''built world'' of the engineer. He took on what might be the ultimate imponderable assignment when he joined the federal government's Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, a panel of scientists and engineers evaluating the possible use of Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a long-term storage site for nuclear waste. The scientific analysis of the site, the possible movement of water through it, and so on, is largely complete, he said. Now the engineers must determine what might happen if radioactive waste were stored there -- in particular, if it can be stored safely for a million years, the design criterion. A million-year time frame is a challenge, even an unreasonable challenge, Dr. Petroski said. ''But that's what interested me in the problem, a million years. The question is, what kind of society would even be around?'' Knowledge of failure is crucial in considering this kind of problem, Dr. Petroski said. ''I basically argue that engineers should arm themselves with all these case histories of failure and reason by analogy.'' Dr. Petroski acknowledges that even though he is ''an engineer who writes,'' and not a writer who happens to be an engineer, writing is his major contribution to the field. But, he said: ''I have been told by a good number of engineers that they give my books to young engineers because they do see the value in this message. This is very heartening, because I am getting the validation of the real engineers.'' URL: http://www.nytimes.com GRAPHIC: Photos: FOR BETTER BUILDING -- Henry Petroski, at Duke, says success in his profession ''is all about understanding how things break or fail.'' He uses the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, below, which collapsed over Puget Sound in 1940, as an example of things that go wrong. (Photo by Jenny Warburg for The New York Times) (Photo by Associated Press) LOAD-DATE: May 2, 2006
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http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/storyprint.asp?StoryID=476642 New mission comes with new leader By TERRY BROWN, Staff writer First published: Saturday, April 29, 2006 Army National Guard Brig. Gen. Paul C. Genereux has assumed command of the 42nd Infantry (Rainbow) Division as the unit begins a new mission. Genereux assumed the command from Maj. Gen. Joseph J. Taluto during a ceremony at the Glenmore Road Armory in North Greenbush. Genereux had been the 42nd's assistant division commander for maneuver. Taluto of Fort Ann is now the adjutant general of the state's military forces, including the Army National Guard, Air National Guard, New York Naval Militia and New York Guard volunteers. About 200 members of the 42nd Infantry Division Headquarters, plus representatives of the combat and support units of the Rainbow Division, participated in the ceremony marking the transfer of leadership. The new commander is now overseeing the division's reorganization as part of the Army's modularity concept. Much like the Rainbow Division headquarters role in Iraq, the unit will reorganize as an Army unit of employment, providing senior level command and control for the deployment of Army combat and sustainment brigades. Genereux's leaders are overseeing the training and readiness of more than 14,000 soldiers assigned to four brigade combat teams, including New York's 27th Brigade, New Jersey's 50th Brigade, Vermont's 86th Brigade and Massachusetts' 26th Brigade. The division and its soldiers returned from combat duty in Iraq in November. The unit was activated for Operation Iraqi Freedom III two years ago. The 42nd Division became the first Army National Guard division headquarters to command forces in wartime service since the Korean War. Genereux has been serving in the military since 1972. After he graduated from Manhattan College with a degree in civil engineering, he entered military service as an enlisted soldier in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. After years of service as an enlisted soldier, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Army Reserve in 1978. Before becoming the assistant division commander, Genereux served as the deputy commander of the 53rd Troop Command and as the deputy commander of Joint Task Force 42 for the New York National Guard response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City. He also commanded the 3rd Brigade, 42nd Infantry Division, and was the commander of the 1st Battalion, 101st Cavalry. Genereux mobilized for federal service in May 2004 with the 42nd's Headquarters in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom as deputy commander for the Multinational Division, North Central and Task Force Liberty. Genereux is a graduate of the Infantry Officer Basic Course, the Infantry Officer Advanced Course, the Armor Officer Basic Course and the Command and General Staff College. He graduated from the Army War College in 2001 and received a master of strategic studies degree. He has earned a Bronze Star Medal, four Meritorious Service Medals, three Army Commendation Medals and eight Army Reserve Component Achievement Medals. Genereux of Lafayette, N.J., is the director of construction for Torcon Inc. in Westfield, N.J. Since Sept. 11, 2001, Genereux's 42nd Infantry Division has been engaged in the nation's war on terror in many ways: · More than 1,000 Rainbow soldiers deployed to New York City following the terror attacks, helping provide security. · Rainbow Division soldiers deployed for Operation Noble Eagle homeland security missions at the nation's airports and borders following 9/11 and deployed to Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom. · Hundreds of 42nd Division artillery soldiers from New York and New Jersey deployed to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom II. · The 42nd Division deployed a battalion task force from New Jersey's 50th Armored Brigade to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for security. · The division's 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry, New York City's famous "Fighting 69th" deployed for combat operations with Task Force Baghdad in the fall of 2004. · Vermont Army National Guard members of the division's 86th Armored Brigade deployed to the central command area of operations for security missions in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan in 2005 and 2006. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = From: Google Alerts Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 9:57 PM Subject: Google Alert - "manhattan college" -"marymount manhattan college" -"borough of manhattan college" New mission comes with new leader Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA ... After he graduated from Manhattan College with a degree in civil engineering, he entered military service as an enlisted soldier in the Pennsylvania Army ... = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = {MikeMcE reports: Paul was a member of the Class of 1972. (Thanks, Mike.) }
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/413658p-349747c.html Makings of Mayor Commish is impressing more than just Bloomy as a City Hall run looms BY DAVID SALTONSTALL DAILY NEWS SENIOR CORRESPONDENT NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly When it comes to politics, there's probably not much that Michael Long, the head of the state's powerful Conservative Party, and Richard Green, the dreadlocked director of the Crown Heights Youth Collective, agree on. But they do share one common belief: NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly could make a great 109th mayor of the City of New York. "He'd have one vote - mine," said Green when asked about a potential Kelly candidacy. "I have never had a philosophical discussion with him," added Long, one of the state's most influential powerbrokers. "But I certainly would entertain a conversation with him." Two weeks after Mayor Bloomberg mentioned Kelly as one of three administration insiders that he'd like to succeed him - the others were Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Daniel Doctoroff - it is Kelly's name that is generating chatter. Officially, the jut-jawed Kelly is focused only on leading the largest police force in the country, a job he has often called "the best in the world," aides say. And with an approval rating that hovers around 70% - a robust level that cuts across all boroughs and ethnic communities - most think he's doing a good job. But, unofficially, the 64-year-old former Marine is said to be mulling a run for mayor in 2009, when Bloomberg would be term-limited out of office. Three years is a lifetime in politics, and you have to go back to Teddy Roosevelt to find an NYPD commissioner who parlayed the job into elective office. But maybe it's no surprise that Kelly's office is like a shrine to Roosevelt, whose desk Kelly sits at and whose portrait hangs on the wall. "I think he'd be an easy sell," said Joseph Mercurio, a political consultant with Democratic and Republican clients. "People like him, and they see him not so much as a cop on the street as a tough, skilled administrator." Mercurio said he recently cornered Kelly at a party and told him that Republican insiders were already talking up his name for mayor. "He didn't say he wasn't interested," said Mercurio. Yet Kelly's politics remain impossible to discern, which perhaps explains his appeal - everyone sees what they want. He has served under Democrats (former Mayor David Dinkins and former President Bill Clinton) and Republicans (Mayor Bloomberg), and is now a registered independent. Raised in a walkup on W.91st St. in Manhattan, then a much-tougher neighborhood, Kelly's father was a milkman and his mother a dressing-room checker at Macy's. Later, after the family migrated to Sunnyside, Queens, and Kelly enrolled at St. Ann's High School (now Archbishop Molloy), he broke his wrist, thumb and nose playing football. He now has more degrees than most professors - a bachelor's in business administration degree from Manhattan College, law degrees from St.John's University and New York University, and a master's in public administration from Harvard. He has held virtually every rank in his 30-plus years with the force, and friends say he still carries a gun - a five-shot, .38-caliber Smith & Wesson - in an ankle holster beneath his always perfectly pressed suits. He also has his critics. Kelly has long had a testy relationship with the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, which sees him as unsupportive of rank-and-file cops, and civil libertarians believe he has gone overboard in arresting demonstrators and invading privacy in the name of fighting terror. But many also believe that, with crime and terror always a top concern, Kelly could offer a solid mix of hard-nosed administration and political independence. "What Mike Bloomberg has done, and Rudy Giuliani before him, is make the job of mayor about performance," said Bill Cunningham, Bloomberg's former campaign guru. "And Ray Kelly has a public persona based on performance." # # # From: Google Alerts [mailto:googlealerts-noreply@google.com] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 8:26 PM Subject: Google Alert - "manhattan college" -"marymount manhattan college" -"borough of manhattan college" DAILY NEWS SENIOR CORRESPONDENT New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA ... He now has more degrees than most professors - a bachelor's in business administration degree from Manhattan College, law degrees from St.John's University and ... {mcALUMdb: 1951 }
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http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060501005411&newsLang=en May 01, 2006 09:00 AM US Eastern Timezone Peter Wolf Joins Fujitsu as Vice President, Marketing; Appointment Reflects Continued Growth of Key Strategic Positions FRISCO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2006--Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc. has appointed Peter Wolf as vice president of marketing. Reporting to Ed Soladay, COO, Wolf replaces Thomas Giske, a longtime Fujitsu executive who recently retired. Wolf, previously vice president of product management at MobileLime, is responsible for the strategic direction, leadership and overall management of Fujitsu's marketing function. The scope of his role includes customer and program marketing, marketing communications and public relations. "Peter is a proven, results-oriented winner in the retail technology space and we're glad to have him join our team," said Fujitsu's Soladay. "With more than 20 years of retail management experience, Peter will be a valuable asset in continuing to drive our momentum in the marketplace." "With Fujitsu's dramatic growth in the retail space and their new Pervasive Retailing initiative, it's an exciting time to join this executive team," said Peter Wolf. "I look forward to leveraging Fujitsu's strong portfolio of store solutions and strategic vision to build upon their current success." While at MobileLime, Wolf was instrumental in shaping the go to market strategy and expanding the company's merchant base from 16 to more than 80 merchants, including MobileLime's first national retail account. MobileLime is a venture-backed technology start-up focused on the delivery of mobile phone-based loyalty and payment solutions for numerous retail markets. Prior to MobileLime, Wolf was general manager of CRM Solutions at Triversity Incorporated, a retail technology vendor focused on software, services and hardware integration for general retail, specialty retail, grocery, drug and convenience store markets. While at Triversity, he was instrumental in developing, launching and growing year-on-year revenues of the company's Allegiance software suite. Previously, Wolf was director of new business development for ICL Retail Systems, the predecessor company to Fujitsu Transaction Solutions, where he focused on marketing CRM solutions. Wolf holds a B.S. in Marketing and Computer Information Systems from Manhattan College, where he was awarded the Dean James L. Fitzgerald Medal for Managerial Sciences; and an MBA in General Management from Rutgers Graduate School of Management. About Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702), collaborates with retailing companies to relentlessly reduce their costs and facilitate consumer interactions that drive improved profitability for its customers. Fujitsu's Pervasive Retailing(TM) approach enables companies to minimize the time, cost and risk of creating interoperability between disparate applications and devices that support a multitude of consumer touch points. Fujitsu's offering includes solution software, point-of-sale store technology, U-Scan self-checkout systems, self-ordering systems and multi-vendor lifecycle services. Customers include Canadian Tire, Chevron Corporation, Hannaford Bros., H-E-B, Kroger, Loblaws, Nordstrom, Payless ShoeSource, Regal Cinema, Ross Dress for Less, Staples, Stop & Shop and The TJX Companies, among others. The company also has a joint venture with Retalix Ltd. (Nasdaq:RTLX) in StoreNext Retail Technologies LLC, the No. 1 supplier of retail technology to independent grocers and regional chains. Web site: us.fujitsu.com/retailing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Google Alerts Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 8:26 PM Subject: Google Alert - "manhattan college" -"marymount manhattan college" -"borough of manhattan college" Peter Wolf Joins Fujitsu as Vice President, Marketing; Appointment ... Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA ... Wolf holds a BS in Marketing and Computer Information Systems from Manhattan College, where he was awarded the Dean James L. Fitzgerald Medal for Managerial ... {MikeMcE reports: Peter was a member of the Class of 1980. (Thanks, Mike.) }
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The Journal News (Westerchester County, New York) May 1, 2006 Monday SECTION: OPINION; Pg. 6B HEADLINE: Off the sidelines? Mt. Vernon mayor's sports arena dream get a new vision It's been more than a decade, but Mount Vernon Mayor Ernest Davis remains undeterred in his quest for a downtown hotel-convention center-sports arena complex. The complex was originally proposed to be built over the Metro-North Railroad tracks at the Mount Vernon East station. That vision has changed somewhat. While the hotel and convention center would still be at that location, the sports arena would move to Memorial Field on Sandford Boulevard near the Hutchinson River Parkway. That, Davis said, would shave about $30 million from the total estimated cost of $110 million. Davis, an architect, had originally hoped to have what he called the Sino-American Friendship Hotel built by China. Several exchange visits were made to promote that effort. The mayor stopped counting on China in 2000. Davis did, however, get support from Reps. Eliot Engel, D-Bronx, and Nita Lowey, D-Harrison. A $10 million low-interest loan was secured for the project from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, along with a $2 million economic initiative development grant. In January 2003, Fred DiMaggio, executive director of Gov. George Pataki's Empire Zone program, went so far in announcing Mount Vernon as a designated zone to add that, "This is the program that will make the mayor's hotel and sports arena happen." Manhattan College, Fordham University and Iona College went on record in 2002 saying that their basketball teams would likely use a Mount Vernon arena if it were built. Manhattan did not confirm a recent published report that it had signed on though. But Davis did say that interest has been expressed by the Fidelco Group of New Jersey, a partner in a proposed massive redevelopment plan for downtown Yonkers. Why not? There is no reason Mount Vernon should not share in the building boom going on in much of the Lower Hudson Valley. LOAD-DATE: May 2, 2006
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ) April 30, 2006 Sunday All Editions SECTION: LOCAL; Pg. L01 HEADLINE: Litigation, taxes are top issues in Teaneck; Voters will choose from 17 candidates BYLINE: By BRIAN ABERBACK, STAFF WRITER, North Jersey Media Group DATELINE: TEANECK TEANECK — A record 17 candidates are running for Township Council in the May 9 non-partisan election. With just two incumbents seeking reelection, at least three and as many as five new faces will take the oath of office at the July 1 reorganization meeting. Fourteen residents are vying for four four-year terms, and three are seeking an unexpired two-year term. Seeking four-year terms are John Annillo, Dennis Crowley, Michael Kevie Feit, Charles Gonzalez, Adam Gussen, Lenny Hennig, incumbent Elie Y. Katz, Abram Martin, Muhammad N. Mian, Patrick O'Brien, Lizette Parker, Howard Rose, Ronald Schwartz and Abdul Waheed. Clifton Arrington, incumbent David Langford and Elnatan Rudolph are vying for the two-year unexpired term. Crowley, Parker and Schwartz are running as a slate under the slogan Teaneck New Beginnings. Gussen and Rudolph are also running as a team. Following is a look at the candidates' views on some issues that the council is expected to address in the coming years. Taxes and business The $53 million municipal budget introduced in April calls for a 7.7 percent tax increase. That would mean a $226 municipal tax increase for the owner of a home assessed at $200,000, the township average. The candidates all said bringing in new ratables, revitalizing business districts and sharing services with the Board of Education and other towns are crucial to easing the tax burden. Mian said he would start shifting the tax load from homeowners to business owners by instituting a 1 percent assessment tax on commercial properties and a 1 percent payroll tax on all township businesses, including tax-exempt institutions such as Fairleigh Dickinson University and Holy Name Hospital, for five years. Annillo wants to create a transit village, which he said would solve the need for commuter parking while creating new ratables. His plan would involve building a multilevel parking garage with shops and stores. Parker, Crowley and Schwartz said the township must attract stores that will be popular with residents, especially downtown. "We need to attract businesses that will keep foot traffic on Cedar Lane," Parker said. "We need to bring back a sense of pride and community where people want to shop and stay in Teaneck and spend money in Teaneck." Langford said he has been working toward that goal through his involvement with the Teaneck Economic Development Corp. He emphasized the importance of engaging the community in the revitalization process. "I'd like a series of town conversations to look at what we as a community are comfortable with in terms of multi-use solutions for our business districts," Langford said. "If we're not happy with what's going on, each of us needs to voice our opinion in a constructive way." Gonzalez said he would offer incentives to landlords for leasing space to businesses that residents say they would patronize. "We've got to roll out the red carpet for them," Gonzalez said. "If I'm elected, I can assure you that Teaneck will have a Starbucks and other good businesses." Hennig said he would explore the development of multi-use buildings with retail or office space on the ground floor and apartments or condos above. Rudolph and Gussen stressed the need to work with landlords. Gussen said the need for a change in leadership is evident. "If everyone knows this [the need to increase ratables] to be true, how come it's not being done?" Gussen said. "Our councils in the past have dragged their feet." Rose would give development tax incentives to property owners. Martin wants more owner-operated businesses, which he said would have more of an interest in the township's well-being. Feit would hire a full-time grant writer and maximize the use of existing lots. Waheed said he would promote economic development but also be vigilant against excessive residential and commercial development. "Developers are breathing down Teaneck's neck to find places to buy that so that they can build high-rise buildings," Waheed said. "I will not be pushed to overdevelop the town." Katz said he is always looking for ways to bring in revenue and cited several accomplishments during his years in office. He said he pushed for a hotel occupancy tax that has brought in $750,000 over the past two years and a cell tower ordinance that will create revenue and enhance residents' safety. He is also pushing to change the way sewer taxes are collected to make large businesses pay their fair share. "I have a proven track record in economic development, bringing in well-planned ratables and creative ways to raise revenue for the town that take some burden off the taxpayers," Katz said. O'Brien said the township must get its employees to start paying into their health benefit premiums. "This might be politically controversial," O'Brien said, "but every year we are told that taxes are rising due to increased health-care costs. We should do something about it." O'Brien is also pushing for self-imposed budget caps as the way to stabilize taxes. Labor relations Some candidates focused on cutting spending, especially on employee litigation, as a primary way to lower taxes. The township paid former Firefighter William Brennan and his lawyers $3 million over the past nine months to settle a series of harassment and retaliation lawsuits that Brennan filed against Teaneck. In February, a former police officer filed a harassment suit and a Bergen County jury awarded a Department of Public Works employee $300,000 following his harassment trial. The township is trying to reverse the verdict. A three-person council committee is investigating police and fire union complaints against the township manager and police chief. Schwartz said taxes would be stable if the township had a clean legal slate. "Teaneck has had a litigation crisis for the last number of years," Schwartz said. "Because the town refused to address the problems that our own employees had, [the employees] had to sue the town." Arrington also cited reducing legal fees as a priority. "Our money is being wasted by a council that is doing a terrible job in trying to solve some of the [labor] problems at a later date instead of nipping these things in the bud," Arrington said. "We have to be more assertive to attain a good relationship with all our employees." Parker stressed early intervention to prevent problems from escalating to litigation. "There should be a working relationship between labor leaders and the town to talk about problems before they become more serious," Parker said. "They should be settled at the lowest level possible and that's not happening." The police and fire unions have endorsed the Schwartz-Parker-Crowley slate. Crowley, whose brother is a Teaneck police officer, said he would have to analyze issues on a case-by-case basis to determine whether he would recuse himself from discussions or votes concerning the Police Department. Waheed, Feit and Rose said Teaneck needs an ombudsman or human relations specialist to smooth out communications between the township and its employees. "It seems like things escalate very quickly and the employees don't feel there's any way to pursue their grievances," Feit said. "There needs to be interim steps that can be taken." (SIDEBAR, page L02) Township contenders A look at the 17 candidates seeking election in the May 9 non-partisan Teaneck Council election. An asterisk denotes incumbent. FOUR FOUR-YEAR SEATS John Annillo of Garrison Avenue, retired Union City police officer who served as commanding officer overseeing public housing, volunteer at the Teaneck Armory and the armory's Family Assistance Center; chaplain for Sons of the American Legion, Teaneck. Dennis Crowley of Grant Terrace, owner and president of a midsize consulting firm. Michael Kevie Feit of West Englewood Avenue, clinical trial manager for a pharmaceutical company; adjunct professor of health care and public administration at Long Island University's Rockland Graduate Campus; member and former president of Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps; former coordinating committee member of the Teaneck Visioning Committee; awarded a Teaneck Chamber of Commerce Community Service Award in 2005. Charles Gonzalez of East Maple Street, director of public/private partnerships for the Bergen County Department of Planning and Economic Development; member of the township Community Relations Board; member of the Bergen Community College business advisory committee; manager for Teaneck Southern Little League. Adam Gussen of East Terrace Circle, vice president of sales and marketing for a manufacturing firm; vice president of Teaneck Gardens housing cooperative. Lenny Hennig of Hillside Avenue, computer technician in the Bergen County Sheriff's Office; retired manager for Bell Atlantic; school board member, 1994-2006; member of the Patriotic Observance Advisory Board; charter trustee of the Teaneck Chamber of Commerce; commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1429 and vice commander of American Legion Post 128, both in Teaneck; vice president of after-school reading and enrichment program. Elie Y. Katz* of Phelps Road, seeking third term; deputy mayor from 2002-04; business and property owner in town; life member of Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps; council liaison to the Environmental Commission; member of the Teaneck Clean and Green Advisory Board; volunteer at Holy Name Hospital; past member of the Teaneck Youth Advisory Board, Community Relations Advisory Board and Fire Department Box 54. Abram Martin of Palisade Avenue, retired Teaneck police sergeant; chairman of the board of trustees at First Baptist Church, Englewood; youth sports coach and mentor. Muhammad N. Mian of Hillside Avenue, certified public accountant; former board member of the American Heart Association's Mid-Bergen Division and chairman of its development committee; former member of the New Jersey Supreme Court's search and planning committee on minority concerns. Patrick O'Brien of Alicia Avenue; operations manager for a business services company, adjunct lecturer in hospitality management at Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn; involved in a teen mentoring program in Manhattan; served on the Teaneck Visioning Committee. Lizette Parker of Selvage Avenue, social worker for the Bergen County Board of Social Services; chairwoman of the Teaneck Democratic Municipal Organization; shop steward and legislative political coordinator and former secretary of Communication Workers of America Local 1089. Howard Rose of Northumberland Road, owner of Brier Rose Books, Teaneck; former Veterans Affairs Officer at Manhattan College; former student finance officer at Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law; chairman of the Cedar Lane Special Improvement District; Planning Board member. Ronald Schwartz of Larch Avenue; attorney, former Bergen County assistant prosecutor; past president of the Teaneck Democratic Club; past counsel to a panel of council members who investigated illegal dumping in town and corruption in the maintenance department in the late 1980s and early 1990s; past chairman of the Teaneck Rent Leveling Board; member of the Teaneck Peace and Justice Coalition. Abdul Waheed of Lilbet Road; consultant for Xerox; trustee and former vice president of Darul Islah mosque, Teaneck; led the mosque's fund-raising effort to help preserve the Pomander Walk burial ground; has been a leader in interfaith dialogue initiatives locally. TWO-YEAR UNEXPIRED TERM Clifton Arrington of Arlington Avenue, retired postal service manager; vice chairman of Bergen County Martin Luther King Birthday Observance Committee; founding member of Teaneck Community Chorus; mentor in Bergen County Big Brothers/Big Sisters program; coordinator/volunteer for Habitat for Humanity; volunteer for Alternatives to Domestic Violence of Bergen County; member of the People's Organization for Progress; member of Friends of Teaneck's Historic Burial Ground. David Langford* of Circle Driveway, appointed to the council in January; athletic director at Fairleigh Dickinson University; vice chairman of the Teaneck Economic Development Corp.; member of the Teaneck Road Business and Community Alliance, Teaneck Community Arts Center Committee and Circle Driveway Block Association. Elnatan Rudolph of South Forest Drive, political consultant; served as senior adviser to Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski; has been an adviser to New York State Deputy Assembly Speaker Rhoda Jacobs and the Congressional Black Caucus. LOAD-DATE: May 2, 2006
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MNews3
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060429/SPORTS01/604290342/1108 Anderson dismissed by Manhattan College The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA By MIKE DOUGHERTY. The job at Manhattan College is getting harder every day for Barry Rohrssen. Even before the newly hired coach took over this week, Jeff Xavier was looking into transferring to Providence College. Now Rohrssen has to replace C.J. Anderson, who was dismissed from the team yesterday, according to a brief release put out by the school. Repeated phone calls to the Manhattan sports information department seeking comment were not returned. Anderson was leading Manhattan with 18.8 points and 9.4 rebounds, but was suspended just 16 games into the season when he failed to meet academic standards. The sophomore swingman from Cincinnati was part of a meeting with Rohrssen on Monday and was in attendance on Tuesday when the former Pitt assistant was introduced. It's a little unusual for a player to be dismissed for academic reasons before the end of a semester. The Jaspers will have junior Arturo Dubois, who averaged 15 points and 8.5 rebounds, to build around. Devon Austin plans to return, as well. The former White Plains star moved into the starting lineup following Anderson's suspension. He averaged 7.6 points and 3.2 rebounds. Rohrssen is working to sign at least three more players and is finalizing his coaching staff. ###
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Reported from The Quadrangle (http://www.mcquadrangle.org/)
Wed, May 03, 2006 Top Story 2006 Housing Lottery Miscalculated; Troubled by Unexpected Demand News Students Present Research Honoring Lasallian Heritage National News International News Features Seniors Say Goodbye Plastic Money, Money, Money: Student Credit Card Use Rally Against Genocide Empowers MC Community Perspectives The Last Word: Catholic MC Feasible, But Not by Scanlan's Methods Troops Remain in Iraq; Death Count Continues to Rise New Housing Lottery Creates Problems for Students Arts & Entertainment Indie Flicks: Summer 2006 Independent Film Releases Summer of Blockbuster Sequels Country Stars Shine at the CMT Awards Review of The Mikado Sports National League: Who's Hot and Who's Not? America League: Who's Hot and Who's Not? Barry Bonds, Cheater First and Now Liar? Rohrssen Named New Jasper Head Coach
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EMAIL FROM JASPERS
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From: Don Stebbins [1961] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 10:49 AM To: John Reinke (1968) Subject: Socialism is killing us ? Dear Jasper John, You wrote: >>"I would then CLOSE the courthouse to suits for adverse drug impacts. People, that used drugs, >> would then be at their own risk. They are anyway since we have ample evidence that an FDA >>recommendation, even after years of testing and approvals, still winds up with people killed. >> So you could then only sue drug makers for their promises. The FDA could then be used as >> an arbiter of scientific fact. Yes, judge, the drug does cure cancer. No judge, this drug doesn't >> make you thin, smart, and blue eyed. Judge, Maybe, we don't know. Short of that, I'd say that >> the FDA is a symptom of socialism that's killing us and making us stupid. People have to be >> responsible for their own health. They are anyway." Socialism is killing us and making us stupid? I see rampant capitalism making the world uninhabitable as a more likely problem, but will concentrate on what you mean by making us stupid. Do you mean that socialism (which you seem to define as any government action to protect the consumer or improve our lives) makes us stupid because we rely on the government rather than ourselves? I assume then that you mean we would be more intelligent in evaluating the threats we face if we had to fight them alone. We would certainly be more careful about what we ate- but we would have to spend much more of our time growing, preparing, and cooking our meals. One would have to observe the process from beginning to end to make sure the food was safe and nutritious. Concerning drugs, we would have to set up our own testing laboratories to determine that every drug is safe and effective. This would probably make us smarter in the sciences of chemistry and biology but would leave us precious little time to do anything else. If people are responsible for their own health just think of how much time and effort we would have to put into filtering our own water and air, treating our own sewage, etc. What fun life would be!! As a matter of fact I think your every man for himself program would mean we would have to work and/or study about 24 hours a day 7 days a week to even make a dent in warding off the threats we face- leaving no time to enjoy life at all. I think that thought experiments of this nature can bring one quickly to the conclusion that libertarianism could not work in any real world environment. No one wants to be working, thinking, planning and evaluating all the time - that's what the libertarian world would require and that's why libertarianism has never really taken hold in any society. Sincerely yours, Donald M Stebbins BS 1961 Ddstebbins "restore democracy now" {JR: No, we have to have a division of labor. I just don’t want the gummamint telling me what I can put in my body. It’s mine. Further, I don’t want it’s “protection” when it comes to drugs. It doesn’t protect us and it slows down needed innovation. Further, I don’t want the government to create a monopoly on medical advice. Why do I HAVE to go to a doc to get an RX which I then have to take to a drug store who will check with the GUMMAMENT empowered insurance company to see if I can really really have it. And, Intelligent Designer forbid, that any of our fellow Jasper have a really deadly disease for which there is an experimental drug in the approval process. I want people to get what they need when they need it. Mommy Government “protecting” us and Father State “admonishing” us about drug abuse! We don’t need it. Like so many issues, I want the freedom to make my OWN mistakes. Hence, I’ll let you be free to do the same. It’s nobody’s business if we make bad choices and hurt ourselves. Rush Limbaugh should have been able to go to his local WalMart and buy all the Oxycodon he wanted. WalMart, in its desire to keep its customers coming back, might have a limit, but NOT a gummamint imposed restriction. If electricity was invented today, instead of Underwriters Laboratory, we’d have the National Electric Safety Administration. And, think of the costs, delays, and corruption to get a new appliance to the store shelves. If aspirin was a new drug, then it would never get to the market because it has dangerous side effects! Please, the essence of Libertarianism is freedom. You are free to make choices to the extent you don’t use fraud or force on someone else. Do you really think that in a truly free market we will not have clean air, safe food, or pure water. In a truly free society, we will have it all at a far cheaper price than we do for the government services imposed on us. By the way, the government’s track record ain’t so great: drugs with the FDA we’ve beat to death; safe food ain’t due to the government inspections that don’t inspect anything; clean air, please, isn’t due to the MTBE that they had put in gas and now out; pure water from gummament sources must be the reason why Brita sells so much. Hmmm! } {JR: Democracy is mob rule! It’s the two wolves and lamb deciding what is for dinner. The democracy was Athens and you see how well that worked out. I’ll take a Constitutional Republic with a small weak enfeebled Federal Government, thank you. I want my “servents” small and weak thank you. }
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Email02
From: Reinke's Jasper (mc68alum) Persona Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 2:23 PM To: 'Kaufman, Richard [MP1964MC1968]' Cc: Cramer, Vincent [MC68] Subject: Met a Northeastern Jasper who I thought you should chat with. No other reason than it occurred to me. Dick, Hey, sorry for the intrusion, but I met a Northeastern based Jasper who I thought you should chat with. No other reason than it occurred to me. For some reason, I can’t say why, the magic of wet ware, when I was listening to him, your name kept popping in my head. Now I don’t have any particular agenda, topic, or hint as to why it would be of interest to either of you, but then I have learned a long time ago to follow my gut, “advice” from my wife, or recognition of a 2x4 coming at my head. So there, the random babblings of a senile old fart. What you do with it is up to you. You know I won’t be insulted if you both call me and ask “what waz u tinkin!” because the answer is “visceral reaction, sorry you wasted your time”. If nothing else, it’ll give you both a chance to brag about your kids. That’s got to be worth something. Dick, you can tell Vince how smart I was in high school. Vince, you can tell Dick what a great conversationalist I am. My advice to both of you is not to believe anything the other guys says about me. Best wishes, John = From: Vincent M. Cramer [1968] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 5:46 PM To: Reinke's Jasper (mc68alum) Persona; 'Kaufman, Richard [MP1964MC1968]' Subject: RE: Met a Northeastern Jasper who I thought you should chat with. No other reason than it occurred to me. John, Thanks for the intro. I will contact Dick next week. Have a great weekend, Vin Cramer's Cube: Decision-Making in 3D Innovation in 3!D Winchester Consulting Group Author: Cramer's Cube www.cramerscube.com {JR: Linking 68ers, kicking and screaming, whether they want to or not! :-) }
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Email03
From: Mike McEneney [1953] Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 11:45 PM To: John Reinke Subject: Sue Fredericks Dear John, I believe that Sue Fredericks received her MBA in 1980. Best, Mike = http://www.jasperjottings.com/2006/jasperjottings20060430.htm#JFound1 http://www.comvergence.info/suefredericks-bio.htm Sue Fredericks Sue Fredericks, a nationally renowned performance expert, works closely with other Comvergence Marketing Team professionals to assist clients in developing a culture in which the entire workforce is centered on performance excellence and bottom-line results. One of the Comvergence team's key strategic partners, Ms. Fredericks left the Olsten Corporation in February 2002 to launch On Purpose, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in performance improvement initiatives and customized training programs for hospitals and healthcare organizations, banking and manufacturing companies, and professional service firms, among others.
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Email04
From: Reinke's Catch All Email Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 8:47 AM To: Jim Daigle c/o SportsSystems.com Subject: I'd like to see you add RSS for the Manhattan College sports feed. 30 April 2006 Mr. Jim Daigle President SportsSystems.com Dear Mr. Daigle, I’m an “indirect” customer of your service via the Manhattan College sports site “gojaspers.com”. May I suggest that you add an RSS feed from your sites? Essentially it’s nothing more than hosting content in an xml format. I’m a blogger, so I know what a God send it is to simplify just getting things you want. Having done it with my personal website, I know it’s pretty simple. There are a number of free utilities that will do it for you. I’ve used some of the scrapers that try to do it for websites that don’t offer it and it can be ugly. It’s easier for all my fellow alums if you offer it. Assuming that you have more than MC as a customer, the effort would be extensible to all you customers. Hence, if you do it, many will benefit. If you need some “weenie 2 weenie” communication about it, then I’d be happy to chat with anyone you pick. I can’t believe it would be a big deal to do and offer. Maybe you can even use it as a differentiator? Thanks, John Reinke Manhattan College Alumni – Class of 1968 p.s., Yes, I do work in the IT or internet industry.
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Jaspers found web-wise
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http://www.chadbourne.com/attorneys/att_detail1.asp?cboLegal=994 Joseph Calvaruso is a partner and head of the Firm’s Intellectual Property practice group. Mr. Calvaruso, who has an AV peer rating and is featured in Best Lawyers In America, has over 25 years of experience in virtually all aspects of intellectual property. His litigation experience, both at the trial and appellate levels, in federal courts throughout the country and before the International Trade Commission is extensive. He has litigated cases involving patents, trademarks, trade secrets, false advertising, antitrust and unfair competition. {Reported As: 1971 }
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JFound2
http://www.bradley.edu/las/ges/helenek/helenek.htm Henry Helenek (MC????) Associate Professor of Geology Bradley
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JFound3
http://www.brookfieldorthopedics.com/staff.htm Thomas P. Nipper, M.D. Dr. Nipper, the practice's senior orthopedic surgeon, earned his undergraduate degree from Manhattan College in New York and his medical degree from Loyola University of Chicago. He completed his postgraduate training in surgery at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York. During a four-year orthopedic surgery training program at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, Dr. Nipper served as both Assistant Resident and Chief Resident of Orthopedic Surgery. Although Dr. Nipper works in all areas of orthopedics, he specializes in hand surgery and is an active member of the American Association for Hand Surgery. He is board certified in Orthopedic Surgery, is a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. Dr.Nipper is the New Project Chairman for Orthopedics and the Vice Chairman of Surgery at the Danbury Hospital, where he was previously the Chief of Orthopedic Surgery. {mcALUMdb: 1967 }
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MC mentioned web-wise
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BLAIRE’S BLOG
Lampe, Blaire (2005) http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Blair/
[JR: It’s not an email to us. But it is public. So maybe, I have hit upon another niche for JJs. Rather than everyone having to check, here it is. I’ll catch any Jasper’s blog if I knew where they were hiding. Care to rat out your fellow alums?]
None. Maybe she’s given up. Sigh. I enjoyed living vicariously thru the eyes of this brave girl.
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Sports from College (http://www.gojaspers.com)
Sports from others (http://jasperjottings.blogspot.com/ )
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Boilerplate
http://www.jasperjottings.com/boilerplate.htm
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Curmudgeon's Final Words This Week
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/05/01/puerto-rico060501.html Puerto Rico government shuts down over budget crisis Last Updated Mon, 01 May 2006 12:26:31 EDT CBC News ***Begin Quote*** Puerto Rico's government shut down Monday after the U.S. commonwealth ran out of money to pay 100,000 public employees, temporarily throwing them out of work. {extraneous deleted} The governor has said essential services, including police and hospitals, will continue during the shutdown. ***End Quote*** Why couldn’t we all be so lucky? And, what would happen if all government services would end? Does anyone think that there would NOT be hospital care, education, or traffic control. It just wouldn’t be supplied by a gang with guns. I remember going to Jewish Memorial hospital, Saint Clare’s, and Kickerbocker. My mom paid with cash. No forms; no government. I was educated in a Catholic school just down from the Lutheren school.I know the two principal met regularly to “chat”. AND, when the great blackout occurred in the 60’s, citizens steped in and directed traffic. So do we need government? Maybe. Do we need the current intrusive, expensive, into everything version? Nope!
And that’s the last word. Curmudgeon
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GBu. GBA. Reinke sends.