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Saturday February 24, 2007 |
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The Treasure Coast (FL) Alumni Club First Annual Golf
Tournament will be held at the Heritage Ridge Golf Club, Hobe Sound, FL.
Breakfast will be served at 7:30AM and a shotgun start will go off at 8:30
AM. A great Lunch will be served starting at 12:30PM and several super awards
and prizes will be offered. Cost is $125/golfer for breakfast, golf &
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April 21-29, 2007 |
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Trip to the Italian Riviera sponsored by MC (at least
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{Begin Quote} {End Quote} One has to wonder at the hubris of politicians. Do they think that “what goes around” doesn’t “come around”. Force leads to more force. An “eye for an eye” leads the world blind. Says one of the instruction manuals. Or so I’ve heard. Abortion, the Death Penalty, Socialism, Genocide are all tied together by an inability for people to MYOB. When I write my instruction manual, (thus starting my own religion), after I plagiarize the Golden Rule, I’ll put that in next. But, I’m sure my fellow alums already obey both, and I’m just the slow old injineers bringing up the rear. |
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Reflect well on our alma mater, this week, every week, in
any and every way possible, large or small. God bless.
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Holder, John H. |
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Lahey, Msgr. Maurice C. |
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Rafti, Donato P. |
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Pope, William C. |
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Nicholson, Paul G. |
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Manley, William J. |
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McEneney, Mike |
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Valentino, Philip |
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Armstrong, Rev. Daniel F. |
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Cifu, John |
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Fitzpatrick, Joseph |
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Moore, Kevin |
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Carducci, Thomas J. |
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Lozefski, Johnny C. |
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Valentino, Jim |
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Valentino, Jo Anne Cifu |
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Holder, John H. |
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Irish, James F. |
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Lahey, Msgr. Maurice C. |
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Manley, William J. |
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McEneney, Mike |
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McEneney, Mike |
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Nicholson, Paul G. |
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Pope, William C. |
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Rafti, Donato P. |
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From: Jo Anne Cifu Valentino
(1997) Hi John, Just passing a little alumni note along. My husband and I (Jim Valentino and Jo Anne Cifu Valentino) had a baby boy on 12/28/06. Andrew James was 6lb 13oz and 19.5in. Jim and I are both Jaspers (both chemical engineering Class of 1997) and both of Andrew's grandfathers are also Jaspers - John Cifu (1973) and Philip Valentino (1967). Thanks, {JR: Vunderbar! That’s absolutely
great news. On a week with nine obits, I was beginning to feel like I was in
a Charles Dickens novel and being told to repent. With such a set of Jasper
connections, I’m sure Brother President is penciling in the cashflow for 16 years down the road. With so many Jasper
genes, the little fellow will obviously be smarter, faster, and handsomer
than the average. Now to balance the nine obits, I have to find 8 other new
Jasper Parents. Come On boys and girls get down to business and do your part
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http://www.antonnews.com/roslynnews/2007/01/19/obituaries/ James F. Irish James F. Irish died on Jan. 10, 2007 at age 79 of
Parkinson's related causes. He was born in Like his father, Mr. Irish led a life of service to
country and state. He was a veteran and served with the US Army in James was active with his school and Marine Corps alumni
organizations and was interested in family history, gardening and fishing. He
had a life-long passion for Mr. Irish's second-wife Eleanor,
is retired from the ### {Reported As: 1951 } Guestbook for your comments is at: http://www.legacy.com/RecordOnline/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=86112720 ### |
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ACTIONABLE OBIT: EXPIRES 24JAN07 http://www.legacy.com/StarLedger/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=86114426 ***Begin Quote*** Thomas J. Carducci CARDUCCI Thomas J. Carducci Regional sales manager, of Rockaway, 47
Thomas J. Carducci, 47, died at his residence in Rockaway, N.J., on Saturday,
Jan. 20, 2007. Relatives and friends are invited to attend services on
Wednesday, Jan. 24, at 11 a.m. at the Published in the Star-Ledger on 1/22/2007. ***End Quote*** [mcALUMdb: 1987] Guestbook for your comments is at: http://www.legacy.com/StarLedger/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=86114426 ### |
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The The Indianapolis Star publishes free, basic obituaries for
residents of Marion, Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Madison,
Morgan and Families who want to personalize their loved one's obituary by including more information, a photo or emblem may do so at a cost. Your funeral home will provide information on personalized obituary rates. Obituaries are coordinated by the Indianapolis Star Classified Advertising Department. {extraneous deleted} Rev. Daniel Foster Armstrong 1931-2007 Was born on May 9,
1931 in {extraneous deleted} LOAD-DATE: January 24, 2007 ### {MikeMcE reports: Dear John, I believe that Father received his Masters in 1969. May He Rest In Peace. Mike (Thanks, Mike.) } |
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The Record ( {extraneous deleted} WILLIAM C. POPE, 88, of {extraneous deleted} LOAD-DATE: January 23, 2007 {MikeMcE reports: Dear John, I believe that William is a member of the Class of 1940. May he Rest In Peace. Mike (Thanks, Mike.) } |
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ACTIONABLE OBIT: EXPIRES 26JAN07 MORRIS TWP. NJ MC1935 Holder, John H. http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007701240325 ***Begin Quote*** John H. Holder 92, veteran Wednesday, January 24, 2007 MORRIS TWP. -- John H. Holder died Monday, Jan. 22, 2007,
at He was born in Mr. Holder was a graduate of He was a CPA for the IRS in Mr. Holder was a veteran of the Army Air Corps in World War II and Air Force during the Korean War, attaining the rank of captain. He was a former His wife, Jane D. Holder, died in 2005. Survivors include his two sons, John C. of A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 9:30 a.m. on Friday,
Jan. 26, at the Church of the Assumption in ***End Quote*** [mcALUMdb: 1935] Guestbook for your comments is at: http://www.legacy.com/StarLedger/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonID=86132446 # # # |
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JObitxx: Lahey, Msgr. Maurice Cameron (MC1938) http://www.legacy.com/Bakersfield/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=86128375 ***Begin Quote*** Msgr. Maurice Cameron Lahey 1916 - 2007 A Rosary followed by Mass will be celebrated on Thursday,
January 25th, 9:00 am at St. Francis Parish Church for Msgr. Maurice Cameron Lahey, Pastor Emeritus of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic
Church, ***End Quote*** [mcALUMdb: 1938] Guestbook for your comments is at: http://www.legacy.com/Bakersfield/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=86128375 {MikeMcE reports: Dear John, Msgr. is a member of the Class of 1938, not 1987 as listed at the foot of the Obit. May He Rest In Peace. Mike (Thanks, Mike.) } {JR: Mike even catches my typos and blunders. ;-) Thanks, Mike. Tough taskmaster. } |
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http://www.legacy.com/PJStar/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=86129644 ***Begin Quote*** John Redington Sr. Born on April 15, 1923, in Also surviving are six daughters, Theresa (Douglas) Many of Quincy, Ill., Diane Redington (Roy Buchta) of Pittsburgh, Pa., Jayne (Anthony) Hawe of Victoria, British Columbia, Judith (David) Moore of Atlanta, Ga., Patricia Redington of Quincy, Ill., and Jennifer Redington of San Francisco, Calif.; one son, John (Debra) Redington of Peoria; 12 grandchildren; and four great-grandsons. He was preceded in death by two brothers and one sister. He was a graduate of John was a salesman in the steel industry for many years
in Chicago and He was a World War II Marine veteran. He was a member of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church,
where a funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. on Friday with Rev. Jason Gray
officiating. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday at Wright and
Salmon Mortuary, with recitation of the rosary at 7:30 p.m. Additional
visitation will be 30 minutes before the Mass at the church. Cremation rites
will be accorded after the Mass. Burial of ashes will be in St. Peter's
Cemetery in Memorial contributions may be made to Emmaus Community of Tributes and condolences may be submitted to www.wrightandsalmon.com. ***End Quote*** [mcALUMdb: 1949] Guestbook for your comments is at: http://www.legacy.com/PJStar/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=86129644 ### |
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JObitxx: Nicholson, Paul G. (MC1948) http://www.legacy.com/Savannah/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=86060699 ***Begin Quote*** Paul G. Nicholson -Savannah- Paul G. Nicholson, who
retired in 1987 as Chief Engineer of Construction of the Port Authority of
New York and ***End Quote*** [mcALUMdb: 1948] Guestbook for your comments is at: http://www.legacy.com/Savannah/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=86060699 ### |
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From: Mike McEneney [1953] Dear John, FYI Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Grace Feeney Donato P. Rafti, ’38, died on December 29, 2006. Sent in by his daughter Phyllis Rafti Grace Feeney {JR: Thanks Mike. } {JR: Attention All Jaspers: This dying has to stop immediately. Any one caught dying will be reported to the Head Brother. There will be no dying while you still have work to do. Appropriate discipline will be given to violators. (Hey all these obits makes me sad and punchy!) } |
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WWII flyboys From left, Bill Manley, Mahlon Hanson, Ed Cooper and Herman Goldhagen were the crew members of a B-24 Liberator bomber during World War II. The four men flew bombing missions against the Japanese in the Pacific during the war. By ALLEN ESSEX SOUTH PADRE The four men, now all in their 80s, gathered together
again Saturday at a hotel on Remarkably, eight of the original 10 crew members are still alive. But bad weather and illness prevented the other four from participating. The reunion was organized by the youngest of the crew, Ed
Cooper of Cooper was one of four members of the crew who got their
training at what was then called Those four didn’t meet until later. The wartime leader was Army Air Force 1st Lt. Mahlon Hanson, the pilot, who had picked up the nickname “Ming the Merciless,” because he was tall and stern, like the sinister villain in Flash Gordon serials. But the crew also called Hanson “The Wheel” and themselves “the spokes.” The crew were part of the 307th Bomb Group, known as “The Long Rangers,” which was part of the 13th Air Force. Cooper recalled his time training in “We were on duty 24 hours a day,” Cooper said of his training stint at HAGS, before the name was changed to Harlingen Army Airfield. They had eight hours of classroom training, eight hours of flying and then were off for eight hours, he said. Soldiers who trained at the Some of the enlisted men who became part of his crew were trained as aircraft mechanics, radio operators or in other skills before they were sent to gunnery training, he said. After training at “We were assigned to a crew in There were six enlisted men: flight engineer/gunner, radioman/gunner, armorer/gunner, and three 18-year-old recent recruits as waist gunners and tail gunner. Cooper became top turret gunner and was the youngest member of the crew. “We were all single, no married guys on our crew,” he said. “It was great, just a bunch of kids with no responsibilities at home or anything. “If they came and blew the whistle in the middle of the night, and said, ‘We’re leaving,’ we didn’t have to worry about where our wives were going to be. I felt so sorry for those married guys. “I think I flew my 13th mission on my 19th birthday,” Cooper said. Two crew members were from Although many World War II aircraft had racy “nose art,” often pictures of voluptuous women, and a name for the plane, Hanson’s crew flew various B-24s, depending on the readiness of a plane for the next bomber run. Engines often needed changing and battle damage had to be repaired after each day’s bombing runs, “so we flew whatever was available,” Cooper said. When he joined the Army Air Force “A couple of us guys
came from Shepherd Field, Hanson was studying structural engineering at “The Air Force was my first choice, I wanted to fly, one way or another,” he said. But unlike millions of young Americans, he really didn’t want to be a pilot, he said. “I wanted to be a navigator.” In the Far East, the B-17 Flying Fortress, which received
most of the glory in the bombing campaign in “They couldn’t carry enough bombs and they couldn’t hold enough gas,” he said. But even the B-24s were stretched way beyond their designed limits, Hanson said. “We had rubber bladders to hold extra gasoline in the bomb bay,” he said. Even after the B-29 Superfortresses arrived in the Pacific, their job was strictly to bomb the Japanese homeland. There were no islands with airstrips close enough for a
B-24 to reach The whole crew knew they had little chance of being
rescued if engines failed, fuel ran out or some other problem caused them to
splash down in the Pacific, Hanson said. On the first mission, the navigator
failed to bring them back to their home base, a tiny island near After crisscrossing the area, they were lucky to spot a smaller B-25 bomber and, after signaling it in Morse Code with a flashlight to avoid breaking radio silence, they were guided back to its base for the night, landing on a narrow air strip cut in the jungle of another island. They landed in a rainstorm on steel mats in the dark, Hanson said, his brow furled as he recalled that tense incident. “He (the navigator) was only 18,” Hanson said. “After that, he grew up fast.” The next day, their plane was refueled and they found their home base in daylight. “If you didn’t return at night, it was assumed you weren’t coming back,” he said. “They would start divvying up your personal stuff, your goodies.” Their most exciting, and worst, mission came on Nov. 8,
1944, in the central “Someone said, ‘There’s our fighters,” Cooper said. “I said, if those are our fighter escorts, why are they firing at us?” The rear section of the B-24 was perforated with bullet holes, the tail gunner, Ben Smith, was killed and the two waist gunners were nearly killed, he said. Cooper climbed back into the rear of the plane to attempt to repair the broken manual control cables, he said. Blood was everywhere. The navigator, Carman Kurth, and Cooper tried to give first aid. The pilots finally managed to limp back to a landing strip, using the automatic pilot after Cooper was unable to repair shot-up manual control cables in the back of the plane. The plane returned to its base six hours after the Japanese attack, said Herman Goldhagen and William Manley, who were waist gunners and both critically injured by machine gun fire, the veterans recalled. Although they don’t remember much about the hours after the attack, Cooper said doctors operated on both men for hours in tents, saving their lives. They were later transferred to a hospital on a safer island. To this day, only one other crew member has died. He died in a car of a burst appendix after the war. After the war, Goldhagen attended Northern Illinois College of Optometry, completing accelerated studies in 2 ¾ years, becoming an optometrist. Manley went to Both men had had to live with their families after the war, due to a housing shortage, but eventually did well in their careers, thanks to college funded by the G.I. Bill, they said. {MikeMcE reports: Dear
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{extraneous deleted} Two Promoted In Department Lozefski, formerly a sergeant,
was elevated to lieutenant. He joined the department in 1997 and was promoted
to sergeant in 2003. A member of the SWAT team, Lozefski
has received several departmental honors, including a Meritorious Unit
Citation in 2006 and an Exceptional Service Award in 2001. Lozefski has a bachelor’s degree in business management
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http://www.acorn-online.com/news/publish/article_13047.shtml Jan 24, 2007 According to the latest estimate, it’s going to cost Weston more than $1.6 million to renovate the high school auditorium. With the need to replace the school’s roof becoming more urgent every day, the question of where exactly that money is going to come from remains unanswered. Joe Fitzpatrick, a member of the Weston school board and the chairman of both the town and school building committees, presented a schematic cost estimate for renovating the high school auditorium to the school board at its last monthly meeting, held Jan. 16. The estimate, which totals $1,627,838, includes construction costs, architectural and engineering fees, construction management and owner representative fees, and miscellaneous expenses. Costs related to air conditioning are also included. Owner’s costs, including financing, are excluded from the estimate. Mr. Fitzpatrick’s estimate is based on the March 21, 2006, Weston High School Needs Assessment Study, which was prepared by Theatre Projects Consultants. Timing Mr. Fitzpatrick prefaced his recommendations in terms of project timing, saying that project subdivisions should be considered only if and after the total program receives approval. “We are moving quickly on a new high school roof installation project,” said Mr. Fitzpatrick, who is also chairman of the school board’s facilities subcommittee. Referring to the benefits of coordinating these two projects, Mr. Fitzpatrick said, “Consideration should be given to consolidating program items and phasing in the work to achieve economies of scale and to minimize cost duplication.” A partner at TDX Construction Corporation, Mr. Fitzpatrick
completed the schematic cost estimate pro bono. TDX specializes in the
management of complex construction projects for public and private
institutions. Mr. Fitzpatrick holds a master’s in business administration
from Theatre Projects Consultants also offered its needs assessment services at no cost to the community through WestonArts Inc. Town plans for financing Last summer, the school board voted unanimously to defer further action on a proposed middle school performing arts center because costs were significantly higher than the funding approved in a November 2001 referendum. With that in mind, the Board of Selectmen appears to be moving toward asking the community’s approval to reallocate approximately $2.9 million in remaining funds from the now-deferred performing arts center toward the cost of installing a new roof at the high school, or using part of the remaining funds to cover costs associated with the renovation of the high school auditorium. There is also a possibility that a portion of that money may be needed to cover claims of underpayment related to the recently completed school building project. It would be during a town meeting that the selectmen would ask residents for approval to reallocate the $2.9 million. At the same meeting, the selectmen also are expected to ask for approval to transfer approximately $1 million from the general fund balance to assist in covering costs of either the new roof or the high school auditorium renovation. Tom Landry, town administrator, said the town is awaiting a final projected cost “down to the penny” for the new roof. Until that time — which should be mid-February — the selectmen will not make a final decision as to the wording of questions to be posed to residents at the Town Meeting. According to Rick Darling, town finance director, the Town Meeting will be held no later than mid-March of this year. Roof The cost of the new roof is projected to be about the same as the amount remaining in the account for the deferred performing arts center. With the total cost of the new roof and high school auditorium renovation reaching approximately $4.5 million, the town most likely will also use approximately $300,000 remaining in the current year’s capital budget for one of the two projects. According to Mr. Fitzpatrick, an additional $300,000 would need to be raised through fund-raising efforts, should the town decide to use $1 million from the general fund balance and $300,000 from the current capital budget to cover costs associated with the high school auditorium renovation. “First and foremost, there has been a lot of thought put into this process,” Ellen Uzenoff, school board chairman, said, referring to plans associated with the renovation of the high school auditorium. “There has been valuable input from the capital budget advisory committee, which is comprised of representatives from the boards of finance, selectmen, and education, as well as town administration,” Ms. Uzenoff added. “Discussions regarding the renovation of the high school auditorium and the need for a new roof for the high school have been very collegial, with the goal of doing what is best for the town.” ### {MikeMcE reports: Dear
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US Fed News The Association of Fundraising Professionals issued the following news release: AFP members are always accepting new challenges and exciting career opportunities, as well as receiving accolades for their commitment and service. Here are some job announcements, appointments, promotions and recognitions for January 2007. {extraneous deleted} Joseph Ferraro, CFRE, is joining Carl Bloom Associates in {extraneous deleted} LOAD-DATE: January 24, 2007 |
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The Excuse me brother, will that offering be in cash, debit or credit? Parishioners swiping their debit or credit card in lieu of dropping their donation onto a plate might strike some as an intrusion of commercialism into the realm of the sacred. Yet more than a dozen churches in the United States have lined up to follow the lead of the Stevens Creek Community Church of Augusta, Ga., which, for nearly two years, has been using automated kiosks to collect donations from the faithful. As people enter this predominantly upper-middle-class church they are greeted by one of three sleek pedestals topped by a black computer screen, numeric key pad and magnetic strip reader. Called Giving Kiosks, the machines are not much different from automated teller machine stations found in shopping malls and airports. Parishioners slide their cards through the slot on the side, punch in the personal identification numbers (PIN) and key in the amount they want to donate. Their donations are instantly routed to the church's coffers and the machine spits out a receipt. "It's just like an ATM for Jesus," says Pastor Marty Baker of the Pentecostal church. As jarring as Baker's comments may be, it's not hard to
imagine why more than a dozen churches in the The three Giving Kiosks units developed by Baker and
fellow churchgoer Eric Bradley accounted for about $274,000 ( Baker says he was driven to build the kiosks out of a need to bring his church in line with its young and increasingly techno-savvy congregation. He said most people today do not travel with cash in their pockets and paid for purchases using credit or debit cards. "What would these people do if they were in church and God prompted them to give?" In his spare time, the 42-year-old pastor began inquiring about devices that might facilitate card-based donations. Each time, Baker got the same response: "That's a great idea, but we don't offer it." Baker and Bradley began work on the Giving Kiosks in 2004.
Bradley wrote the program for SecureGive, which processes
secure automated transactions. The e-commerce firm, Ingenux
Corp. of The first unit was tested and deployed in 2005. There was some resistance at first, Baker admits. "There were those who said 'Not in my church you don't.' Others thought I was the devil himself." The congregation, with nearly 70 per cent under the age of 40 and a choir is known to cover Aerosmith's "Dream On," took to the kiosk quickly and two other units were soon added. "When I walked into the church and saw the Giving
Kiosk, I knew this church was for me because they understood how I live my
life," says Amy Forrest, an employee of the National Wild Turkey
Federation who attends To date, the pastor says, 14 churches are waiting for him to install Giving Kiosks costing $2,289 and $5,724 each in their buildings. Baker's company, which is separate from the Tim Williams, pastor of the "The kiosks do provide a great deal of convenience, but the fees they are asking would mean money taken away from our church," says Williams. Williams also says the Giving Kiosks are not really new technology, but rather a "re-application of a familiar device in a new environment." In 2003, the Cathedral of St. Joseph, a Roman Catholic
church near the Mississippi River in The system was set up to accept donations in cash, cheques, or by debit and credit cards. As an added feature, the unit's screen also provides prayer and mass schedules and co-ordinates volunteer activities as well. The system worked fine, but "when the time came to install the kiosk in the cathedral, it just didn't sit well," says Mark Blanchard, stewardship director for the diocese. Church officials pulled the plug on the project. Mike Bazin, vice-president for PlannedLegacy, says his company specializes in kiosks with digital screens that feature rich media images that "tell a story" about an organization or its projects. "A donor wall has a very limited amount of space. By contrast, our kiosks can be loaded with countless pages of an organization's history, donors, projects, pictures and stories," he says. PlannedLegacy kiosks are found
in hospitals, colleges and synagogues in Perhaps this reservation can be explained by a recent attempt by a Canadian Catholic church that recently asked its congregation to consider an automated donation system. St. Gabriel Parish on "There was probably too much changes happening all at the same time," says one parishioner. "The idea struck me as a bit crass. Using a card seems to inject an element of commercialism into the solemnity of an offering," adds another. Security was another concern. "There are too many instances where our personal information is exposed to fraud when we conduct online and card transactions. Should the church be another venue?" asks another member of the congregation. Robert Geraci, an assistant
professor of religious studies at "It will look weird in the beginning, but people will eventually get used to it," he says. He adds that over the past four decades technology has made steady in-roads into the religious space. "There was a time when even the guitar was not considered to be worthy of being used in church. Today church choirs use drums, synthesizers, electric guitars to play rock music." Geraci says, however, resistance to technology appears to be less in Eastern cultures. "By dogma and tradition, Western cultures have espoused the separation of the physical and spiritual. We don't equate inanimate objects such technological gadgets with the spiritual church." "Most Eastern cultures practise some form of animism. Animists do not believe in the separation of the body and soul and of spirit from matter," he says. In Geraci points to a temple in "I believe there was an outcry once. Not because people didn't want it, but because the robot became so popular it appeared to be taking over the human monks' job," says Geraci. Nestor Arellano is a LOAD-DATE: January 20, 2007 |
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The New York Times Casey Powell made a big mistake bringing his wife to ''Now she wants to live here,'' Powell, a former Derek Jeter can afford the ''You'd love to be able to live in this market and not
have to split time,'' said Ryan Boyle, a former Princeton star who signed a
lease in There are former lacrosse players all over The horror of 9/11 cut deeply into the lacrosse community.
A friend of mine, who played for Other famous Americans have played lacrosse, including Jim Thorpe, the Olympic champion; Jim Brown, the football running back; and Bruce Arena, the former national soccer team coach. None of them were from the preppy side of town. ''My father worked in a steel mill, and I'm the first
member of the family to go to college,'' said Powell, from Boyle, originally from Their sport has taken a beating in the past year after
rape charges were filed against three ''It's like any legal situation, you hold your judgment until the facts are in,'' Boyle said yesterday. ''But as time progressed, this case has definitely gotten weakened.'' Boyle added that some of the players may have ''made a mistake in judgment.'' Powell said he did not like the way ''the media put its spin on it.'' Many of the players in this indoor league come from the
top lacrosse colleges, but some come directly from Indian regions in the
northeast quadrant of the continent, where the sport began centuries ago.
(The first men's intercollegiate game, between The players on the league's 13 teams have occupations as diverse as firefighter, teacher, insurance agent, electrician, soldier, winemaker, refrigerator repairman and police officer. ''We were having a league telephone conference, and Paul
Day, the coach of Powell and Boyle each run a business -- Powell Brothers Lacrosse and Boyle's Trilogy Lacrosse. As entrepreneurs, they seem to appreciate the thin margin for operating this league. Reebok has invested more than $10 million for five years, while other sponsors include Dodge, Progressive Insurance and Supercuts. The league has a weekly game on the Versus cable network and the average attendance is said to be more than 11,000, with crowds of 18,000 recorded twice last weekend, in Buffalo and in Denver. Nearly half the teams have common ownership with franchises in the N.H.L., sharing large arenas comfortably because an indoor lacrosse carpet can be laid on ice in an hour or two. The Does this mean a Joe Namath is in the near future? Not necessarily. Powell and Boyle are big names in their sport, but for the foreseeable future they are commuters to the big city they represent. LOAD-DATE: January 18, 2007 |
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From: lizzle2fresh lizzle2fresh (lizzle2fresh) replied to your LiveJournal comment in which you said: As a 68 alum of
Their reply was: Subject: Re: thanks. i'm just so skeptical because i can't transfer
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From: xashhx aisling (xashhx) replied to your LiveJournal comment in which you said: Assuming that you're at "my" "manhattan college", the one in the bronx, I'd urge you to stick it out. I know that there is "gold" at the end of that road. Transferring is "expensive" in a ways you don't fully understand. Everyone sees the immediate costs. And, it is exciting to do something "new". But, unless you have a ton of good reasons, you have some hurdles to consider. (1) When you go for your first real job after graduating, you have to over come the "stick to it" objection. (When the going got tough, you transfer?) (2) Are you just facing up to reality? Second year, the novelty wears off, all the easy stuff is done, and now you have to dig in an deliver on your potential. It's easier to xfer from the challenge, but what are you learning. The Buddhists believe that lessons are repeated until the student learns. Is better to learn the lesson now rather then xfer and see it again in a year? (3) You went to MC for a perceived benefit. You had choices but you picked that one. Did you make a mistake? Maybe, but what makes you think you are not making a bigger one now? What evidence are you using? I had misgivings and down right failures in sophomore and junior year. (I wasn't as smart as I thought. I was unmotivated and lazy. And, I partied too much.) But, in retrospect, sticking it out was a better decision. Again imho. Unfortunately in life, unlike poker, you can't as the say on that show "run it two or three times". You don't get to repeat, so who is to say what is right and wrong in a decision. Personally, I have a rule to try and make the best decision based on the facts at hand, the risks involved, and the wisdom available. Make the decision and hope that you, as Indiana Jones was told, "choose wisely". Stick it out to the end and move on. I believe you'll find it to be a better result. -imho- When your ready to worry about "placement" (i.e., getting a real job), then I know a bunch of Jaspers who you can network with to get that paycheck. F. Their reply was: Subject: Re: xfering "costs" in many ways wow. i'm not sure how you found my post... but yeah i have decided to stay. i have the best friends and support system here, ever. people my age transfer around the country to find these kinds of people. having found these people my first day of college, it is easy to take them for granted. thanks for the message, it just confirms that i have made the correct choice. sorry lang :-) ### {JR: No one, no one, escapes the scrutiny of “jasper man” … no wiat that was Jerry Breen’s creation … Hmm .. Can’t be Diogonese ‘cause some Jaspers are lawyers … I know .. No One Escapes Jasper Nerd condemned to a life of searching the internet for his replacement! That’s an Uber Nerd. P.S. Aren’t young people so cute and naïve!} |
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From: Mike McEneney [1953] Dear John, Reading the latest Alumni publication from Mount Saint Michael Academy, THE MOUNTLETTER, I see that Ben Borsellino '77 was appointed Chairperson of the Directory of Mount Saint Michael. The Directory is not to be confused with the Board of Trustees. Another Jasper doing good things. Then
reading the latest Alumnae publication from Saint Barnabas High School,
CONNECTIONS, I see that Ms. Maria Zayas-Bazan, a
graduate of Best, {JR: mcALUMdb doesn’t have a listing either. Argh } |
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From: mypinkblender its sexy and french (mypinkblender) replied to your LiveJournal comment in which you said: http://home.comcast.net/~jxymxu7sn5ho9d/Manhattan_College_ology.htm If it's the "real one" in the F. Their reply was: Subject: Re: Which "manhattan college"? yes its the "real" one {JR: Class of 2012! } |
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From: Tom Murray [1964] Tom Murray--class of 64' UPDATE: Steve DeSalvo of the In addition, you may have Joe Ferraro's name from the Manhattan College Alumni office as well---but he just left this month, January. In calling hope this helps! Tom Murray Visit
www.doyouliketotravel.com to find the best prices on travel {JR: Thanks, I’m sure Joe will be just tickled with all
those extra phone calls. Seriously, unless you’ve read something here, please
assume that we don’t know your Jasper factoid. You’ll probably be right. On a
travel note, you might want to consult with Joe about some of the prices on
their escorted tours. Those’ll really dent your
treasure chest. And, they don’t offer “16 Bronx Bars in 16 Days – A
Retrospective on Lost Jasper Youth”, “Revisiting the Jasper Tradition of
Every Bar You Pass On Saint P’s Day”, or my personal favorite “Where DID John
leave his car that he couldn’t find after the Engineer’s Ball? (A tour of
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From: LinkedIn Groups Dear Ferdinand; Thanks for your interest in using LinkedIn for Groups. Basic groups are free to set up and there is no
maintenance fee. There is a $200, one-time charge if your organization would
like to list the group in the public LinkedIn for Groups directory. This
listing is the only way that LinkedIn users to know you’re your Basic group
exists. To be included in the directory, please fill out the LinkedIn service
agreement and fax it to Here is the process for moving forward with LinkedIn for Groups: 1) You sign our LinkedIn for Groups contract, agreeing to our terms of service and fill out the Group setup data at the link below: https://www.linkedin.com/feedback?displayGroupContract 2) You email your group's logo files to groups@linkedin.com with the subject heading Group Logos. If no logo is provided, or if the logo is not of sufficient graphical quality, your group will not be created. Logo files need to be delivered in GIF (.gif) format. Animated GIFs are not permitted. Two (2) files of your logo need to be supplied, one of each of these sizes (in pixels, width x height): 100x50 ("name_large.gif") and 60x30 ("name_small.gif") 3) (optional) You sign the Groups Directory agreement and fax it back to us, and we charge your credit card. 4) We launch your group and send you your invitations links and access to the group management interface. Note this may take up to three weeks since we only launch groups when we do site updates. I encourage you to take your time to review the contract, and look at the Frequently Asked Questions for group administrators (https://www.linkedin.com/static?key=groups_faq_administrators) and by all means contact us at groups — at —linkedin.com if you have any open questions. Regards, The LinkedIn for Groups Team {JR: I went to the alumni office twice in the past about an official “Manhattan College Alumni” group, like Notre Dame and others have with a negative response. I’m reluctant to spring for 200$ and find that it’s wasted (i.e., the College gets its collective shorts in a knot, sends a cease and desist letter to LinkedIn, and LinkedIn folds keeping my 200$). It’s not the 200$, (although if it was 20, I’d have done it on a lark! Like my vanity book.), but the waste of time I’m concerned about. I’m open to the readership’s thinking. I’m thinking that a lawyer needs to read the contract, clear it with the College or make it “unofficial” avoiding the trademarks of the College. Maybe Jerry Breen could loan us JasperMan and make him a partner JasperGirl. Or morph it into Jasper Metrosexual like the TiddyWinkie. Or create a character like the Syracuse Orange Thing! Maybe the Jasper Grape? The Green Banana. Make it a poor run down leprachan like a poor man’s Notre Dame? In any event, my plate is full right now. Volunteers? I’m channeling Simon and Garfunkel …. Sounds of Silence? } |
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Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 5:05 PM Hello, The following person would like to join the ManhattanCollegeAlumni group: Email address: xyz <xyz@yahoo.com> Comment from user: XXXX grad—YY ZZZZ {JR: I need to know names for that Yahoo Group. For LinkedIn_Jaspers or LinkedIn_New_Jersey, I need to you to connect to me on LinkedIn and sign up. I have to verify claims. One bad guy in these groups and they’ll be ruined. It’s happened to many yahoo and google groups before. It would reflect badly on me professionally (Yes, I do work for a living. Haven’t figured out how to monetize Jasper Jottings. Yet!) So, I have to run a tight ship. } |
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From: Mike McEneney [1953] Dear John, The attached
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Best. = THE JOURNAL NEWS On Thursday night, a $65-a-plate retirement party will be thrown for Yorkers City Judge Arthur Doran, Jr. - but this will not be the last hurrah for Doran. Not by a long shot. Doran supposedly, reportedly and evidently desires to be mayor and the city's Democratic Party wants him to run. (You read it in this column first in 2005.) Only he can't publicly talk about it just yet because of the canon of judicial conduct, which prevents him from expounding on matters of policy. Put it this way: Aside from ruling on matters of law, he's pretty much limited to saying hello and how are you. However, the expectation is that once he his fully liberated from the robes that bind him, Doran will announce sometime in late February or early March his intention to join an increasingly crowded field of Democrats who are at least flirting with the notion of taking City Hall. That group includes City Council members Dennis Robertson and Sandy Annabi and the latest entry, former Democratic Party Chairman Tom Meier. While those three may have their avid fans, none of them seem to possess the political mojo Doran has at this stage of his long career. Insiders will pay lip service to letting the nominating process run its course, but it's clear that in the minds of the pundits, Doran looms as the party's top dog. Doran has the credentials to be a serious candidate. As chief administrative judge of Yorkers City Court, he supervises 45 employees, 20 court officers and six other judges, among them his son, Arthur Doran, III. His judicial load in 2006 was prodigious. By a rough count, it included 8,000 criminal cases, 19,000 parking violations (from Yorkers police writeups alone), 9,000 city code violations, 5,800 civil cases, 8,600 landlord-tenant disputes, 700 small claims and 200 commercial claims. This means that a lot of people may only be aware of him under the worst of circumstances. But those who know Doran well invariably choose words like "popular," "well-liked," "thoughtful" and "great guy" to describe his mien and manner. He is also instantly recognized by an eye-patch he wears, the result of a childhood injury. A lifelong Doran, he said, "knows the political ropes." That Doran hasn't been a part of the rough-and-tumble of day-to-day Yorkers politics for a while may also work to his advantage. No one can associate him with the bitter infighting and scandalous school budget battles that dominated the news in recent years. If he has a clean image, it's augmented by his participation on a three-member panel responsible for choosing candidates to serve on the city's ethics board. He also gets to swear them in. No matter what happens in the next 10 months, it won't be a cakewalk for Doran or anybody else who attempts to unseat the Republican incumbent Mayor Phil Amicone. A Democratic candidate will probably have to raise at least $1 million to mount a credible challenge, especially if there's a primary. To date, Amicone already has $549,000 in his war chest. Amicone's position is further strengthened by the fact that there doesn't appear to be any opposition within his own party. His storied feud with his erstwhile friend, mentor and mayoral boss, John Spencer, rages on and many predicted that Spencer, or one of his surrogates, would mount a revenge campaign to usurp the GOP nomination. That seems less than likely now. Spencer's U.S. Senate campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton was such a disaster that he even lost 11 out of 12 wards in Yorkers. As one City Hall operative told me, that should be enough of a message that the voters don't want the former mayor back in City Hall. That's a big disappointment only for afficionados of Yorkers political theater, who would greet an Amicone-Spencer runoff with the same delight that football fans view today's marquee game between two rival quarterbacks, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. A wild card in the mayoral race, though, is Robertson. He is considered something of a renegade in the Democratic Party and has long been a friend of Spencer's. Some believe he'll have to work hard to quell suspicions that he's merely a shadow candidate working for the House of Spencer. It's still awful early. The issues haven't even been fully formulated yet, though Democrats think that Amicone is vulnerable in several areas, especially with municipal unions. Anybody who's been on the receiving end of the recent parking ticket flurry knows how the cops are steamed. And the teachers have a long memory about Amicone's comparing them to "terrorists" when they picketed in front his house. In the meantime, Doran hasn't even announced. But they are throwing a party for him. It'll be at the Word has it that the event is sold out. # # # |
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From: Kevin Moore [1980] Dear CIC, It was a
beautiful day for life in It was a singular inspiration for those of us in the pro-life movement to see so many youngsters join with us. These are the next generation of leaders and they are committed pro-lifers. I daresay these young men and women are decidedly more pro-life than their parents. Perhaps they realize how many of their generation are missing. I would encourage any Jaspers who feel the call to get involved in the pro-life movement. There are many ways to contribute: as a sidewalk counselor, a prayer, volunteering time at a crisis pregnancy center, manning a crisis pregnancy hot line, and various other ways of helping. I firmly believe that this is the most important issue of our time, for as we have seen in many cases, once the right to life is denied, indiscriminate killing of all who do not measure up to certain standards soon follows. Thanks for running the post in your e-zine. Kevin Moore ‘80 {JR: No thanks needed; it’s “OUR” ezine! Thank you for the report. } |
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Control your own subscription: (1) Send a message from your old email account to Distribute_Jasper_Jottings-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com saying that your switching. (2) Send a message from your new email account to Distribute_Jasper_Jottings-subscribe@yahoogroups.com with your name and class year. To keep me from spamming you, Yahoo only permits me to invite and delete people. I can NOT just ADD your email address. AND you’re done. With zero extra work for the CIC! :-) |
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Facts and Figures about Homeland Security Spending - 2001 = 16B$ and 2006 = 58B$ Yup, takes a lot of money to employ all those friends and relatives to annoy people at the airports. Do you feel 250% more secure? Or 250% less a slave? |
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