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http://jasperjottings-daily.com/category/mc/ ADMINISTRIVIA: Added a “MC????” category This allows everyone, who reads the blog or just wants to help, to see whose Class Year is unknown. If you know, I, we, everyone would all appreciate leaving a comment with the correct info. The blog is a dialogue; not a monologue. # # # # # |
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“You may make some mistakes, but learn from them and go on. Find out what you really enjoy doing and pursue it to the fullest. Whatever you do, wherever you go, have confidence in yourselves, work energetically to make a positive personal impact to help improve the human condition, and in so doing reap the ultimate satisfaction.” George J. Galasso
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http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php? *** begin quote *** As the old Chinese saying goes,"Kindness often meets with good recompense." And a Shenzhen resident surnamed Wang has been deeply convinced of that. Wang, who adopted a homeless cat two months ago, bought a lottery ticket that won him a total of 3,271 yuan ($435). He has his cat to thank. Last week Wang brought his cat with him to buy a lottery ticket. As Wang was about to buy the ticket, the frisky feline jumped out of his arms and onto the computer keyboard, accidentally choosing Wang's lottery numbers at random. Wang, who had complained that his cat had wasted his 10 yuan ($1.29) lottery ticket, was surprised to learn on Tuesday that his cat had actually chosen the winning numbers for him. Via: *** end quote *** If I can’t have a story about honesty, I’ll take one about the Intelligent Designer rewarding a kindness. You know that which you do for the least. I used to joke that I had “to be careful not to do too much charity,” (as if such was even possible) “lest the Universe give me too much back as a reward”. Yeah, I know it doesn’t work that way. It’s all “random”. Yup, that the name of the rewards clerk “random chance”. The punishment clerk’s is “Everything Evensup”. (Hey I’m an injineer. I don’t see you submitting better.) |
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JOY: Salvatore Sciortino Jr. (MC????) Staten Island Advance ( After a honeymoon to The bride is a daughter of Anne and Joseph Tanzi of Tottenville. The bridegroom is a son of Joan and Salvatore Sciortino of Oakwood. Given in marriage by her father, the bride chose her sister, Mary Anne Dorsey, as the matron of honor. The bridesmaids were Mary Rose Carcelli, Corinne Sledge, Dana Hausler, Josephine Amitsis and Courtney Tanzi. The flower girl was Gianna Carcelli. Michael Sciortino was the best man for his brother. The ushers were Nicholas Sciortino, James Veneziano, Joseph Veneziano IV, James Hausler, Stephen Dorsey and Patrick J. Tanzi. Mrs. Sciortino is a graduate of Mr. Sciortino is a graduate of Mr. and Mrs. Salvatore Sciortino LOAD-DATE: October 22, 2007 # # # # # |
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JObit: OSTRAU–Eleanor T. (MCfac) The New York Times OSTRAU–Eleanor T. Died May 20, 2007. A celebratory
Memorial Service will be held on Sunday, October 21 at 2:00pm at LOAD-DATE: October 18, 2007 # - # - # Dear John, Professor Ostrau was
a Professor of Government at the College for many years and after she retired
she continued on campus assisting with the creation of the archives. She was
truly a great lady. Her husband is the Honorable I am sorry that I
missed the announcement as I would have attended. May She Rest In
Peace, Mike # - # - # {JR: Upon reflection, I should have remembered that from when it happened. Also, interesting is that it never tumbled out in my daily searches. Clearly, the Goggles - Yahoos - Asks, the big search engines don’t do a very good job. If they did, I might have had it while it was actionable. Thanks, Mike. } # # # # # |
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JObit: PETER J. OLIVA (MC1942)
PETER J. OLIVA, 86, of Prior to this, he had been the Administrator of Computers
for He was predeceased by his brother, Frank and his wife, Josephine Oliva; his sister, Lena Oliva Nero and her husband, Anthony; and his brother-in-law, John Nelson, in August. He is survived by his devoted wife of 33 years, Mary Lou Nelson Oliva; his two daughters, Kathryn Oliva of Laurel Hollow, N.Y., and Linda Oliva Moller and her husband, Dennis of Sea Cliff, N.Y., and their two daughters, Victoria and Jacqueline Moller; also surviving are his brother, Nicholas and wife Marie Oliva, and their children and grandchildren, Catherine Oliva and her son Andrew Oliva, Joseph and Sandra Oliva and their daughter Samantha, and John Oliva; and his nephews and nieces, Joseph and Marie Oliva and their children Gina, Joseph, and Christian Oliva; Frank and Judy Oliva and their sons Frank and Christopher Oliva, and Kathryn and Vincent Oliva. He is also survived by his sister-in-law, Marian Nelson. Visiting will be 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the
O’Brien Funeral Home, Highway 35 at New Bedford Road, Wall. Funeral service
Monday at 8:45 a.m. from the funeral home, followed by a Mass of Christian
Burial at 9:30 a.m. at St. Catharine’s RC Church, Spring Lake. Entombment
will be in St. Catharine’s Cemetery Mausoleum, Sea Girt. In lieu of flowers
the family requests donations to the Advancement Office, LOAD-DATE: October 22, 2007 # - # - # Dear John, I believe that Peter
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ACTIONABLE OBIT: EXPIRES 29OCT07 http:// www.legacy.com /Atlanta/ Obituaries.asp? Page=LifeStory& PersonId=96747513 ***Begin Quote*** Ernest Tsivoglou ERNEST C. TSIVOGLOU Loving, loyal father, faithful
husband, renowned scientist and teacher, Dr. Ernest C. Tsivoglou of Born in 1922 in He then accepted a commission as Sanitary Engineer in the
US Public Health Service at the Once back at the Leaving the PHS in 1966, Dr. Tsivoglou accepted a
professorship to teach sanitary engineering and river self-purification
processes at the Georgia Institute of Technology in He continued to practice as a consulting engineer until his retirement in the early 1980s. His recreational interests included trout fishing, woodworking and the American Southwest, particularly the books of Tony Hillerman. Dr. Tsivoglou is survived by his wife Julaine, children Stephanie, Peter and Andrew, and grandchildren Laura, Charlotte, Alison and Andrew. The last surviving member of his family, he was preceded in death by his father, Constantine Jordan Tsivoglou of Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey, his mother Lucinda Stearns Tsivoglou of Boston, his sister Helena Spencer of Asheville, North Carolina and brother Jordan Constantine Tsivoglou of Newport News, Virginia. Funeral services will be held on Saturday October 27th at
11am at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Published in The ***End Quote*** Guestbook for your comments is at: http:// www.legacy.com /Atlanta/ GB /GuestbookView.aspx? PersonId=96747513 # - # - # Dear John, I believe that
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JNEWS: John Trocciola (MC1963) http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage8008.html Mr. John Trocciola and Dr. Subhash Singhal Recieve the 2007 Fuel Cell Seminar & Exposition Award Publication Date:24-Oct-2007 06:30 AM US Source:Wärtsilä Congratulations 2007 Fuel Cell Seminar & Exposition Award Winners! The Fuel Cell Seminar & Exposition would like to congratulate Mr. John Trocciola and Dr. Subhash Singhal as the winners of the 2007 Fuel Cell Seminar & Exposition Award. This award is given annually to those who have achieved outstanding leadership and innovation in the promotion of the overall advancement of fuel cell technology. {Extraneous Deleted} Mr. John Trocciola Mr. John Trocciola has served as a private consultant,
both professionally and on a pro-bono basis, for a variety of potential fuel
cell users in evaluating emerging and existing fuel cell technologies. These
clients include Prior to working as a private consultant, Mr. Trocciola served a variety of roles at the United Technologies Corporation from 1963 - 2004. His position as Manager of Advanced Materials and Development allowed him to investigate the basic limits of materials for all fuel cell technologies including AFC, PEM, PAFC and MCFC, and to identify the fundamental thermodynamic properties of carbons, graphites and polymers which determine their suitability for use in fuel cells. In addition, he was active in performing Advanced System Analysis/Evaluation of all alternative fuel cell technologies of which he recommended PAFC for further development for commercial stationary fuel cells As Program Manager of several NASA and DOD Programs for space and underwater fuel cell power plants, he was able to identify successful methods for supplying hydrogen and cooling fuel cells in harsh environments as well as methods to remove CO from hydrogen streams for PEM power plants. One of Mr. Trocciola’s most notable and innovative
achievements occurred while working on several US Environmental Protection
Agency projects where and others at UTC and the EPA identified and patented
unique gas cleanup systems to treat the renewable gas to produce H2; this
resulted in 12 fuel cell installations at waste water plants and landfills
around the world. And it was during a joint DOE/DOD Program that he was
responsible for the management of the installation and startup of the first
commercial fuel cell in Mr. Trocciola received his Bachelor of Chemical
Engineering from Mr. Trocciola is recognized as a fuel cell industry leader
and his 40 US Patents in areas such as AFC, PAFC, MCFC, SOFC, and PEM show
his enthusiastic innovation. He was recipient of many awards including the
Special Inventors Award by NASA, the Technology Innovation Award by Discover
Magazine, and the Outstanding Engineer Graduate Award given to him by # - # - # Trocciola, John (MC1963) # - # - # Dear John, I believe that John
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JNEWS: Judge Martin (MC1957), a partner in Martin &
Obermaier in Federal News Service SEN. CARDIN: The Judiciary Committee will come back to
order on the confirmation hearings of Judge Mukasey for attorney general of
the I want to welcome the panel of outside experts. We thank you very much for your cooperation in being here today. It’s very important that the record in regards to the confirmation of an attorney generation — that there be opportunity for witnesses that know the nominee or could add to the consideration of the committee have an opportunity to give that testimony. And we thank you all for agreeing to be here today and to be witnesses at this hearing. As is the tradition of the Judiciary Committee, I’m going to ask you all to rise in order to take an oath. (The acting chairman administers the oath to the witnesses.) {Extraneous Deleted} We will now hear from Judge John Martin. Judge Martin, a
partner in Martin & Obermaier in New York City, was a United States
district judge in the Southern District of New York from 1990 to 2003 and worked
very closely with Judge Michael Mukasey in that capacity. Prior to his
judgeship, Judge Martin served as the A native New Yorker, Judge Martin graduated from Judge, it’s a pleasure to have you before our committee. MR. MARTIN: Thank you very much, Senator Cardin. I’m honored to be here and very pleased to have the
opportunity to express publicly my high regard and affection for the nominee
for attorney general, the Honorable Michael B. Mukasey. I’ve known Mike
Mukasey for over 30 years, but I got to know him best when we served together
on the Southern District of New York. Michael Mukasey is one of the most
decent human beings I know, and I think he possesses the qualities of
intellect and humanity that we should want in a person to serve as attorney
general of the We worked together — I was the chair of the clerk’s committee while he was chief judge. We worked closely together during that time, and I saw first hand his compassion and his leadership. During that period our clerk of court died after a long battle with cancer. No one could have been more caring than Judge Mukasey was of the concern of our clerk. No one could have been more compassionate in that situation. In addition, as Mary Jo has pointed out in some detail, he
was an able leader, someone who sought advice and who inspired those around
him to do their best. He also had the unenviable task of trying to organize
and lead 40 To some extent, no individual is qualified to be attorney
general. But the same can be said of a But you learn from that how to listen to experts, to weigh what they have to say and to make judgments as to what is the right thing in the situation. In addition and most important, for someone who is to
become the attorney general, you learn that the law is above politics and
that your personal political views have no place in the administration of
justice. Michael Mukasey was a superb While I’ve never the pleasure of appearing before Judge Mukasey, I have had the pleasure of reading his opinions. He was a thoughtful and intelligent jurist. I also have one experience with him that I think demonstrates that he possesses one of the most important qualities for someone who would be the attorney general, and that is the willingness to rethink a position. Several years ago, I decided a case — and I forget what the issue was — but there was only one opinion on point, and it was by Judge Mukasey. It was a rare case in which I disagreed with him. And I wrote an opinion and said, “I have great respect for Judge Mukasey, but I disagree with him here.” A year or two later, he sent me a copy of an opinion he had just written in a similar case, in which he referred to his prior opinion and my opinion and said, “I’ve changed my mind. I think that the other is the right law.” I don’t know many judges who possess both the unique quality of self-confidence and humility that would allow them to admit publicly that they were changing in a position. But that’s what I think the quality that you have to have if you’re going to lead something like the Department of Justice and be faced on a daily basis with complex and difficult questions to decide. As you might expect, Judge Mukasey’s nomination has been
the subject of considerable comment in the Thank you very much. {Extraneous Deleted} So let me ask, Ms. White, if I could, and Judge Martin, you know him — how do you think he’s going to fair standing up to a president who wants to do certain things that perhaps the judge thinks is inappropriate? MS. WHITE: If the circumstance presents itself, my money is on Judge Mukasey. SEN. CARDIN: (Laughs.) MS. WHITE: He’s one of the most independent, straight-forward, strong individuals I know, most principled. So if it comes to that, I mean, you know, plainly, he will, you know, also be, you know, clear in his advice as to the right path, but if it comes to that, I have no doubt whatsoever he’ll stand up. MR. MARTIN: I think serving as SEN. CARDIN: Well, I think restoring the independence of the Department of Justice is the first order of business. With the political interference, which has been acknowledged and under current investigation, that’s going to be the first order of business. The second is being able to give independent advice, and that’s going to be another challenge. The third is establishing the type of priorities in the office. {Extraneous Deleted} SEN. CARDIN: Well, I thank each of you for being here. I think you’ve added to the record in a way that I think it’s important in confirmation process for an attorney general of the United States, and I’ve found it extremely helpful to me to try to put the puzzle pieces together because we are clearly all with the same objective, and that is to see the Department of Justice move forward in its traditional respect from the American people and as important part of the administration. And I think that these confirmation hearings have helped us in that regard, and you all have been part of that, and we thank you very much for your presence, your testimony and, most importantly, for your patience, as we’ve been trying to figure out when this panel would in fact be heard. The hearing record will remain open for one week in order to be able to supplement the record, and the Judiciary Committee now stands adjourned. Thank you all. LOAD-DATE: October 20, 2007 # - # - # Dear John, I believe that the Judge
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JEMAILXX: Kevin Moore [MC1980] From: Kevin Moore [MC1980] Dear CIC, What in all that is holy is # - # - # {JR: No clue. But it probably has something to do with hearing what the opposition has to say. In a free speech society, the remedy to bad speech is more speech; not censorship. It’s not the pleasant, happy, and good ideas that need protection. It’s the vile stuff that does. In this case, maybe the students and faculty of Grambling need to invite the Grand Vizier, Wizard, Senator Byrd, David Duke, or whatever to explain their beliefs. In peace and calm, they can then have a dialogue, or more likely future discussions about the topic. Suppressing stuff just allows the infection to spread underground. Sunshine is a wonderful antiseptic. It may hurt. It may be abhorrent. It may be vile. But we have to get these ideas out in the “sunshine” so we can expose them for what they are. Murder imho. } # # # # # |
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JEMAILXX: Vince Cahill ‘65 From: Mike McEneney (1953) Dear John, The Vince Cahill that was listed in the found section of this week’s Jasper Jottings, is I believe a member of the Class of 1965. Mike # # # # # |
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From: Mike McEneney 1953 Dear John, The October
11 edition of Catholic New York has two short pieces about "NEW ENGINEERING DEGREE AT The The Master's
program will provide training and study at convenient times for students
working in professional careers. It will build on previous training with Con
Ed, include on-site courses at Con Ed, and provide qualified The second on page 37, reads as follows: Brother Thomas
J. Scanlan, F.S.C., president of As a result of the campaign, which was officially completed in June, the college's endowment has climbed to nearly $45 million. There also are four new endowed chairs in each of the schools, each at $1.5 million. Additional scholarship funds also are being created. The school also began construction of a new residence hall, East Hill Tower II, which will be completed before the start of the 2008-2009 school year, and upgraded its technological equipment and capacity. An announcement by the college credited the campaign's success in its final two years in large part to the appointment of Tom O'Malley as chairman of the board of trustees. On being named chairman in July 2005, he challenged the board members to secure increased funding. In June 2006 the board of trustees made a $17 million gift. Things
are looking up! # - # - # {JR: Ye, they are. Although I just saw Brother President and his look a little worse for wear ‘n’ tear. I pray for the Intelligent Designer to keep him on the job for many decades to come. He does a masterful job. I’d have strangled some of those folks probably fifteen minutes before they ran me out on a rail. Leading MC is an art; not an injineering job! } # # # # # |
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From: Corey L. Westgate (Burns) We are all very proud of my grandfather's lifetime achievements. He truly was an inspiration to us all. --1-- From: Reinke's Jasper (mc68alum) Persona Dear Ms. Westgate, >We are all very proud of my grandfather’s lifetime achievements. He truly was an inspiration to us all. Representing his fellow alumni, I'd like to know more. I was unable to "find" an obit online. Everyday, I search Legacy Dot Com for any mention of "manhattan college" as well as generalized Google and Yahoo searches. I share the stories of our fellow Jaspers as I find them. If there was an obit, or even some eulogy of your grandfather's life, then I would be happy to share it with his fellow alums. I like to call what I do "Jasper Jottings; The achievement journal of my fellow alums" and think it serves several useful functions -- not the least of which is to ensure that great stories get told. So I would be happy to pass along whatever you'd care to share to about a thousand of his fellow alums. I know they'd be interested. With my condolences,
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From: alumni –at-- listserv.manhattan.edu REMINDER … only two weeks left to register NYC Club Fall 2007 Networking Reception Guest Speaker: $40 per person PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED New York Life requires us to provide a list of attendees for security… you will need to be on this list to enter the building so please register in advance. ONLINE REGISTRATION For more information contact Tom McCarthy '06, assistant
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JBlogger: Eric Spargimino (MC????) http://theveggiecar.blogspot.com Veggie Car Thanks for your interest in the Veggie Car and my trip to
WEFTEC ‘07 in ***Begin Quote*** Saturday, October 20, 2007 I am Finally home. The car is on a truck being shipped
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just blocks from her ***and*** Led by a group called Casino Free Philadelphia, opponents are trying to force the casinos to move to less residential areas or out of the city altogether. They say the slots parlors will bring increased crime, reduced property values, traffic and pollution to their residential communities. ***and*** They say their projects will bring many benefits, from jobs to civic improvements, and that opposition is coming only from a small number of people. ***and*** Gov. Ed Rendell promoted slot-machine gambling as a way to generate money for tax relief, and the state's gaming law, passed in 2004 gave authority over placement of the casinos to a state board so that local political fights didn't hold up or scuttle ***and*** *** end quote *** Well, the casinos are built. Those folks didn’t have a chance. Follow the money. I visited one. A particularly ugly one in a particularly ugly industrial district. Have NOT heard word one about all those benefits? :-) Just the sound of politicians spending money! |
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