1937FCRH: Bernard J. Daenzer (also LAW ‘42) has published Dear Wanda (Romulus and Remus Press, 2005), a collection of his “strange, weird, unusual and unique experiences” during a long career in insurance. A portion of the proceeds from the book will be donated to the CPCU-Loman Education Foundation and the NAIW Education Foundation.

1941FCRH: John Bach, an assistant coach for the NBA’s Chicago Bulls and the all-time winningest coach in Fordham men’s basketball history, was inducted into the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the New York Athletic Club on Sept. 22. From 1950 to 1968, Bach served as the head basketball coach at Fordham, compiling a 263-193 record and leading the Rams to five NIT appearances and NCAA Tournament appearances in 1953 and 1954. The

2005-06 season marks Bach’s 53rd year in coaching and his 26th year in the NBA.

1947FCRH: John J. Barton and his wife, Catherine A. Barton (GSE ‘58), were elevated to the rank of Grand Cross in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem by Cardinal Edward Egan in St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Sept. 24.

1949UGE: Thomas G. Vinci, Ed.D., retired associate dean emeritus of the Undergraduate School of Education at Fordham, serves as an advisory board member at Palm Beach Atlantic University’s School of Education and Behavioral Studies, and at Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. He’s also a member of the Boca Raton Educational Advisory Board. His wife, Elin G. Vinci (FCLC ‘75 and GSAS ‘78), is the vice president of the Christ Child Society of Boca Raton.

1950CBA: Peter Shields, executive director of the Center for Hope Hospice in Scotch Plains, N.J., received the Hospice Lifetime Achievement Award from the New Jersey State Hospice Association on Nov. 10. The center is constructing an additional 30-bed residence for the terminally ill.FCRH: Edward Hart (also GSAS ‘57) is the author of Almost a Hero: Andrew Elliot, the King’s Moneyman in New York, 1764-1776 (Royal Fireworks Press, 2005), his second volume on the life and times of Elliot, who served as the collector of customs and receiver general in the port of New York during the years leading up to the American Revolution.

1952FCRH: Ralph Liccione and his wife, Anne, work as volunteers at the Alpharetta (Ga.) Welcome Center.GSAS: Philip R. Harris, Ph.D., is the author of Managing the Knowledge Culture: A Guide for Human Resource Professionals and Managers in the 21st- Century Workplace (HRD Press, 2005). The president of Harris International, Ltd., a consulting firm focused on human resource and organizational develop-ment, he has published more than 250 articles and written or edited 43 books.

1956FCRH: John Nicholas Iannuzzi, a New York trial attorney and a former

adjunct professor at Fordham Law School, is the author of Condemned (A Madcap Book, 2005), a novel that focuses on the dark, dangerous world of international drug trafficking.

1957FCRH: Peter Gallagher has been elected to the board of directors of the Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office. In 2003, he founded Development Directions, which offers free consultation in fund-raising and board development for struggling not-for-profit organizations. He has addressed more than 115 agencies, including several connected with the United Nations.

1958FCRH: Joe Sullivan, coach of the Fordham University sailing club, was inducted into the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Hall of Fame at the association’s North American Championships in Austin, Texas, in June. He also received the 2004-05 ICSA award for outstanding service as a volunteer, in recognition of his efforts on behalf of Fordham sailing and the Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association.

1961FCRH: Robert P. Balles, a former community college math instructor, recently established the Robert P. Balles Mathematical Olympiad Prize, with the support of the Mathematical Association of America, to honor U.S. participants in the annual International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Each of the six students who represent the United States in the IMO receives a $1,000 Series 1 U.S. Savings Bond featuring the likeness of Albert Einstein.

1962FCRH: John F. Rausch, Esq., retired this fall after 40 years as an attorney with the Internal Revenue Service in Albany, N.Y. He and his wife, Janet, plan to travel.UGE: Patricia Mueller Allaire, who has taught at Queensborough Community College since 1978 and has been a full-time faculty member there since 1994, was honored with the college’s Excellence in Faculty Scholarship. She has presented more than 35 papers at regional, national and international conferences, and she is a member of many professional organizations, including the American Mathematical Society and the British Society for the History of Mathematics.

1963MC: Catherine Shevlin Pierce is an international development consultant who has worked with the United Nations Population Fund and the World Bank. She received an honorary degree from Purdue University in May and taught a political science course at New York University last summer. UGE: Lt. Col. Henry A. Chott retired after serving 36 years in the U.S. Air Force.

1965FCRH: William J. Burke Sr. (also LAW ‘68) was honored this fall at Holy Cross High School in Queens, N.Y., his alma mater, with the school’s 50th Anniversary Cross and Anchor Award.UGE: Louis J. Aiello is the owner of KLA Educational Consulting and a senior adjunct professor at Dowling College in Oakdale, N.Y.

1966FCRH: Tony Cupaiuolo, D.S.W. (also GSS ‘68), won the 1500- and 800-meter events in the 60- to 64-year-old group at the Vermont Senior Games. He also won the 1500- and 400-meter events at the Lee County (Fla.) Senior Games. Tony competes in 5K and 10K races. He recently ran up Vermont’s Mount Equinox (5.4 miles) as part of an event to raise money to combat Lyme disease.GSAS: Kenneth S. Ramsey, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of Gateway Rehabilitation Center, was recently appointed by Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell to serve a three-year term on the Pennsylvania Advisory Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse. He is also the chairman of the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers.LAW: Sanford Schlesinger, a founding partner of the law firm Schlesinger, Gannon and Lazetera, LLP, an affiliate of Dreier LLP, was named one of the “Best Lawyers in America” by his peers, as published in the Aug. 1 issue of New York magazine. A former adjunct profes-sor at New York Law School, the University of Miami Law School and Columbia University Law School, he was recognized for his expertise in trusts and estates.

1967MC: Teresa Ippolito chairs a committee working to consolidate three Catholic schools in her New York City neighbor-hood to avoid financial and enrollment

Alumni Notes

BEN Bensalem

CBA College of Business

Administration

FCLC Fordham College at

Lincoln Center

FCLS Fordham College of

Liberal Studies

FCRH Fordham College at

Rose Hill

GBA Graduate School of

Business Administration

GRE Graduate School of Religion

and Religious Education

GSAS Graduate School of

Arts and Sciences

GSE Graduate School of

Education

GSS Graduate School of

Social Service

ICO Ignatius College

JES Shrub Oak

LAW School of Law

MC Marymount College

PHA School of Pharmacy

TMC Thomas More College

UGE Undergraduate Education

WEC Marymount Weekend College

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problems. Her father led the fund-raising drive to build one of the schools.

1968FCRH: Larry Nagengast was the text editor of The Heart of America (Portfolio Books, 2004), a photo essay by Kevin Fleming that was named one of “America’s Best” in the May 2005 issue of Reader’s Digest. Joseph C. Napoli, M.D., a specialist in disaster psychiatry, traumatic stress and posttraumatic stress disorders, co-authored (with V. Alex Kehayan, Ed.D.) a book titled Resiliency in the Face of Disaster and Terrorism: 10 Things to Do to Survive (Personhood Press, 2005). He is the president-elect of the New Jersey Psychiatric Association and serves as an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.MC: Nancy Corrigan MacDonald received the 2005 Orange County Woman of Achievement Award in Newburgh, N.Y., for founding and expanding her business, Traditions Celtic Imports. She is also a founding member of the North American Celtic Buyers Association and helped create the Orange County Irish Heritage Festival to benefit local charities.UGE: Sr. Mary Eleanor Thornton, R.S.M. (also GSS ‘77), a teacher and social worker, celebrated her 50th anniversary in religious life last September with a Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Nicholas Church in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where she now works part time at Bishop Hoban High School.

1969CBA: Paul V. Carlucci, a veteran sales and marketing executive at News Corporation, was appointed publisher of the media company’s New York Post in September. He will continue to serve as chairman and CEO of News America Marketing, a consumer advertising and promotional services company where he has worked since 1991. He previously served as senior vice president of marketing at Caldor and began his career in advertising sales at the New York Daily News.John R. Massaua, state director of the Maine Small Business Development Centers and the Small Business and Technology Development Centers, was elected chair of the board of directors of the Association of Small Business Development Centers at the associa-tion’s national conference in Baltimore, Md., last September. A Price-Babson Fellow at the University of Southern

Maine, he occasionally teaches at the university’s School of Business.FCRH: Robert H. Posteraro, M.D., a radiologist with Lubbock Diagnostic Radiology in Lubbock, Texas, gradu-ated from Oregon Health and Science University last June with a master’s degree in biomedical informatics.GSAS: Alfred J. Discepolo was named chief financial officer of Advanced BioNutrition, a company, headquartered in Columbia, Md., that focuses on developing food ingredients to improve animal health. He has more than 20 years experience serving in senior finan-cial and accounting positions, most recently at Cola, Inc., a national health-care accreditation organization.

1971MC: Nancy Santanello, M.D., executive director of the epidemiology department at Merck Research Laboratories in Blue Bell, Pa., was featured in the October issue of Working Mother. In an article titled “Rx for Career Success,” she wrote about how she left a teaching career (she taught high-school art in Baltimore, Md., from 1971 to 1977) to attend medical school and fulfill her dream of becoming a doctor. She and her husband, Barry Oppenheim, a pediatric ophthalmologist, live in New Hope, Pa., with their children, Shana (15) and Ari (14).UGE: Anthony C. La Russo has published his first book, Management: Ready Aim Fire (Authorhouse, 2005). For more information, go to www.managementreadyaimfire.com.

1972FCRH: Michael Keating has been appointed a visiting fellow at the Center for Democracy and Development at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, where he is examining how sustainable media businesses can survive in developing economies. He previously served as a partner with the Boston Consulting Group.Stephen Marcellino (also LAW ’75) was recognized by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for his services as a media-tor since 1994, when the court’s mediation program was launched. Stephen was also recognized for his contribution to the education and development of young scholar-athletes as the founding director of the Minutemen Athletic Club.MC: Joanne “Tracie” Casella Gray teaches at INSEAD, an international business school in France, and works on

Ensuring the FutureCharitable Gift Annuities Although Leo R. Cardillo, M.D. (FCRH ’51), had been a

regular donor to Fordham for years, he also wanted to

include the University in his estate in a way that would

benefit both his alma mater and himself. Fordham, he

says, prepared him well for his lifelong career as a doctor—

a career he still practices today.

“Fordham gave me

excellent preparation

for medical school,”

recalls Dr. Cardillo, who

completed his studies at

Yale Medical School. “My

first-year med courses

were a breeze after my

Fordham science classes.

And Fordham continues

to do a great job,” he

says, referring to the Rose

Hill campus as “a Gothic

oasis in an urban setting.”

By setting up a Charitable Gift Annuity with long-term

appreciated stock, Dr. Cardillo was able to ensure that

Fordham’s superb traditions and academic excellence will

benefit needy students in the future, while he continues

to receive annual payments from the University for life.

“I used long-term appreciated stock to make my gift because

it’s the most cost-effective way to do it: you maximize your

gift and minimize taxes,” he explains. “When you’re looking

at long-term capital gains, it’s a great way to make a gift.”

The father of five children and grandfather of 14, Dr.

Cardillo plans to continue his internal medicine practice

well beyond retirement age, simply because he loves it.

“Practicing medicine is more than a job,” he says. “It’s a

way of life.”

For more information about Fordham’s Charitable Gift Annuity

program, call Shanti Bajaj, director of gift planning, at

212-636-6695, or email her at giftplanning@fordham.edu.

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The honors Program aT rose hill has been described in previous years as a literary “boot camp” for talented undergradu-ates. Today, 50 years after it began, the program not only immerses students in sophisticated study of the liberal arts, but also asks its students to consider current issues in such seminars as “ethical Dimensions of Contemporary social Problems.”

more than 60 current and former Fordham scholars gathered at rose hill on nov. 5 to celebrate 50 years of the honors program. a panel discussion held in the great hall of Duane library featured honors scholars turned Fordham professors—george shea, Ph.D. (FCrh ’56), mary Procidano, Ph.D. (FCrh ’76) and Judith Jones, Ph.D. (FCrh ’85)—as well as antonella iannarino, a Fordham junior currently in the program.

“The honors program needs to be the leaven in the college,” said harry nasuti, Ph.D. (FCrh ’71), professor of theology and director of the program. “The goal,” he added, “is to enhance the impact of the honors program on the intellectual life of the larger college.”

students accepted into the program spend their freshman and sophomore years in an integrated study of art, history, literature, music, philosophy and theology. They spend their senior year researching and writing a thesis with the guidance of a faculty member in their field of study.

shea, a professor of classical languages who joined the Fordham faculty in 1967, recalled a very different program from that of today. students entered on a probationary basis during their sophomore year, he said, likening it to a literary “boot camp,” with such assign-ments as reading the Iliad in one week. as a Fordham undergraduate, shea also applied to study for a year in Paris. he was accepted, as was alan alda (FCrh ’56). The two learned to speak French flu-

ently together before spending a year enrolled in the sorbonne.

For Jones, a philosophy pro-fessor who served as director of the honors Program from 1999 to 2004, it was a discussion with her mentor, elizabeth Kraus, Ph.D., that set the course for her life of study. Kraus, who taught philosophy at Fordham from 1968 to 1991, introduced Jones to the work of British philosopher alfred north Whitehead. Kraus continued to work with Jones as she sculpted a patchwork of studies that linked Whitehead with Jones’ favorite poet, W. B. Yeats, to complete her dual degree in english and philosophy. Jones even-tually succeeded Kraus as Fordham’s resident Whitehead scholar.

as the faculty challenged her, Jones said, she was given “the gift of mind,” a gift she works to share with her own students.

“i came to understand how Dr. Kraus could reach into [students’] lives,” Jones said, “because it turns out, the students reach into [the faculty’s] lives.” —Cassie Carothers

a European Union-sponsored project researching the role of corporate social responsibility. She also serves on the board of the Massachusetts Alliance to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.

1973FCRH: Anthony V. Sculley was honored at the annual Downing Park Fundraiser, held July 16 in Newburgh, N.Y., for his outstanding volunteer efforts to rehabilitate Downing Park, which was designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux (the archi-tects of Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn). Tony was also recognized as the founder of Little League baseball in the City of Newburgh. For the past 19 years, he has served as a guidance counselor at Newburgh Free Academy.MC: G. Kristian Miccio, J.S.D., was awarded the Hughes-Rudd Professorship at the University of Denver, Strum College of Law, for the 2004-05 academic year. A national expert on the law and domestic violence, she is conducting a study on the efficacy of mandatory reporting of domestic violence by doctors to law enforcement officials. She was a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Family Violence, held last September in San Diego.

1975CBA: Hector L. Lugo recently retired after serving 25 years in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

1976FCRH: John Licciardone, D.O., director of scientific communications for the Osteopathic Research Center at the University of North Texas, received the 2005 Louisa Burns Memorial Lecture award from the American Osteopathic Association.LAW: Finbarr J. O’Neill, the president of Reynolds and Reynolds, received the Richard J. Bennett Award from the Fordham Corporate Counsel Association on Oct. 25 at the Yale Club of New York. The award—which honors Dick Bennett (LAW ‘42), who served as general counsel, then as president and chairman of Schering-Plough Corporation—recognizes “corporate leaders with the highest standards of ethical conduct, moral purpose and selfless commitment.” O’Neill, who joined Reynolds and Reynolds last January, previously served as president and CEO of Mitsubishi Motors North America.Henry White Jr. was elected to the

board of directors of Lakeside Foods Inc. He is the president, general counsel and secretary of the Institute of International Container Lessors, and he serves on the Commercial Operations Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.MC: Two personal letters exchanged between Wendy Crowther and her classmate Shawn Kennedy Cribari have been published in Women’s Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present (Dial Press, 2005), edited by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler.

1977CBA: Joseph D. Skrzypczak, president and chief operating officer of Imagistics International Inc., was elected to the advisory council of the Discovery Museum and Planetarium in Bridgeport, Conn.LAW: John C. Wohlstetter, a senior

fellow for technology and society at the Discovery Institute, launched his online diary, “Letter from the Capitol” (www.letterfromthecapitol.com), last summer.WEC: Heilwig Higgins Barker has retired as vice president of the private bank division of Citigroup after 30 years with the company. She leads a library book club that reads German classics and volunteers as a reading partner in Stamford, Conn., public schools. She and her husband, Bob, a pilot, recently traveled to Patagonia and took a cruise around Cape Horn.

1978CBA: Mark Perrin was appointed presi-dent and CEO of ConjuChem Inc., a Montreal-based pharmaceutical company.GSAS: Michael J. McMorrow is the executive director of Manhattan College’s $150 million sesquicentennial campaign.

GSS: William Walsh was appointed senior vice president of the North Bronx Healthcare Network and executive director of Jacobi Medical Center by the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.

1979FCLC: Rocco F. Andriola, Esq., a managing director in fixed income division at Lehman Brothers and chairman of the New York Organ Donor Network, received the United Hospital Fund’s Distinguished Community Service Award last September, “in recognition of his voluntary leadership and extraordi-nary contributions to improving health in New York.”FCRH: Judy McCoy was named strategic media sales manager of the Aviation Week Group of the McGraw-Hill Companies last summer. She is leading the group’s sales efforts

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Harry Nasuti, Ph.D. (left), director of the Honors Program at Rose Hill, welcomed 1999 graduates Jennifer Spataro (center) and Courtney McGrath Jolley, back to campus on Nov. 5 for a panel discussion and reception in Duane Library.

Men’s Basketball Family DayJoin the Rams for an afternoon of basketball and family fun!

Fordham vs. St. BonaventureSaturday, Jan. 21, 2006Rose Hill Gym, 1 p.m.

Postgame Reception in the Rebounders Club lounge!

Includes children’s activities, player autographs, photos, the Ram mascot, a buffet and more! Listen to WFUV’s live postgame broadcast and hear directly from Coach Whittenburg.

$50 for the whole family! Cost includes game tickets.

For more information or to R.S.V.P., please contact Ryan St. Germain, assistant director of alumni relations, at stgermain@fordham.edu or 212-636-6527.

The Rebounders Club lounge is located in the McGinley Center basement, next to Dagger John’s.

for the new Defense Technology International magazine.Timothy Reis was named vice president and general counsel for EMS Technologies, Inc.GSE: Robert Feirsen, Ed.D. (also GSE ’91), was appointed superintendent of the Garden City (N.Y.) Public Schools last July.

1980FCLC: Ernest F. Hart, Esq., assistant vice president of employee and labor relations at Columbia University, was appointed to the board of trustees of the Queens Library by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg last September.FCRH: Thomas Cellucci, Ph.D., president of Zyvex Corporation, a nanotechnology company located in Richmond, Texas, delivered the keynote address at the “Living in a Nano World” conference, held last September in Melbourne, Australia. He also delivered a lecture on nanotechnology products and applications at the University of Scranton in October.LAW: Jane Breslin Jacobs has been appointed an assistant professor of paralegal studies at the Community College of Philadelphia. This is a tenure-track position, and the college’s paralegal studies program is approved by the American Bar Association. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, Howard, and their two children.

1981GSE: Bonnie Butera was appointed principal of North Mianus School in Riverdale, Conn., in July.

1982CBA: Andy Clark is teaching sports pro-motions and sponsorship marketing in the graduate program in sports manage-ment at Northern Illinois University.FCRH: John S. Bobrowiecki was promoted to the rank of colonel in the Marine Corps reserve last June. Col. Bobrowiecki serves as assistant staff judge advocate at the Marine Corps Forces Atlantic in Norfolk, Va. He resides in Farmingdale, Maine, with his wife and children.GSAS: Sr. Sharon Kanis, S.S.N.D., associate professor of religious studies at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, received the Mullan Distinguished Teaching Award at the college’s Honors Convocation in September. GSE: Brian Monahan, Ph.D., deputy superintendent of schools in the North Rockland (N.Y.) School District, was appointed to serve as superintendent, effective Aug. 1, 2006.

1983FCRH: Genevieve Piturro, executive director of the Pajama Program, a national charity that provides pajamas and books to needy and abused children, spearheaded the program’s Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. With the help of dozens of volunteers and RD Weis Companies, a contracting firm that donated transportation, she traveled to the Gulf Coast in September and distributed thousands of books and pairs of pajamas to children and families living in shelters in Louisiana and Texas.

1984GSAS: Joy A. James, Ph.D. (also GSAS

’87) was appointed the John B. and John T. McCoy Presidential Professor of Africana Studies and college professor in political science at Williams College. She is the author of numerous scholarly articles and several books, including Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics (St. Martin’s, 2002).

1985LAW: Jennifer Gordon joined Sidney, Austin, Brown and Wood, as a partner in the law firm’s New York-based intellectual property group.Mary Kaczmarek is the founder and CEO of Skillful Means Marketing, a consulting firm focused on the marketing and business development needs of attorneys and law firms. She and her husband, William Soukup, live in Charlotte, N.C., with their two daughters, Lillie (6) and Thea (5).

1986CBA: Dominic J. Novelli is completing coursework for a doctorate in public administration at the University of Baltimore. An 18-year veteran of the public sector, Dom is the director of purchasing for the County of Bergen, N.J. He and his wife, Michele O’Hare Novelli (CBA ’87) live in Waldwick, N.J., with their daughters, Rhiannon (5) and Madelyn (2).FCRH: Karen Binelli (also GSE ’88) and Guy D’Aguanno (CBA ’87) celebrated the birth of their third child, Celia Jane, last June. They also have two boys, Erik (10) and Scott (9). They recently moved to Harmony, Fla., from Trumbull, Conn.Paul Guido is the co-author (with Bob Boyles) of Fifty Years of College Football:

A Modern History of America’s Most Colorful Sport (Sideline Communications, 2005). For more information, go to www.50YearsofFootball.com.Paul Taylor, an Advanced Placement U.S. history teacher at West Springfield (Mass.) High School, coached the school’s baseball team to the Massachusetts Division I state championship last spring.LAW: Terence Workman was named special counsel in the capital markets department at the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft.

1987FCLC: Andrew Struse was recently hired as the senior vice president of on-air promotion and creative services for Current TV, a San Francisco-based television network launched in 2005 and funded by former Vice President Al Gore and Joel Hyatt.FCRH: Peter Birle, coordinator of corporate learning and communications for the financial services group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, is the author of Fighting El Fuego (Scobre Press, 2005), his first children’s book. For more information, go to www.scobre.com. Pete lives in Westfield, N.J., with his wife, Joann Berardo, an attorney, and their three sons.Olabisi Ariyo Boyle, senior manager of product strategy for DaimlerChrysler, received the award for Most Promising Engineer at the annual Women of Color Technology Awards Conference, held in Atlanta, Ga., in October.

1988CBA: Nick Katsoris (also LAW ’91), general counsel for the Red Apple Group and the author of Crimes of Fire (NK Publications, 2000), a legal thriller, recently published his first children’s book, Loukoumi (NK Publications, 2005), about a lamb that gets lost on her way to America.FCRH: Yon Elvira was recently pro-moted to serve as director of assets and production publicity for Lions Gate Films. He oversees the creation of publicity and marketing materials, including the production of promotional featurettes on the studio’s films.GBA: Michael J. Burton, senior vice president of URS Corporation, a San Francisco-based engineering firm, was selected in October to serve as the direc-tor of URS’ Gulf Coast Reconstruction Team in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Before joining URS in 2002, he managed the construction and engi-neering operations, and the stabilization and clean-up effort for the World Trade Center recovery. In recognition of his

work at Ground Zero, he received the 2002 Engineering News-Record Award of Excellence.

1989FCRH: Patrick McNamara, Ph.D., an archivist for the Diocese of Brooklyn who teaches history at St. Francis College, St. Joseph’s Seminary and the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, is the author of A Catholic Cold War: Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of American Anticommunism (Fordham University Press, 2005). GSAS: Theresa Earenfight, Ph.D. (also GSAS ’97), associate professor of history at Seattle University, is the editor of a collection of scholarly essays titled Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (Ashgate Publishing, 2005).

1990FCRH: Raymond Baker and his wife, Kathy, celebrated the birth of their son, Raymond Thomas, last June.Thomas P. Farley (also FCRH ’91), the editor of Town & Country magazine’s “Social Graces” column, edited Town & Country Modern Manners: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Social Graces (Hearst Books, 2005), which includes “Celling Out,” his essay on cell-phone etiquette. Another Fordham alumnus, legendary broadcaster Charles Osgood (FCRH ’54), anchor of CBS Sunday Morning, contributed an essay on char-acter titled “Win Some, Lose Some.” GSAS: Kevin Brown is the chairman and owner of the Manhattan-based Century 21 real estate franchise, which has been renamed Century 21 Kevin B. Brown & Associates.

1991FCLC: Eric J. Fisher, D.O., recently out of the Army, joined New London Family Practice. He and his wife, Pamela, recently celebrated the birth of a son, Kevin Patrick, who joined his siblings Maggie (5) and Rebecca (3).Lisa N. Gurley, a doctoral candidate in political philosophy at the New School for Social Research, recently co-edited a collection of essays titled Feminists Contest Politics and Philosophy (Peter Lang Publishers, 2005).Nicholas L. Magli (also LAW ’94) recently joined the downtown New York office of Cozen O’Connor as a member of the law firm’s insurance department.FCRH: Chris FitzPatrick and his wife, Diana, welcomed into their lives their daughter, Anna FitzPatrick.MC: Spc. Rom Rachel Mahimer

served in Iraq with the U.S. Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom as an ammunition technician. She previ-ously served in Kuwait, Louisiana, Texas and Hawaii. Warrant Officer Kimberly Martin-Farmer serves with the 10th Mountain HQ Automation Division of the U.S. Army as an information systems technician. She was assigned to Afghanistan earlier this year.

1992CBA: Diane (Leaver) Butler (also GBA ’97) and Kevin Butler (CBA ’92 and GBA ’98) welcomed the birth of their third daughter, Madeline Grace, last March. She joined her sisters, Katie (5) and Gillian (4).FCRH: Kristin (Medd) Shea and her husband, Con Shea, welcomed the birth of their daughter, Maura Elizabeth, last June. Maura joined her sister, Anna Eileen (6).GBA: Linda Holden-Bryant and her husband, Jay, welcomed the birth of Ian Alexander last January. Ian joined his brother, Max (3).

1993CBA: T. C. Robillard Jr. recently joined Banc of America Securities as a principal and senior research analyst covering the business services sector.GBA: Eugene L. Morrisroe pub-lished his first novel, Fourth and Long (PublishAmerica, 2004). He lives on Long Island with his wife, Kate, and their two children, Connor (8) and Erin (6).WEC: Sherrie Atkins (also GBA ’97) is the administrative director of the radiology department at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Her daughter, Courtney Atkins (MC ‘00), is a teacher in the New York City public schools.

1994CBA: Vincent Calcagno has been promoted to principal in the San Francisco and Walnut Creek, Calif., offices of Rothstein Kass, an interna-tional accounting and consulting firm.FCRH: Tracy (Polizzi) Dohrmann and Terrance Dohrmann welcomed the birth of their fourth child, William George, in November 2004. William joined his sisters Mia, Abby and Grace.GSE: Frank Alfano, Ed.D., was recently appointed superintendent of the Sayerville (N.J.) School District.

1995CBA: Jennifer Jones Etkin has been promoted to manager at Health Strategies and Solutions, Inc., a health-care management consulting firm.

Jennifer is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Healthcare Leadership Network of Delaware Valley. She and her husband, Howard, welcomed the birth of their daughter, Madeline Theresa, in July.FCRH: Tara C. Fappiano is a founding partner in the recently formed law firm of Hawkins, Rosenfeld, Ritzert

and Varriale, which specializes in insurance defense litigation. Tara lives in Tuckahoe, N.Y., with her husband, Charles Zegers (FCRH ’94), and her 2-year-old son, Joseph.William Jones and his wife, Susanne Lill, welcomed the birth of their first son, William Raymond Jones, last May.GSE: Martin Colucci, Ph.D., is the

Alumni Notes

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Learning to GovernOne of most influential civic leaders in recent New York City history, former City Council Speaker Peter F. Vallone (FCRH ’56, LAW ’59) has published a lively and candid memoir, Learning to Govern: My Life in New York Politics, From Hell Gate to City Hall (Chaucer Press, 2005), that is also a primer for aspiring politicians and public servants.

The Importance of Being EthicalCathleen Ellsworth (GBA ’93), a managing director at First Reserve Corporation, received the 2005 Distinguished Alumna Award at the 8th Annual Fordham Women in Business Conference in October. She and fellow keynote speaker Ellen Alemany (GBA ’80), president and CEO of CitiCapital, shared their insights on corporate responsibility.

Making Poverty History“Ours is the first generation with the ability to eradicate extreme poverty,” writes Kevin Ahern (FCRH ’03), president of the International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS-Pax Romana). That was the central message of “Student Action Against Poverty: MDGs + 5, Now What?” a weeklong formation session sponsored by IMCS-Pax Romana leaders and held on the University’s Rose Hill and Marymount campuses in October.

Writing SoloSinger-songwriters Bryan Master and Don McCloskey (both FCRH ‘99), honed their musical chops as two-fifths of the band Mother Bacchus during their undergraduate days. Now they are pursuing solo careers—in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, respectively—and building separate fan bases, though they still occasionally share the same bill.

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You’re Invited on A WalkThrough the BronxThe Bronx contains some of New York’s most intricate art deco residential gems and landscaped botanical gardens to rival Versailles. This December, join host David Hartman, historian Barry Lewis and Fordham President Joseph M. McShane, S.J., for a comprehensive tour of the Bronx to be aired nationally on PBS. Father McShane appears in A Walk Through the Bronx, guiding viewers through Fordham’s historic University Church, focusing on the newly restored stained-glass windows depicting St. Peter (left), St. Paul the Apostle and the four evangelists. A gift of King Louis Philippe of France, the windows have been a delight and an inspiration to visitors since 1846.

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coordinator of the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program at York College in Jamaica, N.Y., where he also works as a counselor and lecturer. He recently completed a book for the college titled Introduction to Alcohol and Substance Abuse Studies. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Manhattan College.

1996FCRH: Kelly (Rau) Chios and Elias Chios (FCRH ’95) welcomed the birth of their first child, Catie Ann, in September. They live in Westbury, N.Y.Jill Graziano married Brandon Warburton last August. More than a dozen Fordham alumni attended the wedding, which took place on Block Island, R.I.GBA: Ann Garreaud was recently appointed chief financial officer of the Publicis Healthcare Communications Group.

1997GBA: Andrew Bieler, a former man-aging director at JP Morgan, joined S3 Partners, a hedge fund financing firm, as a managing director last August.GRE: Carole Hallundbaek is the author of Dear Little One: Thoughts to My Child in an Uncertain World (Crossroad Publishing, 2005).

1998CBA: Cindy O’Brien and Steve Leahy were married at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Princeton, N.J., last December. Maureen O’Keefe (FCRH ’98) was the maid of honor and Danielle Pastor (FCRH ’99) was a bridesmaid. Cindy’s mother, Lorraine (Marino) O’Brien (UGE ‘63 and GSE ‘67), is also a Fordham alumna. Cindy and Steve live outside of Boston, where she works for Deloitte & Touche and he is a systems engineer at Pegasystems.FCRH: Kelly (Danga) Giallella and her husband, Jeff, celebrated the birth of their son, James Michael, last April. They also have a daughter, Angelina.GSS: John J. Shea, O.S.A., Ph.D., a former associate professor of psychol-ogy and pastoral counseling at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education, is the author of Finding God Again: Spirituality for Adults (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).

2000FCLC: Lauren Portada, who received an M.F.A. degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to spend the 2005-06 academic year conducting research on breathing and yogic systems in India.

GBA: Joe Kutchera recently started working as a sales development manager at CNNMoney.com, a division of Time Inc.

2001FCRH: Martha Allen and Frank Trapani were married last March in Alexandria, Va. In October, Martha was named assistant director of development for donor acquisition in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Before joining the university, she was campaign coordinator for the New York City-based Catholic Medical Mission Board.Jean Marie McCormick has been promoted to serve as a project manager for InsightExpress, an online market research firm. Jonathan Williams stopped at Fordham’s Rose Hill campus last September, near the end of his five-month trek across the country. Inspired by the title character in the film Forrest Gump and by Tom Dewey, his former cross country coach at Fordham, Williams ran from Newport Beach, Calif., to Newport, R.I. Kristin Wynn and Russ Stellfox were married last June in Bear Creek, Pa.

2003CBA: Christopher Keeney has been working in the Marshall Islands as a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps since August 2004. He has taught high-school English and summer school for first- through eighth-grade students. This academic year, he is teaching two courses—“Christian Vocations” and “Religions of the World”—for juniors and seniors, respectively, in high school.FCRH: Kevin Eakin, who holds several career and single-season passing records at Fordham, is the starting quarterback for the Canadian Football League’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Kevin F. Neafsey, an officer in the New York Police Department, traveled to New Orleans last September to assist the New Orleans Police Department in their rescue efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.Nick Smalc is the executive producer of Wilde and Fee, the morning show on WQAL (104.1 FM) in Cleveland.

2004GBA: Peter Gomez was elected to serve a two-year term on the Ridgefield, Conn., Board of Finance.

Alumni notes received after Oct. 31, 2005, will appear in the next issue of FORDHAM magazine.

Passion Play

How is the team coming together?

JL: I feel our early team-building efforts and team chemistry are at an all-time high. Talent is important, but talent without chemistry is nothing, and I really feel like we have both of those components at a high level.

What can this year’s team accomplish that last year’s did not?

JL: We still have those same goals of trying to be champions of our conference and represent our league in postseason play, whether that’s [in the] NCAA or NIT [tournaments]. That’s our focus every year. I think this year’s team can

accomplish that for a number of reasons. One is the continuity of players in the system. They provide excellent leadership and have gone through the struggles of trying to develop our program. It’s time to reap the benefits.

With the recent success of the men’s program, is there a sense that the two programs push each other to excel?

JL: Exactly. We have a great relationship with the men’s program. We all want Fordham to do well. We’re both setting high standards. Why not us this

year? We’re very supportive of them, and they are of us. And those infectious attitudes, efforts and results can really become a prominent feature of Fordham winter sports.

When you’re recruiting student-athletes for Fordham, what are some of the words you use to describe the atmosphere here?

DW: I try to sell all the positives that we have here, and I think that’s why we’re getting the quality student-athletes. I think at Fordham that’s what we cannot compromise. We have to have young men who can appreciate and understand what a tough academic school this is. It’s challenging. At the same time, they get the opportunity to play in one of the top basket-ball leagues in the country and live in one of the greatest cities in the world.

Is this the toughest schedule in the history of the program?

DW: That’s true. This is probably the most talented schedule in the history of Fordham University—period. We play probably, at a minimum, seven to eight teams in the top 20 or top 25, which has never happened here. I don’t think we’ve ever had an ESPN game here at home. Beating Temple and Xavier last year for the first time—that was a big stepping stone, but we think we can do better. We look forward to achieving even higher goals this year.

Our goal, our vision, is to win the league, to establish ourselves in the top half of this league. That’s our constant goal. Are we there yet? Not quite, but it takes time.

What can Fordham fans, students and alumni expect to see when they come to Rose Hill Gym and watch your team play?

DW: A lot of excitement, a lot of passion. I think hopefully my team will feed off my excitement, but more importantly off their own excitement. I think fans haven’t seen a player like [2004-05 Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year Bryant] Dunston or [sophomore forward Marcus] Stout in a long time. I think that’s exciting. I’ve got some other guys who have some tremendous potential. They’re just waiting for their breakout games and breakout seasons.

We started four freshmen last year. We still have growing pains. We’re going to be a better team than we were last year, in terms of talent and numbers.

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Alumni Notes

Last season, men’s basketball Coach Dereck Whittenburg started four freshmen and the Rams put together a string of six home-court victories—including wins against conference rivals Xavier and Temple—that brought new life to the 80-year-old Rose Hill Gym. The Rams went on to earn their first victory in the Atlantic 10 Tournament, posting a 13-16 overall record. The women’s basketball team struggled last year, posting a 10-21 record, but Coach Jim Lewis hopes to have the right mix of veterans and newcomers in place for a breakout year. One the eve of the 2005-06 season, both coaches spoke about their expectations for the campaign ahead.

Spero Dedes is the most recent Fordham-trained sportscaster to hit it big.

For anY neW los angeles lakers broad-caster, there’s an elephant in the staples Center. The elephant in the lakers’ arena is the memory of Chick hearn. From 1965 to 2001, hearn broadcast 3,338 consecutive lakers’ games, captivating the community with warmth,

picture-like presentations and trademark calls. although hearn died in 2002, he’s the standard by which lakers’ announcers are measured.

The lakers’ new radio play-by-play announcer, spero Dedes (FCrh ’01), knows that nobody can replicate hearn and is smart enough not to try.

“i have so much respect for Chick not missing a game in all those years,” Dedes said. “But i never came in trying to be Chick or to replace Chick in anyone’s mind. … i’m just trying to be me and to do the things that i was taught.”

apparently, he’s succeeding. “he’s smooth, he’s articulate and he tells you what’s going on,”

said larry stewart, a sports radio and television columnist for the Los Angeles Times. “he’s the whole package, it seems to me.”

The trim, 6-foot-3-inch Dedes grew up in Paramus, n.J., and most recently lived in nearby hackensack. he came to the lakers from the Yes network, where he broadcast college football and basketball. he also worked for nBa-TV, hosting two shows and calling first-round nBa playoff games. and he’s called games for three of the four major networks. still, he was a longshot to land a play-by-play job with a premier sports franchise.

“Deep down i wanted it more than anything, and i knew deep down i could do it,” Dedes said. “But it’s so high profile, and i realized that extremely talented guys with many years experience on me would apply, so i didn’t think i would get it.”

But while he was in san antonio last June for the nBa finals, his agent called to tell Dedes he’d gotten the job. now Dedes is living his dream, though he would be nowhere near the lakers if not for his undergraduate experience at Fordham’s WFUV (90.7 Fm). he con-tinues a long line of sportscasters from the station, starting with Vin scully (FCrh ’49) of the los angeles Dodgers.

Dedes said he has received special help from three people at the University. Bob ahrens, executive producer of WFUV sports, gave him his start. John Cirillo (FCrh ’78), who teaches a course on sports communication, became Dedes’ mentor and agent. and the late sportscaster marty glickman critiqued his tapes.

“he would be very harsh on most of the kids’ [tapes],” Dedes said of glickman. “But he called me in my dorm room after i’d worked a weekend basketball game and told me he’d heard some-thing in my tapes and that if i kept working on it, i had a bright future in the business. That gave me confidence.”—Gary Libman

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Jim Lewis is in his sixth seasonas the women’s head coach.

Men’s Coach Dereck Whittenburg is in his third season at Fordham.

The women’s basketball team opens its conference schedule on Friday, Jan. 3, against St. Bonaventure, while the men face the University of Dayton, their first A-10 opponent, on Jan. 4. Both games will take place at the Rose Hill Gym. The men’s home game against the University of Charlotte will be televised live on ESPN at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18.

The Fordham University Community extends its deepest sympathy to the loved ones of recently deceased alumni and friends. A special Memorial Mass will be held on Monday, May 1, 2006, at 12:15 p.m. in the Lowenstein Chapel on the Lincoln Center campus, 113 West 60th Street and Columbus Avenue, to remember deceased alumni as well as those whose names are submitted by members of the Fordham community. A reception in the 12th-floor lounge of the Lowenstein Center immediately follows the Mass. If you are interested in attending the Memorial Mass and Reception, please contact Paul Francis in the Office of Alumni Relations at 212-636-6503, or by email at pfrancis@fordham.edu.

1923Yetta Pomerantz, Pha

1925louis Cohen, Phamilton Weiner, PhaCharles W. Young, Pha

1926max schwartz, Pha

1927 richard T. maguire, FCrhThomas e. maloney, FCrhJohn J. mollica, FCrhCornelius J. o’Brien, FCrh, laW ’30 ralph rosenstock, laW

1928 alan W. Kusik, Phamarie r. madden, gsas

1929 ignatius J. Costa, FCrhJoseph a. ecclesine, FCrhanthony l. shelfo, FCrh

1930Daniel P. Wren, FCrh

1931 Vito a. Cardo, laWhenry hammer, FCrh, laW ’32hugh P. Piergrossi, FCrh

1932max lehrhaupt, PhaJohn W. reedy, Uge

1933Constantino Casalino, Pharalph imperato, FCrhClaire e. meyer, UgeFrank n. sorrentina, FCrh, laW ’36 Joseph J. Virgilio, Pha

1934melvin r. Cannon, UgeJohn J. Dillon, FCrhgeorge J. hutter, FCrhhyman landau, laW anthony P. litrento, FCrh, laW ’38 robert C. rehm, FCrh

1935Frank J. Cunningham Jr., FCrhmark J. lawless, FCrhstuart C. lucey, laW

1936 s. anthony Carvell, FCrhhenry P. leis Jr., FCrhmclain B. smith, FCrhstephen s. sorota, FCrhernest J. Wood, FCrh

1937Johanna m. o’Boyle, gssirving l. spanier, laW

1938albert a. Bednarz, laWedward J. Carey, FCrhChristopher D. Chapman, FCrhrichard J. Costabile, FCrhJoseph e. evans, FCrhleo s. loomie, FCrhgeorge e. Quinn, FCrhCharles J. Whelan, FCrh

1939rita marie gleason,

g.n.s.h., gsasJerome g. Kovalcik, gsasrhea r. riso, Uge, gse ’41 aldo C. scorza, FCrh

1940 lenore Y. Chen, gsasrobert B. Connolly, FCrhmichael J. esposito, CBaJoseph F. Kroppy, FCrh

gerald a. mcCool, s.J., FCrh, FaC

James K. mcguire, FCrh, gsas ’58 edmund l. niedzielski, gsas, gsas ’43Philip J. reilly, FCrhhoward J. rosenbauer, FCrhleonard r. straub, FCrh

1941Wilbur alderman, FCrhaloysius J. Castellano, FCrh, laW ’45 irving greenberg, PhaJoseph V. haertel, CBaJeanette Y. niemiec, laWJohn a. o’Donohue, FCrhWilliam m. olexy, FCrhFletcher r. Vredenburgh, FCrh

1942mary Doloria Jaracz, Uge, gsas ’49 martin V. Waters, laW

1943Thomas m. Doyle, FCrh Karl g. Franzen, FCrhmarie T. Keating, Ugeaustin J. Kilcullen, FCrh,

FCrh ’44 guido J. memoli, PhaWaldo m. Porcaro, CBaDominick J. Vanore, FCrh

1944 alfred V. alliegro, FCrh, laW ’49Dorothy e. hanley, gsasWalter V. lyons, FCrh ’45Clifford James mcginn, FCrh, gsas ’49 rudolph V. Pino, FCrhanne s. smith, Uge eugene m. White, FCrh

1945herbert J. goodwin, FCrhlouis C. haggerty, FCrh, laW ’60robert s. hatfield, laWJohn F. linder, FCrhmichael macchia, FCrh, gsas ’47John B. shields, FCrh, laW ’49

1946 edward a. Cibbarelli, laWnorman Zelenko, laW

1947Paul J. attanasio, FCrh, gsas ’62Patricia s. Clancy, gsasedmund e. harvey, laWrobert a. ryan, FCrhedward J. Wagner, FCrh

1948Therese a. levesque, gsas, gse ’61anthony Paul marsala, Uge eugene J. mcCann, FCrhJohn e. murray, gsas, gsas ’55

1949 Joseph r. Caruso, FCrhmax Cohen, PhaDaniel g. Covine, FCrh, laW ’53gene Crescenzi, CBamichael l. Dilegge, FCrhFrancis X. Driscoll, gse Peter i. elkovich, CBaFrancis m. gilhooly, gsas, gsas ’52 roderick a. granzen, FCrhUrsula D. magagna, gsseunice m. schillroth, gssWilliam Charles sherr, laW

In Memoriam 1950robert m. atkinson, FCrhPhilip Bader, FCrhKathleen mary Burke, Ugesalvatore a. Catalano, Ugerobert J. Conan, gsasJoseph J. Craig, FCrhedward F. Fagan Jr., CBaralph F. gallagher, FCrhJoseph W. hanley, FCrhJoseph r. hurley, CBaleon s. inge, FCrhFrancis X. mcCarthy, FCrh James l. mcCulloch, CBaPat r. mercurio, FCrh, laW ’53Francis X. mortimer, CBaalexander e. rugani, laW

1951 John P. Conroy, FCrh, laW ’57John J. Cosulich, CBaJohn a. Cuneo Jr., FCrhmarie B. Dolan, gssedward J. Driscoll, CBa louis e. gianos, CBaleo F. grant Jr., CBaJoseph F. hargraves, FCrhraymond D. lafalce, Phamichael leifer, Pha margaret e. lobo, gsasgeorge J. mcmahon, s.J., gsasDaniel n. Quigley, FCrhrobert B. raines, PhaBelinda Villacorta, gsas

1952 Theodore e. Burik, gsasJoseph C. Capalbo, CBamarilyn m. Curtin, CBaWilliam e. epifanio, gsemarvin hurowitz, laWThomas F. Kloberg, FCrhJohn F. middlemiss Jr., FCrhJohn h. moelter, CBaeugene e. Passalacqua, CBaFrancis X. schloeder, FCrhrudolph C. strambi, FCrh

1953 mary a. Baudille, Ugeharold e. Brewer, gsasJohn e. Clark, UgeW. gordon edgley, gssPasquale P. Filice, gsas emeline a. garofalo, gsasCornelius P. gildea, FCrh William matishowski, CBaJoseph mcnamara, CBa arnold samuels, laW

Frank l. santagata, gssJoseph C. swensen, laW

1954raymond J. Cunningham, FCrh, FaCJames J. mcmahon, laWhenry J. medved, laWJohn a. Pelaez, Uge

1955Joseph a. Castelli, FCrhrocco h. Conticchio, FCrhgeorge o. Doyle, CBamichael J. Kelleher, FCrhBrian J. o’Brien, FCrhrichard J. smith, FCrhlouis P. Venezia, CBa

1956 leo Chorman, F.s.C., gsasPatricia P. Ferraguzzi, gsas nunzio Frattallone, laW Joseph P. loftus Jr., gsasJohn J. meehan, FCrhrobert J. morley, CBarussell F. schuck, FCrhPatrick J. smith, CBa

1957 Brian F. hunt, FCrhPatricia F. Jones, UgeJames D. lawler, CBa robert Thomas lewis, UgePaul J. maher, s.J., Jes, gsas ’59mary Janet mcgilley, gsasDonald W. Ploski, FCrhCharles F. sherman, FCrh

1958norman Braun, Pharichard a. Coll, FCrhmargaret l. De nicola, gssJohn J. lacey, gssJohn P. murnion, FCrh William J. murray, FCrhWilliam J. smith, Uge

1959howard C. Katz, laWJoseph C. Kopec, Phaross e. mcDermott, FCrh

1960William F. ahern, CBaJon Charles Dupee, FCrh,

laW ’64 Thomas P. mahoney, gsasDonald r. schaefer, CBa, gss ’63

1961 albert J. Bednarczyk, CBarobert J. Brennan, Pharonald J. Fitzgerald, gse Joseph F. Frankenberry, FCrh John g. hauf, CBaruth B. Johnson, gsasCornelius m. mahoney, CBaanna-maria moggio, gsas,

gsas ’74 marian D. Walsh, i.h.m., gss

1962 Therese alma Carro, s.C.C.,

gsaslawrence m. gallagher, FCrh Joseph C. gibbons Jr., FCrhmonica a. ruddy, UgeThomas J. shanahan, gssJohn J. Wolter, gse

1963 William h. epstein, PhaJesse r. mohorovic, FCrh Patrick J. nee, CBa

1964Daniel a. Dean, FCrhJohn P. Doyle, FCrh Patrick J. Fergus, FCrhThomas n. hennigan, Ugerobert C. hinrichs, UgeVincent F. mitchell, UgeBarbara a. novak, UgeCharles J. Walsh iii, FCrh, gsas ’72

1965mary raymond head, s.s.n.D., gsasChester J. herman, FCrhJoseph m. Kazigo, FCrhanthony l. marra Jr., CBaCathleen murley-malfi, gss Thomas P. rogers, CBaallan J. scheffler, laW

1966 F. Paul Bleier, FCrhJohn F. Curry, FCrhedward J. Donohue FCrh, gBa ’76 maxine m. Floan, gsas michael h. Freed, Pha gary C. greis, CBaJohn C. madigan, CBa, gss ’96helen T. o’Flaherty, gsas, gsas ’71 Vincent B. seery, UgeJames a. serafini, FCrh

John J. soldo, FCrh richard P. sullivan, CBa

1967Daniel gy Caldi, FCrhedward J. Canavan, gsasnicola Cinosi, gsas, gsas ’74John J. Fitzmaurice, CBa ellen l. Joyce, gsas, gsas ’81Dorothy W. Probert, gssDavid W. scott Jr., UgeDaniel P. Weadock, CBa

1968Paul Fontana, FCrh John m. iatesta, gseedward g. ilic, CBamartin J. lucas, FCrhWilliam r. o’leary, s.J., Jes, gse ’76 eileen C. Plunkett, UgeDolores h. Tenczynski,

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1969robert a. galisson, laW Donald D. lynch, s.J., gsasFrederick e. maute, laWgertrude F. schneller, Uge

1970noel Bausher-szundy, gssedward s. leary, gsas mary Jan nasiadka, F.s.s.J.,

gsasWilliam Joseph spencer,

FCrhCarl Vizzi, FCrh

1971 Kathleen s. Chericone,

FClsannie r. Di Dio, Ugegregory J. Dudas, FCrhgraceann mcKeon, laWmadeline r. medici, FClsgeorge F. Perry, gsas ronald a. rappo, CBaJames B. rather iii, laW

1972 alan Bernstein, laWnicholas Collura iii, FClCFrances K. grossman, gseTimothy J. mcginn, FCrh, laW ’76 Franklin e. souls, FClC John h. stella, CBa Terry J. Tekippe, gsasCostelle B. Walker, gBa

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WellingTon mara (FCrh ’37), one of the most influen-tial owners in professional sports history, died on Tuesday, oct. 25, at his home in rye, n.Y. he was 89.

“as the owner of the new York giants, he will long be remem-bered for the integrity and class that he brought to one of the country’s finest sports franchises and the national Football league,” said Joseph m. mcshane, s.J., president of Fordham University. “But as a son of Fordham, his name will always be recalled with sincere fondness and admiration for a life reflective of the Jesuit principles of charity and compassion.”

mara’s decision to support revenue sharing in the early 1960s enabled the national Football league to thrive. in an oct. 25 obituary, the associated Press referred to mara as “the patriarch of the nFl, a man who was willing for more than 40 years to split the millions in television revenues he could have made in the nation’s largest market with the green Bays and Pittsburghs of the league.”

mara joined the new York giants as a ball boy 80 years ago, when his father, Timothy J. mara, purchased the team. in 1930, at the age of 14, he became co-owner of the team (with his brother Jack, who died in 1965) and continued to run the day-to-day operations of the giants until 2003, when he handed much of that responsibility over to his son John.

a member of the Fordham University athletics hall of Fame since 1972, mara was inducted into the Pro Football hall of Fame in 1997. he received the Distinguished american award from the national Football Foundation in 1992. in 2002, the University showed its appreciation for mara by honoring him as one of the first recipients of the Fordham Founder’s award. The award, inaugurated in 2002 in recognition of the University’s 160th anniversary, honors individuals whose lives reflect the highest aspirations of the University’s defining traditions, as an institution dedicated to wisdom and learning in the service of others.

“The Fordham community is fortunate to have had the opportunity to share in mr. mara’s life and to have been able to express its gratitude with the Founder’s award,” said John Tognino (FCls ’75), chairman of the Fordham University Board of Trustees. “i have been a giants ticketholder for 42 years and as a youngster can vividly remember watching the giants practice at Fordham’s rose hill campus and seeing Wellington mara on the sidelines tentatively watching everything.”

a generous supporter of the University and its football program, mara instituted the mara Family award to honor a Fordham alumnus who makes an outstanding contribution to the program. last april, he presented the 2005 award to herb seidell (FCrh ’50) at the annual Fordham gridiron Club Dinner, held at the new York athletic Club.

“Wellington mara was a true Fordham gentleman,” said Frank mclaughlin (FCrh ’69), executive director of athletics at Fordham. “as a former student-athlete, coach and now administrator, i saw firsthand mr. mara’s love for Fordham, our coaches and, above all, our student-athletes. Fordham will always treasure Wellington mara and his family.”

The University honored mara with a moment of silence before the oct. 29 football game with holy Cross—and the rams paid their own tribute to the former giant, breaking a 10-game losing streak with a 24-20 come-from-behind victory. They continued to honor mara by wearing his initials on their helmets for the remainder of the season.

mara is survived by his wife, ann, 11 children and 40 grandchildren.

John Mara’s eulogy for his late father, delivered at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan on Oct. 28, can be reached through ForDham online, www.fordham.edu/magazine.

mary ann T. Winograd, TmC

1973 linda m. Day, gsasKathleen e. Keane, FClCalexander Kelliher, s.a.,

FClCalice F. Kraut, gse

Wallace a. mcgowan, gre Bennett a. mitchell, FClC lawrence T. Quinn, gsasmary T. rattigan, C.s.J.P.,

gsasBarry g. stringer, gBaanna l. P. Vargo, TmC William T. Wilkins, FCrh, laW ’78

John V. Wilkinson, gsas

1974 Daniel T. Bohan, gBaThomas C. greble, laWWilliam J. o’shea, gBamichael J. Prandi, CBaCharles e. selvik, gBa

King sims, FCrhDeborah g. Thompson, FCrhFrederick B. Tyler Jr., gBa, gse ’95

1975Dennis F. Craston, gsaslillian B. girsch, FClCrandall D. hover, gsas

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In Memoriam Form

The Fordham University Community extends its deepest sympathy to the loved ones of recently deceased alumni and

friends. Please send the following in memoriam notice to Paul Francis, office of alumni relations, 113 W. 60th st., new York, nY

10023. Fax: (212) 636-7855. all submissions must be made in writing and accompanied by a newspaper obituary or a death notice.

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Charles P. mcateer, gBahector J. ortiz, FCrh Charlotte s. Portnoy, FClC eugene Underwood, laW

1976 stanley B. Coleman, FCrhCatherine D. Joyce, gsesalud B. mapa, gBaJohn schefcik, FCrhWilliam V. Whelan, CBa

1977John J. Fitzpatrick, gBa rogelio C. Francisco, gBaann U. Wieland howe, gssJohn J. iacono, FClCnancy m. schaffer, FClslucille l. Weisbrot, FClC, laW ’80

1978randy n. eisenpress, laWstephen J. geness, FCrh, gsas ’80 shashi B. mainthia, gBa

1979 marilyn glogolich Doherty, gssgregory hartley, s.J., gremarie m. Jensen, FClCJulie Fara sullivan, laW

1980marsha l. holst, gse sheila Kelly, gse, gse ’82 Dolores B. mcginnity, FClC Carmine J. Parker, gsas Julie a. schwartzman, FClCmargaret Valentine, FClCrichard l. Washburn, FClC

1981alice m. gillam, FClCDorothy m. Jegou, FClC

1982John F. Koontz, gsasJennie seabrook, gsas

1983 alfred F. Brady, FClCeldon P. Brown Jr., FClCeunice Conklin, gsssophia P. Kotyk, FClCJacqueline a. morrison,

FClCmargaret s. Priel, gssadele D. reich, gse henry m. Tate, gBa

1984lloyd o’Connor Foster, gBaPaula m. Johnson Foster, gselee m. grossman, FClCJoseph F. lanning, FClCCharles l. Parham, gse

1985Dora Faulkner, FClCBeth maiman, FClCgiselle m. ramirez, FCls

1986stephen hatala iii, FCrhelsie messmer, gsasruth schwartz, FClCFrancine J. Whitehouse, CBa, gBa ’91

1989Barbara a. Cowan, gssVivian a. Jannett, FClC, gse ’94

1992Joyce holden, m.h.s.h., gre

1993 edward Donald linnehan Jr.,

gBa

1994 Jeffrey a. Braimon, gBa

1996 regina gale lott, laW

1998robert J. siler, gBa

2000Pearl m. Dixon, FClsWillie Faye Jackson, FClsFrank sneyer, CBa

2001Jack o. adams, laWDonald J. Unger, gsas

2002robert levy, gsas

2003Carmela g. Doyle, gssPrashanth shetty, gBa

2005David D. nee, laW

Faculty of Fordham UniversityJohn D. Boyd, S.J.Robert D. Cloney, S.J.Claire C. CorbinRaymond J. Cunningham,

FCRH ’54Maria Harris-MoranLouis H. JordanGerald A. McCool, S.J.,

FCRH ’40George J. McMahon, S.J.,

GSAS ’51

All deaths officially recorded in the alumni database after Sept. 21, 2005, will be reported in the In Memoriam section of the next issue of ForDham magazine.

University Mourns Passing of Wellington Mara

Wellington Mara was honored as one of the inaugural recipients of the Fordham Founder’s Award, during the University’s 160th anniversary celebration on March 25, 2002. Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J. (right), then president of Fordham University, presented Mara with the award.

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