Iona College Magazine Summer 2016

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MEMORY LANE Iona's Reunion Weekend 2016 paid special recognition to the Class of 1966 and the Class of 1991 – celebrating 50 year and 25 year reunions, respectively.

Share your photos with us by emailing magazine@iona.edu.

Photos from Iona College Annual, Classes of 1966 and 1991 (inset photo above).

IN THIS ISSUE 2 President's Message 4 Letters to the Editor & Iona in the News UNDER THE GINKGO TREE 6 On Campus 14

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Feature: Moving the World to a Greener Future

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Alumni

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The view on this issue’s cover is one that didn’t exist a year ago – or at least it wasn’t easily obtained. Gazing from the new seven-floor North Avenue Residence Hall onto Iona’s 45-acre campus is one attraction of the new facility, which will open for student residents this fall (see more about the new residence hall on page 7). The view highlights green spaces on campus as well as the urban and suburban forests of New Rochelle and Westchester County. In this issue, we examine several aspects of studying and advocating for the environment by Iona alumni, students, faculty and staff.

Photo by Rick Palladino ’76, ’89MS, director of the Iona College Libraries

This issue is printed on Rolland Enviro100 Print, which contains FSC certified 100 percent post-consumer fiber, is EcoLogo and Process Chlorine Free certified and is manufactured using renewable biogas energy. By selecting this eco-friendly paper, Iona College saved the equivalent of 170 trees, 163,944 gallons of water, 16,778lbs. of waste, 55,124lbs. of CO2 and 141 million BTUs of energy compared to printing on virgin paper. *Source: Environmental Paper Network

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From the President

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his has been a proud year for Iona.

We celebrated the College’s 75th birthday, congratulated another graduating class, shared in impressive accomplishments of our faculty, students and staff, launched our Iona Forever fundraising campaign, and so much more. As we close the 2015-2016 academic year, I am grateful to the early supporters of the campaign who collectively pledged and gifted more than $77.6 million torward our historic $150 million effort. We are proud of the strong start to what will be a transformative era for our beloved Iona, and excited to look ahead to all that is on the horizon.

For 75 years the College has been fighting the good fight.

Our community continues to be fortified by our mission and guided by our vision.

Move the World has been more than a tagline since we introduced it three years ago. It is a motto and a goal that resonates with and represents those who are Iona: students, alumni, faculty and staff. This year, we have focused on five key themes that support our commitment to Move the World: Fight the Good Fight, Service+Learning, The World Next Door, A Call to Teaching, and A Gael Force.

These themes help prospective students and their families, as well as the rest of the world, understand what is so distinctive about Iona. This spring, we presented on this aspect of the Iona story with the assistance of students, faculty, and alumni in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition series coordinated by Mission & Ministry (see video highlights of this special event at iona.edu/ magazine). I am most grateful to our presenters, Brother Kevin Devlin, CFC, Ed.D., ’61, senior director of our Center for Student Success; students Ashley Hubaykah ’16 and Ibn Muhammad ’16; Joshua R. Klein, Ph.D., professor of Criminal Justice; and Michele Nelson, director of OffCampus and Commuter Services.

At Iona, we set high goals and we exceed them. Our Catholic, Christian Brothers heritage inspires us in our mission to be a force of good and agents of change in the lives of others, on campus, in the New York City area, and around the world. We lead and serve with tireless passion every day, standing up and stepping forward and fighting the good fight, together.

Joseph E. Nyre, Ph.D.

President

See more about the Iona story online at iona.edu/OurStory – including an inspiring video presentation.

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MAGAZINE

Editor Suzanne Flood Designer Suzanne Augustyn Senior Director of College Marketing & Communications Todd A. Wilson Contributors Tsahai Amazan Bianca De Leon ’11, ’13MA Kelly Dombrowski ’16 Dawn Insanalli ’99MS, ’15MS John W. Mahon Amanda Ortiz ’16 Senior Vice President for Advancement & External Affairs Paul J. Sutera Director of Alumni Relations Elizabeth Faia Orgera ’10MBA Iona College Magazine is printed twice a year, and is distributed to alumni, faculty, staff and friends. © 2016 Iona College The magazine may be viewed online at iona.edu/magazine Address correspondence to: magazine@iona.edu or Suzanne Flood Iona College Joyce Advancement House/ DeSantis Alumni House 715 North Avenue New Rochelle, NY 10801

NEXT ISSUE Iona College Magazine is planning its next issue already and we’re interested in the personal stories of Iona alumni.

We invite you to send a summary of your story, as soon as possible, preferably 50100 words, to magazine@iona.edu.

Please include your full name, Iona degree(s) and class year(s), and daytime phone number.

INVEST IN THE FUTURE By giving to The Fund for Iona College – an integral component of the Iona Forever campaign – you demonstrate your passion for our unique mission. At the same time, you also show that you understand how donor support is required to help cover the cost to educate each of our students.

Rarely does your generosity have the opportunity to impact so many. Your annual investment in Iona combined with those from parents, faculty, staff, and friends provides a daily versatile, vital resource for Iona College’s continued operation and growth. Dollars from The Fund for Iona College are flexible and immediately available for what matters most – student life and learning. Each year, we focus our efforts on those priority projects that are most urgently needed on campus, such as internships, faculty training, financial aid, or student programs.

Iona Forever, the College's historic $150 million fundraising campaign, is a transformational endeavor that will create additional student scholarships, advance world-class faculty and academic programs, and enhance learning and living environments.

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HOW WILL YOU MOVE THE WORLD? Members of the Iona community come to the College from all walks of life – as first-generation students, returning graduate students, international students, transfer students and more.

Maria Wik ’18 transferred to Iona from a fashion school in New York City for more opportunities. When she arrived on campus, she felt an overwhelming sense of community and instantaneous friendships with many of her classmates. Iona’s academics and engaged faculty have played an integral role in Maria’s positive experience as well.

“Transferring to Iona was probably one of the best decisions I have made in my life. At the end of the day, coming to Iona and getting a more broad degree is a better situation for my career in the future.”

Hear Maria’s powerful story of how joining the Iona community has put her on the path to Move the World, and stories from other students, faculty and alumni at iona.edu/movetheworld.

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YOUR TURN

To the Editor: I graduated from Iona College in 1969 with a degree in economics. After working at IBM, I realized I was actually interested in psychology and went on to get my Ph.D. I now practice as a sport psychologist and recently was asked by Richard Persen (chair of the Dean's Advisory Committee) and Dean Sibdas Ghosh, Ph.D. (School of Arts & Science), to return to Iona to give a talk about my career in sport psychology and the media. I was amazed at the beauty of the campus and since then have become friends with Sibdas. At lunch with Sibdas and Paul Sutera (senior vice president for Advancement & External Affairs) in Manhattan, we talked about how Iona has the uncanny ability to take young people from humble beginnings and somehow launch them into successful careers in business and in science. So many of my friends from Iona have gone on to have major impacts in their fields. My best friends at Iona – John Mikals, Harry Kutner, Roy Tietz and Richard Persen – are perfect examples. They all went on to be highly acclaimed in law and in science. So thank you, Iona College, for transforming boys into men. I don’t know how you work your magic but it's working!

Tom Ferraro, Ph.D., ’69

I was born in a one-bedroom shack with no indoor plumbing or water or electricity on the island of Dominica in the West Indies on July 18, 1947. Twenty years later, Iona College would rescue me from an uncertain and expectedly gloomy future to a life full of hope and promise. I graduated with a BS in Mathematics in 1971, followed by an MBA (Marketing) in 1978 and joined the pharmaceutical industry. Not only did Iona make my life rewarding after graduation, the College allowed me to flourish as an undergraduate too. I would just like to summarize my incredibly satisfying four years at Iona by focusing on my senior year: The graduating Math Club president in 1970, Edward Silver, thought it would be an excellent idea to establish a chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon, the National Math Honor Society, at Iona. He requested that I, as his succeeding Math Club president, do the necessary research to make that happen and late in the fall, I became one of the charter members of the Iona College chapter.

Additionally, during my senior year, I became the inaugural chief justice of the Faculty/Student Court, chairman of the Cornelian Honor Society, vice president of the International Club, and a member of the Tara Knights Society. So, could I ever repay the debt I owe Iona College? In my mind, never!

Julius (Jay) C. John ’71, ’78MBA

IONA IN THE NEWS

In April, presidential candidate and Ohio governor John Kasich hosted a Town Hall event on campus. The event was covered by multiple local, regional and national media outlets. After the event, a panel of Iona students, moderated by Jeanne Zaino, Ph.D., professor of political science, discussed the candidates and election during a spot on PIX 11 (a New York City TV news operation).

An additional panel of students was also featured a few days later speaking about the elections in a live spot during the morning news, a day before New York’s primary elections.

As a prelude to participation in the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade, members of Iona’s Pipe Band appeared and performed on CBS’ Sunday Morning show.

Read these and other news stories.

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on campus | sports report | faculty focus

NOTEWORTHY Brother Jason Ford '01 speaks with prospective students and family members under the ginkgo tree in April at the largest Accepted Students Day in Iona history.

The day saw more than 800 accepted students and 2,500 total visitors on campus as Iona welcomed the Class of 2020!

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ON CAMPUS

HONORING IONA’S HERITAGE This year’s Heritage Week, themed “Onward & Upward: Advancing Our Legacy,” was fitting as the College officially concluded the celebration of our 75th anniversary. As Heritage Week was a closure to the last 75 years, it in a sense also marked the start of the next era in the College’s history.

Traditionally, Heritage Week begins with a renewal of religious vows by the Christian Brothers and this year was no different. The week also included presentations, speakers, dinners and more.

75 YEARS AND BEYOND TIME CAPSULE

At Heritage Week in 2015, the College began a commemorative 75th anniversary time capsule and began to fill it with items to mark the milestone occasion. This April, at the closing of Heritage Week 2016, representatives from many student groups on campus were present to add additional items to the capsule before it was sealed and buried. Items included issues of The Ionian, a 2016 yearbook, photos, notes, copies of history books commemorating Iona’s 75th, and more. Attendees of the event were also treated to musical performances by several groups including the Iona College Gospel Choir, The Iona Players and more.

The time capsule is scheduled to be opened in 75 years, in 2091.

See more about the contents of the 75-year time capsule.

HANDS AROUND IONA This year’s event supported the National Alliance on Mental Illness by bringing the community together in solidarity for the cause, as well as raising funds.

Hands Around Iona, sponsored by the Tara Knights Society, has been an annual event for the last 10 years.

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At Iona, a major component of many students’ educational experience is research and the creation of creative, scholarly work. These major accomplishments are presented and celebrated at Iona Scholars Day, an academic event that is in its seventh year on campus. A total of 70 research posters were on display April 12, from more than 115 student presenters across all disciplines.

“Scholars Day is vitally important, since it is not merely a day to recognize the current achievements of our students, but also it is a catalyst for even greater achievement in the future from the rest of the Iona community,” said Sunghee Lee, Ph.D., Board of Trustees Endowed Professor, chair of the Chemistry Department and coordinator of Iona Scholars Day. Student researchers were on-hand to discuss their findings and explain their projects to interested attendees. Select oral panel presentations took place on topics including: Public Perception of

Class, Gender and Disability; Language and Thought: Which Comes First?; The Bible; Engaging Difference in Arts and Letters; and Ancient Greek and Roman Heroes.

During the oral presentations, the room was filled to capacity and several entire class sections were in attendance.

A new component this year was the addition of a performing arts program, titled “Exploring Theory and Creativity in Music and Dance.” The program included a range of works from research and original compositions, to choreography, performance and more.

Next year, there are plans to expand the creative arts aspect of the Iona Scholars Day program.

“Overall, from all corners of the campus there were so many notable student contributions,” said Dr. Lee. “I think that Iona Scholars Day can be a real showcase for what is happening among our student scholars.”

Visit the Scholars Day website.

Later this summer, the North Avenue Residence Hall will open to house students for the upcoming 2016-17 academic year. Over the last 18 months or so, construction of the new residence hall has been underway as campus has seen the building grow from the ground up. The new residence hall will accommodate 310 students, provide panoramic views of campus, and contribute 7,000 square feet of commercial space to the North Avenue streetscape. A ribbon cutting for the building will take place in the fall. Please check the website for updated information.

See additional photos of the residence hall during its construction– as well as a live web cam streaming online.

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ON CAMPUS This spring, Ross Greenburg joined Iona College as its newest Executive-in-Residence to lecture, organize campus presentations, work with classes, and teach a graduate and undergraduate course this fall. Greenburg, president of HBO Sports from 2000-2011, and at HBO for 33 years in various roles, is also an award-winning filmmaker who has won more than 100 major television awards. His awards include 53 Sports Emmy Awards, eight Peabody Awards, 21 Cable ACE awards, 12 Cine Golden Eagles Awards, and five Monitor Awards from the Video Tape Production Association. In 2011, he created Ross Greenburg Productions to expand his storytelling to a wider variety of programming opportunities.

As Greenburg joins the Iona College community, his connection to the College through his family was established long ago. His late father, Robert, graduated from Iona with a BA in economics, finishing his senior year at Iona in 1977 after three years as an undergraduate at the University of Texas from 1937-1939.

On April 21, Greenburg visited Iona’s campus and served as Executive-for-a-Day, leading a

IT IS VERY EXCITING TO BE A PART OF IONA’S INITIATIVE IN BUILDING THEIR SPORTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND MEDIA PROGRAM. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE INDUSTRY NEEDS. discussion on content creation and monetization in the sports and entertainment industry.

His discussion highlighted three of his bestknown works – the movies Miracle and 61* and TV show Hard Knocks. Additionally, Greenburg was honored as a Hagan Fellow at the event.

“I have always wanted to teach after spending over 37 years in the television industry,” said

AWARD-WINNING MEDIA MAVEN JOINS IONA FACULTY Greenburg. “I think I can bring the graduate and undergraduate students at Iona a deeper understanding of the history of the television industry and guide them as to where programming and the distribution of creative content is headed in the future.

It is very exciting to be a part of Iona’s initiative in building their sports, entertainment and media program. This is exactly what the industry needs.”

Greenburg will join an expert faculty in the Center for Sports, Entertainment, and Media Business. Aside from teaching in the fall, he will continue guest lecturing, as well as bringing in additional guest lecturers from his network in the industry. His addition to the program is much-welcomed and anticipated.

“Ross Greenburg’s résumé of industry honors resonates throughout the broad spectrum of sports, entertainment, and media,” said Glenn

Horine ’84, ’91MBA, director of Iona’s Center for Sports, Entertainment, and Media Business.

“Our students will have front row seats to the business of content creation, packaging, and distribution in a media age that thirsts for sports and entertainment programming.

Ross will be an integral part of our program experience.”

IONA TO OFFER FOUR NEW GRADUATE PROGRAMS, ONE NEW ADVANCED CERTIFICATE The New York State Department of Education has approved three new graduate programs and one advanced certificate program slated to begin in the fall of 2016. The School of Business will offer MS programs in Information Systems; Accounting and Information Systems; Technology, Media and Telecommunications; along with an advanced certificate in Health Care Analytics. The School of Arts & Read about the new programs offered Science will offer an MA in Sports Communication and Media. beginning this fall.

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CELEBRATING ACHIEVEMENTS FACULTY RECOGNIZED FOR RESEARCH, SERVICE AND EXCELLENCE Six faculty were presented with the 2015-2016 Faculty Awards, granted in recognition of a variety of areas including student and faculty research, integrated-service learning, service to Iona College, and innovation and excellence in teaching. The recipients were recognized at the Honors Convocation in May. The awards are sponsored by Trustee Chairman James P. Hynes '69, '01H, and his wife, Anne Marie, along with Iona President Joseph E. Nyre, Ph.D., and his wife, Kelli.

The Irene Hammerbacher Outstanding Faculty Research Award Kim Paffenroth, Ph.D., professor of Religious Studies, chair of Religious Studies Department The Br. Arthur Loftus Outstanding Student Research Award Paolina Centonze, Ph.D., professor of Computer Science The Br. Richard B. Power Award for Integrating Service Learning into the Classroom Jennifer Gerometta, Ph.D., assistant professor of Speech Communication Studies The Br. William H. Barnes Memorial Award for Service to the College Miles Beckwith, Ph.D., associate professor of English The Catherine McCabe Award for Innovation & Excellence in Teaching Nicholas Beutell, Ph.D., professor of Management The Br. William Cornelia Distinguished Faculty Award Sunghee Lee, Ph.D., Board of Trustees Endowed Professor of Analytical Chemistry, chair of the Chemistry Department

LOFTUS DINNER Iona’s annual Loftus Dinner celebrates employees for their service to the College. Long-serving faculty, administrators, and staff members are honored with awards for achieving milestone years of service from 10 to 50 years. Additionally, an outstanding Christian Brother is honored with the Br. Arthur Austin Loftus Award. This year’s Loftus Award was awarded to Br. Henry P. Dillemuth, retired professor of English (pictured with President Nyre).

Learn more about the Loftus Dinner and read event remarks from Br. Dillemuth.

“I have thoroughly enjoyed over 30 years of teaching college students. I am convinced that this dimension of the personal, a truly human element, is a quality in a teacher that our college students hardly can adequately articulate and rarely, if ever, express, yet sorely are in search of and need.”

Br. Dillemuth

WOMAN OF ACHIEVEMENT Catherine Stratton, Ph.D., professor of History, was awarded the 2016 Woman of Achievement Award in April. Stratton was selected by a committee of prior honorees for her contributions to the College as well as for the personal and professional impact she has had on her colleagues and students since joining the faculty in 1972.

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A (Record) Night Celebra

For the past 54 years, Iona College has hosted an annual Scholarship Award Gala – the most recent, on April 15, saw

more than 700 attendees gather to celebrate special honorees and to raise funds in support of scholarship programs to benefit Iona scholars. The gala raised a record $1.5 million in support of the historic Iona Forever comprehensive campaign. Among the attendees were 150 student leaders whose participation was made possible by trustee- and alumni-sponsored tables.

The College honors select members of the community with a Legacy Award or a Blessed Edmund Rice Humanitarian Award as a key part of the gala. The Legacy Award is traditionally bestowed upon unique individuals in recognition of their lifetime accomplishments, and the Blessed Edmund Rice Humanitarian Award recognizes those who, by their activities and service to others, have reinforced Iona’s identity as a College founded in the tradition of the Congregation of Christian Brothers and American Catholic higher education.

2016 LEGACY AWARD The Catherine H. McCabe ’71MA & Hugh J. McCabe ’49 Family The McCabe family legacy at Iona College stretches across three generations, totaling 11 different family members, and dating back to 1949.

Hugh J. McCabe ’49 was among the thousands of returning World War II veterans who took advantage of the G.I. Bill and became the first in his family to attend college. Iona’s founding mission of providing a college education to first-generation students fit Hugh perfectly. Hugh received his BBA in Finance from Iona College in 1949, and two years later he returned to Iona to work in the Admissions Department. From 1954-1978, he was the registrar at Iona, until his passing in 1978.

Catherine “Cay” Henry McCabe married Hugh McCabe in 1949 and with him raised seven children. While the older children were in school and the youngest were in pre-school, Cay earned two master’s degrees, one in Theology at Manhattan College and one in Pastoral Counseling at Iona College. She had also begun her career as a professor of Religious Studies at Iona that would span more than 30 years and touch the lives of

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generations of Iona students. Cay continued as a professor at Iona until her retirement in 1994. She passed away in 2011.

All seven of Cay and Hugh’s children graduated from Iona – Hugh J. McCabe III ’71, ’76MBA, Thomas J. McCabe ’73, Mary McCabe Walsh ’76, Mark C. McCabe ’79, David J. McCabe ’80, Lawrence D. McCabe ’84, and Catherine R. McCabe ’85. Mary’s husband, William Walsh, was also a 1976 graduate of Iona and it is where they met. In 2012, David’s oldest daughter, Courtney, started a third generation of Iona graduates with her degree.

Iona connections and commitment remain strong for members of the McCabe family, even long after graduation. David has been a member of Iona’s Board of Trustees since 2006 and is presently vice Chairman. Hugh J. McCabe III recently returned to Iona as interim associate dean of the School of Business, where he had been a faculty member for 15 years before retiring in 2015.

Cay and Hugh had a wonderful partnership including working at the college they loved, Iona. It is their dedication to Iona which led to awards and scholarships established in their names. Since the College’s 1979 commencement ceremonies, the Hugh McCabe Award for Social Justice has been presented annually to a faculty, administrator

or staff member who embodies an exemplary commitment to social justice. Then, in 2002, the Catherine H. ’71MA and Hugh J. McCabe ’49 Endowed Scholarship was established at Iona by their children. In 2013, the Catherine H. McCabe Award for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching was established to honor faculty members who have demonstrated exceptional teaching, concern for students and colleagues, sensitivity to the mission of the College, and a commitment to high standards of professional and personal life.

2016 LEGACY AWARD Joseph J. DePaolo ’81, President, CEO & Co-Founder, Signature Bank Joseph J. DePaolo ’81 is a proud Iona College graduate who remains thankful for the full academic scholarship which allowed him to attend. He graduated summa cum laude, earning a bachelor’s degree of business administration in accounting, and has gone on to co-found Signature Bank. DePaolo has served as president, chief executive officer and a member of its Board of Directors since its inception in 2001.

Signature Bank is a full-service New York City-based commercial bank that primarily

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caters to meeting the needs of privately owned businesses, their owners and management. DePaolo oversees the bank’s day-to-day operations, growth and expansion, working directly with its nearly 100 private client banking teams, which are headed by more than 140 group directors. After nearly 15 years in operation, Signature Bank has grown from an initial $43 million investment at its start to $33.5 billion in assets at yearend 2015. Signature Bank now operates 29 private client banking offices, including those in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Westchester, Long Island, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island and Connecticut.

In 2015, Forbes named Signature Bank as the best bank in America, and it was one of only three banks in the nation to rank in the top 10 on this prestigious listing in each of the past six years. The same publication also named Signature Bank among America’s 50 Most Trustworthy Financial Companies that same year.

DePaolo has had an impressive career in the industry. Prior to founding Signature Bank, he was with Republic National Bank of New York for 12 years, and spent seven years at KPMG, in various accounting positions. Throughout his career, DePaolo has been recognized for his keen business acumen, dedication to community service and extensive public outreach. His community involvement includes, among others roles, member of the Board of Trustees of Manhattanville College

in Purchase, New York and the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association of Westchester.

A surprise was shared by gala Master of Ceremonies Charles W. Schoenherr, '82: “It is my pleasure to announce that Mr. Scott Shay, chairman of the board of Signature Bank, has established the Joseph J. DePaolo Endowed Scholarship at Iona College. This scholarship is to be directed to student athletes who embody high-achieving academics while leading with ethical values and a moral compass.”

2016 BLESSED EDMUND RICE HUMANITARIAN AWARD Patrick Quinn ’06, ALS Advocate & Co-Founder of the Ice Bucket Challenge Patrick Quinn ’06 has Iona roots that started when he attended Iona Preparatory School and continued with his attendance at Iona College. Graduating in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, he was also a member of the rugby team and in fall 2014 was inducted into the Iona College Rugby Hall of Fame. Pat and his wife, Jennifer ’07, ‘09MS, met while both were students at the College, and the two were married in July 2014.

Since a diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in March 2013, Pat has been committed to a mission of spreading awareness for the disease. He has become a strong advocate explaining to others that having no effective treatments or a cure is not acceptable. So, with the help of his friends and family, Quinn for the Win was organized. Over the last few years, Quinn for the Win has hosted dozens of local fundraising events that create awareness and funding for ALS research.

In July 2014, the biggest movement in ALS and fundraising history began, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Pat was at the forefront of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge where he connected networks to facilitate in popularizing the Challenge around the United States and the world. The 2014 ALS Ice Bucket Challenge raised more than $220,000,000 globally. Pat has been on various media outlets to discuss ALS and the Ice Bucket Challenge, ranging from local television & radio to Good Morning America and MSNBC. Pat continues to advocate for ALS by speaking before Congress, at inspirational speaking engagements with Google, Facebook and Wired magazine, as well as at schools, universities and colleges. He has received many accolades for his advocacy work including being nominated for the 2014 TIME Magazine Person of the Year honor.

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ON CAMPUS BIGELOW TEA CEO DISCUSSES ETHICAL LEADERSHIP On May 5, Cindi Bigelow, third-generation president and CEO of the family-owned Bigelow Tea, addressed the Iona College community as the second lecture of the newly launched Advancing Ethical and Moral Leadership lecture series. President Joseph E. Nyre, Ph.D., who launched the series to give practical examples of ethical leadership for young people, said Bigelow and her family-owned business are known for being committed to good business practices and integrity. “Cindi and her family clearly exemplify the type of business ethics that we want to instill in students,” he said. “And Bigelow Tea, U.S. market leader of specialty teas that produces more than 1.7 billion tea bags annually, offers a perfect example of a company that is successful and ethical in its practices, proving that success and ethics are not mutually exclusive.”

During her lecture, Bigelow spoke about the importance of having a company statement that everyone can rally around – one that really describes who you are, what you do and why it matters. To Bigelow, that is the key to ethnical leadership. “We truly care about our consumers, our workers, our community, our product and where that product comes from,” Bigelow said. “Do the right thing and good things will follow.”

Bigelow described taking teams from the company to tour tea plantations in Sri Lanka and India, where authentic Bergamot oil is produced in Italy, and lemon groves in California. “Knowing how the source of our products is produced, that it’s grown and harvested sustainably and in way to ensure quality for the customer, is vital. Do what you’re supposed to do and don’t cut corners.”

Additionally, Bigelow believes that helping support the well-being of employees, listening to and meeting the needs of consumers, and supporting the communities are not just the right thing to do – they’re good business. She even noted that these same lessons can apply to any organization – not-for-profit and publicly held. Under her leadership, Bigelow Tea has even earned the designation of a “Zero Waste to Landfill” company.

Before being named CEO in 2005, Cindi spent 25 years in all areas of the company her grandmother founded in 1945. Headquartered in Fairfield, Conn., and employing 350 people, Bigelow Tea is the national market leader of specialty teas and maker of “Constant Comment.” Cindi initiated the Annual Bigelow Tea Community Challenge, which has donated $1.2 million to charities since 1987, and Bigelow’s Tea for the Troops Project has donated 4 million tea bags to U.S. service men and women.

See more about Bigelow's lecture as well as the lecture series.

CONTINUING EDUCATION AT ANY AGE Life-long learning has been taken to a whole new level for 2016 Iona College MBA graduate Dr. Peter S. Liebert. Though he chooses to keep his age to himself, this spry 40-year veteran of pediatric surgery has had a multifaceted lifetime of accomplishments and has no intention of slowing down anytime soon.

A surgeon for over four decades in both Westchester and Connecticut, Dr. Liebert serves on the Westchester County Board of Health and is former president of the Westchester Surgical Society and the Westchester County Medical Society (where he continues to serve as chairman of its finance committee).

He has authored a textbook, “Color Atlas of Pediatric Surgery,” and is co-owner and board chairman of RX Vitamins Inc. in Elmsford, N.Y. An avid vintage auto car enthusiast, Liebert races a 1952 Porsche as a member of the Vintage Car Club of America in Westchester. It is symbolic of the zest for life and learning new and challenging things that led him to prepare him for this next challenge.

In 2013, Dr. Liebert enrolled in the health care management program at Iona’s School of Business. Combining some distance-learning courses and attending class four nights a week, Liebert completed the program in three years.

A former chief of pediatric surgery at White Plains Hospital and Stamford Hospital, Liebert has been helping heal people, one patient at a time.

Completing the program opened up the world of business and finance and an interest in exploring new career options. “There needs to be a way to help large populations and to affect the system so that more people get better care,” said Liebert.

Liebert is preparing himself for a new chapter in his life, possibly as a consultant in the healthcare industry or an instructor teaching at, perhaps, Iona. “I would enjoy that,” he said.

“I intend to be active and pursue new innovative things for the next 20 years,” said Liebert “I may consider retiring after that.”

Dr. Liebert resides in Harrison, N.Y., with his wife, Mary Ann Liebert.

See a story about Dr. Liebert from the Westchester and Fairfield Business Journals – and more on Iona’s MBA concentration on Health Care Management.

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Congratulations, Graduates!

Commencement 2016 May 21 | The Theatre at Madison Square Garden Iona College undergraduate and graduate students took the next step in their journeys to Move the World at the College’s 72nd annual commencement ceremonies. Honorary degrees were awarded to alumni Peter Riguardi ’83 and Robert Greifeld ’79 (pictured directly below), who were the keynote speakers at the undergraduate and graduate ceremonies, respectively.

Access additional photos and videos, and get a full recap of the ceremonies.

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ATHLETICS HIGHLIGHTS A CHAMPIONSHIP FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS The 75th anniversary year of Iona College was historic for its men’s and women’s basketball programs as both earned Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference titles and appeared in the NCAA Tournament. It was the ninth MAAC Championship for the men and the first for the women in the 35-year history of the conference.

Not only was it the first time in Iona history for both teams to win the conference tournament in the same year, but just the third time it occurred in MAAC history. The Gaels joined Loyola Maryland in 1994 and Manhattan in 2003. Head coaches Tim Cluess and Billi Godsey led their programs to nearly unprecedented heights.

Both programs completed the 2015-16 regular season in second place in the MAAC standings and took advantage of a new rule set for 2016 granting a day off between the team’s first and second game at the tournament. The men defeated Canisius in the quarterfinal, and tournament-host Siena in the semifinal, before an epic victory over No. 1 seed Monmouth in the championship game. The women exacted a bit of revenge on each of its opponents en route to the championship. They defeated Siena in the opener, the team that ended Iona’s season in the same game in 2015. Marist was Iona’s victim in the semifinal round. With the win, the Gaels ended the Red Foxes' decade-plus long streak of reaching the MAAC title game. In the final, Iona’s women’s squad defeated No. 1 seed Quinnipiac, the defending MAAC Champions and the source of two of the Maroon & Gold’s four regular season defeats.

At the NCAA Tournament, the men’s squad earned a No. 13 seed and drew No. 4 Iowa State

in Denver, Colo. The Gaels battled with the Cyclones and closed a double-digit deficit to within seven points with just under three minutes to play before a late run sealed the win for their Big XII foe. The women drew a No. 15 seed and a date with No. 2 Maryland on the Terrapins’ home floor in College Park. Like their counterparts, the women’s squad fought hard against a formidable opponent. The 16-point margin was less than half the average of the other three No. 15 seeds in the tournament.

The 2016-17 campaign looks promising for both programs despite the graduation of two prominent, all-time performers in Joy Adams and A.J. English. The women’s top returners include MAAC Tournament MVP Marina Lizarazu and MAAC All-Rookie performer Alexis Lewis. The men look to rising senior Jordan Washington and rising junior Deyshonee Much among a highly-touted class of newcomers to help defend the title and reach a fourth NCAA tournament in seven years.

COACHES CORNER Two new coaches will roam the sidelines in the fall for Iona athletics as James Hamilton takes over the men's soccer program and Patric Santiago leads the Maroon & Gold's volleyball program.

Hamilton was an assistant coach for the Gaels during the 2015 fall season and led the program as interim head coach following the departure of long-time head coach Fernando Barboto.

Santiago is a Long Island native who spend the last seven seasons as head volleyball coach at his alma mater, Farmingdale State College. He takes over for Jonathan Killingbeck, who left the program after five seasons this winter.

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JAMES HAMILTON

A.J. ENGLISH

Iona men’s basketball senior has been working toward his professional basketball career since his stellar 2015-16 campaign completed this March. His efforts thus far have led him to a NBA Summer League invitation in Las Vegas, Nev., with the Golden State Warriors this July.

The first step was an MVP performance at the 2016 Portsmouth Invitational Tournament (PIT), an annual senior showcase event in Virginia.

One of 64 NCAA seniors picked to compete in the eight-team tournament in April, English led his team to an improbable double-digit comeback in the second half of the championship game.

It was the second straight year an Iona Gael has been a part of the tournament winner following David Laury ’15 last year. The Iona men’s basketball team has sent five performers to the PIT in head coach Tim Cluess’ six seasons at the helm. Iona and Temple are the only NCAA Division I programs to have participants in each of the last five seasons.

Following the successful performance in Virginia, English worked out with several NBA teams individually and earned an invitational to the 2016 NBA Draft Combine in Chicago, Ill. He was one of 63 NBA Draft eligible participants determined by lists submitted from every NBA team. English’s performance in a 5-on-5 scrimmage which aired live on ESPN2 was remarkable and elevated his status among interested NBA franchises.

After he went unselected in the 2016 NBA Draft on June 23, English accepted an invitation to play with the NBA Western Conference champion Warriors in the 2016 NBA Summer League. The league holds minicamps for each of its teams in Las Vegas in mid-July.

JOY ADAMS ’16 completed her playing career and earned her degree from Iona College leaving a profound and indeli-

ble mark on the women’s basketball program. Adams was a magnetic force for the Gaels in their first-ever MAAC tournament championship run in March. Raising the trophy and appearing in the NCAA tournament served as a perfect culmination of one of the greatest careers in Iona history.

Adams was the MAAC Rookie of the Year and an All-MAAC Second Team selection following her freshman season. She followed it up with three consecutive All-MAAC First Team honors, including a MAAC Preseason Player of the Year nod prior to her senior campaign.

One of the most prolific rebounders in NCAA history, Adams sits atop the Maroon & Gold record book with 1,590 rebounds, surpassing the former record-holder Linda McKetney ’80, who amassed 1,430 career boards. In addition, Adams’ career total not only ranks atop the MAAC all-time list, but it currently resides as the fifth best in NCAA history.

Adams also sits second in Iona history in scoring, tallying 1,897 points in her career. In her final collegiate game vs. Maryland in the first round of the NCAA tournament, she passed Maggie Timoney ’89, who scored 1,894 points in her prestigious Iona College Goal Club Hall of Fame career.

Adams finished her Maroon & Gold career in the Top 10 of 11 major statistical categories.

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MAKING WAVES

MARYELLEN MANGIONE ’16 finished her career as one of the most accomplished Iona swimmers of all time. She ranks in the Top 10 in program history in eight separate events and holds the school record in the 200- and 400-yard individual medleys, comprising four separate strokes, the freestyle, backstroke, butterfly and breaststroke.

Mangione also holds the men’s and women’s program record for most points in MAAC Championship competition, finishing her career with 199. Former teammate Justin Grigull ’13 previously held the mark with 197. Her point total averaged out to a stellar third place or better finish in each of the MAAC Championship events she competed.

Mangione was a 2014 MAAC Champion in the 400-IM, finishing the race with an Iona record of 4:30.79. As a senior in 2016, she earned her second individual MAAC title in the 200-IM, recording a school-best time of 2:06.16. Mangione also ranks second in program history in the 200-yard breaststroke.

Raised in Parkville, Md., Mangione was drawn to Iona by the science facilities the school provided. Equally accomplished in the classroom as she was in the pool, she earned her degree in chemistry with a minor in biology and received dean’s list honors in each semester attended at Iona. Mangione was also a member of the prestigious Delta Epsilon Sigma Honor Society.

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GOAL CLUB HALL OF FAME Michael P. Hegarty ’66, Miki Hogg ’06, and Jeffrey C. Piper ’85 represented the Iona College Goal Club Hall of Fame Class of 2016.

The trio was inducted on June 6, 2016, at the annual Hall of Fame Golf Outing at Wykagyl Country Club in New Rochelle. Hegarty is a current Iona College Board of Trustees member and has been a tremendous benefactor and supporter of Iona athletics. Hogg was a standout volleyball performer for the Maroon & Gold and helped lead the program to its lone NCAA Championship appearance in 2014.

Piper was one of the most accomplished middle distance track and field performers in school history, starring for the Gaels in the early 1980s. Also honored at the event were Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Arrigoni ’56, ’91H, who received the Donald E. Walsh ’66 Award given each year to a person(s) who has demonstrated loyal support and service to Iona College Athletics through exceptional volunteerism.

GAEL GRAD UPDATE Former Iona baseball standout Mariano Rivera III ’15 is currently competing in his second professional season in the Washington Nationals organization. As of late May, the 2015 Major League First Year Player Draft fourth round pick serves as the closer for the Hagerstown Suns, the Nationals’ Class A affiliate in the South Atlantic League.

Following the MLB Draft last June, Rivera competed for the Auburn Doubledays, a short-season rookie level team in the New York-Penn League in upstate New York.

He was assigned to Hagerstown after this year’s spring training. Over his first 12 appearances and more than 22 innings pitched, Rivera recorded three wins and three saves and held an ERA under 1.00. He was named the team’s closer in late May and is certainly on track for promotion to the next level, Class A Advanced and the Potomac Nationals at some point this summer.

OUTSTANDING PERFORMERS Gilbert Kirui ’18

earned the league’s Most Outstanding Indoor Track Performer honor after setting a MAAC Championship record in the 5,000-meter event with a time of 14:21.31. His efforts INDOOR TRACK & FIELD topped the previous record by more than six seconds, previously held by teammate Jake Byrne ’15, ’16MBA in 2012.

Kirui also earned an individual MAAC title in the 3,000-meter race. He is the first to win the award since Daniel Clorley ’14 last won the honor for men’s indoor track & field in 2013.

Gabriella Di Domizio ’18 was

named MAAC Women’s Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Year following the 2016 regular season. The Gaels defender was also voted onto the AllWOMEN’S LACROSSE MAAC Second Team.

Domizio tied the Iona single-season record – finishing second in the MAAC – with 30 caused turnovers, averaging 1.76 per game. She also led the Maroon & Gold with 40 ground balls. She is the second Gael to receive the award following Stephanie Sumcizk ’12.

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MOVING THE WORLD WITH THEIR FEET The Iona College cross country and track and field programs were represented well on the international running stage by a trio of alumni this spring.

Former Gael standout Stephen Chemlany ’06 took home third place in the 2016 Marathon de Paris. He posted a time of 2:07.37 in the IAAF Gold Label event. There are currently 29 marathons in the world to earn the distinction including the Boston, Chicago and New York City Marathons in the United States.

Chemlany emerged on the international scene in 2011 with a surprising second place finish at the 38th BMW Berlin Marathon with a then personal best of 2:07:55. The Berlin Marathon is one of eight events comprising the Abbott World Marathon Majors.

His personal best time of 2:06:24 came in 2014 at the Seoul International Marathon in South Korea, another gold label event.

Undoubtedly one of the greatest female harriers in Iona history, Heidi (Gregson) See ’12 won the national championship in the 1500-meter event at the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships with time of 4:14.17.

With the meet doubling as an Olympic trial, her win secured a nomination for consideration for the Australian team at 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

It was See’s second straight Australian National title after finishing first in 2015 with a time of 4:09.60. She represented her home country in last summer’s IAAF World Championships in Beijing, running in the 1500-meter event.

Iona’s first-ever NCAA Individual Champion Leonard Korir ’12 ran a 27:58.65 in the 10,000-meter event at the Stanford Invitational. The time was the fastest in the world at the time in 2016 and helped Korir eclipse the Olympic “A” Standard.

During his tenure in New Rochelle, Korir won the 2010 5k Indoor Track Championships with a time of 13:26.01 and the 2011 Outdoor 10k Championship with time of 28:07.63. He was an eight-time All-American in cross country and track and field, two-time NCAA Northeast Regional Champion, and six-time Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Champion from 2009-2011.

See news about Korir competing in the Rio Olympics, along with other possible Iona Olympians.

SENIOR STARS A quartet of outstanding senior student-athletes earned the Gaels annual Joseph O’Connell Award, one of the oldest awards at Iona College and highest honor for the athletic department. Women’s basketball’s Joy Adams ’16, men’s cross country/track’s Kieran Clements ’16, men’s basketball senior A.J. English and women’s lacrosse’s Mary Kate McCormick ’16 earned the award named after one of Iona’s first athletic greats (see more about Adams and English on page 15). Twenty-five seniors, representing nearly 40 percent of the senior class of student-athletes earned Merit Awards for holding a grade point average of 3.50 or higher.

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FACULTY FOCUS Jeffrey W. Alstete, Ed.D., ‘87MBA, ‘90MS, and Nicholas J. Beutell, Ph.D. (Management/Business Administration), published a journal article, “Balancing Instructional Techniques and Delivery Formats in Capstone Business Strategy Courses,” in Quality Assurance in Education.

Both also presented a research paper, “Is Self-employment a Viable Work-Family Strategy for Married Women?” at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management in May. George Bournoutian, Ph.D. (History), has published his second volume on Iranian Heritage in the Caucasus and Central: “The 1829-1832 Russian Surveys of the Khanate of Nakhichevan [Nakhjavan]: A Primary Source on the Demography and Economy of an Iranian Province prior to its Annexation to Russia” (Asia Mazda Academic Press).

Nadine Barnett Cosby, MS (Mass Communication), attended the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Midwinter Conference at the University of Oklahoma in February, where she presented two papers: “Finding God on a Deserted Island: An Analysis of the Religious Rhetoric in the TV Series LOST,” which won the Top Paper Award in the Entertainment Studies Division; and “Media, Race and Social Influence: Television Portrayals of Race and Viewer Perceptions of Black Women,” which was presented in the Minorities & Communication Division. She also presented a paper in the Multicultural Division session at the Broadcast Education Association’s national convention in April.

Anna Clark, Ph.D. (English), organized and chaired a special session at the January 2016 Modern Language Association Convention in Austin, Texas. Her panel, “Beyond Round and Flat: the History and Form of Victorian Character,” showcased her research on theatrical character along with recent work by other scholars of Victorian literature and narrative theory.

PUBLISHED AND PRESENTED Scott Cleary, Ph.D. (English & Institute for Thomas Paine Studies), and Ivy Stabell, Ph.D. (English), are co-editors of a new book, New Directions in Thomas Paine Studies, published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Mike Damergis (Mass Communication) produced an exclusive interview with Dallas Mavericks owner & media mogul Mark Cuban for the Fantasy Sports Network.

Kathleen Deignan, CND, Ph.D. (Religious Studies/Iona Spirituality Institute), recently presented her work on the Thomas Merton’s ecological legacy for the Diocese of Reno, Nev., during its annual convention. Deignan also offered a benefit concert of her original music for Pax Christi Metro in NYC to conclude the Centennial Celebration of the birth of Thomas Merton.

Teresa Delgado, Ph.D. (Religious Studies), presented a lecture, “Beyond Procreativity: Reconsidering Catholic Sexual Ethics in the 21st Century,” as part of Saint Francis University’s School of Arts & Letters Visiting Scholar/Artist-in-Residence Program in March. Also, her essay “A Word” was published in the collection Soul Sisters: Devotions for and from African American, Latina, and Asian Women.

William S. Egelman, Ph.D. (Sociology), published an article, “Italian Americans: The Move to Suburbia,” in the book, What is Italian America?

Terrence Gavin, Ph.D. (Chemistry), recently gave a seminar, “Using HSAB Parameters to Predict Toxicity for 100 Chemicals,” to the Neurotoxicology Branch of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Durham, N.C. Dennis Gunn, CFC, Ph.D., ’93 (Education & Religious Studies), presented a paper, “Catechesis of Rupture or Renewal? Religious Education in the Archdiocese of New York in the Wake of Vatican II,” at the American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting in January.

Eric Hamerman, Ph.D. (Marketing and International Business), published an article, “Cooking and Disgust Sensitivity Influence Preference for Attending Insect-based Food Events,” in the international journal Appetite.

Sheila Kriemelman, MS (Fine & Performing Arts), exhibited work in the National Association of Women Artists’ 126th Annual Exhibition, at the Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, and in the New York Society of Women Artists, The Heart - The Center of Life, at Weill Cornell Medical College. She also exhibited work from her Dachau 1933-1945 project in The World Knew: Jan Karski’s Mission For Humanity, in Iona College’s Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery.

Sunghee Lee, Ph.D. (Chemistry), presented an oral seminar, “Fundamental Studies of Osmotic Transport Across the Droplet Lipid Membrane: Lipid Structure, Asymmetry and Cholesterol,” at the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies in Honolulu in December 2015.

Dorothy Leone, Ph.D., CCC-SLP (Speech Communication), recently published an article, “Vowel Intelligibility in Children with and without Dysarthria: An Exploratory Study,” along with several colleagues in Communication Disorders Quarterly.

Timothy S. Lyle, Ph.D., (English) published an article, “In the Life and In the Spirit: Homoerotic Spirituality in African American Literature: A Review,” in the September 2015 College Language Association Journal.

Chrissy M. Martins, Ph.D. (Marketing), published an article based on her dissertation work, titled “Can Handwashing Influence Hedonic Food Consumption?” in Psychology & Marketing.

Thomas E Mussio, Ph.D. (Italian), published an article, “Amata’s Wrath: Dante’s Reading of the Battle for Latium,” in Italian Studies.

His review of Gregory Murry’s book The Medicean Succession: Monarchy and Sacral Politics in

Duke Cosimo dei Medici’s Florence, appears online in Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies.

Kim Paffenroth, Ph.D. (Religious Studies), gave the keynote address, “I Want to Know What Love Is: Hellish and Heavenly Loves from Dante to The Walking Dead,” at the 2016 Humanities Festival at the University of Rhode Island in April.

Carol Shansky, Ph.D. (Fine & Performing Arts), had two study score prefaces published by Repertoire Explorer, a music publisher in Germany. The prefaces are authoritative guides to pieces by d’Indy and Graener. Also, her book “The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band of New York City, 1874-1941: Community, Culture and Opportunity” was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Laura Shea, Ph.D. (English), published an essay, “Give My Regards...: A Touch of the Poet on Broadway,” in the Eugene O’Neill Review.

Joseph Stabile, Ph.D., (Biology) gave an invited seminar, titled “Population Genetics and Susceptibility Studies,” to graduate students in New York University’s Genetic Susceptibility and Toxicogenomics course. The seminar focused on populations susceptible to diseases such as breast cancer and arsenic poisoning.

Marlin Thomas, M.Phil. (Samuel Rudin Academic Resource Center), had his 10-minute play, “I Never Heard Such Silence,” performed during the Take Ten Festival at the 13th Street Repertory Theater in NYC this spring.

Ronald R. Yager, Ph.D. (Information Systems/Machine Intelligence Institute), published several journal articles in the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 23; was a co-author on the published edited volume, ”Innovative Issues in Intelligent Systems”; and published articles in On Logical, Algebraic and Probabilistic Aspects of Fuzzy Set Theory and Information Fusion 29.

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Jack Breslin, Ph.D.

From Seminary to the Media Industry to the Iona Faculty Interview by Kelly Dombrowski ’16 and Amanda Ortiz ’16

Before Jack Breslin joined Iona College in 2001, his life had been headed in a few different directions.

Tell us about your career before joining the Iona faculty.

I got into the business in an unusual way – students who have suffered through my classes know that I studied to be a priest for nine years. When I was 13, I went to high school in a seminary and took my vows. I was in the order for four years and decided to take some time off. Once I got out of the seminary, I really didn’t have any career plans. I just thought I’d take a few years off, go back and get ordained; of course, there was another road. I was a bank teller, I was a security guard, I worked in 7-Eleven, I worked in kid’s camps, and I wrote some freelance stories.

Somebody said if you want to get into journalism, you have to go get your master’s. I sold one of the stories I wrote in my magazine class and then I went to my hometown paper, the Kingston (N.Y.) Daily Freeman. I did a story on children’s author Ben Shecter – he and his partner, who worked in NBC, helped me get a job there as a publicist for daytime dramas. I had never watched a soap opera in my life but the Lord gives us all gifts – he gave me the gift of writing.

While in Los Angeles, I got involved with a small film company and worked on a couple of films. Due to more networking, I became involved in a show on Fox called America’s Most Wanted and it was a very fulfilling job. Yes, it was network

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public relations, but you were making a difference – you were helping catch criminals and particularly helping victims.

That’s how I got my interest in one of my research areas, crime victims in the media, because of the host of the show, John Walsh. I had worked on a movie with NBC called Adam, which was about the kidnapping and murder of his son. I also worked with the show Cops.

I moved to Washington to work on America’s Most Wanted full-time, did that for five great years. I did a lot of traveling, talking to victims groups and giving speeches. Then I got into teaching. My first adjunct job was at the College of New Rochelle. I taught a feature-writing class and then a couple of courses at Mount St. Mary College. I then realized I needed to get a Ph.D. Kicking and screaming, I went off to Minnesota and froze for four years. At the time, my friend Rick Remsnyder worked for the Journal News and covered Iona. I used to go over with him and then I picked up a gig for the Westchester Weekly and Fairfield Weekly covering basketball. During my last year in Minnesota, I got a call from George Thottam, who was head of the Mass Communication Department at Iona, back in 2001. I came back to Iona for the interview and said: “This is where I want to work.” Fifteen years later, here we are!

Did you start off as a Mass Communication faculty member?

Yes. In Mass Communication we have people who teach broadcast, public relations, advertising or journalism. My primary course is Media, Law and Ethics, so I’m what you call a generalist. But because I have the experience, I teach sports reporting – I do a class in writing for public relations, or entertainment sports public relations, another one in political government PR, or the senior seminar – I do a variety of things. A couple of years ago, I was asked to be the graduate coordinator for the public relations program, so I run that, too.

How do you incorporate your past experiences and insight on the industry into your teaching for your students?

During the time that I was an adjunct professor, I got back into journalism. There was a small weekly newspaper, The PostStar, and I wrote almost 300 stories for them. On the first day of classes I always ask my students, “What do you see yourself doing in 10 years? What’s your dream job?” Then I talk about what I did and how this [teaching] is my dream job, this is what I wanted to do. In the course, I tell war stories once in a while. There are two reasons for that. First, if I did it, you can do it. Everybody in this classroom has a dream and if I went a different road and found something else, you can do the same thing perhaps. But what are you doing to make that dream happen? Second, we’re talking about journalism, radio, television – I’ve done this stuff, I’m giving realistic examples.

What changes do you think the media industry will see in the next few years that our students should think about?

The example that I give in class is when we went from typewriters to computers, and it wasn’t even hooked up to anything. It was a software program strictly for word processing.

Luckily, in journalism school, we had video display terminals that we used in class. When I got to The Daily Freeman, we used computers, too, and I was able to make the transition very quickly. I use that example as now, there are people in PR and journalism who worked on those things and they made the transition. So, what is it going to be for you in 30 years?

What new technology is there going to be that you’re going to have to adapt to? So, no matter what area, technology is going to have a major impact and you’ve got to keep up on it, and you’ve got to be able to utilize it – that’s going to separate you from the rest and it’ll be important for getting a job.

What is your favorite thing about teaching at Iona?

I’d say the students are the best part about teaching. The most fulfilling part of this job – and I get a little chill when I talk about this – is walking into Grand Central after getting off the train to go to seminars in the city, or network to find guest speakers, and somebody comes up to you. You know the face but you can’t place the name; they remember you and they expect you to know them! They’ll say something like, “I remember your course, people used to make fun of it but if there was one that really helped me, it was Media, Law and Ethics!” That is the most fulfilling part – to see that, years later, people appreciate what you do. I think we have a challenge here and responsibility to care for our students, to go the extra mile to help then, whether they’re struggling or doing well, to encourage them as best as we can. That’s the best part of the job, going that extra mile and helping people out. When I came to Iona in 2001, people came up and introduced themselves and were very welcoming, so I try and do the same thing with new faculty and adjuncts. That makes Iona a very special community.

Mission and service is a big part of the Iona College culture, and you have had the opportunity to moderate several mission trips at Iona. Tell us about the trips.

The first trip I took was to Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., to help build a hiking trail in 2004. That was fun and I became hooked. I wanted to do another one and got involved in an intercultural immersion experience in Africa that the Brothers sponsored.

That was an experience where we worked in the worst slum in sub-Sahara Africa, Kibera, and we got to meet a lot of people there. A lot of the time on mission trips, students will say, “I want to help people.” They don’t need your help; they’re going to help you, they’re going to teach you. That’s what the experience is all about. After the trip, I went to Kenya then Tanzania, then I went up to Ethiopia for a couple of weeks. After coming back, I went on a mission trip to Ghana and helped build a school there, then Kenya two more times. Today, out of the “Ghana Gang,” there are three marriages between students from the trip! Also, five of them are doctors and have their medical degrees.

I always thought we have to do something for alumni. We have to get people who have been on the mission trips and still hunger for something like this in their normal, everyday lives, where the experience isn’t there unless they take a year off and join the Peace Corps. Steve Hill [coordinator, Iona in Mission] and I have come up with this venture, a trip to South Africa. We’re going to open it to any alumni who want to come.

We’re already talking to the Brothers in South Africa and we think we have a great experience set up. We’ll go on our safari days but also get the experience like an Iona mission trip. We can perhaps expand it to a couple trips a year for immersion.

Why is mission so important to you?

I think Iona has a very special mission inspired by Blessed Edmund Rice and by St. Columba and the Isle of Iona. When you stand by the monastery and look out over the ocean, you realize what the monks did there and how that inspired the Brothers. Additionally, going to Edmund Rice’s grave in Waterford and seeing the legacy of the Brothers and how we still have it here – they have entrusted this mission to us. At Iona, there’s that element of service that really attracted me, and I think that is such a vital part of the mission. Everybody has their different way of doing service, but with a mission trip, you’re able to incorporate what you learn here at Iona and take it out with you to those people that you meet and work with, and then bring something back to share with the Iona community. I think it should be obligatory for everybody to take some kind of a mission trip – some kind of experience where you go to another state, city, or country and experience that culture, then bring it back to your studies.

What are some accomplishments of the Mass Communication Department that you think others should know about?

I think what they’ll find is the reason why we’re amongst the largest majors is that our reputation of offering classes that are not just theoretical or historical but are hands-on classes.

You walk out of our program and you are ready to work in the industry – people are able to go in and work in the mass media industry. The greatest advantage we have is our proximity to New York – we’re 20 miles away from the media capital of the world!

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Greener Future One of the key values of the Iona College community is the dedication to responsible human,

physical, financial and environmental resources. These are all things that the College and our members have held close and excelled at in many ways. While environmental concern and sustainability has been a conversation – and action – for many years, the topic and issue has become increasingly prevalent each day.

Iona community members are bringing environmental sustainability to the forefront each and every day – on campus, in the community, and around the globe – from an alumnus who has built his life and home around sustainable housing and the use of the sun as an energy source, to a faculty member and religious leader who dedicates her time to spreading the teachings of the late Earth scholar Thomas Berry, even to students and faculty who embrace the opportunity to launch green initiatives on campus and beyond.

Iona College challenges its community to Move the World – and to many community members, moving the world to a greener future is a top priority.

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Harnessing the Sun Brian Cullen ’70, a biology major at Iona, was a member of the Peace Corps from 1970-73 and began teaching – a well-rounded individual and environmentalist with a well-rounded house.

For years, while teaching, Cullen had a dream of having an environmental classroom in the woods, somewhere he could bring people to see the environment first-hand and sit in a solar experimental house – an instructive classroom, as it were.

In 1978, in Tuxedo, N.Y., about 30 miles north of Manhattan, Cullen purchased a 2.6 acres lot – that is when his instructive classroom really began.

The property was close to the school where Cullen was teaching, which made it an ideal location for his dream. While teaching, Cullen started taking night classes at BOCES to learn how to cut wood, install plumbing, build cabinets and run electricity. Cullen knew that in addition to being on an intellectual level as a teacher, he needed knowledge on a practical level with these basic skills.

His teaching career made it possible for him to spend his summers working on the solar house concept. “At the beginning of every summer, they would give me a check to make it to September.

So I would have a little bit of June, all July and all of August to complete my dreams,” said Cullen. He spent his spare time from 1981-1988, mostly summers,

working on the house to the point where he could live in it, and during the construction phase he hosted classes on the property.

The house, a geodesic dome, is made of 160 triangle-shaped panels, 20 of which are glass and face south – where the solar energy comes in. Each window is hand-made by Cullen with help from his children.

What makes the geodesic dome an ideal shape for a solar home is that the house is able to catch the sun from all points, much more than a traditional flat roof would.

Cullen is completely committed to living a life that is an environmentally conscious as possible and hopes to make the solar-house dream a reality for others. Currently, he is working with an architect on a project he calls “Site 100” – the 100 standing for 100 percent solar. With this project, Cullen hopes to construct a completely solar home, document it, and make the plans available to people with land who want to build their own solar homes. For Cullen, having Site 100 come to fruition would be a “total prize” in his eye for being the one that leads the way.

In addition to his work on his own home and Site 100, Cullen’s devotion for the environment continues into several books that he has authored. His latest book, The 5 at the End, is based

off an analogy he used in a high school ecology class. The analogy compares groups that contribute the most waste to the earth, and focuses on how America consists of 5 percent of the world’s population but uses 40 percent of the world’s resources. Additionally, Cullen participated in the Clear Water Festival, founded by Pete Seeger and others, which took place for many years to raise money to protect the Hudson River and the nearby wetlands and waterways.

When asked where he thought his passion for the environment stems from, Cullen fondly recalls his participation in the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, and a Keep America Beautiful commercial that ran on television early that same year. Those two instances, coupled with his background in biology, set him on a path for an environmentally conscious life. Cullen also recognizes the impact that his time at Iona had on his life.

“Iona was not only an intellectual crockpot where speakers from William Buckley to Eldridge Cleaver stretched our political minds but science teachers like Dr. Rousseau in chemistry, Dr. Mollette in biology and Dr. Bullen in physics molded us into critical thinkers,” said Cullen. “Now, I am in place to create a solar home with Site100, document it, encapsulate it in a book, and use the very site to teach through experiencing deeds, not words. And for this, I have Iona to thank.” •

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Inspired by Thomas Berry For Sister Kathleen Deignan, Ph.D., concern for the Earth and its care is a life-calling. At Iona, Deignan is one of several founding members of the Thomas Berry Forum for Ecological Dialogue at Iona College, in addition to her work as a professor and founder of the Iona Peace and Justice Studies Program and Iona Spirituality Institute. The Berry Forum, which Deignan refers to as both a project and a tribute, began to continue the legacy, work and teachings of Thomas Berry – who considered himself a scholar of the Earth.

The Berry Forum, headed by Executive Director Brother Kevin Cawley, has been one of the driving forces behind beginning conversations on campus about sustainability at the College.

Among those was the establishment of the president’s Ad-Hoc Committee for Environmental Sustainability (AHCES) – a working group on campus committed to helping keep the College up-to-date on movements and initiatives relating to sustainability. The group brings together members from all areas of campus to discuss ways to promote a more sustainable and environmentally friendly campus.

Overall, Deignan describes the Berry Forum as an event-based initiative, as each semester the forum hosts programs that bring the “Earth concern” to the foreground. The events create and open a creative and inviting space for attendees to “engage in deep dialogue and talking a new vision into awareness.” Deignan points out that the Berry Forum is very collaborative and often works with other groups to inspire and infuse Earth-focused dialogue into other occurring events.

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Most recently, the Berry Forum has worked with SoundWaters, an organization dedicated to protecting the Long Island Sound through education and action. This past spring, during Earth Month, the Berry Forum hosted an event on SoundWaters, a floating classroom on a schooner in Connecticut, which allowed attendees to study the bio-region, see the ecology first-hand, and openly discuss Thomas Berry and his “dream of a new world.”

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of Earth.

-Thomas Berry-

Outside of Iona, Deignan also boasts her involvement as a GreenFaith Fellow along with Br. Cawley. GreenFaith was founded as an inter-faith entity to inspire, educate and mobilize people of diverse religious backgrounds for environmental leadership. When GreenFaith first launched a two-year training program, Deignan jumped on board, and joined the first class of GreenFaith Fellows. She notes that the program was the ultimate calling for her. “This is it for me now,” Deignan said. “Everything I do has to have something to do with this.”

While GreenFaith has suspended its training program for now, due to budgetary reasons, Deignan, Cawley and the rest of the Berry Forum are considering mimicking the program, in their own unique way. Their goal is to create a similar program that is “available to, and affordable for students and citizens in the tri-state area.” The program would train attendees in the spirit of Thomas Berry.

For Deignan, the recent release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment shines a spotlight on the ties between social and economic injustice and environmental issues. This is something she feels that the Iona community has recognized for quite some time. “We’ve been really blessed because Iona has had a very long-standing commitment to social justice,” said Deignan. She recalls her arrival at Iona College in the late 1970s at a time when universities and colleges were starting to get on board with a commitment to social justice for the poor – something Iona was and has been doing since its founding.

Over the years, both on- and off-campus, Deignan has worked to educate and mobilize individuals who are concerned for the environment. In summer 2015, Deignan, along with Br. Patrick Nuanah ’15, represented Iona at the “Emerging Leaders Multi-faith Climate Convergence” in Rome, which was connected with release of the pope’s encyclical. Deignan recalls marching in the streets with individuals from all over the world – all in the name of climate change and helping to save our Earth.

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Moving the (Green) World Environmental concerns have been a part of the Iona campus in different ways for many years. From student clubs and organizations to teachings in courses, and faculty and staff committees and initiatives throughout campus.

“Concern for the environment and provision of an education that prepares students for responsible stewardship of the earth fit well with Iona’s core values and its identity as a Catholic college,” said Fredrica Rudell, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing and chair of the Environmental Concerns Committee.

Rudell came to Iona in 1982 and was impressed, then, with the variety of activities for participation, and recognizes that these have expanded over the years.

“More and more institutions of higher education are realizing that they have the responsibility and opportunity to prepare students to understand and address environmental issues and problems,” Rudell said. Iona is fortunate enough to have this notion at the forefront for quite some time.

On the academic side, environmental concerns and sustainability have expanded with the addition of the Environmental Studies Program. Students have the ability to major or minor in environmental studies with a focus in areas such as ecological and environmental literacy, politics and policy, or religious studies. Additionally, under the new core curriculum beginning this fall, incoming students will be able to focus on the Earth, and environmental sustainability, as a cornerstone theme or an integrated core theme.

Iona College’s environmental groups have worked for many years to make a difference on campus by hosting events and creating partnerships. Rudell notes that the committee helped with the improved recycling program on campus in partnership with Facilities, a paper conversation campaign in partnership with Ryan Library and more. According to Rudell, the College is continuing to strive to reduce its “environmental footprint” with improvements to campus.

In fact, in fall 2015, Iona College students, faculty and staff embarked on a unique project to help stem the rapidly declining populations of Monarch butterflies. Under the direction of Peter Letourneau, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology/environmental science, plan-

ning and planting of several “test plots” of milkweed were completed to assist the Monarchs to successfully reproduce and complete their fall migration. Depending almost entirely on milkweeds to lay eggs, feed the larvae, and sustain the adults, availability of this native meadow plant is critical for the survival of Monarchs.

This ambitious campus initiative was created by AHCES, the Environmental Science program, Facilities, and IC Green – a student-run organization created in 2006.

Students at Iona are openly encouraged to move the world through green project initiatives and innovative projects.

This is true for Kevin King ’16, who, after nearly two years of planning and research, saw his idea for a “green roof ” come to life on campus. King was an environmental studies major, president of IC Green, and a student representative on Iona environmental committees.

In May, the first test plot for the green roof was installed on the west side of the Robert V. LaPenta Student Union in the center of campus. A green roof is a specially designed installation of soils, plants and vegetables that can improve urban hydrology, reduce the carbon footprint, and add low-maintenance natural plantings to increase habitat potential and reduce maintenance costs. King was inspired to spearhead this project by a campus survey conducted for a class taught by Dr. LeTourneau.

The project took a lot of research and meetings with Facilities in order to understand costs and feasibility due to weight restrictions, technical aspects and other concerns. After finally getting the green light, the campus took the first step in creating Kevin’s vision.

Christine Samwaroo ’14 also took advantage of Iona’s Environmental Studies program as a minor, after learning about the option through her participation in IC Green. “I found the program intriguing because of its interdisciplinary approach, drawing from not only the sciences but also policy and religious studies,” said Samwaroo.

“This program allowed me to look at our current environmental reality from different perspectives.”

Samwaroo notes that her connection to the natural world

began as a child growing up in Guyana, a country that she says is extremely vulnerable to climate change impacts, such as flooding. The time at Iona allowed her develop her passion as a member of IC Green and a representative of the Berry Forum. While at Iona, Samwaroo actively supported rallies in Washington, D.C., and participated in monthly clean-up events in the community.

Lessons in the classroom have transformed everyday life for Samwaroo – she tries to live simply by reducing waste, eating locally and recycling. “Most importantly, I transform what I learn in the classroom by being part of the broader climate change discussion with colleagues and friends, by attending climate marches and signing petitions,” said Samwaroo. “Currently, I share what I learn through environmental education by teaching middle school students to care for their environment.”

After Iona, Samwaroo attended the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management program at The New School, and recently graduated with her master’s degree. She is interested in environmental justice, environmental education and climate adaptation for small islands and coastal counties. Her plan is to get involved with environmental policy at the international level, and her dream is to return home and work for the Guyanese government in the Office of Climate Change. Her education at Iona and beyond has prepared her to make a difference in the global environment.

Read more about how Iona and its curriculum are preparing students for "A Green Future."

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REACHING A MILESTONE

BUSINESS SCHOOL

Less than one year since the public launch of Iona Forever, the $150 million campaign has reached, and exceeded, its halfway milestone with $77.6 million in gifts and pledges. The campaign – the largest fundraising initiative in Iona College’s history – will be transformational for the College securing support for endowed scholarships and professorships, campus infrastructure and more.

“I’m excited and encouraged by the support shown by so many alumni and friends in this early stage of the campaign. The desire to join in this endeavor to secure the future of our beloved Iona is evident,” said James. P. Hynes ’69, ’01H, chair of the Iona College Board of Trustees.

“There is no doubt that a challenge still lies ahead, but knowing our alumni – and the pride that they have in Iona – I am confident that many others will provide their support for this campaign in the future, and we will reach our ambitious goal.”

Iona Forever invites all those who believe in the College to invest in our students, our faculty and our potential – it is both an invitation and a challenge to be a part of the momentum to move Iona College to the next level.

“As we look to the next era of Iona College, this campaign will lay the foundation for our success. Support from our alumni and friends will enable the College to continue growing our endowment to provide financial assistance to students, help recruit top faculty, and enhance our learning and living environments, all to offer students the best platform for success,” said President Joseph E. Nyre, Ph.D.

ENDOWMENT SUPPORT Endowment support remains a primary focus of the campaign as endowment funds provide the College a steady predictable source of income over time, which the College can use to make commitments and build programs. Thus far, through the campaign, 20 new endowed scholarships have been established to help students in their pursuit of an Iona education. Many donors find establishing a scholarship a wonderful way to create a lasting legacy at Iona.

“Our Irish-born parents gave up many personal comforts so that their children could receive a good education. We are proud to honor that sacrifice by naming an Iona College endowed scholarship [the Christine and Patrick Daly Endowed Scholarship] in their memory.

Our parents would take great comfort knowing that the contributions they made to their adopted homeland will continue to help deserving students fulfill their goal of an Iona education.” – Martin Daly ’74

The record commitment of $17.5 million by Robert V. LaPenta ’67, ’00H has moved the idea for a new home for the School of Business to the forefront. As plans are being developed to renovate and expand the existing Hagan Hall structure, fundraising continues. With LaPenta’s lead gift of $15 million, and his $2.5 million challenge to fellow alumni, excitement and participation continue to grow.

“Susan and I wanted to support the business school project because it will enhance the credibility of Iona within the business community Robert V. LaPenta '67, '00H and provide Iona stuannouncing his record gift in dents with the ability to November. meet the high expectations of the current job market. In order to meet today’s challenges it is necessary to have the best available resources. This project will provide these resources and create the path for success.” – Brendon McKibbin '91

PLANNED GIVING Gifts through planned giving vehicles top $5 million, and include commitments through wills/bequests, establishment of charitable gift annuities, and gifting of matured life insurance policies.

“I decided to support Iona College through a gift annuity because it is a win-win for the College, and my wife and I. It provides income to us during our lives and funding for the College in the years to come. It was the perfect way to show our support to an institution that is important to us.” – William Kaung ’78MBA For more information about the Iona Forever campaign and how you can get involved, contact Pamela Bottge ’92 at (914) 633-2413 or pbottge@iona.edu, or visit iona.edu/ionaforever.

ARE YOU UP FOR THE CHALLENGE? For qualifying commitments made to the business school project through the Iona Forever campaign, the "LaPenta Means Business" Challenge will provide matching funds, on a 1:1 basis, thus doubling the impact of the donor's gift.

Who: Alumni from Classes of 1975-1995 Dollar Amounts Eligible: Minimum $10,000; one-time gifts and/or pledges payable over a five-year period; corporate matching gifts included

Learn more about the challenge and how you can participate at iona.edu/LaPentaChallenge, or contact Pamela Bottge '92 at (914) 633-2413 or pbottge@iona.edu.

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True to Our Past, Committed to Our Future

YOUNG ALUMNI ANSWER THE CALL The comprehensive Iona Forever campaign invites all members of the Iona College community to invest in the future of the College. When they heard about the plans for the new School of Business, Matt Cipriano ’06, ’09MBA and Brendan Droge ’05 felt compelled to answer the call for support.

What were your first thoughts when you heard about the lead gift and plans for the new School of Business?

MC: I thought that it was an exceptionally generous gift to the College. This type of gift will allow Iona’s Business School to jump to the next level. We will be sure to produce future leaders within business nationwide.

BD: Iona has a host of great academic programs but given its many well-known alumni in the industry and close proximity to New York City, I believe business should be its hallmark. Mr. LaPenta’s generosity will help spur future Iona College alumni to be global leaders in the world of business.

Why did you feel the need to support the initiative?

MC: From the moment I stepped foot on Iona’s campus in 2002, I knew I was home. In the four years as an undergraduate, I saw exponential growth through generous gifts – athletic centers, student centers, residence halls, etc. Upon graduating, I returned to Iona for the opportunity to not only work in athletics

and coach rugby, but also obtain my MBA in finance. This has shaped my professional and personal life into what it is today, and giving back is just a small way to say thanks.

BD: I’m a tremendously proud Iona College alumnus. The success that I’ve been fortunate to have in my professional career would not have been possible without the education I received at Iona.

I’m a tremendously proud Iona College alumnus.

The success that I’ve been fortunate to have in my professional career would not have been possible without the education I received at Iona.

What message would you send to other young alumni about supporting the College?

Friends, Matt Cipriano '06, '09MBA and Brendan Droge '05 attend a recent wedding of a fellow Gael.

BD: It’s a truly rewarding experience to give back to the institution that molded you into the young man or woman that you are today.

Your time spent at Iona would not have been as enriching as it was without the support of generous alums like Mr. LaPenta. When you have the means to do so, pay it forward to those who will call Iona College home after you.

MC: No gift is too small. It is important to ensure that Iona stays at the forefront of business schools and impacts other individuals like it has us.

PLANNING A FUTURE GIFT TO IONA THOMAS ABERLE ’85, ’04MBA Current Career: Currently, I am a business education teacher and also coach cross country/track and golf at Greenwich High School. Prior to that, I was a CPA for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and a vice president of risk management for Citigroup.

Why did you include Iona in your estate plans? I was the first person in my family to graduate from college. I was fortunate to get a scholarship from Iona to help subsidize the cost of college. I feel, in life, it is important to pay things forward.

What is your favorite Iona memory? Living in Rice Hall (at the time the only residence hall on campus) and running for the Men’s Track and Field team.

The friendships I made while at Iona are still going strong 30 years later.

What impact has your Iona education made on you? My education at Iona was top-notch but it was the life lessons taught to me by the many Christian Brothers at Iona – Brother DeMaria, Brother DeAdamo, Brother McGibney and Brother Doyle, to name a few – that made me the person I am today.

What is your claim to fame at Iona? I still hold the 55-meter dash record at Iona.

What is your definition of success? Success to me is being able to give back, whether it be through a charitable endeavor or through coaching or counseling.

What career advice would you provide to current students? Follow your passion and find a career path that keeps you excited and always looking for more. If your career becomes a job, it’s time to move on.

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REMEMBERING IONA AFTER 30 YEARS

By John W. Mahon, Professor Emeritus of English When Sister Catherine Carey, who graduated from Iona College with a BBA in 1986, remembers her experiences at the College, it becomes clear that the slogan of the time, “The Proof is in the People at Iona,” came true for this child of Ireland who commuted for four years from a convent on City Island for her classes in New Rochelle. “From day one,” she says, “everyone was very friendly and helpful.”

Since 2005, Carey, a Medical Missionary of Mary, has been living on City Island again, serving, she explains, “as area business administrator of my order for the United States, Honduras and Brazil. I have been fortunate to visit both Honduras and Brazil in recent years.”

In May, Carey drove to Iona’s campus to join the Class of 2016 at the Baccalaureate Mass as a way of commemorating the 30th anniversary of her graduation. She remembers that commencement in 1986 unfolded on the portico and steps of Spellman Hall, with the graduates seated in the parking lot and many family members and friends sitting on the hill for a good view of the proceedings. Carey’s brother PJ came from Ireland and sat with her Sisters on the hill that day.

I WORKED IN NIGERIA FOR 13 YEARS, PUTTING ALL THAT I LEARNED AT IONA TO GOOD USE.

Catherine Carey was born in County Offaly, Ireland. After schooling and some years of work in Dublin, she entered the Medical Missionaries of Mary (MMM), an Irish religious order founded by Mother Mary Martin in 1937. Mary Martin was much like Edmund Rice, responding generously and imaginatively to a real need of the poorest of the poor. Sisters of the Order have worked as medical missionaries around the globe, bringing love and caring to generations of the world’s neediest people.

When Carey enrolled at Iona in 1982, she had already been an MMM for some years, most recently for two years as a hospital administrator in one of the order’s hospitals in western Nigeria. She was sent to Iona because training in business administration would make her even better at her work than she was already. After graduation, she returned to Nigeria where she was regional business administrator for the order.

She recalls: “I worked in that position for 13 years, putting all that I learned at Iona to good use.” Before returning to the U.S. 10 years ago,

Carey was assigned to East Africa where she worked as a hospital administrator in a hospital in a remote part of western Tanzania. She remembers: “One wet day, as the little Cessna I was in approached Arusha, the pilot said: ‘When we go up above the clouds look to your left’—and there was Mount Kilimanjaro covered in snow.”

If Kilimanjaro mesmerized Carey, so too did Iona on her first day on campus.

Her first two classes were in Hagan Hall; then she walked across campus to Murphy Center for the third class. After lunch, she found her fourth class in Hagan, as she reports, “back in the first room I was in that morning; I was mesmerized by all the movement!”

The friendliness and hospitality of Ionians, both faculty and students, dominate Carey’s memories. When students who commuted from City Island to campus found out that she traveled to Iona every day, they offered to drive her. A student with an early class would pick her up in the morning, and there was always a student ready to bring her home again late in the afternoon. Carey was a real help to the students who drove her in the mornings, because the students’ mothers would make sure they were out of bed in time to pick her up and, incidentally, get to class on time themselves! Over the years, Carey has kept in touch with some of these students, who have invited her to weddings and christenings and other celebrations.

She remembers Br. Donald Dwyer and Sr. Kathleen Deignan teaching her Religious Studies, and Brother Gleason teaching Economics. One of her most vivid memories concerns Br. Charles Duffy. Carey remembers that he “was very friendly and always ready for a chat.” One day early in her time at Iona, she ran into Br. Duffy on campus and told him how challenging she found some of the classes. For example, one day in a business law class she was asked to read aloud from the textbook a question that concerned condominiums. Carey didn’t have a clue what condominiums were, and she also had trouble with terms like interstate and intrastate. Br. Duffy assured her that she would get accustomed to it all soon enough.

Carey also remembers taking a computer science class one summer with students not much more than half her age helping her with the work. They wanted to know how long it would take her to complete her degree. When she said “Four years,” they were amazed because they assumed, as one of them said, “Oh, we thought because you were old you were on a 10-year plan!”

Beyond the classroom, Carey recalls going to the Pastoral Counseling Center for Spiritual Direction with Br. Bernie Crawford, an Australian who returned home after completing his studies: “I still keep in touch with him. He is celebrating his 91st birthday this year.”

One place Carey recalls with special affection is the campus chapel, which was St. Mary’s Chapel at the time. When she first returned to campus 10 or so years ago, she looked for the chapel and it wasn’t there. No one thought to tell her that the St. Mary’s Chapel she knew is still on campus, but it was moved to a new location, and it is now the Blessed Edmund Rice Chapel. Someday soon, Carey plans to come back on campus and take a look at the old Chapel. In telling her story, Carey learned something new even as she shared memories of what she learned at Iona 30 years ago.

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REUNION WEEKEND MAY 13 - 14, 2016

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Years in maroon indicate an upcoming reunion year.

Years in gold indicate immediate past reunion year.

1960

Reynolds A. Parziale is proud to announce that in March he and his wife, Pam, were selected by the governor of West Virginia for a special recognition at the 2016 Governor’s Awards for the Arts.

1974

A. Bonnie Corbett was recently appointed chief nursing officer and vice president of patient care services at the New York Presbyterian/Hudson Valley Hospital in Cortlandt, NY.

1975 Kevin J. Driscoll ’77MBA and his wife Peggy are happy to announce that they welcomed their sixth grandson, Tate Patrick Fenton last November. Tate joins his big brothers, Michael Kevin and Liam Brian, sons of Siobhan H. Driscoll Fenton ’04 and her husband Michael. Tate also joins Jack, Colm and Ronan Driscoll who are sons of Kevin W. Driscoll ’98 and his wife Mary B. McCormick Driscoll ’98. All six boys have proud Iona uncles, Sean Driscoll ’00 and Brendan P. Driscoll ’11.

1964 Edward J. Schmidt retired from Randolph Macon College in Ashland, Va., in June 2015, after serving for 48 years as an economics professor.

1971

Roger de Percin Berendes is proud to announce that he was presented with the star award by the Association for Home and Hospice Care of North Carolina. The star award recognizes efforts and advocacy. The Association for Home and Hospice Care is recognized as the largest and most effective association of its kind in the country.

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John T. Cavan was recently appointed CFP at ContraVir Pharmaceutical. ContraVir Pharmaceutical is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of targeted antiviral therapies.

Robert O. Sweeney ’87MBA was recently named the San Diego Business Journal’s CFO of the year in the medium privately held company category. This award recognizes San Diego chief financial officers for the roles they play in the success of their business and their positive impact on the company.

1981

Toni D. (Dominijanni) Fiorenza is proud to announce that she was recently promoted to senior director of commercial training at Acorda Therapeutics. Acorda is a biotech company that develops therapies that restores functions and improves the lives of people with neurological disorders.

1978

William H. P. Kaung ’78MBA was recently honored as a “Mission Maker” at the 8th Annual In the Company of Women luncheon hosted by the YWCA of White Plains & Central Westchester. Kaung's wife, Sinforosa Tan Kaung, Ph.D., was also honored with the award, and Vincent J. Calluzzo, Ph.D., provost and senior vice president for Academic

1988

Affairs at Iona College, was the recipient of the Community Champion award.

1979 Sebastian J. Giordano was recently promoted to CEO of WPCS International Incorporated, a provider of fixed wireless technology.

Sebastian has held senior positions with ITT Continental Baking Company, AMF Incorporated, Dynamics Corporation of America and IPCO Corporation.

Patrick C. Dunican Jr., Esq., managing director of Gibbons PC was named by NJBIZ to its annual “Power 100” list of most influential people in New Jersey Business. This is Patrick’s sixth consecutive appearance on the list, having been named every year since its inception in 2011. This year, Patrick ranked 52nd. His continued inclusion on the list is especially impressive, given that more than 20 people listed in 2015 were not on the list in 2016.

1989 Joseph J. Guarracino was recently named CFO of White Plains Hospital.

Prior to joining White Plains Hospital, Joe served as senior vice president and CFO for the Brooklyn Hospital Center for eight years. In June, Guarracino was recognized as as one of the “150 Hospital, Health System CFOs to Know” among the top financial leaders from the country’s prominent for-and nonprofit hospitals and health systems by Becker’s Hospital Review.

1992

Suzan Ortega-Collado and her husband, Joseph, are happy to announce that their son, Joseph Jr., has been accepted to Iona College’s class of 2020.

1993 David M. Dziena was recently appointed editorial director of the Pflaum Publishing Group. David will be responsible for all the editorial content of the Group.

1994 Robert M. Southey was recently promoted to lead studio operator at ESPN in Bristol, Conn.

2003

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT CARRIE A. CROTTS, LMFT, ’11MS

Balanced Life Counseling Services, LLC West Des Moines, Iowa Setting Foundations

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I had always known I’d like to open my own business but for a long time it seemed so daunting and out of reach. After getting experience in a variety of different settings in the field I ended up in a consulting position with the Iowa National Guard. While working with the National Guard is a great job and very fulfilling, I do not participate in therapy sessions in this position. I did not feel like I could be completely happy without being able to practice therapy in person; therefore, I decided to take the leap to start my own private practice part-time so that I would have the balance between the National Guard position and practicing therapy.

Next Steps I named the business Balanced Life Counseling Solutions, LLC, because of the importance of the delicate balance that life is including the mind/body/spirit balance. With that in mind I like to think that the business will remain small including only myself and/or possibly my fiancé joining at some point to provide substance-abuse counseling. I am simply taking things one day at a time when it comes to considering if I will remain part-time or jump to full-time and allowing myself to be open to what life may offer for opportunities. I have learned that I enjoy working with a variety of populations/concerning issues/work load in my practice and for now the balance between consulting and private practice therapy seems to be an enjoyable mix.

Rewarding Career Getting to help others in any way possible big or small makes the job not feel like a job but like a purpose. Being able to work in and experience many different niches and populations in the field has been educational and rewarding. Being in a position to be my own boss and set my business up in line with my vision has also been a great reward professionally as well as allowing for more balance and freedom in my life.

Benefiting from Iona

Christy A. (Camillo) Ritacco '08MBA is happy to announce her marriage to Ronnie Ritacco on October 16, 2015.

Kelly Albanese Scherer is executive director of the Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation.

She was recently named to the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Long Island Chapter’s Board of Directors as a first-term member.

I view my education and experience through Iona College as a crucial and beneficial foundation for my career. At Iona, I met classmates that I am still good friends with today even though I am halfway across the country. I got the opportunity to practice in three different internships including a college-based population institute, a community agency, and a private practice in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Long Island. I am forever grateful for the wide variety in populations and experience that I got through those internships. I also had great professors and the best supervisor that I could have ever asked for, Prof. Jerry Rubino. To this day I turn to Professor Rubino for a reference and he is always there to help and support.

Moving the World I would like to think that I am moving the world one person/couple/or family at a time. If I can help shake one person free from where they are stuck in their life and help them to move forward, then the movement can be contagious. I like to believe that the clients that I am able to help are then able to help others even if just by modeling change.

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ALUMNI 2005 Matthew P. Frappier was recently named vice president of earned media strategy at the global public relations agency, Edelman.

In his role, Matthew will direct media relations across the agency’s U.S. customer marketing network.

John M. Khinda recently became a member of SAG-AFTRA, he was also featured on Season 4, Episode 9 of the television series, Elementary, “Murder Ex Machina.”

Emily M. Mansur was recently named head volleyball coach at Hofstra University.

2011 Colleen M. Przekota was recently promoted to daytime account service representative at CBS.

2013 Colin S. Daly was recently named negotiator at the OMD ad agency’s Activision account.

2014 Anagabriella Cinquemani was recently promoted to sales planner at CBS Network Sales.

2015 Anthony Carlo recently landed a job as a reporter with News 12, Bronx. Anthony started his career with WICR and ICTV and worked his way up from covering Iona basketball, to the Westchester Knicks before getting a job with NY1 last summer. Anthony now looks forward to his new career with News 12.

SUBMIT A CLASS NOTE! Your classmates and fellow alumni want to know what you are doing (not everyone is on Facebook or Twitter)! Send us baby photos, marriage announcements and job updates.

Please submit your text, as well as any photos, to alumni@iona.edu or the Office of Alumni Relations, Iona College, 715 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10801.

Please note: Class Note submissions may be edited for length, clarity and style.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT ROB BALDINO ’12

Balitello.com

Current Jobs

JobS, emphasis on the plural! I’m a NYC-based founder and strategy director who has worked across the entrepreneurial and strategic consulting worlds. First, I have passion for the company I co-founded, Balitello.com, a Performance Dress Socks company that is redefining the way we think about the average uncomfortable dress-socks that exists today. Second, I have been consulting at a variety of top-tier Marketing Agencies (Havas, KBS) to some big-name clients (Monster. com, L’Oréal Group, BMW, JP Morgan Chase), to network and self-invest into my side ventures.

Founding Balitello.com Working in the corporate world, my founding-partner Mickey and I quickly noticed that workplace fashion has its limitations and discomfort. As former athletes, we were most bothered by the challenge of finding comfortable ‘dress socks’—the thin, inadequate construction would not hold up to a 12-hour workday wearing dress shoes. With a keen sense of fashion and an affinity for comfortable socks, we wondered how we could solve society’s ongoing problem of combining style with comfort. Through many prototypes came the evolution of ‘Performance Dress Socks’ – unprecedented sock comfort-technology which includes extra padding on the heel-toe, arch support and breathable micro-fiber fabric.”

Next up We recently started shipping worldwide and now have a whole set of celebrity influencers lined up for this upcoming summer/fall that will be releasing exclusive sock lines. Next up, we’ll release a fancy schmancy women’s line!

On the Job There are always very surprising things that occur in a start-up. Some good, some bad. From a personal standpoint, I find it really rewarding when you see a random stranger on the street wearing a pair. From a business standpoint, it was when we landed our first partnered influencer, Charles ‘Sock King’ James II, a player on the NFL Houston Texans. We created a custom Performance Dress Sock with Charles and launched it on Sunday Night Football last season.

Impacted by Iona Without the Iona community, I would not have access to some of the contacts that helped me propel this business. All of us as alumni have to stick together and lean on one another to promote whatever we’re working towards. The formula to success is applying what you learned and networking.

Gael Advice Work hard, play hard. Enjoy your college experiences all you can with friends and laughter. But also, never take for granted that this is the most you will learn in your life and will affect how you impact the world after. Set a goal to learn something new every day, and absorb as much as you can.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION RECOGNIZES INDIVIDUALS Each year, during the Reunion Gala, the Alumni Association Board of Directors honors selected individuals from the alumni community for their service within the College or outside community with Reunion Awards. The award selection process begins each winter and takes several months of individual and collective efforts by members of the Alumni Board’s Internal Affairs & Research Committee.

Award recipients are chosen by a committee vote and ratified by the Board of Directors.

The Iona College Alumni Association congratulates the 2016 recipients of Reunion awards: The Brother William B. Cornelia Founders Award for Outstanding Service to the College Linda M. Bruno ’76, ’79MSEd, and Michael P. Hegarty ’66 The Brother John G. Driscoll Award for Humanitarian Service Nesta Felix ’01 The Brother Patrick B. Doyle Award for Distinguished Service to the Alumni Association Claire Mungiguerra ’75, ’78MBA The Brother Arthur A. Loftus Award for Outstanding Achievement Vincent Beni, Ph.D., ’71, ’74MS, and Matthew P. Byrne ’81 The Brother Robert A. Durning Rising Star Award Evita T. Robinson ‘06

Do you know of a job or internship opportunity?

Please think of Iona’s alumni and students by helping us grow these opportunities and the Gael Network.

Send your posting to alumni@iona.edu today.

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Richard A. Gabrielly ’84 is proud to announce the publication of his most recent book, Uncovering the Hidden Currency of Marriage.

George R. Hopkins ’62 recently published Unholy Retribution, the fifth novel in his mystery/ thriller series. The first four novels in the series are Blood Brothers, Collateral Consequences, Letters from the Dead, and Random Acts of Malice.

Thomas Molito ’66 proudly announces the recent publication of his book, Mickey Mantle: Inside and Outside the Lines.

William R. Nevins ’69 is proud to announce the publication of his book of poetry, Heartbeat Ridge.

Paul J. O’Brien ’65 recently published the first edition of his book Voices From Room 6: A Teacher Remembers.

Pittershawn Palmer ’94, ’08MS is proud to announce that her book When We Were One under the pen name Zaji, was recently reviewed and recommended by USA Today as a must-read.

Stan Wien ’65 recently published his first book, Ambassador For Peace: How Theodore Roosevelt Won the Nobel Peace Prize.

John G. Williams ’56 is proud to announce that he published a book of his poetry, A Little Bit of Me.

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Gael Alumni Visit Spain In April, Iona alumni and friends traveled to Spain as Iona Alumni Getaway 2016 presented Spain’s Classics. This was Iona’s 19th trip with alumni since the program began in 2000. The highlights of the trip included visits to Barcelona, Valencia, Cordoba, Granada, Seville, Toledo and Madrid. Alumni experienced a “Paella Feast,” a boat ride on the canals surrounding the rice field plantations, a Flamenco show, and visits to many UNESCO World Heritage sites. A destination has not yet been chosen for the 2017 trip, but when it is, the information will be shared with the alumni community. For more information on the 2017 Alumni Getaway, please contact Eydie Jordan in the Office of Alumni Relations at (914) 633-2391 or ejordan@iona.edu.

See a list of places the Alumni Travel Program has visited in the past and learn more about the upcoming trip.

What is the best part of traveling with alumni?

Alumni love traveling with their fellow graduates and it makes them feel connected to Iona. However, not all travelers are alumni – many of them are family members and friends. One tradition is we sometimes sing the alma mater on our way back to the airport. The past couple of years we had Jubilarians who came on the trip and returned to attend their reunion. When I was honored in 2013 with the Jean Claude Scholarship Award many of my fellow travelers surprised me and attended the event that October – some from as far away as Virginia and New Jersey.

We are like one big family traveling the world in a motor coach. Sort of like the Partridge Family.

About how many people attend each trip?

The amount of guests varies. We used to have two coaches and approximately 90+ alumni, but after 9/11, travel fell off.

The average is about 35-40 guests per trip. Although in 2015 we traveled to Northern Italy and Switzerland and we had more than 70 alumni.

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College takes on a whole new meaning for alumni relations administrator Eydie Jordan, who has been with the Office of Alumni Relations since 1986.

She has literally been moving across the globe for the past 16 years as the coordinator of the Iona Alumni Travel Program, and has led 18 of 19 alumni trips across the globe by air and by sea.

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grow up and when I was ill and in the hospital in 2013 he called just to see how I was doing. There is truly a family feeling with everyone involved in the travel community.

Do you have repeat customers?

Oh yes, I would say about 50 people are repeat customers. If their schedule permits, they want to be there. When we arrive back in New York after a trip they say “Sign me up for next year – wherever you go as long as it is with the Iona group.”

It takes a lot of energy to facilitate these global trips. Where does your energy come from?

I am energized by seeing the fun and comradery our alumni have with each other. They meet and become friends and keep in touch throughout the years.

When someone is ill or has some good news to share they keep everyone informed with a chain of emails and texts. Mostly, I just love people. They frequently comment on how cheery I am – maybe I need to tone that down a bit?

Iona College's Alumni Getaway trips are open to all alumni, family members and friends of the College community.

What has been your favorite country to visit and why?

The Amalfi Coast and Switzerland are incredibly beautiful. The food in Italy is really good. Although, I do love Ireland and never get tired of going there. The people are so welcoming and the fact that we have had the same tour guide for all eight trips makes it even more special. I’ve watched his children Summer 2016 35

UPCOMING EVENTS

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July 31, 2016

ALUMNI METS GAME Join the Alumni Association as the Mets take on the Colorado Rockies!

LICENSED TO BE IONA PROUD Take your Iona pride to the streets – with a custom Iona license plate from the New York State DMV. This is a perfect way for Iona College alumni, students and faculty to show the world they “Fight the Good Fight."

Find out more about the plate and how to order your own at iona.edu/nyplates.

September 9, 2016

9/11 MEMORIAL SERVICE Join us as we remember and honor those members of the Iona community who lost their lives as a result of September 11, 2001.

October 3, 2016

43RD ANNUAL IONA COLLEGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES GOLF INVITATIONAL Support student scholarships while playing golf on one of the most prestigious courses in the world!

October 14-16, 2016

HOMECOMING & FAMILY WEEKEND 2016 Join us for a fun-filled weekend as we welcome home the Iona College community to campus. We will have events for the whole family!

November 5, 2016

SCHOOL OF ROCK THE MUSICAL Join fellow alumni families and friends for an afternoon on Broadway!

November 10, 2016

VETERANS DAY MEMORIAL SERVICE Join us as we salute veterans of Iona College and our nation, for their service.

We remember our recently deceased alumni and friends.

Alumni Alyson Aurelio ’84 Nicholas A. Balsano, MD, ’60 Louis Barone ’51 Donald C. Brassil ’55 Robert R. Bressan, CPA, ’67 Angelina A. Brooks ’96 Thomas J. Brown Jr., Ph.D., ’49 Cynthia Brunson ’93MS Linda R. Bryant ’08 (Staff – Office of Admissions) Joseph S. Buttacavoli ’56 Louis J. Capozi ’73 E. Owen Carty, CFC, ’63 Peter S. Cleary ’70 Frank J. Collins ’57 Edward V. Condon ’57 Spencer Phillip Considine, CFC, ’55 Frederick J. Costello ’58 Neil R. Cronin, Ph.D., ’53 Michael A. Daniels ’93 Philip J. DeCarlo ’79MBA John P. Dillon ’59 Gene D. DiPasquale, Ph.D., ’54

Andre A. Faup Jr. ’82 Richard W. Fulfree, Esq., ’54 James K. Greer ’54 Andrew T. Gregg ’16 Peter J. Hannan ’72MA Elena G. Hanway ’85MS Raymond F. Henshaw ’56 Michael J. Kearney ’55 Vincent P. Kuhn Jr. ’54 Paul A. LaSalle ’50 Joseph V. Leanza ’74MBA John R. Lenihan ’63 Richard A. Lewis, Esq., ’61 James Magee Jr., Esq., ’56 Leonard A. Mancusi, Esq., ’66, ’69MBA James J. McGivern, Ph.D., ’67 William J. Moran ’60 Ronald F. Morasse ’59 James J. Mulvihill ’55 James P. Nardozzi ’61 Ronald J. Nardozzi ’87, ’91MBA Peter J. Nowak ’74 Edward J. O’Gorman Jr. ’52

John J. O’Gorman ’59 Daniel C. O’Grady ’64 Donald Paragon ’53 Frank W. Phelan ’76 Edwin J. Philipps ’51 Thomas J. Phillips ’61 Louis J. Pisani ’59 James P. Powers ’64 John A. Reidy, CFC, ’56 Edward F. Ronan ’52 Randall R. Rotella ’10 Tarreece Sampson ’13 George H. Schiller ’83MS Saverio L. Terenzi ’80 Rev. John J. Udics ’70 Joseph L. Villani ’50 Joseph M. Walsh, CPA, ’64 Students Brandon Lawrence Friends John A. Sweeney (former trustee)

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LEAVE YOUR LEGACY AND BUILD ON OURS History tells us that Saint Columba left his legacy through the education of monks on the Isle of Iona.

By naming Iona College as beneficiary of a planned gift, such as a bequest, charitable gift annuity, or charitable trust, you will benefit the College through your foresight, and you will be eligible for membership in the Saint Columba Legacy Society.

Planned gifts can be structured to: • minimize your tax burden; • provide income to you during your lifetime if you need it; and • ultimately benefit Iona College at some point in the future.

To learn more about planned gifts, please contact:

Greg Teeter, JD Associate Vice President for Major & Planned Giving (914) 637-7749 gteeter@iona.edu

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“AS YOU ENTER YOUR ADULT, POST-COLLEGE LIFE, YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DEFINE YOUR OWN SUCCESS. YOU CAN MEASURE SUCCESS IN ANY OF THE DIMENSIONS YOU WANT. I BREAK IT DOWN INTO PERSONAL, PROFESSIONAL, AND MY IMPACT ON GIVING BACK TO SOCIETY.” ROBERT GREIFELD ’79

2016 undergraduate commencement speaker See page 13 for more on commencement ceremonies.