Entries from August 2007
JNEWS: Meara, Edward (MC1985)
August 30, 2007 · Comments Off
http://news.yahoo.com/s/sddt/20070830/lo_sddt/mearaelectedpresidentofcitizendiplomacycouncil
Meara elected president of Citizen Diplomacy Council
Wed Aug 29, 8:46 PM ET
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San Diego attorney Edward Meara has been elected president of the Citizen Diplomacy Council of San Diego (CDCSD) for the 2007-08 term.
The nonprofit organization, which works in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State and other federal agencies, brings high-ranking foreign dignitaries to San Diego to meet with their professional counterparts and to experience casual get-togethers in the homes of local residents. In the past year, CDCSD has arranged local visits for more than 500 international visitors.
Meara is associated with the law firm Brownwood Chazen & Cannon, serving as field counsel for the Liberty Mutual Group in San Diego. He is a graduate of Manhattan College and Pace University Law School. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable J. Daniel Mahoney, U.S.C.J, for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Meara is a graduate of the UCSD Executive Business Program in U.S./Mexican Trade and speaks German, Russian and Spanish. Meara is a former president of the San Diego Chapter of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy.
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Meara, Edward (MC1985)
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Dear John,
I believe that Ed is a member of the Class of 1985.
Mike
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MNEWS: MC students and email
August 30, 2007 · Comments Off
http://www.uwire.com/content/topnews082907003.html
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Rowan University in New Jersey gives students 51.76 MB of space; Ramapo College of New Jersey, 120 MB; and students at Manhattan College in the Bronx use 50 MB of their e-mail space. Arizona State University started to move their 65,000 student population to the email system, which holds two gigabytes, 10 times the amount given to students at Rutgers University. Students have had an overwhelmingly positive response to the move.
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But do they have access to keypunch machines. (Old Jasper injineer joke. See back when … ahh forget it!)
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JObit: Kliewe, Lou (1957)
August 30, 2007 · Comments Off
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007708300403Record-setting coach Kliewe passes away at 72
By CHRISTOPHER HUNT
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: August 30, 2007)
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Tom Collins called him the closest thing he had to a father, next to his real dad.
Collins followed in his footsteps -as big as they were. So Collins said it was a sad day yesterday for him.
His coach, friend and mentor, Lou Kliewe, died Tuesday night at home in Pearl River, succumbing to a bout with cancer that lasted roughly a year.
“He meant a lot to a lot of people,” said Collins, Pearl River’s athletic director.
Kliewe, 72, who coached boys basketball at Spring Valley and Albertus Magnus, holds the Rockland County record for career wins with 447 over 45 years. He led Spring Valley to a state championship in 1982, which represents Rockland County’s only state title in boys basketball.
He received the county’s highest honor in 1998 when he was inducted into the Rockland County Sports Hall of Fame.
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Collins said he went to Manhattan College because Kliewe did. He coached because Kliewe did. And until a few years ago only called him “Coach.”
“He was the man,” said Collins, who coached Albertus to 400 wins and was also inducted into the Rockland Sports Hall of Fame.
“You just followed what he told you to do and if you did what he told you it normally came out correctly,” Collins said. “The guy has had a marvelous career. A lot of people will remember him as a great coach. But I’ll remember him as a man that taught me to make the correct choice in life.”
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Note: Not exactly sure of the MC connection involved, but it appears to be there.
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Dear John,
I believe that Lou is a member of the Class of 1957.
May He Rest In Peace.
Mike
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JBlogger: “joeysac”
August 29, 2007 · Comments Off
fall 07
from The Innerworkings of an underpaid stripper by Joe Sac
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so im back here at the ol manhattan college…in a new dorm this time..overlook manor they call it and its pretty much like a junior apartment…no furniture as of yet but hopefully this weekend will bring change in that department
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MNEWS: More go press
August 29, 2007 · Comments Off
Student roundup
First published: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Honors
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Colleen Schilling, the daughter of Dee and Tony Schilling of Brunswick, was named to the spring dean’s list at Manhattan College. She was recently accepted into Manhattan’s five-year master’s degree program. During the spring semester, Schilling was inducted into the Kappa Delta Pi international honor society. KDP recognizes the status of scholars to achieve and sustain pre-eminence in teaching, scholarship and service. Schilling is a 2005 graduate of Catholic Central High School.
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JObit: Kleis, Charles J. (MC????)
August 29, 2007 · Comments Off
Staten Island Advance (New York)
August 22, 2007 Wednesday
CHARLES KLEIS, 64
SECTION: OBITS; Pg. A10
Date of Death: 08/20/2007 Bank president enjoyed computers, reading Charles J. Kleis, 64, of Annadale, a community bank president, died Monday in New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn.
Born in Brooklyn, he settled in Annadale in 1997.
Mr. Kleis attended Manhattan College and Pace University, where he studied accounting. An accounting officer during his service in the U.S. Army, he was discharged in 1963.
In the early 1970s, he went to work as an accountant for Atlas Savings Bank, a community bank in Brooklyn’s Park Slope. He remained there for more than 35 years, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming president, a goal he’d set when he first walked through its doors.
“He knew when he started he wanted to be president, and he said, ‘One day, I will,’ ” said his granddaughter, Theresa Kleis, who worked at the bank along with Mr. Kleis and his wife, the former Ingrid Eberl.
Mr. Kleis also was a licensed real-estate broker and mortgage broker in New York and Florida, although he devoted himself to his banking career.
In his leisure time, he enjoyed working with computers and reading, especially The New York Times and computer-related literature.
“He will be greatly missed,” said Ingrid, his wife of 45 years.
Surviving Mr. Kleis, in addition to his granddaughter and wife, are his son, William; his daughter, Nicole Kleis-Hattani; two sisters, Connie Smouse and Carol Sarni, and six more grandchildren.
The funeral will be Friday from the Colonial Funeral Home, New Dorp, with a mass at 9:15 a.m. in St. Charles R.C. Church, Oakwood. Entombment will be in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn.
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MNEWS: Yet Another Dean’s List story
August 29, 2007 · Comments Off
Asbury Park Press (New Jersey)
August 25, 2007 Saturday
DEAN’S LIST
SECTION: COMMUNITY
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Manhattan College, Riverdale, N.Y.
* Daniel Hesslein,
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MNEWS: Good Press Dean’s List (Who’s Dean? Is that like CriagsList?)
August 29, 2007 · Comments Off
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
August 26, 2007 Sunday
All Editions
DEAN’S LIST
SECTION: LOCAL; DEAN’S LIST; Pg. L02
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MANHATTAN COLLEGE
* River Edge: Catherine Lindsley
* Mahwah: Kathleen Kratchman
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Mail items to Cathy Krzeczkowski, The Record, 1 Garret Mountain Plaza, West Paterson, NJ 07424-0471; fax to 973-569-7766. No phone calls please.
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JNEWS: Colon, Frank (MC1969) inspiring story
August 29, 2007 · Comments Off
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/hschool/2007/08/28/2007-08-28_proud_papa.html
Proud Papa
Colon scales back at South Bronx
BY IAN BEGLEY
Tuesday, August 28th 2007, 12:59 PM
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Frank Colon has coached at South Bronx for the past 29 years, but will scale back his duties this fall. Colon will coach baseball, but won’t be on sideline for soccer and basketball.
Frank Colon has coached at South Bronx for the past 29 years, but will scale back his duties this fall. Colon will coach baseball, but won’t be on sideline for soccer and basketball.
Frank Colon spent last week basking in the sun at an all-inclusive resort in the Dominican Republic. He sat poolside, he said, and had people waiting at his beck and call at a five-star hotel on the beach in Punta Cana.
Still, the longtime South Bronx HS dean couldn’t completely enjoy himself.
“I had people serving me food, waiting on me all day,” Colon said. “I lived like a king for one week, but it wasn’t a good feeling.”
The “good feeling” Colon was missing in the Dominican will come on Thursday, when he enters the halls of South Bronx HS Campus. Colon, who turns 60 on Sept. 9, felt uncomfortable being coddled in the Caribbean because he has spent the last three decades of his life trying to serve students.
Colon has been at the school on St. Ann’s Avenue since 1978, a year after it opened, He launched the soccer and boys and girls basketball programs, as well as the softball program, and he’s coached the baseball team for the past 20 years. This year, though, Colon has decided to scale it back. Colon is giving up his duties as soccer and basketball coach, though he will continue to coach baseball next spring.
Colon was a physical education teacher for 26 years before he became dean four years ago. As the face of the Phoenix, he has seen the school’s student body evolve from a predominantly Latino composition to its current multi-cultural mix. He has survived the hiring and firing of a dozen principals and seen funds come and go, but there’s one constant that has kept Colon feeling good every fall: the students.
“If I can touch these kids’ lives, I’m making a difference,” Colon said. “That’s what keeps me going: the opportunity to make a difference.”
Students at South Bronx call Colon Papa, which translates in Spanish to Pope. Colon may enjoy an elevated status, but those who know him say he’s also down to earth.
“He doesn’t wear a tie and he doesn’t try to separate himself from the kids,” said South Bronx soccer coach Chris White. “He has an incredible way of communicating with these kids … the bottom line is, he’s a father figure to a lot of them.”
One reason Colon has survived in South Bronx for the past 30 years, according to White and Phoenix basketball coach Douglas Porter, is his ability to relate to students.
“He grew up in the Bronx and he didn’t have an easy upbringing,” Porter said. “He overcame a lot of obstacles – the same obstacles that our students face. So kids look up to him and think, ‘You can come from difficult and modest means and still do well in life.’”
But Colon puts it in simpler terms: “My job is to keep that school cool. I’ve been at it for 30 years, and as you get older, you get calmer. I’m gonna be 60 years old and it took a long time for me to get my act together, but now I have that wisdom.”
When Colon speaks to a troubled student or ballplayer, he speaks from experience. He can talk to them about their neighborhoods because he knows them well.
Colon split his childhood between the McKinley Houses and Forest Houses, both on Tinton Avenue and less than a mile from South Bronx HS.
Colon graduated from Taft HS and earned a baseball scholarship to Manhattan College. He graduated from Manhattan in 1969, and joined the National Guard. He worked for Liberty Mutual as a claims adjuster for a few years after college, but decided to switch careers and was hired as a teacher’s assistant at Jane Addams HS in 1977. He took courses Baruch College in the summer of 1978 to earn certification as a teacher and was hired at South Bronx that fall. Colon volunteered to coach the soccer and basketball teams that fall. In 1988, he took over the baseball team and later coached his son Frank Jr., who went on to play at Stony Brook University and in the minor leagues.
Colon has sent scores of players to college on scholarships in the three sports, and coached Yankees minor league pitcher Humberto Sanchez. He’s also had to attend the funerals of a few students, including Manny Pichardo, in 1990, after his starting left fielder was shot after an argument in school.
“There’s a lot of stuff that happens out here,” Colon said. “And we got used to living that crazy life and thinking it’s normal.”
But Colon says the school is safer than it has been in the past, partly because South Bronx was divided into a campus consisting of Urban Assembly School for Careers in Sports, Mott Haven and New Explorers. Colon could have retired five years ago, but said he doesn’t see that day coming anytime soon.
“Frank is an institution at South Bronx,” athletic director Lou Schlanger, who has worked with Colon for more than 20 years, said earlier this year. “He’s done incredible things here.”
For the first time in 30 years, he won’t be on the sideline when the soccer team opens at home against Kennedy on Sept. 10. Chris White will take over as head coach (Colon and White served as co-coaches the past two seasons), and Doug Porter will take over as basketball coach.
But Colon said he couldn’t bring himself to give up his position as baseball coach. He will also still serve as dean, and though some have speculated that this is his last year at South Bronx, Colon didn’t sound like he was ready to retire.
“Being at South Bronx gives me a purpose,” he said. “I’m very lucky because I have the opportunity to touch kids’ lives, and that’s something I don’t want to give up.
“I have a lot more to give.”
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Hats off to Colon, Frank (MC1969)!!
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Dear John,
Frank is a member of the Class of 1969.
Mike
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