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ST. JOHN’S LAW
Magazine l Fall 2014
POPE FRANCIS
Opens St. John’s Conference On
International Religious Freedom
“We’re making strides in ways
that matter most to students,
alumni, and employers.”
–Michael A. Simons, Dean and John V. Brennan
Professor of Law and Ethics
St. John’s Law is on the Rise
Applications are Up
St. John’s was one of only 37 law
schools in the country that saw an
increase in applications this year, and one of only 20 schools with an
increase greater than 10 percent
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Student Credentials are Up
Our median LSAT and our median
GPA both rose this year
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Bar Passage is Up
4% rise thanks to a new,
individualized approach to instruction
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Career Placement is Up
8% increase from 2012 to 2013
due to our proactive, integrated,
and individualized approach to career development
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Alumni Giving is at Record High
$3,703,503 in total cash gifts received (up 123%)
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2,485 donors (up 27%)
$6.5 million raised in the first year
of the Brennan Family Scholarship Matching Program
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We invite you to keep the
momentum going by making
a gift to the Law School this
tax year (ending December 31,
2014). You can use the enclosed
envelope to mail us your
contribution, or you can give
online at lawgiving.stjohns.edu.
Thank you!
CONTENTS FALL 2014
Features
10 Pope Francis
10
Opens St. John’s / LUMSA
Conference on International
Religious Freedom
14 Taking The Struggle
For Religious Freedom
To The World Stage
St. John’s Law Honors
Hon. Kenneth F. Hackett,
United States Ambassador
to the Holy See
19 14
Steven J. Reisman ‘90
The “$2 Bill Man” Pays
it Forward
Also Inside
30 Dean’s Report
On the 2013-2014 Giving Year
Columns
3 On Direct: Associate Academic Dean
Larry Cunningham
5 Trends: The Evolution of Patent Law
in the Sharing Economy
Advances: Virtual Learning Initiatives
6
Expand the Reach of St. John’s Law
9 Second Acts: Jillian Hoffman ‘89SVC, ‘92L
17 Center Piece: Center for International and Comparative Law
Endnote: Donna Besteiro ‘91
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19
Departments
2
4
7
20
25
29
From the Dean
Commencement 2014
Faculty Focus
Alumni Highlights
Class Notes
In Memoriam
Fall 2014 l 1
FROM THE DEAN
St. John’s Law Magazine
FALL 2014
The first day of school is always an exciting
time, and this year is off to a particularly
exciting start at St. John’s Law. I spent the last
two weeks of August teaching Introduction
to Law to our new 1Ls, and I can attest that
they’re smart, eager, hard working, ambitious,
and a joy to teach.
They’re also highly qualified. Last year, only
37 American law schools saw an increase in
applications. And only 20 saw an increase
over 10 percent. At St. John’s, applications
increased 13 percent. But even with this larger
applicant pool, we admitted fewer students
as part of our continuing plan to resize the
Law School. Our increased selectivity caused
a corresponding rise in our median LSAT and
our median GPA.
The excitement about our new students builds on the excitement of last
year, when we saw increases in our bar passage rate (above the statewide
average), our employment rates (above the national average), and our
alumni giving (at historic levels).
As detailed in the Dean’s Report at the back of this magazine, the generosity
of our alumni has been particularly inspiring. In 2013-2014, total giving to
St. John’s Law exceeded $3.7 million in cash, a 123 percent increase over the
prior year, while total gifts and pledges increased 225 percent to exceed
$6.5 million. Your support is directly benefiting our students by creating
new endowed scholarships, by launching our new Intellectual Property Law
Center, by funding student fellowships, by fully endowing the Peter James
Johnson, Jr. Mock Trial Competition, and much more.
Our faculty has also been hard at work putting in place an innovative
new curriculum, adding ground-breaking distance learning courses,
and expanding our academic centers and international programs.
The remarkable conference we co-hosted in Rome, which featured an
extraordinary address from Pope Francis, is just one example of the
wonderful work being done by our faculty.
Applications are up, selectivity is up, student credentials are up, bar
passage is up, employment rates are up, and alumni giving is up. St. John’s
Law is on the rise. These are exciting times indeed, and I deeply appreciate
your support.
Michael A. Simons
Dean and John V. Brennan
2 l St. John’s Law Magazine
Dean and John V. Brennan
Michael A. Simons
Associate Academic Dean and
Professor of Legal Writing
Larry Cunningham
Vice Dean Emeritus
Andrew J. Simons ‘65
Executive Director of Development
and Alumni Relations
Brian J. Woods
Assistant Dean for
Alumni Relations and CLE
Claire C. McKeever ’80SVC, ’93L
Editor
Lori Herz
Copy Editors
Luisa A. Asaro
Dominique Cendales
Jean Nolan
Claire K. Pollicino
Matthew M. Sobotta ‘11
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St. John’s University
ON DIRECT
Perhaps the aspect of the job that’s surprised
me the most is how much I enjoy presiding at
commencement. Reading the names of the new
graduates, many of whom I’ve taught, is a deep
honor for me.
with
Associate Academic Dean
Larry Cunningham
Associate Academic Dean Larry
Cunningham serves as the chief academic
officer at St. John’s Law, a top leadership
position he earned last year. Here, he sits
down with his colleague and predecessor
as associate academic dean, George
F. Keenan Professor of Law Margaret
Valentine Turano ‘77, to discuss the
evolution of his work and his ongoing
contributions to a thriving St. John’s Law.
MVT: You’ve had broad legal academic
experience, as a clinical professor,
legal writing professor, professor
of substantive law courses, dean of
students, associate dean of student
services, and now associate academic
dean. What surprised you in your first
year as associate academic dean?
LC: Just how much of the job does not involve
academics! The associate academic dean is
essentially second-in-charge of the Law School,
so I deal with a lot of issues that come up in the
dean’s absence or that are delegated to me.
Whether it’s serving on a university committee,
advising the dean on the budget or strategic
planning, or dealing with an emergency like
Hurricane Sandy, there’s a lot more to the role
than just putting the class schedule together.
dean, a supportive university, a faculty that cares
deeply about the curriculum and our strategic
direction, an amazing alumni network, students
who are eager to learn, and a hard-working staff.
MVT: When you took the associate
academic dean position, you kept
your supervisory role over the Career
Development Office. Can you talk about
the connection between the two?
MVT: I’d have to characterize as meteoric
your rise from assistant professor
of legal writing in 2008 to associate
academic dean in 2013. Did that seem fluid
to you, or did you find the learning curve
in each step of that journey daunting?
LC: One of the unique ways St. John’s Law
LC: The last six years have flown by, and I look
responded to the recession was to integrate the
career advising and career development function
throughout the Law School. At most law schools,
career advising is the job of a dedicated office.
Of course, we have a terrific Career Development
Office that proactively helps students in
the employment market. But at St. John’s,
everyone—faculty, staff, and administrators—has
a role in helping students get jobs. That means,
first and foremost, that our faculty are teaching
students the knowledge, skills, and values they
need to be successful lawyers. Our curricular
offerings are grounded in the fundamentals,
such as Tax, and are rich in electives, such
as E-Discovery, that prepare students for the
profession that awaits them.
back on them thankful for the opportunity to
serve St. John’s Law. Each step has certainly
brought new challenges. But I love new
challenges, particularly when I’m in such a
supportive environment. I learned a lot from
my predecessor as assistant dean, Katherine
Sullivan ‘77, and, of course, from you when
you were the associate academic dean!
MVT: What direction do you think
St. John’s Law will take in the new legal
academic climate and what’s the most
important change you hope to make in
academics as associate academic dean?
LC: St. John’s isn’t a school that chases after
the latest fad in legal education. We’re a law
school that’s grounded in the fundamentals,
which means that our graduates leave here
able to practice law effectively and ethically
from day one. On the other hand, we’re also
innovating in important areas. This year, all
incoming 1Ls will take an intensive intersession
course called Lawyering, which will teach them
the essential skills of interviewing, counseling,
and negotiation. Few other schools are doing
that in the first year. Our externship program
is combined with an innovative seminar that
teaches real-world skills like factual investigation
and legal project management. We also have a
new course—Business Basics—that introduces
students to the accounting, economic, and
finance concepts they need to know in order to
advise their clients effectively in a wide variety of
practice areas. These changes to the curriculum
were not made lightly. They were the result of
careful study and debate among the faculty. I’m
optimistic about St. John’s Law—we have a great
MVT: Some people think that your
devotion to statistics is, well, zealous.
Why are you so committed to them?
LC: Data can help us understand the world
around us. This includes helping the Law
School to function as effectively as possible.
Statistical analysis of 10 years of bar passage
data helped us understand why students
sometimes fail the bar on the first attempt,
and how to help them. We now understand
and can track employment trends months
ahead of other schools and respond
accordingly. Studying enrollment patterns
helps us identify how often to offer certain
courses, enabling us to deploy our resources
as efficiently as possible. Numbers are good.
MVT: I see that you’re branching out
in your teaching areas. Are you getting
tired of Criminal Law?
LC: Absolutely not. In fact, I‘m returning to
Criminal Law in the spring semester! Dean
Michael Simons and I are splitting the first-year
day class in half and, together, experimenting with
some new teaching techniques. A few years ago,
fed up with the rising cost of textbooks, I compiled
my own set of teaching materials. They compare
and contrast the common law and New York
approaches to crimes. The course is essentially
a march through the New York Penal Law.
Students leave the course with a firm grounding
in a comprehensive penal statute, while also
appreciating the areas in which New York deviates
from the common law and the Model Penal Code.
MVT: Thanks, Larry, for the terrific job
you’re doing.
Fall 2014 l 3
On Sunday, June 1, 2014, 257 J.D. candidates and 54
LL.M. candidates convened at Carnesecca Arena for
commencement exercises that included some 3,000
family, friends, faculty, administrators, staff,
and alumni from the St. John’s Law community.
Welcoming the graduates and their guests, Dean Michael A. Simons said
that as they transition into their professional lives, the members of the
Class of 2014 can be proud of the 60,000 hours of pro bono and public
interest work they did, collectively, to assist their community’s poor and
marginalized through the Law School’s clinics and service initiatives—
selfless service embodying St. John’s Vincentian mission. He also shared
that, as they make their path to the profession and to a rewarding career,
the graduates will have the opportunity, and the challenge, to use their
law degree as a license to do good and to serve justice. “If you meet that
challenge and take that opportunity,” he said, “you will have made for
yourself not just a career, but a life of which you can be truly proud.”
Commencement 2014
With this call to build a meaningful life in the law, Dean Simons
introduced the 2014 commencement speaker, Elisa D. Garcia C. ‘85,
executive vice president and chief legal officer for Office Depot, Inc.
Addressing the graduates, Ms. Garcia noted St. John’s proud tradition of
training so many New Yorkers who, like her, are the first in their families to
enter the legal profession. No matter which path they choose—or which
path chooses them—in the law, she encouraged the graduates to stand
behind a “firm set of values” from the start and to “act with courage
and integrity.” She also emphasized the importance of building a support
network of peers and of seeing the “bigger picture” of opportunities
available to them.
Ms. Garcia closed her remarks by calling on the graduates to “be
adventurous” and by sharing inspiration she found in the final installment of
the acclaimed Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. Looking out on freshly fallen
snow, Hobbes exclaims, “The world looks brand-new!” to which Calvin
replies, “A day full of possibilities … let’s go exploring!”
TRENDS
THE EVOLUTION OF PATENT LAW
IN THE SHARING ECONOMY
L
ooking for a place to stay on
your next trip? There’s Airbnb.
Need a ride downtown? Uber,
Lyft, or Sidecar can get you
there. Care to let the world
know what you’re doing at any given
moment? You can Tweet, Pin, and post
to your heart’s content. As widely
reported in Forbes, the New York
Times, and other news outlets recently,
the sharing economy is here and is on
the rise.
And as our popular culture has evolved
to embrace it, sharing has moved beyond
services to all corners of our lives. For better
or worse, our personal data is a highly
valued, shared commodity. Many software
developers freely share their products and
encourage anyone and everyone to use or
modify them as part of the “open source
movement.” In the law—often a late
adopter—we’re seeing how the new sharing
economy is also bringing about dramatic
changes in the way companies monetize
and enforce their patent assets.
In June, Tesla Motors made headlines
when the electric car company announced
that it wouldn’t initiate lawsuits against
competitors who use its technology.
Instead, Tesla is taking definitive steps to
By Daniel A. DeVito ’87
open avenues for other automakers to use
its inventions. Importantly, however, the
company didn’t give up the right to use its
patents in counter-attacks if sued by other
companies.
Less than a month after Tesla’s
announcement, Google and Canon
launched an initiative aimed at countering
patent lawsuits by “non-practicing entities”
(often referred to as “patent trolls”) who
own patents but do not produce tangible
technologies or products.
The “License on Transfer Network”—or
“LOT Network”—is a new alliance between
high-tech companies which generally
provides that if any member sells patents to
a non-member of the group, then the other
members automatically receive a royalty-free
license against a lawsuit by the transferee.
Notably, the LOT Network is oriented
towards preventing suits by non-practicing
entities specifically, rather than suits
between competing technology companies.
And even more broadly, Google recently
pledged to offer a subset of its patents for
free use by the technology community.
Between the LOT Network, Tesla’s
announcement, and Google’s pledge,
industry observers are touting a new and
potentially revolutionary open patent ethos
in the realm of patented technology. Some
are even heralding these developments as
akin to the open source movement in the
software space, with its broad exchange of
copyrighted software code. In any event,
as more companies start to offer patented
technologies on open and royalty-free
platforms, the legal frameworks for sharing
innovations while retaining the value of
the underlying intellectual property will
continue to evolve.
These recent patent law developments
reflect core tenets of the patent system itself.
As the legal system that governs invention
and innovation, it’s fitting that patent law is
undergoing constant change through the
combined creative efforts of patent holders,
applicants, attorneys, and judges. As with
technological progress, the patent system is
constantly in flux, and it remains to be seen
what the future has in store.
Daniel A. DeVito is a partner at
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher
& Flom LLP. He has extensive
experience litigating intellectual
property cases, including complex
high-technology patent cases, at both the trial and
appellate level. Jonathan H. Ashtor, an associate in
intellectual property and technology at Skadden,
and Rebecca Cress, a summer associate at the
firm, assisted with this opinion piece.
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ADVANCES
Donald L. Drakeman (Cambridge University) teaches the Joint Colloquium in Law and Religion
| Beyond the Four Walls | Virtual Learning Initiatives
Expand the Reach of St. John’s Law
W
hen students from
St. John’s and
Villanova came
together last semester
to study important
issues in law and religion, they didn’t sit in
the same classroom. Instead, they connected
in real time by video link for this inaugural
Joint Colloquium in Law and Religion, a
series of workshops with some of the most
prominent thinkers in the field organized by
Professors Mark L. Movsesian and Marc O.
DeGirolami at St. John’s Law, and by Vice
Dean and Professor Michael P. Moreland at
Villanova Law.
The virtual classroom allowed for a fruitful
exchange between participants at the two
host schools. After the speakers presented
their papers, students had an opportunity to
ask questions and to offer their insights and
opinions on the issues. “It was great to learn
in an innovative environment that used video
conferencing to link students from St. John’s
and Villanova,” said John Boersma ’15, who
participated in the workshops from St. John’s.
“The technology enabled us to learn from
top law and religion scholars and to engage
in interesting dialogue with students from
diverse backgrounds.”
The joint colloquium is just one example
of St. John’s forward-thinking and creative
approach to legal education. “As always,
we’re committed to providing a legal
education that’s very much grounded in
the fundamentals of legal reasoning, legal
analysis, and legal writing,” says Dean
Michael A. Simons. “But we’re also exploring
ways to build on that foundation using
virtual learning technology. Through the
virtual classroom, our faculty can share their
expertise beyond our four walls to reach
students across the country and around
the world. And leading experts can enrich
learning at St. John’s Law from a distance.”
The Law School will expand its virtual
learning initiatives this year to include
four offerings from its prestigious LL.M. in
Bankruptcy program. Through web-based
video conferencing, LL.M. and J.D. students
from a consortium of schools in the United
States and abroad will take an International
Bankruptcy course held at St. John’s Law
and sponsored by the American College of
“The technology enabled us to
learn from top law and religion
scholars and to engage in
interesting dialogue with students
from diverse backgrounds.”
—John Boersma ’15
Bankruptcy. From their respective classrooms,
the students will watch and learn from live
presentations by some of the world’s top
bankruptcy lawyers and academics.
This fall, St. John’s Law is offering its
Bankruptcy Procedure course to practitioners
around the country for Continuing Legal
Education (CLE) credit. The CLE participants
join LL.M. and J.D. students via live web
stream for 13 two-hour evening sessions
taught at St. John’s by Lawrence R. Ahern III,
a leader in this highly specialized practice area
and the co-author of the West Bankruptcy
Procedure Manual. “In bankruptcy practice,
understanding the nuance of procedure
is often the key to success,” Professor
Ahern notes. “This course will increase the
practitioner’s sophistication, benefiting clients,
and imparting practical skills needed to
prevail over adversaries.” From their remote
locations, using a computer or mobile device,
students can ask and respond to questions
and can engage with their classmates and
teachers in virtual chat rooms.
The same synchronous learning technology
is bringing students from multiple schools
together this fall for a Consumer Bankruptcy
course taught by Linda E. Coco. Now an
assistant professor at Barry University School of
Law, Coco previously taught at St. John’s as a
research professor in the LL.M. in Bankruptcy
program. In the spring, adjunct professor Alec
P. Ostrow, a partner at Becker, Glynn, Muffly,
Chassin & Hosinski LLP and a fellow of the
American College of Bankruptcy, will employ
the same distance learning technology to
teach LL.M. and J.D. students taking St. John’s
Corporate Reorganization course.
“We’re excited to provide this innovative
learning environment to law students
and practitioners looking to deepen their
understanding of, and practical skills in,
bankruptcy law,” says G. Ray Warner,
associate dean for bankruptcy studies and
director of St. John’s LL.M. in Bankruptcy
program. “We have partner schools that are
offering our synchronous courses to their
students as one of their courses, and others
are allowing their students to take our courses
as virtual visiting students.”
Although he recognizes that there are
some obstacles to navigate—like daylight
savings time and the occasional snow day
closure—Professor Warner is optimistic.
“This is a positive step for us,” he says.
“The technology is opening a new world of
opportunities to share our expertise and to
build on St. John’s already strong reputation.”
FACULTY FOCUS
Professor Robin A.
Boyle co-authored
an essay for the
newsletter of the
AALS Section on
Legal Writing,
Reasoning, and Research,
entitled, “Erasing Boundaries:
Inter-School Collaboration and
its Pedagogical Opportunities.”
The essay summarizes remarks
from a panel discussion held
at the AALS Annual Meeting
last January featuring Professor
Boyle and colleagues from three
other law schools.
The online journal
Concurrences
nominated
Professor Edward
D. Cavanagh’s
recent Loyola
University Chicago Law Journal
article, “Antitrust Law and
Economic Theory: Finding a
Balance,” for its 2014 Antitrust
Writing Awards.
Associate
Academic
Dean Larry
Cunningham’s
article, “Using
Principles from
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
to Reduce Nervousness in Oral
Argument or Moot Court,”
will be published in the Nevada
Law Journal, a publication of
the William S. Boyd School
of Law at the University of
Nevada, Las Vegas.
Professor Marc
O. DeGirolami’s
article, “Judge
Posner, Judge
Wilkinson, and
Judicial Critique
of Constitutional Theory,”
was accepted for publication
by the Notre Dame Law
Review. Professor DeGirolami
co-authored the article with
Professor Kevin Walsh of the
University of Richmond School
of Law.
At its 32nd Annual
Spring Meeting in
April, the American
Bankruptcy
Institute (ABI)
presented the ABI
Annual Service Award to Elayne
E. Greenberg, assistant dean
for dispute resolution programs,
professor of legal practice, and
director of the Hugh L. Carey
Center for Dispute Resolution.
The organization’s highest
membership award, the Service
Award recognizes the ABI
member whose contributions
over the past year have been
extraordinary, as determined
by ABI’s advisory board of past
presidents. Professor Greenberg
was noted for her leadership
in designing and implementing
the ABI-St. John’s Bankruptcy
Mediation Training, the first
mediation program that
focused solely on bankruptcy.
Since the inaugural training in
December 2011, bankruptcy
lawyers, judges, financial
professionals, and practicing
mediators from around the
country have participated
in the program, applying
their bankruptcy expertise to
the practice and process of
bankruptcy mediation.
Professor Francis
J. Facciolo’s most
recent article,
“Do I Have a
Bridge for You:
Fiduciary Duties
and Financial Advice,” has been
accepted for publication by
the University of Pennsylvania
Journal of Business Law. This
article argues that the current
debate about extending
fiduciary duties to brokerdealers is misguided and that
the focus, instead, should be on
regulating certain compensation
practices that lead to conflicts
of interest. This approach to
regulation has been pioneered
in the United Kingdom with the
Retail Distribution Review and
in Australia with the Future of
Financial Advice initiatives.
“Bargaining with
Consequences:
Leverage and
Coercion in
Negotiation,”
by Professor
Paul F. Kirgis, was published
in the Harvard Negotiation
Law Review. Another article
by Professor Kirgis, “Status
and Contract in an Emerging
Democracy: The Evolution
of Dispute Resolution in
Ghana,” has been accepted
for publication in the Cardozo
Journal of Conflict Resolution.
The Fordham
Law Review
has accepted
Professor Anita S.
Krishnakumar’s
manuscript,
“Longstanding Agency
Interpretations,” for publication.
Professor Krishnakumar
presented earlier versions of
this article at the 2013 AALS
New Voices in Administrative
Law program, a colloquium
on statutory interpretation at
Duke Law School, and a faculty
workshop at Emory Law School.
Professor Peggy
E. McGuinness
completed the
book chapter,
“Treaties,
Federalism,
and the Contested Legacy of
Missouri v. Holland,” which will
appear in the 2014 Cambridge
University Press book, Treaties
in United States Law (edited by
Paul Dubinsky, Greg Fox, and
Brad Roth). Her contribution to
the book’s review of US treaty
law addresses the tension
between the broad national
treaty power envisioned by the
Framers of the Constitution
and the recent resurgence of
federalism in the Supreme
Court’s jurisprudence and
in legal scholarship. In it she
explains how, despite the
constitutional power to regulate
the states through treaty, the
United States has followed
a restrained path that limits
American participation in treaties
that would regulate areas
traditionally left to the states,
while allowing for dynamic
participation of the states in
international law making.
Navigating
Law School’s
Waters: A Guide
to Success by
Professor Patricia
Grade Montana
was published by Vandeplas
Publishing in February 2014.
The book is designed to give
students the tools they need to
successfully navigate their way
through law school. Introducing
the fundamentals of legal
analysis and writing, it teaches
them how to read and brief
cases, outline, study, master
law school exams, and care for
their physical and emotional
well-being. In short, it prepares
students for every aspect of their
journey through law school.
Frederick A.
Whitney
Professor
of Contract
Law Mark L.
Movsesian’s
article, “Defining Religion in
American Law: Psychic Sophie
and the Rise of the Nones,”
was published in the European
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FACULTY FOCUS
University Institute’s Working
Paper Series. His review of
Ronald Dworkin’s book,
Religion without God, appeared
in the journal, Religion and
Human Rights.
“Global English:
The Challenges
for Language
Rights Across
Education,” an
article by Kenneth
Wang Professor of Law
Rosemary C. Salomone,
will be published in a special
issue of the journal Language
Problems and Language
Planning. The article is based
on a paper that Professor
Salomone presented in April at
the Symposium on Language
and Equality sponsored by the
Study Group on Language
and the United Nations in cooperation with the University
of Hartford’s Center for
Research and Documentation
on World Language Problems.
She also presented the article
as a featured speaker at the
Going Global 2014 Conference
for Leaders of International
Education sponsored by the
British Council.
Professor Jeff
Sovern coauthored the
fourth edition of
his West Publishing
Consumer Law
casebook, along with co-editing
the accompanying edition of
Selected Consumer Statutes,
with John A. Spanogle, Jr., Ralph
J. Rohner, Dee Pridgen, and
Christopher L. Peterson. The new
edition has already been used at
law schools around the country,
including Harvard Law School.
Professor Leonard M. Baynes is
Named Dean of the University
of Houston Law Center
In April, Professor Leonard M. Baynes was
selected as the new dean of the University
of Houston Law Center. With his transition
from the full time faculty, St. John’s Law
bids farewell to an exceptional teacher and
a nationally recognized communications law
scholar specializing in race and media issues.
As the inaugural director of the Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil
Rights and Economic Development at St. John’s, Professor Baynes
has built the premier academic center for diversity initiatives in legal
education. More generally, embodying St. John’s Vincentian mission,
he has worked tirelessly to open doors to an inclusive and diverse
legal profession.
The RHB Center has been a force at the Law School since 1999. It
conducts legal studies, research, and outreach on matters that affect
the rights of underrepresented people, while preparing law students
to be leaders on issues of racial, economic, and social justice.
The center’s flagship pipeline initiative, the Ronald H. Brown Prep
Program for College Students, encourages college sophomores and
juniors from under-served groups—often first in their family to attend
college—to apply to law school and pursue legal careers. Launched
in 2005, the two-summer immersion program has grown and thrived
in partnership with St. John’s University, CUNY, and the United Negro
College Fund Colleges. In 2011, Professor Baynes proudly accepted the
American Bar Association’s Alexander Award for Excellence in Pipeline
Diversity on behalf of the Prep Program.
In addition to guiding the RHB Center’s pipeline efforts, Professor
Baynes served as faculty advisor to its official publication, the Journal
of Civil Rights and Economic Development, a student-run forum for
Professor Eva E.
Subotnik’s article,
“Constitutional
Obstacles?
Reconsidering
Copyright
Protection for Pre-1972 Sound
Recordings,” co-authored with
June M. Besek of Columbia Law
School, has been published in
the Columbia Journal of Law
& the Arts. In their article,
Professors Subotnik and Besek
examine the constitutional
implications of proposed
legislation to bring pre-1972
sound recordings under
federal copyright protection. In
addition, Professor Subotnik’s
article, “Intent in Fair Use,”
will be published in the Lewis
& Clark Law Review this fall.
The article explores the role of
a user’s intent in the context
of the fair use defense to
copyright infringement. It
argues for a limited role for
evidence of subjective intent,
proposing criteria for when
such evidence should, and
should not, be weighed in the
fair use calculus.
Cheryl L. Wade,
the Dean Harold F.
McNiece Professor
of Law, has coauthored an article
with Steven A.
Ramirez and andré douglas pond
cummings entitled, “Toward a
Critical Corporate Law Pedagogy
and Scholarship.” The article
was selected for publication
in the symposium issue of the
Washington University Law
Review in connection with the
Midwestern People of Color
Legal Scholarship Conference.
Professor Wade presented portions
of this article at a workshop at
Boston University School of Law
and at the Annual ABA Business
Associations Meeting.
illuminating and discussing critical social justice issues of the day. The
Journal and the RHB Center also collaborate to host special events,
including annual conferences and symposia.
In recognition of the great strides he has made as an educator and
in the field, Professor Baynes received the New York Bar Association’s
Diversity Trailblazer Award and St. John’s prestigious President’s Medal.
“Professor Baynes will be missed as a valued member of the St. John’s
community and as a wonderful colleague and friend,” said Dean
Michael A. Simons. “But our loss will certainly be the University of
Houston’s gain, and we wish him Godspeed as he takes this next step
on his remarkable career path.”
With Professor Baynes’ departure, Professor Elaine M. Chiu will
direct the RHB Center. Professor Chiu focuses her scholarship on some
of the most difficult issues in contemporary criminal justice, including
domestic violence laws, the intersection of cultural beliefs and criminal
liability, and the continuing struggle to deal with drug addiction in the war
on drugs. She also chairs the planning committee of the Northeast People
of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, an annual event that gathers
legal academics from across the country to discuss issues and topics of
importance to communities of color. Professor Rosa C. Castello ‘06,
who teaches legal writing at the Law School, will be the RHB Center’s
assistant director. A summa cum laude graduate of St. John’s Law,
Professor Castello held two federal clerkships and worked as a
litigation associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP before returning to
teach at her alma mater.
“I am forever grateful for the opportunity to serve as a faculty
member at St. John’s Law, where I taught some very talented students,
and to head up the Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and
Economic Development, which gave me the experience working with
alumni and raising funds,” Professor Baynes said. “I am delighted that
the RHB Center will be under the capable leadership of my colleagues
Elaine Chiu and Rosa Castello, and I will always consider myself part
of the St. John’s family.”
SECOND ACTS
Art Imitates Life
Jilliane Hoffman ’89SVC, ’92L Finds Her Muse
Penning Best-Selling Legal Thrillers
illiane Hoffman ‘89SVC, ‘92L
never imagined that she would
write suspense novels for a
living. For the seasoned Miami
prosecutor, it was a case of art
imitating life.
Hoffman arrived at St. John’s
Law intent on becoming a litigator and,
after taking Criminal Procedure with
esteemed Professor Frank S. Polestino, she
knew that criminal law was her calling.
She honed her skills in the Law School’s
mock trial program and as an intern with
the Queens District Attorney’s Office. That
experience “sealed the deal,” Hoffman
recalls, she wanted to be a prosecutor.
So when the Miami State Attorney’s
Office came to campus to interview
students during her 3L year, she jumped
at the opportunity. “I drove to Florida
over Easter break for my second interview,
and while there I was invited to a third
interview with Janet Reno, who was State
Attorney at the time,” she says. “When
the offer letter came in the mail a week
later, complete with a brochure of people
yachting and jet skiing, I packed my bags,
my brand-new husband, Rich, packed his
golf clubs, and we moved to Miami.”
For the better part of the next
decade, Hoffman worked in Miami law
enforcement, first as an Assistant State
Attorney prosecuting felonies, and then
as the regional legal advisor for the
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
(FDLE), where she guided special agents
on complex criminal and civil matters.
“I loved being a prosecutor,” Hoffman says.
“There aren’t many jobs out there where
you know that at the end of each and
every day, you’ve made a difference in
someone’s life. As a prosecutor, you have
the opportunity to bring people justice.
That’s an amazing feeling. At the same
time, it’s difficult to not be affected by
the misfortune and tragedy of others,
and also by the evil that you know
definitively exists in this world.”
As Hoffman explains it, there are
always some cases that, no matter how
many years you’ve been around
the system, and no matter
how many unbelievable things
you’ve seen in those years, still
manage to shock you with their
senselessness and brutality.
She traces her writing
career back to one such case,
sharing: “I was prosecuting
a serial rape case involving
a 14-year-old girl and her
13-year-old sister. They
were coming home
from school when the
defendant popped
out from behind a
building, brandished
a gun, raped one sister,
and made the other watch.”
At trial, the rape victim
was able to recount the
horrific crime for the jury,
but her sister was practically
catatonic on the stand, she
was still so traumatized. “The
jury was crying, the judge was
upset, the gallery was livid, and
the only person in the courtroom
who looked completely composed
was the 17-year-old defendant,”
says Hoffman.
“That’s when I had a thought:
What if this girl had the opportunity
to prosecute her offender? What if she
were me? Would she seek justice or
retribution?”
That thought stuck with Hoffman and,
bit by bit, it developed into the plot for
her first novel. As she worked out the
plotline, it became clear that this new
occupation was consuming more and
more of her time. “Search warrants don’t
get executed at two in the afternoon,
they get executed at two in the morning,”
Hoffman notes. “I had two young
children who needed my attention when
I wasn’t working. So with my husband’s
encouragement, I left FDLE to write the
story that had been growing in my head.”
Hoffman’s s fiction debut, Retribution,
met with critical and popular acclaim,
and she has followed on its success with
four other legal thrillers—two
sequels and two standalone novels. “The
stories I write are
inspired by the
cases I worked in
Miami, the people
I worked alongside,
and the defendants I
prosecuted,” she says.
“My first hope is that
my readers are thrilled
when they read my books.
I try very hard to give them
a page turning, stomachlurching roller coaster ride
through the Miami criminal
justice system where nothing
is what you think it is.
Legal procedure can be
as dull as watching paint
dry. But I strive to make it
exciting for my readers,
and I hope that when
they come to the end of
my books—while still
trying to catch their
breath, of course—
they’ll have a better
understanding of
the law and of the
criminal justice system.”
Fall 2014 l 9
Pope Francis
Opens St. John’s / LUMSA Conference
On International Religious Freedom
Religious freedom is a
“fundamental right of man
that reflects his highest dignity.”
T
his was a central message imparted
by Pope Francis during a June 20,
2014 private audience with some
150 alumni, faculty, students,
trustees, and others from St. John’s University
and the Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta
(LUMSA) in the Hall of the Consistory in the
Papal Palace.
The audience marked the start of a twoday conference on International Religious
Freedom and the Global Clash of Values,
jointly sponsored by the Center for Law and
Religion and the Center for International
and Comparative Law at St. John’s Law and
the Department of Law at LUMSA, a private
Catholic university in Rome. The conference
was organized by St. John’s Law professors
Mark L. Movsesian, Marc O. DeGirolami,
and Peggy E. McGuinness, and by LUMSA
professor Monica Lugato.
Private Audience with Pope Francis
The Papal audience began with remarks
by LUMSA’s rector, Giuseppe Dalla Torre, who
thanked Pope Francis for his support of the
conference and his encouragement to pursue
a rigorous discussion on religious liberty.
Describing the conference as dedicated to
an old theme, which, regrettably, is still an
open issue, Professor Dalla Torre noted: “As
jurists, we are aware of our responsibility to
thoroughly investigate such a diversified and
complex area of law, and to provide society
with the capacity to strengthen existing
guarantees, with a view to making freedom
of religion effective.”
The starting point of such an endeavor,
he emphasized, is the notion of freedom
of religion as an entitlement rooted in the
original and inalienable dignity of the human
person, along the lines of the teaching from
the Second Vatican Council, spelled out in
the declaration Dignitatis Humanae.
Dean Michael A. Simons then addressed
Pope Francis on behalf of St. John’s. Dean
Simons shared that St. John’s University
was founded in 1870 by the Congregation
of the Mission, and remains a Catholic
and Vincentian university very close to the
heart of the Church. With almost 20,000
students, it is the second largest Catholic
university in the United States, well known
for its commitment to Catholic education
and for its dedication to animating the
mission of St. Vincent de Paul in service
to the poor and disenfranchised.
St. John’s is also known for its excellent
law school, Dean Simons explained, which
educates outstanding lawyers through its
diverse curricular offerings. Those offerings
include the Center for Law and Religion,
dedicated to studying the difficult questions
at the intersection of law and religion,
and the Center for International and
Comparative Law, which provides a forum
for exploring law in its global context.
“Religious freedom, acknowledged
in constitutions and laws and
expressed in consistent conduct,
promotes the development of
relationships of mutual respect …”
—His Holiness Pope Francis
“You are an inspiration to all of us here
today, to all of the St. John’s family back
home, and to me personally,” Dean Simons
told Pope Francis, expressing gratitude to
the Holy Father for his leadership of the
Church and for embracing the conference
so fully. Dean Simons then presented
Pope Francis—a soccer enthusiast—with a
personalized St. John’s soccer jersey, which
the Pope received warmly.
Pope Francis next addressed the assembled
conference participants. Recognizing at the
outset that the debate about religious freedom
has become very intense recently, asking
questions of both governments and religious
denominations, he said*:
Legal systems, [ ] whether state or
international, are called upon to recognize,
guarantee and protect religious freedom,
which is an intrinsic right inherent to
human nature, to the dignity of being free,
and is also a sign of a healthy democracy
and one of the principal sources of the
legitimacy of the State.
Religious freedom, acknowledged
in constitutions and laws and expressed
in consistent conduct, promotes the
development of relationships of mutual
respect among the diverse Confessions and
their healthy collaboration with the State
and political society, without confusion
of roles and without antagonism. In
place of the global clash of values, it thus
becomes possible to start from a nucleus
of universally shared values, of global
cooperation in view of the common good.
In light of the acquisitions of reason,
confirmed and refined through revelation
and the civil progress of peoples, it is
incomprehensible and alarming that still
today discrimination and restrictions of
rights continue for the single fact that
one belongs to and publicly professes an
unwavering faith. It is unacceptable that
real persecution is actually sustained for
reasons of religious affiliation! Wars as
well! This distorts reason, attacks peace
and humiliates human dignity.
It causes me great pain to know that
Christians in the world submit to the
greatest amount of such discrimination.
Persecution against Christians today is
actually worse than in the first centuries of
the Church, and there are more Christian
martyrs today than in that era. This is
happening more than 1,700 years after the
edict of Constantine, which gave Christians
the freedom to publicly profess their faith.
I truly hope that your conference defines
in depth and great precision the justifications
that obligate every legal system to respect
and defend religious freedom. I thank you for
this contribution. I ask that you pray for me.
From my heart I wish you the best and I ask
God to bless you. Thank you.
“It really was quite special and
memorable to have the Pope give remarks
on a subject we study, at an audience we
Fall 2014 l 11
attended, for a conference we organized,”
Professor DeGirolami said. Before the
audience ended, the Pope personally
greeted many of the guests, including
Richard F. Hans ’93 and his wife, Siobhan.
“After the birth of our three children, it
might have been one of the most profound
experiences of my life,” Hans said. “Pope
Francis’s humility is overwhelming and
powerful.” Hans also found the Pope’s
message compelling. “Freedom of religion
is a right cherished by people around the
globe. They long for it as a right, but too
often are denied it. It’s incumbent upon us
as lawyers to do all we can to preserve and
protect that right.”
Calling his meeting with Pope
Francis an “awe inspiring and humbling
experience,” Joseph M. Mattone, Sr. ‘53C,
‘55L, ‘94HON described the very poignant
moment when his wife, Mary Ann, handed
the Pope a copy of a book chronicling the
life and work of Father Pierre-Marie Benoît,
a courageous French Capuchin priest who
helped thousands of Jews escape France
during the Holocaust by supplying forged
Church documents.
holy man who is aware of, and fully bears,
the responsibility of his office,” she said.
Conference Proceedings
Over the next two days, the conference
provided a forum in which leading scholars,
practicing lawyers, and diplomats from
around the globe—people of different
faiths and no faith—contributed to
the growing body of scholarship and
knowledge about religious freedom
and the challenges confronting it at the
international, national, and local levels.
“As institutions sharing a Catholic ethos,
LUMSA and St. John’s have a special
responsibility to foster discussion on
international religious freedom, promoting
an open and transparent dialogue with
all interested actors on key legal issues,”
Professor Lugato said.
Thomas Farr, an eminent scholar of law
and religion at Georgetown University’s
Berkley Center, keynoted the conference
and discussed the historical and current
panorama of international religious
freedom. Three panel sessions followed.
The first concerned political and diplomatic
respect for national identity; and the Italian
context, in which legislation on religious
freedom is slowly emerging.
The third panel focused on Islamic
and Christian perspectives on religious
freedom and international human rights,
and brought together highly respected
voices in these areas: Abdullahi Ahmed
An-Na‘im of Emory University, Olivier Roy of
the European University Institute, and Nina
Shea of the Hudson Institute. Among other
things, this panel addressed the worldwide
persecution of Christians, particularly at the
hands of Islamist groups, that Pope Francis
had addressed in his remarks. Professor
Giuseppe Dalla Torre, a noted expert in
the area of law and religion, offered
concluding remarks.
“This was the third international
conference the Center for Law and Religion
has sponsored,” noted Professor Movsesian.
“It was wonderful to work with our
colleagues at the Center for International
and Comparative Law and at LUMSA.”
Reflecting on the interplay of human rights
and religious freedom explored at the
conference, Professor McGuinness said:
Peter O’Connor ’16, a student in
the Law School’s summer study abroad
program in Rome, found the Papal
audience equally inspiring. “The experience
was thrilling,” he shared. “Pope Francis’s
remarks reflect the dynamism of his
pontificate and his absolute commitment
to interreligious dialogue and peaceful coexistence. And his endorsement of
St. John’s/LUMSA conference shows not
only his support for these broad ideals
but, more specifically, that St. John’s Law
is one to take up this campaign.” Hearing
the Pope refer to lawyers as defenders
of religious freedom was particularly
meaningful for Christina Vlahos ’17, who
starts her legal studies at St. John’s this year
as an International Honors Program Scholar.
“I felt that I was in the presence of a truly
perspectives on religious freedom. Panelists
included Heiner Bielefeldt, the United
Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of
Religion or Belief; Hon. Kenneth F. Hackett,
the United States Ambassador to the
Holy See; and Pasquale Annicchino of the
European University Institute.
In the second session, three
distinguished academics—Roberto
Zaccaria of the University of Florence,
Marco Ventura of the University of Siena
and Catholic University Leuven, and
Francisca Pérez-Madrid of the University
of Barcelona—explored several issues in
comparative religious freedom: the right
of asylum in cases of religious persecution;
religious liberty in Europe, where the
demands of European political and legal
integration must be balanced against
“The conference highlighted the challenges
facing governments like the United States
which have incorporated religious freedom
into their human rights policies, as well as
the United Nations, which must balance the
interests of different national and regional
traditions when defining and protecting
freedom of religion, a core commitment of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
Jessica Wright ’14, who attended the
conference as a two-year student fellow of
the Center for Law and Religion, observed
that the conference brought together
many of the issues she had studied and
researched at St. John’s Law. “Some
of the speakers challenged the ability
of universal international human rights
regimes to protect religious freedom,”
she said. “From inside a Western liberal
democracy, it’s quite easy to forget that
there are competing perspectives, and
the conference certainly brought some
of the minority perspectives to light. I
think that’s very important, especially for
international lawyers who are seeking
ways to promote religious freedom on a
global scale.”
Christina Vlahos agreed, sharing:
“The conference proceedings brought
home that religious freedom is worth
exploring, at an interdisciplinary level, on
local, regional, national, and international
scales. The matter of respecting cultural
heritage and historical tradition, as well as
valuing human rights and the protection
of peace, is a global responsibility.”
Additional Weekend Activities
The St. John’s participants—including
alumni members of the advisory boards
of the Center for Law and Religion and
Center for International and Comparative
Law, student fellows of the centers, and
International Honors Program Scholars—
were treated to a full suite of activities
before and during the conference.
On the Thursday before the
conference, they attended the Law and
Religion Seminar taught by Professors
Movsesian and DeGirolami as part of the
Law School’s Rome summer program.
They also took a guided tour of two
ancient Christian churches, the Basilicas
of San Clemente and Santi Quattro
Coronati. That evening, Dean Simons and
his wife, Karen, hosted a dinner for the
alumni guests at the Hotel InterContinental,
while Professors DeGirolami and Lugato
took part in a dinner for conference
participants hosted by LUMSA.
“Professor Movsesian’s and Professor
DeGirolami’s class was a wonderful
introduction to the academic discourse
at St. John’s,” Vlahos said. “Each event
and activity, including the sightseeing
and the dinner reception, was a valuable
component of an instructive, engaging,
and thoughtfully organized event that I
thoroughly enjoyed.”
Looking back on the time in Rome,
Dean Simons said: “I’m truly grateful for
the generosity of our alumni and friends
who helped make this special event
Center for Law
and Religion
•
•
•
possible. The audience with Pope Francis
was a remarkable occasion for the
St. John’s community and a very
auspicious introduction to the
conference’s scholarly dialogue on
religious freedom. The conference
showcased our outstanding faculty
and excellent centers. It also provided
a tremendous learning opportunity for
the many students who participated.
We treasure our close partnership with
LUMSA, without which this conference—
and the Papal audience—never would
have happened. And we look forward
to continuing this vital conversation on
religious freedom in the near future and
for years to come.”
*The excerpts of Pope Francis’s remarks
included in this story were translated from
the original remarks in Italian. Both the
official translation and the original remarks
are archived on the Vatican website at
w2.vatican.va.
Welcoming prominent voices in law and religion as guest
bloggers on the center’s award-winning website, the Center for Law and Religion Forum
The Center for Law and Religion engages
in the study of law and religion from
domestic, international, and comparative
perspectives. It hosts academic programs
in the United States and abroad in order to examine the role
of law in the relationship between religion and the state;
explore the concept of law in different religious traditions; and
promote St. John’s Vincentian mission by encouraging an open
dialogue on law and religion in local, national, and international
communities.
• Hosting a talk in Manhattan on the human rights concerns of Mideast Christians
In the coming year, the center will embark on several new
scholarly and teaching projects that will further promote its
aims and enrich the discipline of law and religion, including:
To learn more about the Center for Law and Religion and its
programs and initiatives, including the June 2014 conference
on international religious freedom, visit clrforum.org.
Organizing a new colloquium in law and religion for
St. John’s law students, whose participants will include judges and leading scholars in the field
Hosting talks on important law and religion issues and cases, including the Hobby Lobby decision and its effects on future cases
Fall 2014 l 13
TAKING THE STRUGGLE
FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
TO THE WORLD STAGE
St. John’s Law Honors Hon. Kenneth F. Hackett, United States Ambassador to the Holy See
A
ccording to a recent
study, more than 5 billion
people—74 percent of
the world’s population—
live in countries where
there are high levels
of government restrictions or social
hostilities involving religion.
This sobering news was shared by
Hon. Kenneth F. Hackett, the United States
Ambassador to the Holy See, during his
panel presentation at St. John’s recent
Rome conference on international religious
freedom. “This is a global problem, and it
will require a global solution,” Ambassador
Hackett said, adding, “It is our responsibility
today to ensure that the world of tomorrow
is a safer place for people of all religions than
the world was yesterday.”*
His remarks shed light on challenges and
opportunities at the intersection of the law
and the diplomacy of human rights, which
Ambassador Hackett is well acquainted
with. Before President Barack Obama
nominated him for his current position in the
Vatican diplomatic corps on June 14, 2013,
Ambassador Hackett had a distinguished 40year career at the international humanitarian
agency Catholic Relief Services (CRS). Working
on the ground, he coordinated the agency’s
response to widespread famine and other
crises in Africa and elsewhere overseas before
serving as its president from 1993-2012.
To honor Ambassador Hackett’s
diplomatic service and humanitarian work,
and to bring together the academic and
diplomatic participants of the conference,
St. John’s hosted an evening reception at the
University’s Rome campus. Joining the St.
John’s faculty, students, alumni, and friends
in attendance were the Ambassadors to
the Holy See from Australia, Benin, Brazil,
Bulgaria, Taiwan, Croatia, Dominican Republic,
Egypt, El Salvador, Ecuador, Honduras,
Hungary, Lithuania, Mexico, Monaco, Panama,
Paraguay, Peru, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia,
the United Kingdom, and Uruguay.
Addressing the assembled guests, Dean
Michael A. Simons praised Ambassador
Hackett for his long tenure at CRS.
“Wherever there was pain and suffering,
Ken Hackett was there, bringing relief
and bringing healing,” he said. “For 40
years, he truly walked in the footsteps of
St. Vincent de Paul.” Dean Simons then
presented Ambassador Hackett with an
award in recognition of his Vincentian
leadership and service.
“At the conference, Ambassador
Hackett spoke about the ways in which the
US State Department has been integrating
the promotion of religious freedom into its
foreign policy approach,” recalled Jessica
Wright ’14. “At the diplomatic reception
later that evening, I was able to discuss this
topic with him further. The reception was also
a great opportunity for St. John’s students
to get together and discuss issues from the
conference, and to ask questions of the other
diplomats and scholars present. For example,
Heiner Bielefeldt, the United Nations Special
Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief,
spoke with a group of students about his
work, and about his outlook on the state of
affairs in the Middle East.”
“Ambassador Hackett’s participation
in an international conference on religious
freedom underscores how central human
rights have become to the everyday work
of US diplomats,” noted Professor Peggy E.
McGuinness, co-director of the St. John’s
Center for International and Comparative
Law. “The US Embassy to the Holy See
works closely with the Pope and his advisors
on how best to promote religious freedom
around the world—not just through legal
adjudication, but as a matter of international
relations.” Professor McGuinness’s current
research focuses on the ways diplomatic
efforts to promote human rights have
influenced the development of human rights
law. “It was a wonderful evening and we
made new friends among the ambassadors
who attended,” she said.
The alumni guests engaging with the
St. John’s Law students included Center
for International and Comparative Law
advisory board members Elizabeth
Defeis ’56UC, ’58L, ’84HON, professor of
law at Seton Hall University School of Law;
Lisa Kurbiel ’92, chief of the Social Policy,
Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation Unit
at UNICEF Somalia; and Jennifer Ismat ’09,
legal consultant at the United Nations
Mine Action Office in Sudan. “I had the
opportunity to meet a lot of very interesting
alumni and to learn about the work they’re
doing in the international human rights
arena and in other practice areas,” said
Katharine Suominen ’16, who attended
the conference as an International Honors
Program Scholar. “Every single one of them
is proud of their St. John’s affiliation and
happy as lawyers pursuing meaningful work.
That’s very inspiring.”
*A full transcript of Ambassador Hackett’s
conference remarks can be found at
vatican.usembassy.gov.
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When In Rome
St. John’s participants were treated to a full suite of
activities before and during the conference.
CENTER PIECE
early stages of my legal career. Its reputation leads others to demand a
well-reasoned, thorough work product, and the quality of its education
and training allows alumni to consistently deliver.” Reflecting on the
evening, Associate Academic Dean Larry Cunningham said: “This event
was a wonderful opportunity to bring together prospective and current
students, faculty, and alumni who share a commitment to excellence in
international and comparative law. As part of a law school in a global
city, it’s only fitting that the Center for International and Comparative
Law is a leader in the field.”
The center enters its fifth year with an expanded slate of projects.
Its Pro Bono for International Justice Initiative, started in 2013, engages
students in projects that promote international justice while they
fulfill the recent New York State pro bono requirement. As part of the
initiative, the center teams with the International Criminal Tribunal
for Rwanda to update an appellate digest, and works with two nongovernmental organizations to promote corporate accountability for
human rights violations committed outside the United States. The
center also conducts research for the Mission of the Holy See to the
United Nations. According to Professor Peggy E. McGuinness, the
center’s co-director, “the new pro bono initiative gets students working
for clients on real cases, allowing them to hone their skills under the
supervision of experienced attorneys.”
Through the center’s student fellows program, St. John’s Law 2Ls
The midtown Manhattan office of Willkie Farr &
and 3Ls work with center-affiliated professors on research projects;
Gallagher LLP was the setting for a May 22, 2014
present and publish work as part of the center’s Roundtable Series;
reception celebrating the close of another successful year
and take leadership roles on the center’s projects and events,
for the Center for International and Comparative Law.
including its Global Speakers Series and annual conference. “Being
a student fellow has been a great complement to my international
The event honored the center’s departing student fellows, welcomed
studies,” said Marissa Harrell ’15. “My involvement with the center
its new student fellows, and served as the official launch of its new
International Honors Program. Over 75 students, faculty, administrators, has deepened my research into international topics, introduced me
to international scholars and practitioners, and exposed me to the
and alumni—including Hon. Mario M. Cuomo ‘53C, ‘56L,’75HON
practical application of international law.”
and center advisory board members Joseph Braunreuther ‘80, Elizabeth
The center’s new International Honors Program launched this
Defeis ’56UC, ’58L, ’84HON, and Mark A. Meyer ’71, ‘07HON—
fall, thanks in part to the generosity of Yasuhiro Saito ’92, founding
attended the event, which was generously hosted by Willkie
partner at Saito Sorenson LLP. The five St. John’s Law students
Co-Chairman Steven J. Gartner ’84.
selected for the program plan to pursue
“Willkie Farr & Gallagher has long
international legal practice. They receive
played an important role at St. John’s
a partial or full-tuition scholarship to
Law, especially since the days when
fund their studies, and have access to
John D’Alimonte ‘68 ran the firm,
additional stipends to fund research,
said Brian J. Woods, the Law School’s
academic travel, and student teaching.
executive director of development
“International Law is one of the more
and alumni relations. “Many St. John’s
popular areas of law for prospective
graduates begin their legal careers at
students,” said Robert M. Harrison,
Willkie and rise to prominence there
L-R: Sarah Melore ‘17, Hon. Mario M. Cuomo ‘53C, ‘56L,’75HON, CICL
Co-Director Peggy E. McGuinness, PJ Campbell ‘14, and CICL Co-Director
the Law School’s associate dean for
or in prestigious in-house positions.
Christopher J. Borgen
admissions and financial services.
The strong St. John’s Law connection
“Being able to offer the International Honors Program will greatly
continues today as Steve Gartner and his co-chairman, Thomas M.
enhance our ability to attract and recruit highly qualified applicants.”
Cerabino ’81, lead the firm.” Gratefully acknowledging Willkie’s
Students also applaud the program. “More than providing me
generosity in hosting the reception, Woods added: “Being 20 minutes
with unique opportunities to gain early exposure to international law
from midtown Manhattan affords St. John’s Law easy access to its
and to help other law students, the International Honors Program has
most prominent alumni, and connecting incoming students and
connected me with indispensible mentors,” Elizabeth Tippett ’16
current students with them on a regular basis helps to strengthen our
said. “Professor McGuinness has been incredibly helpful in answering
unmatched alumni network.”
my questions and in helping me explore a range of options in the field
Peter Sluka ’13, a first year associate at Willkie, agreed, sharing:
of international law.”
“My connection to St. John’s has been a remarkably helpful asset in the
ST. JOHN’S CENTER FOR
INTERNATIONAL AND
COMPARATIVE LAW
MARKS ANOTHER
SUCCESSFUL YEAR
Fall 2014 l 17
H
arold K. Goldstein recently donated the
St. John’s Law diploma that his father,
David A. Goldstein ‘28, earned as a member
of the Law School’s first graduating class. In
the letter reproduced below, he reflects on his
father’s meaningful, productive, and inspiring
life in the law.
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introduced in 1862. Shunned
by many merchants, beloved
by collectors of United States
Bicentennial mementos, the
$2 bill is making a comeback
of sorts these days in the
hands of hip hop stars, pop musicians,
former presidents, and average citizens
nationwide.
Quietly behind the scene of the
resurgence is Steven J. Reisman ‘90.
About nine years ago, Reisman—who
co-chairs the Restructuring
and Insolvency Group as
a partner at Curtis, MalletPrevost, Colt & Mosle
LLP—was in a New York
City taxicab when the driver
handed him a $2 bill in his
change. According to Reisman,
seeing the $2 bill made his day—
he felt lucky. And that was
his aha moment. “For some
time, I’d been thinking
about how fortunate I
am in life with my family,
friends, profession, etc. and
how I wanted to give back
to others in a way that I could see the
immediate impact,” Reisman says. “There’s
nothing better than making someone
smile and making them feel special. So I
got out of the cab and went straight to
the bank, where I bought all the $2 bills
they could spare.”
Since then, Reisman has made a daily
habit of giving away $2 bills. He gives
them to people he meets, to clients, to
friends, and even leaves them on subway
seats and, as the intended recipient calls
after him, he replies, “That’s for you,
for good luck and for good health!” He
gives them to taxi drivers as he enters
the cab, and he leaves them for servers
in restaurants apart from the tip. And, as
recently reported in Complex magazine,
he’s an avid music fan who regularly hands
the bills to entertainers like Jay Z, Drake,
and fellow St. John’s alumnus J. Cole.
While his organic acts of kindness have
earned him the nickname “The $2 Bill
Man” along with the social media spotlight
and close relationships with celebrities,
Reisman isn’t in it for the attention or for
the business as he doesn’t represent any
of his friends in the music arena. Paying it
forward is the payoff. “My hope is that if
the $2 bill makes someone’s day brighter,
they’ll pass it on by being nicer and
brightening someone else’s day and so on,”
he explains.
Steven J. Reisman
company’s entire legal department, he
was asked by the last interviewer if he
had any questions. He didn’t, but when
the interviewer pressed on, Reisman said
that he had read the most recent 10K
filing and wondered “why an insurance
broker would be investing (and losing
money) in interest rates futures.” He was
hired on the spot.
That same tenacity earned Reisman
a summer associate position at Curtis
the next year, which he parlayed into
a job during his 3L year and into a first
year associate position in
the firm’s “just started”
bankruptcy practice. Even
the most seasoned partners
were surprised at how hard
Reisman worked. “I put in
60 to 70-plus-hour
weeks at Curtis in
my third year of law
school to pay for
school” Reisman
recalls, “and I’ve been
at Curtis ever since.”
At Curtis, Reisman
makes a concerted effort
to hire from St. John’s. “I’d
much rather hire someone who had a
paper route or worked at McDonald’s as
a kid, worked their way through college,
and then went to St. John’s Law and
excelled,” he says. “The combination
of street smarts, hard work, and
sound legal education is a significant
advantage. That’s the person who will
continue to work hard for you, day and
night. St. John’s gave me the building
blocks to succeed in the legal practice
and I try to pay it forward every day.”
So, if you happen to meet Reisman or
are one of those people fortunate enough
to receive a $2 bill from him, remember to
smile and to pay it forward and, hopefully,
the circle will grow because, as Reisman
says, “The $2 bills are for good luck and
good health—and good luck is the residue
of hard work.”
’90
THE “$2 BILL MAN”
PAYS IT FORWARD
Reisman also traces his intentions
back to his strong belief that “we are all
the same.” It’s a perspective on privilege
that comes from life experience. Growing
up on Long Island, Reisman always had
a job starting at age 12. That work ethic
carried through his college years at SUNY
Oneonta and to St. John’s Law, where he
excelled academically.
He found a law school mentor in
Professor David L. Gregory, who suggested
that he interview for a first year summer
associate position at Marsh & McLennan
Companies, Inc. Reisman, who was up
against candidates from Columbia, NYU,
Brooklyn and Fordham, researched the
company before the interview, but was
sure that the offer would go to someone
from an elite law school. Towards the
end of a full day of interviews with the
Fall 2014 l 19
ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS
Dear Fellow Alumni,
I’m honored to serve as
president of the St. John’s
Law Alumni Association,
and to give back in this
way to the institution that
has done so much for me
and my family.
The Alumni Association plays multiple
key roles. First, we help to recruit students.
Many of us do this informally when a son,
daughter, niece, or nephew of a colleague
or friend needs advice on which law school
to attend. And some of us work closely
with the Law School’s admissions office
to actively recruit our best and brightest.
Both of these activities are very important
and reinforce the family environment
that is a hallmark of St. John’s Law. It’s
an environment that our dynamic dean,
Michael A. Simons, values and nurtures to
the benefit of our faculty and students.
Second, the Alumni Association strives
to pay it forward by financially supporting
alma mater. As illustrated in these pages, last
year was a banner year for alumni giving. I
invite you to sustain this positive momentum
by providing the private support St. John’s
Law needs to remain competitive and to
climb in the rankings. We’re all beneficiaries
of a wonderful legal education, and it’s
our privilege to help the Law School and its
students thrive now and into the future.
Last, but certainly not least, the Alumni
Association plays an active role in obtaining
jobs for St. John’s Law students. Our alumni
network is one of the Law School’s greatest
strengths. If you have an opening or know
someone who is looking for a talented young
lawyer, please contact Jeanne Ardan ’95,
assistant dean for career development, at
[email protected]. Let’s always look to
hire St. John’s first!
As the Law School approaches its 90th
anniversary in 2015, it’s important to recall
our founding mission of opening doors to a
legal education to all. As an alumni family,
let’s mark this wonderful milestone and
reaffirm this great mission by giving back
to alma mater, so that new generations
can enjoy all that St. John’s Law offers.
I look forward to seeing you at our
Alumni Association events.
Sincerely,
Andrea M. Alonso ’78C, ’81L
President
St. John’s Law Alumni Association
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and Judge Jones’s son, T.J., attended
the outing, offering his gratitude on
behalf of the Jones family. All of the
proceeds from the day go to support
the Law School’s Hon. Theodore T.
Jones, Jr. ’72 Memorial Scholarship Fund.
1 l Alfred J. Will ’75 was the featured
speaker at the Joseph A. Calamari
Admiralty Law Society Annual Dinner,
which was held at Villa D’Este in Floral
Park, NY on April 22, 2014. A partner at
Badiak & Will, LLP in Mineola, NY, Will
is a longtime practitioner in the field of
Admiralty Law.
3 l The scenic Loeb Boathouse Central
2 l On May 5, 2014, the Alumni
Association held its annual Hon.
Theodore T. Jones, Jr. ’72, ’07HON
Memorial Golf Outing at Wykagyl
Country Club in New Rochelle, NY.
Over 100 alumni and friends
participated in the day-long event,
which included a dinner program
honoring Hon. Alan Scheinkman ’75,
Administrative Judge for the Ninth
Judicial District in Westchester County.
Justice Scheinkman shared fond
memories of Judge Jones and his
days, first as a student and, later,
as a professor, at St. John’s Law.
Philip McManus ’68C, ’72L, a classmate
of Judge Jones, served as event chair,
Park was the setting for the Manhattan
Chapter’s annual Hon. John E. Sprizzo
Reception on May 19, 2014. Dean
Michael A. Simons welcomed the guests,
which included alumni and friends of the
Law School and distinguished state and
federal judges. After a warm introduction
by his friend Nicholas M. Cannella ’75,
Hon. Dennis Jacobs ‘09HON of the
United States Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit graciously accepted
the 2014 Hon. John E. Sprizzo Award.
Named in honor of its first recipient,
the late Hon. John E. Sprizzo ‘56C,
‘59L, United States District Judge for
the Southern District of New York, the
Sprizzo Award recognizes lawyers for
their commitment to the Rule of Law.
ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS
At the Alumni Association Annual Meeting on May 21, 2014, Dean Michael A.
Simons presented outgoing president Nicholas M. Cannella ’75 an award in
recognition of his outstanding leadership over the past year. Incoming President
Andrea M. Alonso ‘78C, ‘81L thanked Cannella and expressed how much she
looks forward to serving her fellow alumni along with the Alumni Association’s
new slate of officers and directors:
Officers
President-Elect
Alfred C. Cerullo, III ’86
Vice Presidents
Kathryn Carney Cole ‘02
Steven J. Gartner ’84
Richard F. Hans ’93
Secretary
Hon. Daniel Angiolillo ’77
Treasurer
Michael X. Mattone ’91
4 l On June 4, 2014, the annual Suffolk
Chapter Golf Outing took place at the
beautiful Cherry Creek Golf Links in
Riverhead, NY. For the 20th consecutive
year, William Farrell ’82 organized this
special event, working his magic to create
a perfect day for over 80 golfers on the
course.
Directors
Second Three-Year Term
Expires 2017
Frank A. Cavanagh ’07
Esterina Giuliani ’06
David P. Lesch ’90
Rachel R. Paras ’04
Robert A. Ungar ’87
First Three-Year Term
Expires 2017
Joan Albright ’82
Steven J. Eisman ’79
Jonathan I. Friedman ’95
Darryl Gibbs ’00
Robert J. O’Hare ’93
Hon. Elaine Jackson Stack ’79
Eun Chong (EJ) Thorsen ’08
Term Expires in 2015
Danelco Moxey ’10
Term Expires in 2016
Howard V. Sontag ’75
Melissa C. King ‘09
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5 l Alumni came together for the
Brooklyn Chapter Spring Reception at
Caffe Buon Gusto on June 11, 2014. This
year’s event honorees were Bruce I.
Baron ’87, who received the Alumni
Achievement Award, and Maria E.
Marti ’93, who received the Hon. Guy J.
Mangano Award. It was a delightful
evening with over 60 family members,
friends, and alumni there to celebrate
two outstanding St. John’s Law alumni.
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6 l On June 16, 2014, 30 alumni
gathered at the Metropolitan Club in
Manhattan for an Attorneys as Authors
Schermerhorn Scholars Luncheon,
where they reconnected with friends
old and new. The brain-child of John
Downing ’60, the luncheon culminated
with a panel discussion, moderated by
Professor Margaret Valentine Turano ’77,
that featured four esteemed alumni
who share a passion for writing: Joseph
Mattone, Sr. ’53C, ’55L, ’94HON, Henry
Miller ’59, William Tucker ’62, and Frank
Amoroso ’74. Dean Michael A. Simons
addressed the guests, highlighting the
connection between the law and skilled
writing, and giving an update on alma
mater. The luncheon was sponsored
by William Tucker, and guests enjoyed
wine donated by Schermerhorn
alumnus Salvatore Diliberto ’70 and
the Diliberto Winery.
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ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS
New York City’s iconic Apollo Theater set the stage for
An Evening in Harlem hosted by the Alumni of Color Chapter
in June. Jonelle Procope ’77, President and CEO of the Apollo
Theater Foundation, Inc., welcomed the 50 attendees to the
famed artistic venue and community cornerstone, where she
has been charting a course to revitalization for over a decade.
The group toured the building that has showcased emerging and established artists—including Ella Fitzgerald, James
Brown, and Michael Jackson—for some 80 years.
The evening continued with a reception at the critically
acclaimed eatery, Red Rooster Harlem. After opening remarks from chapter president Alain Massena ’00, Vice Dean
Emeritus Andrew J. Simons ’65 introduced Daniel Paterson,
who addressed the group in memory of his father, Hon. Basil
A. Paterson ’48C, ’51L, ’79HON, who distinguished himself
as a political leader, civil rights champion, and labor lawyer
during more than 60 years of service to the people of New
York. Hon. Charles B. Rangel ’60, ’83HON, Representative
from New York’s 13th Congressional District, also spoke of
Paterson as a colleague and friend, and made all present
“Honorary Citizens of Harlem.”
Before the event concluded, the chapter honored
Congressman Rangel for his service to the community. St.
John’s Law Professors Elaine M. Chiu and Janai S. Nelson then
joined Dean Andrew Simons in presenting Professor Leonard M. Baynes with a token of appreciation for his longtime
leadership of the Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and
Economic Development at the Law School. Professor Baynes
left St. John’s recently to become Dean of the University of
Houston Law Center.
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7 l Relaxation and spectacular ocean views
8 l On August 15, 2014, Terence
were on tap in Southampton on July 26,
2014 when Professor Margaret Valentine
Turano ’77 and John Turano ’69 hosted an
informal gathering of alumni and friends
at their summer home. Among the guests
were Westchester County District Attorney
Janet M. DiFiore ’81 and her husband
Dennis Glazer ’79, and Bob Bohner ’56C,
‘58L and his wife, Mary.
Winter ’88 hosted a small group of
St. John’s Law alumni for lunch and a
set visit in New York City. His awardwinning HBO series, Boardwalk Empire,
was shooting a scene at the Essex House
on Central Park South for its final episode.
One of the most productive and critically
acclaimed writers in Hollywood, Winter
was writer and executive producer for
The Sopranos and penned the screenplay
for The Wolf of Wall Street, which earned
him an Academy Award nomination. He
is currently collaborating with Martin
Scorsese and Mick Jagger on another HBO
project that explores the 1970s
music industry in New York.
REUNION ’64
CLASS OF 1964
50th Reunion
The Class of 1964 50th
Reunion weekend included
an invitation from Dean
Michael A. Simons to be
his special guest at the Law
School’s commencement
exercises on June 1, 2014.
After watching the newest St.
John’s Law graduates join the
close-knit alumni family, the
reunion celebrants enjoyed
a private luncheon with
Dean Simons. The montage
below samples a wonderful
scrapbook created and
shared by Brian Jones ‘64.
Fall 2014 l 23
Alumni
Spotlight
Tonia A. Sayour ’03
Partner, Cooper & Dunham LLP
ven as a high school
student in her native
New York City, Tonia A.
Sayour ’03 knew that the
law was her chosen field.
Her parents, immigrants from Syria, had
advised her from an early age to pick a
career that was unique and that set her
apart from others. Their advice inspired
Sayour to pursue an engineering degree
at Polytechnic University which, in turn,
opened her eyes to the possibilities
of marrying science and the law—a
professional path that wasn’t particularly
common at the time, especially for women.
Sayour decided on St. John’s Law because
of its proximity to home and for its “New
York heart,” both in the geographic and
the compassionate sense of that phrase.
As she shares below, in the decade since
her graduation from St. John’s Law, she
has forged a rewarding career as a partner
at Cooper & Dunham LLP, an intellectual
property law firm in Manhattan.
How did St. John’s help you chart your
career path in intellectual property
law and, more particularly, as a
litigator in the IP arena?
As a litigator, I’m extremely grateful to
St. John’s for providing me with a solid
foundation in litigation fundamentals. To
this day, I still refer to my outline from
Evidence, a class I took with Professor
[Paul F.] Kirgis. I had it bound and it’s a
reference in my office (one that I even
refer associates to).
What were some of the highlights of
your time at St. John’s?
Aside from the academic and professional
support that St. John’s provided, the most
important highlight of my time in law
school was meeting my supportive and
loving husband, Stephen Romano ‘03.
We met when we were 3Ls, married three
years later, and now have two beautiful
young girls, with a third child on the way.
What do you enjoy the most about
your work in IP litigation and
counseling?
The variety. My practice involves an
equal balance between prosecution and
litigation, mostly in the areas of patent
and trademark law. I enjoy the breadth of
issues and the diversity of work that I get
to deal with on a day-to-day basis. It also
helps that I get to work with, and learn
from, really great and talented people.
How have the opportunities for law
students with STEM backgrounds
evolved in the decade since you
started practicing law?
When I started at St. John’s, there weren’t
many engineers in law school. That’s
changed over the course of a decade
as the market has shifted to meet the
growing IP demand. Since last year, the
landscape of patent law has seen some
major changes with the passage of the
America Invents Act. With that, greater
opportunities will present themselves for
law students with STEM backgrounds,
especially in connection with the newly
formed Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
As a partner in your law firm, you
clearly have achieved in your chosen
profession. If a current St. John’s
Law student asked you for advice on
creating a successful career in the
law, what would you tell her or him?
I would offer the same advice that my
parents gave me: Work hard and pick
something that allows you to distinguish
yourself in the field. I would also tell them
to choose a career that challenges them
each day to do their very best.
CLASS NOTES
1954
Theodore A. Borrillo penned Denver’s
Historic Elitch Theatre: A Nostalgic Journey, a
fascinating story about the world famous Elitch
Theatre and the actors that graced its stage.
On January 2, 2014, Hon.
Steven Tekulsky was sworn
in as an East Hampton town
justice.
1959
The New York County Lawyers’ Association
presented John L. Amabile with the Boris
Kostelanetz President’s Medal in recognition
of his extraordinary record of dedication to the
organization and his distinguished service to
the legal profession.
1967
Hon. Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick was named
vice chair of the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on
the Judiciary in New York City.
Ashley Saunders Lipson has penned Courtroom
Use and Misuse of Mathematics, Physics and
Finance Cases, Lessons and Materials (Carolina
Academic Press).
1973
Thomas J. Principe, a partner at Kramer, Dillof,
Livingston, & Moore, was appointed to the
Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary
in New York City.
1974
Frank Amoroso has written his
first novel, “Behind Every Great
Fortune,” the first in a trilogy of
historical fiction that brings to
life the story of Otto Kahn, the
international financier whose
fortune was so great that he was immortalized as
the iconic “Monopoly® guy.”
1976
Patent and trademark litigator
Ethan Horwitz has joined
Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, LLP
as a shareholder in their New
York office.
1983
Risa Sue Sugarman has been appointed
the first-ever independent enforcement
counsel at the New York State Board of
Elections.
1978
Miller, Montiel & Strano, P.C. appeared in
Newsday’s “Legal Leaders” insert, which
featured top-rated lawyers on Long Island.
The named partners at the firm are
Steven Miller ’78, Catherine Montiel ’92,
and David Strano ’93.
1979
Dennis Glazer, has been appointed to the New
York Gaming Facility Location Board, which
screens applicants seeking to operate four new
casinos in New York. He serves with fellow
alumnus Kevin Law ’87.
Marion C. Rice, a partner at L’Abbate,
Balkan, Colavita, & Contini, LLP has been
named co-chair of the Committee on Law
Practice Management for the New York State Bar
Association.
1980
Fred Boy has become counsel to Lehman &
Eilen, LLP. The firm provides securities and
corporate legal services to broker-dealers,
investment advisers, private investment funds,
and financial professionals.
Alan J. Schwartz has been
elected to serve on the board
of directors of the Nassau
County Police Reserves, Inc.
The Dix Hills resident is the
principal and managing attorney
at the Law Offices of Alan J. Schwartz, P.C.
1977
1982
William G. Spratt, a partner at Shaub, Ahmuty,
Citrin & Spratt, LLP, was named to the 2014 Super
Lawyers list for New York in the area of medical
malpractice defense.
Judges in the Tolland Judicial District in
Connecticut honored Thomas Fiorentino
for his pro-bono efforts on behalf of parties
involved in family law matters.
James R. Cartiglia, a
shareholder at Waddey
Patterson P.C., has been elected
secretary of Tennessee Bar
Association House of Delegates.
1984
Michael Balboni, former senator and deputy
secretary for public safety and homeland security
advisor for New York State, has joined Rivkin
Radler LLP as of counsel.
1987
Long Island Association President Kevin Law has
been appointed to the New York Gaming Facility
Location Board. He serves with fellow alumnus
Dennis Glazer ’79.
Robert E. Sandler, a partner in the real estate
practice group at Farrell Fritz, P.C., has been
appointed to the Farmingdale College Foundation
Executive Committee. He will serve as treasurer.
David N. Zane has joined
Rawle & Henderson LLP as
a partner in the firm’s New
York office. He concentrates
his practice in the areas of
defense of medical and dental
professionals, hospitals and nursing homes,
products manufacturers’ liability, toxic torts, auto
liability, and commercial and business litigation.
1988
John M. DiMatteo has joined Holwell Shuster &
Goldberg, LLP as a partner, where he chairs the
firm’s intellectual property practice group.
Robert B. Moy has joined the law firm of
Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo &
Terrana, LLP as a partner in the firm’s corporate
and tax, trusts and estates department.
1989
Joseph A. LoBosco recently joined The Nelson
Law Office P.C. practicing matrimonial and
family law.
1990
Laura Dilimetin has joined Gerstman
Schwartz Malito LLP as a partner in the
firm’s litigation department.
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CLASS NOTES
JOHN O. BRENNAN ’90 NAMED TO
ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
When John O. Brennan ’90 says St. John’s is in his family’s DNA,
he means it. His father, John V. Brennan ‘63C, ‘66L, ‘93HON, is the
dedicated double alumnus behind the Brennan Family Scholarship
Matching Program, which has generated new endowed scholarships
that will provide more than $300,000 in scholarship funds annually
to deserving St. John’s Law students. His aunt, Dorothy McCabe ’82,
and his sister, Mary B. Magee ’99, are also proud Law School graduates.
“First and foremost, family is everything to me,” John O. Brennan says. “St. John’s
has been part of my family since I was seven years old, when I attended my first
basketball game on campus with my father and brother. And I have brought my
wife and son to more games than they probably would care to count. Anybody
who knows me can’t think of me without thinking of St. John’s.”
As part of this family legacy, Brennan is honoring the Vincentian ethic of giving
back to the community that his mother, Anita, and his father modeled for him
and his siblings. In addition to his private law practice, he has served in his local
village court. For the last six years, he sat on the St. John’s University Board of
Governors and, this fall, he will take on a new leadership role as a member of the
St. John’s University Board of Trustees.
Looking forward to this next chapter in his life at St. John’s, Brennan shares: “Like
so many sons and daughters of St. John’s, my family taught me to find work that I
have a passion for and to work as hard as possible to make that work something I
can be proud of and that benefits others.”
1991
Kevin C. George has joined Holland & Knight
LLP as a senior counsel in their real estate finance,
loan restructuring practice group.
William S. Gyves has joined Kelley Drye &
Warren LLP as a litigation partner in the firm’s
New York and Parsippany, N.J. offices.
Maura McLoughlin, managing attorney at
Cahill, Gordon & Reindel LLP, has been elected
president of the Managing Attorneys and Clerks
Association, Inc., an association of over 100
law firms and other business entities having a
common interest with courts and the general
legal community.
Michael G. Vought has joined IFG Companies
as president of excess and umbrella. He will be
based in IFG’s New York City office and will be
responsible for building and leading IFG’s excess
and umbrella business throughout a network of
offices across the country.
1994
Meg Bateman has joined the corporate
department of The McLane Law Firm.
Her practice focuses on corporate law,
corporate finance, asset securitization, and
commercial lending transactions.
Alfred W. Zaher has joined Novak Druce Connolly
Bove + Quigg LLP as a partner in the intellectual
property group in the firm’s Philadelphia office.
1995
John Cobb has joined Paul Hastings LLP as
a partner in the firm’s leveraged finance
practice group.
1996
Steven N. Davi, counsel in the labor and
employment practice group at Farrell Fritz, P.C.,
has been appointed to the executive leadership
committee of the Leukemia and Lymphoma
Society of Long Island.
Adam J. Gottlieb has joined Forchelli, Curto,
Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo & Terrana, LLP as
a partner in the firm’s tax, trusts and estates
department.
1997
Farah Bhatti has joined BakerHostetler’s
intellectual property group as a partner and
member of the trademark team.
M. Quentin Williams has joined the
board of directors of Samaritan’s Feet
International, a not-for-profit organization
that empowers global communities by
meeting needs in education and health
care. He will also chair the organization’s
Sports & Entertainment Committee.
1992
Jilliane Hoffman has written her fifth book,
The Cutting Room, a suspenseful thriller
which is available on Amazon.com.
1993
Scott V. Beechert has joined Bennett
Management Corporation as general counsel
and chief compliance officer.
Salvatore G. Gangemi has joined
Salon Marrow Dyckman Newman &
Broudy LLP as a partner and will
concentrate his practice on employment
law and litigation.
Terry Fokas has been appointed to the board
of directors of PAID, Inc. He is the president
and chief executive officer of Parallel Networks,
managing all aspects of the company’s software
patent enforcement and licensing activities.
1999
Maria Orecchio has been appointed vice
president and assistant general counsel to
Selective Insurance Group, Inc.
Renee Wilm has been named a 2014 Rising
Star by Law360. She is a partner at Baker Botts
LLP and concentrates her practice on securities
offerings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate
governance, capital restructurings, and executive
employment arrangements.
2000
Robert T. Langdon, a partner at Willkie Farr &
Gallagher LLP, was named one of Law360’s top
private equity lawyers under the age of 40.
CLASS NOTES
Anthony Szydlowski was a
finalist for the Daily Business
Review’s 2014 Top Dealmakers
of the Year. He is a member of
Greenspoon Marder’s corporate
law practice group.
2001
Harris Diamond has joined
Stradley Ronon Stevens &
Young, LLP as counsel, where he
focuses his practice on secured
and unsecured financing,
financial and corporate
restructuring, and creditor representation.
In June 2014, Donna Furey was installed
as president of the Catholic Lawyers Guild
of Queens. Former Police Commissioner
Raymond W. Kelly ’71, ’98HON was the guest
of honor for the guild’s installation dinner.
Jamel Oeser-Sweat, a general practitioner in
New York City, was named a New York Law
Journal Rising Star.
2002
Steven W. Lozner has joined DLA Piper as an
associate in their New York office. He specializes
in corporate and securities law.
Kimberly Nelson is owner of The Nelson Law
Office P.C., which handles matrimonial and family
law matters.
2003
Jason Capizzi has been named a member at New
Jersey’s oldest bond counsel firm, now known as
Kraft & Capizzi, LLC.
2005
Christina Tsesmelis has joined the legal and
compliance department at Neuberger Berman LLC
as the head of global anti-corruption.
2006
Robert A. Epstein has
been named partner at Fox
Rothchild LLP. He focuses his
practice on all aspects of
family law.
2007
Andrew R. Roop has joined Pepper Hamilton LLP
as an associate. He concentrates his practice on
financial services.
ST. JOHN’S LAW ALUMNI
GUIDE PROFESSION AS BAR
ASSOCIATION PRESIDENTS
Jamie Porco has joined Kramer Levin Nafalis
& Frankel LLP as the manager of professional
development.
The following Law School alumni have
been named to the top leadership position
at bar associations in New York:
2008
Monica Barron has been named a partner
at Georgoulis & Associates PLLC in the firm’s
construction group and labor and
employment group.
2009
Jonathan Bartov has joined the Law Office
of Robert Raschio in Canyon City, OR as an
associate.
Peter Bienkowski has joined Viacom
International Media Networks as counsel in their
business and legal affairs division.
2010
Robert E. O’Connor has joined
Montgomery McCraken Walker
& Rhoads LLP as an associate in
the firm’s litigation department.
He represents ship owners and
operators in litigation relating to
collision and fire casualties.
Beth A. Rubenstein has
joined Farrell Fritz, P.C. as
an associate in their trusts
and estates department.
Kristin Roshelli has joined King & Spalding in
their Houston, Texas office.
Timothy Salter is an
associate at Lester &
Associates, P.C.
Parth Chowlera ’05, a solo practitioner
focusing on trusts & estates and tax
law, is president of the South Asian Bar
Association of New York.
Christopher J. Fitzpatrick ’94, a partner
at Jacobi, Sieghardt, Bousanti, Piazza,
& Fitzpatrick, P.C., is president of the
Richmond County Bar Association.
John P. McEntee ’85, a partner at Farrell
Fritz, P.C., is president of the Nassau
County Bar Association.
Alan G. Rosenblatt ’78, a partner at
Montalbano, Condon & Frank, P.C., is
president of the Rockland County Bar
Association.
Congratulations to all on this significant
accomplishment.
2011
Adam M. Rafsky, an associate at Farrell Fritz,
P.C., was honored by the Huntington Township
Chamber of Commerce with the Celebrating
Long Island’s Young Professionals award, which is
presented to individuals under the age of 30 who
are truly committed to their business and civic
communities.
Nadav Zamir has joined Clifton Budd & DeMaria,
LLP, where he concentrates his practice on labor
and employment matters.
Michael Zitelli is the deputy general counsel at
Edrington Americas.
Jacklyn A. Zitelli has joined
Farrell Fritz, P.C. as an associate
in the firm’s real estate
department.
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CLASS NOTES
2012
Cooper Macco, an associate at Silverman
Acampora LLP, was honored by the Huntington
Township Chamber of Commerce with the
Celebrating Long Island’s Young Professionals
award, which is presented to individuals under
the age of 30 who are truly committed to their
business and civic communities.
2013
Corey Acri, assistant director of
communications for Drexel University School
of Law, was featured in Grid Magazine for his
volunteer work on CyclePhilly, a smartphone
app for recording bicycle trips in the
Philadelphia area.
Adam Heckler has joined Squitieri & Fearson, LLP
as an associate, focusing his practice on
class action litigation.
Michel L. Webb has joined Jaspan Schlesinger
LLP as an associate in the firm’s banking and
financial service practice group.
We’d like to hear from you! Please send your
Class Notes submissions to Assistant Dean
for Alumni Relations Claire C. McKeever
’80SVC, ’93L at [email protected].
Marriages
Births
Michael Atzlan has joined The Nelson Law Office
P.C. as an associate specializing in matrimonial law.
Dennis Lyons has joined Vishnick McGovern
Milizio, LLP as an associate in the estate litigation
practice group.
Andrea Morse ’85 and Peter Raff in August 2014
Anthony Ametrano ’02 and Laura
Geddes in August 2014
David Charles Pilato ’06 and
Lindsay Ann Weaver in June 2014
Marcus Cheung ‘11 and Chialin Tsai in May 2014
Thomas Seaman ’86 and wife Jackie
welcomed Thomas Angelo in January 2014.
WELCOMES
Conrado M. “Bobby” Gempesaw, Ph.D.
17th President of St. John’s University
Dean Michael A. Simons and the entire St. John’s Law community are
pleased to welcome Conrado M. “Bobby” Gempesaw, Ph.D., the
17th president of St. John’s University, to the Law School family.
Dr. Gempesaw was most recently provost and executive vice
president for academic affairs at Miami University in Ohio. An
accomplished scholar, teacher, and administrator who fully embraces
our mission as a Catholic and Vincentian university, Dr. Gempesaw
is a visionary leader who brings almost three decades of academic
experience to St. John’s.
We look forward to working together as he guides the University and
helps the Law School continue its upward trajectory.
M. Quentin Williams ’91 and wife Brenda
welcomed Quinn in August 2012 and Bella
in March 2014.
IN MEMORIAM
Frank P. Greenberg ’29
Milton Rosenberg ’36
Hon. Morris Schneider ’36
Archur Schulman ’39
Bernard Beir ’40
Henry Wimpfheimer ’47
Austin M. Cahill ’48
Hon. Arthur Cromarty ’48
Stanley Kutcher ’48
Edmund A. Sherman ’49
Matthew J. Cronin ’50
A. Charles D’Agostino ’50
William P. Larsen, Jr. ’50
Philip F. McCarron ’49C, ’51L
William A. Schauer ’52
Alfred Flaherty ’53
John O’Leary ’53
Martin M. Pollak ’53
Frank R. Supik ’54
Hon. John F. Lawton ’55
Hon. Stanley Parness ’55
Gerald P. McMorrow ‘56
Timothy Walsh ’56
Fredrick William Kahler ’57
Bert Linder ’60
Deacon Martin Mulroy ’60
Lawrence Noble ’61
Peter J. Thumser ’61
Francis D. Turchik ’63
Salvatore A. Romano ’64
Ronald S. Mintz ’65
James R. Miller ’68
Richard E. Beaman ’69
Walter P. Connery ’72
Kevin J. Kitson ’73
Dennis Sciurba ’73
Beverly Spelfogel ’84
Marie A. DiSanza ’89
John V. McDermott ’94
Kimberlee J. Keller ’04
Joseph V. Angiolillo ’50CBA, ’52L
Hon. Israel Rubin ’49C, ’50L, ’92HON
St. John’s Law mourns the passing of Joseph
V. Angiolillo, father of St. John’s Law Alumni
Association board member Hon. Daniel D.
Angiolillo ‘77. After serving his country in the
United States Navy during World War II, Joseph
Angiolillo served as president of ICCO Cheese
Co., Inc., an international cheese manufacturing
company founded by his mother in 1936.
He also owned Paradise Farm, where he was a Standardbred horse
breeder, and took on leadership roles in his community, including
chairing the Hartsdale Republican Committee. A proud supporter of
the Law School, Mr. Angiolillo was an honorary director of the Alumni
Association and received the prestigious President’s Medal in 1985.
St. John’s Law mourns the loss of dedicated alumnus and
esteemed jurist Hon. Israel “Russ” Rubin. Judge Rubin
graduated from St. John’s University School of Commerce
in 1949 and from St. John’s Law in 1950. After over 20
years in practice, he joined the bench in 1973 and served
on the Appellate Division, First Department from 1989
until he reached mandatory retirement age in 2002. He
then joined Greenberg Traurig LLP, where he practiced for
the next dozen years. Judge Rubin received an honorary degree from St. John’s
in 1992 and was a dear friend of St. John’s Law, where he taught Appellate
Advocacy and served on the St. John’s Law Alumni Association Board of Directors
for many years. We will miss his charm and good cheer, as well as his deep well
of experience and insight.
Fabian G. Palomino ’54
St. John’s Law mourns the loss of devoted public servant Fabian G. Palomino. A native of Corona, Queens, Mr. Palomino served his
country in the United States Army Air Forces and the United States Merchant Marine before enrolling in St. John’s Law. After law school,
he was a law clerk for Hon. Adrian P. Burke of the New York State Court of Appeals, which was the start of his life-long passion for public
service. Mr. Palomino went on to advise Democratic governors of New York State, from W. Averell Harriman to Andrew M. Cuomo, and
was particularly influential in the administration of Hon. Mario M. Cuomo ‘53C, ‘56L, ‘75HON, a friend since their days at St. John’s.
Governor Mario M. Cuomo said that Mr. Palomino “had an engineer’s mind [and] could take a complicated situation and take it apart
piece by piece, study it, [and] then put it back together,” which is why he appointed Mr. Palomino his special counsel in 1983. Later in his
career, Mr. Palomino maintained a law practice in Brooklyn. Former Governor Cuomo said that Mr. Palomino’s propensity to work behind
the scenes extended to his private legal work. “Smart lawyers,” he said, regularly asked Mr. Palomino for strategic help. In 2011, the St. John’s Law Alumni
Association’s Brooklyn Chapter honored Mr. Palomino by presenting him with its Alumni Achievement Award in recognition of his exceptional legal career.
Why I Give
“If it weren’t for the scholarship support I received, I wouldn’t have been able to
attend law school. Now, through the scholarship I’ve established as a bequest in
my living trust, students who find themselves in my same position will have an
opportunity to thrive at St. John’s.”
—John F. “Jack” Scheich ’63C, ‘66L, former FBI agent and longtime civil law practitioner
To learn more about your planned giving options, please contact Executive Director of Development and
Alumni Relations Brian J. Woods at (718) 990-5792. Thank you!
Fall 2014 l 29
A Message from
Brian J. Woods Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations
T
he strength of our alumni body is a
cornerstone of St. John’s Law, and
I’m pleased to report that alumni
contributions hit record highs this
past fiscal year. The following pages honor
all of you who, through your generosity,
are helping to reshape and to fortify the
Law School so we’re thriving even in these
challenging times.
The highlight of the 2013-2014 giving
year was the tremendous response to
the Brennan Family Scholarship
Matching Program. Anchored by
an extraordinary $1 million gift from
John V. Brennan ‘63C, ‘66L, ‘93HON,
and supplemented with generous gifts
from Mary Kay Vyskocil ‘83, Nicholas M.
Cannella ‘75 and Joanne Welty ‘76, the Estate
of Robert J. Dixson ‘29, ‘69HON, and Arthur
Wiener (parent), we launched the Brennan
Match last fall. Month after month, alumni
committed to $50,000 or more over a period
of years to establish endowed scholarships—
gifts that will be matched dollar for dollar.
We started the year with 70 endowed
scholarships. Through the generous
contributions of alumni and friends, 41 new
scholarships were added that will boost our
endowment to $6.5 million and will provide
more than $300,000 in scholarships annually.
Of the new scholarships, 11 were gifted by
alumni from the 1990s and 2000s, proving
that even these more recent graduates are
investing in alma mater. These gifts will
transform the Law School for years to come.
On the academic side, Shephard Lane ‘66,
William F. Cavanaugh, Jr. ‘77SVC, ‘80L,
Robert J. Gunther ‘81C, ‘84L, and Daniel
A. DeVito ‘87 each made major gifts to
launch our new Intellectual Property Law
Center, to be headed by Professor Jeremy
Sheff. Together they gave $1.1 million,
which will be used to provide scholarships
to students from the STEM disciplines,
to expand our IP offerings, and to fund
student travel and research. Alumni also
supported our other centers, including the
Center for Law and Religion, the Center
for International and Comparative Law,
the Center for Labor and Employment Law,
and the Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil
Rights and Economic Development.
Our office of Alumni Relations, led by Claire
C. McKeever ‘80SVC, ‘93L, partnered with
2013-2014 Alumni Association President
Nicholas Cannella and the entire board of
directors to organize more than 40 alumni
events in New York City and across the
country. Some 2,800 alumni participated
in our events, which help us to recruit new
students, support current students in their
job search, keep the alumni network strong,
and provide feedback on the state of the
legal profession.
The Office of Development, staffed by Philip
Maroney, Matthew Sobotta ‘11, Dominique
Cendales, and MaryAnna Schaefer, has
worked hard to build partnerships with Law
School faculty and administrators, and it’s
paying dividends. We’re now working closely
with 3Ls seeking jobs, pairing them with
alumni who might be able to assist them. This
is rewarding work that continues when we’re
out on the road doing development work.
Looking ahead, alumni support will only
increase in importance as we strive to
strengthen the Law School’s place among the
finest schools in the country. As I approach
my two-year anniversary as Executive Director
of Development and Alumni Relations, I want
to share that it’s been a pleasure to serve you
and St. John’s Law.
Brian J. Woods
DEAN’S REPORT ON THE 2 013– 2 014 GIVING YEAR
(JUNE 1, 2 013 – MAY 31, 2 014)
Fall 2014 l 33
A Record Year For Alumni Giving
$6,500,000
$3,703,503
in gifts &
pledges
s 225%
in total cash gifts
received
s123%
2,485 alumni and friends made gifts s 27%
$
1.1m
to launch the St. John’s
Intellectual Property Law Center
$
250k
to further endow the Peter James Johnson ’49
National Civil Rights Trial Competition
116k
$
to support Summer Public
Interest Fellowships
$
60k
to establish the Margaret Valentine
Turano ’77L Writing Center Fund
300k
$
annually generated by 41 new endowed
scholarships created through the Brennan
Family Scholarship Matching Program
$
125k
to endow the Duffy and Duffy Catholic
Middle School Mock Trial Program
$
75k
in support of International
Honors Program Scholars
Founders Society
The Founders Society recognizes
our most generous supporters
with lifetime giving of one
million dollars or more. We are
proud to acknowledge and to
thank the following graduates
and their spouses for providing
the foundation for the Law
School’s future through their
extraordinary giving.
Jerome Belson ‘48L, ‘80HON
John D. Birchby ‘73L, ‘13HON
Mary Beth Birchby
Anita Brennan
John V. Brennan ‘63C, ‘66L, ‘93HON
Patricia A. McLernon Castel ‘74Ed, ‘77L, ‘04HON
Belson Circle:
Named for Maxine and
Jerome Belson, the Belson Circle
acknowledges Law School
benefactors who have donated
$100,000 or more, cumulatively.
We thank and recognize the
following Belson Circle members
for their generous support of
the Law School.
Anonymous
John D. Birchby ‘73L, ‘13HON
Mary Beth Birchby
Anita Brennan
Nicholas M. Cannella ‘75L
Hon. P. Kevin Castel ‘72SVC, ‘75L, ‘04HON
Daniel Clivner ‘88L
Maura Concannon
Daniel A. DeVito ‘87L
Gina DeVito
Cary Fields ‘86HON
Kathy Fields
Erica B. Fine ‘82L
Steven J. Gartner ‘84L
Barry S. Goldstein ‘72L
Ellen Goldstein
Frank H. Granito III ‘87L
Monica Granito
Carl H. Hewitt ‘79L
New Belson Circle Members:
The Law School is most grateful
to the following alumni and
friends who through their continued generosity have become
the newest members of the
Belson Circle.
Bernard D. Kennedy ‘54CBA, ‘58L, ‘99HON
Dorothy B. Kennedy
Joseph M. Mattone, Sr. ‘53C, ‘55L, ‘94HON
Mary Ann Mattone ‘10HON
Adeline Pannizzo
Frank J. Pannizzo ‘59UC, ‘62L
Donald F. Reid ‘58CBA, ‘62L, ‘87HON
Helen Reid
Lorraine Rittenberg ‘92HON
John T. Thornton ‘59CBA, ‘72L, ‘02HON
Patricia Thornton
Marsha A. Hewitt ‘76L
Patricia M. Hynes
Veronica Johnson
Marie E. Kaiser-Napoli ‘89C, ‘93L
Thomas Michael Laquercia ‘69L
Jill Lerner
Jonathan J. Lerner ‘73L
Samuel S. Lionel ‘40L, ‘10HON
Bridgett Lundy
Hon. Guy J. Mangano ‘55L, ‘83HON
Christina McConville
John P. McConville ‘62L
Philip McManus ‘68C, ‘72L
Deena Nahmias
Edward B. Nahmias ‘80L
Paul J. Napoli ‘92L
Robert James Nobile ‘84L
Dennis P. Orr ‘78L
Laurie L. Orr
Adeline Pannizzo
Margaret A. Re ‘50L
Roy L. Reardon ‘54L, ‘00HON
Helen Reid
Cheryl Christman Rice
Thomas C. Rice ‘78C, ‘81L
Mary Kay Vyskocil ‘83L
Joanne Welty ‘76L
Judith A. Wild
Robert Andrew Wild ‘67L
Belson Circle
New Belson Circle Members
Frances Babb
Mary Ellen Cavanaugh
William F. Cavanaugh, Jr. ‘77SVC, ‘80L
John P. Clarke ‘55CBA, ‘57L
Hedda Lane
Shephard Lane ‘66L
Brian E. O’Connor ‘74C, ‘77L
Helen M. O’Connor
Mark L. Regante ‘78L
McCallen Society
Named for Rev. Thomas J.
McCallen, C.M., the McCallen
Society acknowledges donors
who include St. John’s in their
estate plans. Members fulfill their
estate planning goals by securing
the future for their loved ones
and utilizing charitable planning
techniques to support the Law
School. We thank the following
McCallen Society members for
their generosity.
Emmet J. Agoglia ‘58L
K. Carroll Agoglia
Frances Babb
Donald V. Balistreri ‘41C, ‘48L
John Kuhn Bleimaier ‘75L
Frank J. Bonet ‘58C, ‘61L
Mary Ellen Bonet ‘61Ed
George F. Boser ‘59L, ‘62C
Irma Boser
Austen D. Canade ‘55C, ‘59L
Hon. James P. Connors, Jr. ‘53L
Thomas E. Constance ‘64L
Harry T. Constas ‘51L
Hon. Peter J. Costigan ‘56L
Victoria Costigan
Lorraine Coyle ‘80L
Josephine Cuccia ‘45L
Susan M. Damiani ‘87CBA
Hope P. Della Ratta
John P. Della Ratta ‘59L
Hon. Joseph R. DeMiglio ‘54L
Lori Lee Dickson ‘91L
Marie T. DiTucci
Andrew P. Donovan ‘50L
Beverly H. Farrell
John L. Farrell, Jr. ‘55L
Beverley Fernandez
Gerard Fernandez, Jr. ‘50L
Mary Anne Ford
Rudolph H. Funke ‘66CBA, ‘69L
Robert T. Gerken ‘64C, ‘67L
Thelma Gerken
Joseph O. Giaimo ‘59CBA, ‘61L, ‘86HON
Kathleen Giaimo
Ann Gibbons
Irene R. Gibbons ‘57Ed, ‘58GEd
Hon. Joseph F. Gibbons ‘51L
Edwin I. Gorski ‘71L
John J. Howard ‘50UC, ‘54L
Alice M. Kenefick
James L. Kenefick ‘56L
G. Oliver Koppell
Mary Ann Lawlor ‘61UC, ‘80HON
Richard P. Lawlor ‘60L
Joseph J. Lawton, Jr. ‘53L
Frank A. Lomuscio ‘86L
Wendy Lomuscio
Philip F. McCarron ‘49C, ‘51L+
Rita McCartney
Diane M. Memmoli ‘76C, ‘79L
Harry Morgenstern ‘40CBA, ‘47L+
Sydell Morgenstern +
Nancy Mottola-Schacher ‘46UC, ‘47L
Edward V. Murtaugh ‘63L
Martin T. O’Shea ‘78L
Adeline Pannizzo
Sheila R. Paticoff ‘84L
Daniel H. Payne ‘71L
Richard J. Power ‘60L
Richard G. Ramsay ‘58CBA, ‘63L
Helen Reid
Frank J. Rienzo ‘53C, ‘58L
Alyce Maloney Rochford ‘48L
Suzanne O’Neill Scanlan ‘40CBA, ‘42L
Daniel Scanlon ‘83C,’87L
John F. Scheich ‘63C, ‘66L
Eleanor J. Smirti ‘42UC, ‘43L
John J. Sweeney, Jr. ‘66L
John J. Walsh ‘52C, ‘55L
Marilyn A. Walsh
Joseph J. Whalen ‘51CBA, ‘55L
Charles J. Wroblewski ‘63C, ‘66L
+ Denotes deceased
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Loughlin Society
The Loughlin Society recognizes
alumni and friends who made
leadership contributions of $1,000
or more during the previous fiscal
year (June 1, 2013 – May 31, 2014).
Our heartfelt thanks to the following
Law Loughlin Society contributors:
$1,000,000+
Anita Brennan
$100,000 - $249,999
Adeline Pannizzo
$25,000 - $99,999
Anne D. Alexander ‘76C, ‘80L
Vincent C. Alexander ‘75L
Anonymous (2)
Nicholas M. Cannella ‘75L
Mary Ellen Cavanaugh
William F. Cavanaugh, Jr. ‘77SVC, ‘80L
Anthony J. Colletta ‘88L
Joanne Colletta
Daniel A. DeVito ‘87L
Gina DeVito
Michael E. Duffy ‘91CBA, ‘94L
Elisa D. Garcia C. ‘85L
Steven J. Gartner ‘84L
Samuel Gerdano
Patricia A. Gunther
Robert J. Gunther ‘81C, ‘84L
John Hasluck ‘85L
Patricia M. Hynes
Marie E. Kaiser-Napoli ‘89C, ‘93L
Hedda Lane
Shephard Lane ‘66L
Diane Lemmo
Samuel S. Lionel ‘40L, ‘10HON
Family and Friends of
Lauren Nicole Marcus
Paul J. Napoli ‘92L
Kenneth E. Newman ‘71L
Michele Newman
Robert James Nobile ‘84L
Roy L. Reardon ‘54L, ‘00HON
Karen Silver
Richard V. Silver ‘77C, ‘81L
Marea M. Suozzi ‘80L
Douglas G. Vetter ‘91L
Joanne Welty ‘76L
$10,000 - $24,999
Anonymous (1)
Andrea M. Alonso ‘78C, ‘81L
Roberta Marie Beary ‘78L
Lisa Chun ‘00L
Laura Conboy
Michael P. Conboy ‘86L
Kerry B. Conners ‘82L
Susan Conners
Jerre Dawson
Thomas M. Dawson ‘80L
Jonathan I. Friedman ‘95L
+ Denotes deceased
Ronnie Gallina
William A. Gallina ‘67L
Loretta Golinski
Paul A. Golinski ‘60CBA, ‘63L
Adam S. Hakki ‘97L
Richard F. Hans ‘93L
Siobhan Hans
James D. Herschlein ‘85L
Marilyn Herschlein
Brian A. Jarmain ‘98L
Francesca Jarmain ‘97L
Christopher Keller ‘97L
Edward M. Kelly ‘74L
Kathleen M. Kelly, M.D.
Michael Killorin
Thomas Michael Laquercia ‘69L
Loida Nicolas Lewis
Alan J. Maguire ‘82L
Maureen Maguire
Emily Marino
Joseph L. Marino Jr.’75L
Glenn Martin
Maura A. McLoughlin ‘91L, ‘06HON
Brian E. O’Connor ‘74C, ‘77L
Helen M. O’Connor
Mark L. Regante ‘78L
Hon. Reinaldo E. Rivera ‘76L, ‘06HON
Ronald G. Russo ‘73L
Francis Scahill ‘84L
Andrew J. Simons, Sr. ‘65L
Eileen G. Simons
Karen Moritz Simons
Michael A. Simons
Heather Spehr
Richard Spehr ‘86L
Francis X. Stella
Isaac Torres ‘01L
Preeti Torres
John B. Turano ‘66C, ‘69L
Margaret V. Turano ‘77L
Judith A. Wild
Robert Andrew Wild ‘67L
Terence Winter ‘88L
$5,000 - $9,999
Emmet J. Agoglia ‘58L
K. Carroll Agoglia
Helen F. Andrew
Leonard D. Andrew ‘68L
David Bolles
Jeanine Borrelli
Michael Borrelli ‘01L
Nancy E. Carey Cassidy
Maura Concannon
Janet B. Constance
Thomas E. Constance ‘64L
Arlene D’Arienzo
Nicholas D’Arienzo, M.D. ‘53C
Nicholas J. Davy
Christopher R. Dean ‘91L
Stephanie Dean ‘99L
Joseph G. Dell ‘88CBA, ‘91L
Robyn Dell
Rose F. Dimartino ‘81L
Anthony J. Distinti, Jr.
Beverley Fernandez
Gerard Fernandez, Jr. ‘50L
Donald N. Gershuny ‘69L
Frank H. Granito III ‘87L
Monica Granito
James Michael Griffin ‘02
Mary F. Griffin
John J. Howard ‘50UC, ‘54L
Patricia Howard ‘62GEd
Maureen A. Keegan ‘85L
Peggy Keegan
Thomas J. Keegan, Jr. ‘77L
Anastasia Kehoe
Edward G. Kehoe ‘90L
Erik Klingenberg ‘93L
Lisa Klingenberg
Major A. Langer ‘66L
Bryan Lorber
Leslie Lorber
Bridgett Lundy
John J. McCabe, Jr. ‘66L
Philip McManus ‘68C, ‘72L
Stephen Murphy ‘97L
Rachel R. Paras ‘04L
Diane Pfadenhauer ‘96L
Irene M. Principe
Thomas J. Principe ‘69C, ‘73L
James L. Purcell ‘52L
Regina Purcell ‘55UC, ‘61L
Joshua S. Rabenovets
Michael J. Rabus ‘79C, ‘82L
Richard G. Ramsay ‘58CBA, ‘63L
Clifford S. Robert
Ben Paul Siino ‘58L
Joseph J. Tock ‘81SVC, ‘83L
Mary Kay Vyskocil ‘83L
Dennison Young, Jr. ‘68L
$2,500 - $4,999
Charles E. Biblowit
Myra Biblowit
Judith Germano Bonarti ‘96L
Michael A. Bonarti
Frederick D. Braid ‘68CBA, ‘71L
Barbara A. Breen ‘86L
Brian V. Breheny ‘90CBA, ‘96L
Alicia Burke
Gloria Cirino ‘52L
A. Stephens Clay
Bethanne Kinsella Cople
William J. Cople III ‘80L
Robert Crotty
Colleen Darby
James M. Darby ‘84L
Elizabeth F. De Feis ‘56UC, ‘58L, ‘84HON
John Del Vecchio, M.D.
Hope P. Della Ratta
John P. Della Ratta ‘59L
Andrew P. Donovan ‘50L
Cornelius T. Dorans ‘57L
Jean R. Dorans
John M. Downing, Sr. ‘62L
Mary Anne Ford
Karin Golden
Michael H. Goldsmith ‘91L
Juan Carlos Gonzalez ‘01L
Liliana Gonzalez
David L. Gregory
Garris Gregory
David H. Griffin
Dolores C. Griffin
Lauri Ann Griffin
Timothy Griffin ‘84L
Joli Lynn Gross
Robert J. Hahn ‘79C, ‘84L
Amy Healy
John Healy
Donna J. Holverson
John R. Keville ‘95L
Sandra V. Keville
Lucy Kostelanetz
Jeanne Lieb
Richard Lieb
Peter T. Maloney ‘92L
Mark A. Meyer ‘71L, ‘07LLD
Milton Mollen ‘50L, ‘78HON
Scott E. Mollen ‘72L
Shelli Mollen
Carole Moskowitz
Harold J. Moskowitz ‘65L
Robert A. O’Hare Jr. ‘93L
Jessica Giambrone Palmese ‘05L
Ronald Palmese ‘03L
Anne Pollio
Benedict J. Pollio ‘55CBA, ‘61L
Joan Popper
Richard H. Popper ‘73L
Norma Quigley
Thomas J. Quigley ‘83L
Linda Rosasco
Troy G. Rosasco ‘89L
Hila Rosen
Richard L. Rosen ‘74L
Saul Rosen ‘74L
Gaynor J. Ryan ‘61L
Joseph P. Salvo ‘89L
Amy C. Samuelson
Anthony J. Scarcella ‘89L
Raymond E. Scheer ‘86L
John A. Schepisi ‘68L
Peggy Schepisi
Nicola Scuderi
Brian W. Smith ‘68UC, ‘71L
Fanny Tucciarone
Mario A. Tucciarone ‘53L
Steven L. Zelkowitz ‘78L
Marion Zinman
Robert M. Zinman
$1,000 - $2,499
Russell Abramson ‘79L
Joe Accurso
Marybeth Accurso
Angela S. Adams
Patrick F. Adams ‘53L
Thomas J. Adams, Jr. ‘59C, ‘62L
Joseph V. Angiolillo ‘50CBA, ‘52L+
Anonymous (3)
Raymond P. Argila ‘70C, ‘73L
Wanda Argila
Edward V. Atnally ‘59L
Mary T. Atnally
Lawrence R. Bailey, Jr.
Andrew Balbus
Carole Fiorine Barrett ‘81L
Edward J. Barrett
Beatrice Hamza Bassey
Charles E. Baxley ‘58L
Leonard M. Baynes
John P. Beirne ‘85L
Rosemary T. Berkery ‘78L
Ellen Blair
Harry F. Blair ‘59C, ‘62L
Margo A. Blond
Peter Blond ‘97L
Jeffrey E. Blum
Gerald T. Bodner ‘81L
Robert G. Bombara ‘73L
Edna Bornstein
Kenneth J. Bornstein ‘85SVC, ‘88L
George F. Boser ‘59L, ‘62C
Irma Boser
Patrick James Boyd ‘00L
John P. Boyle ‘95L
Eleanore Brennan
John O. Brennan ‘90L
Patrick J. Brennan ‘87L
Evelyn Buckstein ‘51L
Lauren Marie Buonome
Barbara J. Burger ‘85L
Kathleen B. Burke ‘69UC, ‘73L
Giustina Cammarota
Michael J. Cammarota ‘82C, ‘85L
Dorothea M. Capone ‘98L
Ronald S. Capone
Robert C. Carlsen ‘88L
Beth Carr
John J. Carr ‘62CBA, ‘65L
Meghan E. Cannella Carroll ‘07L
Robert F. Carroll, Jr. ‘05L
Francis A. Cavanagh ‘07L
Tara C. Cavanagh ‘07MPS
Judith Cedeno
Luis Cedeno
Dominique Cendales
Hon. Alfred C. Cerullo III ‘83NDC, ‘86L
Eugenie M. Cesar-Fabian ‘04L
Dennis R. Chase ‘90L
Sherry Chase
Rosemary Cinquemani ‘84L
Mark Cipolla ‘86SVC, ‘92L
Donna Colin
Thomas D. Colin ‘92L
Hon. James P. Connors, Jr. ‘53L
Margaret Connors
Christine Corcoran
Paul F. Corcoran ‘7lL
Elizabeth Cornacchio ‘81L
Lorraine Coyle ‘80L
Mary Croutier
William J. Croutier ‘52C, ‘58L
Brian T. Crowley ‘05LLM
Larry Cunningham
John P. Curley ‘63L
John P. Curley ‘08L
John F. Curran ‘84C, ‘87L
Thomas P. Curran ‘91L
James Daly ‘60CBA, ‘63L
Ben Darvil ‘03L
Anthony J. D’Auria ‘58UC, ‘60L
Patricia D’Auria
Michael Davi ‘00L
Rosa Davi
Elwood B. Davis ‘77L
Armida DeMiglio
Eugene L. DeNicola ‘59C, ‘62L
Hon. Joseph R. DeMiglio ‘54L
Meryl Diamond ‘99L
Jesse H. Diner ‘72L
Frank M. DiTaranto ‘90L
Marie Marano DiTaranto ‘93CBA
Daniel J. Driscoll ‘74L
Diana M. Driscoll
Hon. Roberta Dunlop ‘72L
Thomas M. Egan ‘69UC, ‘73L
Kathleen Eisman
Steven J. Eisman ‘79L
Pauline Eng
Hon. Randall T. Eng ‘72L
Alan S. Epstein ‘83L
Deborah Epstein
David M. Eskew ‘04L
Joseph E. Farrell ‘62L
Theresa Farrell
Corina V. Favorito
O. Mario Favorito ‘62L
Susan Fine
Robin H. Finkelstein
Steven R. Finkelstein ‘81L
Rachel S. Fleishman ‘92L
Douglas E. Fleming III ‘94L
Susan E. Gegan Fleming ‘94L
Joseph Philip Forte ‘73L
Donna Furey ‘01L
Audrey Furfaro ‘80L
John P. Furfaro ‘80L
Joseph P. Gaffney ‘89L
Bernadette P. Gallagher-Gaffney ‘89L
Hon. James L. Garrity ‘80L
William S. Gaskill
Robert T. Gerken ‘64C, ‘67L
Thelma Gerken
Thomas J. Gerspach ‘87L
Esterina Giuliani ‘02,’06L
Catherine R. Glover ‘78L
Adrienne D. Croker Gonzalez ‘98C, ‘01L
Eugenia Gore
Joseph E. Gore ‘55CBA, ‘58L
Gregory Guercio ‘73L
George E. Hagerty ‘74L
Gretchen Hagerty
Robert J. Hausen ‘78L
Joanne Hawkins ‘82CBA,’85L
Joseph P. Heffernan ‘63UC, ‘67L
Mary Heffernan
Anthony Heller
Alan B. Hodish ‘89L
Denise Hodish
Kieran P. Holohan ‘90C, ‘94L
Suzanne Holohan
James M. Hubbert, ‘81L
M. Allan Hyman ‘65L
Susann Hyman
Angela G. Iovino
Anthony F. Iovino ‘82L
Hon. Laura Jacobson
Elyse Kadet
Samuel Kadet ‘77L
Patricia A. Kane-Carlsen
Terry L. Keebaugh
Shawn P. Kelly ‘77L
Jacquelyn Kendall
Walter J. Kendall III ‘65L
Ajay Khanna
Thomas J. Killeen ‘72L
Mary Ann Klein
Thomas A. Klein ‘73L
Edward J. Kling
G. Oliver Koppell
Michael Korngold
Gail Kreitman
David Lesch ‘90L
Marjorie Lesch ‘77L
Willa Lewis ‘78L
Pamela Anagnos Liapakis ‘70L
Kiera LoBreglio ‘05L
Bernard London ‘77L
Anthony LoPresti ‘08L
Lauren LoPresti
Alan Luchs
Henry Lung ‘99L
Theresa A. Maher ’83L
Paul V. Majkowski ‘94L
Francis X. Maloney ‘57L
Patricia Maloney
Hon. Guy J. Mangano ‘55L, ‘83HON
Michael M. Mariani ‘75L
Patricia Mariani
James Marks ‘94L
Mary Marks
Carolann Maroney
Philip J. Maroney
Lourdes Martinez-Cipolla ‘92L
Glenn Matera ‘84L
Michael X. Mattone ‘91L
John McDonnell ‘93L
Claire C. McKeever ‘80SVC, ‘93L
Marianne McLaughlin
William J. McLaughlin ‘83L
John P. McNicholas ‘60UC, ‘79GEd
Despina McNulty
Joseph P. McNulty ‘84L
Denise R. Melillo ‘90L
Mary Ellen Manley Miner ‘78L
Georgiana O. Miranda ‘64L
Maria Montanti ‘91L
Monique Morreale ‘98L
James F. Morris ‘62C, ‘65L
Edward Moulin ‘80L
Vito V. Mundo ‘82L
Michelle M. Murphy
Thomas J. Murphy ‘85L
Diana Nicholson ‘76L
Michael Nicholson ‘70L
Barbara Nicosia
Salvatore J. Nicosia ‘59CBA, ‘62L
Barbara Nolan
Richard T. Nolan ‘58L
Elizabeth O’Brien
Thomas M. O’Brien ‘77L
Mary Ellen O’Brien-Palmieri ‘99L
Ann Lovett O’Connor ‘56NDC, ‘63L
Francis J. O’Connor
Hon. John F. O’Donnell ‘70L
Mary M. O’Hara ‘65UC
Joseph A. Oliva ‘90C, ‘93L
June Olszewski
Hon. Peter Paul Olszewski ‘52L
Thomas P. O’Malley ‘82L
Colleen O’Neil
Terence O’Neil ‘67C, ‘70L
Alec P. Ostrow
Liz Ostrow
Frank Paladino ‘97L
Hon. Daniel Palmieri ‘64C, ‘65L
Ernest J. Peck ‘81CBA, ‘93L
Marguerite Downing Peck ‘86L
Edward M. Pinter ‘89L
Frances M. Piscitelli
Peter A. Piscitelli ‘58L
Judson Ramaker
Heather Re
Joseph R. Re ‘85L
James P. Regan ‘76L
Marcia L. Regan
William Reid IV ‘92L
Kathleen M. Reilly ‘09L
Karen Rice
Lewis Rice ‘74SVC
Frank J. Rienzo ‘53C, ‘58L
Courtney R. Rockett ‘98L
Nathaniel C. Rockett
Janet Rohan
Patrick J. Rohan, Jr.
Steven C. Rohan
Donald Rosenberg ‘75L
Stacy Rosenberg
Heath D. Rosenblat ‘02LLM
Hon. Israel Rubin ‘49C, ‘50L, ‘92HON +
Peter M. Rumack
Joseph W. Ryan, Jr. ‘64L
Kathleen Ryan
Betty Santangelo
J. Gregory Saver ‘74L
Linda C. Saver
Gerard P. Schaefer
MaryAnna Schwarz Schaefer
James H. Schwab
Kimberly K. Schwab
Emily A. Scinto
Lawrence F. Scinto ‘56L
Hon. Joanna Seybert ‘71L
Kristin G. Shea ‘86C, ‘89L
Nina Shreve ‘77L
Carl Simoni ‘69CBA, ‘72L
Stephen J. Smirti, Jr. ‘76L
Donna Scovotti Smith ‘79Ed, ‘81L
George L. Smith ‘81L
Richard P. Smith ‘79L
David E. Snediker ‘75L
Mary Snediker
Ashley Sobotta
Matthew M. Sobotta ‘11L
Theresa Stagg
Thomas E. Stagg ‘90L
Hon. James G. Starkey ‘57L
Gary L. Steffanetta ‘83L
Mary Ellen Sweeney ‘68L
Caroline Toscano
Thomas N. Toscano ‘03L
Virginia Upton
William J. Upton ‘77L
Michael Van Aken ‘99L
Jeffrey Walsh ‘84L
John J. Walsh ‘52C, ‘55L
Marilyn A. Walsh
Robert Wann, Jr. ‘07L
Victoria Wickman ‘98C, ‘01L
Brian J. Woods
Charles J. Wroblewski ‘63C, ‘66L
Patsey Yeo-Ramaker
LOUGHLIN ASSOCIATES
The Law School established its
Loughlin Associates Program
to recognize significant
contributions made by recent
law graduates and spouses.
Membership criteria is based on
the number of years since Law
School graduation.
Marina Braverman ‘12L
Daniel P. Buckley ‘10L
Lisa Butler ‘99P, ‘06L
Scott Butler
Victoria M. Cantrella ‘10L
Brandon S. Clar ‘07L
Paula A. Clarity ‘07L
Caitlin E. Cline ‘10L
Richard J. Corbi ‘07L
John D. Corrigan ‘11L
Lisa Z. Dmiszewicki ‘10L
Justin J. Farrell ‘09L
Michael A. Fico ‘94C, ‘13L
Daniel F. Fisher ‘13L
Laura A. Franklin ‘10L
Raymond A. Franklin ‘10L
Christine Ann Knoesel ‘08C, ‘10L
Erica L. Markowitz ‘09L
Reesa F. Miles ‘13L
Kristin M. Roshelli ‘10L
Stephanie Rotter ‘06TCB, ‘09L
Peter C. Ruggero ‘08L
Erika V. Selli ‘10L
Brendan Silhan ‘12L
John R. Stevenson ‘07L
E. J. Thorsen ‘08L
Sean S. Thorsen ‘08L
Elaine A. Turley ‘07L
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We thank the following
friends, parents, faculty, staff and
students for their generosity
during the previous fiscal year.
Law School Supporters
up to $999
Claude A. Agostinelli
Karen C. Ahern
Lawrence R. Ahern
Marc A. Alpert
Ben Alyeshmerni
Albert Anastasi
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Rachel D. Andron
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Susan Antolin
Lisa M. Ayoob
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Nava Baram
John Q. Barrett
Arlene Basselini
John Basselini
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Roberta Bernstein
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Lisa Bishop
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Nina Beary Blustein
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Rachel Cohen
Sandra B. Cohen
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Susan Cohen
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Ellen Compton-Tejera
Marianne S. Conklin
Joanne Conte
Scott D. Cooper
Kathleen C. Crowley
+ Denotes deceased
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Bert and Keith Curtis
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Pamela D’Andrea
Elvira D’Angelo
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Robert F. Danzi
Mark Dawson
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Joan Diller
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Margaret Donnellan
Diana Doodian
Pamela Dreisiger
Estelle Drexler
Gordon Drucker
David Dukoff
Susan E. Duvall
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Isaac Eisenberg
Rick Eisenstein
Anita R. Engler
Cary B. Epstein
Francis J. Facciolo
Adam F. Falek
Robert Farkas
Joanne Fasone
Gregory Feeney
Keith Feeney
Rosemary Feeney
Nancy Fehrenbach
Laurie Fein
Robert A. Feldman
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John Ferrana
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Nicole Fisher
Joan Fishlinger
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Gus Franzese
Donna Friedman
Robert Friedman
Roni Friedman
Jo Full
David Gang
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Edwin Hernandez Garcia
Jan Garden
Brandon Gass
Rachel Gatenio
Elizabeth M. Gebert
Alan Geiss
Diane Gentile
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Gregg Gerstman
Josephine Getz
Amy E. Gewirtz
John P. Gibbs
Madeline Gibbs
Grace M. Ginetto
Ian Ginsberg
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Steven C. Glazer
Matthew D. Golden
Marvin E. Goldin
Susan Goldman
Lisa Goldman-Hyman
Amy Goldstein
Larry Goldstein
Linda Goldstein
Penny Goldstein
Ann L. Goldweber
Benna Golubtchik
Jennifer Goodman
Maryn P. Goodson
Wilfred L. Goodson
Lance Gordon
Elizabeth Granberg
Pamela Greenbaum
Elayne E. Greenberg
Gigi Greene
Shari Gurvitz
Betsey A.S. Hage
Patrice Halas
Wally Halas
Jay Halfon
George Hance
Lorraine Hance
John Harras
Michael D. Harrington
Ancell Harris
Michelle A. Harvey
Rakib M. Hasan
Emily Hauser
Laurelee Hawkins
Catherine Healy
Daniel Healy
James Healy
Judith Healy
Mindy Helfand-Damianou
Seth Hemley
John P. Hennigan, Jr.
Regina Henry
Susan L. Henry
Lucy Hernandez
Lori A. Herz
Kristen G. Hindley
Erika Hirsch
Lynn A. Hirschorn
Samuel Hochhauser
Adam K. Hoffman
Harvey Horowitz
Elaine Hughes
Diane M. Iannaccone
Kristin Iaria
Elissa T. Iberti
Rachel E. Idy
Harry Itzkovitz
Linda Itzkovitz
John E. Jacoby
Zenaida V. Jaucian
Bruce Johnson
Steven Jow
Adam Kaiser
Joy Kalfin
Leah Kalfin
Allan M. Kanare
Cory Kanner
Dayne Katz
Gary Kaufman
Thomas J. Kavaler
Clarence H. Kay, Jr.
Dale Kellie
Eileen Kelly
Laura Jo Kelly
Alice M. Kenefick
Daniel Kessler
Deborah Kessler
Hanna Klapper
Isabel Klein
Richard Klein
Jeffrey Klotz
Michael Kosik
Fern Kravitz
Lauren Krieger
Avinash Kul
Elizabeth W. Kurach
Gabrielle Lang
Joyce M. Langer
Maryanne Lavan
Christine Lazaro
Caroline Lee
Linda Leff
Robert Leiner
James M. Lenaghan
Allan S. Lerner
Robert Leung
Harry Levey
Larry Levy
Samantha Levy
James Lieb
Sara Liebowitz
Scott Lipkin
Lois Locker
Jared S. London
Uval Lubarsky
Judith Major
Kimberly Malichek
Jay Mandelblatt
Jennifer Lynn Manfredi
Scott Manning
Amy J. Marcano
Jesse Marcus
Jessica Marcus
Julia Marcus
Justin Marcus
Lawrence Marcus
Linda Marcus
Mary Martell
Mitchell Martinez
Jana Mason
Dorothy Mastronardi
Suzanne Y. Mattei
Lori Maurer
Louise A. McCarthy
Mary Rohan McCartney
Pamela McEntee
Margaret E. McGuinness
Johan Meer
Lawrence Merson
Elizabeth Michalak
Lorraine Michalak
Maria Michalak
Mark Miller
Matthew Miller
Jilian Mincer
Deborah Mittleman
Patricia M. Montana
Eve L. Morales
Theresa Morello
Allison Moskowitz
Cheri Mostisser
Sharon Movsas
Nancy Mure
George Murphy, Jr.
Cyrus Murray
Judith Murray
Eugene L. Nardelli
Janai S. Nelson
Jeffrey Nichols
Rhonda M. Nieder
Amelia Niehoff
Randi Koch Nir
Mario Nozzolillo
Patricia Mary O’Connor
Lorraine M. O’Neill
Michael J. O’Neill, Jr.
Sophie Oshman
Marla Osinski
Joane Ovadia
Elizabeth Palazzo
Robert Paquette
Olga Paradise
Neha Patel
Umesh K. Patel
Jennifer Perlaki
Ellen R. Perlowitz
Elizabeth Dalal Pessala
April Petty
Nguyet M. Pham
Hon. Lawrence W. Pierce ‘90HON
Maureen Pine
James T. Pintauro
Alyssa M. Pompei
Jennifer Posner
Ransel Potter
Colin Powers
Lacey Puleo
Paul Punzone
Rev. Robert Quarato
Linda Quill
Mindy Rachlin
Gregg Rechler
Mitchell Rechler
Gail D. Reed
Amy S. Rehs
Linda J. Reifschneider
Robin Reiss
Jeffrey Reynolds
Michael Ricigliano, Jr.
Nancy Ricigliano
Marta Riordan
Jenna Marie Ripepe
Christopher Ripley
Martin R. Riskin
Carol Rizzo
Craig V. Rizzo
Angela M. Robinson-Giuffra
Kathleen M. Rockwood
Nicole Rosen
Joseph I. Rosenberg
Stephen Rosenberg
Denise Rosner
Nancy Rowe
Manhu Royal
Alane B. Rubel
Megan Rubin
Louis P. Rubino
Ewa Halina Rumprecht
Karen Rutter
Carol Rzepko
Marvin Salenger
Joyce Salomon
Rosemary C. Salomone, Ph.D.
Alan Saltz
Hallie Saltz
Debra Weisberg SanFilippo
Christine Santori
Julie Satin
Robert Savitzky
Karli Sax
JoAnn Scambia
Marty Schaffer
Leonard Schiffman
Sidney Schlau
Ellen Schwartz
Michael Schwartz
Shelby Schwartz
Steven Schwartzapfel
Pamela L. Schwarz
Jane E. Scott
Margaret M. Seganti
Susan G. Seid
Mark Serwetz
David Shapiro
Harriet Sharaf
Keith B. Sharfman
Natalie Shtifter
Christine Sica
Katie A. Siek
Laura Simchick
Jennifer Simone
Michael T. Sisolak
Bruce H. Sobel
Jacqueline Soloff
Mindy H. Sontag
Andrea Soskel
Jeffrey Sovern
Marc Springer
Lawton W. Squires
Kathleen Stafford
Ilene Stavrach
Susan Steinberg
Michele Steinmetz
Adam E. Stella
Ehren Stenzler
Donald Strauber
Rachel Strauber
Terri Stuart
Eva E. Subotnik
Lauren M. Sutton
Carmeni Tafuri
Joseph Tafuri
Richard M. Tafuri
Barry Tannen
Beth J. Tarica
Richard B. Teiman
Michelle Teramo
Stacey Thomas
Jacob L. Todres
Amanda Tolbert
Rosemary A. Townley
Jason S. Trobman
William J. Turley
Tawanna Turner
Stephaine Valluzzo
Deepa Varadarajan
Michelle Vaysman
Janet L. Vejsicky
Allison Vieyra
Janice D. Villiers
Larry J. Walder
Ettie Ward
G. Ray Warner
Nicole L. Warwick
Amanda Jo Weinraub
Steven Weinreb
Susan A. Weiss
Victoria Weissman
Todd Wertling
Ira Wiener
Lorraine Wiener
Willo Wisotsky
Virginia Lee H. Wong
Kenneth L. Wyse
Penny Yegelwel
Eileen J. Zarin
J. Zegans
Judit Zehavi
Andrea Zucker
Helen Zurlo
GIVING BY CLASS YEAR
1952
James V. Fallon, Sr.*
Joseph V. Angiolillo +
Annamarie Policriti Brown*
Gloria Cirino
Hon. George Deukmejian
Duncan A. Fraser, Jr.*
Raymond Gill*
Martin Hirsch
James M. MacNee +
Hon. John R. O’Connor
Hon. Peter Paul Olszewski
Melvin Paradise
James Lawrence Purcell*
Hon. Richard L. Weingarten
1940
1953
We are grateful to the following
graduates for their financial
support to alma mater:
1935
Carl E. Tavolacci
1937
Joan D. Ariola*
1939
Samuel S. Lionel*
1942
Joseph R. DiBart*
Suzanne O’Neill Scanlan*
Shirley C. Sigler*
1943
Thelma Kampel*
1944
Hon. Pauline C. Balkin*
1946
Hon. Leon Deutsch
1947
Edward A. Grupp
Hon. Harold Rosenbaum*
1948
Donald V. Balistreri*
Lenore B. Hanau*
Hon. Julian A. Hertz
Bernard Jeffrey*
Hon. Joseph E. Maher, Jr.*
John P. Mahon*
Hon. Louis C. Palella
1949
Vincent M. Albanese*
Gertrude E. Belvedere*
Joseph A. D’Andrea +
Dominick Giordano*
Louis H. Hauck
John C. Sullivan
Seymour Trager*
1950
Hon. Rose A. Caputo
Andrew P. Donovan*
Gerard Fernandez, Jr.*
Robert B. Keyes*
William P. Larsen, Jr.*+
Owen B. McBride
Hon. Milton Mollen*
Hon. Israel Rubin * +
1951
Rita W. Allen
Pierce V. Brennan*
Evelyn Buckstein*
John J. Duffy*
E. Robert Giuntini*
Thomas J. Graham
Joseph A. Izzillo
Philip F. McCarron*+
Hon. James F. Niehoff*
Seymour Reich*
Justin L. Vigdor*
Patrick F. Adams*
George N. Arvanitis
Julius S. Boccia*
Gerald Chiariello
Hon. James P. Connors, Jr.*
William R. Degenhardt*
Joseph C. Harkins, Jr.
Joseph J. Lawton, Jr.*
James J. Nacos*
John A. Needham
John O’Leary* +
Robert J. Pallone*
Hon. Joseph V. Riggio*
Mario A. Tucciarone*
1954
Kenneth L. Brown
Anthony A. Caracciolo
Hon. Joseph R. DeMiglio
Dominick A. DiMaio*
Dennis P. Hannafey*
Alan G. Harrow*
George H. Hearn
John J. Howard
James B. Kelly*
Augustine P. O’Keefe*
James J. O’Loughlin
Roy L. Reardon
Theodore M. Sysol*
1955
Joseph P. Bellon*
Joseph A. Cusumano
Gregory H. Hammill
Hon. Guy J. Mangano*
Joseph M. Mattone, Sr.*
William C. Morrisey*
Hon. Stanley Parness*
Hon. Harry E. Seidell*
Santina A. Vaughan*
John J. Walsh*
1956
Blair Allen*
Donald H. Boehner
Peter J. Costigan*
William F. Eberle*
Francis J. Hone*
James L. Kenefick
Robert L. Ostertag
Lawrence F. Scinto*
1957
William Bulman*
John P. Clarke*
Cornelius T. Dorans*
Harold A. Mahony*
Francis X. Maloney*
John T. Rafferty*
Hon. James G. Starkey*
*Denotes alumni donor for last three consecutive years
+ Denotes deceased
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1958
Emmet J. Agoglia*
Charles E. Baxley*
William J. Croutier*
Elizabeth F. DeFeis*
Edward P. Donnellan*
Hon. Arthur S. Duffy*
Daniel Fitzgerald
B. Frank Flaherty*
Joseph E. Gore*
James E. Hayes*
Daniel F. Lundy
Joseph B. McDonald*
John J. Napolitano*
Richard T. Nolan*
Peter A. Piscitelli*
James F. Price*
Frank J. Rienzo*
Donald A. Salamone*
Arthur P. Schifflin
Ben Paul Siino*
James E. Starrs
James J. von Oiste*
1959
Edward V. Atnally*
George F. Boser*
John P. Della Ratta*
Charles J. Groppe
Jack S. Kleinsinger
J. Kevin Meneilly
Paul E. Pontiff*
Robert Small
Robert R. Strack
Martin V. Timmins*
1960
Anthony S. Bottitta
John J. Chase*
Vincent J. Cuttita*
Anthony Joseph D’Auria
Mary Lou Jennerjahn*
Hon. Alfred M. Lama
Hon. Joseph F. Lisa*
Robert A. Moran
John K. O’Callahan*
John Kenneth Rode
Eileen Straub
Frederick S. Tomasone*
Gary Yeldezian*
1961
Robert A. Akeson
Garrett E. Austin
Michael F. Barrett
Francis Cassidy*
Robert W. DeMelia
Gregory Florentino*
Edwin M. Keusey
Dominick J. Masiello*
Benedict J. Pollio*
Regina Purcell*
George C. Reeves*
James D. Robertson*
Gaynor J. Ryan
1962
Thomas J. Adams, Jr.
Hon. Armand Araujo*
Harry F. Blair
Robert I. Cohen*
Eugene L. De Nicola*
John M. Downing
Martin J. Epstein*
Joseph E. Farrell*
O. Mario Favorito*
Edward G. Gorman
John P. McConville*
J. Edward McDonough*
Hon. Michael F. Mullen*
Salvatore J. Nicosia
Frank J. Pannizzo*
L. Victor Vaccaro
John A. Vigilante*
1963
John P. Curley
James C. Daly
Amelia T. Del Vecchio*
Paul A. Golinski*
Hon. Edward J. Kiley*
Edward F. Malone*
Edward V. Murtaugh
Ann Lovett O’Connor*
Hon. Richard G. Ramsay*
Martin Smolowitz
George J. Zurlo*
1964
Edward F. Bennett*
Thomas E. Constance*
Constantine P. Georgiopoulos
Chris J. Giaimo
Edward M. Jozwicki*
Burt A. Lewis*
Daniel A. Maher*
Georgiana O. Miranda*
John C. Murphy
Hon. William J. O’Hare*
Vincent J. Paradise*
Rosario P. Romanelli*
Joseph W. Ryan, Jr.
John F. Scully
George C. Spahn*
Thomas D. Toy*
1965
Bernd H. Allen
Anthony V. Barbiero, Jr.
John L. Buonora
John J. Carr
Anthony D’Amore
Michael S. Feinman
M. Allan Hyman*
Walter J. Kendall III
Philip C. Kilian*
Benjamin S. Klapper
Alan E. Lazarescu*
Howard W. Lefkowitz*
James P. Little, Jr.*
James F. Morris
Harold J. Moskowitz
Hon. Daniel Palmieri*
Hon. Barry Salman
Andrew J. Simons, Sr.*
John P. Tynan
1966
Ralph V. Alio*
Hon. Wallace Boyle
John V. Brennan
Joseph Canzoneri
Michael A. Casciola
Robert L. Chase
Prof. John M. Dalton
Catherine Donnino*
Mary P. Dunne
Thomas J. Kwiatkowski
Shephard Lane
Major A. Langer*
John C. Lenahan*
Hon. George D. Marlow
John J. McCabe, Jr.*
James S. Morris
+ Denotes deceased
George J. Mullins
Henry P. Oswald
Herbert Ouida*
Michael A. Pearl
Joseph P. Ronan*
Alfred G. Santasiere
John T. Sawyers*
Hon. John E. Stackhouse*
Charles J. Wroblewski
1967
Henry S. Berman
Robert J. Castellani
Hon. Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick*
William A. Gallina*
Mark A. Garbus
Robert T. Gerken*
Joseph P. Heffernan*
William J. Kerner, Sr.
Anita Liotta
Steven C. Mandell
Kevin J. Powers*
Martin E. Randall*
Robert Andrew Wild*
1968
Leonard D. Andrew*
John F. Becker
Hon. Joseph F. Bruno
John B. Cameron*
Steven L. Cohen
William R. Dunlop*
Jeffrey L. Glatzer
Ralph K. Kessler*
Hon. Robert L. Nahman
Peter A. Portley*
John A. Schepisi*
Hon. Barry C. Schneider*
Brian J. Seery
Stephen J. Solomon
Mary Ellen Sweeney*
John H. Thomas, Jr.
Dennison Young, Jr.*
1971
James F. Blair*
John G. Bove*
Frederick D. Braid*
Kenneth E. Bunge*
Paul F. Corcoran
Joseph S. Deery, Jr.
James C. Egan*
Francis L. Filipowski*
Edwin I. Gorski*
Hon. Theodore T. Gotsch
Arthur N. Gualtieri, M.D.*
Hon. James C. Harberson, Jr.*
Deacon Richard F. Kelly
Robert Kolb*
Leonard E. Marotte*
Donald W. McGill*
John F. McGlynn*
Mark A. Meyer
Sol Needle
Kenneth E. Newman*
Donald T. Okner*
Hon. Joanna Seybert*
Steven E. Siegel*
Brian W. Smith*
David C. Stewart*
Richard J. Toniolo*
Bruce D. Tyler*
Hon. Joseph D. Valentino*
John F. Whitteaker*
Domenick Ziccardi*
1972
Hon. Raymond J. Dearie*
Donald T. DeCarlo
Philip A. DeCicco
Rudolph H. Funke*
Donald N. Gershuny
Spencer H. Heine
Thomas M. Laquercia*
Ruurd G. Leegstra
Thomas J. Martin
Thomas R. Pattison*
John B. Turano*
Fredric L. Altschuler*
William J. Bielefeld*
William K. Broudy
Gary L. Casella*
Louis A. Chiarolanza*
Jesse H. Diner*
Hon. Roberta Dunlop*
Hon. Randall T. Eng*
George Goltzer
Raymond J. Gwydir
Thomas Joseph Killeen*
Nick Limar*
Richard M. Lipsman
Philip McManus*
Scott E. Mollen*
Christopher Morrison*
John J. Pickett*
John F. Principe*
Jerome M. Selvers
Carl D. Simoni
Michael P. Stafford
Michael T. Sullivan*
Mr. Michael E. Troisi
1970
1973
1969
William R. Ahmuty III*
Robert Bartels*
Stephen S. Blodgett
Joseph G. Cairo, Jr.
Philip Cannella*
John A. Costa*
Salvatore A. Diliberto
Edward P. Faberman
Pamela Anagnos Liapakis
Jon K. Lieberman*
Joel S. Medows*
Michael Nicholson*
Hon. John F. O’Donnell*
Terence M. O’Neil*
John Gardiner Pieper*
John J. Tomaszewski, Sr.
Raymond P. Argila*
Brian J. Barrett*
Robert G. Bombara*
Hon. Kathleen B. Burke*
Henri A. Demers*
James F. DeVarso*
John F. Deveer*
Jerry A. DiTata
Thomas M. Egan
Hon. Leonard Feiner*
Joseph Philip Forte*
Marc S. Goldberg
Gregory Guercio*
Nancy E. Hoffman
George A. Kirschenbaum*
Thomas A. Klein*
William P. Laino
Joseph A. Lembo, Jr.*
Angel J. Martin*
Hon. Nicholas C. Maselli
Hon. Peter H. Mayer*
Richard H. Popper*
Thomas J. Principe*
Raymond A. Raskin
Ronald G. Russo*
Philip A. Russotti*
Joseph C. Schioppi
Michael E. Zall*
1974
Stanley A. Adamcik
Rafael Batine*
James Michael Begley*
Hon. Stanley R. Chesler*
James J. Cunningham*
Frank J. DeRosa*
Bruce K. Doman
Daniel J. Driscoll*
Charles Gallagher*
Anthony C. Ginetto*
George E. Hagerty
Helen F. Huyler
Peter Kakoyiannis*
Edward M. Kelly*
Douglas E. Libby
Daniel M. McCabe
Timothy W. McNamara*
Terrance J. Nolan*
Patrick J. O’Brien*
Richard L. Rosen
Saul Rosen*
Gregory Saver*
Hon. Fred Shapiro
Jack G. Stiefel
David L. Wanetik*
1975
Vincent C. Alexander*
Jacqueline E. Berkowitz
John G. Callahan*
Nicholas M. Cannella*
Hon. P. Kevin Castel*
Albert S. Conte
James A. Dollard
Raymond Fitzsimons
Stephen G. Frommer
Ann-Marie Fassl Hartline*
Edward C. Katz*
Laurence J. Keiser*
Hon. Jeffrey L. Levin*
Laurence A. Levy*
Irene Castaldo Libby
Michael M. Mariani*
Joseph L. Marino, Jr.
Hon. Michael A. Martinelli*
Michael F. McGahan*
Michael J. McNulty*
Salvatore A. Meli
Richard T. O’Connell
John J. Poklemba*
Hon. Frank V. Ponterio*
Rory J. Quinn*
Hon. James T. Rooney*
Donald Rosenberg*
David E. Snediker*
Howard V. Sontag
Robert A. Spiegelman*
Richard T. Swatland
1976
Anonymous
Hon. Ruth C. Balkin*
Christopher R. Belmonte
Richard H. Bliss
Eve Bunting-Smith
John F. Byrne
June B. Callwood
Joanne Santi Chevallier*
John L. Ciarelli
Barbara J. Compiani*
Kenneth A. Coren
Stephen D. Fink*
Neil J. Fletcher
Michele W. Fredman
Alan J. Fumuso*
Raymond J. Geoghegan*
Barbara S. Gerrard*
Patrick T. Hoey
Herbert A. Klibanoff*
John W. Kondulis
Stanley A. Landers*
John T. Lillis, Jr.
Philip R. Marino*
Philip W. Megna*
Lawrence D. Moringiello*
Raymond V. O’Connor, Jr.*
Thomas A. O’Rourke
Patrick J. Osinski*
James P. Regan
Hon. Reinaldo E. Rivera*
George L. Roach*
Richard A. Ross
Anne Marie Santangelo*
Jeffrey B. Shapiro
Stephen J. Smirti, Jr.*
John M. Spellman
Carmen S. Suardy*
Dwayne Weissman
Joanne Welty*
Richard F. Whearty*
1977
Alison Altman*
Hon. Daniel D. Angiolillo*
Michael Assael
Jack Babchik*
Jan Oliver Blau
Gordon L. Braverman
Patricia A. McLernon Castel*
Hon. Michael A. Ciaffa*
Michael J. Connolly*
Elwood B. Davis
Paula G. de Dominici*
Edward Edelstein
Philip Feig
Ira L. Frank
Frank A. Freda
Hon. Patricia A. Harrington
William J. Horan
Samuel Kadet*
Thomas J. Keegan, Jr.
Shawn P. Kelly*
Helen M. Korniewicz
Robert K. Kretzman*
Francis P. LaRocca, Jr.*
Marjorie Lesch
Bernard London, Jr.
Orlando Carlos Lovell*
Thomas M. O’Brien*
Brian E. O’Connor*
Michael M. Oleske
James F. Quinn*
N. Pendleton Rogers*
Peter Sessa
Nina Shreve*
William G. Spratt
Katherine G. Sullivan*
Barbara D. Tilker*
John M. Toriello
Margaret V. Turano*
William J. Upton*
Hon. Mary M. Werner
1978
Peter L. Amaya
Rev. Roman Badiak
Roberta Marie Beary
Rosemary T. Berkery
Sean C. Booher
Eileen C. Cacioppo
John T. Connors
John H. Drucker
Michael J. Falco*
Gary B. Freidman*
Catherine R. Glover*
Hon. Susan A. Grimes
Brendan J. Hanley*
Robert J. Hausen
Susan B. Kaufman
Willa Lewis*
Nancy M. Louden
Victoria Manes
Mary Ellen Manley
John W. Manning
Margaret F. McCoy*
Anne Marie Miano
Hon. John B. Pessala
Mark L. Regante*
Peter T. Roach*
Maureen C. Stein*
Thomas J. Stock*
Steven L. Zelkowitz
1979
Russell M. Abramson
Laura A. Bauer
Thomas Boyle
Charles Dewey Cole*
John V. Coulter*
Daniel J. Dell’Orto
Frederick J. Dorchak*
Hon. Michael L. Dwyer
Steven J. Eisman*
Robert F. Ewald
James E. Flood, Jr.*
Hon. Ferne J. Goldstein*
James L. Green
Damien W. Kovary
Clare Attura Kretzman*
William P. Larsen III
Christopher E. Manno*
Valerie S. Manzo
Ronald S. Meckler
Warren J. Nimetz*
Robert Pascucci
Edmund G. Rakowski*
Ruth H. Rosenhaus*
Sue B. Schilling
Thomas C. Senter*
Richard P. Smith
Hon. Elaine Jackson Stack*
Susan Q. Tuths*
Kathleen M. Ward
Harvey K. Watkins*
Bruce R. Wildermuth
Kathleen M. Willemin*
Kevin C. Young*
1980
Anne D. Alexander*
Mary Jo Black
Joseph G. Braunreuther, Jr.
Theresa C. Villani Braunreuther
Richard C. Burns*
William F. Cavanaugh, Jr.*
Ronald J. Cohen
William James Cople III*
Thomas M. Dawson*
Cornelia Hamill Duffy*
Charles E. Frankel
Thomas J. Fratello*
Audrey Furfaro
John P. Furfaro
David A. Gallo*
Hon. James L. Garrity, Jr.
Norma Giffords*
Robert F. Himmelman*
Michael H. Holohan, Jr.
Neil M. Horwitz*
Lorraine Coyle Koppell
Lorraine M. Korth
Laura T. LoCurto*
Brian W. McElhenny
Mary Jean Mezzina*
Cheryl Eisberg Moin
Edward Moulin*
Robert Palmer*
Susan G. Parker
Elizabeth S. Posner
Valerie M. Rothschild
Gerard K. Ryan, Jr.*
Mary Elizabeth Senkewicz
Denis R. Shea
Michael G. Skennion
Celeste A. Smith*
Marea M. Suozzi*
Kenneth B. Wilensky*
Thomas S. Zawyrucha
1981
Andrea M. Alonso*
Carole F. Barrett
Jerome L. Benson*
Gerald T. Bodner
Donna M. Brady
Brian J. Carmody*
Elizabeth Cornacchio
Jeanmarie P. Costello
Rose F. Dimartino*
Lois Peel Eisenstein
Steven R. Finkelstein
Kevin S. Finnegan
Mitchell S. Friedman
Roy S. Gilbert*
Mary P. Giordano*
James M. Hubbert
Michele A. Katz
Jeffrey J. Lawton*
Robert I. Lesser*
Shari J. Levitan
Clara S. Licata*
Patrick L. MacDonnell
Robert C. Mangi
Hon. Seth L. Marvin
Bruce K. Murchison*
Robert F. Peake
John J. Richardson
Diana S. Seuringer*
Richard V. Silver
Donna Scovotti Smith*
George L. Smith*
Richard J. Taigue
Gregory R. Tapfar
Joseph Trovato
James C. Ughetta*
Elizabeth A. Vreeburg
Helena Gillman Williams
Paul R. Williams
1982
Neil Abrams
John V. Bell
Richard J. Bowler
Salvatore J. Calabrese
Thomas G. Cascione
Donald H. Chase
Kerry B. Conners
Erica B. Fine*
Mark A. Furman*
+ Denotes deceased
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Mark E. Gelfand
Vivien B. Goldbaum*
Mark Goldstein
Catherine Granito*
Elena L. Greenberg
George R. Greenblatt*
Judith Greenspan*
Sandra M. Guiducci*
Kathleen Mahoney Gura
Joseph F. Gutleber, Jr.
Andrew T. Harrison
Anthony F. Iovino*
Sharon Scaturro Justvig*
Timothy J. Langan*
Lawrence F. Loesch
James F. McGowan III*
Henry S. Monti*
Vito V. Mundo*
Thomas P. O’Malley
Michael J. Rabus*
Janice S. Robinson
Stephen D. Sanford*
Nancy J. Scappaticci
Lisa A. Sharp
Bruce G. Sheffler*
Allan E. Silver
David Parker Weeks
Richard J. Weiss*
Jeanne E. Zunich
1983
Ricardo A. Baez
Edward G. Bailey
Steven J. Bocamazo
Rosemary B. Boller
Raymond Burney
Lynn Calvacca-Iannece*
Joseph Cammarata
Alan M. Chaut
Catherine Z. Collins
Lisa L. Crupi
Brian J. Davis*
Elizabeth M. DeCristofaro*
Hon. Diane M. Dwyer*
Rose Eckman
Alan S. Epstein
Alice J. Hollmuller*
Robert M. Kalisch
Ellen M. Levanti*
Karen E. Lombardo*
Theresa A. Maher
Robert W. Manning
Joseph A. Marra
J. Pearse McDonnell
William J. McLaughlin*
Michael G. Mehary*
Jane Sullivan Murphy
Margaret S. O’Connell*
Jeffrey T. O’Donnell
Thomas J. Quigley*
Steven Rapp
Emilia Naccarato Roll
Mary C. Rubert
James R. Ruger, Ph.D.
Robert J. Sorge*
Gary L. Steffanetta
Joseph J. Tock*
Mary Kay Vyskocil*
Herbert L. Waichman
Thomas J. Wilkinson
1984
Susan A. Vari Andriola
John J. Appell
Hon. Michael A. L. Balboni
Stuart Berg
Anthony J. Bonomo
John V. Campano
Patrick W. Cannon
Kathryn McCaffrey Carr*
Angela N. Cascione
Rosemary A. Cinquemani
Ms. Linda A. Damiano
James M. Darby*
Julius C. DiFiore*
Antonia M. Donohue*
John J. Donohue*
Michael J. Fleming*
Steven J. Gartner*
Elliott M. Glass
Timothy G. Griffin
Hon. Milton Grunwald
Robert J. Gunther*
Robert J. Hahn*
Jonathan J. Hill*
Patricia J. Hill
Debra S. Holtzman
Jerry M. Iannece*
Roy F. Kaufman
Charles F. Lacina*
John G. Martin
Glenn J. Matera
Margaret M. Mauro
Joseph P. McNulty
Hon. Bill Navas
Nancy Lugo Navas
Robert James Nobile*
John J. O’Grady
Mary E. Oleske
Sheila R. Paticoff*
Kenneth J. Ready*
Rose V. Sapelli*
Francis J. Scahill*
Anne Y. Shields
Jane R. Svoboda*
Richard R. Tortora*
Jeffrey G. Walsh
Douglas W. Wamsley*
David Weinraub*
Michael J. Willett
James J. Wrynn, Sr.
1985
Michael Balducci
John P. Beirne*
Thomas R. Brandon
Barbara J. Burger
Michael J. Cammarota
Charles E. Coleman
Vincent W. Crowe
Gene T. Domanico
Bernard D’Orazio*
James M. Farrell*
Hon. Patricia Filiberto
Joseph Robert Gagliano, Jr.* +
Kathleen C. Clifford Gallo*
Elisa D. Garcia C.*
Louis G. Graziano
John J. Hasluck*
Joanne M. Hawkins*
James D. Herschlein*
Teresa Hurley
Barbara Jordan
Robert J. Jordan, Jr.
Hon. Deborah Kaplan*
Maureen A. Keegan*
Hon. Kevin J. Kiley
Marie Knapp
William C. Mahlan, Jr.*
Thomas J. McCormack
Gavin D. McElroy
John P. McEntee*
Thomas J. Murphy
Gus P. Nuzzolese
Daniel J. O’Leary
Joseph R. Re*
+ Denotes deceased
Patricia J. Russell
Colin Serkes
Harlan J. Silverstein*
Susan M. Tokarski*
Marie J. McIntyre Tracy*
Robert J. Tracy*
Catherine Tully*
Debra A. Urbano*
Benjamin Velella
Steven Weiner*
John A. Yasek
1986
John P. Amato
James B. Blaney*
Barbara A. Breen*
John Breen
Hon. Alfred C. Cerullo III*
Arthur Ciampi
Maria L. Ciampi*
Michael P. Conboy
Kevin E. Crowley
Darren DeUrso*
Madeleine Fenster*
Thomas A. Gebert
Catherine A. Gerspach
Seth A. Hauser
Craig J. Henneberger
Donna-Marie Korth
Jeannine Baer Kuzniewski*
Alfred W. J. Marks
Jeanne M. Quinn Marks
Hon. Leon Marrano III*
Kathleen M. McCormack
Kerry O’Dwyer-Marrano*
Marguerite Downing Peck*
John Peluso
Raymond E. Scheer*
Richard Spehr
Stephen D. Straus
Paul Tuths*
1987
Bruce I. Baron
William T. Bianco
Ellen M. Boyle*
Patrick J. Brennan
Suzanne McGee Cienki
John F. Curran*
Daniel A. DeVito*
Philip A. Donnelly
Kenneth J. Dow
William J. Fishlinger
Jeanmarie DelCore Furman
Thomas Gerspach
Frank H. Granito III*
Mary V. Harkins
Karen C. Higgins*
Joan P. Higgins-Sullivan
Merryl I. Hoffman
Maurya C. Keating
Shoshana R. Kraus
Thomas Lopresti*
Kevin Maguire
Stuart J. Manzione
Laurence G. McDonnell*
Theresa N. McKay-Maguire
Kevin P. Mulry
Stanley J. Okula, Jr.*
Michele Cestari Schimmel*
Andrew M. Shey
Janet L. Smitelli
Hon. Kathleen Tomlinson
Matthew J. Vitucci
Mary Anne Walling*
1988
Kenneth J. Bornstein*
Nicholas M. Cardascia*
Robert C. Carlsen
Daniel Clivner*
Anthony J. Colletta
Marian M. Cope*
Eugene Louis Daneri, Jr.*
Martin M. Erazo
Patricia A. Garrity*
Vincent F. Gerbino
Agathy Vasilopoulos Gerkis*
Susan T. Hahnenkratt
Joan L. Hannon*
Thomas T. Keating*
Eric M. Kramer
Colette M. Landers*
Mary T. Lucere
Michael F. Maloney
Anastasia Costaras Mastrogiannis
Barbara L. Quinn McElroy
Frank J. Pecorelli, Jr.*
Anthony P. Piscitelli*
Suzanne R. Rittenberg-Dyer
Maureen Saeli
Vincent B. Tritto
Mary A. Vahey-Gager*
Terence P. Winter
Deanna Mascia Zenn
1989
Maria Allen
Simon Y. Balian*
Scott Baron
Richard J. Blank
Joyce M. Bowers
Joseph J. Conklin
Matthew E. DiStefano*
David J. Drexler*
Joseph P. Gaffney*
Bernadette P. Gallagher-Gaffney*
Donald H. Hazelton*
James S. Helfrich*
Alan B. Hodish*
Beth J. Jacobowitz
Timothy F. Jones
Richard T. Lombard, Jr.
Robert H. Moses
Athy A. Mobilia O’Keeffe
Edward M. Pinter
James A. Randazzo
Troy G. Rosasco*
Stephen A. Ruland
Prof. Joseph P. Salvo*
Anthony J. Scarcella
Michael Serres
Kristin G. Shea
Jeffrey P. Weingart
James M. Wicks
1990
Ginamarie T. Alvino
John O. Brennan
Thomas J. Cahill
Dennis R. Chase*
Laura M. Dilimetin
Frank M. DiTaranto*
Lorin A. Donnelly
Carla M. Dortch
Douglas L. Fischer*
John P. Gannon*
Michael E. Greenblatt
Thomas E. Hone*
Edward G. Kehoe
Patrick J. Kelly
David P. Lesch
Michael Maxwell
Mary Jane McGrath
Denise R. Melillo
James P. Newell*
John Newman
Robert F. Nostramo*
Janna M. Rossetti*
Teresa Santucci
Alex Shumicky
Geoffrey R. Smith
Thomas E. Stagg*
Edward Wagner
Susan C. Warnock
Lauren J. Zacher*
1991
Judith F. Abruzzo-Wasilewski
Robert J. Adams
Alexander Aviles
John W. Barker
James G. Bartolotto
Roy Breitenbach
Jan F. Arkwright Cuomo
Joseph V. Cuomo
Thomas P. Curran*
Christopher R. Dean
Joseph G. Dell*
Marguerite A. Fiore
Albert J. Galatan*
Michael H. Goldsmith
Bro. Campion Lally
Michael X. Mattone*
Maura A. McLoughlin*
Maria Montanti*
Mary A. O’Callahan*
Diego Scambia
Brendan R. Sheehan*
1992
Joseph A. Brintle
Michael Campanile
Maryann Gianchino Canfield
Susan L. Carney
Thomas G. Chojnacki*
Mark Cipolla*
Thomas D. Colin
Louis M. Dauerer
John A. DeMaro
Matthew K. Flanagan*
Lisa E. Fleischmann
Rachel S. Fleishman*
Antonio Galvao
Jilliane Pellman Hoffman
Anne Kelly Huggard*
Mark Keller*
Andria Simone Kelly*
Michael A. Madonna*
Franca Maiorano-Hobbs
Peter T. Maloney
Lourdes Martinez-Cipolla*
Lawrence Morizio
Paul J. Napoli
William Reid IV
Steven E. Rindner
Seth P. Robert*
Edward A. Ruffo
Janet Rugg*
Annemarie Salowski
John Sheerin
Robert Viducich*
Paul R. Walsh
Stacy White
1993
Leta L. Applegate*
John P. Bajit*
Marie E. Brady*
James J. Callahan III +
Michael K. Cantwell
Patrick Coffey*
David S. Conklin
Joseph A. Faria*
Richard C. Farley, Jr.*
Mary Carter Flanagan*
Thomas J. Foley, Jr.*
Salvatore G. Gangemi
Barbara Hall-Viggiano
Richard F. Hans*
Dawn K. Hone*
Lana E. Joslin
Marie E. Kaiser-Napoli
Denis P. Kelleher
Erik Klingenberg*
Kelly A. Koster
Angela M. Leonard*
Gerard R. Luckman*
John McDonnell
Claire C. McKeever*
Brian E. Murray
Robert A. O’Hare Jr.*
Joseph A. Oliva*
Ernest J. Peck*
Leslie Anne Ramirez-Fisher
Thomas Rettaliata
Sheilah M. Reycraft
Philip J. Rizzuto
Kenneth M. Sheehan
Joann C. Stonier
Robert Storti*
David M. Strano
Michele M. Weber
1994
Rev. Msgr. John A. Alesandro*
William T. Burdo*
Fred Calandrino*
Shant H. Chalian*
Robert Emmet Coleman, Jr.
Donald A. Corbett*
Rose M. Corbett*
Gerard DiConza*
Michael E. Duffy*
Gus Michael Farinella
Christian Fautz
Timothy F. Finnerty
Susan Gegan Fleming*
Douglas E. Fleming III*
Brian Friel
John F. Gallagher III
Thomas Giuffra*
Brian Gunn
Kieran P. Holohan
Hong K. Jung
Edward P. Kaye*
Janet E. Keller
Andrew M. Lauri*
Elizabeth Cronin Leo
Paul V. Majkowski*
James Marks
Deborah McHugh
Timothy J. McHugh
Francisco Vazquez*
Helen Wrobel*
1995
Jeanne Ardan
James Ausili
Eric Belfi
Alena E. Tverski Bespechny
John P. Boyle*
Brian D. Cody*
Susan Elizabeth Delaney
Timothy DiDomenico
James M. Duffy
Austin S. Faberman
Jason Adam Filson
Jonathan I. Friedman
Lawrence Gaissert*
Eve Heimberg*
John R. Keville
Paul Lanzon*
John Henry Maddock III
Catherine Dugan O’Connor
Jon S. Plevritis*
Courtney M. Spellman
Antoinette Davi Stafilias
1996
Judith Germano Bonarti*
Brian V. Breheny*
Richard B. Brown
Eileen M. Connolly*
Douglas Deutsch*
Vincent Edward Duffy*
T. Andrew Huntington*
Peter James Irwin*
Christopher J. Litrel
Andrew J. Pagliughi
Diane Pfadenhauer*
Nancy Regan
Lynn M. Ryan
Michael T. Ryan
Wanda L. Selinger
Bill Tsevis*
1997
Salvatore P. Tamburo
Mark A. Volpe
Michael Weinstock
Jeremy A. Welfer
1999
Russell E. Adler
Nicholas J. Cremona
Meryl Diamond*
Todd E. Duffy*
Mark A. Hakim
Gilbert Hardy
Michael P. King*
Joseph Michael La Micela
Gregg T. Larson
Henry Lung*
Jennifer A. Southard Maloney
William J. Mitchell
Jennifer Nocella-Caruso*
Mary Ellen O’Brien-Palmieri*
Julio Ocampo*
James M. O’Connor
Erica J. Smith-Klocek
Michael Van Aken
Peter Waibel
Joseph Walsh*
Pauline Yeung-Ha
Timothy Belford*
Peter Blond
Kerri Bond-Hirschey
Maria J. DiConza*
Timothy John Ferguson
Joshua Filler*
Adam S. Hakki
Joanne M. Harvey
Michael A. Henry
Francesca Jarmain
Christopher Keller
Melissa Maher
Grovine Y. Mattone
Thomas M. McNally
Matthew F. Messina
Stephen James Murphy
Frank M. Paladino
Peter E. Pisapia*
David Wayne Powers*
Andrew M. Roher
Kathleen O. Seaman*
Laura Dunathan Sguazzin
2000
1998
2001
Dorothea M. Capone*
Nelson A. Castillo
Amanda Chu
Thomas R. Craven, Jr.
Jerome J. Dano*
Thomas Devaney
Paul Duer
John G. Edel*
Amanda Fugazy
Michael J. Goldman*
Mary P. Hansen
Richard Y. Im
Barry H. Jacobsen*
Brian A. Jarmain
Robert Kenneth Jewell
Eric H. Jones
Glenn A. Kaminska*
Kostantinos Mallas
Judith Maxwell
James Modzelewski
Monique L. Morreale*
Roberta A. Parziale-Lataille*
Courtney R. Rockett
Gary Serbin
Michael Shuckerow, Jr.
Timothy Patrick Sullivan
Patrick James Boyd
Irena Sara Brobston
Dana Brussel*
Lisa Chun
Christopher K. Collotta
Michael Davi*
Darryl Wayne Gibbs
Christopher J. Kelleher
Anna Theologitis Loudaros
Cara A. Morea
Nicole Napolitano
Jennifer Nassour
David Marc Nieporent*
James Reddy
Erin K. Regan
Elizabeth McAuliffe Robson
Marcello Rosciglione
Harry Sacks
Chi Shum*
Barbara C. Smith
Sean Christopher Southard
Maria Theresa Aquino-Duran*
Christine V. Azzaro*
Eugene Benger*
Michael John Borrelli
Susan Carol Thies Bryant
Victoria Ferrantelli
Laura C. Fraher
Lisa Fried-Grodin
Donna Furey*
Charles F. Glorioso
Adrienne D. Croker Gonzalez
Juan Carlos Gonzalez
Cynthia Jean Hemley*
Gerald Karikari
Robin S. Maynard
Edward W. Monaghan*
Thomas A. Montiglio*
Matthew V. Spero
Isaac Torres*
2002
Irene M. Baker
Denis T. Brogan*
Jennifer R. Chan
Michael Patrick Daly
Robert A. Del Giorno
+ Denotes deceased
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Noreen E. Conroy Domingo
Catherine Ruggieri Everett*
John Thomas Goldman
John Thomas Hyland
Jared A. Jacobson*
Samantha B. Lansky*
Maureen Loretta McLoughlin
Edward Robert Minson
Heath D. Rosenblat*
Maria C. Sciortino
Mason Chandler Simpson
Kathleen Wright
2003
Lura Ann Hess Bechtel
Ben Darvil, Jr.*
Amanda D. Dekki*
John M. DiBari
Aimee Fox
Maureen A. Hoey
Ronald Palmese
Colleen Elizabeth Parker
Ferish P. Patel
Erin Roach
Karl Silverberg
Steven Joseph Stonitsch*
Thomas N. Toscano
Basilios Vassos
2004
Jill Barbarino*
Dominick D. Barbieri*
Christopher F. Bellistri
Catherine M. Biondo*
Jennifer K. Bowes-McCann
Jeanne M. Boyle
Carolyn M. Caccese*
Eugenie M. Cesar-Fabian
Michael V. Curti
Carol A. Simpao DiBari
David M. Eskew
Matthew L. Finkelstein
Ryan C. Goldberg*
Jessica Ann Heegan
Shannon M. Jauck
Theresa A. Kraker
John E. Lavelle*
Mariya V. Link
Laura C. Monaco
Rachel R. Paras*
John F. Romano*
Ronald C. Santopadre*
Brian W. Tilker
Keri A. Wehrheim
2005
Robert F. Carroll, Jr.
Matthew J. Chase*
Emily L. Cianci*
Brian T. Crowley
Annmarie F. De Primo
Natalie J. Friedenthal
Guido Gabriele III
Jonathan D. Gottlieb
Sean R. Kelly
Ellen S. Knarr
Kiera LoBreglio
William G. Macholz, Jr.*
Jodi R. Mandell
Meghan Silhan Mastrocovi*
Efrat Menachemi
Christopher F. Mestecky
Sara A. O’Toole
Denine C. Pagano*
Jessica Giambrone Palmese
Laura E. Paris*
Christopher B. Paton
Brian T. Reilly*
Gavin W. Scotti, Jr.
Joe Scroppo, Ph.D.*
Joseph M. Sorrentino*
2006
Louis J. Bara
Lisa Butler*
Rosa C. Castello*
Cindi M. Eilbott
Louis J. Gioia
Esterina Giuliani*
Michael D. Goldfarb*
Sara J. Goldfarb*
Gerard E. Hanshe
Thomas M. Hogan*
Dora M. Jimenez
Holly Lacey Carroll Kane*
Harriet Karanikolas
David J. Kozlowski*
Tony Kullen
Emily K. Lavelle
Kelly McDonald
Brian P. Murphy*
Theodore A. Neos*
Catherine Quinn
Theresa A. Robitaille
Jessica Eichel Saunders
Ilyse E. Sisolak*
Christian A. Sterling
Richard J. Washington
Robert C. Willis
2007
Nicole R. Abruzzo
Carlos E. Beato
Meghan E. Cannella Carroll
Francis A. Cavanagh*
Brandon S. Clar
Paula A. Clarity
Richard J. Corbi*
Joseph S. DiSalvo, Jr.
Anthony Rudy Filosa
Timothy John Fronda*
Jamie A. Porco Guglielmo*
Paul R. Hage
Christopher M. Hemrick
Kelly C. Spina Hobel
Chrisanthy Koumbourlis
David S. McNary*
Eric T. Murrell*
Sherolyn Oh
Craig J. Pohlmann
Edward P. Ra
Tracy A. Belton Romano*
Nicholas Rontiris
John R. Stevenson
Timothy C. Stone
Elaine A. Turley*
Robert Wann, Jr.*
Anupama Yerramalli*
2008
Monica Barron*
Amanda M. Beltz*
Patrick M. Birney*
Beatrix Bong
Brian D. Brenner
Joseph W. Canovas*
John P. Curley
Joshua C. Foster
Lauren N. Fraid*
Gintare Grigaite
Christine McIntyre Hogan
Anne F. Katz*
Christian J. Kubic
Anthony LoPresti
Scott A. Malone
Aaron M. Palash
+ Denotes deceased
Genevieve E. Peeples
Annie P. Power
Samantha E. Chung Rodriguez
Peter C. Ruggero
Audrey Walsh Smith
Brian G. Smith
Richard C. Spatola*
Douglas Tang*
E.J. Thorsen*
Sean S. Thorsen*
Jennifer A. Val
2009
Tracy L. Adamovich*
Amanda M. Ulrich Bartlett*
Jason Bartlett*
Jonathan Bartov
Lauren Marie Buonome
Alexandre Charles
John P. D’Ambrosio
Patrick D. Egan
Justin J. Farrell*
Gianfranco Finizio
Amanda J. Goun
Roman Grutman
Brooke E. Hazan
Rosa Hong
Kelly Jo Karneeb
Kevin K. Khurana
Erica L. Markowitz*
Karen McMullen*
Tiana J. Peterson
Kathleen M. Reilly*
Jennifer Victoria Abelaj Reyes*
Stephanie Anne Rotter
Jennifer L. Ryan
Richard B. Seelig
Stephanie R. Tumbiolo
Nicole Woolard
2010
Nicholas R. Alioto
Andrew Balbus*
Jonathan D. Borst
Daniel P. Buckley
Victoria M. Cantrella
Caitlin E. Cline*
Lisa Z. Dmiszewicki
Laura A. Franklin
Raymond A. Franklin
Sean R. Hutchinson
Parashos T. Kalaitzis
Christine Ann Knoesel
Rebecca Ann Leaf
Katherine M. McGrath
Nicole E. Miklos
Robert E. O’Connor*
Peter Petraro
Alyssa J. Porco
Ryan W. Pratt
Kristin M. Roshelli*
Felicia N. Rovegno*
Beth A. Rubenstein
Molly E. Sachson
Sean T. Scuderi
Erika V. Selli
Katherine A. Ward
2011
Joel Acevedo
Samantha S. Alessi
Argyro Boyle
Marcus Cheung
Paul E. Clancy
John D. Corrigan*
Bryan J. Hall
Eric T. Juergens*
Erin P. Kandel
Maeghan J. McLoughlin
Courtney A. McManus
Matthew M. Sobotta
George M. Tsiatis
Robert A. Von Hagen
2012
Carrie Adduci
Aaron M. Barham
Marina Braverman
Michael Candelmo
Steve Z. Gokberk
Aileen J. Kim
Marissa T. Kovary
Arely Lemus
Jonathan M. McCann
Dean M. McGee
Ellen C. Coltrinari McGrath
Jack L. Newhouse
Christina E. Papadopoulos
Elisa Pickel
Diana M. Schioppi
Brendan Silhan
Cindy A. Singh
Mary G. Vitale
Zev Weinstein
David C. Wohlstadter
2013
Herbert W. Bardenwerper
Jonah W. Brassard
Danielle L. Clout
Michael A. Fico
Daniel F. Fisher
Matthew Paul Gizzo
Rebecca T. Goldberg
Reesa F. Miles
Andrew J. Mundo
Christopher R. Newton
Christopher M. Opisso
Joseph E. Reigadas
Bradley N. Smith
Daniel R. Strecker
Matthew R. Yogg
2014
Adam J. Barazani
Rebecca Lowry
Jessica L. Ruoff
Kevin Michael Wallace
CORPORATIONS,
FOUNDATIONS AND
ASSOCIATIONS
The Law School recognizes
the following corporations,
foundations and associations
for their generous support
that sustains scholarships
and programs benefiting
our students:
Law Offices of Russell Abramson PLLC
Adde K Hair Salon, Inc.
Administrators for the Professions, Inc.
Ahmuty, Demers and McManus
Vincent M. Albanese, Attorney at Law
Alfonso’s Pizzeria
All Island Food Distribution
Allstate Insurance Company
Al’s Dry Cleaning
Amelio Dry Wall
American Bankruptcy Institute
American International Group, Inc.
John J. Appell, Attorney at Law
Arch Insurance Group
Joseph P. Asselta, P.C.
Astoria Federal Savings
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
AXA Foundation Fund
Babchik and Young LLP
Backstage Studio of Dance, Inc.
Bailey and Sherman, P.C.
Balbus Law Firm
Bank of America
The Bank of New York Mellon
The BAR/BRI Group
Barclay’s Capital
Baron Associates P.C., Attorneys and Counselors at Law
Barry McTiernan and Moore, LLC
Charles E. Baxley, PC
Baxter and Smith, PC
Benjamin Moore and Co.
Law Office of Peter J. Bernbaum
Alexander Bespechny, Attorney At Law
William J. Bielefeld, Attorney at Law
Julius S. Boccia, Attorney at Law
The Law Firm of Bonina and
Bonina, P.C.
Bornstein and Emanuel, P.C.
Borrelli and Associates, PLLC
Anthony S. Bottitta, P.C.
The Boyd Law Group, PLLC
Brandt Steinberg and Lewis, LLP
Braverman and Lester
The Law Office of Joseph A. Brintle
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Bruno, Gerbino and Soriano, LLP
C. T. B. Burgers
Cahill Gordon and Reindel LLP
Joseph G. Cairo, Jr., Attorney at Law
Camp Westmont, Inc.
Cannon and Acosta LLP
The John R. and Dorothy D. Caples Fund
Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, P.A.
Carmine’s Bakery
Cerussi and Gunn PC
Chevron Corporation
Gerald Chiariello, Attorney
Chubb and Son
Ciampi, LLC
Michael T. Clancy, Attorney at Law
The Coca-Cola Company
The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region
Concannon Family Foundation
The Solomon and Leona Condiotti Trust
Congdon Flaherty O’Callaghan Reid Donlon Travis & Fishlinger
Consolidated Edison Company of
New York, Inc.
Constructive Computers LLC
Corner Finn Nicholson and Charles,
Attorneys At Law
Jeanmarie P. Costello, Attorney at Law
Peter J. Costigan, Attorney at Law
Cravath, Swaine and Moore, LLP
Custom Computer Specialists, Inc.
D. N. Contracting
John M. Dalton, Attorney at Law
James M. Darby, Abritrator and
Mediator
Data Treasury Charitable Foundation
Brian J. Davis, P.C.
Dell & Dean, PLLC
Delta Phi Epsilon
Diliberto Winery
Duffy and Duffy, Attorneys At Law
DuPont Legal
Elmwood Charity Fund
Ernst and Young Foundation
ExxonMobil Corporation
Family CFO, LLC
Law Offices of Gus Michael Farinella, PC
Fass and Greenberg, LLP
Michael S. Feinman, PA
Ferrara Lumber Corp.
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Stephen David Fink, Attorney and
Counselor at Law
James E. Flood, Jr., Attorney at Law
Flushing Lawyers Charitable Trust
Foley Griffin, LLP
Forest Hills Haircutters
Forster and Garbus
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and
Loewy, LLP
Franklin Templeton Investments
Fratello and Fox, P.C.
French and Casey, LLP
The Claire Friedlander Family Foundation
Leopold Friedman and Ruth
Friedman Foundation
Donna Furey, Attorney at Law
Furey, Furey, Leverage, Manzione, Williams & Darlington, PC
Gabriele & Marano, LLP
Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman,
Mackauf, Bloom and Rubinowitz
William A. Gallina, Attorney
Gangemi Law Firm, P.C.
E. Robert Giuntini, P.C.
George Robert Goltzer, Attorney at Law
The Goodman Charitable Trust
The Granito Family Foundation
James L. Green P.C.
Grimaldi and Yeung, LLP
Roman Grutman and Associates, PLLC
Guercio and Guercio, Attorneys at Law
Sandra M. Guiducci, Attorney at Law
Donald H. Hazelton, P.C.
Hewlett-Woodmere Faculty Assoc.
High Tech Digital Technologies
High Tech Resources, Inc.
Hill and Moin, LLP
Law Office of Alan B. Hodish, LLC
Honeywell, Inc.
HP Global Inc.
Irving Rubber and Metal Co. Inc.
Island Valet Service Inc.
Jackson Lewis LLP
John Eric Jacoby, M.D., P.C.
Jakubowski, Robertson, Maffei,
Goldsmith and Tartaglia, LLP
Jaspan Schlesinger LLP
Jerry’s Car Care Center, Inc.
Jewish Communal Fund
Johnson and Johnson
The Johnson Foundation
Jung and Associate, PC
Denis Patrick Kelleher, Esq., PLLC
Kelly’s Car Service
Kerley, Walsh, Matera and
Cinquemani, P.C.
Edward J. Kiley, Esq. PC
Kilpatrick Townsend and Stockton, LLP
Kramer, Dillof, Livingston and Moore
Landers and Cernigliaro, P.C.
Lankler Siffert and Wohl, LLP
Laquercia and Klein, LLP
Laurence Keiser, Attorney at Law
Lavallee Law Offices, PLLC
Lesch-Percy Foundation
The Reginald F. Lewis Foundation, Inc.
Lewis Johs Avallone Aviles and
Kaufman LLP
Lexis Nexis
Law Offices of Clara S. Licata
The Lionel Trust
Long Island International Auto, Inc.
The Lorber Foundation
Mary T. Lucere, PLLC
Law Office of Henry Lung, PC
M. L. Keleher
Mangi and Graham, LLP
Marchese and Maynard, LLP
Markel Corporation
Maroney O’Connor, LLP
Joseph M. Mattone, Attorney at Law
Mattone Real Estate
Jim Mazzeo Agency Corp.
McDonnell Crowley LLC
McGuireWoods, LLP
The McHattie Law Firm, LLC
McKee, Giuliani and Cleveland
Salvatore Meli, PLLC
Peter C. Merani, P.C.
MetLife Foundation
The Carole and Harold Moskowitz
Family Foundation
Mutual of America
National Philanthropic Trust
The New York Intellectual Property
Law Association, Inc.
New York Life
John Newman, Esq.
Ethel and Alexander Nichoson
Foundation
Northeast Financial Consultants, Inc.
Novartis
O’Dwyer and Bernstien, LLP
O’Melveny and Myers LLP
P.C.I. Contracting, Inc.
Robert Palmer, Attorney at Law
The Law Offices of Rachel R. Paras, LLC
Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh
Stanton and Romano, LLP
Patterson Belknap Webb and Tyler, LLP
Paul Hastings LLP
PepsiCo, Inc.
Pfizer, Inc.
The Phares Company
Pharmaceutical Media, Inc.
Picciano and Scahill, P.C.
Pieper New York Multistate Bar
Review, Ltd.
Peter A. Portley, Attorney at Law
Pyrros and Serres, LLP
Qualcomm
Rappaport, Glass, Levine and Zullo LLP
Law Firm of Kenneth J. Ready, P.C.
Red Land Strategy, Inc.
The Reich Fund
Rivkin Radler, LLP
Philip J. Rizzuto, P.C.
Peter T. Roach and Associates, P.C.
Law Offices of Steven C. Rohan, LLC
Royal Rent a Car
Ruskin Moscou Faltischek PC
Ronald G. Russo, Attorney at Law
Philip Russotti, Attorney at Law
S. D. Middleton, PC
Anthony J. Scarcella and Associates P.C.
Scarcella Law Offices
School Bus by Superior, Inc.
The John H. and Dorothy M. Scully Trust
SDF Professional Service LTD, Inc.
Segar & Sciortino PLLC
Law Office of Wanda L. Selinger
Shaub, Ahmuty, Citrin and Spratt, LLP
Sheehan and Company, C.P.A., P.C.
Steven Siegel, P.C.
Sigma Delta Tau
Karl Silverberg, P.C.
SilvermanAcampora LLP
Simpson Thacher and Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and
Flom, LLP
David J. Sobel, P.C.
Society of American Law Teachers
Soros Fund Charitable Foundation
Gerald Z. Steinberg TRT
Steptoe and Johnson, LLP
Stewart Greenblatt Manning Baez
Attorneys at Law
Thomas J. Stock and Associates
Law Offices of Robert R. Strack
Sullivan and Cromwell LLP
Sullivan Papain Block McGrath and Cannavo, PC
Tafuri Tile and Marble Inc.
Themis Bar Review
Joseph J. Tock, Attorney at Law
Seymour Trager, Attorney at Law
Bruce D. Tyler, Attorney at Law
Universal Attractions, Inc.
University Research Co., LLC
Verizon
John J. Walsh, Attorney at Law
The Walt Disney Company
The Washington Post
Welby, Brady and Greenblatt, LLP
Wyetzner and Needle
Wyndham Worldwide
Yankee Candle
ESTATE GIFTS
The Law School has been
remembered by the following
individuals through contributions
given by their estate. We greatly
appreciate their foresight and
desire to support the Law School
in this most personal way:
James J. Callahan ‘93L
Richard J. Concannon ‘58C, ‘60L
Joseph A. D’Andrea ‘49CBA, ‘54L
Estate of Leon Finley ‘29L, ‘85HON
Joseph R. Gagliano, Jr. ‘82C, ‘85L
William P. Larsen, Jr. ‘50L
James M. MacNee III ‘52L and Mary MacNee
John O’Leary ‘50CBA, ‘53L
Estate of Fioravante G. Perrotta ‘52C, ‘55L, ‘02HON
Hon. Israel Rubin ‘49C, ‘50L, ‘92HON
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ENDNOTE
Community Warrior
DONNA BESTEIRO ’91 COMBATS HOMELESSNESS
AND HUNGER IN PEEKSKILL, NY
I
n recent years, New York’s
Westchester County has seen a 24
percent increase in homeless men,
women, and children living on its
streets. It’s a community challenge
with many root causes, from the
economic downturn to a system of
care that too often overlooks people
with mental illness.
Westchester native Donna Besteiro ’91
enjoyed a thriving career at Danone North
America, where she handled matters
for The Dannon Company, Inc., Evian,
LU, and Lea & Perrins. Over the years,
as the corporation grew, she served in a
succession of key advisory and leadership
roles, including chief compliance officer
and chief intellectual property officer.
While her corporate work was
interesting and rewarding, Besteiro found
herself drawn down a different path, one
she had charted as a longtime volunteer
at nonprofit organizations, including the
Westchester Coalition for the Hungry and
Homeless, Inc., the Rescue Mission, and
United Cerebral Palsy of Westchester.
“I grew restless and uninterested in
bottom line profit goals,” she says. “I wanted
to be able to feel the results of a good day’s
efforts.” It was also around this time that
Besteiro’s brother was diagnosed with bipolar
disease. “He quickly fell from a middle class
upbringing to homelessness and a life at
the fringes of society,” she shares. “And like
many of the homeless, he suffered the scorn
and disdain of people who are quick to affix
negative labels. Luckily for him, he received
the help he needed. Today, he lives in
supportive housing and has access to medical
services as well as food pantries and soup
kitchens. These services allow him to live with
some semblance of dignity and to devote his
energies to obtaining work and giving back
to his community.”
Besteiro soon learned that Caring for
the Homeless of Peekskill, Inc. (C.H.O.P.,
Inc. or CHOP), a safe haven for the area’s
homeless, was looking for an executive
director. She was offered the position and
began her nonprofit career in April 2012.
CHOP’s mission is to alleviate hunger and
homelessness in Peekskill and its surrounding
communities by providing food and
shelter to those in need and by promoting
self-sufficiency through temporary and
permanent housing. Working closely with
local community agencies and volunteers,
it runs three highly successful programs: Jan
Peek House, Sunny Donut Free Breakfast
Program, and Fred’s Pantry.
“The people who come to the Jan Peek
shelter often, for the first time in their lives,
connect with medical experts who diagnose
them with mental health challenges and
help them see how those challenges have
impacted their lives,” Besteiro explains.
“These are some of our most vulnerable
citizens and they deserve our support. And
many of them give back to the community
after landing on their feet.” Besteiro recently
expanded CHOP’s housing program by
adding a Veterans Dorm for homeless vets.
Since opening in 2008, Fred’s pantry—
the only choice food pantry in Northern
Westchester—has offered emergency food,
health and housing retention assistance,
and self-sufficiency tools to the community’s
most needy. “And most of the people we
have the pleasure of serving at our breakfast
soup kitchen, Sunny Donut, are laborers
who work long, hard days to care for their
families,” says Besteiro.
In an environment where monetary
and human resources are scarce, and
stretched, Besteiro finds her lawyering
skills indispensable in leading CHOP and
navigating the challenges it faces, including
widespread misunderstanding of the
depth of mental health issues that drive
homelessness.
Calling her work on behalf of the
homeless and hungry in her community
“a privilege,” she says: “With all the hustle
and bustle of our lives, the stress on money
and material things, we can lose sight of
who we are and what is truly important.
As individuals and together, we can have a
tremendous, positive impact on others while
reaping the rewards of valuable work.”
Events Calendar
St. John’s Law Alumni Association hosts and participates in many events throughout the year.
Below are highlights of upcoming events. Please visit our online event calendar at
stjohns.edu/law/events for full event details and updates.
November 6, 2014
Class Reunion 1974, 1984,
1989, 1994, 1999, 2004
November 7, 2014
Intellectual Property Law Center
Inaugural Conference (CLE)
November 11, 2014
Armed Forces Alumni and
Student Reception
November 13, 2014
Religious Freedom for Mideast
Christians: Yesterday and Today
November 15−16, 2014
Fall CLE Weekend
November 22, 2014
Big Apple Circus Family Day
December 4, 2014
Westchester Chapter
Holiday Luncheon and
Toy Drive
December 10, 2014
Brooklyn Chapter
Holiday Party and
Toy Drive
March 3, 2015
Law Review Alumni
Reception
March 26, 2015
Public Interest Auction
April 18, 2015
Vets and Pets Charity 5K Run/
Walk
January 30, 2015
Alumni Association
Luncheon
Honorees:
February 28−March 1, 2015
Spring CLE Weekend
May 4, 2015
Hon. Theodore T.
Jones, Jr. ’72, ’07HON
Memorial Golf Outing
Honorees:
Hon. Janet M. DiFiore ’81
Darryl Gibbs ’00
May 20, 2015
Alumni Association
General Meeting
You are warmly invited to attend the Law School’s annual:
Alumni Association Luncheon
Friday, January 30, 2015
Honorees
Recent Graduate Service Award
Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
St. Thomas More Award
Co-Chairman, Willkie Farr &
Gallagher LLP
NON-PROFIT ORG.
U.S. POSTAGE
PAID
ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK
School of Law
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
Celebrate
Reunion 2014!
Class of 1974 • Class of 1984 • Class of 1989 • Class of 1994 • Class of 1999 • Class of 2004
More than 350 alumni participated in Reunion 2013. Let’s better that record this year while reconnecting
with old friends, meeting new ones, and celebrating alma mater with fellow St. John’s Law alumni.
Date: November 6, 2014 • Host: Dean Michael A. Simons • Location: Desmond’s Steakhouse, NYC
Keeping our alumni family connected and strong!
Please contact Claire C. McKeever ’80SVC, ’93L at [email protected] or (718) 990-6006 for more information.

Fall 2014 - St. John`s University

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