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2006 CHRONICLE of the
OLD GUARD.
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While in the Bay
Area in June, 2006, Prof. Bowling spent an
afternoon with Loren Mayshark, who is caddying among other things
& living close to the Haight Ashbury intersection that the 1960s
hippies made famous.
Steve DeLuca,
pictured above with his wife Colleen DeLuca, checked in from
Minnesota, where he is now working for BestBuy and helping raise their two
sons. Steve was the 1991 Recipient of the Howard Bloomquist
Award....Jen Sykes Erday became the mother of her third son, Matthew
John Erday, joining Timothy & James. They, along with her
husband Tim, are living in Summit, N.J...Jim Brady & Tricia Mahoney
Brady welcomed Ava Ryleigh Brady to the family on May 28th,
2006. They are living in Huntington, Conn. with their other 3
children, Katie, Jimmy, & Grace Erin. Jim also participated in
the Bennett Cancer Center Walk & Run on June 6, 2006, benefiting
Stamford Hospital. He's still managing the Stamford Harbor
Park....Look closely at that next box of stuff you bought at Bed, Bath,
& Beyond. That guy on the box looks an awful lot like Jim
Seymour--and it is! Besides his budding modeling career, James
works in the Lighting & Furniture Division of BBB in Farmingdale, L.I.
He hosted L.B. down in his hometown of Freeport on Aug. 17th at Elliot's
on the water, the best place down there, according to Luke Dorfman,.
who ought to know. This alumni gathering had a lacrosse flavor to it
as Jimmy S. brought along Jim Clancy, 2005 recipient of
the Gregg Reidy Memorial Award, and future history teacher Matt
O'Brien, whose BA in History is set to be granted in January,
2007. Clancy is working in sales in New Jersey...Andy Della Croce
has relocated to sunny Los Angeles. He is running the marketing for
a Physical Therapy office and also doing the PR and marketing a
high-end gym; see www.phase-iv.net .
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Bill
McGrath filed a lot of news. He is practicing law at The
Law Office of Rosenbaum & Vollono, staff counsel for Liberty Mutual in
Glastonbury, Conn. He and his wife Jennifer McGrath, who were
married in October, 2004, welcomed daughter Brenna Elizabeth McGrath
into the world in December, 2005. Bill comments: "I plan
on starting her Manhattanville fund in the next year"--good idea,
Bill. The McGraths in a house they bought in summer '06 in West
Hartford...Michael D'Alora, 2006 recipient of the Gregg Reidy
Memorial Award, parleyed his internship with Citigroup's Smith Barney
into a full-time job in their Manhattan operation...Sean Bowen
reports he is still residing in Port Chester, N.Y. with Drew Crowley
& trying, with some success, to keep Drew out of trouble. Sean
took a new job in February, 2006 with AIG Financial Products as an
associate in Foreign Exchange Trading...Lawrence
Peretto & Prof. Bowling met up on July 11, 2006 in Valhalla at
Southbound Bar-B-Que, of which Larence is part owner. He is
completing his Master's degree at the Bank Street Education School in
Manhattan and continuing to serve as middle school science coordinator for
the Mamaroneck, N.Y. school district. But the really big news is
that on July 3rd he became the proud father of his daughter Olivia
Peretto...
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Above:
Michael Benziger, BA, History & Management, just after
receiving his degree. At 6'7", Mike is the tallest BA, History
in Manhattanville College history. After becoming the 18th player in
MVILLE history to score over 1000 points in his career, he was named to
the First Team, All-Skyline Conference, as well as the Third Team, All-Met
Division III selection from the National Invitation Tournament and the Met
Basketball Writers Association. After graduation he took the Grand
Tour in Europe before resettling in Los Angeles, where he works for the
family company, The Benziger Family Winery of Sonoma County, California,
where he grew up. Check them out at www.benziger.com
. Mike's senior evaluation concerned the history of winemaking in
California, and specifically the origins and development of his family's operation in
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Bob Kasmire,
with Bobby Kasmire & Kayla Kasmire, at the 2006 History
Alumni BBQ. Bob, our 1992 Howard Bloomquist Award recipient,
continues to work for Verizon Business, and played in the inaugural Gregg
Reidy 3-on-3 tournament...The ever-modest John Danielski, the
greatest player in Manhattanville basketball history, working on a
Master's degree in elementary ed. at the University of New Haven, filed
this interesting report about summer school, 2006: "New Haven
had me take that History course even though I was a History major. It
was just US History I. Don't worry, I got an A in the
course" We were never worried, John. As has become an
annual custom, John & L.B. also took in the Penn/Yale basketball game
in New Haven on March 3rd (good guys won)...Jim Barrett, 1990
recipient of the Howard Bloomquist Award, checked in from Stevens
Point, Wisc. He and his wife Cathy Barrett now have three
chidlren: Celia, Joey, & Maggie, born in spring,
2006. Jim is
Director
of Admissions for Mid-State Technical College in Wisconsin Rapids.
He manages several departments in the position, in addition to the student
data system PeopleSoft. His continuing love of history is shown in
his part time teaching of a World History class for Lakeland
College in Sheboygan. It is a blended class with an online and
in-class component. Jim comments, "While I am a techie at heart
I still prefer the interaction that the classroom brings."
Hear, hear!...
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Above:
Christie-Belle Garcia, 2006 Recipient of the Howard Bloomquist
Award, first-ever double major in History & Spanish, summa cum
laude graduate. She is continuing at Manhattanville in
2006-07, working on a Master's degree in Education
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Spring
Break, 2006 found Manhattanville History guys in Florida, spreading the
word about the world's greatest subject with the 2005 History T-shirt, "Feel
the Power." Above is History minor Antonio DeBarros
and History majors Michael D'Alora, Francesco Notaristeafno, and Joe
Ahlstrin.
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Above: Sarah Hall, another new BA, History, Class of
2006, at the Commencement Exercises on campus. Sarah's senior
evaluation thoroughly examined the long desegregation struggle in its
various guises in American history between the years 1940 and 1965.
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