Archive for November, 2007

Sunday 25 November 2007

This issue is at:

http://www.jasperjottings.com/2007/jasperjottings20071125.htm

Send email to http://tinyurl.com/yh34ut (gives you an email address), fax 781-723-3746, or call 732-917-4816 (It’s the phone on my computer) anytime.

All communications are ASSUMED to be for inclusion, UNLESS otherwise indicated.

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Weekly Stats
The daily site had 1,089 views last week; weekly site had 5 again. (Weekly site can replace Distribute!)

754 Jaspers are active on the Distribute Yahoo site. (Serves no purpose!)

The site had 1,299 unique visits last week.

26 in LinkedInJaspers (http://tinyurl.com/yp6x2q).
(A real wasted effort?!)

mcALUMdb is STILL off the air.

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FLASH! Important info received after the deadline
Wednesday, November 28 MC vs Fordham bball on tv?

The Manhattan College men’s basketball game against boro rival Fordham University will be televised by SportsNet New York (SNY). The game, the 100th meeting between two storied New York City programs, will take place Wednesday, November 28 at the Jaspers’ Draddy Gymnasium. Coverage will kick off at 7:00 p.m. for this season’s edition of The Battle of the Bronx.

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Events

{NOTHING}

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My list of Jaspers who are in harm’s way:
- Afghanistan
- – Feldman, Aaron (1997)
- Iraq
- – Angel Estrella (2002)
- Korea
– Stephanie (????)
- Unknown location
- – Lynch, Chris (1991)
- Uzbekistan
- – Brock (nee Klein-Smith), Lt Col Ruth (1979)
… … my thoughts are with you, and
… … with all of you that I don’t know about.
Dona Nobis Pacem

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

EXHORTATION

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/sugihara

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Chiune Sugihara (Japanese: 杉原千畝, Sugihara Chiune; January 1, 1900 – July 31, 1986) was a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during World War II while serving as the consul of the Empire of Japan to Lithuania. He was one of those who appeared to have no discernible motivation other than doing the right thing, and came to be known as the “Japanese Schindler.”

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Wow, the things you learn as you get older.

Righteous Among the Nations

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Asked why he did it. Sugihara liked to give two reasons: one, that these refugees were human beings, and the other, that they simply needed help.

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Stunning.

In that day and time, “helping” could get you killed. Clearly, his deeds were punished by the Japanese Foreign Ministry. And, at least he received some recognition before his death.

One can only wish that one has the moral courage to do the right thing in rough times. I can’t imagine the pressure he felt. Clearly, ordinary folks can rise to greatness in the moral dimension by just doing the right thing. He’s a example for me to follow. Although I hope my challenges are much much smaller.

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Reflect well on our alma mater, this week, every week, in any and every way possible, large or small. God bless.

“Collector-in-chief” John reinke—AT—jasperjottings.com

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CONTENTS

1 Messages from Headquarters (i.e., MC Press Releases)
0 Good_News
2 Obits
3 Jaspers_in_the_News
3 Manhattan_in_the_News
3 Email From Jaspers
2 Jaspers found web-wise
2 MC mentioned web-wise
0 New Jasper Bloggers

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PARTICIPANTS BY CLASS

Class Name Locator
???? Hurley, D. Michael JObit1
1900 Castro, Luis Headquarters1
1944 Taylor, Francis B. JObit2
1950 Rienzo, Ignatius Headquarters1
1953 McEneney, Mike JEmail01
1953 McEneney, Mike JEmail02
1962 Corry, John Headquarters1
1966 Barnes, Patrick M. JFound2
1967 O’Neill, Joe JNews1
1969 O’Malley , V. Grady Headquarters1
1969 Quinn, Peter JNews3
1976 Hardardt, Mark JNews2
1983 Vegeto, Peter JFound1
1994 Frazier, David Headquarters1
1995 Gelsomino, Danielle Headquarters1
1995 Marshall , Jamal Headquarters1
2006 McCarthy, Thomas JEmail03
2010 Chan, Catherine JEmail01 (cited)
2010 Monaco, Kellie JEmail01 (cited)
2011 Atwell, Debbie JEmail01 (cited)
2011 Rossettie, Diana JEmail01 (cited)

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PARTICIPANTS BY NAME

Class Name Locator
2011 Atwell, Debbie JEmail01 (cited)
1966 Barnes, Patrick M. JFound2
1900 Castro, Luis Headquarters1
2010 Chan, Catherine JEmail01 (cited)
1962 Corry, John Headquarters1
1994 Frazier, David Headquarters1
1995 Gelsomino, Danielle Headquarters1
1976 Hardardt, Mark JNews2
???? Hurley, D. Michael JObit1
1995 Marshall , Jamal Headquarters1
2006 McCarthy, Thomas JEmail03
1953 McEneney, Mike JEmail01
1953 McEneney, Mike JEmail02
2010 Monaco, Kellie JEmail01 (cited)
1969 O’Malley , V. Grady Headquarters1
1967 O’Neill, Joe JNews1
1969 Quinn, Peter JNews3
1950 Rienzo, Ignatius Headquarters1
2011 Rossettie, Diana JEmail01 (cited)
1944 Taylor, Francis B. JObit2
1983 Vegeto, Peter JFound1

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Sunday 18 November 2007

Sunday 18 November 2007

Housekeeping
This issue is at:

http://www.jasperjottings.com/2007/jasperjottings20071118.htm

Send email to http://tinyurl.com/yh34ut (gives you an email address), fax 781-723-3746, or call 732-917-4816 (It’s the phone on my computer) anytime.

All communications are ASSUMED to be for inclusion, UNLESS otherwise indicated.

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Weekly Stats
The daily site had 793 views last week; weekly site had 5. (Weekly site can replace Distribute!)

754 Jaspers are active on the Distribute Yahoo site. (Serves no purpose!)

The site had 1,240 unique visits last week.

26 in LinkedInJaspers (http://tinyurl.com/yp6x2q).
(A real wasted effort?!)

mcALUMdb is STILL off the air.

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FLASH! Important info received after the deadline
Last week’s issue went out with the wrong URL. I was able to fix the online copies, but not the Yahoo email distribution, or the Yahoo saved message. So, I just deleted the Yahoo copy. If I put it up again, it’ll send it out annoying every one. Argh! I’ll try to do better, but I warned you I was a lousy clerk!

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Events

{NOTHING}

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My list of Jaspers who are in harm’s way:
- Afghanistan
- – Feldman, Aaron (1997)
- Iraq
- – Angel Estrella (2002)
- Korea
– Stephanie (????)
- Unknown location
- – Lynch, Chris (1991)
- Uzbekistan
- – Brock (nee Klein-Smith), Lt Col Ruth (1979)
… … my thoughts are with you, and
… … with all of you that I don’t know about.
Dona Nobis Pacem

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
“There are many things the government can’t do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.”

~ Lord Acton (1834–1902)

EXHORTATION

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/mccarthy7.html

October 15, 2007
The Man Who Chose To See
by Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy

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The life of Franz Jägerstätter was the ordinary life of an Austrian farmer in the village of St. Radegund. He was a devout Catholic, a daily communicant who prayed the rosary while doing farm chores. Sexton of his parish church, he was married and had three children. But, on August 9, 1943 Franz Jägerstätter’s life became other than ordinary, when he was legally killed by the German Military for refusing to kill for the German Military.

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However, before bishops, priests, ministers, pastors and Christians in general will be able to say that heroic, “No,” they will, like Franz Jägerstätter, have to first choose to see. They will have to choose to see with the eyes of their hearts, as well as with the eyes of their minds. They will have to choose to see that the death-dealing elephant of justified violence and enmity has entered the Church and has been elevated by Church leaders and Christians to an ethical status equal to or superior to Jesus and His Way. They will have to choose to see that this Christian equivalent of the Hebrews’ golden calf has ruined and is ruining almost everything that, the Father through Jesus, wants to do for all His infinitely loved sons and daughters – each and every one of whom He drew out of nothingness for the gift of Eternal Life with Him.

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Do we have the courage of a “Franz Jägerstätter” or the insight of a Pastor Martin Niemöller? I’d like to think of Blessed Franz and Pastor Martin as the spiritual icons of Jaspers. When we see the “Barbara Streisand” that passes for civil civic discourse about the welfare – warfare state, do we take a stand and just say “no”. Quietly, simply, unequivocally, “no”. Not rudely. Not confrontationally. Not with “a different violence” in our heart. But with the focus of a Gandhi, the stubbornness of a MLK, the internal grace of a Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa). Just “no”. Now I know my fellow alums will be much better at this than I am. But who knows which straw will break that old proverbial camel’s back?

“no”

Dona Nobis Pacem

Reflect well on our alma mater, this week, every week, in any and every way possible, large or small. God bless.

“Collector-in-chief” John reinke—AT—jasperjottings.com

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CONTENTS
3    Messages from Headquarters (i.e., MC Press Releases)
1    Good_News
4    Obits
1    Jaspers_in_the_News
1    Manhattan_in_the_News
3    Email From Jaspers
1    Jaspers found web-wise
0    MC mentioned web-wise
0    New Jasper Bloggers

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PARTICIPANTS BY CLASS
Class    Name    Locator
MCattn    Roche, William “Bill” A.     JObit3
1937    Traube, Clarence James     JObit1
1965    Kissane, James P.    JObit4
1968    Corrigan, Dorothy B.     JObit2
1969    Scudo, Bob     JEmail02
1970    Chandler, William     JEmail01 (cited)
1972    Ferrara, Richard     JEmail03
1975    Zugibe, Thomas     JNews1
1977    Leavey, Joseph G.     JFound1 (RIP)
1990    Hickey, Elizabeth     JEmail01 (cited)
2002    Hall, Michelle Lynn     JGood1
2006    McCarthy, Thomas     JEmail01
2008    O’Donnell, Christopher     Headquarters3

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PARTICIPANTS BY NAME
Class    Name    Locator
1970    Chandler, William     JEmail01 (cited)
1968    Corrigan, Dorothy B.     JObit2
1972    Ferrara, Richard     JEmail03
2002    Hall, Michelle Lynn     JGood1
1990    Hickey, Elizabeth     JEmail01 (cited)
1965    Kissane, James P.    JObit4
1977    Leavey, Joseph G.     JFound1 (RIP)
2006    McCarthy, Thomas     JEmail01
2008    O’Donnell, Christopher     Headquarters3
MCattn    Roche, William “Bill” A.     JObit3
1969    Scudo, Bob     JEmail02
1937    Traube, Clarence James     JObit1
1975    Zugibe, Thomas     JNews1

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Sunday 11 November 2007

This issue is at: http://www.jasperjottings.com/2007/jasperjottings20071111.htm

CONTENTS

0 Messages from Headquarters (i.e., MC Press Releases)
2 Good_News
1 Obits
1 Jaspers_in_the_News
3 Manhattan_in_the_News
4 Email From Jaspers
0 Jaspers found web-wise
0 MC mentioned web-wise
1 New Jasper Bloggers

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PARTICIPANTS BY CLASS
Class Name Locator
???? Sliger, Sean Patrick JGood2
1937 Traube, Clarence James JObit1
1969 Quinn, Peter JEmail01 (cited)
1972 Ferrara, Richard JEmail04
1974 McFadden, Michael J. JEmail03
1979 Gargano, Charles A. JNews1
1989 McCarra-Fitzpatrick, MaryAnn JEmail04
1991 Campanile, Cynthia JGood1
1993 Boland, Mark JEmail02

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PARTICIPANTS BY NAME
Class Name Locator
1993 Boland, Mark JEmail02
1991 Campanile, Cynthia JGood1
1972 Ferrara, Richard JEmail04
1979 Gargano, Charles A. JNews1
1989 McCarra-Fitzpatrick, MaryAnn JEmail04
1974 McFadden, Michael J. JEmail03
1969 Quinn, Peter JEmail01 (cited)
???? Sliger, Sean Patrick JGood2
1937 Traube, Clarence James JObit1

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Sunday 04 November 2007

This issue is at:
http://www.jasperjottings.com/2007/jasperjottings20071104.htm
CONTENTS
1 Messages from Headquarters (i.e., MC Press Releases)
1 Good_News
3 Obits
7 Jaspers_in_the_News
1 Manhattan_in_the_News
4 Email From Jaspers
1 Jaspers found web-wise
3 MC mentioned web-wise
0 New Jasper Bloggers

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PARTICIPANTS BY CLASS
Class Name Locator
???? Kortovich, Brian JEmail04
???? Montero, Jhami JUpdates
???? Puliafico, Jessica JEmail02
???? Talt, Colleen JGood1
???? Theresa McGrath JNews1
1939 McHugh, Thomas F. JObit3
1943 Tsivoglou, Ernest C. JObit1
1963 Passarella, Michael J. JNews2
1963 Petroski, Henry JNews7
1964 Maune, James J. JObit2
1966 Haybyrne, James B. JUpdates
1966 Mangan, John Jr. JNews4
1966 Stack, George JFound1
1968 R., Jasper John JEmail01
1969 Fitzpatrick, Daniel JFound1
1970 Breen, Jerry JEmail03
1972 Beach, Gary JFound1
1972 McCall, Tom JFound1
1975 Zugibe, Thomas JNews5
1978 Carroll, Steven JUpdates
1979 Costello, John JNews3
1984 Sweeton, Michael P. JNews6
2009 Keyser, Rachel JUpdates

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PARTICIPANTS BY NAME
Class Name Locator
1972 Beach, Gary JFound1
1970 Breen, Jerry JEmail03
1978 Carroll, Steven JUpdates
1979 Costello, John JNews3
1969 Fitzpatrick, Daniel JFound1
1966 Haybyrne, James B. JUpdates
2009 Keyser, Rachel JUpdates
???? Kortovich, Brian JEmail04
1966 Mangan, John Jr. JNews4
1964 Maune, James J. JObit2
1972 McCall, Tom JFound1
1939 McHugh, Thomas F. JObit3
???? Montero, Jhami JUpdates
1963 Passarella, Michael J. JNews2
1963 Petroski, Henry JNews7
???? Puliafico, Jessica JEmail02
1968 R., Jasper John JEmail01
1966 Stack, George JFound1
1984 Sweeton, Michael P. JNews6
???? Talt, Colleen JGood1
???? Theresa McGrath JNews1
1943 Tsivoglou, Ernest C. JObit1
1975 Zugibe, Thomas JNews5

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Sunday 04 November 2007

Housekeeping

Send email to http://tinyurl.com/yh34ut (gives you an email address), fax 781-723-3746, or call 732-917-4816 (It’s the phone on my computer) anytime.

All communications are ASSUMED to be for inclusion, UNLESS otherwise indicated.

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Weekly Stats
754 Jaspers are active on the Distribute Yahoo site. (Serve any purpose?)

The site had 1,482 unique visits last week.

26 in LinkedInJaspers (http://tinyurl.com/yp6x2q).
(Sigh waste of effort?!)

The daily site had 480 views last week; weekly site had 1. (Weekly site can replace Distribute?)

mcALUMdb is STILL off the air.

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