Sidecar No More In the past year, Jimmy Fallon ’09 has: won the Best Comedy Album Grammy for his parody-filled “Blow Your Pants Off”; become heir to the “Tonight Show” throne and also became a dad (to Winnie Rose Fallon). Jimmy, who has said he did some of his earliest comedy writing in the laundry room of Lima Hall, still managed to give Saint Rose on-air shout-outs twice that we are aware of. First he dissed old college friend/current “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” writer Gerard Bradford ’96 for forcing him to pay gas mileage for a ride down the block. Next, Jimmy used an interview with Olympic gold medalist Hope Solo to trot out a photo of the College’s DII 2011 national champion women’s soccer team. As though commiserating with Solo, he griped: “I tried out for this team. And I did not get in. But props to those guys; they are awesome.”
Everything Old, New It is unclear whether Saint Rose students wore these uniforms for activities other than archery, shown here, in progress on the campus lawn in 1967. But the attire is certainly less restrictive than the skirts earlier generations of Saint Rose students wore for physical education. All things Saint Rose, dating to the College’s founding in 1921, are clickable thanks to college archivist Maria Kessler McShane who has digitized the archives housed in the Neil Hellman Library. Vintage photos join a line-up that include oral histories, maps and dozens of publications that piece together the story of the one-time women’s college housed in a single building. “You get to see what 18- to 21year-olds are like in all different eras,” said McShane, who should know since she oversaw the conversion of 403 newspapers and 40 student magazines. The digital archive is available at: library.strose.edu/archivesdigitalcollections
Toward the Light Nicole DeMarco and Steven Musso are beaming and not just because they’d just graduated. They also wrote (DeMarco) and arranged (Musso) a new song for commencement, just the third one in College history. “Toward the Light,” as it is called, sews together the College’s heritage and future hopes in a catchy rock melody that celebrates learning. Not only that, Musso managed to convert DeMarco’s “light lovely soprano,” in the words of the Times Union, to a masterful and strong work performed a cappella by the 40 classically-trained voices of the Saint Rose Chamber Choir. Hear the song at: www.strose.edu/academics/schoolofartsandhumanities
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