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a LUMno TeS 1941 a ndy n eidnig, a two-time New York Road Runners Club golden age award winner and Manhattan College Hall of Famer, who has run in 30 marathons, celebrated his 90th birthday on July 3. 1949 a ndrew Barone was the Orange County honoree at the Senior Citizen’s Month Reception Honoring Outstanding Older New Yorkers held at the Governor’s Mansion on Senior Citizens’ Day 2009. He was awarded a proclamation from the New York State Office for the Aging. r ay r adzivila, a three-year varsity swimmer at Manhattan College and captain of the squad in 1949, participated in the 2009 Empire State Senior Games in Cortland, N.Y., on June 3. He won four events in the 85-89 age group, including the breaststroke for distances of 50, 100 and 200 yards, and the 100-yard individual medley. 1951 Hon. John Keenan has served as a federal court judge for more than 25 years. He was appointed to the bench in 1983 by former president Ronald Reagan and gained senior status in 1996. He currently serves as the United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. On April 21, he was a guest speaker for the St. Thomas More Lecture on Manhattan’s campus. 1954 Mary Ellen McDonnell O’Connor, the wife of Thomas o ’Connor for 51 years, passed away on Jan. 29, 2009. Besides her husband, she is survived by four children and seven grandchildren.
1956 David Wixted, a retired teacher, was one of three recipients of the 2009 Newport Daily News Community Service Award. Since his move to Newport, R.I., 10 years ago, Wixted has been an active voice in the community, from campaigning for a bond issue to rebuild a local middle school, to volunteering at a reading program for children. eugene Sweeney, M.D., associate clinical professor of dermatology at Columbia University Medical Center, was elected Teacher of the Year for 2008-09 by the residents. 1957 George Delaney was co-chairman of the 2009 Father’s Day Council in Westchester County, N.Y., a group that hosts the annual Father of the Year Awards Dinner, which benefits the American Diabetes Association. 1960 William Flynn recently retired from his position as managing director of the National Council for Continuing Education and Training. 1961 Joseph Jevcak is manager of IT security at the Department of Homeland Security Headquarters. He built the first OTH radar in the South Pacific, which is the longest-distance radar in the world, and also built the first defense system in the country of Oman. 1964 r ichard Claps, M.D., who has been a practicing physician in Morris County, N.J., since 1983, is board certified in diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine, and works as an attending physician
at St. Clare’s Health Systems, Denville and Dover. He was recently appointed the 166th president of the Morris County Medical Society. 1967 Lt. Col. r hoderick Holliday celebrated 36 years of marriage to his wife, Patricia, who is an elementary school principal in South Brunswick, N.J. He is retired from the Jersey City school system, for which he was the AFJROTC department head at Dickinson High School. Thomas n ipper’s daughter Karen is an ophthalmologist and oculoplastic surgeon. Stephen Laruccia, Ph.D., director of principal gifts at Manhattan College, is listed in the 2010 editions of Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in America. 1968 David Fleury was appointed to
the Forestport Planning Board. He and his wife, Ingrid, have lived in Forestport, N.Y., since 2003. James Malone, the former vice president, nuclear fuels, for Exelon Generation, was appointed to the nuclear fuels advisory board of IBC Advanced Alloys, a company that manufactures and distributes beryllium-based alloys and related products to industries that include nuclear energy, automotive, telecommunications and various industrial applications. r obert Kenny, CPA, was elected president of the Mercer Chapter of the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants for a one-year term that began on June 1. James r ispoli was selected as the 2009 recipient of the Presidents’ Award given by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Peter Dans ’57 a n ew b o o k by Peter Dans ’57, Christians in the Movies: A Century of Saints and Sinners, examines the shift in how Christians are portrayed in the cinema, from virtuous in the first half of the 20th century to the mocked and villainous characters that have marked the 1970s and later. Dans also has written Life on the Lower East Side (2006), Doctors in the Movies (2000) and the children’s book Perry’s Baltimore Adventure (2003). He is a retired professor from Johns Hopkins Medical School, a former member of Manhattan’s Arts, Education and Science Consultors Board, and funds the College’s Colette Dans Memorial Scholarship, named for his wife. Manhattan awarded Dans an honorary Doctor of Science at the 2003 Fall Honors Convocation.
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