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VOL. 33 NO. 26
Throwing bean bags for causes
Diocese welcomes three new priests
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RVC native offers new way of learning present the concept to parents and demonstrate the software’s uses. The Backyard Players offer When he was 12, Rockville those with special needs the Centre native Matt Giovanniello chance to socialize while learnwas devastated when his beloved ing about theater, yoga, photoggrandmother Theresa Giovanni- raphy, dance, writing and art. ello suffered a stroke during Gentile, who is BYP’s employopen-heart surgery. ment connection While she recovered, coordinator and a her doctors used teacher at Valley flash cards to keep Stream Central High her focused, but School, went to midMatt saw that form dle and high school of therapy as generwith Giovanniello, ic and unengaging. and has seen the There had to be a software grow from better way. its original purpose In the years since, to include specialGiovanniello, who’s education students. now 25, co-founded a “It started as a company called Freresearch paper,” MATT nalytics, and he is Gentile explained. now its chief execu- GIOVANNIELLO “And seeing it grow tive officer. The com- Co-founder, seems like a movie pany uses interac— that we’re able to Frenalytics tive software to have our own busiteach life skills and ness from a project academic concepts to people who in high school.” have gone through trauma like Giovanniello and Gentile his grandmother, as well as those invited BYP participants to take on the autism spectrum and quizzes, using the interactive young children. software, that spanned concepts On June 14, Giovanniello and like hygiene, telling time, readFrenalytics’ special education ing comprehension, money and consultant, Jen Gentile, came to familial relationships. the Backyard Players’ storefront, In 2008, as a seventh-grader, on North Long Beach Road, to CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
By TOM CARROZZA tcarrozza@liherald.com
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Rockin’ around the country South Side High School alumnus Daniel Rocco and his band, Des Rocs, are touring the country as headliners. Story, additional photo, Page 3.
Molloy celebrates the new ‘U’ with $2 million charitable gift By TOM CARROZZA tcarrozza@liherald.com
Molloy University not only has a new name, but it also has a new gift — $2 million that the school describes as the largest single gift in its 67-year history. It was made by S. Zaki Hossain, president of Pintail Coffee, a Farmingdale-based “charitable roaster” as it’s described, which Hossain helped found in 2013. The donation headlined the
first large-scale, in-person event for the college with its new university status. Formed as an allwomen’s school in 1955 by the Sisters of St. Dominic, in Amityville, Molloy has grown to a roster of 4,800 undergraduate and graduate students. Hossain’s donation will be earmarked for Molloy’s new workforce development program, intended to provide training for private industry employees, with a focus on health care. Molloy’s
Barbara H. Hagan School of Nursing was ranked among the best nursing master’s programs and best doctor of nursing practices in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. “Zaki serves as a shining example of the great promise of America, which is that tremendous things can be achieved through dedication, integrity and education,” John McEntee, chair CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
learn so much through them each and every time I come and visit.