The last we heard…

This is the last news we have from these American Studies alums. If you want to update your information, or have info about these or other American Studies graduates, please e-mail amerstudies@fordham.edu. We want to hear from you!

Class of 1954:

Richard T. DeGeorge's The Ethics of Information Technology and Business was recently published in 2003 by Blackwell Publishers. His Business Ethics (1986) was recently published in Chinese and Russian editions.

Class of 1960:

Gerald G. Haggerty was an adjunct instructor in the Department of Media Studies and Communications at Fordham Rose Hill, a golf tour instructor to the British Isles and Spain through PerryGolf, and a magazine advertising consultant with Forbes.

Class of 1981:

Robert S. Hoffman was the borough administrator of Franklin Lakes Township in New Jersey, which was awarded a AAA bond rating by Moody's on March 7, 2003 (an award held by only three other towns in NJ).  He and his wife Paula (Borgese, FCLC 1982) have three sons: Robert V. (12), James S. (9), and Nicholas J. (3).

Class of 1990:

Jonathan Doyle worked for 24/7 Mail, a division of Equifax.  He and his wife had twins (Jack and Chelsea Rose) on May 22, 2002.

Class of 1993:

Kristen Weigand started a one-year internship in clinical child psychology at Louisiana State University Health Science Center in New Orleans.  She expected her doctorate in August 2004.

Class of 1996:

Joseph Porrovecchio began Fordham Law in August of 2002, after four years as a Marine Corps officer. He graduated in May 2003, and after taking the Bar Exam, joined the litigation department of Brown, Raysman, Millstein, Felder & Steiner.

Class of 2000:

Mary Kate Blaine completed her M.A. in history and education at Columbia in May 2002, with funding from the James Madison Memorial Fellowship.  She was teaching at Notre Dame School in Manhattan and attended an institute for AP U.S. history through a College Board Fellowship in summer 2003.

Veronica Escobar was graduating from Fordham Law on May 18, 2003 and was gearing up for two months of intense study for the New York State Bar Exam.

Class of 2002:

Parker Bruce completed her M.A. in American History at Fordham in August 2003.

Missy Frederickwas working as a news reporter for a new edition of the Southhampton Press called The Press of Manorville and the Moriches, which covers five semi-rural communities just west of the Hamptons on Long Island.

Patricia Spinelli graduated from the Lynch Graduate School of Education at Boston College in 2003, with a M.Ed. in secondary education with a concentration in history.

Class of 2004:

Allison Brown, who wrote her senior thesis on Sing Sing Prison in her her hometown of Ossining, NY, was graduating in May 2009 with her MSW from Hunter College School of Social Work, majoring in Community Organizing, and interning with the Undoing Racism Project at NASW (Natl Association of Social Workers)- NYC Chapter.

Rachel Donaldson (Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta, magna cum laude), who wrote her senior thesis on the legal ideologies of southern unionists, was a Ph.D. student in American History at Vanderbilt University, where she studies under the labor historian David Carlton. She is especially interested in especially interested in early twentieth century southern cultural history and American folk culture.

Mike Flynn, who wrote his senior thesis on de facto re-segregation in the South and how culture and ideology can be more pervasive than laws, was at Fordham Law.

Lauren Perna worked in the Human Resources Department at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged in Boston. Her career plans included becoming more involved in recruitment for the not-for-profit sector.