Longtime Faculty and Administrators Honored

Longtime Faculty and Administrators Honored

On March 30, the Fordham community gathered in the Pope Auditorium at the Lincoln Center campus to pay tribute to 27 longtime faculty members and administrators during the annual University Convocation.

The Bene Merenti Medal, instituted at the first convocation in 1931, and the Archbishop Hughes Medal honor faculty members and members of the administration who have been with the University for 20 or 40 years. The Archbishop Hughes Medal is given in memory of its namesake’s deft abilities in administration and his dedication to the quest for truth through education.

The Rev. Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J., University president, formally thanked the medallists for their combined 620 years of service. Father O’Hare, who will retire in June after 19 years of service, joked that if his successor the Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J., serves an equivalent term, Father O’Hare would be both well rested and happy to return to the presidency in time to collect his 20-year medal.

Archbishop Hughes Medal (20-year award)

(Left to right) Brian Byrne, vice president for administration; Robert Reilly, assistant dean, Fordham Law School; Angela Van Dekker, assistant vice president of student financial services, enrollment group; and the Rev. Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J., University president.

The Bene Merenti Medal (40-year award)

(Left to right) The Rev. Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J., University president; Thomas Quinn, Sidney C. Norris Professor of Law; Joseph Perillo, Distinguished Professor of Law; Leo Hoar Jr., associate professor of Spanish; Eugene Diulio, associate professor of economics; and John Hollwitz, vice president for academic affairs.

The Bene Merenti Medal (20-year award)

Front row (left to right): Anita Vazquez Batisti, adjunct assistant professor of education; Msgr. Guy Puglisi, adjunct assistant professor of education; Anthony D’Elio, co-director, Resources Enhancement and Leadership, adjunct assistant professor of education; Jacqueline Nolan-Haley, professor of law; Mary Daly, James H. Quinn Professor of Law; Carl Felsenfeld, professor of law; and Gioconda Marún, professor of Spanish.

Second row (left to right): Nancy Busch, professor of psychology, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Susan Abrams Beck, associate professor of political science; Marc Miringoff, associate professor of social work; Alfred Clemente, adjunct associate professor of English; Frank Kerins, clinical assistant professor of English; Mark Botton, professor of biology; John D. Feerick, Leonard F. Manning Professor of Law; the Rev. Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J., University president.

Back row (left to right): John Hollwitz, vice president for academic affairs; Mary Giallella Hamilton, professor emerita of chemistry; Allan S. Gilbert, associate professor of anthropology; Hans Minnich, clinical instructor of physics; Fred Tyler, adjunct associate professor of economics; Jerilea Zempel, artist-in-residence, visual arts; and Joseph J. Lawton III, clinical associate professor of visual arts.

—Ryan Thompson