Veterans

Juvie Segovia, PCS ’22, was selected as a finalist for 2021 Student Veteran of the Year by Student Veterans of America, a nationwide organization that empowers student veterans through academic, professional, and personal development. Segovia was among 10 finalists from more than 1,500 chapters and 750,000 student veterans across the country.  “Juvie has a heart …

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Eight years ago, Talia Padmore, FCLC ’25, started a tradition to give back to communities in need during the holiday season. This year, Padmore brought her home tradition to the Fordham community. She collaborated with Campus Ministry volunteers and the NYC Veterans administration to assemble 30 breakfast baskets with non-perishable items. The baskets were dropped …

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“When you came home, your service didn’t stop there.” Those were the words that Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan said to Matthew Ryba, PCS ’15, in a surprise tribute to him on the ABC program on Veterans Day. Ryba is a Marine Corps veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who now serves …

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Ram pride was strong on Wednesday, Nov. 11, as Fordham’s military community came out celebrate and honor the sacrifices of our nations veterans. ROTC students, student veterans, alumni, administrators, friends and family joined fellow veterans in New York’s annual Veterans Day parade. The parade, which first took place 102 years ago, is the largest in …

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Ken Rogozinski transferred to Fordham in the 1980s after serving in the Navy; his brother Michael followed a few years later after his service in the Marines. During their time at school, they saw how veterans like themselves could use extra help with things like housing costs—particularly in a high-cost city like New York—or other …

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Fordham was well represented at this year’s national conference for the Student Veterans of America (SVA) held on Feb. 20. Fordham SVA chapter president, Emma Cassidy, was nominated as a finalist for Student Veteran of the Year and Chief Diversity Officer Rafael Zapata spoke on a panel for the two-day event—which included a keynote address …

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The first living Iraq War veteran to receive the Medal of Honor visited the Lincoln Center campus for a fireside chat with veterans and members of the Fordham community on July 2.  David G. Bellavia, a 43-year-old retired staff sergeant from Lyndonville, New York, was an infantryman in the U.S. Army for six years. But …

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This past April, the Graduate School of Social Service sponsored a three-day inaugural International Military Social Work Conference at the Thayer Hotel, United States Military Academy at West Point. Mary Ann Forgey, Ph.D., professor of social work, organized the conference with additional support from the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), the Office …

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The day before Fordham’s 2019 commencement, a tone of celebration echoed across the Rose Hill campus, over and over, as student veterans stepped up to the Victory Bell and gave its clapper a swing—ringing in a new tradition for the iconic bell that has military origins. The inaugural Victory Bell ceremony is “something special to …

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Phillip Gregor likes to travel and he likes to take pictures. The former is something he is familiar with from his time abroad as a heavy equipment operator in the Air Force; the latter he’s learned at the School of Professional and Continuing Studies (PCS), where he’s graduating with a major in New Media and …

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Angelica Hinojosa Valentine fell in love with the library from afar. “I know it sounds cheesy,” says the San Antonio native. “But it looked like a great place to study. I can still remember the ’70s-green carpet, the wooden chairs … it was all about comfort.” Beyond the library, Valentine was particularly attracted to Marymount …

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