4 ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY ALUMNI NEWS, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1974 Redman Nine Goes On 31-6 Rampage All About Alumnae By Bill Esposito 'SOC, Sports Information Director ) Successful seasons are such a part of the St. John's sports picture that the tendency is to just shrug them off and ask the coaching staff what they will do next year. A word or two must be said, however, about Coach Joe Russo's baseball by Thea Graves Pellman '57CBA team which just wrapped up a most successful season for the fall of 1974 and has everyone thinking about the spring of 1975. The record was 31-6 over the six-week span. The individual efforts were so outstanding and the new men fit so Well, there you have it folks- the new snugly into the pattern of the veterans that Russo can hardly contain himself until March when he'll fall in the troops me!! (Photo right) Or the old me, whichever again and hopefully set a course for Omaha, Nebraska, home of the College World Series. you prefer. A few snide remarks about using my First Holy Communion picture in past To start off, Russo had his entire team returning from the 1974 spring season which saw the Redmen run up a issues prompted me to have a new one taken, so here I am in all my mature glory. 27-6 record and go to the finals of the Ach du Liebe! .... Over 90 revelers jammed deAndreis Gallery on the Queens NCAA District Two playoffs. Sec- v "t c c t • N d campus on Oct. 18 for some oom-pa-pa music, knockwurst, bratwurst, liverwurst, and ond baseman Lou Ilardi had ars1 y 0- ap a1ns arne pickled beets. To add to the atmosphere and to hdp out with the community sing of graduated but that was the only major " Yah, das ist ein schnitzel-bank" (phonetic German- nein sprechen sie Deutsch, loss. Into the fall program came Tom sorry), Alumnae prez Alice Sparks Mateos '63CBA brought an authentic German Cipolla, a freshman from Brooklyn's guest: GabrieUa Schmidt Scilletti of Coburg, near Bavaria. Husband Anthony is a Lafayette High School and Russo's Fordham man, so we can' t mention him .... Emil Brock '36CBA saw the party worries were over. Cipolla batted notice in the local papers and came by for some Oktoberfesting . . . . Gerry Kelly ) .369 and stole 18 bases, being nailed '70ED of the Singles Alumni waltzed Janet Bussell of the Alumni Relations depart- only once. In the field he joined har­ ment around the floor to the strains of " Tales From the Vienna Woods" . .. . moniously with shortstop Eric Re­ Boston-bred professional singer and comedian Billy Blair escorted our own Maureen stin, who last year was a stellar Cathcart '66 Ed, '68GEd. Maureen, that clever little thing, only has 45 credits left for gloveman and also belted out 53 hits , her Ph.D. from Columbia University in reading . .. . Also at the table was another a Red men record. reading specialist, Ann Fiore Connolly '65Ed who is now teaching in the Merrick Russo had been planning to use Schools. Ann and her husband Bill Connolly '57C, '60L were looking for some Artie Moossmann at second but with party-type people for the big St. John's College reunion the following week .... That Cipolla taking over there, Top scorers from was Port Washington's Tom and Maureen O'Fiaherty Hanley '56Ed exchanging a Moossmann, a versatile utility man, 1973-74 St. few pleasantries with Father Dirvin ... . Back on the campus for the first time since settled the problem of who would John' s squad will new baby Timmy' s birth was Loretta Carey Walsh '57Ed and her husband Ed (a play right field. Out there lead Redmen this Fordham man again - how do we keep letting them slip in?) .... Bouquets of Moossmann will join Tom Reilly in season: Mel edelweiss (what else) to co-chairmen of the evening, Bernardette Vaskas '57UC and left, a returning .300 hitter, and the Utley (left) and Marian Meagher Plunkett '48CBA. Danke .. . . team captain, AI Osofsky, in center. Kevin Cluess. West of the Verrazano . . . . The girls were pretty busy this fall on both campuses AI batted .400 last spring and no one of the University. A little get-together of the Alumnae Association and the Notre Dame at St. John's ever batted higher. Alumnae group on Oct. 4 at the Staten Island campus brought out Helene Glennen Alence '51ND, Ruth Ann Schaeffer Kirby '41ND, and Barbara Luba '52ND, Mel Utley and Kevin Cluess, lead­ forced the move. Cluess led the team Big Infield Bats chairman of their scholarship program .... Marjorie Hague Heaton '37CBA ing scorers for St. John's Uni­ in assists with 125 . traveled all the way in from Stirling, N.J . .... Former Notre Dame president Ceil Meanwhile, back in the infield, versity's basketball team last year, The third member of the Cluess Short DeVito '55ND made it across the bridge from Bay Ridge . ... That was Pat Dom Scala returns at third. A proven have been named co-captains for the family to play for St. John's, Kevin Cavanaugh '67ND and Diane Sciacca '67ND back on campus for the first time since player at this busy spot, Scala batted 1974-75 edition ofthe Redmen. The follows in the footsteps of Greg, who they graduated .... The Alumnae Association gifted Mary Kenny '36ND with a little .356 in the fall, upping his average of team leaders are seniors, Utley in the captained the team in 1971-72, and gold something in appreciation of all her efforts in coordinating the two groups. Mary , last spring about 50 points. Then we Hank, who played in the Assistant to the Director of Alumni Relations for Staten Island, offers an open go over to first and find the 6' 6" Greg University' s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, C1uess in the College mid-1960's. invitation to New Jersey and Staten Island alumnae of both St. John's and Notre Dame Sanossian who put together just to attend the social functions of these associations at the Staten Island campus. Just drop about the best baseball season ever of Business Administration. her a note ... . for a St. John's player. The 6'3" Utley, from Far Rocka­ St. John's University An Apple for the Teacher .... After a long and dedicated career in education, Russo knew Sanossian would de­ way and Far Rockaway High alumna Frances Correale '33Ed, '39GEd is retiring this year as a New York City liver . . .. last spring the big guy hit School, led St. John's in scoring last VARSITY BASKETBALL Public School system teacher and administrator. Miss Correale, who has spent 46 years .333 and led the team in long hits but season with a 17 .6 game average as SCHEDULE, 1974-75 in the teaching profession, is assistant principal at P.S. 123 in Brooklyn's Bushwick during the summer he was injured the Red men posted a 20-7 record and section. Over the years, she was instrumental in providing positions at her school for while playing in the Atlantic Col­ were invited to a post-season tour­ Nov. 26 St. Mary's N.S. H many St. John's student teachers, and some of the alumnae who started their careers l. under her guidance were Dolores Landi Paredes '55Ed, Matilda Raffa Cuomo legiate League, the highly successful nament for the tenth consecutive Wayne State H Nov. 30 '54Ed, Carol Tricomi LaSaUa '55Ed, Marie Pellicane '55Ed, and Faye Augello summer conference. Shoulder in­ year. Utley's ability to play the for­ Dec. 2 Vanderbilt A juries put Sanossian on the sidelines, Molesphini '55Ed who is now substitute-teaching back at P.S. 123 with Miss Correale ward positions as well as the back­ Dec. 7 Temple H . .. . A brand-new teacher who needs a job is lovely Nanette Palermo '74Ed. Any Ed and it was feared he would have to sit court, along with his outstanding de­ out a full year. Greg returned, how­ Dec. 10 Syracuse A alumnae out there who know of an opening in elementary ed in their districts, please ever, in excellent shape and batted fensive sense, earned him selection Dec. 14 Rutgers * drop me a note and I'll pass it on to Nanette .... A teacher who is about to retire for .460, had 52 hits, knocked in 38 runs to several all-tournament and weekly Dec. 21 Boston College H excellent reasons is Rita Minicus Botensten '63Ed who expects her first baby next and hit four homers. In the 14 years all-star teams and at the conclusion of Dec. 26 ECAC Holiday March .. .. And Geraldine Wegner '68CBA has switched from the Long Island of residence at their campus home the 1973-74 season he was named to Festival ** schools to Briarcliff, N.Y. where she is teaching third grade ... field, the Redmen have seen, as the ECAC's All Star Squad and to Dec. 26 Assumption, Brown Hearts and Flowers . ... The St. John 's wedding-of-the-season honors went to former Alumni ~elations staffer Donna DiTuro '74CBA and Frank Miele '72SVC Howard Cosell might put it, ''a rela­ the All-Metropolitan New York Drake, Holy Cross, to who were married at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament in Bayside on Oct. 12 . The tive paucity" of home runs. Only 14 team. Dec . 30 Providence, Rhode have been hit out of the huge, bride was exquisite in white lace and a Spanish mantilla, and the groom was just as The lanky Cluess, a 6'5" front Island, St. John 's, exquisite in a formal morning suit- but eat your hearts out girls, he 's now off the windswept canyon; Sanossian has courtman from West Hempstead and So. Carolina three of them, two of them in the eligibles list . . . . Archbishop Molloy High School, recent fall season. Jan. 4 Georgetown H News Round-Up . . . . A former vice president in banking, Helen DeLuise '55UC had an 11.6 game average last sea­ Jan. 8 Hofstra A was welcomed home recently from her latest trip to Latin America as a missionary for Mike Tyler, who batted .342 in son, and also played in the backcourt Jan. 11 Davidson A the Legion of Mary . . . . And Steve Menchini '69C spent his I 0-day vacation from the fall , and Tom Carroll will again when injuries to the Redmen guards Jan. 14 Rhode Island H the comptroller' s office of the Prudential in drought-and-famine-plagued Ethiopa be on hand to provide the stellar Jan. 18 St. Francis H determining how much aid his church, St. Peter's Lutheran in New York City, can catching that is always associated provide that country's distressed peoples . . . . Carol Combs '63CBA is now a captain Jan . 22 Seton Hall A with St. John's baseball and they'll Holiday Tree Sale in the U.S. Air Force with a unit of the Strategic Air Command .. .. Back on Long have some fine pitchers thowing to Jan. 25 American A Island, Jeanne Boudreau Cardone '57CBA has been appointed community associa­ them. For the seventh consecutive year, Jan. 28 Villanova A tion chairman for the Girl Scouts for the three towns of East Rockaway, Lynbrook and Feb. l Army A Malverne. Jeanne has six daughters, need I say more. She succeeds Joan Hickey Spring Forecast the Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity of St. John's is sponsoring a Christmas tree Feb. 6 Niagara H Ruocco '53CBA in that post, and their field director is Dorothy Burger Goigel '53UC Steve Ratzer leads the veterans. sale for the benefit of St. Joseph's Feb. 8 Fordham * . . . . And speaking of Girl Scouts, did you know the irrepressible Tona Rosa Colagrande Schmidt '57CBA has a Brownie troop with 341 ittle Brownies? She always Last spring his 0.84 ERA was the Home in Peekskill, N.Y. Over the Feb. 13 Notre Dame * A was a good scout, that girl ... . Had a note from Sigma Chi's Manny Munoz '58CBA lowest in collegiate baseball. On years, the brothers have donated Feb. 19 St. Joseph's H who has moved to the beautiful Schoharie Valley upstate ... . hand with Steve are experienced thousands of dollars to the orphanage Feb. 22 Ion a arms owned by Tom Raponi and Feb. 25 Holy Cross A How to Beat the High Cost of Living: A Fable . ... Once upon a time in the town and appreciate alumni support. The of Huntington, the director of special University programs at St. John's, one Patrick Mike Am bury (lefties) and Gerry Mar. l Providence H McKiernan, a sharp relief pitcher. sale will take place on the Queens Basilice '48UC had a wife who had a rooster. This was not your normal, everyday kind Up from last year's JV is Gerry Cal­ campus next to Alumni Hall from * Madison Sq. Garden of cock-a-doodle-doo rooster, mind you ; this bird had survived dissection in a lab to become the special pet of the Basilices. He really had something to crow about. But as __, laghan, whose flock of victories in­ Dec. 7 to Dec. 24 and will be man­ ** Providence, R.I. cluded a no-hitter, and the newcom­ ned 24 hours a day. man cannot live by bread alone, roosters cannot spend their entire days pecking for corn, ers include two freshman standouts, or whathaveyou, so one day the pet rooster disappeared. But lo and behold, he returned ..___/ Rich Hille and Mike 0' Connor. shortly with a bride, a little broody hen, and they set up housekeeping in the Basilice's Overall, the pitchers allowed only 50 Alumni Basketball Nights On Tap backyard. Now every morning when the little rooster crows, the little hen lays an egg for earned runs in 37 games for a com­ their benefactors' breakfast. And that's how to keep abreast of inflation in the town of bined ERA of 1.52. Five special Alumni Basketball Nights have been scheduled for this season Huntington. Anonymous . . . . Adding this up, Russo has himself by the various St. John's alumni groups. Continuing the long established a team which apparently has all the tradition of basketball and post-game reunions, the Basketball Nights will SECOND CLASS Postage Paid at Jamaica, N.Y. 11431 ingredients for beating the other guys feature a special reserved-seat section for the games at Alumni Hall on the brains out. . . . St. John's heads into Queens campus, followed by an alumni social and reunion at the University the spring of 1975 with men who can Center. TO hit the ball and men who can pitch Tickets are $9.00 per person and include admission to the game and the and men who can field and men who buffet and open bar. The Alumni Relations staff coordinates the arrangements can run, etc., etc . "But," says and sets up tables for class or group get-togethers. Each association will be Russo, reverting to the cautious contacting its own members, but all alumni are welcome to any or all of the corner of all coaches, "we could following basketball nights during the coming season. slip, we need SOII_le defensive i~~ provement, we m1ght ...... All Sports Varsity Alumni Reunion But he doesn't mean it now. The Dec. 7 Temple young man, with a record of 84 wins Dec. 21 Boston College CBA Alumni and 18 losses in his brief time as head Jan. 4 Georgetown St. John's College/School of Ed Alumni coach, can't wait to get things going Jan. 18 St. Francis Pharmacy Alumni again. Feb. 22 Iona Alumni Singles