4 ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY ALUMNI NEWS, MARCWAPRIL 1975

Redman Tradition: Tourney Success All About Alumnae Bill Esposito 'SOC, St. John's ) sports information director, and Jack Lillis' 47C, St. John's director by Thea Graves Pellman '57CBA of alumni relations and former sports information director, hooked their typewriters in tandem to prepare this bit of I've been giving a lot of thought lately to nostalgia for Redman alumni and the women's rights movement. As much as I fans. They also want it to be a salute have vociferously subscribed to their beliefs to St. John's coaches and players in equal rights for our sex, if I had to do it over. the years. all over again, I'd give up those rights and be a pink-satin pussycat. All the pink-satin pussycats I know are sunning themselves on Carribean winter cruises, shopping at * * Bloomingdale's, or watching their husbands clean their ovens. They are not repairing a * typewriter, delivering puppies, or shoveling snow. Pussycats have time to wear eye Keeping up a glorious tournament shadow and Norell perfume and go to the beauty parlor every week . Their husbands tradition that goes back to 1943, give them Gucci bags and lingerie for Christmas; equal-rights bigmouths get matched Coach 'SOC and his sets of wrenches, a bottle of peroxide and a bag of curlers. But most importantly, St. John's basketball team travelled pink-satin pussycats don't have to keep proving how smart or self-sufficient they are all to Providence over the Christmas the time. holidays, put together a great team Reunions and Things .... Washington-based SJU alumni turned out in goodly performance and captured the numbers to root for the visitors at the American University/St. John's game on Jan. 25 .... After the Redmen won, the party moved to the Marriott at the end of the Key championship cup of the Ocean State Bridge for some socializing . . . . Basketball scouts take note: in the expert opinion of Classic. basketball enthusiast Mike Marousek, the 13-year old son of Marine Col. Larry and To come home a surprise winner, Jeanne McCallum Marousek '49UC, "that Johnson is a heck of a good center." St. John's had to sweep Rhode Island .... Coach Lou Carnesecca and Redmen star "Beaver" Smith were happy to oblige (78-56), highly-ranked South Phoru bv Herb Ne11 ·1in Mike with autographs .... Frank McMahon '49UC also brought his young sons to Carolina (78-77 in overtime) and SCRAMBLE takes place at St. John's Alumni Hall during · see the Redmen in action .... Loyal alumnus Judge Jim Tierney '39C, '41L never host Providence (91-79). No matter "Old-Timers" game on March 1 between members of the 1958-59 misses a St. John's party and had a good time ... Navy Captain and surgeon at the what else the Redmen accomplish Redmen and the 1964-65 squad. Rebounding are Dick Engert (left) Bethesda Naval Hospital Bill Dempsey '51C, volunteered to scout out the Officers this season, their sparkling tourna­ and Ken Wirell, with Tony Jackson and Gus Alfieri in the action. Club at Bethesda for the next alumni cocktail party and reunion on April 13 . . . . The State Department's AI drove in from Fairfax, Va . and ment effort will stand out as a high­ Other players included Bob Duerr, Rev. Bernard Pascal, C.M., Smith '49UC Mary McCrane O'Keefe '49UC made the trip from the" Maryland side" .... Alumni Director Jack light. Mike Clair, , Jerry Houston and Bob Genirs. (Going back, both teams won the ECAC Holiday Festival and the NIT in Lillis had a little family reunion as well with Ed 'SOC and Mary Dooley Kenney For the record, St. John's now has '50Ed, in-laws from Fredericksburg, Va .... Marilyn Schmitt Frost '61Ed, won II major tournaments since a single season under the command of the late Coach Joe '64GEd would like all those D.C. alumni who are out there hiding in those Washington 1938 when the tournament madness Lapchick.) bureaucracies (and you know who you are) to mark their calendars and make the April 13th party a began with the first National Invita­ defeated NYU, 57-55, on Tony tyre, Gerry Houston and Lloyd "smasher" .... At an earlier Alumni Basketball Night, the Redmen beat Boston College in December to put the CBA group in high gear at the University Center tion Tournament in the old Madison Jackson's buzzer basket. They came Dove, and they were the big guns, after the game .... Pat Carfora '56CBA, who turned up after lo these many years, Square Garden. alive in the NIT, edging Villanova too, in the 1965 NIT success. In making a list of tournament vic­ didn't remember me at all from the "good old days", but fellow accountant Terri 75-67, and St. Bonaventure, 82-74, In 1972, St. John's won its third Roman Lynch '57CBA rang a big bell in his memory . . .. CB A alumni officers, Bill tories, start with the NIT. St. John's and then clubbed a good Providence Holiday Festival title, scoring four DeMilt '63CBA and Joe DeBiasi '61CBA joined the festivities .... The spirit of the has won a record four NIT cham­ team, 76-55, to come up against wins in five days. The Redmen, season got carried away during a roundelay of' 'The Twelfth Night of Christmas'' when pionships - in 1943, 1944, 1959 Bradley in the finals. Bradley had coached by Frank Mulzoff '51 CBA, the irrepressible Bob Lemenze '57CBA and fellow fraternity brother, Danny Wilde and 1965. Add on three Holiday Fes­ already beaten St. John's that year, took the measure of Grambling, '56CBA added some wild improvisations. They'll never change, the little dears .... tival crowns in 1958, 1964 and 1972, but the Redmen have a knack of turn­ Tennessee, Michigan and then South More About Reunions .... Don Chicella, our St. Francis College alumnus who spent so much time at St. John's back in the '50's that he went to the St. John's plus the Lobo Classic (1972) in New ing the tables at tourney time- and Carolina in the finals, 86-79, with Mexico, the Connecticut Class commencement ceremonies and St. Francis mailed him his degree, wants to have a they did, 76-71, in overtime, with earning MVP reunion too. All the Sigma Chis- Up and Ep, DPG and DPU, ABC, AKPsi, and the (1973) in New Haven, and the Van­ Jackson being named MVP. laurels. derbilt Invitational (1971) in Red Knights, plus anyone else who was a part of those times, are invited. Don and his Previously y Mulzoff s squads won eohorts-, Jack Lietz 'SOCBA and Danny Marntta 59CBA are kicking around -a few Nashville. That's it- 10 big ones Back-to-hack Crowns two other major tournaments. The ideas for a good spot. I promised to play middleman, so please get in touch with me c/o before this year. The first two NIT crowns came first was in the 1970-71 season when Alumni Relations and I'll pass the word along. I'm glad I have advance notice because I Thumbing through the record back-to-back in 1943 and 1944. St. John's won the Vanderbilt Invita­ need about three months to get my wrinkles in shape for a reunion .... books of tournament history is pure The 1943 NIT champs were led by tional by blasting Southern Happiness Is .... A new baby girl, Theresa Mary, born Dec. 9 to Patrick '60C, pleasure for Redman fans. Recalling high Harry Boykoff, Hy Gotkin and Methodist, 95-80, and then taking '62L and Rosemarie Ecker Hennessey '61UC of Wantagh . This was such a special baby, Rosemarie asked for a telephone in the recovery room so she could make the St. John's success in NIT play brings Andy Levane, who piled up an 18-3 host Vanderbilt, 85-81 - deadline of the Wantagh-Seaford Citizen for the birth announcement . . .. More good back great performances. Perhaps record. Favored in the first game, the captured MVP honors. The next news came with the announcement of the engagement of Denise Bourgeois '71Ed to the greatest was in the 1965 NIT Redmen just nipped Rice on came the following season in Al­ when , about to retire Navy Lieutenant Louis Cavaliere '71UC. Denise, who works in the Financial Aid Boykoffs last-second shot, 51-49. buquerque, with the Redmen whip­ office at St. John's, is marrying into a super-super St. John's family: brothers, Angelo after more than a half-century in bas­ Fordham was next, becoming a ping Creighton, 94-73, and then nip­ Cavaliere '55CBA, Andrew Cavaliere '59CBA, and twins, Theresa '73ND and ketball, directed his last team to the 69-43 victim. The finale saw St. ping New Mexico, 95-92, for the Anthony '73ND. The wedding is set for Sept. 27, and the newlyweds will take up title. John's rumble over Toledo, 41-27, Lobo title, with Davis and Schaeffer married life in Newport, R.I. where Lou is based .... We liberated women are making inroads everywhere: Janice Bickford O'Shea '62L became the first woman Redmen Underdogs with Boykoff the MVP in a breeze. sharing the MVP award. The next year was expected to be Last year, the Carnesecca­ football official on Long Island. A Little League coach for the past three years, she The Redmen came into that NIT a graduated from a football officials clinic last spring and officiated at her first game in lean; St. John's lost everybody ex­ coached Redmen kept the tourna­ decided underdog, but in the first Bay Shore last fall .... Eunice Masters Walsh '55UC is combining three careers in cept Gotkin, and with him were un­ ment streak a! ive by winning the game St. John's rocked Boston Col­ Teaneck, N.J.: business, the theater and homemaking. A member of the Bergen tried players named Wade Duym, Connecticut Classic on the strength lege, 114-92, as Lapchick changed County Players, she most recently appeared in "Gaslight". Eunice and husband John Bill Kotsores, Ivy Summer and Ray of victories over a huge Alabama have three sons; the oldest, John, Jr. is a freshman at Notre Dame .... his conservative style and ran. '57L Wertis. But Lapchick was there, and team, 72-67, and Jacksonville, On tfte Island .... Judy Capra Esposito '64Ed and Diane Albanese Gatti '64Ed Switching back to a controlled of­ the team was given an NIT bid. In the 68-60. MVP honors went to the are still the best of friends . Judy has two kids, lives in West Hempstead, and still can't fense, Lapchick's team upset a opener, St. John's beat Bowling superflea, St. John's Frank Alagia. get organized; Diane, wife of Bill Gatti '63C has three kids, lives in Dix Hills, and is mammoth New Mexico squad, Green, 44-40, as 6-5 Summer out­ Then, this season, St. John's won super-organized. As I said, some things never change ... . Pat Paetow Larkin '64Ed 61-54. Army was next, and the is having laundry problems in Manhasset. It seems it's declasse to hang out your wash in played seven-foot Don Otten. Then the Ocean State Classic, with Mel Cadets had beaten St. John's during that town .... Anna Maria Montuori '68Ed, '71GEd is vety proud of the special the Redmen avenged a regular­ Utley sparking the Redmen with an the regular season. The Redmen pul­ work she is doing in pacing with her first graders in North Babylon .... Back on the season loss and tripped Kentucky, MVP performance. But that's where led it out, 67-60, to make the finals campus - the Chappell Players' production of Jesus Christ Superstar in February 48-45. To take the title, St. John's we started ...... featured Jimmy Murtagh, nephew of Edward Gunnigle '38CBA and '40L as Judas, against tourney favorite Villanova, had to beat DePaul with big George another regular-season conqueror of Randy O'Keefe '74C as choreographer and Debbie Thompson '74SVC on costumes. Mikan. The Redmen did it, too, Bill Thierfelder '73C, who was up to his ears in comprehensives for his master's the Redmen. It proved to be a sensa­ when Mikan was forced to play Mel Utley Joins degree this winter, designed the hats for Superstar, but promises he' II take a more active tional defensive battle, with St. Summer in the backcourt, leaving the part in Hatful of Rain, their spring production .... And speaking of master's degrees, John's eking out a 55-51 victory that 1 ,000 Point Club lanes open for Kotsores and Wertis to Frank Insinga '63CBA is working for his in business at St. John's at night. ... Over gave birth to Coach Lapchick's drive. Final score: 47-39. That was Flashy guard Mel Utley, high in New Jersey, Jean Rodgers Ailara '58UC is looking forward to hosting another "What a way to go!" post-game Lapchick's "greatest thrill"- until scorer of the current St. John's barbeque for her UC crowd and their families next summer, including Priscilla comment. Ken Mcintyre took the Ciaramella LaGreca '58UC, Bernard '59UC, '61L and Kathryn McNulty Gegan 1965. squad, joined the 1 ,000-point club '58UC, Ed Rafferty '57UC, Anne Marie Fiumara '58UC and Mary Lou Jennejahn MVP trophy home. this season during the game against St. John's success in the Holiday '58UC, '60L . . .. The St. John's team that won the Festival began in 1958 when the American University. He thus be­ 1959 NIT title came into the tourna­ Redmen won the title on the play of came the thirteenth Redman player to ment scramble unseeded, after Tony Jackson, Gus Alfieri, AI reach the milestone in his varsity stumbling badly in the second half of Seiden and Lou Roethal. The boys career. SECOND CLASS Postage Paid at Jamaica, N.Y. 11431 the season. The Redmen had lost to slammed Holy Cross, 77-65, and The all-time high scorer in St. Fordham and Manhattan, and barely belted Dayton, 76-63. Then the John's history is Bob Zawoluk, who Redmen bombed St. Joseph's 90-79, scored I, 799 points between 1949 TO for the championship, with Jackson and 1952. CALLING ALL winning MVP honors. This same Other members of the exclusive ALUMNI GOLFERS! team won the NIT in 1959. club (in order) are Tony _J.ackson, The next Holiday Festival cham­ I ,603; Lloyd (Sonny) Dove, I ,576; ALUMNI GOLF pionship for St. John's came in 1964. Bill Schaeffer, I ,484; Alan Seiden, TOURNAMENT It was excitement all the way, as the I ,374; Bob Mcintyre, I ,349; and Redmen knocked off LaSalle, Cin­ John Warren, I ,308. JUNE 4 cinnati (66-64) and, finally, Michi­ Also LeRoy Ellis, I ,292; Joe De­ gan (75-74) with Cazzie Russell in Pre, I ,276; Ken Mcintyre, I, 175; AT BETHPAGE the championship game after being Jack McMahon, 1,155; and Mel down by 18. Stars were Ken Mcln- Davis, I, 128.