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Redman Tradition: Tourney Success All About Alumnae Bill Esposito 'SOC, St 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 basketball 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 Lou Carnesecca '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, Al Seiden, 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 Billy Schaeffer 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 - Mel Davis 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 Joe Lapchick, 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.
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