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In this year-end issue of Alumni News, we offer special thanks to the following alumni who gave their time most generously:
Undergraduate Open House speakers Senior Assistant District Attorney Kevin James BA '01, JD, and retired Sheriff of the City of New York, Lindsay Eason BS '05; greeters Sylvia Faison BS '89, Nathaniel Nesmith MA ' 75, James Brito BS '05, and Anne Walton MA '10
Voices from the Field panelists Inspector Jeffrey Maddrey BA '03 and Andrew Schweighardt MA '09
West Point Open House hosts Michael McCann, BS ’74, JD and Robert Koval MPA '86
Alumni Scholarship Committee members Tom Belfiore BA ’79, MA '96, Suzanne Chiofolo BA ’00 and Linda Reynolds MA '80
Big Band greeter Yvette Brickhouse, BA'01.
Finally, our thanks to Senior Editor Marie Rosen BA ’82 for being a staunch supporter of the alumni outreach program since its inception in 2007.
Happy holidays to all,
-Jerylle Kemp, Director, Alumni Relations
Building the College's Future Brick by Brick
Join the growing number of alumni who are leaving their mark on the College by purchasing a brick ($250 or $500), a tree ($1,000) or a bench ($5,000) on the Jay Walk, a 60,000 square foot elevated plaza that will link the College's Haaren Hall with its new building on Eleventh Avenue. It's a way for you to be remembered or to commemorate someone important to you. All the profits from your tax-deductible donation will be used to provide needed scholarships for our students. To learn more about this unique opportunity,
click here or call 212.237.8688.
A Gala Affair
Nearly 300 supporters and friends of the College turned out on October 21 for the John Jay's annual Educating for Justice Gala that brought in more than $530,000 to support the John Jay Honors Program and other student-related endeavors. The 2010 Award for Corporate Leadership was presented to the IBM Smarter Cities Initiative and was accepted by IBM Senior Vice President and General Counsel Robert Weber. In New York City, the Smarter Cities Initiative has worked in partnership with the NYPD's Real Time Crime Center and the Fire Department's Coordinated Building Inspection and Data Analysis System. The award was presented jointly by NYPD First Deputy Commissioner Rafael Pineiro and alumnus Salvatore Cassano (BS '76), Fire Commissioner. The Award for Civic Leadership was given to Frederick A.O. "Fritz" Schwartz Jr., the former NYC Corporation Counsel who currently serves as chief counsel to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University and has an extensive record of involvement in the nonprofit sector. The award was presented by Jack Rosenthal, Senior Fellow at Atlantic Philanthropies and a former editor of The New York Times. The gala featured entertainment by Pedro Pablo Martinez and his Afro-Cuban jazz fusion ensemble. (From left to right: Robert Weber, Fritz Schwartz and John Jay President Jeremy Travis.)
New NYS Permanent Sentencing Commission to be Housed at John Jay
New York State Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman announced in October the creation of the state's first Permanent Sentencing Commission, which will be located at John Jay where it will draw upon the College's extensive resources in the field of criminal justice. Alumnus Martin Horn (MA '74), Distinguished Lecturer at John Jay, was named as the commission's executive director. The commission will conduct a comprehensive and ongoing evaluation of sentencing laws and practices and recommend reforms to improve the quality and effectiveness of statewide sentencing policy. "I am honored to serve in this important effort," said Horn. "New York's sentencing scheme is a patchwork of provisions added over time with serious consequences for defendants, victims, and the community."
John Jay Wins 5-Year Development Grant from U.S. Department of Education
Funding to support forensic science and first-year experience initiatives are the beneficiaries of an annual amount of $637,563 for the next five years from the U.S. Department of Education. The funds will be used for curricular development within the sciences, for stipends for students who are engaged in undergraduate research, a comprehensive seminar program and peer mentoring program for freshmen. John Jay was one of just six institutions to win the competitive Title V grant.
What's Going On?
Would you like to share your recent career and/or personal achievements with your fellow alums and the John Jay community? Let us know what you're doing these days. Your submissions will be considered for inclusion in the alumni class notes section of the upcoming spring edition of the John Jay Magazine. Just click here and fill in the information.
Water: Preserving New York's Pure Unfiltered Water from the Imminent Toxic Threat of Hydraulic Fracturing/Horizontal Drilling
Monday, December 6, 2010 7:00 PM - – 9:00 PM
Sponsored by Dr. Joan Hoffman of the Economics Department, the Environment Club and the Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, this event will address the critically pertinent subject of water toxicity in tandem with legal issues and personal experience. The speakers are: Kate Sinding, NRDC Senior Attorney and Deputy Director of the NY Urban Program; Kevin Chatham-Stephens, M.D., Mount Sinai Medical Center; Matthew Levinson, P.E., Senior Environmental/Remediation Engineer; Buck Moorhead, Co-Founder and Vice President of NYH2O; and Craig and Julie Sautner. For more information, click here.
John Jay College
445 West 59th Street, Room 1311N
New York City
Sweeney Todd
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
| Tuesday, December 7, 2010 |
8:00 PM |
| Wednesday, December 8, 2010 |
2:00 PM |
| Thursday, December 9, 2010 |
8:00 PM |
| Friday, December 10, 2010 |
8:00 PM |
| Saturday, December 11, 2010 |
8:00 PM |
The APACHE Project at John Jay College is proud to present Stephen Sondheim's musical thriller, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Directed by Dana Tarantino and conducted by Nicholas G.M. Ross, this multi-talented cast from John Jay and campuses all over the country will join some special guest artists including Broadway actress Meghan Duffy and noted soprano Janet Momjian.
For tickets, please call the APACHE Project at 212.695.6908.
John Jay College
Gerald W. Lynch Theater
899 Tenth Avenue
New York City
The Demonic and Divine
A Lecture by Donald Rubin, Founder of the Rubin Museum of Art
Thursday, December 9, 2010 3:30 PM –- 5:00 PM
Mr. Donald Rubin serves as CEO and Co-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Rubin Museum of Art, a nonprofit cultural and educational institution dedicated to the art of the Himalayas located on West 17th Street in Manhattan. He and his wife, Shelley, started collecting Himalayan art in the early 1980s and amassed a large and significant collection that became the core of the museum's holdings.
John Jay College
Gerald W. Lynch Theater Lobby
New York City
Evacuation of New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina:
Perspectives of a Transportation Planner
Thursday, December 9, 2010 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
The Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies is pleased to host Davis Heller of the South Jersey Metropolitan Planning Organization who will present findings from his research article on the evacuation during Hurricane Katrina and reflect on the challenges of evacuating urban areas and lessons applicable to large-scale evacuation.
For more information, contact Beryln Morales at bemorales@jjay.cuny.edu or 646.557.4400.
John Jay College
899 Tenth Avenue, Room 630T
New York City
6th Annual Harry F. Guggenheim Conference on Crime and Justice in America
Monday, January 31, 2011 9:00 AM -- 6:00 PM
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 9:00 AM -- 6:00 PM
The Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay is pleased to host this two-day conference that brings together journalists, academicians, practitioners and legislators from around the country for wide-ranging discussions on criminal justice issues facing the United States, and to promote informed debate through the media on those issues. The event will also feature the presentation of the College's Sixth Annual Awards for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting.
To register, click here. For more information, call 212.484.1175 or email ctabachnick@jjay.cuny.edu.
John Jay College
899 Tenth Avenue, Room 630T
New York City
Although this year's elections ousted many incumbents, such was not the case for Edward V. Rochford (BS '72) who was just re-elected to his seventh three-year term as Sheriff of Morris County, NJ. But even before Rochford took the reins of the Sheriff's Office some 18 years ago, he was no stranger to the field of law enforcement. He previously served for 27 years in the Morris Township Police Department retiring with the rank of deputy chief. Under his leadership, the Sheriff's Office has the distinction of being the first sheriff's office in New Jersey to earn national accreditation in 1998 from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). And that achievement wasn't the last. In 2004 the Morris County Sheriff's Office became the 24th law enforcement agency in the United States to receive the "Triple Crown Award" from the National Sheriff's Association for not only being accredited by CALEA, but also for accreditation from the American Correctional Association (ACA), and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC). With its 337 officers and employees the Sheriff's Office, established in 1739, serves a population of more than 490,000 residents. Its $32 million state-of-the art correctional facility, opened in 2000, is designed to handle 528 inmates in eight housing pods utilizing a direct supervision management style. The facility offers a wide range of programs to assist inmates in returning to the community. Among the services that are provided to those inmates who choose to make their time productive are classes for the GED and pre-GED, English as a Second Language, basic literacy and vocational counseling.
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