Alumni News
Regina (Houghton) Deible, ’85: A Pioneer in Cardiovascular Health
December 16, 2011
As a child, Regina (Houghton) Deible, ’85, would tend to the injuries her four siblings and neighborhood friends would sustain during their outdoor pickup games of baseball, basketball, football, and the like. A few years later, she administered insulin shots to her diabetic grandmother and helped ...
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Gerard Mosciano, ’62: Impeccable Taste
December 16, 2011
To us, it’s a strawberry. But to Gerard Mosciano, ’62, it’s a complex mixture of more than 800 organic compounds that together contribute to a flavor that we perceive as the small, edible red fruit. Jerry is a creative flavorist, a chemist who creates artificial and natural flavors. Keeping ...
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Mary Jane Gross, ’73: Changing Lives
December 16, 2011
Mary Jane Gross, ’73, discovered early in her nursing studies that what patients often needed most was someone to talk with. This insight has guided her career and motivated her to become an entrepreneur and advocate for people with mental illness. For the past 40 years, Mary Jane has dedicated ...
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Ed Brennan, ’78: Providing Hope for Haiti
December 16, 2011
In the summer of 2011, 200 Haitian children had an opportunity they never would have dreamed possible after the January earthquake that devastated their country — the opportunity to go to school. This, due to the remarkable efforts of Edward J. Brennan, ’78. Brennan, CEO and chairman of DFS ...
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Mary Palmeri Holland, ’70: Preserving a Religious Legacy
December 14, 2011
Over the centuries, European immigrants left their homelands to make better lives for themselves in America. Here, they found new homes and established communities around the churches they built, which were adorned with the things that reminded them of the places they had left behind. Today, Mary ...
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Unlikely Character Provides Teachable Moments in Edward Kent’s Books
December 13, 2011
The title character in Edward Kent’s series of books is very much like the children who read them – friendly, inquisitive, and eager to learn. But there is one notable difference – Ed is a zombie. While that may seem an unlikely character for books geared to children in kindergarten through ...
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Bruce George, ’89, Shares His Story as an Inspiration for Others
December 13, 2011
Life could have been different for Bruce George. The product of a single parent home, a member of a number of NYC gangs, a drug abuser and self-described “stick-up artist,” Bruce could have been just another angry young man in a world that he felt offered no opportunities for him. Instead, he ...
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Ed Gardner, '87: Making Faces
Under the skilled hands of forensic artist Ed Gardner, '87, the identities of unknown individuals are discovered The man was African American, in his early to mid-20s, about 6 feet tall, slender. He wore a Nike windbreaker and a Nautica sweatshirt, and carried a rap music tape and a plastic bag from ...
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Edward J. Kampf, ’65, DMD
It takes only the first few moments in conversation with Niagara alumnus Ed Kampf, '65, to realize he experiences his life as a mission to be most fully and vitally lived. But he doesn't think that he is special in any way. Rather, Kampf will be the first to offer that his life has been one of gifts ...
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John Overbeck, '75
John Overbeck's life seems guided by fate. The Class of 1975 alumnus has returned to his alma mater as a visiting professor in the College of Business Administration, a role that will enable him to share what he has learned over a 32-year career in business management with Niagara students. The ...
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