From St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights The Northeast Conference (NEC) champion St. Francis Brooklyn men’s soccer team will travel to University Park, Pa., to take on the Big Ten regular season champion Penn State University Nittany Lions on Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. in the first round of the 2013 NCAA Men’s College Cup. […]
Bensonhurst School Celebrates Its Priests In celebration of World Priest Day, St. Athanasius School, Bensonhurst, honored its parish priests, above, from right, Msgr. David Cassato, pastor, and Fathers Ronald D’Antonio and Gabriel Toro-Rivas, parochial vicars, with music, gifts and loving prayers. Nursery teacher AnnMarie Browne offered a song, and Gina Auricchio, a teacher in the […]
by Marie Elena Giossi Creatures, both great and small, gathered with their human companions at St. Francis College’s inaugural animal blessing on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Oct. 4, in Brooklyn Heights. As locals hurried to work and students arrived for classes, Father Brian Jordan, O.S.F., college chaplain, welcomed an array of “friends […]
The St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, men’s soccer team has a new home field: Pier 5 at Brooklyn Bridge Park. The first Terriers’ home game was held there Sept. 10. “The field has to be one of the most unique settings in all of college sports,” said Terriers’ head coach Tom Giovatto.
Students were met with some good news as they returned to St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, for their first full week of classes. U.S. News & World Report has once again ranked St. Francis as a Top Regional College in the North. “These rankings have become an annual confirmation of the success of our educational […]
The St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, women’s basketball team tied DePaul University, Chicago, for the second highest cumulative team GPA (3.625) in the country among 345 Division I women’s basketball programs. The Terriers, led by head coach John Thurston, are the only N.Y. metropolitan area team to earn the honor. “This honor, along with being […]
New York Giants’ all-pro defensive end Justin Tuck challenged the more than 400 St. Francis College graduates as the keynote speaker at the college’s Spring 2013 Commencement, May 14 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. “Champion a cause. Mine is literacy. Yours might be hunger, poverty, diseases,” Tuck told the packed crowd inside the Howard […]
Deborah Seaton, director of Student Health Services at St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, died on Tuesday, Jan. 29. A licensed practical nurse with a master’s degree in public administration, she began working at the school in 2004. She oversaw the St. Francis Wellness Center and Counseling Center as well as weekly events like Healthy Hour […]
Brother Vincent Healy, O.S.F., who was born as John Gerard Healy in Park Slope and spent 67 years as a Brooklyn Franciscan brother, died Feb. 1. He was 87. After graduating from Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, Sunset Park, he went on to attend St. Anthony’s Juniorate in Smithtown, L.I. He then entered the […]
The life of a Division I college basketball athlete is strenuous. The student-athletes split their time between practice, games, travel, mandatory workouts, classes and study halls. In that sort of lifestyle, it’s easy to focus solely on basketball and lose sight of what is really important in life. But at St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, […]
