Raphael Civil, a student at St. John’s University, wasn’t aware of Black Catholic History Month until very recently but he became a quick study. After reading up on the subject, Civil stepped up to help school administrators organize the campus celebration.
St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, New York, held an inaugural ceremony on Oct. 21 to officially welcome its new president, whose own academic life centered on two schools in the Diocese of Brooklyn.
A statue of the famed coach now sits in Carnesecca Arena.
From their days playing CYO basketball, to moving onto AAU hoops and dreaming big on NCAA college courts, Christina Champagnie and her husband Ranford have been their twin sons’ biggest fans.
Kathy Hochul, who will become the next governor of New York on Aug. 24, will have to hit the ground running as she will be faced with several daunting challenges as soon as she takes office.
Greg Vetrone is back in Queens with St. John’s.
St. John’s University spent the 2020-2021 school year celebrating its 150th anniversary, and as the school year ended, there was a renewed focus on the archives.
The McGuires are legendary hoops figures in the Rockaways.
Former TMLA hoops star Danielle Patterson is back in Queens.
In every philosophy course that I teach at St. John’s University, I start the course by pointing out to the students the distinction between a problem and a mystery as understood by the existentialist personalist philosopher, Gabriel Marcel. According to Marcel there were a number of important differences between a problem and a mystery.
