Mirror - Vol. 22, No. 17 - April 10, 1997

              FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
IRROR
Volume 22 Number 17 The Image of Fairfield Thursday, April 10, 1997
Tom Brokaw to address
graduating class
Christine Hamel
Editor-in-Chief
The Rev. Aloysius P. Kelley,
S.J., University President, has
announced the commencement
speaker and the recipients of the
honorary degrees. TomBrokaw,
NBC News Anchor, will deliver
the main address at Fairfield
University's 47th annual com-mencement
on Sunday, May 18.
The commencement weekend
will also include the celebration
of the Baccalaureate Mass on
Saturday, May 17, on the
Bellarmine Terrace at 4 p.m.
Brokaw and Larry Doby will
be receiving honorary doctor-ates.
Honorary degrees will also
be given to George B. Harvey
and Elizabeth M. Pfreim.
Fifty years ago, Doby was the
first African American baseball
player in the American League.
Hejoined the Cleveland Indians
just 11 weeks after Jackie
Robinson played his first game
for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Harvey, former chairman of
the board of directors of Pitney-
Bowes Inc., and Pfreim, retired
president and treasurer of the
Bridgeport Post, the Telegram
and the Sunday Post, now the
Connecticut Post, whose phil-anthropic
achievements have fo-cused
on the welfare and educa-tion
of children throughout the
area.
By honoring Brokaw,
Fairfield is citing a journalist
who won numerous awards for
his enterprise including Emmys
for the NBC special "China in
Crisis" and NBC News' cover-age
of the Midwest floods of
1972. From the anchor desk and
on location, Brokaw is known
for covering changes in world
capitals and for monitoring
events in small towns and inner
cities throughout the United
States.
Also host of "Internight", a
half-hour prime time talk and
interview program on MSNBC,
he was the NBC White House
correspondent during the
Watergate era; and has covered
every presidential election since
1968. As a news reporter,
Brokaw has achieved a number
of exclusive first reports includ-ing
the first U.S. exclusive one-to-
one interview with Mikhail
Gorbachev and was the first
American to report on human
rights abuses in Tibet. Brokaw
has reported from rooftops in
Beirut, the Great Wall in China,
the Berlin Wall as it fell, and
from the streets of Kuwait dur-ing
Operation Desert Storm.
After joining NBC News in
1966, Brokaw had reported and
anchored at KNBC-TV in Los
Angeles, WSB-TV in Atlanta,
and KMTV in Omaha.
Doby is honored at Fairfield
while Major League Baseball
marks the 50th anniversary of
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Hunger Clean
Up is Saturday
Kristen Sullivan
A & E Editor
In an effort to honor Fairfield
University and its students for
their work and success on be-halfofthe
HungerCleanUp, the
town of Fairfield has issued a
proclamation to make Sat., April
12, Hunger Clean Up Day in
Fairfield.
FUSA President Chris
Cipriano rallied to get the proc-lamation
since the University
has received national recogni-tion
for its participation and
overall efforts during the past
three years. Cipriano worked
with Fairfield First Selectman
Paul Audley to get the procla-mation.
Cipriano says, "As a former
member of the executive board
and a participant in the Hunger
Clean Up, I realize what an as-set
this is to the community and
to those who participate in the
event. It is a testament to the
organizers and the participants
who make the day a success and
I felt that both parties were de-serving
of this recognition by
the town of Fairfield."
The Hunger Clean Up will
take place this Saturday from 9
a.m. to 1 p.m. To sign up, con-tact
Carolyn Rusiakas in Cam-pus
Ministry.
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JoAnn Gometz
News Editor
Among friends and family, the
52nd president of the Fairfield
University Student Association,
Christopher Cipriano, along with
his vice presidents, was inaugu-rated
in the Great Hall of
Bellarmine on April 1.
Outgoing FUSA President
Michael Reardon welcomed the
audience, going on to say, "Chris
is a dedicated person whom I
have come to know as a friend."
Chris Tierney, Chief Justice
of Student Court, administered
the oath of office to the six vice
presidents: Daniel Conroy, Lucia
Corvino, Scott DePetris, Tracy
Hollywood, Michael Piagentini,
and Matthew Pitucco.
Tierney, then, administered
the oath to Cipriano, who re-ceived
the president's gavel from
Reardon amid thunderous ap-plause.
"I'd like to thank my par-ents,"
Cipriano said, "I wouldn't
be here at Fairfield without you."
He went on to thank campaign
managers Joanna Lohan and Jim
O'Connor, campaign staff, the
vice presidents and his friends
and family.
Cipriano, then, made the tra-ditional
presentation of a gift to
the outgoing president. He pre-sented
Reardon with a framed
photo of portions of this year's
inaugural fireworks display, say-ing,
"We know that one of the
things you were most proud of
was the fireworks display. We
hope this hangs in your office at
Canisius High School next year."
Toasts were offered, and Uni-versity
President, the Rev.
Aloysius P. Kelley, S.J., deliv-ered
a brief congratulatory ad-dress.
He said, "Congratulations
to Chris and the members of his
cabinet. I look forward to work-ing
with all of them."
The Rev. Thomas Regan, S.J.,
ofthe philosophy department de-livered
both the invocation and
benediction.
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