January 22, 2003


Reminder for Mark Mirabelli's Track & Field Clinic Sunday March 9, 2003
Click here for more details.

For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of meeting/knowing fellow alumnus, Mark Mirabelli, here's some brief information about him.

Captain,1976-77, Two Time All-American in the Javelin,
1980 12th in the USA Nationals Olympic level.

Has four children and a beautiful Montclair wife.
Lives in Lumberton NJ, teaches at Hamilton West High School,
and the Head Track coach of a high school successful team.

Speaker throughout the USA on the Javelin,Shot,and Discus.
Author of two articles in Coach Review and presently produced
3 CDs on the shot,discus,and javelin.

Mark Mirabelli

Mark Miabelli's Track & Field website

 
January 21, 2003

Former Girls Team Coach Mourns Loss:

Coach and Mrs. Fitz lost their only son, age 46, just before Christmas. He passed away in Yale Univ.Hospital. No details given. Please send any and all condolences to this address.

Ed and Marilyn E. Fitzgerald
1415 Orchard Grove Drive
Chesapeake, VA 23320
 
January 17, 2003

It's been pretty quiet around here lately. Not too many emails or news to share with everyone. Incidentally, Dan Magee, who is getting married in approximately 2 months, is seriously stressing. Please email Dan with some words of encouragement, he needs all the help he can get!



Alumni email update:
The following alumni have either been found or their email has changed.

Jack Mulder
Ray Britton
John Malazdra
Joe Fontanta



MIA List:

Dan Avondoglio
Susan Baka
Lorelei Boggs
Tim Brennan
Linda Burriesci Carrington
Colleen Casey
Jim Casey
Mike Cavallo
Stormin' Norman Coyle
Frank Dariano
Joe DeLuise
Chris Fagan
Brian Falkowski
Ed Febinger
Frank Ferrara
Coach Fitz
Pat Gallagher

Tony Genovese
Michelle Gindreaux
Mary "Huey" Gould
Kim Hageman
Sylvester Harriet
Dave Hoch
Tracey Hosler
Sandy Humphrey
Judy Hunt
Willie Jackson
Chris Kalwinsky
Trisha Kenney
Jim Kingsley
Gail Kupcha
Herb Lorenz
Kyle Lynott
Mark Macauley
Jennifer Maczka
Mike Maney
Patsy Marino
Marlon Matthews
Don Matoush
Jim McElhaton
Mike McGourty
Brendan McKeon
Michelle Nichol
Steve Ondrejack
Sue (Piekarz) Rodrigez
John Richardson
Janice Reilly
Marc Rossi
Alan Skilowitz
Coach Smitty (in progress of being contacted, he currently lives in Brazil, South America)
Steve Strange
Christian Talag
Karen Tangora
Ken Topolewski (in progress of being contacted)
Steve Urban
Karen Vance
Eddie Vizzola
Melissa Wenczel
Greg "Groundhog" Weinert
Dave Ytreboe
Virginia Zaleski (in progress of being contacted)
Pete Zippel (in progress of being contacted)
Tall, Slow Andy from '86 XC
 
January 3, 2003

Happy New Year!!!!



Message from Metzie:

Happy New Year Everyone! I had a really good blood test and check up on Monday. My white count is down to 25,000 from 29,000 four months ago. It is the lowest it has been since my Lyme blood test in May 1999 was 24,000. Normal is 3,300-10,500. Out of the 25,000 my lymphocyte count is down to 20,300. Normal is 1,200 -3,200. So basically I have about 17,000 cancerous cells in my body. Even better news is that my hematologist found no swollen lymph nodes for the first time in about two years. The whole checkup was basically pretty good news. I did have to go to the hospital for X-rays on my sinusis because I told her I was having very bad sinus headaches. So once we get the results we will see if I just need some antibiotics or if I need to go see a Ear, Nose and throat person.

My one concern is my platelets are going down. This test it was 148 and the normal range is 144-400. The lowest it has been before Mondays test was 179. So I have to ask her about that. Thank you everyone for your continued support and my next blood test will be in April. After the indoor track season and just before the softball season starts.

Happy New Year!

Tom




 

Men's and Women's Cross Country National Championship Photos:
A new gallery has been added to highlight our men's and women's teams from the National Championship Meet this past November 2002. Click here to view all photos, which also appear on the TCNJ website.



Alumnus Checks in:
We received these emails from Jason Faris over the last week.

Hi Fuchsie,
 
I hope you've been having a great holiday!  What are you up to these days?  Have you taken some time off over the holidays?

Dan Magee just wrote to me and suggested e-mailing some news for the website - he thought I was in a PhD program, so I thought I would clear that up too!

So here it is:
 
I am still dating Katie Bates, a woman I met during Veterinary school.  She and I are living together in Baltimore, where she is working as a Veterinarian at a small animal practice. She is extremely devoted to running as well as her work, as she recently qualified for the Boston Marathon. I, meanwhile, am slacking heavily running 3-4 miles here and there.  Hopefully I can get my act together and start training for some races. 

I am midway through my 2nd year of medical school at Johns Hopkins. This year has been very clinically-oriented, as we learn about "bugs and drugs" and also learn important clinical skills such as taking good histories, assessing organ function, drawing blood, etc. Just in time, I say, as we start our clinical rotations at the end of March. 

Katie and I just returned today from a trip to England to visit with her family for Christmas. Although the time went by too fast, we had a great time. We'll celebrate Christmas belatedly this coming weekend with my family.   

Hope everyone has had a great holiday!

Jason

Glenn responded to Jason's first email and here was his answer…

I'm in my 2nd year of Medical school, not a PhD program (I can see how it could get confused, as I have been in other degree programs since college). I start my clinical rotations this March. So far, I would say I'm leaning towards Internal medicine, but I have some time to figure that part out.

I just returned this afternoon from England, where I was spending Christmas with Katie and her family, who still live over there. It was a great trip, but I'm exhausted - first thing we did when we got back was to run 3 miles, which didn't help! Katie is very into running - at the Baltimore marathon this past October, she qualified for the Boston marathon - I need to get my act together and start training as well..
.
Since the Jets took care of the Packers about an hour ago, our Eagles now have home-field throughout. Hopefully the return of McNabb will reinvigorate the offense - 2 wins and we're in the Super Bowl.

Hope you're having a great holiday,

Jason



MIA List:

Dan Avondoglio
Susan Baka
Lorelei Boggs
Tim Brennan
Linda Burriesci Carrington
Colleen Casey
Jim Casey
Mike Cavallo
Maura Coleman (found)
Stormin' Norman Coyle
Frank Dariano
Joe DeLuise
Chris Fagan
Brian Falkowski
Ed Febinger
Frank Ferrara
Coach Fitz
Pat Gallagher
Joe Geismar (found)

Michelle Gindreaux
Mary "Huey" Gould
Kim Hageman
Sylvester Harriet
Dave Hoch
Tracey Hosler
Sandy Humphrey
Judy Hunt
Willie Jackson
Chris Kalwinsky
Trisha Kenney
Jim Kingsley
Gail Kupcha
Herb Lorenz
Kyle Lynott
Mark Macauley
Jennifer Maczka
Mike Maney
Patsy Marino
Marlon Matthews
Don Matoush
Jim McElhaton
Mike McGourty
Brendan McKeon
Dave Motovidlak (found)
Michelle Nichol
Bob "Kemo" Nielson (found)
Steve Ondrejack
Sue (Piekarz) Rodrigez
John Richardson
Janice Reilly
Marc Rossi
Alan Skilowitz
Coach Smitty (in progress of being contacted, he currently lives in Brazil, South America)
Steve Strange
Christian Talag
Karen Tangora
Ken Topolewski (in progress of being contacted)
Steve Urban
Karen Vance
Eddie Vizzola
Melissa Wenczel
Greg "Groundhog" Weinert
Dave Ytreboe
Virginia Zaleski (in progress of being contacted)
Pete Zippel (in progress of being contacted)
Tall, Slow Andy from '86 XC
 

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