Christine Quinn – Fordham Now https://now.fordham.edu The official news site for Fordham University. Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:55:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://now.fordham.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/favicon.png Christine Quinn – Fordham Now https://now.fordham.edu 32 32 232360065 Fordham Kicks Off New York-New Belfast Conference https://now.fordham.edu/university-news/fordham-kicks-off-new-york-new-belfast-conference/ Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:18:28 +0000 http://news.fordham.sitecare.pro/?p=41245

A bona fide Who’s Who of the New York City’s Irish-American community gathered in the 12th-Floor Lounge Wednesday when Fordham helped launch the city’s third annual New York-New Belfast Conference, held June 13 and 14 at the Lincoln Center campus.

Christine Quinn, speaker of the NY City Council, likely mayoral candidate and a second-generation Irish-American whose grandmother was a survivor on the Titanic, gave the welcoming address to a packed house.

Quinn said that the annual conference, whose theme this year is “Community, Culture and Commerce,” gives New York and Belfast a chance to share best practices in city governance—especially in the areas of policing, entrepreneurship and tourism.

“The best type of culture is that driven by community experience,” said Quinn. “You can take tourism to the next level by not just focusing on the obvious cultural institutions, but [also]on those groups out there in our neighborhoods.”

Quinn also paid homage to her late grandmother, who, she said, “knew there was a time for praying and a time for running.”

New York journalist and editor Pete Hamill received the Irish American of the Year award. The Brooklyn-born Hamill said he wished his parents, both from Belfast, could be with him, but said the lessons his mother had taught him about respecting other immigrants, and those less fortunate, had stuck with him over the years.

“Belfast in particular is part of my DNA, but I am also a little Jewish, a little African American, a little Mexican, Italian-American.

“We owe something to a country that took us by the hand and gave us the opportunity to become something other than a stereotype,” he said. “I hope that none of us in this room ever forget that the people coming here . . . the Mexicans in Sunset Park living in flats that the Irish used to live in . . . they are us. We owe it to them to help them get up, to make sure they get the educations their mothers and fathers fought hard for.”

(Photo top, Christine Quinn, left, with conference organizer Mairtin O’Muilleoir, president of the Irish Echo; and bottom, Pete Hamill, left, with Irish director Terry George. Photos by Michael Dames.)

–Janet Sassi

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A Night for Old Friends and New https://now.fordham.edu/inside-fordham/a-night-for-old-friends-and-new/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:03:12 +0000 http://news.fordham.sitecare.pro/?p=11859 Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, was the guest of honor at a reception on July 20 that included some of New York City’s top dignitaries.

The event, held in the 12th Floor Lounge at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus, was hosted by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of the Diocese of Brooklyn.

Although the bishop was unable to attend, Auxiliary Bishop Frank J. Caggiano was on hand to greet the archbishop and other guests.

The St. Francis Prep School orchestra provided background music at the reception, at which Archbishop Dolan met with several city heavyweights, such as New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, New York City Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scarpetta and Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY).

Fordham was represented by Brian Byrne, Ph.D., vice president of administration for Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus; and Thomas A. Dunne, vice president for government relations and urban affairs.

Thomas A. Dunne and Archbishop Dolan share a laugh with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
Photo by Bruce Gilbert
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