“Faith & Hope has created opportunities for students of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds to come to Fordham, earn a world-class education, and seek employment,” said Susan Conley Salice, FCRH ’82, one of three campaign co-chairs and a first-generation college graduate herself. “These scholarships open doors to students who may not otherwise be able to attend, and give them the opportunity to transform their lives.”

The campaign raised $175,311,288 from April 2014 to June 2019, surpassing its original goal of $175 million. Donations funded existing scholarship funds and 197 new scholarship funds for students—including Fulbright scholars, community leaders, and first-generation college students.

“Scholarships are at the heart of Fordham’s mission, and are central to the Jesuit notion of service to the human family,” said Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham. “Scholarships transform individual lives, of course, but in democratizing education and knowledge, they also help create a more just world and a more equitable society. I am deeply heartened that so many of our generous alumni and friends agree, and I am forever grateful for their openhearted and openhanded support.”

Breaking Records Across the University

The Faith & Hope campaign achieved historic results for Fordham. The 2017 fiscal year was the most successful single year of fundraising in the University’s history, at $75.8 million. This year, the University’s Development and University Relations (DAUR) division was recognized with a 2019 Educational Fundraising Award for sustained excellence in fundraising programs over the past three years, putting Fordham’s advancement effort among the top 90 colleges and universities in the nation.

At the 2019 Fordham Founder’s Dinner, nearly $2.6 million was raised for Faith & Hope—specifically the Founder’s Undergraduate Scholarship Fund. It was the second-highest amount in the event’s 18-year history, with 100% participation from the Board of Trustees and the President’s Council. During the years of the campaign, the annual event raised nearly $12 million to support Founder’s scholars.

Nearly a million dollars was raised on Fordham’s third annual Giving Day last March—the most successful Giving Day to date. More than 3,000 participants—alumni, parents, students, faculty, staff, and friends of Fordham—raised $933,689 in 1,841 minutes. Most of the donations, which ranged from $1 to $100,000, came from the U.S., but some came from as far as Australia and the Philippines.

One of the campaign’s biggest accomplishments was the creation of the Maurice and Carolyn Cunniffe Presidential Scholars Program—one of the most selective merit scholarships available to Fordham students. Three years ago, the scholarship program was established through a $20 million gift from Maurice J. (Mo) Cunniffe, FCRH ’54, and Carolyn Dursi Cunniffe, Ph.D., UGE ’62, GSAS ’65, ’71. Over the next decade, it will fund a Fordham education—tuition, living expenses, internship, research, and study abroad opportunities—for dozens of talented students.

“Each year, Mo and I spend time with these students who are young stars with bright futures,” said Carolyn Cunniffe, a Faith & Hope co-chair. “We hope that they will contribute back to society far more than Mo and I can.”

Campaign co-chair Darlene Luccio Jordan, FCRH ’89, said Faith & Hope supported Fordham’s core values and identity.

“This campaign really went to the central mission of Fordham, which is our commitment to higher education and educating first-generation students, and keeping Fordham accessible, regardless of a student’s ability to pay,” she said.

Student Impact 

At the heart of the campaign were Fordham students and the donors who helped fuel their future.

In interviews and speeches spanning the past several years, students have described how a Fordham scholarship has changed their lives.

They talked about how a Fordham education helped shape their career paths. For some students, the University’s Jesuit values strengthened their Catholic faith, while others from different faiths said they felt welcome in the University community. Students also praised Fordham’s core curriculum, which encouraged them to connect with their neighbors in the Bronx. And they spoke about how Fordham helped them understand who they are and what legacy they want to leave behind.

Caroline Koenig, the daughter of seventh-generation French bakers, knew that attending Fordham would be a challenge. In high school, she experienced an injury that dashed her hopes of winning a college track scholarship. Fordham initially gave her a generous financial aid package, but it wasn’t enough. She was taking extra classes to graduate early and considering a commute from Connecticut to save money—that is, until she was awarded the Peter and Carol Howe Endowed Scholarship. It helped her land a summer internship at KPMG and identify her passion for forensic accounting.

“My parents taught me the value of hard work and holding onto your dreams. Because of them and because of Fordham, now I can follow my own,” Koenig said.

The campaign also made a college education possible for Fordham students who, in the face of overwhelming student debt, found it difficult to continue their education.

One of them is Muhammad El Shatanofy, the son of immigrant parents who dreamed of becoming a doctor. Throughout his time in Fordham’s neuroscience program, he wondered how he could pay for his undergraduate education without incurring debt. After all, he’d soon be paying for four years’ worth of medical school.

When he found out he was awarded the Founder’s Scholarship, which would pay for almost all his outstanding tuition costs, he was thrilled.

“It really has given me that extra motivation, so that now I just want to accomplish so much,” said El Shatanofy, who went on to mentor 12 high school students from disadvantaged high schools and volunteer at Mt. Sinai Hospital. “I have this drive to make other people happy that they invested in my education and my future.”

For many students, scholarships have left an emotional impact on their lives.

“There’s just no words I can give to express how thankful my family and I are. It takes a big load off our shoulders, and … I’m just so thankful because I wouldn’t be able to go to Fordham without you and apply to grad school,” Jeannie-Fay Veloso, GABELLI ’17, tells her scholarship donor, Robert D. Daleo, GABELLI ’72, in a campaign video. Seconds later, the two alumni embrace in tears.

What It Means to Give 

Faith & Hope’s scholarships were made possible through donations both big and small.

Among the campaign’s biggest donors, in addition to the co-chairs and their spouses, were Brian W. and Kathleen H. MacLean, both FCRH ’75; Susheel Kirpalani, LAW ’94; William J. Loschert, GABELLI ’61; Alice Lehman Murphy, the McKeon Family Foundation; Grace A. Dorney-Koppel, UGE ’60, and Ted Koppel; and Alex and Jean Trebek.

Many of them said they give back because they want to support the next generation of leaders and help families break out of the cycle of poverty through education. Some donors once stood in the same shoes as the students they now support.

“I came from a family where my father was a factory worker and my mother worked as a seamstress. I had two other brothers. So if I was going to do it, I was going to do it on my own—and my brother, too,” said Daleo, honorary campaign chair and chair of the Fordham Board of Trustees, who established a scholarship in his brother’s name. “We both went to Fordham. We both had scholarships, worked and paid our way. That scholarship helped me [and]  made the difference.”

Rosemary Santana Cooney, Ph.D., established a scholarship with her husband Patrick in recognition of her 42 years as a professor and associate dean at Fordham, her belief in generating a diverse student body, and her Puerto Rican heritage. Her scholarship will support minority students across Fordham.

“I was always aware that I was different—an outsider—because I tend to be dark, like my father. And I always worked extra hard because I figured as a woman and a minority, you had to work extra hard … I know, sympathetically, how hard these kids who try to make the transition are having to work. And I wanted to make sure that some of them were getting some help,” said Cooney.

For many donors, their Fordham experience gave them not only academic, social, and life skills—it showed them what they’re capable of.

“It’s taught me things about myself that I didn’t even know before,” said Sophie Scott, FCLC ’18, who studied journalism and now works as a production assistant at CNN. “Fordham literally showed me the world in a way I didn’t know possible, and a way I could fit into the world.”

Scott, echoing a sentiment shared by many donors, said she hopes to give that same experience to someone else.

“It literally brings me no greater joy than to think that someone else could be having that same experience—someone who, from a financial perspective, may not be able to,” said Scott, who serves as chair of the Young Alumni Philanthropy Committee at Fordham.

Faith & Hope marks the third of Fordham’s biggest campaigns since the early 1990s—a growing list of campaigns that are already transforming the world.

“It really is a win-win for both the donors and the students,” said Salice. “And ultimately, the world at large.”

Now that the University has successfully closed Faith & Hope, administrators and volunteers are planning for the launch of a new fundraising campaign that will be focused on enhancing the student experience and will include the construction of a new campus center at Rose Hill.

To read more success stories, visit the Faith & Hope campaign site.

In 2009, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis starred in the wildly successful comedy The Hangover, which followed the aftermath of a Las Vegas bachelor party gone horribly wrong.

But if an alternate-universe theory is to be believed, the iconic trio of Dean Martin, Jack Lemmon, and Jerry Lewis might have starred in the movie instead—some 60 years ago.

These are the colliding universes created by Peter Stults, associate director of the Fordham Fund in the Office of Development and University Relations. Stults has turned his fascination with film, graphic arts, and nostalgia into a successful niche business revolving around imagined retro movie posters.

“It’s a fun little formula where you take a contemporary movie like Inception and you ask, ‘What if this movie were made in the 1940s? Who would have directed the movie, who would be in the cast? What actor would be the equivalent of today’s Leonardo DiCaprio?’” he said.

Stults’ talent for creating fake yet seemingly plausible movie posters was first discovered by business insiders in 2012, when he shared his first posters on behance.net, a social media site for artists and designers. Re-imagined posters featuring James Dean in Drive and Sean Connery in The Fifth Element struck a chord. The news sites Buzzfeed, Gizmodo, The Daily Mail, Fast Company, and The Huffington Post wrote about Stults’ work, and he was invited to display his posters in Collette, a clothing boutique in Paris.

He has since been commissioned to do illustrations for Time Out magazine and Paul Schrader’s film The Canyons. Once a month for the last three years, the French magazine So Film has published his alternate take on a movie that is premiering.

One of the foundations that inspired Stults’ creation of his “What If” series was his discovery of “cast-aways” that included Jack Nicholson. (He was was originally cast as the dad in A Christmas Story, but replaced) and Sylvester Stallone (he was up for the role of Superman before Marlon Brando put the kibosh on it.) The other was his interest in retro design.

“There are so many facets of retro design, like art deco, pulp covers, rock posters, and even World War II posters. To me it was a form of art history that nobody talks about – the aesthetic of retro/vintage designs.”

SciFi films are the most popular, he says, because they lend themselves to more creativity and fantasy—whereas movies based on true stories are next to impossible to replicate. He gave The Social Network and American Sniper as examples of films that are too closely linked to one era to translate into another one.

What resonates in Stults’ artwork, he says, is the way the images can both disrupt and intrigue the viewer. Seeing a poster profile of Leonard Nimoy (cast as John McClane instead of Bruce Willis) shot against the exploding high rise in Die Hard “makes one do a double-take.”

“Once you’ve seen it, then you ponder…. Could he be an action star? Is it possible?”

And although film purists occasionally kvetch about his casting choices, sometimes he manages to actually convince people the posters are real.

“I did a poster for Jurassic Park and when it surfaced, people said ‘I had no idea Cary Grant did a Jurassic Park!’  I did one with Pam Grier starring in Aliens, and a guy popped up on Tumblr and wrote, ‘Ok guys, I’ve gone on IMDB and I cannot find this movie,’” he said.

“It’s fun when I’ve straight-up convinced people these are authentic,” he said.

The annual Thank-a-Thon, which was begun by the Office of Development and University Relations and is now in its third year, attracted students like Lexi McCauley, a sophomore at the Gabelli School of Business, who along with other students shared her thoughts on a note card that will be mailed to a contributor to the Fordham Fund.

The fund aims to raise $10 million of unrestricted support annually to provide students with scholarships, career services and improved facilities and technology.

“It’s really important because there are a lot of people that don’t have the opportunity financially to go to Fordham,” she said. “I’m grateful to be able to come here, and there are many others who are also grateful [and]need help financially.”

The Thank-a-Thon began as a way for students to express gratitude to those who helped make Fordham’s $540 million capital campaignExcelsior | Ever Upward | The Campaign for Fordham, a resounding success. This year’s event, which took place over four days at the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses, garnered 661 cards from students.

Nick Monteleone, associate director of donor relations, who along with Kristina Dzwonczyk, director of donor relations, helped solicit the students, said the Thank-a-Thon was launched to highlight the importance of unrestricted annual support, and to give students a direct voice to the donors who have played such an important role in their educations.

“The response we’ve had from the student body over the past three years has been wonderful,” he said.

“They’re eager to stop, to say ‘thank you,’ to share their gratitude, and often, their personal stories through a note for our Fordham Fund donors.”

Martine De Matteo, a freshman at Fordham College at Rose Hill, echoed the sentiment.

“I really appreciate all the help we can get for the ‘Ramily,’” she said.

On Jan. 29, more than 250 Fordham student-athletes attended the Student-Athlete Career Mentoring Night in the McGinley Center Ballroom, sponsored by the Athletic Department, with help from the Student Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) and the Office of Development and University Relations. Those in attendance received guidance and support from six Fordham graduates who have gone on to find success in their chosen fields.

Sharing their insights were David Almeida, GSB ’73, Jim Houlihan, GSB ’74, Pat Keenan, GSB ’75, Charlie Menges, FCRH ’64, Mike Puglisi, GSB ’72, and John Zizzo, FCRH ’69. Four of the six could relate easily to the student-athletes in attendance, as they too were student-athletes in their days at Fordham: Keenan and Zizzo played on the football team; Menges played on the men’s basketball squad; and Houlihan played on the baseball team.

Sydney Plant

Sydney Plant, assistant vice president for the Fordham Fund. Photo by Tom Stoelker

Who she is: Assistant Vice President for the Fordham Fund, Office of Development and University Relations.What she does: Plant oversees the Fordham Fund, the function of which is raising more than $10 million annually.  With an increased demand for financial aid, the Fund will ask loyal donors to give a second gift this year so students can meet their goals.  Last October the Fund launched the Ram Line, a telephone bank staffed part-time by 45 students who make one-on-one contact with the Fordham community each night.

Background: Raised in the college town of Ann Arbor, Mich., Plant received her bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University. She was accepted into the Nonprofit Management Program at The New School in New York, but was unable to muster enough financial aid to attend. Her personal experience made her uniquely qualified to make the case for student need. She convinced the development office at her alma mater to hire her as their first intern. That position led to a full-time position and eventually to a role at DePaul University in Chicago as manager of the annual giving fund. She came to work at Fordham in 2011.

Why Everyone Should Give: “It seems a little counterintuitive, but if the Fordham Fund is to work we really need support from every constituency, including the faculty and staff. Annual fund giving is like voting: it takes everyone to participate to be ‘heard’ in order to make a difference.”

What Makes Her Job Hard: Plant acknowledges that members of the Fordham community have thousands of organizations to choose from when donating to a cause, so her primary challenge is to make the case that Fordham students have needs too.

What Makes Her Job Easy: “People tend to give where they’re served and Fordham has made a difference in a lot of lives. It’s very easy to ask alumni and friends to donate, because there is such a sense of tradition here. Another thing that helps is that whatever your cause, you can find it within Fordham—whether its the environment or the humanities, you can tap into it here.
“It’s not how much you give, it’s that you participate. We say thank you for $5 or $5,000, we just need people to participate.”

What She Hopes to Accomplish in Five Years: Plant hopes to foster a “culture of philanthropy” by encouraging meaningful involvement in the Fordham Fund. She encourages donors to share their stories, particularly on social networks like Facebook or Twitter. She is also excited about a new women’s philanthropy program that will honor and recognize the contributions from Fordham women, including graduates from Marymount and Thomas More colleges.

Her Downtime: While she says she loved living in Chicago, she’s beginning to get her bearings in New York by pursuing personal passions, such as fashion. She takes design courses at Parsons The New School for Design and spends her spare time ferreting through fabric bolts in the Fashion District. “Fordham is my school and New York is my playground,” she said. ]]> 30167 https://now.fordham.edu/inside-fordham/fordham-work-sydney-plant/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:22:14 +0000 http://news.fordham.sitecare.pro/?p=6716 Sydney Plant

Who she is: Assistant Vice President for the Fordham Fund, Office of Development and University Relations.

What she does: Plant oversees the Fordham Fund, the function of which is raising more than $10 million annually.  With an increased demand for financial aid, the Fund will ask loyal donors to give a second gift this year so students can meet their goals.  Last October the Fund launched the Ram Line, a telephone bank staffed part-time by 45 students who make one-on-one contact with the Fordham community each night. 

Background: Raised in the college town of Ann Arbor, Mich., Plant received her bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University. She was accepted into the Nonprofit Management Program at The New School in New York, but was unable to muster enough financial aid to attend. Her personal experience made her uniquely qualified to make the case for student need. She convinced the development office at her alma mater to hire her as their first intern. That position led to a full-time position and eventually to a role at DePaul University in Chicago as manager of the annual giving fund. She came to work at Fordham in 2011.

Why Everyone Should Give: “It seems a little counterintuitive, but if the Fordham Fund is to work we really need support from every constituency, including the faculty and staff. Annual fund giving is like voting: it takes everyone to participate to be ‘heard’ in order to make a difference.”

What Makes Her Job Hard: Plant acknowledges that members of the Fordham community have thousands of organizations to choose from when donating to a cause, so her primary challenge is to make the case that Fordham students have needs too.

What Makes Her Job Easy: “People tend to give where they’re served and Fordham has made a difference in a lot of lives. It’s very easy to ask alumni and friends to donate, because there is such a sense of tradition here. Another thing that helps is that whatever your cause, you can find it within Fordham—whether its the environment or the humanities, you can tap into it here.
“It’s not how much you give, it’s that you participate. We say thank you for $5 or $5,000, we just need people to participate.”

What She Hopes to Accomplish in Five Years: Plant hopes to foster a “culture of philanthropy” by encouraging meaningful involvement in the Fordham Fund. She encourages donors to share their stories, particularly on social networks like Facebook or Twitter. She is also excited about a new women’s philanthropy program that will honor and recognize the contributions from Fordham women, including graduates from Marymount and Thomas More colleges. 

Her Downtime: While she says she loved living in Chicago, she’s beginning to get her bearings in New York by pursuing personal passions, such as fashion. She takes design courses at Parsons The New School for Design and spends her spare time ferreting through fabric bolts in the Fashion District. “Fordham is my school and New York is my playground,” she said.

The 10 Fordham employees who gathered in the Duane Library on Dec. 14 represented more than two centuries of service to the University. The workers, who hailed from departments ranging from Facilities Operations to Development and University Relations, received the 1841 Award Medal for Service on their 20th and, in one case, 40th anniversaries at Fordham.

The 1841 Award lauds more than just professionalism and loyalty, said Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham; it recognizes the recipients as members of the University family.

“It’s not just an award moment or a moment of recognition—it is a feast. And for me, it’s probably the sweetest feast in the Fordham calendar, because if you look around, this is family,” he said. “We are the Fordham family gathered together in love to celebrate the extraordinary generosity of our colleagues.”

After two decades on campus, many of the recipients have themselves come to feel that Fordham is a second home.

Winston Alexander, a 40-year medalist, was a high-pressure operator in Jamaica before joining his family in the Bronx. Resolving to continue his work as an engineer, Alexander joined the Fordham staff while taking classes to obtain his operating engineer license.

Forty years later, the campus is an integral part of Alexander’s life.

“I wouldn’t have it any other way,” said Alexander, who adds his most recent 1841 Award to the one he received 20 years earlier. “Forty years here—it’s going to tear me apart when I have to leave because I love the University.”

As lead engineer in Facilities Operations, Alexander “has toiled ceaselessly and relentlessly in the machine and boiler rooms of Rose Hill,” Marco Valera, vice president for facilities management, told the ceremony’s participants. “Like a modern-day Hephaestus, Winston tends the flames of Fordham’s forges, providing heating and cooling, as needed, to every room on this campus.”

“I just love Fordham,” Alexander said. “That’s all I can say.”

Twenty-year medalist Noel Nevin, a steam refrigeration engineer in Facilities Operations, was described as “the face and voice” of the physical plant.

“Unfailingly,” Valera said, “he is able to calm frayed nerves as adeptly as he repairs leaking steam lines.”

In addition to his professional endeavors, Nevin has seen the University from a student’s and a parent’s perspective. He completed a degree in English in 1996 and his son, Michael, is a freshman in the Gabelli School of Business.

“It’s the people that really make Fordham,” Nevin said. “Twenty years just flew by.”

Ismael Maldonado, of Custodial Services, used to play baseball and football on campus with other neighborhood children when his father, Ismael, Sr., was the head painter at Fordham.

Gerardo Conte, a foreman in Custodial Services, bears a similar familial legacy—his wife, sister and two children have all traversed the campus either as staff members or as students.

“They’re the men and women who keep us truly a family,” Father McShane said. “They work remarkably hard to produce great results quietly so that everybody in the University has a life that’s easier, a career that’s easier. We depend on [them]every day.”

Established in 1982 by James C. Finlay, S.J., former University president, the 1841 Award commemorates the year Fordham was founded by Archbishop John Hughes.

The recipients of the 29th annual 1841 Award were:

•    Winston Alexander       Facilities Operations
•    Victor Birone                 Facilities Operations
•    Gerardo Conte             Custodial Services
•    Peter Cotaj                   Custodial Services
•    Ismael Maldonado        Custodial Services
•    Noel A. Nevin                Facilities Operations
•    Judy E. Porter               Development & University Relations
•    Jaime Sanchez             Facilities Operations
•    Luis M. Vargas              Facilities Operations
•    Vera Zadrima               Custodial Services

WHO SHE IS
Gift Records Assistant, Office of Development and University Relations

TIME AT FORDHAM
23 years

WHAT SHE DOES
Brenda works with the University’s computerized records system. She processes any donation of stock, gifts in kind, mutual funds, checks, cash and credit cards. Prior to becoming a gift records assistant, Brenda worked as an assistant within the Department of Research.

Over the snow-packed Christmas holiday break, Brenda entered a record 557 end-of-year gifts in four days. Her director, Beverlee Cappeto, described her effort as “unprecedented. She kept us motivated throughout
the week.”

BACKGROUND
A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Brenda left the novitiate of the sisters of Mount Carmel and migrated to the United States in 1969 to join her siblings. She settled in the Bronx, and aspired to do geriatric nursing.
Since coming to Fordham, she has earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and has taken several courses in philosophy, visual art and economics, which has helped in her real estate business. She considers herself a philosopher and a “practitioner of thought.” Her day begins at 4 a.m. with meditation and exercise. These exercises quiet her mind and prepare her for the day. She arrives at the office at 6 a.m. to avoid train delays. Being an “avid existentialist,” Brenda’s ethics are not that of a thumb-twiddler, but rather one of “cause and effect. I am at the office to do a job.”

WHY FORDHAM?
“Fordham has afforded me a privileged education and the ability to develop my business skills.”

BANNER IS BETTER
Brenda was introduced to the Viking software, which was replaced by Banner in 2007. Brenda’s department was on the receiving end of a streamlined data-entry system. “Banner gives us more tools to do a more efficient job of gift processing. Banner also affords us the ability to work autonomously.”

RIDING THE BULL
While out with co-workers, Brenda felt that the party was going nowhere; therefore, to “break the ice,” she took a shot at riding a mechanical bull. “It’s like work,” she said. “It had to be done!” After mounting the mechanical bull, the party took off. What’s next on the indomitably spirited Brenda’s bucket list? To skydive.

HOBBIES
A minimalist and a member of the Sierra Club, she has done scuba diving, snorkeling and skin diving. An avid gardener, she teaches her neighbors organic gardening and rain water harvesting. She writes a neighborhood bulletin on organic gardening and hot and cold composting. She conducts garden tours, and teaches ways to choose to reuse. She does plumbing, carpentry, masonry, roofing and dry wall plaster. In the winter, she crochets, sculpts and paints. She is learning to read blueprints.

McCartney, who was a guest on Late Show with David Letterman, performed a seven song set for hundreds of New Yorkers who got wind of the event through blogs or Twitter, or who happened to pass by at just the right moment. No surprise that someone on the communications staff had a camera.

A few Pedicab drivers pulled over to take in the show. Yellow taxis and cars, however, were waved on by police, and had to catch Sir Paul’s performance on the televised show later that evening.

From 1992 to 1996, Larkin served as director of major and planned gifts at Fordham, where he developed and implemented many of the strategic initiatives that contributed to the University’s fundraising success during the last Campaign. “Michael brings an already strong and cultivated relationship with many of the University’s top donors, trustees, deans and senior administrators which will enable him to get a quick start,” said Bruno M. Santonocito, vice president for development and university relations. “In addition, his skill as a manager along with his experience, knowledge and resourcefulness make him well-suited to planning and implementing key Campaign strategies and determining how best to allocate resources to achieve our objectives.”

Larkin replaces Cameran Mason, who, after 10 years, left the University in January to become Barnard College’s vice president for development and alumnae affairs. After leaving Fordham in 1996, Larkin became vice president for institutional advancement at Polytechnic University in New York. He later spent three years as vice president for advancement at St. Peter’s College, where he worked closely with the college’s president and Fordham Trustee James N. Loughran, S.J., (CFO ’64, GAS ’66 and ’75).

He was most recently the senior vice president for de-velopment at the Foundation of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. In his new role, while overseeing the Office of Development, Larkin will also be serving as the senior strategist for the University’s current Campaign. “During Father O’Hare’s historic presidency and under the generous leadership support of its benefactors, Fordham has increased the selectivity of its students, improved the quality of its facilities and strengthened existing programs,” said Larkin. “This next Campaign will seek to identify and secure the resources which will ensure that Fordham remains among the elite Jesuit and national liberal arts universities.”

According to Santonocito, the exact goal of the next Campaign cannot be determined until the University completes its needs and resource assessment for endowment, facilities and restricted and unrestricted support. However, it’s already apparent that this Campaign will have a goal in excess of $325 million, more than double that of the last Campaign. Larkin received a B.A. in philosophy from Haverford College and an M.S. in education from Fordham. He and his wife, Cheryl, live in Princeton, N.J.