All in Fordham
Wooooooooo! Congrats to Harsh Acharya, John Bitzer, Anita Erzetic, Michael Odell!
Link: New York Society of Security Analysts | NYSSA Announces Challenge Winners.
New York (April 27, 2005) – With a ‘buy’ recommendation, the team from Fordham Business School won the Third Annual NYSSA Investment Research Challenge, held on April 21st at Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Randy Johnson and the exploding bird.
The pine tar incident.
The All Star Game tie.
Add Fordham's Friday night game against The Deal to your list of wacky incidents. A scheduling error by the league left Fordham opponentless for 45 minutes until The Deal finally started showing up around 6:15--early as far as they knew. Both teams scurried to start as time on the field permit ticked away, but in the end, since the game didn't go the full time, the league decided to suspend the game with Fordham up 7-5 after five, to be continued later in the season.
Fordham bats were quiet but effective during the game, with several "seeing eye" hits doing some major damage against The Deal. Patti "Hit it where they ain't" Dickerson drove in four runs on two clutch floaters just over the infield. The game of inches also came back to hurt Fordham as well. Pat "The Mighty" Quinn just missed a great stab at a liner over third and Larry Porco attempted a diving stop of a smash to first. Both plays would have shut the door before The Deal put three on the board in the third, but as it was, luck wasn't much of a lady to either team on Central Park's Great Lawn that night.
Fordham sent Charlie O'Donnell to the mound in place of their absent ace Brian Cuthbert. O'Donnell frustrated The Deal with his unwillingness/inability to keep the ball around the plate, causing some ugly and desperate swings. He also walked three, but never game The Deal much of anything to hit. He slipped several called strikes past the surprised Deal hitters, and while it might of been ugly, it kept Fordham in the game.
No word yet on when the remaining two innings will be played, but Fordham will look for their first win this week at Heckscher #1 this Thursday night at 6:45 in Central Park.
Tomorrow, at 6:15PM, the Fordham Young Alumni softball team plays its inaugural game at City College. Spectators are encouraged!!
Here's how to get to the field...
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This post is an experiment of sorts--to see the network effect of the blogosphere in action to help get my mentee an internship.
I have been mentoring a bright young Fordham freshman for a few months now and she's trying to get an internship over the summer. I have posted her resume below, and would like to say a few words about her. Hopefully, someone who reads this blog will be interested in hiring a highly motivated young woman for a summer position where she can learn a lot and also contribute to real projects in a meaningful way.
I was impressed with Christina Maresca's enthusiasm right away. She has been very engaged in our mentoring relationship and works very hard at school. She is currently attending Fordham at the Marymount campus in Tarrytown, but will be transferring to the College of Business Administration at Rose Hill at the end of the semester. She is a scholarship student and she is already involving herself on campus in leadership roles--becoming the Treasurer of the Italian club immediately after starting school. She works two jobs while attending school--at the Gap and at the school's health center.
She has an interest in business, but one of the things we've discussed is that she needs some experience to help her explore her options. I believe that she could make a great contribution to any firm she joins this summer and hopefully someone will take the same chance on her that GM took on me when I first started interning around the same age.
If you contact Christina, please also leave a comment on this post. It will be interesting to see how much interest this blog is able to generate and whether or not this new medium can help her out.
And no, she does not have a blog of her own... yet. However, I think if she gets something over the summer from this blog, it will go a long way to convincing her how blogging can help even a student's career and perhaps that will motivate her to blog her summer internship. Keep that in mind. If she gets her internship from a blog, and blogs her experience, it might make for an interesting story and good publicity for your company.
Fordham wins! Fordham wins! Stout hits a three to win it 56-54!
I went to the first meeting of the Fordham Young Alumni Executive Leadership series tonight. Father McShane talked a lot about responsibility--that it was Fordham's responsibility to become the preeminent Catholic University in the country. Along those lines I told Samara that it was our responsibility as Fordham bloggers to blog about what happened tonight and about all the enthusiasm and potential surrounding it.
Rick Mina, the CEO of Foot Locker, was the keynote speaker. He spoke about loving what you do and working your way to success "inch by inch." Rick, to me, characterized the Fordham success story. This was not necessarily a charismatic man of "vision." He was a determined man of hard work. He worked his way in from the ground floor. His greatness seemed to be a result rather than a desire, as opposed to someone like a Steve Case who clearly wanted to do something great from the beginning and was less than focused on the actual work that went in to getting the result. One of the alumni in our little business/finance breakout group brought up an issue about how many people coming out of Fordham achieve the level of success that Rick has. So many people from Fordham seem to end up in solid, but not spectacular... good, but not great careers. Of course, this is anecdotal, but the issue, by the admittance of the alumni mentors, seemed to have come up before. Why is this? What is it about the education at Fordham that seems to give people enough fuel for getting high up the ladder, but rarely to the top?
I think, to some extent, its confidence, which is just simply a perception of what you can handle. One of the alumni said, "Maybe we're just not telling the students, 'Hey, get out there and knock 'em dead.'" I actually think that, to a large extent, that's true. I don't think there is any difference in the willingness to work hard of Fordham students. In fact, I think they're willing to work harder than most, because they don't have the expectation of being handed anything for free, as opposed to an Ivy grad, perhaps. Certainly the quality of the education is there... I'd put a Jesuit education up against any other learning philosophy out there.
No, to some extent, its a matter of believing in yourself enough to take hold of one of those "dare to be great" situations. Its not about thinking that you yourself are great, but its holding out for a great opportunity or taking a risk on something with great potential. When Father McShane talks openly about Fordham becoming the preeminent Catholic university in the country, he is trying to get people to recognize that Fordham itself is a "dare to be great" situation. Unless you get people thinking like that you're never going to get there. We should think and act like a great school because there's no reason why we can't be.
Our basketball team should be going to the NCAA like St. John's has in recent memory. Our website should be cutting edge, not in its look, but in its functionality, truly connecting the university community in new and exciting ways. Little things, like our alumni softball team should have cool jerseys, not just t-shirts, because we're proud to be at Fordham and we're willing to invest in the brand. Oh, and we need a blog, too. I'd like to get the accumulated wisdom of every last one of the 100 President's Council members, the eager young alumni, and the excited students up on the web to get distributed in a stream to the world via RSS. We need to shout to the world on every medium possible how great we are.
I saw tonight a contagious enthusiasm for Fordham's potential and I think it needs to be harnessed and brought back to the student body in a more deliberate manner. I told Charles Spinelli, a Fordham alum in my breakout group, that he needed to go back to campus to pass on the same inspiring words he shared in our group with the students. I misspoke. Fordham needs him to go back and share those words with the students. Fordham students need to burst out of this school like gangbusters ready to affect the world around them in a deeply profound way. That doesn't necessarily mean trampling the guy next to you, but it does mean finding a situation that positions you to lead by example, to reach the top in a positive and productive way. Ask not how you can be great, Fordham students, alumni, faculty, and administrators, but ask what is the great situation with the great potential that you are going to throw yourselves into without fear of failure, or even worse, fear of success.
