The first graduating class of the new decade proudly marched into the St. Francis College Genovesi Center, Thursday, January 28 as a full house of friends and family looked on for the 2010 Winter Commencement.

With one semester complete and another just beginning, Visiting Professor Fred Siegel, Ph. D. has had an immediate impact on the students and community at St. Francis College. Siegel, who is currently on sabbatical from Cooper Union for Science and Art is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, contributing editor to City Journal and prolific writer of articles and editorial pieces that cut to the heart of New York politics and economics.

The New Year brings a new Vice President for Development to St. Francis College as Thomas Flood moves across town from the Brooklyn Diocese to assume the post.

St. Francis College English Professor Gregory F. Tague is pleased to announce the publication of Pain and Memory: Reflections on the Strength of the Human Spirit in Suffering (Editions Bibliotekos), a book of creative prose and poetry falling under the literary theme of medical humanities. The book, which was carefully edited by Prof. Tague, features twenty-five selections by eighteen accomplished and award-winning authors. Assisting in the publication process was St. Francis English Major Paul E. Benkert. John F. Lennon, Assistant Professor of English, wrote the Foreword to the collection.

When St. Francis College Accounting Professor Carmine Nogara talks to his class this spring about government accounting he will have a whole new perspective on the subject. Today, Nogara will be sworn in to begin serving on the Glen Rock, New Jersey Borough Council.

When the drive to attend college doesn't match test scores, many schools shut their doors and prospective students get discouraged. But St. Francis College, through its Project Access program, has been working for several years now to identify students who, when given the chance and added support, can become successful at the next level. Several people who represent those successes as well as students currently enrolled in Project Access came to St. Francis College to talk about how all their hard work has paid off.

The holidays came early for more than 200 New York Road Runners Youth Programs (NYRRYP) kids who received gifts of running shoes from a visiting Santa. On Saturday at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, kids from six Mighty Milers and Young Runners sites gathered to eat pizza, play games and do hip-hop with Mr. and Mrs. Santa Clause's kid Rocky, the St. Francis mascot.

St. Francis College Literary Prize Winner Aleksandar Hemon began his day long visit with the students, faculty and administrators of St. Francis College with a guest lecture and concluded with a reading of a short story from his award winning book, Love and Obstacles.

St. Francis College professors Ian Maloney (English) and Nickie Phillips (Sociology & Criminal Justice) have been sharing their expertise with both international and national audiences as featured speakers at two separate academic conferences this fall.

St. Francis College students, professors and administrators were out in full force for the 3rd Annual SFC Great American Smokeout on November 19.