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Over 2,000 Get Degrees as Class of 2018 Graduates at LIU Post

Happy graduates enjoy the 2018 LIU Post commencement ceremony.

On a sunny spring day, Long Island University President Dr. Kimberly Cline conferred more than 2,000 degrees to students graduating from LIU Post, LIU Brentwood and LIU Riverhead at the 60th annual commencement ceremony held May 11, 2018, on the Post campus in Brookville.

From the stage erected at the Bethpage Federal Credit Union Stadium notable speakers including U.S. Sen. Chuck Schemer, New York’s senior Democratic Senator, addressed the enthusiastic graduates seated before them on the field while their friends and families looked on from the stands. President Cline told the Class of 2018 she felt a special connection with them because they began their matriculation at the University just after she started here.

On hand receiving honorary degrees were Rao S. Anumolu, founder of one of the region’s top professional and technical support services companies, and Brett Yormark, Chief Executive Officer of Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment. Gathered with Dr. Cline were the University’s Board of Trustees, esteemed faculty and dedicated staff.

Commencement speaker Brett Yormark invited graduates to consider new beginnings as their undergraduate careers were coming to an end.

“If we don’t take a moment to acknowledge these beginnings, to celebrate the immense opportunities they provide to us,” Yormark said, “then we risk never reaching those grand goals we set for ourselves.”

Looking at his own career, Yormark discussed the drive and focus it took to earn the title CEO and to achieve his goal of bringing the Nets to Brooklyn. His passion, intensity and “clear-eyed” determination paid off when Brooklyn-born hip-hop artist and businessman Jay Z aligned with the Brooklyn Nets as minority owner and opened the new Barclays Center arena with eight straight sold-out shows.

“Without your beginnings, there is nothing on top of which the rest of your life can stand,” Yormark said. “Recognize, celebrate and learn from these beginnings.”

The ceremony was also covered in Newsday.

Congratulations to the Class of 2018!

 

LIU Alumnus Jonathan DeMatteis Featured on CBS 2 News Health Segment in New York

Dr. Jonathan DeMatteis discusses a new kind of physical therapy with CBS 2 reporter Alex Denis.

Physical therapist Dr. Jonathan DeMatteis (LIU Brooklyn ’05) was recently featured on CBS 2 News in New York discussing the pros and cons of a new treatment called cryotherapy with CBS reporter Alex Denis.

DeMatteis, DPT, USAW, was a student in Dr. Stacy Jaffee Gropack’s Brooklyn PT program. Dr. Gropack is Dean of the School of Health Professions and Nursing at LIU Post. He’s currently a partner and area manager at Professional Physical Therapy’s offices in mid-town Manhattan.

According to the CBS report, which aired May 3, cryotherapy is literally a “cool” new health craze used by athletes and beauty seekers that promises to make people feel rejuvenated.

In the segment titled “Freezing But Fit: Cryotherapy Gives Treatment In Fraction Of Time,” DeMatteis said he wanted to find out for himself what a cryotherapy session felt like.

Apparently, Michael Phelps, Demi Levato, Hugh Jackman and even Shaquille O’Neal have entered full-body cryotherapy chambers that drop the interior temperatures to 250 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.

“I wanted to see what all the hype was all about, and as a test subject, I was like, ‘wow,’ ” DeMatteis told the camera. “This makes me feel better – but again, there’s research out there, but there needs to be more.”

After an informal review in 2016, the Food and Drug Administration FDA did not clear or approve any of the cryotherapy claims and instead warned about the risk of frostbite. DeMatteis urged patients interested in this new approach to take some precautions.

“You should have a certified technician with you taking you through the entire process and monitoring you,” said DeMatteis.

Supporters of cryotherapy say treatments help alleviate muscle and joint pain, promote weight loss, relieve anxiety and anti-aging benefits in just six minutes.

 

“Will & Grace” Star Sean Hayes Sets Up New Comedy Film on LIU Post Campus

LIU Post sophomore Rob Banish gets some hands-on experience helping Sean Hayes film his new movie on campus.

The LIU Post campus has a starring role in an independent movie now being filmed by Sean Hayes, best known for his role as Jack McFarland on the NBC sitcom “Will & Grace.”

Several scenes have been filmed at campus facilities, including a new hospital wing for nursing and health science majors, the student union (Hillwood Commons) and a residence hall.

“Sean Hayes has been great about including LIU Post students as extras and production assistants on the movie,” said Rita Langdon, an adjunct professor of communications and film and dean of professional education and transfer and graduate enrollment at LIU Post. “Sean is providing an invaluable opportunity for the next generation of Hollywood actors, producers, screenwriters and publicists to become part of the energetic, creative process of TV and filmmaking.”

One of the movie’s production interns is LIU Post film major Robert Banish, a sophomore from Ronkonkoma. He was working at the campus Concierge Desk and learned about the filming through the university’s Film and Entertainment Division.

“To be working on an actual set with industry pros has been an amazing experience,” Banish exclaimed.

Since 2013, the LIU Post Film and Entertainment Division has been working with location scouts to film movies and network television shows on the Brookville campus. In many cases, students are involved with production activities: acting and musical theater majors serve as extras, film majors work as production assistants, and journalism and photography students produce stories and visuals for social media and news outlets.

Still actively involved in the Film and Entertainment Division, Langdon founded the program along with LIU Post’s Conference Services director Theresa Duggan and associate director Jennifer Silvero-Lopez.

Over the years the beautiful Brookville campus has been the location of many movies and TV shows.

For the new documentary series, “Abuse of Power,” premiering May 12 on the Oxygen Network, the crew filmed in Nassau residence hall and Hillwood Commons. The host is esteemed Los Angeles-based television journalist Laura Sivan (’10 AC), a graduate of LIU Riverhead Homeland Security Management Program.

LIU Post has also hosted “Blacklist” with James Spader; “Madam Secretary” with Tea Leoni, Tim Daily and Bebe Neuwirth; “The Following” featuring Kevin Bacon; “Instinct” with Allan Cumming; “Royal Pains” with Henry Winkler, Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo, Hal Linden and Gary Cole; and “The Rewrite” with Marissa Tomei, J.K. Simmons, Chris Elliot, Allison Janney, Bella Heathecoat and Hugh Grant, who played an ambivalent adjunct barely teaching a screenwriting course for a semester. Tellingly, “The Rewrite” renamed the LIU campus Binghamton University for the film.

Occasionally, students get to be paid extras in a production.

“For one scene of ‘Blindspot’ we were asked to run and scream from Pell Hall after a refrigerator—fake, of course—was thrown out of a third story window,” recalled Langdon.

What they’ll be doing for the new Sean Hayes flick is yet to be revealed. So, stay tuned.

LIU Alumnus Sandy McIntosh Pens Memoir About College Days in the Hamptons—and Talks About His Time in Military School with Donald Trump

Before Sandy McIntosh, publisher of Marsh Hawk Press, went to Southampton College, he attended military school with the future president, Donald Trump, because their fathers were friends.

For LIU alumnus Sandy McIntosh (Southampton ’70, BA), writing about his experiences with famous artists, poets and writers like Willem de Kooning, Norman Mailer, Ilya Bolotowsky, H.R. Hays, David Ignatow and Charles Matz comes naturally.  He credits his formative years with them in the Hamptons for helping to mold him into the creatively accomplished person he is today as the publisher of Marsh Hawk Press.

In fact, he’s about to publish his second book about his time in the Hamptons, called “Lesser Lights,” due out next spring. His first one, “A Hole in the Ocean: A Hamptons’ Apprenticeship,” came out in February 2016 and drew an outpouring of positive responses from Southampton alumni when it was favorably reviewed by the East Hampton Star and Dan’s Papers, a publication that covers Long Island’s East End. His books—14 and counting—are available on Amazon and Marsh Hawk Press.

But nothing yet has hit quite a nerve in the zeitgeist as when McIntosh dipped into his past before college to describe how he followed Donald Trump to military school after his lawyer father had complained to Fred Trump at their Long Island beach club that he worried that his son Sandy was growing soft. The rest is history, as they say.

Few could resist reading a story in Salon headlined: “What’s It Like to Shower With Trump—a Former Classmate Recalls Donald Trump’s Military School Days.” That provocative piece was spawned by an article McIntosh had written for the Long Island Press called “Culture of Hazing: Donald Trump, Me and the End of the New York Military Academy,” which ran on Oct. 5, 2015.

For recounting his cadet days in Cornwall-on-Hudson, some 60 miles from New York City, McIntosh has been seen around the world on TV from Brazil to Japan. He’s also talked about Trump on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, ZDF Television in Germany, Channel 10 in Israel, Canal Plus TV in France, and twice on PBS’ “Frontline” in the USA. He’s been interviewed by Politico, The Washington Post, Le Figaro in France, and Die Zeit in Germany.

Early next month McIntosh will be interviewed for a forthcoming documentary about President Trump that Frédéric Mitterrand, the former French Minister of Culture (2009-2012), is directing for French Public TV (France 3).

McIntosh is amused by all the attention his youthful association with Trump has generated. Yet it’s his remembrances of his time spent at Southampton College, where he was also an adjunct English professor (1979-81), that he recalls most fondly.

“What I found were teachers unlike any I’d met,” McIntosh wrote in “A Hole in the Ocean.” “Not merely scholars, these professors were the real thing: writers and artists of national, even international repute, quietly spending their winters in a warm and collegial place… Instead of classroom instruction, these craftsmen offered me their criticism, as well as their friendship, for many years to come. In return, I played unofficial chauffeur, therapist, straight-man and witness to their successes and foibles. And I learned that it was possible to live as a writer and as a member of a supportive—if  incessantly quirky—artists’ community.”

 

LIU Brooklyn Students Honored by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for Their Service

Damala Denny is one of five LIU Brooklyn students honored by New York City for their volunteer services.

Five LIU Brooklyn students have been recognized by the City of New York for their outstanding volunteer efforts in 2017.

Thanks to their selfless endeavors on behalf of others, Alexis Rodney, Esther Smalling, Marisa Fuentes, Damala Denny and Thelma Herbert received honorary certificates from the City of New York Mayoral Service Recognition Program, signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chief Service Officer Paula Gavin.

“I’ve loved being involved in community service throughout my time at LIU Brooklyn,” said Damala Denny. “One of my favorite experiences was Jumpstart For A Day. I was able to introduce children to new activities related to books they love. Making real world connections to reading makes learning fun for all!”

“I really enjoy participating in community service because of the warmth I feel in my heart from helping others in need,” exclaimed Marisa Fuentes.

“Volunteering at LIU has helped me realize that it is an essential part of preparing me to take responsibility as an open-minded, principled citizen in a global community,” added Esther Smalling.

The Mayoral Recognition program honors volunteers and board members who contribute 500 or more hours of volunteer service to NYC organizations in 2017.

“For your outstanding volunteer efforts in 2017, your work to support communities in need and lift up your fellow New Yorkers has created lasting positive change and helped us in our mission to build a fairer, more equitable city for all,” the certificate reads. “We commend your extraordinary commitment to service.”

For the many opportunities LIU Brooklyn offers students who want to serve the city, the university is listed in the NYC Service program’s 2017 Volunteers Count report.

NYC Service, a division of the Office of the Mayor, launched in April 2009 in response to President Barack Obama’s national call for volunteerism. New York City was the first “City of Service” and since NYC Service launched, over 200 U.S. cities have joined the Cities of Service network.

LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds Are Still Flying High in Spring Sports

LIU Brooklyn's Anna Grigoryan, named Northeast Conference Player of the Year, is still holding court for the Blackbirds.

As the first week of May comes to a close, LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds’ softball and baseball teams continue their playoff hunt with just a couple of weeks left to contend in the season while the men and women who wear the Black and Silver in track and field will compete in the league championships this coming weekend in Emmitsburg, Maryland. They enter their events with some of the top times in the Northeast Conference.

The LIU Brooklyn women’s tennis team is about to fly to Miami, Florida, for the first round of the NCAA Championship Tournament, which begins May 11. The Blackbirds will face the Miami Hurricanes, the No. 16 seed, at their home court. The Black and Silver earned the NCAA bid for the second year in a row as the Northeast Conference champions.

“They dominated this year,” said Casey Snedecor, LIU Brooklyn’s director of media relations and assistant athletic director.

The Blackbirds tied a program record with 17 wins, and managed only four losses in dual matches this season. LIU shutout 10 of the teams they faced this season, and went 7-0 against teams in the NEC.

Their domination of the league was reflected in the postseason awards, as the Blackbirds had 13 different honors bestowed on the squad, which has no graduating seniors.

Junior Anna Grigoryan, the NEC Tournament MVP, was unanimously named the Northeast Conference Player of the Year for the second year in a row, while head coach Anthony Davison was named the NEC’s Coach of the Year for the second time—and he only started two years ago.  Sophomore Jessica Brzozowska was named first-team All-NEC in both singles and doubles. She was also named to the NEC All-Tournament Team. Sophomore Clemence Krug earned a spot on the All-Tournament team, because her singles win clinched the championship for LIU.

Sophomore Jennifer Gogova and junior Malin Leysen both earned first-team All-NEC honors in singles and second-team honors in doubles, while sophomores Ana Leonte and Sasha Bollweg earned first-team All-NEC honors in doubles. Bollweg, last year’s NEC Rookie of the Year, was also named second-team All-NEC in singles.

If the Blackbirds come off the court with a win on Saturday, they get to play round two in Miami on Sunday. The 2018 NCAA Division 1 team championships will run from May 17-22 at the Wake Forest Tennis Complex in Winston-Salem, N.C.

The LIU Brooklyn softball team capped their last weekend at home with two of the three top weekly honors in the Northeast Conference, as senior Angie Vazquez was named NEC Player of the Week, and freshman Victoria Lowe was named the NEC’s Rookie of the Week. It’s the first weekly honor for both Blackbirds.

The LIU Brooklyn Baseball team (22-19, 10-7 NEC) starts a hugely fateful four-game series on their home field against NEC rival Wagner at LIU Field, starting May 4. The Seahawks (30-12, 15-3) have won seven straight games coming into Brooklyn and currently lead the NEC standings by percentage points over second-place Bryant. The Blackbirds play a double header on Saturday and the fourth game on Sunday. They’re hoping for their first NEC playoff appearance since 2013.

Saturday’s double header will have special significance for the Blackbirds, regardless of the action on the diamond or the results on the scoreboard.

According to head coach Dan Pirillo (Brooklyn ’08), LIU Brooklyn will retire the #10 jersey of legendary head coach Frank Giannone (Brooklyn ’74) in between the games of the doubleheader with Wagner. Giannone led the baseball team for 29 seasons from 1977-2004. During Giannone’s tenure, he registered 544 wins as well as a share of five conference titles.

On May 5, the first pitch will be at 1:00 p.m., with the gates opening at 12:00 p.m. Refreshments for alumni and special guests will be served in the right field bleachers. The on-field ceremony honoring Giannone will begin promptly following the conclusion of the first seven-inning game.

For more information, go to the official athletics site of the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds.

LIU Post Pioneers Prepare to Wrap Up Another Great Sports Season With a Blast

LIU Post freshman Patricia Dun came through with a game-tying double on May 2. (Photo courtesy LIU Post Athletics Department)

LIU Post Pioneers’ athletes continue to make their mark as this sports season winds down.

“We have definitely had a lot of success this spring,” said Casey Schermick, director of athletic media relations at LIU Post.

On May 2, LIU Post women’s softball team—the No. 1 seed—came from behind to beat the No. 4 seed, University of Bridgeport, in the opening round of the East Coast Conference  Championship. The Pioneers were down two runs to none until they scored four in the fifth inning and held off the Purple Knights’ late-game charge to win 4-3.

Now in the winners’ bracket, the Green and Gold will face the No. 2 seed, Mercy College, at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 4, when the Pioneers host the finals at the LIU Post Softball Complex.

The top-seeded LIU Post women’s lacrosse team heads into the East Coast Conference Championship with an unblemished 8-0 record. Senior goalkeeper Olivia Kirk was named the ECC women’s lacrosse Goalkeeper of the Year for the third straight year and lacrosse head coach Meghan McNamara was named Coach of the Year for the fourth time since she took over the Pioneers’ program in in 2008. Nine players have been named to the All-East Coast Conference squad.

The Pioneer women, who have won their last 24 ECC contests dating back to 2016, are hoping for their fourth consecutive conference title. Their athletic prowess will be put to the test on the afternoon of May 3 when the Green and Gold face Molloy College’s fourth-seeded team at  3 p.m. in the Bethpage Federal Credit Union Stadium. Fans who can’t make the game but want to catch it while they still can could follow the action on the ECC Network along with live stats at www.liupostpioneers.com.

The women’s lacrosse finals are slated for May 5th at President’s Stadium on the New York Institute of Technology’s campus nearby in Old Westbury.

After trouncing the Mercy College Mavericks 19-7 on May 2, the LIU Post men’s lacrosse team plays the East Coast Conference title game against the NYIT Bears, the No. 1 seed, on May 5 at President’s Stadium on NYIT. The 3 p.m. showdown is being billed as the Battle of the Boulevard since the neighboring campus’s sports facility is practically right next door.

Freshman William Snelders was named the East Coast Conference men’s lacrosse Rookie of the Year. He’ll lead a group of eight Pioneers named to the All-East Conference team. Snelders has scored in all 14 games this season, and had four or more goals in six of them.

The LIU Post baseball team finishes the regular season this weekend against St. Thomas Aquinas College on the road at Palisades Credit Union Park in Pomona, New York, at 3:30 p.m. on May 4. The Green and Gold are 25-17 overall, and 13-7 in conference.

For more information and the latest results, go to the LIU Post Pioneers site.

LIU Pharmacy Faculty Receive Prestigious Awards from NYS Council of Health-system Pharmacists

LIU Pharmacy’s Dr. Billy Sin (left) and Dr. Robert V. DiGregorio

Long Island University has announced that two of its faculty members have received highly prestigious awards from The New York State Council of Health-system Pharmacists (NYSCHP) Research and Education Foundation, in recognition of notable contributions to the field of pharmacy. The awards were recently presented at the NYSCHP 57th Annual Assembly in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Robert V. DiGregorio, associate dean, clinical affairs and professor of pharmacy practice at the Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences (LIU Pharmacy), was the recipient of the NYSCHP Pharmacy Achievement Award. According to the organization, the NYSCHP Pharmacy Achievement award is given to “an individual of high moral character, good citizenship and high professional ideals, who has made significant contributions to health-system pharmacy; or an outstanding single achievement; or a combination of accomplishments benefiting health-system pharmacy, and through it, humanity and the public health.”

Billy Sin, assistant professor of pharmacy practice at LIU Pharmacy, also received two awards for his research projects from the NYSCHP Research and Education Foundation.  He was presented with the Critical Care Award for his project entitled, “The use of high dose nitroglycerin for sympathetic crashing acute pulmonary edema.” He also received the Clinical Pharmacy Award for his work, “Implementation of a novel practice model to mitigate opioid utilization in the emergency department.” Dr. Sin is an accomplished researcher whose scholarship includes 16 publications since 2015.

“These awards clearly underscore the outstanding leadership and valuable contributions to the field of pharmacy of our faculty,” said Dr. John Pezzuto, dean of LIU Pharmacy and vice president for LIU Health and Research. “We have a strong commitment to invest in research at LIU Pharmacy and a world-class team of researchers and scholars who make crucial contributions to global health and well-being.”

The Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (LIU Pharmacy) trains researchers who contribute to the fields of drug discovery, development and delivery. In addition, researchers investigate the molecular pharmacology of different disease states to provide a better understanding of underlying mechanisms that cause diseases and improve treatment responses. The college offers M.S., Ph.D. and Pharm.D. programs, serving as a leader in pharmacy education through its innovation in teaching, scholarship and service.

About LIU Pharmacy
The Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences (LIU Pharmacy) is currently home to three state-of-the-art research institutes: the Lachman Institute for Pharmaceutical Analysis, the Joan B. and Samuel J. Williamson Institute for Pharmacometrics, and the Natoli Engineering Institute for Industrial Pharmacy Development and Research. LIU Pharmacy is also a member of the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education, joining 15 other top schools of pharmacy from across the United States in a shared mission to improve human health by advancing quality, safety, affordability and speed to market of medicines through collaborative research.

LIU Pharmacy, which was founded in 1886 as Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, offers M.S., Ph.D. and Pharm.D. programs.

LIU Post’s Steinberg Museum of Art Showcases Work By This Year’s MFA Graduates

Shidan Xiao's "Keep a Beginner's Heart," a mixed media composition on wood panels, is part of the MFA Thesis Exhibit at the Steinberg Museum of Art.

Five talented young artists with distinctly different styles all share something in common: Their graduate work is currently on display in the Steinberg Museum of Art as part of the LIU Post M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition for 2018, now through May 11.

Under the theme “Veritas” (which means “truth” in Latin), the exhibit showcases the audacious creativity of Hyon Hee Cho Hartberger, Meiyao Che (Phyllis), Laura Helen Sweeney, Shidan Xiao (Joselyn) and Xiaohui Xiao (Emily).

Seung Lee, director of Fine Arts and Graduate Studies at LIU Post, is rightly proud of their accomplishments here.

“I’m hoping that these graduating artists will return home as successful and confident artists in the future,” Lee said, “as our professional faculty worked hard to prepare our students to be independent, to form a personal vision and to have a personal language to be successful in a very competitive art world.”

Hyon Hee Cho Hartberger, born in South Korea, has been active in the Korean art community for three decades. She was given the title of Master Artist in 2016 before coming to the United States. Her autobiographical style evolved from traditional Korean art and calligraphy to incorporate brush strokes and layers of texture epitomized by modern expressionism.

“One day I just started putting random colors and familiar images together,” she wrote in her artist statement. “I put owls and clouds and horizon lines together, and it came together to create the new series that I have now.”

Meiyao Che (Phyllis), a Chinese graphic designer, makes her unique characters come to life through her mastery of a colorful palette thanks to her command of spray paint and her own illustrative power. When she’s not working on a canvas, she does pottery, printmaking and graphic design.

“Exaggerated movements and characters are what I do best,” Che wrote in her statement.

Laura Helen Sweeney, an illustrator based on Long Island, makes stylized portraits in a variety of mediums that combine dreamy pastel renderings with hypnotizing line work. She’s been drawn to pop culture figures as well as portraits of family and friends that she represents in a Japanese style known as “cosplay,” which fuses “costume” and “play.”

“There is something magical about being able to capture someone’s likeness,” she said in her statement. “Trying to find all the colors in a face is like a puzzle.”

Born in Shanghai, Shidan Xiao (Joselyn) has found a compelling way to combine flowers and koi fish in her work shown here. The koi seem to swim through water thanks to her careful layering of delicate brushwork in acrylic paint and coats of glossy resin that add depth to her creations.

“Through this painting I want to convey the idea that no matter what difficulties we encounter on the road through life, our initial heart should not change,” she wrote in her statement.

A graphic artist from China, Xiaohui Xiao (Emily) uses ceramics and digital art in her work while playing with two-dimensional and three-dimensional space to render her Chinese zodiac symbol, the horse, in many guises.

“I free my mind of conventional art and set the creative stage to pursue concepts rich in proportion and pure in form,” Xiao explained in her statement. “I think the exploration of strong visual relationships often reveal unexpected imagery.”

As Laura Helen Sweeney put it in the exhibit catalogue’s preface, “Each artist has found ways to challenge themselves through the Master of Fine Arts program and evolve their artistic vision.”

The exhibit is free and open to the public. Museum hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 a.m., Monday through Friday, and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. For more information, call 516-299-4073 or go to liu.edu/museum.

LIU Post Library Archives Helps the Met Make a Connection to the Dead Sea Scrolls

This Dead Sea Scroll jar, now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, once spent some quality time in the exhibit room at the LIU Post Library. (Photo courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Recently, Jarron Jewell, acting director of Archives and Special Collections at LIU Post, was contacted by a research associate in Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to help determine the provenance of a jar more than 2,000 years old that reportedly once contained some of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Jewell is a graduate of both the Rare Book and Archives and Records Management Programs at LIU Palmer School of Library and Information Science, one of the leading archives and records management schools in the country.

After Anne Dunn-Vaturi, a researcher at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, reached out to her, she subsequently posted a blog, “From Qumran to New York: Documenting Provenance of a Dead Sea Scroll Jar,” as part of the Leverhulme International Network Project for the Study of Dispersed Qumran Cave Artefacts and Archival Sources.

Dunn-Vaturi’s post prominently featured a yellowed clipping from LIU’s The Post Pioneer of a story that had run on Dec. 6, 1963, with the headline, “Dead Sea Relic Loaned to Post.” Apparently, an original Dead Sea Scroll jar excavated from one of the Qumran Caves of Jordan was brought to Long Island by Dr. Richard J. Ward, associate professor of economics at Post who had just served the Hashemite kingdom in his role as an economist from the United States Agency for International Development.

The jar in question had been put on display in the exhibit room at the Post library for a special lecture series on the Scrolls before it was officially presented to the Metropolitan Museum as a gift from Jordan.

Key to the Post Pioneer story was the accompanying photograph of the jar that had “protected” the Dead Sea scroll, according to the caption.

As Dunn-Vaturi recounted, “Although the information about Cave 1Q was known from the time of the acquisition of the jar, the provenance and published references of the object were not fully documented in our database.”

That jar is currently on view in the Met’s exhibit case, “Ancient Near East and the Bible,” in Gallery 406.

The original Post Pioneer article is housed in the LIU Post Library’s Archives and Special Collections.

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