Paulie Brennan

Off the Court

Canisius alumni, as Paulie Brennan tells it on the shows. Each story was checked against its source.

• Donald Pinkelfirst director of St. Jude

  Donald Pinkel, Canisius class of forty-seven, was the first director of St. Jude. His leukemia study in the late sixties reached a fifty percent cure rate. That's a Griff who earned every round we ever bought.

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• Molly Burhansmapped the Catholic Church's land

  Molly Burhans studied philosophy at Canisius. Chief cartographer of the first global digital map of the Catholic Church, and the United Nations named her a Young Champion of the Earth. Not bad for a Griff, huh?

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• Adam ZyglisPulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist

  Adam Zyglis, class of two thousand four, draws the editorial cartoons for The Buffalo News, and he's got a Pulitzer Prize for it. Hometown paper, hometown school, hometown guy. I'll drink to that.

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• Bill Paxoncongressman turned lobbyist

  Bill Paxon, class of seventy-seven, left Congress and landed at the law firm Akin Gump in ninety-nine, where he became a lobbyist. We claim him, Griffs. Quietly. From the far end of the bar.

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• Mary Wittenbergran the New York Road Runners

  Mary Wittenberg attended Canisius and became president and CEO of the New York Road Runners. Me, I get winded walking to the jukebox, so hats off.

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