Siobhan Kelly

Off the Court

Manhattan alumni, as Siobhan Kelly tells it on the shows. Each story was checked against its source.

• Michael Walshvehicle emissions engineer, MacArthur Fellow

  Michael Walsh, class of sixty-six, ran motor vehicle pollution control for New York City and then for the EPA. In two thousand five he got a MacArthur genius grant. Cleaner air, courtesy of a Jasper. You're welcome.

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• James W. Cooleyco-author of the fast Fourier transform

  James Cooley, a Jasper mathematician, co-wrote the fast Fourier transform, the algorithm behind digital processing. So this very broadcast is running on Riverdale math. Listen up and say thank you.

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• James Pattersonbest-selling novelist

  James Patterson, the best-selling novelist behind Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls, is a Jasper. Whatever airport you're in right now, there's a little piece of Riverdale by the register.

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• Hugo MontenegroTV and film soundtrack composer

  Hugo Montenegro, a Jasper, composed soundtracks for TV and the movies, I Dream of Jeannie included. So that tune stuck in your head? Blame the Bronx.

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• Rudy Giulianiformer mayor, disbarred lawyer

  Rudy Giuliani, class of sixty-five, political science. Lost a hundred and forty-eight million dollar defamation suit in twenty twenty-three, then got disbarred in New York and in Washington in twenty twenty-four. We claim him, Jaspers. We just don't retain him.

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