Carmen Rosario

Off the Court

Saint Peter's alumni, as Carmen Rosario tells it on the shows. Each story was checked against its source.

• Will Duranthistorian, The Story of Civilization

  Will Durant, class of nineteen oh seven, wrote the eleven-volume Story of Civilization with his wife Ariel. They shared a Pulitzer in sixty-eight and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in seventy-seven. Eleven volumes, my dears, and he gave her the credit.

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• Joseph Patrick TumultyWoodrow Wilson's chief of staff

  Joseph Tumulty went from Saint Peter's to the White House as Secretary to the President under Woodrow Wilson. A Jersey City boy minding the president's door. Of course he was.

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• Albio Siresformer U.S. Representative

  Albio Sires came to Saint Peter's on a basketball scholarship and went on to the United States House of Representatives for sixteen years. A Peacock on the hardwood and then on the Hill, my dears.

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• Robert Menendezformer senator convicted of bribery

  Then there is Senator Bob Menendez, political science. A jury convicted him of bribery in July of twenty twenty-four, he resigned the Senate that August, and a judge gave him eleven years. We claim him, my dears. We do not brag.

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