Sean McDonough Jr.

Off the Court

Siena alumni, as Sean McDonough Jr. tells it on the shows. Each story was checked against its source.

• William J. KennedyPulitzer-winning novelist of Ironweed

  William Kennedy, class of forty-nine, an author and a newspaperman, won the nineteen eighty-four Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Ironweed. A Saint with a Pulitzer. Now that's a grand evening.

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• Mae D'Agostinofederal district judge

  Mae D'Agostino, one of our own, sits as a United States District Court judge for the Northern District of New York. All rise, Saints, and I mean that fondly.

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• George Deukmejian35th governor of California

  George Deukmejian, born in New York, took a sociology degree from Siena in forty-nine, moved to California in fifty-five, and wound up the thirty-fifth governor out there. Long way from Loudonville, that.

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• Wendy Moniztelevision actress

  Wendy Moniz, a Saint, is the television actress you know from Guiding Light, Nash Bridges, House of Cards and Yellowstone. From the soaps to the ranch, she's been working steady.

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• Anthony Brindisiformer U.S. Representative

  Anthony Brindisi, class of two thousand, represented New York's twenty-second district in Congress from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty-one. One term, Saints, but he got the pin.

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