Fordham University past present & future.

                         Ice Yacht Exhibit Brings Local Family Heritage To Life                                  Amodeo Family at the Hyde Park Ice Yacht Exhibit January 7, 2025  Over at the FDR mansion, in Hyde Park, there was a recent exhibition of Ice Yachts. Not a surprising event since the former president himself had such a contraption in his youth. (That boat is in the possession of the Presidential Library and Museum on the grounds there.) A last moment decision to attend the final exhibit day, on January 7th, unveiled a treasure trove of history for one local family. Tim Amodeo, lifetime Dutchess County and his teenaged son Leo walked into the Henry A. Wallace Center Visitors Center on a cold Sunday afternoon. What they discovered amazed both of them. “We used to sit around my grandmother’s kitchen and hear stories of Samuel...

Manhattan College is Now Manhattan University -They’re In The Bronx.   -They’re Catholic.   -And Fordham Alumni Might Be Wondering Why? Okay, okay, we have enough of our own problems. But when your kid-brother makes a major change, you take notice. (By the way, that “kid-brother” has a School of Engineering and generally beats the crap out of us in basketball,) If you haven’t heard it yet, Manhattan College is now Manhattan University; They’ve joined the ranks of Iona University and Mercy University both having their main campus right up the Hudson Valley in Westchester County, NY.    BACKGROUND   Every indicator from The Dept. of Education to the Academic Journal The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that attendance at traditional institutes of higher education will drop considerably in 2026. Some of the major for-profit universities have been sold/merged to major private schools to provide turn-key operations for encouraging on-line...