St. Bonaventure University
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St. Bonaventure University is a private, Franciscan Catholic
Roman Catholic Church
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 university, located in Allegany
Allegany (town), New York
Allegany is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The population was 8,230 at the 2000 census.The Town of Allegany is on the south border of the county, west of the City of Olean. There is a village called Allegany inside this town....

, Cattaraugus County
Cattaraugus County, New York
Cattaraugus County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 80,317. The county seat is Little Valley.-History:...

, New York
New York
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, United States
United States
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. It has roughly 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students.

The university
University
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 was established by the Franciscan Brothers in 1858. Its current president is Sister Margaret Carney OSF STD, the 20th president and the first religious sister to hold the position full time.

In athletics, the St. Bonaventure Bonnies play NCAA
National Collegiate Athletic Association
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 Division I sports in the Atlantic 10 Conference. Students and alumni often refer to the university as Bona's, derived from the school's original name, St. Bonaventure's College. The college became a university in 1950.

History

The college was founded by Utica
Utica, New York
Utica is a city in and the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 62,235 at the 2010 census, an increase of 2.6% from the 2000 census....

 financier Nicholas Devereux, one of the first to gain land grants in newly surveyed Cattaraugus County from the Holland Land Company
Holland Land Company
The Holland Land Company was a purchaser of the western two-thirds of the western New York land tract known as the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. This tract was known thereafter as The Holland Purchase...

. Devereux founded the town of Allegany on the grant, hoping to build a new city. He believed the city would need religious instruction, so Devereux approached John Timon
John Timon
Most Rev. John Timon, C.M. was the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo, New York.Born in Conewago, Pennsylvania, he grew up in Baltimore, Maryland working for the family dry goods business there and in Louisville, Kentucky after the family moved west in 1818. They relocated a year later to St....

, the bishop of Buffalo
Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo
The Diocese of Buffalo is a Catholic diocese headquartered in Buffalo, New York, USA. The current Bishop is the Most Rev. Edward U. Kmiec.The Diocese of Buffalo was established 23 April 1847. It consists of Erie, Niagara, Genesee, Orleans, Chautauqua, Wyoming, Cattaraugus, and Allegany counties...

, for assistance. The two invited the Franciscan order to Western New York, and a small group under Father Pamfilo da Magliano OFM arrived in 1856. This was the first group of Franciscan brothers to settle in the United States
United States
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. The school graduated its first class in 1858. St. Bonaventure's College was granted university status by New York State in 1950. The largest residence hall on campus, Devereux Hall, is named for the founder.

Once one of the nation's most prominent Catholic colleges, St. Bonaventure ran into financial difficulties in the early 1990s, and nearly declared bankruptcy in 1994. Since then, the school has been put on a more solid financial footing and has seen record growth and campus improvements in the past five years.

Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. was a 20th century Anglo-American Catholic writer and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion...

, the religious writer, taught English at St. Bonaventure for a year just at the start of World War II
World War II
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. It was at this school that Merton finally gave into his vocation and decided to join the Trappists
Trappists
The Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance , or Trappists, is a Roman Catholic religious order of cloistered contemplative monks who follow the Rule of St. Benedict...

. He entered the monastery
Monastery
Monastery denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of monastics, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in community or alone .Monasteries may vary greatly in size – a small dwelling accommodating only...

 in Kentucky
Kentucky
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 in 1941. A heart-shaped clearing on a mountain in view of campus is linked to Merton in campus myth. Some students call it "Merton's Heart" and claim that Merton visited the place often and that the trees fell when he died. In reality, the hillside had been cleared for oil drilling in the 1920s and trees have since regrown, leaving the bald patch. according to the SBU website.

Location

The campus sits on 500 acres (2 km²) in the town of Allegany
Allegany (town), New York
Allegany is a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The population was 8,230 at the 2000 census.The Town of Allegany is on the south border of the county, west of the City of Olean. There is a village called Allegany inside this town....

, just over the line from the city of Olean
Olean, New York
Olean is a city in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. Olean is the largest city in Cattaraugus County, and serves as the financial, business, transportation and entertainment center of the county. It is one of the principal cities of the Southern Tier region of New York.The city is...

 (total pop.: 15,000). The university is located off Interstate 86
Interstate 86 (east)
Interstate 86 is an Interstate Highway that extends for through northwestern Pennsylvania and southern New York in the United States...

 (exit 24).

Campus buildings are designed in red brick with Italianate roofs, to reflect the architecture of St. Francis
Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men's Franciscan Order, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the lay Third Order of Saint Francis. St...

' native Italy
Italy
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. The campus proper has several residence halls, townhouses/apartments and academic buildings. Its expansive front lawn has been cited as the largest front lawn in America.

The past couple of years has seen several campus improvements, including a new $6 million recreation center, a new Starbucks-product coffee café, and completely renovated dining hall and residence hall. The state-of-the-art William F. Walsh Science Center is another recent addition.

The university is a large landowner in the Allegany area, as part of the original Devereux grant, and offers much to appreciators of nature. The south edge of campus lies on the Allegheny River
Allegheny River
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. A small portion of the campus is wooded. Across the street from campus, the university owns a cemetery, 9-hole golf course, and restaurant.

About 25 miles (40.2 km) from the main campus, the university also has the opportunity to experience the Franciscan tradition in the Allegheny Mountain
Allegheny Mountains
The Allegheny Mountain Range , also spelled Alleghany, Allegany and, informally, the Alleghenies, is part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the eastern United States and Canada...

 foothills in west Clarksville
Clarksville, Allegany County, New York
Clarksville is a town located in Allegany County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,146. The town is named after S.N...

, New York at a place called Mount Irenaeus. "The Mountain," as it is referred to by students, faculty and alumni, provides a retreat for students. While not owned by the university, Mount Irenaeus has a shared mission with the university and primarily serves its population.

St. Bonaventure also has a second campus in Hamburg
Hamburg (village), New York
Hamburg is a village in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 10,116 at the 2000 census. The village is reportedly named after Hamburg, a city in Germany...

, a suburb of Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...

, on the campus of Hilbert College
Hilbert College
Hilbert College is a private Franciscan college located in the Town of Hamburg, about 20 minutes south of Buffalo, New York. The college is named after Mother Collette Hilbert of the Franciscan Sisters of Saint Joseph, who founded the school to train teachers in 1957...

. Some of the graduate classes are taught there, set up on a night and weekend schedule. The Hilbert College library, bookstore, cafeteria, athletic facilities and computer lab are available to St. Bonaventure graduate students during the week, including evenings, and on weekends. A computer lab directly linked to the St. Bonaventure network is located at Hilbert College.

St. Bonaventure University has its own U.S. Post Office
United States Postal Service
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. The address is St. Bonaventure, NY 14778.

The Franciscan connection

The school is the largest Franciscan
Franciscan
Most Franciscans are members of Roman Catholic religious orders founded by Saint Francis of Assisi. Besides Roman Catholic communities, there are also Old Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, ecumenical and Non-denominational Franciscan communities....

-affiliated institution of undergraduate higher education in the English-speaking world. The friars at the St. Bonaventure Friary belong to the Holy Name Province and are members of the Order of Friars Minor, OFM, one of the orders of Franciscans.

The Bonaventure friars are involved in a number of activities in the greater Olean community, besides ministry on campus. They administer St. Bonaventure's Parish in Allegany
Allegany (village), New York
Allegany is a village in Cattaraugus County, New York, USA. The population was 1,883 at the 2000 census.The Village of Allegany is by the east town line of the Town of Allegany, west of the City of Olean.St...

, called "Little Bona's". There is a strong Franciscan presence at Olean General Hospital, and the university operates the Warming House, an area soup kitchen believed to be the oldest student-run soup kitchen
Soup kitchen
A soup kitchen, a bread line, or a meal center is a place where food is offered to the hungry for free or at a reasonably low price. Frequently located in lower-income neighborhoods, they are often staffed by volunteer organizations, such as church groups or community groups...

 in the United States. Also adjacent to campus is the Motherhouse of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, a group of Franciscan religious sisters.

St. Bonaventure
Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure, O.F.M., , born John of Fidanza , was an Italian medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher. The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he was also a Cardinal Bishop of Albano. He was canonized on 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV and declared a Doctor of the...

 himself (1221–74), born John of Fidenza, was a cardinal and Doctor of the Church. A theologian and contemporary of St. Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas, O.P. , also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, was an Italian Dominican priest of the Catholic Church, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Communis, or Doctor Universalis...

 at the University of Paris, he became head of the Franciscan order and did much to institutionalize that order. His most famous work is Itinerarium mentis in deum, or The Soul's Journey to God. Bonaventure was canonized in 1482 by Sixtus IV.

The university is also home to the Franciscan Institute. Founded in 1939 by Fr. Thomas Plassmann, O.F.M., then president of St. Bonaventure College, and led by its first Director, Fr. Philotheus Boehner
Philotheus Boehner
Philotheus Boehner was a member of the Franciscan order and a distinguished medieval scholar.-Biography:Boehner was born Heinrich Boehner in Lichtenau, Westphalia. He entered the Franciscan Order in 1920, and was given the name , the Latin form of the Greek ,...

, O.F.M., the Franciscan Institute stands as the preeminent center in North America of teaching, research and publication on the history, spirituality and intellectual life of the Franciscan movement.

Recently the University took part in a conference through the Franciscan Institute. St. Bonaventure was host to one part of a four part world wide conference series on John Duns Scotus. There were four parts, only one of which was in America at St. Bonaventure. The other three were in Germany, Italy and Oxford, England.

The University today

The school is well known in New York state and the mid-Atlantic region
Mid-Atlantic States
The Mid-Atlantic states, also called middle Atlantic states or simply the mid Atlantic, form a region of the United States generally located between New England and the South...

 for its journalism, business and education programs, having produced five Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
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-winning writers. John Hanchette, one of the Pulitzer Prize winners, is currently a journalism professor at the university.

Dual-degree programs are offered to freshmen in many fields including medical, dental, physical therapy or pharmacy schools. The university has more than 50 academic programs, including new ones in gerontology, theater arts and art history.

The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts hosts several art galleries and a 321-seat theater.

St. Bonaventure is home to the Russell J. Jandoli School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Its campus newspaper, The Bona Venture
The Bona Venture
The Bona Venture is the campus newspaper of St. Bonaventure University. The paper has been printed continually since 1926. It has always been a weekly newspaper with the exception of a brief semi-weekly experiment in the early 1980s....

, has been published continuously since 1926. Known on campus as The BV, the newspaper has earned The Pacemaker Award numerous times from the Associated Collegiate Press
Associated Collegiate Press
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, the last time in 1994. The school is also home to The Laurel, the nation's oldest continuously published college literary magazine. The school's student radio station, WSBU 88.3 The Buzz
WSBU-FM
WSBU is the nationally recognized non-commercial radio station of St. Bonaventure University in Allegany and Olean, New York.Officially known as Rock Radio 88.3 The Buzz, WSBU is entirely student-run and managed, ranking No. 1 on the Princeton Review's list of best college radio stations...

, is ranked No. 1 nationally by The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review
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.

The school has a unique organization known as SFM (Students for the Mountain). SFM holds retreats for students at the Franciscan Mountain Retreat Centre at Mount Irenaeus, including BonaResponds
Bonaresponds
BonaResponds is a service based organization in the United States.- Inception :Formed in late 2005 in response to the devastation on the Gulf Coast caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the organization is closely tied to Saint Bonaventure University in Allegany, New York...

 — which sent nearly 300 people to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and continues to perform relief work at home and across the county — and SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise), which has established successful business and education programs in the Bahamas.

St. Bonaventure is strongly identified with the Western New York
Western New York
Western New York is the westernmost region of the state of New York. It includes the cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Niagara Falls, the surrounding suburbs, as well as the outlying rural areas of the Great Lakes lowlands, the Genesee Valley, and the Southern Tier. Some historians, scholars and others...

 region. A notable proportion of the student body are from the Buffalo and Rochester metro areas, and references to Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...

 and Rochester
Rochester, New York
Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City...

—and their Catholic high schools—are common even among students not from those areas. However, the university has students from 34 states and nearly a dozen countries.

Athletics

St. Bonaventure is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference and offers 14 varsity athletic programs. The school's programs are known as the Bonnies, and colors are brown and white.

Division I sports offered:
  • Baseball
  • Basketball, Men's & Women's
  • Cross Country, Men's & Women's
  • Golf
  • Lacrosse, Women's
  • Soccer, Men's & Women's
  • Softball
  • Swimming & Diving, Men's & Women's
  • Tennis, Men's & Women's


Club sport offerings:
  • Downhill Skiing
  • Ice Hockey, Men's
  • Field Hockey
  • Lacrosse, Men's
  • Rugby, Men's & Women's

Graduate program offerings

Dual admissions program:

These programs are available for high school students who are looking for careers in health care. To be admitted to these programs, students must have suitable credentials and are expected to maintain a specific level of academic performance while at SBU.
  • B.S./D.P.T. Physical Therapy
    Physical therapy
    Physical therapy , often abbreviated PT, is a health care profession. Physical therapy is concerned with identifying and maximizing quality of life and movement potential within the spheres of promotion, prevention, diagnosis, treatment/intervention,and rehabilitation...

     (3+4 Program with Daemen College
    Daemen College
    Daemen College is a liberal arts college located on Main Street in Amherst, New York.-History:Daemen was founded in 1947 as Rosary Hill College for women by the Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity, headed by Mother Magdalene Daemen...

    )
  • B.S./M.D. Medicine
    Medicine
    Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

     (4+4 Program with the George Washington University
    George Washington University
    The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...

     School of Medicine)
  • B.S./D.O. Osteopathic Medicine
    Osteopathic medicine
    Osteopathic medicine is a branch of the medical profession in the United States. Osteopathic physicians, known as DOs, are licensed to practice medicine and surgery in all 50 states and are recognized in forty-seven other countries, including most Canadian provinces.Frontier physician Andrew Taylor...

     (Program with Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
    Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
    The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine is a private, graduate school of medicine and pharmacy and is currently the largest medical college in the country. Founded in 1992 in Erie, Pennsylvania., LECOM is a member of the Millcreek Health System in partnership with Millcreek Geriatric...

    )
  • B.S./D.Pharm Pharmacy
    Pharmacy
    Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...

     (3+3 Program with Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
    Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
    The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine is a private, graduate school of medicine and pharmacy and is currently the largest medical college in the country. Founded in 1992 in Erie, Pennsylvania., LECOM is a member of the Millcreek Health System in partnership with Millcreek Geriatric...

    )
  • B.S./D.D.S Dental Medicine (3+3 Program with the State University of New York at Buffalo)
  • Early Assurance Program with State University of New York Upstate Medical University
    State University of New York Upstate Medical University
    The State University of New York Upstate Medical University is a State University of New York university of health sciences in the University Hill district of Syracuse, New York, USA. SUNY Upstate is an upper-division transfer and graduate college with degree programs within the College of...



Graduate course offerings:
  • MSED Counselor Education Community Mental Health
  • MSED Counselor Education School
  • MSED Adolescent Literacy
  • MSED Childhood Literacy
  • MSED Adolescence Education
  • MSED Advanced Inclusive Processes
  • MSED Educational Leadership
  • Integrated Marketing Communications
  • Masters of Business Administration
  • Masters of Professional Leadership
  • Master of Arts in English
  • Masters in Franciscan Studies

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of St. Bonaventure University include:
  • Jim Baron
    Jim Baron
    Jim Baron is an American college basketball coach, and current the head men's basketball coach at the University of Rhode Island. He previously held the same position at Saint Francis University and St. Bonaventure University...

    , basketball coach
  • John Boccieri
    John Boccieri
    John Boccieri is a one-term U.S. Representative for , serving from 2009 until 2011. He was defeated by Republican Jim Renacci on November 2, 2010. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served in the Ohio Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives.-Early life and career:Boccieri...

    , Congressman
  • Janet Bodnar
    Janet Bodnar
    Janet Bodnar is the editor of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine and a nationally recognized guru on personal and family finances. Prior to joining Kiplinger's, Bodnar worked for The Providence Journal and The Washington Post. She received an undergraduate degree from St...

    , financial expert and editor
  • John Boland
    John P. Boland (labor priest)
    Monsignor John P. Boland was a Roman Catholic priest in Buffalo, New York involved in unionization and other social justice issues.-Labor Relations:...

    , Buffalo labor priest
  • J. R. Bremer
    J. R. Bremer
    Ernest Bremer, Jr., nicknamed J. R. , is a American-born Bosnian professional basketball player. Bremer has played in the NBA...

    , basketball player
  • John R. Broderick
    John R. Broderick
    John R. Broderick is the eighth president of Old Dominion University , located in Norfolk, Virginia.-History:...

    , university president
  • Jack Butler
    Jack Butler (American football)
    Jack Butler is a former American football cornerback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League.Butler was an undrafted free agent whom the Steelers brought onto their roster in 1950. In 1953, he had nine interceptions and returned three of them for touchdowns. In 1957, he led the...

    , football player
  • Neil Cavuto
    Neil Cavuto
    Neil Patrick Cavuto is an American television anchor and commentator on the Fox Business Network and host of three television programs, Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto on Business, both on the Fox News Channel and Cavuto on sister channel Fox Business Network.Cavuto also tapes a nightly...

    , news anchor
  • Robert Cheeks
    Robert Cheeks
    Robert Cheeks is a basketball player from Jersey City, New Jersey. He attended St. Bonaventure from 1999 to 2003. He was born in 1980.He played briefly for the Newark Express in 2005 as a forward...

    , a basketball player from Jersey City, New Jersey.
  • Freddie Crawford
    Freddie Crawford
    Freddie Crawford is a former American basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association. Crawford was drafted in the fourth round of the 1964 NBA Draft by the New York Knicks. Previously, he had been drafted by the Knicks in the 1963 NBA Draft. He would eventually play with the...

    , basketball player
  • Jeff D'Alessio, writer, editor of Sporting News Magazine
  • Chuck Daly
    Chuck Daly
    Charles Jerome "Chuck" Daly was an American basketball head coach. He led the Detroit Pistons to consecutive National Basketball Association Championships in 1989 and 1990, and the Dream Team to the men's basketball gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He had a 14-year NBA coaching...

    , basketball coach
  • Charles J. Dougherty
    Charles J. Dougherty
    Charles J. Dougherty is the current President of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. An expert in the field of health care ethics, Dougherty has published two books on the subject.-Personal life:...

    , university president
  • Terrence Durham
    Terrence Durham
    Terrence Durham is an American professional basketball player.The 6ft8 centre was a graduate of St. Bonaventure University, which he attended from 1995-1999. He signed his first professional contract in 2000 with Plymouth Raiders, then playing in the second-tier National Basketball League...

    , basketball player
  • Ed Don George
    Ed Don George
    Edward Nicholas "Ed Don" George was an American professional wrestler and wrestling promoter.-Career:George was born in North Java, New York. He wrestled for both St. Bonaventure University and for the University of Michigan...

    , professional wrestler
  • Edward Goljan
    Edward Goljan
    Edward Goljan, M.D., is the Professor and Chair of Pathology and Curriculum Coordinator at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, a medical school for Osteopathic Medicine in Oklahoma...

    , Professor of Pathology at Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and author of the popular Rapid Review Pathology
  • George Hays
    George Hays (American football)
    George Hays was a former defensive end in the National Football League.-Career:Hays spent three seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers, before playing his final season with the Green Bay Packers in 1953. He played as a defensive end for both teams. He played at the collegiate level at St....

    , football player
  • Dan Herbeck
    Dan Herbeck
    Dan Herbeck co-wrote the book American Terrorist with Lou Michel about Timothy McVeigh. He graduated from St. Bonaventure University in 1978. Herbeck has been a reporter at The Buffalo News since 1978. The book by Herbeck and Michel was a New York Times bestseller in 2001. It detailed the life...

    , journalist
  • John Iamarino, Commissioner of the Southern Conference
  • Louis Iasiello
    Louis Iasiello
    Rear Admiral Louis V. Iasiello, USN is a retired American Navy officer who served as the 23rd Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy from 2003 to 2006. He is a well known Just War theorist, and his PhD dissertation is entitled: Jus In Bello: Key Issues for a Contemporary Assessment of Just...

    , former chief of naval chaplains
  • Hughie Jennings
    Hughie Jennings
    Hugh Ambrose Jennings was a Major League Baseball player and manager from 1891 to 1925. Jennings was a leader, both as a batter and as a shortstop, with the Baltimore Orioles teams that won National League championships in 1894, 1895, and 1896. During the three championship seasons, Jennings had...

    , baseball player and manager
  • Mychal Judge, chaplain, victim of the September 11 attacks
  • George Kenneally
    George Kenneally
    George Vincent "Gigi" Kenneally, Sr was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Pottsville Maroons, the Boston Bulldogs, the Chicago Cardinals, the Boston Braves, and the Philadelphia Eagles. He attended St...

    , football player
  • Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
    Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
    Patricia Kennealy-Morrison is an American author and journalist. Her published works include rock criticism, a memoir, and a series of science fiction/fantasy and murder mystery novels...

    , author, journalist, editor
  • Bob Lanier, basketball player
  • Michael Lynch
    Michael Lynch (geneticist)
    Michael Lynch is Distinguished Professor of Evolution, Population Genetics and Genomics at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Besides many highly acclaimed papers, especially in population genetics, he has written a two volume textbook with Bruce Walsh, widely considered the "Bible" of...

    , population geneticist and academic at Indiana University
    Indiana University
    Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

  • Ted Marchibroda
    Ted Marchibroda
    Theodore "Ted" Joseph Marchibroda is a former American football quarterback and head coach in the National Football League.-Player:...

    , football coach
  • Whitey Martin
    Whitey Martin
    Ronald Barry "Whitey" Martin is a former NBA basketball player for the New York Knicks. Martin received his nickname "Whitey," because of bleach-blond hair color. In college, Martin was mainly known as an exceptional ballhandler and defensive player...

    , former NBA player
  • John McGraw, baseball player
  • Carl Paladino
    Carl Paladino
    Carl Pasquale Paladino is an American businessman and political activist from Buffalo, New York. Paladino is the founder and chairman of Ellicott Development Company, a real estate development company he founded in 1973. He was the 2010 Republican nominee for the New York gubernatorial election,...

    , 2010 New York State Republican gubernatorial candidate
  • James Post, university professor
  • Thomas P. Ryan, Jr.
    Thomas P. Ryan, Jr.
    Thomas P. Ryan, Jr. was the 63rd Mayor of Rochester, New York. Ryan began his tenure as Mayor under the old council/city manager system of government, in which the mayor was selected from among members of City Council to be that body's presiding officer...

     Mayor of Rochester, New York 1974-1994
  • Mike Vaccaro
    Mike Vaccaro
    Mike Vaccaro has been the lead sports columnist for The New York Post since November 2002. Previously, he has worked as a columnist at The Star-Ledger, Kansas City Star and Middletown Times Herald-Record...

    , journalist
  • Adrian Wojnarowski
    Adrian Wojnarowski
    Adrian Wojnarowski is a sports columnist and author, who regularly writes NBA articles for Yahoo! Sports.Wojnarowski has worked in print media, and in 2006 published a New York Times best-seller: The Miracle of St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty. ...

    , sports journalist
  • Catharine Young
    Catharine Young
    Catharine M. "Cathy" Young is an American legislator on the state level who, as a member of the Republican Party, has represented New York's 149th State Assembly district from 1999 to 2005 and, since May 2005, the 57th State Senate district, which includes all of Chautauqua County, Cattaraugus...

    , New York State Senator
  • Mark Zinni
    Mark Zinni
    Mark Zinni returned home to Northeast Ohio and joined the FOX 8 News team in September 2009.He moved to Cleveland from Salt Lake City where he previously worked at KTVX...

    , news anchor

Pulitzer Prize winners and members of Congress

The school boasts five Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

 winners as alumni.
  • Robert A. Dubill '58, former executive editor of USA Today
    USA Today
    USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...

    . Won in 1980 for public service (uncovering religious fund-raising scandals).
  • John Hanchette '64, former managing editor of Gannett Newspapers
    Gannett Company
    Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly-traded media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States, near McLean. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. Its assets include the national newspaper USA Today and the weekly USA Weekend...

    , now professor of journalism at St. Bonaventure. Won in 1980 for public service (uncovering religious fund-raising scandals).
  • Dan Barry
    Dan Barry (reporter)
    Dan Barry is a reporter and columnist for The New York Times, where he has written the "This Land" column since January 2007. “Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game,” Barry’s most recent book, about the longest game in professional baseball history, will be released in...

     '80, reporter for The New York Times
    The New York Times
    The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

    . Won in 1994 for investigative reporting (corruption in Rhode Island court system).
  • Brian Toolan '72, vice president of The Hartford Courant
    The Hartford Courant
    The Hartford Courant is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is a morning newspaper for most of the state north of New Haven and east of Waterbury...

    . Won in 1999 for breaking news reporting (shooting at the Connecticut Lottery).
  • Charles J. Hanley '68, reporter for the Associated Press
    Associated Press
    The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

    . Won in 2000 for investigative reporting (the massacre at No Gun Ri
    No Gun Ri
    No Gun Ri is a village in Hwanggan-myeon, Yeongdong County, North Chungcheong Province in central South Korea. The village was the site of the No Gun Ri Massacre during the Korean War in which U.S...

    ).


Five Members of the United States Congress
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....

 attended St. Bonaventure.
  • Rudolph G. Tenerowicz
    Rudolph G. Tenerowicz
    Rudolph Gabriel Tenerowicz was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.-Early life:Tenerowicz was born in 1890 in Budapest, Hungary. His parents, John and Antoinette Tenerowicz, immigrated with their family to the United States in 1892 and settled in Adrian, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania...

    , U.S. Rep. from Michigan (Dem. & Rep., 1939–43, 49–57)
  • William F. Walsh
    William F. Walsh
    William Francis Walsh was a Republican-Conservative member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.-Biography:...

     '34, U.S. Rep. from New York (Rep., 1973–1979)
  • James J. Howard
    James J. Howard
    James John Howard was an American educator and Democratic Party politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1965–1988.-Biography:...

     '52, U.S. Rep from New Jersey (1965–1988)
  • James T. Walsh
    James T. Walsh
    James Thomas "Jim" Walsh is an American Republican politician from Syracuse, New York. In 2009, he retired after representing a portion of Central New York, that is now known as the state's 25th Congressional District, in the United States House of Representatives for twenty years.-Early...

     '70, U.S. Rep. from New York (Rep., 1989–2009)
  • John Boccieri
    John Boccieri
    John Boccieri is a one-term U.S. Representative for , serving from 2009 until 2011. He was defeated by Republican Jim Renacci on November 2, 2010. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served in the Ohio Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives.-Early life and career:Boccieri...

    '92, U.S. Rep. from Ohio (Dem., 2009–2011)

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