Welcome to our website’s page for alumni and friends of the History Department.
While we have no intention of putting Facebook out of business, we hope that this page will become a place you can visit to find out about your fellow alums and just touch base on what the department has been up to recently. To both ends, we suggest you send us your current e-address so that we can put you on our departmental mail list of news and announcements.
We also hope that you will feel bold enough to submit to us news about yourself that we can post here. It does not have to be anything earthshaking. Anything you think might be of interest to fellow alumni of the History Department will be considered gladly.
To kick things off, here is a brief piece on our most recent Commencement speaker, Mr. Vito Cannavo, Esq.
We are proud to have him as one of our alumni, and look forward to seeing many more on these pages!
For information on The Stony Brook Alumni Association, visit their website: http://alumniandfriends.stonybrook.edu/
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Vito Cannavo graduated from Stony Brook in 1975. He received his law degree from Cornell three years later and subsequently served as law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Mark Constantino. He worked at the New York City Law Department Office of the Corporation Council, before joining and becoming a partner of Sullivan Papain Block [...]
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Ruben Weltsch, the first head librarian at Stony Brook and a long-time member of the History Department, died last week.
Though it may seem strange to liken the extremely modest and gentle Ruben Weltsch to John Toll, they both shared the characteristic of being in the right place at the right time and of having a [...]
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
It is my sad duty to inform you of the passing of Professor Dominick Cavallo, a Stony Brook graduate who was Professor of History at Adelphi University. A native of Long Island, he received his bachelor and doctorate degrees from Stony Brook, his dissertation directed by William Taylor and Fred Weinstein. He published often, his [...]
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