St. Augustine Diocesan High School
2008 LANCER HALL OF FAME
Saturday, September 27, 2008  ~  Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School

The St. Augustine Alumni Association is pleased to announce that five exemplary individuals have been selected as honorees in the Lancer Hall of Fame.  We are calling all St. Augustine graduates and former faculty to come and honor these men on Saturday, September 27, 2008, at the annual St. Augustine alumni reunion. 

The event will take place at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, which is home to the alumni associations of St. Augustine Diocesan High School and Bishop McDonnell Memorial High School.  For more information regarding this event please call the Alumni Office at 718-857-2700 ext. 2251.
 

Steve McFarland `64 came to St. Augustine in September 1960 after graduating from St. Michael’s grammar school.  He went on to graduate from Manhattan College in 1969. 

He spent his whole working life with the New York Daily News, where he is now Boroughs and Suburban Editor, directing the News’ coverage of the five boroughs and Long Island.  He started at the News in 1970 as a copy boy, a job title which no longer exists today. 

While at the News, he was a local reporter, a rewriteman, a national reporter and national reporter and editor.  He has also been the Daily News’ Brooklyn and Queens columnist and Brooklyn Bureau Chief, as well as a restaurant reviewer and wine writer. 

As a reporter, writer and editor, he has worked on most of the big stories that the Daily News has covered during his career, but his professional focus has always been on the stories of ordinary people trying to live their lives, sometimes in the face of extraordinary circumstances. 

In that spirit, as Boroughs and Surburban editor, he has overseen a recent increase in the Daily News local coverage producing more news of Brooklyn and Queens, among other places, for the readers. 

The 1953 Track Team won the CHSAA indoor track championship for St. Augustine.  Under the direction of Br. Michael, the 19 members of this team not only beat out schools that had much larger track teams such as Cardinal Hayes and Bishop Loughlin but schools that awarded athletic scholarships.  First place finishes went to Kennedy for the 280 yd dash, Murphy for the 880 yd run, Hands for the shot put and Martin, Gale, Jayne and McCann for the 1 mile relay.  Hands also finished fourth in the 50 yd dash and O’Rourke finished fifth in the mile. 

That same year, the one mile relay team also set a national high school record, Murphy set an individual national high school record in the 600 and 880 yard runs and the one mile relay team won the Penn Relay championship.  This dedicated group of young men traveled long distances every afternoon to practice at the Red Hook Stadium, St.John's University and the 69^th Regiment Armory in the city. 

Patrick Rohan `51 ran track and cross country all four years at St. Augustine and was the editor in chief of the Lance newspaper.  He entered St. John’s University and finished his undergraduate degree in two and half years before entering St. John’s Law School on a full scholarship.  He graduated at the top of his class in law school and then received an LLM from Harvard. 

After Harvard, he entered the U.S. Army Military Intelligence School where he was assigned to code breaking and eventually received Top Secret Crypto status.  After his military training, he began his  tenure on the St. John’s University School of Law faculty lasting over 50 years.  After teaching a few years, he was admitted to Columbia University for a doctorate while continuing to teach at St. John’s.  He chose to write his thesis on condominium apartments despite warnings from his faculty advisor that the topic was a passing idea.  He is now considered one of the foremost experts on condominium law. 

In addition to his teaching duties at St. John’s, Patrick sat on the New York City Rent Control Commission for two years as the Executive Director, a commission that deliberated on how to update rent control laws, as well as handling the legality of converting rent controlled apartments to cooperative housing or condominium status.  He taught at New York University’s law program and Columbia’s law school, has had more than fifty law articles published and written fourteen treatises with more than 60 volumes published. 

He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Lincoln Hall Home for the past six years and was named to the Knights of Malta and Knights of the Holy Sepulchre by Pope John Paul II. 

Paul Jamin `58 grew up in Our Lady Help of Christians Parish in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. His first year, the freshmen basketball team won the city championship.  In his senior year he averaged 22 points a game and was selected to the First Team All City by the The New York Post. 

After St. Augustine, he attended Boston College on a basketball scholarship where he also played baseball.  His sophomore year, he transferred to Manhattan College and played basketball and baseball.  He was MVP on the baseball team his junior year and graduated in 1963 with a BBA in Labor Management.

He worked in various sales positions at New York Telephone for approximately 20 years, being part of the workforce to go through the breakup of the Bell System. Several years later he began selling sponsorships for a professional tennis tournament which eventually lead him to form his  own sports marketing firm, Jamin International Sports Marketing.