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Inaugural CESAM Event
Saturday May 19, 2007 10AM-2PM Reid Castle
CESAM’s inaugural event will be held on Saturday, May 19th at Reid Castle and will feature author, Gus Alfieri.
Dr. Alfieri has spent a lifetime in education, sports as well as the business world, and possesses a well-rounded background. He grew up in New York and received athletic scholarships to St. Francis Prep and St. John’s University where he starred in Division I basketball for Hall-of-Fame coaches Joe Lapchick and Lou Carnesecca.
He taught high school social studies and coached state championship basketball teams at St. Anthony’s High School on Long Island. During one period his teams won 49 games in a row and two state championships. Along with a career in education, he has successfully directed one of the premier teaching basketball camps in America, The All-American Basketball Camp.
Besides his bachelor’s degree from St. John’s, Gus has two masters degrees and a Ph. D. in American Cultural History where his dissertation was on the literary marketplace and the revival of the career of writer Thomas Beer. He spent eight years researching LAPCHICK, which he considers an intimate history of basketball through a biography of his coach, Joe Lapchick.
Center for Ethics in Sports at Manhattanville (CESAM) proudly presents its First Annual Symposium on Best Practices in the Sports Business World.
Join us Saturday, May 19, 2007, 10:00-2:00pm
Manhattanville College, Reid Castle, Purchase, NY.
10:00-10:15am Registration opens.
10:15-10:30am Introductory remarks.
10:30-Noon STAYING ON THE HIGH ROAD IN NEGOTIATIONS
What is the art of the fair deal? Can you always maintain full integrity in all negotiations settings?
Our panel will delve into these issues and more. Scenarios of peaks and shortfalls on the high road in negotiations will be discussed. Whether one works for athletes, teams, or leagues, the session will stimulate and provoke thoughts.
Questions & Answers will be taken thru a moderator from attendees.
12:15pm-1:15pm Networking Luncheon & Honors Presentation
The NCAA Lapchick Character Award was bestowed on several student-athletes at 2006 Final Four.
Who was coach Joe Lapchick? Lapchick's biographer and a player from his 1959 NIT Champion St. John's Basketball team, Gus Alfieri talks about the Lapchick legacy.