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Before an audience of students, faculty, administrators, staff, alumni, and members of the Board of Trustees and Board of Governors, Conrado “Bobby” Gempesaw, Ph.D., President of St. John’s, delivered his fourth annual State of the University Address, setting an upbeat and positive tone as he outlined his vision for the University for the 2018–19 academic year and beyond.

History was made at a dinner held in midtown Manhattan last night when Conrado “Bobby” Gempesaw, Ph.D., President of St. John’s University, announced that St. John’s received its largest single gift in the 148-year-old existence of the University.

The enduring contributions to St. John’s made by the late Pamela Shea-Byrnes, D.Min. ’86SVC, ’90G, and her role in the creation of the Catholic Scholars program, were celebrated on Saturday, September 8, on the University’s Queens campus.

In an atmosphere of excited anticipation at the official start of a new academic year, St. John’s University welcomed more than 3,100 first-year and transfer students from the Queens and Staten Island campuses during its annual New Student Convocation held on September 4 in Carnesecca Arena.

With help from parents, siblings, and student volunteers, more than 3,300 freshmen, transfer, and returning students moved into their residences at St. John’s University’s Queens and Staten Island, NY, campuses in late summer, culminating with Move-In Weekend, September 1–2.