The Heart of St. Francis — Giving Back
Robert C. Sloane ’66
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“
I
’ve always believed in doing something
significant as a volunteer parallel with
my job,” said Robert. C. Sloane ’66,
Co-Founder of OptiMarket LLC and
co-author of the new self-help book, Fired
at 50: How to Overcome the Greatest Executive
Job Search Challenge.
Mr. Sloane’s career is emblazoned with
a number of high profile accomplishments
from senior management at ColgatePalmolive to communications advisor for
White House drug czar General Barry
McCaffrey to marketing leadership in the
creation of NFL Europe. But all along,
he kept true to his beliefs in volunteer work,
serving as Jaycees President for his New
Jersey town, founding board member for a
Connecticut organization dedicated to
preserving Long Island Sound, helping job
hunters at his Riverside, Connecticut parish
St. Catherine of Siena and, in 1995, cofounding and serving as first Chairman of
The Executive Forum, a Connecticut-based
non-profit organization that serves as a
resource to executives in transition to help
them overcome hurdles to re-entering the
job market. The EF currently has more than
300 executive members across diverse
industries and functional leadership areas.
“Now, after over 10 years of our work at
OptiMarket with numerous executives who
Robert Sloane ’66 overlooking the San Francisco Bay
have benefitted from our job search coaching
services, my partner Tucker Mays and I
decided to consolidate all our advice into one
easy to use reference,” said Mr. Sloane.
Fired at 50 provides insights about how to
overcome society’s age bias and make your
age an asset in a job search. The book also
recommends the most productive ways to
spend time searching for a job.
A long-time and consistently generous
donor to the College’s general and scholarship
funds, Mr. Sloane has also given many hours
to current students in the classroom, serving
as an Adjunct Professor for seven years.
“After a long corporate career that moved
me out of New York City and prevented me
from completing my Master’s Degree at
Baruch, I wanted to consider teaching at
the college level. Shortly after St. Francis
Chancellor Frank Macchiarola ’62 became
College President he told me that if I finished
my degree, he’d find me a place to teach,”
said Mr. Sloane. “I completed my studies,
30 years after they began, with a focus on
the emerging Global Internet Business area.
Dr. Macchiarola kept to his word and just a
few weeks later, I was teaching Marketing at
the College.” Mr. Sloane later created and
taught the College’s first Internet Marketing
course, collaborated with the Management
Department to develop an e-commerce
concentration, and assisted Dean Allen
Burdowski in the early development of
distance learning techniques.
Said Mr. Sloane: “The line from the Prayer
of St. Francis, ‘For it is in giving that you
receive,’ has always served as an important
influence to me. And at a point in my life
when I was considering going in a totally
new career direction, Dr. Macchiarola’s
wonderful words of advice to “go where you
are needed” expressed a simple yet profound
principle — one which I continue to apply in
both my executive coaching work as well as
through community service
initiatives. I am proud to
be an SFC alumnus and
honored to have played
a role in the college’s
further development.”
Learn more about Bob at
www.optimarketllc.com
Lt. Col. Walter V. McIntyre U.S. Air Force (Ret.) ’50
Inducted into the St. Clare Society posthumously, Lt. Col. Walter V. McIntyre USAF
(Ret.) ’50 was an inspiration to many. Below
are excerpts from two letters written by his
daughter, Maura, before and after his passing.
“My father… fondly attributes much of his
success in life to the education and life skills
that were given to him by your institution.”
The second letter included a manual Lt. Col.
McIntyre had saved from his time at St. Francis.
“The manual states that the aim of the college
was to prepare students for a life that emphasizes the valuation of life and his duties to his
fellow man and his God. As a soldier my father
continued to honor this imperative knowing that
his role should always first consider others,
support and defend his country, and incorporate
the existence and wondrousness of God in all
that he did. Family consumed these same basic
tenets and with eight children I am sure you can
see how important it was
to be conscious and
present in the role and
duties of father. He would
say that he was not
perfect in either role, but I
can tell you that he lived
his life as he was taught
– to be thankful for all that
he had been given; to
share in equal measure, to report when he had
fallen short, and most of all to love even when
it sometimes hurt.
My father and my mother (deceased 2007)
valued education and its importance in creating
a substantive life. They were always interested
in each of us finding a path that most reflected
and refined our individual gifts. They created and
fostered critical thought, ambitious endeavors,
and sat quietly when a bar that had been set too
low or too high needed adjustment.
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In closing I hope that
you will remember my
father in your prayers. I
continue to believe that…
St. Francis College will
continue to aspire to meet
the aims of a time not so
long ago and produce
young men and women
prepared to meet the
challenges of today with dedication to purpose
and commitment to the humanity that surrounds us.”
Sincerely,
Maura K. McIntyre (executor)
Christine McIntyre
Diane McIntyre
Ellen Kochu
Sheila McIntyre
Col. Andrew McIntyre
Kathleen McIntyre