Manhattan College Hosts Groundbreaking Ceremony for 'Commissioner's Commons'

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Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, a 1963 graduate of Manhattan College, attends the groundbreaking ceremony Dec. 13 for a new $48 million student commons named in his honor. Digging in at the ceremony are, from left, Keelan Ledwidge, Class of 2014, student body president; Kenneth Rathgeber, chairman of the college’s board of trustees; Brennan O’Donnell, college president; Commissioner Kelly; Eugene McGrath, co-chairman of the Raymond W. Kelly ’63 Student Commons campaign; Michael Regan, chairman of the board of trustees development committee; and Frederic Salerno, co-chairman of the Raymond W. Kelly ’63 Student Commons campaign. Thomas D. O’Malley, Class of ’63, former chairman of the college’s board of trustees and executive chairman of PBF Energy Company, contributed a $10 million gift to the building fund.