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UC to Host Memorial Service for Crisafulli

Campus Community to Celebrate Life of Founding Faculty Member

Written By Keith Henry, PR Intern

Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu

Utica, NY (04/15/2008) - Utica College will hold a memorial service for Virgil Crisafulli, professor emeritus of economics, on Tuesday, April 22 at 2:45 p.m. in the Library Concourse. Friends, colleagues and former students are invited to attend; the memorial is being held on what would have been Crisafulli’s 96th birthday. 

Crisafulli, who passed away March 27, left a lucrative career with the U.S. government after serving in the U.S. Navy during WWII, and came to Utica to help establish Utica College. He served as a professor and the head of the economics department at UC. His first classroom was on the third floor of Plymouth Church in Oneida Square, UC’s original home. Most of his students were returning veterans like himself. 

For the next 33 years, Dr. Cris, as he was affectionately known to students and colleagues, not only taught a full academic schedule in economics, but was also active in local politics and authored books and scholarly articles on economics and history. Upon his retirement, he was named professor emeritus in recognition of his exemplary teaching, scholarship and service. 

Retirement didn’t stop Dr. Cris from continuing to serve his college and his community. He established scholarships and raised money for UC for years after his formal retirement. In 1996 he received an honorary doctor of humane letters from UC and in 2007 the Oneida Historical Society honored him as a Living Legend. 

UC President Todd S. Hutton said, “We lost a true legend in our community. Dr. Cris occupied an enormous place in the history - and truly the soul – of Utica College.” 

A reception in Crisafulli Lounge, DePerno Hall, will follow the memorial service. Those who knew Dr. Cris are invited to post memories at an online memory book that has been established on the UC web site at www.utica.edu/cris.
 

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