Joseph Genovese, St. John's professor, dies
Photo credit: Handout | Joseph P. Genovese, Sr., who taught math and science at St. John's University for more than 40 years, died Aug. 16 at a long-term care facility in Uniondale. He was 71.
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Stacks of marked-up magazines and newspapers would build up inside the East Meadow home of Joseph P. Genovese because the longtime college professor just couldn't pass up examples of math and science in the real world.
"Those are subjects that usually made people cringe," said Genovese's wife, Mary, "but he would make his students say, 'I never knew you could apply it to my life like that.'...
