"Rummo-mation"
    Updated December 22, 2008

Gregory J. Rummo graduated from Iona College in 1977 with a B.S. in chemistry. He also holds an M.S. in chemistry from Fordham University and an M.B.A. in finance from Iona College. He's a businessman but his other passion is journalism. His articles and photographs have appeared in newspapers and magazines since the 1970s. Since 1999, seven of his columns have won journalism awards including the $5,000 second prize in the 2001 Amy Writing Awards Contest for his Record column, Prime-time Debauchery Makes Mockery of Fidelity. In April, 2005, the New Jersey Family Policy Council presented  Rummo with the "Defender of the Family Media Award" at its annual banquet. Click here for photos of the event. Currently, his commentaries appear Sundays in the New Jersey Herald on the editorial page, Sundays in the Herald News, and occasionally in several other New Jersey dailies. The syndicated version of his column appears around the country in smaller newspapers. For a complete list of all newspapers and websites featuring his column, and for more information about the syndicate for which he writes, visit the syndicate information page. From May 2000 to December 2003, Rummo wrote "An Evangelical View" for The Record, appearing monthly on Thursdays in the newspaper's Religion & Values section. His first book, The View from the Grass Roots, was published in July 2002 by American Book Publishing. It is an eclectic anthology of his published newspaper columns. In March 2004, a story about his two sons appeared in Chicken Soup for the Nature Lover's Soul.

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Rummo has been writing since high school when he authored an outdoor column called "Fresh Waters" for The Southern New York Sportsman.  In 1974, as a freshman in college, he won the St. Bonaventure's Journalism Award for sports writing for an essay entitled, “What is a fly fisherman?” His first major acceptance in a nationally published magazine occurred in 1979 when his article "You Needn’t Rise Early," was accepted for publication in Fly Fisherman magazine. During the early 1980's, he wrote and photographed a number of cover stories for the Gannett Westchester-Rockland newspaper's Sunday magazine Suburbia Today. He also wrote extensively for The New York State Conservationist magazine. From 1993-1996, he wrote a regularly appearing Op-Ed column for The Record. Rummo writes about politics, Christianity and its influence in the culture, civil liberties, local environmental topics, science, business and the outdoors. Once in a while, his sense of humor gets the better of him, and his topics take on a light-hearted nature and are, well, pretty funny. Whether humorous or serious, his columns are always provocative. His most recent book, The View from the Grass Roots - Another Look was published in August 2004 by Bookman Publishing. When he's not writing, (these days he's writing more in Spanish since beginning course work in Spanish language studies at Bergen Community College in the fall of 2006) he is managing the US office of New Chemic Group, an import-export company with offices in the U.S., Hong Kong and Tokyo, Japan. n