1. Gerald M. McCarthy
Brennan School of Business
Dominican University
7900 West Division Street
River Forest, IL 60305
Ph: (708) 524-6561
Email: gmccarth@dom.edu
January, 2013
To whom it may concern:
In my ten years as a teacher, after a successful business career, I have had several outstanding students
in my classes. I am pleased to categorize Mr. Jon Basinski as one of those individuals. I highly
recommend him as an accomplished student but more importantly as a mature, very capable young man.
Jon was a student in my recently completed Capstone Business Strategy class and his work was
outstanding. He consistently performed at “A” grade levels and often went far beyond required activities
to research and bring insightful perspectives to issues and topics in both assignments and exams and in
his class discussions and presentations, which were excellent. I have rarely run into such a talented
student. His reasoning is excellent, his work ethic superb, and he is a very pleasant, outgoing person as
well. Easy to see why he has been an honor student here at Dominican.
Jon has also had a good deal of work experience and responsibility in both the Real Estate and the
Maintenance business and as a result is far more mature and has a better grasp of the real world than the
large majority of undergraduate students that I encounter. He was recently named an assistant Baseball
Coach at Dominican, another endorsement of his leadership ability. I have rarely had a student whose
organization, critical thinking skills, writing & oral communication skills and common sense can match that
of this outstanding young man
Gerald M. McCarthy
Clinical Professor of Management
Dominican University
River Forest, IL