Calvin Jerome Murphy is an American former professional basketball player who after a prolific collegiate career at Niagara, where he averaged 33.1 points per game over his three years, played in the National Basketball Association as a guard for the San Diego/Houston Rockets from 1970 to 1983. He is a currently a member of the Houston Rockets' Space City Home Network broadcast team. Standing at a height of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m), Murphy has the distinction of being the shortest NBA player inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and to play in an NBA All-Star Game.
Murphy in 2008
Niagara University (NU) is a private Catholic university in the Vincentian tradition in the Census-designated place Niagara University, New York within the Town of Lewiston near Niagara Falls. It is run by the Congregation of the Mission and has approximately 3,300 undergraduate students in 50 academic programs. Approximately half of the students are residents while the other half commute from the surrounding area. The campus area was listed as a census-designated place in 2020 with a population of 940.
A statue of St. Vincent de Paul talking to students.
Gilbert Parent, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
John Katko, U.S. Representative for the 24th district of New York (Syracuse Area)
Image: Niagara University sign
