If you’re a student-athlete at Sarah Lawrence College, you know Joe. “That man is an icon,” says Bismillah Bath, a sophomore on the basketball team. Members of the Campbell Sports Center faculty have come and gone; new coaches, new directors, new building managers. But, Joe remains. In fact, he’s been here longer than the sports center itself.

In 1982 armed with his bachelors from Lehman, his masters from the College of New Rochelle and years of hands-on experience, Joe Ianotti applied for the physical education position at SLC. He describes his interview with former Dean of the College Barbara Kaplan as “laid-back.”