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Volume 37, Number 1

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Features

Front cover: Jeff Ewusi ’03, Tim McQuade ’03 andMatthew Chmura ’03. Photographed in the WCHCstudios by Patrick O’Connor.

Back cover: E. Farley Moran ’58 spins some platters.Photograph courtesy of The Holy Cross Archives

1288.1 On YourRadio Dial!WCHC has been trans-mitting its signal forover 50 years, and whilethe music has changed,the passion for broad-casting remains.

22Keeping Faith: A Religious Profile of HolyCross StudentsIn recent years, a debate has raged about the spiritual healthof Catholic colleges. While many have observed a heightenedfocus on religious mission during the 1990s, others are muchmore pessimistic.

28Pre-Business Program Opens New DoorsAs first-year students come up Linden Lane for the firsttime, a future in business is probably the last thing on theirminds. At least, it was the last thing on the mind of theyoung Arthur A. Ciocca ’59 when he first arrived on campusin the fall of 1955.

News from the Hill 2

Road Signs 10

GAA 50

Athletics 54

Book Notes 62

Class Notes 63

In Memoriam 70

Letters to the Editors 79

Calendar of Events 80

Departments

As I write this letter, the local newspapers and TV stations areawash in a kind of hard-bitten nostalgia, recounting the

“Blizzard of ’78” in pictures, narratives and statistics. I was a first-year student on the Hill that February. I recall a snowbound weekin Carlin Hall, looking out windows at drifts that, in memory,rise up to the Carlin Bridge. I remember some of my moreadventurous hallmates venturing out on snowshoes and cross-country skis. And I recall long afternoons that segued intoevenings, cocooned in those tiny dorm rooms, huddled aroundpre-CD stereos, listening to music and weather reports. Some ofthose stereos were tuned to our own WCHC.

As you will read in our cover story, the campus radio stationhas been a fixture of student life for over 50 years. A few of thepeople who “spun records” and reported everything from sportsscores to the night’s Kimball fare, have gone on to prominentroles in media markets across the country.

Though WCHC was, in the old days, something of a malebastion, the young Maggie Sullivan Wilderotter ’77, got her startin communications there, doing commentary and color forCrusader basketball games. Still breaking down barriers,Wilderotter was recently named senior vice president of businessstrategy at Microsoft, becoming one of the highest rankingwomen in the telecommunications field.

Were you to stroll past the WCHC studio on Hogan 2 thispast semester, you would have seen the station hallway overflow-ing with history: Stacks upon stacks of old 33 1/3 recordalbums—more than three decades’ worth—climbing up everyavailable wall. The towers of vinyl were being placed in storage,victim of the need for CD shelf-space. More than one over-40administrator and faculty member stopped to gaze on this exhibitto lost youth.

But one of the benefits of working at Holy Cross is the almostdaily lesson in the difference between trend and tradition. Andwhile popular culture is forever transient, the impulse to enter-tain, inform and communicate is a timeless one. So, while themusic that emanates from WCHC may no longer be familiar toyou, there’s a good chance that the young people programmingthat music would be. They are tomorrow’s alumni, and, as such,they’re the inheritors of the history, traditions and values thatdefine Holy Cross and shape its students. If you can bear thepun, we’re all on the same wavelength. And it originates now, asalways, from Mount Saint James.

Letter from the Editor32The Goizueta Foundation Awards $1 Million for Diversity ProgramsA $1-million dollar grant from The GoizuetaFoundation will enable the College to further its diversity efforts with new scholarships and an innovative “bridge” program for incoming students.

36“Thank Heavens” for 7-Eleven’s Jim Keyes ’77The world’s largest convenience store chain is on a roll,after tapping “marketing whiz” to run its 23,000 stores.

40Communicating QualityRecently named one of the top “people to watch in inter-national business” by Time magazine, Maggie SullivanWilderotter ’77 moves to Microsoft and begins the nextphase in a stellar career.

43Nurturing DreamsIn an era of decreased expectations for urban education,The Nativity School of Worcester opens with high hopesand an Ignatian mission to help at-risk children thrive.

46Lift High the Cross

O n Jan. 21, the College held itsfirst Winter Convocation, amajor new event that is part of

the Lilly Endowment grant (see HCM,Winter 2002). A program of song, per-sonal stories, readings, prayer, discussionand dinner, the Convocation was cen-tered around the question, “How shallwe find meaning in life and in historythrough our labor?” This question,which is central to Holy Cross’ LillyEndowment grant, is also part of theCollege’s Mission Statement. Bringing

together students, staff, faculty, adminis-trators, area alumni, Worcester civicofficials and neighbors on College Hill,the program began in St. JosephMemorial Chapel.

Rev. Howard Gray, S.J., the rector ofthe Jesuit community at John CarrollUniversity in Cleveland, Ohio, receivedan honorary degree and gave an addresson the Convocation question from theperspective of Jesuit spirituality. In addi-tion, shorter reflections were given bystudent Katie O’Keefe ’03; Mary

Cerasuolo, secretary in the philosophydepartment; and alumnus Timothy P.Wickstrom ’80, an attorney inWorcester. Music, prayers and readingswere drawn from a variety of religiousand secular sources.

Following the program, participantsattended a special dinner in KimballHall where discussion of theConvocation themes continued.

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News from the HillWINTER CONVOCATION INAUGURATED

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Fr. Gray and Fr. McFarland

Mary Cerasuolo

Katie O’Keefe ’03

Timothy Wickstrom ’80

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On Jan. 29, theCollege’s Center

for Religion, Ethicsand Culture, in con-junction with TheCatholic CommonGround Initiative,hosted a conference on“The Role of CatholicHigher Education inRenewing the MoralIntegrity of theCatholic Communityin the United States.”Examining the respon-sibility of Catholic colleges for the moral integrity of theCatholic faith in light of the crisis, the program featured 40participants, including bishops, college and university presi-dents, faculty, staff and pastoral leaders. The conferenceconcluded with a panel discussion titled “Responding to the

Crisis of Integrity in theChurch: What ShouldCatholic Colleges Do?”

Moderated by Rev.Philip Murnion, directorof the National PastoralLife Institute, the panelfeatured Rev. Michael C.McFarland, S.J., presi-dent of Holy Cross;Monica Hellwig, presi-dent of the Associationof Catholic Colleges andUniversities; Matthew H.Clark ’59, Bishop of

Rochester, N.Y.; David Gregory, professor of law at SaintJohn’s University, New York; and Jim Post, president ofVoice of the Faithful.

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COLLEGE CO-HOSTS CONFERENCE ON CHURCH CRISIS

“TOPPING OFF” CEREMONY

On Dec. 6, the College held a “topping off ” cere-mony to celebrate the placement of one of the

final steel beams on the new apartment-style residencecomplex being raised between Loyola and Alumni halls.Members of the Holy Cross community were encour-aged to sign their names on the beam. The 85,000-square foot facility is expected to be completed by theend of summer and occupied in August.

John Buckingham

Jacqueline D. Peterson, vicepresident for student affairsand dean of students

AHoly Cross Mock Trial team wasnamed New England Champion

after a first-place finish in the AmericanMock Trial Association’s New EnglandRegional Mock Trial Tournament, heldJan. 31-Feb. 2 in Manchester, Conn.

Twenty-seven teams, including threefrom Holy Cross, competed in thisyear’s regional tournament. Emerging asa top scorer after a series of four trialson Saturday, the Holy Cross teamdefeated George Washington Universityin the final “Justice Cup” trial onSunday.

The Holy Cross victory, a unanimousverdict from all three judges, is an auto-matic bid to the 2003 National MockTrial Championship Tournament in DesMoines, Iowa. The tournament is sched-

uled for April 4-6, 2003.The winning team from Holy Cross

was captained by John O’Donnell ’04,and attorneys Samantha Kingsbury ’06and Matthew Pieraldi ’04. Witnessesincluded Christopher Hirl ’03, JonathanSteffy ’04, Casey Donnelly ’06,Anthony (A.J.) Ursillo ’06 and Eric Tosi’03.

Holy Cross also had individual stu-dent award winners. M. Cecilia Kelly’04, Christine McMahon ’06 andElizabeth Letak ’06 were awardedRegional Attorney Awards, while AdamZybulewski ’05 was named an All-Region Witness.

The American Mock TrialAssociation sponsors 17 regional tourna-ments throughout the country. The

New England regional is considered oneof the most difficult competitions.

In November, the Holy Cross MockTrial team earned five top distinctions atthe Yale Invitational Mock TrialTournament. With 62 teams competing,it is the most competitive invitationaltournament in the country.

The Mock Trial program began in1997. It is led by alumni coaches EdMcDermott ’79 and Carey Smith ’79,partners in the Worcester law firm ofMorrison, Mahoney & Miller; and ScottSandstrom, prelaw advisor and associateprofessor of accounting in the econom-ics department.


HOLY CROSS MOCK TRIAL TEAMNAMED NEW ENGLAND CHAMPION

John Buckingham

The Holy Cross Mock Trial Team


SENNA WINS WRITING AWARD

D anzy Senna, the College’s JenksChair, was awarded the 2002

Whiting Writers’ Award at a ceremonyat Pierpont Morgan Library in NewYork on Oct. 30.

The Whiting Awards, which are$35,000 each, have been given annual-ly since 1985 to 10 “emerging writersof exceptionaltalent andpromise.” Pastrecipientsinclude MonaSimpson,David FosterWallace,JonathanFranzen, MaryKarr, TonyKushner andJorie Graham.

Senna received her bachelor of artsdegree from Stanford University andher master of fine arts degree in cre-ative writing from the University ofCalifornia at Irvine. Prior to coming toHoly Cross, she worked as a researcherand reporter at Newsweek and served asvisiting writer at Sarah LawrenceCollege, Bronxville, N.Y. She has pub-lished articles and essays in a wide vari-ety of magazines and newspapers,including SELF, Glamour, The VillageVoice Literary Supplement, O, TheUTNE Reader and The Nation. Heressays and short stories have been wide-ly anthologized in such collections asHalf and Half: Writers on Growing UpBiracial and Bicultural, and Giant Steps:A New Generation of African AmericanWriters.

Caucasia, Senna’s first novel, waspublished in 1998 by Riverhead Books.It received the Book of the MonthClub Stephen Crane Award for BestNew Fiction, the ALA’s Alex Award, aLos Angeles Times’ “Best Books of theYear” mention; it was also a finalist forthe International IMPAC DublinLiterary Award and the Orange Prize.

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CHAMBER SINGERS PERFORMWITH KENNY ROGERS

On Dec. 21, the Holy Cross Chamber Singers performed with KennyRogers in the holiday concert, “Christmas From the Heart,” at the

Worcester Centrum Centre. Directed by Bruce Miller, the Chamber Singers iscomposed of a select group of singers chosen from the membership of theCollege Choir.

VISITING JESUIT SCHOLAR IS ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS RESEARCHER

The former Jesuit Provincial for Indonesia, Rev. PaulWiryono, S.J., spent the fall semester on campus as

the College’s most recent International Visiting JesuitScholar. In addition to conducting research on environ-mental ethics, Fr. Wiryono presented lectures onCatholic higher education in reform-era Indonesia andon the over-application of pesticides in Indonesia. A lec-turer at Gadjah Mada University, Fr. Wiryono earnedhis Ed.D. degree in agricultural education fromOklahoma State University and his bachelor of science

degree in agricultural economics from Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta.He is a member of the faculty of Soegijapranta Catholic University in Semarang,Central Java, Indonesia.

Fr. Wiryono, who returned to Indonesia in January to teach, will return toHoly Cross in September for an additional semester of teaching and lecturing.

Rob Carlin


CAMPUS COMMUNITY JOINS INEFFORT TO AID AFGHAN CHILDREN

T he Holy Cross campus community has joined the “The BluePack Project”effort, an initiative to provide 200,000 specially made backpacks filled with

basic school and hygiene supplies to Afghan children. The project, created by theAcademy for Educational Development(AED), is supported by the NewEngland Association of Schools andColleges. The price of a BluePack is$10. A portion of that cost will go toteacher training and other initiatives tohelp rebuild Afghanistan’s capacity toeducate its children. Currently inAfghanistan, few schools are intact, andeducation supplies are virtually nonex-istent. According to UNICEF, onlyabout one-third of all school-age chil-dren in Afghanistan attend school. TheBluePacks contain basic educationalmaterials, including pencils, notebooks,ink, traditional bamboo pens, andwooden “takhti” writing boards—as wellas soap, brushes, combs, balls and jumpropes. The College’s goal is to raise$10,000 by April 1, 2003.

BURNS AWARDSHONORCOLLEGE STAFF

On Jan. 9, six Holy Cross employ-ees were honored

as recipients of the 2002Claire B. Burns Award.The award was estab-lished and endowed in1997 by Donal J. Burns’49 in honor of his wife,Claire, an alumna of theClass of 1990. Theaward is presentedannually to active andretired non-exempt, full-time employees whobest exemplify a com-mitment to fostering aspirit of family both intheir conduct and intheir interaction withco-workers and othermembers of the campus

community. This year’s recipients were:Shirley Adams, secretary, Englishdepartment; Louis G. Paquette, sous-chef, dining services/Kimball; Mary E.Brigham, R.N. (retired), health servic-es; Herbert C. Mahota, custodian;

Anna B. Trudell, housekeeper, physicalplant/building services; and Gary R.Gothing, locksmith, physicalplant/trades & shops.

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ADDENDUM

Coverage of the “Practicing

Catholic” conference (HCM

fall ’02), which took place at the

College on Oct. 18-21, 2002,

failed to note that the conference

was co-directed by Susan Rodgers,

professor of anthropology; Joanna

Ziegler, associate professor of visual

arts; and Rev. Bruce T. Morrill,

S.J., ’81, associate professor of sys-

tematic theology at Boston College,

and visiting fellow at the College’s

Center for Religion, Ethics and

Culture during 2002.

Victoria Rydberg, Karen Adamsand Shirley Adams

Herbert C. Mahota and Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J.

Alicia Starkey ’03 displays aBluepack.


MOODY’SUPGRADESHOLY CROSSRATING

In November, Moody’s InvestorsService upgraded the College’s

underlying rating from A1 to Aa3.The rating applies to approximately$130 million of outstanding series1992, 1996, 1998 and 2002 bonds.All of these series are also rated Aaabased on bond insurance. The Aa3underlying rating is based on:● Favorable market position as a

selective Jesuit liberal arts institu-tion

● Strong financial managementwith consistently excellent operat-ing performance

● Ample financial resources whichhave good prospects for long-termgrowth

On Dec. 6, the College presented“Hogwarts at Holy Cross: A

Science Extravaganza” for local studentsin first through eighth grade and theirfamilies. Held in Haberlin Hall, this sci-ence exhibition featured a variety ofchemistry experiments fashioned afterthe “potions” classes offered at HogwartsSchool of Witchcraft and Wizardry in

the Harry Potter series of books andfilms. An ice cream social followed theshow. This event was co-sponsored byStudent Ambassadors DevelopingExternal Relations (S.A.D.E.R.) and theHoly Cross Science Ambassadors, sup-ported in part by the Camille andHenry Dreyfus Foundation.

“HOGWARTS AT HOLY CROSS”

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ALUMNI BUSINESS LEADERS MEET IN NEW YORK

On Jan. 8, a group of alumni business leaders and CEOs gathered at a reception hosted by Robert C. Wright ’65. Seen here:James Keyes ’77, President and CEO, 7 Eleven, Inc. and Margo Keyes; Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., President of HolyCross; Connie D’Ambra and Thomas D’Ambra ’78, Chairman and CEO, Albany Molecular Research, Inc.; Kathleen Ludwig,Robert C. Wright ’65, Chairman and CEO, NBC; Michael F. Collins, M.D. ’77, President and CEO, Caritas Christi Health CareSystems and Maryellen Collins; Edward Ludwig ’73, President and CEO, Becton Dickinson & Co.; Carolyn Risoli ’86, President,Marc Jacobs, Inc. and Joseph Silvestri; Suzanne McDonough and William J. McDonough ’56, President and CEO, FederalReserve Bank of New York; Cynthia Rehm P’88,’85,’81 and Jack Rehm ’54; Hilary Califano and Joseph Califano, Jr. ’52,Chairman & President, National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University; and Eileen Sinnott andJohn Sinnott ’61, Chairman & CEO, Marsh Inc.

courtesy of NBC

Adam CarskaddanCharles Kurkul ’06


Nearly 75 years have passed since architect CassGilbert designed “a building of dignity and importance” to serveas the permanent home to the United States Supreme Court. Theimposing neoclassical structure that resulted first opened its six-and-a-half ton bronze doors in 1935, promising “equal justiceunder law” to all who passed through the 16 columns that defineits main entrance. Today the venerable edifice stands as the “finalarbiter” of the law, the protector of our constitutional libertiesand, it seems, a great place to throw a party.

Nearly 200 Holy Cross alumni, parents and friends in theWashington, D.C., area learned that firsthand when, on Nov. 22,they gathered for an extraordi-nary evening set within thesoaring spaces of the magnifi-cent U.S. Supreme CourtBuilding. As guests of JusticeClarence Thomas ’71, the dis-tinguished crowd, includingfive federal judges, celebratedthe $175-million Lift High theCross Campaign, launchedpublicly a year ago. As featuredspeaker, Anthony S. Fauci,M.D. ’62, director of theNational Institute of Allergyand Infectious Diseases andinternationally known for tak-ing the lead in HIV/AIDSfunding and research, shared

his perspective on the importance of the “Jesuit experience” atHoly Cross.

Security was tight at the after-hours event. Each guest wasscreened at the building’s entrances before ascending to the GreatHall, the grand corridor leading to the Courtroom. Dwarfed bymassive marble columns, fascinated by intricate friezes and awedby the Hall’s coffered ceiling more than 40 feet above, the party-goers walked the red carpet (lit-erally) to join an overflowcrowd for cocktails in a confer-ence room just beyond thehighest court. Justice Thomas,Dr. Fauci, current Holy CrossPresident Michael McFarland,S.J., and President EmeritusJohn Brooks, S.J.,’49, as well asBoard and Campaign chairs,Michael Collins, M.D., ’77 andJack Rehm ’54, respectively,attracted many well-wishers.Most of the guests stoppedbefore dinner to view theCourtroom from its gateddoorway.

Called to dinner by theSupreme Court bell, the black-tie crowd was seated at nearlytwo dozen tables placed on thehigh-gloss marble floor of theGreat Hall. Dinner was served within sight of the Courtroom,

with its raised bench and nineout-sized, high-backed, brownleather chairs, where JusticeThomas and the nation’s othertop jurists hear oral arguments.

Following opening remarksfrom Steve Urbanczyk ’71, co-chair of both the dinner andregional campaign committeeswith Jane Sullivan Roberts ’76,Justice Thomas welcomedthe celebrants to “yourSupreme Court.” He talkedabout the important anddeep friendships he madeduring his four years onthe Hill—relationshipsthat continue to this day.

A S u p r e m e

Ce l ebra t ionBy Elizabeth T. Walker

Supreme Host The Honorable Clarence Thomas ’71

Holding CourtJustice Thomas, Joyce O’Brien, Carol Bergin, Patricia and RichardBrowne ’60

Old FriendsThomas, Rev. Francis Miller, S.J., ’46and Rev. John Brooks, S.J., ’49

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He said that hegained a criticalskill at HolyCross: “learninghow to think,”which helpedprepare him forhis role as aSupreme Court

Justice. Each day, the job requires him to“think my way to the truth.” The crowdgave Justice Thomas a standing ovation.

Featured speaker Anthony Fauci ’62observed that his Jesuit educational experi-ences created in him a “thirst for knowl-edge” that has continued over four

decades, making him “a perpetualstudent.” He added that, such

students almost never getbored, constantly try to

improve themselvesand develop “achronic sense oflow-grade anxietyand a nagging feel-ing of inadequacy,”which he describesto students andpostdoctoral fellowsat the NationalInstitutes of Healthas “the curse of theJesuits” (full text ofFauci’s remarks onPage 10).

“Thus, for me,the ‘curse of theJesuits’ has been awonderful curse,since it has ener-gized and pushedme over the years topursue directions of

research and tack-le problems that I might not have, had I

not been driven by my very special train-ing and experiences.”

Following a standing ovation for Fauci,the guests received a benediction from

Monsignor Peter Vaghi ’70, sang the

Alma Mater, then slowly retraced theirsteps along the marble corridor to descendfrom the Great Hall—and the spectacularevening in a place of “dignity and impor-tance” came to a close.

Honorable MentionHon. Richard Conway Casey ’55, Hon. Orion Douglass ’68, P’04, Hon.Clarence Thomas ’71, Hon. John Facciola ’66, Hon. EdwardHarrington ’55, and Hon. Richard Leon ’71

(left to right) RichardBrowne ’60, StephenUrbanczyk ’71, Ned

Williams ’83, Jane SullivanRoberts ’76, John Collins

’68, Rev. MichaelMcFarland, S.J., Robert

Gittings ’83, Loretta MoranP’05, ’00, Michael

Kennedy ’84, JamesMoran ’75, and John

Figge ’59. Missing fromphoto is WilliamMcCormick ’59.

The Washington, D.C., Regional Campaign Committee

WashingtoniansChris Matthews ’67 and Anthony Fauci ’62

Below are remarks delivered by Dr. Fauci,director of the National Institute of Allergyand Infectious Diseases, during theWashington Regional Campaign celebra-tion held at the Supreme Court on Nov. 22.

Justice Thomas, thank you forarranging for us to visit togetherin “our home,” and thank you foryour years of outstanding per-

formance in these hallowed halls. Father McFarland has asked me to

share with you, from my own personalperspective, what effect the “Holy Cross

experience” has had on my life. The firstthought that came to my mind was thatin many of life’s experiences, we are notfully aware of the importance of theexperience at the time that we are actu-ally going through the process. Indeed,that certainly was the case with regard tomy years at the Cross. I sensed thatsomething very positive was happeningduring those years, but I did not imag-ine at all the depth and breadth ofimplications that this experience wouldhave for me over the ensuing years.

Furthermore, as I reflect more close-ly, my Holy Cross experience actuallybegan years before I even entered the

College, during my four years of Jesuittraining at Regis High School in NewYork City. For the Holy Cross experi-ence is, in reality, the “Jesuit experi-ence,” an experience that happens tohave taken place on a beautiful campusand in the company of an extraordinarygroup of fellow students and faculty. Itis the combination of the “Jesuit experi-ence” and the particular environment inwhich that experience was realized, thatmakes Holy Cross so special. And sowhen I speak over the next few minutesabout my Holy Cross experience, I actu-ally mean the experience of trainingaccording to the spirit, the principles


Road Signs

“My Holy Cross Experience”


By Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., ’62

and the method of the Society of Jesusin an institution that had plenty of verysmart and very nice people.

It mattered not whether our teachersand counselors were or were not actual-ly Jesuits themselves, as many were layprofessors, for the spirit and the envi-ronment were distinctly Jesuit. Whatdoes that statement mean specifically tome, and how do I carry it with meevery day of my professional and per-sonal life?

Recognizing that there must andshould be great differences as well asgreat similarities among us in how wehave integrated this Holy Cross experi-

ence into our lives, I will consider cer-tain issues that stand out in my ownmind and that I am sure many of youhave shared. Let me borrow a metaphorfrom my own profession as a physician/scientist, and say that Holy Cross issomething of a laboratory, where each ofus leaves with a clone of a Jesuit deepinside of us. The degree of expressionand development of this clone variesfrom person to person, but it is there inall of us because of our common experi-ence. Onlyyears aftergraduationdid Ibecomeaware ofcertaincharacteris-tics or qual-ities ofmine that Ieither had,or that Iwas in theprocess of developing, that were in factthe “Holy Cross factor” or said anotherway, “the Jesuit in me.”

The examples that I will give arederived from my own experiences; how-ever, I know that they are generic to somany who have shared the Holy Crossexperience. I will address five issues verybriefly: 1) the unquenchable thirst forknowledge, 2) the rule of excellence, 3)discipline, 4) intellect and spirituality,and 5) public service and social respon-sibility.

First, let us talk about the thirst forknowledge and the fact that 40 yearslater, I have realized that in manyrespects I have never left Holy Cross, forI am a perpetual student. I believe that Ihad a natural inclination for this, but itwas Holy Cross that fully nurtured it inan insidious, but positive, way. Nowthere is good news and there is soberingnews with regard to being a perpetualstudent. The good news is that we

almost never get bored and we are con-stantly trying to be productive, andhopefully improving ourselves. Thesobering news is that we will likelydevelop a chronic sense of low-gradeanxiety and a nagging feeling of inade-quacy.

I describe this to my students andpostdoctoral fellows at the NationalInstitutes of Health as the “curse of theJesuits.” This feeling, however, is notnecessarily all bad, since it can be trans-

formedinto some-thing pro-ductiveand posi-tive. Whenwe realizethat wenever knowas much aswe want toor shouldknow, andthat if we

are living it correctly, our life is adynamic process with a steep learningcurve, we must strike a delicate balance.On the one hand, we cannot be immo-bilized by this potentially overwhelmingconcept. On the other hand, it shouldcreate in us a healthy, positive and pro-ductive tension whereby we never feelcompletely comfortable. It is this ten-sion that can serve as the catalyst toconstantly improve ourselves and fulfillour God-given potential.

Thus, for me the “curse of theJesuits” has been a wonderful curse sinceit has energized and pushed me over theyears to pursue directions of researchand tackle problems that I might nothave, had I not been driven by my spe-cial training and experiences.

Very closely related to all of this isthe belief and the practice that to strivefor anything short of excellence isentirely unacceptable. That is a conceptthat has Holy Cross written all over it.

“How I would relate to myfellow man professionally andthe way that I would use mytraining and skills was pro-foundly influenced by myHoly Cross experience.”

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88.1 On Your R88.1 On Your R

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Jeff Ewusi ’03 works the boards at WCHC.

Radios on the Holy Cross campuscrackle to life with a new AM signal.The inaugural broadcast of WCHCbegins and, with it, an educationalexperiment unlike any the College hadever before undertaken.

“The campus station will enable youto broaden and deepen your knowledgeof learning in fields both familiar andunfamiliar, since you may now listen tolectures by teachers in all departments ofthe College,” says Holy Cross president,Rev. John A. O’Brien, S.J., following aliturgical blessing of the station and amusical interlude by the student choir,under the direction of Santo S.Cataudella ’49.

“The station will serve, too, as anoutlet for student talent in music,drama, debating, radio itself and otherfields,” Fr. O’Brien continues. “It will

also offer a valuable means of intercom-munication and interchange of ideasbetween faculty and students, thusenabling us to know each other better,to assist one another in our academicefforts and become more united in ourcommon campaign for a better andgreater Holy Cross.”

For Jack Rattigan ’50, the station’sfirst director of continuity, the fun—andlearning—had just begun, laying a foun-dation that would last a lifetime.Rattigan now owns a media manage-ment and sales training company.

“A priest at Holy Cross once said thestation was an experiment,” Rattigansays. “But it turned out to be an educa-tional opportunity that would neverhappen again.”

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WCHC-FM now runs out of twostudios in Hogan, where it has beensince Nov. 27, 1967—with a tiny hall-way stacked chest-high with old 33 1/3record albums and a grease board aboveit carrying the admonition: “Therecords piled in the hall need to be pro-tected from feet and theft. These are notgarbage. Last year, they were the vinylarchive, and they are a school archivestill.”

In the tiny studios is the new face ofHoly Cross radio—shelves lined withthousands of CDs, covering music tastesfrom the Action Swingers to Zydeco Joe.Music plays, but no student DJ is onsite; the music, made possible by com-puterization, is about as far a cry fromthe old days as you can get.

“How times have changed,” laughsRattigan, who recalls attending a foot-


Dec. 6, 1948, 8 p.m.

WCHC has been transmitting itssignal for over 50 years, and whilethe music has changed, the passionfor broadcasting remains.

Radio Dial!Radio Dial!By Paul E. Kandarian

ball game between Holy Cross and William and Mary in 1986 andseeing a giant WCHC mobile remote truck. “I couldn’t believe it.”

Crowded or not, the modern station is still light years ahead ofWCHC’s humble beginnings in a renovated fourth-floor attic store-room in Fenwick, with much of the equipment consisting of Navysurplus gear.

According to WCHC’s first program director, Richard Dowd ’50,the station’s foundation was actually laid in the early 1940s when hewas a student at Fairfield (Conn.) College Preparatory School;Father John H. Kelly, who would later teach at Holy Cross, hadstarted a radio club there.

“We were doing some remotes, and someone called and said theyneeded new male voices at (local station) WNAB,” Dowd says. “Abunch of us went down there and found out it was a hoax, but theygave six of us a tryout. I had the deepest voice, got a job and kept ituntil the regular guy came back from World War II.”

Twelve Fairfield grads went on to Holy Cross, says Dowd—fol-lowed soon after by Fr. Kelly, who wanted to start a station. Dowd isnow editor in chief at Clarity Publishing, a religious publishingcompany in New York.

“We set up the first studio in Fenwick, and I became the firstprogram director because I knew him and was interested,” Dowdsays. “For many of us, it was our only extracurricular activity.”


Worcester Mayor Charles Sullivan andRev. John O’Brien, S.J., president of HolyCross, attend the opening of the campusradio station on Dec. 6, 1948.

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Radio was king in those pretele-vision days, and students who grewup with the medium were now tak-ing part in creating it. Early showsat the station included, “QuizTime,” “World Politics Forum,” andas the Big Chill of the Cold Warwas settling in, “RadiologicalDefense, Principles of Radioactivity(or atomic energy) and Applicationof These Principles to the CivilDefense Program.”

And in what would surely be acontroversial move today, sometimein 1952 the station—along with 50other college stations nationwide—received a free UP news printercourtesy of Lucky Strike cigarettes.

“We did the full scale of things atthe station—we did dramas, we cov-ered baseball games, footballgames—and we used to gettelegrams every day from the NewYork Times which gave us five-minute radio broadcasts,” Dowdsays.

After graduation, Dowd wentinto the Navy, where he edited thebase newspaper and would laterbecome information officer for theamphibious division. And becausehis was the first graduating classafter World War II, he says, “Wehad people from 16-to-32 who werefreshmen. We had a lot of veteransand that changed the complexion ofthe school.”

Rattigan agrees, saying, “We’dhang out with guys five-to-10 yearsolder than us and, without evenknowing it, we helped these guys getback into the mainstream of life.”Each night, Rattigan hosted a showtitled, “Here’s to Vets,” which con-sisted of playing VeteranAdministration recorded discs ofmusic and information about veter-ans’ benefits.

Rattigan said the experienceinvolved more than just airtime.

“The major thing I liked—and Idon’t think college stations do thisanymore—is that we learned there


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wouldn’t be radio unless someone paid for it,” he says.“Art Smith and I wanted to broadcast baseball, soFather Kelly said to find out how much it would costto put in a phone line. It was around $40, so we wentand sold advertising amounting to $40. Father Kellyalways said, ‘You want to do something, you cover theexpenses.’”

Rattigan, who recalls covering sports in the BobCousy days of basketball championships, says, while itwas fun, “We were serious about it. If I was going todo color for, say, the Dartmouth game, I’d have tophone and get all the information—with the expensecoming out of my own pocket.”

But mostly, the experience forged lifelong friend-ships, he says: “When I look back at the guys I’vestayed close to, most were guys from the station. Myroomie, John “Doc” Hogan ’50, was involved with thestation, and we’re constantly in touch. He’s still my bestfriend in the whole world.”

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was a spawning ground for a lot of major media talent,on- and off-air. Martin Lessard ’74, who manages acluster of FM radio stations in Dover-Portsmouth,N.H., was involved with the station, as was PeterSmyth ’75, president/chief executive officer of GreaterMedia Corporation and his predecessor, the late TomMilewski ’71. Boston-area viewers are no doubt famil-iar with two others: Brian Leary ’77, longtime anchorat WCVB-Channel 5, who is now a lawyer but stilldoes legal reporting for the station, and Joe Shortsleeve’79, a reporter at WBZ-Channel 4 for the past 13years.

“We did a little of everything,” Leary says. “My oldroommate and I were co-sales managers one year, andone year we did DJ shifts, spinning records—literallyin those days—and also doing play-by-play for footballand basketball.”

Until he hooked up with WCHC, Leary says, hehad no inkling of a broadcast career.

“I was just looking for a diversion, but as I got moreinvolved in the station and had the chance to do play-

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The Boston Garden broadcastbooth during the Holy Cross-Kentucky game, 1950. WCHCstaff included announcers FrankJudge ’49 and C. PhilipO'Rourke ’50, engineersHoward Pogue ’52 and DonSullivan ’50, statistician MarkAtchison ’49, and faculty moder-ators Rev. Kelly, S.J., and Rev.Turner, S.J.

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by-play as an avid sports fan, I thought it was a neatopportunity,” Leary says. “But since broadcasts wereonly heard on campus, I’m not sure we ever had anaudience,” he adds with a laugh. “It was like singing inthe shower.”

When doing DJ stints, he’d ask classmates about hisstyle, Leary says, “and they’d say, ‘Yeah, we heard youmaking a jerk out of yourself.’ I can only imagine thatthe combination of a microphone and a 19-year-oldmindset made for some interesting chatter.”

But the learning experience molded Leary, he says,and “I never would have gotten into broadcastingwithout it. It was really a great training ground for somany of us.”

Shortsleeve says the day he arrived at Holy Cross,“I unpacked my clothes in Carlin and went to the sta-tion. I’d always wanted to do (radio) and that fall, Idid an internship with Channel 25 in Worcester forthe 10 o’clock news.”

Shortsleeve would also intern at Channel 5, work-ing during the “Blizzard of ’78,” and, “by the time I

graduated, I was well on my way.“It was just a lot of fun—a great experience,” he

says, adding that, during his time, the station expand-ed to broadcast to a wider area: “We didn’t realizewhat a big deal we were in Worcester. Now we’redoing weather for the city, and we’re able to get com-mercials from Subway and all the other places that col-lege kids enjoyed. It became very real, very fast.”

Shortsleeve, a history major, spent all four years atHoly Cross doing radio work.

“I didn’t really decide I’d like news until I didWCHC,” he says. “I went in a DJ and came out theother end a news guy.”

Tom Osgood ’67 was something of a rebel in hisWCHC days. Now a regional manager in theNortheast for ACE Hardware, Osgood once took outan ad in the College paper decrying the administra-tion’s unwillingness to pay for repairs to a cable thephone company dug up that knocked the station off-air for a couple of days.

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Neave Casey ’04 broadcasts from one of two WCHC studios.

when reminded of the ad. “It was a battle between us and the administra-tion, the phone company or whomever.”

It was also during Osgood’s tenure at WCHC that he set a nationalcollegiate record for marathon broadcasting—doing 75 hours of continu-ous radio—and topping the record of 70 set by rival Boston College theprevious week.

“We did it for a number of reasons,” Osgood says. “One, to see if wecould break the record. Another reason was to raise money for club sportsat the school. And it also tied into a sleep deprivation study that somepsych majors were doing.”

And maybe, most importantly, “We knew some of the BC guys, andthey’d sent us a letter saying we didn’t have the nerve to try it,” Osgoodlaughs. “I’m sure sitting around the station with a few beers helped usmake our decision.”

A businessman all his life, Osgood says his WCHC experience “hadsome benefit in my preparation for that. In effect, we ran our own busi-ness, we raised our own money by selling advertising and fixed our ownequipment. I’m sure that experience, plus a lot of mistakes we made,helped us in later years.

“When I think back to some of the guys I worked with during thattime—and I know this sounds hokey—I’m probably a better person todaybecause of those relationships,” Osgood says.


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Named station manager for the 1973-74 school year, Phil Zachary ’76was the first second-year student in station history to achieve that status—anhonor ordinarily reserved for “a rising senior,” Zachary says now.

“I walked into the door the first week I was there in 1972, and it was alife-changing experience,” he says. “Radio really was fascinating in that itbecame an outlet for feelings and emotions on campus; it was the first fall wewere coed. There was so much changing daily at that point, we became thevoice of what was happening. Vietnam was still going on—all these thingswere happening—it was just a fascinating time.”

Like most others, he did everything at WCHC, including spinningrecords; he also remembers the two most requested songs in those new coeddays.

“The women requested, ‘We Gotta Get Out of This Place,’ by theAnimals, and the guys wanted, ‘I’m a Loser,’ by the Beatles,” Zachary laughs.“Those two songs defined the fall of 1972.”

Zachary says, without question, the WCHC experience helped shape whohe is today—an executive vice president for the Curtis Media Group inRaleigh, N.C.

“We had budgets to work with, personnel who didn’t follow the rules,shifts that had to be filled,” Zachary says of his days running WCHC. “Itwas challenging around exam time or a big football game or a concert intown because you couldn’t get anyone to work that night. That was myentree into management. Turning off the station was not an option.”

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other—it was a commitment we took seriously. It shaped thework ethic for a lot of us who worked there. It got to thepoint that area radio stations were eager to get kids from HolyCross. We knew what we were doing. We were reliable andsmart.”

Asked if he misses spinning records these days, Zacharywistfully says he does, while adding, “It’s a great way to earn aliving, but I wasn’t good enough to earn a great living.”

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around campus these days and ask kids if they like—or evenlisten to—WCHC, and you get a variety of answers. Some saythey listen occasionally, some don’t listen at all, some will lis-ten to buddies who are on the air. In these days of walk-around CD players, instant Internet music and live concertsvirtually any time, there’s a lot of competition for the ears ofthe young.

But Matt Chmura ’03 doesn’t mind. The current stationmanager, he has been involved at WCHC since his first year atHoly Cross. According to a transcript of the original 1948

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WCHC broadcast, the late Mark D. Atchison’49, president of the Student Congress, said“We will always be interested in student reac-tion to our program.” And for Chmura, thatstill holds true 55 years later.

“We did a survey of what kids wanted tohear, and that’s why we dropped alternativemusic and moved to the top 100,” saysChmura, a political science major. “From thefeedback we’ve been getting, our listenershiphasn’t decreased.”

No one gets paid at WCHC, same asalways. It’s sometimes tough to get students towork, same as always. But the show goes on—including a day recently when the WCHCbroadcast was generated exclusively by com-puterized programming.

Driving from Holy Cross, one can still pickup the strains of music 10 or so miles away—a

far cry from the on-campus crackle of 1948.The music has changed and so has the person-nel, but the benefits of having an on-campusradio station endure.

“It’s a lot of learning, a great way to mix upyour education,” says Chmura, who wants toget involved in media relations for a career.

With the history of WCHC solidly behindhim, he seems to be on the right track.

Paul Kandarian is a free-lance writer fromTaunton, Mass.

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IIn recent years, a debate has raged about the spiri-tual health of Catholic colleges. While many haveobserved a heightened focus on religious missionduring the 1990s, others are much more pes-simistic. Pointing to the secularization of formerly

Protestant institutions such as Harvard and Yale, thesecritics warn that Catholic schools are in danger of suffer-ing the same fate. As the premier Catholic liberal arts col-lege in America, Holy Cross has not been exempt fromsuch claims. While some of these critiques are grounded insolid academic research, many more are based on anec-dote, conjecture or speculation.

One of the shakier claims is that Catholic college stu-dents are losing their religion. Statements about studentreligiosity are especially problematic given the lack of sys-tematic data. Equally problematic is the tendency of manycritics to ignore the larger context of American higher edu-cation and contemporary youth culture. Criticizing the laxpiety of Catholic college students, they do not bother tocompare them to students at non-Catholic colleges anduniversities. Blaming Catholic colleges for the religiousilliteracy of their graduates, they ignore recent studieswhich identify the same problems among Catholic youngpeople everywhere.

To shed some light on student religious life at HolyCross, we draw on a survey of 223 Holy Cross undergrad-uates conducted in the spring of 2002, as we compare thereligious attitudes of Holy Cross students to those of stu-dents at other institutions, to 18-22 year olds nationally,and to other young Catholics (see Box for a description ofdata sources and limitations). The data are quite striking.In sharp contrast to the secularized student body describedby the critics of Catholic higher education, Holy Cross


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students are more religiously engagedthan their counterparts at non-Catholiccolleges and universities, not to mentionmost 18-22 year olds. While sometimescritical of official church teaching, theyenthusiastically embrace Catholicism’score emphasis on the sacraments, com-munity and social justice. Combiningabove average levels of religious beliefand practice with critical reflection onCatholicism, they possess a religiousfaith that is simultaneously committedand questioning.

Overwhelmingly CatholicSeveral questions on religious identi-

ty, belief and practice show that religionis a vital part of the lives of Holy Crossstudents. Not surprisingly, 74 percent ofHoly Cross students identified asRoman Catholic, making the studentbody one of the most Catholic in thenation. According to the General SocialSurveys (1993-2000), only 27 percent of18-22 year-olds and 31 percent of 18-22year-old students are Catholic (see Table1). Also, many other Catholic collegeshave a lower percentage of Catholic stu-dents than Holy Cross. On the 2001College Student Survey, Catholics madeup just 66 percent of seniors at four-yearCatholic institutions in America. Tenpercent of Holy Cross undergraduates

identified as Protestant, while 4 percentidentified with other religious traditions(including Buddhism, Hinduism, Islamand Eastern Orthodoxy). None identi-fied as Jewish (a troubling statistic in astate where Jews comprise almost 5 per-cent of the population, according to the1990 National Survey of ReligiousIdentification).

In an age of religious and ethnic plu-ralism, Holy Cross remains remarkablyhomogenous. This homogeneity isreflected in the large proportion of ourstudents who have attended Catholicschools (50 percent), were raisedCatholic (83 percent), and applied to atleast one other Catholic college beforecoming to Holy Cross (73 percent).While the boundaries of the Catholicsubculture have weakened, its parishesand schools continue to serve as feedersfor Holy Cross. Moreover, Holy Crossstudents continue to come from thesame white ethnic groups that have his-torically dominated the CatholicChurch in the Northeast. Fifty-nine per-cent of students named Irish and 31percent named Italian as one of theirethnic identities. Though Latinos nowcomprise as much as 30 percent of theAmerican Catholic population (this esti-mate comes from William D’Antonio inthe National Catholic Reporter), they

make up only 5 percent of the HolyCross student body.

Atheism is extremely rare amongHoly Cross students. On the survey, 83percent confessed belief in God (whenthose who believe in a “higher power”are included, this number rises to 96percent). Likewise, 85 percent believe inan afterlife compared to 81 percent of18-22 year-old students in the GeneralSocial Surveys (see Table 1). Only 13percent of Holy Cross respondents gavea religious preference of “none” com-pared with 21 percent of 18-22 year-olds and 20 percent of 18-22 year-oldstudents (see Table 1). Nine in 10 HolyCross students reported that they con-sidered themselves to be either “reli-gious” or “spiritual”; nearly three-quar-ters reported they had either a “strong”or “somewhat strong” religious identity.

Masses, Retreats and SoupKitchens

Whether attending Mass at St.Joseph’s Chapel, building homes inAppalachia or making an oceansideretreat in Rhode Island, Holy Cross stu-dents are more religiously involved thanmany college students. One-half of therespondents said they attend religiousservices at least 2-3 times a month,compared to an estimated 35 percent of


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U.S. college students and 28 percent of U.S. 18-22 year-olds (see Table 1). Likewise, 44 percent have participatedin the Student Programs for Urban Development (SPUD),Holy Cross’ signature volunteer program, while 21 percenthave been involved in one of the liturgical ministries—as amember of the church choir, a liturgical dancer, aEucharistic minister, greeter, or lector. One in four stu-dents reported taking religious studies courses in additionto the one-course College requirement. Finally, one-fifth ofthe student body has participated in a retreat, reflectingthe centrality of the Spiritual Exercises to the Jesuit tradi-tion. Moreover, for each of these activities, the percentagewho participated increased with the students’ academicclass year. Nearly twice as many seniors as freshmen report-ed participating in a retreat, and over 50 percent of thefourth-year students, compared with 39 percent of thefirst-year students, had participated in SPUD. Thus, bymany measures, Holy Cross students are living the Collegemission: creating an active worshipping community andengaging in the life and work of the contemporary church.Given the 30-year decline in college student religiositynationally (documented in UCLA’s American Freshmansurvey), this is all the more noteworthy.

The impact of religion also is reflected in the life goalsof Holy Cross students. When we compared students whowere most involved with those least involved in campusreligious life, we found that the most religiously active stu-dents were much more likely to regard these life goals as


Table 1. Percentage of Holy Cross Students, U.S. 18-22 Year-olds, and U.S. 18-22 Year-old Students with vari-ous religious preferences, behaviors, and attitudes.

Holy Cross Students U.S. 18-22 U.S. 18-22(N = 223) Year-olds Year-old Students

Religion in which raised (Catholic) 83.0 32.2 32.5

Current religious preference (Catholic) 73.5 27.4 30.8

Current religious preference (none) 13.0 20.9 19.5

Attendance at religious services 49.1 27.7 35.4(2-3 times a month or more)

Frequency of prayer (once a week or more) 66.4 66.6 64.5

Belief in life after death 84.8 80.7 80.9

Confidence in the existence of God 82.5 77.5 76.8(“believe in God sometimes” or “with doubts,” or “know God exists”)

Note: Data for the U.S. cohorts were drawn from the General Social Survey, 1993-2000. Sample sizes vary by question andsample, from 69 (belief in God among U.S. 18-22 year-old students) to 706 (religion raised among U.S. 18-22 year-olds).

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“essential” or “very important”:Developing a meaningful philosophyof life, performing community serviceand integrating spirituality into mylife. The least active students, on theother hand, were more likely to valuebeing very well off financially.Further, it is the life goals of the reli-giously active students that distin-guish Holy Cross from other collegesand universities. According to theUCLA Freshman and Senior surveys,Holy Cross students as a whole aremore likely than students elsewhere,including those at Catholic colleges,to value the development of a mean-ingful philosophy of life and the inte-gration of spirituality into their livesand are less likely to want to be verywell off financially.

Holy Cross Catholics:Committed to the Core

In American Catholics: Gender,Generation, and Commitment (2001),William D’Antonio and his co-authors make a distinction between

the “core” and the “periphery” ofCatholic identity, arguing thatCatholics “distinguish faith from therules of the institutional Church.”For most American Catholics theauthority of the hierarchy “is seen asmore peripheral than the sacraments,spirituality, and action for social jus-tice.” According to the Gallup datathey report in the book, this is espe-cially true of the post-Vatican II gen-eration of young adult Catholics.

Like their counterparts nationally,Catholics at Holy Cross distinguishbetween the core and the peripheryof Catholic teachings, affirming thecentrality of the sacraments, spiritual-ity, community and social justicewhile parting company with Romeon other issues. When asked, “As aCatholic, how important is each ofthe following to you?” Seventy-sixpercent of Holy Cross Catholicsdescribed the sacraments as “veryimportant,” followed by “spiritualityand personal growth” (67 percent),the “spirit of community amongCatholics” (64 percent), the

“Church’s involvement in activitiesdirected toward social justice andhelping the poor” (53 percent), andthe “Church’s teachings about Maryas the Mother of God” (41 percent).Like American Catholics nationally,over 90 percent rated each of theseelements of Catholicism as at least“somewhat important” to beingCatholic (see Table 2).

The authority of the hierarchy issomewhat less important to Catholicsat Holy Cross, especially on the hot-button issues of birth control,women’s ordination and marriedpriests. Like most AmericanCatholics, they practice a form ofwhat Andrew Greeley calls “selectiveCatholicism,” picking and choosingamong church teachings. Over 80percent agreed that “it would be agood thing if married men wereallowed to be ordained as priests,”while nearly 90 percent agreed “itwould be a good thing if womenwere allowed to be ordained aspriests.” Only 16 percent of HolyCross Catholics said that the teaching


Table 2. Percentage of Holy Cross Catholic Students, U.S. Catholics, Post-Vatican II U.S. Catholics, and 18-22Year-old U.S. Catholics who Regarded Various Elements of Being Catholic as “Very Important” or “SomewhatImportant.”

Holy Cross Post-Vatican II 18-22Catholic Students U.S. U.S. Year-old

(N = 164) Catholics Catholics Catholics

The sacraments, such as the 99 96 95 89Eucharist and marriage

Spirituality and personal growth 99 98 98 92

Church involvement in activities directed 95 96 96 91towards social justice and helping the poor

The Catholic Church’s teachings about Mary 90 96 94 91as the Mother of God

The spirit of community among Catholics 94 96 96 93

The teaching authority claimed by the Vatican 67 87 85 81

Note: Respondents were asked, “As a Catholic, how important is each of the following to you? Would you say very important,somewhat important, or not important at all?” Data for other Catholic cohorts are from the 1999 American Catholics Survey. Post-Vatican II Catholics were born in 1961 or later. Sample sizes vary from 849 to 874 for U.S. Catholics, 393 to 405 for Post-VaticanII U.S. Catholics, and 78 to 84 for 18-22 Year-old U.S. Catholics.

authority of the Vatican was “very important” to beingCatholic, though 67 percent said it was at least “somewhatimportant.” Likewise, a majority felt that a person could be agood Catholic without obeying the church’s teachings on birthcontrol (95 percent), divorce/remarriage (86 percent), andabortion (61 percent), and without believing in papal infalli-bility (69 percent). On most of these questions, the views ofHoly Cross Catholic students closely matched those of youngCatholics nationally. The major exception to this pattern isthe tendency of Holy Cross students to see the teachingauthority of the Vatican as somewhat less important (see Table2).

Not surprisingly, the priest sex abuse scandal has tarnishedHoly Cross Catholics’ image of the Catholic Church. When

asked if reports that “a number of priestshave abused children sexually” hadstrengthened or weakened their commit-ment to the church, 82 percent said theircommitment had been weakened.

Despite such feelings, the vast majorityof Catholic students at Holy Cross havecontinued to see church teachings as rele-vant to their lives. Ninety-one percentdescribed the teachings of Catholicism asvery or fairly important to them personal-ly, and 80 percent said such beliefs had atleast some influence on their dailythoughts and conduct. Moreover, a size-able percentage of Holy Cross Catholicssaid they had heard of the United StatesCatholic Bishops’ pastoral letter on theeconomy (25 percent). By contrast, only11 percent of post-Vatican II Catholicssurveyed by Gallup in 1993 for the studyLaity: American and Catholic had heard ofthe 1985 economics pastoral, suggestingthat Holy Cross students are more literatein Catholic social teaching than Catholicyoung people nationally.

Not Losing Their ReligionA final issue addressed in the survey is

the impact of the Holy Cross experienceon the faith of students. Listening to thecritics of contemporary Catholic highereducation, one would expect to find asharp drop-off in religious commitmentamong Holy Cross students. Yet such isnot the case. A majority (60 percent) ofHoly Cross students reported that theirpersonal religious faith had not changedsince coming to Holy Cross. Of thosewho did report a shift, 32 percent saidtheir faith was stronger. Only 8 percent

said that it was weaker. To be sure, attendance at religious services was somewhat

lower among seniors than among freshmen. Forty-two percentof seniors reported attending church at least 2-3 times permonth, compared to 52 percent of freshmen. Yet this declineis quite modest compared to that experienced by students atmany colleges. In How College Affects Students (1991), ErnestPascarella and Patrick Terenzini note that the literature “fairlyconsistently reports statistically significant declines in religiousattitudes, values, and behaviors during the college years,”including “changing (usually dropping) affiliation with a tradi-tional church, a reduction in church going or prayer, alter-ations in beliefs about a supreme being, or a decline in general


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A Note on Methodology

The data reported here come from a personal interview survey of HolyCross students conducted in spring 2002 by students enrolled inSingleton’s course in methods of social research.1 Because students were

selected randomly, and the completed interviews represent a high percentage ofthe targeted sample (89 percent), the survey provides reliable data with anestimable margin of error. For most questions the error is about 6 percent. Thismeans that in 95 of 100 cases, results based on a sample of this size (223)should not differ by more than 6 percentage points from the results that wouldbe obtained if all Holy Cross students were interviewed. For example, with datafrom the spring survey we can be 95 percent confident that the percentage ofHoly Cross students who identify themselves as Catholics is 73.5 plus or minus6 percent—that is, between 67.5 and 79.5 percent. (Other surveys of HolyCross students suggest that the actual percentage is closer to 80 than to 70 per-cent.)

The sample closely resembles the Holy Cross student body on several knownand suspected characteristics. Among the 223 respondents, for example, 54 per-cent were women and 89 percent were white, as compared to 52 percentwomen and 88 percent white for the student population. Eighty percent of thesample, as compared with 77 percent of the student body, lived on campus.

Many of the questions we asked were drawn from national surveys, includ-ing the General Social Survey, the American Catholics Surveys of 1993 and1999, and the CIRP Freshman Survey. Using items from these surveys enabledus to compare Holy Cross students with other sample populations, as we havedone in Tables 1 and 2. There are limits, however, to the comparisons we canmake. Although we would like to have known whether Holy Cross students aremore or less religiously engaged than students at specific other colleges, especial-ly Jesuit schools, this was not possible because no one to our knowledge hasgathered such information. Several questions in the survey were asked only ofstudents who identified themselves as Catholics. In this case, because weobtained the raw data from the 1999 American Catholics Survey, from whichthese questions were taken, we were able to show where Holy Cross Catholicstudents stand in relation to various other national cohorts of Catholics.

You can learn more about the Holy Cross Student Survey Project online atthis Web site: http://www.holycross.edu/departments/socant/rsinglet/survey.htm. Findings from the American Catholics Survey can be found athttp://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives/102999/AMCATH.htm.

John A. Schmalzbauer and Royce A. Singleton Jr. are members of the department ofsociology and anthropology at Holy Cross.

The authors wish to thank Kelly Gillespie ’99, Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J.,and Professors Alice Laffey and David J. O’Brien for offering helpful feedback onthis piece.

1 The following students served as interviewers on this project: Stephanie Baker, KarenCesary, Maria Chavez, Rachel Covino, Stefanie Cruz, Yolanda Dawkins, Nick Desimone,Karen Farley, Mike Fedigan, Ashley Klecak, Kathryn Lang, Caitlin Leonard, LizzieMcCawley, Erin Mooney, Ana Moriarty, Nicole Mortorano, Jordan Nestor, Matt Ney,Kristen Norris, Steve Noto, Deirdre O’Connor, Erin Palank, Annette Quatrano,Catherine Ryan, and Sara Stockman.


religiosity.” In the Holy Cross sur-vey, 61 percent of respondents (and65 percent of Catholic students)said that their participation in reli-gious activities had either increasedor remained the same since comingto college, suggesting more continu-ity than change.

What does change at Holy Crossis the degree to which students criti-cally reflect on their faith. Whenasked if they had become more crit-ical or appreciative of the teachingsof the Catholic Church since com-ing to Holy Cross, the vast majorityof students (68 percent) said thattheir view of the church hadchanged, with 27 percent becomingmore critical, 9 percent becomingmore appreciative, and 32 percentbecoming more appreciative andmore critical. In this way, HolyCross students combine strong reli-gious faith with thoughtful ques-tioning, articulating a faith that issimultaneously critical and commit-ted.

In his inaugural homily as presi-dent, Rev. Michael C. McFarland,S.J., said “We must learn to live inthe tension between commitmentand openness, between witness anddialogue, between faith and criticalinquiry.” As the data from the sur-vey make clear, Holy Cross studentshave lived in this tension. Consis-tent with the mission statement’semphasis on “fundamental religiousand philosophical questions,” theyhave critically investigated the truthclaims of their faith communities.Consistent with the Jesuit emphasison “finding God in all things,” theyhave held on to their religious con-victions. Whether they have struckthe right balance between faith andcritical inquiry is an open question.That they have reflected on theplace of faith in their lives is beyonddispute.


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Pre-Business ProgramOpens New

As first-year students come up Linden Lane for thefirst time, a future in business is probably the lastthing on their minds. At least, it was the last thingon the mind of the young Arthur A. Ciocca ’59

when he first arrived on campus in the fall of 1955.As chief executive officer of The Wine Group, his commit-

ment to the growing Pre-Business Program through theEntrepreneurial Lecture Series and the new Executive inResidence Program offers a way to show Holy Cross studentsthat business can be an option for liberal arts graduates.

“It’s hard to realize what doors there are and how to openthem,” says Provost Frank Vellaccio. “There are no requiredcourses for the business world.”

Particularly at a liberal arts college, “students have a diffi-cult time integrating the notion that you can work in business

and still make the world a better place,” says John Winters,Jr., director, Career Planning Center. “They have an amor-phous understanding of business,” he adds. “They know it’snot education, medicine or law—so we have to educate themabout the possibilities.”

That’s where the Pre-Business Program comes in. It startedin the fall of 2000 with the appointment of Nancy Baldiga,associate professor of economics/accounting, as the pre-busi-ness faculty advisor. Before she came to Holy Cross in 1992,Baldiga worked as a certified public accountant with PriceWaterhouse. The program then received a critical boostthrough the support of Michael and Maureen Ruettgers P’03,’99.

The Pre-Business Program builds on many programs andresources already available to students at Holy Cross. Like the

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DO RSpremed and prelaw programs, pre-busi-ness encourages students to exploreoptions, particularly in their first twoyears at the College. Components of theprogram include academic advising, theSummer Internship Program (SIP), spe-cial programming like the Career Café,and beginning next year, the Executivein Residence Program.

Students can meet with Baldiga toobtain help in selecting a major or todiscuss their curricular plans and howthose plans might support or lead to acareer plan. She also encourages studentsto visit the Career Planning Center formore specific job-hunting advice.Students can get feedback on theirresumes and cover letters, attend work-shops on interviewing skills and under-go mock interviews with critiques pro-vided by staff members.

Those students who want a summerinternship experience are directed toAmy C. Murphy, director of theSummer Internship Program, to learnabout the application process. Morethan 250 applications were submittedfor the fall round, Murphy reports.Some 100-to-120 students will beaccepted from this group, making themeligible to apply for approximately 60SIP internships created and funded by

Holy Cross alumni and parentsthroughout the Northeast.

Special programming like the CareerCafé offers alumni the opportunity todiscuss their career decisions and theskills required to succeed in their indus-try. Recent topics have included: theimportance of sales experience to anycareer; the process of getting into busi-ness school; and ways to start a career inadvertising. Baldiga encourages alumniinterested in sharing their stories withpre-business students to contact her [email protected].

“I’m a firm believer that a liberal artsdegree can lead to any career,” saysBaldiga. “Sometimes our students justneed help packaging it the right way.”

Why Pre-Business atHoly Cross?

“There’s a long-held notion aboutHoly Cross that we don’t prepare stu-dents for careers, we prepare them forlife,” says Vellaccio. “Yet we have apremed and prelaw advising pro-gram.” After graduation,Vellaccio has found, many moreHoly Cross graduates end up inbusiness careers than in med-icine or law. It became clear,he says, “We were doing an

injustice to students interested in busi-ness by not providing a set of resourcesfor them.” Vellaccio had been hearingfrom alumni for more than 20 years thatthe school prepared talented writers andthinkers, but that graduates were notprepared for the “nitty gritty” details ofthe business world.

“Students weren’t ready to thinkabout their postgraduation plans untilsenior year,” Baldiga notes. And in anincreasingly competitive job market,Holy Cross students, with grades andextracurricular activities comparablewith peers at Boston College, Colgate orMiddlebury, weren’t getting interviews.The difference? Summer internships.

“We learned that internships were nolonger a competitive advantage but aprerequisite for entry-level positions forcollege graduates,” says Murphy. “Agood-paying summer job in construc-tion, bartending or waitressing to helppay for school wasn’t enough.”

In February 2000, Vellaccio, theninterim president, hired Murphy tostart a summer internship program.In August, he asked Nancy Baldiga

to serve as faculty advisor to thePre-Business Program.

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“I’ve learnedhow to thinkanalytically,ask the rightquestions,communi-cate andwork as ateam.”

Creedenworked inthe GlobalFinancialSystemsdepartmentof AvonProducts.

“What I wasexposed tolast summercould nothave beentaught in theclassroom.”

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straints at the College. “There’s a strongstudent culture at Holy Cross,” saysVellaccio. “We needed the Pre-BusinessProgram to be accepted by students assomething that’s ‘OK’ to do. It also hadto have academic legitimacy, evidencedby faculty interest and support.”

The internship director’s work com-plements that of the pre-business advi-sor, he explains. This combination helpsstudents obtain the practical informa-tion about entering the work worldwhile benefiting from an advising sys-tem that encourages them to see intern-ship experiences as both an importantresume builder and a good learningexperience.

Alumni Support VitalAlumni support for this effort has

been pivotal. “We approached ArtCiocca because of his interest in entre-preneurship,” Vellaccio says. As chiefexecutive officer of The Wine Group,Ciocca revolutionized the wine industrywith the creation of the Franzia WineTap—a packaging innovation that keepswine fresh after it is opened; easier tostore and pour than traditional largeglass bottles, it is more cost efficient andbetter suited to in-store display. Saleshave reached nearly 20 million cases ayear.

Ciocca agreed to support theEntrepreneurial Lecture Series and theExecutive in Residence Program—recently sharing his experiences withstudents during a visit to campus whenhe spoke on “A Game Plan forTomorrow’s Leaders.” Ciocca told thegroup of 80 students in attendance his

motto: “Whether you’re managing abrand, a company or your life, you needa vision, a plan, a strategy and unrelent-ing execution.” He offered advice ondeveloping leadership skills and encour-aged his audience to believe that “thebusiness world is a noble place whereyou can do a lot of good and affect a lotof lives.”

“I found that a lot of young peopletoday are not dissimilar to where I wassome 45 years ago,” Ciocca says. “Theydon’t have enough options or experienceto help them decide what to do.” As aROTC student, Ciocca served in theNavy for three years after graduationand attended business school at night.There he met a professor who worked inadvertising and a roommate whoworked in marketing, and he found thedoor he wanted to open. Ciocca workedat General Foods for several years andthen moved West, where he decidedthere was opportunity in the Californiawine business.

“This program is a wonderful oppor-tunity for students to clarify what theymight want to be,” Ciocca says. “Itwould have been fabulous to have had aprogram like this when I was at HolyCross.”

Ongoing support for the Pre-Business Program has been provided bythe Ruettgers family and the May andStanley Smith Charitable Trust.

Measuring SuccessIn the winter of 2000, Murphy knew

she needed to jump-start the SummerInternship Program by tapping thealumni network. The goal: to help

future graduates succeed in finding posi-tions with “marquee organizations.” TheHoly Cross Leadership Council of NewYork helped raise funds to pay for thefirst 10 internships. That first summer,13 students worked as interns at 11 sitesin New York and Massachusetts.

The next summer, 49 studentsworked at 28 sites in Massachusetts,New York and Connecticut. And in thesummer of 2002, despite a challengingeconomic climate, 63 interns worked at37 sites. Thanks to commitments fromparents and alumni, Murphy says, everyinternship is paid.

Baldiga sees about 50 students in heroffice each semester to discuss theirplans for the future. Some 35 studentsattend each Career Café presentationand “many” check in with her via e-mail. She has about 350 students on hermailing list this year.

The internship experiences havealready begun to pay off. While theresults from the summer of 2002 are notyet available, of the 40 third-year stu-dents who participated in the SIP in2001, five were later employed full timeby their internship sites, and 14 landedjobs with other organizations. Five sec-ond-year students with internships in2001 returned to the same site last sum-mer.

Looking just at the numbers, theprogram is clearly a success. Listening tostudents offers another point of refer-ence—and the consensus is that it’sworking very well, even in what may bethe toughest job market in two decades.A recent survey published by theNational Association of College and

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Employers foundthat employerswill hire 3.6 per-cent fewer gradu-ating seniors thisyear than they didlast year. In theNortheast, collegerecruiting isexpected to drop8.1 percent.

Several fourth-year students alreadyhave job offers, however, thanks to theirsummer experiences. Erin Williams ’03,who spent last summer in the businessplanning group of EMC’s corporatefinance division, reports that she hasaccepted a job offer from GeneralElectric. The greatest benefit from hersummer internship, she notes, was learn-ing how to conduct herself in an officeenvironment—plus working “only a fewcubicles away from three Holy Crossgrads, including the chief financial offi-cer.”

Cara Gontarz ’03 will also join theranks of GE’s new employees next sum-mer as a member of its FinancialManagement Program. She spent lastsummer in New York City in the riskmanagement casualty department ofMarsh Inc.—the world’s leading riskand insurance services firm and an oper-ating unit of Marsh & McLennanCompanies, Inc. While preparing docu-ments, charts and diagrams for clientpolicy renewals, Gontarz explains thatshe saw how to handle things in toughmarkets, and how to work hard tomaintain client relationships. Her bosstook her to every client meeting andserved as a role model for “great leader-ship,” she says.

As a political science major, Gontarzmet with Baldiga to learn more abouther options in the business world.Baldiga recommended that she take afew economics and accounting classes.After spending a semester in Australiastudying political science at theUniversity of Melbourne, Gontarz real-ized that the economy stands behindevery political decision. She also attend-

ed talks givenby visitingexecutivesand used theresources atthe CareerPlanningCenter. Earlyon, she gotsome valuableadvice from

that office: “Treat your job search likeyour fifth class.” As part of her liberalarts education, she says, “I’ve learnedhow to think analytically, ask the rightquestions, communicate and work as ateam.” As she has discovered, those skillsare highly valued in the workplace.

While he doesn’t have a job offer yet,economics major Michael Creeden ’03isn’t too concerned. He spent last sum-mer doing a reverse commute from NewYork City to Rye, N.Y., where heworked in the Global Financial Systemsdepartment of Avon Products. Whilecomputers are not his area of expertise,he worked on the upgrade of a financialdatabase system and processed computersystem access requests from newemployees around the world. His co-workers patiently taught him what heneeded to know, he says.

When he first arrived at Holy Cross,Creeden says he tried not to specializetoo soon, so as not to miss out on liber-al arts courses like African-AmericanTheater History and MulticulturalActing. While initially interested inmath, he declared himself an economicsmajor “at the last possible moment” inthe fall of his third year. He got veryinvolved with the Pre-Business Programat that point, as he explains, “I had alimited idea of what to do with an eco-nomics major.”

“What I was exposed to last summercould not have been taught in the class-room,” explains Maura O’Shea ’03, whohad an internship with Linden,Atschuler & Kaplan Public Relations. Asa sociology major, she says she enjoyedthe chance to use her training that hasmade her “socially aware of the differ-

ences that exist in our society and cul-ture.” O’Shea adds that, working at thepublic relations firm “challenged me toapply all the academic and religiousknowledge that I have learned here atHoly Cross to life in the businessworld.”

Evolving as it GrowsA new offering for Pre-Business stu-

dents will be the Executive in ResidenceProgram, created with the support ofCiocca. Before school begins eachAugust, a senior executive (and HolyCross graduate) will spend four days oncampus to talk about his/her vision andpassion; work with selected students oncase studies; and provide the catalyst forregional alumni to return to campus fornetworking and mentoring opportuni-ties.

Much like a professional develop-ment conference, Baldiga explains, stu-dents will attend sessions on businessfundamentals, including how to readfinancial statements, understand eco-nomic models and develop a businessplan. Career planning staff will presentworkshops on interviewing techniquesand resume development and help stu-dents learn more about the resourcesavailable within that office.

The executive will then return laterin the academic year to reconnect withthose students and speak to others inthe Pre-Business Program—to helpthem explore more concretely the busi-ness opportunities available as intern-ships. Baldiga, who brainstormed withCiocca to develop the basic elements ofthe new Executive in ResidenceProgram, expects an initial participationof 25-to-30 students. Through the pro-gram, students will learn, in concreteways, how to act on Ciocca’s advice:“The liberal arts provide a wonderfuleducation, but you have to take controlof your career.”

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Diversity.A high-voltage, hot-button word in the headlines and on

campuses nationwide at the moment. It ignites debate andsparks discussion among legislators and scholars, pundits andteachers, friends and classmates. At Holy Cross, the commit-ment to diversity is rooted in the College’s history and intrin-sic to its mission.

While the College’s commitment to diversity remains asfirm today as it was in 1843, the opportunities to realize itspotential have been expanded significantly, thanks to a gener-ous grant from The Goizueta Foundation of Atlanta.

On Nov. 1, 2002, The Goizueta Foundation—founded in1992 by the late Roberto C. Goizueta, a Cuban émigré andthe longtime Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TheCoca-Cola Company—awarded Holy Cross a $1-milliongrant to support two important components of the school’s

diversity efforts: a summer “bridge” program for African-,Latin-, Asian- and Native American (ALANA) and majoritystudents, and an endowed scholarship for financially needyLatino/a students. “This is a fast-growing population, both inthe Worcester area and nationally, that we are very interestedin,” says Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., president of HolyCross. “We have had some outstanding students from thisgroup and hope to have many more. The scholarship compo-nent of the grant is a wonderful tool for advancing our diver-sity efforts. The Goizueta Foundation Scholars Fund willenable young people with vast potential, but limited resources,to receive a Holy Cross education.”

About two-thirds of the grant ($632,910) will fund thefirst three years of the bridge program, while the rest will beused to establish the scholarship endowment.

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Force on Diversity, which worked for the past two yearson a plan that would not only increase the number ofALANA students at Holy Cross, but also the quality oftheir experience here. The Task Force was an outgrowthof a Trustee retreat in preparation for the College’s$175-million “Lift High the Cross” campaign.

“We have many talented and highly motivatedALANA students, but we find that they are still under-represented in programs that require high achievement,including the honors program, pre-med, pre-law and soon,” explains Fr. McFarland. “In some cases, they havetrouble, for various reasons, making the transition to anacademically rigorous environment like Holy Cross. The(bridge) program … will help ALANA and other stu-dents to perform up to their potential and move intopositions of leadership on campus and beyond.”

“We want to make sure they achieve early success,”adds Vellaccio. “We feel that if they have a good earlystart, the chances are better that they will have a goodfinish.”

And that’s precisely what the summer bridge programis intended to do: provide that good early start by easingthe transition for students whose high school experiencemay have left them less than well-prepared for the rigorsof Holy Cross academics—and the challenge of goingaway to college altogether.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Margaret Freije,who also served on the Academic Success Subcommitteeof the Diversity Task Force, says she knows firsthandabout the unique challenges facing ALANA and otherstudents from economically disadvantaged backgrounds,or who are the first in their family to go to college.

“We know from letters and from their schools thatthe potential is there, but for many the adjustment tothe demands of college life can be overwhelming. Thesestudents might have done everything their high schoolsasked of them, but there is a vast difference among highschools in this country,” says Freije, who is also dean forthe Class of 2003. “We expect a different quality ofwork here—not just longer papers,but better. The analysis has to bemore serious. In our math classes, wedon’t just want them to go home anddo 12 more problems like the ones wedid in class. We want to lay out thetheory, do a few examples, and hopethey can run with that.”

“That divide—between the kindof work that was expected in highschool, and what we expect here—isbig,” she continues. “It’s big for every-body. But it can be huge for somestudents.”

Dubbed “Passport”—the namecomes from a Malcolm X quote:“Education is your passport to thefuture, for tomorrow belongs to the people who preparefor it today”—the bridge program will begin this sum-mer, and will accommodate up to 50 students. It will bedirected by Tamika Weaver, the new associate director ofAcademic Services. She came to Holy Cross in Januaryfrom the University of Maryland/Baltimore County,where she was the coordinator of program operations forthe Learning Resource Center. She also worked as a


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communications specialist for HightowerScholars, a nonprofit organization thatcoordinates programs and scholarshipsthat encourage students to pursue highereducation.

“Tamika comes to us with very strongexperience,” says Christina Chen, directorof Academic Services and LearningResources, who helped to research anddevelop the bridge program concept as amember of the Academic SuccessSubcommittee of the Diversity Task Force.

During the summer session, Passport students—whose participation will be strongly encouraged, butnot required—will take one course for credit, andwill also be enrolled in writing, math and study

skills workshops. Then, during thefall semester of their first year,these students will take threecourses, instead of the usual four.

In addition, Passport studentswill be assigned to mentoringgroups, in which five or six first-year students will be paired withan upper-class ALANA studentand a faculty member. Thesegroups will meet weekly, both

individually and as a group. The idea is that thesesessions will give the students a chance to comparenotes and commiserate with others who may begoing through the same experience. It’s a criticalcomponent of the Passport program, according to

Freije.“The upper-class students can identify more

with the kids,” she explains. “They can say:‘I’ve been there, and I know what it’s like. Imade it. You can, too.’”

“They can also encourage them to availthemselves of some of the support services wehave on campus, and coming from a peer, thathas a much bigger impact than if it comes froma teacher or counselor,” continues Freije. “Wehave lots of services here: tutoring, readingskills workshops, counseling. Some studentstake advantage of these services, and somedon’t. And the ones who do are not always theones who need it most! It will be much moremeaningful (to the Passport students) if one oftheir peers says, ‘hey, I tried this out … I didn’treally want to go, but I did. And it was worthit!’”

The third element of the Passport programis a retreat that the entire group will take inJanuary—again, to give these students theopportunity to talk candidly about the variedchallenges that students face during their firstsemester at Holy Cross.

The timing of The Goizueta Foundationgrant was eerily perfect: The initiation of thegrant process came at almost precisely the timethe Diversity Task Force was completing itswork late last spring. “We knew what we want-ed to do, we designed the program we wanted


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to have … and in they walked!”recalls Freije, with a chuckle that’sstill somewhat incredulous. “We’renot sure where we would have gottenthe money otherwise.”

“When Associate Dean MaryMorton came to my office to tell methe great news (about the grant),honestly, I screamed!” recalls Chen.“I remember telling her that I was soexcited that it was as if someone hadgiven me the $1 million.”

“When we first began, the taskforce had reasonable economic securi-ty,” adds Vellaccio. “We had moneyto allocate to whatever program wecame up with. But since then, thebottom dropped out of the stockmarket. Our endowment is not gen-erating the money it used to, and our

students’ financial aid needs aregreater. So much of what we had ear-marked was in peril, and this granthas made the difference. It’s made thedifference between night and day. Itmeans we are able to do what wewanted, the way it needs to be done,and do it quickly. It also gives us athree-year buffer, a time to make asignificant assessment of the programand adjust it as needed. It was really ahome run.”

“We are grateful and proud thatThe Goizueta Foundation was inter-ested in supporting our work,” con-cludes Fr. McFarland. “They havebeen very selective in the institutionsthey have chosen to work with, andthey were very thorough in investi-gating Holy Cross before they gave us

this grant.”“This was a great confirmation by

them to us that they thought enoughof our program’s potential,” addsVellaccio. “Just to have them come tous, to be allowed to submit an appli-cation and to be recognized by afoundation of the caliber of TheGoizueta Foundation says somethingabout our institution. It’s an indica-tion that we are doing the rightthing.”

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Ask 7-Eleven presidentand chief executiveofficer James W.Keyes ’77 to describe“the most important

single ingredient” required for success inthe high-stakes world of conveniencestore retailing, and the former HolyCross baseball shortstop doesn’t miss abeat.

“The key to success is creativity!”booms Keyes, the 47-year-old retailingwunderkind who took the helm at the$31-billion-a-year convenience-storeempire in mid-2000. “You know, a lotof people believe that running a majorcorporation is mostly a matter ofcrunching numbers and analyzing data.

“Wrong! To get this job done, youhave to know how to think creatively.You need imagination and intuition.You’ve got to be able to look down theroad and predict what’s coming—andthen work like hell to make sure yourproducts are perfectly positioned to takeadvantage of future trends.”

According to the peripatetic Keyes—an enthusiastic world-traveler who shut-tles endlessly among the 19 countrieswhere his 23,000 stores (6,000 in theUnited States) are now operating aroundthe clock—effective corporate leadershipalso requires “a fair amount of nerve …the willingness to take a risk now andthen in order to stay out in front of thenext sales trend.”

Sounds pretty convincing, right? Butcan the high-flying Keyes give us anexample of the risk-taking that takesplace almost daily in his office on the40th floor of 7-Eleven world headquar-

ters in Dallas?“You bet!” snaps the CEO, a nation-

ally renowned marketing whiz with anamazing ability to sniff out the nextconvenience-store buying trend (“He’sgot a genetic gift for retail,” says oneclose associate). “I was in Singapore alittle while ago, and I’m pleased to tellyou that our 7-Eleven ‘cash cards’ aregoing great guns over there. What we’vedone in our Singapore stores is going tobe a model for the U.S., starting in thenext couple of years. What happens is,the customer comes in and buys a pre-paid card with a microchip in it. Andlet’s say the card costs $100.

“Okay, from this point on—no moremoney! The next day the customerwalks into the store and buys a gallon ofmilk and 10 gallons of gas. Then hehands the card to the clerk. Bingo! Thecard slides under a scanner, and in aflash, the customer is out the door andon his way. We think it will be a bigwinner at 7-Eleven, and we’re alreadytalking to Coca-Cola and Pepsi aboutimplementing these cards. Can youimagine what it would be like, to get ridof all that change you’ve been carryingaround in your pocket?”

He pauses, then slides into anotherrollicking laugh, and you suddenly real-ize a startling fact: In spite of the grind-ing pressure and the endless headaches,this corporate executive is actually hav-ing fun on the job!

“We think these cash cards are a pret-ty creative wrinkle, and we’re willing totake a risk by introducing them into ourstores in the U.S. And we’re betting thatthe rest of the nation will soon start fol-lowing our lead. New innovations likethis one are the future—and stayingahead of the curve is the name of thegame, if we’re gonna keep 7-Eleven ontop!”

The Competition: “TougherEvery Day”

When 7-Eleven celebrated its 75thbirthday last July 11, Keyes toasted hiscompany’s remarkable growth in recentdecades with thousands of giveaway-Slurpees for customers. But Keyes alsotook advantage of the birthday shindigto tick off some of 7-Eleven’s majoraccomplishments, including the follow-ing:

● Launched in Texas in 1927 as theSouthland Ice Company (and re-named “7-Eleven” in 1945 when itshours of operation were extendedfrom early morning to 11 p.m., sevendays a week), the convenience storechain has mushroomed from a fewoutlets—first known as “Tote’m”stores—to today’s 23,000 units locat-ed in 19 countries.

● During those seven-and-a-halfdecades, the company expanded itsproduct line from such staple grocery

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items as bread and milk to morethan 2,500 “convenience” prod-ucts—everything from flashlightbatteries to auto lubricants tocandy bars, hot dogs and slices ofpre-cooked, ready-to-eat pizza.

● Under Keyes’ savvy marketing lead-ership, during the past few yearsthe chain has begun to moveaggressively into consumer finan-cial services, including ATMmachines, check-cashing servicesrun out of special in-store kiosks,and even a few specialized forms of“e-commerce”—such as orderingflowers nationwide or buying statefishing licenses online.

● Intent on protecting its originalmarketing niche as a retailer of pre-pared foods from attacks by suchaggressive competitors asMcDonald’s, Wendy’s and BurgerKing, 7-Eleven recently rolled outa new “Big Eats” marketing pro-gram in which deli sandwiches aremade at central kitchens, thentrucked to 7-Eleven outlets threetimes a day. Says the super-compet-itive Keyes: “A lot of people won’tbelieve this, but the fact is that wecan actually make a fresher sand-wich than the sandwich they giveyou at Subway [an especially formi-dable competitor, with 15,000 out-lets worldwide]. Why? It’s simple.At Subway, they re-stock theirsandwich ingredients periodically.But we make our sandwiches fromscratch, with totally fresh ingredi-ents that have just been manufac-tured that day. And then we putthem into the customer’s handswithin a couple of hours.”

Although 7-Eleven clearly rankedas the world leader in conveniencestore retailing in 2002, the 73-per-cent, Japanese-owned company facessome formidable threats in the nextfew years. Among the major adver-saries are Wal-Mart Stores, which havebeen mounting furious attacks on 7-Eleven’s highly profitable retail gaso-line operations in recent years. And

several national retail grocery chainshave recently launched “deli sand-wich” and “coffee bar” operationsaimed at cutting into 7-Eleven’s corebusiness as a retailer of “portablefoods”—items that are usually carriedaway and consumed off-premises.

“The competition out there is get-ting tougher every day,” admits Keyes,who nonetheless managed to orches-trate increases in both gross sales andshareholder earnings during the firstthree quarters of 2002. “We’re notkidding ourselves about the threats weface from the fast food industry andthe grocery chains, among other com-petitors.

“At the same time, we’ve workedlong and hard to become ‘nimble’retailers. We think we’re quick on ourfeet, and we think we know a fewthings about how to anticipate futuretrends and then get there first.

“Of course, maintaining that kindof nimbleness means that you have tokeep doing your homework, even asyou search for the kinds of creativesolutions that will allow you to keepyour edge.”

A Lesson From FatherLapomarda

Ask Keyes where he developed thekind of “creativity and nimbleness”required to run the 7-Eleven empire,and this savvy marketer will surpriseyou by giving “a whole lot of the cred-it” to a Holy Cross history professor.

“As an undergraduate, I had beenintent on studying prelaw,” saysKeyes, who arrived on campus inWorcester in the fall of 1973. “Butthen a very interesting thing hap-pened.

“I took a history course fromFather Lapomarda (Rev. Vincent A.Lapomarda, S.J., who still teaches his-tory on campus), and he wound upchanging my life. I’ll never forget howhe asked me to stop by his office oneday after class. He sat me down andtold me: ‘Jim, I know you’re deter-mined to become a lawyer. But you’ve

got too much creative energy for that!Law is a very narrow, very disciplinedfield. Have you ever thought aboutstudying business, maybe entering anM.B.A. program after you leave HolyCross?’”

The more Keyes thought about Fr.Lapomarda’s suggestion, the better heliked it. And instead of going on tolaw school, he wound up at ColumbiaUniversity’s School of Business, wherehis M.B.A. degree (1980) would soonland him an exciting—and highly cre-ative—job as a gasoline retailer atGulf Oil Corporation.

After climbing the ranks at Gulffor a few years, Keyes signed on asmarketing director for 7-Eleven’s retailgasoline subsidiary, Citgo Petroleum,in 1985. Named vice president of thatdivision by 1991, he then zoomed upthe ladder at Citgo’s parent company,en route to becoming 7-Eleven’s chieffinancial officer in 1995. When hewas tapped to become chief operatingofficer in 1998, the stage was set forhis elevation to CEO two years ago.

“I owe a great deal to FatherLapomarda and the other Jesuits atHoly Cross,” says Keyes, “and not justfor the professional guidance theygave me. I’m also grateful for the factthat they taught me the importance ofgiving back to the community. And that’s why I was so eager to launchour national charitable foundation—‘Education Is Freedom’—earlier thisyear, so that we could start awardingscholarship money to youngsters whoshow academic promise but lack thefinancial resources to attend college.”

Along with spearheading the edu-cation foundation, Keyes currentlyserves on the boards of a half-dozenother cultural and philanthropicorganizations, most of which are dedi-cated to educating young people tothe fact that “they can be anythingthey want to be, if only they’re willingto study and work for it!”

An enthusiastic trumpet playerwho loves to jam with friends whenhe can find the time, the 7-Elevenczar also gets a “huge reward” out of


his current volunteer post as chairman of the DallasSymphony Orchestra, where he and wife, Margo,frequently attend concerts.

What was Keyes like as a student at Holy Cross?“We were best friends in those days, and I can tellyou that Jim was highly motivated,” says SteveSenior ’77, who majored in economics. Adds Senior,who today operates an air freight-handling service inBoston: “I never saw anybody throw himself intowork like Jim did. During our time at Holy Cross,he managed a McDonald’s restaurant, played base-ball, and also served as president of the center forday students—the Worcester House. And don’t for-get that he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, with topgrades. Jim was a winner then, and he’s a winnertoday.”

Adds Jack Wilkie, the vice president for nationalfranchising at 7-Eleven in Dallas: “I think he’s aremarkable leader because he can combine the ana-lytical skills you need with lots of creativity. Iremember riding in a limousine with him last sum-mer, on our way to Radio City Music Hall in NewYork, where they were about to kick off the‘Education Is Freedom’ campaign. Jim had beengiven some prepared remarks written by some of thetop writers in network television. But he didn’t likewhat they’d written; he thought it was too stiff, tooformal. So you know what he did? He grabbed apencil and an envelope, and he scribbled some linesdown. He took a few phrases from John Lennon’ssong, “Imagine,” and he built an informal talkaround them—‘Imagine all the people, sharing allthe world?’

“And you know what? He wowed ’em! The audi-ence loved it, and even the professional entertainerson hand were all raving about his ability to reachthe audience with his message.

“I’m telling you, this guy’s middle name ought tobe ‘creativity!’”

Tom Nugent is a free-lance writer from Hastings,Mich.


7-Eleven: The Numbers

Tell The StoryWho’s the World Champion of Convenience Retailing?

It’s no contest. With more than 23,000 stores now operatingaround the clock and around the world—and with yearly grossreceipts in excess of $35 billion—the mighty 7-Eleven retailingchain easily ranks as the number-one convenience-store empire onPlanet Earth.

“When it comes to stop-and-go shopping, there’s no doubt thatwe’re the largest,” says 7-Eleven President and Chief ExecutiveOfficer Jim Keyes. “But that doesn’t mean we can afford to rest onour laurels and take it easy.

“Convenience retailing is actually one of the most competitivebusinesses in the world. As CEO, it’s my job to make sure we keeppace with the changing needs of the convenience customer. If westay ahead of the curve—by figuring out in advance what willserve our customers best, and then delivering the goods to them atan attractive price—then we’ll remain their preferred convenienceretailer.”

Like corporate CEOs everywhere, the hard-charging Jim Keyesworries endlessly about future sales trends. Yet the record showsclearly he and his 7-Eleven lieutenants have “gotten it right” overand over again in recent years … while cranking out one block-buster sales-winner after another. Some eye-catching examples:

● According to company audits, 7-Eleven customers are now guz-zling more than 33 million gallons of “Big Gulp” soft drinkseach year—enough fizz-water to fill 75 Olympic-sized swim-ming pools.

● The company’s hugely popular Slurpee frozen treat has becomea monster best seller in recent years. The retail chain now servesup 11 million Slurpees a month, and more than six billion havebeen sold since the gelid confection was introduced in 1966.(The Dallas-based titan also takes credit for introducing a newphrase into the English language: “brain freeze”—a term com-pany officials invented a decade ago to describe the icy brain-wallop delivered by their summertime superstar.)

● When it comes to peddling hot dogs, 7-Eleven is clearly wear-ing the pants. At last count, the Texas monolith was grilling-and-bunning more than 100 million “Big Bite” hot dogs peryear. Says Keyes: “We think one of our greatest strengths is ourability to merchandise delicious ‘portable food’—carry-outitems like the Big Bite hot dog that customers can take withthem back to the workplace.”

● For millions of workers all around the United States, each daybegins with a run to the 7-Eleven for coffee and doughnuts.Last year the retailing giant unloaded a million cups of coffeeeach day, along with a yearly total of 60 million doughnuts andpastries—enough gooey goodies, if placed side be side, to reachfrom Boston to San Diego and back.

T.N.

CommunicatingQuality


By Maria Healy

AAs a first-year student at Holy Cross,Maggie Sullivan Wilderotter ’77 wasnot an athlete, but she was knownas an avid sports fan. At a basketballgame one night, the person slottedto do commentary for the radio was

ill. The announcer doing play-by-play knew thatWilderotter was at the game and asked her if she’dcome up to the booth and “do color.” Though she did-n’t know what “color” was, she learned on the job andcalled that night’s game with such engaging expertise,the station manager—who heard the broadcast—issuedthe call: Who is this woman?

Wilderotter went on to become a regular radio per-sonality, then head of radio sports for Holy Cross,doing basketball, baseball and hockey, play-by-play andcolor both. In addition, she started her own show fea-turing women artists, playing their songs and doing“color” about the artists.

One could look at this creative industriousness as atemplate for Maggie Wilderotter’s future after HolyCross. “My father set a philosophy that the sky was thelimit,” she says. Drawing on a well of self-confidenceand a comfort level for going after whatever onewants—qualities she says her parents instilled in allfour Sullivan girls—Maggie took her economics andbusiness administration major to task as an executiveassistant with Arizona Bank in Phoenix; she hadmoved there with her husband—now of 26-years—JayWilderotter, who was then in training as an Air Forcejet pilot. When the couple moved to Sacramento,Calif., Maggie hired on with CableData, Inc., a devel-oper of subscriber-billing software for cable systems.Over the next 12 years, she worked her way up to sen-ior vice president. Along the way she gave birth to twosons, Christopher and Daniel.

Jay, who now harvests red wine grapes and runs hisown business, Wilderotter Vineyards, is Maggie’sstrongest supporter. He took over running the house-

hold (the family now lives in the Oakland Hills), soMaggie could ride the momentum she was building.

Next came five years with McCaw Cellular as thepresident of the California/Nevada/Hawaii region,where Wilderotter built out and ran the cellular andpaging networks. When AT&T Wireless boughtMcCaw, she then worked as executive vice president ofoperations, running the cellular side of the business—and as chief executive officer of the AviationCommunications Division for two years, bringing in4.5 billion dollars. She left AT&T to act as chief exec-utive officer of Wink Communications, a thenunknown company touting brand new technology:software that could operate in a set-top cable box,allowing the viewer to send instructions back to thebroadcaster—what’s now known as interactive televi-sion. Named a “modern visionary” by the Women inCable and Telecommunications Foundation—twicereceiving the industry’s highest honor, the NationalCable Television Association Vanguard Award—Wilderotter cultivated partnerships with the major net-works, cable, and satellite operators, as well as majoradvertisers while at Wink, and, by 2004, interactiveTV may well be an operating reality in 25 millionhouseholds.

In the summer of 1998, Wink cut a deal withMicrosoft, incorporating interactive capability infuture versions of Microsoft’s WebTV, a technologyconnecting television, rather than computers, to theInternet. Since WebTV was seen as Wink’s competitor,the deal was evidence of Wilderotter’s ultimate visionof strategic cooperation as a means to executing a goodidea. In the process, she impressed Microsoft so muchthey offered her a job. As of late November, 2002, shejoined the corporation as senior vice president of busi-ness strategy.

“This is definitely more of a thinking and planningjob versus operational execution and doing,” saysWilderotter. “The scope is business, education, govern-


Recently named one of the top “people towatch in international business” by Timemagazine, Maggie Sullivan Wilderotter ’77moves to Microsoft and begins the nextphase in a stellar career.

ment and consumers. It’s across theboard, and it’s global.” Guiding howMicrosoft features products that helpstudents learn and teachers teach is “oneof my missions,” she says. “One of thethings I can bring to the table is thefocus on education policy. I’m veryexcited.”

Of her own education, Wilderotter,who is in her second year as a memberof the Board of Trustees at Holy Crossand is chairing the DevelopmentCommittee, speaks more like a philoso-phy major.

“Holy Cross prepared me how tothink,” she says—“how to make deci-sions, how to drill down on topics, andhow to pursue excellence. It taught me

how to question. One of the classes Itook freshman year was called “GodPerhaps.” I was a practicing Catholic,and Catholicism was something youdidn’t question. But even in the way theJesuits taught Catholicism and theology,(the idea) was to question. And whenyou do question, your faith becomesstronger.”

She speaks highly of the late DeanJoe Maguire ’58 as “a great influence onchallenging students to think out of thebox, to view issues from multiple per-spectives.” Maguire often had studentsover for dinner to talk about whateverwas on their minds—school, classes,anything going on in society and theworld. “He provided these forums for

dialogue, debate and discussion withpeople from all walks of life, so youlearned how to deal with diversity aswell.”

“In the business world,” Wilderottersays, “it’s not just about the academics.It’s also about the persuasion, the articu-lation of ideas, and the ability to be agood listener and learner as well assomeone who has something to add tothe debate. Communication is abouthaving two ears and one mouth.”

Like other alumni in the corporateworld, Wilderotter confirms that intern-ships with companies are good prepara-tion for students, but she also speaks of“bringing back some of the basics interms of ethics and morals as critical fordeveloping leadership.” And she encour-ages “women alumni to mentor stu-dents, to tell their stories and provideavenues as to how to shortchange someof the trials in moving up the ladder.”

As for her own story? The womanwho rose from doing color for HolyCross sports radio to charting the courseof business strategy for perhaps the mostinfluential company in the world?

“Never forget who you are,”Wilderotter says. “I’m a good listener, agood communicator. I’m service orient-ed. I try to draw the best out of people.You can say those qualities are feminine,but I think they make people do betterthan what they would do otherwise.And I’ve tried to marry those qualitieswith what it takes to be successful—being results-oriented, doing my home-work, and not shortchanging people asbeing very, very important in theprocess.”

Maria Healy is a free-lance writer fromNorthampton, Mass.


“Communicationis about having two ears and one mouth.”

College Trustees Maggie Wilderotter ’77 with Ann Marie Connolly ’74


It’s a ven-ture somewouldcall bold,and oth-

ers might callradical. But then,“bold” and “radi-cal” are wordsthat can beapplied to manyaspects of theJesuit tradition.And if the newNativity School of Worcester appearsa bold venture, surely it is one builton the strongest of foundations: ahalf-century mission to transform theworld by transforming the individ-ual.

The Nativity School “movement”began over 30 years ago onManhattan’s Lower East Side and hasspread from Milwaukee to Omaha,from Saint Louis to San Jose. Andwhile the schools may vary somewhatfrom city to city, the basic mission—to educate at-risk, inner-city childrenby way of time-honored Jesuit con-cepts—does not. The schools placean emphasis on discipline, structure,personal responsibility, a rigorouswork ethic and an underpinning ofspirituality. Parental involvement is arequirement. School days are long,student-to-teacher ratio is low and adress code is mandatory. Communityservice is part of the curriculum. Andfrom the first day of school, there isan expectation that students willadvance to high school and college.Dreams, in other words, are vigor-

ously cultivated. The facts speak for themselves:

Nationally, students of NativitySchools are regularly outperformingtheir peers. And now, the NativitySchool concept has arrived inWorcester.

In a joint effort, Holy Cross, theSociety of Jesus of New England (theJesuits) and two foundations are join-ing forces to establish The NativitySchool of Worcester.

From 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., stu-dents—who must reside in the targetneighborhood—receive academicinstruction as well as tutoring, men-toring and help with homework. Andthe learning doesn’t stop there.Weekend field trips and summercamp enhance the students’ class-room learning and expose them topositive influences and experiences.Tuition costs are minimal, with oper-ating expenses provided for throughthe generosity of foundations, thecommunity and individuals. Thismodel typically establishes same-sexschools.

Joanne GlavinMcClatchy ’79,executive directorof the school, isdelighted to bepart of the teamthat will launchthis initiative.Together withher husbandBrian, who willserve as theschool’s directorof development,

they communicate a sense of unbri-dled excitement. Coming from TheSan Miguel School in Providence,which embraces a similar philosophy,they are intimately aware of the chal-lenges and rewards that lie ahead.“We’ve both been involved in urbaneducation and that type of programfor the last five-to-10 years,” she says.“We understand the mission and theamount of hard work and howrewarding it will be.”

With a master’s degree in financefrom Wharton, McClatchy spent 20years working at a major financialinstitution before starting her ownbusiness writing grant proposals forsmall businesses and non-profitorganizations. When the opportunityto direct the Nativity School present-ed itself, the job description mirroredher own resume. “I could see thatwhat I had done for every job wasgeared toward this,” she says. Eventhough the decision to make themove carried a number of other relat-ed changes, the McClatchys took theleap of faith and landed feet first.

Nurturing Dreams

In an era of decreased expecta-tions for urban education, TheNativity School of Worcester

opens with high hopes and anIgnatian mission to help at-risk

children thrive.

By Phyllis Hanlon


Brian McClatchy, development director, is charged withsoliciting funds and other types of support for the school. Henotes that the success of the program depends on communi-ties trusting in urban education. “I believe that brilliant chil-dren come from all areas, and I’ve never felt that povertymakes a child unable to be successful,” he says. “Every fifthgrader comes in raw, and, as they accept the program and seethat they are loved and really cared about, by eighth grade,they are groomed for success in high school,” says McClatchy.“That’s where the success in Nativity Schools and the individ-ualized care makes so much difference.”

Teachers in the Nativity School need a deep commitmentto the students and a thorough understanding of the model.

“One of them will perhaps be amentoring teacher, someonewho’s been an urban educator fora long time, who would workwith younger teachers,” JoanneMcClatchy says. Another two orthree volunteer teachers fromHoly Cross or some other areacollege will offer one to two yearsof service in exchange for a smallstipend, living quarters, healthinsurance and for AmericCorpseducation credits.

This entire initiative has beenmade possible through the gen-erosity of others. A feasibilitystudy, supported by a grant fromthe Cassin Educational InitiativeFoundation (CEIF), identifiedthe Main South section ofWorcester, which is currentlyundergoing civic revitalization, asthe neediest area. Vacant storesare being converted into attrac-tive, affordable housing and sever-al commercial enterprises are tak-ing root in the neighborhood.The school will share space ini-tially with the Boys and GirlsClub on Ionic Avenue and willwelcome approximately 30 boysin grades five and six when itsdoors open in September 2003.In two-to-three years, the schoolwill become the sole occupantand will transform a memorablebuilding into a new venture inthe heart of Worcester.

CEIF, who funded the feasibil-ity study, has a special interest inthe project. Chairman and presi-

dent Brendan J. Cassin ’55, whose five children attendedCatholic institutions, understands the importance of this typeof education.

“The business model of old, where priests, brothers and sis-ters used to teach in Catholic schools, no longer exists,” hesays. “The economics of Catholic grammar and high schoolsin inner cities has disappeared.” CEIF’s additional supportcomes in the form of a three-year trailing grant, earmarked fordevelopment office personnel and equipment as well as fornewsletters and other development-related activities.

“Eventually the Nativity School has to raise 100 percent ofits budget,” says Cassin. CEIF encourages financial independ-ence and makes it part of the grant conditions.

John Buckingham

Joanne Glavin McClatchy ’79 and Brian McClatchy


Alex Zequeira ’94 appointedNativity School principal

The NativitySchool ofWorcester has

announced the hiring ofits principal, AlexZequeira ’94, an experi-enced educator, adminis-trator and coach.

Zequeira is currentlythe assistant director ofadmission at Kingswood-Oxford School in WestHartford, Conn., wherehe has worked in severalcapacities for the past

nine years. He also teaches Spanish, coaches several athleticteams and directs theatre productions at the school.

A native of Miami and the son of Cuban immigrants,Zequeira attended Belen Jesuit Preparatory in Miami for mid-dle and high school. A 1994 graduate of Holy Cross, heearned a bachelor of arts degree in history.

“My exposure to Jesuit education truly has been one of themost defining events in my life,” says Zequeira. “The empha-sis on educating the mind, body and soul has always been thecornerstone of my philosophy as an administrator, advisor andcoach. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to lead the newNativity School of Worcester and to work with the youngmen we will educate.”

“Alex has the talent, experience and the commitment tocontribute to the formation of this school,” says Joanne G.McClatchy, executive director of the Nativity School. “Heunderstands the academic, social and spiritual componentscentral to the Nativity mission. His background in teachingmiddle and high school, coupled with experience as a coachand an administrator, make him the ideal individual to leadthe school as principal.”

Charles Weiss, director of grants, foundationand corporate giving at Holy Cross, notes thatanother foundation that wishes to remain anony-mous has generously provided funds for the school.He adds that the Jesuit community of Holy Crossrecently made a gift of $100,000 to the NativitySchool.

Rev. Michael Linden, S.J., of the Provincial’sOffice, vows that the Jesuit community will “shep-herd the school into existence.” He indicates thatinitial sponsorship plays a critical role as theNativity School is being established. “The visionlooks at the person in the general population notwell-served by ordinary schools,” he says. This fiscalsupport will enable the school to reach optimumsize and capacity and build local community ties.

Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., president ofthe College, emphasizes that Holy Cross is notfunding the school, but providing significant in-kind support. “The McClatchys’ offices are housedon campus,” he says. “We are giving lots of admin-istrative support, such as accounting and so on. Weare involved as initiators. They’ll be looking to thecommunity for financial support once they are upand running.” Additionally, students and teachersfrom the Nativity School will have access toresources at the college, including faculty, libraryfacilities, lecture series and other services.

Fr. McFarland hopes that the college studentswill also profit from this collaboration as much asthe children. “This is an opportunity for HolyCross students to do volunteer work. Hopefully,some of our graduates will teach there and cultivateHoly Cross students from the ranks at the NativitySchool,” he says. He points out that intervening inthe lives of these young boys benefits society as wellas the individual. “You can’t wait until studentsgraduate from high school to rescue them,” he says.

According to Weiss, the faith-based NativitySchool promises to be a win-win situation. “I thinkit’s going to be a great help to the city, and I thinkthese kids are going to thrive,” he says. “The schoolwill offer the kinds of programs and opportunitiesthat can produce mature and contributing individ-uals.”

Phyllis Hanlon is a free-lance writer from Charlton,Mass.

John Buckingham

Lift High the Cross Campaign 46

Charles Keenan ’37

Jim Nolan ’91 andJudi Gonsalves ’94

Bob, Courtney ’02, Eileen andJennifer Langell

Richard ’72 and Mary Kenny, KerriBlumenaver, and Ryan Kenny ’01

(this page) This year, for the first time,President’s Council members gath-ered on two separate evenings.Patron members of the Council gath-ered in Kimball Hall at Holy Cross onNov. 2. President Michael McFarland,S.J. addressed the assembly, andmembers of the Jazz Ensemble, ledby director Michael Monaghan, pro-vided entertainment.

(opposite page) The secondPresident’s Council dinner was heldNov. 9 in Hogan Ballroom. New mem-bers of Cornerstone, a recognitionsociety for individuals whose lifetimegiving to the College equals orexceeds $1 million, were inducted andthanked. Fr. McFarland spoke, and theChamber Singers, directed by musicprofessor Bruce Miller, performed.

Gerry ’38, P’75 andLillian Anderson

Grea and StephenKulhanek P’04

Jen Burns ’96, Vincent Morrow ’95, Erin Burns ’95, Mara Terlizzi ’96,Joseph ’95 and Kerri McClellan

Mark ’87 and Elizabeth Smiley ’86with Michele Gagne and PaulMeaney ’84

Vincenza Angelini, Michael Bradbury, CathyAngelini ’77

Donna Doherty ’81 and LouisMinora ’00

Michael ’96 andKristy ’98Beauvais

The Scene

Lift High the Cross Campaign


Cathy Dwyer Murphy ’88 and MartyMurphy ’88

Bob Danahy ’55, P’86and Suzanne Noel

Paul LaCamera ’64, P’99, ’93, ’92 and Ron Maheu’64, P’98, Jean Wilhelm and Frank Harvey ’64

Bill ’70 and Kathryn Fox P’04, ’99; Vito ’70 and Nancy Virzi P’00,’99; and Tom ’70 and Kathy Sullivan P’96, ’95

Rev. Francis Miller, S.J., ’46 andAnn Jarrett

Chair of Board with Members of Cornerstone; l-r: Michael Collins, M.D., ’77,Rev. Anthony Kuzniewski, S.J., Neil ’56 and Trudie Prior, George J. ’39 andEileen White, Carrol ’58 and Margaret Muccia, Tom ’78 and ConstanceD’Ambra, Bill ’66 and Joan Guiney, Park B. Smith ’54, John ’73 and MaureenGlowik P’05 and Rev. Michael McFarland, S.J.

Robert andMichelleAtchinson P’05

Marie Lawler andRichard ManningWall ’51


Rev. Michael McFarland, S.J.

Peter O’Connor ’64 and SuzanneFisher ’04

Rebecca, Kathleen ’03 and JohnHalleron ’60, P’94, ’88, ’87

Hadley Dinardo ’06, Catherine Dinardo, VyDoan ’05 and Domenic Dinardo ’75

Frank Vellaccioand DanielleMetterville ’05

Mike and Carol Colotti with Julie ’03

John ’65, Jaqueline ’04, Patricia andKevin Dale

Patty, Mary Beth ’05 and Tom Ryan ’76;Katherine ’05 and Jack Ryan ’74

(top) Oct. 25: PresidentMcFarland hosted a receptionfor a group of parents prior tothe “All Beethoven Concert” per-formed in the Chapel, part ofFamily Weekend at Holy Cross.

(left) This year’s HolidayReception bringing togetherscholarship donors and awardrecipients was held in LoyolaHall on Dec. 11. Following thereception, the donors and schol-ars attended the annual Festivalof Lessons and Carols at St.Joseph Memorial Chapel.

(below) John ’73 and MonicaMurphy P’99 hosted their sev-enth annual New York regionalPresident’s Council event for dis-tinguished, regent and benefac-tor’s circle members on Nov. 19.This year the Murphy Receptionwas held at The Rainbow Room,New York, NY.

Dylan ’99, Monica and John Murphy ’73with Philip Des Marais

Diana and Steve Bier ’70, withEd McDougal ’62

Jane and Tony O’Connell ’59 andRichard Burke ’57

Bill ’77 and Susan Doran and CharlieMillard ’79


IInn MMaatttt’’ss MMeemmoorryy

An endowed financial aid scholarship fund hasbeen created to honor and celebratethe life of the late Matthew H.McCann ’94,

by his wife, Julia “Julie” GentileMcCann ’94, numerous class-mates, friends and family. Giftsto the fund to date have reached$50,000; when the total reaches$125,000, a specific recipientwill be identified. Preference inawarding the scholarship will begiven to a student from UnionCounty, N.J.—where Matthewspent most of his life—who hasan interest in creative writingand/or German studies.

Matthew McCann died at theage of 30 in April 2002 after a battle with Hodgkin’s disease.In a letter to her classmates after Matt’s death, Julie wrote,“Matt was victorious over this disease, because, right up to thevery end, he never lost his friendly smile, dignity, grace andfaith. Only hours before he died, he was still receiving friends.He was the one to console their sense of loss and grief.”

Gentile McCann says her husband was passionate about manythings, including: food, skiing, New York City, writing, his

family and friends and Holy Cross. That is why shedecided to establish a perpetual scholarship in Matt’smemory at the College.

And how would GentileMcCann like Matt to beremembered? “I find that I havea choice as to how I rememberMatt. Certainly, the strength,patience and perseverance Mattshowed all of us throughout thelast two years is remarkable,even heroic. Yet, I choose toremember Matt actively andwith the enthusiasm for lifethat carried him through hisvery last days here with us.”

Donations in Matthew’smemory can be sent to the

College Development Office, with a notation that the gift isfor the Matthew H. McCann Memorial Scholarship Fund.

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Robert and Michelle Atchinson P’05, have been appointedParents Council Co-Chairs to succeed Robert and JoAnn

Corti P ’03, ’99, who have served as co-chairs for the past fouryears. Members of the Parents Council are committed to support-ing the Parents Fund, assisting with Admissions efforts, welcom-ing new parents, and providing career planning assistance to stu-dents.

The Atchinsons, of Lexington, Mass., have three children:Daniel ’05, Katherine and Chrissy. �

Online Giving Arrives atHoly Cross

Tired of opening andsaving, then losing,

envelopes from the HolyCross Fund? Alumni, par-ents and friends may nowsimplify the process andmake gifts to the Collegeonline.

In Dec., the Collegewent live with online giv-ing, and HeatherMaginnis ’01 was the firstperson to make a gift. Ofher decision to give a cred-it card gift over the newsecure site, Maginnis says, “I decided to give onlinebecause it was much more convenient. I had receivedall the Holy Cross Fund mailings at home, and Ikept forgetting to write a check. I happened to bechecking out the College Web site on my lunchbreak one day, saw the link to online giving, and justdecided to give online instead—it was so simple.”

To follow Heather and make your gift online,visit www.holycross.edu/campaign.

Heather Maginnis ’01first online donor

New Parents Council Co-Chairs Appointed

Bob and JoAnn Corti with Michelle andRobert Atchinson

Julie and Matt McCann

For a brief moment in October,life’s day-to-day cares faded, andthe past became the present as

alumni gathered to remember a footballcoach known simply as “DocAnderson.”

“He was a legend,” says ThomasHennessey ’63. “He was like a god.”

A physician by profession, EdwardAnderson coached at Holy Cross duringthe 1930s as well as during the 1950sand ’60s. On Oct. 11-12, close to 100gridiron veterans from the graduatingyears of 1950-67 gathered to visit withformer teammates and recall a man wholeft a lasting impression on those whoplayed on Fitton Field during histenure.

Anderson was a well-known figure incollege football, having played underKnute Rockne at Notre Dame. Betweenhis six seasons during his first stint atHoly Cross and his 15-year tenure dur-ing the ’50s and ’60s, Anderson had arecord of 129-67-8.

Rev. Thomas Henehan, MM, ’60played both offensive guard and defen-sive middle linebacker in the ’57, ’58and ’59 seasons. This was the secondtime Anderson had coached a memberof the Henehan family: While studyingmedicine in Chicago and playing for theChicago Cardinals, Anderson wasDePaul University’s football coach—andHenehan’s father was one of his players.

Now living in Italy, Fr. Henehanattended the October reunion. “I foundAnderson a meat-and-potatoes, matter-of-fact type of coach,” he says. “Henever really was the type of coach that Iwould call ‘inspirational.’ He never gotus hollering or jumping up and down

about a game. He had the attitude ofgiving the opponents a good game andleaving it at that.”

A history major at Holy Cross, VicRimkus ’53 played under Anderson dur-ing Anderson’s first year back at theCollege in 1950. Rimkus was impressedby the person he describes as “a greatgentleman.”

“I have nothing but the greatestrespect for him as a football coach andas an individual,” Rimkus says.

Aside from reminiscences and laugh-ter, the Doc Anderson reunion includeda reception and dinner on Friday night.Mass began Saturday’s events, whichincluded a luncheon and, of course, thefootball game against St. Mary’s, whichHoly Cross won 24-22. At Saturdayevening’s dinner, Clark Booth ’61offered the keynote address, in which heshared memories of a man who held hisplayers to the highest of standards.

“He commanded absolute awe,”Booth recalled in his address. “Square-jawed, iron-willed, ramrod tough, bluntand stern, the Doc had that quality of‘gravitas,’ and he used it well.”

An admirer of Anderson’s, Boothdescribed a Renaissance man, a complexindividual who was a practicing physi-cian at Rutland Veteran’s Hospital evenas he coached a major football program.

“He was strongly linked with gen-uine immortals as Rockne’s captain, anAll-American end, Gipp’s pal, coach ofKinnick and Osmanski,” Booth said. Acolonel in the medical corps duringWorld War II, Anderson was only thesixth coach to win 200 games—and hewas an expert in the treatment of specialneeds children, he added.

“The Doc was all of these things,”Booth stated. “A highly improbablecharacter and, in the end, as muchmyth, as man.”

Many of those who played underAnderson say that his exacting standardsand high expectations were a legacy theyhave carried with them in the years sincethey left Holy Cross. After graduation,Rimkus went on to be a teacher/footballcoach at Hudson High School inHudson, Mass. “I modeled my attitudestoward teaching and coaching after his,”he says.

Anderson was hands-on, Hennesseysays, pushing his players to do theirbest. “You have to work hard, you haveto play hard,” he recalls learning fromhis years under the famed coach.

Fr. Henehan offers a slightly differentperspective on the lessons he learnedwhile playing for Doc Anderson. “Ilearned that football was a game thatcollege students played for fun,” hewrites. “We went to Holy Cross to studyand learn, and playing football was not


By Maureen E. Moran ’89

The “Eddie Anderson” Reunion

Former players gather to recall a legendary football coach

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Clark Booth ’61

the most important part of our studentlife, but it was played seriously andturned out to be an essential part of mylife at Holy Cross.”

For the Crusaders who attended theDoc Anderson reunion, it was an oppor-tunity to reconnect with a past that,suddenly, didn’t seem so long ago.

Because the reunion crossed class lines,“you saw people ahead of you andbehind you—all the people you playedwith,” Hennessey says. “You saw peopleyou idolized.”

Fr. Henehan reveled in visiting withindividuals he hadn’t seen in more than40 years. “I was very proud to be a partof that group of men,” he writes. “Itbrought back memories of how it was tobe an underclassman, having looked upto the men ahead of me.”

Football at Holy Cross has changedsince the Doc Anderson days—BostonCollege is no longer on the schedule,and Holy Cross is now a member of thePatriot League. But October’s reunionwas a chance to touch the past andremember a singular individual whomRimkus calls “a great individual and agreat coach.”


GAA TO OFFERNO-COST LIFEINSURANCE

The General Alumni Associationhas announced a limited-time

offer of $10,000 group term lifeinsurance, for one year at no cost,to all alumni who enroll fromFebruary through April 2003.

Alumni under the age of 50 whocan sign a statement of good healthmay accept this unconditional gift,and a year later will have the oppor-tunity to increase the amount oftheir coverage regardless of theirhealth at that time.

The offer is part of the GAA’sdrive to increase participation in itslong-term alumni life insuranceprogram, underwritten by NewYork Life Insurance Company.Additional information will bemailed to all alumni in the comingweeks.

Rob Pike

NOMINEES FOR GAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS ANNOUNCED

PresidentDavid A. Doern’62 retired inJanuary 1998from Insignia/ESG, a nationalreal estate com-pany headquar-tered in NewYork City. He

has served as class chairman from 1972until 1977, class reunion chairman in1977, class reunion gift committee chairin 1982 and co-chair in 1987. A mem-ber of the President’s Council since1977, he has served on the board of theNew York Regional Club and as presi-dent of the Rhode Island Club. A GAAAlumni Board director from 1983-89and 1999-2001, he has served on theAlumni Board Senate, the Bishop HealyCommittee and the NominationsCommittee. He was the GAA vice presi-dent for 2001-02 and the recipient ofthe Matthew P. Cavanaugh Award forOutstanding Class Chairman.

David and his wife, Maureen, residein Little Compton, R. I. They are theparents of Maura, Kelly, Colleen ’89and Timothy ’91.

President-electMarcy M.Vandale ’87,who is a pastpresident, vicepresident, treas-urer and secre-tary of the HolyCross Club of

Greater Worcester, currently sits on theclub’s board of directors. She has servedthe GAA as vice president and is cur-rently co-chair of the communicationscommittee. A class agent, she haschaired the GAA’s senior reception,book prize and student alumni associa-tion committees and has served on herclass reunion committees.

The daughter of William “Bud”McManus ’58 who served as presidentof the GAA in 1999-2000, she residesin Holden, Mass., with her husband,Richard, and three children, Nicole,Zachary and Emily.

Immediate PastPresidentRichard C.Browne ’60 is aretired partnerwith the lawfirm of Winston& Strawn inWashington,D.C. He has

served twice as president of the HolyCross Club of Greater Washington,D.C., and has worked in the alumniadmissions program and the careercounseling program. A member of thePresident’s Council since 1984, he is aGAA director and a member of theGAA executive committee. Dick and hiswife, Pat, reside in Rockville, Md. Theyare the parents of Richard, Catherine,Paulette ’88, Maureen ’89 and Colleen.

Vice PresidentsRichard E. Onofrey ’87 is a certifiedfinancial planner and president ofOnofrey Insurance & Financial Services,Inc. An admissions advisor and careerplanning counselor, he is also a classagent, an alumni job network advisorand chair of the continuing educationcommittee. He lives in Westfield, Mass.,with his wife, Mary Jo, and their chil-dren, Justin and Alexander.

The General Alumni Association has announced thenames of those alumni nominated to serve as officers and

members of its board of directors. Patrick L. McCarthy ’63 has been re-appointed executive

secretary. Michael H. Shanahan ’78 has been re-appointedtreasurer. GAA bylaws do not require yearly nomination tothis office.

The nominations for the board were selected in accordancewith the GAA bylaws, which allow for no more than 20 alum-ni to be chosen annually for three-year terms, at least 10 ofthem as at-large members, and 10 of them drawn one eachfrom the immediate graduating class and from each third classpreceding the graduating class.

Although this slate of candidates represents the choices ofthe GAA nominating committee, it should be noted that any

member of the GAA may be nominated in accordance withArticle VII of the bylaws, as follows: “Any member of theAlumni Association may be nominated for director by a peti-tion containing the signatures of 20 alumni with the executivesecretary no later than April 1.”

Any member of the GAA who would like to be so nomi-nated should submit a petition to Patrick L. McCarthy byApril 1. If any petition should be received, a ballot will appearin the next issue of Holy Cross Magazine so that alumni canvote for the candidate(s) nominated by petition. The names ofnewly elected officers and directors will be announced at theGAA’s annual banquet during Reunion Weekend. All alumniare invited to attend.



Kathleen M. Troidle ’83 is the pro-gram director for IBM Trusted e-Payments Solutions in IBM’s financialservices sector. She has served on theboard of the GAA and as a class agent.She lives in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

Brian A. Cashman ’77 is the managerof security and investigations for AT&TBroadband, New England region. Analumni admissions advisor, he is a mem-ber of the President’s Council and theVarsity Club. He lives in Londonderry,N.H., with his wife, Madeline, andtheir children, Emily and Patrick.

2003-2006 Directors (DesignatedClasses)Anthony F. Montaruli ’03Jennifer C. O’Neil ’00Jon J. Sarra ’97Michael P. Carbone ’94John R. Hayes ’91Dennis F. Kerrigan ’88Nora Walsh Loughnane ’85Ann F. Anesta ’82John F. Moran ’79Patrick M. Malgieri ’76

2003-2006 Directors (At Large)Roger C. Boucher ’81Donal J. Burns ’49Robert J. Credle ’65John M. Hackney ’87Raymond A Nothnagle ’57Shelagh Foley O’Brien ’95Stephen J. O’Connor ’73Christopher R. O’Hara ’83Christopher F. Schellhorn ’73Joseph F. Whalen Jr. ’52

The 2003-2004 Executive Committeewill be comprised of:Colleen F. Amann ’92Christopher R. O’Hara ’83Daniel L. Spada ’69

CALLING ALL AUTHORS

If you are a published author, illustrator or musician, we need to hearfrom you so that we may order and display your books at the upcom-

ing reunion.The following alumni will have their works displayed at the book-

store. If your name is missing from the list, contact Elizabeth Rice, byphone (800-777-0201, ext. 3609) or e-mail ([email protected]) so thatwe can order your work.

Reunion ClassesJohn Deedy 1948William O’Malley 1953Billy Collins 1963John Peterman 1963James Goodwin 1968David Curran 1973Mark Randall 1973Nina Riccio 1978Nancy Schultz 1978Walter (Skip) Wilkins 1983

Purple KnightsJoseph Murray, M.D. 1940Paul Saint 1940Thomas Troy 1941Ellis Rubin 1946John Deedy 1948John Butler 1950Dave Anderson 1951Bernard Trainor 1951Joseph Califano 1952

CONTINUING EDUCATION DAYSATURDAY, APRIL 12

Join fellow alumni as they return to Mount Saint James for the 21styear of “The Classroom Revisited.” Participants may choose from nine

engaging lectures and workshops during the day’s three sessions.Attendees can look forward to helpful updates on familiar subjects orstimulating introductions to new areas of interest from some of theCollege’s most respected and popular faculty members! Participating pro-fessors include:

Susan Amatangelo (Modern Languages & Literatures)Jeffrey Bloechl (Edward Bennett Williams Fellow, Philosophy)

Rev. William Clark, S.J. (Religious Studies)Susan Cunningham (Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies)

Mary Ebbott (Classics)Elizabeth Johns (Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture)

Baron Kelly (Theatre)Sarah Luria (English)

Ward Thomas (Political Science)


Men’s Basketball Mid-Season Report

The Holy Cross men’s basketballteam has continued to show Crusaderalumni that the pride in the basketballprogram is back. After back-to-backPatriot League titles and NCAATournament appearances, Holy Crosshas demonstrated that it can competeon both a local and national scale.Through the first 11 games of this sea-son, the team has shown that it willcontend for the league title once againin 2002-2003.

Posting a record of 8-3 through thefirst 11 games of the 2002-03 season,the team’s start ties the mark for the“best start” under head coach RalphWillard. The Crusaders opened the yearon national television when they trav-eled to Lawrence, Kan., to battle theJayhawks in the Preseason NIT. HolyCross led 17-15 with 9:01 left toplay in the first half, butKansas answered back witha 24-4 run to end the halfand take control of thegame. Tim Szatko ’03(Naperville, Ill.) scoreda game-high 14points to lead theway while BrianWilson ’03(Plainfield, N.J.)chipped in with 12more points.

The team thenheaded home forits home openeragainstDowlingCollege.The

Crusaders came away with a 101-61 vic-tory behind 18 points from Wilson and15 from Szatko. Nate Lufkin ’05(Austin, Texas) chipped in with 14 morepoints to help the effort. Point guardJave Meade ’04 (Queensbridge, N.Y.)posted the first double-double of hiscareer with 12 points and 11 assists. The101 points scored by Holy Crossmarked the first time since 1996 that aCollege squad had eclipsed the 100-point total. In addition, the 40-pointmargin of victory also was theCrusaders’ largest since Holy Crossdefeated Manhattan, 114-71 in 1985.

The team then won a hard-foughtgame over Ivy League foe, Harvard, 71-66. Wilson scored a career-high 27points to lead the team to the victory.

The win over the Crimson set thestage for what has been the Crusaders’biggest win of the season to date. OnDec. 1, Holy Cross defeated BostonCollege, 71-70, for its first win over theEagles since 1990, snapping a 12-gamelosing streak to BC. Wilson converted

two free throws with nine seconds leftto play to give the Crusaders the

win. He led all scorers with 18points, including 6-of-6

from the charity stripe.Meade connected on

two free throws with4:59 left to play in

the game togive Holy

Cross a lead,which it neverrelinquished.

Meade finished with 10 points anddished out seven assists without a

turnover despite playing all 40 minutes. Stretching the winning streak to four

games with a road win over Brown,Szatko scored 20 points while PatWhearty ’03 (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)chipped in with 15 points to lead thescoring effort. In the game, Greg

Kinsey ’05(Hatboro, Pa.),in only his sec-ond career start,recorded acareer-high sevensteals, which tiedthe Holy Crosssingle-gamerecord.

The teamthen sufferedits second lossof the year,dropping a70-66decisionto Yalein the

firstround

of thePhoenix

ClassicTournament

held at the HartfordCivic Center. TheCrusaders rallied to take a one-pointlead with 1:35 left to play in the game,but the Bulldogs converted 5-of-6 fromthe line to hold on for the win. Thegame did mark the best performance ofthe season by first-year sensation KevinHamilton ’06 (Queens Village, N.Y.).The 6-foot, 4-inch guard scored acareer-high 12 points, while Meadeadded 10 points and eight assists. TheCrusaders rebounded to defeatHartford, 79-53 in the consolationgame. Szatko and Whearty each tallied20 points to lead four players whoscored in double figures. Szatko finishedwith 21 points while Whearty added aseason-high 20 points.

The team’s next game against UNC-Asheville marked the debut of the tallestplayer in Holy Cross history. NeilFingleton ’05 (Durham, England) at 7-

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explosive offense this season, the Crusaders are primed andready to defend their crown. One thing is certain, however—ifany other Patriot League team wants to take home the trophy,it will have to defeat Holy Cross to do so.

Women’s Basketball Mid-Season Report Head Coach Bill Gibbons’ Lady Crusaders have opened

their 2002-03 campaign with a 6-4 mark. Despite their record,the Crusaders have played topnotch opponents such as TCU,nationally ranked foe Boston College and collegiate power-house Connecticut. In fact, the first five opponents the teamfaced were either ranked or receiving votes in the nationalpolls. This strong non-conference slate has helped prepare theCrusaders for yet another run towards the Patriot League title.

Leading the charge this season for Holy Cross has beenKatie O’Keefe ’03 (Stratham, N.H.), averaging 15.6 pointsper game. O’Keefe, a preseason All-Patriot League selection,anchors the middle of the lineup. Last season, she became justthe seventh third-year student in the women’s basketball histo-ry to top 1,000 career points and has continued to be a majoroffensive force this season.

Another big contributor is 2001-02 Patriot League Rookieof the Year, Maggie Fontana ’05 (Palatine, Ill.), who is shoot-ing 31 percent from three-point range and 55 percent from the

field and averaging 13.1 points per game.Fontana led the team in rebound-

ing and steals and ranked sec-ond in assists last season.

With the departure ofthree starters, Gibbons

knew that other playersneeded to step up

and take on a morechallenging role.

Two players whohave accom-plished that feat inthe first 10 games areLiz O’Connor ’03(Wethersfield, Conn.),who is shooting rough-ly 45 percent from thefield and 36 percentfrom behind the arc,and point guard SarahPlacek ’06(Alexandria, Va.), whois averaging ninepoints and three assistsper game. O’Connorhas played the lastthree seasons as a scor-ing option off thebench, but challengedto score more often and

feet, six-inches, transferred from the University of NorthCarolina. Fingleton scored eight points in 13 minutes in hisdebut to help lead the team to an 84-53 win over Asheville.The Crusaders defense is what helped them to the win, forc-ing 23 Bulldog turnovers and holding Asheville to just 34.0percent shooting from the field.

Holy Cross then went on the road for its next two contests.The Crusaders headed to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the hometownof Crusader center Whearty, to battle Marist. Whearty playedwell in the game, scoring a game-high 18 points and grabbingnine rebounds in his homecoming, but it proved not to beenough as Marist picked up a 66-63 win over the Crusaders.The team shot just 41.5 percent from the field, including only11.1 percent from three-point range—which contributed tothe Crusaders’ third loss of the season.

Holy Cross then continued on the New York road trip witha game against Jesuit rival, Fordham, in the Bronx on NewYear’s Eve. The game was marked by a key performance byguard Mark Jerz ’03 (Spring Lake, N.J.), who scored a career-high 18 points, on 5-of-6 shooting from three-point range, tolead six Crusaders in double figures. Holy Cross defeated theRams, 87-54, posting its second largest win in the 77 meet-ings between the two teams. The team shot 51.9 percent fromthe floor and 57.9 percent from three-point range in thegame.

The 33-point win was the Crusaders’ third win by 30points or more this season, which marks the first time since1977-78 that Holy Cross has beaten three or more opponentsby 30 points or more in a single season.

The Crusaders then returned home looking to remainunbeaten at the Hart Center and accomplished its goal,notching a 55-54 win over Princeton to improve to 4-0 inWorcester. Whearty led the way for Holy Cross with his fifthstraight double-digit scoring performance with 11 points.Meade added 10 points, all in the second half. Meade convert-ed 1-of-2 free throws with four seconds remaining in the gameto give the Crusaders the win. Holding the Tigers to just 32.1percent shooting from the field, the team captured its first winover Princeton since 1977.

Through 11 games, the Crusaders lead the Patriot Leaguein scoring offense (73.3 points per game), field goal percent-age (45.3), assists (16.5), turnover margin (+1.9), steals (9.9)and assist-to-turnover ratio (1.14–to-1). Holy Cross has heldits last five opponents to an average of 56.0 points per gameand a 36.6 shooting percentage from the floor (93-of-254),posting a 4-1 mark.

The Crusaders’ upcoming slate of games will be the begin-ning of the conference portion of its schedule. With HolyCross beginning to regain its defensive presence and its more

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take on more of a leadership role thisseason, O’Connor has flourished. She isaveraging 9.5 points per game after aver-aging just 4.0 points per game in hercareer entering this season. Placek is thefirst first-year point guard at Holy Crosssince Veronica Jutras ’00 earned thestarting nod for 19 games in 1996-97.

One of the keys to the Crusaders’fine start has been its ever improvingdefense. The team has held its oppo-nents to 36 percent shooting from thefield through the first 10 games and isaveraging nearly 10 steals per contest.This hard-nosed defensive effort willhelp Holy Cross as it gets into PatriotLeague action.

The Crusaders opened the seasonwith a home victory over reigningMAAC conference champions, St.Peter’s. Fontana led the charge—pouringin 20 points, followed by O’Connorand O’Keefe, who each opened theirseason with 17-point outings. The 17-point effort from O’Connor matchedher career high. Holy Cross shot 48 per-cent from the field and a scorching 50percent from three-point range in pick-ing up the hard-fought win. The sched-ule did not get any easier after that, asthe 18th-ranked Eagles of BostonCollege came to the Hart Center. HolyCross battled B.C. for the first half,tying the Eagles heading into halftime.

The Eagles then flew out of the gate inthe second half, outscoring theCrusaders, 35-16, en route to the victo-ry. Fontana finished the game with fiveassists, five steals and five rebounds tolead the effort.

Holy Cross then headed to theWBCA Classic in West Lafayette, Ind.The Crusaders were defeated byConference USA contender—and 21stranked team in the nation—TexasChristian University, 68-54. O’Keefehad 21 points and five boards in the los-ing effort. The Crusaders then rebound-ed to defeat Savannah State in the con-solation game behind double-digit scor-ing efforts from Fontana, Placek,O’Connor, and Shannon Bush ’06(Doylestown, Pa.), holding the LadyTigers to a dismal 19 percent shootingon the day.

The Crusaders then found them-selves matched up with defendingNational Champion, Connecticut, atthe Worcester Centrum in front of acrowd of about 4,000. Battling hard inthe first half and trailing by only two atthe break, Holy Cross fell to theHuskies in the second half despite a 23-point outburst by O’Keefe.

The team then posted a three-gamewinning streak with victories over Siena,Hartford and Maine. During this three-game stretch, O’Keefe and Fontanapaced the team, averaging 17.0 and 14.0points per game respectively. La Salleended the Crusaders’ run in the champi-onship game of the La SalleTournament. The Crusaders kept itclose for most of the game, led byPlacek’s 20 points, but stumbled lateand fell by seven to the host school.

The team began the new year with ahard-fought victory over Northeastern.O’Keefe, Placek and O’Connor carriedmuch of the scoring load, with all threeplayers reaching double figures in thescoring column.

Holy Cross will look to continue itswinning ways as it heads into PatriotLeague conference play. With this verytough, non-conference schedule almostbehind them, the Lady Crusaders lookto remain as the top team in the PatriotLeague and get back to the ConferenceChampionship.

Holy Cross Men’s IceHockey Mid-Season Report

The 2002-03 Holy Cross men’s icehockey team has experienced a series ofhighs and lows so far this season. In themiddle of this roller-coaster ride, howev-er, the Crusaders find themselves in sec-ond place in the MAAC Hockey Leagueat the halfway point of the season.

The team began the season with atough loss to defending MAACChampion Quinnipiac, 6-1. In the fol-lowing game, Head Coach Paul Pearlled the Purple to a 3-2 victory overConnecticut, picking up his 100thcoaching victory. Pearl became just thethird coach in Holy Cross varsity icehockey history to reach the 100-victoryplateau. Holy Cross then split a two-game series with Air Force. A furiousthird-period comeback by the Falconshelped them defeat the Crusaders, 6-4,in the first game. The Crusaders pouredon the offense the next night andassured there would be no repeat come-back, picking up a 7-2 win. The AirForce win proved to be a catalyst for theCrusaders’ six games. Holy Cross wenton the road and defeated MAAC oppo-nents Army and Iona on consecutivenights, thanks to solid play from captainBrandon Doria ’03 (Bayonne, N.J.)


Katie O’Keefe ’03

Liz O’Connor ’03

and goaltender Tony Quesada ’06 (South Freeport, Maine).Doria had four points in the two games, including scoring thegame-winner against Army. Quesada solidified his spot as theteam’s starting goalie after these two impressive performances.He notched 21 and 20 saves respectively in the two games,picking up two wins. Also in the Iona game, forward TylerMcGregor ’06 (Ajax, Onatario) tallied his first collegiate hattrick in the 6-3 win. Doria and Quesada earned Itech MAACPlayer and Goalie of the Week honors for their efforts.

The Crusaders then took their four-game winning streakinto Schenectady, N.Y. to face ECAC foe Union College.Forward Jeff Dams ’04 (Manotick, Ontario) had a hand in allfour Crusader goals of the evening, scoring two and assistingon two others in the 4-1 win. The win marked the first timein the 37-year history of the men’s varsity ice hockey programthat Holy Cross had defeated an ECAC opponent. Dams wasnamed Itech MAAC Player of the Week, and Quesada wasnamed Itech Rookie of the Week. Holy Cross also garneredtwo votes in the U.S. College Hockey Online Division I Pollfor the first time in program history. It would be the first ofthree consecutive weeks that the Crusaders received two votes.

Holy Cross returned home with their five-game winning inhand to face MAAC opponent Canisius. Quesada played aflawless game in net, grabbing 28 saves and posting his firstcareer shutout in the 3-0 win. The team then used a 4-1 winat American International to claim the nation’s longest currentwinning streak at six games. Then, after falling behind 2-0 inthe second period at home against Fairfield, the Purple reeledoff four straight goals by four different players to preserve avictory and the winning streak. A 3-2 loss to Connecticut onNov. 22 ended the winning streak at seven games. It was thelongest streak by Holy Cross since the 1998-99 season when,from Jan. 16 to Feb. 13, the ’Saders rolled up nine straight

victories. That season, Holy Cross won the inaugural MAACHockey League Championship.

The team closed out the month of November with tworoad losses to the University of Findlay, but goaltenderQuesada earned honorable mention accolades for theCommissioners’ Choice awards as Division I men’s collegehockey’s top rookie for the month of November.

In its first game of December and third straight non-con-ference road match-up, the Crusaders dropped a 5-2 decisionto Colgate. Then, in the final game before the semester break,Holy Cross fell to 6-3 in the MAAC with a 2-0 loss to theBentley Falcons at the Hart Center.

The roller-coaster ride continued on the morning of Dec.23, when the team learned of the passing of one of their ownteammates, forward Glenn Crane ’05 (Sterling Heights,Mich.). Crane succumbed to a two-year battle with Hodgkin’sdisease (see obituary on Page 77). He had been an active mem-ber of the team in his two years at Holy Cross despite under-going hours of treatment for his cancer. Last November, theplayers shaved their heads in a show of emotional support forGlenn when he began chemotherapy. The team will honorGlenn’s memory by wearing black arm bands on their jerseysfor the rest of the season.

The Crusaders are eager to return to action in 2003 with arecord of 8-7-0 and 6-3 in the MAAC, with many playersamong the league leaders in many categories. Doria ’03 leadsthe team in scoring with 19 points on 11 goals and eightassists. He is currently 25th on the Holy Cross all-time scor-ing list with 118 career points. Doria is tied for second inoverall point scoring, first in overall goals and sixth overall inpower play goals in the MAAC. Dams is in second place inpoints for the Crusaders with 17 on three goals and 14 assists.He is fourth in the MAAC in overall point scoring and tiedfor second in overall assists. Pierre Napert-Frenette ’06(Bathurst, New Brunswick) is currently leading all freshmenin scoring in the MAAC with 11 points on five goals and six


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Tony Quesada ’06

assists. Tony Quesada ’06 is third overall in the MAAC with a2.59 goals-against average. He also ranks fifth overall in savepercentage (90.9 percent).

Holy Cross Women’s Ice Hockey Mid-Season Report

The Holy Cross women’s ice hockey team is off to a blaz-ing start in the 2002-03 season. The Crusaders have startedthe season 4-2-1 overall and 4-2-0 in the ECAC Division IIIEast. In the four-year varsity history of the club, it is theteam’s best start ever. Much of the team’s early season successcan be traced to the solid play from the team’s underclassmen.

The Lady Crusaders began the season with a two-gameseries with ECAC foe, MIT. Captain and goaltender JenelleDiSanto ’03 (North Reading, Mass.) posted two shutouts tobegin her final year between the pipes. The scoring camealmost exclusively from the first-year class in the first game.Sarah Wetherbee ’06 (Canton, Mass.), Kolt Bloxson ’06(Fitchburg, Mass.), and Kathleen Remsberg ’06 (Arlington,Mass.) accounted for eight goals and nine assists in the 12-0win. Wetherbee began her collegiate career with a bang, scor-ing four goals and adding three assists for seven points, settinga new school record for points in a game. The ’Saders fol-lowed up that performance with a 11-0 win the followingnight. Defender Meghan Mahoney ’05 (Utica, N.Y.) had ahat trick and added three assists on the night. Bloxson alsoadded a hat trick of her own, including the game-winninggoal in the first period. Wetherbee chipped in with two goalsand two assists and earned ECAC Division III East Rookie ofthe Week honors.

The teamthen playedUMass-Boston’sclub team in apreview for nextyear when theBeacons joinHoly Cross inthe ECAC.Wetherbee ledthe Crusadersagain in theexhibitionmatch-up, withfour goals.Bloxson con-tributed one goaland three assiststo help theeffort.

Traveling toNew York to face

the second-ranked team in the nation, Manhattanville, theCrusaders dropped both games to the Valiants before voyagingto New Hampshire to take on New England College. The

’Saders pulled out a thrilling 3-2 victory in the first game.Bloxson tallied a goal and an assist, while Remsberg scored thegame-winner at the 18:48 mark in the third period. The fol-lowing day, the Purple began the game with three goals in thefirst and second periods and cruised to a 6-1 win. Remsbergled the Purple attack once again with two goals and two assistsand earned ECAC Division III East Rookie of the Week hon-ors. The Lady Crusaders closed out the year 2002 with a 2-2tie against Connecticut College. Remsberg deposited herteam-leading eighth goal of the season in the first period andassisted on the only other Crusader goal on the evening byMahoney. Remsberg earned Rookie of the Week honors forthe second straight week after her performance.

After the team’s strong start this year and the improvingplay of the underclassmen, the Crusaders are poised to havetheir most successful season to date.

Holy Cross Men’s and Women’sSwimming and Diving Mid-Season Report

The Holy Cross men’s and women’s swimming and divingteams had a rough start at the beginning of the season with0-2 records. The men’s team rebounded from its early seasonfate to win its next three meets and is currently 3-2. Losing toSiena College, the women’s team split its last four meets, cur-rently leaving them with a 2-2 mark.

One bright spot has been Emily Ferris ’06 (RockvilleCentre, N.Y.), who has had first-place finishes in the 200-yardIM, 200-yard fly and, the 100-yard backstroke. CarolynPucko ’04 (Webster, N.Y.) continues her winning ways on theboard, picking up wins in the one-meter and three-meter div-ing events. On the men’s side, Scott Rimm ’04 (Potomac,Md.) and Tim Tuck ’03 (Arlington, Va.) have been the mostconsistent performers for the Crusaders. Rimm has picked upwins in the 200-yard free, 200-yard backstroke, 50-yardfreestyle, and 100-yard freestyle. Tuck, on the other hand, hasbeen nothing short of dominant on the boards. He has col-lected first-place finishes in both the one- and three-meterdiving events, including a sweep over Loyola, which earnedhim the Patriot League Diver of the Week honor.

The men’s and women’s team began the year with losses toSpringfield College and Patriot League counterpart, Colgate.Against Springfield, Rimm collected two first-place finishes:200-yard free (1:45.06) and 200-yard backstroke (2:03.87).Tuck had a strong showing in the diving competition as hefinished with a second-place finish in both the one- and three-meter events. For the women, Ferris picked up wins in boththe 200-yard IM (2:15.91) and 200-yard Fly (2:17.91) whilePucko won the one-meter diving competition and finishedthird in the three-meter diving event.

The women then suffered their third defeat of the season,falling to Siena College. Ferris and Pucko managed to keeptheir winning ways alive with Ferris collecting wins in the200-yard IM and the 100-yard backstroke while Pucko cap-tured wins in the one-meter and three-meter diving competi-tions.


Jenelle DiSanto ’03

Holy Cross rebounded fromthe rough start to sweepProvidence, and St. FrancisCollege. The wins evened themen’s record at 2-2 whileimproving the women’s markto 2-3. Against St. Francis,Ferris and Pucko again carriedthe load. Ferris picked up thewin in the 200-yard IM whilePucko won both diving eventstallying 258.45 points on theone-meter board and 268.2points on the three-meter.Corinne Figlewski ’05(Branford, Conn.) also pickedup a victory in the 100-yardbreaststroke to contribute tothe ladies’ effort.

The men dominated St.Francis winning the first eightevents. Winners for theCrusaders included: MikeEmmons ’03 (Middleboro, Mass.,1000-yard free, and 200-yard butterfly);Rimm (200- and 100-yard freestyle);Ian Hennessey ’03 (East Greenwich,R.I., 50-yard freestyle and 100-yardbackstroke); and Tom Connors ’03(Holmdel, N.J., 200-yard IM).

The men then defeated Loyola toimprove to 3-2 on the year but, unfor-tunately, the women dropped a toughdecision to the Maryland school. For themen’s side, Tuck swept both divingevents and Rimm again was dominant,wining the 200-yard free, 50-yard free,and the 200-yard backstroke. On thewomen’s slate, Abby Lemieux ’05(Brunswick, Maine) won the 1000-yardand 500-yard freestyle events, andPucko swept both diving events, but itdidn’t prove to be enough.

The men and women both placedthird at the Rhode Island Invitationalheld at the University of Rhode Island.Pucko won both diving events, andRimm collected wins in the 100-yardfreestyle, and 200-yard freestyle. Thewomen then lost their final matchbefore the break, falling to PatriotLeague power, Army.

With six more meets in January, fourof which are at the Hart Center, theCrusaders are primed and ready to turnaround their slow start to the year and

gain much needed momentum as theyhead into the Patriot LeagueChampionship.

Indoor Track and Field Mid-Season Report

The Holy Cross men’s and women’strack and field teams kicked off their2002-03 indoor season with a meet atthe Brown University AldenInvitational. The meet included teamssuch as Brown, Providence, SouthernConnecticut, Bryant and Rhode IslandCollege. Bill Phelan ’04 (New Canaan,Conn.) was the lone first-place finisherfor the Crusaders. Phelan won the men’sweight throw with a toss of 14.64meters (48’0.5’). Some other top finish-ers in the field events for the men wereIsaiah Houtman ’03 (New Bedford,Mass.), who finished third in the triplejump with a leap of 12.80 meters. Inthe men’s shot put, the team put threemembers in the top 10. Azizi Seixas ’04(Jamaica,12.99m); Dan Conti ’03(Hubbardston, Mass.,12.42m); andJoseph Hibdon ’04 (Ramona, Calif.,9.67m)—finishing third, fifth and ninthrespectively. Andrew Stone ’06(Hudson, Mass.) and Bill DiMauro ’06(Wyckoff, N.J.) placed fourth and sixthin the men’s long jump, with leaps of6.24 and 5.90 meters respectively. In the

pole vault competition Conti and team-mate Steve Virgilio ’05 (Portland,Maine) placed fourth and sixth. In thehigh jump competition, Dan Ryan ’06(East Hempstead, N.H.) tied for secondwith a leap of 6 feet 2 inches. On thetrack, Conti earned a third-place finishin the 55-meter high hurdles, with atime of 8.06 seconds.

The team placed four people in thetop 10 in the 500-meter dash. AlexMaterna ’04 (Wayne, N.J.), WilliamKenney ’03 (Pittsfield, Mass.), andTom Picanco ’06 (Cameron Park,Calif.) finished fourth, fifth and sixth.Stephen Shea ’05 (Middletown, Conn.)also placed eighth for the Crusaders.Sean Flood ’05 (Clive, La.), ChrisMorris ’06 (Glen Head, N.Y.), ShawnDavid ’04 (Hudson, Mass.), andDiMauro all placed within the top 10 inthe 200-meter dash.

The women also had a strong show-ing. Andrea Madden ’04 (Reading,Mass.) placed eighth in the women’sshot put with a toss of 11.32 meters.Meghan Carrette ’06 (North Reading,Mass.) placed sixth in the 55-meter dashwith a time of 7.60 seconds and fifth inthe 200-meter dash. In the 400-meterdash, Caitlyn Mead ’04 (Melrose,Mass.) ran to a sixth-place finish with atime of 1:02.69. Heather Bain ’03(Carver, Mass.) and Emily Winacoo ’06(Holden, Mass.) placed seventh andeighth in the 500-meter dash. Also inthe women’s 800-meter run, LindseyBomar ’05 (Bristol, Conn.) and JaclyneManzi ’05 (Plymouth, N.H.) finishedseventh and eighth. Julia Gillis ’04(Cornwall, N.Y.) placed third with atime of 3:07.08 in the 1,000-meter run.

The Crusaders will begin the bulk oftheir indoor schedule in January andFebruary to help prepare them for theChampionship portion of their sched-ule, which will begin on Feb. 14 withthe Patriot League Championship.


Meghan Mahoney ’05

Rowing Spring ScheduleMarch

8 Florida Institute of Technology Regatta (Kiwanis Island, Fla.)

22 Jesuit Invitational (Camden, N.J.)29 Holy Cross vs. Coast Guard Academy and

Wesleyan (Worcester)Holy Cross (Men) vs. Dartmouth (LWT)

April5 Holy Cross (Women) vs. UNH, URI, UMass

Lowell, Simmons (Worcester)6 Holy Cross (Women) vs. Tulane, Tufts

(Malden, Mass.)Holy Cross (Men) vs. MIT (LWT), BC (LWT)

12 Holy Cross vs. Trinity College, Massachusetts (Men), Mount Holyoke (Women), Smith (Women) (Worcester)

13 Worcester City Championships (Worcester)19 Holy Cross vs. Connecticut College, Tufts,

and Ithaca (Worcester)27 Patriot League Invitational (Worcester)

May3 New England Rowing Championships (Worcester)

10-11 Avaya Collegiate Regatta (Camden, N.J.)


Baseball ScheduleMarch

2-8 at Bradenton, Fla. (Spring Break Trip)15 at Central Connecticut TBA16 at Central Connecticut TBA22 BENTLEY Noon24 UMASS LOWELL 3 p.m.25 BOSTON COLLEGE 3 p.m.29 BUCKNELL (DH) * Noon30 BUCKNELL (DH) * Noon

April1 SIENA 3 p.m.2 at Northeastern 3 p.m.5 at Lafayette (DH) * Noon6 at Lafayette (DH) * Noon8 MASSACHUSETTS 3 p.m.9 at Harvard 3 p.m.

12 NAVY (DH) * Noon13 NAVY (DH) * Noon16 at Quinnipiac 3 p.m.19 LEHIGH (DH) * Noon20 LEHIGH (DH) * Noon23 DARTMOUTH 3 p.m.26 at Army (DH) * Noon27 at Army (DH) * Noon30 at Maine 3 p.m.

May10-11 at Patriot League Championship (Site TBA)

* Patriot League GameBold Caps: Home Game

Men’s Lacrosse ScheduleMarch

1 at Hobart * 1 p.m.11 ARMY * 7 p.m.15 HARTFORD 1 p.m.18 at Harvard 7 p.m.22 at Bucknell * 3 p.m.25 at Yale 3:30 p.m.29 LEHIGH * 1 p.m.

April2 at Siena 3 p.m.5 COLGATE * 3 p.m.9 PROVIDENCE 7 p.m.

12 at Lafayette * 1 p.m.16 MARIST 7 p.m.26 at Quinnipiac 1 p.m.

* Patriot League Game Bold Caps: Home Game

Women’s Lacrosse ScheduleMarch

1 at Hofstra 11 a.m.3 at St. Mary’s (Calif.) 3:30 p.m.5 at UC Davis (Calif.) 3 p.m.

10 MARIST 4 p.m.15 at Colgate * Noon19 SACRED HEART 3 p.m.22 VILLANOVA Noon29 at Bucknell * Noon

April2 ALBANY 4 p.m.5 LEHIGH * Noon9 at Brown 7 p.m.

12 AMERICAN * Noon16 at Fairfield 4 p.m.19 at Lafayette * Noon23 BOSTON COLLEGE 4 p.m.26-27 Patriot League Tournament at Highest Seed

* Patriot League ContestBold Caps: Home Game


Softball ScheduleMarch

2 vs. Albany 8:50 a.m.2 vs. Gardner-Webb 12:30 p.m.3 vs. Loyola-Chicago 12:30 p.m.3 vs. Detriot 4:10 p.m.4 vs. Sacred Heart 8:50 a.m.4 vs. LaSalle 12:30 p.m.6 vs. Bethune Cookman 12:30 p.m.6 vs. Detriot 4:10 p.m.7 vs. Loyola-Chicago 8:50 a.m.7 vs. Albany 10:40 a.m.

27 at Quinnipiac 3 p.m.29 BUCKNELL * Noon30 BUCKNELL * Noon

April1 at Harvard 2:30 p.m.2 SIENA 2:30 p.m.5 COLGATE * Noon6 COLGATE * Noon8 at Providence 3 p.m.

12 ARMY * Noon13 ARMY * 1 p.m.15 RHODE ISLAND 3 p.m.16 MARIST 3 p.m.19 at Lafayette * Noon20 at Lafayette * Noon22 BOSTON COLLEGE 3 p.m.26 at Lehigh * Noon27 at Lehigh * Noon

* Patriot League GameBold Caps: Home GameItalics - at Rebel Spring Games, Orlando, Fla. (Single Games) All games are doubleheaders unless noted.

Men’s Tennis ScheduleMarch22 at Fairfield Noon23 LEMOYNE Noon29 VERMONT Noon

April3 at Quinnipiac 3 p.m.4 FORDHAM 3 p.m.5 at WPI Noon

13 at New Hampshire Noon16 MERRIMACK 3 p.m.22 at Siena 2:30 p.m.

Women’s Tennis ScheduleMarch15 at Harvard (JV) 3 p.m.26 at Babson 3 p.m.29 VERMONT Noon

April6 at Albany Noon

12 FORDHAM 3 p.m.13 at New Hampshire Noon15 at Rhode Island 3 p.m.22 at Siena 2:30 p.m.24 at Providence 3 p.m.

Bold Caps: Home Game

Men’s Golf ScheduleMarch6-7 Ft. Lauderdale Collegiate (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.)

April5-6 Yale Spring Tournament (New Haven, Conn.)

12-13 NCAA District I Tourney (Providence, R.I.)16 Worcester City Championship (W. Boylston, Mass.)26-27 Patriot League Championship (Bethlehem, Pa.)

Women’s Golf ScheduleApril13-15 Big South Championship (Sunset Beach, N.C.)19-20 Wellesley College Invitational (Wellesley, Mass.)25 Mass. Women’s Intercollegiate (S. Hadley, Mass.)26-27 Northeast Women’s Championship (Amherst, Mass.)

Outdoor Track and Field ScheduleMarch15 at Navy with American and Maine22 at West Point Invitational29 at Worcester City Championships

April5 at Albany Invitational

12 at Blue Devil Invitational16-17 Holy Cross Crusader multi-event championships19 Holy Cross Crusaders Invitational22 vs. Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Quinnipiac26 at New Hampshire with Central Connecticut

and Massachusetts27 at Brown Invitational

May2-3 at Patriot League Championships (Allentown, Pa.)8-10 at New England Championships (Storrs, Conn.)

15-18 at IC4A/ECAC Championships (Fairfax, Va.)


John L’Heureux ’56 is the author of The Miracle, his ninth novel. The story of Fr.LeBlanc, a charismatic young priest transferred from his South Boston parish to a small

town on the New Hampshire coast, the book wrestles with issues of faith, love and mor-tality. Set in the 1970s, the novel has won praise from reviewers. According to Publisher’sWeekly, “L’Heureux’s strength is his ability to expose the all-too-human foibles and flawsof his outstanding ensemble cast, as he connects the dots with short, punchy scenes thatinstantly get to the heart of the matter.” And Booklist trumpets, “There is great humanityin this well-crafted story, expressed largely through the appealing characters, and a finalmessage: choose life.”

Called a “master storyteller” by The Washington Post, L’Heureux has also written shortfiction and poetry. He teaches at Stanford University.

Death Among the Ruins, by John R. Feegel ’54 is a fast-paced mystery set in Mexico’sYucatán peninsula and Mayan ruins, featuring a Florida County sheriff ’s deputy who

unravels a case involving murder, drugs and deception. John R. Feegel, M.D., is a board-certified forensic pathologist and a practicing attorney.

Recipient of the Edgar Award for a previous novel, Autopsy, Feegel is also the author ofDeath Sails the Bay, The Dance Card, Malpractice and Not a Stranger. He has contributedchapters to medical textbooks and written a monograph, The Legal Aspects of LaboratoryMedicine. Feegel, who lives and practices law and medicine in Tampa, Fla., is currentlyworking on another novel.

Nine Horses by Billy Collins ’63 is the poet’s first book of new work since Picnic,Lightning in 1998. “Charm has always been essential to his work,” writes a critic in

Booklist, “and it now blossoms into sweet benevolence as readers board Collins’ buoyantpoems as though each were a small boat, carrying them gently into the dazzle of sun orthe caress of soft rain.”

Collins, a professor of English at Lehman College at the City University of New Yorkand writer-in-residence at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y., is a recipient of fel-lowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Endowment for theArts and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has received the Bess Hokin Prize, theFrederick Bock Prize, the Oscar Blumenthal Prize and the Levinson Prize. Named PoetLaureate of the United States for 2001-2002, Collins was reappointed to the position forthe 2002-2003 term. He lives with his wife, Diane, in Somers, N.Y.

T wilight on the Bay, by Brian J. Cudahy, is the story of the late B.B. Wills ’22, whobuilt an “excursion boat empire” in the United States during the 1940s and ’50s. As

Cudahy explains in the book’s preface, “The true American excursion boat … steamedaway from a downtown pier at nine-thirty or ten o’clock on a summer morning and tookmom, pop, all the kids and a big wicker hamper full of good things to eat on an inexpen-sive two-or three-hour cruise to a nearby picnic grove, bathing beach or amusement park.”Virtually extinct today, the excursion boat craze was a staple of American leisure for a brieftime, and Benjamin B. Wills was its premier entrepreneur. Wills owned 22 boats over theyears, operating such companies as Nantasket Boat Line and the Robert E. Lee SteamboatCompany. Retiring in 1967, he died in 1986, at the age of 89.

These books are available from the Holy Cross Bookstore. Phone: (508)-793-3609. E-mail: [email protected]. If you mention that you read about these titles in Holy CrossMagazine, the bookstore will offer free shipping!

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1938Class ChairGerald R. AndersonThe Worcester Country Clubnamed its Columbus Dayweekend Invitational GolfTournament in honor of GGeerraallddRR.. ““GGeerrrryy”” AAnnddeerrssoonn. A lifelonggolfer, Anderson won severalamateur titles during his careerand wrote about golf for theWorcester Telegram from 1938to 1942; he had also been amember of the Holy Cross golfteam.

1939Class ChairGeorge J. WhiteClass CorrespondentWilliam T. SheaEEddwwaarrdd CC.. PPeecckk JJrr.. was one ofseven judges selected forrecognition by the SaintThomas More Society of theDiocese of Springfield, Mass.,at the annual Red Mass held inOctober at Saint Michael’sCathedral. A retired LandCourt judge, Peck had servedmore than 20 years as towncounsel for West Springfield,Mass.

1946Class ChairRobert X. TivnanThe New England BasketballHall of Fame selected RRoobbeerrttAA.. ““BBoobb”” DDeevvlliinn for inductioninto its Inaugural Class; duringhis career, Devlin had servedas head basketball coach at St.John’s High School inShrewsbury, Mass., holding awin/loss record of 419-80.

1947Class ChairGeorge A. CashmanThe board of directors ofTurning Point, Inc. has recentlynamed GGeeoorrggee AA.. CCaasshhmmaann aspresident. He currently servesas president of NewburyportDistrict Nursing Services, Inc.,and as vice president of theNewburyport EducationalFoundation. Cashman has beenthe Holy Cross 1947-classchair for more than 40 years.

1951Class ChairAlbert J. McEvoy Jr.MMiicchhaaeell JJ.. AAbbbbaazziiaa,, DD..DD..SS.., hasretired from the practice ofgeneral dentistry.

1952Class ChairWilliam J. CaseyClass CorrespondentRev. John R. MulvehillIn September, a letter byJJoosseepphh AA.. CCaalliiffaannoo JJrr.., presidentof the National Center onAddiction and SubstanceAbuse at Columbia Universityin New York City, appeared inthe syndicated newspaper col-umn, “Annie’s Mailbox.” Theletter served as a reminder toparents that, beginning lastyear, the Center has set asidethe fourth Monday ofSeptember to observe “FamilyDay – A Day to eat Dinner withyour Children.” The Associ-ation of American Geographersrecently announced that JJaammeessFF.. MMaarrrraann has been named the2003 recipient of the GilbertGrosvenor Honors Award forGeography Education; its pur-pose is to recognize theawardee’s contributions to pro-moting geography instruction inthe nation’s K-12 schools.

1953Class ChairRev. Msgr. JohnJ. KelliherRReevv.. PPeetteerr JJ.. SSccaannlloonn, who hasretired from the board oftrustees of Becker College inWorcester after 30 years ofservice, has been named atrustee emeritus.

1954Class ChairBarry R. McDonoughClass CorrespondentPaul F. DupuisWWaalltteerr JJ.. MMaaccDDoonnaalldd JJrr.. retiredas a captain of the PlymouthCounty (Mass.) Sheriff’sDepartment; he is now workingas a contract consultant andinstructor in the use of forceand firearms, with law enforce-ment and security agencies.RRoobbeerrtt AA.. RRuubbiinnoo,, DD..MM..DD.., whoretired from the practice ofdentistry in December 1997after 39 years of service, wentto work in September 2000 atFrisbie Memorial Hospital,Rochester, N.H., in the foodand nutrition department.

1955Class ChairJoseph J. Reilly Jr.Class CorrespondentRobert F. DanahyThe November 2002 edition ofthe Gregorian UniversityFoundation’s publication,

Report from Rome, included aphoto of SStteepphheenn II.. DD’’AAggoossttiinnoo,who attended the foundation’s2002 Colloquium held in Romelast April. Works by JJaammeess AA..PPaarraaddiiss were included in theexhibition, “Emerging: TheCreative Process,” which washeld last fall at theMassachusetts College of Artin Boston.

1956Class ChairDaniel M. DunnRRoonnaalldd GG.. BBaarrrryy is now teach-ing a graduate course atDowling College, Long Island,N.Y., and supervising studentteachers. WWiilllliiaamm JJ.. LLaannee hasbeen elected to a three-yearterm on the national advisorycouncil of the FinancialPlanning Association, the mem-bership organization for thefinancial planning profession.TThhoommaass FF.. MMoorriiaarrttyy has recent-ly retired after teaching Irishhistory for more than 30 yearsat Elms College in Chicopee,Mass. In addition to teaching acourse in Irish language atHolyoke (Mass.) CommunityCollege, Moriarty continues tobe involved with the IrishCultural Center at the Elms,which he founded in the 1990s.

1958Class ChairBraden A.MechleyClass CorrespondentArthur J. AndreoliThe Spiritual Life Center ofBloomfield, Conn., selectedWWiilllliiaamm HH.. FFaarrlleeyy as the recipi-ent of its Living Spirit Award,presented “to persons and/ororganizations who have, overthe course of their lives andministries, witnessed to theintegration of spirituality andlife.” The Nov. 22 edition of theSouthbridge (Mass.) EveningNews included a feature aboutRReevv.. RRoobbeerrtt AA.. GGrraattttaarroottii, whois celebrating the 40th anniver-sary of his ordination to thepriesthood. Fr. Grattaroti hasserved as the pastor of St.Joseph’s Church in Charlton,Mass., since 1989. KKeennnneetthh FF..HHaappppee, who recently retired asan associate professor in theclassics department at HolyCross, has spent about fivemonths traveling throughTunisia, Turkey, Greece, Sicily,Southern Italy, Outer Hebrides,Edinburgh, London, Paris,Brussels and Munich. TheNovember 2002 edition of theGregorian UniversityFoundation’s publication,

Report from Rome, included aphoto of CCaarrrrooll AA.. MMuucccciiaa JJrr..and his wife, Margo, taken atthe Jesuit headquarters inRome during the foundation’sannual conference held lastApril. JJoosseepphh JJ.. RReeaarrddoonn wasselected as a recipient of theSt. Thomas More Award in theDiocese of Fall River, Mass.Honored as a serving jurist,Reardon is the first judge ofthe Barnstable (Mass.) DistrictCourt; he was appointed to thebench in 1992. Instrumental ininstituting AlcoholicsAnonymous programs, intro-ducing a “Changing LivesThrough Literature” programfor men and women and a“Choices of Consequence”program for adolescents, he isa senior lecturer in criminal lawat the Western New EnglandCollege’s off-campus program.

1960Class Co-ChairsGeorge M. FordGeorge F. Sullivan Jr.Pitco Frialator andMagiKitch’n, Bow, N.H., recent-ly announced the appointmentof TThhoommaass CC.. CCaassssiinn as vicepresident of the commercialfood service equipment manu-facturers. Cassin, who had pre-viously worked for Pitco, man-aging for many years its salesand marketing efforts, is nowresponsible for key accountsales and industry relations.The December 2002 issue ofthe Massachusetts BarAssociation Lawyers Journalincluded an article aboutMMiicchhaaeell FF.. DDoonnllaann, titled“Boston attorney takes legalissues international.” InSeptember, the Italian CulturalCenter in Worcester presenteda photographic exhibition byDDaanniieell MMccCCaannnn, titled “OliveOil and Family Life in theMountains of Southern Italy.”The Worcester Telegram &Gazette also featured a storyabout McCann’s work as aphotographer and his interestin Alpice, Italy, the subject ofthe exhibition.

1961Class ChairJoseph E. Dertinger Jr.RReevv.. MMssggrr.. GGeeoorrggee WW..CCoolleemmaann, vicar general andmoderator of the curia for theDiocese of Fall River, Mass.,has been elected to serve asinterim administrator pendingthe installation of a new bishopfor the diocese. KKeevviinn JJ.. CCoolllliinnss,a retired managing director andoperating committee member

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of the First Boston Corp., hasbeen named to the board oftrustees of the ScholarshipFund for Inner-City Children ofthe Archdiocese of Newark,N.J. The St. Thomas MoreSociety of the WorcesterDiocese selected TThhoommaass JJ..DDoonnaahhuuee JJrr.. as the recipient ofits distinguished attorneyaward, presented at the annualRed Mass held in October atSt. Paul’s Cathedral. Donahue,who is a partner in theWorcester law firm ofDonahue, Rauscher & McGrail,has practiced in WorcesterProbate and Family Court forthe past 35 years.

1962Class ChairWilliam J. O’Leary Jr.JJoohhnn EE.. FFoolleeyy has been selectedas one of the first inducteesinto the New EnglandBasketball Hall of Fame, NorthKingstown, R.I. TThhoommaass EE..HHeennnneessssyy JJrr.., deputy mayor ofColts Neck, N.J., was recentlyelected to a second three-yearterm on the TownshipCommittee. In November,DDoouuggllaass RR.. HHooyytt was electedpresident of the Block Island(R.I.) Conservancy. Hoyt, whohas practiced law in NewRochelle, N.Y., since 1967, hasmaintained a private practicesince 1991. HHaarrrryy AA..MM.. RRuusshhJJrr.., who retired from teachingat Schenck High School, EastMillinocket, Maine, after 35years in secondary education,was recently honored by havingthe 2002 yearbook scholarshippresented in appreciation ofhis 30 years of service as theyearbook advisor.

1963Class ChairCharles J.BuchtaClass CorrespondentMichael J. TonerThe poem, “The Names,” byU.S. Poet Laureate BBiillllyy CCoolllliinnss,appeared in the Sept. 6 editionof The New York Times; it wasalso read before the joint ses-sion of Congress, which tookplace that day in New YorkCity. From Sept. 10 to Oct. 5,the First Street Gallery in NewYork City held an exhibition ofthe new paintings and sculp-ture of HHeennrryy JJ.. ““HHaannkk”” FFeeeelleeyyJJrr.., titled “The InformationAge.” The Export-Import Bankof the United States announcedin November the appointmentof JJoohhnn AA.. MMccAAddaammss to itsnewly created position of sen-ior vice president of the credit

and risk management group.His responsibilities includeoverseeing risk management,including credit underwriting;credit review and compliance;country risk and economicanalysis; and engineering andenvironmental analysis.AAnntthhoonnyy PP.. SStteerrlliinngg,, MM..DD.., haspublished his first book – acollection of short stories,titled The Tears and Laughterof a Physician.

1964Class ChairRonald T. MaheuClass CorrespondentWilliam S. RichardsWWiilllliiaamm DD.. MMeettzzggeerr has recent-ly been named to the positionof associate dean forAdmissions, Alumni Affairs andCareer Services at WesternNew England College (WNEC)in Springfield, Mass. Metzger,who has been a member of theWNEC faculty for 25 years,most recently served as associ-ate dean for Admissions.

1965Class Co-ChairsDavid J. MartelThomas F. McCabe Jr.The Advertising Councilrecently honored RRoobbeerrtt CC..WWrriigghhtt, NBC chairman andchief executive officer, with its49th Annual Public ServiceAward – presented in recogni-tion of his commitment to pub-lic service in his personal andcorporate endeavors.

1966Class ChairKenneth M. PadgettClass CorrespondentWilliam L. Juska Jr.RRoonnaalldd JJ.. FFeerrrreerrii is the vicepresident for development andcollege relations at Spring HillCollege in Mobile, Ala.

1967Class Co-ChairsJohn J. McLaughlin Jr.John P. SindoniIn September, SSttuuaarrtt EE..GGrraahhaamm was appointed presi-dent and chief executive officerof the Skanska Group. Graham,who joined the company in1990, has served as its execu-tive vice president since 2001.The Dec. ’02 / Jan. ’03 editionof Irish America featured a pro-file of CChhrriissttoopphheerr JJ.. MMaatttthheewwss,host of CNBC’s Hardball, as itscover story.

1968Class Co-ChairsAlfred J. Carolan Jr.John T. CollinsBrian W. HotarekVViinncceenntt TT.. ““VViinn”” BBrroowwnn JJrr.., whois the chief financial officer ofthe Highland Group, a manage-ment consulting firm in St.Michael’s Md., is also active incommunity theater; he hasrecently appeared in 12 AngryMen, One Flew Over theCuckoo’s Nest; and Rainmaker.TThhoommaass EE.. KKeeeenneerr is a financialadvisor and chartered financialconsultant with CertifiedFinancial Services in Paramus,N.J. EEddwwaarrdd MM.. KKrroonnkk hasrecently been inducted into theAmerican College of TrialLawyers; an attorney andshareholder in the Detroit,Mich., office of Butzel Long, heis co-chair of the firm’s litiga-tion department, specializing inproduct liability defense andcommercial litigation. RRoobbeerrttCC.. PPaassccuuccccii,, MM..DD.., recentlyserved as the sound designerfor the production of Dinnerwith Friends at theQuannapowitt CommunityTheater in Reading, Mass.Pascucci is a pediatric anesthe-siologist and critical care physi-cian at Children’s Hospital,Boston Medical Center andFranciscan Children’s Hospital.The Connecticut Society ofCertified Public Accountantsrecently awarded DDoonnaalldd TT..SSttuuddlleeyy its 2002 Public ServiceAward, presented in recogni-tion of his commitment to com-munity service throughout hiscareer as a CPA. Studley, whois a managing partner in theDanbury, Conn., firm ofStudley, White & Associates,has held leadership positionsin numerous civic, community,religious and charitable organi-zations. In September,Southwestern UniversitySchool of Law, Los Angeles,Calif., announced that EEddwwiinn VV..WWooooddssoommee JJrr.. has been elect-ed to its board of trustees.Woodsome is a partner in theLos Angeles law firm of HowreySimon Arnold & White andchair of its commercial trialpractice group.

1969Class Co-ChairsDavid H. DrinanJames W. IgoeDaniel L. Spada, M.D.The Nov. 29 edition of theCatholic Free Press announcedthe Dec. 7 ordination of PPaauull TT..AAuuddeettttee to the diaconate.Audette, who is a member of

St. Patrick Parish, Rutland,Mass., is employed by theWorcester Public Schools ashead counselor at BurncoatMiddle School. RRiicchhaarrdd LL..IIaannddoollii, who specializes in U.S.immigration law, is a memberof the Boston firm, Iandoli &Associates; he recently wrotean article and presented a lec-ture for MassachusettsContinuing Education on thetopic, “Processing BusinessVisas at U.S. ConsulatesWorldwide.”

1970Class Co-ChairsAnthony M. BarclayJohn R. Doyle, M.D.The Nov. 10 edition of theBoston Sunday Globe includeda story about PPaattrriicckk JJ.. CCrreeeevvyyand his recently publishednovel, Tyrus, which is based onthe life of the baseball player,Ty Cobb; Creevy is a professorof English at Mississippi StateUniversity. Roanoke College,Salem, Va., recently announcedthe appointment of JJoohhnn TT.. DDaayyJJrr.. as vice president/academicdean. RRiicchhaarrdd SS.. DDuuffrreessnnee wasselected as a presenter at theProfessional DevelopmentInstitute, a national conferenceof the Employee AssistanceProfessionals Association, heldon Oct. 22; his topic was “Trainthe Trainer: Effective Designand Delivery.”

1971Class ChairRobert T. BonaguraClass CorrespondentJerome J. Cura Jr.WWiilllliiaamm BB.. DDuuffff has joined theNew York City office of KattenMuchin Zavis Rosenman in thefirm’s national employee bene-fits and executive compensa-tion practice.

MARRIED: RRoobbeerrtt RR.. BBlliissss andKaren Lachner, on June 17,2000.

1972Class ChairAllan F. Kramer IIIn November, TTiimmootthhyy HH..BBiisshhoopp was elected to his firstterm in the U.S. House ofRepresentatives; he serves theFirst District New York. TheNov. 26 edition of The NewYork Times included a profileof Bishop in its “Public Lives”column. Colby-Sawyer College,New London, N.H., recentlyannounced that JJoosseepphh CC..CCaarrrroollll has been awarded oneof the first two endowed faculty


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chairs at the college – the M.Roy London Endowed Chair.Carroll, who is a professor ofsocial sciences, joined the fac-ulty in 1977; during his tenure,he has served in several capac-ities, including assistant deanof faculty and director of aca-demic services; chair of thesocial sciences and educationdepartment and faculty repre-sentative to the board oftrustees. JJoohhnn GG.. LLaavviinn JJrr..,,MM..DD.., has practiced internalmedicine in the Towson, Md.,area for the past 23 years.JJoosseepphh BB.. MMccDDoonnoouugghh is theexecutive director of theMassachusetts JudgesConference; the positioninvolves spending a month inAsia, training judges inMongolia and China under thesponsorship of the U.S. StateDepartment. MMaarrkk LL.. MMoonnttyy isa senior development officer atHamilton College in Clinton,N.Y. JJoosseepphh BB.. SSaavvaaggee,, MM..DD..,completed his 20th year volun-teering as an endocrinologist atNH Camp for Children withDiabetes. DDeennnniiss JJ.. SSuulllliivvaann,,MM..DD.., an orthopedic surgeonwho maintains a private prac-tice in South Portland, Maine,was one of the physicians fea-tured in the Rumford FallsTimes’ Oct. 2 article,“Orthopedic surgeons createspecialties within specialty.”

1973Class Co-ChairsGregory C. FlynnEdward P. MeyersRRiicchhaarrdd PP.. CCaammbbrriiaa,, MM..DD.., whois a professor of surgery atHarvard Medical School, hasbeen named chief of the divi-sion of vascular and endovas-cular surgery at theMassachusetts GeneralHospital in Boston. The Nov. 14edition of the Rutland (Vt.)Herald included a story, titled“Prepared for Battle,” aboutRReeaarr AAddmm.. BBaarrrryy MM.. CCoosstteelllloo,,UUSSNN, and his command of theUSS Constellation and its bat-tle group. In November,Costello and the carrier groupjoined the Fifth Fleet in thePersian Gulf for a six-monthdeployment as part of“Operation EnduringFreedom.” RReevv.. JJoohhnn JJ..HHeeffffeerrnnaann,, OO..FF..MM.., has relocat-ed to Wilmington, Del., wherehe serves as the pastor of St.Paul’s Church. TThhoommaass AA..HHiicckkeeyy IIIIII has joined theBoston law firm of Hill &Barlow in its venture capitaland private equity and securi-ties and corporate governancegroups. JJaammeess BB.. MMccQQuuiiddee has

been promoted to director ofinspection and certification inthe New York state Office ofMental Health (OMH); hisresponsibilities include over-seeing the inspection andlicensing of over 1,800 mentalhealth programs in New Yorkstate as well as licensing newprogram development.McQuide has been with OMHfor more than 28 years.SStteepphheenn AA.. TTrruuhhoonn presented apaper titled, “EqualOpportunity: Are Differences inthe Eye of the Beholder?” atthe fourth annual conference ofthe International MilitaryTesting Association in Ottawa,Canada.

1974Class Co-ChairsBrian R. FortsStanley J. Kostka Jr.Robert C. LoretteDDeebboorraahh WW.. FFuullhhaamm--WWiinnssttoonn isthe director of philanthropicinitiatives at WITF Inc.,Harrisburg, Pa. – the publicradio and television broadcast-er for the 17 counties in centralPennsylvania. The law firm ofWilson, Elser, Moskowitz,Edelman & Dicker recentlyannounced that JJaammeess TT..WWhhaalleenn JJrr.. has been named apartner in its White Plains,N.Y., office.

1975Class Co-ChairsJoseph W. CummingsJoseph A. Sasso Jr.In October, Pelago Networks ofMarlboro, Mass., announcedthe appointment of DDeennnniiss RR..CChhaatteeaauunneeuuff as its presidentand chief executive. PPaauull JJ..MMccKKeennnnaa IIIIII,, DD..MM..DD.., and hiswife, Karen, announce the birthof their daughter, Emily Collins,on June 16. The Oct. 7 issue ofRadio Ink included an interviewwith PPeetteerr HH.. SSmmyytthh, titled“Keeper of the Crown Jewels.”Smyth is the president andchief executive officer ofGreater Media, Inc., in Boston.

1976Class ChairThomas E. RyanClass CorrespondentThomas C. HealeyTThhoommaass RR.. GGlleeaassoonn, the execu-tive director of MassHousing inBoston, has been selected toserve a one-year term on theadvisory board of the realestate, banking and commer-cial weekly, Banker &Tradesman. LLiioonneell JJ.. ““BBuudd””

RReemmiillllaarrdd has returned to theDunkin’ Donuts legal depart-ment after four years withOcean Spray. Ordained a per-manent deacon in October inthe Diocese of Providence, R.I.,Remillard has been assigned toSt. Jude Parish, Lincoln, R.I.

1977Class Co-ChairsKathleen T. ConnollyShaun P. MathewsThe November 2002 edition ofthe Gregorian UniversityFoundation’s publication,Report from Rome, includedthe announcement that WWiilllliiaammAA.. EEaaggaann IIIIII has been electedto the board of trustees of thefoundation. Eagan currentlyserves as a managing directorof Sandler O’Neill & Partnersin New York City.

1978Class Co-ChairsMarcia HennellyMoranMark T. MurrayMichael H. ShanahanEEddwwaarrdd MM.. BBuurrggeessss has beenappointed to the advisoryboard of the Rhode IslandCatholic School ParentsFederation, which is dedicatedto educating, advocating andmobilizing Catholic school par-ents, public policy-makers andthe public to ensure that aCatholic education is accessi-ble to all. TTooyyaa AA.. GGrraahhaamm hasjoined the law firm ofMoynahan, Minnella, Broderick& Tindall in Waterbury, Conn.CCoolllleeeenn AA.. OO’’KKeeeeffee has recent-ly been employed by NCRCorp. as the vice president ofWorldwide Customer Care.HHuummbbeerrtt JJ.. ““BBeerrtt”” PPoolliittoo JJrr.. hasopened his own practice with aformer partner – Polito &Quinn, in Waterford, Conn.; hisspecialty is civil litigation.NNaannccyy LLuussiiggnnaann SScchhuullttzz hasbeen named a senior fellow atHarvard University’s Center forthe Study of World Religion forthe academic year 2002-03.Schultz currently serves as aprofessor and coordinator ofgraduate programs in Englishat Salem (Mass.) State College.JJoosseepphh PP.. WWaaggnneerr is the direc-tor of admissions at ElmsCollege in Chicopee, Mass.

1979Class Co-ChairsGlennon L. ParedesDeborah PellesGGeeoorrggee AA.. AAsshhuurr, president ofthe Caritas Carney Hospital

Foundation and trustee ofCaritas Carney Hospital since1996, was the recipient of the2002 Andrew Carney Award,Humanitarian of the Year. JJoohhnnFF.. XX.. BBllaawwiiee, who is the assis-tant chief state’s attorney inConnecticut, delivered thekeynote speech at SecuritiesForum 2002, held in Octoberin Cromwell; the Oct. 21 edi-tion of the Connecticut LawTribune covered the forum inan article, titled “Spare theRod, Spoil the CEO / BusinessCrisis Solution: State NeedsTough Cops.” Syracuse (N.Y.)University announced inSeptember that CCaatthheerriinnee““CCaatthhyy”” MMccHHuugghh EEnnggssttrroomm hasbeen selected to serve as a co-director of the HigherEducation Program whichreceived a grant from theLumina Foundation forEducation “to carry out athree-year study of the impactof learning communities andcollaborative learning strategieson under-prepared students inurban community and statecolleges.” Engstrom is an asso-ciate professor and coordinatorof the Higher EducationMaster’s Degree Program atSyracuse.

1980Class Co-ChairsJ. Christopher CollinsElizabeth PalombaSpragueKathleen L. WieseDuring the month of October,the newly established Concord,N.H., fine art business,Anderson-Soule Gallery, pre-sented an exhibition of theworks of CCoolliinn JJ.. CCaallllaahhaann,titled: “Colin Callahan: RecentLandscapes.” Callahan current-ly serves on the faculty of St.Paul’s School in Concord andalso as gallery director of theArt Center at Hargate.

1981Class Co-ChairsJames G. HealyElizabeth Stevens MurdyWilliam J. SupplePPaattrriicckk JJ.. MMaalloonneeyy, who hasrecently joined the New YorkCity law firm of Bruckmann &Victory as a partner, is estab-lishing an admiralty and marineinsurance practice area.Maloney, a qualified Proctor inAdmiralty, has recently beenappointed to the Carriage ofGoods Committee of theMaritime Law Association ofthe United States. BBaarrttlleetttt BB..SShheerr directed the stage adapta-

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tion of Barbara Ehrenreich’srecent book, Nickel andDimed: On (Not) Getting By inAmerica, performed last fall atthe Mark Taper Forum in LosAngeles, Calif. The play, Nickeland Dimed, originated at theIntiman Theater in Seattle,Wash., where Sher serves asartistic director.

MARRIED: TTiimmootthhyy PP.. RReeggaannand Sheila L. Horton, on June15, at the Church of the HolyCross in Virginia.

1983Class Co-ChairsPatricia G.HaylonDavid J. TrasattiDDaarrrreellll CC.. BByyeerrss has recentlyaccepted the position of direc-tor of development, corporateand foundation relations, forGeorgetown University MedicalCenter in Washington, D.C.DDeebboorraahh DDiiVVeerrddii CCaarrllssoonn andher husband, John, announcethe birth of their daughter,Erika, on Dec. 19, 2001.Carlson is a partner in theBoston law firm of Posternak,Blankstein & Lund. RReevv.. KKeevviinnGG.. DDoonnoovvaann, who continues toserve at Sacred Heart Parish inWaterbury, Conn., has beenappointed chaplain to theConnecticut Fire Chiefs Assoc-iation. SShhaawwnn TT.. KKeelllleeyy, chair ofthe department of religion andphilosophy at Daemen College,Amherst, N.Y., recently pub-lished Racializing Jesus: Race,Ideology and the Formation ofModern Biblical Scholarship(London: Routledge, 2002).KKaatthhlleeeenn PP.. OO’’HHaaggaann is a mem-ber of the faculty at theChicago College ofOsteopathic Medicine,Midwestern University, inDowners Grove, Ill. The NewYork Law Journal featuredKKeennnneetthh PP.. SSiinngglleettoonn in its Oct.17 column, In-House CounselProfile, titled “The Aftershocksof Sept. 11”; Singleton is exec-utive managing director, corpo-rate secretary, and generalcounsel of Cushman &Wakefield Inc., in New YorkCity.

MARRIED: KKaatthhlleeeenn PP..OO’’HHaaggaann and Kyle Ramsey, onJune 14.

1984Class Co-ChairsFred J. O’ConnorCarmine L. SalvucciRichard W. Shea Jr.The Boston Bar Associationannounced in September thatWWiilllliiaamm JJ.. HHaannlloonn has been

appointed co-chair of the asso-ciation’s bankruptcy section.Hanlon, who is a partner withthe Boston office of SchnaderHarrison Goldstein & Manello,is a member of the firm’s busi-ness services department; co-chair of the bankruptcy, work-out and business reorganiza-tion practice team; and a mem-ber of the intellectual property,real estate and financial servic-es practice groups. BBrruuccee WW..KKoozzeerrsskkii teaches math andphysics at Holy Cross HighSchool in Covington, Ky., andcoaches football and wrestling.EElliizzaabbeetthh AA.. ““BBeetthh”” KKoozzeerrsskkii iscurrently teaching pre-school.PPaauull MM.. KKuukkuullkkaa is the nationaldirector of brokerage sales forMassMutual in Springfield,Mass. FFrraanncciiss GG.. MMccKKeennnnaa andhis wife, Mary Ellen, announcethe birth of their son, AidanThomas, on Nov. 26. In theOct. 7 edition of the HartfordBusiness Journal, founding pub-lisher JJoosseepphh RR.. ZZwwiieebbeell dis-cussed the 10-year history ofthe newspaper in a Q & A,titled “Hartford is the BigTime.”

MARRIED: JJuulliiee MM.. OO’’BBrriieennand Christopher P. Kelly ’86, inSt. Joseph Memorial Chapel.CChhrriissttaa MM.. SShheeeehhaann and JohnA. McNamara, on Oct. 19, inthe O’Byrne Chapel atManhattanville College inPurchase, N.Y.

1985Class Co-ChairsThomas M. FlynnJoseph TerranovaClass CorrespondentJoanne S. NilandCCoorriinnnnee GGaaffffnneeyy CCaattaallaannoorecently had an article pub-lished in the April 2002 issueof Exceptional ParentMagazine; she wrote the piecewith a colleague and a parentwho worked with her on waysto assist parents and profes-sionals facilitate the learningfor young children with devel-opmental delays. Catalano,who is a school psychologist atMontclair State University,Upper Montclair, N.J., present-ed the work at the WorldAssociation of Infant MentalHealth Conference inAmsterdam. TTiimmootthhyy JJ.. FFaarrlleeyyand his wife, Colleen ’88,announce the birth of theirson, Dylan Padraic, on July 29.Farley continues to work forCarter & Associates, sellingand leasing commercial realestate in Atlanta, Ga. DDoonnaallddGG.. GGaanniimm IIII,, MM..DD.., has beenappointed the associate chief

of anesthesia at Beverly(Mass.) Hospital. In May,WWaannddaa MM.. MMoorreeiiss received hermaster of social work degreewith school social work creden-tials from California StateUniversity, Long Beach. JJaannee((PPoowweerr)) and DDaavviidd RR.. NNeeiillssoonnannounce the birth of theirtwins, Samantha Jane andGrace Elizabeth, on June 1,2001. David has started a realestate development companyin Wellesley, Mass. KKaarreenn((HHaavvlliicceekk)) RRiicchhaarrddss and herhusband, Michael, announcethe birth of their daughter, ZoëNoëlle, in 2002. Richardsworks for Aetna Health Plans inSan Ramon, Calif., as the direc-tor of communications for itswestern region. JJooAAnnnn ((RRaattttoo))RRoossss and her husband, John,announce the birth of theirdaughter, Elizabeth Lee, onDec. 20, 2001. MMaarryy MMaaccLLeeaannTToollaanndd and her husband, John,announce the birth of theirson, Andrew John, on July 19.

MARRIED: KKaarreenn MM.. HHaavvlliicceekkand Michael Richards, inJanuary 2001, in Half MoonBay, Calif.

1986Class Co-ChairsVirginia M. AyersPatrick L. McCarthy Jr.Edward T. O’DonnellKathleen A. QuinnGGiieerriieett SSuulllliivvaann BBoowweenn and herhusband, Edward, announcethe birth of their son, BlakeReynolds, on Oct. 7, 2001.KKaatthheerriinnee ((JJoohhnnssoonn)) MMaannggsseennhas recently been appointedtreasurer and a member of theboard of directors at NordgrenMemorial Chapel FuneralService in Worcester; she alsoserves as the funeral home’sadministrator. MMaarrkk SS.. MMuurrpphhyyand his wife, Susan ’87,announce the birth of theirson, Aidan Joseph, on Sept. 8.

MARRIED: CChhrriissttoopphheerr PP.. KKeellllyyand Julie M. O’Brien ’84, in St.Joseph Memorial Chapel.

1987Class Co-ChairsKathleen E. MoylanErin B. Grimes MyersJames W. Nawn Jr.RRoobbeerrtt HH.. BBoowweenn was electedto a three-year term on theBoard of Selectmen inLunenburg, Mass. RRoobbeerrtt GG..DDaavviiss, who is an attorney withthe Providence, R.I., law firm ofPartridge Snow & Hahn, hasrecently been named to theZoning Reform Work Group in

Massachusetts; his responsibil-ities include bringing togetherplanning advocates and legisla-tors to develop proposals toupdate the state’s zoning andsubdivision statutes.CChhrriissttoopphheerr CC.. MMccGGrraatthh IIIIII andhis wife, Elizabeth ’88,announce the birth of theirdaughter, Grace Elizabeth.SSuussaann ((RRaabbaassccaa)) MMuurrpphhyy andher husband, Mark ’86,announce the birth of theirson, Aidan Joseph, on Sept. 8.JJeessssiiccaa ((GGoobbeeyy)) TThhoommppssoonn andher husband, Kent, announcethe birth of their son, MatthewWilliam, on July 19. CCaarrll AA..WWeeiissss IIIIII,, MM..DD.., is currentlyassistant professor of surgeryat Upstate Medical University,Syracuse, N.Y., in surgicalbariatric and minimally invasivesurgery. He has completedgeneral surgery training at theUniversity of Minnesota; addi-tional fellowship training in sur-gical infectious disease andsurgical endoscopy; and fellow-ship training at the Universityof Kentucky in minimally inva-sive surgery.

1988Class Co-ChairsEllen S. ContePaul E. DemitLLiissaa BBooeenniittzz--GGaassttaallddii currentlyworks as a counselor atEdmonds (Wash.) WoodwayHigh School and teaches psy-chology part time at EdmondsCommunity College. JJuulliieeBBuussccoonnee CCaayyeerr and her hus-band, Mike, announce the birthof their daughter, Rory Ann, onJuly 16. GGeeoorrggee TT.. DDoowwdd IIIIII andhis wife, Wendy, announce thebirth of their son, GeorgeThomas IV, on Oct. 9. Dowd iscurrently a vice president in theforeign exchange division ofBank of America. MMaarryy CCoolllleeeenn((CCaahhiillll)) FFaarrlleeyy and her hus-band, Tim ’85, announce thebirth of their son, DylanPadraic, on July 29. WWiilllliiaamm AA..““BBiillll”” GGiillmmaarrttiinn,, MM..DD.., and hiswife, Laura, announce the birthof their son, Ryan James, onMay 6. MMaarrggaarreett OO’’RRoouurrkkeeGGrraannaaddooss and her husband,Stefan, announce the birth oftheir son, William Rourke, onOct. 29. RRiicchhaarrdd EE.. KKeeeellaann isthe coordinator of communityresources and youth develop-ment, Worcester Communitiesof Care, UMass MedicalSchool. The Connecticut LawTribune selected DDeennnniiss FF..KKeerrrriiggaann JJrr.. for recognition as“overall New Leader” forHartford County; the paper’sNov. 11 column, “OverallAchievement,” featured a pro-


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file of one attorney from eachcounty in Connecticut, in honorof the individual’s contributionsto the legal profession and thecommunity. Kerrigan, who is apartner in the Hartford officeof LeBoeuf Lamb Greene &MacRae, specializes in insur-ance-related litigation, elec-tronic commerce and businessdisputes; he is also an activemember of the ConnecticutBar Association. PPeetteerr JJ.. MMaalliiaaand his wife, Katie, announcethe birth of their son, PatrickTrossen, on July 13. RRoobbeerrtt JJ..MMaarrttiinn IIIIII and his wife, Sarah,announce the birth of theirdaughter, Lauren Margaret, onAug. 11. EElliizzaabbeetthh ““BBeetthh””OO’’BBrriieenn MMccGGrraatthh and her hus-band, Christopher ’87,announce the birth of theirdaughter, Grace Elizabeth.CCllaaiirree ((RRooggeerrss)) MMoorrrriiss and herhusband, Jim, announce thebirth of their daughter, GraceElizabeth, on Dec. 16. JJ..MMiicchhaaeell MMoorrrriisssseeyy,, MM..DD.., whocompleted general surgerytraining at Dallas (Texas)Methodist Hospital in 2002, isnow studying plastic surgery atthe University of Wisconsin.SStteevveenn AA.. MMuurrpphhyy recentlyaccepted a position atWinmark Corp., Minneapolis,Minn., in charge of its Play ItAgain Sports division. PPaattrriicciiaa““TTrriicciiaa”” DDaallyy SSaannttooss and herhusband, Ron, announce thebirth of their son, KieranPatrick, on Nov. 5. CChhrriissttoopphheerrDD.. SScchhootttt, who has beennamed vice president of ULR, aSan Diego, Calif.-based life,accident and disability consult-ing firm, has opened an officefor the company in Atlanta, Ga.EErriicc JJ.. SScchhuucckk,, MM..DD.., has pur-chased a private pediatricspractice in State College, Pa.;he is also a national/regionalspeaker for the pharmaceuticalcompany Glaxo-Smith-Kline.KKaarreenn ((FFoolleeyy)) SSuulllliivvaann, whoreceived her master of educa-tion degree from Anna MariaCollege, Paxton, Mass., in1999, is a grade-six teacher atLincoln Street School inWorcester.

MARRIED: LLiissaa MM.. BBooeenniittzz andVincent A. Gastaldi, on May 24,at South Lake Tahoe, Nev.EElliizzaabbeetthh MM.. GGaalllliivvaann andJames Duggan, at St. Pius XChurch, South Yarmouth,Mass.

1989Class Co-ChairsChristina M. BuckleySean T. McHughCCaarroollyynn ((HHaannssbbeerrrryy)) MMiilllleerr and

her husband, Chris, announcethe birth of their daughter, JuliaLouise, in April. Miller is thedirector of investor relations atFisher Scientific in Hampton,N.H. EElliizzaabbeetthh ““LLiizz”” AAbbbboottttSShheeaa and her husband, Walt,announce the birth of theirson, Thomas Abbott, on April25. JJoohhnn JJ.. SSppiillllaannee has beenelected president of theWorcester Young Business-men’s Association for 2002-03.A partner in the Worcester andHyannis, Mass., law firm ofSpillane & Spillane, he focuseshis practice on small business-es. LLaauurraa PPllaacckkee WWaarrdd,, MM..DD.., isa neonatologist and adjunctassistant professor of pedi-atrics at Cincinnati (Ohio)Children’s Hospital MedicalCenter.

MARRIED: JJaannee MM.. TToooollee andDaniel P. Casanta, on May 11,at St. Martin’s Church,Providence, R.I.

1990Class Co-ChairsNancy L. MeaneyMark P. WickstromClass CorrespondentsLisa M. VillaJJaammeess EE.. GGaallee and his wife,Joanna ’91, announce theadoption of their daughter,Colleen Marie, who was bornin Kansas on May 29. NNooëëllBBiirrllee IIxx and her husband, Tom,announce the birth of theirdaughter, Kathryn Suzanne, onNov. 10. In January, the lawfirm of Pepper Hamiltonannounced that Ix has beenpromoted to partnership in itsPhiladelphia, Pa., office; thefocus of her practice is prod-ucts liability, medical malprac-tice and commercial litigation.

1991Class Co-ChairsPeter J. CapizziJohn R. Hayes Jr.Kristin M. KraegerJJooaannnnaa ((DDeerrmmooddyy)) GGaallee andher husband, Jim ’90,

announce the adoption of theirdaughter, Colleen Marie, whowas born in Kansas on May 29.TTiimmootthhyy SS.. HHaannlloonn has accept-ed a new position as a manag-er within GE Capital’sCorporate Finance HumanResources team in Stamford,Conn. RReeggiinnaa SShhaarrllooww andPPaauull SS.. JJoohhnnssoonn announce thebirth of their son, Liam, on July7. MMeelliissssaa ((DDoommaallooaann)) LLaayyddeennand her husband, Will ’94,announce the birth of theirdaughter, Molly Aisling, on Jan.1, 2002. CCaarroollyynn ((MMaatttthheewwss))LLooiisseellllee and her husband,Vance, announce the birth oftheir son, Peter Vance, on May9. JJaammeess GG.. NNaaiirruuss,, MM..DD.., hasjoined the department oforthopedics at UMassMemorial Medical Center inWorcester. SSaarraahh((SSccaannnnaappiieeccoo)) NNaarroowweettzz andher husband, Ralph, announcethe birth of their son, ConnorRyan, on June 15.

MARRIED: TTaarraa MM.. FFllyynnnn andBrian J. Frates, on Oct. 5, in St.Joseph Church, Newport, R.I.TTiimmootthhyy JJ.. MMccCCooooeeyy and Amy

Professor and alumna collaborate on exhibit

The exhibition, “Reflections on Glass: 20th CenturyStained Glass in American Art and Architecture,” current-

ly on display at The Gallery at the American Bible Society inNew York City, brings together a Holy Cross faculty memberand an alumna. Curated by Virginia C. Raguin, professor ofvisual arts at the College, and organized by Patricia Pongracz’92, the exhibit profiles the major design concepts of glass inreligious architecture in the 20th century. Including informa-tion on technique, process and materials, “Reflections onGlass” features windows by Tiffany, the Lamb Studios, CharlesConnick and Johannes Schreiter, as well as contemporary glasswork by Saara Gallin and J. Kenneth Leap.

Raguin received her Ph.D. from YaleUniversity and her certificat d’histoire de l’art moderne from theUniversity of Toulouse in France. A Woodrow Wilson and FulbrightFellow, she is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment forthe Humanities, Boston; the Corning Museum of Glass; and the Societyof Architects Award for Historic Preservation.

Pongracz, who studied with Raguin during her undergraduate years,calls her former professor, “a pivotal person in my time at Holy Cross.”

Pongracz received her master’s degree and Ph.D. in art history fromBrown University. Her dissertation, Monastic Architecture and FemalePatronage in Thirteenth-Century France: The Royal Abbey of Saint-Jean-aux-Bois, focused on the monastery’s buildings and the community’sdocuments to illuminate how the women used and inhabited the com-plex built expressly for their needs. Since 1999, she has worked at TheGallery at the American Bible Society. In addition to her work there,

Ms. Pongracz has lectured and presented papers on monastic art and architecture at TheCloisters and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; and also at the InternationalMedieval Conference, held at the University of Leeds in England.

courtesy of Patricia Pongracz ’92

Patricia Pongracz ’92

L. Sorokolit, on Oct. 5, at theHoly Cross Roman CatholicChurch, Rumson, N.J.

1992Class Co-ChairsHeather L. KeavenySean T. KeavenyChristopher J. SerbMMaarryy KK.. BBuurrnnss, who graduatedfrom the Dartmouth CollegeTuck School of Business,Hanover, N.H., in June, hasrecently accepted a position asan account manager at JackMorton Worldwide in Boston.JJaammeess FF.. CClloouugghheerr and his wife,Christine, announce the birthof their daughter, Kelly Ann, onMay 27. LLuucciiaa ((ZZooggbbyy)) CCooppllaannand her husband, Neil,announce the birth of theirson, David Louis, on Jan. 11,2002. CCeelleessttee PP.. FFeerreenn isteaching French and Spanish atCoe-Brown Northwood (N.H.)Academy. PPeetteerr JJ.. SScchhwwaarrttzz andhis wife, Amy ’93, announcethe birth of their daughter,Anna Mary, on Oct. 1.

1993Class Co-ChairsPatrick J.ComerfordPatrick J. Sansonetti Jr.CCaapptt.. PPaauull BB.. BBrriicckklleeyy,, UUSSMMCC,who has been selected for pro-motion to major in the MarineCorps, is currently assigned asthe operations officer for BLT1/8 at Camp Lejeune, N.C. LLiissaa((MMuucccciiaarroonnee)) HHuunntteerr and herhusband, Frank, announce thebirth of their son, John Andrew,on Sept. 12. JJoohhnn LL.. KKeennnnaa hasbeen appointed district deputy,Massachusetts State Council,of the Knights of Columbus.PPaattrriicciiaa MM.. ““TTrriicciiaa”” GGaalllliivvaannMMccNNaammaarraa, who is in her sixthyear teaching third-, fourth-and fifth-grade students at anelementary school inNeedham, Mass., is the headbasketball coach at Mt.Alvernia High School inNewton, Mass., and the headvolleyball coach at Norwood(Mass.) High School. Last fall,McNamara was inducted intothe Dedham (Mass.) Hall ofFame in honor of her highschool sports achievements.Primary Care Affiliates, a physi-cian group practice associatedwith Brockton (Mass.)Hospital, recently announcedthat PPaauull JJ.. PPeettttiinnaattoo,, MM..DD.., hasjoined the practice group in itsBridgewater (Mass.) office. LLtt..MMaatttthheeww RR.. PPootthhiieerr,, UUSSNN, whois now stationed at NASOceana in Virginia (Va.) Beach,is serving as a CAG paddles –

in charge of landing all aircrafton a carrier – for CVW-8, priorto embarking on sea dutyaboard the USS Roosevelt.Pothier also continues to flythe F/A-18 Hornet. JJoonnaatthhaann NN..SSaanntteellllii, who attended St.John’s University School ofLaw, is a corporate lawyer forMerrill Lynch, specializing inmergers and acquisitions. JJeeaannDDoonnnneellllyy SScchhnnoorrrr and her hus-band, Peter, announce the birthof their daughter, Claire Ann,on Aug. 9. AAmmyy DDoonnaahhuueeSScchhwwaarrttzz and her husband,Peter ’92, announce the birthof their daughter, Anna Mary,on Oct. 1.

MARRIED: CCaapptt.. PPaauull BB..BBrriicckklleeyy,, UUSSMMCC, and KellyWands, at St. Patrick’s Church,Chatham, N.J., in November2001. MMaarrttiinn DD.. EEaaggaann andSusan Kirchofer, on Nov. 16, onthe island of St. Croix.EElliizzaabbeetthh AA.. HHiillll and Scott E.Swenson, at the Scituate(Mass.) Common. CChhrriissttiinnee MM..RRiiccccii and James B. Cooley, onAug. 31, at the Cathedral ofSaints Peter and Paul,Providence, R.I. JJoonnaatthhaann NN..SSaanntteellllii and JenniferGiangrande, on Sept. 8, 2001,at the Church of Our Savior inNew York City. MMaarrggaarreett AA..““PPeegg”” SSuulllliivvaann and SeanKeiller, on July 27, inGaithersburg, Md.

1994Class Co-ChairsJulia F. Gentile McCannAmanda M. RobichaudJJeennnniiffeerr KKaappllaann BBuurrnnss and herhusband, Jesse, announce thebirth of their son, Jason David,in May 2001. In October 2001,Burns accepted a position asthe director of philanthropywith the Delaware chapter ofthe Nature Conservancy. MMoollllyyBB.. ((FFrreeeemmaann)) DDaauuddeelliinn and herhusband, Doug, announce thebirth of their daughter, DorothyEileen, on Sept. 22. WWiilllliiaamm RR..LLaayyddeenn and his wife, Melissa’91, announce the birth of theirdaughter, Molly Aisling, on Jan.1, 2002. DDaavviidd MM.. SSuutteerr hasbeen named the new directorof admission and financial aidat St. Luke’s School, NewCanaan, Conn.

MARRIED: LLaauurriiee AA.. CCaarrssoonnand Daniel E. Shufrin, on Sept.1, in Boston.

1995Class Co-ChairsChristopher J. CaslinB. Timothy KellerShelagh Foley O’Brien

MMaaíírríínn ((AAlllleenn)) FFrriiddaayy and herhusband, Jason, announce thebirth of their daughter, MollyElisabeth, on April 25. AAaarroonn TT..LLaaddaa, who completed his Ph.D.in molecular and cellularpathobiology at Wake ForestUniversity School of Medicine,Winston-Salem, N.C., inDecember 2001, is currently apostdoctoral fellow at WakeForest. JJaammeess JJ.. LLyyoonnss,, MM..DD..,and his wife, Maura, announcethe birth of their daughter,Fiona Margaret, on Oct. 11.JJaacckk NN.. MMoorrrriiss works forAmerica Online as the manag-ing editor for digital city.com inBoston; his band, “Three DayThreshold,” recently releasedits second album. In June,VViinncceenntt TT.. MMoorrrrooww received hisM.B.A. in finance from NewYork University Stern School ofBusiness. JJaammeess MM.. PPeetteerrsseennand his wife, Suzanne,announce the birth of theirson, James Sebastian, on July15.

MARRIED: MMeerrcceeddeess AA..BBrraannssffiieelldd and Markham Carr,on Oct. 5, in Chicago, Ill. AAmmyyII.. MMoollllooyy and Michael C.Bogardus, on Oct. 12, in St.Joseph Cathedral, Buffalo, N.Y.SStteepphhaanniiee AA.. PPaaoolliinnii andJonathan Waters, on Oct. 12, inSt. Luke’s Mission of Mercy,Buffalo, N.Y.

1996Class Co-ChairsJennifer E. BurnsHolly R. Khachadoorian,M.D.Christopher L. SearsJJoosseepphh PP.. CCoorrnniisshh, who worksfor the Society for thePreservation of New EnglandAntiques in Waltham, Mass.,was invited to serve on a paneldiscussion during the Nov. 20meeting of the Royall HouseAssociation in Malden, Mass. Amember of the association’sboard of directors, Cornish isone of three preservationistsinvolved in the ongoing restora-tion of the exterior of the man-sion and the slave quarters.MMaatttthheeww TT.. FFaaeerryy and his wife,Alison ’98, announce the birthof their son, Declan Matthew,on Sept. 9. AAlliissoonn OO’’CCoonnnneellllLLyynncchh and her husband, Kevin,announce the birth of theirson, Brady O’Connell, on July2. RRoosseemmaarryy BBoonnaannnnoo andTTiimmootthhyy JJ.. SStteewwaarrtt announcethe birth of their son, TimothyJames Jr., on Oct. 4. PPaattrriicciiaa““TTrriicciiaa”” ((SShhiieellddss)) SSwweeeett andher husband, David, announcethe birth of their daughter,Hannah Harding, on Aug. 28.

MMiicchhaaeell GG.. XXaavviieerr is now work-ing in the Boston law firm ofDenner, Sayes, where he spe-cializes in probate, civil andcriminal defense litigation.

MARRIED: KKaarraa LL.. BBeennnneetttt andTThhoommaass PP.. CCrroowwlleeyy, on June22, at St. Elizabeth Church,Milton, Mass. AAmmyy EE.. BBllaahhaaand JJoosshhuuaa AA.. DDooaann, on Dec.29, 2001, at Notre DameChurch, North Caldwell, N.J.DDaanniieell RR.. BBrraannnneeggaann and AliceT. Chanler, on June 1, at St.Felicity’s Chapel in Geneseo,N.Y. DDeebboorraahh JJ.. FFaarrrreellll and JoshNelson, on July 7, at Stonington(Conn.) Vineyards. HHeeaatthheerrRRaazzooyykk and JJoosshhuuaa RR.. PPaahhiiggiiaann,on July 11, on Pine PointBeach, Scarborough, Maine.

1997Class Co-ChairsMarnie J. Cambria, M.D.Brian T. O’ConnorJulie E. OrioKKaatthhlleeeenn MM.. HHaatthheerrlleeyy hasreceived her master of sciencedegree from Tufts University’sBoston School of OccupationalTherapy. BBrriiaann KK.. HHrraabbaakk ispursuing his M.B.A. at CaseWestern Reserve University inCleveland, Ohio. MMiicchhaaeell JJ..LLaammbbeerrtt is pursuing his mas-ter’s degree at the John F.Kennedy School ofGovernment at HarvardUniversity in Cambridge, Mass.

MARRIED: DDaanniieellllee MM..AAnnddrreewwss and Pete Long, onAug. 17, in Gardiner, N.Y.MMiicchhaaeell JJ.. LLaammbbeerrtt and LauraA. Gillooly ’98, on Aug. 24, atSt. Paul’s Catholic Church inHingham, Mass.

1998Class Co-ChairsChristian P.BrowneAlyssa R. HotteEric B. JavierJJeennnniiffeerr PP.. AAnnddrreewwss, who cur-rently works as a senioraccountant for investments inthe controller’s office at BrownUniversity, Providence, R.I., ispursuing her M.B.A. part timeat Providence (R.I.) College.BBrreenntt WW.. BBaarrrriinnggeerr, whoreceived his juris doctor fromSuffolk University Law School,Boston, in May 2001, and hisL.L.M. in taxation fromGeorgetown University LawCenter, Washington, D.C., lastMay, is employed at Cushing &Dolan in Boston. JJoohhnn MM..BBeecczzaakk, who works at CreditSuisse First Boston, New YorkCity, in the private equitydepartment, is pursuing his


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M.B.A. part time at the NewYork University Stern School ofBusiness. TTiimmootthhyy CC.. BBeennnneetttt,who is completing his jurisdoctor/M.B.A. studies at SetonHall University, Newark, N.J.,has accepted a position as anassociate with the Boston lawfirm of Testa, Hurwitz &Thibeault, effective this fall. IIaannDD.. BBiisshhoopp is now a journalistfor MediaNews Group at itsbureau in Washington, D.C.;his responsibilities include cov-ering the Massachusetts con-gressional delegation for sever-al Massachusetts newspapers:the Sentinel & Enterprise inFitchburg; The Sun of Lowell;The Berkshire Eagle; and TheNorth Adams Transcript.DDiiaannnnee MM.. BBrraaddyy is a tax con-sultant for Deloitte & Touche,based in New York City. SShhaarroonn((LLoonnggoo)) CCllaaffffeeyy is currentlypursuing her Ph.D. in socialpsychology at Kent (Ohio)State University. DDaanniieell RR..CCoorrsseettttii is currently working asthe aquatics director of theWallingford (Conn.) FamilyYMCA. BBrriiaann DDiiSSttaassssiioo, who isa cost accountant for KendroLaboratory Products inNewtown, Conn., is pursuinghis M.B.A. at Sacred HeartUniversity in Fairfield, Conn.PPaauullaa JJ.. DDiirruubbbboo DDoonnoovvaannworks as a research scientist atM.I.T.-Lincoln Laboratory inLexington, Mass. AAlliissoonn DDiieettzzFFaaeerryy and her husband, Matt’96, announce the birth of theirson, Declan Matthew, on Sept.9. KKaatthhlleeeenn ((GGrraammmmaattiiccoo))FFeerrrraaiioolloo is continuing to pur-sue her Ph.D. in political sci-ence at the University ofVirginia in Charlottesville.WWiilllliiaamm DD.. ““BBiillll”” JJaarrrryy is nowworking as senior director ofbusiness development atProvident Corporate Finance, amiddle-market investmentbanking firm in Boston. LLtt..SSccootttt WW.. LLaarrssoonn,, UUSSNN, is cur-rently in his first year of M.B.A.studies at the University ofChicago Graduate School ofBusiness. DDaanniieellllee PPeennzzaarreellllaaLLaasskkyy is working as a networkengineer for Verizon inPhiladelphia, Pa. JJaammeess SS..MMaarrttiinn is a financial advisor inthe Mystic, Conn., office ofMorgan Stanley Dean Witter; atwo-year member of the MysticChamber of Commerce, hecurrently serves as an ambas-sador for the MembershipCommittee. JJoohhnn TT.. SSoouutthheerr isnow working for MorganStanley in West Lebanon, N.H.,as a financial advisor. InAugust, AAmmyy DD.. SSppaaddaa receivedher master of arts degree inFrench from Middlebury (Vt.)

College. IIrraamm VVaalleennttiinn, whoreceived his degree fromFordham University Law Schoolin 2001, has begun working atHarwood Lloyd in Hackensack,N.J., as a litigation associate.

MARRIED: JJoohhnn MM.. BBeecczzaakk andLaura Lee Barinque, on July 19,in Massapequa Park, N.Y. MMaarryyMM.. BBllaauumm and ChristopherLinskey, on Oct. 5, in York,Maine. JJaaiimmee LL.. BBlloommqquuiisstt andBrendan M. Kach, on July 5, inZion Lutheran Church,Worcester. LLaauurreenn DDeePPaauull andJeremy Schreiber, on Oct. 19,at St. Peter the Apostle Churchin River Edge, N.J. PPaauullaa JJ..DDiirruubbbboo and Matthew S.Donovan ’99, on Sept. 14, inImmaculate ConceptionChurch, Stoughton, Mass.LLaauurraa AA.. GGiilllloooollyy and Michael J.Lambert ’97, on Aug. 24, at St.Paul’s Catholic Church inHingham, Mass. KKaatthhlleeeenn MM..GGrraammmmaattiiccoo and JJaammeess MM..FFeerrrraaiioolloo, on Aug. 24, in St.Joseph Memorial Chapel. GGrreettaaMM.. LLaakkoo and Dominic Viens, onAug. 3, at St. Anthony’s Churchin Portsmouth, R.I. SShhaarroonn TT..LLoonnggoo and James Claffey, onAug. 9, in Red Bank, N.J.DDaanniieellllee MM.. PPeennzzaarreellllaa andBrian T. Laskey, on June 21, inPhiladelphia, Pa. CChhaarrlleess GG..PPuuttnneeyy and Karen A. Hadlock’00, on Sept. 7, at Holy InfantChurch in Orange, Conn.

1999Class ChairsRoland A. Baroni IIIThomas C. SoperRRoollaanndd AA.. BBaarroonnii IIIIII is currentlya first-year M.B.A. student atHarvard Business School inCambridge, Mass. DDaanniieell MM..CCiiaarrddiieelllloo, who graduated fromthe Massachusetts State PoliceAcademy, is now a state troop-er, stationed out of theMedford, Mass., barracks. Thearticle, “Of Many Things,”which appeared in the Sept. 30issue of America, included areference to NNiiccoollee PP.. CCrriiffoo andher work for criminal justice atthe Intercommunity Center forJustice and Peace in New YorkCity. MMeeggaann BBoollaanndd FFiilliippoowwiicczzis currently teaching highschool English at St. Teresa’sAcademy in Kansas City, Mo.NNeeiill EE.. HHooppkkiinnss is a third-yearstudent in the master of finearts program of the AmericanConservatory Theater (A.C.T.)at Geary Theater, SanFrancisco, Calif. 11sstt LLtt.. GGrriiffffiitthhMM.. MMaarrsshhaallll,, UUSSMMCC, recentlycompleted Dynamic Response’02, while assigned to the 24thMarine Expeditionary Unity,based in Camp Lejeune, N.C.

FFrraanncceess CC.. ““KKiittttyy”” OO’’HHaarree istaking a year off from medicalschool at the University ofPennsylvania to train in clinicalpatient research; the DorisDuke Charitable ResearchFoundation has provided a fel-lowship to support herresearch in cardiovascularmedicine.

MARRIED: PPhhiilllliipp JJ.. BBaarrnneerr andTressa M. DeFrancesco, onAug. 31, at the Regatta Club,Newport, R.I. MMeeggaann EE.. BBoollaannddand Ron Filipowicz, on July 5,at St. Katharine of SienaChurch in Wayne, Pa. MMaatttthheewwSS.. DDoonnoovvaann and Paula J.Dirubbo ’98, on Sept. 14, inImmaculate ConceptionChurch, Stoughton, Mass.AAuubbrreeyy EE.. HHeennsslleeyy andCCoouurrttnneeyy LL.. CChhrriisstt, at TrinityCollege School in Port Hope,Ontario, Canada. LLaauurraa VViirrzziiand Brian Estaphan, on Aug.10, in St. Joseph MemorialChapel.

2000Class Co-ChairsJason C. HoffmannKathryn R. RemmesLLtt.. jj..gg.. JJiillll MM.. DDoouugghheerrttyy,, UUSSNN,has earned her wings as anaval flight officer in the E-2CHawkeye. TTrriicciiaa AA.. FFyyffee hasbeen training at HS-10, thetraining squadron for theSeahawk in San Diego, Calif.,before beginning her three-yearassignment in Jacksonville, Fla.LLiissaa GGoonnccaallvveess is pursuing hermaster’s degree at TuftsUniversity, Medford, Mass., inchild development education.

MARRIED: KKaarreenn AA.. HHaaddlloocckkand Charles G. Putney ’98, onSept. 7, at Holy Infant Churchin Orange, Conn.

2001Class Co-ChairsSarah K. FoleyJanelle M. HraikiMegan E. KehewJJaaiimmee DD.. ddee LLeeoonn IIII, editorialassistant in the Public AffairsOffice at Assumption Collegein Worcester, received aMinority Achievers award fromthe city of Worcester at a cere-mony at the Crowne PlazaHotel. De Leon also writes aweekly high school sports col-umn for the WorcesterTelegram & Gazette. KKiimmbbeerrllyyAAnnnnee JJ.. HHeewwiitttt is in her secondyear of teaching at TisdaleElementary School in Ramsey,N.J. KKaattiiee TT.. KKiivvlliigghhaann is pursu-ing graduate studies in biobe-havioral health at Penn StateUniversity. AAlllliissoonn BB.. LLuurrkkeerr has

been working at FairchildPublishing in New York City forWomen’s Wear Daily. JJoonnaatthhaannSS.. RRoossssaallll, who completed hisJVC year working as a casemanager to the chronicallyhomeless with the St. Vincentde Paul Society in Phoenix,Ariz., has accepted a positionas a campus organizer with thePublic Interest Research Groupof Massachusetts (MASSPIRG)– at Middlesex CommunityCollege in Lowell and Bedford,and Northern EssexCommunity College inLawrence and Haverhill.

2002Class Co-ChairsLauren M. BuonomePeter D. McLeanIn November, the JVCSouthwest announced thenames and occupations of HolyCross graduates currently serv-ing in this program: RRaacchheell MM..AAddaammss is a housing advocatewith Sacramento (Calif.) SelfHelp Housing; SSaarraahh JJ.. BBoolldduuccis assistant to the medicaldirector at the Native AmericanHealth Center in Oakland,Calif.; BBrriiccee CCaammppoovveerrddii isyouth education assistant atSacred Heart CommunityServices, San Jose, Calif.;CChhrriissttiinnee MM.. GGiiaammbboonnee isassistant program manager atCommunity Housing of NorthCounty, Escondido, Calif.;KKaatthhlleeeenn AA.. QQuuiirrkk is a sitecoordinator at Sports 4 Kids,Oakland, Calif.; EEddwwaarrdd JJ..RReeaarrddoonn is a physical educa-tion teacher/athletic director, atDolores Mission School, LosAngeles, Calif.; MMaatttthheeww EE..RReeuutteerr is a life skillsspecialist/refugee resettlement,for Catholic Social Services inPhoenix, Ariz. AAnnggeellaa TT..MMoouurriinnoo is currently serving asan Americorps member inclient services at the Habitatfor Humanity affiliate inJacksonville, Fla. The Oct. 5edition of Old Colony Memorialincluded a profile of SStteepphhaanniieeLL.. SSkkeennyyoonn and her work as anintern at the living historymuseum, Plimouth Plantation,in Plymouth, Mass. In additionto providing curatorial depart-ment support and working inthe Public Relations Office, herresponsibilities include leadingtours of the Mayflower II.

MARRIED: MMeelliissssaa JJ.. LLiinn andPhilip V. Monte, on June 29, atHoly Apostles Church,Cranston, R.I.

Philip F. Berrigan ’50 died of canceron Dec. 6 in the Jonah House,

Baltimore, Md., at 79. Raised in upstate New York, Berrigan

served as a World War II infantry officerin Europe, then returned to Holy Cross.After graduation he entered theJosephites, an order of priests dedicatedto serving African Americans. He wasamong the first Catholic priests to jointhe civil rights movement. He partici-pated in the freedom rides of the early1960s and achieved national promi-nence leading a fight against conserva-tive welfare policies in Newburgh, N.Y.Relocated to Baltimore, he became aleader of surprising Catholic oppositionto the Vietnam War. With Tom Lewis,now a Worcester artist, Berrigan in 1967carried out an action against a Baltimoredraft board, and, in May 1968, hejoined his brother Daniel, a well-knownJesuit priest, and seven other Catholicsin burning draft records in Catonsville,

Md. “The Catonsville Nine” establishedthe Berrigans as national figures, priestsrisking jail for actions of conscience.Philip and Daniel wrote widely andgroups of disciples sprang up across thecountry; at one point they went under-ground and led the FBI on a well-publi-cized search rather than voluntarily sur-render for prison sentences.

After Vietnam, Phil married andbegan a family, but he and his wife oftenalternated jail time as they, with brotherDan and other friends, continued theirprotest against nuclear weapons. For theBerrigans and their supporters, theweapons, their expensive production,and the threat of use each of us makeswith them, constitute a crime againsthumanity. They took this claim so seri-ously that they would argue, more orsometimes less gently, that it is at leastnear sinful to pay taxes, to keep silent,to remain outside of prison.

Time magazine once referred to Holy

Cross as the “cradle of the CatholicLeft” because it educated Phil Berriganand socialist leader Michael Harrington,author of the influential attack onpoverty, The Other America. In 1971,the College dedicated an issue of theHoly Cross Quarterly to the Berrigans; itlater appeared as a well-received paper-back book. On the recommendation ofthe graduating class, the College invitedDaniel Berrigan to deliver the com-mencement address in 1973, althoughhe was not awarded an honorary degree.A respected poet, spiritual guide andJesuit, Daniel appeared occasionally atHoly Cross, most recently delivering apowerful meditation on America afterSept. 11, during our spring 2002 con-ferences, “The Anatomy of Evil.” Philipwas less welcome, perhaps because hewas an agitator, with very firm convic-tions, unskilled at dialogue. His steel-like determination to face hard truthsabout our devotion to power, our con-tinuing dance with death, was not thestuff of academic conferences, or com-mencement addresses.

His family and friends knew PhilipBerrigan as a man of prayer, steeped inthe Christian scriptures, absolutelydevoted to his Church in the way ofgreat saints, and to his country in the


“Remembering Phil”By David O’Brien

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Philip Berrigan ’50 (left) shares a laugh with his brother, Rev. Daniel Berrigan, S.J.

way of great radical prophets likeWilliam Lloyd Garrison. Like manysuch people, Philip Berrigan wasalways something of a soldier—atough, unbending, relentless forcestirring even those opposed to hispolitical and moral positions. Onejudge called him “the conscience ofhis generation.” His classmatesremembered him as an honest, coura-geous and loyal friend. One theolo-gian, on Philip Berrigan’s passing,acknowledged that, at times, hefound Phil hard to deal with, but hebelieved Berrigan helped prevent theChurch “from becoming entirely anon-prophet organization.”

In 2000, the 50th anniversary ofhis graduation, some friends andclassmates proposed Berrigan for anhonorary degree, but Holy Cross, likethe Church, did not know quite whatto do with such a person. Perhapsone thing that could have been saidhad he been honored was that heunderstood, in Harrington’s wordsabout his Jesuit education, “ideashave consequences.” One must liveaccording to what one believes is thetruth. Following conscience, PhilBerrigan stood always at the center ofthings. In the fullness of time, one

suspects we will know that theBerrigans spoke in word and lifetruths we prefer to avoid. PhilipBerrigan centered his clear gaze onthe most basic issue of the age, thevalue of each human life, of each per-son loved by God. He kept his gazefocused on that truth amid hatredand hunger, wars and weapons ofincredible destructiveness. He madeus uneasy as we worked so hard toease away from such questions oflives and deaths. And, can it be said,as Phil would say, that educationsometimes helps us numb conscienceand avoid the call of our best selvesto affirm life, for everyone and notjust for ourselves? Holy Cross couldnot honor Philip Berrigan, but, inthe fullness of time, it may turn outthat Berrigan, his brother and familyand friends were, and are, right. Thenit will be the College that will behonored to have once had a hand informing such a Christian, such anAmerican, such a man of courage andconviction. Requiescat in pace.

Philip Berrigan is survived by hiswife, Elizabeth McAlister; a son; twodaughters; and four brothers.


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1929William G. ReganNov. 27, 2002In Fox Hill Center NursingHome, Vernon, Conn., at 100,after an illness. Prior to hisretirement in the 1970s, Mr.Regan had been a salesmanand an engineering designer inthe furniture industry for 45years. During the mid-1950s,he pioneered the Shrewsbury(Mass.) Little and Intermediateleagues as well as other youthsports programs. Mr. Reganhad played semi-professionalbaseball in the Worcester areaand in the Philadelphia A’sfarm team system; he had alsobeen a noted speed skater. Mr.Regan is survived by two sons;a daughter; six grandchildren;and 14 great-grandchildren.

1936Maurice J. Sheehy,D.D.S.Sept. 24, 2002In Portland, Maine, at 88. Priorto his retirement in 1977, Dr.Sheehy had maintained a pri-vate dental practice inWestbrook, Maine, for 33years. Following graduationfrom Georgetown UniversityDental School, Washington,D.C., in 1943, he was awardedan Eastman Kodak Fellowshipto study modern methods ofimproving dental educationthrough pictures and movies.After completing the fellow-ship, Dr. Sheehy returned toGeorgetown University tobecome associate professor ofprosthetic dentistry. A veteran,he served a commission as alieutenant commander in theU.S. Navy dental corps andthen as an officer in commandof the dental corps for the U.S.Air Force in Bainbridge, Md.Dr. Sheehy is survived by hiswife, Betty; three sons, includ-ing William E. ’65; fourstepchildren; two sisters; andsix grandchildren.

1937Frederick F. Andrews Jr.Sept. 15, 2002In Bedford, Mass., at 86, aftera lengthy illness. Prior to hisretirement in 1985, Mr.Andrews had worked 40 yearsas a store manager at theHarvard Cooperative Society inCambridge, Mass. DuringWorld War II, he served in theU.S. Coast Guard aboard theUSS Harveson (DestroyerEscort 316), attaining the rankof lieutenant. Mr. Andrews hadbeen a member of the

President’s Council at HolyCross. He is survived by hisdaughter, Ruth; two brothers;two grandchildren, includingMatthew L. Trainor ’05; andseveral nephews and nieces.

Henry F. DeBaggisSept. 25, 2002In Texas, at 86. During hiscareer, Mr. DeBaggis had beena professor of mathematics,teaching at Notre Dame,Princeton and Fordham univer-sities in the United States andalso at several universitiesabroad. He had been a mem-ber of the President’s Councilat Holy Cross. Mr. DeBaggis issurvived by two stepchildren;three stepgrandchildren; onestep-great-granddaughter; abrother; two sisters; and manynephews and nieces.

Ambrose F. Finnell, M.D.Sept. 23, 2002At his home in Falmouth,Mass., at 86. Dr. Finnell prac-ticed medicine for many yearsin New Bedford, Mass., retiringin 1986. A general practionerat the outset of his career, hestudied radiology at BostonCity Hospital and later main-tained a private practice inradiology. During World War II,Dr. Finnell served in the ArmyMedical Corps in Europe. He issurvived by two sons, includingA. Francis Jr. ’65 and Rev. JohnH. ’72; two daughters; twograndchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

1938Bernard M. KaneOct. 12, 2002In Florida, at 86. During hiscareer, Mr. Kane had served asa television/radio broadcasterand as a college professor; hewas author of the book, LiveYour Dreams. Mr. Kane is sur-vived by his wife, Aileen; a son;a grandson and two grand-daughters.

John A. MeeganDec. 11, 2002In St. Vincent Hospital atWorcester Medical Center, at89. Mr. Meegan had worked 30years for the Framingham(Mass.) school system, retiringas chairman of the sciencedepartment. Previously, he hadbeen a teacher and a basket-ball coach for the Grafton(Mass.) school system. Mr.Meegan had also been a pro-fessor of biochemistry andmicrobiology for 15 years atthe St. Vincent Hospital Schoolof Nursing in Worcester.During his career, he received

nine National ScienceFoundation grants for studyand research at colleges anduniversities throughout theUnited States. Interested in sci-ence fairs, Mr. Meegan wasinstrumental in instituting theprogram for the Framinghamschool system. A member ofthe Boston Globe StateScience Fair Committee, hehelped to organize the statescience fair and oversaw theCentral Massachusetts ScienceFair for many years. Mr.Meegan served as a referee forhigh school and college footballand basketball games inMassachusetts for 30 years. Hehad been a member and offi-cer of the Holy Cross VarsityClub and a member of OurLady’s Sodality at Holy Cross.Active in professional organiza-tions, Mr. Meegan founded andserved as the first president ofthe Massachusetts Associationof Science DepartmentChairpersons. He is survived bya son; two daughters; threegrandchildren; two nephews;and several grandnephews andgrandnieces.

Rev. William F.O’Connor, S.J.Nov. 1, 2002In Campion Health Center,Weston, Mass., at 85. Prior tohis retirement in 1995, Fr.O’Connor performed pastoralservice at St. Paul’s Parish inWellesley, Mass., for 26 years.From 1951 until 1963, hetaught mathematics at BostonCollege High School, where hethen served as director of theEducational Counseling andTesting Bureau, from 1963 to1969. Entering the Society ofJesus at Lenox, Mass., Fr.O’Connor completed asceticaland classical studies there in1939; he then studied philoso-phy for three years at WestonCollege. After teaching atCheverus High School,Portland, Maine, he returned toWeston College in 1945 fortheological studies and ordina-tion to the priesthood. Fr.O’Connor taught mathematicsat Fairfield (Conn.) PreparatorySchool from 1949-50, andundertook advanced asceticalstudies as well as pastoral serv-ice in Pomfret, Conn., for oneyear prior to beginning histenure at Boston College HighSchool. He is survived by acousin. His brother was thelate James P. ’38.

Thomas J. ThayerOct. 18, 2002In Coventry, R.I. Prior to hisretirement in 1985, Mr. Thayer

had been employed by the U.S.Department of Agriculture. Atthe start of his career, he hadserved as a selectman for thetown of Epping, N.H. Mr.Thayer was a veteran of WorldWar II. He is survived by hiswife, Helen; a daughter; abrother; a sister; and nephewsand nieces.

1940Francis R. Mullin Jr.Nov. 23, 2002At the Harborside Healthcarein Mashpee, Mass., after abrief illness, at 84. Active dur-ing his career in the shoe andleather industry, Mr. Mullin hadbeen the president and founderof Mullin InternationalMarketing Inc., New Seabury,Mass. He had been an officerin the New England Shoe andLeather Association and amember of the Boot and ShoeClub and the 210 Associates;he had also served as the pastpresident of the Little Neck BayAssociation in New Seabury. AHoly Cross class agent, Mr.Mullin had been active in theHoly Cross Club of Cape Codwhich honored him with its“Man of the Year” award. Hehad been a member of theHoly Cross Glee Club as wellas the Clover Glee Club ofBoston. A Navy veteran, Mr.Mullin served as a blimp pilotduring World War II. He is sur-vived by his wife, Miriam; ason; a daughter; a sister; sixgrandchildren; and severalnephews and nieces.

1941James K. JonesOct. 29, 2002At Mountainside Hospital, GlenRidge, N.J., at 82. During his54-year career, Mr. Jonesowned and operated James K.Jones Associates, a hearing aiddistribution company, withoffices in Clifton and Teaneck,N.J., retiring in 1997. From1950 to 1967, he was the presi-dent of Maico AcousticInstrument Co., Paterson, N.J.From 1943 to 1950, Mr. Joneshad worked as a hearing aiddistributor for WinthropStearns, Detroit; he served as adivision sales manager for theSouthwest United States. Mr.Jones had also been the com-missioner for the New JerseyState Board of MedicalExaminers, on the Hearing AidDispenser ExaminingCommittee. He is survived byhis wife, Francesca; a daughter;three grandchildren; and two


great-grandchildren.

Raymond W. MonacoDec. 7, 2002At Golden Crest NursingCentre, Providence, R.I., at 84.Mr. Monaco had practiced lawin Providence for 50 years,until his death. At the start ofhis career, he had played pro-fessional football for 10 yearsfor the Washington Red Skins,the Cleveland Rams, and theGreen Bay Packers. A memberof the College football team,Mr. Monaco had been inductedinto the Holy Cross Hall ofFame as well as the NorthProvidence and the ProvidenceGridiron Club halls of fame.During World War II, he servedin the Army. Mr. Monaco is sur-vived by his wife, Adelaide; adaughter; a sister; and a grand-son.

1945Frederick J. Maloney Jr.Oct. 8, 2002At Jersey Shore MedicalCenter, Neptune, N.J., at 81.During his career, Mr. Maloneyhad been an FBI agent for 27years, serving in Atlanta, Ga.,St. Louis, Mo., and New YorkCity; he retired in 1979. Mr.Maloney had been a memberof the Retired AgentsOrganization. He was a veteranof the Navy. Mr. Maloney issurvived by his wife, Mary; twosons; a daughter; a sister; andnine grandchildren.

1946William R. Dolan Jr.Dec. 6, 2002At his home in Salem, Mass., at79, after a lengthy illness. Priorto his retirement in 1989, Mr.Dolan had taught many yearsin the political science depart-ment at Salem (Mass.) StateCollege. Previously, he hadserved 26 years in the military,attaining the rank of command-er. Commissioned as an ensignin the Navy in 1944, Mr. Dolancommanded a minesweeperduring World War II; served asoperations officer on thedestroyer USS Laffey in theKorean War; and commandedthe destroyer USS Rowan dur-ing the Vietnam War, from1965-66. He retired in 1969 asan adviser to the president ofthe Argentine War College andas a naval attache. A graduateof the Naval PostgraduateSchool, Mr. Dolan served threeyears on the faculty of theNaval War College. A memberof the Boston Yacht Club, theSalem Marine Society, the Navy

League and the WardroomClub of Boston, he served onthe board of the Perkins Schoolfor Exceptional Children. Mr.Dolan had been a Holy Crossclass agent. He is survived byhis longtime companion, Jo-Anne Murphy; a son; threedaughters; a sister; six grand-children; and two great-grand-children.

James A. LennonAug. 28, 2002At Yale-New Haven (Conn.)Hospital, at 75. During hiscareer, Mr. Lennon had worked50 years as an investment ana-lyst and advisor. A veteran, hehad served in the U.S. Navy.Mr. Lennon is survived by hiscompanion, Trish Cawley; twosons; three daughters; a sister;and seven grandchildren.

1948Joseph J. SheaSept. 26, 2002In the Aberjona Nursing Home,Winchester, Mass., at 76, afteran illness. During his career,Mr. Shea had maintained a pri-vate legal practice in Boston;he specialized in real estatelaw and served as a LandCourt title examiner. He wasthe past president of theCharitable Irish Society ofBoston. A veteran, Mr. Sheaserved in the Navy duringWorld War II. He had been aHoly Cross class agent. Mr.Shea is survived by his wife,Jeanne; two sons; two daugh-ters, including Patricia M. ’86;a sister; and five grandchildren.

1949Philip J. DiPasqualeOct. 28, 2002At his home in Rochester, N.Y.,at 78. During his career, Mr.DiPasquale had been the presi-dent of Selected Fuels, Inc.,Rochester, N.Y., from 1960until his retirement in 1988; healso frequently served as presi-dent of the Oil Heat Institute ofNew York. A World War IIArmy veteran, Mr. DiPasqualestudied Japanese at YaleUniversity as part of an ArmySpecialized Training programbefore serving most of hisactive duty as a sergeant sta-tioned in Bermuda. He hadbeen a Holy Cross class agent.Mr. DiPasquale is survived byhis wife, Catherine; four sons,including Philip J. ’82; threedaughters; a brother; three sis-ters; 21 grandchildren;nephews and nieces; grand-nephews and grandnieces; andcousins.

Frank T. Judge Jr.Oct. 13, 2002At the Jersey Shore MedicalCenter in Neptune, N.J., at 76.During his career, Mr. Judgeworked for more than 40 yearsat Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn,Mich., retiring as director ofcivic affairs in 1991; hisresponsibilities included coor-dinating the company’s civic,urban and community relationsfunctions. Active in many phil-anthropic, community andhuman relations activities, hehad served as the executivedirector for the DetroitStrategic Plan ImplementationOffice from 1988-91; chair-man, president and director ofthe Michigan League forHuman Services; and as adirector of the UnitedCommunity Services ofMetropolitan Detroit, theDetroit Public Education Fund;the Robert L. Millender Sr.Memorial Fund; and theGoodwill Industries of GreaterDetroit. He had also been asso-ciated with New Detroit Inc.and the Detroit EconomicGrowth Corp. On the nationallevel, Mr. Judge served as adirector of Volunteer: theNational Center and EurekaCommunities Services. DuringWorld War II, Mr. Judge hadbeen a master sergeant withthe 8th Air Force in Europe. Hehad been a member of thePresident’s Council at HolyCross and a Holy Cross classagent. He is survived by hiswife, Jean; two sons, includingFrank T. III ’79; two daughters;two sisters; two grandchildren;six stepchildren; and 10 step-grandchildren.

1950Roy N. HoldenOct. 16, 2002In the Hospice Residence,Worcester, at 75, after a briefillness. During his career, Mr.Holden had been a salesmanfor Carter, Rice & Storrs formany years, retiring in 1989.Previously, he managed thePerkins & Butler Store andserved as a buyer for Filene’s.Mr. Holden was a World War IIArmy veteran. He is survived byhis wife, Joanne; a son; twodaughters; seven grandchil-dren; and nephews and nieces.

Maurice J. Murphy Jr.Oct. 27, 2002In New Hampshire, at 75.During his career, Mr. Murphyhad maintained a private lawpractice in Dover andPortsmouth, N.H. Elected asthe first legal counsel to the

New Hampshire State Senate,he served as chief of staff tothe former Gov. S. WesleyPowell; deputy attorney gener-al; attorney general of NewHampshire; and U.S. senatorfrom New Hampshire. He hadalso been a corporator of thePortsmouth Hospital; a mem-ber of the PortsmouthEconomic Commission; a com-missioner of the PortsmouthHousing Authority; and electedchairman of the board of thePortsmouth-Kittery ArmedServices Committee. Othermemberships included theWhite House HistoricalAssociation; U.S. CapitolHistorical Society; theSmithsonian Institute; theFormer Members of theCongress Association; thePortsmouth Athenaeum; andthe Portsmouth HistoricalSociety. Elected a corporator ofPortsmouth Savings Bank in1965, a trustee in 1966 andchairman of the board in 1968,Mr. Murphy had been thechairman of the board oftrustees and general counsel ofthe bank until his retirement in1988. He had also served aschairman of the board and gen-eral counsel of PortsmouthBank Shares, Inc., the holdingcompany that ownedPortsmouth Savings Bank afterits conversion to a publiclytraded stock company–from itsincorporation in 1987 until hisretirement in 1988; he contin-ued as a consultant to theholding company followingretirement. A veteran, Mr.Murphy had served in the U.S.Army. He is survived by hiswife, Mary Elizabeth.

1951James M. Kennary Jr.,M.D.Oct. 30, 2002In Michigan, at 72. Dr. Kennaryis survived by his wife, Jean; ason, James M. III ’84; threedaughters; two brothers,including William G., D.D.S.,’56; three sisters; and eightgrandchildren.

1952Perry P. Griffith, M.D.Oct. 21, 2002In New York, at 72. Dr. Griffithis survived by his wife,Rosemary; six sons, includingThomas I. ’82; four daughters,including Rosemary E. ’81; asister; and 18 grandchildren.


1953John T. Howard, M.D.Nov. 26, 2002In St. Vincent Hospital,Worcester, after a brief illness.The former chief of surgery atSt. Vincent Hospital atWorcester Medical City, Dr.Howard had served as presi-dent of the medical staff andchairman of the TraumaCommittee; he had also beenan associate professor atUMass Medical School inWorcester. Dr. Howard is sur-vived by his wife, Sara; threesons; two daughters; a sister;and six grandchildren.

John F. SolinAug. 27, 2002In Cambridge, Mass., at 70.Prior to his retirement, Mr.Solin had been a psychologyprofessor for 25 years atFitchburg (Mass.) StateCollege. He is survived by abrother.

1954Robert F. LewisOct. 21, 2002At his home in Nashville, Tenn.,at 70. Professor emeritus ofbiology at Long IslandUniversity, Brooklyn Center,Mr. Lewis had held variousappointments at Baltimore

Junior College; New YorkUniversity; St. Francis College,Brooklyn, N.Y., and, mostrecently, Vanderbilt UniversitySchool of Nursing; he pub-lished in the areas of cell biolo-gy, genetics, plant science andhuman anatomy. During the1980s, Mr. Lewis had beenactive in alcoholic/addict coun-seling at Smithers Center, St.Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital inNew York City and theWashtenaw Council onAlcoholism, Ann Arbor, Mich.;he had been actively involvedin the establishment ofDiscovery Place, Burns, Tenn.Mr. Lewis is survived by hiswife, Barbara; four daughters; asister; and 11 grandchildren.

1955Robert A. MaherNov. 25, 2002In Connecticut, at 70. Prior tohis retirement, Mr. Maher hadworked many years for AetnaLife & Casualty, Inc., inHartford, Conn. During hiscareer, he had also served as asupernumerary for the WindsorPolice Department andcoached Little League. Mr.Maher is survived by his wife,Annette; three sons; threedaughters; 11 grandchildren;three brothers; and nephewsand nieces.

1956Paul J. McCarthyOct. 13, 2002In Georgia, at 68, after a briefillness. Mr. McCarthy is sur-vived by his wife, Judith; a son;five daughters; four grandchil-dren; and two sisters.

Robert A. Murphy Sept. 13, 2002In Buffalo (N.Y.) GeneralHospital, at 69. Prior to hisretirement in 1988, Mr.Murphy had worked 30 yearsin the West Seneca (N.Y.)school system, teaching Latin,German and social studies; hewas the former chairman of theforeign language department atWest Seneca West Junior andSenior high schools. Named“Educator of the Year” in 1987by the West Seneca Chamberof Commerce, Mr. Murphyreceived the West SenecaTeachers Association’s“Twenty-Five-year ServiceAward” and the New YorkState Association of ForeignLanguage Teachers’“Distinguished Service Award.”Active in professional organiza-tions, he had been a memberof the New York Association of

Foreign Language Teachers; apast vice president of theWestern New York Council forForeign LanguageDepartments; and a member ofboth the Empire State andWestern New York classicalassociations. His communityservice included serving as atrustee and treasurer of theWest Seneca Town Librarysince 1975 and volunteering forthe American Cancer Society,the United Way of Buffalo andErie County and the AmericanHeart Association. Mr. Murphyis survived by his wife, Joan; ason; two daughters; two broth-ers; a sister; and five grandchil-dren.

David C. O’Brien Sr.Nov. 3, 2002In Harrington MemorialHospital, Southbridge, Mass.,at 68. During his career, Mr.O’Brien worked 37 years in theSouthbridge school system,retiring in 1998 as principal ofthe Charlton Street School. Inaddition to serving as the prin-cipal and director of theSouthbridge Adult EducationProgram, he assisted immi-grants in obtaining UnitedStates citizenship and volun-teered in the literacy program.Mr. O’Brien had been a mem-ber of the board of directors ofCatholic Charities; TrinityCatholic Academy; and theMassachusetts Association forPublic School Education. He issurvived by his wife, Judith;three sons; a daughter; a broth-er; eight grandchildren; andnephews and nieces.

Francis J. SkehanSept. 5, 2002In Florida, at 68. Prior to hisretirement in 1998, Mr. Skehanhad served many years as aninsurance agent with theNorthwestern Mutual LifeInsurance Company, both inNew York and Fort Myers. Hehad been a veteran of the U.S.Marine Corps. In Mamaroneck,N.Y., Mr. Skehan had beenactive in the RepublicanCommunity; Lions Club; BoyScouts; Camp Fire Girls; andWestchester Life UnderwritersAssociation. He is survived byhis wife, Alouise; a son; twodaughters; his brother-in-law,David A. Doern ’62; andnephews and nieces. His broth-er was the late Peter F. ’54.

1957Norbert X. Dowd Jr.Oct. 11, 2002In Maine, at 67. Mr. Dowd issurvived by three sons; three


1948Burtis J. Dolan Jr.Nov. 24, 2002

Mr. Dolan diedNov. 24 in

Glenbrook Hospital,Glenview, Ill., at 77.

During his career,Mr. Dolan had beenthe chairman of theboard of the full-serv-ice, independentstaffing company,Olsten’s of Chicago,Inc.; he founded thecompany’s first fran-chise in Chicago in1962. Following hisretirement fromOlsten’s, Mr. Dolanhad been involved inthe start up of manysmall businesses, including: The Big Tag, Gore Creek FlyFisherman, Golflog and Monterrey Point Golf Center.

A 1943 graduate of Loyola Academy in Chicago, he waselected to the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998. As astudent at Holy Cross, Mr. Dolan had been a member of thevarsity basketball team.

A World War II Navy veteran, he served in thePhilippines.

Mr. Dolan had been a member of the President’s Councilat Holy Cross. Vice president emeritus, Rev. Francis X.Miller, S.J., praises his commitment to the College: “BurtDolan’s love for Holy Cross was boundless, and Holy Crosscan never forget the generosity of this distinguished son.”

He is survived by his wife, Patricia; four sons, includingBurtis J. III ’81 and Patrick J. ’83; two daughters, includingMary Alice Noone ’86; son-in-law, Michael J. Noone Jr. ’86;daughter-in-law, Susan S. (Smith) ’83; 23 grandchildren; andtwo sisters. His brother was the late James P. ’53.

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daughters; two brothers,including Shaun N., D.M.D.,’63; and eight grandchildren.His father was the late NorbertX. Sr. ’28.

Rev. Msgr. Thomas J.NeedhamOct. 23, 2002In St. Vincent Hospital atWorcester Medical Center, at67. At the time of his death, Fr.Needham had been the pastorof Immaculate ConceptionChurch in Worcester for almostnine years; previously, he hadserved as pastor of ImmaculateConception Parish in Lancaster,Mass., and St. Joan of ArcParish in Worcester. Fr.Needham received his firstpastorate in 1978 at St. Josephthe Good Provider Parish inBerlin. Ordained to the priest-hood in 1961, he began hisministry as the associate pastorof Our Lady of the Angels, St.Bernard and St. Catherine ofSweden parishes, all inWorcester, and St. JosephParish in Auburn; from 1969 to1971, he had been campusminister at Worcester StateCollege and Leicester JuniorCollege. Active for many yearsin the Society for thePropagation of the Faith, Fr.Needham had served as assis-tant director from 1962 to1984, and as director, from1984 until 2001. He is survivedby a brother; three sisters, oneof whom was his twin; andnephews and nieces.

1958Paul A. WhelanJune 27 2002At Memorial Hospital,Belleville, Ill., at 72, of a heartattack. Mr. Whelan, a retiredAir Force colonel and collegeeducator, had been a five-yearmember of the board of com-missioners of the Bi-StateDevelopment Agency, servingas vice chair since last August;he headed the commission’sAviation Task Force. During hiscareer, Mr. Whelan had servedas the dean or president of sev-eral colleges; from 1981 to1991, he headed the ParksCollege of Engineering andAviation, Saint Louis (Mo.)University. Active in the BoysScouts, he was the recipient ofthe Silver Antelope Award; hehad also been a member of theSerra Club and other organiza-tions. A veteran of the AirForce, Mr. Whelan served inthe Korean and Vietnam wars,attaining the rank of colonel.He is survived by his wife,Patricia; 10 sons; two daugh-

ters; three sisters; and 37grandchildren.

1959Anthony D. “Wally”BavaroOct. 20, 2002At his home in Danvers, Mass.,of cancer, at 64. During hiscareer, Mr. Bavaro taught histo-ry for more than 40 years atthe Beebe Junior High Schoolin Malden, Mass.; he had alsocoached football and track atChelsea (Mass.) High Schoolfor several years. As a studentat Holy Cross, Mr. Bavaro hadbeen a member of the footballand track teams for four years.He is survived by his wife,Christine; two sons; a daughter;two brothers; four grandchil-dren; and many nephews andnieces.

1968Daniel J. O’Connell IIISept. 24, 2002In Massachusetts GeneralHospital, Boston, at 56. Anattorney for almost 30 years,Mr. O’Connell began his careeras a trial lawyer with theMiddlesex County districtattorney’s office; he thenopened his own practice inBoston which he maintaineduntil a few weeks before hisdeath. Co-founder and pastpresident of the MassachusettsAssociation of CriminalDefense Lawyers, he was amember of the NationalAssociation of CriminalDefense Lawyers. He was listedin Best Lawyers in America,from 1993 to the present, forcriminal law. During his career,Mr. O’Connell had been a long-time coach and supporter ofthe Winchester (Mass.) youthhockey and baseball organiza-tions. He was a veteran of thearmed services. Mr. O’Connellis survived by his wife, Natalie;two sons; two daughters,including Alison B. O’ConnellLynch ’96; a brother; a sister;and a grandson.

1969Rabbi Harold RothSept. 30, 2002In UMass Memorial-HealthAlliance, Leominster,Mass., campus, at 79, after along illness. Prior to his retire-ment last year, Rabbi Roth hadserved the CongregationAgudath Achim in Fitchburg,Mass., for 39 years. Previously,he had been the rabbi ofCongregation Ohavi Zedeck in

Clinton, Mass., for three years,and the Congregation AgudasAchim in Attleborough, Mass.,for one year. For many years,he had also been a chaplain atthe Fernald School, Waltham;the former Fort Devens, inAyer; and the MassachusettsCorrectional Institution, Shirley.Rabbi Roth is survived by hiswife, Martha; a son; a daugh-ter; a brother; two sisters; andthree grandchildren.

1970Charles J. AhearnOct. 12, 2002At Wingate at Sudbury (Mass.)Nursing Home, at 53, after along illness. A graduate ofNortheastern University Schoolof Law in Boston, Mr. Ahearnhad practiced law in theCentral Massachusetts area.He also pursued an interest inthe restoration of old cars. Mr.Ahearn is survived by his par-ents; a son; a daughter; abrother; two sisters; threegrandchildren; and nephewsand nieces.

1971Louis N. MasseryDec. 5, 2002At his home in Winchester,Mass., of cancer, at 53. A 1974graduate of Boston UniversityLaw School, Mr. Massery prac-

ticed law for many years inBoston. At the start of hiscareer, he worked for severallocal law offices before forminghis own firm in 1995; atMassery & Gillis, he focusedhis practice on personal injuryand environmental law. In themid-1990s, Mr. Masseryhelped found the AmericanMiddle East LawyersAssociation. During his career,he had been involved with theSt. Jude Children’s ResearchHospital in Memphis, Tenn.,serving as president of theBoston chapter of the hospi-tal’s support organization. Mr.Massery is survived by his wife,Anita; a son; a daughter; twobrothers; a sister; and manynephews and nieces.

1985Donald J. ZelinskiOct. 11, 2002At St. John Macomb Hospital,Warren, Mich., at 39. Mr.Zelinski had worked for manyyears in telecommunicationssales. As a student, he playedfootball at De La Salle HighSchool and at Holy Cross. Mr.Zelinski is survived by his par-ents; four brothers; a sister;nine nephews; six nieces; fourgrandnephews and one grand-niece.


Francis W. “Frank” KasetaOct. 25, 2002

Francis W. “Frank”Kaseta, Holy

Cross associate profes-sor emeritus, diedOct. 25, 2002 at hishome in Norwood,Mass., at 69.

Mr. Kaseta, whojoined the College fac-ulty in 1964, taught36 years in the physicsdepartment. A hamradio enthusiast, hehad been a member ofthe Norwood HamRadio Club.

A 1955 graduate of Boston College, Mr. Kaseta receivedhis Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Cambridge, Mass., in 1962.

He is survived by his wife, Joyce-Ellen; his mother; a son;three daughters; a sister; a grandchild; and many nephewsand nieces.

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On Saturday, Dec. 14, in St. John’sChurch—founded by Father

Fitton a century and a half ago—family,friends, alumni, priests, faculty andparishioners joined Bishop Daniel P.Reilly to pray and remember Joseph H.Maguire at his funeral Mass. Themourners filled every available pew intribute and in gratitude for the life andgood works of a truly remarkable son ofHoly Cross.

A Worcester boy, graduate ofXavierian Brothers’ high school and theCollege of the Holy Cross, Class of1958, Joe spent nearly 50 years onMount Saint James—student, teacher,department chairman, academic advisor,assistant dean and dormitory resident.The number of years and the catalogueof roles are themselves astonishing andimpressive. But they don’t tell the wholestory.

The story of Joe Maguire is all aboutdeep personal concern for others,

demanding, but compassionate academ-ic leadership and a profound faith andpurpose.

Nine-to-five meant nothing to him.A five-day week was equally foreign. Hisoffice on Fenwick II and his small suitein Mulledy drew the good and the bad,those in clover and those on the edge ofruin, the scholars and the saints, somewith a future and some struggling des-perately to find one. Why did theycome, year after year, generation on gen-eration? They came because he wel-comed them. He listened, he was wise,and he cared. He told the truth andgave the advice that only sometimes waswhat one wanted to hear. You couldtrust him, put your trust in him. If hewas away from his phone when youcalled and left a message, he called youback. And the greeting cards! He sentthem by the thousands—birthdays,Christmas, congratulations and condo-lences, each one personally addressed

and signed. All in purple ink, of course.Conception Abbey Press will miss him.

Following his graduation and aftertaking a master’s degree at theUniversity of Notre Dame, Joe joinedthe faculty at Holy Cross and soon wasappointed the chairman of the educa-tion department, an office he held untilhis retirement in 2001. His 40-year stayas chairman, surely a record, says a greatdeal about his successful managementand the esteem in which he was held bythe academic administration of theCollege. His 32 years as assistant deansay the same thing.

Many of his students were preparedfor high school teaching through hisTeacher Certification Program, one ofthe best in the commonwealth ofMassachusetts. Joe was the best of teach-ers: demanding, experienced, well-pre-pared and inspiring. The kindly listenerwas no easy mark. His semester readinglists, impressive, serious and long, drovemany to select their courses elsewhere.Bob Brennan ’81, who, together withEd Ludwig ’73 initiated the drive to


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“Dean Joe”“Dean Joe”

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2005Glenn A. CraneDec. 23, 2002In Michigan, following a two-year battle with cancer, at 21. Anative of Sterling Heights,Mich., Mr. Crane was a gradu-ate of Cranbrook-KingswoodHigh School in BloomfieldHills, Mich., where he hadbeen a member of the icehockey team; he then attendedthe Hill School in Pottstown,Pa., for one year. As a studentat Holy Cross, Mr. Crane hadbeen a forward on the Collegeice hockey team. He was ableto play in four games during hisfirst year before being diag-nosed with Hodgkin’s diseasein December 2000; the follow-ing fall, he saw some ice timebefore a relapse cut short hiscomeback. In November 2001,Mr. Crane’s teammates shavedtheir heads for a weekend

series at Mercyhurst andCanisius, as a tribute to hischemotherapy treatments; theteam traveled to Michigan toattend his funeral on Dec. 28.“It was an honor to know ayoung man like Glenn Crane,”says Holy Cross head hockeycoach, Paul Pearl. “In thetoughest of circumstances, hewas the most positive person Ihave ever known. Holy Cross isa better place, and we are abetter hockey program becauseof his coming here.” Mr. Craneis survived by his parents; a sis-ter; his maternal grandfather;and his paternal grandparents.

FRIENDS:Wife of Thomas F. Burchill ’87;wife of James M. ’71 and moth-er of Christopher J. Burgoyne’04; wife of the late Edmund J.Burke ’24; father of BevBylund, economics depart-ment; wife of George F. ’49 and

mother of Gregory H. Cahill’81; brother of Isalys Claudio’04; Irene Cole, retired, dean'soffice; mother of James L.Dolan ’06; wife of the lateDonald H. Fitzgerald ’31;daughter of Sean W., M.D., ’85,granddaughter of Thomas O.,M.D., ’58, and niece of ThomasS. Fitzpatrick ’84; wife ofRichard F. Hegarty ’31; motherof Rebecca C. Hoffman ’05;sister of Doris Hunt, retired,registrar’s office; wife ofCharles H. Keenan ’37; fatherof Lynn Kremer, theatre depart-ment; granddaughter of JamesD. Long, physical plant, andgrandniece of Frances D.Milionis, financial aid; motherof Ann Marie Lucas, develop-ment office; Ernest Morin,retired, Hogan building servic-es; sister of John F. O’Connell,economics department; daugh-ter of Edward C. O'Donnell '49;

wife of Robert J. ’59 and moth-er of James M. Reidy ’96;mother of Paul L. ’77 andgrandmother of Allison M. ’04and Erin B. Robert ’06; fatherof Joyce Roy, physicalplant/building services; fatherof Kenneth M. Thompson ’85;grandmother and uncle ofDavid J. Trasatti ’83 and SusanTrasatti Sullivan ’89; mother ofDeborah Tucker, modern lan-guages and literatures depart-ment


endow in Joe’s honor, a professorship ineducation, says of him: “Joe has an abili-ty to create in his students a desire toquestion and keep questioning; to con-tinue always to learn and engage theworld: to develop a sense of beliefs con-sistent with the morality and ethics ofCatholic thought.”

Joe Maguire was a profoundly reli-gious and deeply committed Catholic.He was a man of faith. Academicadministration, teaching and counselingwere for him a vocation, not just a job.His preaching was powerful because itwas not in words but in example that hespoke. He loved the Church, its sacra-ments, its priests, its history, its architec-ture, warts and all. I visited often withhim. Our friendship spanned nearly 50years. We talked a lot about life andmeaning. In the months prior to hisamputation, when he was down as lowas one could get, I would call to arrangea visit and ask if I might bring him

something. I can hear his voice now:“Humm, yes, you can bring me HolyCommunion.” After communion, wewould spend some time in quiet thanks-giving. On one of these occasions, hetold me that of all the things he everwanted, he wanted most of all to be apriest. But it was not to be. He nevertold me why. I never asked.

But, in fact, his life was priestly. Hiscounseling was spiritual direction. Hisambition for his students was the fulldevelopment of all their talents. Theycame from God. He encouraged thereading of serious books of lasting valueand inspiration and gave them away asgifts. He assisted at the weddings of hisstudents and the baptisms of their chil-dren. He was present in times of need,times of sickness and mourning. Hebecame an active member of the wor-shiping community at St. John’sChurch, contributing generously anddistributing weekly a religious commen-

tary on the scripture readings for theSunday Mass.

Joe Maguire’s life was Holy Cross.He was special … a Mr. Blue, a Mr.Chips, a Fr. Hart. It will be hard to findhis equal, perhaps even impossible. Atthe end, when the Bishop intoned theancient plea of the Church, “May hissoul and the souls of all the faithfuldeparted, through the mercy of God,rest in peace,” with one voice and forJoe, everyone said, “Amen.”

Joseph Maguire is survived by two sis-ters; and close friends, George and PauletteLaBarre.

Donations may be made to: Joseph H.Maguire Education Chair, College of theHoly Cross, One College St., Worcester,MA 01610

Fr. O’Halloran, S.J., special assistant tothe president, was the principal concele-brant of Joe Maguire’s funeral Mass.


That is how I run my laboratory and how I runthe National Institute of Allergy and InfectiousDiseases at the National Institutes of Health.Some people around me in Washington thinkthat I am a bit obsessive on this point of striv-ing for excellence; however, I merely brush itoff as just being “the Jesuit in me.” You haveheard of the phrase “The devil made me do it.”I just say: “The Jesuits made me do it.”

What about the question of discipline? Thisis one of the most misunderstood elements ofthe Holy Cross experience. To me Holy Crossdiscipline was not about strict rules and lightsout at certain times, or getting up to go toMass when it was dark and icy outside. Sure,that can toughen you up, and I do not denythat this teaches you discipline, order, depend-ability and the like. These are important les-sons, and I am glad that I have learned them.No subsequent rules or regulations have everfazed me after my experience at Holy Cross.However, the lessons in discipline that I learnedat the Cross and that I carry with me today, arelessons of intellectual and expressive discipline.

I have referred to it as “precision of thoughtand economy of expression.” In other words,understand precisely what you want to say andexpress it as succinctly as possible. In thisregard, I have had the honor and the privilegeto know and interact relatively frequently withthe last three Presidents of the United States ofAmerica. Jesuit training comes in particularlyhandy when you have approximately five min-utes to plead with President Bush (#41) toinvest even more resources in HIV research, orfour minutes to re-enforce to President Clintonwhy global health should be a foreign policyissue, or 10 minutes to explain to PresidentBush (#43), (I get more time with him becauseI knew his father), that smallpox is a realbioterrorism threat and that we should rapidlyrestore our supplies of smallpox vaccine.

Actually, it was really quite simple. I merelyimagined that I was back at Holy Cross and asmiling, but quite serious, Jesuit was standingover me and saying “OK, Fauci, make it correctand complete, but make it brief.” That is whatI mean by discipline!

What about intellect and spirituality? Howcan you be truly intellectual and still have aspiritual life? Come to Holy Cross. Historically,the Jesuits have been criticized by the less intel-lectual (dare I say that) of the laity or clergy ofthe Catholic Church for being too intellectual.The unabashed intellectualism of the Jesuitsand hence of the atmosphere at the Cross is theprecise reason why spirituality comes so natu-rally to us who trained there. Intellectuality andspirituality are complementary, not contradicto-ry. The answer, as you know, is faith. You haveto be around some very smart and intellectualpeople for a while, who are also very spiritual,to fully appreciate this. Holy Cross has madethese two issues seamless.

What about the concept of dedication topublic service? Clearly this is one of the mostimportant, if not the most important character-istic of the Holy Cross experience, and it hashad a most profound effect on me. The con-cept was instilled in me by my parents, wascarefully nourished in me by my high schoolJesuits in New York City, and flourished on theHill, where I developed a deep commitment toserve mankind. Becoming a physician was onlya part of this since I had decided that I wouldenter the field of medicine even before enteringHoly Cross. How I would relate to my fellowman professionally and the way that I woulduse my training and skills was profoundly influ-enced by my Holy Cross experience.

Importantly, how and why I becameinvolved in switching the direction of my careerin 1981 to begin studying a small number ofgay men who had a bizarre disease of unknownetiology—at a time that few researchers showedany interest, since this was a seemingly rare dis-ease in a marginalized segment of society—wasvery much a reflection of the “Jesuit in me.” Iwanted to get involved in important socialissues without relinquishing the hard scienceand clinical medicine that was so much a partof me.

Health professionals often find themselvesswept into a variety of cultural, behavioral, eth-ical and social issues. And nothing crystallizessocial issues more than does health, either indi-vidual or public health. Indeed, allow me toborrow a metaphor that arose in a conversationI had 15 years ago with Admiral JamesWatkins, former chief of Naval Operations andsubsequently chairman of the PresidentialCommission on the HIV epidemic, during theReagan Administration. He opined that theAIDS epidemic had created the opportunity toview contemporary society through the lens ofthe human immunodeficiency virus and hadbrought into sharp focus many weaknesses andfaults in our society.

The epidemic had brought to the forefrontdifficult questions regarding issues of publichealth and civil liberties, and it highlightedpainful truths about drug abuse, discrimina-tion, poverty and despair. That was 15 yearsago in this country. Now that our attention hasbeen directed to HIV/AIDS in the developingworld, and we are struggling with how toaddress its enormity, we are shocked at condi-tions in those countries that should have gainedour attention decades ago.

Indeed, the AIDS epidemic, as tragic andhorrific as it was and is, has provided me withan opportunity to practice my profession as aphysician/scientist at the same time as it hasunleashed completely the Holy Cross Jesuit inme, for the social responsibility is as great as arethe medical and scientific responsibilities. Andas such, I have had to deal with not only theenvironment of medical wards, but with the

culture of gay bathhouses and heroin shootinggalleries. This is what Holy Cross has preparedme for, and that is why there was never a ques-tion that I would follow this road.

I cannot leave this subject without empha-sizing that I have given here a very personalexample of how Holy Cross nurtured my senseof public service and social responsibility.However, it is very clear that one need not haveentered a profession that is officially one ofpublic service to exercise one’s social responsi-bilities. My job description happens to be oneof public servant since I am a federal employee.However, I am merely one in the ranks ofthousands of Crusaders in this room andthroughout the world who are living the tradi-tion of St. Ignatius Loyola, and I feel proud tobe in your ranks.

Finally, it is clear that the future graduatesof Holy Cross will be facing a world beset withseemingly unsolvable problems. One onlyneeds to glance at any newspaper: The MiddleEast crisis; abject poverty throughout a goodpart of the world at a time of corporate greedamong many at home; seemingly insurmount-able problems with public health in developingnations plagued with HIV/AIDS, malaria andtuberculosis; the threat of future terroristattacks from a culture that we barely under-stand; and on and on. Can and will futureHoly Cross men and women accept the chal-lenge and continue the tradition of St. IgnatiusLoyola?

Let me try to answer that question byreflecting on someone who was not, but shouldhave been, a Holy Cross graduate. This pastFebruary, one of my heroes of government serv-ice passed away at the age of 90. He was JohnW. Gardner, who was appointed in 1965 byPresident Lyndon Johnson to serve as secretaryof the Department of Health, Education, andWelfare—now the Department of Health andHuman Services—and who later went on toplay a founding or sustaining role in one vitalcivic organization after another: first the UrbanLeague, then Common Cause, and thenIndependent Sector.

When confronted with the many seeminglyinsurmountable deficiencies in our society as hetook the helm of his department, he chose lead-ership rather than despair. He issued a wonder-ful quote at the time: “What we have before usare some breathtaking opportunities that aredisguised as insoluble problems.” I have nodoubt that the future generations of Holy Crossmen and women will seize these breathtakingopportunities.

Thank you for giving me the opportunityto be here with you tonight and God bless youall.

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“Spiritual Exercise”

Thanks to Holy Cross Magazine for thearticle on the Spiritual Exercises at

Holy Cross. The Exercises were the forma-tive experience for me at Holy Cross—thefriends I made, the prayers I learned, thefaith I shared, all these are the greatestfruit of those days. I was grateful for thephotos and recollections accompanyingMs. Murphy’s article—they brought backa lot of good memories.

As the writer alludes, the Exercises wereoriginally one-on-one in nature and alsowere meant for people to undertake eachday as part of their “regular” life. St.Ignatius would visit all kinds of people—the rich and the poor alike—and serve asspiritual guide. He would arrive in themorning, at night, or whenever the peoplecould make time. In my busy life, I takeheart from this wisdom and although Isometimes wish I had the time to take thefive-day retreat again, I find consolation intrying to live the Exercises in my daily life.

Thanks again.

Ed Martin ’92Washington, D.C.

“Of Scandal and Reform”

Ieagerly read “Of Scandal and Reform: ARoundtable Discussion” (fall 2002),

certain that the president and faculty ofHoly Cross would enlighten me on themeaning of the “clergy sexual abuse scan-dal.” Now, sadly, I must flunk you all.

To this alumnus, the discussion was alame exchange of rationalizations, abstrac-tions and detached ramblings. The partici-pants were remote from the problem.Absent was any intellectual commitmentto understand the “scandal” or proposal ofany solution. If the academic leaders ofHoly Cross do not step forward to addressthis issue then where is their educationaland moral leadership? They who continu-ally remind us of the sacredness of theirmission have not lived up to expectations.

The moral corruption of a significantnumber of Catholic clergy boggles themind and begs an explanation. The prac-tice of pedophilia by sexually dysfunction-al priests undermines the concept of thereligious vocation. What is it about celiba-cy, homosexuality and religious fervoramong seminarians that has produced apopulation of priests whose preferred sexu-al outlet is with a male adolescent?

By hiding their Faith and academic

detachment, the Holy Cross clergy andfaculty have forfeited the real value oftheir educational mission, namely a com-mitment to the truth above all.

Clinton Sornberger ’63Lake Worth, Fla.

“Berrigan and Maguire”

It was with mixed emotions that Ireceived the news last month of the

deaths of Fr. Philip Berrigan ’50 and DeanJoseph Maguire ’58. Both contributed tothe College in important ways, and eachhad a definite influence on my years atand following Holy Cross.

Phil Berrigan and “Dean Joe” led verydifferent lives. Berrigan was a Josephitepriest, whose conscience led him to 50years’ involvement in social movementsacross the country, and frequently toprison. He married and had children, wascritical of Holy Cross and the Church,and accumulated a hefty FBI file with hisactivity against various U.S. domestic andforeign policies. In contrast, Dean Joe wasa quiet College administrator and profes-sor, whose equally justice-oriented viewswere expressed primarily through directservice to the College. He received stu-dents for nearly 35 years in his Mulledyapartment, incorporated values of socialand economic equality into his work, andgreatly expanded the College’s educationdepartment. Phil Berrigan spent only fouryears at Holy Cross in contrast to DeanJoe’s nearly 40 years on the Hill.

With Berrigan I had only a brief corre-spondence, while like scores of other stu-dents, I met Dean Joe while living inMulledy and came to know him well. Myloss, however—and that of the College—isthe same: two men who consistently stoodup and allowed themselves to be countedfor the ideals that Holy Cross itself, on aperfect day, also stands. They personifiedthe Jesuit identity, while Holy Cross,responsible in part for forming them, owesthem much for its continued relevance inan increasingly selfish and violent world.

I was introduced to Berrigan by DeanJoe himself, and letters I received fromeach of them in 1998 are illuminating.Berrigan, writing from prison for pouringblood on a nuclear submarine, encouragedme to hold fast to the College’s missionwhatever the social or legal price. FromDean Joe I received a letter of recommen-dation to several law schools that—hospi-

tal-ized in a condition not worthy of evenreceiving mail—he had dictated to his sec-retary over the telephone. Two years later,I remembered Berrigan’s words uponbeing arrested myself for demonstratingagainst the U.S. Army’s School of theAmericas at Ft. Benning, Ga. And thanksin part to Dean Joe, I was a student ofInternational Human Rights Law at thetime. The purpose and effect of theirrespective letters were not the same, butthe spirit was identical.

The proximity of their deaths—fivedays—led to a feeling of resolve lastmonth as well as sadness, for PhilipBerrigan and Dean Joe Maguire representa generation of standard-bearing people atHoly Cross that is getting older and callsfor replacement. As noted recently byDavid J. O’Brien, Time Magazine oncereferred to Holy Cross as the “cradle of theCatholic Left,” and such was due largelyto people like Berrigan, Dean Joe, andO’Brien himself. For that distinction toremain, however, there must be a youngerwave of individuals to take their placeamid new measures of repression at homeand calls for war abroad. Berrigan andDean Joe understood this reality.

The passing of Philip Berrigan andJoseph Maguire was a sad occasion for meand for Holy Cross. It was also an occa-sion for realizing that if the ideals theyshared with the College are to survive,there can be no gap in those willing tostand up and be counted for them.

Benjamin Zawacki ’97Legal Officer, Jesuit Refugee ServiceBangkok, Thailand


Letters to the Editor


calendar of events

Lectures and Conference:

Mar. 27 The Katherine A. Henry ’86 Memorial 4 p.m.Lecture: “Alternative Treatments for Seasonal andNonseasonal Depression”By Namni Goel, assistant professor in the depart-ment of neuroscience and behavior program atWesleyan UniversityRehm Library in Smith Hall

Mar. 31 Annual Hanify-Howland Lecture: 8 p.m.“War and the Christian Conscience”By retired Lt. Gen. Bernard E. Trainor, USMC, ’51,senior fellow for National Security Studies at theCouncil on Foreign Relations and associate at theCenter for Science and International Affairs at theJohn F. Kennedy School of Government, HarvardUniversityHogan Campus Center Ballroom

Apr. 2 10th Annual Leonard C. Sulski 8 p.m.Memorial Lecture in Mathematics:“Pascal’s Triangle, Cellular Automata andSerendipity: A Mathematical Tale”By Kathleen M. Shannon ’80, professor of mathe-matics and chair of the department of mathematicsand computer science at Salisbury (Md.) UniversityHogan Campus Center, room 519

Apr. 25 Third Annual Student Academic 8 a.m.-9 p.m.to 27 Conference

Presentations by Holy Cross students from a varietyof disciplines, showcasing results in independentstudy conducted over one-to-two semesters underthe guidance of faculty membersSponsored by the Office of the Dean

Programs Sponsored by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture:

Mar. 12 Deitchman Family Lectures in Religion 4 p.m.and Modernity: “The Idea of the University”By Rev. Michael Buckley, S.J., professor of theologyat Boston CollegeRehm Library in Smith Hall

Mar. 13 Beyond Brokenness: Healing, 7:30 p.m.Renewal and the Church series:Lecture by Rev. Donald Cozzens, author of TheChanging Face of the Priesthood and Sacred SilenceRehm Library in Smith Hall

Mar. 15 Workshop: “War, Peace & 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.Conscientious Objection”Led by Brenna Cussen ’00 and Rev. Michael Baxter,C.S.C., of the Catholic Peace Fellowship and theUniversity of Notre DameRehm Library in Smith HallCo-sponsored with Peace & Conflict Studies andthe College Chaplains’ Office

Mar. 17 Lecture: “Islam and Christianity in 4:30 p.m.the 21st Century”By Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor ofIslamic Studies at George Washington UniversityRehm Library in Smith HallCo-sponsored by the Department of ReligiousStudies and the Asian Studies Program

Mar. 18 Lecture: “Whose History? – Spinoza’s Critique ofReligion as an Other ‘Modernity’” 4 p.m.By Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, associate professor of phi-losophy, Vanderbilt UniversityRehm Library in Smith Hall

Mar. 20 Kraft-Hiatt Lecture: 7:30 p.m.“Who owns the Bible?A Judaeo-Christian Argument”Presenters: Jacob Neusner, religion and research pro-fessor of theology at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., and Bruce Chilton, Bernard IddingsBell Professor of Religion at Bard College and rectorof the Church of St. John the Evangelist Rehm Library in Smith Hall

Apr. 2 Beyond Brokenness: Healing, 7:30 p.m.Renewal and the Church series:Lecture: “Seminaries and the Future of Ministry”By Sister Katarina Schuth, OSF, Endowed Chair forthe Social Scientific Study of Religion, The SaintPaul (Minn.) Seminary, University of St. ThomasRehm Library in Smith Hall

Apr. 7 “Last” Lecture Series 7:30 p.m.By Frederick J. Murphy, professor of religious studiesRehm Library in Smith Hall

For more information, please contact the Center for Religion,Ethics and Culture at 508-793-3869.

For more news about upcoming events and for up-to-date information about the campus,please visit the Holy Cross Web site at:

www.holycross.edu

Concert Series:

Mar. 16 Peter Kranefoed, organist 3 p.m.St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Mar. 18 Suzanna E. Waldbauer Memorial Concert 8 p.m.Presented by the Holy Cross Chamber PlayersBrooks Concert Hall

Mar. 20 Senior Recital 8 p.m.Brooks Concert Hall

Mar. 23 Harald Vogel, organist 3 p.m.St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Mar. 28 Holy Cross Chamber Singers 8 p.m.Brooks Concert Hall

Apr. 2 Holy Cross Chamber Orchestra 8 p.m.Brooks Concert Hall

Apr. 8 Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble 8 p.m.Hogan Campus Center Ballroom

Apr. 10 Sarah Grunstein, piano 8 p.m.Presented by the Holy Cross Chamber PlayersBrooks Concert Hall

Apr. 11 Gamelan Gita Sari 8 p.m.Brooks Concert Hall

Apr. 22 Contemporary Music Concert 8 p.m.Presented by the Holy Cross Chamber PlayersBrooks Concert Hall

Apr. 25 Holy Cross College Choir 8 p.m.Haydn: Mass in Time of WarSt. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Apr. 27 Holy Cross Chapel Choir 2 p.m.Easter HymnfestBrooks Concert Hall

Apr. 29 Jennifer Ashe, soprano, and 8 p.m.Alison D’Amato, pianoBrooks Concert Hall

Theatre Performances:

Mar. 27- Cyrano de Bergerac 8 p.m.29 & By Edmond RostandApr. 3-5 Fenwick Theatre

Admission: $7 Holy Cross community and $10 general publicFor more information, please call 508-793-2496.

Apr. 24 Dance Concert 8 p.m.A collage of dance pieces, modern and classical, performed by Holy Cross studentsFenwick Theatre

Exhibitions in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery,O’Kane Hall:

Mar. 19- “Visual Arts 2003: Faculty Works”

Apr. 18 An exhibition of recent work by the studio faculty ofthe Holy Cross visual arts departmentOpening Reception: March 18, 5-7 p.m.

Apr. 30-“Senior Concentration Seminar”May 23 An annual exhibition featuring work by students in

the Holy Cross visual arts department

Other Important Dates to Remember:

Mar. 28-30 Siblings Weekend

Apr. 5 Holy Cross Cares Day

Apr. 12 Alumni Continuing 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Education DayHogan Campus CenterFor more information, please contact the Alumni Officeat 508-793-2418.

Apr. 13 The Admissions Office Open House for acceptedstudentsThe program begins with registration starting at 9:30a.m. and ends after the 4:30 p.m. Mass

May 3–10 Final Examinations

May 22 Baccalaureate Exercises

May 23 Commencement

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