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Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J., College president, talks with students following the College’s decision to move the student body to a distancelearning format for the remainder of the semester.

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We’re encouraging all members of our community to share the ways they’re staying connected to one another on social media with the hashtag

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s I write this, it is snowing here on Mount St. James as winter has returned momentarily to Worcester.

The snow falls on a quiet and almost empty campus, making it feel more like early January than the end of March.

Two weeks ago we were welcoming students, faculty and staff back from winter break and by the end of that week, we were sending almost everyone home in an effort to protect the health and safety of our students, faculty and staff and to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. In those final days, as I walked through residence halls or helped families load their cars, everything seemed unreal.

We should have had a couple more months before the packing up and the tearful goodbyes. We all feel a sense of sadness, but there is an underlying sense of purpose among our faculty, staff and students as we set about making the monumental shift to online courses at Holy Cross. This effort will require creativity, hard work and a great deal of patience on everyone’s part. Our goal, first and foremost, is to allow our students to complete the semester’s coursework and to do that in a way that is as true to the Holy Cross academic experience as possible.

Witnessing the deep commitment of our faculty and staff this week as they work to determine how best to conduct their courses with the use of technology and to find new ways to remain connected as a community has been inspiring. Our College chaplains quickly developed a video series, “Closing the Distance,” to offer spiritual support each Sunday through reflections on the Scriptural readings of the day. You can access these through the College’s website or by looking under “Playlists” on the College of the Holy Cross’ YouTube channel. Our faculty, class deans and others are available online for mentoring and advising. And student affairs is creating new ways for students to remain in virtual community with one another.

While we are now scattered across the world, I know for certain that this community will remain closely connected

and find ways to support each other. I have to look no further than all of you, our alumni community, for evidence of that.

Over the past few months, I have been graced to witness the profound devotion and generosity of this community in the wake of the tragic accident involving our women’s rowing team and their coaches in January. The outpouring of support was incredibly moving. We received hundreds of offers of food, lodging and transportation while our students and their coach remained hospitalized in Florida. We participated in tributes, fundraisers and vigils held locally and in Vero Beach, Florida. And on our own campus, we filled St. Joseph Memorial Chapel to overflowing as we came together in prayers of remembrance for Grace Rett ’22, and of healing for her family and friends, the women’s rowing team and their coaches, and everyone impacted by the accident.

We continue to support and pray for those still recovering physically and emotionally from all that they experienced. While the effects of the accident will continue to be felt by our community for years to come, it is comforting to see realized who we hope to be for one another.

In the midst of all the uncertainties of our lives and radical changes in our ways of communicating, doing business, worshiping, serving others, gathering together and getting exercise, I know for certain that the greater Holy Cross community will be there for each other and for those in our respective communities who need support.

We will have to be careful and creative, but we will find ways of living greater. Sustained by our loving God who walks with us in every situation, we can find in Lent and the upcoming season of Easter hope that new life will come out of this darkness, and that individually and communally we will find our way forward with grace. It is my hope that as our faith deepens so will our sense of peace and hope. You and your families all remain in my daily prayer. ■

Sincerely,

Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J.

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Students, faculty and staff filled St. Joseph Memorial Chapel to capacity on Jan. 24 to celebrate Mass in memory of Grace Rett ’22 and to pray for the student-athletes, coaches and support staff recovering from the accident.

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30 “Someone Observed Me and Said It Was Like I Was Eating the Book” Tim Youd ’89 is traveling the world with a typewriter, sharing the art of being a good reader.

8 Campus Notebook 8 Snapshot 10 Spotlight 12 On The Hill 16 Next Time You’re in Town 17 Artifact

36 There’s Something About Wheeler What is it about the 80-year-old dorm that delivers a unique vibe and forges such a tightknit community?

42 9 Ways To Be the Boss You Want To Work For Whether across the nation or across your kitchen table, everyone is a leader in their own way. Alumni share their best practices for outstanding

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48 Sports 48 Go Cross Go 50 Women’s Rowing Team, College Sees Outpouring of Support Following Accident An unprecedented tragedy in Holy Cross history yields an unparalleled show of support nationwide.

53 Matt Blake ’07 Takes Sports’ Biggest Stage In just five years, Blake has vaulted from

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DEAR HCM, elsewhere) that all humans by nature are imperfect beings, who only by God’s grace through Jesus Christ as believers are remade perfect.

As Melissa needed to develop relationships with human mentors and now serves other amputees as a mentor, all of us need to build our own relationships with Christ to address and overcome our inherent obstacles. Again quoting Melissa, “I’m in progress, not perfect.”

Curtis MacKenzie ’80

Suffolk, Virginia

An Inspirational Classicist

I was delighted to read your article “Curiosity Leads to Unique Find Hidden in Fenwick for Decades” (Fall 2019, Page 18).

its sports teams; the current shield is not very inspiring.

Since the Purple Knight is a fictional character, no one should be offended by its use.

To please us old-time alumni, we could be known as the Holy Cross Crusaders Order of the Purple Knights and have a Purple Knight on the uniforms.

As far as the shield, we need to have the Holy Cross on the shield; the letter “H” could appear on the left side of the cross and the “C” on the right.

Holy Cross on the shield would remind all alumni/ alumnae that we are all followers of the teachings of our savior, Jesus Christ, and as graduates of Holy Cross, we are sent out into the world to love and serve all people.

Andy J. Pyzik ’73

Moving Beyond Your Internal Voice

I can’t tell you how moved I was to read the article about Melissa DeChellis (“Melissa DeChellis Decided to Amputate Her Right Leg. Here’s What Happened Next,” Winter 2019, Page 42). I, too, was a student at Holy Cross with a severe clubbed foot.

Though I never counted the steps up the hill, I did occasionally pull out my ugly, “special” shoes (raised 4+ inches on the left side), especially in the Worcester winters when the pain in my ankle was nearly unbearable.

I applaud her decision, one I have contemplated many times over the years. Over my 57 years on this planet, I have never met anyone with a condition similar to mine.

Reading this article brought me to tears. As I age, I realize how the experience of having

a clubbed and disfigured foot colored how I thought people saw me. Melissa shows that despite our internal voices, most people see us as “abled overcomers” who gain a special strength from being a bit different.

Thank you for printing this and other stories about wonderful Holy Cross alumni.

Kathleen (Mercier) Houseweart ’84

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Perfectly Imperfect

In “Melissa DeChellis Decided to Amputate Her Right Leg. Here’s What Happened Next”

by Maura Sullivan Hill, I made particular note of Melissa’s tag for her social media postings: #perfectlyimperfect. Isn’t that true of all of us? The Apostle Paul teaches us in Romans chapters 5 and 6 (and

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Fr. Healey was an outstanding scholar and teacher, and he inspired many of his students to pursue classics degrees after their graduation from Holy Cross. The classics department in the 1960s and ’70s had a remarkable faculty and the department’s commitment to student learning has continued to the present day.

My wife and I were honored to have Fr. Healey officiate at our wedding in New York City in 1971. We will always remember him as a mentor and friend.

Galen Graham ’71

Columbus, Ohio

Give us a Purple Knight Sports Mascot I agree with Bill McGovern ’74 100% concerning his letter in the 2019 Fall Holy Cross Magazine (“Consider the Purple Knights,” Page 5).

Holy Cross needs a mascot for

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Errata In “In Memoriam” (Fall 2019, Page 102), the entry for the late Adrienne Henzel in the Friends section contained an error. She was the mother of Christopher Henzel ’84 and the wife of Richard Henzel ’55.

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Seniors take a traditional May photo in mid-March, prior to heading home due to the coronavirus pandemic. Students moved to a distancelearning format for the remainder of the semester, as the College did its part to help slow the spread of the disease. Read more on Page 10.

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EDITOR’S NOTE

“Very Holy Cross”

It’s my shorthand for the spirit I see in students – past and present – who by their years here are urged to lead with compassion and kindness, and to famously be men and women for and with others.

everyday ways, we’re debuting a new feature this issue: For and With Others.

On Page 66, you’ll meet Richard McGuinness ’60, whose ordinary act of kindness took him in a direction he never expected.

As I approached the Jesuit Cemetery, I noticed that the red-white-and-blue memorial wreath at Fr. O’Callahan’s grave, and the tripod it sits on, were on the ground, obviously a fellow victim of the wind. And, just as soon as I noticed it, I saw a student walking by. He got two steps past the grave, then stopped. He reversed course, picked up the wreath and holder and did his best to secure it in the frozen ground. He tested it and, noting it was secure, went on his way. It took less than 10 seconds.

Alumni take this charge seriously – and vigorously – and the pages of this magazine are dedicated to sharing how Crusaders are living lives of personal and professional impact in the world.

And while good works of all sizes should be celebrated, I often think there is so much we are missing; you know there are many ways Crusaders are living the mission that can be easily overlooked.

For example, had I left Campion 15 seconds later that morning, I would not have witnessed the student fixing that wreath. And I have no doubt that it would have been back upright by the time I walked by and I never would have known it had blown over in the first place — nor the student’s efforts to fix it.

I hope you enjoy his story and I also hope you will help us find more. The challenge of everyday mission living is that examples can be hard to find.

For many, the spirit of living for and with others is who they are and they don’t think twice about their efforts – and they certainly aren’t looking for publicity. But we believe works of all sizes, regardless of scope or scale, should be celebrated. Please help us find Crusaders living the mission in everyday ways and email us at hcmag@holycross.edu. ■

The student’s effort was a phrase I find myself using often: “very Holy Cross.”

In the spirit of celebrating the act of living the mission in unexpected,

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had just left Campion on a bright blue-sky morning this past winter when I was greeted with a gust of wind that hit me from the east, reminding me it was February and I was walking across one of Worcester’s seven hills. (As if I could forget.)

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is currently working from home, where Pepper, her family’s new Cock-a-poo puppy, thinks it’s great having everyone home 24/7.

The newest Shaw enjoys putting her teeth on anything off-limits, especially pant legs, shoelaces and several pages of this issue.

STEPHEN ALBANO

Art Director / Designer has been a part of the HCM team for eight years; this is his 35th issue. Stephen earned his degree in studio art at Clark University.

While social distancing, he looks forward to playing tennis, drawing and organizing things that he probably would not have gotten to for years. He also looks forward to resuming trying a new breakfast place every weekend with his husband, David (above), once they can eat in restaurants again.

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Multimedia Producer Before the coronapocalypse, she was a young everywoman, enjoying her job at Holy Cross and visiting sunny Puerto Rican beaches with her fiancé. After the coronapocalypse, she is still a young everywoman, living life on the edge every time she needs groceries, working from home and communicating solely through FaceTime.

WRITERS 1 BILLY MCENTEE is a Brooklyn-based writer and arts journalist. He has written for Vanity Fair, American Theatre, The Brooklyn Rail and other cultural publications.

2 MARYBETH REILLY-MCGREEN ’89 is an award-winning content strategist and writer for the University of Rhode Island. The author of three books on the history and folklore of Rhode Island, Marybeth is working on her fourth. She has also visited the exorcism room in Fenwick tower and lived to tell. 3 MAURA SULLIVAN HILL is a freelance writer and editor who has written for the Notre Dame Alumni Association, Loyola Magazine and Impact, the research magazine of Brown University. She is also a proud alum of Team HCM, as former assistant editor of the magazine. 4 JANE CARLTON is the staff writer for the Office of College Marketing and Communications. She studied creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and loves a good poem. 5 MEREDITH FIDROCKI is a freelance writer who graduated from Bates College with a degree in English and French. 6 JOE SULLIVAN was sports editor at the Boston Globe from 2004 until his retirement in July 2018. He’s still active as a freelance writer and editor. 7 LORI FERGUSON is a freelance writer with a soft spot for education and art. She enjoys writing on arts, lifestyle, health and wellness topics. 8 BILL BORST ’65 holds a Ph.D in history from St. Louis University. He is the author of books on the St. Louis Browns and more than 150 essays at CatholicJournal.us. His latest is a memoir, “Laughter Among the Thorns.” 9 REBECCA (TESSITORE) SMITH ’99 and 10 KIMBERLY (OSBORNE) STALEY ’99 are former Holy Cross roommates who have been writing for HCM and other College publications for more than 15 years. They work together at their freelance writing firm, SmithWriting. PHOTOGRAPHERS 11 MARIANA VINCENTI is a Venezuelan visual journalist. Her main interests are migration (the effects and causes of human movement), family, traditions and culture. Her photos have been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair Italy, Topic Magazine, Die Zeit and Reporters Sans Frontières.

12 PATRICK DOVE is an award-winning visual multimedia journalist for Treasure Coast newspapers-USA Today network. 13 DAN VAILLANCOURT graduated from the Hallmark Institute of Photography in 1995 and has been photographing professionally for 20 years. He feels blessed to make a living doing something fun. 14 HUI LI ’21 is a classics and psychology double major from Boston and co-chief photographer of The Spire, Holy Cross’ studentrun newspaper. She was also a student greeter for the Holy Cross admissions office and a study-abroad blogger in Rome. 15 PHIL SKINNER is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated photojournalist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

ILLUSTRATORS 16 NATALIE ANDREWSON is an illustrator from Charlotte, North Carolina, currently residing in Los Angeles. She’s worked for clients including The New York Times, Penguin Random House, Chronicle Books, Cartoon Network, Oculus and NPR. Her work consists of fantastical themes mixed with a magical combination of colors. 17 TONY BUI is a freelance illustrator who loves to draw dinosaurs and eat Korean fried chicken. CAMPUS CONTRIBUTORS 18 THE HOLY CROSS ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS TEAM is comprised of Abby Stambach, head of archives and special collections; Sarah Campbell, assistant archivist; and Corinne Gabriele, archival assistant. Archives collects, preserves, arranges and describes records of permanent value from the College’s founding in 1843 to the present. We couldn’t put together an issue without their historical research and context, as well as the access to archival images and objects.

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Students chat on the steps of Dinand Library on an unseasonably warm early March afternoon. Campus would soon get quieter as students moved out in mid-March and staff began working from home in an effort to stem the spread of coronavirus.

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Holy Cross Moves to Online Learning to Help Mitigate Coronavirus Spread College plans to host Commencement, Reunion at dates to be determined.

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n Wednesday, March 11, Holy Cross President Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J., announced plans to transition the student body to distance learning and to cancel

on-campus events to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

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instruction began in earnest. Starting Monday, March 16, all nonessential College staff who could work from home were encouraged to do so.

“These are very difficult steps to take, particularly here at Holy Cross, where we place such value on the strength of our on-campus community.

Being together is a large part of who we are,” Fr. Boroughs said in his March 11

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It was a whirlwind four days for students following the College’s decision to move to a distancelearning format for the remainder of the semester. Students were busy stocking up, packing up and moving out of residence halls, when not spending time with their classmates and enjoying time together on campus.

message to the campus community. He continued that he was “confident that we will find creative ways to function as a community and to support each other even when we are not physically in the same place.”

“One of the hallmarks of a liberal arts

institution, and indeed of the Holy Cross educational experience, is our commitment to learning from and alongside one another,” said Margaret Freije, provost and dean of the College.

“Our faculty will be using a variety of technologies to engage our students and to be available to support their

learning, continuing their vital work of educating our students throughout this semester.”

The College plans to host Commencement and Reunion events, although at the time Holy Cross Magazine went to press, no decision had been made about when the events would be held. The College will continue to communicate updates and changes to our community through email and our website, holycross.edu/coronavirus. ■

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BSU “Race to the Start” Documentary Premieres on Campus

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We were all fashioned by the events in history we found ourselves in.

What we saw, what went on, how we dealt with our relationships — all came as our being members of the Holy Cross community,” Art Martin ’70, BSU co-founder, told a room full of students, faculty, staff and alumni after a viewing of “Race to the Start” on Feb. 18.

Kona Khasu ’92 created the 45-minute documentary in honor of the BSU’s 50th anniversary. His work — which included extensive interviews and archival footage of the College — was showcased on campus to a full house.

After the screening, a panel of current students and alumni — including Martin, Eddie Jenkins ’72, Payton Shubrick ’15, Nakyah Lucas ’20, Dianne Jemmott ’77, Feleicia Jeter ’20, Jordyn Shubrick ’22, Debroah HodgesPabón ’87 and Khasu — reflected on the piece and answered questions about their experiences in the BSU. Shubrick observed that being a BSU alumna is about “being given a charge to uphold the torch” that the group represents. “There’s something about an openness to change and wanting to do better that paved the way to what I am doing today,” she said. ■

Student Government Association Holds Sexual Respect Week on Campus

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hen the Student Government Association (SGA) started discussing important topics to address at the beginning of the 2019 fall semester, one word kept coming up: respect.

“In conversations among all

JA N UA RY NATIONAL AWARDS The Holy Cross Moot Court team competed in the American Moot Court Association against students from more than 35 colleges and universities. Multiple Crusaders performed among the top competitors, including Amber John ’22 and Will Hamilton ’22, who placed first and fourth overall, respectively, in oral advocacy.

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branches — judicial, council, Senate — we wanted to highlight sexual respect and what that really looks like on a campus and what it really looks like to form healthy relationships with our peers, faculty and staff,” says Delaney Wells ’20, a religious studies major with a concentration in peace and conflict studies, and SGA chief of staff.

The SGA collaborated with campus partners, including the Title IX office, the Office of the College Chaplains and the Counseling Center, to create Sexual Respect Week — a week of programming that Wells says, “engages in what it means to be students at a Jesuit school who really feel this responsibility and commitment to being respectful to one another.”

Opportunities for students to participate throughout the week included an open discussion on consent with Title IX expert Jodi Shipper; multiple productions of “The Vagina Monologues”; a conversation facilitated by the Chaplains’ Office centered on campus healing; and a Valentine’s Day breakfast with discussions on what love means to different people.

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Organizers hope the conversation will last long beyond one week.

he artwork of Nathan Manna ’21 (above right) and Stephanie McCrary ’20 (above left) received Juror’s Prizes at the 16th Annual College Art Show, a competition showcasing area college students held at the ArtsWorcester gallery.

“It’s great to hear from different perspectives about what it looks like to be responsible for one another,” Wells says. “We hope to incorporate that input throughout the whole semester and the whole year.” ■

Honorable mentions were awarded to Murphy Grady ’20, a studio art major with a minor in art history, and Emma Waligory ’20, an English major with a minor in studio art. Nine additional Holy Cross students had work exhibited.

The organization received more than 260 submissions this year, featuring traditional and new media, including sculpture, video, print, painting and photography. More than 70 were selected and judged by Lynne Cooney, artistic director and chief curator of the Boston University Art Galleries.

Manna, a self-designed performance studies major, described his work, “Worship Me: The Creation of Man,” as “a collection of Polaroid-esque images that form a haphazardly shaped collection. I wanted to draw attention to the forced dichotomy between hyper-masculinity and femininity in the gay community.”

McCrary is an English major with a minor in studio art and a concentration in Africana studies. “With this piece, I aimed to create a black youth utopia,” she says of “Mobile.” “The standard mobiles that children play with as babies show generic images or toys. I thought it would be interesting to take the average mobile and use it to create a story about the black identity and youth.” ■

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PERCUSSION ALL-STARS The percussionists of artists-in-residence Silkroad performed select pieces highlighting instruments, rhythms and melodies from “along the Silk Road and beyond,” as well as a new work commissioned by the group and written by composer, arranger and bassist Edward Pérez.

LOOKING FOR HOPE Rev. Peter Dubovsky, S.J., the McFarland Center’s International Visiting Jesuit Fellow, surveyed the wars, destruction, deportation and violence in ancient Israel in a lecture to answer the question: What was the source of hope for a small nation like Israel in the midst of these disastrous events?

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During her time in Washington, Powell interned at the Smithsonian Institute, working in its Travelling Exhibition Service on an exhibit highlighting influential leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. She was inspired through this work to focus her research on the memory and legacy of the struggle African Americans have gone through to earn recognition and civil rights in American history.

“How do we as a nation hold ourselves accountable for the past?” Powell asked.

Powell Presents AwardWinning Thesis on Repairing Racial Injustice in America

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s a classics and history double major, Emma Powell ’20 knows how significantly the power of memory affects the present and the future.

Powell earned the Maurizio Vannicelli Washington Semester Away Program Award for her thesis on the historical memory of African American history, “A Remedy for the Past, If Only We Can Remember.” To a crowded Rehm Library,

Powell recalled how she researched the design and impact of two prominent Civil Rights memorials in the United States: the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.

The Vannicelli Award, named for the late Maurizio Vannicelli, Holy Cross political science professor and Washington Semester director, is given each semester

Powell spoke at length about the impact that racial injustice, discrimination and violence have left on American history, and how memory can be used to heal some of these deeply entrenched wounds.

In her presentation, she demonstrated how each piece of monument planning and design holds the power to decide who and what is remembered in the national dialogue.

“The most important lesson that has come from my internship is that every choice to include or exclude any small piece of content says something,” Powell said.

Powell ended her talk by arguing for greater recognition and representation of African American history as part of the national memory presented in the nation’s capital.

“It’s an issue of national identity,” she said. “It’s something we need to claim as a nation, and until we do that, I think we won’t be truly moving toward racial justice.” ■

F E BRUA RY FACULTY HONORED The Black Student Union held its second annual student-led Black Faculty Dinner.

Students, faculty and staff were invited to share a meal to celebrate and build community with black faculty and staff outside of the classroom.

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HC Ranks Among Top Undergraduate Fulbright Producers

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oly Cross was one of the top undergraduate producers of Fulbright students during the 2019-2020 academic year, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

The program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, is widely recognized as the most prestigious international exchange program in the world.

Since 1965, the College has produced 156 Fulbright scholars and has consistently been among the nation’s top producers at the undergraduate level, according to data submitted by the Institute of International Education.

“Holy Cross is blessed to have very strong foreign language programs, as well as many committed faculty members who work hard to create a special learning environment for our students,” says Anthony B. Cashman, the College’s director of distinguished fellowships and graduate studies. “As for our Fulbright alumni, they benefit immeasurably from their experiences, not only by learning more about the world and how they can effect change, but also about themselves.” ■

Students Spend Winter Break Interning at Presidential Campaigns

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hile many Holy Cross students spent winter break recharging, some used the weeks between semesters to pursue their passions.

On campus, a number of students attended the four-day Non-Profit Careers Conference; in New York City and Boston, others took part in career workshops and worksite visits — sponsored by the Center for Career Development and the Ciocca Center for Business, Ethics and Society — to get a feel for post grad life.

Further north, 11 students from a range of class years decamped to Manchester, New Hampshire, to intern with presidential election campaigns through a new program

run by the J.D. Power Center for Liberal Arts in the World.

Students lived in the city for nearly a month, working daily on a number of campaigns and taking a course, The Primary Process in America, taught by Daniel Klinghard, professor of political science and director of the J.D. Power Center for Liberal Arts in the World.

“At the J.D. Power Center, we’ve been looking at ways to provide experiential learning opportunities to students outside of the regular semester model,” Klinghard says.

“As someone who studies political parties in my academic career, I’ve always been fascinated by the New Hampshire primary, and I have always wanted to figure out a way to better connect our students to this amazing event that happens just to our north. So, for me, it made sense to combine these two things.”

Students assumed a variety of responsibilities in the campaign offices of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, from training volunteers to going door to door. ■

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COME HEAR THE MUSIC PLAY The Department of Theatre and Dance presented the classic Kander & Ebb musical “Cabaret” this winter. Directed by Meaghan Deiter, professor of practice: musical theatre and opera, the show follows a young American writer in search of inspiration who discovers the glories of early 1930s Berlin, as well as its sinister side.

SCHMIDT CELEBRATED The College’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery celebrated the career of Susan Schmidt in the exhibition “Joys, Sorrows, Concerns.”

The show featured drawings, prints and artists’ books representing the span of her artistic work. An associate professor in the visual arts department, she has been a faculty member for more than 30 years.

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NEXT TIME YOU’RE IN TOWN Heading to Mount St. James is always worth the trip, and you undoubtedly know what to do while you’re here, but do you know where to find fun, fascinating activities beyond College Street? Help us find hidden gems worth a visit in the city and across Central Massachusetts.

Have a suggestion? Email hcmag@holycross.edu.

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orcester saw its own version of Faneuil Hall Marketplace open in February, in the form of the 20,000-square-foot Worcester Public Market.

Located right on the city’s famous Kelley Square, the building is a multi-vendor, food-oriented European-style market, featuring businesses selling everything from produce, meat and seafood to flowers, wine, spirits and more. The

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market building is located on what once was the dirt parking lot of its neighbor, the Crompton Collective, a popular boutique marketplace located in a 19th-century mill building. Worcester Public Market and Crompton Collective reside smack in the heart of the city’s resurgent Canal District, which, over the past several years, has seen significant development in the form of bars, restaurants, clubs and retail shops. ■

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Inside the Analog Registrar’s Office

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his 177-year-old tome, formally known as Matricula of the College of the Holy Cross, contains the names of every student who entered the College from October 1843 (Edward Scott of Ireland, the first recorded name) to September 1928 (Edward J. Young Jr. of Lowell, Massachusetts, the last recorded name).

At 296 pages, the book measures 16 inches by 10 inches and is housed in College Archives and Special Collections. Latin for “register,” a matricula was used by schools as a formal way to indicate the beginning of a student’s education. Some colleges still hold matriculation ceremonies, in

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which first-year students sign their name to a register or other group document to symbolically indicate the start of their college career.

Holy Cross’ Matricula was divided into six columns. The handwritten entries featuring neat script list a student’s name, age, state, date of entrance, class they entered and often some remarks, including “dismissed on account of illness,” “expelled,” “ran away - not permitted to return” or “Protestant.” (Students as young as 12 could be enrolled because the College also ran a prep school until 1914.) Due to the uniform script, it’s likely the students did not sign their names, but rather their information was logged by a member of the College staff.

While remarks in the first decades tended to convey a student’s status (or lack thereof), later years saw the column turn into a proto alumni

records section, noting what became of the man after graduation. For James A. Mudd and first-enrolled Edward Scott, the column bore a simple “Confederate Army.” (Scott would later become president of Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama.) Remarks for others centered around their career path, such as “state senator,” “merchant San Francisco” or “entered Society of Jesus.”

Around 1890, the remarks column morphed into an area to indicate whether students lived on campus (“boarders”) or elsewhere (“day sch” or, later, “DS”). The following year the column listed parents’ names.

The College stopped entering new students’ names in the book at the beginning of the 1928-29 academic year; no reason was noted for ending the tradition after 85 years. The book was rebound in 1991 by the Northeast Document Conservation Center. ■

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FACULT Y & STAFF

“I live for stories: I research them, I study them, I teach them.

Comic book stores are like self-contained multiversal libraries of winding storyworlds the likes of which Borges only dreamed.

JORGE SANTOS | Assistant professor of English | That’s Entertainment | 244 Park Ave., Worcester | Perusing the graphic novels section

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for potential titles to include in his next project.

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Michelle Rosa Martins, Chris Campbell ’15 and Amie Archambault are the new-but-familiar faces joining the Office of Multicultural Education. (opposite) Rosa Martins moderates a screening of the new docmentary “Race to the Start,” the history of the College’s Black Student Union.

A Familiar Face Returns to Lead Office of Multicultural Education With enthusiasm, energy and the addition of two new colleagues, Michelle Rosa Martins and staff are ready to continue OME’s legacy and growth.

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hen Michelle Rosa Martins interviewed on campus last fall, word started to spread among students that the former associate director of the Office of Multicultural Education (OME) was back on The Hill. “All day long we had students coming to the office and trying to get a glimpse of her,” says Michelle Bata, associate dean for student engagement.

Rosa Martins, who most recently served as director of postsecondary success and alumni engagement at The College

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Crusade of Rhode Island, always suspected she would feel the pull back to Holy Cross. “I felt like my work [here] wasn’t done,” she says.

She was right. In February, she returned to campus as the newly hired director of OME, following the retirement of Mable Millner. Michele Murray, vice president for student affairs and dean of students, says the division feels “incredibly fortunate” to have Rosa Martins in place to continue “the legacy she was part of building” and chart new paths for the office.

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Rosa Martins says one of the aspects she loves about Holy Cross is that the community isn’t afraid to ask big questions, such as: How can OME best serve and respond to the needs of all students, especially those from historically marginalized backgrounds? Through outreach, brainstorming sessions and surveys, she and her colleagues want to bring students, faculty and staff together to provide answers.

“As a leader, I don’t like to create a narrative for folks,” she says. “My goal is to help staff and faculty across campus see us as partners in the work, so when they’re engaging any population on campus around any type of difference, we can be useful in that conversation from a place of identity building and identity development.”

The office will continue to support many of its successful initiatives, including multicultural student organizations, the

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Multicultural Peer Educator program, lecture series, diversity trainings and the first-year Odyssey summer program — just to name a few. “We’re adding to that, not erasing the history of what came before us,” says Rosa Martins, citing her gratitude for Millner’s nearly 20 years of work creating the foundation that allows for OME’s evolution. “It’s a continuum.”

A top priority for the office is creating a space within OME dedicated to LGBTQIA+ students and their success.

“Staff in student affairs have been welcoming and supportive, but we’ve not had a landing place for LGBTQIA+ students in the division,” Murray says.

The vision moving forward includes “enhanced resources and services for LGBTQIA+ students,” Bata shares.

To that end, Amie Archambault, former Holy Cross community development coordinator in residential life and housing, has been hired for OME’s newly created role of assistant director LGBTQIA+ specialist.

“The fact that Amie’s role has LGBTQ in the title is huge and is really going to move us forward in creating transparent services for students,” says Rosa Martins, who envisions the position serving as a hub for the many existing campuswide supports for LGBTQIA+ students. Archambault will focus on first-generation college student success, as well.

“What’s important is hearing directly from our students what they need from us for the future of the programs

and services provided by our office,” Archambault says. “I’m so privileged to be in a position where I get to be a voice and help to create [the future of OME].

We don’t all get to have an experience in our careers where we feel like we’re exactly where we’re supposed to be.”

Another office priority is expanding support for first-generation college students and their families, building off the success of HCF1RST Scholars — a first-generation and/or low-income college student initiative Rosa Martins spearheaded during her years as OME associate director. “That support system has been able to reach students, staff and faculty throughout the academic year in a way we want to see other future programs do the same,” Rosa Martins says.

A SHARED TEAM VISION Another new-but-familiar face in the office this spring is OME Assistant Director Chris Campbell ’15.

He joins OME from Amherst College, where he was assistant director of residential life for education and engagement. Since graduating from Holy Cross, he has maintained a pulse on campus as an active alumni member of the Bishop Healy Committee. Whether through his job, volunteering or mentorship, Campbell says he always sought and found ways to engage in diversity, equity and inclusion work: “That’s my calling, and that has always been my true passion.”

Within the office, he will spearhead success initiatives for students of color.

“I see it as a moment to return home and to do meaningful work — to continue the legacy of folks who paved the path for me while I was at Holy Cross,” he notes.

Rosa Martins, Archambault and Campbell share a common message, excited to be part of this team and doing this work. “Their strengths and their gifts really complement each other … we’re so thrilled,” says Bata, who can’t wait to connect the team’s work with what’s happening across campus, fostering a more unified student experience. “The campus is ready and well-positioned to receive new approaches and new ideas.”

While the OME team members may have dedicated areas of focus, all are prepared and eager to work at the intersection of identities — an intentional message to students about the importance of caring for the whole person. “Each of us is complex,” Murray notes. “The different aspects of our identity intersect and inform who we are, and that’s ripe for exploration and understanding. It’s about engaging the whole person, which is true to our Ignatian heritage. This is where our students are, and it also reflects the reality of the human condition and the human experience. Increasing our capacity to respond to this reality is very exciting.”

St. Ignatius’ call to care for the marginalized through social justice is ultimately what defines the work, adds Rosa Martins: “That’s the easiest part of walking into this role. The mission is what we do.” ■

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HEADLINERS One of my mandates at the Davis was to invite faculty across disciplines to use the collection — to work across science and the humanities. In this, I worked with faculty from astronomy, biology, history, sociology, etc., in addition to the artists and art historians. It was essential to expand engagement by increasing class visits, but also through long-term curatorial and research projects.

What drew you to Holy Cross?

I was really impressed when I came to campus by the strong sense of mission that drove faculty, students and staff — and everyone I met — and was particularly intrigued by the communitybased work that people are doing here. I was really drawn to the idea of creating a program of rotating exhibitions and to the work of integrating that program into this academic community — both in terms of the curriculum, but also the broader intellectual community.

College Names New Director of Cantor Art Gallery

I am excited by this particular moment, the move into the new performing arts center and the momentum that gives to the arts on campus. I am already thinking about how we can leverage the new building to do innovative programming and to have new ways of interacting with, say, the performing arts around the community.

Meredith Fluke looks forward to strong faculty and student engagement and interdisciplinary opportunities.

How do you see students and faculty interacting with the Cantor Art Gallery?

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Art has a great capacity for questioning where we’re at in the world and where we should be,” says Meredith Fluke, new director of the College’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery. This questioning, she says, provides ample opportunity for conversation, and interdisciplinary discussions are exactly what Fluke is hoping to spark in her new role.

Tell us a bit about your background.

I got my undergraduate degree in art history at the University of Chicago and I had a fine arts minor in painting

[Editor’s note: Fluke was a physics major until she discovered her love of art history]. After graduating, I worked in museum education for a while, both at the Brooklyn Museum, and then at The Cloisters (the medieval branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art). Then I got my Ph.D. in medieval art history at Columbia University and taught in various institutions in the New York area.

After a post doc at Columbia, I came to Wellesley College, where I was the Kemper Curator of Academic Exhibitions and Affairs at the Davis Museum.

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I am looking forward to continuing the diverse curatorial programming that the gallery has been presenting for decades now. I’d like to increase visitorship through courses and to know that all Holy Cross students are visiting the gallery in various contexts throughout their time here. Lots of [professors] use visuals in the classroom in all sorts of ways; I would like to see these same professors use the gallery — where they can actually interact with real works of art. It is a unique opportunity that enhances the idea of human creation as being important to all of us and how we function in the world.

I’d like to create more opportunities for students to work at the gallery and to

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even propose initiatives for projects.

I’d also love to see more community groups visiting the gallery and using it as a happy and consistent touchpoint for learning about art.

What is the importance of having an art gallery on a college campus?

Campus galleries provide a space where students engage in the world in a way that is often different from their academic work. It forces students to break from their daily routine and encounter something that is unfamiliar, to reflect and connect with humanity outside of their regular scope. Art provides infinite means of discovery.

Having been in the world of museums — big and small — for a while now, I am convinced that campus galleries are doing the most interesting work in exhibitions and programming. This is not only because there is no bar to entry, but because they can develop projects with faculty that are interdisciplinary at their foundation. Though students might not recognize it, often colleges are presenting the most innovative exhibitions that are influencing the bigger museums’ presentations.

What types of exhibits would you like to see in the gallery?

I am committed to presenting a diverse slate of exhibitions — across time and place — but think that it is essential to present work that addresses ideas around social activism. There are a lot of great artists who are doing that kind of work. I’d like to think about exhibitions that might mirror some of the concerns that students have about the present and the future, and to expand their thinking in different, and hopefully surprising, directions.

College students should always be highly engaged with the world that they’re in, and the world around them, and should be thinking about, as they move through it, how they’re going to make it a better place. And I often feel that there’s no better place in some way to have those conversations than around a work of art. ■

O’Donnell ’86 Creates Awards to Shed Light on History Fails

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n an era of viral culture in which the flood of misinformation can spread like wildfire, Ed O’Donnell ’86, associate professor of history, tells The New Yorker that it’s vital to call attention to “history hucksters who misrepresent history out of ignorance or as a means to advance themselves or their cause.”

Over the past few years, O’Donnell, along with other fellow “twitterstorians” (historians with large followings on Twitter), has been bringing his expertise to the social media platform to rebut lies and historical misinformation. This year, he went one step further by creating the Weemsy Awards, highlighting “the biggest history fails of the year” by politicians,

celebrities, executives and more.

The awards are named in honor of Mason Locke Weems — more commonly known as Parson Weems — an American author who wrote the famous 1800 George Washington biography that is considered the point of origin for many long-held myths about the country’s first president, in particular the famous cherry tree anecdote.

Last year’s big winner was writer and political commentator Dinesh D’Souza, for the multitude of demonstrably false claims about U.S. history he shared in 2019. ■

To read the full article, go to www.holycross.edu/hcm/weemsy.

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(below) An exhibit goal was to show visitors the contributions refugee artisans are making to the city. “They’re such vibrant, creative contributors to the public good,” Rodgers says. (opposite) Rodgers leads a tour group of fifthand sixth-grade students through the exhibit.

Professor, Students Team to Share Worcester Refugee Artists’ Work Curated by Susan Rodgers and students, the exhibit was designed to introduce people to the city’s refugee community — and their contributions.

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usan Rodgers, professor emerita of anthropology and distinguished professor emerita of ethics and society, spent her

career exploring the politics of art and literature in Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia. Several years ago, she focused her lens a little closer — well, much closer

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— to campus, working with Burmese refugees in Worcester.

What started as volunteer mentoring and tutoring with a local nonprofit, Worcester Refugee Assistance Project (WRAP), has grown into something more for Rodgers, for anthropological scholarship and for her community.

In 2018, Rodgers applied for — and received — a Scholarship in Action grant, part of an $800,000 grant to the College from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support Worcester-based facultystudent research. The grant supports her work with Holy Cross students over three years on an anthropological ethnography about how refugees from

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Burma (Myanmar), Bhutan and several African nations are making new lives for themselves in the city. Rodgers’ primary focus is on the Karen and Karenni refugees from Burma.

As part of the multiyear project, Rodgers has worked with WRAP and Refugee Artisans of Worcester (RAW).

In collaboration with the founders of RAW, Rodgers recently curated an exhibit at the Worcester Center for Crafts, “Crafting a New Home: Refugee Artisans of Worcester.”

How has craft-making and the collaboration with RAW impacted the refugee community in Worcester?

Refugees, by United Nations definition, are fleeing extreme violence. They’re fleeing the great possibility of being killed, so they have, really, a lot of trauma in their backgrounds, which they don’t at first talk about when they get to a relatively safe space like Worcester. Sometimes they don’t even talk to their families about the violence that led them to flee to U.N. refugee camps.

But, after I get to know the artisans and they open up, we’ve found many, many times that they tell us they find that the physical experience of making a craft, the actual physical movements of winding rattan into coils to make a basket or the hours it takes to weave a hand-loomed textile, gives them kind of a safe space and a way to get away temporarily from the memories of violence. Crafts can become arts of recovery.

Tell us about the exhibition.

The exhibition is designed to invite people in to learn more about refugee communities in Worcester at the same time they’re enjoying the crafts, which really are quite extraordinary in terms of exuberance and high level of skill. We wanted to show our museum visitors how many contributions the refugee artisans are making to the city. We know from interacting with refugees in town that they’re such vibrant, creative contributors to the public good — and

an exhibit about their crafts is a great way to show that.

What has it been like working on a project that is so public-facing, as opposed to your other research?

How did students work with this exhibit?

Much of my work on Indonesia has been focused on very analytical, theoretical issues. And many of my previous books and journal articles, I think, are largely read by other anthropologists and by Southeast Asian specialists. I think those are important books and works; however, they were not typically directed toward the general public.

Tildah Fredua ’21 and Jennifer Feraud ’21 were docents for the show. Last spring, they were my research students in Anthropology 495, which is directed research under the Scholarship in Action grant. Together we interviewed refugee artisans from Africa. We visited their homes many times to listen to their stories and their commentaries on their crafts.

Student work was also showcased in the exhibit itself. We’re drawing on research done with the Holy Cross students in wall texts. For instance, one of our wall texts is about historical connections between the Worcester Female Employment Society (WFES), active in the city in the 1850s and early 1860s, and both RAW and, indirectly, the Worcester Center for Crafts.

My 2019 Weiss Summer Research fellow, Madeleine Fontenay ’21, benefited from really interesting experiences of going to all these different archives around town — the Antiquarian Society, old city archives in the public library — to find out more about these connections.

WFES was part of a fascinating boom in humanitarian work in Worcester that has echoes today.

My work with museums is public anthropology. It’s taking an anthropological perspective and introducing it to a broader public.

That’s why I have curated a series of exhibitions for the Cantor Art Gallery on Southeast Asian textiles. But, once I started to volunteer with the Burmese refugees here in Worcester, I realized, “Wow, these are their stories that I’m collecting.” I thought about that in an analytical, anthropological way.

Indeed, these stories will inform the anthropology book that I’ll write about the three years of fieldwork. But forced migrants’ stories are also very important to get out into American political discourse so that people can get to know refugees as they really are — very creative, vibrant, funny, extremely interesting and individualized people. ■

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Four Holy Cross Faculty Members Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure

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rom researching graphic novels to studying the ethics of major companies, Holy Cross faculty members are making significant, lasting impacts on their fields. Read more about the four recently promoted faculty members.

KAREN V. GUTH religious studies

Karen V. Guth, of the religious studies department, earned a B.A. in religion from Furman University, an M.Th. in

literature, theology and the arts from the University of Glasgow, an M.T. S. in religion and society from Harvard University Divinity School and a Ph.D. in religious ethics from the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on Christian social ethics, public and political theology, and feminist ethics and theologies. She has been a member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2016.

What are you working on now?

I’m putting the finishing touches on my second book, “The Ethics of Tainted Legacies: Human Flourishing

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after Traumatic Pasts.” It explores the ethics of engaging religious, cultural and political legacies tied to past wrongdoing. In the first part of the book, I identify “tainted legacies” as a distinct moral problem not yet theorized in philosophical or religious ethics. In the second part, I offer case studies of three such controversies prominent in contemporary American public debate: how to handle the work of artists the #MeToo movement has exposed as abusers, what to do with Confederate monuments and how American universities might

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best make reparations for slavery. Each case study takes a theological conversation as its point of departure, showing how prior debate in the history of Christian thought anticipates and illuminates the case in contemporary public life. I draw particularly on Christian debates over the Bible, the cross and the idea of redemptive suffering.

Where did your interest in ethics and civil rights come from?

I’ve always been interested in what I’d call “ultimate” questions about what really matters. When I took my first religion course in college, it opened my eyes to a whole new discipline of exploration and I was hooked. Over the course of my graduate studies, I found my way to the field of religious ethics, and more particularly, Christian ethics — probably because it allowed me to pursue these questions through study of my own tradition. I see the Christian tradition as one of many long, embodied arguments over the question of what it means to live well, and I love inviting my students into that conversation. My interest in civil rights is a result of my larger interest in the role of religion in social movements and my study of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He’s one of my favorites among the many compelling figures in Protestant social ethics.

ELLIS JONES sociology

Ellis Jones, of the sociology and anthropology department, earned a B.A. in international relations from the University of Southern California, an M.A. in international peace studies from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado. His research focuses on ethical consumerism,

corporate social responsibility, public sociology, sustainability, social movements and greenwashing. He has been a member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2009.

What are you working on now?

I’m working on a range of research projects: an edited volume on the geographies of craft beer, the seventh edition of “The Better World Shopping Guide” and a smartphone app that generates “honesty report cards” for U.S. politicians.

You mention that one of your research interests is craft beer. Why’s that?

As a part of my long-term research on the social and environmental responsibility of just over 2,000 companies, I found that the most ethical company in the database was recently replaced by a craft brewery in Colorado. This peaked my interest in the industry and I’ve been attempting to answer that question ever since.

JEREMY JONES anthropology

Jeremy Jones, of the sociology and anthropology department, earned a B.A. in sociology and anthropology from Lewis and Clark College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the political and economic anthropology of Africa, with an emphasis on the informal economy, youth and temporality. He has been a member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2013.

What are you working on now?

Recently, I’ve been writing about quotidian aspects of social life amid Zimbabwe’s 2007-2009 hyperinflation: what it was like standing in long lines for basic goods, how young men’s beerdrinking habits changed, how the crisis inflected people’s domestic lives and plans for the future. In the next year, I hope to draw that work together into a book manuscript.

Why should students be interested in studying anthropology?

To me, anthropology is about possibility: It allows us to exit our own narrow worlds of meaning and practice, to see things from different perspectives and perhaps to organize our lives in new ways. That message is as important now as it was when I was an undergrad. After all, the economic and political centrality of the United States does not mean that our experiences here (and a very limited set of our experiences at that) offer the last word on what it means to be human. The world is a big place, and we encourage our students to let it be big and to resist easy simplifications.

JORGE SA NTOS English

Jorge Santos, of the English department, earned a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Sam Houston State University, Texas Southern University and the University of Connecticut, respectively.

His research focuses on multiethnic literatures of the United States, immigrant and migrant narratives, and comics studies. He has been a member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2014.

What are you working on now?

I have begun researching a project tentatively titled, “Visualizing Vietnam,” which extends the work of my book, “Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: Reframing History with Comics,” into cultural remembrances of the Vietnam War, expanding my view to include film.

You work a lot with graphic novels.

Where did your interest come from?

My father banned them from the house because he considered them trashy literature about “nothing but monsters.” So, of course, I read as many comics as I could. Then I took a graphic novels course in graduate school with my mentor and I began to realize that comics deserved academic attention to go with my fervent devotion. ■

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SYLLABUS Grammy Award-winning Silkroad Ensemble musicians share how they developed their own unique voices in music as visiting artists in CreateLab, Originality and Its Origins.

appropriation and plagiarism) and is co-taught by Leah Hager Cohen, James N. and Sarah L. O’Reilly Barrett Professor in Creative Writing; Mark Freeman, Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society in the Department of Psychology; Osvaldo Golijov, Loyola Professor of Music; Edward Isser, associate dean of the performing arts and W. Arthur Garrity, Sr. Professor in Human Nature, Ethics and Society; and Ellis Jones, assistant professor of sociology.

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oday’s CreateLab class in Brooks Concert Hall hasn’t started yet, but already the space is buzzing.

Six musicians from the Grammy Award-winning Silkroad Ensemble — a musical collective founded by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma — mingle and warm up on stage, adjusting their instruments or making notes on sheet music. As students file in and settle into chairs, it’s hard to spot the team-taught course’s five professors spread out and seated among them, chatting.

Class begins with a deep breathing exercise, as students, professors and musicians audibly inhale and exhale in unison, following the pace of Silkroad percussionist Shane Shanahan. Next, he

encourages everyone to breathe at their own speed, resisting the urge to sync up with those around them. “How did that feel?” he asks. “Chaotic and uncomfortable,” some say. “More natural,” others share.

For the next hour and half, members of Silkroad — visiting artists-in-residence at the College through the Arts Transcending Borders (ATB) initiative — use storytelling and performance to share how they developed their own unique voices in music. Through clapping, vocals and foot stomping that shakes Brooks to the top of its stainedglass windows, students and faculty join in to experience the rhythms and beats that shape these musicians as innovative creatives in the world.

CreateLab, part of the ATB initiative, is an experimental course steeped in the arts. Working together, visiting artists and powerhouse teams of professors foster a unique exploration, both scholarly and experiential, for students from all class years and majors.

This year’s course examines the complex ways outside forces influence art (including issues such as inspiration,

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“We want more than anything for students to have a sense both of the wonder of originality and also the quite concrete sources that precede the emergence of originality and creativity,” says Freeman, who serves as a point person for the faculty team.

Working from a flexible syllabus that provides a framework — and space to veer from it — the teaching team weaves in expertise from their disciplines, adjusting as they go. For example, after seeing their course roster of 46 included mostly seniors, faculty pivoted to assign a novella exploring the theme of “endings.”

Each class builds on the last, almost “like a braid,” Freeman says. He acknowledges that breaking from a more traditional class structure can be unnerving, for both the students and professors. But the creative rewards of pushing through discomfort are part of the point of CreateLab. Meeting in The Pit, a theatre space that serves as the course’s home base, Jones kicks off a “Going Wild, Going Child”themed class with a brief, joy-filled slideshow. Images and video clips sent in

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Course Catalog CISS 275 CreateLab, Originality and Its Origins DEPARTMENT Interdisciplinary Studies DESCRIPTION “What is the nature of originality? How does creative work — in the arts, sciences and in everyday life (for instance, in the context of food, clothing and the music you listen to daily) — come into being?

How does the work of others inform one’s own? When is drawing upon others’ work legitimate? When might it be harmful?” These are the questions investigated during this year’s CreateLab. Performances, lectures, group work and semester-long projects offer students the opportunity to take risks and explore their own imaginations, gaining a deeper understanding of the creative process.

Faculty and visiting artists-in-residence facilitate this journey as students develop skills that will serve them in their academic pursuits and beyond.

ASSIGNMENTS • CreateLab portfolio (creations, experiments, explorations, discoveries, reveries) • Other assigned projects GRADES Engagement and participation, portfolio, assigned projects CREATELAB FACULTY TEAM Leah Hager Cohen James N. and Sarah L. O’Reilly Barrett Professor in Creative Writing

“What excites me most about CreateLab is the real invitation to risk ‘failure.’ By which I mean: the freedom to go vagabonding in a field without pre-set definitions of success.”

Mark Freeman Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society in the Department of Psychology “CreateLab is the chance of a lifetime to do the kind of exploration that most of us seek in one way or another. And it’s great to be doing it with such a passionate, imaginative group of faculty and students.

MEETING TIMES Monday and Wednesday 10-11:50 a.m.

Osvaldo Golijov Loyola Professor of Music “I think of CreateLab as a set of tools for our Holy Cross students, so they not only excel when they go out in the world (they routinely do), but creatively shape our world toward the good.”

CLASSROOM The Pit, O’Kane 37

Edward Isser Associate dean of the performing arts and

REQUIRED READING • “The Story of My Life”

by Helen Keller • “Steal Like an Artist” by Austin Kleon • “Where the Wild Things Are”

by Maurice Sendak • “The Death of Ivan Ilych”

by Leo Tolstoy • Other readings as assigned

“CreateLab has challenged me to be more experimental — and less controlling — in my more conventional ‘bread ‘n’ butter’ courses. It has reinforced the notion that teaching students how to think is as important and certainly more essential than merely conveying a bunch of information.”

REQUIRED EVENTS • Silkroad Ensemble Concert • Las Cafeteras Concert • Richard II • Rubberband Dance Performance

W. Arthur Garrity, Sr. Professor in Human Nature, Ethics and Society

Ellis Jones Assistant professor of sociology “I see a level of engagement with students one-on-one that brings me back to the mission of Holy Cross to educate our students as whole people — body, mind and spirit.”

a moment out of their busy lives to do something they loved as kids. It’s a few minutes of pillow-fort-building, finger-painting, ice-hockey-playing, jumping-on-the-bed — fun.

After listening to literary analysis of Maurice Sendak’s groundbreaking “Where the Wild Things Are” and considering the ways in which he conveyed childhood fears, students break into groups, tasked with exploring their own fears as children.

Their challenge, explains Cohen, is to express these fears without relying too heavily on the medium so often emphasized in higher education: words.

Students then choreograph and tell visceral stories — using percussion, movement and drawings — of lurking monsters, darkness and the unknown.

“The course is definitely pushing me to think outside my comfort zone,” says Anne Croke ’20, a psychology and Spanish double major, who notes that CreateLab is “truly unlike” any other course she’s taken at the College. “I love that it is such an interactive learning experience,” she shares.

Throughout the semester, students attend performances, read, ponder and create as they explore what it means to find their own original voices. They even practice breath work and other intentional ways to rest while creating.

“Much of the time we’re all so distracted and driven toward the next task or event,” Freeman says. “We want students to be able to acquire the skill, or habit, of not doing that.”

“CreateLab is giving me the tools to learn more about myself and others, exercise my creative capabilities and inch toward a better version of myself,” says Olivia Lozy ’20, a psychology major with a minor in studio art.

“The kind of thinking we ultimately want to promote, we believe, is deeply transportable,” Freeman notes. “Innovative thinking, oral presentation skills, collaborative work … all that’s going to be of value wherever [students] land.” ■

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“SOMEONE OBSERVED ME AND SAID IT WAS LIKE I WAS EATING THE BOOK”

Tim Youd ’89 retypes novels in locations worldwide that share a significance to the story or the author. He is twothirds of the way through his “100 Novels” project, which he expects will take 12 to 14 years to complete.

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PHOTOS COURTESY OF TIM YOUD AND CRISTIN TIERNE Y GALLERY

From a Sing Sing guard tower to Venice’s Grand Canal, Tim Youd ’89 is traveling the world, sharing the art of being a good reader.

BY BILLY MCENTEE

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ike many, Tim Youd ’89 goes to work and types at a desk.

However, the desk varies depending on the state or country he’s in, and when he types, it’s not on a desktop or the newest MacBook: It’s on a typewriter, technology of the past that proves instrumental to his work.

He’s two-thirds through his ambitious “100 Novels” project, a years long creative endeavor in which he retypes beloved, controversial and groundbreaking novels as performance art over the course of numerous days on the same model typewriters on which they were originally created. Each novel is retyped on a single sheet of paper, backed by a second sheet, which together are repeatedly run through the typewriter. By the end, one sheet is near-battered and often torn, having been typed on for hundreds of pages, and the other likely stained with ink that bled through the top page. The two are presented side by side as a diptych, mirroring an open book.

Youd has completed 65 novels and catalogs an ever-evolving database of the hundreds of books he’d be interested in tackling. The lone rule: The novel must have been written on a typewriter.

“Because I come at this from the perspective of a visual artist, what got me interested in the idea in the first place was the recognition that when you’re reading a book, on a formal level you’re looking at a rectangle of black text inside a larger rectangle of white,” he explains.

“It was that visual stimulation that led me to think about compressing all the words, almost palpably — squeezing the book into that rectangle of paper.”

Youd first retyped Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” in early 2013 in his Los Angeles studio. At that point, he didn’t realize he had initiated what would become “100 Novels.”

“Thompson had typed out ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and ‘The Great Gatsby’ because he wanted to better understand those books

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ARTWORK BY TIM YOUD

from the inside-out; like if you want to be an architect, you build a house,” he says. “He took a hands-on approach, which I appreciate. I think with visual art and writing, there’s an element of craftsmanship. You get your hands on it and those things come together and inspired my first exploration, which also obliquely connected to the fact that I’d visited some writers’ houses over the years and was conversing with this idea of a literary pilgrimage.”

He didn’t perceive that first completion as a performance, but the work snowballed from there. After a few retypings in his studio, a coincidence jumpstarted the project a few months later.

“This gallery that showed my work early on was going to New York for an art fair, and at the same time, I was on the board of the Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur and they were heading to Brooklyn, where Miller is from,” Youd says. “So I thought this would be a chance to do a retyping of a novel in the location that was significant to Miller.”

The library then contacted The City

PHOTOS COURTESY OF CRISTIN TIERNE Y GALLERY

(opposite) Diptychs of William Kennedy’s “Ironweed” typed on paper (top) and the novel’s screenplay (bottom), typed on Fujifilm Prescale pressure-sensitive film. Both were created in 2018 on an L.C. Smith & Corona Model 11. Whenever one of Youd’s novel subjects also has a screenplay, he types that as well, using pressure-sensitive film to provide a colorful result. (above) A collection of typewriters in Youd’s Los Angeles studio (he always has a backup) and the artist with pieces of typewriter ribbon assembling a typewriter ribbon painting.

Reliquary Museum in Brooklyn, and after syncing up, Youd sat outside the museum and typed Miller’s “Tropic of Capricorn” on the sidewalk.

“I was there for 12 days, it’s close to 350 pages,” says Youd, who retypes about six pages an hour. “The first morning I had a sign saying this is what I’m doing and I’m not going to stop and talk, but after an hour or so, I took that down and allowed myself to be interrupted. People had a lot to say! I’ve kind of maintained that approach; generally speaking, if someone wants to talk to me, I’ll stop and see what they want to say. It was my first time doing this and it was a kind of kooky environment — people would ask me for directions; I was this odd street person.”

Vassar College’s Miscellany News has called Youd’s work “hagiography by destruction” and the Los Angeles Times

remarked that it “involves drudgery, not glamour.” (His endurance and devotion have further been testified to in The New York Times, Huffington Post and other prominent outlets.)

FROM WALL STREET TO LA His craft is unique, and Youd’s path toward this career has been just as singular. “I was an economics major at Holy Cross and it was the ’80s. I thought Wall Street was the end goal, like Michael Douglas and Gordon Gekko,” he says of the Academy Award-winning actor and the iconic role he created in Oliver Stone’s 1987 movie “Wall Street.” “I wanted a life of adventure and thought that’s where it was. It was really hard, I learned a lot, the hours were super long, and it felt like you were almost being hazed being an associate at an investment bank, but I said I can take it.

It was a young man’s dream.”

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But soon thereafter, he relocated to Los Angeles to work in film. (He produced, among other independent films, “Garden Party,” which marked Academy Awardwinner Jennifer Lawrence’s film debut.)

“I thought I’d make movies and it’d be fast and glamorous and creative,” he says. “It’s not so different from those who come out of school and want to move to Silicon Valley and be the next Steve Jobs.

But as I started down that path, there was a slow realization that I might be OK at film, but I’m getting less and less happy.

The more I see, the less I like.”

After saving money from these endeavors, including a direct marketing business, he felt it was time to start anew.

And while it’s been years since he’s been in a Holy Cross classroom, he’s still enacting the lessons he’s learned in his art.

“I took a lot of English classes electively and enjoyed those most,” says Youd, who grew up in Worcester. “It’s where I developed my habit of reading. You don’t get to Holy Cross if you can’t read a book, but I developed a love of close reading.”

He credits Richard Matlak, English professor emeritus, who taught him “the value of close reading. When I’m doing a performance and reading a book, I’m invested in being a good reader, so I annotate as I go,” he says. “I’ll be typing and stop and write a note. The books have gotten more heavily annotated as I go and I credit him. Sometimes it’s a pain to stop and look up a word, but I learned that from him and I think it’s been such a valuable lesson. If you really want to understand the story, you can’t just gloss over a word you don’t understand; pull out the dictionary or pause and see what’s going on.”

Distilled to its essence, Youd’s art is one of devotion: not just to the performance, but to the writers he’s appreciating. “I’m attempting to be a very good reader, and when we do that, we have this out-ofbody experience,” he explains. “If you’re engrossed in something, you have this way of hovering outside of yourself, and I think that is akin to a religious ecstasy.

There are renditions of saints in visual art hovering off the ground — they’re reacting to reading the word of God. I think any kind of language can give us that similar out-of-body experience.”

TRAVELING AND TYPING Youd is represented by Cristin Tierney, a New York art gallery through which he recently participated in the 2020 edition of The Armory Show, the city’s premier art fair. There, he retyped his 66th novel, Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” on a Hermes 3000, the model on which the 1963 novel was written. (Actually, he performed with two Hermes 3000s, as one jammed halfway through the performance; he always brings a backup just in case.)

While he always chooses books that appeal to him, it can involve more research to find novels not written by white men, especially when institutions value representation.

“I started to question why there weren’t a lot of women or people of color on my list, and I thought for the most part publishing in the 20th century favored the white male,” he notes. “But then I thought if I want to type more women or people of color or LGBTQ writers, I have to dig a little bit. Maybe they are there and were published by smaller presses.

“It’s expanded my universe and the number of voices I hear in my head now,” he adds. “I’m challenged by the curators, who are also thinking about these things.

These people existed but they weren’t written into the narrative properly. It’s opened my own eyes and I feel better for that.”

After selecting a novel, the performance is tied to a location significant to the book or author. He’s travelled to William Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Mississippi, to retype “The Sound and the Fury;” to Godrevy Lighthouse in the middle of the U.K.’s St. Ives Bay to complete Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse;” and to the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis during Banned Books Week for Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.”

The completed diptychs are often sold upon completion, but in keeping with

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the theme of Banned Books Week, Youd burned the retyped “Fahrenheit 451” when he finished. (That didn’t stop his audience from scooping up the ashes.)

Other performances have been held in settings ranging from a decommissioned guard tower in New York’s maximum security Sing Sing prison (John Cheever’s “Falconer”) and Venice’s Grand Canal (Patricia Highsmith’s “Those Who Walk Away”) to under an oak tree on Louisiana Highway 416 (Ernest Gaines’ “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman”) and the Santa Monica Pier (Raymond Chandler’s “Farewell My Lovely”).

Given this range, Youd admits it’s hard to pick a favorite performance site, but he can pinpoint a seminal one: “As only my second public performance, I retyped Charles Bukowski’s ‘Post Office’ in the parking lot of the Los Angeles Terminal Annex Post Office in July 2013,” he says.

“Bukowski worked at this post office for 14 years, quit and then immediately wrote this novel, which was his first. For this piece, I rented a pickup and every day paid $5 to park in the lot. I set a table up in the bed of the truck and sat there typing in the blazing summer sun for a week. It turned out the LA Times’ lead art critic, Christopher Knight, liked what I was doing and wrote a highly positive feature review, which led to my first museum shows at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.”

He recalls retyping a novel at the Lehman Loeb Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley a year or so ago. In the throes of his retyping — reading the text, pressing on the typewriter’s keys, darkening the ink-stained page before him — “someone observed me and said it was like I was eating the book,” he laughs.

Youd believes it will take 12-14 years to complete “100 Novels,” making it one of the longer occupations he’s had in his storied career. “It’s been a lot of fun; I’ve certainly never been happier doing anything for an extended period of time,” he notes. ■

ARTWORK BY TIM YOUD

When not performing, Youd is creating other works of art, such as these Ribbon Paintings. He has collected used typewriter ribbons by the boxful from typewriter repair shops. He applies the ribbon to a panel, using oil paint as a binder, and builds the formal design of rectangle within rectangle. This is again an echo of the formal quality of the page of a book.

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(Clockwise from above) The blueprint of Wheeler’s cornerstone; an architectural rendering; stickball on Wheeler Beach; Leah Grogan Sakas '05 on a Wheeler swing she helped build; a shot of the hall from Beaven in 1940; a student moving back in after winter break; ivy covers the brick facade in the spring; namesake, Rev. John D. Wheeler, S.J.; a map of Wheeler 5; class of 1971 members Edward Knight, Paul Howard and the late Pat Gallagher in their homemade bar in Wheeler 507; two men walking around the grounds in 1939.

What is it about the 80-year-old dorm that delivers a unique vibe and forges such a tight-knit community — one that spans generations and, for many, continues long after they leave The Hill?

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t’s subterranean champagne soirees and secret speakeasies.

High adventure propelled by hurricanes and blizzards. It’s fraternity forged in the clandestine heist of a decommissioned missile. It’s street cred earned in hall jai alai and inspired scribbling done in drafty garrets.

It’s a story nested in stories so numerous they’d tax Scheherazade in the telling. At the center of it all is a house with space for infinite memory, by a beach with no sand nor ocean.

Over its 177 years, the College has offered a variety of residences for students, yet none seems to have an everlasting pull on its former residents like Wheeler Hall.

Rev. Anthony J. Kuzniewski, S.J.’s 516-page history of the College, “Thy Honored Name: A History of The College of the Holy Cross 1843-1994,” states that Wheeler was built to alleviate overcrowding in Fenwick and O’Kane.

The dorm opened in January 1940 and

was named (quite ironically, it would come to pass) for the late Rev. John D. Wheeler, S.J., prefect of discipline.

Initially, seniors occupied the first four floors and juniors, the fifth. Total cost: $415,000.

College Archives and Special Collections is home to blueprints, newspaper clippings and pictures of Fr. Wheeler, but save for a single newspaper clipping about the opening of his namesake’s short-lived basement bar, culture and pride aren’t so much the concern of historical record. So, on the occasion of her 80th birthday, the question is put to alumni: What is it about Wheeler?

“I really don’t think anyone was there by accident,” says Cyndi Tully Webber ’89, a former RA. “Whether you had big hair and high heels, were a tough-as-nails straight shooter or from a sheltered, single-sex Catholic school upbringing, you found your home in Wheeler. We all bonded. Everyone I met along the way there belonged in Wheeler. Everybody.”

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IT’S ‘SOMETHING WITH A LITTLE CLASS’ “Champagne Party Christens Lounge” The Crusader, Oct. 18, 1968

“A champagne party marked the opening of the Wheeler House Lounge last Saturday, after the Homecoming victory over Dartmouth. The newly constructed lounge was built by the residents of Wheeler under the direction of Joseph Hasulak, an RA in that house.

The festivities were attended by students, their dates and members of the faculty and administration.

Those present included Rev. Raymond J. Swords, president of the College, Donald McClain, dean of men, Michael O’Neil, director of the resident assistant program, and Dr. John Shay, dean of students.”

Stephen Hickey ’73, P01 arrived at Wheeler in the fall of 1969. Then, the newest dorm, Mulledy, was the place to live. Hickey preferred Wheeler. “People didn’t tend to leave Wheeler because it was the most convenient dorm. The Field House and Hogan were half a hill up; the library was half a hill down. And Wheeler had a sense of community. Wheeler was the only totally integrated dorm on campus. We had students from all four classes in it. A lot of guys spent their whole college career at Wheeler.”

It was in an enviable location for another reason. “The College would bus women from all-women’s colleges to the Field House or the Hogan parking lot and what was the first dorm you’d see? Wheeler,” he says.

At the ready was the lounge, The Brickskellar. A black-and-white photo from the 1973 edition of the Purple Patcher shows a motley arrangement of folding chairs and mismatched tables, ashtrays, playing cards and empties. “A certain amount of interior renovation made Wheeler a more comfortable dwelling for the hundreds of Stephen Daedalus’s [sic] that descend yearly to the house,” the Patcher reported. “This title is appropriate because the undergraduates’ years spent within the confines of the

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house are still those years of hopeful searching, to come to a full realization of what life at Holy Cross entails. From the penthouse level of Wheeler, one may oversee the seven hills of Worcester, but hopefully no one will attempt to make his flight from this height before coming to terms with his values and goals.”

(Clearly the writer was in Professor Edward Callahan’s Joyce seminar.)

when we opened, and we closed when we closed. Every Friday in the fall each academic department was invited over, providing a relaxed atmosphere for the students to get to know the faculty and have a drink with students. Although the room was open most Friday and Saturday nights, the rest of the week was open by request for Bruins or Celtics games or other special events.”

Hickey was one of 10 students with keys to The Brickskellar. “We served beer and booze. Wine? Ha, no,” he says. “It was 25 cents for a 12-ounce beer and 50 cents for a hard drink. You had to buy tickets, $1 or $5 tickets. A dollar got you five beers. It was always packed. We opened

And this was a business with a social mission decades before there was such a thing, Hickey notes. Proceeds of the Wheeler social room were often donated to student organizations.

At the time of the lounge’s opening, the

(Clockwise from bottom left) The aftermath of a Wheeler lounge party; a student outside the lounge collects entry fees; Joshua Gomez ’22 and Ramses Taveras ’22 in their room on Wheeler 2; Ed O’Donnell ’86, associate professor of history, teaches a 2015 Montserrat course in the basement; hallway back in 1939; students socialize in 2016.

administration praised the enterprise. In a letter to the dorm’s residents, Dean of Men McClain wrote, “The other houses now have a new standard for which to strive, both in fellowship and style ... from now on when I think of community, I will think of Wheeler House.”

Luke and Laura got married on ‘General Hospital,’” Supple recalls. “It was a real community with a special bond. We would gather to walk to Kimball together and gather to walk to 10 o’clock Mass Sunday nights — and go to the pub on our way home.”

O’Neil, director of the RA program, was even more effusive in his praise: “I think the men of Wheeler House did a fine job in offering the campus something with a little class,” he wrote to the residents. “I hope that you are successful in making Wheeler House the best place on campus to live.”

“There was something about the way the light came in through the dorm room windows, casting a cozy glow in the afternoons and the old-fashioned radiators that smelled so good when the steam heat came on,” remembers Lesley Stackler ’88. “These contributed to an atmosphere of comfort and happiness that invited friends to visit and hang out in each other’s rooms for hours on end. I met my best Holy Cross friends in Wheeler and our friendship has endured to this day.”

“Sophomore year, Lehy, Hanselman, Clark and Mulledy houses were the preferred resident selections,” says Paul Howard ’71.

“Wheeler 507, a.k.a. The Penthouse, was our home. Our roommate, Ed, built a bar and we painted our ceiling in lime, pink and yellow. We viewed Wheeler House as the epicenter of our Holy Cross campus and Wheeler 507 cemented our lifelong friendship and treasured memories of our Holy Cross experiences.”

IT HAS A CERTAIN ENERGY Feng shui dictates that a building be designed to encourage optimal flow of energy, qi. It’s unlikely Boston architectural firm Maginnis and Walsh had this in mind in Wheeler’s design (they also designed St. Joseph Memorial Chapel, Dinand Library and Alumni Hall), yet alums like Dave Curran ’73 say the dorm’s layout created a neighborhood atmosphere. Students took to the halls like city dwellers to stoops. “You walked out your door,” Curran says, “and you were immediately part of things. No one ever wanted to leave Wheeler. We had the luck of having a good mix of people.”

The hallway was a living room, notes Mary Lynch Supple ’82, P17, P13. People would gather and chat over popcorn or even pop champagne, on occasion. “We held a reception on Wheeler 5 when

IT WAS FIRST TO GO CO-ED “What made Wheeler special was that the co-ed atmosphere was spirited and fun. Wheeler Beach was always a prime spot in the fall and spring. It allowed people to relax in the sun, watch stickball games or just hang out.

A highlight of my time at Wheeler was the spring when The Hooters — the band that played that year [1988] — joined us for a night stickball game after their concert.” — Emilio Iasiello ’91 “I remember my sister, Janet, a senior, telling me I should be psyched, that I was gonna love Wheeler. We all became immediate friends; then, we became family. Freshman year, a bunch of us created a steam room in the boys’ bathroom — doors closed and all the showers going at the same time.

Also, I remember someone had the great idea (probably after a few beers) to call Ronald Reagan to try and use his ranch for spring break. Needless to say that didn’t pan out.” — Lisa Hourihan

Jackson ’89 In January 1978, Wheeler 2 became the College’s first and only coed floor.

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This caused concern for some parents, especially dads leaving their 18-year-old daughters at college for the first time, recalls Diane McDonnell Pickles ’89. “My dad took one look around and said, ‘Get back in the car. You’re not staying.’”

The pair reached a compromise. “I’ll let you stay, but you have to promise not to date anyone on this floor,” Pickles’ father told her. “And no football players.”

This year, Pickles celebrates her 30th wedding anniversary with hallmate and former Holy Cross football player, Bill Pickles 88.

A metal fire door divided women from men on Wheeler 2. It was mostly left open except during hall jai alai matches, says Jonathan “JW” Cahill ’88, P23. The door had to be closed to play the game, and it kept the women from serious injury.

“Well, it involved throwing a golf ball against that door, and it would come flying back and it was dangerous and that’s what was great,” Cahill says. “It wasn’t advisable for anyone to play, but it happened quite often that guys from other

dorms came to play.”

(Clockwise from top left) Diane McDonnell Pickles ’89 and Bill Pickles 88 can be found (somewhere) in the sophomore Wheeler 2 photo from the Purple Patcher; College President Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J., joins Bob Tracy ’81 and his fellow 1979-1982 alumni at Winter Homecoming 2020; students study outside in 2016; and volunteers don Live the Mission T-shirts as they welcome first-year students on Move-In Day 2014.

Another Wheeler draw: TRM, Cahill’s band, which won the College’s Battle of the Bands four years in a row. “The gigs in Wheeler basement were some of the best gigs I’ve done. We’d walk downstairs to the Wheeler social room and people would be lining the hall and cheering,” Cahill recalls.

married one of them.”

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“Well, Bill Pickles says, ‘I know where there’s a decommissioned missile and we’re going to get it.’ So, we got into my car and headed to an airfield on the South Shore. We strapped it to the top of my car and, miraculously, didn’t get stopped,” Cahill recalls. “I think a state trooper even followed us for a bit. When we got back, we hung it up in the dorm until the next fire inspection. Then we had to take it down. The last I saw of it, it was rolling downhill at Wheeler Beach. Then I heard it appeared in a Worcester parade.”

The arrival of the class of 1989 marked another historic moment for Holy Cross, as the incoming class was 60% female.

This caused overcrowding in the building and rooms designed for three had to fit four. Susan Lennon Capot ’89 discovered a crawl space between the two dormer windows in her triple-turned-quadruple on Wheeler 5. The roommates outfitted the space with a rug, a beanbag chair and a lamp — creating the perfect dismal garret to inspire an English major like Capot. “I would crawl into this space on my hands and knees. There was nothing above but rafters. There was no insulation. Heat may rise, but it never made it to Wheeler 5.

“Idiots,” Diane Pickles says, fondness honeying her tone. “And to think I

“And I wouldn’t crawl out until I’d written something: a poem or a paper. Wheeler

And about that decommissioned missile.

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could be a hotbed of craziness, but I had this space I could crawl into and do this thing,” Capot recalls. “It was of lifesaving importance to know I could be alone in this space and recharge.”

That cradle of craziness required a sense of humor, says Marc Thibodeau ’80.

“Senior year, I was an RA on Wheeler 1 and on April Fool’s Day, people waited until I left for class and then — using 40 boxes of Jell-O, water heated on hot pots, and several bags of ice — filled a tub up with Jell-O,” he recalls. “People came from all around campus to see this. So what do you do with several pounds of Jell-O? My roommate Dave Boulay ’80 and I know from experience that it’s too heavy to drag away in trash bags. And there was too much to try and melt it to flush it down the drain, so we shoveled it out the window. It left quite a red stain for quite a long time.”

“I had the good fortune of moving to Wheeler for my senior year. I was head RA of the dorm. To this day, I think I was given the position by residence life in an attempt to ‘tame’ the community — given my reputation as a nerd. I’m proud to say, Wheeler tamed me. It allowed me to catch up on the social experience that I had neglected. I learned how to manage a dormitory that may have emphasized social life over academic life, but without compromising the true spirit of Holy Cross as a caring, faith-based community.” — Mike Vermette ’88, P18, P22

IT’S A PLACE OF TRADITION AND FRIENDSHIP “I met four life-long friends within hours of arriving at Wheeler. Over the next three years, we’d sit for hours in each other’s rooms, talking, laughing, studying, dancing, crying, watching the sunset, deciding when to go to Kimball, and analyzing and dissecting our relationships, goals and dreams.

We’d spill out onto Wheeler Beach on warm spring and fall afternoons, taking in too much sun and too many beers and making memories that have lasted decades. Wheeler was an island unto itself.” — Mary Boyle ’88

Bob Tracy ’81, P15, P12 lived on Wheeler 2 for the whole of his college career. He saw big changes over those four years.

He was there for the legendary Fantasy Island Party of ’79 when residents built a tiki bar, bridge and a little waterfall in the lounge, and party-goers tried their luck at roulette, baccarat and poker. He was there when Wheeler 2 went coed. “One of the ways the College tried to calm Wheeler down was to add women to the mix,” he says.

Mingling of the classes was Wheeler’s strength, Tracy says. Cultural transmission, Wheeler style, fostered pride and cemented traditions. There was even a Wheeler aesthetic. “It was a preppy time,” Tracy recalls. “And we were sort of the Timberland boots, jeans and a flannelshirt-over-a-band-T-shirt type of crowd,” he says.

Garbage can frisbee games, backgammon, cribbage and poker, shared meals, sledding on Kimball trays in hurricanes and blizzards, time logged in the hall: What seemed like ordinary, even banal, activities fostered extraordinary friendships. For 20 years, Tracy has hosted an annual Wheeler reunion — Wheeler-palooza — at Winter Homecoming. It started out as a few guys getting together for lunch and a basketball game, he says. More than 50 people attended this year. “It’s a good group of folks,” Tracy says. “People looked at Wheeler as this party dorm — and it was — but it was more than that.

There’s a real affinity between people. It’s good folks.”

Carlin alum John Forsythe ’89 observes there has always been something about the building’s culture. “Did admissions assign certain incoming freshmen there?

Or did the mantle of passing along the culture fall on returning upperclassmen?” he asks. “Was it something about the relatively isolated location? Was it the physical layout — for example, Wheeler Beach — that led to that culture?”

“Everyone who lived there was really proud to say they lived in Wheeler — like people you meet on the street who

say they went to Holy Cross,” notes Hanselman alum Rebecca Karos ’13.

“That’s how Wheeler people talk about Wheeler.”

IT’S A HOME AWAY FROM HOME “Whether you were shy, outgoing, athletic, artsy, etc., it didn’t matter. You were a part of the Wheeler community.”

— Chelsea Monahan ’15 “Maybe it was the fact that Wheeler was regally located on the hill and not crowded down below, like Beaven or Carlin,” says Ron Makovitch ’65. “Maybe it was that we were removed from the bustle of the quad and the cafeteria.

Maybe it was having a bird’s-eye view of the completely darkened panorama of Worcester at the outset of The Great Northeast Blackout. Or maybe it was just experiencing our first real home away from home as we lived, shared and learned that first year at Holy Cross.”

“Wheeler is home to a big, crazy family.

Somebody knew what they were doing in placing us there,” Webber insists. “And the people who were there, they were invested in sustaining the culture for the people who came after. We all found our way together and nobody would rewrite that story.”

Today Wheeler is still going its own way, the only underclass dorm not located on Easy Street. For those who return, Wheeler rewards by making the past present again.

When you walk through Wheeler’s doors, TJ Treanor ’89 says, “it’s physically like going back in time to your college years.

You expect to see those same folks you went to college with walking down the hall — which is made more real when you see young folks who look like your old dorm-mates.

“It’s a time machine that brings you back to the best years of your life.” ■

We’d love to hear your Wheeler memories.

Send us a letter at hcmag@holycross.edu or to Holy Cross Magazine, One College Street, Worcester, MA 01610

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ary Berner ’81 knows what it’s like to work for a bad boss.

“When I had lousy bosses — who were dishonest, or didn’t follow through on things, or made promises they couldn’t keep or tried to spin bad news — I would think to myself, ‘I would never do that,’ or ‘Does this person think this is actually effective?’”

Berner says. “I stored those [experiences] away and thought, ‘Someday, when I’m in charge, I’m never going to do that.’”

Whether across the nation or across your kitchen table, everyone is a leader in their own way.

Alumni share their best practices for outstanding leadership.

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Now she is in charge, as president and CEO of media and entertainment company Cumulus Media, which owns more than 480 radio stations in 87 markets across the United States. Previously, she led Reader’s Digest Association and also worked as an executive at Condé Nast and Glamour. She sums up her leadership philosophy clearly: “Be the boss you want to work for.”

Holy Cross Magazine spoke with Berner and four other Crusaders, whose organizations’ sizes and disciplines vary, about their leadership best practices.

1 Lead with actions, not words.

Berner once worked for a boss who couldn’t keep to a schedule. Meetings started late and she’d wait for an hour and a half outside his office for an appointment.

“Every time you would have an appointment with him, you would have to prepare to give up your entire day, because he was completely dismissive and disrespectful

of everybody else’s time,” she says. “Something I say a lot now is, ‘Your actions speak so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.’”

The message Berner got from that boss was that her time wasn’t valuable, and he didn’t respect her time as much as his own. Now, Berner has developed a reputation among colleagues as a meticulous timekeeper: Meetings always start and end on time. Not only is it efficient scheduling, but it shows her employees that she respects their time and the work that they have to get done. “The key is to understand that as a leader, you can say a lot, but if your actions don’t back up your words, then it doesn’t work,” says Berner, who in 2019 was named to the Billboard Magazine Power 100, was named Radio Company Executive of the Year by industry peers at the Worldwide Radio Summit and received a Gracies Leadership Award from the Alliance for Women in Media.

2 Accept constructive criticism.

Edward Ludwig ’73, former chair of the board, president and CEO of BD, a global medical technology company, says receiving criticism and ideas for improvement should not be avoided; instead it’s exactly the kind of feedback leaders should want.

“Good leaders create mechanisms where they can hear what’s going on in the rest of the organization, whatever the organization is,” says Ludwig, current board member of CVS Health and Boston Scientific. “And if you’re the kind of leader who

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doesn’t accept constructive input, people stop telling you the truth — and then you’re in big trouble.�

When Ludwig took over as CEO of BD, he gave every employee a virtual “red card,� inspired by leadership expert and “Good to Great� author Jim Collins. The cards encouraged employees to come to Ludwig’s office — at any time — and discuss a problem or something they thought was important for him to know. Those red card meetings often resulted in changes or progress that helped the company to have positive shareholder returns and be among the best in their field, Ludwig says.

down to execution, too.�

4 Speak up.

Leaders aren’t always the people with the highest title or the most seniority in the room or on a team. They are the ones who speak up to create change. Yarlennys Villaman ’14 served as a young alumni representative on the Holy Cross board of trustees for two years after graduation. As the youngest person in the room with the least work experience, it was a unique position, but she discovered her life and student experience mattered greatly. “When I spoke out about my experience as an ALANA

5 Commit to lifelong learning.

Quentin Liggins ’10 started his post graduate career in finance at Goldman Sachs, but felt called to education.

He had started a mentoring program at his local church in Boston and knew he wanted to increase access to education for all students.

That desire eventually led him to the midwest where, without classroom teaching experience of his own, Liggins spearheaded the creation of the Tulsa Teaching Corps, a teacher preparation program designed to develop worldclass educators and help reduce Oklahoma’s statewide teacher shortage. Similar

Thfifl fl fl fl fl fifl fi fi fifl fl fiflfi fi fi fifl fl fi fl fi fi fi fl flfi fi fl fi fl fi fl fl fl fl fi fi 3 Listen. “If something is wrong, usually the employees know what it is,� Berner says.

At Cumulus Media, she frequently travels to each of the company’s 90 offices across the U.S., and when she’s there, she simply listens. “I only ask one question and that is: ‘What do I need to know?’ And then I just shut up,� she says. “And people tell me. This is a two-way communication. It’s not about communicating from the top down. When you hear something consistently, you know that’s the problem. Listening and genuinely hearing feedback is [important], but it comes

student and that students [at Holy Cross] were not integrating, the board members supported me — especially the other minority women there. I spoke out about a lot of things that other people didn’t, and it was a shocking experience, at first, for some people,� says Villaman, now outreach director for the Community Engagement Division in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. “But the board was truly accepting, and with the great heart that every board member had, we started to focus on some issues on campus. After I spoke out, the College started the process to hire a director of diversity and inclusion.�

developing people to be great practitioners in the classroom, which I never was, because I never taught in a formal capacity, I had to be a lead learner,� he says. “There were so many people I had to lean on and I had to operate from a place of, ‘How can I serve? How can I connect people? How can I think about the bigger picture?’�

Liggins says he took that learner’s disposition into every meeting and planning session, and it enabled them to create a successful program that is addressing the teacher shortage. The program is growing and has inspired state legislators to create a first-of-its-kind

fi to Teach For America, the program is funded by a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Led by Liggins, in partnership nonprofit partner TNTP and a cross-functional team of his colleagues for the 39,000-student Tulsa school district, it welcomes locals and those interested in moving to Tulsa. Liggins, director of talent acquisition, retention and development, says that to be able to create a successful program, he had to be willing to listen and learn from others. “I know key best practices in recruiting and I know key best practices in leadership development. But as far as

pathway to certification for district use.

6 Show people they are valued.

When people feel they’re valued contributors, that’s good for business, productivity and the employees themselves. “[Cumulus is] competing with big digital companies and well-resourced Fortune 50 companies, and we’re a turnaround company that’s in transformation,� Berner says. “To attract good talent, to retain the people we have and to make sure everybody’s motivated, [we need] an environment where people truly understand that they’re

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valued, because they are.”

And research supports this approach. Workplace civility expert Christine Porath ’95, author and associate professor of management at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, has found that “there are certain human needs that matter, regardless of culture or age: having a sense of community, a sense of purpose and opportunity.”

7 Be humble. Commit to the mission or cause and its people, not personal advancement.

Villaman has started an aid organization for women in the Dominican Republic called Lazos Al Futuro (“Ties to the Future”). The group

helps women in Puerto Plata, where Villaman used to live, and focuses on disease prevention, greater access to education and support for pregnant women and mothers. Her work with the nonprofit is fueled, she says, by remembering where she came from.

“What’s lacking a lot of the time [is that] people don’t lead with humbleness,” she says. “To lead with humbleness, meaning that they don’t forget where they came from and they don’t forget the reason why they are leading. When you are a leader, you have to have a very compassionate heart and understand where everybody is coming from.”

Ludwig, for his part, refers

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to it as “followership,” a leadership term that speaks to a person’s ability to rally a group around a cause or goal.

“It doesn’t matter what it is you’re leading — it could be a team, political leadership, military — the goal first is for mission and not self.

Any time anyone is trying to influence other people to follow them, this applies,” he says.

Similarly, Liggins speaks of “servant leadership” in his work in the Tulsa Public Schools.

“If you’re in it for yourself or for personal glory, you may get somewhat far, but you won’t get significantly [far].

There’s this old proverb that

says, ‘If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.’ The only way you can go together is by being a servant,” he says.

“Whether it’s me working with a group of students in Boston, I think, ‘How can I serve them, how can I help them?’ It’s the same disposition with me working with the principals and teachers at Tulsa Public Schools — what can we do on our team to make your life easier? So being a servant leader is baseline. If you can’t do that, if you haven’t mastered that or need to work on your mindset, that’s where you start.”

8 Make tough decisions, but through a moral, compassionate lens.

we remember the people we are affecting and keep in mind that you’re dealing with human beings and not numbers on a spreadsheet.”

9 Be of service.

As a leader, Villaman focuses on meeting a need in the community — whether that is her Holy Cross community, the city of Boston or in her native Dominican Republic.

As a business leader, Ludwig always prided himself on his companies enjoying financial success and growth. But he also felt strongly that money shouldn’t be the sole priority of corporations — they also have a responsibility to their communities, local and global. And he’s helping to spread this ideal as a founding member of the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership.

For BD, this kind of commitment meant taking the lead on producing auto-disabling syringes for vaccination programs in developing companies to help stem the spread of HIV/AIDS through reused needles. Each of the 36 member companies honors this commitment in a unique way, but they all share a dedication to what Ludwig calls “a higher purpose.”

“The Center for Higher Ambition Leadership is a group of successful companies who subscribe to the notion that corporations serve multiple constituents. They serve shareholders, they serve their employees, they serve communities, they serve the environment,” he says.

It’s a mentality encouraged by the Jesuit charge of living as men and women for and with others, and Berner says she uses that approach in her decision-making.

“Holy Cross gave me a filter that looks at the human, ethical and moral

implications of your decisions and what you do,” she says. “It doesn’t mean you don’t make tough decisions, but you do it with a sense of humanity and the bigger impact on the company and the world.”

To get Cumulus out of more than $1 billion in debt she inherited as CEO, Berner made cuts and laid off employees, which she says was difficult, but necessary.

“The job is to build the company and we eliminate certain functions to fund other functions, and those are always horrible and tough decisions to make,” she says. “But what Holy Cross gave me is that when we make those decisions,

When she was a student at Holy Cross, she worked with two other students and the South Worcester Improvement Corporation to create a youth leadership program for Worcester students to help introduce them to the opportunities and potential of a college education. Her day job in the Attorney General’s Office has her traveling the state, educating communities about the resources available in the office, including immigration resources and wage dispute services. When she is off the clock, Villaman volunteers at her parish and in her town, as well as in the areas of scholarship fundraising and youth programs, in addition to her work with Lazos Al Futuro.

“I think no matter if you’re the CEO of a multimilliondollar agency or somebody that has a small organization or if you’re teaching a class to a group of kids who are 15, you’re making a change.

You’re teaching the future leaders of tomorrow,” says Villaman, who especially wants to see more women in leadership roles. “We have the traits to take seats that are empty and to take on leadership roles, if we believe in ourselves and our capacity to lead.” ■

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S PPOORRTTS S

(top and bottom) In March, Lauren Manis ’20 became the first player in Holy Cross basketball history — men’s or women’s — to record 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in her career. She scored her 2,000th point on a free throw with 8.7 seconds left in a regular-season finale win over Loyola Maryland that clinched a home playoff game for the Crusaders.

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(top) Manis, a history major from Franklin, Massachusetts, hauls in her record-setting rebound in a game against Lafayette. (bottom) Receiving her 2,000-point ceremonial ball in a pregame ceremony, flanked by Marcus Blossom, director of Athletics, and interim head coach Ann McInerney.

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Women’s Rowing Team, College Sees Outpouring of Support Following Accident An unprecedented tragedy in Holy Cross history yields an unparalleled show of support nationwide.

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n the wake of the January accident involving members of the women’s rowing team, the athletes, their families, the coaching and support staff, and the College were embraced by

an outpouring of support from across the United States.

Thousands used social media to communicate prayers for those injured,

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for the family and friends of Grace Rett ’22, who was killed in the crash, and for the College community — on- and offcampus — left in shock and grief. The NCAA, other colleges and universities, collegiate athletics programs, the rowing community, state officials and many more shared their support on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram following the news and for weeks to come.

Fitness and rowing enthusiasts and the high school and collegiate rowing communities across the country especially took up the mantle, working out on indoor rowing machines in fundraising efforts for those injured and noting their efforts under the hashtag #rowforholycross in Rett’s memory

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resources, and their prayers. You draped your city in Holy Cross purple. Holy Cross Catholic Church in Vero Beach celebrated Mass, and the local rowing community held a memorial for our dear Grace, attended by hundreds of people she had never met. A month ago, members of our women’s rowing team were guests in your community.

Today, we are part of the same family, linked not only by tragedy but by the selfless actions of the remarkable Vero Beach community.”

(left) From Marianapolis Prepatory School to Holy Cross, Rett excelled on the water and on campus with her teammates and friends, including her world-record-setting effort in December 2019. (above) A sampling of photos from the 3,500 Instagram posts hashtagged #rowforholycross. Fitness and rowing enthusiasts and high school and college teams across the country picked up the rowing challenge from manufacturer WaterRower, which held a fundraiser to aid those affected by the accident.

and in support of the team. The effort was especially meaningful as just three weeks before her death, Rett set a world record for her age group when she completed 62 hours and 3 seconds of continuous rowing on an indoor rowing machine at the Hart Center at the Luth Athletic Complex.

Community members of Vero Beach, Florida, where the accident occurred, held an indoor rowing fundraiser in February, during which participants signed up for 62 continuous one-hour shifts to honor the team.

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More than 1,300 miles south of Mount St. James, Vero Beach residents quickly became members of the Holy Cross community as they rallied to help the injured student-athletes, their families and College officials who decamped to the small city for several days.

In a letter to the local Vero Beach newspaper, College President Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J., thanked residents: “We found only hospitality, care and concern from dedicated medical professionals and the entire Vero Beach community, where people offered their homes, their

Alumni in Florida and across the country offered their support in extraordinary and everyday ways.

Regardless of the scope of their effort,

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alumni were united in one act: refusing public credit or acknowledgment, citing their assistance as simply being part of their identity as a Crusader.

On campus, Holy Cross student-athletes showed their support by adding a purple patch to their uniforms: a heart in between two crossed oars, with HCWR at the base. Because Rett operated a camera as a member of Athletics’ broadcasting team, one camera was left unmanned in her memory. And Rett’s father, Christopher, dropped the puck at a Holy Cross women’s ice hockey game.

“Through this unfortunate, sudden and tragic event, we were able to see how special the Holy Cross community

truly is,” said Marcus (Clockwise from top right) Vero Beach residents wrote messages of hope and prayers on pieces of rice paper and made their way Blossom, director of to the shoreline to toss them into the Indian River Lagoon during Athletics. “Crusaders near a vigil for the student-athletes and their families; community and far were extremely members participated in a 62-hour continuous rowing fundraiser; thoughtful and generous in a show of solidarity, the city wrapped several light poles on the in their support. They Merrill P. Barber Bridge with purple ribbon to honor the team. made sure we weren’t dealing with this alone, and that Grace — and all she meant to for those recovering from the accident.

Holy Cross — will never be forgotten.”

“At Holy Cross, Grace was a student first Two days after her funeral Mass in her and an athlete second, but for her they hometown of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, really weren’t in competition, because Rett was celebrated in a memorial in both she worked extremely hard and Mass at St. Joseph Memorial Chapel. loved the challenges they brought,” Fr. The building was filled to capacity and Boroughs said in the homily. “Today is a live feed was aired in Seelos Theatre the feast day of St. Francis De Sales who for overflow attendees as the College wrote: ‘Be who you are and be that well.’ gathered to remember her and to pray How aptly that describes Grace.” ■

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Matt Blake ’07 Will Begin First MLB Season on the Sport’s Biggest Stage As the New York Yankees’ new pitching coach, the psychology and philosophy major has an answer for how often he uses his Holy Cross education in professional baseball: ‘Only every B Y day.’

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hen the 2020 baseball season finally begins, Matt Blake ’07 will put on the most famous uniform in

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sports history, the white, pinstriped pants and shirt with the interlocking, navy blue NY over the heart. It is the uniform worn by the New York Yankees for 108 years, the same one used by Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and Derek Jeter.

At different times this season, Blake will step out of the Yankees dugout and trot to the pitcher’s mound, a destination that could scarcely have been predicted for someone

(above) Matt Blake ’07, enjoying his first New York Yankees spring training in Florida: “Anytime you move into a new role, especially this, which is probably as great as a role you could pick for a pitching coach, it’s in the spotlight … the more you get into the process, the less nervous you are about it.”

possessing degrees in psychology and philosophy from Holy Cross. Yet, there he will be, the new pitching coach for the New York Yankees, discussing strategy with some of the best pitchers in baseball in one of the most revered sporting venues in the world.

His path to Yankee Stadium was not traditional; coaches at that level are almost always former professional players, although Blake did play four

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Neither all-star nor benchwarmer, he has combined that athletic experience with the skills and inspiration he acquired in the classroom to become a trailblazer in his field, a coveted asset by one of the biggest brands in sports.

Incredibly, it was only five years ago that he was coaching high school baseball in Massachusetts.

His degrees are not usually associated with coaching, and when people discover that Blake studied psychology and philosophy, they are almost always surprised. Blake has a ready answer.

“When people ask, ‘Do you use this?

Do you use your education at all?’ I say, ‘Only every day.’ I deal with humans every day trying to solve problems,” he says. “I have a really strong foundation in decision making, trying to understand problems.’’

Even his parents, Carroll and Terry, had initial questions about his major: “My career was in mechanical engineering, so that’s what I went to college for,’’ Carroll Blake says. “My wife went to school for business and finance. Both of those courses of study lead to a career path in the professional world. Here we are, I’m an engineer, my wife is a business major, and we have this child who wants to major in psych and minor in philosophy.

Where the hell did this kid come from?’’

Blake clearly remembers a course he took in his early years on campus, Human Nature, Ethics and Society, taught by Professor Mark Thurman.

The subject matter and class discussion struck a chord.

“When I got to Holy Cross, I obviously didn’t know what I wanted to do,’’ he says. “I wasn’t really that interested in finance, accounting, economics; that just wasn’t the way my brain was wired to focus. Psychology, sociology, philosophy courses resonated a little bit more for me because of the conversation, the dialogue we were having in those classes.’’

For Thurman, it all makes sense; he’s not that surprised to see that his former student utilizes the foundations laid in those courses. “The kind of skills that one develops in the kind of courses that Matt took are really richly transportable,’’ Thurman says. “They may not appear to be. Some people might say, ‘Gee, a course of that sort sounds kind of abstract. What does that have to do with concrete reality in real lives?’ I think they have lots to do with it.’’

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On the baseball field, Blake was used mostly as a relief pitcher, a crafty lefty who had excellent control, says his former Holy Cross coach, Craig Najarian.

Najarian also remembers Blake being invested in learning about the nuances of coaching, asking questions about strategy decisions.

After graduation, Blake first tried a sales job in his hometown of Concord, New

Hampshire, and also began a somewhat informal business of pitching instruction on the weekends. In his mind, an internal game of tug-of-war had begun.

“I was doing the sales job and I was basically building up this private pitching instruction business on the weekends,’’ he says. “I would be sitting at my desk wondering how am I going to do this for 40 more years?’’

His initial foray into coaching came with his father when they coached a group of Concord 15-year-olds to a championship. “It was magical,’’ Carroll Blake says.

In addition to his private instruction business, Blake started coaching pitchers at Massachusetts’ LincolnSudbury Regional High School and the New England Roughnecks, an amateur team. Through a mutual friend, he soon partnered with Eric Cressey, who ran a high-performance training business in Hudson, Massachusetts. He became Cressey Sports Performance Center’s pitching expert and, not long after, his students emerged as some of the best professional prospects in New England.

That’s when the Yankees first noticed Blake. New England area scout Matt Hyde realized some of the pitchers he considered pro material had been coached by Blake. Hyde and the Yankees gave Blake his first job with a professional team and he assisted Hyde in conducting tryouts and evaluating amateur players.

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At this time, Blake began developing the use of video into his coaching.

“I knew there were things I wanted that I didn’t have as a player, just learning about mechanics and how the body is supposed to work,’’ he says. “I did a lot of research.’’

Pitchers who trained under Blake at Cressey became some of the most successful in New England. The Yankees benefitted, drafting several of them, and the Cleveland Indians noticed, too, when one of their pitchers, Cory Kluber, trained at Cressey. The Indians were the first to offer Blake a full-time job in professional baseball. He was named the Indians director of pitching development and was fairly quickly promoted to assistant director of player development, overseeing the development of pitching strategy for the organization.

With the Indians, Blake was able to fully fuse the use of video with the analytical research that’s available in abundance to major league teams.

“I was learning more about the body and what it was supposed to move like in a holistic, universal sense,’’ Blake says.

“Then, how do we train it? What does that mean with the throwing motion? I was doing a lot of video analysis on my own, watching deliveries and learning more about them. I was probably on the front end with the high-speed cameras coming, the utilization of the computer to help do this.

“I was one of the first who had an

understanding of anatomy, kinesiology, because of working with the Cressey guys, and I was technologically approaching it with the computer. That was the backbone of what my instruction was.

When I got to Cleveland, it just continued to build with more analytical information on what a performance should look like.’’

His reputation grew among pitchers and Major League Baseball decision makers.

When he was named Yankees’ pitching coach in November 2019, Trevor Bauer, a former Indians pitcher now with the Cincinnati Reds, quickly took to Twitter to praise him: “He’s awesome. One of the smarter guys I know. Knows a lot about pitching. A lot about development. Good communicator. Really excited for him getting this opportunity and pumped to see the results.”

Bauer’s tweet speaks to the reputation Blake had developed, and it intrigued Yankees’ general manager Brian Cashman.

“He’s got an extensive knowledge of pitching,” Cashman told the press after making the hire. “The way he communicated resonated with me. … At pencils down (after the interview), I was, like, ‘I think this is the guy.’”

THE SEASON AHEAD

Blake will be a guy under pressure this season. He will be held accountable for the inevitable ups and downs that are certain to occur in a six-month-plus season of 162 games. editor’s note

As of press time, Major League Baseball

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has delayed the start of the 2020 season indefinitely due to the coronavirus outbreak.

“Anytime you move into a new role, especially this, which is probably as great as a role you could pick for a pitching coach, it’s in the spotlight. You actually question yourself, ‘Am I ready for this role?’” Blake says. “But, like with anything, I’ve prepared myself by doing all these other things … The more you get into the process, the less nervous you are about it; you’re focused on the work at that point. I feel really good about our situation right now. Every time we get to a new point in the season, whether it’s spring training, opening day, playoff stretch, you’re going to encounter a new level of anxiousness, but it’s part of the gig.’’

As he deals with the different personalities, the criticism and the credit and the glaring spotlight of attention that New York provides, he’ll continue to reach back to his time at Holy Cross, knowing that the lessons he learned there have helped him attain what he has.

“I think the psychology degree and the courses I took, the philosophy degree and the courses I took, gave me a good way to interpret the information in front of me,’’ Blake says. “To make good use of decision-making processes, to hopefully make better decisions as you get more information, whether it’s dealing with people and different group dynamics or zeroing in on a specific problem. I think it gave me a well-rounded arsenal of skills to attack the modern society. It just happens to be baseball-focused.” ■

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A Note From Mike

People’s reactions to that little purple badge are uniformly positive. What makes that so? The interactions they have all had with Crusaders in their jobs, schools and communities. And I’ve come to realize that firsthand, as I meet more and more alumni in my travels. It’s not that we are all alike – far from it. We are teachers and scientists, we work on Wall Street and Main Street. We are old and young, Democrats and Republicans. We even have a few Yankees fans among us. But, together, we have one thing in common – we care about others and we give back. We give back to our school and, as importantly, to those around us.

present.

The students who passed by were of all shapes, sizes and ethnicities. Some came right from team practices, others looked like they just rolled out of bed. It was a great reminder of how different we all are, but also of what we all have in common. All were there out of respect for one of our own. They came that day, not because they knew Grace (although many did), but because they wanted to comfort her family, friends, coaches – and each other.

Through the wonders of Google, I found this definition of our favorite color in a blog post by Jennifer Bourn, a principal at a Sacramento advertising agency:

The Power of Purple.

At first, it struck me as a catchy marketing phrase. But serving as president of the Alumni Association the past several months, I’ve come to realize that it’s more than just that. It’s an expression of what is special about Holy Cross students and alumni. Collectively, we combine to create a special energy.

Wearing a little HC tag on my backpack through airports and into meetings in various settings has attracted unsolicited attention, like a small magnet, from dozens of people. “Did you go to Holy Cross?” “Do you know my nephew?”

“That’s a great school, I wish my daughter went there.” And my favorite: “I had a

Where does that come from? Apparently it’s in the water on Mount St. James.

I had the privilege of attending the on-campus memorial Mass in January for Grace Rett ’22, the victim of the women’s rowing team accident in Florida. It’s difficult to describe the range of the emotions I felt that day, watching as about 1,000 students (many wearing purple) filed by Grace’s family and teammates gathered in St. Joseph Memorial Chapel. It started with sadness, of course, as her family processed down the aisle to the strains of “Amazing Grace.” But I also felt a tremendous sense of pride – Purple Pride – in the power of community evidenced by all those

HCAA Board Nominations Announced

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he Holy Cross Alumni Association has announced the names of those nominated to serve as officers and members of its board of directors. Nominations were selected in accordance with Alumni Association

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“Purple combines the calm stability of blue and the fierce energy of red … the color purple has a variety of effects on the mind and body, including uplifting spirits, calming the mind and nerves, enhancing the sacred, creating feelings of spirituality, increasing nurturing tendencies and sensitivity, and encouraging imagination and creativity.”

When she wrote that, Jennifer had no way of knowing how well she described the Power of Purple that sets Holy Cross alumni apart from others. ■ Thank you, Michael H. Shanahan ’78, P10 mshanahan@egancapital.com

bylaws, which allow for no more than 13 alumni to be chosen annually for threeyear terms: 10 from class year groupings, two representing regional clubs and one representing affinity groups.

It should be noted that any member of the HCAA may be nominated in accordance with Article VII of the bylaws: “Any member of the Alumni Association may be nominated for director by a petition containing the signatures of 20 alumni with the executive secretary no later than May 1."

serves as a vehicle to spread the inspiring stories of alumni in their own words.

The idea for the podcast came about shortly after Sweeney took on the role of running alumni career development in 2018. “I’m fortunate to get to speak with alumni from many different backgrounds and class years,” she says. “I leave every conversation thinking the same thing: Our alumni have amazing stories to tell about the impact of their time at Holy Cross.

This podcast has been my way of ensuring that those stories don’t stop with me, but are shared with the world.”

New Alumni Podcast: Mission-Driven April 2020

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es, you read that right. Holy Cross’ Office of Alumni Relations is launching a podcast!

Mission-Driven features conversations with alumni who are making a meaningful difference in the world around them.

Hosted by Maura Sweeney ’07, director of alumni career development, the podcast

While Sweeney may be the host, she is not the only person that you hear on the show. Each episode features different interviewers from the campus community — students, staff and fellow alumni. By bringing in different voices from across campus, the podcast offers listeners an authentic perspective into the many people who make up the greater Holy Cross community.

Michael H. Shanahan ’78

pr e side n t Laura Cutone Godwin ’96

vice pr e sident Schone L. Malliet ’74

vice pr e sident Daniel D’Agata ’04

t r e asur e r Kristyn M. Dyer ’94

e xe cut ive se cretary Episodes are released on a monthly basis. Learn more by visiting the podcast website at hcalumni.libsyn.com; subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher and other services. ■

Would you or someone you know like to be interviewed on the podcast?

Email Sweeney at alumnicareers@ holycross.edu. If you like the show, please leave a 5-star review!

questions, comments and suggestions: hcaa@holycross.edu ( 508) 793- 241 8

The Holy Cross Alumni Association (HCAA) supports alma mater in its Catholic, Jesuit mission by bringing together the diverse talents, experience

Any HCAA member who would like to be so nominated should submit a petition to Kristyn Dyer by May 1, 2020. If any petition is received, a ballot will appear in an issue of Holy Cross Magazine so alumni can vote for the candidate(s) nominated by petition. To view all HCAA board of directors candidates, go to holycross.edu/alumni/crusadersconnect/ hcaa.

PRESIDENT-ELECT

Laura Cutone Godwin ’96 (left) has served on the HCAA board of directors since 2011

and as a vice president since 2015. Her involvement on the board has included chairing or co-chairing the HCAA Dinner, Communications & Outreach, 150th Celebrations and Summer Internships committees. In addition, she has served on the Executive Committee since 2014 and has been a member of the Nominations & Elections, Budget & Finance, Strategic Planning and HC Cares Day committees.

She is also a past president of the Holy Cross Club of Greater Boston. She and her husband, Jason, reside in Wakefield, Massachusetts. ■

and knowledge of Holy Cross alumni. We accomplish this by engaging alumni for life through our reunions, regional clubs, community outreach and intellectual and spiritual formation programs.

By these means, we nurture our love for and dedication to Holy Cross, its students and its alumni as men and women for others. ■

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ALUMNI NEWS

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he Holy Cross Alumni Association has announced the 2020 recipient of its Regional Clubs Volunteer Award, which recognizes outstanding service to alma mater through the Holy Cross Regional Clubs Program.

Deborah A. Dunn ’85 Deborah Dunn has been an active and influential member of the Holy Cross Club of Central New York for several decades. The club is indebted to her commitment, collaborative spirit and leadership, all of which have had an influence on its programming and communication efforts to engage multiple generations of “upstate” Crusaders.

Serving as the club’s president since 2012, she brings a spirit of warmth, inclusion and hospitality

Regional Clubs Volunteer Award

Holy Cross Club of Central New York spotlight on ...

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tretching southward more than 100 miles over Lake Ontario to the Pennsylvania border, the Holy Cross Club of Central New York serves more than 470 “upstate” alumni, parents and friends. An active

group, the club organizes about one event each quarter, ranging from afterwork networking events in downtown Syracuse to Holy Cross Cares service projects to fan rallies whenever Holy Cross Athletics teams visit the area. The club keeps a strong connection to current Holy Cross students from the region. Each December, it sends personalized care

(left) Alumni and families take part in a Holy Cross Cares clean-up at St. Lucy’s Church in Syracuse. (middle) Crusaders of all generations gather for a "Welcome to Your City" after-work social at Coleman's Irish Pub in Syracuse. (right) Danielle Davignon ’02 (right) and Adam Peruta enjoy a pregame reception before a club outing to a Syracuse Crunch hockey game in January.

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to everything she does – especially through her unwavering support of current Holy Cross students from the region. Her willingness to test ideas for new alumni events and programs, coupled with an exceptional team of dedicated club volunteers, have been a winning combination. Through her involvement and service, she continues to keep the Holy Cross spirit alive and well throughout much of central New York.

A chemistry major, Dunn was also a member of the Holy Cross swimming and diving team and College Choir.

Purple runs deep in her veins, as her father, Peter ’58, and four siblings (Andrew ’87, Daniel ’90, Amy ’99 and Lisa ’91) are all Crusaders. Dunn lives in Canastota, New York, and works in the field of mass spectroscopy and material science for EAG Analytical Group. ■

packages to central New York students getting ready for final exams (a welcome treat at the end of a busy semester).

Last fall, the club teamed with the nearby Holy Cross Club of Eastern New York to host a pregame reception before the Holy Cross-Syracuse football game.

Despite the score, this collaboration helped to ensure a strong, supportive purple presence on the Syracuse campus.

Year-round and occasional visitors are always welcome at club events. There's something for everyone in Central New York! ■

COME HOME TO THE HILL

REUNION 2020 GET THE L ATEST INFORMATION AT WWW.HOLYCROSS.EDU / ALUMNI / REUNION

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CREATIVE NOTES

From Our Creative Crusaders

BY REBECCA SMITH '99 A N D K I M B E R LY S TA L E Y ' 9 9

Inside Today’s Elementary Schools: A Psychologist’s Perspective

primary school children, teachers, community members, as well as those involved with education at all levels.” — Patrick M.

Palgrave-MacMillan Press

Whitehead, associate professor of psychology, Albany State University

By James J. Dillon ’90

In “Inside Today’s Elementary Schools,” Dillon, a professor of psychology at the University of West Georgia and a certified public elementary school teacher, takes readers on a dayin-the-life tour of a public elementary school to reveal 10 problem areas — and offers his views on how they should be fixed.

WHAT OTHERS SAY

“… ‘Inside Today’s Elementary Schools’ sets itself apart by being reader-friendly and accessible to the parents of

The Story of Raphe Rapherty

By Philip R. Sullivan, M.D., ’53

In his sixth novel, “The Story of Raphe Rapherty,” Dr. Sullivan focuses “thoroughly on the internal workings of the protagonist’s mind,” describing how Rapherty gradually transformed his supernaturalist worldview into an alternative view graced by scientific naturalism.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Sullivan graduated from the College in 1953 and went on to Harvard Medical School. A private practitioner in psychiatry, he has taught at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he was an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry.

Smoke in the Afterlife

By Emilio Iasiello ’91

Thurston Howl Publications “Smoke in the Afterlife” is a collection of 67 poems, written in free verse, that narrate the hardships with Iasiello’s family while growing up — and detail his childhood with his immediate family through specific traumatic events from his past.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A poet, screenwriter and author, Iasiello is also a cyber security expert. He lives in Virginia with his wife and two children.

Maybe Tomorrow: A Novel of the Vietnam War

By James “Jim” O’Donnell ’67 Wylisc Press

Based on O’Donnell’s own military service, “Maybe Tomorrow” tells the story of Patrick Nolan, a U.S. Army soldier working as a civil affairs interpreter in Vietnam and providing aid to local villagers, and shares Nolan’s unique perspective on the harsh realities of serving during the Vietnam War. WHAT OTHERS SAY

“A wonderful, well-written novel of the Vietnam War … full of believable color and moral quandaries.” — reader

review, Amazon.com “This novel is a highly readable account based on the U.S. Army’s attempt to win ‘hearts and minds’ in Vietnam, a subject rarely covered.” — reader review, Amazon.com ■

BO OK NOT ES H A S EX PA N DED! In an effort to showcase ALL creatives we are adapting this section to include authors, artists, musicians, makers and more! Email hcmag@holycross.edu for more information.

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Unsolved Mysteries: Photo Edition

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ast issue's Mystery Photo (at left, top right) was a stumper. While we received guesses, they were confirmed as incorrect, which leaves us solutionless — at least for now.

But that's OK, it does happen, as you can see via the display of past issues' unsolved Mystery Photos on the left.

Do you have a guess on what's happening, who's there and what they may be doing in any of these lost images? ■

We welcome any and all theories!

Email your guess to hcmag@holycross.edu.

Holy Cross(word) Puzzle Solution

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e’re sending a big thank you to all the puzzling Crusaders who told us they enjoyed the inaugural Holy Cross(word), which was published in the winter 2020 issue on Page 74. We had a great time working with puzzle maker Brendan Emmett Quigley to develop the Sunday-sized stumper, which we admit was quite difficult.

Many Crusaders were up to the challenge and sent in or emailed their completed puzzles (we see you, pen users) to be entered into a drawing. We gathered all of the correctly completed puzzles, numbered them and used a random number generator to pick a winner. Congratulations to winner Shannon (Thibodeau) Papadogiannis '03, who will receive a new Holy Cross sweatshirt to wear with pride. ■

Do you have an idea for more fun features we could add to Holy Cross Magazine? Email us at hcmag@holycross.edu.

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THE POWER OF ONE

Young alumni are a vital part of the Holy Cross family. They stay connected and pay it forward as consistent donors and dedicated, passionate volunteers. Through their devotion and support, Holy Cross reaches new heights.

DECL AN CRONIN ’19

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name Declan Cronin ’19 hometown Franklin, Tennessee family I come from a relatively large family. My father is one of nine and my mother, Trish Cronin ’82, is one of four (including her brother, Robert Browne ’85). I have one sibling, my brother Brian, to whom I’m very close.

“I “I give give back back to to Holy Holy Cross Cross because because II am am aware aware of of how how much much Holy Holy Cross Cross gave gave me me during during my my four four years. years.

Others’ Others’ generosity generosity directly directly affected affected my my experience experience and and the the opportunities opportunities II was was afforded. afforded. Now Now II have have the the chance chance to to take take up up that that mantle mantle as as an an alumnus, alumnus alumnus, that’s that’s special.” special.”

what he did at holy cross I played baseball for four years.

Eventually, I began to branch out and get involved in more of what Holy Cross had to offer. By my senior year, I was a Gateways orientation leader, retreat leader, vice president of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee, staff editor for the Holy Cross Journal of Law and Social Policy, and served on the editorial board of “Of Life and History” (our undergraduate history journal). I also worked in the Office of Student Involvement. how holy cross affected his life Holy Cross was the perfect place for me. Over the years, I began to understand that Holy Cross students are incredibly unique.

As a student-athlete at another school, one might be forced to adhere to a certain image. On The Hill, I never felt like I was breaking the mold by getting involved in such a wide range of endeavors. That mold doesn’t exist at Holy Cross; you’re encouraged - and expected - to pursue fearlessly all curiosities with the utmost passion. That freedom continuously fashioned me into who I am today. the working life I was fortunate enough to be drafted by the Chicago White Sox last spring, so I’m currently living out my childhood dream

DAN VAILLANCOURT

of playing professional baseball.

This offseason, I returned to Holy Cross to train and I worked in the Office of Advancement as an assistant to the Office of Annual Giving and Crusader Athletics Fund. special memories of holy cross The few memories that jump out are vastly different.

Understandably, winning the Patriot League Championship on Fitton Field my sophomore year was one of the happiest moments of my life. I also look back fondly (with the benefit of hindsight and time to dull the situations’ acute distress) upon my late nights in Dinand Library writing research papers or Professor Cynthia Hooper eviscerating the early — and late — drafts of my senior Capstone. I think that dichotomy speaks well to my time at Holy Cross. why he stays connected to holy cross I stay engaged with Holy Cross because of the deep sense of community it inspires. My friends, professors, coaches — they’re what make that connection so strong. why he believes in holy cross It’s hard not to believe in Holy Cross when you see the kind of positive change it brings about in people’s lives. Yes, I witnessed it personally in my own experience. But I also saw it every day in the lives and growth of countless others. why he gives to holy cross I give back to Holy Cross because I am aware of how much Holy Cross gave me during my four years. Others’ generosity directly affected my experience and the opportunities I was afforded. Now I have the chance to take up that mantle as an alumnus, that’s special. ■

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FOR AND WITH OTHERS

How Opening a Door Led to an Unexpected International Community A random act of kindness by Richard McGuinness ’60 has led to a worldwide group of Facebook users who celebrate kindness daily.

BY LORI FERGUSON

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hile at the post office one day, Richard McGuinness ’60 took an extra minute to hold the door for an elderly woman. The response he got took him aback.

“She thanked me and told me it was the nicest thing that had happened to her in a very long time,” he recalls. Her reaction also got him thinking: “I realized we’re so busy and distracted these days that we often forget to slow down and allow time for good hearts to act.”

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As the former chief operating officer for the American Cancer Society, McGuinness knows a thing or two about the power of good hearts in action, so he hatched a plan. “I contacted my friend Pat Fiorello — an artist and former vice president of marketing at Coca-Cola — and told her I thought we should start a Facebook page that celebrates small acts of kindness,” he says. “She liked the idea and with that, Unleashing Kindness was born.”

McGuinness and Fiorello were the first two to sign up, and a mere 36 months later, they’ve been joined by more than 17,000 others across 99 countries.

“I had no idea what would happen,” McGuinness concedes. “It never occurred to me the page could go global — I was just hoping to energize the greater Atlanta community where I live.”

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as simple as the impulsive act that set him upon his career path, McGuinness maintains: One must simply act. “If you think about it, love and kindness are action words,” he notes. “If you’re going to unleash kindness in a meaningful way, you’ve got to do something. I hope everyone reading this piece will join our Facebook group. There’s great joy in giving.”

FIVE QUESTIONS with Richard McGuinness ’60

Is being kind a habit or a conscious act?

A conscious decision that you hope becomes a habit.

To those who say small kindnesses no longer matter, you would say?

They’re wrong! A small act of kindness can make a huge difference in someone else’s life — it can even save a life.

What’s your favorite regular act of kindness?

Using people’s names when they are serving me or my family. Calling your cashier or waitress by name is so easy, yet it has such an impact. People go from invisible to visible; it’s a simple way to acknowledge their humanity.

Yet the 81-year-old isn’t surprised that this labor of love has resonated with others. “There’s a lot of good in the world,” he insists. “Unfortunately, there’s so much animosity, vitriol and division flying around that people sometimes lose sight of that. So, we’re giving people a place to share their good acts, as well as the responses they receive.”

Although McGuinness concedes it wasn’t conscious, he agrees that the creation of Unleashing Kindness dovetails beautifully with the Jesuit value of being men and women for and with others. And that, he says, is no accident.

“In retrospect, my time at Holy Cross shaped my whole life,” he says. “As a sophomore and junior at the College, I discovered the joy of doing for others

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through volunteering with Big Brothers Big Sisters, as well as rehabbing an old building for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.”

McGuinness joined the Air Force after graduation and when he completed his nine-year tour of duty and returned home to Worcester, his mind went back to how good he felt when volunteering.

“I grabbed the phone book and began looking for nonprofits where I could apply for work,” he says. “The American Cancer Society was among the first listings, so I called them. Turns out, they had a job opening, I got the position and I worked for the organization for the next 32 years. Sometimes, there’s no grand plan — things just work out the way they’re supposed to, I guess.”

Making a difference in someone’s life is

What’s the kindest act you’ve witnessed in recent memory?

Last year, a veteran in Florida passed away and had no family left to mourn him, so hundreds of strangers showed up at his funeral. Along the same lines, a couple of years ago a group of young boys from a high school football team stepped forward to serve as pallbearers at the funeral of a veteran who died alone. I’ve also heard about a group of classic car collectors who visit their local nursing home every Sunday to take residents for a ride. Can you imagine the thrill of going out for a ride when you’re not able to get out much, if at all?

How would you finish this sentence: When you give your love away ... … you learn how to be really happy in life. Through kindness you learn that there are real benefits … to the giver as well as to the receiver. ■

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IN MEMORIAM Holy Cross Magazine publishes In Memoriam to inform the College community of the deaths of alumni, trustees, students, employees and friends.

In Memoriam content, which is based on obituaries published in public forums or provided directly to HCM by the family, is a limited overview that includes service to alma mater and a survivors listing. Family members are welcome to submit an obituary or additional information, which will be included at the discretion of the editor; due to time and space constraints, the final obituaries will not be sent to family members for approval. Portrait photos from the Purple Patcher appear as space permits and at the discretion of the editor (photos provided by the deceased’s family are not accepted). Obituaries appear in the order in which they are received; due to the volume of submissions and magazine deadlines, it may be several issues before they appear in print. To notify the College of a death, please call the Alumni Office at 508-793-3039 or email AlumniRecords@holycross.edu, attaching a copy of an obituary, if available.

1945 John E. McAuliffe, D.D.S.

the Korean War, spending two years

great-grandchildren; and one sister.

16, 2019, at 93. Mr. Farley joined

in the Medical Corps at Mitchel

He was predeceased by his wife of

the U.S. Navy and trained as

John E. McAuliffe,

Air Field in New York. He then

54 years, Cathleen; one son; and one

a pilot. After the end of World

D.D.S., of

practiced obstetrics and gynecology

brother.

War II, he graduated from Holy

Worcester, died

in Lynn for almost 40 years; he was

on Dec. 9, 2019, at

also the health commissioner for

96. Dr. McAuliffe

the city of Lynn for 18 years. Dr.

Col. Robert E. Parrott, USMC (Ret)

Cross; he later completed his doctoral studies in educational administration and research at the

served in the U.S. Army as a combat

Phelan is survived by three children

Col. Robert

University of Massachusetts. He

infantryman with Company M,

and their spouses; 11 grandchildren,

E. Parrott,

had a long career as an educator

347th Regiment of the 87th Infantry

including Catherine E. Phelan ’18;

USMC (Ret),

for the Pittsfield Public Schools,

Division, 3rd Army, and earned

four great-grandchildren; and

of Blacksburg,

starting as a substitute and then

several medals, including the

a large extended family. He was

formerly of Springfield, Virginia,

classroom teacher at Central Junior

Combat Infantryman Badge and

predeceased by his wife of 70 years,

died on Oct. 24, 2019, at 93. Mr.

High School. He later taught at

three Campaign Stars, Bronze Star

Eleanor; one daughter; one sister;

Parrott participated in ROTC at

North Junior High and Pomeroy

and World War II Victory Medal. He

and one brother and his wife.

Holy Cross; he was a member of the

Elementary School before serving

O’Callahan Society and affiliated

as principal first at Briggs School,

with Naval ROTC. A 30-year

then Hibbard Elementary School

veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps,

and later Highland Elementary

then graduated from Georgetown University Dental School and joined the U.S. Army Dental Corps

1946 Edward A. Meyers, M.D.

as a first lieutenant. He served as

Edward A. Meyers,

he served during World War II, the

School. Mr. Farley is survived by

the post-dental surgeon at Fort

M.D., of Stamford,

Korean War and Vietnam, as well

his wife of 35 years, Carolyn; 10

McNair, Washington, D.C., during

Connecticut, died

as through multiple domestic and

children and their spouses; 31

the Korean War. Dr. McAuliffe then

on Nov. 27, 2019,

overseas deployments in times of

grandchildren and their spouses;

practiced dentistry in Worcester

at 93. Dr. Meyers

peace. For his actions in combat,

four great-grandchildren; and

for 36 years. Active in several

studied mathematics and premed

he was awarded the Silver Star and

numerous nieces and nephews. He

veterans’ organizations, he was

at Holy Cross and was a member

two Purple Hearts. After military

was predeceased by his first wife,

presented with the key to the city of

of the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit

retirement, he served as director

Margaret.

Worcester in 2012. He supported the

Honor Society. The recipient of the

of development for the National

College as a member of the Class

Book Prize, he later supported the

Lutheran Home in Washington,

Reunion Committee. Dr. McAuliffe

College as an admissions advisor

D.C., as a consultant to the Lutheran

Eugene J. Remian,

is survived by one sister; several

and a member of the 1843 Society

Laity Movement and as a member of

of Southbridge,

nieces and nephews, including

and career advisor network. He

the executive board of the Virginia

Massachusetts,

Timothy J. O’Malley ’80, and their

earned his Doctor of Medicine

Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran

died on Nov.

spouses; many great-nieces and

degree from Albany Medical College

Church in America. Through Robert

great-nephews; and his caretaker,

and served as a captain in the U.S.

E. Parrott Associates, he and his

Mr. Remian was a U.S. Army Air

companion and friend, Geraldine

Air Force Medical Corps. He then

wife provided fundraising and

Corps veteran of World War II,

Thompson. He was predeceased

established his medical practice

counseling services for church-

serving in the 881st Bomb Squad

by his former wife, May Elliott;

of otolaryngology, head and neck

related institutions across the

division as a tail gunner in a B-29

two brothers, including William F.

surgery, and facial plastic surgery in

country. Mr. Parrott is survived by

Bomber. After the war, he graduated

McAuliffe ’51; one sister; and two

Englewood, New Jersey; he served

one daughter; two sons; one son-

from Holy Cross with a degree in

brothers-in-law, including John J.

as chair of Englewood Hospital’s

in-law; one son’s former wife; four

political science and later earned

O’Malley ’49.

Otolaryngology-Head & Neck

grandchildren; and one grandson-

his master’s degree from Boston

Surgery Department, where he

in-law. He was predeceased by his

University. He was an English

was an attending surgeon. He also

wife of 68 years, Iva.

teacher at Cole Trade, Tantasqua

John V. Phelan Jr., M.D.

Eugene J. Remian

12, 2019, at 95.

John V. “Jack” Phelan Jr., M.D., of

practiced at Manhattan Eye, Ear &

Swampscott, formerly of Lynn,

Throat Hospital for many years, and

Massachusetts, died on Nov.

served as President Richard Nixon’s

28, 2019, at 95. Dr. Phelan also

traveling physician. Dr. Meyers is

George T.

35 years; he also coached baseball,

graduated from Tufts Medical

survived by five children, including

“Tom” Farley

basketball and cross-country. Mr.

School. During World War II, he

Edward P. Meyers ’73, and their

Jr., of Pittsfield,

Remian is survived by many nieces

served in the U.S. Navy, and re-

spouses; 17 grandchildren, including

Massachusetts,

and nephews. He was predeceased

enlisted in the U.S. Air Force during

Kathryn Meyers Gilbert ’04; seven

died on Nov.

by four brothers; and two sisters.

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Regional, Southbridge, Charlton

1949 George T. Farley Jr.

and Shephard Hill Regional high schools, and his career spanned

1950 Marco L. Cornaro

Hon. William J. Luby

Holy Cross and graduated cum

60 years, Mary; and one brother.

Hon. William J.

laude; he later supported the

Marco L. Cornaro,

“Bill” Luby, of

College as a member of the 1843

of Westborough,

Worcester, died

Society and Holy Cross Lawyers

formerly of Easton,

on Oct. 24, 2019,

Association. He enlisted in the

Wilfred J. “Bill”

Massachusetts,

at 92. Mr. Luby

U.S. Air Force, serving during the

Cote Jr., of Bound

died on Nov. 19,

played tennis at Holy Cross and

Korean War, and received his

Brook, New

2019, at 97. Mr. Cornaro studied

later coached tennis at the College.

Doctorate of Juris Prudence from

Jersey, died on

political science at Holy Cross and

He was a U.S. Navy veteran of

Fordham University Law School.

made the dean’s list. He served

World War II. A graduate of Suffolk

He then joined the law firm Teeter,

At Holy Cross, Mr. Cote studied

in the U.S. Army Air Corps during

University Law School, he was a

Harpending, Swartwood, Fox, and

political science and participated

World War II, attaining the rank of

lawyer in Worcester before being

Buck in Elmira, and also served

in cross-country, track and ROTC.

sergeant. He was employed as the

appointed judge to the circuit

as a Chemung County assistant

A U.S. Marine Corps veteran of

chief of building management at the

court and, later, first justice of the

public defender for 28 years. Mr.

the Korean War, he was a member

Veterans Administration Hospital

Central District Court in Worcester.

Danaher is survived by his wife of

of the O’Callahan Society and

in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

In addition to presiding as a judge,

63 years, Elizabeth “Betty”; four

affiliated with Naval ROTC. He

Mr. Cornaro is survived by five

he served on former Gov. King’s

children; two children’s spouses; 14

worked for many years in sales

children; two sons’ wives; one

Task Force on Juvenile Justice

grandchildren, including Daniel M.

for Westinghouse Electrical

brother and his wife; and two

and the District Court Education

McGrath ’09; five grandchildren’s

Corporation and Norelco

grandchildren. He was predeceased

Committee and lectured at the

spouses; five great-grandchildren;

Corporation. He then went to

by his wife, Mary.

Flaschner Judicial Institute in

his twin brother, Hon. William A.

work for the Edison Board of

Boston. He was a member of

Danaher Jr. ’51; and several nieces,

Education as a custodian. Mr.

the Varsity Club and Holy Cross

nephews, cousins and friends. He

Cote is survived by his wife of 66

J. Joseph Gibbons,

Lawyers Association. Mr. Luby is

was predeceased by his infant son;

years, Joan; four children and their

of Scituate,

survived by several cousins. He

and one son-in-law.

spouses; eight grandchildren; and

Massachusetts,

was predeceased by his wife of 56

died on Nov. 12,

years, Margaret “Peg.”

J. Joseph Gibbons

2019, at 92. Mr. Gibbons enlisted in the U.S. Navy

Richard H. McCarthy

1952 Wilfred J. Cote Jr.

Nov. 4, 2019, at 89.

one grandchild’s spouse. He was

Hon. Thomas F. Fallon

predeceased by one sister.

Hon. Thomas F.

John F. Halff

“Tom” Fallon,

and served during World War

Richard H. “Dick”

of Clinton,

John F. Halff, of

II. He then studied education at

McCarthy, of

Massachusetts,

Seattle, died on

Holy Cross and participated in

Larchmont, New

died on Nov.

July 16, 2019,

intramural sports; he earned his

York, died on

21, 2019, at 89. Following his

master’s degree in education from

Oct. 12, 2019, at

graduation from Holy Cross,

at 88. Mr. Halff participated in

Bridgewater State University. A

90. At Holy Cross, Mr. McCarthy

Mr. Fallon served for nearly two

ROTC at Holy Cross; he was a

longtime educator, he taught for

participated in Glee Club and

years in the U.S. Marine Corps in

member of the O’Callahan Society

more than 20 years before serving

swimming; he was a member of the

Korea as commander of Company

and affiliated with Naval ROTC.

as principal at Scituate Junior High

Varsity Club. He earned graduate

C, 1st Marine Division; he later

School until his retirement. Mr.

degrees at New York University

served in the U.S. Marine Corps

Gibbons is survived by two sons,

and Columbia Business School and

Reserves, attaining the rank of

Francis R.

including Joseph A. Gibbons ’86,

went on to a career in commercial

captain. He then earned his Juris

“Frank” Murphy,

and their wives; five grandchildren;

banking, primarily with the

Doctor from the Boston University

of Arlington,

two nephews; and one niece. He

Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.

School of Law and became the

formerly of

was predeceased by his wife of 52

He was also a commander in the

town solicitor for Berlin, Lancaster

years, Mary Frances.

U.S. Coast Guard. Mr. McCarthy is

and Clinton, Massachusetts. Mr.

Waltham, Massachusetts, died

survived by his wife of 63 years,

Fallon was elected to the State

on Nov. 19, 2019. Mr. Murphy

Dorothy; three daughters, one

House of Representatives and

studied English at Holy Cross

Albert E. “Al”

son and their spouses; one sister;

later appointed a judge for the

and graduated cum laude;

Harter, of

and six grandchildren. He was

Clinton District Court. Following

he also played golf and was

Gahanna, Ohio,

predeceased by one sister; and one

his retirement from the bench, he

involved in the WCHC radio

died on Nov. 15,

brother.

maintained a private law practice.

station. He spent most of his

He supported the College as a

career as a systems engineer and

member of the Holy Cross Lawyers

project manager at the MITRE

Association. Mr. Fallon is survived

Corporation. In retirement, he

Albert E. Harter

2019, at 90. Mr. Harter worked for Ohio National Bank for more than 30 years. He

1951 M. Joseph Danaher

Francis R. Murphy

Amesbury and

supported the College as a class

M. Joseph “Joe”

by one son and his wife; one

served as commissioner of the

agent and member of the 1843

Danaher, of

daughter and her husband; one

Massachusetts Board of Library

Society. He is survived by three

Horseheads,

sister-in-law; five grandchildren;

Commissioners. Mr. Murphy

children; two children’s spouses;

formerly of

one granddaughter’s husband;

is survived by his wife, Claire;

seven grandchildren; and many

Elmira, New

one grandson’s wife; six great-

three sons; two daughters;

friends. He was predeceased by his

York, died on Dec. 17, 2019, at 90.

grandchildren; and several nieces.

two daughters-in-law; and his

wife, Harriet; and one son-in-law.

Mr. Danaher studied English at

He was predeceased by his wife of

grandchildren.

IN MEMORIAM / ALUMNI NEWS / 79

IN MEMORIAM Thomas M. Shea, M.D.

the Clune J. Walsh Jr. Scholarship,

residents, receiving numerous

’80, Colleen M. Logan-Young ’90

Thomas M. “Tom”

for Holy Cross students pursuing

awards for his clinical teaching.

and Patrick J. Logan ’97, and their

Shea, M.D., of

a career in life insurance sales and

He also founded Georgetown’s

spouses; 20 grandchildren; one

Hampton, New

marketing. Mr. Walsh is survived

alcohol and substance abuse

sister; one brother, Robert E. Logan

Jersey, died on

by his wife of 15 years, Beverly

clinic. Later, he worked with the

’55, and his wife; and many nieces

Nov. 27, 2019, at

Curtiss; five children and their

Veterans Administration, providing

and nephews, including Maria Pia

88. Dr. Shea participated in ROTC

spouses; one stepson and his

psychiatric services to veterans

Ascenzo-Logan ’80, Shaun T. Logan

at Holy Cross and graduated magna

spouse; 12 grandchildren; one sister

and assisting those with PTSD

’81 and Thomas F. Smith ’89.

cum laude; he was a member of the

and her spouse; his late brother’s

and substance abuse issues. He is

O’Callahan Society and affiliated

spouse; and many friends. He was

survived by his wife of 60 years,

with Naval ROTC. He served as a

predeceased by one sister and her

Nona; four children; and eight

Louis G. Pecek, of

lieutenant in the U.S. Navy aboard

spouse; one brother, Bernard Kirk

grandchildren. His alumni relatives

Cleveland, died on

the USS Tanner and earned his

Walsh ’54; and one stepdaughter.

include his brothers, Thomas G.

Oct. 20, 2019. Mr.

Doctor of Medicine degree in

His alumni relatives also include

Flynn, M.D., ’51 and the late Robert

Pecek graduated

cardiology from the Columbia

his father, the late Clune J. Walsh,

J. Flynn ’58; his nieces, Anne R.

College of Physicians & Surgeons.

class of 1919; and nephew Michael

Ziaja ’78, M. Gemma Cannon ’78

Holy Cross before earning his M.A.

After a short stint in private

S. Berns ’71.

and the late Kathleen P. Reilly ’80;

at John Carroll University and his

and his brother-in-law, the late

Ph.D. at The Ohio State University.

John M. Kallaugher ’49.

An ordained deacon, he was a

practice, he had a long career in corporate medicine, retiring as

John T. Walters, M.D.

Louis G. Pecek

cum laude from

medical director for AT&T and

John T. “Jack”

Telcordia (Bellcore). Dr. Shea is

Walters, M.D.,

survived by four children and their

of Binghamton,

Thaddeus S.

many years, retiring as assistant

spouses; and five grandchildren.

New York, died

“Ted” Kosciuszek,

academic vice president and

He was predeceased by his wife,

on Nov. 13, 2019,

of Littleton,

director of institutional research.

at 89. Dr. Walters graduated cum

Massachusetts,

Mr. Pecek is survived by his wife

laude from Holy Cross and later

died on Oct.

of 62 years, Mary Ann; one son,

Norma.

Richard J. Volungis

Thaddeus S. Kosciuszek

faculty member and administrator at John Carroll University for

supported the College as a member

9, 2019, at 88. Mr. Kosciuszek

three daughters and their spouses;

Richard J.

of the career advisor network; he

studied political science at Holy

six grandchildren; and two

Volungis, of West

also graduated from the University

Cross and then enlisted in the U.S.

grandchildren’s spouses.

Chester, Ohio,

of Buffalo Medical School. He

Army, serving during the Korean

died on Dec. 4,

served for two years at Nellis Air

Conflict. He worked for 25 years

2019, at 89. Mr.

Force Base in Las Vegas, before

as a systems analyst and program

Victor M. “Vic”

Volungis supported the College as a

establishing Cardiology Associates

manager at General Radio (GenRad,

Rimkus Jr.,

member of President’s Council. He

in Binghamton and practicing

now Teradyne). He is survived

of Hudson,

is survived by his wife, Mildred; five

cardiology for 50 years. Dr. Walters

by his wife of 60 years, Alice

Massachusetts,

children; one child’s spouse; and

is survived by two sons; three

“Peg”; two sons, including Paul T.

many nieces, nephews, including

daughters; one daughter’s husband;

Kosciuszek ’84, and their wives; one

2019, at 88. Mr. Rimkus studied

Robert M. Arena ’63, grandnieces

two sons’ wives; one daughter’s

daughter; and four grandchildren.

history at Holy Cross and played

and grandnephews. He was

fiancé; seven grandchildren;

He was predeceased by four

football and hockey. A standout

predeceased by his parents; and

and one brother, Robert F. “Bob”

brothers; and four sisters.

football player and member of the

seven siblings.

Walters ’58, and his wife. He was

Clune J. Walsh Jr. Clune J. Walsh Jr.,

predeceased by his wife of 58 years,

on Nov. 20, 2019,

died on Dec. 3,

Holy Cross Varsity Club Hall of Fame, he supported the College as

Ann; one son; his parents; and one

Arthur J. “Art”

a class agent and member of the

sister.

Logan Jr., D.M.D.,

Varsity Club, Varsity Club Board

of Longmeadow,

and Reunion Gift Committee; he

Massachusetts,

was the recipient of the Philip E.

died on Nov.

O’Connell Memorial Award. He

of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, died

Arthur J. Logan Jr., D.M.D.

Victor M. Rimkus Jr.

1953 William E. Flynn, M.D. William E. “Bill”

19, 2019, at 87. Dr. Logan studied

enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps

studied economics at Holy Cross

or “Doc” Flynn,

biology at Holy Cross and played

as a second lieutenant and served

and played football. He also served

M.D., of Highlands

intramural sports; he later

seven years in the active U.S.

as a CCD teacher and participated

Ranch, Colorado,

supported the College as a member

Marine Reserves, attaining the rank

in the Dramatic Society, Glee Club,

formerly of

of the Reunion Gift Committee. He

of captain. He later taught social

at 91. Mr. Walsh

Sailing Club, WCHC radio station

McLean, Virginia, died on Oct.

graduated from the Tufts University

studies and coached football and

and Purple Patcher. He had a long

4, 2019, at 87. A graduate of

School of Dental Medicine and

tennis for 35 years at Hudson High

career in the life insurance industry.

Georgetown University School

pursued further graduate studies

School; his teams made several

He supported the College as a

of Medicine, Dr. Flynn served as

at the University of Massachusetts

state championship appearances.

member of the 1843 Society, Varsity

a U.S. Navy physician for two

and Boston University; he worked

In earlier years, he was a writer

Club and career advisor network,

years at the height of the Cuban

at his dental practice for almost 50

and photographer with the Hudson

and he served as a class agent and

Missile Crisis. He joined the

years. Dr. Logan is survived by his

News-Enterprise and Worcester

on the Finance Committee. He also

faculty at Georgetown to teach

wife of 62 years, Polly; 10 children,

Telegram & Gazette. Mr. Rimkus

established a longtime endowment,

medical students and psychiatry

including Mark P. Logan, D.M.D.,

is survived by his wife of 64 years,

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Rosemary; six children and

Raymond F. Murphy Jr.

half of the 20th

their spouses, including Andrew

Raymond F.

centuries. As an

J. Rimkus ’82 and Deborah L.

“Ray” Murphy

educator, she

Rimkus ’82; 10 grandchildren;

Jr., of Palm

was dedicated

one sister; eight godchildren; and

Beach, Florida,

to teaching the

many nieces and nephews. He

Providence,

great works of

was predeceased by two sons,

Rhode Island, and Siasconset,

the Western

including Michael V. Rimkus ’79.

Massachusetts, died on Dec. 22,

canon. Her

2019, at 86. Mr. Murphy studied

most popular

English, philosophy, history

seminar at the

and prelaw at Holy Cross; he

College was

Matthew W.

later supported the College as

on German

Cavanaugh,

a member of the 1843 Society,

philosopher

of Auburn,

President’s Council and Holy

Friedrich

formerly

Cross Lawyers Association. He

Nietzsche,

of Dudley,

also graduated from Boston

for whom

Massachusetts, died on Dec. 17,

College Law School and served

she had deep

2019, at 91. After completing

two years in the U.S. Coast Guard

admiration

active duty in the U.S. Navy,

as a yeoman 2nd class. He spent

and critical

Mr. Cavanaugh graduated from

most of his career as a CPA and

distance. A

Holy Cross. He was employed

consultant, and was managing

prolific author,

by Worcester County National

partner of Murphy & Co., an

editor and

Bank in its retail banking

accounting firm founded by his

translator, she

department; he and his late

father; he also served as senior

wrote more

wife also owned and operated

partner of Sullivan & Co. and its

Hvizdos Package Store in East

successor firm Blum Shapiro.

Douglas, Massachusetts. Mr.

Active in the local community, he

Cavanaugh is survived by two

served on the boards of several

daughters; one daughter’s

organizations, and he was an

husband; four grandchildren;

adjunct professor at Boston

one granddaughter’s husband;

College Law School. Mr. Murphy

several siblings and in-laws;

is survived by his wife, Pamelee

and many nieces and nephews,

“Pam”; two daughters; two sons,

including James P. Horan ’81 and

including Patrick M. Murphy ’89;

Sheila C. Cavanaugh ’81. He was

two sons-in-law; one daughter-

predeceased by his wife of 55

in-law; six grandchildren,

years, Nancy; five siblings; and

including Daniel M.S. Murphy

six in-laws.

’18; and Pam’s two children. He

1954 Matthew W. Cavanaugh

Hugh A. Gallagher Sr.

was predeceased by one son; two brothers; and one son-in-law.

Hugh A. Gallagher Sr.,

1955 Paul F. Coveney

than a dozen

holy cross remembers professor emerita of philosophy, 1984-2001

books and was widely published

Hanna BuzcynskaGarewicz

“As a colleague, she was quiet

in academic journals.

and mostly preoccupied with her own teaching and research,” remembers colleague and friend Predrag Cicovacki, professor of philosophy. “As a friend, she

(1932–2019)

H

was loyal and unwavering in her support. As a person, she was so

anna Buzcynska-

modest and humble that despite

Garewicz, of

knowing her for almost 30

Worcester, died on

years, only after her death I fully

Dec. 27, 2019, at 87.

realized how accomplished and widely acclaimed her work was.”

Born in Warsaw, Poland, Professor Buzcynska-Garewicz

“I remember Hanna as

Massachusetts,

Paul F. Coveney,

received her master’s and

one of those extraordinary

died on Sept.

of Watertown,

Ph.D. from Warsaw University.

intellectuals who had to leave

30, 2019, at 87. Mr. Gallagher

formerly of

Prior to joining the Holy Cross

Europe and come to the United

served in the U.S. Army as an

Cambridge,

faculty in 1984, she worked

States in order to escape the

intelligence officer stationed at

Massachusetts,

as an assistant professor at

totalitarianisms that reigned

of Wayland,

the Presidio in San Francisco.

died on Nov. 5, 2019, at 86. At

Warsaw University, a professor

from the 1930s to the late 1980s,”

He went on to a career in

Holy Cross, Mr. Coveney studied

at the Polish Academy of

says James Kee, professor

Honeywell’s computer division

economics and played baseball

Science and Humanities and as

emeritus of English. “I once

that lasted for over 25 years. He is

and hockey; he earned varsity

a distinguished professor at the

asked Hanna about her area of

survived by his wife of 57 years,

letters in both sports and was a

University New Mexico. She also

specialization in philosophy. She

Marilyn; three sons, including

member of the Varsity Club. A

served as a visiting scholar at

replied, ‘But all of it, of course.

Hugh A. Gallagher Jr. ’86; one

dedicated alumnus, he served

Cambridge University, Harvard

Philosophy is one!’ Her students

daughter; one son-in-law; two

the College as a class agent and

University and the Sorbonne.

and colleagues were fortunate to

daughters-in-law; one brother; 10

class chair. He was a member of

grandchildren; and several nieces

President’s Council, the Mutual

Professor Buzcynska-Garewicz

and nephews, including Jenna

Support Network and the

was an expert on European and

C. Gasparrini ’20 and Matthew J.

following College committees:

American philosophy in the

She was predeceased by her hus-

Gasparrini ’20.

Class Reunion, In Hoc Signo and

second half of the 19th and first

band, Jan Garewicz, in 2002. ■

have her with us for as long as we did.”

IN MEMORIAM / ALUMNI NEWS / 81

IN MEMORIAM Reunion Gift. Active in the Holy

Alexander J. Rissolo, D.M.D.

1956 Raymond I. Bruttomesso

software and systems consulting

Cross Club of Boston, Mr. Coveney

Alexander J.

was the recipient of the Matthew

“Alex” Rissolo,

Raymond I. “Ray”

as a financial consultant. He

P. Cavanaugh Award and the Holy

D.M.D., of Norwalk,

Bruttomesso, of

supported the College as a member

Cross Alumni Association’s highest

Connecticut,

Hoschton, Georgia,

of the O’Callahan Society and was

honor, the In Hoc Signo Award,

died on Nov. 24,

died on Nov. 30,

affiliated with Air Force ROTC.

2019, at 85. Mr.

Mr. Kalagher is survived by his

sectors, and in retirement, served

in 1992. He was a Korean Conflict

2019, at 86. Dr. Rissolo studied

U.S. Marine Corps veteran. He is

premed at Holy Cross and later

Bruttomesso graduated from Holy

wife, Mary; five children and their

survived by his wife of 58 years,

graduated from Tufts School of

Cross with a degree in accounting;

spouses; 16 grandchildren; three

Dorothy; one son, Paul F. “Chip”

Dental Medicine. He practiced

he then earned his MBA from the

grandchildren’s spouses; and six

Coveney II ’85, and his wife; one

dentistry in Norwalk for more than

Wharton School of the University

great-grandchildren.

daughter, Denise Coveney Prior ’86;

50 years. He is survived by his

of Pennsylvania and his J.D. from

and five grandchildren.

partner of 12 years, Beverly Buckley;

Boston College Law School. He

three children; two sons’ wives; six

began his career in corporate law

Rufus F. Duff Jr.

1957 Michael A. Burke

grandchildren; one sister and her

and taxation, and later opened a

Michael A. “Mike”

Rufus F. Duff Jr.,

husband; one brother and his wife;

tax and financial planning practice,

Burke, of Cotuit,

of Naples, Florida,

and many other relatives. He was

where he worked with individuals

Massachusetts,

formerly of

predeceased by his wife, Christel.

and small businesses. He also

died on Nov. 12,

Pittsburgh, died on Dec. 8, 2019, at 86.

David J. Splaine Sr.

2019, at 84. Mr.

taught college classes in accounting, management and financial

Burke graduated from Holy Cross

Mr. Duff studied economics at Holy

David J. Splaine Sr.,

planning. He supported the College

with a degree in economics; he later

Cross and participated in ROTC.

of Warwick, Rhode

as an admissions advisor and class

earned his M.S. from Worcester

He later supported the College as a

Island, died on Dec.

agent, and as a member of the 1843

State College (now University),

member of the O’Callahan Society

22, 2019, at 86. Mr.

Society, President’s Council and

M.A.T. from Michigan State

and President’s Council; he was

Splaine studied

Holy Cross Lawyers Association.

University and Ph.D. from Boston

affiliated with Naval ROTC. After

economics at Holy Cross. He later

He served on the Alumni Board

College. He had a long career in

serving with the U.S. Marine Corps,

supported the College as a member

Senate and Board of Advisors,

education, including 10 years

he founded Metalworking Ma-

of the Alumni Executive Committee,

and as Alumni Board director and

in the public schools of Grafton

chinery Corporation, an industrial

and as Alumni Board director and

regional club president; he was a

and Worcester and 28 years at

equipment manufacturer. Mr. Duff

past president of the Rhode Island

member of the Book Prize, Regional

Worcester State, where he served

is survived by his wife of 62 years,

chapter of the Holy Cross Alumni

Clubs Association and Reunion Gift

as a faculty member, professor,

Carolyn; six children, including

Association; he was recognized as

committees. He supported the Holy

health science department head and

Marguerite “Margie” Duff Carley

Crusader of the Year (regional) in

Cross Fund Scholarship, as well

associate academic dean; he retired

’81; seven grandchildren; and many

2008. He was a U.S. Army veteran,

as the football, men’s basketball,

as professor emeritus. He also

friends.

serving in the elite Counter

women’s basketball and men’s ice

served in the Massachusetts Army

Intelligence Corps in Berlin during

hockey programs. Mr. Bruttomesso

National Guard and attained the

the Cold War. He was a business

is survived by his wife of 38 years,

rank of first lieutenant. Mr. Burke

Robert A. “Bob”

executive, beginning his career with

Susan “Susie”; five children and

is survived by three children and

Petrin, D.M.D.,

National Cash Register Company.

their spouses; 16 grandchildren;

their spouses; four grandchildren;

of Biddeford,

He later worked in the petroleum

two brothers and their spouses; and

two brothers; and one sister. He was

Maine, died on

industry, first at Tidewater Oil

several nieces and nephews.

predeceased by his wife of 53 years,

Oct. 27, 2019, at

Company and then at DeBlois

Robert A. Petrin, D.M.D.

John J. Kalagher

Joan.

86. Dr. Petrin studied premed at

Oil Company, where he served as

Holy Cross and attended Tufts

vice president of sales and later as

John J. “Jack”

University School of Dentistry.

president of a DeBlois affiliate. After

Kalagher, of

William Michael

After graduating, he enlisted in

that, he provided private consulting

Rockville,

Dante, of

the U.S. Army and was stationed in

services to retail petroleum

Maryland, died

Alexandria,

Poitiers, France; he was honorably

distributors in New England. Mr.

on Dec. 12, 2019.

Virginia, died on

discharged with the rank of

Splaine is survived by his wife of

Mr. Kalagher studied economics

captain. He cared for patients at

59 years, Dolores; two daughters;

at Holy Cross, graduated cum

Mr. Dante studied physics at

the dental practice he established

one son; one daughter-in-law; one

laude and was a member of Beta

Holy Cross and participated in

in Biddeford for 55 years. Dr. Petrin

son-in-law; five grandchildren; two

Gamma Sigma (business); he

ROTC; he graduated cum laude.

is survived by one son and his

grandchildren-in-law; four great-

was involved in the Knights of

He was a member of the Reunion

companion; four daughters and

grandchildren; and one brother,

Columbus, Purple Patcher and

Gift Committee and O’Callahan

their husbands; six grandchildren;

Maurice J. Splaine Jr. ’57. He was

WCHC radio station. Graduating as

Society; he was affiliated with Naval

one great-grandchild; one

predeceased by one brother, Charles

a U.S. Air Force ROTC cadet from

ROTC. Mr. Dante is survived by

sister-in-law; many nieces and

E. Splaine ’60; one sister; and one

the College, he was commissioned

three siblings; and many nieces

nephews; his companion, Linda

granddaughter. His alumni relatives

an officer in the Air Force and later

and nephews. His alumni relatives

Champagne; and many friends. He

also include his father, the late

earned his MBA from Columbia

include his father, the late Lee F.

was predeceased by his wife of 53

Maurice J. Splaine, class of 1921; and

University. During his career, he

Dante ’33; and his uncle, the late

years, Carole.

nephew Shannon C. Splaine ’95.

founded several companies in the

John H. Dante ’36.

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William Michael Dante

Aug. 16, 2019.

William J. Gleeson

Navy as a member of the Seabees.

brothers-in-law; nine nephews; and

William J. “Bill”

He worked as a manufacturer’s

three nieces.

Gleeson, of Glen

representative in the jewelry

Ridge, New Jersey,

industry and as the building

died on Nov. 21,

manager of the Providence Police

2019, at 83. Mr.

Department. Mr. Dunn is survived

Peter J. Burke,

Cedar Rapids,

Gleeson studied education at Holy

by his wife, Frances; two sons; one

of Newtonville,

Iowa, died on Dec.

Cross; he later earned his master’s

sister; and one brother. His alumni

Massachusetts,

degree in English from Jersey

relatives include nieces Kylee C.

and Little

Roach studied premed at Holy

City State College. He began his

Sullivan ’14 and Emily A. Sullivan

Compton, Rhode

Cross and also graduated from

teaching career in New Jersey

’14.

at Harry Snyder High School in Jersey City, before moving on to Weehawken and Roxbury,

1960 Stephen E. Carney, M.D.

two brothers and their families.

Martin F. Roach, M.D.

1961 Peter J. Burke

Martin F. “Marty” Roach, M.D., of

1, 2019, at 79. Dr.

Island, died on Oct. 30, 2019, at 81.

the Stritch School of Medicine

Mr. Burke studied economics at

at Loyola University Chicago.

Holy Cross. He worked for many

He completed a residency in

years for Clappers in West Newton

orthopedic surgery in the U.S.

and retiring after a brief stint as

Stephen E. “Steve”

and Larchmont Engineering as a

Navy at the Chelsea Naval Hospital

a home instructor in Elizabeth.

Carney, M.D., of

landscape lighting and irrigation

and studied children’s orthopedics

He also taught British literature

McLean, Virginia,

designer. He is survived by his wife

at the James Lawrence Kernan

at St. Peter’s College, Felician

formerly of

of 50 years, Marion; one son and

Hospital in Baltimore. He served

College, Montclair State and

Albany, New York,

his wife; two grandchildren; and

an additional two years in the

one sister and her husband.

U.S. Navy at the Charleston Naval

William Paterson. Mr. Gleeson is

and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida,

survived by four children and their

died on Dec. 14, 2019, at 80. Dr.

spouses; one daughter-in-law;

Carney studied premed at Holy

10 grandchildren; two great-

Cross and also graduated from the

Ralph A. Cipriani,

rank of lieutenant commander.

grandchildren; and one sister and

School of Dentistry at Georgetown

of Stamford,

He then served the communities

her husband. He was predeceased

University; he completed his

Connecticut, died

of Cedar Rapids and Manchester

by his wife, Sally; one son; and one

medical residency at Cornell

on Oct. 27, 2019,

as an orthopedic surgeon for 42

sister.

Medical School. He had an oral-

at 80. Mr. Cipriani

years. Dr. Roach is survived by

Hospital in South Carolina during

Ralph A. Cipriani

the Vietnam War, attaining the

maxillofacial surgery practice in

studied economics at the College

his wife of 52 years, Catherine;

Albany for 25 years. He supported

and was a member of the Holy

four children; two sons-in-law;

Donald S. Pavlick

the College’s football program

Cross Lawyers Association. He is

five grandchildren; one sister; one

Sr., D.D.S., of

and was a member of the 1843

survived by his wife of 56 years,

brother-in-law; and one sister-in-

Wallington, New

Society and President’s Council. Dr.

Carolyn; three sons; two daughters-

law. He was predeceased by his

Jersey, died on

Carney is survived by his wife of 54

in-law; eight grandchildren; two

parents; his parents-in-law; one

Nov. 16, 2019, at

years, Mary Jane; three children,

grandsons-in-law; and one great-

brother; and two brothers-in-law.

84. Dr. Pavlick studied biology at

including Mary Frances McGuiness

grandson.

Holy Cross and participated in the

’91, and their spouses; and three

Outing Club, Biology Society and

grandchildren. He was predeceased

intramural sports; he earned his

by his mother; his father; and his

Doctorate of Dental Surgery from

stepfather.

Donald S. Pavlick Sr., D.D.S.

Fairleigh Dickinson University. He was a dentist in private practice

John J. Sweeney Jr.

Albert G. Senger Jr., D.M.D.

1962 Carl T. Kallina Jr.

Albert G. “Al” Senger Jr., D.M.D.,

Carl T. Kallina Jr.,

of Secaucus,

of Saddlebrooke,

formerly of

Arizona, died on

Ridgewood, New

in Wallington for over 40 years;

John J. Sweeney

he was also the dentist for the

Jr., of Troy, New

Wallington school system for many

York, died on

studied mathematics at Holy Cross

Senger participated in the College

years. Dr. Pavlick is survived by his

Nov. 21, 2019.

and graduated cum laude; he was

Choir, Purple Patcher, Knights

wife, Patricia; two daughters; one

Mr. Sweeney

the recipient of the Rev. William

of Columbus and Big Brother/

May 6, 2019, at

Jersey, died on Dec. 15, 2019, at 79.

78. Mr. Kallina

A biology major at Holy Cross, Dr.

son-in-law; two grandchildren; two

studied English at Holy Cross and

F. Hartigan Medal (religion). He

Big Sister; he later supported

sisters; and one brother. He was

was involved in The Purple; he

was a mathematician who was a

the College as a member of

predeceased by one son; one son-

later supported the College as a

professor at Howard and Hofstra

the career advisor network. He

in-law; and one brother.

member of the 1843 Society and

universities before becoming

graduated from the University of

Holy Cross Lawyers Association.

a mathematician in industry

Pennsylvania Dental School, was

He joined the Merchant Marines

and a pioneer in management

a major in the U.S. Army, serving

and later enlisted in the U.S.

science for Bell Labs, Mobil Oil,

as a dentist during the Vietnam

Edward A.

Marine Corps. He graduated from

American Can and Continental Can

conflict, and served as chief of

“Ed” Dunn, of

St. John’s University School of

companies. Later, he joined his wife

dentistry at Rahway State Prison.

Providence, Rhode

Law and joined his father at the

in operating their Century 21 real

Dr. Senger is survived by two

Island, died on

Sweeney Law Firm. He also served

estate business in Pleasantville,

sisters; one brother-in-law; one

Dec. 16, 2019, at 82.

as an assistant district attorney,

New York. Mr. Kallina is survived

sister-in-law; 12 nephews; and two

Mr. Dunn studied economics and

public defender and member of

by his wife of 55 years, Fay;

nieces. He was predeceased by

business at Holy Cross and played

the Troy City Council. Mr. Sweeney

three children and their families,

his parents; two sisters; and one

hockey. He served in the U.S.

is survived by three sisters; three

including six grandchildren; and

brother.

1959 Edward A. Dunn

IN MEMORIAM / ALUMNI NEWS / 83

IN MEMORIAM Daniel DiCenso ’98, associate professor of music, is also

1963 Ronald J. Panicci

a former-student-turned-

Ronald J.

colleague. “Chris was so much

“Ron” Panicci,

more than an excellent piano

of Brooklyn,

instructor,” he says. “As an

Connecticut,

irrepressible spirit, she served

died on Nov. 9,

faculty and students as a kind

2019, at 78. Mr. Panicci studied

life coach and lifeline. I learned

chemistry at Holy Cross and

so much from Chris about how

later supported the College as

to live life as a good person and

a member of the 1843 Society.

how to be an active, contributing

He was professor emeritus at

participant in one’s community.

Southern Connecticut State

Generous and encouraging to a

University, where he taught for 30

fault — and fiery when necessary

years. He is survived by his wife,

— Chris was a consummate

Loretta (“Lori”); one sister; one

professional, an excellent teacher,

uncle; and many nieces, nephews

an inspiring mentor, an activist

and cousins. He was predeceased

for causes she believed in and an

by his parents.

all-around good human being.”

Jessica Waldoff, professor of

1965 Charles M. Keenan

music, remembers her friend and

Charles M.

colleague as “one of the brightest

“Chuck” Keenan,

lights in the Department of Music

of Indianapolis,

for more than 30 years.”

died on Oct. 20, 2019, at 78. At

holy cross remembers lecturer, piano, 1980-2010

Marian Hanshaw

“Everyone who knew her knew

Holy Cross, Mr. Keenan studied

how much she loved music,

sociology. After graduating, he

teaching and Holy Cross,” Waldoff

joined the Federal Bureau of

says. “She had a big heart, her

Investigation as a special agent,

own very special way of doing

serving in Memphis, Tennessee,

things and she never missed an

and Indianapolis. After leaving

opportunity to make a difference.

the FBI, he founded Keenan &

performed extensively in the

She played the piano with great

Associates, a private investigation

Rochester, New York, area.

warmth, a sense of effortlessness

and security company. He sup-

and an unerring sense of exactly

ported the College as a member

In 1980, she joined the music

how every piece should go.

of the Class Reunion Committee.

faculty at Holy Cross, where she

Her Bach always sounded like

Mr. Keenan is survived by three

taught piano until 2010.

Bach, her Mozart like Mozart,

sons; one daughter; one son’s

her Chopin like Chopin. And she

spouse; five grandchildren; one

(1930–2019)

M

“Chris Hanshaw was an

taught her students to do the

brother, John E. “Jack” Keenan Jr.

arian Christine

incredibly important person to

same. She was a devoted and

’58; one sister; one brother-in-law,

“Chris” Hanshaw

many students at Holy Cross, but

skilled teacher who knew exactly

Patrick A. “Pat” Dietz, M.D., ’66;

of Boylston,

especially to me in my formative

how to inspire and instruct

and numerous nieces, nephews

Massachusetts, died

years as a pianist,” says Matthew

every student, from beginners to

and cousins, including niece

Jaskot ’06, lecturer in the

experienced performers who now

Katherine B. Lambert ’97. He was

College’s Department of Music.

have careers in music! I cherish

predeceased by his wife, M. Carol;

Born in Utica, New York, she

“Her teaching was crucial in my

the memory of working side by

his mother; and his father, John E.

received a Bachelor of Music

development as a musician and

side with Chris for so many years.

Keenan ’33.

degree from Syracuse University

I benefited from her contagious

Her enthusiasm for music and life

and a Master of Music degree

love of music, her meticulous

was infectious and we all loved

from the Eastman School of

attention to detail and her ability

her for it. She was truly one of a

Music, where she was a teaching

to balance work and fun in

kind!”

fellow. She was a member of

lessons. Her lessons were filled

the music faculty at Southwest

with honest and constructive

Professor Hanshaw is survived

Massachusetts,

Missouri State College and a

criticism, but also lots of

by five children; one son-in-law;

died on Oct. 27,

piano soloist with the Syracuse

laughter. She brightened up any

and three grandchildren. She was

Symphony. As a member of the

room she walked into, was truly

predeceased by her husband of

Holy Cross, Mr. Shipley studied

Hanshaw Trio, a core ensemble

an amazing person and will be

65 years, James Barry Hanshaw,

French and was a member of the

for Young Audiences, Inc., she

missed.”

M.D. ■

Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Honor

on Dec. 28, 2019, at 89.

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1966 John W. Shipley John W. Shipley, of Cambridge,

2019, at 75. At

Society. A U.S. Navy veteran of

He later supported the College as

in Greenwich, Connecticut, he

HCAA committees, including

the Vietnam era, he participated

an admissions advisor and class

was a graduate of University of

the following: Alumni Executive,

in ROTC at the College; he was a

agent. He earned his MBA from the

Pennsylvania School of Dental

Budget & Finance, Class Reunion,

member of the O’Callahan Society

Wharton School of the University

Medicine and Case Western Reserve,

Community Outreach, Continuing

and affiliated with Naval ROTC. He

of Pennsylvania and had a 33-year

where he received a master’s degree

Education and Spirituality. A Knight

also supported the College as an

career in finance with the Siemens

in periodontics. He also served as

of the Holy Sepulchre, Mr. O’Connell

admissions advisor and class agent.

AG Corporation of Iselin. He is

a dentist in the U.S. Army at Fort

was the recipient of several College

Mr. Shipley worked as a camera

survived by his wife of 45 years,

Bragg. Dr. Mara is survived by his

awards, including Crusader of the

operator at WGBH in the 1970s.

Kathy; three sons and their wives;

wife, Suzan; three daughters and

Year (regional), the George B. Moran

He is survived by one son and his

two brothers; one sister; one

their spouses; eight grandchildren;

Award and the HCAA’s highest honor,

wife; two grandchildren; his late

brother’s wife; one sister’s partner;

two sisters; one brother; and nieces

the In Hoc Signo Award, in 2013. He

sister’s husband; his former wife; and

and seven grandchildren.

and nephews. He was predeceased

is survived by many cousins.

several nieces and nephews.

1967 Joseph J. Tepas III, M.D.

by his mother; and his father,

1970 John F. Leonard John F. “Jack”

1973 Jeffrey J. Whorton

William P. Mara Sr. ’40.

1971 Brian A. O’Connell

Jeffrey J. Whorton,

Joseph J. Tepas

Leonard, of

III, M.D., of

Woolwich, Maine,

Brian A. O’Connell,

Massachusetts,

Jacksonville,

died on Dec. 6,

of Worcester,

died on Oct. 22,

Florida, died on

2019. Mr. Leonard

died on Oct. 18,

Dec. 20, 2019, at

studied political science at Holy

of Auburn,

2019, at 69. At

2019, at 70. At

Holy Cross, Mr. Whorton studied

Holy Cross, Mr.

sociology. He later worked in

73. Dr. Tepas studied premed at

Cross and played football; he also

Holy Cross and played lacrosse;

participated in Student Programs

O’Connell studied English, history

human resources, starting at

he later supported the College as

for Urban Development (SPUD). He

and French. A member of the Honors

UMASS Memorial Medical Center

a member of the career advisor

later supported the College as an

Program and Alpha Sigma Nu

– Memorial Campus, and most

network, Varsity Club and Class

admissions advisor and member

Jesuit Honor Society, he graduated

recently working as director of

Reunion Gift Committee. He also

of the career advisor network and

cum laude. He was involved in the

HR at Noble Hospital in Westfield,

graduated from Georgetown Medical

Varsity Club. He was accepted to the

following student activities: Cross

Massachusetts. He is survived by his

School and was board certified in

U.S. Navy Aviation Officer Candidate

& Scroll Society, Freshman Class

wife, Sharon; one son and his wife;

general surgery, pediatric surgery

School in Pensacola, Florida, and

Officer, House Council, Knights of

one daughter and her husband; and

and critical care. A respected lecturer

became a pilot, flying the P3 Orion;

Columbus, Student Advisory Council,

two grandsons. He was predeceased

and author of hundreds of academic

he was a plane commander in VP-11

Student Government Association,

by his parents; and one brother.

articles, he practiced at UF Health

and VP-92. He also taught at the

St. Thomas More Society, Student

Science Center Jacksonville and

Newport Education and Training

Congress and Worcester House (day

Wolfson Children’s Hospital. Dr.

Center in Newport, Rhode Island;

students). Mr. O’Connell graduated

Tepas also helped develop the first

he served in the U.S. Navy for 26

from Harvard Law School and

Bernard J. Conlin,

regional trauma system for the state

years, retiring as commander. He

practiced law in Worcester. For 36

of Northborough,

of Florida and guided the process

then worked as a consultant for

years, he served as a member of

Massachusetts,

for designating Wolfson Children’s

KPMG and received his MBA at

the Worcester School Committee,

died on Dec. 5,

Hospital as a pediatric trauma

Bryant University. He later worked

dedicating the majority of his

center. He was a member of the

in manufacturing before building

life to the improvement of public

Conlin studied history at Holy Cross

U.S. Navy Medical Corps, providing

a career in financial services with

education in the city. His interest

and later supported the College as

pediatric surgical support to NAS

Northeast Planning Associates in

in the value of quality education

a class agent and member of the

Jacksonville and retiring as captain.

Maine. Mr. Leonard is survived

went beyond the Worcester Public

Holy Cross Lawyers Association.

Dr. Tepas is survived by his wife of

by his wife of nearly 50 years,

Schools; he actively participated in

He also graduated from Suffolk

48 years, Jean; three children and

Margaret “Maggie”; two daughters,

the Massachusetts Association of

University School of Law and had

their spouses; seven grandchildren;

including Martha Delay ’93, and

School Committees and played a

a law career in Worcester for more

one brother, Kevin M. Tepas ’69, one

their husbands; one son; and four

role in the passage of the state’s 1993

than 40 years. Mr. Conlin is survived

sister and their spouses; and many

grandchildren.

Education Reform Act. A devoted

by his spouse of 31 years, Clifford

Holy Cross alumnus, Mr. O’Connell

Vera; his mother; one sister and her

served as a young alumni trustee,

husband, Richard J. Maguire ’73;

William P. “Bill”

Alumni Board director, class agent

two brothers, including Walter M.

Mara Jr., D.M.D.,

and reunion gift chair. He was past

Conlin Jr. ’80; one brother’s wife; one

Thomas J. “Tom”

of Stamford,

president of the Holy Cross Alumni

brother’s spouse; and several nieces

McGeough, of

Connecticut, died

Association (HCAA) and on the

and nephews, including Charles F.

Chatham, New

on Oct. 5, 2019. At

board of the Holy Cross Club of

Maguire ’08. He was predeceased by

nieces and nephews.

1968 Thomas J. McGeough

William P. Mara Jr., D.M.D.

1974 Bernard J. Conlin

2019, at 66. Mr.

Jersey, died on

Holy Cross, Dr. Mara studied history

Greater Worcester. A member of the

his father, Walter M. Conlin ’44. His

Nov. 8, 2019, at

and predental; he was a recipient

Holy Cross Lawyers Association

alumni relatives also include cousins

72. At Holy Cross, Mr. McGeough

of the Book Prize. He also played

and Alumni Board Senate, he also

Martha Strom ’87 and Francis W.

studied political science and

soccer and was a member of the

supported the men’s basketball

Conlin Jr. ’80; and his uncle, the late

participated in intramural sports.

Varsity Club. A longtime periodontist

program. He served on numerous

Rev. Bernard J. Conlin ’35.

IN MEMORIAM / ALUMNI NEWS / 85

IN MEMORIAM 1975 James R. Graziano

1981 Timothy B. Gassert

James R. “Jim”

Timothy B.

Graziano,

“Tim” Gassert,

of Canton,

of Hingham,

Massachusetts,

Massachusetts, and

died on Nov. 26,

Wilmette, Illinois,

their spouses; and five nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by

1992 Robert R. Kraeger Robert R. “Rob”

his father.

Kraeger, of St.

1984 Robert C. Oswald

Louis, died on Nov. 26, 2019, at

Robert C. “Bob”

49. Mr. Kraeger

2019, at 66. Mr. Graziano studied

died on Dec. 15, 2019, at 60. Mr.

Oswald, of

studied Spanish and premed at Holy

political science at Holy Cross, and

Gassert studied political science at

Collinsville

Cross. Following his graduation,

later supported the College as a

Holy Cross and also graduated from

(Canton),

he joined Center Oil, where he

member of the Holy Cross Lawyers

Loyola University Law School. He

Connecticut, died

worked for 27 years, most recently

Association and Parents for Class

began his career in public service

on Dec. 17, 2019, at 57. Mr. Oswald

serving as president. He is survived

of 2009. He also graduated from

at the office of the Massachusetts

studied English at Holy Cross

by his wife, Molly; four children;

Suffolk Law School and worked at

Secretary of State. He later

and graduated cum laude; he also

his parents and their spouses; four

his private general law practice in

worked at Unisys Corporation and

participated in Jazz Band. He later

sisters, including Trisha Cheney ’98,

Milford, Massachusetts, for many

Community Newspaper Company,

supported the College as a member

and their spouses; his mother- and

years. Mr. Graziano is survived

before becoming the director of

of the career advisor network and

father-in-law; and many relatives

by his wife, Mary; two sons; one

web communications and corporate

Holy Cross Leadership Council

and friends, including cousins

daughter, Martha A. Graziano ’09;

secretary at The Boston Foundation.

of New York. He earned a music

Kristin M. Dembowski ’91 and

one daughter-in-law; one sister;

He supported the College as a

degree from Central Connecticut

Martha Kraeger Kalen ’97.

and one brother.

member of the Holy Cross Lawyers

State University and worked as a

Association and Parents for Class

life insurance underwriting officer

of 2007. Mr. Gassert is survived by

at Prudential Financial; he also

1980 John H. McGovern

1995 Scott V. Duffy

his wife of 38 years, Mary Anne ’81;

played in several local jazz, rock

Scott V. Duffy,

John H. “Jack”

three daughters, including Maureen

and funk music groups. Mr. Oswald

of Weston,

McGovern, of

E. Lamb ’07, and their spouses; four

is survived by his wife, Kristina;

Connecticut, died

Emerson, formerly

grandchildren; four siblings; his

two daughters; his mother; three

on Oct. 25, 2019,

of Oradell, New

mother-in-law; and many nieces,

brothers and their spouses; one

Jersey, died on

nephews and extended family. He

brother-in-law and his spouse; two

studied economics at Holy Cross

Oct. 4, 2019, at 61. Mr. McGovern

was predeceased by his parents; one

sisters-in-law; his mother-in-law;

and received his MBA from the

studied economics at the College.

sister; and his father-in-law.

his father’s wife; and many nieces,

Stern School of Business at NYU.

nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins.

He started his career at Goldman

He was predeceased by his father;

Sachs in New York City and then

and his father-in-law.

spent 10 years at Bank of America,

He also participated in track and played football; he was a recipient of the Davitt Award and a member

1982 Gregory E. Sullivan

at 46. Mr. Duffy

of the Varsity Club and Holy Cross

Gregory E.

Varsity Club Hall of Fame. He ran

“Greg” Sullivan,

the family business, G.T. McGovern

of Hartsdale,

& Sons Trucking and Warehouse

New York, died

Kathleen

global head of structured crude.

Co. Inc., with several of his brothers

on Oct. 20, 2019,

(Marshall) “Kate”

Most recently, he worked as head

Merrill Lynch, where he was

1990 Kathleen Stone Harrington

managing director and global head of oil trading and subsequently

and cousins, before taking on the

at 59. At Holy Cross, Mr. Sullivan

Stone Harrington,

of commodities and trade at the

role of athletic director at Bergen

studied economics/accounting and

of West Springfield,

Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Catholic High School in Oradell.

later earned his MBA from SUNY

Massachusetts,

He was the co-founder of the

Mr. McGovern supported Holy

Oswego. A lifelong accountant,

died on Oct. 18, 2019, at 51. Mrs.

nonprofit SoldierStrong, whose

Cross as a Parent of Football and

his most recent position was

Harrington studied political

mission is “to help American service

a member of Parents for Class of

director of Fiscal Operations at

science at Holy Cross and earned

men, women and veterans take their

2014. He is survived by his wife of

SUNY Westchester Community

her law degree from Western New

next steps forward either on the

32 years, Ann; four children; his

College. Mr. Sullivan served as

England College. She worked for

battlefield or as they transition into

mother; eight siblings, including

a captain in the U.S. Air Force.

Massachusetts’ Department of

civilian life.” Mr. Duffy is survived

Thomas J. McGovern ’78, William

He supported Holy Cross as a

Children and Families and was an

by his wife, Meredith “Merri”; four

E. McGovern ’85, Maj. Robert

member of the Alumni Board

advocate for the rights of children.

children; his parents; two brothers;

P. McGovern ’89 and Patricia

Senate and the Nominations &

Active in the community, she

one sister; one brother’s wife; one

McGovern Hill ’82, and their

Elections Committee; he also

served on numerous boards and

sister’s husband; and several nieces

spouses, including Peter J. Hill

served as Alumni Board director

committees in West Springfield;

and nephews.

’82; Ann’s seven brothers and

and regional club president. An

she also supported Holy Cross as

their families; and 39 nieces and

enthusiast of improv, he established

a class agent and a member of the

nephews, including Lindsay T. Hill

and performed in his own troupe

Holy Cross Lawyers Association.

’12 and Timothy R. McGovern ’11.

and taught the art of improv in

Mrs. Harrington is survived by her

Grace M. Rett,

He was predeceased by his father.

New York City as well as published

husband, Brian K. Harrington ’90;

of Uxbridge,

His alumni relatives also include

several books on the subject. Mr.

three sons; her biological father; her

Massachusetts,

his uncle, Rev. Earle L. Markey,

Sullivan is survived by his mother;

father; seven aunts and uncles; and

died on Jan. 15,

S.J., ’53.

one daughter; two sisters and

four cousins.

2020, at 20. At

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L. Dorgan 54; Richard Fitzgerald,

psychology, and gender, sexuality and

father of Roseann Fitzgerald ’78 of

women’s studies; she was a resident

advancement; Ellen Flynn, wife of

assistant, gave campus tours for

the late Richard Flynn ’47; Richard

the Office of Admissions and was a

A. Hurley III 60; Robert J. Jefferson

member of the women’s varsity rowing

51; Edith Lidestri, mother of Susan

team. Ms. Rett participated in weekly

Lidestri Sullivan ’82 and grandmother

athlete Bible study, liturgical choir and

of Robert Sullivan ’20; Rev. John R.

club women’s basketball. In December

Lizio 53; Florence McKenna, mother of

2019, she set a world record for her

David McKenna of auxiliary services;

age group when she completed 62

Claire McQueeny, wife of Stephen

hours and 3 seconds of continuous

McQueeny ’63; William F. Murphy,

indoor rowing. She is survived by her

father of Molly Murphy ’22; William J.

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Nevins 55; Gurlie Perron, mother of

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mother of Shirley Childs Kelly ’83,

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’85, Ann Rehm Pulver P21 (Scott) and

’82, grandmother of Erin Banta ’09 and

Jack D. Rehm Jr. ’88, mother-in-law

Megan B. Kelly ’11, and grandmother-

of Kathleen Millard Rehm ’89 and

in-law of Toby Banta ’08; Alphonse

grandmother of Jack D. Rehm III ’16,

G. Condon Jr. 56; Nina Hughes

Christopher S. Rehm ’18, Anna F. Rehm

Delaney, wife of Frank Delaney,

’20, William M. Rehm ’22 and Redmond

formerly of financial aid; Rev. Gerard

S. Pulver ’21.

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EXAMINE

Lost and Found: The Septuagenarian Dating Game

BY BILL BORST ’65

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am an old man, getting older every day. I seem to be in good shape for someone who celebrated his “independence birthday” last September, except for a mild case of rigor mortis — albeit a premature one.

When I look into the mirror, I don’t see an old man; in my eyes I see a soul that is still young at heart. I even tried to join my church’s youth group after my wife of 50 years, Judy, died in 2016. I think

I still have the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old, fearful of puberty with its attendant pimples and … dating.

This fear became a reality after Judy’s death.

Loneliness had become the bane of my existence, so I took the dating plunge into the potentially frigid waters of rejection.

Yes, I would play the dating game that I hated as a teen. Being alone was never an option for me, I missed being part of a couple. I was no longer part of a we, an us or a them. It was always “Judy and Bill”; now it was just me. Judy knew I could never live alone. Like President Woodrow Wilson, whom a biographer once called uxorious, I loved being a husband for the companionship, the

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sharing, the banter and having someone listen to my myriad stories and corny jokes. My name, William, means “protector.” I needed someone to care for, comfort and help in time of need. I was a husband and that’s what we do.

I dated a widow whom I’d known for years, but our relationship would never move beyond friendship as she was still married in her heart to her deceased husband. Then there was a woman I sat behind at church; I spent the entire Mass contorting my neck to see if she was wearing a wedding ring. But she was consumed by work and travel, and her first marriage had not been annulled.

Dating as a vintage Catholic was more different than anything I could have imagined. I was amazed by the fact that so many widows I knew, who had

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been alone for many years, had no interest in remarrying. That thought was unfathomable to me. This time I knew more the kind of woman I wanted to marry. The tensions in a first marriage, especially with a child conceived weeks after the ceremony, makes you grow up faster. Responsibility and sacrifice too often replace fun, laughter and travel for much of your early days.

And, more importantly, what I had not realized before was that Judy was the glue that held our fragile family together.

She was the focal point of all ceremonies and took a commanding lead in all birthdays and holidays. Without her, all the king’s men could never make us whole again.

Eventually I was back at the Carmelite monastery, where I literally begged Our

Lady to send me someone. And soon my search ended with my Annie. We met the old-fashioned way: a blind date. I knew the first moment I saw her from across the crowded room that she was The One. Anna Maria was seven months my junior, with a very sharp Sicilian accent, compounded by my inability to hear or understand her. I just stared at her face all evening. On the way out, we hugged good night, while still in the restaurant.

“You fit so good!” I said. She smiled. “I have this sudden urge to kiss you right here,” I added. “Not here!” she answered.

We soon had our first official date and I then asked for another. I wanted to take her to a steakhouse, but she asked to reschedule as she had just had gum surgery. The following day I stopped by her house, bringing her lunch and dinner: yogurt. I spent five hours with

her that afternoon, and from that glorious yogurt “date” we were nearly inseparable. We were engaged a few months later and married on Epiphany 2018.

Now we laugh all the time. Sure, we have many more aches and pains, but they seem more bearable with someone else there. My mother always told me when a man marries, he has to go with her family. Fortunately for me, Anna’s has accepted me with open arms when I was most vulnerable. Maybe all this underscores the lyrics Bing Crosby used to croon: “Love is lovelier the second time around.” It sure has been for me. ■

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