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Cover: Our cover illustration was done by Deborah Roberts Kirk.Rear Cover: The drawing on the refrigerator is the work of Adam

Carskaddan, age 5, son of Barb Dean, president’soffice, and Gary Carskaddan, assistant dean/director ofresidence and off-campus life. Adam is pictured leftwith his parents and sister, Paige.

12The ChangingFace of FamilyQ & A with ProfessorEdward Thompson

16Special NeedsUnconditional LoveAs a scholar and as a father, BobNaseef ’70 reaches out to otherparents of children with specialneeds.

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Features

News from the Hill 3Media Mentions 4Up Front 8Advancement 42Athletics 50GAA 55Book Notes 56

By the Numbers 56Class Notes 58In Memoriam 65Road Signs 70Letters to the Editor 71Calendar of Events 73

Departments

22A Different Path to ParenthoodThrough adoption, Maura Walsh-O’Brien ’81 and her husband, A.J., formed the family they always wanted.

28At Homewith DadSteve Lagasse ’81dropped out of therat race to be a stay-at-home dad. Thechange in his lifehas been powerfuland enlightening.

33An Advocate forthe FamilyQ & A with Professor Ann Bookman

37Where are They Now? Keeping upwith Terri PriestSecluded within Worcester’s historic Heywood Building isthe studio of local artist and former Holy Cross professor,Terri Priest.

Why a “Family” issue? There are a number of answers.

The first is that Holy Cross has along tradition of calling itself a fami-ly. According to sociology ProfessorEd Thompson (see article on page 12 ),this is an appropriate use of the word.If one definition of family involves asense of belonging and a shared set ofgoals and beliefs, then Holy Crossqualifies. And if you think of our ten-dency to intermarry, attend reunionsand send our children to Alma Mater,the idea of the College as an ever-grow-ing extended family feels correct.

Out in the larger world, the notionof “family”—what it was, what it is, what it’s becom-ing—is a much-discussed topic. On my desk is anoth-er Wall Street Journal article on family-friendly compa-nies. It sits atop the latest Newsweek, which featuresSusan Faludi’s recent book on men and their new rolein society and in the life of the family. Were I to walkdownstairs to the cafeteria right now and eavesdrop onthe lunch table conversations of my colleagues, I’mfairly certain I’d hear a dozen different juggling scenar-ios; stories involving child care recommendations,elder-care dilemmas, parent-teacher conferences, soc-cer practices, and dance recitals.

As the baby boomers find themselves in the thickof mid-life, the questions of what constitutes a familyand of how to sustain a family, become preeminent ina world that appears more fragmented all the time.And as our culture careens toward the millennium,our answers to those questions become more complex.

The articles in this issue are windows onto somefamilies of the 1990s. We look at how one family wasbuilt through adoption and how another has copedand grown with the challenges of a special needs child.We visit with a stay-at-home dad and talk with ourresident expert on the Family Medical Leave Act. Andinterwoven through all of these pieces, we’ve printedthe drawings of some children of the Holy Cross fami-ly—representations of how kids view their own clans.

After months of reading, editing and proofing thesearticles, in the end it is the children’s drawings I keepcoming back to. Clearly, these artists have little needof our definitions. They may or may not be budding

Rembrandts,but they’ve all found their subject. With the

minimalist’s pencil sketch, the vibrant colors of neonmarkers, or the reliable Crayola, they’ve depicted thepeople who give them a sense of love, of belonging, ofconnection.

Yes, today’s families are stressed, rushed, pulled in ahundred different directions at once. (When I naggedour president—the first Holy Cross president to havechildren—for his “Road Signs” essay (see page 70), hesent the piece to me with an attached note: Sorry thisis late, I have family … Classic Vellaccio humor and,for many of us, easy to relate to.) But the shared joysand sorrows and needs that bind family memberstogether have not been dismantled by the changes ofthe last half-century.

There’s a good chance you’re reading this at the endof a long workday. Maybe you’ve already checked thehomework, wrestled the kids into pajamas, read MikeMulligan and his Steam Shovel for the hundredth time,and fetched that last glass of water before sleep. Butbefore you make tomorrow’s lunches or return thecalls on the answering machine or tackle a load ofoverdue laundry, take a look at the children’s drawings.It won’t make tomorrow any smoother. But it mightgive you a smile before you turn in.

Jack O’Connell ’[email protected]

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Letter from the Editor

Claire O’Connell, age 7

This fall, 10 new members of thefaculty have been hired withtenure track status. They are:

Jeffrey Bloechl, one of the fourEdward Bennett Williams Fellows,earned his Ph.D. from K.U. Leuven inBelgium. He will join the philosophydepartment as an assistant professor atHoly Cross in the second semester afterhe completes a four-year postdoctoralresearch appointment with the BelgianNational Fund for Scientific Research. InOctober, he will deliver a lecture entitled“Access to God in Moral Conscience?Marginal Notes on the Renewal ofDivine Command Ethics” at the College.

Miguel Ángel Cabañas, a Ph.D. can-didate at the University of Connecticut,joined the department of modern lan-guages and literatures as an instructor ofSpanish. He received his Licenciatura enFilología Inglesa from the Universidad deSalamanca in Spain.

Loren R. Cass, a Ph.D. candidate atBrandeis University, is an instructor inthe political science department. He was

an adjunct lecturer in the political sci-ence department at Brandeis Universityfrom 1997-99.

Daniel M. Goldstein, an assistantprofessor in the sociology and anthropol-ogy department, received his Ph.D. fromthe University of Arizona. Before comingto Holy Cross, he was a visiting assistantprofessor at Miami University in Ohio.

Mark Hallahan, an assistant profes-sor in the psychology department,received his Ph.D. from HarvardUniversity. He was an assistant professorat Clemson University (S.C.) from1996-99 and a lecturer at HarvardUniversity from 1995-96.

E. Michael Papio, an assistant pro-fessor of Italian in the department ofmodern languages and literatures, earnedhis Ph.D. from Brown University. Hereceived his master of arts degree inItalian studies from the University ofVirginia.

Timothy M. Roach, an assistant pro-fessor in the physics department,received his Ph.D. from Yale University.

He recently completed a postdoctoralfellowship at Harvard University.

Maria Guadalupe Moog Rodrigues,an assistant professor in the political sci-ence department, earned her Ph.D. fromBoston University. She served as anadjunct professor at Boston University,Tufts University, and the UniversidadeCandido Mendes, Brazil, prior to joiningthe faculty at Holy Cross.

Chase C. Smith, an assistant profes-sor in the chemistry department,received his Ph.D. from Florida StateUniversity. After earning his doctorate,he served as both an assistant and associ-ate professor of chemistry at OhioNorthern University.

Emma Tahmiziàn, a pianist, is anassistant professor in the music depart-ment. She received her master of musicdegree from The Juilliard School andwas the Artist-in-Residence at theUniversity of Virginia from 1994-95.

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News from the Hill

New tenure-track faculty hired

Back row (left to right): Loren Cass, MiguelÁngel Cabañas. Front row (left to right): MariaGuadalupe Moog Rodrigues, E. MichaelPapio, Emma Tahmiziàn, Mark Hallahan.

The Board of Trustees voted at its May 1 meeting tochange Stephen C. Ainlay’s title to Vice President forAcademic Affairs/Dean of the College, effective July 1.Ainlay, who joined the anthropology and sociology

department as an assistant profes-sor in 1982, earned his Ph.D.from Rutgers (N.J.) University.He was promoted to associate pro-fessor with tenure in 1987, andnamed a professor and director ofthe Center for Interdisciplinaryand Special Studies (CISS) in1993. Ainlay was appointed Deanof the College in 1996.

“This change was made by theTrustees in recognition of the crit-ical role Steve has and will play inthe management of the academicside of the house and to bringconsistency to the titles used forthe heads of the different divisionsof the College,” said ActingPresident Frank Vellaccio. “It alsogives me the opportunity to thank Steve for his hard work, creativityand many accomplishments as Dean.”


Ainlay AppointedVice President forAcademic Affairs

New science wing nears completion

Construction contin-ued throughout thesummer on the

12,000-square-foot additionto O’Neil Hall. The newwing, which will provideadditional classrooms, labo-ratories and office space, isscheduled to open byDecember. In addition tothe new construction, theoriginal building underwenta full-scale renovation thatwas completed in lateAugust.

■ Passengers on Trans World Airlines (TWA)read about Holy Cross in the September issueof the airline’s Ambassador Magazine. Anarticle about fall foliage at several NewEngland colleges included photos and briefdescriptions of Holy Cross, Bates College,Mount Holyoke College, Colby College,Middlebury College, Smith College,Wesleyan University and Babson College.

■ Kiplinger’s Private Colleges Worth the Price(September 1999) placed Holy Cross in thecompany of Princeton, University of Chicagoand Claremont McKenna College for institu-tions that are a good value because of howlong it takes for students to graduate. Thesecolleges and universities stand out for gradu-ating 90 percent of students in four years.

■ Kaplan/Newsweek College Catalog 2000includes the results of a survey of high schoolguidance counselors queried about thenation’s best colleges and universities. HolyCross was highlighted in the following cate-gories: schools for the academically competi-tive student, schools that are “hidden treas-ures,” and schools providing a good liberalarts education.

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The Holy Crosswomen’s crewteam finishedits best season

ever by traveling toEngland to compete at theWomen’s Henley Regattathis past June. The teamended its regular season,finishing second overall atthe ChampionInternational Regatta, gar-nering gold, silver andbronze medals in the varsi-ty events. In addition,Patrick Diggins was votedWomen’s Coach of the Yearby the New EnglandRowing Coaches.

Following the HenleyRegatta, the women trav-eled to Mykonos andAthens, Greece, to recuper-ate from their yearlong effort. Nicolasand Barbara Vernicos, the parents ofAlexia ’01, hosted the team at theirhome for an evening reception. Amongthe guests were Holy Cross students liv-ing in Greece, recently accepted stu-dents, members of the Athens academiccommunity, and friends. The group was

treated to a private tour at the AncientAgora at the Acropolis in Athens bydirector of excavations, Professor JohnCamp of the American School ofClassical Studies. Following its visit tothe Agora, the team met privately withUnited States Ambassador to Greece,Nicholas Burns, at the U.S. Embassy.


Women’s crew team competes in England, travels to Greece

Bottom row: Yazmin Esteve ’01, ChristineHenwood ’99, Amanda Lawler ’99, PatrickDiggins ’86, Nicolas Vernicos P ’01,Thomas Flynn ’85, Rosemary Shea ’87,Andrea Sicuso ’01, Madeline Champou ’02.Top row: Sarah Tyler ’01, Erin Boyd ’99,Kristen Diggins ’90, Julie Murphy ’99, KateMoloney ’00, Eileen Donnelly ’01.

Sylvia Gomes, after winning theMiss Connecticut Pageant thisspring, advanced to the Miss

America Pageant, held on Sept. 18 inAtlantic City, N.J. She was one of thetop 10 finalists. Gomes, who is study-ing art history at Holy Cross, is one ofthe Dana Scholars, an honor given to

students of outstanding academic abili-ty, strong character and leadership.Stressing the importance of peer men-toring in her platform for the pageant,she says that community service hasalways been an important part of herlife.

Sylvia Gomes ’01 one of the top 10 finalists atthe Miss America Pageant

In BriefCunningham named associate directorfor Concentrations in CISS

Professor Susan Cunningham has been appointed associatedirector for Concentrations in the Center for

Interdisciplinary and Special Studies. Cunningham served asvisiting assistant professor in the department of sociology andanthropology last year. She received her Ph.D. in sociologyfrom the University of Maryland in 1986 and was a postdoc-toral fellow at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies atBrown University. A researcher in the areas of family violenceand child abuse, Cunningham brings 20 years of teachingexperience to her new position.

Hoffmann named Marlon Professor in theSciences

Professor George Hoffmann, chair of the department ofbiology, has been named The Anthony and Renee Marlon

Professor in the Sciences. The four-year professorship began atthe start of the 1999-2000 academic year. Hoffmann receivedhis Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in 1972 andserved as a National Institute of Health postdoctoral fellow, ageneticist for The Environmental Mutagenesis Laboratory ofThe National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, andas a senior staff officer for the Board of Toxicology andEnvironmental Hazards of The National Academy of Sciences.A specialist in the area of genetics, genetic toxicology andmutagenesis, Hoffmann is the author of more than 50 articles,reviews and book chapters. He has taught at Holy Cross since1981.

The Marlon Professorship is supported by Anthony M.Marlon Jr., M.D.,’63 and his wife, Renee.

“America’s Best Colleges” as ranked byU.S. News & World ReportTop National Liberal Arts Colleges(schools with the same numbered rank are tied)

1. Swarthmore College2. Amherst College3. Williams College4. Wellesley College5. Haverford College5. Middlebury College7. Pomona College8. Carleton College9. Bowdoin College

10. Wesleyan University11. Davidson College11. Grinnell College13. Smith College14. Claremont McKenna College14. Washington and Lee University16. Mount Holyoke College17. Vassar College18. Bryn Mawr College18. Colby College18. Colgate University18. Hamilton College22. Trinity College23. Bates College24. Macalester College25. Barnard College25. Colorado College25. Connecticut College25. Oberlin College25. University of the South30. College of the Holy Cross30. Bucknell University

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The AmericanInstitute of CertifiedPublic Accountants

(AICPA) has appointedNancy Baldiga, an associateprofessor in the economicsdepartment at Holy Cross, tothe Women and Family IssuesExecutive Committee. Thiscommittee, which is one ofjust a few executive levelnational committees of theAICPA, works to addressissues related to the balance

of work and life in theaccounting profession.

Baldiga, a member of theHoly Cross faculty since1993, received a bachelor’sdegree from WilliamsCollege, and a master’s degreein taxation from BentleyCollege. A certified publicaccountant, she worked atPrice Waterhouse (nowPricewaterhouseCoopers)before coming to Holy Cross.

Professor Baldiga to serve on AICPA Committee



College Sets New Policy on Tailgating

Q. What is the purpose of the new tail-gating policy?

A. First, the policy is intended to cur-tail excessive drinking, with particu-lar concern about underage students.Seventy-five percent of our studentsare under the legal drinking age of21. We are working to create a safeenvironment for alumni, studentsand friends who want to socialize ata tailgate before a football game. Noone enjoys a Holy Cross tailgate ona beautiful autumn day more than Ido. We want it to be a positive andhealthy experience for all.

Q. Why is the policy being imple-mented at this time?

A. As you know, colleges and universi-ties throughout the country areaddressing the problems and conse-quences of underage drinking. Wewill not turn a blind eye to thisproblem at Holy Cross. In 1996 theHoly Cross Presidential Task Forceon Alcohol made recommendationsabout ways to change the environ-ment on campus to reduce the nega-tive effects of alcohol abuse. Lastyear, the College Advisory Board onAlcohol recommended this tailgat-ing policy as one component of anoverall approach to addressing alco-hol abuse. I accepted the recommen-dations; implementation of the poli-cy began this fall.

Q. How does this policy work?A. I want to emphasize that the long-

standing Holy Cross tradition oftailgating continues. We are reallystressing a return to the original pur-pose of tailgating – getting togetherwith friends, family and classmatesbefore a game.

If people are interested in just tail-gating and not attending the game,

they can choose a beautiful parksomewhere for a reunion withfriends. Tailgating is really just aprelude to entering the stadium forthe game to support our footballteam.

The specifics of the policy are:Freshmen Field and the BaseballField are open for tailgating threehours prior to kickoff. Kegs, beer-balls and other common-source,large quantities of alcohol are notallowed. At game time, both fieldsare cleared by our public safety offi-cers and individuals are asked toenter the stadium.

At half-time, you may enjoy the“interactive endzone” on theBaseball Field, but you may notresume tailgating on the BaseballField or on Freshmen Field.Naturally, if you need to return toyour car on a cold day for a sweat-shirt for yourself or your child, youmay do so. If a family comes tocampus with young children whocannot sit through the entire game,they can, of course, return to the

comfort of their car. We’re not try-ing to inhibit reasonable activities.We’re aiming to curtail excessivedrinking, with special attention tounderage students.

After the game, you may mingleon the fields, but you cannot set upgrills or tables and resume a full-fledged tailgate. The goal is to clearthe fields within one hour followingthe game.

Q. How has the implementationworked so far?

A. A few people have misunderstoodthe true purpose of this policy. But,most see that we want to preservethe best parts of tailgating so thateveryone can enjoy the fun of pre-game socializing.

By Katharine B. McNamara ’81

Beginning in September, the College implemented a policy concerningtailgating at football games. Acting President Frank Vellaccioexplains the goal of the policy.

When Rev. AnthonyJ. Kuzniewski, S.J.,professor of historyand rector of the

Jesuit community at Holy Cross, setout to update the history of theCollege, he had no inkling that thetask would encompass more than 12years and result in a 516-page vol-ume.

The book, Thy Honored Name, aHistory of The College of the HolyCross, 1843-1994, has been pub-

lished by TheCatholic

University of America Press. “I found that the original history

was a flawed work. I couldn’t buildon it, so I started over,” says Fr.Kuzniewski.

At the behest of Rev. John Brooks,S.J., then president of the College,Fr. Kuzniewski’s history is a compre-hensive one.

“Fr. Brooks wanted the book totake a hard look at the history of theCollege,” Fr. Kuzniewski says. Withthis in mind, the author pulled nopunches as the drama of the Collegeunfolded in his manuscript.

“I wanted to show the individualsinvolved; how they dealt with oneanother’s strengths as well as theirhuman failings,” he continues. “Thedevelopment of the College has beeninspired by individuals. They werecalled upon to make sacrifices andmake judgments without knowingthe outcome of their actions.”

Fr. Kuzniewski’s ownrelationship with theCollege has developed overthe past 25 years. Born andraised in Milwaukee, Wis.,he graduated fromMarquette University andearned a Ph.D. in historyfrom Harvard in 1973. Itwas not until his graduatestudent days that he wasdrawn to the Jesuits andjoined the order. Aftercompleting his novitiate inCambridge, Mass., hetaught immigration historyat Holy Cross for two

years, from 1974 to 1976. He thenleft to complete his theological stud-ies at Loyola University in Chicago.After ordination, he returned to HolyCross to teach in the history depart-ment.

During the course of his research,Fr. Kuzniewski says, he thoroughlyenjoyed getting to know the Jesuits

who led the College in its early days.Rev. George Fenwick, S.J., brother ofBishop Benedict Fenwick, S.J., whofounded the College, taught algebra,classics and philosophy. Beloved bythe students, he spent many hoursplaying checkers with them. Hisnickname was “Dad” Fenwick.

Another was the feisty Rev.Thomas Mulledy, S.J., assigned asprefect of studies in 1854, the sameyear the anti-Catholic Know-Nothing Party won control of thestate legislature. The Know-Nothings, who spread rumors thatweapons and ammunition for theoverthrow of the government werebeing concealed at the College, sent acommittee to search for them; Fr.Mulledy conducted the groupthrough the College.

“He must have been in rareform,” Fr. Kuzniewski says.

“When I walk through the ceme-tery (where many of the College’searly leaders are buried) on thegrounds, there’s not a single tomb-stone that doesn’t give me reason toreflect on their tremendous accom-plishments,” he says. And, reflectingon the continuity of their mission, headds, “Issues that they struggled with125 years ago, are still with ustoday.”

With vivid examples, includingexcerpts from letters, newspaper clip-pings, and minutes of faculty meet-ings, the book shows how the Jesuitskept the College true to the ideal ofSt. Ignatius Loyola. The “magis,”free choice of the alternative that ren-


Fr. Kuzniewski tells the A comprehensive new history of

Holy Cross is published.

By Margaret LeRoux

Up front

ders greater service to God,expressed in the motto, AdMajorem Dei Gloriam, is at theheart of every Holy Cross stu-dent’s education. In the pages ofThy Honored Name, Fr.Kuzniewski shows how this prin-ciple shaped the College’s history.

He notes two significantevents. In 1900, the preparatoryschool, which had been consid-ered a part of the College, wasseparated from it, and the Collegecurriculum upgraded. At the time,the College was under pressure toalter its program of classical stud-ies. Other New England colleges,led by Harvard, were abandoningliberal arts in favor of an emphasison specialized professional studies.But the Jesuits at Holy Cross heldfirm to their mission.

The decision to become a coedinstitution in 1972, wildly contro-versial at the time, “has been aspectacular success,” Fr.Kuzniewski says. “The admittanceof women to the student body hashelped the College achieveimpressive standards of academicexcellence.”

The most important factorsshaping the character of HolyCross, however, have been thereligious values and commitmentto educational excellence thathave sustained the Collegethroughout its history.

The book delineates three dis-tinct stages in the history of theCollege. In the first 50 years of

its existence, the institution wasisolated, strictly regimented, andthe curriculum driven by the tra-ditional Jesuit Plan of Studies.

From the turn of the centuryuntil the 1960s, the “second”Holy Cross opened up more,intercollegiate athletics thrived,and a growing student bodyrequired an active building pro-gram.

By the 1960s, the “third” HolyCross emerged, with a deliberateeffort to upgrade the academicquality of the faculty, with laypeople fully integrated into allfacets of the College, and a morediverse range of classes. Thethread that links the modernHoly Cross to its origin has beenthe commitment to religious val-ues and a liberal arts education.

“It’s been the important lessonof the College’s history,” says Fr.Kuzniewski. “Throughout its exis-tence, Holy Cross has remainedtrue to its ideals; it hasn’t compro-mised in the struggle for excel-lence.”

Fr. Kuzniewski’s history endswith the Brooks administration asthe College entered its 150th year.He invites alumni to send himtheir own remembrances of HolyCross in written or tape formatfor the College archives.


College’s story

Thy Honored Name: A History of the College of

the Holy Cross, 1843-1994 by Rev. Anthony J.

Kuzniewski, S.J., is available from the Holy

Cross Bookstore. The retail price is $34.95

plus $5.00 shipping and handling.

Massachusetts residents add $1.75 sales tax.

Please contact:

C.H.C. BookstoreP.O. Box HHoly CrossOne College StreetWorcester, MA 01610Phone: 1-800-777-0201 ext. 3393Fax: 1-800-793-3612E-mail: [email protected], Mastercard, American Express accepted.

Have you heard the one about the student intern?Not a “How many student interns does it taketo change a light bulb?” joke, but the current

buzz that says internships are the fast track to solid jobopportunities for graduating seniors.

Those supervised, on-the-job experiences used to be asource of office humor back in the days when an intern-ship meant little more than busy work. A few years ago,as competition for jobs heated up, they stopped beingfunny. Students with internship experience had an edgeover fellow graduates.

And, in today’s supercompetitive market, internshipshave often become a prerequisite for a job offer.

As internships have become more important, theirvalue has also increased in the corporate world. Nolonger are student interns unpaid go-fers. Some earnupwards of $10 an hour; others receive a stipend. Insteadof spending hours at the copy machine, summer interns

are now analyzing budget sheets, writing reports andmeeting top company executives.

“Internships are crucial in every field,” says John J.Winters Jr., director of career planning at Holy Cross.“They’re a great way for students to learn what they’regetting into, and a way to gain valuable skills and experience.”

Take it from a knowledgeable alum, Peter J. Mondani ’79, manager, financial leadership developmentand human resources, for the General Electric Co.Mondani estimates that “85 percent or more of the newemployees accepted into the company’s entry-level train-ing program have done an internship.”

Mike Philbrick ’96, public relations coordinator forthe Women’s Sports Foundation, says, “A student who’sdone an internship offers a more complete package to apotential employer.”

Amy Murphy, assistant director of the CareerPlanning Center drives home the point. “At the Career


Summer Internships Crucial inToday’s MarketHoly Cross students find a path into the job market.By Margaret LeRoux

Left to right: John Winters, Anne Tebo, Lorrie Parent, Amy Murphy of the Career Planning Center

Planning Center,” she says, “we’re work-ing very hard to make summer intern-ships available in addition to the aca-demic internships offered during theyear in order to keep our students com-petitive in the job market.”

Starting in early winter, the CareerPlanning Center sends a summer intern-ship and job opportunities bulletin viae-mail to all Holy Cross students; the 15editions of the bulletin sent during the1998-99 academic year listed 130 openings.

“We’ve turned to our alumni asanother valuable source of internshipopportunities,” says Winters, “andthey’ve come through with a gold mineof possibilities.”

The internship program is valuablefor both the employer and the student,according to Mondani who has comeback to Holy Cross for the past twoyears to recruit summer interns.

“For us, it’s the opportunity toobserve the students over the course oftheir internships, to see if the match isright between us,” he says. “We’ve foundat least half our new hires throughinternships.” Two of the Holy Cross stu-dents who did summer internships with

GE in 1998 were later offered jobs. Tim Donohue ’71, president of

Boston Market Strategies, a businessdevelopment and consulting company,has hired Holy Cross students as paidinterns for the past two summers. Thestudents do market research, help pre-pare proposals and write reports.

“We’re an office of 10, so internshiphere is very much a hands-on experi-ence,” Donohue says.

At GE this past summer, internslunched with the chief financial officerof the company and attended a compa-ny-sponsored networking session thatintroduced them to GE managementfrom all over the world.

At the Women’s Sports Foundation,Philbrick notes, “Interns are doing manyof the same tasks I do.”

The Foundation offers full-time stu-dent internships during both semestersand in the summer. Currently HolyCross student Angel Sheridan ’01, amember of the women’s hockey team, isinterning in the Foundation’s develop-ment department.

“Interns are chosen carefully andthey’re given a lot of responsibility,”Philbrick says. “We’re looking for people

who can read, write and think effective-ly in a variety of subject areas; this fitsperfectly with the academic mission ofHoly Cross.”

At the Career Planning Center,Winters is convinced that, given intern-ship opportunities, Holy Cross studentswill shine.

“Academically our students are asgood, if not better, than the studentsthey’re competing against,” he says. “Byproviding internship opportunities,we’re giving them the means to be evenmore competitive.”

Mondani says, “When you have agraduate with a liberal arts education,with its emphasis on thinking and prob-lem solving, then add the real worldexperience of an internship, you have ahome run.”

(The College has recently announcedplans to expand its internship program.Watch for details of this new program in afuture issue of Holy Cross Magazine.)

Margaret LeRoux is a free-lance journalistfrom Worcester.


Prospecting among Holy Cross alumni for summerinternship programs is but one example of how theCareer Planning Center has developed to meet the

changing needs of students.“We have a threefold mission,” explains John J. Winters Jr.,

director of the Career Planning Center. “We assist students inidentifying career objectives commensurate with their abilities,interests and values; teach job search skills for students seekinginternships or employment; and provide resources for studentsseeking employment.”

In recent years Winters has overseen a shift in emphasisfrom helping students identify career objectives to teachingthem job search skills and helping them identify the resourcesthey need.

Amy Murphy, associate director of the Career PlanningCenter, targets Holy Cross alumni who can assist students innetworking, mentoring, “and even suggesting the right personto review a student’s resume.”

It’s important that liberal arts graduates understand thestrengths they bring to a potential employer, she notes.

Peter J. Mondani ’79, manager, financial leadership devel-opment and human resources for General Electric Co., adds,“Having both technically trained people and liberal arts grad-uates on the same team is a winning combination. It gets youbetter answers.”

Mike Philbrick ’96 credits the “vast resources and abilitiesof the staff at the Career Planning Center” for his own suc-cessful career placement.

“I spent spring break of my junior year working with Dr.Winters,” Philbrick recalls. “He helped me write my resumeand cover letter and figure out how to market myself.

“The assistance I received was as important as my degree,”Philbrick concludes. “And it was a lot cheaper than going onspring vacation with my friends.”

Students Find Direction, Connections at the Career Planning Center

Q: Can you tell us how you becameinterested in studying families?

A: I took an undergraduate coursecalled “Sociology of the Family,” andit was the turning point that con-vinced me to major in sociology.The issues were thought-provoking.When I left Sacramento State tobegin graduate work at CaseWestern Reserve University, therewere two strong graduate programsin the country that emphasized fam-ily studies—CWRU and theUniversity of Minnesota. At CWRUthe faculty was internationally recog-nized in three domains: family soci-ology, medical sociology, and geron-tology. Today I, too, work in allthree of these areas, with my

research examining family caregivingand the experiences of elderly menas men. Simply answered, I evolvedto become a family scholar as aresult of an impressive faculty mem-ber, Dr. David Kent Lee. Studyingfamilies is an area that has remainedintriguing. When I was first study-ing family issues, it was the mid-’60sand early ’70s, and there weren’t asmany political agendas or scholarlydebates. Now it’s one of the morecontroversial social institutions.

Q: What has changed about familyover the last few decades?

A: I think the biggest change is the“loss” of the ideal—that idealizedfamily of the ’50s and early ’60s that

was experienced in the suburbs andvisually homogenized with the emer-gence of television. Televisionattempted to echo the wonderful-ness of everyday life during this“great American barbecue” period,and it helped construct the idealizedreality of what was in fact a morediverse post-World War II America.With the economic boom of thepostwar years, a generation of fami-lies built suburbia. New towns blos-somed with single-family homes,lawns, and modern, new schools.Kids rode off on bicycles to FrankLloyd Wright prairie-style elemen-tary schools or boarded bull-nosedyellow school buses. The multi-fami-ly homes and multi-storied brick


By Jack O’Connell ’81

The Changing Face of Family“Q&A” with Professor Edward Thompson

Professor Ed Thompson of the sociologyand anthropology department is anexpert in the sociology of the family. Arecipient of the A.H. Schubert

Fellowship in the Humanities and Social andBehavioral Science, Thompson served as researchdirector for Mental Health Rehabilitation andResearch in Cleveland before coming to HolyCross in 1977. Jack O’Connell recently discussedwith Thompson the changing face of theAmerican family.

schools were back in the cities. What also happened wasthe redevelopment of what family sociologists call “sepa-rate spheres.” Men were able to meet the expectation to besuccessful in the work force and to retake ownership of thepublic domain. Women were, in turn, expected to be “athome” managing the private sphere, caring for the hard-working husband and her children, and displaying hisearning power.

But this wasn’t a genuine picture. In truth, the 1950shad a huge number of blue-collar families with wivesworking lower-end service jobs, a great number of poorfamilies who never saw the suburbs, and a separate, lessequal dream if you were a racial minority. The ’50s hadtwo families—the idealized suburban family barbecuingwith neighbors, and a larger number of families thatweren’t making it. We ignored them. On TV we saw Ozzieand Harriett, Father Knows Best, Life of Riley, Donna Reed,and Leave it To Beaver. That kind of patriarchal familystarts to become extinct with the social changes thatoccurred in the ’60s and ’70s, when the nature of theeconomy changed and the many different civil rightsmovements altered the social world. Middle-class womenwith grown or nearly-grown children wanted somethingchallenging, and women more easily entered the laborforce as we shifted toward a technological/informationaleconomy. Once you have many more women participatingin the public domain, suddenly you have real confusion asto what it is to be a man. And, aren’t women “supposed”to be at home raising the children? And, men of color areable to get union work! I think most people understandthe “loss” of the rosy-colored patriarchal ideal. It’s certain-ly a conservative ideal. No longer at the end of 30 minutes

do the TV-families solve their private troubles; rather theirtroubles are common problems and ongoing and part ofeveryday life.

Q: What did all these postwar societal changes do to ourextended families? I’m thinking about people knowingtheir grandparents, their aunts and uncles?

A: That’s a great question. Face-to-face contact has been part-ly replaced with telephone calls, and driving to a familydinner has become flying in for a several-day visit. Thegeneration of young couples of the 1950s moved geo-graphically away from their kin group by moving into the’burbs, and they became socioeconomically mobile, too.Fifties and ’60s families were no longer located where theirfamily history was. They began to make their own tradi-tions. Their children soon moved geographically andsocioeconomically, to college or employment in otherstates. Research shows that elders are in frequent contactwith their adult children, but much less so with theirgrandchildren. Ironically, elders prefer maintaining rela-tions with friends than kin.

Q: What effect did mobility and the “cutting of tradition”have?

A: Well, that is the great debate. There’s a family decline per-spective ...

Q: Do you subscribe to it?A: No, I don’t. I subscribe to the opinion that family change

is inevitable. The perspective of family decline is a per-

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spective that looks at social change and, I think, is hor-rified by the so-called “losses”—full-time mothers,fathers as sole breadwinners, workplaces that ensuremen a family wage.

Q: So it’s something of a political perspective?A: I think, it’s a moral/political perspective.

Unquestionably, it’s about the definition of what is“good.” For a perspective that sees the family indecline, our current condition isn’t good.

Q: Can you give me some examples?A: All right. If you look at our social world from a family

decline point of view, you’re going to see horrific out-comes more often than the new opportunities changecreates. The rise of divorce, for example, suggests thatmarriage is not revered and a family is vulnerable to thechaos of individual choice. Research augments thisinterpretation, because it points out that the divorcerates are still increasing, and kids who grow up indivorced families have more personal problems thanothers do and they do not do as well academically. Thedecline perspective also can point out the number ofchildren who are growing up without a father present.Currently, about one out of three births is to unmarriedmothers.

Q: If divorce is our most prominent deficit, what wouldbe some of the positive sides of change?

A: I read a new statistic the other day that for one-half ofthe new marriages, one of the partners had been mar-ried before. To me, what that statistic means is that peo-ple are still interested in marriage, enamored by the per-sonal benefits marriage provides, and they’re going toretry it if the first marriage ends.

Q: So we’re making adjustments? The institutions of fam-ily and marriage aren’t necessarily crumbling?

A: Not at all. Let me paint a very general example. In the

early 1900s, you typically hoped to outlive youryoungest child’s exit from the home, and statisticsreflect one of two adults died before age 55. By the1990s people can live longer as married couples thanpeople lived their entire lives! The number of peoplewho are in long-term marriages of 50 years and more isgrowing every single year. Not surprisingly, then, theodds of divorce have increased markedly. When youemphasize divorce as evidence of family decline, whatyou miss is its historical and social contexts. I look atdivorce figures, and they inform me that people are notwilling to remain in empty marriages or abusive ones.But people are still very interested in marriage, and theyremarry.

Q: What are some of your working definitions of family?Clearly, we have a broader palette of definitions todaythan we did 40 years ago.

A: We built an idealized definition of one family in the’50s, which positioned the father as the breadwinnerand center of authority, the mother as the primary nur-turing person and responsible for providing moral direc-tion. Today I think the concept of family no longerunderscores a singular, idealized interpretation. Wemake visible the many types of families that were hid-den in the ’50s or ’20s but are readily visible in the ’90s.For me, a “family” involving a remarried couple whoadopts children is as much a family as a gay father witha teenager, or two working parents juggling family andwork responsibilities.

Q: Can you tell us what factors are necessary to call a unitof people a “family?”

A: First, I make a distinction between marriage and family.For me, someone can be married, but without the pres-ence of children, it’s not a family. It’s a marriage.Sociologists also make a distinction between the “familyof orientation,” which is the family we grow up in and


which gives us a sense of history and identity, versusthe “family of procreation,” which is the family weconstruct when we raise children. The notion of fami-ly ties together these two units as well as the familieswe inherit when we marry. It yields a sense of belong-ing and, often, a sense of security. Family has to dowith a sense of connectedness. Being together andconnected doesn’t necessarily mean being physicallytogether; rather it emphasizes emotional togetherness.What you now can see is people maintaining theirconnection with family members—e-mail and photo-streaming over the Internet assist family members toremain engaged. I bet our Holy Cross students havemore exchange with their family than you and I hadwhen we went to college.

Q: Can there be a conflict between marriage and family?

A: Absolutely. Couples’ needs for time and energy tomaintain their marriage generally conflict with chil-dren’s needs. What is the priority? Whatever theanswer, there is a basis for a moral/political debate.Think about this, too: Some people now want chil-dren without the marriage, and this certainly triggerspublic debate. Divorced fathers want to be part oftheir children’s lives or control their ex-wife’s life;many unmarried young mothers do not want anythingto do with their child’s biological father; adult childrencan return home. Each case reveals a conflict betweenmarriage and family.

Q: Here at the College we often refer to ourselves as afamily. Do you think this is an appropriate usage?

A: In a way. It is a “fictive” family. If families provide asense of connectedness, offer companionship, producea core identity, nurture children’s development, andestablish a collective history, being a member of theHoly Cross community is much like being part of alarge, fictive family. The blood turns purple. Alumnido reach out to mentor recent graduates. Close, life-long relationships are born from four years of com-panionship and sharing and competing like siblings. I

think the Holy Cross experience fosters more of asense of “family” now than it did when it was a “fra-ternal club.” But that is a moral/political opinionabout what family means.


Professor Thompson recommends the following books on the changingAmerican family:

The Way We Never Were: American Families and the NostalgiaTrap by Stephanie Coontz. (Basic Books, 1993)

The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America’sChanging Families by Stephanie Coontz. (Basic Books, 1998)

In the Name of the Family: Rethinking Family Values in thePostmodern Age by Judith Stacey. (Beacon Press, 1997)

Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood byWilliam Pollack. (Owl Books, 1999)

She Works/He Works by Rosalind Barnett & Caryl Rivers.(HarperCollins, 1996)

Life Without Father: Compelling New Evidence that Fatherhoodand Marriage are Indispensable for the Good of Children andSociety by David Popenoe. (Harvard University Press, 1999)


Special Needs Unconditional Love

Special Needs Unconditional Love

By Phyllis Hanlon

College students of the ’60s hadnoble ideas about changing theworld; they all had a plan tomake life better for future gen-erations. Robert A. Naseef ’70was no different. As he jour-

neyed through life, however, he was to experienceevents that would change him instead. In 1982his son, Tariq, was diagnosed with “pervasivedevelopmental delay,” a broad term for autism.The ensuing years brought sleepless nights, innu-merable doctors’ visits, constant worry and adivorce, as well as increased self-awareness, a doc-toral degree, remarriage and the birth of threedaughters. The changes that Naseef underwentare chronicled as a combination self-help/aca-demic guide in his first book, Special Children,Challenged Parents. Based on his personal experi-ences, Naseef attempts to educate and alter thethinking of other parents with disabled children.

Naseef ’s penchant for helping people wasobvious long before the birth of his son. Afterreceiving his degree from Temple University in1971, he began teaching high school and collegeEnglish in Pennsylvania. Taking his instructionbeyond the classroom, he coordinated a readingliteracy program for high school students andtaught remedial reading at the college level. Hisinvolvement with students eventually led to aposition as the director of a college counselingcenter.

While he was involved in these special out-reach projects, life on the personal front took anunexpected twist. His son, Tariq, born healthy in1979, underwent dramatic changes at the age of18 months after having an ear infection. Thisnormally playful and outgoing child becamewithdrawn and silent and refused to make eyecontact with others. Many months of testingfinally led to the diagnosis of autism.


As a scholar and as a father, Bob Naseef ’70

reaches out to other parents of children

with special needs.

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Broken Dreams by Michelle White

Like mostparents whosechildren arediagnosed with asevere illness,Naseef reactedwith shock anddisbelief.Through psy-chotherapy andresearch he learned that this reactionis typical and is triggered by lostdreams. Like many parents, uponreceiving the news that he and hiswife were expecting, Naseef hadbegun to imagine all kinds of activi-ties he would share with his child—playing baseball, canoeing, takinghikes in the woods, and having deepdiscussions. “When a child is bornwith a disability or becomes dis-abled, what has been lost is thedream, not the child,” he said. Helearned that a parent must acceptthat reality before moving on torecovery and dealing with the dis-ability.

In his book Naseef narrates thedifficulties he experienced reachingthe acceptance level and comparesthem to the five stages of grief asfirst conceptualized by ElisabethKübler-Ross. “A lot of people gothrough this grieving process. Theparent has lost what he had expect-ed to gain. Once those expectationscan be released, a parent can acceptthe child as he or she is. If not, theparent will remain chronicallyupset,” he said. Parents whose childhas a disability often feel that theyhave experienced a death.

“Expectationshave died,” Naseef states, “not thechild. Acceptance helps the parentto love the child they have.” Naseefhas found that by remaking ordeferring your dreams both you andyour child can begin to enjoy acomfortable existence together.

Slowly an evolution began takingplace in Naseef ’s life. All of theavenues he had explored that mightpossibly lead to a cure were deadends. As he learned more about theillness, he realized that he wouldnever be able to change Tariq; hisacceptance of the situation prompt-ed changes within himself. If heexpected to live a relatively normallife that included Tariq, his wife,daughters and his own personalcareer aspirations, then he wouldhave to adapt. “There was always away to figure out how to accom-plish things. Education was impor-tant to me so I took a sabbatical towrite my thesis about how familiescope successfully with having a childwith special needs. As soon as thebus would come in the morning forTariq, I would begin to write. I hadto use every opportunity I could.”

Tariq suffers from what Naseefcalls an “invisible disability.”Children with Attention Deficit-

HyperactiveDisorder (ADHD), autism andother mental illnesses may appearoutwardly normal. “What your eyestell you, however, may not always betrue,” Naseef said. Parents have amore difficult time adjusting to thereality that their child is disabledwhen he or she suffers from one ofthese imperceptible handicaps. “It isan elusive condition. More peoplehold onto hope when, in fact, theremay be none,” he said.

Naseef explains that visible dis-abilities on the other hand are morereadily accepted. A child who isblind, has a physical disability, or isaffected by Down’s Syndrome orother obvious conditions inducesdifferent expectations. Every dayparents are forced to face reality andthe fact that life for these childrenwill be altered in some way.

Tariq’s autism diagnosis createdan entirely different lifestyle forNaseef. The child required continu-ous watching since his actions wereunpredictable. “My biggest fear wasthat he would wander out of thehouse and get hurt,” Naseef said.Even within the confines of thehome, Tariq could manage to upsetthe household if left unattended forany length of time.

Juggling work, a flounderingmarriage and managing an unpre-dictable child is unimaginable to


Naseef at this point in his life. “Inretrospect it’s hard to conceive how Imanaged life when Tariq was little.For seven years I went with littlesleep. Fortunately I worked in a jun-ior college at the time and had avery understanding boss. If Tariqhad been up most of the night, Icould grab a couple of hours sleepbefore reporting to work.”

Some parents find solace in theirfaith or belief in a higher power.Although not religious in the tradi-tional sense himself, Naseef address-es the issue of faith in his book. Hefinds that parents all have individualbackgrounds and upbringings. Theirperspectives on life will affect theway they deal with the situation.Naseef finds that many parents“wrestle with the idea of religion.” Asituation like this can sometimescause a religious crisis. Naseef oftenrecommends the book When BadThings Happen to Good People byHarold Kushner as a tool for parentsto help deal with their grief. Herereads the book himself every sooften “to remind himself that God isjust.” The book attempts to explainthe unfairness and random distribu-tion of suffering. “People tend tothink that good things happen to

good people and bad things happento bad people,” Naseef said. “Insome cases, though, faith may helpparents get through the tough timesand reconcile why this has happenedas part of life.

“A higher power is part of whathelps you accept in some sense the‘spiritual force’ that these childrenembody. We are compelled to lookinside ourselves and evaluate ourown moral principles.

“Society is becoming more inclu-sive of all people with disabilities. Itseems to be making us all betterpeople, more civilized. As a wholewe are learning to honor that every-one is somebody.”

In 1990-91, Naseef shared hisacquired knowledge and educationalbackground by designing a programthat would foster better parent-pro-fessional collaboration for the NewJersey Department of Education.Years of dealing with medical expertsand state agencies as both a parentand counseling professional hadgiven him a useful dual perspectiveon advocating for the families ofchildren with disabilities.“Sometimes professionals would tellme infuriating things. I knew theywere inaccurate. Someone with no

knowledge in this area could easilybe misled. You need to get all theinformation you can in order tohelp your child,” Naseef said.

Naseef started workshops andtraining sessions for couples, siblingsand especially for fathers of childrenwith special needs, a population hefelt was under-served. With slighthesitation he initiated special ses-sions exclusively for males where hehoped the men would “open up andexpress their feelings,” Naseef said.“Fathers have such an enduringimpact on the lives of their childrenand play such a key role in theirsense of identity.” He wanted topromote expression of feeling so thatthese fathers could perform theirfamilial duties more effectively. Hisreluctance and fear of paternal rejec-tion were erased as the concept ofmale-only therapy groups took holdand became popular and wellattended.

His own personal transformationbecame a driving force that led tothe creation of his book. “I hadsomething to say. My desire was towrite a book that would be respect-ed and long-lasting. During theseven years that it took to write thisbook I was learning the whole time.

Naseef fosters the idea that each childis intrinsically good and deserves a lovethat is not achievement-based.



I already had the backgroundknowledge and then blended it withall that I discovered along the way.If I rewrote the book today therewould be different information, aswell as many more resources that Iwould include. There is alwayssomething new to learn.”

Publication of the book broughtunexpected acclaim from experts inthe scholastic world. A review byJed Yalof published in TheIndependent Practitioner, a bulletinissued by the AmericanPsychological Association, praisedNaseef for “straddl[ing] that fineline between popular psychologyand academic scholarship.” Naseefhas been pleasantly surprised at theaccolades that his colleagues havegiven the book. This positive reac-tion reassures him that he has

indeed accomplished the mission ofa worthwhile self-help and scholarlyresource complete in one volume.

His wife, Cindy, has lent tremen-dous support throughout all of theyears she has known Naseef. “Shehelps me be more grounded. She isvery patient and understanding,” hesaid. Cindy is stepmother to hisdaughter Antoinette and mother toKara and Zoë. The couple sharesprofessional interests that are differ-ent but broadly related. They arepartners in Alternative Choices, ageneral psychology practice estab-lished in 1992 that specializes incounseling parents who have chil-dren with special needs.

In addition to conducting work-shops and seminars for schools, par-ent organizations, and human serv-ice agencies, Naseef also serves on

the volunteer Board of Directors forAutistic Children in Philadelphia. Inthe near future he plans to moderatea chat room for parents of childrenwith disabilities. He has also beenwriting an online column for thelast six months for Special ChildMagazine at www.specialchild.com.A second nonfiction book is in theworks before Naseef attempts anovel based on his experiences.

In his presentations to variousorganizations across the country,Naseef tells the story of one fatherin his counseling group who has anautistic child. The man himself isafflicted with cerebral palsy. Thisfather always claims that “my kid isnot a child of a lesser god.” Naseef ’saudiences are moved by thisthought; they want to feel that kindof love. Naseef fosters the idea that

The Naseef Family


Holy Cross Children’s Art Gallery

Brittany Gabrielian, granddaughter of Donna Alger,dining services

Brooke Allen, age 5, daughter of Janice Allen, health services

Benjamin Covino, age 6, son of Paul Covino, associate chaplain/director of liturgy

each child is intrinsically good anddeserves a love that is not achievement-based. “In this material world that typeof unconditional love is not so naturallydriven and is in short supply,” he said.

“I have to admit that Tariq has beenan inspiration to me, although not inthe way I thought a son would be. Heshould be the one achieving success andI should be the one cheering him on,”Naseef said. He views his life in theGreek sense—making meaning out oftragedy. Had it not been for Tariq,Naseef thinks he would have been theannoying parent in the stands screamingat the baseball coach to put his son inthe game. But changing what he could,accepting what he could not and deriv-ing wisdom from the experience hasbrought him serenity. The changes thatNaseef anticipated some 28 years agohave materialized, but much differentlythan he ever dreamed. “I have had acharmed existence. I wrote a book. Ihave a son who is nonverbal and hastaught me about the meaning of love.Life is truly bittersweet.”

Phyllis Hanlon is a free-lance journalistfrom Charlton, Mass.


By Samuel O’Neill

Through adoption,Maura Walsh-O’Brien ’81 and her

husband, A.J., formed the family

they always wanted.

A Different Path to

Paaaareenthhoood

It is 10 a.m. and already above 90 degrees on a typicallyhazy, lazy midsummer day in Old Lyme, Conn. Despitethe heat, the vacation cottage where the O’Briens are stay-ing is awhirl with activity. Excited by the prospect of sand

castles, sea shells, and the Long Island Sound’s chilly bluewaters, Andrew Joseph Min Hae O’Brien IV, age six, and his sis-ter, Rose Kim Walsh O’Brien, three, are already in their bathingsuits and darting from room to room, eager to embark on theshort walk to the beach. Maura Walsh-O’Brien ’81 and her hus-band, A.J. (Fairfield ’80), meanwhile, are busily gathering beachfurniture, towels, suntan lotion, and books. Everyone is in abuoyant mood, and it’s easy to see why: they are all together,and a carefree summer day awaits.

Maura, on vacation from her job as an attorney with theTravelers Insurance Company in Hartford, has another reason tobe happy. Days like this—and the family around her—are thefulfillment of a long-held dream.

“I grew up as one of six children, and I always assumed Iwould get married and have children—and more than one,” shelater explains to a visitor. “In fact, at Holy Cross, my nicknamewas Maura ‘Mom’ Walsh. There was something about me thatmade people think I was going to be a mother someday.”

The title of Mom became official in 1993, when she and A.J.welcomed their first child, Andrew, into their family. ButMaura’s journey to motherhood was unlike any she had antici-pated—one that confronted her with challenges and detoursthat took her deep inside herself and as far away as South Korea.

That journey began, Maura says, in the early ’90s, when sheand A.J. decided to have children, “and I just didn’t get preg-nant.”

As time passed the couple began to seek consultation frommedical specialists and to explore methods of enhancing thechances of conception. They also started talking to a variety ofcouples—not only those who had pursued fertility treatments,


but also those whohad chosen to adoptchildren.

At one point theO’Briens began acourse of early-stagefertility drugs butsoon “took a break.”One reason, Maurasays, is that they were“not comfortable per-sonally with the sci-ence.” Their decisionto stop also grew outof a conversation theyhad had with “a verywise person who saidto us, ‘You really needto think aboutwhether you want tobe parents, or whetheryou want to have ababy. Because they arenot necessarily thesame thing. You cando one without doingthe other. So you needto determine whatyour goal is.’

“Asking myself that question—Doyou want to be parents, or do you wantto have a baby?—was an absolute turn-

ing point for me,” Maura says. “I real-ized that what I really wanted was to bea parent, and once I focused on that itwas a lot easier to let go of the desire tohave a baby. I felt then that adoptionwasn’t just a viable option, but that itwas the only option for me. That washow it was going to work.”

For A.J., the certainty came afterattending a Holy Cross communionbreakfast in Hartford. At the breakfast,he and Maura visited with Betsy andJohn Quinn ’73, their daughter, Jennie,whom the Quinns had adopted fromSouth Korea, and their son, John Jr. ’02.Several weeks later, A.J. called theQuinns and asked them to reflect ontheir adoption experience. Informed andinspired by the Quinns’ example, A.J.told Maura that he, too, wanted tobegin building a family through adoption.

The couple then contacted WideHorizons for Children, a Waltham,Mass.-based agency that arranges bothdomestic and international adoptions.The O’Briens chose to look to SouthKorea for a child, Maura says, becauseat that time, of all possible locations, theAsian nation promised the fewestimpediments to adoption. The subse-quent application process—prospective


Volunteers at Holt Reception Center, Seoul, South Korea

parents must write several essaysand sit for a series of interviews—was long and intense, Maurasays, but helpful. “It forces you toreally picture what your family isgoing to be like and how it isgoing to live.”

After their application wasapproved, the O’Briens were noti-fied that a Korean child had beenidentified for them, a boy. As partof the referral, the agency provid-ed two snapshots of the child.When the O’Briens held thesepictures in their hands, Maurasays, their sense of parenthoodbecame palpable.

“For us, having the picturesmade a huge difference. It tookthe baby out of the world of fan-tasy-dream-wonder. Once I sawthat picture, once I knew wherethat baby was located, he wasn’tabstract—he was my baby.”

They named the boy Andrewand awaited his arrival “home,”which took place at Boston’sLogan Airport on Sept. 27, 1993,a day the O’Briens call HappyDay and celebrate each year as a

family. A crowd of relatives andfriends gathered at the airport forAndrew’s “delivery,” an eventMaura recalls with a smile: “Agreeter from Wide Horizons is onhand to actually get the babies offthe plane,” she says. “The greetercomes off the plane with yourbaby and says your name andhands you your child and that’sit!”

Three years later, on July 12,1996, the O’Briens returned toLogan to welcome their secondchild, a daughter, Rose, who alsowas born in South Korea. “Theagency had advised us to adoptfrom the same country or at leastfrom the same part of the world,so that neither child would feellike he/she is ‘the only one,’”Maura explains. “I see that as ourkids get older. They will talkabout the fact that they were bothborn in Korea and that they looklike each other.”

As the children have grown,the O’Briens have encouragedthem to be proud of their Koreanheritage and, at the same time, to


Maura with staff of the Holt Reception Center

Mrs. Jung, Rose’s foster mother, with anotherof her charges, in Masan City, South Korea


know that they are no different from anyone intheir class or neighborhood. This message is sup-ported, she says, by the children’s experiences:Andrew’s school is “very diverse,” and strong rolemodels with whom the children come into regu-lar contact, such as pediatricians and teachers, areoften people of color. By being in touch withother families built through adoption, theO’Briens also are trying to teach the children that“there are a lot of other families out there thatwere created the way ours was, that we’re not theonly family that looks this way or came togetherthis way,” Maura says.

The O’Briens have always been very openwith their children about where they were bornand how the four of them became a family.“There has never been a moment when Andrewand Rose didn’t know they were adopted,” Maurasays. “It has just been a part of the fabric of ourfamily’s life.” Nevertheless, in 1997, Maura andA.J. felt it was important for them to be able totell their children about their earliest origins withgreater depth and specificity. And so, in June1998, Maura joined a group of other parents whohad adopted Korean children on a “HomelandTour” of South Korea.

“It was an absolutely phenomenal experience,”Maura recalls. Among her many stops was thetown of Jinju, where she met the doctor whodelivered Rose. She also visited the foster motherwho took care of Rose in Masan City prior toRose’s departure for America (it was the first timeany parent of a former charge had come to seeher and “she was thrilled”).

For Maura,the goals of thetrip wereaccomplishedin abundance.“When Andrewasks, ‘Wherewas I born?’ we

can point to photographs and say, ‘Well here’s thetown, here’s the building, and here’s the frontdoor.’ They’re tiny little details, but having themmakes things a lot less mysterious. Those detailssay, ‘You came into the world the way every otherkid in your class came into the world.’ The lackof those details, however ordinary they may be, isbigger than the presence of them.”


The O’Briens know particularsabout the children’s birth parentsas well. They plan to share thisinformation with Andrew andRose “as they grow and are able tounderstand more.” Until then,they are keeping it private because,they say, the information belongsnot to them but to their children.“When they want to know thisstory, we will tell them, and theycan decide whether or not to sharetheir personal history,” Maurasays.

For the O’Briens, parenthoodhas brought the same personal andprofessional challenges it wouldbring to anybody else. In order tospend more time with the chil-dren, Maura has switched to afour-day work week and spendsless time out of town on business.A.J., a public school teacher, nowspends his summers at home.

Along with the demands, how-ever, have come many joys, likesunny days together at the beach.In addition, Maura says, “it’s get-ting easier. Rose is out of diapers.Andrew can make his own bed.This is the first summer I’ve beenable to read on the beach again.”

Sam O’Neill is a communicationsconsultant from Brighton, Mass.


Justin Covino, age 6, son of Paul Covino,

associate chaplain/director of liturgy

Hillary Fask, age 8, daughter of

Judy Freedman Fask,lecturer, CISS

Hannah Merrill, age 3,daughter of ChristopherMerrill, William H.J.Jenks Chair inContemporary AmericanLetters

Bryce Bednarski, age 11 months, grandsonof Cathy Witkofsky, dining services


At Home By Karen Hart


“Fortunate. Content. Satisfied.” These are the words 40-year-old Stephen Lagasse ’81 uses

to describe his life. He could have had a rewarding career ina number of fields. He has been an Air Force officer, a satel-lite engineer and a real estate appraiser. He studied homedesign and construction at Maine’s Shelter Institute and haslived all over the country. But these days home is WhiteRiver Junction, Vt., and his orders come from Sarah andRachel, his six-year and eight-year-old daughters. They’re hisbosses now, and have been for the past five years.

Lagasse grew up in Lebanon, N.H., the son of Raymondand Maree Lagasse and the eldest of four children. Likemost men of his generation, Ray went off to work each day(as a public educator) while Maree stayed home. When theiryoungest was in school, she went back to work to help makeends meet. “My parents’ priority was making sure the wolfnever got to our door,” Steve said. “They grew up duringhard times, and they made sure we always had enough.”

Lagasse came to Holy Cross in 1977, in part because hisuncle, James Doherty ’51, had such a strong connectionwith the College. Steve graduated with a degree in physics.Job offers were scarce, so in 1982 he joined the Air Forceand earned a second degree in electrical engineering fromthe University of Mexico. He served four years in NewJersey helping build military weather satellites, and theremet a civilian mission specialist named Colleen O’Brien.They married in 1986, and, in 1988, Steve retired from theAir Force as a captain. Instead of continuing in the field ofengineering, he decided to follow his interests in real estateand home restoration.

Today at the Lagasses’ middle-class Upper Valley homethere are no suits, no ties, no engineering schematics.Instead, when morning comes during the school year, Steverouses Sarah and Rachel, makes them breakfast, packs theirbackpacks, brushes their hair and walks them to their busstop. Between the laundry, cooking and other householderrands he refurbishes their old house. Every Wednesday hespends an hour in class with Rachel and Sarah and then eatslunch with them and their classmates in the school’s cafete-ria. During the school year he takes them to Brownies, soc-cer and basketball. Summers drift by with day camp, vaca-tions at the ocean, swimming lessons and reading.Meanwhile, Colleen heads off to work each morning as aproject manager for Vicinity, an Internet-resource company.Colleen brings home the paycheck and provides the benefitsneeded by a family of four in the 1990s. And when Momcomes home from work, “More often than not, she gets amore enthusiastic greeting than I remember getting when Iwas working full-time,” Steve said.

The Lagasses’ story is unusual only in that the switch intraditional roles was simply an extension of their alreadyshared parental responsibilities. Before Steve became an at-home dad he had already done his share of diaper changesand caregiving. “Colleen earned her master’s degree at RivierCollege in Nashua, so I was home alone with Rachel andSarah two evenings a week right from the start,” Steve said.

Steve Lagasse ’81 dropped out of the

rat race to be a stay-at-home dad.

The change in his life has been

powerful and enlightening.

With

When Rachel was born in 1991,the couple lived in Concord, N.H.Colleen stayed home with theirdaughter while Steve continued work-ing for a real estate appraisal company.They moved to Lebanon in 1992 anda year later Sarah came along. But the60-mile commute to Concord evenfour days a week started taking its toll.“I found myself having days when I’dleave before the girls woke up andreturn after they were asleep,” Stevesaid. “It didn’t bother me at first, butI realized pretty quickly that it would-n’t get any better unless I made achange.” So he set up his ownappraisal business and worked out oftheir home for 18 months. “I lovedthe flexibility and seeing so much ofColleen and the girls.”

By the fall of 1994 Colleen hadbeen a full-time mom for three years,and money was getting tight. “Shewanted to get back to a professionalenvironment and we needed the sta-bility that a steady paycheck could

bring,” Steve said. “And both of us feltshe was more marketable than I was.”

A two-income household thatrelied on daycare wasn’t appealing, butcontinuing to have one parent homefull time with the girls was. So whenColleen found a good job, Steve shift-ed from breadwinner to full-time par-ent and didn’t look back. “It was aneasy and natural transition for me tostart taking care of the girls full time,”Steve said. “It wasn’t something Iwrestled with at all. I’ve enjoyed itsince day one. Some of my malefriends may have trouble imaginingthemselves as at-home parents, but Ithink most men could get used to itpretty quickly. For me, it boils downto spending every day with two of myfavorite people in the whole world.Seeing so much of Rachel and Sarahmakes me really happy.”

There have been some material sac-rifices, Steve said, “but nothing reallyearth-shaking.” He and Colleen real-ized early on that in a life with chil-


“I had bought

into the idea

that I was in

large part

defined by my

occupation.”

The Lagasse Family

dren and only one income, a nicehome and new cars would have towait. “Like many of our peers, duringthe first few years of our marriage weboth worked and had no children, sowe owned our home and drove nicecars. With Rachel’s arrival we tradedin my newer car and its monthly pay-ment for an older one and movedfrom a house to a two-bedroom apart-ment to keep our expenses manage-able. And we could not have done itwithout finding two mechanics wetrusted—there was a stretch when ourcars had a half-million miles betweenthem, and it seemed like we weredown at the garage every week. It hasalso helped that neither one of us has

felt particularly compelled to ‘keep upwith the Joneses.’ Don’t misunder-stand, we like material possessions,but things don’t have to be expensiveto please us.”

Nevertheless, not all the changeshave been easy. “I had kind of uncon-sciously bought into the idea that Iwas in large part defined by my occu-pation and when people asked methat first year ‘what I did,’ I’d tellthem I was an appraiser, because I wasstill appraising part time. It eventuallydawned on me that I wasn’t going tofind a more pleasant or satisfying jobthan taking care of Rachel and Sarah,and it’s since become natural todescribe myself as ‘an at-home dad.’”


“For me, itboils downto spendingevery daywith two ofmy favoritepeople in thewholeworld.”

Most people are interested and supportivewhen they find out I’m at home full time,”Steve said, “but every now and then someonecan’t stop himself or herself from implying thatstaying home with children really isn’t suitable‘work’ for a man.”

At first he felt he had to try and explainhimself to the person, “but I rarely gotthrough, so now if it happens, I just let itslide—I no longer feel that it’s my job to edu-cate them.” But the rough spots are few andfar between. His best and worst days? “Therereally aren’t any bad days,” Steve said. He paus-es for a moment. “It may sound trite, but 90percent of my days are great and the rest arepretty good. I’m sure that there are hundreds ofpeople within a ten-mile radius who wouldgladly trade ‘bad days’ with me, so I know howfortunate I am to have a job I truly love. I real-ize though, that there’s no guarantee that it’sgoing to keep going smoothly, so I tend to wal-low in my daughters a little every day.”

The coming year will bring some changesfor Steve and his daughters. Sarah is in firstgrade and now both girls will be gone for thewhole day. Gone are the Mickey-Mouse-waffle-and-hot-chocolate lunches he shared with Sarahat the local diner and the one-on-one time theyhad before Rachel’s bus dropped her off. He isaware that he has a unique relationship with hischildren, one that many fathers and daughtersare not able to share. And he knows it will takeconscious effort to keep his relationship withhis daughters strong.

“One unsolicited piece of advice I’d offer toa father or mother who’s working and doesn’tsee their children as much as they’d like is tomake regular one-on-one time with eachchild,” he said. “It’s powerful and enlighteningto be alone with your son or daughter. I try tostay regularly connected with each girl by tak-ing her for a walk or with me to run errands.She’ll usually just start telling me what’s on hermind and what’s going on at school. I’ll ask herwhat her favorite part of the day or week wasand what she liked least. We’ll stop for adoughnut or an ice cream cone and just hangout for a while. Both girls also like me comingto school for lunch, and I’ll continue doingthat as long as they want me to. Because I can’tpredict what Rachel and Sarah are going toremember about their childhood, I’ll continuesurrounding them with small pleasures.”

Karen Hart is a free-lance journalist from WestBoylston, Mass.



Michaella Caporello,age 5, granddaughterof Eleanor Binnall,slide librarian, visual arts

Maguire K. Burgess,age 5 ½ , daughterof Ed Burgess ’78,associate director ofthe Holy Cross Fund

Deirdre A. Milionis,age 8, daughter of

Frances D. Milionis,secretary,

financial aid

Patrick Curran, age 9,son of TimothyCurran ’83, associateprofessor, chemistry

Q: How did you get started working on family issues? A: I was trained as a social anthropologist. I did my graduate

work at Harvard as a student of John and BeatriceWhiting, authors of the book, Children of Six Cultures.They are really pioneers in the field of cross-cultural childdevelopment. I started out doing fieldwork with theWhitings in the western part of Kenya. I lived with a tribecalled the Luo, in a polygenous family compound withtwo wives and one husband and a number of children.And as I looked at mother-child interaction in the Luohousehold, I began to see a couple of interesting things.One was that the mothers were not spending a tremen-dous amount of time with young children and other chil-dren of seven, eight, nine, and 10 years of age were takingcare of infants and toddlers. There was actually a word inthe Luo language for child-nurse. So a lot of the childcarewas actually being done by other children. Another thingthat I noticed early on was that the women who were stillsubsistence agriculturists—that is that they were workingin nearby fields cultivating crops and harvesting crops—were spending a lot more time with their children thanwomen who had recently become market women, whichwas a fairly new phenomenon when I was there in the1970s.

Q: How long did you stay in Kenya?A: I was there about six months. I was a graduate student and

this was research that I was doing for my master’s thesis. Ibegan to notice that depending on whether a woman wasstill doing subsistence agriculture or whether she was

involved withthe cash econo-my had tremen-dous impact onhow much timeshe had with herchildren and thequality of their interaction. This signaled to me that I real-ly couldn’t look at mother-child interaction and attach-ment—which is the very big issue in child development—without understanding a lot more about women’s workroles. I got increasingly interested in trying to understandthe lives of the market women as well as the women whostayed working in their fields and homesteads—sort of ourversion of the working woman and the stay-at-home mom.

Q: So you were really a pioneer in this area?A: I started doing research on work and family issues in the

1970s. I was very interested in work schedules and whatkinds of jobs women had and how that impacted familylife, looking at relationships between parents and theirchildren, and dynamics and decision-making within mar-riage. One of the things I found was that the marital deci-sion-making process became much more of a shared enter-prise in the marriages where the women had a connectionwith the market. Over time, I began to look more closelyat women’s work roles and at how family life was impactedby the structure of the workplace.

Eventually I did my dissertation research, not in Africa,but in the United States. I brought some of my research


By Jack O’Connell ’81

An Advocate for the Family“Q&A” with Professor Ann Bookman

Professor Ann Bookman, director of the College’s Center forInterdisciplinary and Special Studies, is one of the nation’s leadingexperts on family and work issues. From 1993 through 1996, sheserved as policy and research director of the Women’s Bureau of the

United States Department of Labor. From 1995 through 1996, she was execu-tive director of Congress’s bipartisan Commission on Leave. Bookman isacknowledged as an authority on the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.The FMLA requires employers with 50 employees or more to provide up to 12weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave a year to eligible employees to care for anewborn, newly adopted or foster child, or a child, spouse or parent with aserious health condition. Bookman recently discussed the FMLA and variousother family and labor issues with Jack O’Connell.

questions from post-colonial Africaback to our own culture and studiedrecent immigrant women workers inthe United States. I wanted tounderstand what the life of animmigrant working mother was likeso I got a job for two years as a coilwinder at an electronic assemblyplant with a very low-paid multi-ethnic workforce. Through some ofmy work in the electronics industrywith working mothers, I becamemore and more interested in issuesof women in the workplace. After Ifinished my dissertation, I was sofascinated by the challenges of work-place transformation that I made anon-traditional career choice to keepworking on these issues. I got a jobas a machinist at a large corporationand was very involved in helpingorganize a Women’s Committee inthe union there. This was a largeindustrial workplace that had veryfew women and very few minoritiesat the time. The management wasused to dealing with white men. Thewhole idea of accommodatingwomen that had significant familyresponsibilities was just completelyforeign to them. The idea of build-ing a women’s committee was reallya new idea to both the union andmanagement. We started doingthings like surveys of childcare needsand looking at issues of what wasthen called “maternity leave.” And,in fact, I was one of the first womenat the company to take a maternityleave when my first child was bornin the early ’80s.

Q: How did you get involved with theFMLA Commission?

A: I came back to the academy in themid-1980s and was teaching anddoing research on work and familyissues. In 1986, I was an appointeeon a gubernatorial commission thatGov. Dukakis had set up on parentalleave. We introduced legislation thatestablished the right for mothers andfathers to be home with childrenafter they were born or adopted. Wealso realized there was a need to pro-vide some sort of wage replacementand so the governor set up a secondcommission, which I also served on,

to look into the possibility of usingthe temporary disability insurancesystem to do that. Ultimately, weweren’t successful and the bills weproposed to the Massachusetts StateLegislature were defeated. I learned alot about the difficulties of creatingthese kinds of public policies when Itestified at hearings on Beacon Hill.What happens at a lot of these hear-ings is that you get mothers andfathers and people with responsibili-ty for young children and for elderlyrelatives and sick relatives who comebefore their elected officials withthese unbelievably heart-wrenchingstories. Then you get the employerswho come, particularly small busi-nesspeople, and they say, “We justcan’t do this. I can’t afford to dothis.” You see a deep conflict thatseems almost irresolvable. That wasmy first encounter with the debatessurrounding family leave issues.

I came to Holy Cross in the early1990s and was very happily settlinginto my new job at CISS. And, outof the blue, in the spring of 1993, Igot a call inviting me to be a presi-dential appointee in the first term ofthe Clinton administration. I wasasked specifically to become theResearch and Policy Director of theWomen’s Bureau at the U.S.Department of Labor. The Women’sBureau is a very old agency withinthe labor department. It was found-ed in 1920 and is the only place inthe whole federal government wherethe issues of working women areparticularly highlighted and givenfocused attention. While I was atthe Women’s Bureau I was asked toserve as executive director of a bipar-tisan commission set up by Congressto evaluate the first three years ofthe FMLA. Heading up the com-mission enabled me to get deeplyinvolved in family policy issues.

Q: What have been some of your policygoals?

A: Part of what I have been involved inis trying to come up with publicpolicies that really serve the interestsof children and families and, at thesame time, don’t defeat our business-es. Nobody who is for families is

against economic prosperity in theUnited States. We need policies thatrecognize how difficult it is to beboth a worker and a parent. Manyworking parents I meet are saying,“I am so stretched. I am so incredi-bly tired.” When I first went to theWomen’s Bureau I was asked to con-duct a national survey of workingwomen and we asked lots of ques-tions about their pay and their bene-fits and their family lives and howthey juggle everything. One of thethings I remember scrawled in themargins of one of the questionnaireswas from a woman who wrote I’m sotired I don’t know if I have the time orenergy to answer your questionnaireeven though I feel these questions areso important.

I think it is really important forboth business people and public pol-icy makers to understand the veryprecarious situation that we are put-ting young children in when wedon’t give families choices abouthow much time they spend witheach other. I feel my work is abouttrying to give families real choicesthat respect diverse types of familiesand a diverse range of approaches tochild rearing, and that also acknowl-edge the economic needs and pres-sures of businesses, especially smallbusinesses. Putting the growth anddevelopment of young children firstis the primary goal. If we do notbegin, as a society, to do a better jobof nurturing and educating our chil-dren, I think we will pay a heavyprice in terms of the quality of theworkforce and the vitality of ourcivic institutions in the 21st century.

Q: The FMLA went before fiveCongresses, was subjected to 17hearings, and was voted on 13 timesbefore it became law. Did your expe-rience with the Commission makeyou cynical about the process of leg-islating pro-family acts in general?

A: No, I think not. You just have tokeep your “eyes on the prize” andcommit yourself to a long-termstruggle. The FMLA was the firstpiece of legislation that PresidentClinton signed. I think that the


length of the battle speaks to thedepth of cultural contradictions inour society about the value of chil-dren and the value of care giving.We say that family is the mostimportant thing—if you stop theman or woman on the street andask “What’s more important, yourfamily or your job?”, most peoplewill say their family. Yet if you lookat people’s practice, if you look atthe choices that people make, youfind that people are putting much,much more time into trying toprove to their employers that they’reloyal, that they’re committed, thatthey’re hard-working than they putinto their families. And, given theattitudes of some employers and thethreat of losing your job as manycompanies downsize, I think that’sunderstandable. But, as a society, wereally need to sit back and ask our-selves what we are doing when weask a young mother or a youngfather to separate themselves from anewly adopted child or infant whois only three months old to recom-mit themselves to the workplace.Does this really make sense? I haveto say, as somebody who began hertraining studying child develop-ment, that I feel strongly that childdevelopment literature speaks loudand clear about the need for infantsand toddlers to have consistent nur-turing contact with a primary care-giver. And I am not saying that Ithink that caregiver has to be themother. I think that one of the greatadvances that we’ve made since the1970s is the understanding the care-giver can be the mother, the father,the grandmother, the uncle. Thecritical thing is for every youngchild to have access to consistenthigh quality care—either at homeor in a childcare center or in a fami-ly day care home. This is a needthat leaves no room for compro-mise. Again, I think the key issue isgiving families good choices, mak-ing it possible for parents to eitherstay home for a significant period oftime or have access to quality,affordable childcare. Right now,most parents cannot afford to takeunpaid leaves. The leaves are too



Paige Carskaddan, age 4,daughter of Barb Dean,president’s office, and GaryCarskaddan, assistantdean/director of residenceand off-campus life

Jon Walker, age 11,son of Elizabeth T.Walker, developmentwriter

Mary-Kate Haylon,age 4, daughter ofPatricia G. Haylon ’83,director of specialevents/donor relations

Margaret Burke, age 7, daughter ofTheresa McBride,professor, history

short and there’s not enough high quali-ty childcare from well-trained providers.This is a key public policy challenge toprivate sector employees as well. Thesolution is going to take funds and cre-ative thinking from multiple sectors. Wereally need a partnership between fami-lies, government, and employers to givechildren the kinds of environments theyneed to thrive and learn.

Q: You’ve said that the FMLA should belooked at as a minimum standard in ourcountry. How would you like to see theAct expanded? What more do you feelwe should be doing for our families?

A: There are three ways in which I thinkthe FMLA should be expanded. First isthe basic issue of access. Right now, only55 percent of the workforce is coveredby FMLA. That’s not good enough. Ithink we should move toward universalaccess, and, in the meantime, we couldat least drop the employer threshold to25 employees or more. That would giveanother 13 million workers access.Second, I think we should expand thereasons for leave. It is not enough tosupport families just at times of crisislike a serious illness. We need to make itpossible for families to be more involvedin their children’s education. For exam-ple, I support a bill called “The TimeOut for School Act” that allows leave toattend parent-teacher conferences, etc.Eventually, I would like to see parentsget leaves for community service to insti-tutions that help them to raise their chil-dren and care for their elders. Third, Ithink we need paid leave. Right now,only middle class and affluent familieswith savings and assets can afford to take12 weeks of unpaid leave. If we are seri-ous about supporting families, andencouraging more fathers to get involvedwith kids, we need to pay people whoare on leave. This is what every otherindustrialized country does. Why can’tthe richest country in the world do thesame? I think an expanded FMLA wouldsend a strong message to parents thatcaring for children and elders is impor-tant work that is valued by our society.This is the kind of message we need tobuild a vibrant, family-friendly culturein the United States.



Elizabeth Inman,age 6, daughter ofElizabeth Inman-O’Connell ’79,modern languagesand literatures

Rebecca Burgess,Age 5 ½ , daughterof Ed Burgess ’78, associate director of

the Holy Cross Fund

Shannon Cain, age 8,daughter of DeboraCain, health services

Abigayl Sousa, age 6, daughter of Suzanne Sousa,

clerical assistant, financial aid


Where are they now?

Keeping up withTerri Priest By Pamela Reponen

Secluded within Worcester’s historic HeywoodBuilding is the studio of local artist and for-mer Holy Cross professor, Terri Priest.Located on Winter Street in the Kelly Squaresection of the city, the red-brick factory, built

in the late 19th century, had once been a thriving cen-ter for the manufacture of boots and shoes. A one-stepstone walk-up through heavy double doors leads intothe first-floor landing where a vintage elevator makesthe ascent to the upper levels. The studio, positioned atthe end of a circuitous corridor, is a spacious, brightlylit area with white walls and hardwood floors. Priest,who has worked in this space for about two years, ispreparing a collection of oil paintings for exhibition.

Retirement has enabled the Worcester artist to pur-sue her creative endeavors full time. Drawing on her

years of experience in the visual arts field, Priest contin-ues to explore on canvas innovations in form anddesign. “The current body of work was started by myconstant search for beauty and color, by my love of arthistory, and by my admiration for painters who havepreceded me,” she says.

The new paintings reflect the influence of the 17th-century Dutch master, Jan Vermeer. Intrigued by hisattention to detail and love of precisionism, she hadsought out his work in various museum collections.From this study, she developed an interest in thewomen portrayed in his paintings. Captivated by theirenigmatic expressions and obscurity, she conceived theidea of bringing them into the 20th century by juxta-posing them on canvas with the works of contemporarypainters. “I’m telling stories, creating a whole new life

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for the Vermeer women,” she says.According to Priest, one of herobjectives is to take the women outof the claustrophobic setting of asmall painting and introduce themto a much larger space.

On one canvas, the subject isVermeer’s “Young Woman with aWater Pitcher.” Absent, however,are the window frame, water jugand the world map found in theoriginal painting. Instead, Priesthas surrounded the woman withthe works of the 20th-centurypainter, Roy Lichtenstein: in onehand she is holding his painting,“Wallpaper with Blue Floor,” and,in the other, a vase that he created;one of his paintings also hangs onthe wall behind her, taking theplace of the map found in the orig-inal. Priest notes that whileVermeer’s painting measures 9" x14", she is working on a 42" x 72"canvas.

In another painting, Priestplaces Vermeer’s “Woman in BlueReading a Letter” in the fore-ground of Edward Hopper’s 1957painting, “Western Motel.” In theHopper work, a woman is seatedon a bed next to a window; anautomobile is parked outside. Thejuxtaposition of the two womencreates a bond between them tran-scending time and cultural differ-ences. In discussing this work,

Priest says she is con-cerned with selectingimages that are icons inAmerica—her intent is touse images that the gener-al public can recognizeeasily.

Describing her creativeprocess, Priest says shehas spent considerabletime in the presence ofthe Vermeer women,sometimes having imagi-nary conversations withthem, asking the ques-tion, “What would youdo in the 20th century?”At the same time, she

thinks about artists whose worksshe had admired and studied, look-ing for a connection between theimages in order to formulate a nar-rative.

Priest’s painting of Vermeer’s“Girl with a Pearl Earring” tookapproximately five months to com-plete. Working on a 40" x 90"can-vas, she conceived the idea of plac-ing Pablo Picasso’s “Girl Before a

Vermeer’s “Woman in Blue Reading a Letter” and Edward Hopper’s “Western Motel”

Left to right: Paula Kelleher ’90 JenniferHogan ’90 and Elizabeth Cracco ’89

Mirror” to the left of the portrait;on the right side is a pictureframe containing bands of color.Priest says that while Vermeerpainted the girl inside a pictureframe, she always felt the youngwoman belonged outside of it.For this reason, she placed it nextto her, filling it instead withbands of color that correspond tothose found in the portrait.According to Priest, the colorsinside the frame represent thegirl’s essence which she leavesbehind as she emerges from theenclosure. She also notes thattheir visual weight helps to bal-ance the lines and shapes of thePicasso.

Explaining her technicalprocess, Priest says that, initially,she makes rough sketches in aworkbook. Once the who/whatissues have been resolved, shestretches the canvas and, usingthe method of gridding with bluechalk, plots the images on thecanvas. She is then ready to beginpainting. Priest says she prefers towork on the canvas stapled to thewall because she likes the resist-ance of the brush against this sur-face. Recently, she has beenworking on her painting ofVermeer’s “A Lady Standing at aVirginal.” Included on this can-vas is her depiction of “AndyMouse,” a painting by theAmerican artist, Keith Haring.

Terri Priest taught at HolyCross for 15 years. Hired in 1978to fill two part-time positions inthe visual arts department, sheaccepted a full-time position thefollowing year when an openingbecame available. During hertenure at Holy Cross, she taughtperspective and introductory andintermediate courses in paintingand design, served on various fac-ulty committees and chaired the

department for several years.According to Priest, teaching fulltime involved total immersionwith students during the academ-ic year; painting and exhibitingwere restricted to the summermonths. In 1990, she tookadvantage of a special facultyproposal that enabled her towork half time during her lastfour years atHoly Cross. Shenotes that thisgave her theopportunity tobalance herteaching duties,professionalresponsibilitiesand family obli-gations effective-ly.

Reminiscingabout her years atthe College,Priest says, “HolyCross has beenvery important tome. I frequentlythink back towhen I was aprofessor at theCollege.” Sheremembers, inparticular, severalclass assignmentsthat tested herstudents’ inge-nuity and artis-tic skills.Challenged to build kites indesign class, the students had totake into consideration the prin-ciples of aerodynamics in creatingtheir project; they then had theopportunity to test the success oftheir endeavors by flying the kitesone afternoon on the lawn out-side of the Hart Center. Makingkimonos in another course gavestudents the opportunity to

experiment with pattern anddesign. Priest especially remem-bers the work of three students inher advanced design class,Elizabeth Cracco ’89, PaulaKelleher ’90 and Jennifer Horgan’90, who undertook the assign-ment of reconfiguring the art stu-dio itself. Working over a periodof several weeks, they succeeded

in tilting the floor, creating a dif-ferent angle to the walls throughthe use of corrugated cardboard,designing new window space andchanging the location of thedoor.

Priest has many special mem-ories of her students and col-leagues at Holy Cross. She saysshe is pleased that some of herstudents have kept in touch with


Vermeer’s “A Lady Standing at a Virginal” and Keith Haring’s “Andy Mouse”

her after leaving Holy Cross whileothers send her periodic updates oftheir activities. “I also miss theinteraction with other members ofthe faculty,” she says. “I especiallyenjoyed talking with colleagueswho shared office space with thevisual arts department on the

fourth-floor corridor of Fenwick.”She explains that during the lastfew years of her tenure at theCollege, the visual arts departmentmoved into the former ROTCbuilding which is now the MillardArts Center.

Discussing career options forvisual arts majors, Priest recom-mends specializing in an area ofinterest such as design, graphicarts, photography or teaching, not-ing that a knack for computers canopen up a career path. “Studentshave to make some choices as tothe kind of art they are going topursue,” she says. Priest remembersadvice she had given to a student at

Holy Cross who had come to herfor help in deciding on a career:Research as many organizations aspossible that have a connectionwith the arts; study the needs of acompany; and then, drawing onthe expertise gained from the liber-al arts experience, prepare a solu-

tion. Following her advice, the stu-dent found a niche in the visualarts field. She also notes the advan-tage of studying art in a liberal artscollege where students, in additionto acquiring technical skills, learnhow to draw on their knowledge ofother disciplines to solve problems.She believes that this background isimportant in the development ofnew ideas which, she says, requires“dredging from inner resources.”

Active in the Worcester artscommunity for many years, Priest’sinvolvement ranges from serving asa visiting artist, critic and lecturerat area colleges to exhibiting herworks in solo, group and invita-

tional shows. Two years ago, at anOpen Studio in Worcester, she pre-sented her work in an exhibitionentitled “Fasten Your Seat Belt.” In1996, Priest took part in theWorcester area Women’sInvitational held at Anna MariaCollege in Paxton; in 1992-93 herwork was on exhibition at theWorcester Art Museum as part of“Selections from the PermanentCollection.” While at Holy Cross,she participated in two facultyshows.

Priest’s contribution has alsoincluded many hours of volunteerservice. A member of the board ofdirectors of AIDS ProjectWorcester in the early 1990s, sheorganized the fund-raiser, Art forAIDS Sake; in the 1980s, she wasinvolved in several exhibitions toraise money for Abby’s House, ashelter for women in Worcester.She is currently serving as a corpo-rator of the Worcester ArtMuseum.

Concerned with the issues ofcivil rights and the Vietnam Warmovement during the 1960s, Priestjoined others in the Worcester areain forming an organization calledthe Phoenix. “The purpose of thegroup was to bring speakers of dif-ferent religious and political per-suasions to the local area to presenttheir views,” she explains. Locatedin a storefront on the lower end ofMain Street, the Phoenix hostedactivists Dorothy Day, StokelyCarmichael, Abbie Hoffman andtheologian, Harvey Cox, amongothers. Priest says that the Phoenix,which dissolved in 1969, made apositive contribution to the out-pouring of ideas taking place dur-ing this time.

According to Priest, she has hadan interest in art since childhood,although she did consider briefly acareer in law. She remembers the

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summer when she was 10 years old, acousin, who was an attorney, comingto visit the family, driving a red con-vertible.

“How did you get that?” she askedhim.

“I earned it,” he replied.“At that point,” she laughs, “I

wanted to be a lawyer.”Always drawing, she was intrigued

early on by the story line and picturesof the comic character, PrinceValiant. After high school, Priest says,she was offered a scholarship to artschool, but it was withdrawn becauseshe was getting married. Over theyears, she took many courses in arthistory as well as courses in literature,philosophy and psychology atAssumption College. During thistime, she did many apprenticeships,including one with a sign painter—all the while painting and experi-menting with new ideas on her own.Priest credits her decision to enroll inthe University Without Walls to thelate Iris Egan, a friend she had metthrough hercivil rightsactivities. Thisprogramenabled her toapply previousacademic andwork experi-ence toward thefulfillment ofundergraduatedegree require-ments. In1975, shereceived herbachelor of artsdegree in finearts from theUniversity ofMassachusetts-

Amherst and, in 1977, a master’sdegree in fine arts. Priest taught atFramingham State College for oneyear before coming to Holy Cross.

Several years ago, Priest teamed upwith Allen Fletcher, chairman andtreasurer of Worcester PublishingLtd., to open the Fletcher/PriestGallery located at 5 Pratt St. inWorcester. “The market in art wasfalling through when we opened thebusiness,” Priest says. Renovating thefirst floor of the two-family house,they set out to determine if a com-mercial art gallery could survive inthe current climate. Open two days aweek, Wednesdays and Thursdays,from noon to 6 p.m. and also byappointment, the gallery presents sixshows a year by both nationally rec-ognized and emerging artists.

In recognition of her many contri-butions to the arts, Priest was therecipient of the Katharine F. ErskineAward in Arts, Humanities andEducation in 1998. Describing her as“the acknowledged doyenne of the

city’s visual arts scene” and “anaccomplished practitioner in themedia of printmaking, pastels andoils,” Worcester Magazine recentlynamed her “Best Visual Artist” in itsselection of “What’s Best inWorcester.”

On a recent Friday morning inlate August, the studio basks in lightand stillness; books and art suppliesare scattered on work tables, and offto one side, an easel stands empty.Filling the length of one wall are fourpaintings from Priest’s newest collec-tion, fitting comfortably into thespace of this 28' x 40' studio. Withthe afternoon stretching before her,she is preparing to spend the next fewhours working on her portrait of oneof the Vermeer women all the whilethinking about a title for the seriesthat best captures its mood andessence. In this studio, Priest hasfound the place to continue hersearch for beauty and color in thecreation of her art.


Vermeer’s “Young Woman with a Water Pitcher” and Roy Lichtenstein’s “Wall Paper with Blue Floor”

“What a great weekend this has been returning to Holy Cross. It has been and isan occasion rich in fellowship and warmth. … So much good comes from times likethis. … Ed (Sullivan ’74) and the (Silver Jubilee) Reunion Committee have honoredme by asking me to share with you on this occasion my thoughts about my Woburnodyssey. It was a journey that tested my partners and me on all levels, personal, pro-fessional and financial. However, it was also a journey that I came to learn, took mefrom and eventually back to these familiar surroundings of our alma mater. …

“As I was climbing these hills as a freshman … I was young, but I knew I wasblessed to be here. For Holy Cross is a place that gives us the tools to go out intothe world and achieve our full promise, but always within the framework of our


Equipped for the Climb

I t was an odyssey from heady success to near despair that featuredspeaker Bill Crowley ’74 shared with his classmates and other alum-

ni/ae at the Reunion banquet in June. Crowley was one of three partnersin the small Boston law firm made famous by Jonathan Harr’s book, ACivil Action, and the John Travolta movie of the same name. Crowley’stalk is excerpted here:

“To my partnersand me, it becameour toast to eachother, ‘Rich andfamous doinggood.’”

Advancement

Bill Crowley ’74 poses for photos in advance of the Boston premiere of “A Civil Action.”

faith. I knew that Holy Crossstands for people trying tomake a difference in theworld. I was exhilarated bythis spirit and what it meantto be part of this tradition.

“When I graduatedfrom climbing these hills,I felt ready for more chal-lenge. I dashed from hereto climb the next hill inmy life, the law schoolhill, for I wanted to con-tinue to strive to achievethe success that so manyothers from here had. Iwas as lucky as a newlawyer could be because, soonafter graduating from lawschool, I went to the doorstepof one of those Holy Crossalumni who has achieved somuch. He is celebrating his50th reunion tonight, and hewas my first mentor in thepractice of law in the realworld—my good friend,Barry Reed, from the greatClass of 1949.

“I remember when we firstmet. Barry wasn’t hiring at thetime, but out of courtesy to amutual friend, he agreed to

see me. When he looked atmy resume, his eyes glancedonly at the top where my col-lege education was listed.Without reading further, heput the resume down and

said, ‘So you went to HolyCross? Listen, a motion inone of my cases is being heardtomorrow morning inPlymouth Superior Court.Would you be interested inhandling it and helping meout?’ I said, ‘Of course. Justtell me one thing. Where’sPlymouth Superior Court?’

“That was the start. Fromthere, I’ll say my years atBarry’s office were the mosteducational and enjoyable ofmy legal training. Barrytaught me a lot about how to

be a lawyer for people—agood lawyer—for, as someonewho takes on difficult odds inthe quest for justice, he is oneof the best. I wanted to belike that, and achieve what he

had. But as good as he is, thatwas something Barry couldnot teach me. That was some-thing I had to learn formyself. And so, when I feltready, I dashed from his placeto make my own mark in thelaw.

“So with my two partners,Jan and Kevin, we started ourown firm. Our years togetherwere heady, exhilarating years.Our young firm thrived onchallenge, and luxuriated insuccess. Each hill we climbedgave a view of still anothermore challenging one thatneeded scaling. And as wescaled each, the view fromthese summits was intoxicat-ing. As we basked in the suc-cess of conquering each chal-lenge, I believed I had finallyachieved what I had beenafter. To my partners and me,it became our toast to eachother, ‘Rich and famousdoing good.’

“Then the mothers fromWoburn came and told ustheir story. Many of youknow this story. It is the storyof how a community awoke


“The mistake I had made was in forgettingwhat I had learned 25 years ago at Holy Cross,our College on the Hill.”

Bill Crowley ’74 is featuredspeaker at Reunion ’99.

to find that their wells were contami-nated and their children were dying.They asked if we could help themfind answers to their questions.

“At first, my partners and I didnot feel up to the challenge, for noone had ever climbed such a hill asthis in the law before. But there wassomething about the families andtheir story, and that hill. I rememberthinking about that hill, and what itwould be like to reach that summit.And the lure of it made us want totry. So we did.

“We undertook this climb like wehad all the others—committed 100percent. But this was a climb like noother we had known. It took every-thing we had and more. It took allour resources. It took all our time. Ittook all our attention, and thereby, itthreatened even the things closest tous. But here, I was fortunate once

again. I was sustained during thislong ordeal by my wife Michele.Although she was climbing her ownhill towards an MBA, and raising ourson Bill through his first years, hersupport was steadfast and unwaver-ing.

“In the end, however, the climbup the Woburn hill simply took toomuch. This time, Schlichtmann,Conway & Crowley did not attainthe lofty summit. We fell from ourperch, and we didn’t stop falling untilwe hit bottom. And at the bottom,we were broken and exhausted. Theonce prosperous firm that relished inour aphorism of ‘rich and famousdoing good’ was no longer.Prosperity was transformed intodespair. For my part, I thought for along time that I had lost it all—thatI had nothing, no more riches, noth-ing to celebrate. And, I thought,

nothing good had come of thisclimb—only failure.

“But in order to move beyond thepain of the past, as I had to if I weretruly to live again, something wasrequired from me. Something wasrequired that no one else could helpme with, not even Michele. It had tocome from me alone. And this some-thing was to reclaim a basic teachingthat I had learned here at HolyCross, but had forgotten in my exu-berance to dash up all the hills.

“First, however, I had to confrontthe past and our failure. It could notjust be forgotten or ignored. I knewthe time when the pain of the pastwould come back for me was when ACivil Action would reach the book-stores. And I remember that day. As Iwalked to the bookstore to purchasemy copy, I could feel the anger andpain welling up. I took a copy off theshelf and, in my anger, dropped it onthe clerk’s counter. My anger wasjoined by embarrassment when Irealized that I had no cash. I askedthe clerk if she would ‘take a check.’

“A few moments later, when shehanded me the book and my receipt,something unexpected happened.She said to me, ‘As a citizen, I wantto thank you.’ When she saw myquizzical look, she said, ‘Well, youare the Bill Crowley in this storyaren’t you?’ Then we shared a laughtogether. As I left the bookstore, Iwas no longer filled with anger, butwith amazement and wonder.

“It was not too long after this thatI was invited to … Harvard LawSchool. Harvard was hosting a con-ference on Woburn. They called itthe “Lessons from WoburnConference.” All the lawyersinvolved in the case had been invitedto come together again, but thistime, not as the bitter adversariesthat we were years earlier, rather tooffer perspectives and to share what


“We become truly rich when we enrich the lives ofothers—when we care about the lives of others, thatis a cause—a cause to celebrate.”

“Bill Crowley,” as played by actor Zeljko Ivanek (right), approaches the bench.

we had learned from the experience offighting this war.

“A lawyer for one of the companiescharged with contaminating the wellswas asked to speak. He said that wemade a mistake. We cared too much forothers. We risked too much for others.He said we had become so obsessed withWoburn, that we allowed it to become acause. The lawyer said it was not acause—it was just a case and that wasour mistake. I listened to his words, andthought about them.

“Later, I had to visit a place that isfamiliar to all of us … I looked at thegravestones in this place and noted thenumbers carved into the stones. Youknow the numbers—the numbers at thebeginning and the numbers at the end.And those numbers are always separatedby that mark in the middle … a dash. Itmade me think about what someone—someone who was older and wiser thanI—had once told me,

‘It’s not the numbers on the stonethat matter—it’s only the mark inthe middle—that little dash. Thedash is all we have. It’s the mark youleave with your dash that matters.’

“Then it came to me. I had made amistake in my attempt to climb theWoburn hill. But the mistake that I hadmade was not the one suggested by thelawyer at the Harvard Law School con-ference. Not at all. The mistake I hadmade was in forgetting what I hadlearned 25 years ago at Holy Cross, ourCollege on the Hill. It was that while wepursue success, we must not forget thereal reasons for wanting to attain thegoal in life of becoming ‘rich andfamous doing good.’ They are the mostimportant life lessons of all:

“We become truly rich when weenrich the lives of others—when we careabout the lives of others, that is acause—a cause to celebrate. And onlyGood can come from this. If we remainsustained by this faith, there is no hill wecannot climb.”

Fr. LaBran takes Jim Long (superintendent of grounds) on a grand tour ofcampus.

Rev. Joseph J. LaBran, S.J., who turned 84 in August, is traveling in style thesedays without even leaving campus. He calls his new “wheels,” complete with

customized graphics that proclaim Yahweh to port and Holy Roller at the bow, a“great and thoughtful gift.” It was given by a group of alumni admirers, includingGreg Millard ’93 who got the cart rolling, so to speak, by suggesting the gift inthe first place. Fr. LaBran is using the “souped up” golf cart to take freshmen ontours and for other trips around campus. Fr. LaBran was honored with anothermeaningful and greatly appreciated gift this summer. The LaBran Millard Fundwas established to provide financial assistance for students who want to partici-pate in the Spiritual Exercises Fr. LaBran conducts throughout the year.

Holy Roller!Holy Roller!

New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani spoke to Holy Cross New YorkLeadership Council members and their guests at the council’s most recent

Distinguished Speaker Series event, “Breakfast with the Mayor,” held at The SkyClub in the Met Life Building in New York. Council Chair Tom Carey ’66(right), president and chief executive officer of BBDO North America, and mem-ber Charlie Millard Jr. ’79, formerly president of the New York City EconomicDevelopment Corp. and now managing director at Prudential Securities, provid-ed introductions. Mayor Giuliani discussed education issues in New York Statewith the nearly 100 council members in attendance.

Mayor Giuliani Speaks to Holy CrossNew York Leadership Council


Left to right: CharlieMillard Jr., ’79, Mayor

Giuliani, Tom Carey ’66

Hockey parents ought to becommitted—just as Georgeand DeDe Ross have beenever since their sons, for-

mer Crusader hockey standouts GeorgeJr. ’92 and Michael ’95, signed on withtheir first teams. Getting sleepy childrento 5 a.m. practices on dark wintermornings, spending weekends cheeringfor the teams and investing years ofwaiting time went with the territory,along with making good friends andhaving great fun as they watched theirsons develop into outstanding players.That territory broadened and the par-ents’ commitment deepened whenGeorge Jr. and Mike took to the ice forHoly Cross.

George Sr. estimates that DeDe andhe attended about 90 percent of theirsons’ games during their seven contigu-ous years of play at the College. Gettingto all of those games from their Rye,

N.Y., home meant traveling most ofNew England and beyond. This year,with George Jr. married and Michaeljust graduated from law school, Georgeand DeDe Ross underscored both theircommitment to their sons’ shared avoca-tion and their experience at Holy Crossby making a significant gift to the men’shockey program. Their gift, intended tounderwrite the cost of renovating themen’s locker room, will also create apowerful recruiting tool for the hockeyprogram.

“My reason for making the gift wassimple,” said George Sr. “It was paybacktime. It was also a way to help theschool in an area that my sons wereinvolved in. In addition to each get-ting an excellent education and adegree, they devoted themselves tohockey at Holy Cross. They madegreat lifelong friends through thehockey program. My wife and I hadseven years of fun and found good

friends among the other parents whowent to the games.”

Two friends from the Holy Crossyears that the Ross family plans to keepfor life are Rev. Michael Ford, S.J.,whom George Sr. calls “the chaplain ofthe hockey team,” and the current men’shockey (and baseball) coach, Paul Pearl’89. Fr. Ford, who visits with the Rossfamily several times a year, officiated atGeorge Jr.’s wedding. Pearl, whom RossSr. says was “just a kid” when the familyfirst met him, played his senior year onthe same hockey team as then-freshman

By Elizabeth Walker

A Simple Gift


George and DeDe Ross (right) with their sons, daughter and daughter-in-law (from left) George Jr. ’92, wife Liz,Katie and Michael ’95

Before renovation

George Jr. After graduation, Pearl wenton to teach and coach at a privateschool. He later returned to The Hillafter coaching stints at UConn andBrown.

“The Ross family has stayed involvedwith Holy Cross hockey,” said Pearl.“They are still great supporters of theprogram. This past year, when we playedat Iona, they were all there. I wasthrilled to hear from Fr. Ford that Mr.Ross wanted to do something for thehockey program.”

That something, the renovation of themen’s locker room, was completed this

fall, according toPearl. The men’shockey lockerroom, a vestigefrom the early1970s, was old at26. Its age wasapparent in its too-few, too-smalllockers; in itspoorly ventilatedshower area and in

its exposed ductwork and rafters wherethere now is a ceiling. Pearl noted, thatwhile the locker room was clean andwell-maintained, it was not adequate fora Division I level program that needsnot only lockers for its players but “astrong recruiting tool as well.”

Thanks to the great generosity ofGeorge and DeDe Ross, the refurbishedlocker room at last has a dropped ceil-ing, 30 wooden lockers that are aboutfour inches wider than the old ones, anew carpet with a logo, an area forreviewing game tapes between periods

and during practice, and a completelyrefurbished restroom/shower area withventilation, among other amenities.

“We didn’t knock down any walls,”Pearl said. “We just refit the space wehad to make it useful and comfortablefor our players and attractive to poten-tial recruits. When I take recruits ontours next summer, we’ll have a visiblesymbol of how serious we are about ourhockey program. We have a great rink,great conditioning facilities in the SmithWellness Center and now, thanks toGeorge Ross, we have the third piece, agreat locker room.”

They will also have the strong sup-port of George Sr. and his familythrough each season. “This was a giftfrom the heart,” Ross said. “The hockeyprogram has great spirit, and I thinkthat Pearl, Peter Van Buskirk (formercoach and current director of the HartCenter), and Fr. Ford have done a greatjob. Holy Cross and hockey did a lot formy boys. I believe that you should giveback.”

Nearly completed: New, wider lockers and a ceiling are just twoof the many improvements made possible by the Ross gift.

The Class of 1989 has purchased and dedicated its much-anticipated senior class gift, a limited edition bronze bustof St. Edith Stein, now displayed on a wooden pedestal in

the foyer of St. Edith Stein Hall. The bust, by sculptor HamiltonReed Armstrong of Virginia, was unveiled and dedicated atReunion ’99 by class chairs Sean Martin ’89 and Christina MaggiBuckley ’89. Fr. Eugene Sylva ’89 offered a prayer and blessing.John Spillane ’89, who spearheaded the gift effort, offered excerptsfrom the homily Fr. Brooks delivered on campus after the canon-ization of the saint in October 1998. Enclosed in plexiglass, thebust is the sixth of only 10 castings of the arresting likeness. Aplaque will be added to the pedestal to identify St. Edith Stein andthe Class of 1989 as the source of this wonderful gift.

Bust of St. EdithStein Dedicated

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Accounting was a major con-cern for Worcester nativeWilliam James Coffey ’58when he first climbed The

Hill as a day student in the fall of 1954.Holy Cross did not seem to share hisconcern—at least not on paper.Accounting, which was to becomeCoffey’s vocation and passion, was notoffered as a major though the Collegeoffered a registered CPA program. Hesurmises the problem was rooted in thealphabet. If “Accounting” had beensanctioned as a major program of study,its alphabetical prominence would haveplaced it ahead of “Biology” in theHoly Cross catalog.

“It wouldn’t do at a liberal arts col-lege to have accounting rather than a lib-eral art or natural science listed first inthe catalog,” he said. “So my degree

from The Cross is a Bachelor of Sciencein economics even though, de facto, Imajored in accounting; but it all workedout.”

Accounting has remained a majoreducational focus for Coffey. In fact, hisdeeper immersion in financial trackingand reporting spurred him to add manymore letters after his name—MBA, CPAand Ph.D.—after graduation from HolyCross. Coffey worked in both publicaccounting and the private sector forseveral years before joining the teachingranks. He taught at a high school, acommunity college and a junior collegebefore moving on to serve as registrar,then chair of business administration ata four-year college. He later joined thefaculty of the Lubin Graduate School ofBusiness at Pace University. As histeaching career evolved, Coffey earned amaster’s degree in business administra-

tion from the University ofMassachusetts-Amherst. It was later aschair of the business administrationdepartment at North Adams State (nowthe Massachusetts College of the LiberalArts) that Coffey added the certifiedpublic accountant credential and beganworking on the doctorate that New YorkUniversity awarded to him in 1976.

Today, as a professor emeritus-in-resi-dence at Pace, Coffey divides his timebetween his New York City home andhometown Worcester. Still busy andcommitted to his field, he has movedinto a retirement for which he appearsto have planned well. Included in thatplan is the charitable remainder trust heestablished in 1996 at Holy Cross. Hisgenerous gift to the College was a natu-ral next step for this accounting profes-sor whose life has revolved around edu-cating others to make dollars makesense.

“People begin too late to prepare forretirement,” Coffey said. “They shouldstart planning early and review theirportfolios as they mature.”

Those in a position to do so shouldconsider establishing a charitableremainder trust (CRT) using long-heldsecurities that have appreciated in value,according to Coffey. A CRT offers sig-nificant tax benefits that include theelimination of capital gains tax on theappreciated value of the securities, animmediate charitable contributiondeduction and a reduction of federalestate taxes. In addition, the CRT pro-vides a life annuity to the donor withthe College benefiting from the corpuslater on.

To Coffey, the logic behind such agift to the College is as simple asABC—with A standing for accounting,no doubt.

A is for Accounting…

P is for Planned Giving

Dr. William Coffey ’58 remembers enjoying what little time he had between schooland a job visiting with other local classmates in the “day hop” room which was locat-ed on the “lower level” of Carlin.

By Elizabeth Walker


For nearly 25 years, anywherefrom five to 25 members ofthe Class of 1962 have meteach year on a Friday in

August at a central location in south-ern New England to have lunchtogether. They have purposely keptthis annual luncheon simple. Theydon’t sail, play golf, invite their wives,schedule a speaker or call the gatheringa reunion. They get together simply tocatch up with each other, eat lunchand watch the boats go by. DaveDoern and class agent Bill O’Learyorganize the annual lunch, while PhilByrne makes the arrangements at theNew York Yacht Club in Newport,R.I., where they have met for the pastdecade.

“We meet from about 11:30 until 2o’clock,” Byrne said. “That’s notenough time to work in golf. Thisstarted in the late ’70s with three orfour class members. Bill O’Connor, EdMcGuire and Bob Ryan and otherswould meet. Doug Hoyt has beeninstrumental in organizing this. Wegave him a free lunch this year for allhis work. Sometimes there were five orsix members of the Class of ’62, andthen it got to be seven or eight. We’vehad as many as two dozen. It’s usuallyjust the guys in the class. We oftenhave a few ‘mystery guests.’”

The “mystery guests” are classmembers who live at a distance anddrop in unexpectedly. JerryComcowich, who lives in Hawaii, was

last year’s surprise guest. The onlyother surprises class members experi-ence have happened when first-timersto the lunch have mistakenly droppedby the Newport, rather than New YorkYacht Club and found no one there—at least no one they knew.

“We settled on the New York YachtClub facility in Newport about 10years ago,” Byrne said. “It’s in the JohnNicholas Brown mansion and sits onthe water. It’s all very casual, no ties orjackets. We have lunch, talk and watchthe boats go by.”

Doing Lunch!

Members of the Class of 1962 who met for lunch at the New York Yacht Club in Newport this past August include (frontrow, left to right): Bill O’Leary and Bob Curran; (middle row) Mike Sullivan, Dave Doern, Mike Doherty and Jim Mulvihill,and (back row) Doug Hoyt, Phil Byrne, Bill O’Connor, John O’Sullivan and Tom Reardon.

Ironman in Training

Frank Garand ’96runs, bikes, and

swims to benefit charity

Most people take advantageof the slower pace of sum-mer by reducing their usual

frenzied schedules so they can enjoythe warm, lazy days betweenMemorial and Labor Day. FrankGarand ’96 is an exception. In July hebegan an intensive physical trainingprogram that will culminate with hisparticipation in an ironman triathlon.Instead of engaging in leisurely activi-ties, in the coming months he willtrain seriously and strenuously inpreparation for this contest whichtakes place Nov. 6, 1999 in PanamaCity Beach, Fla.

Garand’s commitment began ratherinauspiciously earlier in the year. Hecasually mentioned his interest in theevent to a professor at Holy Cross.More friends and colleagues soonlearned of his intentions. “I figuredthat it was a good way to motivate meinitially,” Garand said. “Once enough

people knew, I would be forced tocompete.”

Since Garand has only fourmonths to prepare—the usual trainingperiod is at least two years—he startedin July with a three-to-four-hour dailyregimen of lifting weights, strengthtraining, aerobic exercise and swim-ming. His workouts take place at thelocal Bally Total Fitness Center as wellas on campus. On Saturdays heincreases his workload with an extrahour of physical activity. To allow hismuscles to rest and repair, Garandtakes Sundays off. As November drawscloser, though, he will increase theseworkouts to 10 hours per day.

Garand is monitored closely by Dr.Bruce French, an orthopedic specialistat UMass Medical Center. Regularroutine testing, which can take as longas four hours, keeps his physicianapprised of his physical condition.Individuals who enter marathons,

long bike races, and/or extended swimmeets must be hardy enough toendure the stresses that accompanyeach activity. “If a runner can’t com-plete a marathon, he or she can juststop running. In a triathlon, though,the competitor must be in top physi-cal shape or risk heart failure,” Garandsaid. Between his intense workoutsand close medical supervision, heexpects to be in prime form asNovember approaches.

Over 1,600 entrants are slated tocompete in the event which involves a2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride,and a 26.2-mile marathon run.Garand explains that entrants swimfirst to reduce the risk of drowning.“By the time you finish the bike andthe run segments, you are pretty tired.It would be easy to drown if you hadto swim last.”

Initially Garand had intended toparticipate in the event for the “fun of


By Phyllis Hanlon

Athletics

James Needham (left) and Frank Garand ’96 in the Hart Center Pool

it,” but he changed direction dramati-cally when the sibling of a close frienddied suddenly. His death, due to asevere allergic reaction, deeply affectedGarand. This young man would havebeen a first-year student at Holy Crossin the fall. Garand’s fleeting thoughtsof raising money for charity throughthe triathlon now became a passion.

Garand chose to represent threeMassachusetts-based charities. He wasimpressed with the efforts of the med-ical team at Boston Children’sHospital to save his friend and select-ed that institution without hesitation.Since Garand’s family has a history ofbreast cancer, he decided that some ofthe contributions should be given tothe UMass Cancer Center forresearch. The Massachusetts AudubonSociety will also receive a portion ofthe funds. His hopes to collect$25,000 exceeded all expectationsearly in the campaign. By the time theevent takes place, Garand anticipatesthat four times that amount will bepledged.

So far Garand has solicited supportfrom approximately 40 area business-

es. The overwhelmingly positiveresponse has amazed him. “Everyonehas been great. No one has said no.”In fact, individuals and companiesthat hear of the event have approachedhim to offer assistance, both financialand otherwise. A local hairdresser pro-vides regular haircuts for Garand,while a Webster Square sandwich shopcontributes food. A local bicycle shopservices Garand’s bike and gives sug-gestions for the biking portion of thecompetition. Several of the sponsorsalso offer customer discounts to thosewho mention the event.

Garand is the Mellon EducationalTechnology Program coordinator atHoly Cross and co-teaches a class thatdemonstrates the “ins and outs of Webdesign.” The class includes Webauthoring and design principles. Usinghis technological expertise, he has cre-ated a Web site as a primary fund-rais-ing tool for the triathlon. The site willfeature all the businesses that havesponsored Garand, as well as addition-al information regarding the triathlon.Viewers will be informed of his fund-raising and training efforts as they

occur.His students have

caught Garand’sfever and have vol-unteered many hoursto work on the site,often staying lateinto the night. “Thisis a great opportuni-ty for them to gettheir names on theWeb site. Many ofthese students arefourth-year and thisexperience couldvery well lead to jobsfor them.” Garandexpects to achieveupwards of 10,000hits per week oncethe site is fully func-tional.

As soon as Garand has completedthe Florida ironman competition, heplans to initiate a triathlon club at theCollege. “This club would be in onthe ground floor when triathlonsbecome an NCAA sport,” he said. Hesenses an affinity for health and fitnessat the school and has mentioned histhoughts to some of the students.Response has been tremendous.“Already 20 students are interested injoining,” he said. “The students wouldnot compete during the school year.They would concentrate on sprint dis-tances instead,” he explained.

What began as a personal physicalchallenge for one man has grown intoa community-wide philanthropic proj-ect. Garand’s motivation has increasedwith each donation he has received.Personal accomplishment is no longerthe main focus. Naturally he is anx-ious to fare well in the contest— “Iwill be happy if I can finish in lessthan 12 hours” —but he is more con-cerned with helping local charitiescontinue research into areas that willeventually help all of mankind.

To learn more about the IronmanTriathalon visit the Web site at:www.holycross.edu/ironman/


Tom Bestpitch has allthe angles covered

Tom Bestpitch ’00 is a hard manto pin down. During his timeat Holy Cross, Bestpitch has

been a starting wide receiver, a startingdefensive back, and a punt returner.He’s worn numbers 37, 8 and, finally,7. Even Bestpitch himself has troublewith classification, settling for callinghimself “mostly a defensive back.”

Vague? Yes. Appropriate? Actually, yes it is. Bestpitch began his football career

at Holy Cross as a receiver beforeswitching to defensive back the follow-ing year. And, despite earning individ-ual honors at defensive back last year,he still has figured into the offensiveplans in each of the last two years—thus, the use of the word “mostly.”

“For whatever reason, people backhome still think I play receiver,” hesays. “I don’t know why. Maybe it’smore glamorous. But I tell them I’mmostly a defensive back.”

The dichotomy began for Bestpitchin high school. While the three-yearcaptain at St. Francis High School, inHamburg, N.Y., says his main role onthe field was that of a wide receiver, healso had been selected as the BestDefensive Back in western New York.When he made his decision to come toHoly Cross, however, Bestpitch expect-ed to be a wide receiver. That notiondid not even last until lunch on hisfirst day.

“I came here as a receiver,” he says.“I knew the things Coach Allen didoffensively with the run and shoot, andI thought I’d be an inside receiver. Buton the first day of practice, I was hand-

ed a purple jersey [worn by defensiveplayers].”

He need not have worried. In keep-ing with the elusive nature of his roleon the football field, even that decisionwas quickly reversed. “I was back tooffense by the afternoon practice,” herecalls.

It seemed like a wise move by theCrusader coaching staff. Bestpitch, whosaw action in every game of his firstseason, started seven times. His 19catches on the year were the fifth moston the team, as were his 147 receivingyards. Five times, he had two or morecatches in a game, as he looked on hisway to being an integral part of theHoly Cross offense for the next threeyears.

“I liked playing receiver,” he says. “Igot to start seven games and wasinvolved in the offense.”

But the battle for Bestpitch’s serviceswas not over. During spring practiceafter his first year, Coach Allen and hisstaff told the then-receiver that hisservices were needed on the defensiveside of the ball. And despite his prefer-ence for offense, Bestpitch says henever questioned the move.

“It’s nice to be wanted by bothsides,” he says, “but as soon as I foundout there was a need at cornerback, Isaid, ‘Yeah, of course I’ll do it.’”

And while he does wonder whatkind of numbers he could have put upplaying just receiver for four seasons,Bestpitch certainly has no regrets aboutthe position change. He did, however,suggest another solution to CoachAllen—one which would allow him to

follow in the footsteps of GordieLockbaum ’88 and start on both sidesof the ball.

“Coach said that he knows I can doit, but the answer is no,” Bestpitchremembers with a laugh.

Focusing on the defensive side ofthe ball that spring, Bestpitch won thestarting corner spot and started 11games in his second season. The transi-tion was a smooth one as he posted 28tackles on the year, including four ormore in each of the last four games ofthe season. Along with the new posi-tion came his first jersey numberchange, as he turned in 37 for 8.

“I was assigned number 37 in myfirst season,” he says. “The coachesused to kid me about it. CoachSwepson said 37 is the number givento the worst receiver on the team.”

Bestpitch wanted number 4, his oldhigh school number, but it was alreadyworn by fellow defensive back DavidDowns ’99, so he took number 8. “Itseemed like a good number,” he says.In answer to the question, “Why giveup number 8 after a successful year?”Bestpitch offers a unique explanation.

“I changed it because [linebacker]Ben Berger told me that the number 8makes me look fat, with all the round-ed corners and everything. He advisedme to get a more pointy number. So Itook number 7. It’s really pointy,” hesaid with a laugh.

As it turns out, Berger may havebeen on to something. The newly“pointy” Bestpitch enjoyed a breakoutseason last year. Not only did he lead arevitalized Crusader defense, but he led


By Frank Mastrandrea ’88Director of Sports Information

the Patriot League in pass breakups with 17 and earnedboth First Team All-Patriot League honors as well as hon-orable mention All-America recognition.

“Those awards are nice,” he says. “Team goals are themost important, but it’s nice to see that people respectwhat you do, and that hard work pays off.”

Bestpitch is hoping that while last year was his year toreceive individual accolades, this year will be the time forthe team to be so recognized.

“I have high expectations for the team this year,” hesays. “Last year we were so close. I think overall the team,in terms of attitude and talent, is totally different than itwas four years ago. Now we just need to show it.”

As his time in a Crusader uniform winds down,Bestpitch says, “Even though I know it’s my last shot, it’snot sinking in. I’ve played football for about half of mylife, and I don’t think I’ll really know it’s over for a fewyears. One thing, though, in training camp this year, Icould look around and say, ‘Well at least I won’t have togo through this again.’”

Bestpitch said that as much as he and his teammateswere encouraged by the great strides the team made lastyear—leading seven of the 11 games at the start of thefourth quarter—it was still disappointing to take a 2-9record back home and have people not acknowledge theimprovement.

“People out there see we were 2-9 last year and say,‘Oh, Holy Cross had another bad year,’” he says. “Butthey don’t know how close we were. And for us to knowit … We’ve got to show them and get the respect wedeserve this season.”


Hall of Fame Nominations

The Varsity Club’s selection committee will meet inlate January to elect the inductees to the Holy Cross

Athletic Hall of Fame. All who have a candidate in mindshould submit nominations by Dec. 31, 1999 to James A.Maloney, Secretary, Holy Cross Varsity Club, 862Pleasant Street, Worcester, MA 01602.

A candidate should meet the following qualifications:

● His or her class must have been graduated five years,although the nominee need not have graduated.

● The nominee must have been outstanding in one ormore sports.

● The nominee must have made an outstanding contri-bution to Holy Cross athletics.

A brief summary of the candidate’s qualifications isrequired to support each nomination. The Varsity Clubreserves the right to make its own independent inquiry.

To be considered, candidates must be nominated forthe 2000 selection year, even though they may have beennominated in prior years.

Candidate/Class:

Sport(s):

Nominated by:

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HOLY CROSS MEN’S BASKETBALL1999-2000 SCHEDULE

Nov. 6 ST. FRANCIS XAVIER (Exhibition) 3 p.m.

Nov. 12 CONNECTICUT STARS (Exhibition) 7 p.m.

Nov. 20 at Providence 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 23 HARVARD 7:45 p.m.

Nov. 27 FORDHAM 1 p.m.

Nov. 30 at Dartmouth 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 7 BOSTON COLLEGE (at Centrum) 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 9 at Yale 7 p.m.

Dec. 19 VERMONT 3 p.m.

Dec. 22 NORTHEASTERN 7 p.m.

Dec. 27 at Hoosier Classic (Indiana University)

Dec. 27 Holy Cross vs. Alabama-Birmingham 7 p.m.

Dec. 27 Indiana vs. Canisius 9 p.m.

Dec. 28 Consolation/Championship 4:45 p.m./7 p.m.

Dec. 31 at Princeton 2 p.m.

Jan. 3 BROWN 7 p.m.

Jan. 6 SACRED HEART 7 p.m.

Jan. 12 at Colgate * 7:45 p.m.

Jan. 15 at Bucknell * 3:15 p.m.

Jan. 19 LAFAYETTE * 7 p.m.

Jan. 23 NAVY * 4 p.m.

Jan. 26 at Hartford 7 p.m.

Jan. 30 ARMY * 4 p.m.

Feb. 2 at Lehigh * 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 5 COLGATE * 1 p.m.

Feb. 9 BUCKNELL * 7 p.m.

Feb. 12 at Lafayette * 3:15 p.m.

Feb. 15 at New Hampshire 7 p.m.

Feb. 19 at Navy * 3 p.m.

Feb. 22 at Army * 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 26 LEHIGH * 3 p.m.

Mar. 4-5 at Patriot League Quarter/Semifinals TBA(at Lafayette)

BOLD CAPS – Home Game * – Patriot League Contest

HOLY CROSS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL1999-2000 SCHEDULE

Nov. 15 NOR’EASTER STORM AAU (Exhibition) 7 p.m.

Nov. 19 at UNH 7 p.m.

Nov. 21 SIENA 7 p.m.

Nov. 23 MASSACHUSETTS (DH) 5:45 p.m.

Nov. 27 at Michigan 5 p.m.

Nov. 30 at Fordham 7 p.m.

Dec. 3 vs. Harvard # 5:30 pm

Dec. 4 (LaSalle, Hartford) # 5:30/7:30 p.m.

Dec. 8 CENTRAL CONNECTICUT 7 p.m.

Dec. 19 at Hartford 2 p.m.

Dec. 28 vs. Loyola % TBA

Dec. 29 (Air Force, St. Joseph’s) % TBA

Jan. 3 at Boston College 7 p.m.

Jan. 5 UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY 7 p.m.

Jan. 12 at Colgate (DH) 5:30 p.m.

Jan. 15 at Bucknell (DH) 1 p.m.

Jan. 18 LAFAYETTE 7 p.m.

Jan. 20 CONNECTICUT 7 p.m.

Jan. 23 NAVY (DH) 1 p.m.

Jan. 26 PROVIDENCE 7 p.m.

Jan. 29 ARMY 1 p.m.

Feb. 2 at Lehigh (DH) 5:30 p.m.

Feb. 5 COLGATE (DH) 1 p.m.

Feb. 8 BUCKNELL 7 p.m.

Feb. 12 at Lafayette (DH) 1 p.m.

Feb. 19 at Navy (DH) 12:30 p.m.

Feb. 22 at Army (DH) 5:15 p.m.

Feb. 26 LEHIGH (DH) 1 p.m.

Mar. 3 Patriot League Tournament TBA

Mar 4 at Lafayette TBA

Mar. 8 Patriot League Final TBA(at highest seed)

BOLD CAPS – Home Game # – ECAC Holiday Tournament (Hart Center)% – at St. Joseph’s Holiday Classic (Philadephia, Pa)* – Patriot League Contest(DH) – Double Header with the Men’s Team

Alumni Tour to IrelandMarch 21-26, 2000

Spend six days and four nights in the Emerald Isle.Visit Killarney and Galway. This trip includes

escorted sightseeing by luxury coach. Stay in the firstclass hotels, Killarney Towers and Flannery’s. Fullbreakfast daily. Dinner each evening. Price: $689 (+ $41 U.S. departure tax)Single supplement: $149For more details call the Alumni Office at (508) 793-2418.

Alumni Tour to ItalyMarch 2000

Edward F. Callahan, professor emeritus in the English department,will lead the GAA tour to “Enchanting Italy” in March 2000.

The tour will feature visits to the Italian Lake District, Genoa, theItalian Riviera, Parma, Modena, Pisa, Florence, Siena, SanGimignano, Orvieto, Rome, and Vatican City. The cost (Twin,$2,399; Single, $2,619; and Triple, $2,369) includes round trip air-fare from Boston or New York, cancellation waivers and 18 meals. Adeposit of $360 per person is due to the Holy Cross Alumni Officeby Nov. 20.

For additional information contact Pat McCarthy at (508)793-2418.


General Alumni Association

Family and Holy Cross

It is my distinct honor and privilegeto serve as your General AlumniAssociation President for the 1999-

2000 term. As you know, the purpose ofthe GAA is the promotion of the welfareof Holy Cross and the establishment of amutually beneficial relationship betweenHoly Cross and the alumni. The GAAhas enabled me to know and work withso many great Crusaders—a redundantphrase if ever there was one! Let meshare with you one General AlumniAssociation inspired event that happenedrecently.

Royal purple and white balloons werefestooned on the fence of the NorthAndover, Mass., home one sultry, sum-mer Sunday afternoon. The hostess,Mary Alice Rock ’77, was busy attendingto last minute preparations for The HolyCross Club of Merrimack Valley’sIncoming Freshman Picnic. Paula Sasso

’78, Club President, and MarthaMcGuane ’77, Vice President, greetedmembers of the Class of 2003 and theirparents as they arrived at the charmingcorner lot Cape. Introductions weremade, nametags affixed, and soon, con-versations were in full force. Later, Fr.Michael Randone ’90, who is stationedat Saint Michael’s, North Andover,where Fr. Paul Keyes ’58 is pastor, saidMass in the backyard. Fr. Mike’s homilyprayerfully encouraged the new studentsto continue to grow intellectually andspiritually. The first-year students werereminded to bring Jesus with them ontheir new journey as they continue togrow as men and women for others.After the final blessing and hymn, apicnic supper including delicious freshfruit salad was served. James ’84 andRose ’85 Connolly of North Andoverbrought their four beautiful childrento assist with the celebration. TheConnollys even baked purple sugarcookies! The participation of my Dad,Joe Reilly ’55, his wife Evelyn, my sonAdam, the altar server, and MaryAlice’s brother Paul reinforced ourtheme. I am sure that you can guesswhat we were doing on this Augustafternoon. We were welcoming newmembers to the Holy Cross family!In four years, the Class of 2003 willgraduate, and, ipso facto, become mem-bers of the General Alumni Association.

It is my hope that you will continueto view the GAA as your Association.We are a service organization reachingout to the students with programs such

as the Bishop HealyCommittee, which worksto actively advance themutual respect and qualityof interaction between theminority and majoritymembers of the HolyCross community, both onand off the campus.Another program is theAlumni ScholarshipProgram, which awardsscholarship assistance tosome deserving children ofalumni for their senior

year. As a service organization, we alsoreach out to alumni with programs suchas Continuing Education and theRegional Alumni Club Network.

We are a service organization reachingout to the community with programssuch as Alumni Athletic Guest Programand the Summer Fellowship Program,which encourage public service andsocially responsible projects for HolyCross students. The project assists needy“not for profit” agencies in the name ofHoly Cross.

As my Dad taught me, being a mem-ber of a family comes with responsibili-

ties. Because we are members of theHoly Cross family, we should give backto our college and our community. TheGeneral Alumni Association needs yoursupport. You as a graduate are a member.Just as in a family, some members chooseto be more involved than others. And,just as a family is ever present, the GAAwill always be available for you.

I am so excited as I start my year asPresident! Thanks to the great work ofStan Slowick ’74, I have big shoes to fill!With the help and assistance of PatMcCarthy ’63, Director of AlumniRelations, Bud McManus ’58, president-elect, the entire Board of Directors,AND YOU—we will have another suc-cessful year! Thank you!

Letter from the PresidentBy Anne Reilly Ziaja ’78

Incoming first-year students from the Merrimack Valley

The Connolly children

Thomas C. Drees ’51 haswritten a comprehen-

sive study of the “miracledrug”: blood plasma.According to his text, BloodPlasma: The Promise and thePolitics (Ashley Books,1983), almost everyonewho reaches the age of 75will need blood, plasma,or one of their compo-nents, at least once inhis/her lifetime.

Part political science,part sociology, and partbiology, the book dealswith the complexities ofblood donation.

Donors, Drees writes, can now help curediseases once considered incurable, such as hepatitis, tetanus,and Rh factor disorders.

Drees is president and director of the board and executivecommittee of Alpha Therapeutic Corp., one of the largestplasma fraction companies in the world. He is also a memberof the U.S. Senate Business Advisory Board.

B ridges Toward the Inter-Parish Regional Community …Deaneries, Clusters, Plural Parishes (Liturgical Press,

1998), by Rev. Robert G.Howes ’40, discusses thevarious issues and concernsof pastoral management.

The book is the third ina series by the author. Thefirst two also concern pas-toral planning and man-agement: one discussesshared responsibility, and,the other, parish councils.Bridges addresses theadvantages and disadvan-tages of churches sharingpriests, in light of therise of lay ministries inthe Church and therecent decline of voca-tions to the priesthood.

Howes, who is the founder of the National(Catholic) Pastoral Planning Conference, has consulted withover 30 dioceses in the United States and Canada. Wellrespected in his field, he is now a professional consultant inpastoral planning.

In the age of multimediacommunication, manu-

als such as IntelligentMultimedia Interfaces(AAAI Press, 1993), byMark T. Maybury ’86,are invaluable. Mayburyasserts that providingmachines with the abili-ty to read and deciphermultimedia outputwould be extremelyvaluable in the work-place.

The book, alongwith its companionedition, IntelligentMultimedia InformationRetrieval, also edited by Maybury, attemptsto cover a broad spectrum of topics. Among them are meth-ods for automatic design, systems that integrate multimediainput, and processing multiple media.

Maybury works for the Mitre Corp., Bedford, Mass.


Book Notes

Alumni Publications

Number of RAs (Resident Assistants) on campus: 75

Number of honor societies at Holy Cross: 12

Number of students in the First-Year Program: 163

Number of trees listed in the Campus Arboretum: 810

Pounds of strawberries used by Cool Beans coffee shop

for “smoothie” dessert drinks during Aug. 27-29: 120

Number of links on the Holy Cross Web site:

approximately 50,000

Number of issues of The Crusader published a year: 20

Weekly circulation of The Crusader : 3,500

Number of faculty who have received the Distinguished

Teaching Award: 10

Number of faculty who have been at Holy Cross for 25

years or more: 52

By the Numbers


ACCREDITATION VISIT SET FOR APRIL 2000;COMMENTS ARE INVITED

Holy Cross will undergo a comprehensive evaluation visit April 2-5, 2000, by a teamrepresenting the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New EnglandAssociation of Schools and Colleges.

The Commission is one of eight accrediting commissions in the United States thatprovides institutional accreditation on a regional basis. Accreditation is voluntary andapplies to the institution as a whole. The Commission, which is recognized by the U.S.Department of Education, accredits approximately 200 institutions in the six-state NewEngland region.

Holy Cross has been accredited by the Commission since December 1930 and waslast reviewed in 1990.

For the past year, Holy Cross has been engaged in a process of self-study, addressingthe Commission’s Standards for Accreditation. An evaluation team will visit the Collegeto gather evidence that the self-study is thorough and accurate. The team will recom-mend to the Commission a continuing status for Holy Cross; following a review process,the Commission itself will take the final action.

The public is invited to submit comments regarding the College to:

Public Comment on Holy CrossCommission on Institutions of Higher EducationNew England Association of Schools and Colleges

209 Burlington RoadBedford, MA 01730-1433

e-mail: [email protected]

Comments must address substantive matters related to the quality of the College.Comments will not be treated as confidential.

Written, signed comments must be received by April 5, 2000. The Commission can-not guarantee that comments received after that date will be considered. Commentsshould include the name, address, and telephone number of the person providing thecomments.

The Commission cannot settle disputes between individuals and institutions, whetherthose involve faculty, students, administrators, or members of other groups. Individualsconsidering submitting complaints against an affiliated institution should request theseparate Policy and Procedures for the Consideration of Complaints Made AgainstAffiliated Institutions from the Commission office.

1945Class ChairFrancis J. McCabe Jr.In June, MMoonnssiiggnnoorr AAuussttiinn PP..BBeennnneetttt,, who serves the Diocese ofBrooklyn, N.Y., celebrated the 50thanniversary of his ordination to thepriesthood. Monsignor Bennett iscurrently active on the boards ofthe Catholic Medical Center ofBrooklyn and Queens, St. Mary’sHospital in Bedford-Stuyvesant andOzanam Hall Nursing Home inBayside; he also continues toadminister the Parish Service Corp.,the diocesan insurance office.

1946Class ChairThomas H. SmithRReevv.. FFrraanncciiss XX.. SSuulllliivvaann,, who retiredin February, had most recently beenthe pastor of Our Lady of theBlessed Sacrament Church inWestfield, Mass., for eight years. Fr.Sullivan continues to be active inthe Diocese of Springfield, assistingfull-time priests with their pastoralduties.

1949Class Co-ChairsDonal J. BurnsGeorge E. Cahill

By George CahillDear Classmates:

EEdd ““BBoobb”” MMaahheerr reports thathe is retired and in goodhealth. The father of four sonsand one daughter, he reportsthat his present activities are“golf, golf, and golf.”

RRaayy SSwweeeenneeyy is still activelyworking at his own business inWest Springfield, Mass., theRay Sweeney Real Estate andInsurance Agency. After read-ing the April 1999 edition ofthe Holy Cross Magazine, Rayhas reminded us of the onlyclassmate lost in the KoreanWar, LLtt.. JJiimm MMccGGooeeyy,, UUSSMMCCRR,,who died on Sept. 2, 1951while serving with the 1stMarine Division in Korea.

JJoohhnn MMccCClloosskkeeyy reports 49years of marriage, 10 childrenand six grandchildren. Hisdaughters, Maureen and Mary,are graduates of Holy Crossalso. Not retired, John staysvery busy at the John F.McCloskey Florist & GardenCenter in Forest Hills, N.Y.

1950Class ChairJames P. DigginsHHoowwaarrdd WW.. CCllaarrkkee continues to givecruise ship lectures on classicalsites in the Mediterranean area.During the past year, he worked onthe Stella Solaris (Royal Olympic),the Adventurer (Clipper Cruise

Line) and the Sea Cloud(Abercombie & Kent). RRaallpphh FF..FFllyynnnn JJrr..,, DD..DD..SS..,, who maintains adental practice in Warwick, R.I.,was installed as president of theRhode Island Dental Association atthe 121st Annual Session of theHouse of Delegates held May 25, inWarwick. RReevv.. RRoobbeerrtt TT.. KKeennnneeddyy,,who is a professor of canon law atthe Catholic University of Americain Washington, D.C., recently cele-brated the 40th anniversary of hisordination to the priesthood.TThhoommaass JJ.. RRyyaann,, MM..DD..,, continues towork full time in the cardiologydepartment at Boston UniversityMedical School.

1951Class Co-ChairsThomas M. Ganley Jr.Albert J. McEvoy Jr.FFrraanncciiss JJ.. ((JJaacckk)) RRiivveerrss,, who is atrustee of the Colonial Realty Trustin Framingham, Mass., also worksas a free-lance writer and columnistfor the Metro-West Daily News.

1953Class ChairRev. Msgr. John J. KelliherFor the past three summers,SSaallvvaattoorree JJ.. PPaarrllaattoo JJrr.. has taught acourse in American Sign Language,finger spelling and deaf culture inGreece, N.Y.

1954Class ChairBarry R. McDonoughClass CorrespondentPaul F. DupuisJJaammeess GG.. CCuulllleenn,, who has main-tained a law practice in Groton,Mass., for the past 35 years, is atrustee of the Groton Public Libraryand a member of the library build-ing committee. RRaayymmoonndd LL..HH..MMuurrpphhyy JJrr..,, MM..DD..,, continues to serveas chief of the pulmonary service atFaulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain,Mass., and professor of medicine atTufts University School of Medicine.Home Textiles Today recently listedPPaarrkk BB.. SSmmiitthh as one of the 20most influential people in the textileindustry over the last 20 years.TThhoommaass JJ.. WWhheeaarrttyy JJrr..,, who isretired, volunteers at Deaconess-Glover Hospital in Needham, Mass.

1955Class ChairPaul F. CoveneyClass CorrespondentRobert F. DanahyJJoosseepphh LLiiaann JJrr..,, who was appointedfirst justice of probate and familycourt, Worcester division, inJanuary, has been a trustee of theMassachusetts Bar Foundationsince November 1997 and theelected treasurer of theMassachusetts Judges Conferencesince Nov. 1.

1957Class ChairFranklin M. HundleyMMaarrkk AA.. DDeellaanneeyy,, who has retired asdirector and chief engineer of

Marconi Integrated Systems (former-ly General Dynamics Electronics) inSan Diego, Calif., continues to serveas a consultant to the company.

1959Class ChairWilliam P. MaloneyClass CorrespondentJohn J. OrmondSShheerrmmaann JJ.. BBrroowwnn continues towork in the real estate business.JJaammeess AA.. KKeennnneeddyy JJrr..,, chairman andchief executive of National Starchand Chemical Co., Bridgewater,N.J., retired in June after 37 years ofservice, including 10 years as chiefexecutive officer. Kennedy contin-ues to serve as chairman of theBoard of Overseers of the NewJersey Institute of Technology inNewark. NNeeaall EE.. WWiinnnn,, MM..DD..,, whoretired from the position of vicepresident for medical affairs withKapiolani Health in Honolulu,Hawaii, in July 1998, rejoined theob/gyn faculty of the University ofHawaii School of Medicine on apart-time basis.

1960Class Co-ChairsGeorge M. FordGeorge F. Sullivan Jr.Regis College in Weston, Mass.,awarded WWiilllliiaamm FF.. MMeeaagghheerr JJrr. itsfirst Presidential Medal at a testi-monial dinner held in April;Meagher, who had been a partnerin the Boston office of ArthurAndersen, retired from the account-ing firm in 1998, after 38 years ofservice.

1961Class ChairJoseph E. Dertinger Jr.JJoohhnn JJ.. CCoolllliinnss earned the designa-tion “certified business intermedi-ary” (CBI) from the InternationalBusiness Brokers Association. InJune, KKeevviinn JJ.. CCoolllliinnss was re-electedvice chairman of the Board ofGovernors of Rutgers, the StateUniversity of New Jersey, NewBrunswick/Piscataway. RReevv.. DDaavviiddWW.. HHoowweellll recently celebrated his25th anniversary of service to theparishioners of St. Joseph Church inNorwalk, Conn. RR.. SSppeenncceerr

TThhoommppssoonn has been named direc-tor of new product development forSaunders, a manufacturer and dis-tributor of products for the homeand office in Farmington, Maine.

1963Class ChairCharles J. BuchtaClass CorrespondentMichael J. TonerIn July, FFrraannkklliinn AA.. KKllaaiinnee JJrr.. joinedthe law firm of Strauss & Troy in itsCincinnati, Ohio, office. FFrraanncciiss JJ..SSccaarrppaa,, MM..DD..,, who maintains apractice in Greenwich, Conn., andserves as an attending physician inthe department of surgery atGreenwich Hospital, was elected toa second term as president of theFairfield County MedicalAssociation. He is also currentlyserving as president of theConnecticut chapter of theAmerican College of Surgeons.

1964Class ChairRonald T. MaheuWWiilllliiaamm RR.. FFeehhllnneerr continues totravel throughout Canada teachingfor the SAS Institute, a multination-al computer software company.RRaayymmoonndd BB.. FFllaannnneerryy JJrr.. has pub-lished his sixth book, PreventingYouth Violence: A Guide forParents, Teachers and Counselors(New York: Continuum Publishing,1999). MMiicchhaaeell JJ.. GGrraanneeyy,, MM..DD..,,continues to practice surgery inRochester, N.Y. RReevv.. GGeeoorrggee HH.. HHiillllJJrr.. is now living at St. Raymond’sChurch in the Bronx, N.Y., anddoing pastoral counseling at theparish Family Outreach Center; healso continues to do AIDS counsel-ing part time at St. Bernard’sChurch in Greenwich Village.

1965Class Co-ChairsDavid J. MartelThomas F. McCabeDDaavviidd JJ.. HHiinncchheenn,, director of volun-teer services at Boston MedicalCenter, has been selected by theMassachusetts Association ofDirectors of Healthcare VolunteerServices to serve as the president,effective June 2000.


John D. “Jack”Drummey ’49

On June 5, JackDrummey was an

auctioneer on Channel 2TV-Boston, as part of itsannual fund-raisingevent. Drummey, whohas been an auctioneeron Channel 2 for 27years, was one of thefounders of the auctionand served as lead-offauctioneer for the first10 years.

Class Notes


1966Class ChairWilliam L. Juska Jr.CChhaarrlleess FF.. ((CChhuucckk)) MMaannssffiieelldd hasbeen elected a director/trustee ofthe Federated Funds of FederatedInvestors Inc., a mutual fund com-plex based in Pittsburgh. Mansfield,who has served in the financialservices industry for 30 years as asenior executive, management con-sultant, public speaker and author,is currently a management consult-ant whose clients include banksand industrial corporations as wellas professional and financial servic-es firms. He is also a member ofthe board of directors and financecommittee of the Catholic Leaguefor Religious and Civil Rights. AAllffrreeddJJ.. OO’’DDoonnoovvaann,, who is associatedwith the Boston law firm of ShapiroHaber & Urmy, has been elected toa three-year term on the board oftrustees of Dean College inFranklin, Mass.

1967Class Co-ChairsP. Kevin CondronJohn P. SindoniTThhoommaass FF.. HHooggaann,, who is a partnerin the Litchfield, Conn., law firm ofGuion, Stevens & Rybak, wasselected as the guest speaker atMemorial Day services held inLitchfield. JJoosseepphh PP.. SSmmaallddoonnee isnow the director of the U.S. StateDepartment’s Office of ExportControls and Conventional ArmsNonproliferation Policy. He is alsoan adjunct professor at GeorgetownUniversity, George WashingtonUniversity and the University ofMaryland where he teaches courseson foreign policy, defense and inter-national security.

1968Class Co-ChairsJohn T. CollinsBrian W. HotarekVViinncceenntt TT.. BBrroowwnn JJrr.. is the chieffinancial officer for The HighlandGroup, a management consultingfirm; in April, he played the role ofSir Thomas More in a communityproduction of Man for All Seasons.

1969Class ChairDavid H. DrinanJJoosseepphh JJ.. CCoonnwwaayy,, MM..DD..,, maintainsan ob/gyn practice in Hyannis,Mass. JJoohhnn AA.. FFaalllloonn,, MM..DD..,, who isthe executive vice president ofNorth Shore Medical Center,Salem, Mass., has been namedchairman of Partners CommunityHealthcare Inc., Boston, a divisionof Partners Healthcare founded byMassachusetts General Hospitaland Brigham & Women’s Hospital.KKeennnneetthh FF.. KKiittcchheellll JJrr.. is a full pro-fessor of classics at the Universityof Massachusetts-Amherst. LLaarrrryy EE..SSaalleemm,, an attorney, purchased theGould Title Co.; he operates thebusiness at the Worcester Registryof Deeds. JJoohhnn HH.. SSttaannssffiieelldd JJrr..,, whois a professional storyteller/writer,took part in several festivals duringthe summer, including the Central

Pennsylvania Festival of the Artsand the Boise River Fest; he alsodirected the Rocky MountainStorytelling Festival for the 11thyear.

1970Class Co-ChairsBrian T. MahonJames O. WalshRRiicchhaarrdd SS.. DDuuffrreessnnee recently gavethe keynote address for theConnecticut State Department ofEducation’s Primary Mental HealthProgram; the topic was “A Child’sFuture: Building the Foundation forSuccess.” Dufresne is currently thepresident of Alliance Consulting,Peterborough, N.H. Boston Collegehas named JJaammeess FF.. KKaavvaannaauugghh therecipient of The Rev. James B.Malley, SF Award, in recognition ofhis contribution to the BostonCollege Law School; Kavanaugh is apartner in the Boston law firm ofConn, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal,Peisch & Ford. TThhoommaass JJ.. NNeeaagglleehas been named vice president andfield operations team leader withAIPSO Communication Services,headquartered in Johnson, R.I. Inthis position, Neagle is responsiblefor directing the delivery of AIPSOproducts and services to auto insur-ance residual market customers in49 states and the District ofColumbia. DDaavviidd JJ.. SScchhooeettzz JJrr..,,MM..DD..,, was elected secretary of theAmerican Society of Colon andRectal Surgeons for the 1999-2000term at its annual meeting held May5, in Washington, D.C. Schoetz iscurrently the chairman of thedepartment of colon and rectal sur-gery at the Lahey Clinic MedicalCenter, Burlington, Mass., and pro-fessor of surgery at Tufts University.JJoohhnn PP.. SStteeuutteerrmmaann has joined H.P.Hood, Chelsea, Mass., as the com-pany’s new business developmentmanager.

1971Class ChairRobert T. BonaguraClass CorrespondentJerome J. Cura Jr.DDaanniieell AA.. CCaappeenn,, MM..DD..,, an orthope-dic surgeon in Oxnard, Calif., hasedited a published medical text-book, Comprehensive Managementof Spine Trauma. TThhoommaass FF.. EEggaann,,who is a managing director ofSalomon Smith Barney Inc., ischairman of the board of trustees ofthe State University of New York.JJaammeess FF.. KKiieerrnnaann is regional salesmanager, TIC Enterprises (LucentTechnologies Sales Division) inFlorida. RRiicchhaarrdd JJ.. LLeeoonn has beennamed to the white collar crimeand congressional investigationspractice areas in the Washington,D.C., office of Vorys, Sater Seymour& Pease. Leon, who is a full-timelaw professor at St. John’sUniversity Law School, also co-teaches a course on “CongressionalInvestigations” at GeorgetownUniversity Law School with John D.Podesta, the chief of staff toPresident Clinton. In May, SSuupprreemmeeCCoouurrtt JJuussttiiccee CCllaarreennccee TThhoommaass wasthe guest speaker at the dinner fol-lowing the annual Red Mass cele-

brated at St. Anthony CatholicChurch in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

1972Class ChairAllan F. Kramer IIDDaanniieell FF.. BBrraaddlleeyy JJrr.. was recentlyelected to the Northboro-Southboro(Mass.) School Committee. JJoosseepphhSS.. HHaarrtt,, who is president of thePeterborough Oil Co., has beennamed “1999 Business Leader ofthe Year” by the GreaterPeterborough (N.H.) Chamber ofCommerce. WWiilllliiaamm JJ.. HHeeaapphhyy IIIIIIwas recently promoted to the posi-tion of state and local governmentdivision chief of the Ohio LegislativeService Commission. In this capaci-ty, Heaphy supervises the LSC’sstaff responsible for serving thecommittees of the Ohio legislaturethat deal with election law, ethicsand campaign financing, veteransaffairs and economic developmentand small business law.

1973Class Co-ChairsGregory C. FlynnEdward P. MeyersThe U.S. Navy has named BBaarrrryy MM..CCoosstteelllloo to the rank of admiral; heis currently serving as principaldeputy for the U.S. Senate LiaisonOffice of Legislative Affairs. SSttaannlleeyyWW.. ((BBuudd)) SStteevveennss is now the vicepresident of human resources withFidelity Investments, Covington, Ky.RRoobbeerrtt AA.. SSuulllloo has recently com-pleted a new book entitled TheInspiring Teacher: New Beginningsfor the 21st Century, published bythe National Education AssociationProfessional Library.

MARRIED: SStteepphheenn AA.. CCeerruuoolloo and

Emily Barrett, on April 10, inWinchester, Mass.

1974Class Co-ChairsStanley J. Kostka Jr.Edward J. SullivanRRoobbeerrtt JJ.. DDoonnoovvaann and his wife,Kathleen, announce the birth oftheir daughter, Mary Catherine, onSept. 17, 1998. SStteepphheenn GG.. EEaarrlleehas been elected president of theNew England chapter of theHealthcare Information andManagement Systems Society(HIMSS). After 21 years in theCoast Guard and Marine Corps,JJaammeess FF.. MMccMMaannuuss is now a pilotflying for Federal Express. TThhoommaassEE.. RReeiillllyy is a news editor for the SunChronicle in Attleboro, Mass. TheFallon Clinic has named RRaallpphh JJ..SSaammaa,, MM..DD..,, its “1998 Physician ofthe Year.” Sama, who is associatedwith Primary Care Physicians, aFallon affiliate located in Spencer,Mass., is a member of the staff ofSt. Vincent Hospital, Worcester; hehas also become a member of theAmerican College of Physicians.DDeerrrriikk FF.. WWooooddbbuurryy,, MM..DD..,, recentlyhad his first novel published, apolitical/medical thriller entitledDeception. Woodbury, an orthope-dic surgeon who specializes in handsurgery, maintains offices in Avonand Windsor, Conn.; he is also aclinical assistant professor of sur-gery at the University ofConnecticut Health Center inFarmington. VViiccttoorr LL.. ZZiimmmmeerrmmaannnnJJrr.. is a partner in the Stamford,Conn., office of the New York City-based law firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost Colt and Mosle.Zimmermann focuses his practicein the areas of emerging companyfinancing, securities litigation,

Casey ’55 meets Holy Father and receives medal

Federal Judge Richard Conway Casey ’55, who recently receivedthe Blessed Hyacinth Cormier O.P. Medal at the Angelicum

in Rome, is pictured here meeting Pope John Paul II. The citationrecognized his “outstanding leadership in the promotion ofGospel Values in the field of justice and ethics.” Casey is thethird recipient of this honor. The previous recipients are the Popeand former Treasury Secretary William Simon, who is pictured inthe above photo to the left of Casey.

investment partnerships and finan-cial services.

1975Class Co-ChairsJoseph W. CummingsJoseph A. Sasso Jr.CCmmddrr.. DDeenniiss VV.. AArrmmyy,, UUSSNN,, whonow captains the AEGIS guidedmissile carrier, USS Cape St.George, home ported in Norfolk,Va., was the guest speaker at theMemorial Day program held inWorcester on May 31. DDeennnniiss RR..CChhaatteeaauunneeuuff,, chief operating officerfor Digital Telecommunications Inc.,Boca Raton, Fla., has been namedto the additional post of president.DDoonnaalldd PP.. OOllssoonn is now executivedirector and general manager forworkers’ compensation operationswith Private Healthcare SystemsInc. in Waltham, Mass. BBeerrnnaarrdd JJ..SScchhuummaacchheerr,, who received his CFA(chartered financial analyst) inSeptember, is also an adjunct pro-fessor of finance at Teikyo PostUniversity in Waterbury, Conn.

1976Class ChairThomas E. RyanClass CorrespondentThomas C. HealeyIn June, the MassachusettsGovernor’s Executive Council unan-imously approved the appointmentof PPaauull MM.. VVrraabbeell as associate jus-tice in the Northern BerkshireDistrict Court; Vrabel has beenassociated with the Adams, Mass.,law firm of Donovan and O’Connorsince 1983.

1977Class Co-ChairsKathleen T. ConnollyShaun P. MathewsJJoohhnn MM.. KKllooffaass,, chairman of thecriminal justice department at theRochester (N.Y.) Institute ofTechnology, was recently grantedthe 1999 Adolph J. RodenbeckAward by the Monroe County BarAssociation. MMaaggggiiee WWiillddeerrootttteerr,,chief executive officer of WinkCommunications, Alameda, Calif.,recently demonstrated a new inter-active television technology calledWink that allows viewers to use thetelevision remote control to orderproducts and obtain informationthrough their cable boxes.

1978Class Co-ChairsMarcia Hennelly MoranMark T. MurrayMichael H. ShanahanAllegheny Energy Inc., Hagerstown,Md., recently announced that PPaauullMM.. BBaarrbbaass has joined the companyas president of AYP Capital Inc., thecompany’s wholly owned venturessubsidiary. In addition, Barbas hasbeen named a vice president ofAllegheny Energy Inc. and ofAllegheny Energy Service Corp. Hisduties include leading the compa-ny’s efforts to expand its telecom-munications opportunities within itsexempt telecommunication sub-sidiary, Allegheny Communications

Connect Inc.; managing its energyservice subsidiary, Allegheny EnergySolutions; and identifying and eval-uating new unregulated opportuni-ties. CCmmddrr.. JJaammeess FF.. HHoollllaanndd IIII,,UUSSNN,, recently completed a six-month deployment to theMediterranean Sea and ArabianGulf aboard the amphibious assaultship and Amphibious Ready Groupflagship, USS Nassau, home portedin Norfolk, Va. The deploymentinvolved support of the NATO mili-tary offensive against the FederalRepublic of Yugoslavia and provi-sion of humanitarian relief toKosovo. DDaavviidd HH.. SSttaahheellsskkii hasbeen named vice president ofadministration at Milford (Conn.)Hospital.

1979Class Co-ChairsGeorge A. AshurDeborah PellesSt. Mary’s Press recently publishedLLiissaa CCaallddeerroonnee--SStteewwaarrtt’’ss newestbook, Life Works and Faith Fits,which recounts true stories aboutthe role of faith in daily life; severalstories involve campus life andgraduates of Holy Cross. EEuuggeennee BB..CCaassaaggrraannddee JJrr..,, MM..DD..,, maintains aprivate medical practice as a familypractitioner in Frederick, Md.AAnntthhoonnyy DD.. DDookkuurrnnoo’’ss biographywas selected for inclusion in Who’sWho in America (53rd edition,1999). LLoorreettttaa ((IIvviicchh)) EEddmmoonnddssoonn,,MM..DD..,, and her husband, Mitch,announce the adoption of their one-year old daughter, Anna Lee, fromthe People’s Republic of China.SStteepphheenn LL.. FFrreeeemmaann coached theHampstead, N.H., boys fifth andsixth grade travel team which wentundefeated and won theManchester (N.H.) SuburbanLeague. AAnnnn MMccEEllaanneeyy--JJoohhnnssoonn isnow the associate dean of SalemCollege, a liberal arts college forwomen in Winston-Salem, N.C.PPaattrriicciiaa MM.. SShheeaa continues to workin the legal department of theCommunications Workers ofAmerica in Washington, D.C.BBaarrbbaarraa TTyylleennddaa is the seniorattending psychologist for the devel-opmental disabilities program atthe Emma Pendleton BradleyHospital in East Providence, R.I.Tylenda is also an assistant clinicalprofessor at the Brown UniversitySchool of Medicine in Providence,and serves as expert witness for thestate of Connecticut’s Departmentof Child and Youth Services.TTeerreennccee HH.. WWaallsshh and his wife,Kendra, announce the birth of theirson, Ian Patrick, in March. GGeerraarrddAA.. ((RRoodd)) WWooooddffoorrdd,, who is a seniorvice president at AmSouth Bank inBirmingham, Ala., has graduatedfrom the Stonier Graduate Schoolof Banking; his thesis, “Year 2000and Credit Risk: Remediation andOpportunity,” has been publishedand placed in the libraries of theAmerican Bankers Association inWashington, D.C., and the HarvardBusiness School.

1980Class Co-ChairsJ. Christopher CollinsElizabeth Palomba SpragueKathleen L. WieseLLyynnnn ((CCoorrmmiieerr)) BBrroowwnnee,, who is pur-suing her master of arts degree inapplied theology at Elms College,Chicopee, Mass., won the secondplace graduate level award in anessay contest sponsored by theCardinal Suenens Program inTheology and Church Life at JohnCarroll University in Cleveland.Browne is the business managerand accountant for the Catholicschools of Pittsfield, Mass. HHaarroollddAA.. ((HHaall)) CCoonnddaarraa JJrr..,, MM..DD..,, who hasbeen practicing cardiology inHouston, Texas, at St. JosephHospital for eight years, has alsobeen on the board of the JVC-Southfor the past six years, most recentlyserving as chairman. MMaatttthheeww CC..FFeerrgguussoonn and his wife, Kristine,announce the birth of their twins,Henry Seamus and Grace Murphy,on June 10. Ferguson practices lawin Aspen, Colo. KKaatthheerriinnee AA..JJoohhnnssoonn received tenure in the phi-losophy department at Hanover(Ind.) College. JJuussttiinnee HHaarrrriissoonnKKrraauuss works part time as a physicaltherapist. MMaarrggaarreett ((EEggaazzaarriiaann))MMccGGoowwaann and her husband,Michael, announce the birth of theirson, Ryan Michael, on June 15,1998. HHiillaarryy MM.. NNaannggllee,, who is nowa full-time free-lance writer and edi-tor, contributes regularly to variousregional and national publicationsand Internet sites on skiing, travel,the arts and food. In addition toreceiving the Maine MediaWomen’s 1998 Communicator ofAchievement Award, she alsoearned honorary mention in theHarold S. Hirsch Snow SportsJournalism Competition in April.AAllffrreedd PP.. QQuuiirrkk JJrr.. has beenappointed vice president, finance,and treasurer of Aetna Inc.,Hartford, Conn. In addition todirecting Aetna’s financing andmerger and acquisition activity,Quirk is now responsible for capitalmanagement, treasury operationsand rating agency relations; he alsocontinues to oversee Aetna’s corpo-rate finance, foreign exchange, cor-porate insurance and pension man-agement areas. KKaatthhlleeeenn MM..SShhaannnnoonn,, who has been on the fac-ulty of the Salisbury (Md.) StateUniversity for 10 years, was namedchair of the department of mathe-matics and computer science effec-tive in July and was promoted to therank of full professor effective Aug.15. MMaarrcc JJ.. TThhiibbooddeeaauu and his wife,Connie, announce the birth of theirtwins, James Kelly and KerriElizabeth, on March 26.

1981Class Co-ChairsJames G. HealyElizabeth Stevens MurdyWilliam J. SuppleEElliizzaabbeetthh ((EEllaa)) SSuulliimmiirrsskkii BBllaakkeesslleeeeis now working as a residentialmortgage broker for White HorseFinancial Services, Bronxville, N.Y.AAnnnnaa BB.. CCoollttoonn,, director and teamleader with BankBoston, cultural,

education and healthcare division,is an allocation volunteer for theUnited Way of Massachusetts Bay.RRoobbeerrtt and EElliizzaabbeetthh ((BBaarrrryy)) HHeeaalleeyyannounces the birth of their son,John “Jack” Huntington, on April 23.Bob is a partner in the real estategroup of Ernst & Young in Boston.MMaarryy--LLyynnnn KKiinnnneeyy and her hus-band, Roy Szoka, announce thebirth of their daughter, CaitlynMary, on April 28. PPaauullaa PP.. LLiittsscchheerrhas been named vice president offinance and administration withLinx Communications Inc., a com-munications service provider inNewton, Mass. KKaatthhaarriinnee BBuucckklleeyyMMccNNaammaarraa and her husband, Mike,announce the birth of their daugh-ter, Lucy Kathleen, on July 4. RReevv..BBrruuccee TT.. MMoorrrriillll,, SS..JJ..,, is assistantprofessor of theology at BostonCollege. In March GGlleennnnoonn JJ..OO’’GGrraaddyy,, MM..DD..,, who is currentlyvice chairman of family medicine atBoston University-Boston MedicalCenter, was guest lecturer in Fr.Morrill’s graduate course, “DivineWorship and Human Healing;”drawing on his 10 years of experi-ence as director of the GreaterLawrence Family Health Clinic, hespoke on the physician’s vocationas healer to the total person.TThheerreessaa ((TTeerrii)) MMoosscchheettttaa,, a nation-al account manager for the Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group,received the 1998 Chairman’sAward for her work on the scaffold-ing collapse that shut down a sever-al block radius of midtownManhattan during the summer of1998. Moschetta is also an activemember of the Women’sLeadership Forum, an arm of theDemocratic National Committee.BBaarrbbaarraa TTaallmmaaddggee SSiieebbeerr and herhusband, Glenn, announce the birthof their son, Kevin Andrew, on June2.

1982Class Co-ChairsRobert E. ChmielJean Kelly CummingsThomas P. Joyce Jr.PPaattrriicciiaa MMccAAnnaannllyy BBoorrzznneerr and herhusband, Scott, announce the birthof their daughter, Anne Kathleen,on Feb. 6. JJoohhnn RR.. DDuuffffyy managesJ.P. Morgan’s private client invest-ment business for the West Coastand Latin America. MMaarrkk EE.. RReeiiddhas been promoted to manager ofbilling systems at Quest DiagnosticsInc., a nationwide medical laborato-ry. Sun Life of Canada, a financialservice company with U.S. head-quarters in Wellesley Hills, Mass.,has named PPaauull DD.. VVaasskkaass assistantvice president, public relations andcommunications.

MARRIED: MMaarrkk EE.. RReeiidd andDenise Schumacher, on March 27.

1983Class Co-ChairsPatricia G. HaylonDavid J. TrasattiSSaarraahh MMuurrpphhyy BBuurrrr and her hus-band, Richard, announce the birthof their daughter, Sophia Rose, onDec. 3. MMaarriiee FFaauullkknneerr CCaammppbbeelllland her husband, John, announce



the birth of their daughter,Kathleen, on May 28, 1998.Campbell continues to work forNetscape Communications as asenior account manager focused onfinancial services. JJeennnniiffeerr KKeelllleeyyHHooddggkkiinnss and her husband,Andrew, announce the birth of theirson, Ryan Andrew, on Aug. 2, 1998.JJaammeess IIrrzzyykk and his wife, Jody,announce the birth of their twins,Jeremy and Jordana, on Jan. 27.TToodddd II.. MMuunneesseess,, MM..DD..,, is now themedical director of the University ofMaryland’s Drug Treatment Center,in College Park. RRoosseemmaarryyMMaazzzzaaffeerrrroo PPeeppiinn and her husband,Robert, announce the birth of theirdaughter, Julia Rose, on Sept. 26,1998. FFrraannkk GG.. UUsssseegglliioo and hiswife, Janet, announce the birth oftheir daughter, Halle Caroline, onApril 6.

1984Class Co-ChairsFred J. O’ConnorRichard W. Shea Jr.JJoosseepphh JJ.. BBrraaddlleeyy,, MM..DD..,, has joinedthe Active Medical Staff atSouthern Maine Medical Center inthe radiology department. VViirrggiinniiaaAA.. CCllaavviinn and her husband, KevinHiggins, announce the birth of theirtwins, Connor Xavier and KevinThomas, on Nov. 24. Clavin is nowthe principal clerk to N.Y. StateSupreme Court Justice Geoffrey J.O’Connell. LLyynnddaa II.. DDuuggaass and herhusband, Chris Kauth, announcethe birth of their son, LukasWarren, on May 2. JJuulliiee VViieennss FFoolleeyyand her husband, Kenneth,announce the birth of their son,Brendan Joseph, on Jan. 6. MMeeggaannEE.. FFooxx,, who has opened the MeganFox Art Advisory in New York,works as an advisor to art collec-tors. JJoohhnn PP.. GGaaffffiiggaann and his wife,Mariah, announce the birth of theirdaughter, Brenna Katharine, onAug. 30, 1998. JJaammeess MM.. KKeennnnaarryyworks for the Ford Motor Co.,Detroit, Mich., in marketing andsales. JJoohhnn SS.. LLaaRRoossaa has beennamed vice president of sales andmarketing for United SoundEntertainment, Boston. He was alsothe recipient of the Paul HarrisFellowship, Rotary International’shighest honor, given in recognitionof community service and fund-rais-ing efforts. MMaarryy RRoossee HHaassssoonnLLyynncchh and her husband, Dennis,announce the birth of their daugh-ter, Margaret Jackson, on Dec. 9.SSuussaann OO’’HHaaggaann MMaarrlleeyy and herhusband, Bob, announce the birthof their son, Daniel Emmett, onSept. 21, 1998. LLtt.. CCmmddrr.. FFrraanncciiss XX..MMaarrttiinn,, UUSSNN,, has received theCoast Guard Meritorious UnitCommendation while assigned tothe Precommissioning Unit Higgins.KKaassiiaa AA.. MMaassttrraannggeellii and her hus-band, Douglas, announce the birthof their daughter, Mia Claire, onFeb. 22. MMiicchhaaeell JJ.. OO’’SShhaauugghhnneessssyy,,MM..DD..,, is an assistant clinical profes-sor of obstetrics and gynecology,University of California-SanFrancisco, Fresno MedicalEducation Program. CChhrriissttiinneePPeetteerrss--LLaawwlleerr is currently costumedesigning the Fox series, “The X-Files,” for its fifth season; she

recently designed the new film,“The Annihilation of Fish,” starringLynn Redgrave and James EarlJones, due for release in September.TThhoommaass RR.. PPuulleeoo and his wife,Cathy ’86, announce the birth oftheir son, Kevin Richard, on March14. DDiiaannee MMuurrpphhyy QQuuiinnllaann,, who isan attorney with the Manchester,N.H., law firm of Devine Millimetand Branch, was recently the recipi-ent of the New Hampshire BarFoundation’s Robert E. KirbyAward, given to a lawyer 35 yearsold or younger who exemplifies thecombined traits of civility, courtesy,perspective and excellent advocacy.GGaarryy JJ.. QQuuiinnllaann is a pilot for DeltaAir Lines Inc. and serves as a lieu-tenant commander in the U.S.Naval Reserves, flying C-130 air-planes. SSuuzzaannnnee MM.. RRuusssseellll hasjoined the Chicago, Ill., law firm ofKatten Muchin & Zavis as a partnerin its tax and financial servicesdepartments. CCaarrmmiinnee LL.. SSaallvvuuccccii isassociate director-development, atStanford (Calif.) University. AAmmyy TT..SStteewwaarrtt and her husband, BenjaminFord, announce the birth of theirdaughter, Anna Caroline, on Jan. 11.MMaauurreeeenn MMccGGrraatthh SSvvoobbooddaa worksfor Bristol-Myers Squibb,Plainsboro, N.J., in brand manage-ment. Grubb & Ellis, a commercialreal estate services firm inPittsburgh, Pa., has named TT..BBrraaddlleeyy TTootttteenn a senior vice presi-dent in the transaction servicesgroup. PPhhyylllliiss LL.. TToowwnnsseenndd,, MM..DD..,,and her husband, Bill Moore,announce the birth of their daugh-ter, Alice Hazel, on Aug. 21, 1998.LLiissaa RRooppppllee WWiillkk has been promot-ed to partner at the Boston lawfirm, Ropes & Gray.

1985Class Co-ChairJames M. O’NeillJJooaann ((SSttaannttoonn)) BBrruuggmmaann works fulltime as the licensed clinical psy-chologist for the outpatient psychol-ogy department at GastonMemorial Hospital, Gastonia, N.C.BBeerrnnaaddeettttee KKeeeeffee and JJoohhnn BB.. DDoorreeJJrr. announce the birth of theirdaughter, Amy Elizabeth, on March30. AAddrriiaannaa BBaallaagguueerr DDuunnnn and herhusband, Chris, announce the birthof their daughter, Catherine. DDuunnnncontinues to serve on the faculty atSeton Hall University, Newark, N.J.,where she teaches psychology onthe graduate level. JJooaannnnee MMeerrrriiaammGGrreeggaa works at Winchester (Mass.)Hospital as the administrative direc-tor of four departments. PPaauull KK..HHaalllloorraann JJrr.. and his wife, June,announce the birth of their daugh-ter, Martha Lucy, on May 5.Halloran is the news editor at theDaily Evening Item in Lynn, Mass.KKaatthhlleeeenn ((DDuuggggaann)) and MMiicchhaaeell RR..KKnnaappiikk announce the birth of theirdaughter, Katherine Rose, on Oct.3, 1998. Michael was recently elect-ed to his fifth term as aMassachusetts state senator, repre-senting the second Hampden-Hampshire district; he was alsoappointed the senate’s minoritywhip. DDoorrii ((DDeeppttuullaa)) LLaaBBeellllaa,, whois a teacher in the Warwick, R.I.,school system, recently received hermaster of education degree from

the University of Rhode Island.PPaammeellaa KK.. LLiinnddeerr,, who is the direc-tor of a community-based juvenileoffender treatment program in NewHaven, Conn., provides consultationand training to the department ofchildren and families for the state ofConnecticut. KKaatthhlleeeenn ((MMccCClloosskkeeyy))and NN.. MMyylleess MMaagguuiirree announcethe birth of their son, BrianNicholas, on March 7. In May 1998,MMaarryy--EElliizzaabbeetthh ((TTeessssii)) MMaayynnaarrddcompleted her second master’sdegree in education from AnnaMaria College, Paxton, Mass.Maynard, who currently teachespsychology and sociology atLeominster (Mass.) High School,recently conducted an interdiscipli-nary/intergenerational psycholo-gy/writing project with high schoolstudents and local senior citizens.MMaarrtthhaa RRuusssseellll MMiittcchheellll and herhusband, Elliot, announce the birthof their daughter, Jane Sara, on Feb.4. Mitchell is the director of devel-opment at the Wilmington (Del.)Friends School. LLyynnnnee HHuuttcchhiinnssoonnMMuuddiiee and her husband, Craig,announce the birth of their daugh-ter, Anne Margaret, on Oct. 31.Mudie is currently teaching mathand Spanish to high school stu-dents. VViirrggiinniiaa VVaallaaddee WWiiddmmaannnnand her husband, Bryan, announcethe birth of their daughter, ClaireMarie, on Jan. 26. Widmann workspart time as a controller for GameCreek Video, a television produc-tion truck company in Amherst,N.H.

MARRIED: MMaarryy EE.. MMaaccLLeeaann andJohn E. Toland, on Oct. 24, at OurLady of Mercy Church in Belmont,Mass. JJooaannnnee MM.. MMeerrrriiaamm and JohnGrega, on Oct. 3, 1998.

1986Class Co-ChairsPatrick L. McCarthy Jr.Kathleen A. QuinnMMiicchhaaeell JJ.. CChhoojjnnaacckkii,, who recentlyjoined the New York City FireDepartment, is now a firefighterstationed in Rockaway Beach. JJoohhnnSS.. ((SSeeaann)) CCllaarrkk IIIIII now works as apension consultant for the NorthernTrust Co. in Chicago, Ill. DDoonnnnaaKKaalleeyy CCoooonneeyy and her husband,Jim, announce the birth of their son,Jack Michael, on June 19. Cooney iscurrently working as a registerednurse for the Berkshire VisitingNurse Association, Pittsfield, Mass.FFrraannkk JJ.. DDiiMMaauurroo,, DD..MM..DD..,, and hiswife, Anne Marie, announce thebirth of their daughter, MadelineMay, on Aug. 30, 1998. JJoosseepphh JJ..DDoonnnneerr is the global director of cor-porate communications forPricewaterhouseCoopers. EElliizzaabbeetthhSSttoollmmeeiieerr GGllaauubbeerr and her hus-band, Jeff, announce the birth oftheir son, Michael Patrick, on July 2.EElliizzaabbeetthh WW.. HHiillddeebbrraanndd and herhusband, James, announce the birthof their daughter, Catherine Marie,on Dec. 30. RRoobbeerrtt AA.. IInnddeegglliiaa JJrr..has become a principal of MagnaHospitality Group, Providence, R.I.;he is currently serving as executivevice president of the companywhich owns and operates hotelsprimarily on the East Coast. KKaarreennMMaatttthheewwss LLeeaarryy and her husband,

John, announce the birth of theirson, Matthew John, on April 24,1998. AAnnnnee BBaarrrryy MMiillllaarrdd and herhusband, Paul, announce the birthof their daughter, MadeleineElizabeth, on Feb. 1. SStteepphheenn TT..MMuurrrraayy has been named a partnerin the Boston law firm of Mintz,Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky andPopeo. RRoobbeerrtt NNiiccoollaaii and his wife,Maureen, announce the birth oftheir daughter, Kristen, on May 2.For the past three years, Nicolai hasbeen self-employed, maintaining anaccounting and tax practice. CCaatthhyy((MMaahhaannnnaa)) PPuulleeoo and her husband,Tom ’84, announce the birth oftheir son, Kevin Richard, on March14. RRiicchhaarrdd RR.. SScchhiilllliinngg has beenemployed by NBC to produce itsnew soap opera entitled Passions,which premiered in July. TTiimmootthhyy RR..WWaallsshh is a deputy district attorneyin San Diego, Calif., a lieutenantcommander in the U.S. NavyReserves, and an adjunct professorof Law at the University of SanDiego Law School.

MARRIED: MMaauurraa AA.. CCrroowwlleeyy andWilliam E. Bennett, on April 18, atSt. Agatha’s Church in Milton,Mass.

1987Class Co-ChairsErin B. GrimesKathleen E. MoylanJames W. Nawn Jr.TThhoommaass FF.. BBuurrcchhiillll IIVV,, who nowlives in London, works for MorganStanley. KKiimmbbeerrllyy FFeerrrrii CCaakkeebbrreeaaddis now documentation manager forAurigin Systems in Mountain View,Calif. FFrraannkk AA.. CChhiicckkoo IIIIII and hiswife, Rhonda, announce the birth oftheir daughter, Jessica, on May 9.CCoolllleeeenn ((TTrraaiinnoorr)) CCoonnlleeyy,, who isnow a sales representative with theGenzyme Corp., is also the chair ofthe Mendon (Mass.) HistoricalCommission. VViirrggiinniiaa AA.. ((GGiinnggeerr))CCoonnttii recently joined the staff of theHebrew Rehabilitation Center forthe Aged in Boston as the directorof auxiliary services. MMaarryy MM..((MMoollllyy)) DDiiggggiinnss and her husband,Mark, announce the birth of theirson, Liam Joseph, on Oct. 6, 1998.DDaanniieell MM.. FFaallvveeyy and his wife, Betsy’88, announce the birth of theirdaughter, Lauren Margaret, on Dec.31. CChhaarrlleess EE.. ((TTeedd)) GGrraanneeyy,, whorecently joined four other attorneysto form the new law firm, WebsterSzany, in Buffalo, N.Y., practicescivil litigation and environmentallaw. JJeennnniiffeerr ((MMccCCaarrtthhyy)) KKiinnddeell andher husband, George, announce thebirth of their son, Sawyer Philip, onMay 24. DDaavviidd JJ.. LLaayyddeenn and hiswife, Joy, announce the birth oftheir daughter, Bridgette Kay, onApril 9. Layden is currentlyemployed as a litigation attorneywith the Provident Companies Inc.in Worcester. EEddwwaarrdd CC.. MMaahheerr JJrr..is senior vice president, investmentservices, with Fallon Hines &O’Connor Inc., Boston. JJuulliieeMMccEEllaanneeyy--GGoorrmmaann and her hus-band, Peter, announce the birth oftheir son, Matthew Francis, onMarch 11. SSuussaannnnee BB.. and CChhrriissttiiaannMM.. MMccGGaannnnoonn announce the birthof their daughter, Elisabeth

Madison, on July 9, 1998. Christiancontinues his work as trial counselto many insurance carriers. JJooaannnnAAmmrreeiinn SScchhootttt and her husband,Christopher ’88, announce the birthof their daughter, Victoria Anne, onApril 20. KKaatthheerriinnee ((SShhaaggrroo)) TTaallllyyand her husband, P.J., announce thebirth of their son, Owen Philip, onJune 18, 1998. JJeessssiiccaa ((GGoobbeeyy))TThhoommppssoonn is now working parttime as the public relations manag-er for Cybereps, a firm specializingin online advertising, located inSausalito, Calif.

MARRIED: EErriikk WW.. LLeennzz and LauraT. Crane, on Nov. 1, at St. CharlesBorromeo Church in Arlington, Va.

1988Class Co-ChairsPaul E. DemitHeidi M. Mechley-FeltonIn May, JJeennnniiffeerr AA.. ((JJaayy)) CCllaarrkkeereceived her Ph.D. from BrownUniversity, Providence, R.I. JJaammeess GG..FFaaiirr and his wife, Cathy, announcethe birth of their son, Jack, on June20. Fair has been named the vicepresident of sales with NewtonOnline Business Solutions inWaltham, Mass. BBeettssyy ((PPeeaarrssoonn))FFaallvveeyy and her husband, Daniel ’87,announce the birth of their daugh-ter, Lauren Margaret, on Dec. 31.JJeeaannnniinnee HHaannlleeyy FFoorrbbeess and herhusband, Jeff, announce the birth oftheir daughter, Karen Emily, on Oct.20, 1998. MMiicchhaaeell RR.. HHoorroowwiittzz andhis wife, Ann, announce the birth oftheir twins, Robert Irving andThomas Raymond, on April 9.FFrraanncciiss XX.. ((SSkkiipp)) LLeeaarryy and his wife,Andrea ’89, announce the birth oftheir daughter, Rebecca Rose, onJuly 6, 1998. FFrraannkk JJ.. and JJooaann PP..MMaassttrraannddrreeaa announce the birth oftheir son, Jacob Ryan, on Dec. 8.MMaarriiaannnnee TT.. PPrriioorr--BBooyyeerr and herhusband, Joseph, announce thebirth of their son, Jose Thomas, onMay 21. MMaarriiss TTuuttrroonnee SSaatttteellyy andher husband, James, announce thebirth of their daughter, ElizabethAnn, on April 24. CChhrriissttooppeerr DD..SScchhootttt and his wife, Joann ’87,announce the birth of their daugh-ter, Victoria Anne, on April 20.KKaatthhlleeeenn OO’’RRoouurrkkee SSeeaammaann andher husband, Paul, announce thebirth of their daughter, AmandaJane, on Dec. 28. Seaman, whocontinues to work part time at theJericho, N.Y., law firm, O’Rourke,O’Rourke, Seaman and O’Rourke,concentrates her practice on trustsand estates.

MARRIED: JJ.. MMiicchhaaeell MMoorrrriisssseeyy,,MM..DD..,, and Michele E. Schwenk, onNov. 21, at Carmel Mission Basilica,Carmel, Calif. MMaarriiss CC.. TTuuttrroonnee andJames X. Sattely Jr., on Aug. 3, 1997,at Our Lady of Mount CarmelChurch, Ridgewood, N.J.

1989Class Co-ChairsChristina M. BuckleySean P. MartinJJoohhnn JJ.. BBaauueerr,, who recently com-pleted his Ph.D. in developmentalpsychology, accepted a two-yearpostdoctoral fellowship atNorthwestern University in Chicago.

CChhrriissttiinnee ((JJuulliiaannoo)) CCaannaavvaann and herhusband, Michael, announce thebirth of their son, Aidan Peter, onFeb. 7. MMaauurraa OO’’BBrriieenn CChhaammppiiggnnyyand her husband, Dave, announcethe birth of their daughter, JulieMadeline, on June 21, 1998. NNaannccyyLLoossoorrddoo CClliinnttoonn and her husband,Doug, announce the birth of theirson, Thomas Reed, on Feb. 7. CCaarrllaaCCaammppeessee CCoonnccaannnnoonn and her hus-band, Chris, announce the birth oftheir daughter, Celia, on June 11.KKiimmbbeerrllyy FFaannddeell CCoonnnnoollllyy is themarket development manager forFrito-Lay Inc., in northernCalifornia. EElliizzaabbeetthh JJ.. ((BBeettssyy))CCrraaccccoo received her Ph.D. in coun-seling psychology from theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, inMay; she has accepted a teachingposition in the department of psy-chology at the university. MMaarryy FF..CCrroonniinn has been promoted to con-troller of Legal Sea Foods Inc. MMaarryy((SSeerraallyy)) CCrroopppp and her husband,Jeff, announce the birth of theirdaughter, Grace Ruthann, on March29. EEiilleeeenn SShhaaww DDeeSSiissttoo and herhusband, Jim, announce the birth oftheir son, Matthew Shaw, on Dec.4. DDeeiirrddrree DDiiggggiinnss EErrbb and her hus-band, Jay, announce the birth oftheir son, Connor Nicholas, on Dec.24. RReevv.. DDoonnaalldd TT.. FFiinnnneeyy,, MMIICC,,who is the parochial vicar at theCathedral of St. Ignatius Loyola,Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., wasnamed the commencement speakerat Marianapolis Preparatory School,Thompson, Conn. BBrriiaann DD..GGaauuddeettttee,, DD..MM..DD..,, and his wife,Deborah ’91, announce the birth oftheir son, Eric David, on Dec. 16.Gaudette, who completed a two-year residency program inendodontics at the University ofConnecticut in June 1998, is now ingroup practice with Ocean StateEndodontics in Cranston, R.I. JJoohhnnFF.. HHaammiillttoonn JJrr..,, who currently ownsa special events production compa-ny in San Francisco, Calif., pro-duces events and meetings for cor-porate clients and AIDS-based non-profit organizations. KKiimmbbeerrllyy((WWiilllleeyy)) HHoowwllaanndd and her husband,Mark, announce the birth of theirdaughter, Madison Elizabeth, onNov. 30. Howland is a tax attorneyfor the Commonwealth ofMassachusetts Appellate Tax Boardin Boston. NNaannccyy CCoonnnnoollllyy KKiimmbblleeand her husband, Eric, announcethe birth of their daughter, SaraKathryn, on May 16, 1998. SStteepphheennMM.. KKlluuggee and his wife, Mary Beth,announce the birth of their son,Brett Alexander, on Dec. 23. Kluge,who is with Scudder Kemper, iscurrently a senior testing andreporting specialist in the retire-ment compliance department.AAnnddrreeaa ((HHaallppiinn)) LLeeaarryy and her hus-band, Skip ’88, announce the birthof their daughter, Rebecca Rose, onJuly 6, 1998. JJeeaann HH.. MMccGGrraatthh,, whois the coordinator of the“Newspaper in Education Program”for the Scranton (Pa.) Times-Tribune, is also on the board ofFriendship House; in June, McGrathserved as co-chair of “FriendshipHouse Evening,” a fund-raisingevent held to benefit the organiza-tion’s early childhood-early preven-tion program. LLoorrii OO’’CCoonnnneellll

MMoorrttoonn and her husband, Jim,announce the birth of their son,Daniel. After completing a three-year pediatric residency atMassachusetts General Hospital,Boston, EElliizzaabbeetthh ((TTeePPaass))MMuunnggoovvaann,, MM..DD..,, has accepted athree-year fellowship inallergy/immunology at Stanford.TThhoommaass JJ.. PPeeaarrccee and his wife,Heidi, announce the birth of theirdaughter, Karli Elizabeth, on April13. DDaavviidd TT.. RRaaccccaaggnnii and his wife,Amy, announce the birth of theirson, Owen Charles, on May 14.Raccagni is currently the productmanager for Delmar Products Inc.,Kensington, Conn. MMaarryybbeetthh RReeiillllyy--MMccGGrreeeenn and her husband, Joe,announce the birth of their son,Peter, on Nov. 7, 1998. MMaatttthheeww PP..RRoobbbbeenn and his wife, Patricia ’91,announce the birth of their daugh-ter, Kylie Anne, on Nov. 11, 1998.MMaarryy PPaatt SSmmiitthh and her husband,Christopher, announce the birth oftheir son, Daniel Timothy, on April12. WWeennddyy BBaarrkkeerr SSmmiitthh and herhusband, Timothy, announce thebirth of their son, Hunter Peter, onJan. 17. Smith has worked forTalbots’ corporate headquarters forthe past eight years as a buyer ofwomen’s apparel. SSttaacciiaaCClluutttteerrbbuucckk TToodddd and her husband,Sean, announce the birth of theirson, Conor Harland, on Nov. 11,1998. KKaatthhrryynn EEaaggeenn UUssssaaii,, MM..DD..,,has accepted the position of chiefmedical resident, department ofmedicine, at Thomas JeffersonUniversity Hospital, Philadelphia,Pa. AAnnnnee ZZiikkoowwiittcchh YYoouunngg and herhusband, Rob, announce the birthof their son, Jesse Freeman, on Oct.22, 1998.

MARRIED: LLoouuiissee FF.. MMuurrpphhyy andTheodore J. Biribin, on April 24, atImmaculate Conception Church,Cranston, R.I.

1990Class Co-ChairsJohn P. FaggianoCamille A. GartnerMMaarryy BBuucckklleeyy--HHaarrmmoonn and her hus-band, Steve, announce the birth oftheir daughter, Leah Elizabeth, onFeb. 13. LLiissaa ((DDeemmkkoo)) CCoohheenn andher husband, Mitch, announce thebirth of their son, Benjamin Harris,on Jan. 23. SSuussaann ((AAsshhee)) DDuuddlleeyyand her husband, Dane, announcethe birth of their son, John Patrick,on May 10. KKiimm MMoorrrrooww LLaagguuzzzzaa isan attorney with the San Francisco,Calif., law firm of SonnenscheinNath & Rosenthal. JJooAAnnnn JJ.. MMaarroottoo,,MM..DD..,, is a hospitalist at Danbury(Conn.) Hospital. RReevv.. MMiicchhaaeell CC..RRaannddoonnee,, who is parochial vicar ofSt. Michael’s Church, NorthAndover, Mass., also serves as thechaplain for the North Andoverpolice and fire departments.KKaatthhlleeeenn BBuuttlleerr SSmmiitthh and her hus-band, James, announce the birth oftheir son, James Patrick IV, on July24.

MARRIED: KKaarreenn HHooffffmmaann andMichael J. Bonney, on May 8, atHoly Innocents Roman CatholicChurch in Neptune, N.J. KKiimm AA..MMoorrrrooww and Gian-Carlo Laguzza, atSt. Michael the Archangel Church

in Greenwich, Conn., on Oct. 10,1998.

1991Class Co-ChairsPeter J. CapizziKristin M. Kraeger

By George Grattan:Dear Classmates:

Be Careful What You Ask ForDepartment: Many classmateshave responded to recent callshere and in our class letter formore green slips and moreinformation. Taking the cakeand the bakery it came fromthis time, however, is KKaattiieeCCoonnnnoorrttoonn,, who really ought toconsider private investigationas a career. Katie writes: “SSuueeSStteewwaarrtt DDuurrkkiinn and her hus-band, John ’90, had a baby boynamed John “Jack” in April.EErriinn CCaahhiillll OO’’HHeeaarrnn and herhusband, John, had a baby boy,also named John, in February.CCaarroolliinnee KKeerrsstteenn DDeellaanneeyy andMMiikkee DDeellaanneeyy recently boughta house in Manchester, N.H.KKaattee CCaarrrriinnggttoonn just bought anapartment in New York Cityand is working at SpinMagazine. MMeegg OO’’HHaarraa andJJoohhnn SSaassssoo bought a house inLong Beach, L.I. — John is grad-uating from Hofstra Universityin May with an M.B.A. and Megcontinues to work at HBO. Lastyear her documentary Roe V.Wade (which she co-wrote, co-directed and co-produced) wasbought and aired on CineMax.TTeerree MMaattttaa and her husbandIan had a baby girl namedSophia. SStteepphhaanniiee BBoorrmmaannnn isstill with Hewlett-Packard inSan Diego and just bought acondo. AAnnnnee RRiilleeyy,, who is backin Seattle, has graduated fromlaw school, and is clerking for ajudge. KKeelllliiee DDoonnnneellllyy left theU.S. Department of Interiorrecently and is now with theWashington, D.C., firm ofVerner and Liipfert. CCaaiittllyynnGGiillhhoooollyy PPaarrkkeerr and her hus-band have moved to Seattle,where he’s stationed with theAir Force. KKaattiiee MMoorrrriiss,, who isliving in New York City, worksfor Sumitomo Corp., and is inher second year at SternBusiness School.” Whew! Itseems that the Katies(Connorton and Morris) gar-nered much of the precedinginformation enjoying spring-time margaritas on a balcony inD.C., which just proves that ablender and an open ear arevaluable commodities in thattown. Katie (Connorton) andher husband, MMiikkee FFooggaarrttyy,,provided the balcony and theblender. Mike’s working atAmerica Online and has just



finished an M.B.A. program atthe University of Maryland;Katie’s graduating fromAmerican University with amasters in (you guessed it)broadcast journalism this July.Thanks for all the info, Katie.MMeeggaann CCllaarrkk writes to let usknow that she’s now practicinglabor/employment law in herhometown of Cincinnati, andthat she recently spent sometime in Paris with EEiilleeeenn HHaattttaann(who was taking a break — oris that a junket? — from her jobworking for Senator Kohl ofWisconsin). Megan’s alsobought a house and, havingturned 30 like so many of us, is“finally accepting that adult-hood has arrived.” (Did I missthe memo on that?) C’monMegan, you’ll always haveParis! Want a second opinionin the D.C. area? Check withany of these classmates: AAmmyyBBuurrkkee is in her medical resi-dency at GeorgetownUniversity, and TTiimm DDoonnaahhuuee isspending his third year of urol-ogy residency at BethesdaNaval Hospital. Tim reportsthat MMaarrkk MMiilllleerr and MMiikkeeBBiioonnddii are also at Bethesda.Tim and his wife, Christine(who’s a pathologist at JohnsHopkins University), seems tomanage a mini-menagerie athome: two dogs and six fish.(That’s either a line from a Dr.Seuss book or a great name foran alternative Rock band.)Being Shown the Money isDDoouugg LLiillllyy,, who just became anagent with the NationalFootball League. Doug, also anattorney, represents artists andbusiness managers in theentertainment industry, so he’sgoing to have to sue me for theJerry Maguire copyrightinfringement above. Doug tellsus that he sees GGeerrrryy GGiiaaiimmoo incourt on occasion, but declinesto elaborate; we can onlyassume the worst: Gerry is acourthouse groupie. AAnnnneeMMaarriiee LLiizzzzii is now the produc-tion manager of Time WarnerAdvertising in Albany, N.Y., andserves as the Albany ChapterPresident of American Womenin Radio and Television. Annehas run into LLiissaa ((DDuuffffyy)) DDiilllleeyy,,MMaarryy FFrraanncceess CCaarrnneeyy,, and herold roommate, KKiimm DDaavviiss--BBaassssoo,, over the past fewmonths. And rounding out thegeneral bits of news is a guywho has no excuse for spellinghis boss’ name wrong: JJooeeSSppiillllaannee,, formerly an A.D.A. inWorcester, has joined theWorcester firm of Spillane andSpillane, LLP. When caughtperforming an unauthorizedmusical number with some

wacky neighbors named Fredand Ethel down at the court-house, Joe was told he had alot of ’spillane-in to do.(Hmmm, first I swipe a CubaGooding Jr. line, then throw aRicky Ricardo reference …geez! There’s almost a motifgoing here.) Weddings,Weddings, Oh We’ve Got YourWeddings Right Here: TToommWWeebbeerr DD..MM..DD.. and his wife,Elizabeth Ann, were married inFlorida on Nov. 28, and thensank their teeth into a honey-moon in Costa Rica. (Thusalmost giving me a Cuban puntrifecta, but not quite.) Tomraves about the cigars, the rainforests, and the waves of CostaRica, but wasn’t thrilled withthe roads. Well, Tom, the roaddoesn’t always rise up to meetyou, sometimes it plunges youoff a switchback into a ravine.CChhrriiss FFaarrrreellll and KurtGrochowski were married byHoly Cross’ Fred Enman, S.J.,in September 1998 and hadAAnnnn FFaarrrreellll LLeesslliiee,, MMaauurraaDDaammiiaattaa,, RRoossee BBaakkeerr,, MMaauurreeeennCCaavvaannaauugghh,, RRoosseeaannnnee AAcchhiinn--HHoouusseemmaann and CCaarroolliinneeEEddwwaarrdd KKuurrzzwweellll as attendantsand guests … MMaarrttyy TTeeeevvaannand Shevaun Mellifont weremarried in Holmdel, N.J., onApr. 17 … JJuulliiee SSoolliinnsskkii joinedRobert J. Faller Jr. at the altaron Dec. 5 in White Plains, N.Y.TThhoommaass BB.. MMiilllleerr marriedWendy Ann Messina inFairfield, Conn. on May 23,1998 … RRoosseemmaarriiee DDeeCCiiccccooand David Crowley ’92 werewed on Oct. 18, … and the dual’91 couple of LLiissaa DDuunnnn andSSeeaann MMcckkeeoonn made thingslegal on June 27, 1998 in St.Joseph Chapel. And now, themoment that none of you arewaiting for: an update on thecontest for the most unusualgreenslip. Given the absolutelyunderwhelming number ofentries thus far, I’ve decided toextend the judging period –look for the winners (and los-ers worthy of honorable men-tion) next time.

1992Class ChairRenee L. MartinNNiicchhoollaass JJ.. AAiieettaa,, who is completinghis Ph.D. in American history at theUniversity of Nebraska in Lincoln, isan adjunct professor at Austin PeayState University, Clarksville, and afull-time history teacher at St.Cecilia Academy in Nashville.SStteepphhaanniiee KK..,, MM..DD..,, and MMiicchhaaeell SS..FFoowwlleerr,, MM..DD..,, announce the birth oftheir daughter, Amanda Victoria, onNov. 8, 1998. Stephanie, whorecently completed her family prac-tice residency at ShadysideHospital, Pittsburgh, Pa., has

accepted a position in private prac-tice. Michael, who completed hisinternal medicine residency atAllegheny General Hospital,Pittsburgh, Pa., has accepted a car-diology fellowship at Hartford(Conn.) Hospital. HHeeaatthheerr ((FFoouucchhee))and SSeeaann TT.. KKeeaavveennyy announce thebirth of their daughter, CaitlinElizabeth, on March 31. MMaarrkk AA..LLaaCCaammeerraa is an equities trader atDonaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette inNew York City. LLaauurraa MMaaccccaa,, whoreceived her master’s degree in tax-ation from the University ofHartford, is working as a senior taxmanager for Deloitte & Touche inHartford, Conn. Her responsibilitiesalso include overseeing Deloitteand Touche’s efforts to familiarizeemployees in the Hartford officewith the company’s programs, suchas flexible work schedules, careerplanning and development, mentor-ing and networking. LLaauurreeeenn((MMiiffffiitttt)) MMccGGoouurrttyy and her hus-band, Sean, announce the birth oftheir daughter, Julia Grace, on June17. KKeerrrryy RRoobbeerrttssoonn OO’’BBrriieenn andher husband, Tim ’91, announcethe birth of their daughter, CiaranPatricia, on Nov. 15, 1998. O’Brien,who received her M.P.H. degreefrom Columbia University, is nowcoordinating the disease manage-ment programs at Lenox HillHospital in New York City. In May,SSuuzzaannnnee MM.. OO’’CCoonnoorr received herdegree from the University ofConnecticut School of Law. EErriinnKKeellllyy RReeggaann,, who is a second-yearlaw student at St. John’s University,has accepted a postgraduate clerk-ship with U.S. District Court JudgeRichard Conway Casey ’55, in NewYork City. JJoohhnn JJ.. RRiicchhaarrdd is nowworking as a portfolio manager atState Street Global Advisors,Boston. SSeeaann WW.. SSuulllliivvaann and hiswife, Sarah ’93, announce the birthof their son, Seth Robert, on March10. MMiicchheellllee RR.. TToouurriiggnnyy recentlyreceived her Ph.D. in immunologyfrom the Joan and Sanford WeillGraduate School of MedicalSciences of Cornell University inNew York City; she is currentlyworking as a postdoctoral fellow,studying the causes of B-cell can-cers such as multiple myeloma.

MARRIED: NNiicchhoollaass JJ.. AAiieettaa andJanelle Strandberg, on May 23,1998, in Lincoln, Neb. CChhrriissttiinnaa EE..BBooyyllee and Michael R. Cush, on July17, at the Church of St. IgnatiusLoyola in New York. TTrraacceeyy LL..CCaaddiiggaann and Marc C. Cammarota,on Oct. 17, 1998, at Holy TrinityAbbey, Adare, County Limerick,Ireland. MMaarrkk AA.. LLaaCCaammeerraa andNicole M. Asselin at AssumptionChurch in Chicopee, Mass.CChhrriissttiinnaa JJ.. RReeiillllyy and Scott A. Bell’91, on June 13, 1998, at St. Johnthe Evangelist Church inSchenectady, N.Y.

1993Class Co-ChairsPatrick J. ComerfordPatrick J. SansonettiMMaatttthheeww TT.. AAbbbbootttt,, who receivedhis M.B.A. in June fromNorthwestern’s Kellogg GraduateSchool of Management, Chicago,

Ill., accepted a position with CreditSuisse First Boston in New YorkCity, in its fixed income division.DDaanniieellllee TToobbiiaa AAllbbuusshhiieess,, MM..DD..,,who received her degree fromDartmouth Medical School,Hanover, N.H., in June, accepted anob/gyn residency at StrongMemorial Hospital, Rochester, N.Y.TThhoommaass JJ.. BBeeaallll is now working insales for Cisco Systems inMaryland. SShhaarroonn LL.. BBeerreessiikk teach-es high school physics in Oxford,Mass. KKiimmbbeerrllyy AA.. BBrriimmuuss is a legalproduct manager at First DataInvestor Services Group in Boston.JJ.. PPhhiilliipp CCaallaabbrreessee and his wife,Becky, announce the birth of theirson, Nathaniel Bynum, on May 15.KKrriissttiinn BBeerrggiinn FFiittzzppaattrriicckk and herhusband, Jim, announce the birth oftheir daughter, Claire Elisabeth, onMarch 21. CCoolllleeeenn ((DDeetteerrss)) GGiillrrooyyand her husband, John, announcethe birth of their son, John Patrick,on May 27. SSccootttt MM.. GGrraahhaammreceived his doctor of osteopathicmedicine degree from Kirksville(Mo.) College of OsteopathicMedicine; he is an intern at Union(N.J.) Hospital. WWeennddyy SS.. KKeennnneeddyyhas joined the law firm of Pepe &Hazard, Hartford, Conn., as anassociate. AAnnddrreeaa SShheeaa MMccGGiinnnnand her husband, Jay, announce thebirth of their son, Evan William, onApril 21. JJoohhnn PP.. NNoowwaakk is currentlyattending the University ofRichmond School of Law inRichmond, Va. GGeenneevviieevvee MM..SScchhmmiitttt,, who received her doctor ofmedicine degree in 1998 from theMedical College of Wisconsin,interned at the University ofMaryland in Baltimore; she accept-ed a residency in neurology at theUniversity of Maryland effective inJuly. KKaatthhrryynn MM.. SSiisskk recentlyearned tenure in her position as aseventh-grade language artsteacher in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.MMaarrttiinn DD.. SSppiieellmmaannnn,, DD..MM..DD..,, whois finishing his general practice resi-dency at St. Francis Hospital,Hartford, Conn., accepted a posi-tion with the Walpole (Mass.)Dental Associates. SSaarraahh ((MMiicckk))SSuulllliivvaann and her husband, Sean ’92,announce the birth of their son,Seth Robert, on March 10. EElleennaa VV..VVaassiillee,, who received her M.B.A. inmarketing from the FordhamUniversity Graduate School ofBusiness in May, is currently work-

Please note our new alter-native Class Notes format.Classes may now presenttheir news in the tradi-tional manner or in a let-ter format written by adesignated class reporter.Please take a look at theClass of 1949 and 1991for examples of this newformat. Remember, allclass news can be sent toHoly Cross Magazine [email protected]

ing at Cablevision Systems Corp. inBethpage, N.Y., as director of videoproducts in the product manage-ment and marketing divisions.

MARRIED: SSccootttt PP.. BBllaanncchheettttee andJennifer J. Leach ’94, on May 22, inSt. Joseph Memorial Chapel. EEaarrll AA..BBuueennoo and Theresa Josef, on June13, 1998, at St. John of the CrossChurch, Middlebury, Conn. PPaattrriicckkMM.. MMuunnggoovvaann and Jennifer A.Lanctot, on Sept. 6, 1998, in theChapel of the Sacred Heart ofBoston College in Newton. SSaarraa CC..NNaaiillll and AAnnddrreeww WW.. SSuulllliivvaann,, inAugust 1998, on Cape Cod, Mass.JJoosseepphh VV.. OO’’CCoonnnnoorr and Margot S.Fell, on May 22, 1999, at St.Thomas More Roman CatholicChurch in New York. MMaarrggaarreett EE..SScchhaaeeffeerr and John Farra, on March21, 1998, in Park Ridge, Ill. NNaannccyy JJ..SSnnooww and TThheeooddoorree FF.. VViillllaa at St.Pius X Church in South Yarmouth,Mass. DDaanniieellllee MM.. TToobbiiaa,, MM..DD..,, andThomas Albushies, M.D., on May 8.

1994Class Co-ChairsJulia F. GentileAmanda M. MurphyJJeennnniiffeerr ((LLeeaacchh)) BBllaanncchheettttee is cur-rently a trader of international equi-ties with MFS InvestmentManagement in Boston. KKeevviinn RR..BBoonnaannnnoo teaches seventh gradesocial studies in Syosset, N.Y., andcoaches high school baseball. InJune, EElllleenn EE.. DDeeMMaarrccoo received herdoctor of osteopathy degree fromthe University of New EnglandCollege of Osteopathic Medicine,Biddeford, Maine. CChhrriissttoopphheerr PP..DDoowwdd is currently completing hissecond year of medical school.MMaatttthheeww BB.. DDuuddlleeyy is currently anM.B.A. candidate at the CarlsonSchool of Management at theUniversity of Minnesota. MMooffttaahh EEll--GGhhaaddii,, who received his degreefrom the University of PennsylvaniaSchool of Dental Medicine in May,is currently doing his internship atDana Farber, Brigham & Womensand Massachusetts General hospi-tals. JJoosshhuuaa RR.. FFaarrrreellll recently com-pleted work on his Ph.D. in chem-istry at Northwestern University,Evanston, Ill. KKeerrrryy BB.. GGrreennnnaann,, whohas been working in theMassachusetts CorrectionalInstitution at Framingham since

December 1997, is the coordinatorof the Massachusetts Prison HIVAwareness Project, a program fund-ed by the Department of PublicHealth to provide HIV testing, edu-cation and case management.MMaauurreeeenn EE.. HHaauugghh is now workingfor Intertel Publishing, Chicago, Ill.,doing marketing on telecommunica-tions trade magazines. CChhiiaarraaMMeerrlliinnii KKuuhhnnss is now working atWest Lake Conservators Ltd.,Skaneateles, N.Y., as a professionalpaintings conservator. MMiicchhaaeell KK..MMaahhoonneeyy is an attorney with Hale &Dorr in Boston. RRoobbeerrtt TT.. MMiillaanneetttteehas joined the Boston law firm ofWarner & Stackpole as an associatein the litigation department; he con-centrates his practice in generalcivil litigation, securities litigation,shareholder and breach of contractdisputes and employment-relatedmatters. AAnnnnee MMaarriiee MMuurrpphhyy is nowa technical support analyst forCarreker-Antinori Inc. RRaayymmoonndd AA..MMuurrpphhyy IIIIII is now a software qualityengineer at Vectis Corp. inWaltham, Mass. CCaapptt.. JJooeell PP..PPoouuddrriieerr,, UUSSMMCC,, is currentlyassigned to Marine Corps recruitingstation, Twin Cities. JJeennnniiffeerr((LLiinnddwwaallll)) SScchhwwaabb is a pediatricresident at Connecticut Children’sMedical Center in Hartford.MMiicchhaaeell CC.. SShhuuttoowwiicckk and his wife,Melissa, announce the birth of theirson, Ryan Michael, on Jan. 5.Shutowick is an independent invest-ment advisor in South Florida.KKaatthhlleeeenn ((KKeeaattiinngg)) SSttrroottttmmaann,, whorelocated to Washington, D.C., isserving as a special assistant to U.S.Sen. Mary Landrieu from Louisiana.

MARRIED: JJeennnniiffeerr JJ.. LLeeaacchh andScott P. Blanchette ’93, on May 22,in St. Joseph Memorial Chapel.JJeennnniiffeerr II.. LLeeoonnaarrdd and KennethBarnes on Nov. 7, 1998. CChhiiaarraa GG..MMeerrlliinnii and Christopher C. Kuhnson Aug. 22, 1998. JJuussttiinn FF..XX..PPiicccciiaannoo and Stacey A. Law, onApril 24, at St. Catherine of SienaChurch in Norwood, Mass.

1995Class Co-ChairsChristopher J. CaslinShelagh A. FoleyB. Timothy KellerJJuulliiee AA.. BBaassttaarraacchhee received herdegree from the Vanderbilt Schoolof Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.MMiicchhaaeell MM.. CCaalloorroossssii,, who works atLifecodes Corp., Stamford, Conn.,as an HLA laboratory supervisor, iscurrently pursuing his master’sdegree in molecular biology/bio-chemistry at New York MedicalCollege, Valhalla, N.Y. NNiiccoollee MM..CChhaannddlleerr,, who received her degreefrom the University ofMassachusetts Medical School inJune, has accepted a residency ingeneral surgery at St. Louis (Mo.)University. JJeeffffrreeyy TT.. CCoottee,, whoreceived his degree from theUniversity of MassachusettsMedical School, accepted a resi-dency in family practice at theCentral Maine Medical Center inLewiston. SStteepphhaanniiee AA.. CCrreesscciioo con-tinues to work as a pension admin-istrator with the New York City lawfirm of Kelley, Drye & Warren.

EEiilleeeenn KK.. DD’’AAlleessssaannddrroo is nowworking for MCI Worldcom in NewYork City as a conferencing fieldspecialist. GGeeoorrggee NN.. DDaavviillaass,, whograduated in the spring from theSyracuse (N.Y.) University Collegeof Law and the broadcast journal-ism master’s degree program at theS.I. Newhouse School of PublicCommunications, is now workingfor Court TV in New York City.SSuussaann AA.. FFaannii has received her jurisdoctor degree from the FordhamUniversity School of Law in NewYork City. MMaatttthheeww JJ.. FFiittzzggiibbbboonnss,,who teaches Spanish at XaverianBrothers High School, Westwood,Mass., recently led student groupsto Ecuador and Spain. Fitzgibbons,who is currently pursuing his mas-ter’s degree in Spanish fromMiddlebury (Vt.) College, taughtEnglish and music last summer atan international school in Lincoln,Mass. SSuussaann EE.. HHaassmmaann,, who iscompleting her master of artsdegree in national security studiesat Georgetown University’s Schoolof Foreign Service, continues towork full time for CAS, Inc. inweapons systems analysis. Hasmanalso serves as a senior editor forThe National Security StudiesQuarterly. SSaabbaattiinnoo FF.. LLeeoo has beencommissioned into the U.S. NavyJudge Advocate General Corps withthe rank of lieutenant junior grade.LLyynnnn AA.. LLiibbeerraattoorree is working as aphysical therapist at the MemorialHospital of Rhode Island inPawtucket. James J. Lyons acceptedan internal medicine residency atthe National Naval Medical Centerin Bethesda, Md. CCaapptt.. PPeetteerr JJ..MMaahhoonneeyy,, UUSSMMCC,, who was promot-ed to the rank of captain in June,has been accepted into the materiallogistics support management mas-ter’s program at the NavalPostgraduate School in Monterey,Calif. TToonnii HH.. PPiicceerrnnoo,, who receivedher doctor of osteopathic medicinedegree in June from the Universityof New England College ofOsteopathic Medicine, Biddeford,Maine, accepted a pediatrics resi-dency at Driscoll Children’sHospital in Corpus Christi, Texas.CChhrriissttiinnee EE.. RRaaddiiccee is an associateweb editor at Lawyers WeeklyPublications in Boston. CCaaiittlliinnSSccaannlloonn is now working for theAppalachian Mountain Club atPinkham Notch (N.H.) Visitors’Center. RRuuppaall SS.. SShhaahh accepted aposition with Hebb & Gitlin inHartford, Conn. RRoossee AA.. SShhoorrtteerraccepted a residency in internalmedicine at Baystate MedicalCenter in Springfield, Mass. PPaattrriicckkJJ.. and EElliizzaabbeetthh RR.. ((BBeetthh)) SSllaatttteerryyannounce the birth of their daugh-ter, Michaela Camille, on Feb. 10.TThhoommaass JJ.. SSuulllliivvaann JJrr.. is completinghis third year of a joint juris doctor-Ph.D. program at the University ofPennsylvania in Philadelphia.JJeennnniiffeerr SS.. TThhoommppssoonn is pursuingher Ph.D. in sociology at theUniversity of Pennsylvania.

MARRIED: JJuulliiee AA.. BBaassttaarraacchhee andDDaanniieell RR.. PPrruuddhhoommmmee,, on May 29,at St. Mary of the AssumptionChurch, Turners Falls, Mass. TTaarraaAA.. CCooccoozzzzaa and Gary M. Duvall, onMarch 13, at St. Joseph Church,

Ballardvale, Mass. KKrriissttoopphheerr RR..DDaavviiggnnoonn and Kettie Sbrilli ’96, onMay 8, at St. Jude’s Church,Freeport, Maine. KKeellllyy AA.. SSmmiitthh andMichael A. Scuderi, at St. Jude’sChurch, Norfolk, Mass.

1996Class Co-ChairsJennifer E. BurnsHolly R. KhachadoorianChristopher L. SearsDDaarriiaa JJ.. BBllaakkee is now a project spe-cialist with the Portsmouth, N.H.-based Bottomline Technologies, adeveloper of payment software for7,300 companies. Blake is also thepublicist and Web site developer forthe New Hampshire-basedrock/funk band Actual Size.RRoosseemmaarryy BBoonnaannnnoo is working asan analyst at Beacon Hill Partnersin New York City. TThhoommaass MM.. BBuurreessis currently working for Ernst &Young. EElleefftthheerriiaa NN.. CChhrroonnaass iscompleting her second year atSuffolk University Law School inBoston. JJoosseepphh PP.. WWiillssoonn CCoorrnniisshh isan architectural historian with theSociety for the Preservation of NewEngland Antiquities in Waltham,Mass. BBrriiaann CC.. DDaallyy is in his thirdyear of the Ph.D. program inphysics at Brown University,Providence, R.I. KKiimm MM.. DDiiBBaarrii is inthe physician assistant master’sdegree program at Duke University,Durham, N.C. KKaatthheerriinnee JJ.. ((KKaattee))DDuuffffyy received her master’s degreefrom the Medill School ofJournalism at NorthwesternUniversity in Evanston, Ill. KKeennnneetthhRR.. GGiiaaQQuuiinnttoo,, who is a river guidein Colorado on the Arkansas River,works for Good Times Rafting inBreckenridge. FFaaiitthh GG.. GGoollddeenn is inher second year of the master ofdivinity program at the WestonJesuit School of Theology inCambridge, Mass. DDeenniissee EE..HHaammwweeyy received her master’sdegree in French from Penn StateUniversity in May. MMeegghhaann MM.. HHaarrtt,,who received her juris doctordegree from Boston College LawSchool, has accepted a position asan associate with the Boston lawfirm of Testa Hurwitz and Thibault.In May, KKaatthhlleeeenn MM.. JJooyyccee receivedher juris doctor degree from SuffolkUniversity, Boston. MMeelliissssaa AA..MMeerroollaa,, who is completing her mas-ter of arts degree in forensic psy-chology, accepted a project positionat Quantico in Washington, D.C.SSaarraahh GG.. MMuurrrraayy,, who works atState Street Bank in Quincy, Mass.,is pursuing her M.B.A. degree atthe University of Massachusetts. EE..CChhaarrlleess PPoommeerrooyy recently accepteda position as a senior associate atthe investment bank, Credit SuisseFirst Boston. JJeeaann SS.. SSeeiiddlleerr,, a sec-ond-year student at the SmithSchool for Social Work, recentlybegan a peace and justice organiza-tion in the Boston area. AAmmyy EE..SSoouucchhuunnss,, who received her degreefrom the Catholic UniversityColumbus School of Law in May,has accepted a position withShipman & Goodwin, Hartford,Conn. CCaarraa EE.. SSuulllliivvaann is currentlypursuing a master’s degree inSpanish at Boston College. LLiissaa CC..TThhoorrnnttoonn and her husband, Jack,


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1928Albert C. McGrailJune 30, 1999At the Cooley Dickinson Hospital,Northampton, Mass., at 95. Mr.McGrail had served as a civil engi-neer with the state of ConnecticutHighway Department for 37 years,retiring in 1966; during his career,he supervised numerous highwayprojects including the constructionof Interstates 84 and 91. Mr.McGrail then served as the directorof public works for the city of WestHaven, Conn., until 1975. DuringWorld War II, he was a member ofthe Army Corps of Engineers 840thDivision; assigned to the EuropeanTheatre of Operations, he partici-pated in the D-Day invasion ofNormandy on June 6, 1944 andsupervised the construction ofnumerous roads, bridges and air-fields for the Allies. Mr. McGrail issurvived by his wife, Margaret; ason; two daughters; a sister; and sixgrandchildren.

1932Francis R. HickeyJune 17, 1999In St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester,at 88. A longtime educator inWorcester, Mr. Hickey had servedas the principal of the OxfordStreet, Gates Lane, WoodlandStreet and Tatnuck schools; duringhis tenure at Oxford Street, he pub-lished a 100-year history of theschool. A professor in the graduateschool at Assumption College, hefounded the college’s student-teacher training program. Mr.Hickey also taught at WorcesterState College and, for many years,conducted classes for new UnitedStates citizens through theWorcester School Department. In1951, he was appointed the firstchairman of the Worcester AreaCommittee for the United Nations;in 1953, he was cited by 100Worcester organizations for out-standing leadership for the UnitedNations and world affairs. An intra-mural baseball, basketball and foot-ball coach for many years in theWorcester school system, Mr.Hickey had been a prominent area

golfer, holding a state handicap offour and a club handicap of two. Healso held the distinction of beingthe caddie for the captain of theBritish team, Ted Ray, at the firstRyder Cup matches held in theUnited States in 1927 at theWorcester Country Club. Mr.Hickey is survived by his wife,Frances.

1933Joseph P. KellyJuly 11, 1999In Santa Clara, Calif., at 89. Prior tohis retirement, Mr. Kelly had servedas a judge of the Superior Court inSanta Clara County for many years.He is survived by his wife,Elizabeth; two sons, including,Kevin G. ’68; and two grandchil-dren.

1934William J. DozoisJune 12, 1999In the New England MedicalCenter, Boston, at 87. Prior to hisretirement in 1982, Mr. Dozois hadworked in the Worcester office ofthe Division of EmploymentSecurity for 15 years; previously, hehad been the manager of theDivision’s Maynard office. Mr.Dozois had also been an agent forthe Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.in the Worcester area for 33 years.During World War II, he was a lieu-tenant in the U.S. Navy, serving inthe Asian-Pacific theatre. Mr.Dozois is survived by two sons; andtwo grandchildren.

1935Henry A. HaywardApril 17, 1999At South Shore Hospital,Weymouth, Mass., at 86. Mr.Hayward practiced law for morethan 40 years with an insurancecompany and an investment broker-age firm. He was a veteran of WorldWar II. Mr. Hayward is survived byhis wife, Vera; two sons, includingHenry M. ’63; two brothers; twosisters; and five grandsons.

James J. KeleherApril 10, 1999In Connecticut, at 84. Mr. Keleher,who was retired, had worked for


In Memoriam

Walter T. OdellAug. 26, 1999Retired Holy Cross Professor Walter T. Odell, 71, died Aug. 26 inSt. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, after a short illness.

Mr. Odell, who had taught in the political science departmentat Holy Cross for 26 years, retired in 1995; his area of expertisewas Catholic political theory. A former Trappist monk, he was athird-order Blackfriar. Mr. Odell was a graduate of PrincetonUniversity; he earned his master’s degree from Oxford Universityin England and his Ph.D. from Georgetown University inWashington, D.C.

He is survived by his wife, Ann; two sons, including John W.’88; a daughter, Kathleen E. ’89; a stepson; a stepdaughter; abrother; and seven grandchildren.

announce the birth of their son,Isaac Thomas, in March. NNiikkoollee((BBeerrttuucceellllii)) WWiillllmmaann,, who complet-ed her master’s degree in occupa-tional therapy from New YorkUniversity, is now working at MountSinai Medical Center in New YorkCity as an occupational therapist onthe Head Trauma Unit.

MARRIED: SSaarraahh GG.. MMuurrrraayy andRobert Belmore at Sts. Martha andMary Church, Lakeville, Mass., onMarch 13. SSaammuueell JJ.. RRuullllii JJrr.. andKaren R. Huhtala, on April 10, atthe St. Louis Cathedral in NewOrleans, La. KKeettttiiee SSbbrriillllii andKristopher R. Davignon ’95, on May8, at St. Jude’s Church, Freeport,Maine.

1997Class Co-ChairsMarnie J. CambriaBrian T. O’ConnorJulie E. OrioEErriiccaa MM.. AArrcchhaammbbaauulltt is now work-ing at Ketchum Public Relations inSan Francisco, Calif. AAuuddrreeyy JJ.. BBllaaiirris attending Baylor Univesity LawSchool in Waco, Texas. LLaauurraa EE..BBrruucckkmmaannnn,, who received her mas-ter’s degree in French fromCatholic University, has accepted aposition teaching French at St.Anselm’s Abbey School inWashington, D.C. EElliizzaabbeetthh AA..CCaaffffeerrttyy,, who received her master’sdegree from the University of Yorkin England, is now working at theNew York Public Library in develop-ment and government affairs.MMaarriinnaa MM.. HHooffffmmaannnn is now work-ing as an account executive atLoving & Weintraub, a public rela-tions agency in New York City; sheis also pursuing her master’sdegree in classics part time atFordham University. KKaatthhlleeeenn BB..KKeelllleerr is now working in the devel-opment department at the WinsorSchool in Boston. MMaarriissssaa JJ.. KKeellllyyattends Notre Dame University LawSchool in South Bend, Ind. RRiiccaarrddooDD.. MMaacchhaaddoo,, who completed hissecond year teaching advancedplacement calculus at MonsignorPace High School in Miami, Fla.,also works in the campus ministrydepartment at the school. KKrriissttiinnaaEE.. MMoozzzziiccaattoo attended theUniversity of Florence in Florence,Italy, for the 1998-99 academicyear. GGiiuulliiaa EE.. SSaarraacceennoo is a first-year medical student at theUniversity of New England Collegeof Osteopathic Medicine inBiddeford, Maine. JJoohhnn PP.. SSaawwiicckkyyis completing his second year as aresearch assistant in the rheumatol-ogy division of the New EnglandMedical Center in Boston. KKrriissttiinnMM.. SSppiissssiinnggeerr is currently a market-ing manager for Enterprise Rent-A-Car, car sales division, Watertown,Mass. MMiicchheellee AA.. TTrroottttaa,, whoreceived her master’s degree fromBoston University in September1998, teaches Spanish at SilverLake Regional High School inKingston, Mass. MMiicchhaaeell PP..WWhhiitteehhoouussee,, who completed hismaster’s degree in theology at theUniversity of Notre Dame inNovember 1998, is currently work-ing at St. Joseph Academy, St.

Augustine, Fla., teaching theologyand serving as the campus minister.DDaavviidd VV.. ZZaauunneerr is a certified cheffor the Gourmet Kitchen at theDana Farber Cancer Institute inBoston.

1998Class Co-ChairsJamie D. HoagEric B. JavierCChhrriissttiinnee PP.. BBaarrbbeerr,, who spent ayear with the JVC-Northwest,worked as an advocate at theWelfare Rights Coalition. In thisposition, she informed clients oftheir rights and helped organizewelfare rights groups to impactpublic policy. MMiicchheellllee SS.. CCaaddiinnworks for AT&T, Boston, in law andgovernment affairs. AAnnnnee EE..CClloohheerrttyy,, who spent a year with theJVC-Northwest, worked at the St.Vincent de Paul Society in Portland,Ore. An emergency services assis-tant, she provided homeless andlow-income clients with informationand services. TTaammaarraa EE.. KKoonniigg,, whospent a year with the JVC-Northwest, was a foster care case-worker with Catholic CommunityServices in Tacoma, Wash. In thiscapacity, she monitored foster careplacements, coordinated servicesfor foster children and advocatedfor disabled, neglected and abusedchildren. AAnnddrreeww CC.. LLiinn, whorecently completed his bachelor ofscience degree at ColumbiaUniversity in New York City, hadbeen selected as the valedictorianof his class for the School ofEngineering and Applied Science.He was the recipient of a StanfordGraduate Fellowship and a NationalScience Foundation GraduateResearch Fellowship to pursuegraduate studies in electrical engi-neering at Standford University.LLiissaa EE.. MMeerrlliinnii,, who spent a yearwith the JVC-Northwest, managedan emergency food outlet at themain food bank in Spokane, Wash.CC.. EEmmiill PPeeññaarruubbiiaa teachesadvanced placement Latin atBoston College High School.

1999Class Co-ChairsRoland A. Baroni IIISara F. SlaterLLiinnddssaayy II.. FFrreeeedd has been named“Massachusetts Campus CompactVolunteer in Service to America”(MACC VISTA) at WorcesterPolytechnic Institute. One of the 20MACC VISTAs assigned to work inMassachusetts, Freed is responsi-ble for encouraging campus volun-teerism at WPI throughout the year.IIaann AA.. GGrriiffffiinn has accepted a teach-ing position at Burncoat HighSchool in Worcester. JJaassoonn KK.. HHooiitttthas accepted a research position atthe New Medical Center, in Boston.TTeerrrraa BB.. PPoottoocckkyy has been awardeda Fulbright grant to conductresearch in the drug design of anti-cancer agents at the Institute ofPharmacy, University of Tromso,Norway.

the Banking Department of thestate of Connecticut in Hartford. Heis survived by his wife, Rita; andthree daughters, including Janet E.’78.

Jerome I. LinehanMay 6, 1999At the Seacoast Nursing andRehabilitation Center in Gloucester,Mass., at 87. Mr. Linehan, whoretired in 1977, had been employedby Bomac, an electronics firm inBeverly, Mass., for 26 years. He issurvived by his wife, Mary; a son; asister; two granddaughters; onestepgrandson; and several nephewsand nieces.

Rev. Thomas F. Walsh, O.M.I.June 19, 1999At the Oblate Infirmary inTewksbury, Mass., after a battlewith cancer. Fr. Walsh, 86, hadmost recently served as an assistantat St. Catherine’s Church inWestford, Mass.; during the sum-mer months, he preached appealsfor the Oblate overseas missions atweekend Masses in parishesthroughout the Northeast. Fr. Walshentered the Oblates in 1934 andpronounced his vows in Tewksburyon Sept. 8, 1935. After studyingphilosophy and theology at theOblate seminary in Washington,D.C., he was ordained to the priest-hood on June 9, 1941. A member ofthe preaching band of the EasternU.S. Oblates, Fr. Walsh conductedmany retreats, novenas, and parishmissions in Ohio, Indiana,Michigan, New York, and Lowell.There are no known survivors.

1937Pasquale R. Caracciolo, D.M.D.April 20, 1999At the Charlene Manor NursingHome, Greenfield, Mass., at 85. Dr.Caracciolo maintained a dentalpractice in Hartford, Conn., from1946 until 1970, and in Somersville,Conn., from 1970 until his retire-

ment in 1986. During World War II,he was a captain in the Army AirCorps. Dr. Caracciolo is survived byhis wife, Jean; three sons; twodaughters; a brother; a sister; sevengrandchildren; a great-grandchild;and several nephews and nieces.

George J. McGuaneMay 19, 1999At his Lowell, Mass., home, at 85.Mr. McGuane had been a sports-writer and promotions manager atThe Lowell Sun for 40 years, retir-ing in 1979. An official game-clockkeeper for the New EnglandPatriots for 25 years, he wrote thetext for the book, The Best is Yet toCome, a pictorial history of the NewEngland Patriots published in 1981.He also served as a referee in theAmerican Football League and asan organizer of the annual GoldenGloves boxing tournament inLowell. Mr. McGuane, who servedin the Navy during World War II,was a retired lieutenant commanderof the United States Naval Reserve.He is survived by his wife, Frances;two sons, including George J. Jr. ’70;a daughter, Martha M. ’77; and fourgrandchildren.

James H. WhiteApril 27, 1999In the Palliative Care Center of BethIsrael Deaconess Hospital, Boston,at 85. Prior to his retirement in1980, Mr. White had been a federalcredit union examiner under theNational Credit UnionAdministration for 26 years.Previously, he worked for the U.S.Post Office in Worcester. Mr. Whitehad also been the director of theVeterans Housing Committee forformer Worcester Mayor Charles F.“Jeff” Sullivan and district vice pres-ident of the MassachusettsFederation of Retired Employees.An Army veteran of World War II,he served in the Philippines andJapan. Mr. White was a member ofthe Holy Cross Club of Worcester.He is survived by his daughter; a

granddaughter; and severalnephews and nieces.

1938Henry A. Campbell Jr.April 18, 1999At Mid Coast Hospital, Brunswick,Maine, after a battle with cancer, at82. Prior to his retirement in 1973,retired Capt. Henry A. Campbell Jr.,USCG, served for three years as thecommander of the Coast GuardGroup Woods Hole on Cape Cod.Commissioned an ensign in 1943,he served in the Pacific whileassigned to the Coast Guard-ArmyManning Detachment. During his31-year career with the CoastGuard, Mr. Campbell served inMiami, Boston, New York,Philadelphia and New Jersey. Hewas appointed to the rank of cap-tain in 1965. Mr. Campbell is sur-vived by his daughter; and threegrandchildren. His son was the lateHenry A. III ’66.

Victor A. Cusanello Sr.May 16, 1999At the Oakdale (Mass.)Rehabilitation Center, at 84. Mr.Cusanello, who founded the V.A.Cusanello Contracting andEngineering Company, operated thebusiness for many years prior to hisretirement. In addition to buildingseveral schools in the local area,Mr. Cusanello designed, built andowned the Chocksett Golf andDriving Range in Sterling, Mass.During his career, he taught engi-neering at the Worcester IndustrialTechnical Institute for 20 years,retiring in 1997. Active in civicaffairs, he served 13 years on theWest Boylston, Mass., PlanningBoard, and, at one time, held theposition of town building inspector.A Navy veteran of World War II, Mr.Cusanello served with the Seabeesin the Asian-Pacific theatre; he wasawarded three Bronze Stars. Mr.Cusanello is survived by his wife,Elizabeth; three sons; three daugh-ters; a sister; six grandchildren; andnephews and nieces.

Harold E. JanesJune 9, 1999In Texas, at 83. Mr. Janes, who hadbeen employed in the public utilityfield, served as the director of theengineering department of theFlorida Public Service Commissionfor approximately 28 years, retiringin 1981. He is survived by his son;two daughters; and five grandchil-dren.

Rev. Joseph A. Riel, S.J.July 19, 1999At the Campion Center, Weston,Mass., at 82. Fr. Riel worked 43years in the Jesuit mission inJamaica, teaching math and Englishat St. George’s College, from 1953until 1962, and English, Latin, math,religion and sacred scripture atCampion College in Kingston, from1962 until 1991. Returning to NewEngland in 1996, he continued hispastoral work until entering theCampion Center due to ill health.Fr. Riel entered the Jesuit novitiate,Lenox, Mass., in 1938. He thentaught English at Holy Cross prior

to continuing his studies for thepriesthood at the ImmaculateConception Seminary in Montreal.He taught Latin at the Lenox novi-tiate until 1952, and then per-formed advanced pastoral work inAuriesville, N.Y. Fr. Riel is survivedby a brother; and a nephew.

1939Edward J. DeveneyJuly 8, 1999In Michigan, at 81. Mr. Deveney issurvived by his wife, Claire; threedaughters; and nine grandchildren.

Robert F. GonynorMay 15, 1999At the Milford-Whitinsville RegionalHospital, Milford, Mass., at 81. Mr.Gonynor retired in 1987, after 24years of service as a civilian admin-istrator for the Army Reserve inLawrence, Mass., and 26 years asthe executive director of theNorthbridge (Mass.) HousingAuthority. An Army veteran ofWorld War II, he served as a firstlieutenant in the Asian-Pacific the-atre; he was later a lieutenantcolonel in the Army Reserve formany years, until his retirement in1977. Mr. Gonynor had been amember of the Holy Cross Club ofWorcester. He is survived by hiswife, Elizabeth; three sons; fivedaughters; three brothers, David F.’51, Donald P. ’53, and James F. ’56;a sister; 17 grandchildren; a greatgrandson; and nephews and nieces.His brother was the late John J. ’49.

Philip J. Lahey Sr., M.D.June 10, 1999At his Worcester, Mass., home, at82. Dr. Lahey, an orthopedic sur-geon, maintained a practice inWorcester for 40 years, retiring in1987. He also served on the staffsof St. Vincent Hospital and CityHospital, both in Worcester. Formany years, he had been the med-ical director of the MuscularDystrophy Clinic. An Army veteranof the Korean War, Dr. Laheyserved as a captain with the ArmyMedical Corps in Tokyo. He is sur-vived by five sons, including Philip J.Jr., M.D., ’69, John J. ’70, andStephen J., M.D., ’71; a brother,William F. ’43; seven grandchildren;and four nephews.

1940Donald F. PhillipsJune 22, 1999At the Lahey Clinic, Burlington,Mass., at 81, after a brief illness.Mr. Phillips, a registered architectwho had attended the ArchitecturalCenter in Boston, had managed thefamily-owned practice of Wendell T.Phillips Associates in Milford, Mass.Established by Mr. Phillips’ latefather, the firm designed churches,schools, elderly housing projectsand state armories throughoutMassachusetts. Commissioned anensign in the Navy at the start ofWorld War II, Mr. Phillips served onthe staff of Vice Adm. H.K. Hewitt,chief of Naval Operations at theAllied Headquarters in Algiers,North Africa. After serving in theinvasions of Sicily and Salerno, he


James H. BrockJuly 16, 1999James H. Brock, 88, died July 16 at the Life Care Center ofAuburn, Mass.

Prior to his retirement in 1987, Mr. Brock worked 60 years atHoly Cross. He began his employment in 1926 at the Porter’sLodge and the switchboard in O’Kane Hall. In 1942, he wasappointed clerk in charge of the College’s Mount St. James con-tract postal station. He retired after 50 years of full-time service in1976, and then worked part time in the college post office from1977 to 1987. During his years at Holy Cross, Mr. Brock hadbeen a well-known member of the College community, popularwith administrators, faculty, students and staff alike.

At a memorial Mass celebrated at Christ the King Church inWorcester, Joseph J. Brady, former chair of the biology depart-ment, paid tribute to Mr. Brock, recalling his long years of serviceto the College, his friendship with a succession of presidents andthe commendations he received for efficiency and accuracy.

Born in East Boston, Mr. Brock lived most of his life inClinton, Mass. He attended Worcester Boys Trade High School.

He is survived by his son, James D. ’58; nephews and nieces;and grandnephews and grandnieces.

transferred to the Naval Air Service,receiving his wings at the PensacolaNaval Air Station. Following WorldWar II, Mr. Phillips served in theNaval Reserve at the SouthWeymouth Naval Air Station, wherehe commanded HelicopterSquadron 911 which won the NoelDavis Trophy three times. Heretired as captain in 1972. Early inhis career, Mr. Phillips pitched bat-ting practice for the Boston Red Soxat both Fenway Park and YankeeStadium when Joe Cronin managedthe Red Sox. During the summer,he pitched for Harwich in the CapeCod League. Active in church andcivic affairs, Mr. Phillips served onthe Milford (Mass.) Board ofAssessors for more than 30 years;he was also a former athletic officerfor the American Legion Sgt. JohnW. Powers Post 59, and past presi-dent of the Kiwanis Club. Mr.Phillips is survived by his wife,Helen; two sons; two brothers,including Robert S. ’44; threegrandchildren; and nephews andnieces. His father was the lateWendell T. Hon. M.A. ’25 and hisbrother was the late Wendell T. Jr.’37.

1941John L. KellyMay 7, 1999In Cedar Grove Manor, Montclair,N.J., at 80. Prior to his retirement,Mr. Kelly held various sales andmanagerial positions with theBeech-Nut Division of Nestle FoodProducts in New York City for morethan 30 years. An Army veteran ofWorld War II, he participated in theD-Day invasion of Normandy. Mr.Kelly is survived by his wife,Josephine; three sons; a sister; 11grandchildren; and a cousin.

Malachy R. McGarryApril 30, 1999In New York, at 81, of complicationsfrom a stroke. Mr. McGarry hadmost recently served as deputycounty clerk of Nassau County,deputy commissioner of the NassauCounty Department of Industry andCommerce and as a member of theCounty Board of Assessors. At thestart of his career, he had workedmany years for the Kimberly ClarkCorp. as a salesman and then aseastern regional sales manager,retiring in 1974. During World WarII, Mr. McGarry was a lieutenant inthe Navy. A resident of Baldwin,N.Y., for 42 years, he was active incommunity, civic and politicalaffairs. His involvement includedserving as leader emeritus of theBaldwin Republican Club, vicechairman of the Nassau CountyRepublican Committee, and pastpresident of the Baldwin Chamberof Commerce, the Baldwin CivicAssociation and the Nassau CountyEmployees League. Mr. McGarry issurvived by his wife, Patricia; threesons; a daughter; and five grand-children.

1942William Dello RussoMay 29, 1999At his Medford, Mass., home, at 82.Prior to his retirement, Mr. DelloRusso had owned and operatedNick’s Tavern in Boston with hisfamily for over 45 years. He is sur-vived by his son; a brother; a sister;and nephews and nieces.

Carl W. JacobsonJune 4, 1999In St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester,at 81. Prior to his retirement, Mr.Jacobson had been a realtor/builderwith Assembled Homes ofWinchester. He also played semi-professional baseball in theWorcester area. Mr. Jacobson issurvived by a brother; a sister; andnephews and nieces.

Frederick H. Parenteau Jr. June 9, 1999At the Waterview Hills NursingCenter, Purdys, N.Y., at 78. Mr.Parenteau had most recently estab-lished a courier service in Stamford,Conn.; previously, he had worked16 years for the Clark EquipmentCo. as a sales executive. Mr.Parenteau served in the Navy from1942 to 1948 as a B-24 bomberpilot, attaining the rank of lieu-tenant. He is survived by a son; adaughter; two sisters; and twograndsons.

John J. Walsh Jr.July 30, 1999At his Jamaica Plain, Mass., home,at 78. Mr. Walsh, who practiced lawfor many years, had been a partnerin the Boston law firm of Hale,Sanderson, Byrnes and Morton. Hehad also served as general counselfor the Maryknoll Fathers andBrothers of New England, trusteeemeritus of the GregorianUniversity Foundation Inc. in NewYork and corporator and formermember of the board of directors ofthe Faulkner Hospital, JamaicaPlain. During World War II, Mr.Walsh served as an Army officer.He is survived by three daughters;three sisters; seven grandchildren;nephews and nieces; and grand-nephews and grandnieces.

1943Robert E. MayMay 27, 1999At the UMass Health System-Marlborough (Mass.) Hospital, at77. Mr. May, who had a long careerin law enforcement, was a specialagent for the FBI; chief arson inves-tigator for the National Board ofFire Underwriters; and fire marshaland assistant director of lawenforcement for the state of Illinois.The owner of May Associates, heworked as a private arson investiga-tor for more than 20 years inMarlborough, Mass. During WorldWar II, Mr. May served as a U.S.Navy pilot in the South Pacific. Heis survived by his wife, Elaine; twosons; a daughter; two brothers,including Walter R. ’39; sevengrandchildren; and a great-grand-son.

1944John F. BrennanMay 25, 1999At St. Francis Hospital and MedicalCenter in Hartford, Conn., at 76.Prior to his retirement in 1992, Mr.Brennan had been the owner of theJohn F. Brennan Insurance Agencyin West Hartford for 50 years and apast president of the IndependentInsurance Agents of Connecticut.Mr. Brennan was a member of thePresident’s Council and a HolyCross Class Agent for 45 years; healso was a past president of theHoly Cross Club of Hartford. Mr.Brennan is survived by his wife,June; a son; two daughters; a sister;and five grandchildren.

Charles V. BryanApril 18, 1999In New York, at 76. Mr. Bryan, whowas retired, is survived by his wife,Fern; and five children.

1945Thomas P. CoppingerJuly 29, 1999In the New England MedicalCenter, Boston, at 74. Prior to hisretirement, Mr. Coppinger had beena business executive and instructorfor the Internal Revenue Service inBoston. During World War II, heserved as a lieutenant in the Navy,participating in the Mediterraneancampaigns. After the war, Mr.Coppinger was the owner and pres-ident of the former Bartlett,Coppinger, Maloon Corp. of Boston,a dry goods firm. He is survived by

two sisters; 16 nephews; and manygrandnephews and grandnieces.

1946John H. Doherty, M.D.June 17, 1999In New York, at 73. An orthopedicsurgeon emeritus at the Hospital forSpecial Surgery in New York, Dr.Doherty had been an attendingorthopedic surgeon there from1963-91 and assistant to the sur-geon-in-chief, from 1963-73. Dr.Doherty had been chief of orthope-dic surgery at Our Lady of MercyMedical Center, Bronx, N.Y., from1990-94 and medical officer/ortho-pedic consultant for the New YorkCity Fire Department, from 1992-95. He had also been an associateprofessor of orthopedic surgery atCornell University Medical College.After completing his residency inorthopedic surgery at the Hospitalfor Special Surgery in 1956, Dr.Doherty served as chief of theorthopedic section at the VeteransAdministration Hospital in theBronx, from 1956-63. He served atsea in 1951 as a U.S. Navy medicalofficer. Dr. Doherty is survived byfour sons; three daughters; and 14grandchildren.

John A. Morton II, M.D.May 4, 1999In New York, at 75. Dr. Morton issurvived by his wife, Jane; a son;three daughters; a brother; a sister;and grandchildren.


1928Edmund J. FitzgeraldJune 18, 1999Edmund J. Fitzgerald, a member of the Class of 1928, died onJune 18, 1999 at his home in Falls Church, Va. Mr. Fitzgerald,who was 100 at the time of his death, had been recognized as theoldest living Holy Cross alumnus.

He was employed by the New York, New Haven and HartfordRailroad and the New England Telephone Company from 1928-1936. He entered government service in Washington, D.C., in July1936—first as an internal auditor of the Reconstruction FinanceCorporation and later as a member of the Interstate CommerceCommission, retiring in 1967. He was an Army veteran, serving asa captain in Europe during World War II with Allied ForceHeadquarters.

Mr. Fitzgerald became active in the Holy Cross Club of theDistrict of Columbia in 1948. He was considered a founder, aswell as serving as president and as director of the Club. Hereceived the Club’s Man of the Year award in 1959 and in 1967.He was still attending annual receptions in the late 1980s.

Mr. Fitzgerald served as a board member of the GeneralAlumni Association and a member of the Alumni Senate since1963. A 1968 recipient of the “In Hoc Signo” award, he was aclass agent with 46 years of consecutive giving to the Holy CrossFund through 1999. Until ill health interfered, he and his devotedwife, Peggy, never missed a reunion.

Mr. Fitzgerald is survived by Peggy, his wife of 27 years; twostepsons; seven grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. His firstwife, Paulette, died in 1962.

1947John F. SheaJuly 26, 1999At his home in Destin, Fla., after along battle with emphysema. Mr.Shea, 74, had been an attorney forthe U.S. Small BusinessAdministration in Boston from 1962until his retirement as regionalcounsel in 1980. Previously, he hadmaintained a private practice inChicopee Falls, Mass., for 12 years.During World War II, he servedwith the 86th infantry division. Mr.Shea is survived by his wife,Celesta; a son, John F. ’73; a daugh-ter; a brother; a sister; threestepchildren; three grandchildren;and seven stepgrandchildren.

1948Gerard A. HalpinMay 13, 1999At the MetroWest Medical Center,Natick, Mass., at 75. Prior to hisretirement, Mr. Halpin had been asalesman for the Halpin LumberCo. and the Somerville Lumber Co.During World War II, he served inthe Navy. Mr. Halpin had been amember of the Holy Cross Club ofBoston. He is survived by his wife,Barbara; a son, Gerard A. III ’79; adaughter, Mary K. Halpin-Parent’81; two brothers; and three grand-children.

James D. KelleyJune 21, 1999At the Genesis Eldercare PleasantView Nursing Home, Concord, N.H.,at 75. Mr. Kelley, who retired in1986, had been a physical educa-tion teacher and head footballcoach at Concord (N.H.) HighSchool for 23 years. He began hiscareer at Springfield (Mass.)College as assistant football coachand then taught in Michigan for sev-eral years before relocating toConcord. After his retirement, heserved as an umpire for the

Concord, N.H., Babe Ruth BaseballLeague and as a referee for theConcord Boys and Girls ClubBasketball League. A U.S. MarineCorps veteran of World War II, Mr.Kelley saw duty in Guadalcanal,Okinawa, Guam and China, retiringwith the rank of major. He wasawarded the Purple Heart forwounds he received in action inOkinawa. Mr. Kelley is survived bythree brothers, including Richard S.’46 and John L., D.D.S., ’51; threesisters; and numerous nephews andnieces.

1949John H. ColemanApril 30, 1999At St. Francis Hospital and MedicalCenter, Hartford, Conn., at 76. Priorto his retirement in 1988, Mr.Coleman held the position of princi-pal auditor for the state ofConnecticut. At the start of hiscareer, he had been a tax specialistwith Stanley Works of New Britain.He then served as a tax examinerfor the state of Connecticut taxdepartment. Primarily interested inauditing, he became a member ofthe Auditors of Public Accountantsfor the state of Connecticut. DuringWorld War II, Mr. Coleman servedin the U.S. Army Air Force as aflight instructor and, subsequently,as a fighter pilot. He is survived byhis wife, Helen; a son; and twodaughters.

John F. MoreauJuly 9, 1998In Birchwood Care Center,Fitchburg, Mass., at 74. Prior to hisretirement, Mr. Moreau had been apharmaceutical salesman for WyethCorp. for many years. During WorldWar II, he served in the MerchantMarine. Mr. Moreau is survived by asister; a nephew; and six nieces.

1950Bertrand E. GionetJuly 10, 1999At Mercy Hospital Medical Center,Des Moines, Iowa, at 74. Mr.Gionet, a retired attorney andaccountant, had been a member ofthe American Bar Association,Knights of Columbus and HolyName Society. He served in theArmy during World War II. Mr.Gionet had been a Holy Cross classagent. He is survived by his wife,Georgina; four sons; four daughters;four brothers; a sister; and 12grandchildren.

James G. ReardonApril 28, 1999In Brigham and Women’s Hospital,Boston, at 71. Since 1978, Mr.Reardon had been a partner withhis brother in the Worcester-basedfirm of Reardon and Reardon,which also has offices in Boston.Previously, he had been associatedwith the Worcester firm of Hartwelland Driscoll for 23 years. In 1973,Mr. Reardon helped to establish theMassachusetts Academy of TrialAttorneys, serving as vice president,and then as president, from 1974 to1978. Active with bar associationduties, he was a former member ofthe Massachusetts Judicial Counseland Massachusetts DefendersCommittee, the Committee forPublic Counsel Services and theCommission for Judicial Conduct;from 1970 to 1971, he had been thepresident of the Worcester CountyBar Association. A 1953 graduate ofthe George Washington UniversityLaw School, Washington, D.C., Mr.Reardon then served in the Armyfor two years. He had been a mem-ber of the President’s Council atHoly Cross. Mr. Reardon is survivedby his wife, Anne; three sons; fivedaughters; a brother, Edward P. ’50;a sister; seven grandchildren; andnephews and nieces.

1951Robert B. LambertApril 19, 1999At White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital, at69. Prior to his retirement in 1990,Mr. Lambert had worked for theMobil Oil Corp. in New York Cityfor many years. He had been amember of the President’s Counciland a Holy Cross class agent. Mr.Lambert is survived by his wife,Maureen; a son; and sevennephews and nieces.

John H. LynchMay 15, 1999In Upper St. Clair, Pa., at 72. Priorto his retirement, Mr. Lynch hadworked 25 years as a federal proba-tion officer. During World War II, heserved in the U.S. Army Air Corps.Mr. Lynch is survived by his wife,Bonnie; a son; a daughter; a broth-er; two sisters; and three grandchil-dren.

Edward P. NolanApril 23, 1999In Rhode Island. Mr. Nolan is sur-vived by his wife, Corrine; a son; adaughter; and three grandchildren.

James T. Scully Jr.June 12, 1999At Cape Coral (Fla.) Hospital, at 73.Prior to his retirement, Mr. Scullyhad been employed by GTESylvania in Salem, Mass., for 37years. He was also employed by theUnited Way and had been a mem-ber of the Governor’s Council onMental Retardation. During WorldWar II, Mr. Scully served in theNavy in the Pacific Theater. He issurvived by his wife, Ruth Anne; twosons; two daughters; four sisters;and a grandchild.

1953John F. DevlinApril 20, 1999At Cape Cod (Mass.) Hospital, at67, after a long illness. Prior to hisretirement in 1990, Mr. Devlin hadbeen an independent insuranceagent for Lincoln National Life inFallston, Md. Previously, he hadbeen an insurance agent for theMass. General Life Insurance Co. inBoston. Mr. Devlin, who joined theNavy in 1951, was stationed on theisland of Okinawa during theKorean War; he was discharged asa lieutenant, junior grade, in 1957.Mr. Devlin is survived by his wife,Carol; his mother; three sons; threedaughters; a brother; two sisters; 10grandchildren; and many nephewsand nieces

1954Robert J. CorboyDec. 25, 1998In North Carolina. Mr. Corboy issurvived by his wife, Janet; threechildren; and four grandchildren.

Gerald P. DarcangeloJune 25, 1999At his Lunenburg, Mass., home, at67, after an illness. Prior to hisretirement in 1997, Mr. Darcangelohad been a consultant for 12 yearsat the Teleresource Co. inFitchburg, Mass. Previously, he hadbeen an outside plant engineer forthe New England Telephone Co. inFitchburg, where he had worked for33 years before retiring in 1985. Mr.Darcangelo had served in the Navyand then the Army Reserve. He issurvived by his wife, Phyllis; a son;two daughters; a brother; a grand-daughter; and nephews and nieces.

Robert G. PhelanJuly 20, 1999At Union Hospital, Lynn, Mass., at66. A practicing attorney, Mr.Phelan founded the law firm ofPhelan and Phelan in Lynn with hiswife, in 1957. A prosecuting attor-ney with the Essex district attor-ney’s office from 1957 to 1960, hebecame a public defender in EssexCounty in 1960. Beginning in 1972,Mr. Phelan represented the 10thEssex District in the House ofRepresentatives for three consecu-tive terms. From 1970 to 1980, hetaught constitutional law and crimi-nal procedure to police officers atNortheastern University, Boston.Mr. Phelan is survived by his wife,Shirley; five sons; three daughters; abrother; a sister; eight grand-


1942Rev. J. Gregory Gilmartin, M.M.Aug. 7, 1999Rev. J. Gregory Gilmartin, M.M., a Maryknoll missionary, diedAug. 7, 1999 at St. Teresa’s Residence, Ossining, N.Y., at 79.

Fr. Gilmartin, who served in China and Japan for 46 years,began his work in Kweilin, South China, in 1950. Soon after hisarrival there, he was placed under house arrest by theCommunists for almost 18 months. In 1951, he was assigned tothe Maryknoll Mission Region in Kyoto, Japan. Fr. Gilmartinspent almost all of his missionary career in Japan where he servedas pastor in the Tanabe Parish, Karasaki Parish and the SuzukaCatholic Church. He was also on the teaching faculty of KyotoUniversity for 33 years.

Fr. Gilmartin attended Holy Cross for two years before contin-uing his studies at St. Thomas Preparatory Seminary, Bloomfield,Conn., and St. Mary Seminary, Baltimore, Md. Entering theMaryknoll Novitiate, Bedford, Mass., in 1944, he was ordained tothe priesthood at the Maryknoll Seminary, Ossining, on June 12,1948. Fr. Gilmartin retired in 1995 and returned to the UnitedStates where he took up residence at St. Teresa’s. He is survivedby a sister.

children; and several nephews andnieces.

1955John H. ConnellyJune 27, 1999At his home in Stonington, Conn.,at 65. Prior to his retirement in1995, Mr. Connelly had been achemist at Corning (N.Y.) GlassWorks for 40 years. He is survivedby his wife, Virginia; a son; a daugh-ter; a sister; and three grandchil-dren.

Francis L. Coyle, M.D.March 24, 1999In Iowa, at 65. Dr. Coyle is survivedby his wife, Donna; three sons; anda daughter.

1956James B. McQuillen, M.D.June 14, 1999In Burlington, Vt., at 64. At the timeof his death, Dr. McQuillen shareda private neuropathology and foren-sic consulting business with his wifein Hardwick, Vt. Previously, he hadbeen associated with Mansfield(Ohio) Neurology Inc., until hisretirement in March 1998. Dr.McQuillen, who completed hismedical training at BostonUniversity, practiced 10 years at theGuthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pa. In 1976,he relocated to Charlotte, Vt.,where he taught and practicedmedicine at the University ofVermont. Dr. McQuillen is survivedby his wife, Eleanor; three sons,including Charles S. ’84 andMichael T. ’93; two daughters; adaughter-in-law, Tracy A.McDermott ’84; and three grand-children.

1958Daniel F. DohertyApril 21, 1999At his home in Holliston, Mass., at62, after a brief illness. Mr. Dohertyhad most recently been employedby Offtech, in Worcester.Previously, he had worked approxi-mately 20 years at Bay StateBusiness Products in Rockland,retiring in 1997. At the start of hiscareer, he worked for the A.B. DickCo. in Waltham for about 10 years.An Army veteran, Mr. Dohertyserved three years during theKorean War, stationed in Japan. Heis survived by his wife, Barbara; twosons, including Daniel F. III ’88; adaughter; two daughters-in-law,including Nancy E. ’88; two sisters;five grandchildren; and manynephews and nieces.

1960Roger K. SoderbergJune 18, 1999At his home in Peabody, Mass., at60. Since 1991, Mr. Soderberg hadbeen a partner in the Boston lawfirm of Deutsch, Williams, Brooks,DeRensis, Holland & Drachmanwhere he served as head of the cor-poration and banking group.Previously, he had been associatedwith Schauer and Soderberg for 15years. Mr. Soderberg is survived byhis wife, Barbara; his parents; a son;two daughters; a sister; and agrandson.

1970Robert H. Haley, D.D.S.April 6, 1999In Illinois, at 50. Dr. Haley hadmaintained a dental practice inBloomingdale, Ill. He is survived byhis wife, Judy; his mother and

father, Wallace F. Jr., M.D., ’43; ason; a daughter; three brothers; anda sister. His uncle was the lateBernard J. ’42.

1982Christopher G. CaseyJuly 26, 1999In Naples, Fla., at 39. Mr. Caseyhad worked for several humanitari-an organizations, including theSpecial Olympics. Most recently, hehad been the president of CaseyEnterprises, a charter yacht compa-ny in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Mr.Casey is survived by his mother andfather, Alan F. ’55; two brothers;two sisters, including Kerry A. ’86; abrother-in-law, Kevin P. Kelley ’86;and nephews and nieces. Hisgrandfather was the late George A.Gallagher ’27.

1987Christopher R. McVeighAug. 2, 1999At Sloan-Kettering MemorialHospital, New York City, at 33. Forthe past two years, Mr. McVeighhad been a vice president of mar-keting for the Prudential InsuranceCo., Newark, N.J. He is survived byhis wife, Joann K. ’87; a son; adaughter; his father; his stepmoth-er; a brother; three sisters; andnephews and nieces.

1999Roland R. Vigeant IIMay 23, 1999At Memorial Health UniversityMedical Center, Savannah, Ga., at21. Mr. Vigeant began his studies atHoly Cross in 1995 following hisgraduation from Bishop Stang HighSchool, North Dartmouth, Mass.,

where he had participated in thefootball, track and weightlifting pro-grams. He joined the Army a shorttime later, serving with the U.S.Division in Kuwait during 1998;most recently, he had been workingas a surveyor for the Army. Mr.Vigeant is survived by his parents; asister; his grandparents; uncles;aunts; and cousins.

2003Joe MurphyJuly 9, 1999At Boston Children’s Hospital, of anallergic reaction, at 18. Mr. Murphy,who recently graduated fromWinchester (Mass.) High School,had been accepted at Holy Cross asa member of the class of 2003.While a student at WinchesterHigh, he had been a member of theNational Honor Society and captainof the lacrosse team; compiling 38goals and 36 assists in the spring,he had led the team to the statechampionship in June. Mr. Murphyhad planned to play lacrosse atHoly Cross. He is survived by hismother and father, Joseph M. Jr.,M.D., ’67; and two sisters, JessicaA. ’96 and Julianne M. Murphy ’99.


FRIENDS:Frances M. Anton, retiree, dean’s office; mother of Eleanor, visual arts department, andgrandmother of Mark Binnall, physical plant; father of Marilyn Borracino, building services;mother of Kathleen Tarpey Breck ’83 and Kerry A. Tarpey ’87; grandfather of Emily M.Brueckner ’01; wife of the late Francis J. Cooney ’29; son of John J. Donovan Sr., retiree,public safety; wife of Paul F. Dupuis ’54; mother of Rev. Michael F. Ford, S.J., chaplains’office; mother of Roland Forgette, physical plant/building services; mother of Kevin W. ’73and Paul P. Hanlon ’74; wife of the late John C. ’32 and sister-in-law of Francis L. Harrington’35; father of Ronald Hodgerney, physical plant/building services; brother of EuriphileJoseph ’01; brother of Maureen Kennedy, personnel department; Joseph Lane Kirkland, H-’82; mother of Abdi, Armstrong and Ken Lidonde, physical plant; aunt of Stephan P.Lypinski Jr. ’78; wife of the late James F. ’34 and sister-in-law of Paul E. Mathias ’43; brotherof Melanie A. McCue ’96; father of Edmund O. McLeod, physical plant/trades and shops;mother of Pauline Menard, Kimball dining services; father of Mary J. Moran ’81, library;mother of Daniel Moriarty, Hart Center; mother of Patricia F. Morrissette, personnel depart-ment; brother of Catherine J. O’Connell, retiree, class dean’s office; Walter T. Odell, retiredprofessor, political science department; Frederick O’Neill, retiree, library; Mary Plante,retiree, switchboard; grandson of Joseph J. Jr.’55, nephew of Joseph J. III ’79, the lateKathleen P. ’80, Brendan J. ’82 and Terence P. Reilly ’83, Anne M. Ziaja ’78 and Gael E.Wetzel ’85; father of Nina Robinson, athletic association; father of Marie Rosinas, Hogandining services; mother of Susan Lewerk Ross ’84; mother of Patricia Sabatalo, retiree, con-troller’s office; wife of Richard A. Schaefer ’42 and mother-in-law of Kevin J. Hadlock ’71;husband of Florence Sheehan, retiree, Kimball dining services; sister of Ann M. Silvestris,retiree, personnel department; brother of Daniel Stewart, motor pool


It’s no secret that I come from a fam-ily that loved food. I think therewere three reasons for this. First, my

family, particularly my Mom and Dad,thought of food as something good. Itwas what gave you sustenance—it wasyour energy source. They didn’t look atit as some colored poison out to clogyour arteries or make you ill in somemysterious way. No, food was good.

Second they saw food and eating as areal pleasure in life. Let’s admit it: a lotof pleasures are a sin. But God gave usthe pleasure of eating as a real perk oflife. Imagine this scene: you go out toyour little garden and pick the tomatothat is just short of splitting its skin. Youpick some fresh basil and the secondyou touch it that magnificent fragrancereaches your nose. You have this mar-velous mix of deep red and green inyour hand as you walk into a kitchenwhere you have been sautéing someimported olive oil to which you haveadded freshly crushed garlic. The wholekitchen is alive with the fragrance. Youthen dip the tomato in boiling water forjust a few seconds, peel it, cut it withthe basil and add it to the olive oil. Youadd oregano and freshly ground pepperand you let it simmer while, on anotherburner, you fry some Italian sausagewith freshly cut peppers and onions.This is now a kitchen to die for. Youabsorb the smells while grating someimported Parmesan cheese. You thenmix it all together—this wonderfulcombination of colors, textures andsmells—and spoon it into a crusty

Italian sub you have just takenout of the oven. The wholebody is now tense in expecta-tion and your mouth is beg-ging to be involved. As the suband juices touch your lips,they explode. And finally thereis the sense of taste.

Now, can anyone say thatisn’t sheer pleasure?

The third reason why weloved food, and perhaps themost important reason, is that food wasan event around which the family gath-ered. These were the old days, but askids, as we sat at the table and looked atthe food, we saw it was what Dad hadsupplied and Mom, with love, hadcooked. We gathered and talked. Weshared our successes and failures. Weshared our jokes. We talked about whathad happened that day. We even argued.But through it all, the bonds of lovegrew tighter.

My most memorable moments as achild were the holidays. The wholeVellaccio clan gathered around a largetable with a bounty that had taken allday to prepare. My Father sat at one endof that table, my Grandfather at theother. And if you looked, you could seea glisten in their eyes. I realize now itwas probably the beginning of a tear asthe light reflected off it. But the reflec-tion of that tear yelled to us the Italiantoast my Father often made. AliFamiglia. To the family.

It is also no secret that I believe infamily. Families are made when a senseof belonging and connection exists

between people. At Holy Cross, we arebonded by our shared experience in thepursuit of truth and in our commitmentto serve others. Our food is our love oflearning. As is true of any family, nomatter how estranged or distant youmight become, you will always remain apart of the family. In addition you willalways be able to find support andstrength in the family and, perhaps mostimportantly, you will always be able tofind love.

You are all a part of the Holy Crossfamily. And so I say on behalf of the fac-ulty and administration of Holy Cross,we are proud to have you and we loveyou.

Ali Famiglia!

This is an excerpt of an address thatActing President Vellaccio delivered to thePresident’s Council last year.

By Frank VellaccioActing President

Road Signs

“Breaking Bread”


Praising PaxTO THE EDITOR:

Congratulations to Clare Karis for her excellent article, “Keepingup with Clyde Pax” (Holy Cross Magazine, Summer ’99). I was privi-leged to have had Clyde V. Pax as a teacher of history of modernphilosophy when he first arrived at Holy Cross in the fall of 1961.The article states: “He (Pax) has come to realize, he says, that “ourbiggest issue here on earth is to praise the Lord.” Fr. John P.Donnelly, S.J., chair of the department of philosophy at that time, ispictured in an edition of the Purple Patcher with the question “Isthere a Christian philosophy?” We know in Christian theology thatthere are four purposes of prayer: petition, reparation, thanksgivingand praise/adoration. The highest purpose is praise/adoration. I sub-mit that Clyde Pax personifies that purpose and personifies theanswer to Fr. Donnelly’s question. Holy Cross College was intellectu-ally and spiritually richer due to Clyde Pax’s long presence.

Harry A.M. Rush Jr. ’62East Millinocket, Maine

AthleticsTO THE EDITOR:

I would like to respond to the question, “What has happened toHoly Cross athletics?” posed by Mr. Joe Neary ’74 in your January1999 issue. Mr. Neary, I regret that you are ashamed of being associ-ated with what you deem the “state of our college’s athletic pro-gram.” The intent of my letter is to suggest that you and other dis-gruntled alumni attend some other athletic events and enjoy the suc-cess of Holy Cross athletics as a whole.

If it is true pride in Holy Cross that you are looking for, I wishyou could have been at the many sporting events that evoked emo-tion this year—for example, when the women’s basketball team wonits second straight Patriot League Championship and berth in theNCAA tournament; when the men’s hockey team won the MAACchampionship; or when my Patriot League Championship fieldhockey team successfully defended its title, again made it to theplay-in round of the NCAA tournament and achieved a nationalranking of 18th in a preseason Division I poll. I don’t know manyathletes, students, or alumni who were or had any right to beashamed of these days.

If you do reduce an athletic program to one sport, you eliminatemuch of what there is to be proud of in Holy Cross athletics. Notonly do you miss out on the aforementioned championship teams,you demean those who have been selected as Patriot League playersof the year in men’s soccer, women’s volleyball, women’s basketball,baseball, field hockey and “softball pitcher of the year” in 1998-99.You also discredit the countless athletes who won other athletic andacademic honors. I would hope that in the future those who wish tocriticize the perceived “failures” of one team will not generalize theircriticism so as to undermine the many successes of the talented anddeserving athletes at Holy Cross.

Sarah Cox ’99Dover, N.H.

VietnamTO THE EDITOR:

I would like to respond to Shawn M. Donovan’s ’70 unfair shotat the military and me in particular (Holy Cross Magazine, Summer

’99). What troubles the writer about the Vietnam issue is “the even-handed celebration of warriors and dissenters as though they are themoral equivalent …” Further, “Is Philip Berrigan the moral equiva-lent of a three star general (also a Holy Cross graduate) who hadcommand authority in Vietnam?” I suppose Mr. Donovan considersme a war criminal for having been true to my oath of office, swornon Mount St. James in 1951. I did my duty in a war that was per-ceived at the time as a legitimate and unselfish struggle to defend abudding democracy against international communism. For many rea-sons the war was lost, but that does not invalidate the nobility ofintent. The legions of Vietnamese who subsequently f led the yoke ofthe victors is testimony to that. One has only to look at Vietnamtoday to make a comparison between what is and what might havebeen.

In citing the Commandments and the Beatitudes for his and theBerrigans’ pacifism, the correspondent’s logic is that all wars aremorally evil. (One would also presume, the struggle against Nazism).This f lies in the face of the Catholic tradition of the Just War (jusad bellum, jus in bello) developed by Augustine, Aquinas and subse-quent moralists of the Western world. I would not have made acareer of the military if I did not sincerely believe that some warsare just and necessary and can be prosecuted in an ethical manner.There is no gain in saying that the just war tradition was frequentlyviolated by both sides during the war, but that does nothing toinvalidate its legitimacy any more than human violations of theCommandments and Beatitudes invalidate them. All are designed tocounter that darker side of human nature.

The Berrigans can be admired for their beliefs and willingness toabide by them. In that sense I consider myself their moral “equiva-lent,” but my commitment to conscience remained within the lawsof the land established by the American people. Theirs did not.“Why did so many men of Holy Cross serve in Vietnam and so fewresist?” Because they were men of courage and principle.

As a matter of accuracy, it should be noted that the Holy CrossMagazine was in error. I was not a three star general during the war;that came years later. During my tours in Vietnam I was down inthe mud as a middle grade officer, as I was as a junior officer in theKorean War.

Bernard E. Trainor ’51Lt. Gen., USMC (Ret.)Lexington, Mass.

TO THE EDITOR:Shawn Donovan ’70 poses the question “Why did so many Men

of Holy Cross serve in Vietnam and so few resist?”, which deservessome comment.

Mr. Donovan is clearly a committed pacifist, devoted to nonvio-lence, with the courage of his convictions. All of which I respect.However, his question assumes a principle also implied in the textof his letter, which is that there is always a True Good and everyhonest, moral person can absolutely see it plainly, if only they try.As Christians we believe the former, but as fallible human beings ina complex world we can very strongly doubt the latter.

By the ideals of pacifism and nonviolence we should never havefought the American Revolution or the Civil War, and certainly nothave entered WWII, but prayed for those under occupation or inthe death camps and sought by other means to convince Hitler andTojo that they were simply on the wrong track. That would not haveworked, and most Christians accept, perhaps reluctantly, that attimes defensive violence is unavoidable.

Complex moral questions sometimes boil down to asking whichis the lesser of two evils, and at times enduring the horrors of warseems to many (myself obviously among them) preferable to the

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moral bankruptcy of inaction in the face of terrible malignancy. Some maychoose to reject that thinking and cling to pacifism as an absolute. Making thatchoice is a fundamental right of the individual, but it does not entitle them tocondemn everyone else as being morally inferior.

The containment of Communism by the West had momentary hot spots inthe long period of the Cold War, Korea being the prime example. (Was thatconflict justified? Think of life in North Korea today!) In 1965 Vietnamappeared to many to be another attempt by Communism to break out ofChina and spread its repression across Southeast Asia. It was perfectly possibleto believe that both Western self-interest and a moral obligation to the SouthVietnamese justified supporting the conflict, and John Kennedy has set thetone that we would bear every burden and fight every foe for the cause of free-dom.

So the answer to the question is that at the time more of us saw the situa-tion in that light than as an immoral exercise in military adventuring and wast-ing human lives. Mr. Donovan may find it difficult to understand that otherscan be very concerned with moral issues and have the courage of their convic-tions, yet not embrace his own vision, but that is part of the wonder ofhumanity.

R.J. Del Vecchio ’64Fuguay-Varina, N.C.

TO THE EDITOR:I was in Vietnam as a General Medical Officer from August ’67 to July ’68.

I volunteered and do not feel guilty for actively participating in our failed andflawed effort to retain South Vietnam as an American ally in our perceivedpolitical/military struggle with the USSR and China. Rather than feeling guilty,I am quietly proud that I went rather than remaining in the USA, safe andsnug in a residency program while some other doctor served in my stead in ahostile environment. In 1967, I was uncertain whether or not our involvementwas justified. I gave some credence to the appeasement at Munich analogy andassumed that the U.S. government made the proper decision. Thankfully, I sur-vived a few dicey situations and returned intact, older and wiser.

While there I realized that our efforts were futile and that the continuationof the war would only result in needless death and destruction. So I took partin a few mass demonstrations in Washington, picketed the White House andfinancially supported politicians who wanted to stop the war. I committed nofelonies.

I have always had deeply felt respect for U.S. military veterans from Vietnamand in general and complete contempt for those such as Clinton, Quayle, andGeorge W. Bush who used social/political connections to avoid going toVietnam while those less privileged were sent by our presidents and Congress.

Edmund Wiker, M.D., ’62 Hopkinton, Mass.

Commencement CoverTO THE EDITOR:

The picture on the cover of your summer issue says it all. It is almost spiri-tual—the love between mother and son on the day of his graduation from col-lege.

After having practiced pediatrics for many years, I was always struck by themother or father looking at his or her newborn through the viewing glass inthe hospital nursery. Sometimes fathers or mothers would stand there for 40-50minutes. Yes, they would gaze at the baby’s physical features, but I am certainthey would also dream what this baby would accomplish and how, one day, hewould graduate from college. Such a day arrived for the Walluses and manyother graduates.

May other of life’s passages between parents and children be as joyful andloving as this one.

John E. Tomley, M.D., ’51Pittsburgh, Pa.


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Thomas Haylon, age 9, son of Patricia G.Haylon ’83, director of special events/donorrelations

Anne-Marie Haylon, age 7, daughter ofPatricia G. Haylon ’83, director of specialevents/donor relations

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calendar of events

Nov. 4, 5, 6 and The Holy Cross Theatre Department Presents:Nov. 11, 12, 13 The Adding Machine, by Elmer Rice

Fenwick Theatre 8 p.m.

Nov. 7 Organ Recital by Dame Gillian WeirSt. Joseph Memorial Chapel 3 p.m.

Nov. 8 Annual El Salvador Commemorative Lecture:Rev. Kevin Burke, S.J., Weston School of TheologyHogan Campus Center, room 519 8 p.m.

Nov. 11 Holy Cross Jazz EnsembleHogan Campus Center Ballroom 8 p.m.

Nov. 16 Concert of Baroque MusicHoly Cross Chamber PlayersBrooks Concert Hall 8 p.m.

Nov. 17 Holy Cross Chamber OrchestraHoly Cross Brass EnsembleBrooks Concert Hall 8 p.m.

Nov. 19 Holy Cross Chamber SingersBrooks Concert Hall 8 p.m.

Nov. 22 St. Cecilia Day Concert:Steven Laplante, OrganSt. Joseph Memorial Chapel 8 p.m.

Dec. 2 Brooks Scholars’ ConcertKimberly Harrison, sopranoLaura Sales, pianoBethany Collier, fluteBrooks Concert Hall 8 p.m.

Dec. 2-5 The Alternate College Theater Presents:A Flea in Her Ear, by Georges Feydeau 8 p.m. nightly/Fenwick Theatre 2 p.m., Sat. & Sun.

Dec. 7 Advent Festival of Lessons and CarolsCollege ChoirSt. Joseph Memorial Chapel 8 p.m.

Dec. 10-17 Final Examinations

For more news about upcoming events and for up-to-date information about thecampus, please visit the Holy Cross Web site at:

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