- Yolanda W. Rabun ’90
- (Left) With her senior thesis adviser B. Eugene McCarthy, professor of English emeritus; (right) the late Ogretta V. McNeil, associate professor of psychology and assistant dean for academic services for students of color
- Rabun at Holy Cross in 1986 (left) and with her classmate and fellow cheerleader Jacqueline Abercrombie ’90 and the Holy Cross cheerleading squad in 2018.
- With her mother, Kappitola Williams, as a child and later post-performance at the Atlanta Jazz Festival, who once advised: “You go out there and be you.”
- (left) The 1990 program for Rabun’s groundbreaking honors thesis performance; (right) with a statue of Nina Simone in Tryon, North Carolina
It was the first football game of the 1986 season, Holy Cross versus Lehigh — a season that would culminate in a Patriot League championship for the Crusaders.