Alice Laffey, late associate professor emerita, is remembered as the conscience of the Department of Religious Studies. Photo credit: College of the Holy Cross
Thanks to her acute sense of justice and purpose, a sharp, analytical mind, and tremendous kindness, friends and former colleagues say Alice Laffey was the conscience of the religious studies department during her 35-year Holy Cross teaching career and through her retirement, until her recent death at 78 after a brief illness.