Category Archives: Press Release

WORCESTER, Mass. – The second annual Purple Pride Day will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 17 at Holy Cross.  The day is designed for members of the Holy Cross community, including students, faculty, administration and staff, to show their love … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Joseph H. Maguire, an associate professor, assistant dean and chair of the education program at Holy Cross, will give a lecture entitled “On Being a Catholic” on Wednesday, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 519 of … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Tom Ormondroyd, a performance leadership actor and a member of the Class of 2000 at Holy Cross, will lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Hogan Campus Center at Holy Cross.  … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Rev. Thomas Coughlin, a deaf Roman Catholic priest, will give a lecture on Saturday, Nov. 20 at 10:30 a.m. in Room 320 of the Hogan Campus Center at Holy Cross.  He will celebrate a liturgy at 2 … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. was elected the 31st president of the College of the Holy Cross today.  The College’s Board of Trustees announced his selection following a meeting this morning.  He will assume his duties in … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – “Trick or Treating” will be hosted by Holy Cross students for approximately 60 young children from the Camp Fire Kids Program in Worcester. Festivities include “trick or treating” on Friday, Oct. 29, from 2 p.m. to 4 … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Rev. Kevin Burke, S.J., an assistant professor of systematic theology at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, Mass., will give the annual El Salvador Commemorative Lecture on Monday, Nov. 8, at 8 p.m. in Room 519 … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Dame Gillian Weir, one of the world’s foremost concert organists, will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Clavier-Uebung III” on Sunday, Nov. 7 at 3 p.m. in the St. Joseph Memorial Chapel at Holy Cross.  The performance, which is … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – U.S. Rep. James McGovern (D-MA) will discuss the East Timor crisis in a lecture about the recent referendum and its aftermath on Friday, Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Brooks Concert Hall at Holy Cross.  The … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Ballet Folklorico Mexico de Los Hermanos Avila will perform on Friday, Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Hogan Campus Center at Holy Cross.  The performance is free and open to the public. … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Rev. John Dear, S.J., executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, will give a lecture entitled “Toward a Peace Culture: The Journal of Radical Non-Violence,” on Monday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. in Room 519 at Holy … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – “Jew, Catholic, Saint: Edith Stein and the Prospects for Jewish-Catholic Dialogue” will take place Wednesday, Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Hogan Campus Center at Holy Cross. The event is free and open … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Tom Brokaw, the anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw,” will address the President’s Council at Holy Cross on Saturday, October 16, 1999, at approximately 9:30 p.m. Brokaw has been the sole anchor … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Harvey C. Mansfield Jr., the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, will give a lecture entitled “Manliness and the Western Tradition” on Monday, Oct. 18 at 4 p.m. in Room 320 of the … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Teachers as Scholars, a collaborative project among Holy Cross, the Worcester Public Schools and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, will be held on Oct. 8 and Nov. 5 at Holy Cross. “Voices of Diversity in American … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Forgotten Language Tour, a national tour of prominent nature writers and poets, will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 5-6, at Holy Cross. Merging social justice ideals with concerns for local ecological issues, The Forgotten Language … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Emma Tahmiziàn, a pianist, will give her first concert at Holy Cross on Thursday, Oct. 7 at 8 p.m. in the Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J., Concert Hall.  The program, which will include J.S. Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy; … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Svetozar Stojanovic, a professor in the philosophy department at the University of Belgrade, will give a lecture entitled “Serbia, Kosovo, and the NATO World Order” on Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. in Room 519 of the … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross will host its third annual Literary Octoberfest, a weeklong celebration of writing during the week of Oct. 18, with readings each night at 7 p.m. in the Browsing Room of the Dinand Library.  Sponsored by … Continue reading →

WORCESTER, Mass. – “Bridges,” a day of service for first-year students at Holy Cross, will take place on Saturday, Oct. 2 from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at several Worcester Public Schools. Part of the three-tiered orientation program, first-year students have already … Continue reading →