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WORCESTER, Mass. – Members of the Holy Cross men’s and women’s basketball teams have been honored by the Patriot League.

The men’s team captured three of the four major individual awards. Senior guard Keith Simmons was named 2007 Patriot League Player of the Year and senior guard Torey Thomas took home 2007 Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year. Both were also selected to the first team All-Patriot League.

Holy Cross head coach Ralph Willard was tabbed as the Patriot League Coach of the Year award for the third time. He was also honored in 2001 and 2005.

On the women’s team, three players were recognized by the Patriot League, including All-League first-team selection center Kaitlin Foley ’07, second-team and rookie-team pick guard Bethany O’Dell ’10, and rookie-team selection Briana McFadden ’10. Holy Cross was one of three schools that had a League-high of three student-athletes honored.

Also, on the men’s team center Tim Clifford ’08 was named to the all-conference second team and forward Eric Meister ’10 was named to the Patriot League All-Rookie team.

The honors are determined following a vote of the Patriot League’s head coaches.

The Patriot League, which was founded on the principles of admitting athletes who are academically representative of their class, is in its second decade of academic and athletic achievement. Participation in athletics at Patriot League institutions is viewed as an important component of a well-rounded education. Along with Holy Cross, full League members include American, Army, Bucknell, Colgate, Lafayette, Lehigh and Navy. Associate members include Fordham (football) and Georgetown (football).

More information:

    * www.goholycross.com
    * www.patriotleague.com

WORCESTER, Mass. – Members of the Holy Cross men’s and women’s basketball teams have been honored by the Patriot League.

The men’s team captured three of the four major individual awards. Senior guard Keith Simmons was named 2007 Patriot League Player of the Year and senior guard Torey Thomas took home 2007 Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year. Both were also selected to the first team All-Patriot League.

Holy Cross head coach Ralph Willard was tabbed as the Patriot League Coach of the Year award for the third time. He was also honored in 2001 and 2005.

On the women’s team, three players were recognized by the Patriot League, including All-League first-team selection center Kaitlin Foley ’07, second-team and rookie-team pick guard Bethany O’Dell ’10, and rookie-team selection Briana McFadden ’10. Holy Cross was one of three schools that had a League-high of three student-athletes honored.

Also, on the men’s team center Tim Clifford ’08 was named to the all-conference second team and forward Eric Meister ’10 was named to the Patriot League All-Rookie team.

The honors are determined following a vote of the Patriot League’s head coaches.

The Patriot League, which was founded on the principles of admitting athletes who are academically representative of their class, is in its second decade of academic and athletic achievement. Participation in athletics at Patriot League institutions is viewed as an important component of a well-rounded education. Along with Holy Cross, full League members include American, Army, Bucknell, Colgate, Lafayette, Lehigh and Navy. Associate members include Fordham (football) and Georgetown (football).

More information:

* www.goholycross.com
* www.patriotleague.com

WORCESTER, Mass. – Student Programs for Urban Development (SPUD), Holy Cross’ umbrella service organization, has received a $2,500 grant from the Greater Worcester Community Foundation (GWCF) to support a rehabilitation program on prison grounds for soon-to-be-released inmates. The grant proposal was written by SPUD student leaders Laura Walsh ’08 and Matthew Moore ’07, with the support of Marybeth Kearns-Barrett of the Chaplains’ Office.

The Almost Home program at the Worcester County Jail and House of Correction in West Boylston supports inmates who may be struggling with drug or alcohol addiction before they return to the community.

Since September, Holy Cross volunteers have been going to the transitional residential facility to cook meals and eat with the residents of the program, which is run by the Dismas House, a nonprofit agency providing programs for inmates after their release from prison.

The Holy Cross students’ work will now be supported with the grant. At $100 per week for 25 weeks of service at the house, student interns will cook meals for participants of the program. Up to five Holy Cross volunteers purchase food and prepare the meals Monday and Tuesday nights from 5 to 7 p.m. The majority of the time is spent making the meal, while the remainder is spent socializing with the residents.

Walsh ’08, from Simsbury, Conn., and Moore ’07, from Melrose, drafted the grant proposal after realizing that the motivations of SPUD programs overlapped with the interests of GWCF. The SPUD interns applied to the foundation’s Mini-Grant Program, which funds “low-cost projects that have an impact on the people or organizations in our community.”

“Without the help of these two interns, this never would have been accomplished,” said Kearns-Barrett.

Before receiving the grant from the GWCF, SPUD was having a difficult time coming up with funds to supply meals for the residents in the Almost Home Program.

“Mealtime is a very important part of the residents’ experience here, as it serves to develop a sense of community within the home,” said Walsh, explaining the significance of the acquired money. “Additionally, mealtimes allow for the residents to interact with the individuals who have prepared the meals. This interaction further supports reintegration into the community.”

Walsh said the work of SPUD is twofold: the organization seeks to help the Worcester community by fulfilling goals and needs indicated by various community sites; and educates Holy Cross students about the larger community and importance of working toward social justice.

“SPUD is incredibly grateful to the Greater Worcester Community Foundation for their generous assistance to our community work,” said Walsh.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross presents Gold Cloths of Sumatra: Indonesia’s Songkets from Ceremony to Commodity from March 1 to April 18. The exhibition offers both 19th century and contemporary examples of one of Asia’s most spectacular traditional, hand-loomed textiles: the gold-thread cloths, or songkets, of the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra and the Palembang Malays of South Sumatra.

A series of events in conjunction with the exhibition will be held at the Cantor Art Gallery. Docent tours of the exhibition are available upon request. Three Holy Cross students are working with Susan Rodgers, professor of anthropology at Holy Cross, to offer guided docent tours of Gold Cloths of Sumatra: Indonesia’s Songkets from Ceremony to Commodity. For further information and available times of the guided tours, please call the Cantor Art Gallery at 508-793-3356.

• March 1, 4 p.m. Opening gallery talk by Susan Rodgers and Dr. Anne Summerfield, Indonesian textile researcher, titled “Introduction to the Exhibition: Commerce and Creativity in Sumatran Songket Textiles.”
• March 1, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Opening reception.
• March 2, Noon. Gallery walk-through by Dr. Anne Summerfield and Dr. John Summerfield, Indonesian textile researchers.
• March 15, 4 p.m. Gallery talk by Melanie Chapman ’07 titled “Indonesian Textiles and the Feminine.” Sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies.
• March 16, Noon. Gallery talk by Susan Rodgers and student docents, Melanie Chapman ’07, Colleen Germain ’07, and Sarah Thibeault ’07, titled “Introduction to the Exhibition: Commerce and Creativity in Sumatran Textiles.”
• March 20, 4 p.m. Gallery talk by Dr. Anita Hibler, adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, University College, titled “Threads of American Diplomacy in Southeast Asia: Elephants for Mr. Lincoln.”
• April 3, 2 p.m. Gallery talk by Megan Osborne ’05 titled “Museum Representations of Asia: A Comparison of Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum and New York’s American Museum of Natural History.” A Fulbright recipient, Osborne worked in Asian Civilisations Museum, a new and innovative museum in Singapore.
• April 11, Noon. Gallery talk by Susan Rodgers and Roger Hankins, director of the Cantor Art Gallery, titled “Weavers, Markets and Museums: The Making of an Exhibition.”

Songkets are worn as sarongs, shoulder cloths, and head-ties during rituals such as weddings and the installation of village chieftains. They are made of silk or fine cotton, interwoven with supplementary wefts of gold-wrapped thread.

Songkets’ creators are Muslim women and adolescent girls, although some boys and men are also weaving today. Indonesian textile craft, in general, helps constitute the feminine in a range of village and urban communities. Sumatran textiles also speak of hidden worlds of poetic and political meaning and can be “read” for their inlaid messages.

Antique songkets from Minangkabau and Palembang reached perhaps unparalleled heights of weaving excellence, but the craft remains a thriving — even expanding — art today. This exhibition looks precisely at those elements of resiliency and deep artistic creativity in songkets, from many regions of Sumatra. These songket textiles today have become part of globalizing fashion worlds and are also caught up in heated conversations about conservative, sedate standards of pious Muslim dress.

The exhibition is based on extensive anthropological fieldwork in Sumatra from 2003 to 2006 by Rodgers. The Cantor Art Gallery is fortunate once again to be collaborating with the textile scholars Anne and John Summerfield, who have conducted more than 30 years of research on the subject. They co-authored the exhibition catalogue with Rodgers. The show also draws on Holy Cross’ new permanent Study Collection of Indonesian Textiles.

The exhibition compares and contrasts historical examples of objects created between the 1800s and 1945 from the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History and two private collections with recently produced and hand woven contemporary songket textiles in Holy Cross’ own collection.

Additional support for the exhibition was provided by the Holy Cross departments of sociology and anthropology, Asian Studies, and the Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies.

Gold Cloths of Sumatra is the third exhibition in a series mounted by the Cantor Art Gallery on Southeast Asian hand-loomed cloth. The first, Weaving Life, Weaving Wealth: Sumatran Textiles in Transition. Cloth, Gender and Power in Contemporary Indonesia, was mounted in1995; the second, Keris/Cloth: Sacred Metal and Textile Arts of Indonesia in 2003.

About the Curators

Susan Rodgers is an anthropologist who has studied Indonesian print literatures and indigenous arts since 1974 and has curated two previous exhibitions on Southeast Asian art at the Cantor Art Gallery. She was the curator of Power and Gold: Jewelry from Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, 1985, for the Musee Barbier-Mueller, Geneva, Switzerland, and the Asia Society Gallery, New York. Her most recent book is Print, Poetics, and Politics: A Sumatran Epic in the Colonial Indies and New Order Indonesia (KITLV Press, 2005). Her Ph.D. in anthropology is from the University of Chicago.

Dr. Anne Summerfield has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Following a long career in teaching and business she has become a major scholar of Southeast Asian textiles, specializing in Minangkabau traditions. Dr. John Summerfield, whose Ph.D. in economics is also from University of California, Berkeley, is a specialist in international airline economics. He is also a prominent textile researcher. Together they co-edited Walk in Splendor: Ceremonial Dress and the Minangkabau, (Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1999). They have curated numerous museum exhibitions on songkets.

Gallery Information

The hours for the Cantor Art Gallery are Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Saturdays, 2 – 5 p.m. The gallery will be closed March 3 and March 10 (Saturdays) and April 5 – 7 for Easter break.

Located in O’Kane Hall, First Floor, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, Mass, 01610. Admission to the gallery is free. Public parking is located on Linden Lane, gate 2, off College Street.

For more information, call the Cantor Art Gallery at 508-793-3356 or visit the Gallery’s Web site.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The department of theatre at the College of the Holy Cross will present Coraline, based on the novel Coraline (copyright 2002), by writer and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman., on March 22 – 24 and 29 – 31 at 8 p.m. in Fenwick Theatre (O’Kane Hall). Tickets are $7 for members of the Holy Cross community and $10 for the general public. Groups of 10 or more can purchase tickets at a special rate of $5 each.

In the tradition of Alice in Wonderland, Coraline follows the adventures of a young girl drawn into a dark world inhabited by talking animals and beings with strange powers and dubious motives. Puppets and masks help to evoke the eerie fantasy world of the play. The production is directed by Lynn Kremer, professor in the theatre department, with choreography by I Wayan Dibia, visiting fellow in Balinese music, theatre, and dance. The original songs and music are composed by Michael Gardiner, former lecturer, and Andrea Caspari, renowned shadow puppet artist, designs the puppets.

As we follow Coraline Jones into the fantasy world behind her living room door, we experience her trials and challenges as she struggles to set her world aright. Fears are conquered, obstacles are surmounted, and demons are vanquished by her courage and humanity. As Coraline tells us, “Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

Coraline will feature an original score and will employ dancers, puppets, and masks in a highly theatrical and atmospheric production. Projections, moveable set pieces, innovative costumes, and fluid, ever-changing staging conjure Coraline’s (and Gaiman’s) dark worlds, helping to illuminate our own.

The set for Holy Cross’ production is designed by William J. Rynders, associate professor of theatre, lighting by Patrick Gavin, class of 2007, and costumes by Kurt S. Hultgren, costume designer in the theatre department.

For more information or press tickets, please contact Joe Mader in the theatre department at 508-793-3490 or jmader@holycross.edu.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Osvaldo Golijov, associate professor of music at the College of the Holy Cross won both Grammy awards that he was nominated for in the categories of Best Opera Recording and Best Classical Contemporary Composition for his opera Ainadamar (Fountains of Tears).

“It took many people with amazing and diverse talents working very hard to give birth to this opera,” Golijov said after receiving the Grammy awards. “We never knew or even stopped to think what would happen after the first night. It is very beautiful to see that the work now has a life of its own, as it continues to be performed around the globe and recognized by these awards.”

“Ainadamar” means “fountain of tears” in Arabic, and is the place where, in 1936, Spanish poet Federico García Lorca was murdered by Fascist soldiers during the early stages of the Spanish Civil War. The opera is centered around Lorca’s death, and the mourning of Margarita Xirgu, interpreted by acclaimed soprano Dawn Upshaw.

Golijov has been previously nominated for three Grammys. Last year, the song cycle Ayre was nominated for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. Prior to that, the 2002 EMI CD Yiddishbbuk and the 2000 recording of La Pasión según San Marcos received nominations.

Related Information

* Who’s Who in the Arts: Osvaldo Golijov

WORCESTER, Mass. – This spring, seven members of the Holy Cross faculty have been promoted to the rank of associate professor, with tenure.

Cristina Ballantine, of the mathematics and computer science department, earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Toronto, Canada. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2002, she was awarded a Fulbright Junior Research Award to Germany from 2004 to 2005 at Universität Münster, where she pursued her research interests which include number theory, automorphic forms and representation theory, and combinatorics. She has published many papers including “Ramanujan Type Buildings.” She serves on the Committee on Faculty Affairs and the Committee on Graduate Studies and Fellowships. She lives in Holden with her husband, Dan, and their daughters, Hanna and Emma.

Jeffrey A. Bernstein, of the philosophy department, earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University. He has served as the director of the Philosophy Colloquium series at Holy Cross, where he has been an assistant professor since 2001. A member of the American Philosophical Association as well as the North American Spinoza Society, Bernstein has published articles on topics such as German idealism and Spinoza. Additionally, he has given presentations at California State University, Villanova University and Emerson College, and referees for the academic journals Epoché and Idealistic Studies. He lives in Worcester with his wife, Ingrid Rasmussen, and son, Zachary.

Mary Ebbott, of the classics department, earned her Ph.D. in classical philology from Harvard University. She has been a member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2001 and has served on multiple college committees, including the Academic Affairs Council and the Academic Standing Committee. Her research interests are Homeric epic and Greek tragedy. She is the executive editor at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., where she has also co-taught a graduate seminar on Homeric poetry and is one of the editors of the Homer Multitext project. Her publications include Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature and, most recently, “Butler’s Authoress of the Odyssey: gendered readings of Homer, then and now.” She lives in Worcester with her husband, Mark Tomasko.

Ann Marie Leshkowich, of the department of sociology and anthropology, earned her Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University in 2000 and joined the Holy Cross faculty that same year. She is an economic anthropologist who does fieldwork on gender, entrepreneurship, globalization, late socialism, middle classes, and fashion in Vietnam. Her primary research focuses on female cloth and clothing traders in Ho Chi Minh City’s central marketplace. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-Hays, and the American Philosophical Society. She co-edited the book Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress (Berg, 2003) and has published articles in the Journal of Vietnamese Studies and Fashion Theory. Currently participating in the First-Year Program, she also has taught a broad range of courses, including fashion and consumption, globalization in Asia, and anthropological theory and methods. She serves on the Premedical/Predental Committee and is a member of the Asian Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies programs. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, Noah, and their daughter, Allegra.

Kenneth V. Mills, of the chemistry department, earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in chemistry and chemical biology. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2001, he directs undergraduate researchers in the study of the mechanism of hedgehog autoprocessing and protein splicing. In 2005, he was awarded the National Science Foundation’s CAREER grant for “CAREER: Alternative Mechanisms of HINT domain autoprocessing: An integrated undergraduate research and education program,” which he will work on through 2010. He has published a number of journal articles such as, “Protein Purification via Temperature-Dependent, Intein-Mediated Cleavage from an Immobilized Metal Affinity Resin.” At Holy Cross, his is co-chair of the biochemistry concentration and has served as member of the Academic Affairs Council and the Curricular Review Steering Committee. He lives in Charlton with his wife, Elisa, and son, Dean.

Tomohiko Narita, of the physics department, earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin. A member of the faculty since 2001, he has served on the College Curriculum Committee, Academic Affairs Council and the Community Standards Board. Since 2003, he has been the Holy Cross radiation safety officer. Narita has published a number of articles on observations of neutron stars and black holes, and X-ray satellite instrumentation. He lives in Princeton with his wife, Kate, and their sons, Anders and Corbin.

Leila Philip, of the English department, earned an M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia University School of the Arts, where she was a writing fellow from 1989-2001. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2003, she has taught courses in creative writing, fiction, nonfiction, and Asian American literature. From 2004-2005, she was acting director of the Creative Writing Program. She is the author of three books of nonfiction, including The Road Through Miyama (Random House, 1989, Vintage, 1991) for which she received the Martha Albrand Special Citation for Nonfiction in 1990; and the award-winning memoir A Family Place: A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars, One Family (Viking 2001, Vintage 2002). She has received numerous awards for her writing, including fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The American Association of University Women and the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe. She lives in Woodstock, Conn., with her husband, Garth Evans, and son, Rhys Evans.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The American Sign Language and Deaf Studies Program announces its calendar of events for the 2007 spring semester. Unless otherwise stated, all events are free and open to the public. For more information on any of the events, contact Judy Fask, director of the ASL/Deaf Studies Program, at 508-793-3344 or jfask@holycross.edu.

Unless otherwise stated, the following events take place on the College of the Holy Cross campus.

Feb. 12; 7 p.m.
Hogan Campus Center
Work on a knitting project or learn the basics of knitting, all in ASL with the ASL Club’s knitting group. Contact cnalva07@holycross.edu.

Feb 15; 3 p.m., prep and cooking. 5 p.m., dinner and activities
Stein Hall, Room 526
Celebrate the Chinese New Year in ASL. Pre-registration is required. Contact Yli@holycross.edu.

Feb. 22; 5:30 p.m.
Hogan Crossroads Pub
Silent dinner with deaf friends and instructors in ASL. Meal tickets can be purchased for non-Holy Cross students.

Feb. 22; 7 p.m.
Hogan, Room 402
Learn about the master of social work (MSW) program at Gallaudet University School of Social Work at this informational session with Audrey Frank. An interpreter will be provided.

Feb. 27; 7 p.m.
McCooey Chapel in St. Joseph Chapel
All are welcome to celebrate Mass in ASL with Rev. Joe Bruce.

March 12; 7 p.m.
Hogan Campus Center
Work on a knitting project or learn the basics of knitting, all in ASL with the ASL Club’s knitting group. Contact cnalva07@holycross.edu.

March 22; 5:30 p.m.
Hogan Crossroads Pub
Silent dinner with deaf friends and instructors in ASL. Meal tickets can be purchased for non-Holy Cross students.

March 22, 7 p.m.
Stein Hall, Room 116
Come to the ASL Forum for an opportunity to enjoy a question-and-answer session with deaf instructors. An interpreter will be provided.

March 25; 1 – 3 p.m.
Hart Center Pool
DEAFinitely Swim program begins. Swim lessons for deaf, hard of hearing, children of deaf adults and siblings. Instruction in ASL. Pre-registration required; contact jfask@holycross.edu.

March 27; 7 p.m.
McCooey Chapel in St. Joseph Chapel
All are welcome to celebrate Mass in ASL with Rev. Joe Bruce.

April 1; 1 – 3 p.m.
Hart Center Pool
DEAFinitely Swim program continues for those registered.

April 15; 1 – 3 p.m.
Hart Center Pool
DEAFinitely Swim program continues for those registered.

April 16; 7 p.m.
Hogan Campus Center
Work on a knitting project or learn the basics of knitting, all in ASL with the ASL Club’s knitting group. Contact cnalva07@holycross.edu.

April 19; 5:30 p.m.
Hogan Crossroads Pub
Silent dinner with deaf friends and instructors in ASL. Meal tickets can be purchased for non-Holy Cross students.

April 19; 7 p.m.
Stein Hall, Room 116
Come to the ASL Forum for an opportunity to enjoy a question-and-answer session with deaf instructors. An interpreter will be provided.

April 20; 10:30 a.m.
Worcester Public Library, 3 Salem Sq.
Storytelling in ASL by Holy Cross ASL students. Contact at library is Ann Hrobsky at ahrbosky@cwmars.org.

April 21; 10:30 a.m.
Northboro Free Library, 34 Main St.
Storytelling in ASL by Holy Cross ASL students. Contact at library is Pat Link at plink@cwmars.org.

April 22; 1 – 3 p.m.
Hart Center Pool
DEAFinitely Swim program continues for those registered.

April 24; 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Hogan Suite A
Holy Cross Deaf Studies Awards ceremony.

April 24; 7 p.m.
McCooey Chapel in St. Joseph Chapel
All are welcome to celebrate Mass in ASL with Rev. Joe Bruce.

April 29; 1-3 p.m.
Hart Center Pool
Last class for those registered in DEAFinitely Swim program.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Tom and Doris Smeltzer, the parents of a bulimia victim who died at the age of 19, will tell the story of their daughter through photographs, journal entries, and poems on Feb. 21 at 5:30 p.m. in Hogan Jenks Suites B/C at the College of the Holy Cross. The event is free and open to the public.

After a 13-month struggle with bulimia, Pitzer College student Andrea Smeltzer died in her sleep when an electrolyte imbalance caused her heart to stop in 1999. Her parents, from Napa, Calif., describe the factors that contribute to the development of an eating disorder, the warning signs, and approaches to use when speaking with a suspected sufferer, as well as the necessary components of an effective treatment plan. Their information has been gained from extensive personal research, experts in the field and via their daughter’s words.

The talk is sponsored by NEED: the Nutrition, Exercise and Eating Disorders Peer Educators, the Counseling Center, the Office of Wellness Programming, the athletics department, the psychology department, and Health Services.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Danuta Bukatko, professor of psychology and director of the women’s and gender studies program, has been selected as the first person to hold the Joseph H. Maguire ’58 Professorship in Education at the College of the Holy Cross.

The Joseph H. Maguire ’58 Professorship in Education is named for the distinguished alumnus of the College who went on to serve for 39 years as a member of the education department and as a class dean. Upon his retirement from the College in 2001, over 240 graduates who had been mentored by “Dean Joe” created an endowment to establish the Maguire Professorship in his honor. This effort was ably and generously led by Kathy and Ed Ludwig ’73, and Susan ’79 and Bob Brennan ’81. Joe’s sister, Ann, provided valuable assistance as the project proceeded. Sadly, Dean Maguire passed away before the fund raising campaign was completed.

Today, as in Dean Maguire’s time, a significant number of Holy Cross students envisage careers as high school or middle school teachers. Many more will confront issues of education policy as professionals in other fields, as parents, or as members of local school boards. Through the education department, Holy Cross seeks to train excellent teachers and to offer courses of general interest to students who are majoring in other fields.

As the new Maguire Professor in Education, Bukatko will chair the education department, bringing to the position both extensive experience in the field of developmental psychology and a well deserved reputation for collegiality and effective leadership in the College. Bukatko will retain her tenured position in psychology while serving her four-year term.

Bukatko, a resident of Harvard, Mass., holds academic degrees from Rutgers University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She joined the College in 1976 as an assistant professor of psychology. She served both as chair of that department from 1978 to 1984 and as a class dean of the College from 1984 to 1990, a period that overlapped with Dean Maguire’s tenure as dean for two of the other classes. She is currently director of the women’s and gender studies program.

Bukatko is co-author with Marvin W. Daehler of Child Development: A Thematic Approach (Houghton Mifflin, fifth edition 2003). She has published journal articles and made presentations at professional meetings, a number of them co-authored in recent years with Holy Cross students. Her latest book, Child and Adolescent Development, has just appeared from Houghton Mifflin.

Her appointment will take effect in August 2007. The College will announce plans for an inaugural celebration later in the year.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Organist James David Christie will perform the fifth of eight concerts commemorating the 300th anniversary of the death of the great 17th-century North German organist-composer Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707). As part of the Holy Cross Chapel Artists Series, “The Buxtehude Tercentenary at Holy Cross” is being performed on the late 17th-century North German inspired Taylor & Boody organ throughout the 2006-2007 concert season.

The concert, free and open to the public, will be on Feb. 11 at 3 p.m. in the College’s Saint Joseph Memorial Chapel. The chapel is handicapped accessible.

Christie is the distinguished artist in residence and College organist at Holy Cross. In addition, he serves as organist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was the first American to ever win a first prize at the Bruges (Belgium) International Organ Competition and was the first person in the history of the competition to ever win both the Prize of the Jury and the Prize of the Audience. Professor Christie has served on more international organ competition juries than any American organist. He has toured the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia giving concerts, master classes and seminars at major music festivals. He has recorded for 12 different labels and is heard regularly on radio broadcasts in the United States, Canada and Europe.

The program follows:

Praeludium in e, BuxWV 143

Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn, BuxWV 191
Herr Christ, der einig Gottes Sohn, BuxWV 192

Ciacona in e, BuxWV 160

Praeludium in a, BuxWV 158

Von Gott will ich nicht lassen, BuxWV 221
Von Gott will ich nicht lassen, BuxWV 220

Canzonetta in a, BuxWV 225

Praeludium in a, BuxWV 153

Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BuxWV 223
Mensch, willt du leben seliglich, BuxWV 206

Canzonetta in e, BuvWV 169

Praeludium in E, BuxWV 141