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WORCESTER, Mass. – William Kristol, editor of the influential Washington-based political magazine, The Weekly Standard, will deliver the 40th annual Hanify-Howland Memorial Lecture on Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom at the College of the Holy Cross. The event, free and open to the public, will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

Washington insiders give Kristol a fair amount of the credit (or the blame) for the new American foreign policy doctrine articulated by President Bush after the attack of Sept. 11. Kristol will suggest how Sept. 11 may have initiated a new era in American politics and foreign policy. His lecture will focus on what comes next, what the Bush administration intends to do, and draw out some of the implications of the new world we’re living in, at home and abroad, politically and culturally.

Widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading political analysts and commentators, Kristol regularly appears on “Fox News Sunday” and Fox News Channel. As an advocate for a strong American foreign policy, he has pushed the foreign policy debate forward since Sept. 11 and continues to drive the conversation as co-author of The New York Times bestseller The War Over Iraq (Encounter Books, 2003). He has most recently edited the well-received anthology The Weekly Standard, A Reader: 1995-2005 (HarperCollins).

Before starting The Weekly Standard in 1995, Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future, where he helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican Congressional victory. Prior to that, Mr. Kristol served as chief of staff to vice president Dan Quayle during the Bush administration, and to Secretary of Education William Bennett under President Reagan. Before coming to Washington in 1985, Kristol taught politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

The annual Hanify-Howland lecture honors the late Edward F. Hanify, a 1904 graduate of Holy Cross and a Massachusetts Superior Court justice for 15 years, who died in 1954. The series was started by Hanify’s friend, the late Weston Howland of Milton, Mass., board chairman of Warwick Mills, Inc., who died in 1976.

Since 1965, the Hanify-Howland lecture series has brought to the Holy Cross campus a series of distinguished speakers on public affairs who have exemplified in their own work the spirit of public service that the series was established to encourage. They include Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity; Robert M. Hayes, founder of the National Coalition for the Homeless; Leon R. Kass, former Chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics; Christopher J. Matthews (Holy Cross Class of 1967), MSNBC “Hardball” anchor; the Honorable Clarence Thomas (Class of 1971), associate justice of the Supreme Court; the late Paul E. Tsongas, former senator of Massachusetts, and Paul A. Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve System.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Jennifer Price, author and environmental historian, will give a reading and discussion titled “13 Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” on Nov. 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library, on the third floor of Smith Hall, at the College of the Holy Cross. The talk will be preceded by a reception at 4 p.m. in Moran Lounge, on the fourth floor of Smith Hall. Both events are free and open to the public.

Price will read from her forthcoming book on nature in Los Angeles, also titled 13 Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A., and discuss nature writing, environmental history and urban environmentalism.

Price is the author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America (Basic Books, 2000). She has been published in the anthologies Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (W.W. Norton & Company, 1996), Land of Sunshine: The Environmental History of Greater Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2002), and the Nature of Nature: New Essays from America’s Finest Writers on Nature (Harvest Books, 1995), as well as in L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Audubon, and The New York Times.

She is a 2005-6 Guggenheim Fellow and a two-time NEH Fellow, and has been a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women since 1998. She has a Ph.D. in history from Yale University and currently lives in Venice Beach, California.

The events are sponsored by the English department’s Creative Writing Program and the Environmental Studies Program.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture will present a discussion of Steve Vineberg’s High Comedy in American Movies (Rowan & Littlefield, 2005) on Dec. 6 at 4 p.m. in the Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The event is free and open to the public.

In the book, Vineberg defines the conventions of high comedy and chronicles American movies about the manners of aristocrats. Robert Cording, professor of English and James N. and Sarah L. O’Reilly Barrett Endowed Chair in Creative Writing, will comment on the book, Vineberg will respond with his own remarks and an open floor discussion will follow.

Vineberg holds the Monsignor Edward G. Murray Professorship in the Arts and Humanities at Holy Cross. A professor of theatre, Vineberg reviews films and theatre regularly for The Boston Phoenix, The Threepenny Review and The Christian Century. He has also been published in The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Oxford American, Film Quarterly, American Film, and Modern Review, among others. He has served as the on-air movie critic for National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air” series. His earlier books, No Surprises Please: Movies in the Reagan Decade (Schirmer Books, 1993) and Method Actors: Three Generations of an American Acting Style (Schirmer Books, 1991) established him as a keen commentator and recognized authority. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1985, Vineberg teaches classes in theatre history, film, American drama and political theatre.

This is the inauguration of a series of discussions of books by faculty that run across the concerns of the Center — religion, ethics and culture.

WORCESTER, Mass. – A lecture recital on The Sacred Music of Josquin des Prez will be on Nov. 16 at 4:30 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The event is free and open to the public.

Jessica Waldoff, associate professor and chair of the music department, will give a short lecture on the music of Franco-Flemish composer, Josquin des Prez. The Holy Cross Chamber singers, directed by Pamela Getnick, choral director, will provide musical examples as part of the lecture, and the program will conclude with a short performance of works of Josquin. Pieces to be performed include the famous Ave Maria as well as the Gloria movements from two of Josquin’s Masses: The Missa Mater Patris, and the Missa L’Homme Arme Sexti Toni.

The event is sponsored by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture and the department of music.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross will present The Art of Ebrû: Turkish Paper Marbling with Islamic Calligraphy by Feridun Özgören and Güliz Pamukoglu from Nov. 21 to Jan. 25.

Three gallery events in conjunction with the exhibit will be held at the Cantor Art Gallery:

* Nov. 28, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Gallery talk titled “The Art of Ebrû by Feridun Özgören”
* Nov. 28, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Reception
* Dec. 8, 3 – 4 p.m. Adam Gaiser, visiting assistant professor in the religious studies department, will give a talk titled “The Word Made Visible: Islamic Motifs in the Art of Ebru”

Feridun Özgören and Güliz Pamukoglu apply traditional Turkish ebrû (paper marbling) to large paper sheets, producing multiple layers of marbling intertwined with graceful Islamic calligraphy in Arabic, Turkish or Persian. Although the origins of marbling are unclear, it seems to have evolved in the Moslem world in the 16th century, especially in India, Persia, and the Ottoman Empire. The art of ebrû has been practiced by Turks in an unbroken chain for almost 500 years.

Marbling is a technique that allows an artist to create elaborate swirling and intertwined strata of color and intricate design using liquid paints that have been suspended on a viscose medium. Once the artist manipulates the floating colors by means of special combs and other tools to create the desired effects, a sheet of alumed paper is carefully laid onto the liquid surface. Once the designs are transferred onto the paper, it can then be washed, dried, and pressed for further applications of marbling.

In order to create the large calligraphic panels with multiple layers of marbling, the artists, Özgören and Pamukoglu, employ another traditional art form called kaat’i (decoupage), which is used to create the paper stencils. Using stencils to block parts of the sheets enables the artists to overlay multiple layers of marbling in selective positions and thus to create subtle varieties of translucent densities of color in specific areas of their compositions.

Thirty works by these two artists will be included in the exhibition at the Cantor Art Gallery. An illustrated catalogue of the exhibition with an essay by Irvin Cemil Schick will be available.

Feridun Özgören
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in economics from Istanbul University, Feridun Özgören started working for the State Institute of Statistics. In 1973 he came to the United States for an advanced degree in biostatistics at the University of Michigan. He obtained a masters degree in 1978 from the School of Public Health where he later worked as a research associate.

Özgören is also a musician and his collaboration with several American musicians led to the founding of the Euroasian Ensemble in 1983 with the aim of studying and performing the traditional forms of Turkish music. In addition, he enjoys making classical instruments, including tanbur, ud, kemeç, ney, latva, and bendir. During the last 10 years, Özgören has been the director of the Cambridge Mûsiki Cemiyeti, a choral and instrumental group devoted to Turkish music.

Özgören began his practice of ebrû in 1986. He learned this ancient art from Niyazi Sayin, a highly respected artist and a master musician living in Istanbul. Since then Özgören has produced a large volume of artwork. His distinctive style combines the rich patterns and sumptuous colors of traditional ebrû with the highly powerful inscriptions of Ottoman calligraphy.

Özgören has held many important exhibitions including one-person shows at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The National Museum of Painting and Sculpture in Istanbul and the Beit al Quran Museum in Bahrain. His artwork has been acquired by major public and private collections worldwide.

Dr. Güliz Pamukoglu
Dr. Güliz Pamukoglu graduated with a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi. She came to the United States for graduate studies. First, she received a master’s degree in development economics from Boston University. Later she completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, majoring in economic growth and development, political economy, and urban and regional economics. As a research economist she has worked on several major theoretical and empirical issues of economic development Pamukoglu first started learning the Turkish art of ebrû from Feridun Özgören about five years ago while assisting in the preparation of his solo exhibition held at the Beit Al Qu’an in Manama, Bahrain. This exhibition was comprised of 30 original works of art that combine ebrû and Islamic calligraphy. Dr. Pamukoglu has continued to study ebrû with Feridun Özgören, with the support of the Massachusetts Cultural Council through the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant. In January 2002, Güliz began teaching ebrû classes jointly with Özgören.

Her first exhibition titled “In the Light of Islam: Contemporary Works by Güliz Pamukoglu and Reem Hussein,” was held at Regis College, Weston, Mass., in spring 2003, as part of the program “Middle Eastern Women: Opening the Window of Understanding.” The second joint exhibition Guliz participated in, titled “Traditional meets Contemporary: Artwork by Local Muslim Artists,” was organized by the Association of Muslim Professionals in the summer of 2004. It was held at the Community Church of Boston in Copley Square, Boston, Mass.

Gallery Information

The hours for the Cantor Art Gallery are Monday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 5p.m., Saturdays 2 – 5 p.m. The gallery is closed Nov. 24 – Nov. 27; Dec. 22 – Jan. 4; Jan. 7; and Jan. 16. Located in O’Kane Hall, 1st Floor, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, MA, 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 at: www.holycross.edu/departments/cantor/website/index.html.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Nan Stein, Ed.D., will give a talk titled “A Rising Pandemic of Sexual Violence in Elementary and Secondary Schools: Locating a Secret Problem” at 4 p.m. on Nov. 15 in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The talk is free and open to the public.

Stein is a senior research scientist and project director at the Center for Research on Women, part of Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. Despite the general difficulty of acquiring data on sexual violence in schools, Stein’s research suggests that over the course of the last few decades incidents of sexual harassment in K-12 schools have been occurring at younger and younger ages and have become more sexually violent.

Stein is the author of Classrooms and Courtrooms: Facing Sexual Harassment in K-12 Schools (Teachers College Press, 1999). She has appeared on many television news and talk shows, including The Today Show; NBC Nightly News; CNN; Nightline with Ted Koppel; CBS Evening News with Dan Rather; The Oprah Winfrey Show; Good Morning America; and the Phil Donahue Show.

The talk is sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies and Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Money raised by the College of the Holy Cross “Stand By You” relief effort, a coordinated show of financial, physical and spiritual support for the victims of the hurricanes that ravaged the Gulf Coast, totals $19,780 to date, according to the Chaplains’ Office, which is organizing the effort. Reporting the results, director of College Chaplains Katherine McElaney, said members of the Holy Cross community “answered the call with creativity and generosity.”

Students, faculty, staff and alumni participated in the effort in a variety of ways, from passing collection buckets at football games to planning fundraisers; from buying “Stand Bayou” T-shirts to participating in prayer vigils. The volunteer and fundraising effort will continue into 2006, as well: the Chaplains’ Office will expand its existing Appalachia Service Program and send approximately 50 students to participate in service opportunities in the Gulf region over spring break.

The money was raised through a variety of ways.

* Collections at weekend Masses, the Sunday Service of Praise and Worship, the homecoming football game and private donations raised about $10,000.
* The Relay for Disaster Relief raised $4,601 through its annual relay.
* The “Stand Bayou” T-shirt campaign has raised $3,422 so far.
* The Student Government Association raised $1,557 through meal donations.
* The Class of 2009 raised more than $200 through sales of Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
* Students in African-American Literary traditions and the Black Student Union held a 50/50 raffle at Casino Night on Family Weekend to benefit Xavier University, a small, historically African-American, Catholic, liberal arts college in New Orleans.

The proceeds will be divided to respond to three areas of need: assistance to Holy Cross students, their families and alumni from the devastated region who were financially impacted by the hurricanes; Jesuits from the New Orleans Province who are involved in many rebuilding efforts in and need funds to support that work; Loyola University of New Orleans, a sister Jesuit institution, which is committed to meeting its payroll even though the school is shut down at least until January.

When Hurricane Katrina devastated the New Orleans area, administrators and faculty moved swiftly to enroll 11 displaced Loyola University students to Holy Cross for the fall semester.

The College has also offered financial assistance to families of Holy Cross students from New Orleans who were severely impacted and provided transportation for students from New Orleans to reunite with their transplanted families over the Columbus Day break.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Organist Marie-Claire Alain will perform a concert on Nov. 20 at 3 p.m. in St. Joseph Memorial Chapel at the College of the Holy Cross. As part of the Holy Cross Chapel Artists Series, Alain will perform works by Jehan Alain, J.S. Bach, Boehm, Muffat and Pachelbel. The concert is free and open to the public. St. Joseph Chapel is handicapped accessible.

Alain is internationally regarded as the greatest organ virtuoso today. She has recorded more than 200 recordings and has performed well more than 2,000 concerts. This concert will celebrate Madame Alain’s 80th birthday year and will mark her fourth appearance at Holy Cross.

For more information, please call the Holy Cross music department at 508-793-2296.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Ellen McCurley ’82, founder of the Pendulum Project, a non-profit organization that helps children who are orphaned and vulnerable due to HIV/AIDS, poverty and war, will give a talk titled “War and Plague in Africa: The Social and Human Costs of Political Violence” on Nov. 8 at 12:30 p.m. in Stein Hall, Room 102 at the College of the Holy Cross. The talk is free and open to the public.

Upon graduation from Holy Cross, McCurley pursued a successful career in advertising and marketing. In 2001, however, after a trip to Malawi, Africa, she embarked on a different professional and personal path. After watching the suffering of people in Africa, her priorities shifted and she started the Pendulum Project. She also returned to school to pursue degrees in social work and public health. She has traveled extensively in Africa and has witnessed some of the most dramatic consequences of armed conflict in the region.

McCurley has more than 15 years experience as a business and marketing executive for various companies including Thunder House, a division of McCann Erickson Worldwide Advertising. She co-founded the Donovan Group, an Inc. 500 advertising agency headquartered in the Boston area, where she headed up new business development and client services for a diverse client base comprised of Fortune 500 and high technology companies. She has served as a board member, advisor and fundraising volunteer for several US humanitarian non-profit organizations devoted to women and children and the AIDS effort. She is the executive producer for Pendulum Films, a documentary film company that created “Malawi — A Call to Action” about the AIDS epidemic in Malawi and sub-Saharan Africa.

In January, McCurley was the subject of a feature story in The Boston Globe that detailed her dedication to helping children affected by AIDS in Africa.

The talk is sponsored by the Peace and Conflict Studies concentration at Holy Cross.

WORCESTER, Mass. – William Kristol, editor of the influential Washington-based political magazine, The Weekly Standard, will deliver the 40th annual Hanify-Howland Memorial Lecture on Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom at the College of the Holy Cross. The event, free and open to the public, will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

Washington insiders give Kristol a fair amount of the credit (or the blame) for the new American foreign policy doctrine articulated by President Bush after the attack of Sept. 11. Kristol will suggest how Sept. 11 may have initiated a new era in American politics and foreign policy. His lecture will focus on what comes next, what the Bush administration intends to do, and draw out some of the implications of the new world we’re living in, at home and abroad, politically and culturally.

Widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading political analysts and commentators, Kristol regularly appears on “Fox News Sunday” and Fox News Channel. As an advocate for a strong American foreign policy, he has pushed the foreign policy debate forward since Sept. 11 and continues to drive the conversation as co-author of The New York Times bestseller The War Over Iraq (Encounter Books, 2003). He has most recently edited the well-received anthology The Weekly Standard, A Reader: 1995-2005 (HarperCollins).

Before starting The Weekly Standard in 1995, Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future, where he helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican Congressional victory. Prior to that, Mr. Kristol served as chief of staff to vice president Dan Quayle during the Bush administration, and to Secretary of Education William Bennett under President Reagan. Before coming to Washington in 1985, Kristol taught politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

The annual Hanify-Howland lecture honors the late Edward F. Hanify, a 1904 graduate of Holy Cross and a Massachusetts Superior Court justice for 15 years, who died in 1954. The series was started by Hanify’s friend, the late Weston Howland of Milton, Mass., board chairman of Warwick Mills, Inc., who died in 1976.

Since 1965, the Hanify-Howland lecture series has brought to the Holy Cross campus a series of distinguished speakers on public affairs who have exemplified in their own work the spirit of public service that the series was established to encourage. They include Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity; Robert M. Hayes, founder of the National Coalition for the Homeless; Leon R. Kass, former Chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics; Christopher J. Matthews (Holy Cross Class of 1967), MSNBC “Hardball” anchor; the Honorable Clarence Thomas (Class of 1971), associate justice of the Supreme Court; the late Paul E. Tsongas, former senator of Massachusetts, and Paul A. Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve System.

WORCESTER, Mass. – John Donahue ’80, associate professor of classical studies at the College of William and Mary, will give a talk titled “De salubritate urbis: History, Medicine & Health of the Ancient Community” at the College of the Holy Cross on Nov. 10 at 4 p.m. in Room 304 of the Hogan Campus Center. The talk, sponsored by the classics department, is free and open to the public.

Donahue holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. Among the courses Donahue teaches at William & Mary are Roman Satire, the Roman Historians, Pagans and Christians in the Roman World, Alexander the Great, and The Late Roman Empire. His recent book, The Roman Community at Table During the Principate (University of Michigan Press, 2004) examines public feasting in Rome during the first four centuries of the Common Era. Taking as its starting point the development of feasting in ancient Greece and then in Rome, this study brings to the fore the importance of the publicly shared meal in ancient culture and its particular significance within the Roman Empire. His unique study reveals the integral place of feasting in ancient culture as well as the unique power of food to unite and to separate its recipients along class lines. Since his research is interdisciplinary (e.g. he draws on sociological research in the food habits of modern France), it has attracted the attention and praise not only of classicists and historians of the ancient world, but also of anthropologists and sociologists interested in food and social group dynamics.

Holy Cross has the largest classics department at any undergraduate college in the United States. The College is ranked among the top five colleges or universities in the nation for the number of classics majors that it graduates each year (all classics majors must complete course sequences in both Latin and Greek).

WORCESTER, Mass. – Steve Vineberg, of Worcester, has received the inaugural Monsignor Edward G. Murray Professorship in the Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross.

The Monsignor Murray Professorship recognizes the outstanding achievements and contributions of a current member of the Holy Cross faculty. Holders of the Monsignor Murray Professorship will be appointed for a term of three years (with the possibility of a one-year extension should circumstances warrant it). It is awarded to a member of the Holy Cross faculty who teaches in the arts or humanities.

A professor of theatre at Holy Cross and author of the recently published High Comedy in American Movies (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers), Vineberg reviews films and theatre regularly for The Boston Phoenix, The Threepenny Review and The Christian Century. He has also been published in The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Oxford American, Film Quarterly, American Film, and Modern Review, among others. He has served as the on-air movie critic for National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air” series. His earlier books, No Surprises Please: Movies in the Reagan Decade (Schirmer Books, 1993) and Method Actors: Three Generations of an American Acting Style (Schirmer Books, 1991) established him as a keen commentator and recognized authority. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1985, Vineberg teaches classes in theatre history, film, American drama and political theatre.

Vineberg has directed a number of productions at Holy Cross, including Chekhov’s The Three Sisters and The Sea Gull; Tennessee Williams’ The Eccentricities of a Nightingale and The Night of the Iguana; John Guare’s Marco Polo Sings a Solo, The House of Blue Leaves, and Lydie Breeze; Christopher Durang’s The Marriage of Bette and Boo; and Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera.

“From the time of his arrival, Vineberg has consistently demonstrated a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching and a remarkable dedication as a citizen of the College,” said Stephen C. Ainlay, vice president of academic affairs and dean of the College. “While known for their rigor, his courses continue to draw large numbers of students. He has served on the College’s most demanding committees, including three terms on the Committee on Tenure and Promotion. He has also contributed generously to the surrounding community, including regular participation in the Humanities Scholars Collaborative sponsored by the Worcester Public Schools.”

The professorship was established in memory of Rev. Monsignor Edward G. Murray. Monsignor Murray graduated magna cum laude from Holy Cross in 1925. Twenty-five years after his graduation, he was also awarded an honorary degree by the College. Monsignor Murray entered St. John’s Seminary to study for the priesthood and, in 1927, was assigned to study at the North American College in Rome. Four years later he received a doctorate in Sacred Theology. He was ordained to the priesthood in Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran in 1930. Monsignor Murray built bridges between Boston’s religious communities. He was credited with playing a key behind-the-scenes role at the Second Vatican Council, reaching out to Protestants, Jews, and other religious traditions in hopes of achieving greater interfaith understanding. He was Visitor General to religious communities of the Archdiocese of Boston, a longtime Diocesan Consultor, and Parish Priest of Sacred Heart in Roslindale. He was named Parish Priest of St. Paul’s, Cambridge (1971-74), serving simultaneously as Catholic Chaplain at the Harvard-Radcliffe Student Center. For many years he was the Vicar for Ecumenical Affairs in the Archdiocese. Monsignor Murray was a true friend of the arts. He served the Boston community as president of the board of trustees of the Boston Public Library and a trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

WORCESTER, Mass. – To mark the centennial birthday of Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), the French section of the department of modern languages and literatures at the College of the Holy Cross is sponsoring Huis Clos (No Exit), the play by Sartre. The performance will be Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. in the Brooks Concert Hall. The play is $3 for students and $5 for the general public.

Huis Clos was first performed in 1944 in the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in German-occupied Paris. Huis Clos was deliberately formatted as a one act play so that theater-goers could be home before their curfew imposed by the Germans. The play is the epitome of Sartre’s existentialism, condensed in the famous line “L’enfer, c’est les autres” (“Hell is other people”).

The Compagnie Inter-Europe Spectacles, a Paris-based theater group is presenting the play. The troupe comes to Holy Cross each fall for a yearly performance given in French. Their repertory is classical in nature, highlighting French classics such as Molière, Beckett, Prévert, Flaubert, Sand, Ionesco, and Duras.

Huis Clos is directed by Catherine Masson, of the French department at Wellesley College. Actors include Claude Beauclair, Françoise Mojeret and Marie Menant.

Novelist, essayist, playwright, philosopher, Sartre was a leading existentialist, best known for his novel Nausea (1983) and for philosophical volumes that include Being and Nothingness (1943).

WORCESTER, Mass. – Vince Lombardi Jr., the son of the late Vincent T. Lombardi, remembered as one of the greatest football coaches in history, will give a talk titled “High Performance Athletes: What They Do and How They Do It” on Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. in the Hogan Ballroom at the College of the Holy Cross. The talk is free and open to the public.

Vince, one of America’s most sought after motivational speakers, is the author of What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership (2003), The Essential Vince Lombardi (2002), and The Lombardi Rules (2002), all published with McGraw-Hill.

Vince earned a law degree and maintained a private practice while serving in the Minnesota legislature. He switched from law and politics to professional football in 1975 when he joined the Seattle Seahawks as an assistant to the general manager. He went on to become assistant executive director of the National Football League Management Council as a labor negotiator and later led two United States Football League teams as a president and general manager.

The event is sponsored by the Campus Activities Board.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The music department at the College of the Holy Cross will present the following musical performances on campus for the remainder of the fall 2005 semester. All events are free, unless otherwise stated, and open to the public. For additional information, please contact the music department events line at 508-793-3528.

Nov. 11; 8 p.m.
Chamber Singers Concert
Brooks Concert Hall

Nov. 17; 8 p.m.
Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble
Hogan Campus Center Ballroom

Nov. 18; 8 p.m.
Chamber Music Concert
Performers include Holy Cross music faculty Sarah Grunstein, Peter Sulski, Jennifer Ashe, Marian C. Hanshaw and guest artists Karen Kushner and Rafael Popper-Keiser.
Brooks Concert Hall

Nov. 20; 3 p.m.
Marie-Claire Alain, organ
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Dec. 2; 8 p.m.
Gamelan Gita Sari
Brooks Concert Hall

Dec. 8; 8 p.m.
College Choir
Festival of Lessons and Carols
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

WORCESTER, Mass. – The theatre department at the College of the Holy Cross has opened a new computer design laboratory, and has also announced a new grant program for students working in lighting design. The new initiatives will help Holy Cross graduates compete in top graduate programs and to pursue professional design opportunities.

The new lab space, located on the fourth floor of O’Kane Hall, features design equipment that is both traditional (drafting tables and tools) as well as state-of-the-art (computers, digital drafting software, and printers) in one location. This integrated drafting and computer design facility will allow students to learn both theory and practical aspects of theatre design for the 21st century. Associate professor William Rynders, the theatre department’s technical director, has developed a computer design curriculum that utilizes the lab’s new features.

As a way to encourage students to pursue the study and practice of computer-assisted theatrical design, a new grant – the Jean Rosenthal Grant Program for Lighting Design – has been established by Sara Rosenthal, Jean’s niece, and Julie Prazich. Each year one rising senior who has demonstrated excellence in lighting design will be awarded the latest in theatrical lighting design software. The grant program honors the memory of Jean Rosenthal who was one of the foremost figures in the history of American theatre. A pioneer in her field, she designed lights for more than 400 productions including 80 different Broadway shows (The Night of the Iguana, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Becket A Taste of Honey). She was most known for her creativity, technical understanding, professionalism, and introducing side lighting to dance performance. She died in 1969 at the age of 57.

ABOUT THE THEATRE DEPARTMENT AT HOLY CROSS: A fully accredited member institution of the National Association of Schools of Theatre, the department offers students an integrated, pre-professional training program in a liberal arts environment. Five full-time professors and a range of part-time performance instructors offer courses and tutorials in a wide variety of disciplines, open to both majors and non-majors: acting, dance, and voice; Balinese performance; Shakespearean performance; directing and stage management; dramatic literature, and theatre history; costume, set, and lighting design; and film. The College’s theatrical season provides students with numerous performance and design opportunities. Each season, the department mounts two fully produced, faculty-directed main stage productions, two student-directed one-act festivals in the College’s experimental space, two evenings of Balinese dance and music, an annual student film festival, and an annual dance concert. In addition, the department supervises the student theatre organization, Alternative College Theatre, which produces a major musical and a comedy on the main stage. The intensity and range of productions provide numerous chances for student actors and designers to practice their crafts.