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WORCESTER, Mass. – Michael Addis, associate professor and chair of the psychology department at Clark University, and James Mahalik, associate professor of psychology at Boston College, will give a talk titled “Men’s Well Being” on Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. in Room 519 of the Hogan Campus Center at the College of the Holy Cross. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The talk will focus on men’s normal health behaviors and underutilization of medical services, particularly psychological therapies.

Mahalik has studied gender socialization and social influence variables as they affect psychological and physical well-being, including health behaviors. Addis is interested in theory and research related to men’s mental health and responses to problems in living, including help-seeking behavior, substance abuse, and variations in the ways mental health problems are perceived and characterized. In 2003, the nationally-respected professors published an article titled “Men, masculinity, and the contexts of help-seeking” in American Psychologist.

The event is sponsored by women’s and gender studies, sociology and anthropology, psychology and the Counseling Center at Holy Cross.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The music department at the College of the Holy Cross will present “An Evening of Jazz” on Oct. 6 at 9:30 p.m. in Room 519 of the Hogan Campus Center. The concert will feature Donna Byrne, vocalist, Mike Monaghan, sax, and Bob Winter, piano. Monaghan is a professor in the music department at Holy Cross. Admission for students and seniors is $6; $10 for others.

Proceeds go to the Holy Cross spring choir tour to Italy.

Byrne uses a wide range of deep, soulful vocal talents and a true artist’s feel for interpretation and improvisation. Experimenting with her emotions and playing her versatile voice like an instrument, Byrne’s performances have entertained audiences at Los Angeles’ Jazz Bakery, New York’s Tavern on the Green, Blue Note and Rainbow and Stars, among other venues across the country. Jazz Times proclaims Byrne as “one of the best singers currently on the scene, one who approaches her lyrics with both intelligence and swinging time, and without distorting syllabic emphasis or resorting to stagy histrionics to get her meaning across.”

Monaghan, who also works as a jazz musician, studio singer, and back-up vocalist, has been a freelance woodwind player in Boston for more than 25 years. His freelance work includes performances with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras; with orchestras for Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, and Bolshoi Ballet; and in pit orchestras for touring shows including Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Porgy and Bess, Sweeney Todd, and others at the Wang, Colonial, and Shubert theaters in Boston. Monaghan has performed with popular entertainers including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Ray Charles, among others.

Winter holds extensive experience in clubs, television, radio and theaters, including performances with Henry Mancini, Teddy Wilson, Buddy DeFranco, Mel Torme, Luciano Pavarotti, Eddie Daniels, Stan Getz, Cleo Laine, John Dankworth, and Airto Moreira. He has played piano for the Boston Pops Orchestra and has recorded with the orchestra in solo, duo and quartet settings.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Robert H. Garvey, associate professor of physics and director of the First-Year Program for the past three years, will give a talk as part of the “Last Lecture” series on Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Funded by the Lilly Endowment Vocation Initiative, the pretext of the lecture is that the speaker is about to retire and has been asked to sum up in a final lecture to students what they believe has made the work they’ve dedicated themselves to meaningful and worthwhile. Given a “last” chance, what’s worth saying? What wisdom would be most important to pass on? What challenges have to go unfulfilled?

A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1977, Garvey has developed courses for non-science majors as well as a range of courses for physics majors. He has conducted research in theoretical atomic physics, including energy levels of rare-earth ions in crystals; yield spectra of atmospheric gases; and philosophical implications of technology.

In addition to his classroom and course development endeavors on behalf of Holy Cross students, Garvey has been a dedicated participant in the College’s science programs developed in conjunction with the Worcester Public Schools. He has taught in the Youth Exploring Science program and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Science Workshop for WPS science and math teachers. Garvey has co-developed a weather program for 400 sixth-grade students that he team-teaches each May. Garvey received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University.

The First-Year Program helps first-year students explore the connections between living and learning – between what happens inside the classroom and the world outside the classroom. It brings together first-year students, who live in the same residence hall, and a group of distinguished teachers from a variety of different disciplines.

In 2000, Garvey was one of only four U.S. Professors of the Year to be named by the Carnegie Foundation for the advancement and Support of Education. He was recognized for his extraordinary dedication to teaching, commitment to students and innovative instructional methods.

The lecture is sponsored by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The music department at the College of the Holy Cross will present the following musical performances on campus during October 2005. 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.

Oct. 6 – 8 p.m.
An Evening of Jazz featuring:
Bob Winter, piano
Donna Byrne, vocalist
Mike Monaghan, sax
Hogan Campus Center, Room 519
Admission: $10; Students and seniors: $6
Proceeds go to the Holy Cross spring choir tour to Italy.

Oct. 21 – 8 p.m.
College Choir/Family Weekend Concert
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Oct. 21 – 9:30 p.m.
Jazz Ensemble/Family Weekend Concert
Hogan Campus Center

Oct. 22 – 3 p.m.
Chamber Orchestra/Family Weekend Concert
Brooks Concert Hall

Oct. 23 – 3 p.m.
Brett Maguire, organ
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Oct. 27 – 8 p.m.
Scarlatti Birthday Concert
Carol Lieberman, Baroque violin
Mark Kroll, harpsichord
Brooks Concert Hall

WORCESTER, Mass. – The 15th annual national conference of the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts will be held at the College of the Holy Cross on Sept. 30 to Oct. 2. Presentations will be organized around the title of the conference, “Keeping the Faith: Four Religious Perspectives on the Creation of Tradition.”

The conference will be a comparative dialogue about how different religious confessions approach tradition, and about what the implications of these approaches are for pedagogy and mission. Participants are from the 77 church-related colleges and universities across the country that are members of the Lilly Fellows National Network.

The events are not open to the public.

Plenary addresses will be given by four distinguished scholars and theologians: Alan Avery-Peck, Kraft-Hiatt, professor of Judaic studies and chair, department of religious studies, College of the Holy Cross; John Thiel, professor of religious studies, Fairfield University; Margaret L. Benderoth, executive director, American Congregational Association; and William J. Abraham, Albert Cook Outler professor of Wesley Studies and University distinguished professor, Southern Methodist University.

A highlight of the conference promises to be Saturday evening’s performance of works by world-renowned composer and Holy Cross music professor Osvaldo Golijov, including sections of his St. Mark Passion, commissioned to commemorate the 250th anniversary of J.S. Bach’s death. The magnificent work for chorus, orchestra, and soloists integrates multiple manifestations of Latin American Christianity and Golijov’s own Jewish roots in a musical universe which critics and audiences in Europe and America alike praised for encompassing popular and classical idioms. The CD of the premiere of this work, on the Hanssler Classic label, received a Grammy nomination in 2002. Venezuelan conductor Maria Guinand, who conducted that performance, will conduct the performance at Holy Cross.

The program concludes Saturday with a closing panel of the plenary speakers and a brief Lilly Fellows Program National Network Board report. Sessions will be held in the Hogan Campus Center, Rehm Library, and Brooks Concert Hall, with vespers in Mary Chapel and Saint Joseph Memorial Chapel.

The Lilly Fellows Program “seeks to renew and enhance the connections between Christianity and the academic vocation at church-related colleges and universities.” Stephen C. Ainlay, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college, and James Kee, professor of English, serve as Lilly Fellow Program representatives at Holy Cross.

Thomas M. Landy, associate director of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at Holy Cross is coordinating the conference.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Popular sports columnist Bill Simmons ’92 will give a talk on Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom at the College of the Holy Cross.

Simmons is the author of Now I Can Die in Peace : How ESPN’s Sports Guy Found Salvation, with a Little Help from Nomar, Pedro, Shawshank, and the 2004 Red Sox (ESPN Books), due out on Oct. 1. In the book, Simmons chronicles his fervent passion for the Red Sox and replays the years leading up to the team’s historic championship season.

After the talk, Simmons will sign copies of his book, which will be available for sale by special arrangement with the Holy Cross Bookstore. The talk and book signing are free and open to the public.

Simmons writes the Sports Guy column for ESPN.com’s Page 2 and ESPN The Magazine. A former sports reporter for the Boston Herald, he founded the award-winning bostonsportsguy.com website in 1997 and was a writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Office of the Dean at the College of the Holy Cross announces the hiring of seven new faculty members in tenure-track positions this academic year. They are:

Melissa Ann Boyle (assistant professor, economics), earned her Ph.D. from MIT and A.B. from the College of the Holy Cross. Her teaching interests include the economics of health care and aging, public finance, health economics, labor economics and applied econometrics. Boyle, who is the recipient of half a dozen honors, scholarships and fellowships, has written or co-written several papers on economics. She has taught at MIT.

Leon P. Claessens (assistant professor, biology), earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University and B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Utrecht University (Netherlands). His teaching interests include vertebrate surgery, human functional anatomy, veterinary anatomy and the biology and evolution of dinosaurs. Earlier this year, Claessens received international media attention after he co-published a study in Nature suggesting that the breathing systems of Tyrannosaurus rex is similar to that of living birds.

Cynthia V. Hooper (assistant professor, history), earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from Princeton University and her B.A. from Harvard College. Her teaching interests include Russian and Soviet history, the politics of memory, and the practice of dictatorship. The recipient of several fellowships, she has taught at New York University and Princeton University. Her dissertation on Stalin-era repression recently won an international award for the best work by a junior scholar in 20th century history.

Paola Marconi (assistant professor, modern languages and literatures), earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, her D.E.A. (Diplôme d’Etudes Avancées) from Université de Genève, her M.A. from the University of Virginia and her B.A. from the Università degli Studi di Bologna. She has years of experience teaching undergraduate literature and language courses in Italian and English, also in conjunction with cinema. She has expertise in Medieval and Early Renaissance Italian literature and published articles on Dante, Boccaccio, Della Casa and Manzoni.

Paul Oxley (assistant professor, physics), earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University and his B.A. from Oxford University. His teaching interests include quantum mechanics, atomic physics, plasma physics, particle and nuclear physics, laser physics and experimental methods in physics. The co-author of 16 papers and publications, he has taught at University of Minnesota, Harvard University and Oxford University.

Ann Sheehy (assistant professor, biology), earned her Ph.D. from John Hopkins School of Medicine and her B.A. in Kalamazoo College. She earned her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania and Kings College. She has conducted extensive research on HIV and has published articles on the subject as well as others in the field of biology. Her big contribution to science so far has been the discovery of an anti-HIV gene.

Susan Crawford Sullivan (assistant professor, sociology and anthropology), earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University, her M.P.A. from Princeton University and her B.A. from Duke University. Her research and teaching interests include religion; poverty and social policy; gender; non-profit organizations; service-based learning; research methods; and applications of sociological research. Sullivan has taught at Harvard University and Princeton University.

The following two professors have taught at Holy Cross previously, and now hold tenure-track positions:

Sylvia Schmitz-Burgard (modern languages and literatures), earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Virginia. She also attended Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and Albertus-Magnus-Universität Köln. Her research and teaching interests include 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century German literature; Austrian and German cultural history; women writers and feminist theory, 18th-century European novels; literary theory; as well as law and literature. She has taught at Harvard University, Princeton University, MIT, and the University of Virginia. In 2000, she published a book on novels by Richardson, Rousseau, and Goethe, titled Das Schreiben des anderen Geschlechts.

Diana V. Cruz (English), earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from Boston College and her B.A. from Providence College. She teaches and writes in the fields of American and African-American literature. She has especially focused on the poetry of Rita Dove. In addition to Dove, she has delivered lectures at various colleges on Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and Grace Nichols. The recipient of several academic fellowships, she has taught at Bryant University and Boston College.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Rev. Daniel Berrigan, S.J., peace activist, poet and playwright, will give a talk titled “Poetry and Peacemaking in the Warmaking State” on Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. in the Hogan Ballroom at the College of the Holy Cross. The lecture is free and open to the public.

A prominent figure in resistance to racial segregation, U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war, and the production of nuclear weapons, Fr. Berrigan is a lecturer and civil disobedience activist. He was born in 1921, and ordained by the Order of the Society of Jesus in 1952. Influenced by Dorothy Day and the pacifist Catholic Worker Movement, Fr. Berrigan was a sponsor of the National Catholic Peace Fellowship and co-founder of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam.

In 1968, Fr. Berrigan and eight others went into a draft board office in Catonsville, Md., removed records, and set them on fire outside in the presence of reporters and onlookers in protest of the Vietnam War. They were convicted and sentenced to prison. He memorialized the trial in his award-winning play, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, later made into a feature film. He has continued peace activism as a member of the Plowshares movement and has been arrested frequently for his protest actions.

Fr. Berrigan is the author of several books, including Time Without a Number (1957, poetry), Night Flight to Hanoi (1968), The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1970), Prison Poems (1973, poetry), We Die Before We Live (1980), To Dwell in Peace (1987, memoir).

Jesuit Heritage Week, which is Sept. 25-30, celebrates the vibrant spiritual and intellectual Jesuit heritage of Holy Cross and commemorates its rich history. For additional information contact the Chaplains’ Office at 508-793-2448.

Jesuit Heritage Week is sponsored by the Office of the Chaplains, the Office of the President, the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, the Jesuit Community at Holy Cross and the Jesuit Heritage Week planning committee.

WORCESTER, Mass. – In celebration of the vibrant spiritual and intellectual Jesuit heritage of Holy Cross, the College has planned a week of events dedicated to commemorating its rich history. During the celebration of Jesuit Heritage Week, all members of the local community are invited to gather at the following events, which are free and open to the public. For additional information contact the Chaplains’ Office at 508-793-2448.

Sept. 25
8:30 p.m. – Opening Mass with celebrant Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., president of Holy Cross (St. Joseph Chapel)
Comments on the spiritual exercises at Holy Cross by Michael Yatco ’06
9:30 p.m. – Reception with Jesuit Community (Chapel Plaza)

Sept. 26
Noon – Presentation by Rev. Anthony Kuzniewski, S.J., professor of history at Holy Cross, “A Brief History of Jesuits at Holy Cross” (Lower Reading Room, Dinand Library)
12:05 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)
4:30 p.m. – Faculty reflections on the Ignation pilgrimage (Rehm Library)
Robert Baumann (economics)
Alison Fleming (visual arts)
Daniel Frost (modern languages and literatures/Spanish)
Richard Matlak (English/Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies)
Jonathan Mulrooney (English)
Paige Reynolds (English)
Thomas Landy (sociology)
10 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)

Sept. 27 (Anniversary of the Approval of the Society of Jesus)
Noon – Presentation, “Learning from Borobudur” (Lower Reading Room, Dinand Library)
Rev. Budi Susanto, S.J., visiting professor from Sanata Dharma University in Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia
12:05 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)
7 p.m. – Fireside Chat “Life at Holy Cross in the 1960s” (Ciampi Hall)
Rev. John Brooks, S.J., president emeritus
Rev. William O’Halloran, S.J., special assistant to the president
10 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)
11 p.m. – Information session on the spiritual exercises with free pizza (near Crossroads)
Rebecca Cole ’06
David Lavoie ’06
Rev. James Hayes, S.J., rector of the Jesuit Community at Holy Cross

Sept. 28
Noon – Panel discussion: “New Directions in Jesuit Education” (Lower Reading Room, Dinand Library)
Jeff Theilman, executive director, Cassin Educational Initiative Foundation
Meg Florentine, assistant to the provincial for middle and secondary education, New England Province Jesuits
12:05 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)
7 p.m. – “Poetry and Peacemaking in the Warmaking State” (Hogan Ballroom), Rev. Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
10 p.m. Mass (McCooey Chapel)

Sept. 29
Noon – Presentation, “Jesuits and the Work for International Solidarity” (Lower Reading Room, Dinand Library), Yvon Christian, S.J.
12:05 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)
6 p.m. – Take a Jesuit to dinner night (Kimball)
8 p.m. – Film: The Mission, starring Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons. Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal. (Campion House)

Sept. 30
12:05 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)
10 p.m. – Mass (McCooey Chapel)

Jesuit Heritage Week is sponsored by the Office of the Chaplains, the Office of the President, the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, the Jesuit Community at Holy Cross and the Jesuit Heritage Week planning committee.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross will present Recent Acquisitions: Selections from the Permanent Collection – Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery from Sept. 28 to Nov. 5. Works are by Robert Beauchamp; Peter Grippe; Florence Grippe; Solomón Huerta; Timothy A. Johnson; Terri Priest; Mehdi Saghafi; Juni Van Dyke and 19th and 20th century Indonesian textiles from the Anne and John Summerfield Collection. A reception will be held Oct. 20, from 5 to 6 p.m.

Four gallery talks in conjunction with the exhibits will be held at the Cantor Art Gallery:

* Oct. 19, noon – 1 p.m. Anne Summerfield, Ph.D. and John Summerfield, Ph.D. “Introduction to the Indonesian Textile Study Collection at the Cantor Art Gallery.” The Summerfields curated a major exhibition of West Sumatran, Minangkabau ceremonial textiles at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History in 1999, and edited the accompanying book Walk in Splendor, Ceremonial Dress and the Minangkabau (UCLA, 1999). The Summerfields have been engaged in the study of Indonesian textiles for more than four decades and have generously made a major gift of several Indonesian textiles to establish a new Southeast Asian textile study collection at the Cantor Art Gallery.

* Oct. 20, 4 – 5 p.m. Susan Rodgers, Ph.D., professor of anthropology, College of the Holy Cross, “Textiles that Talk: An Anthropological Way of Listening to Holy Cross’s New Study Collection on Indonesian Textiles”

* Oct. 24, noon – 1 p.m. Roger Hankins, director, Cantor Art Gallery, “Florence Grippe and Peter Grippe: The Personal and the Political”

* Oct. 26, noon – 1 p.m. Maurice Geracht, Ph.D. professor of English, College of the Holy Cross, “Robert Beauchamp: Images of the Self, 1960’s – 1990’s”

In 1983, the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery was established at the College of the Holy Cross as both a changing exhibition space and through the gifts of many significant sculptures from the collection of B. Gerald Cantor and later the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, as a collection of art to serve as a resource to the college and Worcester community. During the past 22 years the art gallery has continued to receive numerous gifts of contemporary and historical artwork from alumni, friends of the college, as well as other artists.

Over the past two years the Cantor Art Gallery has received a series of more than 20 works on paper and canvas created between 1964 and 1994 by Robert Beauchamp (1923 – 1995). A selection of seven of these works will be included in this exhibit.

In the late 1980’s, the Cantor Art Gallery organized a one-person exhibition of bronze and direct plaster sculptures by New York artist and former Wellesley College professor Peter Grippe. That exhibition was titled Monument to Hiroshima and it included a group of figures Grippe sculpted in the 1960’s which were inspired by John Heresy’s 1949 book, Hiroshima (Vintage, 1989). In memory of her late husband, the artist’s wife, Florence Grippe, recently donated to the Cantor a series of Grippe’s works which were part of that 1986 Cantor Art Gallery exhibition. Also included will be an extensive collection Peter Grippe’s working models or maquettes executed between 1934 and the mid 1980’s. Florence Grippe, also a significant artist, was known for her ceramics she produced in the late 1940’s through the 1960’s, and the Cantor will be showing two of these works which she also donated to the gallery.

A recent donation by artist Terri Priest, a 1965 painting from her Organic Interaction Series, will be shown. Priest, an active Worcester artist, first became recognized outside central Massachusetts in the mid 1960’s while she was producing a significant series of geometric abstract paintings inspired by her involvement in the civil rights movement of the 1960’s.

A group of recent gifts of works on paper will also be shown: a 2004 print by Los Angeles-based artist Solomón Huerta; a series of Polaroid photographs by Worcester artist Timothy A. Johnson; and large format photographs by San Francisco Bay area artist Mehdi Saghafi, who has photographed miles of isolated waterways and agricultural lands of the Sacramento River Delta area.

Selections from the Permanent Collection will also introduce a recent major gift to the Cantor Art Gallery from the collection of Anne and John Summerfield. The Summerfields, a husband and wife team of collectors and scholars, donated contemporary and antique textiles from a wide range of Indonesian islands: gold-thread silk songkets from Sumatra, batiks from north coast Java, and handspun cotton cloths from Flores, Sumba, Lembata and Tanimbar. These extraordinary cloths have been brought to Holy Cross explicitly as a study collection. They are a carefully chosen, representative range of Indonesian textiles that will henceforth be available for research and study purposes by students and faculty in such fields of Asian Studies, anthropology, history, art history, studio art, religious studies and Asian music and dance.

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 Oct. 10. 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. – A new Web site designed as an “online spiritual community” and maintained by the Chaplains’ Office at the College of the Holy Cross offers spiritual resources to the extended family of the College.

The brainchild of Katherine McElaney ’76, director of the Office of the College Chaplains, “Making the Parts Whole” will offer some of the same spiritual resources readily available to members of the on-campus Holy Cross community. The site will also “provide spiritual resources for anyone interested in learning how to use Ignatian tools for prayer, reflection, and discernment that are the special legacy of a Jesuit college like Holy Cross,” she said.

Launched in early September, the site is one of the few of its kind associated with an institution of higher education. It is funded by a major grant from Lilly Endowment. Founded in 1937, Lilly Endowment is a private family foundation that follows its founders’ wishes by supporting the causes of religion, community development and education.

Reflecting the inclusivity of the Jesuit tradition and Catholicism, the Chaplains’ Office builds community on campus through worship, dialogue, service, outreach, prayer, ecumenism, and the integration of living and learning. The new site will offer many of these same spiritual resources to the off-campus Holy Cross community — most notably alumni — and strengthen the College’s outreach.

“We want to encourage Holy Cross alumni to participate in the site: to connect with one another in faith, and to join one another in prayer,” she says. Noting that many alumni have an ongoing association with the College through fundraising initiatives, McElaney hopes that the site will be a place where graduates can “continue to share their considerable gifts — many of which are not monetary.”

By incorporating white space and neutral tones in its design, “Making the Parts Whole” aims to set visitors at ease and encourage reflection. On one section of the Web site, there will be a weekly theme based on the lectionary readings from Sunday Mass. Based on the readings, reflection questions will be offered, as well as practical tips on “how to reflect.”

“Users of the site will have the opportunity to pray or reflect on the theme, the reading, and the questions — even to journal — for as brief or lengthy a time period as they choose,” she says.

Other features of the site include a “Reading Room” with various spiritual Web sites; online “retreats;” and a “Light a Candle” section to ask for prayers for special intentions.

The new web site is already turning into an effective spiritual space. Members of the community are encouraged to “Light a Candle” for the many who have died and are suffering in Hurricane Katrina’s wake. As part of “Thinking Out Loud,” the weekly reflection section of the Web site, Tara McCabe ’97 shares her chilling Sept. 11 story after escaping from the World Trade Center. Another alumnus who evacuated from hurricane-ravaged New Orleans is also expected to offer a reflection.

McElaney hopes faculty, staff and students will embrace the new site by sharing their own reflections and contributing to other sections of the site. More features will be added as the site expands.

“The idea is to help all of us remember that reflecting on the experience of our lives in the context of faith – in the context of St. Ignatius’ invitation to consider where God is most present — is the task of every person who desires to grow closer to God,” she says.

The project also has particular meaning for Patrick Mahoney ’00, who is developing the site. Mahoney spent the year following his graduation from Holy Cross volunteering at a Human Rights organization in Tlapa, Mexico. Through the experience, he discerned his own desire to create a web development firm geared towards leading non-profit organizations onto the Web. Mahoney will direct the continued growth of this site through his company, www.upthought.com.

WORCESTER, Mass. – As part of the College of the Holy Cross Visiting Writers Lecture Series, the following writers will give readings during the 2005 fall semester. All readings are free and open to the public. This series is sponsored by the College’s Creative Writing Program.

Sept. 15
Major Jackson
7:30 p.m., Levis Browsing Room, Dinand Library

Major Jackson’s debut volume of poems, Leaving Saturn (2001), was selected by poet and novelist Al Young to receive the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet, was nominated for a 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award and has received critical attention in the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Parnassus, and on National Public Radio. His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Callaloo, Grand Street and the New Yorker. Formerly the Literary Arts Curator of Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, he is the recipient of awards from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as a commission from the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. In 2003, he received the prestigious Whiting Writers’ Award. He is an associate professor of English at the University of Vermont and a member of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina. His second book of poems Hoops is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.

Oct. 13
Gibbons Ruark
7:30 p.m., Levis Browsing Room, Dinand Library

Gibbons Ruark’s poems have appeared widely for nearly 40 years in magazines like Ploughshares, The New Republic, the New Yorker and Poetry, and in various anthologies and texts. They have also won him frequent awards, including three poetry fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and a Pushcart Prize. He has published six previous volumes of poems, A Program for Survival (1971), Reeds (1978), Keeping Company (1983), Small Rain (1984), Forms of Retrieval (1989), and Rescue the Perishing (1991), and his seventh and most recent book is Passing Through Customs: New and Selected Poems (1999). X.J. Kennedy says of Passing Through Customs, “you would have to sift through the life’s work of a great many poets to find another hundred pages nearly as fine as these.” Edward Hirsch says Ruark is the poetic heir to Edward Thomas and James Wright. Elizabeth Spires writes that Passing Through Customs “reacquaints the reader with what has been too often lost to contemporary poetry – the ceremony and music of the occasion. Ruark is the sage ‘singing master’ that Yeats imagined inhabiting Byzantium.” Ruark recently retired from teaching at the University of Delaware.

Nov. 29
Michael White
7:30 p.m., Levis Browsing Room, Dinand Library

Michael White is the author of four novels: A Brother’s Blood (1997), which was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers’ Nominee; The Blind Side of the Heart (2001), an Alternate Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and A Dream of Wolves (2002), which received starred reviews from Booklist and Publisher’s Weekly (all from HarperCollins). His latest novel, The Garden of Martyrs (2004), was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2004. A collection of short stories, Marked Men (2000), was published by the University of Missouri Press. He has also published more than 45 short stories in national magazines and has won the Advocate Newspapers Fiction Award. He teaches fiction writing and literature at Fairfield University, and he is on the faculty of Stonecoast, the University of Southern Maine’s MFA program. He is also the editor of Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The American Sign Language and Deaf Studies Program announces its Calendar of Events for the 2005 fall 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.

The following events take place on the campus of the College of the Holy Cross.

Deaf Awareness Week (Sept. 19 – 22)
Sept. 19, 3 – 5 p.m.
Hogan Campus Center, Room 320
Dingo, similar to bingo, with Professor Dennise Scott.

Sept. 20, 6 p.m.
Kimball Dining Hall
Silent dinner with Ying Li, ASL instructor at Holy Cross, and her husband Guillermo Carvajal.

Sept. 21, Noon – 2 p.m. or 6 – 8 p.m.
Hogan Campus Center, Suite A
“It’s a Deaf Deaf World” interactive workshop. There will be no spoken language used at the workshop so that hearing people can communicate with the deaf using a variety of signing methods. Pre-registration required.

Sept. 22, 10 p.m.
McCooey Chapel in St. Joseph Chapel
Celebrate Mass in ASL with Rev. Joe Bruce.

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Oct. 13, 10 p.m.
McCooey Chapel
Celebrate Mass in ASL with Rev. Joe Bruce.

Oct. 21, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Hogan Campus Center, Suite A
“Disabilities 101” workshop. Pre-registration required.

Oct. 25, 7 p.m.
Hogan Campus Center, Room 406
“Reflections of a Semester at Gallaudet” – Holy Cross senior Casey Spencer will talk about her semester away at the only liberal arts college for Deaf Studies.

Nov. 1, 6 p.m.
Kimball Dining Hall
Silent dinner with Professor Dennise Scott in ASL.

Nov. 1, 7 p.m.
Stein Hall, Room TBA
Community-based learning presentations. Hear about involvement in the Deaf community through personal experience. Students in the Intermediate ASL classes will present in spoken English. ASL interpreter provided.

Nov. 10, 10 p.m.
McCooey Chapel in St. Joseph Chapel
Celebrate Mass in ASL with Rev. Joe Bruce.

Nov. 30, 6 p.m.
Kimball Dining Hall
Silent dinner with Professor Dennise Scott in ASL.

Nov. 30, 7 p.m.
Stein Hall, Room TBA
Community-based learning presentations. Come see what the advanced ASL students have learned through their involvement in CBL projects. Presented in ASL.

Dec. 8, 10 p.m.
Mary Chapel
Celebrate Mass with Rev. Joe Bruce. Interpreted.

The following events take place off campus.

Sept. 28 and 29, Times TBA
Northern Essex Community College
“Spoken Language and Sign: Optimizing Learning for Cochlear Implants”

Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, Times TBA
Northern Essex Community College
“See the Sound: Visual Phonics”

Oct. 21 – 23, Time TBA
Holiday Inn, 500 Lincoln St., Worcester
Massachusetts State Association of the Deaf and the Massachusetts Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf State Convention “Working Together for a Better Future”

Nov. 12, 6 – 11 p.m.
Deaf-Blind Contact Center, Inc., 215 Brighton Avenue, Allston, Mass.
“25th Anniversary Celebration”

WORCESTER, Mass. – Raymond Erickson, professor of music at Queens College and at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York, will perform a piano recital on Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. in Brooks Concert Hall at the College of the Holy Cross. The recital is free and open to the public.

A widely-published scholar and well-traveled musician, Erickson made his orchestral debut as pianist with the Schumann Piano Concerto as a teenager, although for most of the last 30 years he has been better known as a harpsichordist, having been very closely associated with Aston Magna since its beginning, both as harpsichordist and as director of the noted Aston Magna Academies.

Erickson is editor of Schubert’s Vienna (Yale University Press, 1997), a multi-disciplinary treatment by lecturers at the 1993 Aston Magna Academy. He has done important work in medieval music theory and historical performance practice and is heard on several recordings, including the first American period-instrument recording of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos and a CD devoted to songs and instrumental music of Henry Purcell.

Erickson has been honored with honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the Endowed Chair in Music at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa), listing in Who’s Who Among American Teachers, the William H. Scheide Research Award of the American Bach Society, and the Officers Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was the founding director of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College (1981) and served as dean of arts and humanities at the College. He is a frequent pre-concert lecturer for Lincoln Center and the New York Collegium. He graduated with high honors from Whittier College in California and holds a Ph.D. in history of music from Yale.

Erickson will be performing recitals on the East Coast, Germany, and Austria during the fall before settling in Leipzig to research J.S. Bach, sponsored by Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. It will be his second piano recital tour in three years.

On Sept. 16 at 2 p.m., Erickson will offer a workshop titled “Performing Bach on Modern Instruments and Vocal Technique” with Holy Cross students. The events are sponsored by the music department.

RECITAL PROGRAM

Fantasie in F minor, Op. 49                                          Frédéric Chopin
Excursions                                                                       Samuel  Barber
Sonata in E major, Op. 109                                           Ludwig van Beethoven
Intermission
Three preludes                                                                Sergei Rachmaninoff
Nocturne (for the left hand alone), Op. 9, No. 2         Alexander Scriabin
Sonate No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83                            Sergei Prokofiev