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WORCESTER, Mass. – The Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross is sponsoring a number of lectures by noted experts in the next month. The talks, which are free and open to the public, will take place in Rehm Library on the campus.

William B. Allen, Ph.D., will give a talk titled “Cyrus in the Temple: The Relationship Between Monotheism and Political Progress” on March 31 at 4 p.m. Allen is professor of political science at Michigan State University, a former member of the National Council on the Humanities and former chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He authored, with Carol Allen, Habits of Mind: Fostering Access and Excellence in Higher Education (Transaction Publishers, 2003).

Dr. Alice B. Hayes will speak on “The National Review Board and the Laity in the Future of the Church in the United States” on April 2 at 10 a.m. Dr. Hayes will give an insider’s view of the work of the National Review Board on the abuse of children by clergy. She is a member of the National Review Board of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and President Emerita of the University of San Diego. She is the former Provost of Saint Louis University and vice president of Loyola University of Chicago.

Darrell Fasching will give a talk titled “Gandhi or Bin Laden? The Future of Religion and Politics in an Age of Globalization” on April 5 at 7:30 p.m. Fasching, a professor of religious studies at the University of South Florida, is a specialist in religion and politics, and post-Holocaust ethics. He is the author of World Religions Today (Oxford University Press, 2002), Comparative Religious Ethics (Blackwell Publishing, 2000) and the forthcoming Religion and Globalization (Oxford University Press).

Pheme Perkins will speak on “Women and Apocryphal Gospels in Early Christianity” on April 9 at 10 a.m. Perkins, a professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Boston College, is author of Abraham’s Divided Children (Trinity Press International, 2001), Peter, Apostle for the Whole Church (Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2000) and Gnosticism and the New Testament (Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1993).

Jane Schaberg will give a talk titled “Jesus and Mary Magdelene” on April 12 at 7:30 p.m. Schaberg, professor of Religious Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of Detroit-Mercy, is author of The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002).

Perkins and Schaberg will be speaking against the background of the Da Vinci Code controversies.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Paul Kurtz ’86 will give a talk titled “Counterterrorism, the 9/11 Commission Report, and the Intelligence Reform” on April 7 at 4 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. Kurtz, who has nearly two decades of experience in domestic and national security, will discuss U.S. counterterrorism efforts, intelligence legislation, and terrorist threats to U.S. cybersecurity.

Kurtz is the executive director of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, the only public policy advocacy group comprised exclusively of security software, hardware, and service vendors addressing key cyber security issues.

Kurtz served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Critical Infrastructure Protection on the White House’s Homeland Security Council. He was responsible for developing the White House’s strategy and policy for the identification, prioritization, and protection of critical physical and cyber assets across all sectors of the U.S. economy.

Prior to joining the HSC in 2003, Kurtz served on the White House’s National Security Council as senior director for National Security of the Office of Cyberspace Security and member of the President’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Prior to becoming a senior director on the NSC, Kurtz served as a director for counterterrorism in the NSC’s Office of Transnational Threats from 1999 to 2001, during the millennium terrorist threat and the 9/11 attacks.

The talk is sponsored by the departments of history and political science and the Office of the President.

For more information, contact Charles Gallagher, S.J., of the history department, at 508-793-3450.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J., will give a talk on ministering to gang members on April 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. Fr. Boyle has spent much of his life determined to help end gang violence and raise awareness about the causes of gang violence in the U.S.

Fr. Boyle is founder and executive director of Jobs for a Future/Homeboy Industries, a Los Angeles gang-prevention program. Founded in 1988 for at-risk and gang-involved youth, Jobs For a Future is a nationally-recognized center that assists previously gang-involved youth in re-directing their lives.

From 1986 to 1992 Fr. Boyle was a pastor of Dolores Mission, the poorest church in the Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocese. The parish is home of the largest public housing developments west of the Mississippi and the highest concentration of gang activity in the city of Los Angeles.

Fr. Boyle, who received an honorary doctorate from Holy Cross in 1998, is also the subject of the book G-Dog and the Homeboys by Celeste Fremon (University of New Mexico Press, 2004), which tells the story of his successes with his unconventional ministry.

The talk is part of the Lilly Vocation Discernment Initiative’s Lectures in Ministry Series, in which church leaders and ministers in a variety of ministries speak about their own vocations and the challenges they see the church needing to focus on in the 21st century.

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

WORCESTER, Mass. – Leon R. Kass, one of the country’s leading scholars of issues in bioethics, who has served as Chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics since his appointment by President George W. Bush in 2001, will deliver the 39th annual Hanify-Howland Memorial Lecture on March 21 at 8 p.m. in the Hogan Ballroom at the College of the Holy Cross. Dr. Kass is the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago (on leave) and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute.

The lecture, titled “Science, Politics, and the Dilemmas of Bioethics,” is free and open to the public.

Kass will address controversial issues in bioethics, such as stem cell research, cloning, genetic engineering, psychotropic drugs, brain imaging and deep brain stimulation. These breakthroughs reveal that the sciences of genetics, developmental biology, and neuroscience are rapidly providing vast new powers to intervene in the human body and mind, not only to heal disease and relieve suffering but to attempt “improvements” in human nature itself.

Kass will also highlight some enduring difficulties in effecting a sound relationship between science and society and explore questions such as: Where is biotechnology taking us? How far do we want to go? Most important, can we find a way to govern the uses of biotechnology so as to reap their benefits without degrading and dehumanizing humans in the process?

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 high-profile speakers to Holy Cross who have found creative and powerful ways to serve the community. The aim of the lectures is to foster student debate and discussion of current issues, as well as inspire members of the community to commit their lives to public service.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Patrick Autissier will give a talk about his participation in Race Across America: From San Diego to Atlantic City, an almost non-stop 3,000-mile bike race from San Diego, Calif. to Atlantic City, N.J., on March 18 at 5:30 p.m. in Stein Hall, Room 116 at the College of the Holy Cross.

The race, which starts June 21 and ends July 2, is intended to raise money for AIDS research. Autissier will answer questions in English and French (which will be translated) during an informal reception following his presentation in English.

Autissier is an HIV vaccine researcher at Harvard Medical School, where he is at the frontier of developing a vaccine against AIDS. The race will help raise funds for the innovative research.

Autissier will talk about how he first heard in his native France about the race and then set out to realize his dream to participate.

Autissier’s Web site www.patrickautissier.org includes information on the race and how to support the effort.

For more information, contact Sylvia Schmitz-Burgard in the department of modern languages and literatures at 508-793-3305.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Mass., will give a talk on March 22 at 7 p.m. in Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The talk is titled “Iraq: Finding a Responsible Exit.”

Meehan represents the 5th district of Massachusetts, which includes 29 cities and towns in the state. He is a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee.

The congressman has been a vocal critic of the Bush administration’s handling of the Iraq war.

The lecture is sponsored by the department of political science. For more information, contact Donald Brand, professor of political science, at 508-793-3402.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Women’s and Gender Studies, Asian Studies, and Peace and Conflict Studies at the College of the Holy Cross are sponsoring a series of events on the topic of “Women and War” during the month of March. All the events are free and open to the public.

“Women and War” is a three-part series of films, discussions, and lectures exposing the underexamined roles that women have played in international armed conflict. The series is intended to raise questions about women as agents versus victims, to examine societal responses to women’s experiences in war, and to illuminate the factors that contribute to women’s resilience.

The schedule is as follows:

March 15, 4 p.m., Rehm Library
Professor Karen Turner, of the history department, will screen and discuss her film Hidden Warriors: Women on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

March 22, 4 p.m., Rehm Library
Professor Sandra McEvoy, of the Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies, will speak on “Women and Armed Conflict: Warriors, Paramilitaries, and Terror.”

March 29, 6 p.m., Hogan Campus Center, Room 519
Professor Susan Rodgers, of the sociology and anthropology department, will discuss “Women, Japanese Internment Camps, and World War II Sumatra: On Viewing the Film Paradise Road.” Her discussion will follow a screening of that film.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Koren Zailckas, author of the New York Times bestseller Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood, will give a talk on March 30 at 7 p.m. in Suites B and C of the Hogan Campus Center at the College of the Holy Cross. Zailckas will answer questions and sign books. The event is free and open to the public.

In Smashed, 24-year-old Zailckas candidly describes her struggle with alcohol — how she started to drink at 14, suffered alcohol poisoning at 16 and lost her virginity in a blackout at 19. At 22, she quit drinking.

Smashed has garnered national media attention from CNN, USA Today, People and The Nation, among others.

Zailckas, who graduated from Syracuse University, is a native of Bolton, a town in Worcester County.

The event is sponsored by the department of athletics, Wellness Programming, Counseling Center and Health Services.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Loren Cass, of the political science department, will give a talk as part of the “Last Lecture” series on March 15 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?

Loren Cass teaches courses in international relations and comparative politics with an emphasis on international political economy and comparative environmental policy. He is also a member of the Environmental Studies faculty at Holy Cross. Professor Cass received a B.A. from Augustana College (Sioux Falls, SD), an M.A. from Boston College, and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. Cass’ research focuses on the relationship between international and domestic environmental politics.

An article authored by Cass, “The Indispensable Awkward Partner: The United Kingdom in European Climate Policy,” is to be included in the Project on Environmental Change and Foreign Policy’s forthcoming volume titled Europe and Global Climate Change: Politics, Foreign Policy and Regional Cooperation. He currently has a book manuscript titled The Failures of American and European Climate Policy: International Norms, Domestic Politics, and Unachievable Commitments under review with SUNY Press.

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

WORCESTER, Mass. – The College of the Holy Cross will hold its annual Easter Egg Hunt, for children ages 12 and younger, on March 19 at 10 a.m. The free event will take place in the Field House.

The Easter Bunny will be available to take photos with the children.

This event is sponsored by the Student Ambassadors Developing External Relations (S.A.D.E.R.) and the Student Affairs Office.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Five contemporary French films will be shown at the College of the Holy Cross during its spring French Film Festival. The receipt of a “Tournées” grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture makes the screenings possible. Admission is free for Holy Cross students; $3 for all others.

The schedule is as follows:

March 15; Stein Hall, Room 102; 7:30 p.m.
Raja
Director: Jacques Doillon (2003, 112 min)
Starring: Najat Benssallem, Pascal Greggory, Ilham Abdelwahed, Hassan Khissal
Frédéric, a rich Frenchman who lives an idle life in contemporary Marrakech, tries to seduce Raja, one of his young servants. The plot progressively unfolds in a context of post-colonial misunderstanding, economic manipulation, and cultural and linguistic gaps (neither speaks the other’s language). In this social and political world strictly divided between rich and poor, master and servant, it seems that any hope of love is doomed to become a matter of bargaining.

March 19; Kimball Theatre; 11 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 3:45 p.m.

La Trilogie: Cavale – Un couple épatant – Après la vie
(Trilogy: On the Run – An Amazing Couple – After Life)
Director: Lucas Belvaux (2002, 117 min, 100 min, 124 min)
Starring: Ornella Muti, François Morel, Catherine Frot, Lucas Belvaux, Dominique Blanc, Gilbert Melki
In The Trilogy, three different but parallel stories (a thriller, a comedy and a melodrama) unfold and provide the same action from three different angles and perspectives. Each film can be appreciated on its own, but together they form a stunning whole. Cavale. Bruno, an extreme-left revolutionary, has escaped from prison and contacts his former accomplice Jeanne, now a teacher and a mother, in order to restart his political activities. Un couple épatant. Alain has just learned that he has to have routine surgery. A hypochondriac, he is convinced that he will die, and in order not to alarm his wife Cécile, he tells her a series of lies. Après la vie. Pascal, a cop, has been secretly using his connections for years to find morphine for his drug-addicted wife Agnès. His actions catch up with him as he is blackmailed by his sources.

March 29; Stein Hall, Room 102; 7:30 p.m.
Son frère
(His Brother)
Director: Patrice Chéreau (2002, 95 min)
Starring: Bruno Todeschini, Eric Caravaca
Thomas suffers from an incurable disease that affects his blood, and he may die from a hemorrhage at any time. Although Thomas has not talked to his brother Luc in years, he asks Luc to attend to his medical needs. Luc decides to sacrifice his love and his job to become his brother’s caretaker. Together, Luc and Thomas are forced to examine the meaning of their existence and their relationship. A delicate and deeply moving portrait of human agony, compassion and brotherhood.

WORCESTER, Mass. – After six weeks of intensive negotiations, the City of Worcester, Worcester Professional Baseball LLC, and the College of the Holy Cross announced today they have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to proceed with plans for the team to play at Fitton Field beginning in the spring.

The three parties announced the signing of the agreement at a press conference today at the College.

“The College is delighted to be a partner in bringing baseball to Worcester and accommodating the team on our campus,” said Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., president of Holy Cross, in a statement. “This agreement required a great deal of work and cooperation by all parties in a very short time frame. We are pleased to have a solid plan in place as this significant change to our campus and the neighborhood takes shape.” Fr. McFarland was traveling and could not attend the press conference.

“Baseball fans throughout Worcester and central Massachusetts should praise the effort and cooperation of both Holy Cross and the City of Worcester in returning professional baseball to Worcester after 71 years,” said team President and CEO Alan Stone. “We are thrilled that Fr. McFarland, his Trustees and administrative leadership have allowed us to be guests on their campus and utilize historic Fitton Field with its rich baseball history and tradition.”

City Manager Michael V. O’Brien stated that the real progress made on this effort is due to the strong partnerships forged and the spirit of teamwork. “The entire community is energized and more than enthusiastic that first class, professional baseball is back in Worcester, at historic Fitton Field. The City of Worcester is grateful for the commitment of the College of the Holy Cross, Fr. McFarland, his Trustees, Worcester Professional baseball, the Mayor and the Worcester City Council who have demonstrated their desire to put Worcester on the map as a true baseball city.”

The signed agreement calls for Worcester Professional Baseball, a member of the independent Can Am League, to construct a permanent ballpark with seating capacity of approximately 3,000. The terms of the agreement also include a five-year lease for the team to play at Fitton Field. An artist’s rendering of the proposed ballpark design was presented at the press conference.

Additional details – including the construction plan, scheduling, parking, and security – will be presented at a neighborhood meeting, set for 6:30 p.m., Monday, March 21 at the Hogan Center, Room 402, at the College. All are invited and encouraged to attend this meeting and discussion.

Opening day is scheduled for Saturday, May 28. The team will have use of Fitton Field for approximately 46 home dates plus training, practices, up to eight possible playoff games, camps, and other community events.

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For more information contact:

Michael V. O’Brien, City Manager
City of Worcester
(508) 799-1175
CityManager@ci.worcester.ma.us

Mike Lieberman, General Manager
Worcester Professional Baseball, LLC
(508) 792-2288
mike@worcesterprobaseball.com

Ellen Ryder, Director of Public Affairs
College of the Holy Cross
(508) 793-2419
eryder@holycross.edu

Miles Wolff, Commissioner, Can Am League
Dan Moushon, President, Can Am League
(919) 401-8150
mwolff@canamleague.com
dmoushon@canamleague.com

WORCESTER, Mass. – Leon R. Kass, one of the country’s leading scholars of issues in bioethics, who has served as Chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics since his appointment by President George W. Bush in 2001, will deliver the 39th annual Hanify-Howland Memorial Lecture on March 21 at 8 p.m. in the Hogan Ballroom at the College of the Holy Cross. Dr. Kass is the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago (on leave) and Hertog Fellow in Social Thought at the American Enterprise Institute. The lecture, titled “Science, Politics, and the Dilemmas of Bioethics,” is free and open to the public.

The recipient of an M.D. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Harvard University, Dr. Kass has been professionally engaged for more than 30 years with the ethical and philosophical issues raised by recent biomedical advances.

Kass served as Executive Secretary of the Committee on the Life Sciences and Social Policy of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences from 1970 to 1972. The committee’s report, Assessing Biomedical Technologies, provided one of the first overviews of the emerging moral and social questions posed by biomedical advance.

Dr. Kass taught at St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD, and served as Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Research Professor in Bioethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He returned to teach at the University of Chicago in 1976.

Kass’s widely reprinted essays in biomedical ethics have dealt with issues raised by in vitro fertilization, cloning, genetic screening and genetic technology, organ transplantation, aging research, euthanasia and assisted suicide, and the moral nature of the medical profession.

Dr. Kass is the author of Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs (Free Press, 1984); The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature (University of Chicago Press, 1999); The Ethics of Human Cloning (American Enterprise Institute Press, 1998; with James Q. Wilson); Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying (University of Notre Dame Press, 2000; with Amy A. Kass); Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics (Encounter Books, 2002); and The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis (Free Press, 2003).

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 high-profile speakers to Holy Cross who have found creative and powerful ways to serve the community. The aim of the lectures is to foster student debate and discussion of current issues, as well as inspire members of the community to commit their lives to public service.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Fenwick Theatre and the theatre department at the College of the Holy Cross will present Anton Chekhov’s The Sea Gull on April 7, 8, 9, 14, 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. in Fenwick Theatre (O’Kane Hall). The production is directed by Steve Vineberg, professor of theatre and film at the College, using Ann Dunnigan’s elegant translation. Tickets are $7 for members of the Holy Cross community and $10 for the general public.

This lyrical late-19th century tragedy established Anton Chekhov among the ranks of the great modernist playwrights. Set by a lake in the Russian countryside, The Sea Gull is about young artists, passionate romantics on the brink of their careers and, like all of Chekhov’s plays, it’s equally about love lost and love unrequited, complacency and disenchantment, and the passing of time.

Vineberg, author of the recently published High Comedy in American Movies (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers), reviews films and theater regularly for The Boston Phoenix and The Threepenny Review. He has also been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Film Quarterly, American Film, Modern Review and Connoisseur, among others. 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 Three Sisters, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, The Eccentricities of a Nightengale, The House of Blue Leaves, The Threepenny Opera, Lydie Breeze and The Night of the Iguana.

The set is produced by Chris Markunas ’05; costumes by Kurt S. Hultgren, costume designer in the theatre department; and lighting by Barbara Craig, professor in the theatre department.

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

WORCESTER, Mass. – Kathleen Mahoney, president of the Humanitas Foundation, will give a lecture titled “Jesuit Education in the United States: Holy Cross through the 1940s” on March 16 at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. Rev. Anthony Kuzniewski, S.J., of the history department, and Joanne Pierce, of the religious studies department, will serve as respondents. Theresa McBride, of the history department, will be the moderator. For additional information on the talk, which is free and open to the public, please contact Pat Hinchliffe at 508-793-3869.

Mahoney, a former faculty member at Boston College, is author of Catholic Higher Education in Protestant America: The Jesuits and Harvard in the Age of the University (John Hopkins University Press, 2003). The book looks at conflicts between Harvard and the Jesuits of Holy Cross, Boston College and Georgetown University over what constituted a suitable education for students in the 20th century. This public conflict revealed differences over prescribed vs. elective curricula, the role of athletics and extracurricular activities and the place of moral education in the classroom.

This presentation is part five of the “Presidential Colloquia: Jesuit Liberal Arts Education and the Engaging of Cultures,” a year-long series of presentations and discussions sponsored by the President’s Office and Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture. Each event will focus on a particular moment in Jesuit history and its connection to Jesuit educational aims today. In addition to facilitating an exchange of views, the colloquia also aims to further explore the principles of today’s Holy Cross education within its Catholic and Jesuit traditions.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Holy Cross Mock Trial Team placed sixth in the New England Regional Intercollegiate Mock Trial Tournament, held Feb. 25 – 27 at Clark University. The team now advances to the national mock trial finals March 18-20 in Richmond, Ky.

Holy Cross sent four teams to the tournament. The team finishing in sixth place won with a 5-2-1 record. The team was comprised of Ruth Demeter ’05, John Larson ’05, Steve Bagdasarian ’05, Diana Mahoney ’08, Katie Manzi ’08, Jessica McCaffery ’08 and Brendan Missett ’08.

Holy Cross also had individual student award winners. Tiffany Kouri ’06, Kim Richardson ’06 and Manzi received Outstanding Attorney awards. Larson and Mahoney received Outstanding Witnesses awards.

Participating institutions included Boston College, Boston University, Brown University, Clark University, Dartmouth College, Harvard College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University.

Harvard College finished first place in the tournament.

Started in the fall of 1997 at Holy Cross, Mock Trial is an opportunity for undergraduate students to learn about trial techniques used by lawyers in the courtroom. Teams consist of six to eight students who take on the roles of attorneys and witnesses in a simulated court case. Participants gain experience and knowledge in areas such as the stages of a trial, how to argue objections, and how to direct and cross-examine a witness.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Storyteller Jay O’Callahan will perform “Father Joe: A Hero’s Journey,” on March 19 at 8 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom at the College of the Holy Cross. “Father Joe” is the story of Holy Cross math and physics professor, Rev. Joseph T. O’Callahan, S.J., Navy Chaplain, who earned a Medal of Honor during World War II. March 19 marks the 60th anniversary of Joseph’s heroism on board the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, which was attacked in the Pacific during the war. Admission is $5.

Fr. O’Callahan was the first Jesuit from the New England Province to enter the Navy during WWII. On March 19, 1945, he was onboard the USS Franklin when the ship was attacked by a Japanese bomber. He was injured while rescuing shipmates and was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions. O’Callahan left the Navy in late 1946. He later returned to Holy Cross to teach philosophy. In 1956, he wrote a book, titled I was Chaplain on the Franklin, recounting his experiences.

Jay O’Callahan ’60, Fr. O’Callahan’s nephew, is a professional storyteller whose performance credits include Lincoln Center, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Winter Olympics, and the Abby Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. Hailed as a “genius among storytellers,” by the New York Times, O’Callahan writes all of the stories he performs. In 1991, he received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, in the category of “solo theatrical performance.” His audio recordings have won numerous awards, including the ALA/Carnegie Award, the Birmingham International Educational Film Festival Award, the Indie Award, and the Parent’s Choice Classics Award.

In “Father Joe,” O’Callahan re-enacts that fateful day on the Franklin, interweaving his narrative with personal reminiscences of his uncle during his student days at Holy Cross. O’Callahan draws the audience into the story with his re-creation of “bursting explosions, the bewilderment of the sailors, the flames scudding about as though alive, the sight of smoke and burning flesh, the intense battering and subsequent shaking on that ‘burning city,’ the Franklin.” The story concludes with his uncle emerging “a figure of extraordinary calm amid chaos who snaps sense into the men, creates order from disorder, and again and again risks his own life to save others.”

Jay O’Callahan last performed at Holy Cross in 2003.

The performance is sponsored by Student Programs and Leadership Development at Holy Cross. For additional information, please contact SPLD at 508-793-3487.

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

Jeffrey D. Bloechl, of the philosophy department, earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (Belgium). A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1999, Bloechl is an Edward Bennett Williams Fellow. He is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of Levinas Studies: An Annual Review, published by Duquesne University Press. He is the author of Liturgy of the Neighbor: Emmanuel Levinas and the Religion of Responsibility (Duquesne University Press, 2000) and has edited and translated several other works in contemporary European thought. He lives in Dudley with his wife Catherine Cornille, a scholar of comparative theology who teaches at Boston College, and their three children Tessa, Nicholas and Julia.

Laurie A. Smith King, of the mathematics and computer science department, earned a Ph.D. in computer science from The College of William and Mary. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1998, she has served on the College Curriculum Committee, the Committee on Faculty Affairs and the Curriculum Goals Committee. She has contributed to a number of publications on the topics of hardware/software co-design, programming languages, computer ethics and pedagogy research. She lives in Marlborough with her husband, Stef, and their children, Madison and Zephyr.

Matthew B. Koss, of the physics department, earned a Ph.D. from Tufts University in experimental condensed matter physics. He worked in the Materials Science and Engineering department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for 10 years. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2000, he was the Lead Scientist on the Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment, which flew on the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1994, 1996 and 1997, and was the Principal Investigator of the Transient Dendritic Solidification Experiment (TDSE), a flight experiment considered for operation on the International Space Station. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 technical papers, including an op-ed in the New York Times, and has prepared or presented more than 100 technical talks, including testimony before the Committee on Science of the House of Representatives. Koss has also been involved in outreach and education. He has worked to involve teachers, their students and community members in learning about science, engineering and NASA, and is developing a workshop for teachers on these themes to be presented this summer at Holy Cross. He lives in Shrewsbury with his wife Betsy and their daughter Frederica.

Vickie Langohr, of the political science department, earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in political science. She has served as the director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Concentration committee at Holy Cross. She has published articles in Comparative Politics, Comparative Studies of Society and History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Journal of Democracy, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and is currently working on a series of articles on impediments to democratization in the Arab world. She has been awarded a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a grant from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers for research in India and Egypt. She lives in Watertown with her husband Jai Puthenveettil.

Sarah Luria, of the English department, earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University in English. While at Holy Cross, she has served on numerous College committees, including the Planning Steering Committee, Curriculum Action Committee, English Honors Program Committee, and Graduate Studies Committee. She has been the chair of the English Department Curriculum Committee since 2004. She is the author of the forthcoming Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C. to be published by University Press of New England in November 2005. She lives in Newton with her husband Thomas Lewis Schwarz, professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and their two children, Martha Reading Schwarz and Theodore de Lima Schwarz.

Timothy M. Roach, of the physics department, earned a Ph.D. from Yale University in physics. He has served as Chair of the College Committee on the Curriculum and as co-coordinator of the Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium from 2000-’03. He has been published in the Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, among others. He lives in Cambridge with his wife, an attorney, and their two sons.

Mathew N. Schmalz, of the religious studies department, earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in history of religions. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1998, he is an Edward Bennett Williams Fellow. He was the director of Asian Studies from 2001 to 2003. He has been published in History of Religions, Religious Studies Review, Journal of Theological Reflection, Expecting Armageddon: Essential Readings in Failed Prophecy, among others. He is on the board of directors for the Society for Hindu/Christian Studies and on the editorial board of the Journal of Christian Higher Education. Schmalz lives in Paxton with his wife Kristin Steinmetz and their two daughters, Anna Teresa Schmalz and Katherine Dolores Schmalz.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The music department at the College of the Holy Cross will present “Baroque Music for Hope and Healing,” on March 30 at 8 p.m. in Brooks Concert Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

The concert is one of several events taking place on campus in connection with the College’s co-sponsorship of the upcoming exhibition “Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800” at the Worcester Art Museum. The exhibition, which opens April 3 and continues through Sept. 25, explores art’s role as a spiritual remedy during the plague. Clark University is also a sponsor.

Among the works performed at the Holy Cross concert will be Claudio Montiverdi’s “Selva morale e spirituale,” which was commissioned during the years of the plague in Venice (1630-31), for the vows to build the church of Santa Maria della Salute, and the setting of the first stone.

For additional information, please contact the music department events line at 508-793-3528.

BAROQUE MUSIC FOR HOPE AND HEALING

Roberta Anderson – Soprano
Pamela Dellal – Mezzo-Soprano
Carol Lieberman – Baroque Violin
Carol Lewis – Viola da Gamba
Mark Kroll – Harpsichord

Dietrich Buxtehude
“Singet dem Herrn”
Ms. Dellal. Ms. Lieberman, Ms. Lewis, Mr. Kroll

Johann Kuhnau
“Biblical Sonata: The Lament of Hisikia on the Announcement of his Death and his Ardent Prayers”
Mr. Kroll

Andre Campra
Cantata “Domine, Dominus Noster”
Ms. Anderson, Ms. Lieberman, Ms. Lewis, Mr. Kroll

Marin Marais
“The Bladder Operation”
Ms. Lewis, Mr. Kroll

****** Intermission ******

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Passacaglia for Unaccompanied Violin in G-minor
“Sonata of the Guardian Angel”
Ms. Lieberman

Claudio Monteverdi
“Selva morale e spirituale”
Music written during the years of The Plague in Venice (1630-31), for the vows to build the church of Santa Maria della Salute, and the setting of the first stone.

“Jubilet tota civitas” (ceremony of “The Vow,” Oct. 26, 1630)
Ms. Anderson, Ms. Dellal, Ms. Lewis, Mr. Kroll

“Pianto della Madonna (setting of the first stone, April 1, 1631)
Ms. Della, Ms. Lewis, Mr. Kroll

“Laudate Dominum in sanctis ejus (setting of the first stone)
Ms. Anderson, Ms. Lewis, Mr. Kroll

François Couperin
“Victoria! Christo resurgenti”
Ms. Anderson, Ms. Dellal, Ms. Lewis, Mr. Kroll