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WORCESTER, Mass. – The College of the Holy Cross will be offering swimming lessons for deaf children of all ages at the Holy Cross Hart Center Pool. Swimmers of all levels are invited. Instruction will be in American Sign Language (ASL).

The lessons will be taught by qualified members of the Holy Cross swim team and ASL club members. Lifeguards will also be present.

Lessons began in early March. The three remaining sessions will take place on Sunday, March 30, Sunday, April 13 and Sunday, April 27. Participants have a choice of three time slots; 12 p.m. – 12:40 p.m., 12:40 p.m. – 1:20 p.m. or 1:20 p.m. – 2 p.m.

There is a $5 registration fee that may be paid at the first lesson attended.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Holy Cross theatre department will stage its opening night performance of “Cyrano de Bergerac” on Thursday, March 27 at 8 p.m. in Fenwick Theatre to benefit the “Save Our Fine Arts” (SOFA) program at Burncoat Middle and High Schools.

Tickets are $10 for general admission and $7 for members of the Holy Cross Community. They can be obtained by calling the box office at (508) 793-2496. All of the proceeds from the evening will go to “SOFA.”

In Edmond Rostand’s epic romantic adventure, set in France during the reign of Louis XIII, swordplay and wordplay hold equal force. Cyrano de Bergerac is a gallant soldier, a brilliant wit, and a tragic poet-lover with the nose of a clown. Mike Baron of the theatre department directs a rare revival of this classic play.

The College of the Holy Cross is the higher education partner for schools in the Burncoat quadrant.

Fenwick Theatre is not handicapped accessible.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Rev. Robert Kennedy, S.J., will lead a meditation in the Zen tradition on Saturday, April 12 from 9 a.m. – 12 noon in the Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The ecumenical meditation program, which is free and open to the public, will combine silent meditation, meditation instruction, and a question and answer period.

Fr. Kennedy is the chair of the theology department at St. Peter’s College in New Jersey, where he teaches theology and Japanese language. He is also a practicing psychotherapist.

After studying Zen in Japan with the Japanese master Yamada Roshi, Fr. Kennedy moved to Los Angeles, Calif. where he was made a Zen teacher in 1991. In 1997, he was given the title of Roshi or Master.

Fr. Kennedy earned doctorates in theology from the University of Ottawa and from St. Paul University in Ottawa, a master’s in theology from Sophia University in Tokyo and a doctor of ministry in psychology and clinical studies from Andover-Newton in Boston, Mass.

Fr. Kennedy will be available to sign copies of his books, Zen Gifts to Christians and Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit, which are currently available in the Holy Cross Bookstore.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The second annual Condé Nast Lecture on Media, Ethics and Values will be presented at Holy Cross on Wednesday, April 9 at 8 p.m. in the Rehm Library. The discussion is free and open to the public.

The lecture will feature a distinguished panel of journalists who will address the topic, “Media Coverage of the Crisis in the Church: Three Views.” Panel participants include Walter Robinson, lead investigative reporter, Globe Spotlight Team, The Boston Globe; Peter Steinfels, New York Times columnist; and Joseph Bergantino ’73, investigative reporter, WBZ-TV, Boston.

Walter Robinson has been a reporter and editor at The Boston Globe for almost 30 years. During that time he served as a political reporter, national and foreign correspondent, assistant managing editor for local news, and city editor. He is currently the editor of the Globe Spotlight Team.

Peter Steinfels served as the senior religion correspondent for The New York Times from 1988 to 1997. He continues to write a biweekly column for The New York Times on religion and ethics titled “Beliefs.” A widely published author on topics including international affairs, medical ethics, church history, politics and religion, and morality and warfare, he is also the author of The Neoconservatives.

Joe Bergantino, an investigative reporter for more than 20 years, currently serves as an I-Team reporter for WBZ 4 News on WBZ-TV 4 in Boston. An adjunct faculty member at Boston College since 1995, he has also taught at Boston University and Emerson College and served as a contributing editor for Boston Magazine from 1996-2001. Bergantino has been honored with several prestigious awards for excellence in journalism.

This lecture series is made possible by a gift from The Condé Nast Publications, Inc. Condé Nast publishes numerous magazines including The New Yorker, Vogue, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit and Gourmet. Condé Nast Publications’ mission stresses its commitment “to journalistic integrity, influential reporting and superior design.”

WORCESTER, Mass. – The College of the Holy Cross will hold its annual Easter Egg Hunt, for children age 12 and younger, on Saturday, April 12 at 10 a.m. The free event will take place on the lawn in front of the Hart Center. In the event of inclement weather, the event will be held inside.

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. – Holy Cross senior, Kristopher Jamaal Clemmons, has been awarded a prestigious traveling fellowship from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation to spend a year after graduation traveling outside the United States.

Clemmons, a sociology major from Chicago, will use his Watson fellowship pursuing his interest in drumming in Africa and Jamaica. The title of his project is “Behind the Beat: Contemporary Use of the Drum.” He will travel to Mali, Ghana and Jamaica to carry out his research. Clemmons, a musician who comes from a musical family, has been playing – piano and guitar – and singing since he was eight years old.

A member of the College’s highly selective Honor’s Program, Clemmons is completing his thesis on access to education among the indigenous populations of Latin America. He is a co-chair of the Black Student Union and a member of the Women’s Forum. He has also served as a group leader in the College’s retreat programs. He is on the student advisory committee for the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, and is a member of the College’s Diversity Task Force. Since last August, he has volunteered for the Student Mentor Program, mentoring six first-year students.

The Watson Fellowship is an unusual opportunity afforded to 60 students each year chosen from among four nominees from each of 50 preeminent liberal arts colleges and small universities. Nearly 1,000 students applied for the awards this year. It is intended to provide selected students with the opportunity to spend a year away, learning about the wider world and pursuing a project that is of passionate interest. Fellows are awarded $22,000 for their year of travel and study, which must be conducted outside formal academic institutions.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Holy Cross men’s hockey team has made the MAAC Tournament. The men will play in a semifinal game against the Quinnipiac Bobcats on Friday, March 21, 2003 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Therefore, the players will postpone their participation in the DEAFinitely Skate Hockey Program originally scheduled for Saturday, March 22, 2003.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross continues its “Last Lecture” series on Monday, April 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library with a lecture by Frederick Murphy of the religious studies department. 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?

Murphy has been a member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1983. Recognized in 2001 with the Holy Cross Distinguished Teaching Award, he has expertise in the New Testament, Second Temple Judaism, the historical Jesus and the Hebrew Bible. Murphy is the author of five books including The Structure and Meaning of Second Baruch, The Religious World of Jesus: An Introduction to Second Temple Palestinian Judaism, Pseudo-Philo: Rewriting the Bible, Fallen is Babylon: The Revelation to John, and Early Judaism: From the Exile to the Time of Jesus.

Murphy earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, a master’s degree in religion and a Ph.D. in New Testament and Christian origins from Harvard University. He also studied at the Weston School of Theology and the University of London.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Holy Cross senior music recital scheduled for Thursday, March 20 at 8 p.m. has been canceled.

WORCESTER, Mass. – On Friday, April 4, beginning promptly at 7 p.m., in room 103 of Haberlin Hall, the College of the Holy Cross will present “Hogwarts at Holy Cross II: Exploring Physics of Everyday Life” for students in first through 10th grades and their families. The event is free and open to the public.

The science exhibition will feature a variety of experiments and will be fashioned after the “potions” classes offered at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter book series. An ice cream social will follow the show.

This event, cosponsored by the Holy Cross Chemistry Ambassadors and Student Ambassadors Developing External Relations (S.A.D.E.R.), drew a crowd of 160 last semester.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The 10th annual Leonard C. Sulski Memorial Lecture in Mathematics will take place on Wednesday, April 2 at 8 p.m. in Room 519 of the Hogan Campus Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Professor Kathleen M. Shannon of Salisbury University, Salisbury Md., will give this year’s lecture, titled “Pascal’s Triangle, Cellular Automata and Serendipity: A Mathematical Tale.”

Shannon is a mathematics professor and chair of the mathematics and computer science department at Salisbury University. Recently, she has been working on the PascGalois Project, a National Science Foundation (NSF) supported project aimed at helping undergraduate mathematics majors visualize many of the fundamentals concepts of abstract algebra. Her lecture will address some of the ideas developed through the project.

The annual mathematical lecture series is a tribute to Leonard C. Sulski who taught in the mathematics department at Holy Cross from 1965 until his death from leukemia in 1991. Shannon, a 1980 graduate of Holy Cross, was a student of Professor Sulski.

The lecture will be preceded by a dinner cosponsored by the mathematics and computer science department and the Mathematical Association of America. The dinner is open to the public for a price of $15. If you are interested in participating in the dinner, please contact Professor Thomas Cecil at 508.793.2719 or by e-mail at cecil@mathcs.holycross.edu by March 24.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Playwright and director Gus Edwards will speak on Tuesday, April 1 at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library at Holy Cross. His lecture, titled “Black Theatre: The Need for Complete Autonomy,” is free and open to the public.

One of America’s leading playwrights, Edwards is the author of “Monologues on Black Life,” “More Monologues on Black Life,” and “50 African American Audition Monologues.” He is also a member of the faculty at Arizona State University, where he teaches film and theatre.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Sister Katarina Schuth, OSF, of the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn., will deliver a lecture titled “Seminaries and the Future of Ministry,” on Wednesday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library. The lecture is free and open to the public.

A member of the Sisters of St. Francis, Rochester, Minn. since 1960, Sister Schuth currently holds the Endowed Chair for the Social Scientific Study of Religion at the Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity at the University of St. Thomas. Her primary research interests are Catholic theological education and the relationship between the Church and American culture.

She is the author of two books including Seminaries, Theologates, and the Future of Church Ministry: An Analysis of Trends and Transitions, for which she was awarded the 2000 Catholic Press Association Book Award.

A charter member of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, Sister Schuth earned her B.A. from the College of St. Teresa, her M.T.S. and S.T.L. from Weston Jesuit School of Theology, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in cultural geography from Syracuse University.

Sponsored by the College’s Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, this lecture is part of “Beyond Brokenness: Healing, Renewal and the Church,” a yearlong series of discussions regarding the renewal and reform of the Church, taking place at Holy Cross. The events scheduled as part of the series are designed to enhance understanding of the problems that have emerged as a result of the ongoing sexual abuse crisis, and to engage in meaningful reflection on them.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Lieutenant General Bernard Trainor will deliver the annual Hanify-Howland Memorial Lecture at Holy Cross on Monday, March 31 at 8 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom. The lecture, titled “War and the Christian Conscience” is free and open to the public.

General Trainor, a 1951 graduate of Holy Cross, is a senior fellow for National Security Studies at The Council on Foreign Relations and associate at the Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

A highly decorated officer with a background in special operations, Gen. Trainor commanded combat in Korea and on two tours in Vietnam. Prior to his retirement from the Marine Corps in 1985, he served as deputy chief of staff for Plans, Policies and Operations and Marine Corps deputy to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The co-author of The General’s War, Gen. Trainor has written extensively for various military publications. After his retirement, he worked as the military correspondent for The New York Times, covering conflict at home and abroad, particularly in the Third World. Gen. Trainor also served as a columnist for The Times News Service and as a military analyst for ABC. He continues to do military analyses for NBCTV, The New York Times and The Boston Globe.

Gen. Trainor is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He also serves on the board of directors to the World Affairs Council.

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., a board chairman of Warwick Mills, Inc., who died in 1976.