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WORCESTER, Mass. – The time of the lecture by Joyce A. O’Shaughnessy, M.D., has been changed. O’Shaughnessy, an expert in the field of breast cancer research, will discuss treatment options and current research on the disease at a lecture on March 22, at 4 p.m., in the Browsing Room of the Dinand Library at Holy Cross. The lecture is free and open to the public

WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross will host four authors in the month of April as part of the William H.P. Jenks spring reading and lecture series.  All events will be held in the Browsing Room of the Dinand Library at Holy Cross and are free and open to the public.  The series is sponsored by the Lannan Foundation.

The schedule is as follows:

Friday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. – Robert Haas, former Poet Laureate of the United States and translator of Czeslaw Milosz’s Facing the River, will give a lecture.  Haas is the author of Sun Under Wood, Human Wishes, Praise, Field Guide, and Twentieth Century Pleasures.

Tuesday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. – Charles Siebert, author of Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral, will give a lecture.  His essays, articles, and poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Esquire, and Outside.

Wednesday, April 21 at 7:30 p.m. – Adam Zagajewski, author of three collections of poetry, will give a lecture.  He is the author of Mysticism for Beginners, Canvas, Tremor, and two books of nonfiction, Solidarity, Solitude and Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination.

Wednesday, April 28 at 4 p.m. – Suzanne Matson, author of The Hunger Moon, will give a reading from her new novel.  She is also the author of two collections of poetry, Sea Level and Durable Goods.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Karola Brede, professor of sociology at the Sigmund Freud Institute at the University of Frankfurt, will give a lecture on Wednesday, March 24 at 8 p.m. in room 406 of the Hogan Campus Center at Holy Cross.  The lecture, sponsored by the German Studies Program, is free and open to the public.

The recent debate about a planned central Holocaust memorial in Germany has focused attention on the way in which contemporary Germans deal with the crimes committed by the Nazis.

In a lecture entitled “The Past in Germany’s Present: The NS-Period in Contemporary German Debates,” Brede will trace the various phases of dealing with the Nazi past in postwar German history and place the current debates about the Holocaust into their historical context.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Fenwick Debate Society will host the Cambridge Union Society, England, in the annual Oxford/Cambridge debate on Tuesday, March 23, at 8 p.m., in Room 519 of the Hogan Campus Center at Holy Cross.

The top four members of the Fenwick Debate Society, fourth-year students Gilbert Morton and Eric Michael Bovim, second-year student Mary F. Blazek, and Kate Kelley, a member of the class of 2002, will debate four members of the Cambridge Union Society.

The Fenwick Debate Society is Holy Cross’ oldest debate group.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross has planned the following events in March to celebrate Women’s History Month:

Monday, March 22 at 4 p.m. – Joyce A. O’Shaughnessy, M.D, will give a lecture entitled “Understanding and Preventing Breast Cancer” in the Browsing Room of Dinand Library.  This is the First Annual Katherine A. Henry ’86 Memorial Lecture Series on Women’s Health Issues.  O’Shaughnessy is a 1978 graduate of Holy Cross.

Tuesday, March 23 at 4 p.m. – Kelley Conway, a performance poet, will give a presentation in celebration of women in Room 407 of the Hogan Campus Center.

Thursday, March 25 at 7 p.m. – Jane Elliott, a nationally known race relations expert, will give a lecture entitled “The Anatomy of Prejudice” in the Ballroom of the Hogan Campus Center.

Monday, March 29 at 4 p.m. – Diane Dujon and Ann Withorn, two important voices in the fight for genuine welfare reform, will give a lecture entitled “Charting a New Course: Building a Movement for Economic Justice” in the Faculty Room of Dinand Library.  This is the final lecture in the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CISS) series “Option for the Poor in the Era of Welfare Reform.”

Sponsored by the CISS Women’s Studies Program, the Women’s Forum and other campus organizations, admission is free and open to the public.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Jane Elliott will give a lecture entitled “The Anatomy of Prejudice” on Thursday, March 25, at 7 p.m., in the Ballroom of the Hogan Campus Center at Holy Cross.  Elliot is a nationally-known race relations expert and former grade school teacher.  Admission is free and open to the public.

Elliot began this program in her third-grade classroom in reaction to the level of racism reporters displayed the day following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  In splitting her students into two groups by the color of their eyes – something they had no control over – and telling them that brown eyes were inordinately better, she was able to show them the way that racism exists in society.

Elliott and her work have been the subject of three documentaries: “Eye of the Storm,” “Eye of the Beholder,” and the 1996 release of “Blue Eyed.”

WORCESTER, Mass. – Louis Dupré, professor emeritus at Yale University, will give a lecture entitled “Religion at the Dawn of the Millennium: The Crisis and the Challenge” on Tuesday, March 23 at 4 p.m., in room 401 of the Hogan Campus Center at Holy Cross.  It is a part of the ongoing Religion and Modernity Lecture Series, sponsored by the Dean’s Office.  It is free and open to the public.

Dupré has lectured at a number of universities in the United States, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Italy.  He has published over 200 articles in various philosophical and theological journals, collective works and encyclopedias.

A former member of the American Council of Learned Societies, he was elected a foreign member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He was awarded the William C. DeVane Medal for distinguished scholarship and teaching in Yale College in 1996.  In 1997, he received the Aquinas medal from the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

Dupré, who was born in Belgium, studied philosophy at the University of Leuven, where he was awarded the biennial J.M. Huyghe Prize.  After emigrating to the United States in 1958, he taught philosophy at Georgetown University.  In 1973, he became the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor in Religious Studies at Yale University.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Robert ParkeHarrison, an assistant professor in the visual arts department at Holy Cross, has been selected to participate in the Tokyo Biennale at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in April.  He is one of two artists in the United States to be nominated and selected for this exhibition.

The exhibition, which takes place once every two years, has a lengthy selection process, during which curators from 10 countries are chosen.  This group then selects two photographers from each country.

ParkeHarrison was selected to have his work included in the second edition of 21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography, which will be published in September.  He has been chosen to participate in two upcoming group exhibitions, Eleven Artists Eleven Visions at the DeCordova Museum in Concord, Mass., and Three Generations at the Spiva Art Center in Joplin, Mo.  He also will have solo exhibitions at both the Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque, N.M., and the Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York, N.Y.

ParkeHarrison created much of his new work during a recent sabbatical, the one-semester leave granted to tenure track faculty at Holy Cross for research.  This time allowed him the opportunity to work on a much larger scale and investigate new processes.  “I feel encouraged to do this,” he says.  “A lot of artists in educational situations feel like they are moonlighting, but my teaching is closely connected to my work because I am able to take my experiences back to my students.”

A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1995, he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico.  He resides in Worcester with his wife and daughter.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Joyce O’Shaughnessy, MD, an expert in the field of breast cancer research, will discuss treatment options and current research on the disease at a lecture on March 22, at 4:30 p.m., in the Browsing Room of the Dinand Library at Holy Cross.  The lecture is free and open to the public.

O’Shaughnessy’s talk is the first in the Katherine A. Henry ’86 Memorial Lecture Series on Women’s Health Issues.  Henry’s parents endowed the lecture series in memory of their daughter who died in 1997.

A 1978 graduate of Holy Cross, O’Shaughnessy worked for 10 years at the National Cancer Institute, including five years as the senior investigator in the Medical Breast Cancer Section.

Currently, she is associate director of the Breast Cancer Research Program at Physician Reliance Network Research, Inc., in Dallas, Texas.  In addition she is in medical practice at Texas Oncology, PA.   From 1995-1997 she was in practice at Kentuckiana Medical Oncology Associates in Louisville, Ky.  She also served for one year as associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of Louisville.

O’Shaughnessy earned her medical degree at Yale University Medical School and completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Ambassador Paul D. Wolfowitz, dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, will deliver the 33rd annual Hanify-Howland lecture on Monday, April 19, at 8 p.m., in the Ballroom of the Hogan Campus Center at Holy Cross. Wolfowitz’s lecture, entitled “Quarrels in Foreign Countries,” is free and open to the public.

Prior to becoming dean at the Nitze School at Johns Hopkins in 1994, Wolfowitz was the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, the principal civilian official responsible for strategy, plans and policy under Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney.

From 1986-89, Wolfowitz was the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia.  Before assuming that post, he was Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the State Department.

Wolfowitz has served in the federal government in various capacities.  His positions included Director of Policy Planning for the State Department; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Regional Programs); and a variety of positions in the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, including Special Assistant to the Director for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.  His first government service was as a management intern at the U.S. Bureau of the Budget.

He received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and chemistry from Cornell University in 1965, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in political science and economics.

The Hanify-Howland Lecture Series honors the late Edward F. Hanify, a 1904 Holy Cross graduate 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.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Holy Cross Chapel Choir will join the Sistine Chapel Choir at the Chair Altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome for the beatification Mass on Sunday, March 7.  This is the first time the Chapel Choir has performed at the Vatican.

While in Italy, the Choir will also perform at St. Ignatius Church in Rome and at the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi.

On Wednesday, March 10 the Choir will have an audience with Pope John Paul II, at which they will perform a selection during the English language portion.

Members of the Chaplain’s Office, friends, family, and Holy Cross alumni will join the 42 student members of the Chapel Choir.

“The Chapel Choir has worked very hard to prepare for this trip – rehearsing, making a CD, raising money, and giving concerts,” says Andrea Goodrich, director of the Chapel Choir.  “It is an honor to sing for the Pope at the beatification Mass in St. Peter’s.  The Choir is very excited, and is looking forward to representing the Holy Cross community in Rome, the Vatican, and Assisi.”

WORCESTER, Mass. – A Garden of Psalms: Photographs and Words, an exhibition by Harold Feinstein, has been extended through March 22 in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery in O’Kane Hall at Holy Cross.  The gallery is open weekdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and weekends from 2-5 p.m., but will be closed March 6-7 and 13-14.

“A Garden of Psalms” is a series of digital images of flowers and other plant forms accompanied by brief “songs.”  These color prints (variously Kodak Pegasus, IRIS and Epson prints) are startling in their intensity and, at the same time, deeply meditative.  They offer the viewer a sharply focused distallation of the complexity of the natural world with all its variety, rationality and accident.

Famous as a photographer of New York City street life, he is perhaps best known for his photographs of Coney Island taken over the course of five decades.  Other black and white portfolios include photographs from the Korean War as well as landscapes.  The subjects of his color work range from the natural forms of flowers and seashells to the created form of architecture and the sculpture of Auguste Rodin.

His work has been widely exhibited and published.  Recent exhibitions include Metropolis – City of Light at New York’s Municipal Art Society in 1995 and A Coney Island of the Heart at the International Center of Photography in 1990.  His photo essays have been published in a number of major periodicals, including Life, Audubon, and Connoisseur.  By the time he was 19, his work had been purchased by Edward Steichen for the permanent collection of many international institutions.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Holy Cross Mock Trial team, only in its second year of existence, has been awarded a bid to the gold level of the National Championship Tournament this April in the Iowa Supreme Courthouse.

The invitation to the national championship was secured last weekend when the Holy Cross team went 6-2 in a competition at Utica College.

Of the 250 mock trial teams from colleges and universities throughout the United States, only the top three were awarded bids to the gold level of the national championship.  The 4th and 5th place teams in each region advance to the silver level and the top four teams from this competition advance to the national championship.

Three members of the Holy Cross team were also recognized for their performances. Pedro Figueroa of the Class of 1999, and Ryan Hayward, a member of the Class of 2001, were chosen as two of the top 10 attorneys in the competition.  First-year student Caitlin Donahue was recognized as one of the top 10 witnesses.

The team is coached by local attorneys Ed McDermott and Carey Smith, both members of the Holy Cross Class of 1979.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross will present its fourth annual “Gospel Explosion” on Sunday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Hogan Campus Center.

This concert will feature the Holy Cross Gospel Choir, Sound of Praise, and Nancy Bilonda & Friends.  This is the final event of the Black History Month Celebration at Holy Cross.  Admission is free and open to the public.

WORCESTER, Mass. – A bone marrow drive will be conducted for Cherise O’Day on Monday, March 1 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Hogan Campus Center at Holy Cross.  It is sponsored by the Holy Cross Purple Key Society and the HLA Registry Foundation.

Last year O’Day, a native of Worcester, was diagnosed with Chronic Mylogeonous Leukemia.  This rare and potentially fatal form of leukemia requires a bone marrow transplant from a compatible donor.

The drive to find a possible donor for O’Day is open to anyone who is in good health, between the ages of 18-60, able to give two tablespoons of blood for analysis and willing to be a part of the national registry.

The HLA Registry Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit organization, is the largest voluntary marrow donor center in the United States, and is able to coordinate drives in order to recruit potential marrow donors throughout the country.  Its goal is to add HLA-typed marrow donors who are willing to donate their healthy marrow to someone in need.

WORCESTER, Mass. – The presidential search committee at the College of the Holy Cross will continue its search for a new Jesuit president.  H.E. Lentz ’67, chairman of the College’s Board of Trustees, made the announcement today following a special meeting of the Trustees.

The search committee was appointed following the resignation of former president Rev. Gerard Reedy, S.J., in July 1998.  Frank Vellaccio, Ph.D. has served as acting president since that time and will continue in the position until a new president is named.

“I am grateful to the committee chair, Kevin Condron, and the members of the search committee for their hard work and dedication to this important process,” says Lentz.  “We will continue our efforts to identify the best Jesuit to lead Holy Cross into the next century.”

The members of the search committee are: Condron ’67, chair; Professor John B. Anderson ’57; Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J. ’49; Constance A. Eagan ’81; John P. Hamill ’61; Lentz; Charles E.F. Millard ’54; and Professor Joanne Pierce.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross will host two authors in the month of March as part of the William H.P. Jenks spring reading and lecture series.  Sponsored by the Lannan Foundation, all events are free and open to the public.

The schedule is as follows:

Monday, March 1 at 4 p.m. – Frederick Turner will give a lecture entitled “Life on the Line: Along the Hundredth Meridian,” in the Browsing Room of the Dinand Library.  Turner is the author of When the Boys Came Back: Baseball and 1946, Spirit of Place: The Making of an American Literary Landscape, Remembering Song: Encounters with the New Orleans Jazz Tradition, and The Portable North American Indian Reader.

Tuesday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. – Emily Hiestand, the author of Angela, the Upside-Down Girl: And Other Domestic Travels, The Very Rich Hours: Travels in Orkney, Belize, the Everglades, and Greece, and Green the Witch Hazel Wood, will give a lecture in the Browsing Room of Dinand Library.  Hiestand is the senior editor of Orion Magazine.

WORCESTER, Mass. – One hundred and ten Holy Cross students will depart from Worcester on March 6, to spend their spring break participating in the Appalachia Service Project.  During this week of service, they will assist communities with home repair, clean up, paint, visit schools, call on the elderly, work in thrift shops and learn about the culture of the region.

This project, which has been in existence at Holy Cross for more than 20 years, includes 10 sites in Virginia, Kentucky, and Maine.  There were approximately 150 applications for 93 openings.

The budget for the 1999 project is $31,000.  In order to raise this money, students sell candy, pay a fee, and make fund-raising appeals, in addition to receiving a grant from the College.

The program, administered by Rev. Jim Hayes, S.J., of the Holy Cross Chaplains’ Office, is being led this year by fourth-year students Laura Marcucio and Joe Keen.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Nine faculty members at the College of the Holy Cross have been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure.

Amy Singleton Adams, of the modern languages and literatures department, received her bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She has studied at the Russian School of Norwich University in Vermont, and the Alexandar Hertzen Pedagogical Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia.  Adams is a member of the International Studies Committee and the coordinator of the Russian and East European, International Studies Concentration.  She is a resident of Jamaica Plain.

Nancy R. Baldiga, of the economics department, received her bachelor’s degree from Williams College, and a master’s degree in taxation from Bentley College.  A certified C.P.A., Baldiga worked at Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) before teaching.  She has expertise in auditing and the financial reporting by bankrupt companies.  While at Holy Cross, she has served on the Committee on Academic Standing.  Baldiga is a resident of Hopkinton.

Daniel B. Bitran, of the psychology department, earned a bachelor’s degree from City University New York, Queens College, and a doctorate from State University of New York at Buffalo.  He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Connecticut from 1986-1988.  He has served on the Research and Publications Committee and the Academic Affairs Committee.  Bitran resides in Worcester.

Alisa A. DeStefano, of the mathematics department, graduated from Northeastern University in 1987 with a degree in mathematics.  She came to Holy Cross in 1992, after earning her doctorate from Dartmouth College.   She has expertise in control theory, dynamical systems, and partial differential equations.  DeStefano has served on the Premedical and Predental Programs Committee.  She resides in Northboro.

Edward R. Isser, a member of the theatre department and a 1978 graduate of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., has been at Holy Cross since 1995.  He received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1991.  He was the liaison to the National Association of Schools of Theater and recently supervised the development of a revolutionary Web site on William Shakespeare.  Isser is a resident of West Greenwich, R.I.

Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago, of the history department, earned his bachelor’s degree at Princeton University in 1981 and his doctorate in history from the University of Chicago in 1992.  He is a member of the Latin American Studies Association and the American Historical Association.  Lauria-Santiago currently resides in Worcester.

Richard C. Schmidt, a member of the psychology department, received both his bachelor’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Connecticut.  He specializes in the study of cognitive psychology and is a Biopsychology Concentration faculty member.  Schmidt is a resident of Jefferson.

Cynthia L. Stone, of the modern languages and literatures department, earned her bachelors degree from Williams College and her Ph.D. in Colonial Spanish American Literature from the University of Michigan.  While at Holy Cross, Stone has served on the Study Abroad Committee and the Curriculum Committee.  She is a resident of Worcester.

Amy R. Wolfson, a member of the psychology department and a licensed psychologist, earned her bachelor’s degree from Harvard-Radcliffe University and her doctorate from Washington University.  She is the co-author of a landmark study on early school start times and the sleep-wake patterns of adolescents and children; she also has expertise in issues pertaining to stress and coping in children.  Wolfson is the psychology department’s liaison to the Teacher Certification Program and is on the Committee on Interdisciplinary and Special Studies.  She is a resident of Worcester.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross will host two authors in the month of February as part of the Jenks spring reading and lecture series.  Sponsored by the Lannan Foundation, all events are free and open to the public.

The schedule is as follows:

Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. – Peter Maass, author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War and contributor to the Washington Post, The New Yorker, and The New Republic, will give a lecture in the Browsing Room of Dinand Library.

Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 4 p.m. – Christopher Merrill, the William H. Jenks Chair in Contemporary Literature at Holy Cross, will give a lecture entitled “Translations from a War Zone,” in the Browsing Room of Dinand Library.  Merrill is the author of Watch Fire, The Old Bridge: The Third Balkan War and the Age of Refugee, and The Grass of Another Country: A Journey Through the World of Soccer.