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A brilliant rainbow appeared after a quick-moving storm passed through Worcester (this shot is taken from the Hogan parking lot, looking up the hill toward the Hart Center).

Holy Cross students clean up the Canal District in preparation for Worcester’s “Canalfest” celebration.  The students picked up trash and evened out the landscape as part of the Odyssey community service trip.  Odyssey is a one-week program—with a mixture of workshops, field trips, discussions, and volunteer and social programs—open to all first-year ALANA and international students.

Jan Yburan ’14, a chemistry major and member of the men’s swim team, is among the first to swim in the newly renovated Hart Pool. The pool underwent significant renovations this summer.

Photograph by Nick Markantonatos

Peter Mondani ’79 P14 (front row in khaki shorts), vice president of financial leadership development and human resources for General Electric, at the annual Holy Cross alumni and intern summer picnic at his home in Cheshire, Conn. Mondani has hired more than 50 Holy Cross graduating seniors over the past 10 years.

Christine Freije, a theatre major in the College Honors Program, does some reading in Kimball Quad. She is doing summer research at Holy Cross this summer.

Photograph by Maya Rock ’13

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Jesuits in New England. In the summer and fall of 1611, Pierre Biard, a French Jesuit priest explored the rivers of what is now the state of Maine. At that time, he offered the first recorded mass on an island at the entrance of the Kennebec River on Nov. 1, 1611. That island is believed to be Swan Island. Over this past summer, Rev. William R. Campbell, S.J., ’87, president of Cheverus High School in Portland, Maine, offered mass on that same island to commemorate that event. Holy Cross is honoring “Jesuits and Colleagues at Work” with a yearlong series of events this year.

Frank Barbiero ’13, an anthropology major in the premed program, stands beside James Picone ’80 at the 53rd annual American Society for Radiation Oncology conference in Miami Beach, Fla. Barbiero conducted research with physicians at the Yale School of Medicine last summer, and was exhibiting his research titled “Intralesional Hemorrhage in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma Treated by Gamma Knife Radiation.” During the conference, he happened to meet Picone, who is on the physics staff at the Yale School of Medicine.  “I thought this was a perfect example of how Holy Cross is everywhere,” says Barbiero.

Students, faculty and staff make good use of the Hogan Courtyard which underwent extensive renovation this summer.

Photography by John Buckingham

Passersby walk in the newly renovated Hogan Courtyard.

Photograph by Christian Santillo