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Brenda Hounsell Sullivan, assistant dean/director of student involvement, and Chris Campbell ’15 were honored at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Region 1 conference in November. Region 1 encompasses the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont; the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec; and the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Hounsell Sullivan was the regional winner of the Doris Michiko Ching Excellence in Student Affairs Award, which honors a student affairs professional at the mid-level whose outstanding commitment to the profession includes development of programs that address the needs of students, creation of a campus environment that promotes student learning and development, and support of an active engagement in NASPA. As the regional winner of this award, Hounsell Sullivan will be considered for national recognition at the annual NASPA conference in March.

In her nomination letter, Jacqueline Peterson, vice president for student affairs, wrote of Hounsell Sullivan: “She has been instrumental in the development of our signature Gateways Orientation program which welcomes all individuals, celebrates the institution’s Jesuit Identity and embraces diversity of all kinds.”

Chris Campbell ’15 was the Massachusetts state winner of the “Catch a Rising Star” award. Campbell, who is currently completing graduate studies in higher education administration at the University of Vermont, was recognized for his work as an undergraduate at Holy Cross.

On Saturday, March 29, 270 students, faculty and staff took part in the 17th annual Holy Cross Cares Day. Led by co-chairs Yarlennys Villaman ’14 and Lisa Hua ’14, volunteers could be found at sites throughout the city of Worcester, performing service activities that ranged from raking and painting to filling boxed lunches.

Co-chairs Lisa Hua ’14 (left) and Yarlennys Villaman ’14 ready bright and early for their 270 volunteers.

Site leaders gathered in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom with co-chairs Hua (front row, first on left) and Villaman (standing, first on right).

Students cleared more than 3 tons of trash from the streets of the Canal District.

With the Greater Worcester Land Trust, students cleared trash and debris from the East Side Trail, including this abandoned couch.

On Tuesday, March 18, the College community marked the 50th anniversary of the passing of Rev. Joseph  T. O’Callahan, S.J., a Navy chaplain and a professor of math and physics at the College, with a wreath-laying ceremony at his grave. Fr. O’Callahan was the first Jesuit to be commissioned as a Navy chaplain in World War II and the first chaplain to receive the Medal of Honor. Rev. Philip Boroughs, S.J., president of the College, and Paul Covino, chaplain, spoke at the ceremony, while Navy Captain Thomas G. Kelley ’60, a Medal of Honor recipient, read the citation that was issued with Fr. O’Callahan’s medal. Read more about the anniversary on the Holy Cross website.

Holy Cross Students for Life travelled to Washington, DC on January 21 and 22 to participate in the annual March for Life. Matthew Laird ’15, webmaster for the student organization, shared some photos of the trip.

The group pauses for a photo in front of the Capitol building en route to the start of the March on Constitution Avenue. The group arrived here after attending a mass/rally at Aloysius Gonzaga Jesuit High School in Washington, DC

Sloane Burns ’15, left, and Monica Polanco ’16 at the March for Life.

“Groups from all over the country were represented at the March, united by the same fire that burned in each of our hearts: to never stop proclaiming the sacredness of human life from conception to natural death,” said Laird about this photo taken during the March for Life.