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.
Michael Hofmann ’14, of Stamford, Conn., is spending his summer working directly with free clinics serving uninsured patients. The economics major is interning until August with AmeriCares Free Clinics, three Connecticut free clinics that have served tens of thousands of low-income people. Here he is at work generating a document to help people access social services in Connecticut.
Photograph by Alex Ostasiewicz/AmeriCares
This coming academic year, Predrag Cicovacki, professor of philosophy and director of Peace and Conflict Studies at the College, needs to make sure he has a lot of minutes on his cell phone plan. He will be traveling to Banaras University in Varanasi, India, in the fall semester as a Senior Fulbright-Nehru Fellow at the Malaviya Centre for Peace Research. Meanwhile, daughter Vera Grek ’14 will be heading to Spain for a study abroad experience. Eldest daughter, Heidi Grek ’12, is heading to Germany to study and teach after earning a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. Cicovacki’s youngest daughter, Lydia, will be starting her Holy Cross experience as a member of the Class of 2016, so at least one member of the family (along with his wife), will be holding down the fort here on the Hill. Above, Cicovacki surrounded by his three daughters, from left, Vera, Lydia and Heidi. Read more about this Holy Cross family of scholars in the Summer 2012 issue of Holy Cross Magazine in July.
Photograph by Rob Carlin
Charlotte Wise, who works in Kimball Dining Hall, and Mable Millner, assistant dean and director of multicultural education, were recognized at the third annual Women’s Appreciation Banquet celebrating Women’s History Month in the Loyola Ballroom. The event, sponsored by the Brother to Brother committee, is held to recognize the many roles that women play in the Holy Cross community and their vital importance. From left, Wise, Robert Jones, interim associate director of multicultural education, History Professor Theresa McBride, who delivered the keynote address, and Millner.
Norah Marino ’12 and Edward Carey ’14, representing the College Democrats and College Republicans, respectively, man a table on the first floor of the Hogan Campus Center during Bipartisan Week. The student political organizations were collecting nonperishable food and sanitary items that will be shipped overseas to American troops. The student groups also offered a venue for students to write the president, a Republican presidential candidate, or a state representative expressing their opinions or support.
Photograph by J Kevin Crowley ’12
The math club and math and computer science department celebrated National Pi Day (March 14) by writing out the mathematical constant pi (π) on the sidewalk from the Hogan Campus Center to Hanselman Hall. A pie eating contest was also held in the Swords Hall math lounge. The pies were baked by professors in the math department.
Photograph by Stephen Albano
Holy Cross students participating in this year’s Executive Leadership Workshop, held during Spring Break, pose with David Chu, director of the Ciocca Office of Entrepreneurial Studies (far left).
Photograph by Nick Markantonatos
Students, faculty and staff took part in a community discussion about how and why Martin Luther King was more than his “I Have a Dream” speech. Participants included, from left, Darien Henry ’14; Shawn Johnson ’13; Virginia Coakley, assistant chaplain and director of Protestant and ALANA ministry; Michael West, associate professor of history; Adrienne Shaw ’12; and Jonathan St. Firmin ’12. The discussion was part of a series of events on Black History Month sponsored by the Black Student Union, a student organization that promotes unity among the black community at Holy Cross.
Photograph by J Kevin Crowley ’12
Students participating in a 12-hour dance marathon from 9 p.m. Jan. 28 to 9 a.m. Jan. 29 in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom raised $23,860.08 for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. The number, which is expected to grow since donations are still coming in, exceeded organizers’ expectations. Participants were required to raise a minimum of $100, with the goal for the marathon set at $10,000. “We had a total of 138 dancers staying the full 12 hours of the dance marathon plus another 60 or so entering and exiting throughout the night,” says Caroline Cataldo ’12, one of the event organizers.
Photography by Patrick O’Connor