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Indians In The Archives: A History Of Native Americans, Pakachoag Hill And Holy Cross, 1674-1973, Jack Hynick

Of Life and History

Native people are conspicuously absent from the official and popular history of the College of the Holy Cross. Extant records from the Holy Cross archives, the American Antiquarian Society, and digitized reports from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are filled with references to Native people at Holy Cross and the surrounding Worcester area. By addressing the history of the land, the experiences of Native people on Pakachoag Hill, the roles played by Holy Cross community members in settler colonialism, and the use of Native imagery, this paper hopes to correct a blinding omission in the story of the College.

80th Anniversary Of The College Of The Holy Cross Naval Rotc Unit, Brendan J. O'Donnell

80th Anniversary of NROTC at Holy Cross

A summarized history of the Naval ROTC Unit at the College of the Holy Cross, presented at the O'Callahan Society Annual Dinner to commemmorate the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the unit.

History Of The Holy Cross Nrotc Unit: 80th Anniversary Slides, Brendan J. O'Donnell

80th Anniversary of NROTC at Holy Cross

Slides used to accompany a presentation of the history of the Naval ROTC Unit at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts given at the O'Callahan Society Annual Dinner on October 2, 2021.

2021 O'Callahan Society Newsletter, O'Callahan Society, College Of The Holy Cross

O'Callahan Society Newsletters

This annual newsletter of the O'Callahan Society includes articles about the virtual 2020 annual meeting; guest speaker Rear Admiral Nancy Lacore, HC ’90; guest speaker General James N. Mattis, USMC (Ret), former Secretary of Defense (2017-2018) and Commander, United States Central Command (2010- 2013; In Hoc Signo Award recipient Jim Delehaunty; the death of Lester W. Paquin, founding member of the Society and Secretary of the Executive Committee; unit news, Captain Marv Carlin, USN taking command of the unit; alumni news); ongoing O'Callahan Society programs; publications; and a list of alumni buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Graduates Of The College Of The Holy Cross Naval Rotc Unit 1944-2021, Brendan J. O'Donnell

Naval Science Department

A report of the Navy and Marine Corps officers commissioned through the Naval ROTC Unit at the College of the Holy Cross from 1944 to 2021. This report is a revised and expanded version of the Unit's history, published in 2016 by the O'Callahan Society on the occasion of the Unit's 75th anniversary and revised in 2017 and 2019. It includes updates, additional information and corrections to the 2016 report.

Associated with this report is a spreadsheet that breaks down the commissioning numbers by year and, within each year, by Service and college. It is included as a supplemental file.

Catholics & Cultures: A Panoramic View In Search Of Greater Understanding, Stephanie M. Wong

Journal of Global Catholicism

While internet-based technologies can open up greater awareness of the world or create self-perpetuating echo-chambers, the Catholics & Cultures project aspires to do the former. Aiming to ‘widen the lens’ on the variety of Catholic communities and practices, the site delivers on this goal by introducing viewers to a vast array of articles, pictures and videos from around the world. The organization of the site by country and by certain key features of lived Catholicism offers some interpretive guidance. However, the project could be strengthened as a pedagogical resource if it were more extensively thematized and hosted reflections on potential …

Focus On The Busy Intersections Of Culture And Cultural Change, Laura Elder

Journal of Global Catholicism

The dynamics of religious resurgence reveal the important ways that religious ritual and performance are meaning making spaces which are not self-contained or cut off from the rest of culture, but rather are a key locus of cultural change. A renewed emphasis on the busy intersections of meaning making – as rituals are connected, disconnected, and reconnected to other domains of social life – would improve the utility of the Catholics & Cultures website for understanding global cultural change. And a renewed emphasis on cultural change would also provide a better means for exploring reflexively by seeking to understand both …

A Widened Angle Of View: Teaching Theology And Racial Embodiment, Mara Brecht

Journal of Global Catholicism

Today’s undergraduate students are digital natives, shaped by constant access to information and countless experiences of encountering the world through the convenience of a screen. The ostensible comfort students have with difference gives way to a paradox, and one that’s made especially apparent in the theology classroom: Students are comfortable with seeing difference and particularity at a distance, but not adept at locating difference and particularity “at home.” I contend that Catholics & Cultures can help students from the dominant culture—namely, white students who comprise the vast majority of Catholic college students—destabilize their notion of the Catholic tradition as tightly …

2020 O'Callahan Society Newsletter, O'Callahan Society, College Of The Holy Cross

O'Callahan Society Newsletters

This annual newsletter of the O'Callahan Society includes articles about the Class of 2020 virtual Commencement and includes excerpts from a speech by Dr. Anthony Fauci '62, the USS Thresher Memorial, Midshipman 1/C Benjamin Chiacchia, commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the bombing of the USS Franklin, unit news, alumni news, the 2019 annual meeting, retirement of Captain Larry G. McCullen as Commander of the Holy Cross NROTC Unit, ongoing O'Callahan Society programs, publications, and a list of alumni buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

2019 Annual Dinner, which highlighted 1968 - a pivotal year in the Vietnam War when public …

2019 O'Callahan Society Newsletter, O'Callahan Society, College Of The Holy Cross

O'Callahan Society Newsletters

This annual newsletter of the O'Callahan Society includes articles about the 2018 Annual Dinner, which highlighted 1968 - a pivotal year in the Vietnam War when public opinion turned against it, promotion of Brigadier General Christopher J. Mahoney ’87, promotion of Captain Nancy J. (Stewart) Lacore, ’90, U. S. Navy Reserve, was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral (Lower Half) - the first woman graduate from the Holy Cross NROTC Unit to be so honored, unit news, alumni news, ongoing O'Callahan Society programs, publications, and a list of alumni buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

The Holy Cross: Symbol Of Victory And Sign Of Salvation (Research Materials), Holy Cross Libraries

Library Resources for Campus Events

A bibliography of resources available through the Holy Cross Libraries which provide additional information related to "The Holy Cross: Symbol of Victory and Sign of Salvationr," a lecture by Robin Jensen. The lecture was sponsored by the Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture as a 175th Anniversary Event and was held at the College of the Holy Cross on September 17, 2018.

A Conversation With Keith Plummer

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2017.

A Conversation With Mario A. Leiva

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2014.

A Conversation With Emily Breakell

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2017.

A Conversation With Stephen T. Coady

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1999. Highlights of this conversation include Stephen's experience in starting ABiGaLe at Holy Cross, his description of the campus climate during the late 1990's, and his reflections on being an activist during this time period.

Interview keywords: student groups, activism, support, coming out, ABiGale, Chaplain's Office

A Conversation With Meghan Griffiths

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2004. Highlights of this conversation include content on the role of Jesuit and faith-based education on personal development and identity formation. She speaks largely about her roles as an Orientation Leader and cochair of the LGBTQ Alumni network.

Interview keywords: Jesuit, faith, orientation leader, Catholic, queer, bisexual, LGBTQ Alumni Network

A Conversation With Philip Dardeno Ii

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2002. Highlights of this converation includes content on being involved in Allies and ABiGaLe, being gay at the turn of the century at Holy Cross, community and campus involvement.

Interview keywords: Allies, ABiGaLe, Millennial March, September 11 Terrorist Attacks

A Conversation With Karen Mcshane

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2006. Highlights of this conversation include content on feelings of homesickness in college, events demonstrating global context such as teh 9/11 terrorist attacks, organizations on campus such as ABiGaLe, hate crimes, relationships, support systems, Holy Cross' Jesuit identity, the patriarchal language of Catholic services, mental illness and post-graduation resources.

Interview keywords: homesickness, September 11 Terrorist Attacks, coming out, ABiGaLe, hate crimes, relationships, support, Jesuit, Catholicism, atheism, Chaplain's Office, Counseling Center, clinical depression, Spanish, LGBT Alumni Network

A Conversation With David B. Harvie

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1982. Highlights of this conversation include content on how Mr. Harvie commuted from home for his first two years at the College, as well as how his experience junior year while studying abroad in Germany helped him to be more confident in his sexuality. Furthermore, Mr. Harvie is very involved in the Catholic community. He helps organize a church, "In God's Image," for the LGBTQ community in New Jersey.

Interview keywords: Study Abroad, Chaplain's Office, Munich, Germany, coming out, night life, day student, commuter, New Jersey, …

A Conversation With Mark Campbell-Foster

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 2004. Highlights of this conversation include content on a variety of experiences, including living through 9/11, being an RA [resident assistant], and dating men who were in and out of the closet while at Holy Cross. He also offers unique insight to being LGBTQ+ at Holy Cross as he describes his experience with hearing loss and how he was openly gay going into college. Mark was a Psychology major, Deaf Studies minor while at Holy Cross and is now an audiologist.

Interview keywords: Chaplain's …

A Record Of My Writing Career At The College Of The Holy Cross, Vincent A. Lapomarda S.J.

Holy Cross Bookshelf

This bibliography brings together the writings of Vincent J. Lapomarda, S.J. from his fifty years in academia serving as a professor of history at the College of the Holy Cross. While the main focus of this bibliography is his years as a college professor, it does not exclude unpublished writings from graduate school nor published articles before his career as a professor began. The whole, or as much of it as possible, is a record of how one historian has gone about searching for the sources, evaluating these sources and writing his own histories.

2018 O'Callahan Society Newsletter, O'Callahan Society, College Of The Holy Cross

O'Callahan Society Newsletters

This annual newsletter of the O'Callahan Society includes articles about the 17th annual dinner, guest speaker Honorable Jeh C. Johnson (former Secretary of Homeland Security), Jesuit education, Association of NROTC Colleges and Universities, unit news, President's Review dedicated to Rev. John Brooks, SJ, commissioning and orders, Nancy J. (Stewart) Lacore '90 (first woman admiral from HC NROTC Unit), Naval War College memorial to Holy Cross graduates, notes from the 2017 annual meeting, O'Callahan Society initiatives, and the Forever GI Bill CrossWorks.

A Conversation With Jamie Hoag

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1998.

Interview keywords: Outfront, Chaplain's Office, Catholicism, religious, relationships, student involvement, government

A Conversation With Christopher Brown

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross Alum who graduated in 2004. Highlights of this conversation include content on the interviewee’s transition to the Holy Cross community, extracurricular involvements, spiritual life, and career in student services at St. Benedictine College in New York state.

Interview keywords: Allies, ABiGaLe, Office of Student Affairs

A Conversation With Mark Thivierge

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1970.

Interview keywords: social movements, 1960's, activism

A Conversation With Michael Mccarthy

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1973.

Interview keywords: theater, law, Fenwick Scholar, Vietnam War

A Conversation With Suzanne Lamoureux Kriesant

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1998. Highlights of this conversation include content on being bisexual at Holy Cross.

Interview keywords: ABiGale, bisexuality

A Conversation With George Grattan

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1991. Highlights of this conversation include George's reflections on the Holy Cross campus climate during the early 1990's, bisexuality, and the coming out process.

Interview keywords: closet, college, coming out, family, Jesuit, professional life, study abroad, support

A Conversation With Connelly Akstens

LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project

This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1968. Highlights of this conversation include reflections on living as a closeted transgender person at Holy Cross in the 1960's and her transgender outreach efforts following her time at Holy Cross.

Interview keywords: activists, academics, basketball, closet, colleges, coming out, communities, compartmentalisation, Digital Transgender Archive, conferences, educators, free inquiry, intersex, Jesuit, musicians, provision of information, relationships, Roman Catholicism, sports, sportspersons, students, transgender community, transgender identity, transgender people, writers

2017 O'Callahan Society Newsletter, O'Callahan Society, College Of The Holy Cross

O'Callahan Society Newsletters

This annual newsletter of the O'Callahan Society includes articles about the 75th anniversary of the Holy Cross NROTC Unit, the 16th annual dinner, women from the Holy Cross NROTC Unit, unit news, President's Review, commissioning and orders, notes from the 2016 annual meeting, new Society logo, O'Callahan Society initiatives, and a memoir by Captain Tom Kelly and his wife.