List of College of the Holy Cross alumni

This list of College of the Holy Cross alumni includes graduates and non-graduate, former students at the College of the Holy Cross. Since its founding in 1843, Holy Cross has graduated 157 classes of students and as of the 2005-06 academic year had approximately 35,000 alumni.[1]

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Business

Education

Professors and researchers

Name Year/Degree Notability Reference
John E. Brooks 1949 President Emeritus of College of the Holy Cross and former President from 1970 to 1994, noted for introducing co-education at the college in 1972;member of Religious Studies faculty
Robert L. Devaney 1969 professor, mathematics, Boston University; research interests include complex dynamical systems, chaos, fractals
David Granfield 1943 Professor Emeritus at Catholic University Law School in Washington DC; noted as a canon lawyer for his exposition of the Catholic Church’s view on abortion
Jane M. Hawkins 1976 professor, mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; research interests include ergodic theory, smooth dynamical systems, complex dynamics, and computer generated graphics images related to nonpolynomial dynamics
Patrick Francis Healy 1850 first African American to earn a Ph.D. and former President of Georgetown University
Traugott Lawler 1958 medievalist scholar; expert on William Langland; emeritus professor of English at Yale University
Timothy Leary 1942 LSD-pioneering Harvard professor; attended Holy Cross before transferring to West Point
Joseph McCartin 1981 professor of history at Georgetown University; 2003 Charles Warren Fellow at Harvard University
James McCarthy 1971 President of Suffolk University in Boston
Paul Reiss 1952 14th president of Saint Michael's College, professor and author
James J. Staszewski 1972 Research Professor Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University; Area: Cognitive Science; Research interests: Human expertise and its acquisition
Robert K. Wright Jr. 1968 military historian and author
Ann McElaney-Johnson 1979 president of Mount Saint Mary's College
Rick Miranda 1976 Provost of Colorado State University
John Day 1970 Provost of John Carroll University

Entertainment

Law, politics, and public service

United States federal and state court justices

Name Year/Degree Notability Reference
Andrew Augustine Caffrey 1941 United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1961
Richard C. Casey Jr. 1955 United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York; nominated by President Bill Clinton
Francis Patrick O'Connor 1950 appointed by Governor Edward King in 1981, served 16 years on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Christopher Droney 1976 United States Court of Appeals Judge for the Second Circuit; nominated by President Barack Obama in 2012
John J. Farley, III 1964 Founding Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; nominated by President George H. W. Bush in 1989
Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr. 1941 United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966
John J. Gibbons 1947 former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit [15]
John Greaney 1961 Associate Justice for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and Director of the Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy at Suffolk University Law School
Edward Francis Harrington 1955 United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987
James Patrick Leamy 1912 United States District Judge for the District of Vermont; nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940
Richard J. Leon 1971 United States District Judge for the District of Columbia; nominated by President George W. Bush in 2002
William T. McCarthy 1905 United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Harry S. Truman
Edward McEntee 1928 Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Matthew Francis McGuire 1921 United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; nominated by President Harry S. Truman in 1949
Clarence Thomas 1971 Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court; nominated by President George H.W. Bush in 1990

Executive branch and United States Cabinet members

Members of the United States Congress

Senators

Name Year/Degree Notability Reference
Robert P. Casey Jr. 1982 United States Senator for Pennsylvania, served as Pennsylvania Treasurer [16]
John A. Durkin 1959 United States Senator for New Hampshire from 1975 to 1980
Thomas A. Burke 1920 United States Senator for Ohio, served as the 48th mayor of Cleveland; namesake of Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport
Maurice J. Murphy 1950 United States Senator for New Hampshire
David I. Walsh 1893 United States Senator for Massachusetts; Massachusetts' first Irish Catholic governor

Representatives

Name Year/Degree Notability Reference
Tim Bishop 1972 United States Representative from New York's 1st congressional district [17]
William P. Connery Jr. 1920 United States Representative from Massachusetts
Joseph Daniel Early 1955 United States Representative from Massachusetts' 3rd congressional district from 1975 to 1993
Mark DeSaulnier 1974 United States Representative from California
Ambrose Kennedy 1897 United States Representative from Rhode Island
James B. Longley Jr. 1973 United States Representative from Maine's 1st congressional district
Martin B. McKneally 1937 United States Representative from New York
Michael R. McNulty 1969 United States Representative [18]
James P. Moran 1967 United States Representative [19]
Frank W. Towey Jr. 1916 United States Representative from New Jersey's 12th congressional district from 1937 to 1939
Peter F. Welch 1971 United States Representative for the U.S. state of Vermont's at-large congressional seat

United States governors

Ambassadors and other diplomats from the United States

  • Leo G. Cyr, U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda
  • Harry K. Thomas Jr. 1978, U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Zimbabwe[20]

Government officials outside the United States

  • Henri Bourassa 1890, French Canadian political leader and publisher; ideological father of Canadian nationalism
  • P. Joseph Koessler, 1985 Honorary Consul-General of Japan at Buffalo, New York
  • Guillermo Pérez-Argüello, 1973, UN Official (1980-2002), Ambassador, Chief Diplomatic Academy and of Protocol, Nicaraguan FO (1976–78,2002-2009)
  • Louis-Rodrigue Masson 1853, Canadian member of Parliament, Senator, and Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec
  • Lazarus Uaandja 1991, Executive Director of the Central Governance Agency in Namibia
  • Jarosław Wałęsa 2001, member of the Sejm, the lower chamber of Poland's Parliament; son of Lech Wałęsa

Military

Name Year/Degree Notability Reference
Barry M. Costello 1973 United States Navy Commander, United States Third Fleet [23]
Peter H. Daly 1977 United States Navy Vice Admiral (Ret.) and CEO of the United States Naval Institute
Michael A. Healy Prep 1849–1854 Captain, United States Revenue Cutter Service (predecessor of United States Coast Guard), first United States Government ship commander with African-American ancestry
William J. McCarthy 1976 Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force, United States Navy
Bruce E. MacDonald 1978 Rear Admiral, Judge Advocate General, United States Navy [24][25]
Bernard E. Trainor 1951 retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General, bestselling author, and military analyst for NBC
Kevin Sandkuhler 1975 lawyer, retired Brigadier General in the United States Marine Corps
Anthony T. Shtogren 1940 retired United States Air Force Major General

Media and communication

Religion

Name Year/Degree Notability Reference
Most Rev. James Augustine Healy, D.D. 1849 first African American bishop in the United States
Most Rev. Frederick Anthony Donaghy, M.M., D.D. 1925 Maryknoll missionary to China who became the first bishop of Wuzhou; his brother, William A. Donaghy, S.J., served as the president of Holy Cross [26]
Rev. Msgr. Edward J. Duncan, STD 1939 Chaplain Emeritus, St. John's Catholic Newman Center, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rev. William O'Malley, S.J. 1953 prolific author and teacher of theology at Fordham University; famous for his role in The Exorcist
Msgr. Peter Vaghi 1970 pastor of the Church of the Little Flower in Bethesda, Maryland and confidant to conservative political figures
Rev. Joseph Cocucci x1980 pastor of St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Berlin, Maryland; former Rector of the Cathedral of St. Peter in Wilmington, Delaware; former Director of Priestly and Religious Vocations, Diocese of Wilmington; contributor to best-selling works of fiction and popular music

Science, technology, and medicine

Sports

Baseball

Basketball

Football

Ice hockey

Other sports

  • Mike Ahmed 2013, drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers
  • Brendan Candon 2012, college lacrosse player and CEO/cofounder of SidelineSwap
  • Jim Carboneau 1974, professional lacrosse referee
  • Frank Carroll 1960, Olympic figure skating coach, former competitive skater
  • Henry D. Cross III 1952, Chairman, U.S. Olympic Shooting Team
  • Bob Daughters 1936, MLB player and former president of the Holy Cross Varsity Club
  • Neil Fingleton 2004, the United Kingdom's tallest British-born man, professional basketball player, actor, and clothing retailer
  • Mark Fretta 1999, triathlete and second American to garner a No. 1 world ranking in the International Triathlon Union World Cup
  • Andrea Garbagnati 1991, Italian FIA GT Championship driver
  • Keitani Graham 2003, competed in London 2012 Olympic Games as a wrestler for Micronesia
  • Paul Harney 1952, professional golfer and golf course owner; in 1995, enshrined into the PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame
  • Patrick McCann, 2013, professional soccer player for Finn Harps FC
  • Shaun McGowan 2003, former MLL midfielder for the Long Island Lizards and attorney
  • Alejandro Melean 2010, professional soccer player for the Bolivian club Oriente Petrolero
  • Paul Pearl 1989, men's ice hockey head coach at Holy Cross
  • Ron Perry Sr. 1954, Holy Cross Athletic Director from 1977 to 1997; won national championships in both baseball (1952 NCAA World Series Championship) and basketball; co-captain of 1954 basketball team which won the NIT
  • Ron Perry Jr. 1980, drafted by the Boston Celtics in basketball and Chicago White Sox in baseball
  • James F. "Jimmy" Quinn 1928, winner of gold medal in 4 × 100 m relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics
  • Richard Regan 1976, Athletic Director at Holy Cross; former operations director of NFL International
  • Mandy Sifferlen 2017, professional volleyball in Greece
  • Ang Seslija, 2019, Bosnian National soccer team.
  • Connor Sweeney 2010, lacrosse goaltender for Ireland in the 2010 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) Men's World Championship
  • Kevin Swords 1982, most “capped” player on the Eagles, the U.S. national rugby team; played in the 1987 World Cup Rugby and captained the US team in the 1991 World Cup
  • Willie Turnesa 1938, known as "Willie the Wedge", one of 13 men who have won both the British Amateur (1947) and U.S. Amateur Championships (1938, 1948)
  • Ralph Willard 1967, former NBA coach; head coach of the Holy Cross basketball team
  • Erick Winstead 2009, US men's rowing team bronze medal winner

Notable Holy Cross faculty

  • Patricia Bizzell, Ph.D., prolific author and former Chairperson of the English Department
  • John Esposito, Ph.D., widely published professor of Islamic Studies; former Holy Cross Middle East Studies and Religious Studies Chair
  • Osvaldo Golijov, Ph.D., Grammy Award-winning composer; assistant professor of music
  • Claudia Koonz, Ph.D., feminist historian of Nazi Germany
  • Shirish Korde, Ph.D., composer; Chair of the Music Department; founder of Neuma Records
  • Joseph T. O'Callahan, first chaplain Medal of Honor recipient; former director of Holy Cross Mathematics Department

Presidents of the College

Order Name Position(s) Joined College Ascended presidency Left/retired Alumnus/na? Reference
1 Rev. Thomas F. Mulledy, S.J. President 1843 1843 1845 no [31]
2 Rev. James A. Ryder, S.J. President 1845 1848 [31]
3 Rev. John Early, S.J. President 1848 1851 [31]
4 Rev. Anthony F. Ciampi, S.J. President 1851 1854 [31]
5 Rev. Peter J. Blenkinsop, S.J. President 1854 1857 [31]
6 Rev. Anthony F. Ciampi, S.J. President 1857 1861 [31]
7 Rev. James Clark, S.J. President 1861 1867
8 Rev. Robert W. Brady, S.J. President 1867 1869
9 Rev. Anthony F. Ciampi, S.J. President 1869 1873
10 Rev. Joseph B. O'Hagan, S.J. President 1873 1878
11 Rev. Edward D. Boone, S.J. President 1878 1883
12 Rev. Robert W. Brady, S.J. President 1883 1887
13 Rev. Samuel Cahill, S.J. President 1887 1889
14 Rev. Michael O'Kane, S.J. President 1889 1893
15 Rev. Edward A. McGurk, S.J. President 1893 1895
16 Rev. John F. Lehy, S.J. President 1895 1901
17 Rev. Joseph F. Hanselman, S.J. President 1901 1906
18 Rev. Thomas E. Murphy, S.J. President 1906 1911
19 Bishop Joseph N. Dinand, S.J. President 1911 1918
20 Rev. James J. Carlin, S.J. President 1918 1924
21 Bishop Joseph N. Dinand, S.J. President 1924 1927
22 Rev. John M. Fox, S.J. President 1927 1933
23 Rev. Francis J. Dolan, S.J. President 1933 1939
24 Rev. Joseph R.N. Maxwell, S.J. President 1939 1945
25 Rev. William J. Healy, S.J. President 1945 1948
26 Rev. John A. O'Brien, S.J. President 1948 1954
27 Rev. William A. Donaghy, S.J. President 1954 1960
28 Rev. Raymond J. Swords, S.J. President 1960 1970
29 Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J. President 1970 1994
30 Rev. Gerard Reedy, S.J. President 1994 1998
Frank Vellaccio, Ph.D. Acting President 1998 2000
31 Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. President 2000 2012 [32]
32 Rev. Philip L. Boroughs, S.J. President 2012

References

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  2. ↑ Grimes, William. "Leo Cullum, New Yorker Cartoonist, Dies at 68", The New York Times, October 25, 2010. Accessed October 26, 2010.
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  6. ↑ Corporate Directors, GraceKennedy Limited website
  7. ↑ News from the Hill, Ludwig ’73 delivers Thomas More Lecture, Holy Cross Magazine, fall 2006 vol.40 no.4
  8. ↑ http://www.coach.com/online/handbags/genWCM-10551-10051-en-/Coach_US/CompanyInformation/CorporateGovernance/ExecutiveOfficers/Victor%20Luis
  9. ↑ Alumni/Advancement: Carolyn Risoli '86: Fashioning a Life, Holy Cross Magazine, winter 2001 vol.35 no.1
  10. ↑ MMC Vice Chairman John T. Sinott to Retire, MMC News
  11. ↑
  12. ↑ http://www.bostonconservatory.edu/bio/neil-donohoe
  13. ↑ Alumni/Advancement: Dave Holmes '94: Say What?, Holy Cross Magazine, winter 2001 vol.35 no.1
  14. ↑ Biography of Bob Wright, Autism Speaks
  15. ↑ John J. Gibbons
  16. ↑ Senator Robert P. Casey, Senate.gov
  17. ↑ Congressman Tim Bishop, House.gov
  18. ↑ Congressman Michael McNulty, House.gov Archived 2007-08-20 at the Wayback Machine.
  19. ↑ Congressman Jim Moran's biography page, House.gov Archived 2010-02-02 at the Wayback Machine.
  20. ↑ Harry K. Thomas, Jr., U.S. Department of State
  21. ↑ Holy Cross College Bulletin. Worcester, Mass: College of the Holy Cross. 1906. p. 60. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  22. ↑ Conley, Patrick T. "Rhode Island Hall of Fame Honorees: Six Legal Luminaries" (PDF). Rhode Island Bar Journal. Rhode Island Bar Association. 63 (May/June 2015): 27–30. ISSN 1079-9230. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  23. ↑ US Navy Leadership, Biographies, US Navy website
  24. ↑ US Navy Leadership, Biographies, US Navy website
  25. ↑ US Navy Leadership, Biographies, US Navy website
  26. ↑ "Bishop Frederick A. Donaghy, MM". Maryknoll Mission Archives. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
  27. ↑ UMass Trustees elect Michael F. Collins, MD, to Medical School chancellorship
  28. 1 2 College of the Holy Cross Alumni Directory 1843-1990. Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company, Inc.
  29. ↑ Athletics: From Fitton Field to The Big Show, Holy Cross Magazine, summer 2005 vol.39 no.3
  30. ↑ http://www.drafthistory.com/index.php/colleges/h DraftHistory.com
  31. 1 2 3 4 5 6 https://web.archive.org/web/20080128232643/http://www.holycross.edu/abouthc/why/history/presidents/
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