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| Barron's Profiles of American Colleges includes Holy Cross in the top 64 "most competitive" schools. | 
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| Holy Cross has the highest rank of the 28 U.S. Jesuit colleges and universities in the percentage of its graduates who go on to serve in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. | |
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| 2,210 Holy Cross students (79% of enrollment) participate in 27 varsity sports, 11 club sports, and seven intramural sports. | |
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| Holy Cross Alumni giving reached 53.2% participation in 2006-07, one of the highest in the nation. | |
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| There are more than 550 Prelaw students (20% of the student body) currently enrolled at Holy Cross. | |
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| Holy Cross sophomore Organ Scholar Jeffrey Wood took home First Prize in the prestigious Augustana Arts/Reuter Undergraduate Organ Competition in Denver, Colorado on Saturday, March 13. He received a $5000 cash prize and was given the opportunity to perform with an orchestra on Sunday night.
A music major from Pepperell, Mass., Wood is one of two students studying organ under a full-tuition Organ Scholarship at Holy Cross. He came to Holy Cross after a year at Berklee College of Music in Boston. It was at Berklee that Wood met his mentor James David Christie, Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Holy Cross and highly acclaimed organist. | |
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| Holy Cross offers merit-based scholarships to outstanding high school graduates who will major in the Classics at Holy Cross. Each year they award two Bean Scholarships, which are four-year, full-tuition, merit-based scholarships. Every four years they award one FitzGerald Scholarship, a four-year, full-tuition, merit-based scholarship (the FitzGerald Scholarship was awarded last year to a student in the Class of 2009). | |
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| Holy Cross Alumnus Joseph P. Kerwin , M.D. (Captain, MC, USN, Ret.) is a former NASA astronaut. Kerwin served as science-pilot for the Skylab 2 mission which launched on May 25 and terminated on June 22, 1973. Astronaut Bio: Joseph P. Kerwin 4/87 | |
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| Holy Cross Alumnus John P. Donohue, M.D. has been the recipient of numerous awards for his accomplishments in the field of Urology including the Charles Huggins Medal given at N.I.H. in 2001, a Donohue Chair of Urology at Indiana University established in 2003, the first Distinguished Career Award given by the Society Internationale d'Urologie in 2004, and the Ramon Guiteras Award, the highest honor bestowed by the American Urological Association in 2005. In 2008, he received the Keyes medal, the major award for lifetime achievement in Urology, given by the American Association of Genito-Urinary Surgeons. John P. Donohue | |
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| Worcester, MA is home to the College of the Holy Cross, a Jesuit-affiliated school and one of the oldest Roman Catholic institutions of higher education in the United States. Other important schools in Worcester include the University of Massachusetts Medical School, a highly-ranked research and education institution known for its top-flight primary care training, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Clark University and Worcester State University. All told, eleven institutions of higher learning are chartered in the city, while the nearby Boston metropolitan area, 40 miles to the east, is the nation's preeminent hub for postsecondary education, hosting such world-renowned institutions as Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University. | |
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| With fifty majors studying both Greek and Latin, the Classics Department at Holy Cross is the largest undergraduate Classics program in the United States, and offers a wide range of courses. | |
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| In January 2008, Holy Cross Alumnus Dick Berardino '59 received the prestigious Emil Fuchs Memorial Award presented at the 69th Annual Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) Dinner. The award is presented by the Boston Chapter of the BBWAA for long and meritorious service to the game of baseball. Past winners of the Fuchs Award include Ernie Banks, Bob Gibson, Carl Yastrzemski, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. | |
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| Holy Cross Alumnus Joe Shortsleeve '79 is chief correspondent for WBZ-TV News weekdays at 5:00PM, 6:00PM and 11:00PM on WBZ-TV. WBZ-TV is the Boston station for CBS Television Stations, a division of CBS Corporation.
Shortsleeve was named Best TV Reporter by Boston Magazine in 1994. He received the prestigious Ohio State Award in 1988 and the Gannett Corporation's General Assignment Reporter of the Year Award in 1987. In 1986 he received a United Press International Award and a New England Emmy Award. wbztv.com - Joe Shortsleeve | |
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| Holy Cross alumna and career actress Ann Dowd '78 was nominated for an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Quality Drama Series for: "Nothing Sacred" (1997). She has appeared in over 55 television and movie productions including House, Judging Amy, Touched by an Angel, NYPD Blue, Providence, Third Watch, Chicago Hope, and Law & Order, and frequently appears in films, most recently Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers.
After graduating from Holy Cross, Dowd studied at The Theatre School at DePaul University and spent several years in Chicago before moving to New York. Her career began on the stage, and she made her Broadway debut as Shaw’s Candida, winning the 1993 Clarence Derwent Award for her performance. | |
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| On November 28th, 1942, the Boston College Eagles football team made a reservation for the entire squad to hold a victory party at the Terrace Room of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub that evening. Boston College, the year's best U.S. college football team with an 8-0 record, had outscored their opponents 249-19. They faced Holy Cross that afternoon, which should have been an easy win for Boston College. However, they lost, 55-12, in one of the biggest upsets of modern times. That night, at the Cocoanut Grove, some satin decorations ignited, causing the worst nightclub fire in U.S. history. 491 people died, including everyone in the Terrace Room. However, the Eagles, defeated and depressed, had cancelled their reservation at the Cocoanut Grove, saving the lives of everyone on the team. | |
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