List of College of the Holy Cross alumni

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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 2005-06 academic year has approximately 35,000 alumni.^[1]

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

Contents 1 Notable Holy Cross alumni 1.1 Arts and Literature 1.2 Business 1.3 Education 1.4 Entertainment 1.5 Law, Politics, and Public Service 1.6 Media and Communication 1.7 Religion 1.8 Science, Technology, and Medicine 1.9 Sports 1.10 Other 2 Notable Holy Cross faculty 3 References

[edit] Notable Holy Cross alumni

[edit] Arts and Literature

Vito Acconci 1962, artist and architect

Philip Berrigan 1950, author and activist

Billy Collins 1963, former Poet Laureate of the United States

Michael Harrington 1947, socialist historian

Edward P. Jones 1972, 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction for writing The Known World

Paul LeClerc 1963, president of the New York Public Library

Joe McGinniss 1964, bestselling author of The Selling of the President, Fatal Vision, and other books

[edit] Business

Paul D. Bernard 1990, Senior Partner & Head of Pan Asia Investment Research, Goldman Sachs

James E. Burke 1947, former CEO of Johnson & Johnson; named one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time by Fortune Magazine

Daniel A. Celentano 1973, Senior Managing Director and Head of Global Financial Restructuring, Bear Stearns

Arthur Ciocca 1959, Chairman and Owner, The Wine Group ^[2]

Nicholas D'Agastino, Jr. 1960, Chairman and CEO, D'Agastino Supermarkets, Inc.^[3]

Charles H. Eppinger 1970, CEO of International Financial Data Services

Richard B. Fisher 1947, Chairman of Federated Securities Corp. and Vice Chairman of Federated Investors, Inc.^[4]

John P. Hamill 1961, former Chairman and CEO of Sovereign Bank

Pedro Heilbron 1979, CEO of Copa Airlines

Mark Holowesko 1982, noted investor and CEO of Templeton Capital Advisors

John J. Issa 1960, Founder and Chairman of SuperClubs Resorts ^[5]

John H. Lindon 1978, Managing Director and Head of United Kingdom & Ireland Hedge Fund Credit Sales, Banc of America Securities

Edward J. Ludwig 1973, Chairman, President, and CEO of Becton Dickinson^[6]

E. Thomas Massey 1990, Director of Investment Banking Division, Citigroup

William J. McDonough 1956, former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and current Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch

Arthur J. Mirante II 1965, President of Global Client Development and former CEO, Cushman & Wakefield^[7]

John Peterman 1963 (aka J.Peterman), catalog and retail entrepreneur

James David Power III 1953, founder of J.D. Power and Associates

Roberto Quarta 1971, Partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Chairman of Italtel, and former Chairman of BBA Group

Jack D. Rehm 1954, former CEO of Meredith Corporation

Carolyn Risoli 1986, President, Marc Jacobs, Inc. ^[8]

John T. Sinnott 1961, retired Vice Chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies ^[9]

Park B. Smith 1954, Chairman & Founder of Park B. Smith Ltd. and benefactor of the College

David A. Spina 1964, former Chairman and CEO of State Street Corporation

William J. Teuber Jr. 1973, Vice Chairman of EMC Corporation ^[10]

Mary Agnes Wilderotter 1977, President and CEO, Citizens Communications

[edit] Education

David Granfield 1943, a 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.

Patrick Francis Healy 1850, first African American to earn a Ph.D. and former President of Georgetown University

Traugott Lawler 1958, a medievalist scholar, expert on William Langland, and an emeritus professor of English at Yale University

Joseph A. McCartin 1981, professor of history at Georgetown University and 2003 Charles Warren Fellow at Harvard University.

[edit] Entertainment

Karen E. Baldwin 1985, Executive Vice President of Creative Affairs Baldwin Entertainment Group and wife of Howard Baldwin ^[11]

Leigh Anne Brodsky 1980, President of Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products ^[12]

Ann Dowd 1978, Broadway, movie, and television actress ^[13]

Dave Holmes 1994, MTV host^[14]

Peter Jankowski 1986, Executive Producer, Law & Order

Kevin O'Connor 1990, host of PBS's This Old House

Bartlett Sher 1981, director of Tony Award winning Broadway musical The Light in the Piazza

Robert C. Wright 1965, Chairman of the Board and former CEO, NBC Universal, and Vice Chairman, General Electric^[15]

[edit] Law, Politics, and Public Service

Tim Bishop 1972, United States Congressman^[16]

Joseph A. Califano 1952, Jr., former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and current Chairman and President of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse

Bob Casey Sr. 1953, Governor of Pennsylvania from 1987-1995

Bob Casey, Jr. 1982, his son, Pennsylvania treasurer and U.S. Senator^[17]

Jose S. Cojuangco Jr. 1955, former Philippine Congressman

Barry M. Costello 1973, Commander, United States Third Fleet, United States Navy^[18]

Edward D. DiPrete 1955, Governor of Rhode Island from 1985-1991

Joseph Daniel Early 1955, represented the third district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1993.

Thomas B. Getz 1975, Chairman, New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission^[19]

Richard J. Leon 1971, judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

John A. Lynch Jr 1960, former member of New Jersey Senate from 1981 to 2001; also state Senate President from 1990 to 1992

William J. McCarthy 1976, Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force, United States Navy^[20]

Michael R. McNulty 1969, United States Congressman^[21]

John William Middendorf II 1945, former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands

James P. Moran 1967, United States Congressman^[22]

Peter Poggioli 1972, Chief of Staff, Australian Office of the Minister for Environment and Heritage

Barry Reed 1980, Boston trial lawyer and author of The Verdict, which was made into the Oscar-nominated 1982 film starring Paul Newman

Mark Kennedy Shriver 1986, former member of Maryland legislature, Vice President and Managing Director of US Programs for Save the Children

Clarence Thomas 1971, United States Supreme Court Justice

Harry K. Thomas, Jr. 1978, Executive Secretary of the U.S. Department of State and former U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh^[23]

Austin J. Tobin 1925, former director of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, from 1942-1972, who oversaw the construction of the World Trade Center.

Bernard E. Trainor 1951, retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General, bestselling author, and military analyst for NBC

Lazarus Uaandja 1991, Executive Director of the Central Governance Agency in Namibia

Peter F. Welch 1969, the United States Representative for the U.S. state of Vermont's at-large congressional seat.

Ted Wells 1972, lawyer; rated by The National Law Journal as one of America's best white-collar defense attorneys

Edward Bennett Williams 1941, famed trial attorney who also owned the Baltimore Orioles and the Washington Redskins

James Assion Wright 1923, lawyer from Pennsylvania who served in the U.S. Congress from 1941 to 1945.

[edit] Media and Communication

Dave Anderson 1951, New York Times sports columnist, 1981 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary

Joan Hogan Gillman 1985, President, Time Warner Cable Media Sales^[24]

Chris Matthews 1967, host of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and NBC's The Chris Matthews Show

Gordon Peterson 1960, broadcast journalist and television news anchor; currently co-anchor for ABC affiliate WJLA-TV and moderator and producer of Inside Washington.

Dan Shaughnessy 1975, sports columnist for the Boston Globe

Bill Simmons 1992, ESPN sports columnist

[edit] Religion

James Augustine Healy 1849, first African American bishop in the United States

Peter Vaghi 1970, pastor of the Church of the Little Flower in Bethesda, Maryland

[edit] Science, Technology, and Medicine

Edward Bove 1968, Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, who is recognized for his contributions to the repair of congenital heart defects

James J. Collins, Jr., Ph.D. 1987, 2003 MacArthur Fellow and Boston University Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Joseph T. Coyle, M.D. 1965, Director of the Harvard Medical School Consolidated Department of Psychiatry and President of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology

Anthony Fauci, M.D. 1962, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health

Joseph P. Kerwin, M.D. 1953, astronaut who spent 28 days in space for the Skylab 2 mission

Joseph E. Murray, M.D. 1940, Nobel Prize in Medicine for the first successful kidney transplant

Joyce O'Shaughnessy 1978, prominent oncologist and breast cancer researcher

James A. Shannon 1925, first Director of the National Institutes of Health

[edit] Sports

John Joseph "Jack" Barry, an American shortstop, second baseman, and manager in Major League Baseball, and later a renowned college baseball coach.

George Blaney 1961, college basketball coach and former player for the New York Knicks

Bob Cousy 1950, Basketball Hall of Fame member and former Boston Celtics player and coach

Henry D. Cross III 1952, Chairman, U.S. Olympic Shooting Team

Gill Fenerty 1986, award winning all-star running back with the CFL Toronto Argonauts and later with the NFL New Orleans Saints

Andrea Garbagnati 1991, Italian FIA GT Championship driver

Paul Harney 1952, professional golfer and golf course owner; in 1995, enshrined into the PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame.

Tom Heinsohn 1956, Basketball Hall of Fame member and former Boston Celtics player and coach

Bruce Kozerski 1984, former player for the Cincinnati Bengals

Jon Morris 1964, All American center; named to the second team, All-Time All-AFL for his years playing for the Boston Patriots.

Bill Osmanski 1939, Chicago Bears fullback, member of the NFL 1940s All-Decade Team, the College Football Hall of Fame, and a licensed dentist

Vince Promuto 1960, Washington Redskins guard from 1960 to 1970

James F. "Jimmy" Quinn 1928, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Patrick Rissmiller 2002, center for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League

Louis Sockalexis, the first Native American player in major league baseball

[edit] Other

Timothy Leary, the LSD-pioneering Harvard Professor, who attended Holy Cross before transferring to West Point

Joanne de Guardiola 1980, interior designer and New York socialite ^[25]

[edit] Notable Holy Cross faculty

John Esposito, widely published professor of Islamic Studies. (former Holy Cross Middle East Studies and Religious Studies Chair)

Osvaldo Golijov, Grammy award winning composer (assistant professor, music)

Joseph T. O'Callahan, first chaplain Medal of Honor winner. (former director of Holy Cross Mathematics Dept.)

[edit] References