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The College of the Holy Cross was founded by Benedict Joseph Fenwick, second Bishop of Boston, as the first Catholic college in New England. [11] [12] Its establishment followed Fenwick's efforts to create a Catholic college in Boston which had been thwarted by the city's Protestant civic leaders. [13]
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 and its first commencement in 1849, Holy Cross has graduated 171 classes of students. As of the 2019-20 academic year, Holy Cross had approximately 38,511 alumni.
The Holy Cross Crusaders are the athletic teams representing the College of the Holy Cross.They compete in NCAA Division I, primarily as members of the Patriot League.In ice hockey, a sport not sponsored by the Patriot League for either sex, the Crusaders are members of two other leagues, with men competing in the Atlantic Hockey Association and women in Hockey East.
Vincent D. Rougeau (born June 17, 1963) is an American legal scholar who serves as the 33rd president of the College of the Holy Cross. He is the college's first lay and first Black president. [1] [2] Before assuming the position, Rougeau served as the dean of Boston College Law School from 2011 to 2021 and was the president of the Association ...
Fitton Field is a football stadium in Worcester, Massachusetts, primarily used for College of the Holy Cross sporting events. The stadium opened in 1908 as the official home for the Holy Cross Crusaders football team. Before that, most games were played on the adjoining baseball field.
Holy Cross students are also eligible to try out for Club Sports teams at the University of Notre Dame. Additionally, students, faculty, and staff members at Holy Cross or Saint Mary's College may participate in Notre Dame's Bookstore Basketball Tournament, the largest 5-on-5 tournament in the country held every spring. In 2012, a team from ...
Dunbarton College of Holy Cross operated from 1935 to 1973. The college was founded by M. Rose Elizabeth, a member of the Sisters of the Holy Cross; she was also the college's first president. [1] In 1974, Howard University purchased the campus to house the Howard University School of Law, which still occupies the campus on Van Ness Street ...
Website. www.academyoftheholycross.org. The Academy of the Holy Cross is a Catholic college preparatory school sponsored by the Sisters of the Holy Cross and founded in 1868. [3] The academy is located on a 28-acre (110,000 m 2) campus [citation needed] in North Bethesda, Maryland (Kensington postal address), [4][5] north of Washington, D.C.