Holy Cross Historical Trivia

<p>Jane Sullivan Roberts, spouse of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, graduated magna cum laude from the College of the Holy Cross in 1976 and is a member of the board of trustees at Holy Cross. Holy Cross is also Clarence Thomas's alma mater (he graduated ninth in his class in '71), and that of increasingly prominent Catholic priest Paul Scalia ('92), son of Justice Antonin Scalia. Not bad for a school of 2800 students.</p>

<p>Of particular note is the Classics department at Holy Cross, which has ten faculty members, making it the largest classics program of American liberal arts colleges.</p>

<p>In its "2008 The Best 361 Colleges", The Princeton Review awarded Holy Cross a 98/100 academic rating – higher than many of its peer Catholic institutions including Georgetown University, University of Notre Dame, and Boston College.</p>

<p>Worcester, MA (home of Holy Cross) was once known as "the shredded wheat capital of the world", because shredded wheat was originally invented and manufactured by Worcester resident Henry Perky.</p>

<p>The population of Worcester, MA is approximately 200,000 people.<br>
Worcester, MA was first settled in 1673 and was officially incorporated in 1684. The settlement was established as a town in 1722, and chartered as a city in 1848. It is 40 miles west of Boston.</p>

<p>PBS has been running a series on the aircraft carrier Nimitz, focusing on several members of the crew. Admiral Peter Daly, who has been seen & heard on the program, is Holy Cross '77.</p>

<p>John Higgins ’76, a Chicago Sun-Times cartoonist, was the winner of the 1988 International Salon of Cartoons, the 1988 Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award and the 1989 Pultizer Prize. </p>

<p>He is well known for his talents at skewering Chicago politicians.</p>

<p>Holy Cross has six admirals in the US Navy, second only to the US Naval Academy.</p>

<p>In 1905 Theodore Roosevelt spoke to the Holy Cross graduating class.</p>

<p>Philip Berrigan - 1950 graduate.</p>

<p>What famous Vietnam War resister graduated from Holy Cross?</p>

<p>What year did Holy Cross suffer such a devastating fire that it did not graduate any students for the next three years?</p>

<p>The year was 1852.</p>

<p>The year was 1852, 9 years after its founding.</p>

<p>What is another name for Pakachoag Hill (the hill in Worcester where Holy Cross resides)?</p>

<p>Mount Saint James or College Hill.</p>

<p>A fourth of the students at Holy Cross play varsity sports. As a basis of comparison, at Ohio State, barely 2 percent do. However, Crusaders need toned legs and strong hearts. Their campus, built on Mount St. James, has 5,480 stair steps.</p>

<p>Can you name the member of the Kennedy family who graduated from Holy Cross in 1986 who went on to become a United States Democratic Party politician who served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for two consecutive terms, from 1995 to 2003 and currently serves as the Vice President and Managing Director of US Programs for the charity Save The Children?</p>

<p>Mark Kennedy Shriver is part of the Kennedy political family since his mother is Eunice Mary Kennedy. He may also be considered to be a part of the "Shriver political family", since his ancestor David Shriver was a delegate of Frederick County, Maryland who signed the Maryland Constitution and Bill of Rights at Maryland's Constitutional Convention of 1776, and his father is Sargent Shriver, the founder of the Peace Corps, a former ambassador to France and the 1972 Democratic Vice Presidential candidate. His sister, Maria Shriver, is a former journalist and current First Lady of California (she is married to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger).</p>

<p>Shriver earned a bachelor's degree from the College of the Holy Cross in 1986 and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University in 1993.</p>

<p>Can you name the Holy Cross Music professor who is a Grammy award winning composer of classical music and recipient of a MacArthur fellowship?</p>