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Alumni Success Stories

Distinguished Holy Cross Alumni

David P. Anderson ’51- Sports columnist, The New York Times; winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1981

Karen Baldwin ’85- Partner and Senior Executive Vice President of Creative Affairs, Baldwin Entertainment Group; Producer of the films Mystery, Alaska; Ray; Sahara; A Sound of Thunder; The Game of Their Lives

Mary G. Berner ’81- President and CEO, Reader’s Digest Association


Hon. Timothy H. Bishop ’72- Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrat from New York

Leigh Anne Brodsky ’80- Executive Vice President, Nickelodeon Consumer Products

Hon. Robert Casey ’82- Member of the U.S. Senate, Democrat from Pennsylvania

Joseph A. Califano Jr. ’52- President and chairman, The National Center on Addiction & Substance Abuse; former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

Rabbi Norman M. Cohen ’72- Rabbi, Bet Shalom Congregation, Minnetonka, Minn.


Billy Collins ’63- Former Poet Laureate, consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (2001-2003)

Vice Admiral Barry M. Costello, USN ’73- Commander, Third Fleet, United States Navy

Robert J. Cousy ’50- Basketball legend and NBA Hall of Famer; led the Boston Celtics to an unprecedented five straight NBA titles

Michael Daniels ’76- Senior Vice President, IBM Global Technology Services

Anne Schiffman Fink ’85- Director, National Sales, Pepsi-Cola Company

Stanley E. Grayson ’72- President and Chief Operating Officer, M.R. Beal and Company, New York

Julie A. Halpin ’84- Founder and CEO, The Geppetto Group, advertising company specializing in products for children 

Thomas W. Heinsohn ’56- Former Boston Celtics player and coach; NBA Hall of Famer

John J. “Jack” Higgins ’76- Editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Sun-Times; winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 

Mark G. Holowesko ’82- Chief Executive Officer and President, Templeton Capital Advisors, Inc.

Capt. Thomas G. Kelley, USN (Ret) ’60- Recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor 

Capt. Joseph P. Kerwin, M.D., USN (Ret) ’53- First medical doctor in space; director emeritus at National Space Biomedical Research Institute

Paul O. LeClerc ’63- President and CEO, New York Public Library

Edward J. Ludwig '73, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, Becton, Dickinson and Company (global medical technology company)

William J. McDonough ’56- Vice Chairman, Merrill Lynch & Company

Hon. James P. Moran Jr. ’67- Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrat from Virginia 

Joseph E. Murray, M.D. ’40- Nobel laureate 1990 for the first successful kidney transplant; professor emeritus of surgery, Harvard Medical School  

Daniel E. Shaughnessy ’75- Sports columnist, The Boston Globe; author of “The Curse of the Bambino”

Joe Shortsleeve '79- Chief correspondent for WBZ-TV News in Boston

William J. “Bill” Simmons III ’92- Columnist for ESPN.com’s “Page 2” and ESPN The Magazine

Amb. Harry K. Thomas Jr. ’78- Director General of the Foreign Service

Lieutenant General Bernard Trainor, USMC (Ret.), '51- Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, The Council on Foreign Relations; Associate at the Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Theodore V. Wells Jr.  ’72- Partner and Co-chair of Litigation, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York

Hon. Peter Welch ’69- Member of U.S. House of Representatives, Democrat from Vermont

Robert C. Wright ’65- Vice Chairman of the Board and Executive Officer, General Electric Company; and former CEO, NBC Universal, Inc.