Alumni Success Stories
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Matt Chmura ’03
Communications executive -
Ann Dowd ’78
Actress - TV, film, stage -
Jim Collins ’87
Biomedical engineer -
Anthony Fauci '62
AIDS researcher -
Jon Favreau ’03
Obama’s speechwriter -
Peter Jankowski ’86
Producer, Law & Order -
Edward P. Jones ’72
Award-winning novelist -
Chris Matthews ’67
Host, Hardball -
Joyce O’Shaughnessy ’78
Prominent oncologist -
J.D. “Dave” Power III ’53
Founder, J.D. Power -
Carolyn Risoli ’86
President, Marc Jacobs -
Mary Pat Ryan ’78
Marketing executive -
Bernadette Semple '82
U.S. Navy Commander -
Bart Sher '81
Tony Award winner -
Clarence Thomas '71 Supreme Court justice -
Maggie Wilderotter '77
Telecommunications CEO
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Alumni Success Stories
Matt Chmura ’03
Matt Chmura ’03 knows the business of sports. As director of communications for the Boston Bruins, Chmura enjoys strategizing how his operation – media, public relations, Web site, and publications – can support the rest of the organization’s needs so the Bruins can be equally successful on and off the ice.
A four-sport athlete in high school, Chmura chose not to play in college. “I wanted to focus on academics and finding my path, which I thought would be law,” he explains. But he decided to write for The Crusader and was assigned to men’s hockey – back in the game, where he’s been ever since. Chmura wrote for the paper all four years and was a stringer for the Boston Herald. He also joined WCHC as a play-by-play announcer, working three NCAA championships and becoming station manager. Internships with the New England Revolution, Tennessee Titans, and New England Patriots rounded out his experience. “I majored in political science and learned to think creatively. Then, with the help of the staff in Student Affairs, I learned something very specific. It was as though I put together a second major in sports marketing,” Chmura says.
After four years in the communications department of New York’s major league soccer franchise, Chmura joined the Bruins. He’s happy to be working for a team he grew up rooting for, serving as a trustee of his home town Boys’ and Girls’ Club, and staying in touch with the wider Holy Cross community as a career advisor and a member of the College’s Alumni Marketing Advisory Group.