Thomas More Lectures on Faith, Work and Civic Life
Thomas More Lectures honors graduates of Holy Cross by inviting them to speak about their own profession, vocation, and the ethical opportunities and challenges faced there.
Past Honorees
September 24, 2009
B.J. Cassin ’55, is a venture capital investor and chairman and president of the philanthropic Cassin Educational Initiative Foundation, which he founded in 2000.
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March 23, 2009
John T. Broderick, Jr., '69, is Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
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October 28, 2008
Paul LaCamera, '64, general manager of the WBUR group, Boston’s NPR news station and one of the nation’s premier National Public Radio affiliates. He served many years as president and general manager of WCVB-TV, Boston’s ABC affiliate. A Holy Cross trustee, La Camera serves on numerous boards for not-for-profit organizations. Listen to his lecture online.
April 8, 2008
Patrick Clancy, ’68, is one of the founders of SPUD—Student Programs for Urban Development, forty years ago. SPUD puts more than 600 students to work at a wide variety of social service projects around the Worcester area. Graduating magna cum laude from Holy Cross, Clancy earned his juris doctor from Harvard Law School, where he edited The Civil Rights, Civil Liberties Law Review. In 1971, he joined The Community Builders, a Boston-based nonprofit housing development corporation whose mission—simple in conception and complex in execution—was stated in its name. By 1976, Clancy had become the company’s chief executive officer. For the last 33 years, he has worked tirelessly to develop, finance and manage affordable housing in communities across the nation.
April 11, 2007
Mark K. Shriver, '86, is vice president and managing director of U.S. Programs for Save the Children. He leads Save the Children’s programs and advocacy efforts for children living in impoverished rural communities across the United States. A champion for vulnerable children and families for more than 17 years, he attended Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government after graduating from Holy Cross, served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates and was Maryland’s first-ever Chair of the Joint Committee on Children, Youth and Families. Nephew of President John F. Kennedy and son of Sargent Shriver, founder of the Peace Corps and 1972 vice-Presidential nominee, Mark built on his legacy by founding the innovative Choice Program, a public/private partnership that serves at-risk youth through intensive, community-based counseling and job training services.
September 7, 2006
Edward J. Ludwig, '73, is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Becton, Dickinson and Company, a Fortune 500 global medical technology company. Becton Dickinson sponsors a wide array of generous philanthropic programs to solve global health needs, most extensively in the campaign to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus. Ludwig is a trustee of The College of the Holy Cross, Johns Hopkins University, Hackensack University Medical Center, Chairman of the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey, Chair of the Advisory Board for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.
February 8, 2006
Sheila Cavanaugh, ’81, senior vice president for internal communications at Fidelity Investments, leads a team of people dedicated to keeping Fidelity’s 37,000 employees knowledgeable, informed, and educated. She worked as a global strategies consultant with Coopers & Lybrand, and spent over a decade as a banker in New York, Japan, Switzerland and the former Soviet Union. In the late 1980s, she took a sabbatical year from banking to teach English with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at a Vietnamese Refugee Camp in Southeast Asia. She returned to pursue a graduate degree in business at Yale, and spent two years at Harvard Business School publishing research for use in graduate programs. From there, she became a Soros Foundation fellow and moved to the Baltic States to start one of the first credit training programs after the fall of communism. An economics major, Sheila worked her way through school in factories in Worcester, and suffered a stroke at the beginning of her career. Sheila and her husband, whom she met in Indonesia, are the parents of three young children from South Korea. She volunteers at the International Institute of Boston, a refugee resettlement agency.
September 8, 2005
Maggie Wilderotter, '77, Holy Cross trustee, is president and chief executive officer of Citizens Communications. Prior to assuming this role at Citizens, Wilderotter was senior vice president of Worldwide Public Sector at Microsoft, responsible for strengthening customer and partner outreach in the government and education markets, as well as working across Microsoft's business divisions on developing and coordinating forward-looking strategies. Wilderotter has also worked in the cable television industry, and is one of 20 leaders ever to have been honored by the National Cable Television Association where she was also awarded the 1999 Outstanding Mentor Award from the Women in Cable and Telecommunications Foundation. Wilderotter has been actively involved in the leadership of a number of not-for-profit organizations.
October 21, 2003
Miguel A. Satut, '72, is program director at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. He helps guide Foundation programming in the area of youth and education, and is the lead program director for the Engaging Latino Communities for Education (ENLACE) initiative, which is a six-year, $28 million effort by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to strengthen the educational pathways and increase opportunities for Latinos to enter and complete college. He has held senior leadership positions at several prominent organizations: He was vice president for the Kresge Foundation in Troy, Michigan; president of the Associated Grantmakers of Massachusetts, Inc., and president of Oficina Hispana, Boston, Massachusetts.
April 24, 2002
Dr. Joseph E. Murray, '40, shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work on kidney transplantation. During World War II, doing reparative surgery, particularly with burns patients, Murray became intrigued by the dynamics of tissue rejection and acceptance, leading him to his interest in transplant surgery. In 1954 he performed the first human kidney transplant, launching the era of organ transplantation. His subsequent work, for which he was cited by the Nobel committee, advanced doctors' ability to prevent transplant rejection. Dr. Murray is professor of medicine emeritus at Harvard Medical School and is author of a recent memoir, Surgery of the Soul. Click here to read a story about Dr. Murray in the Harvard Gazette