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The second annual Sanctae Crucis Awards will be presented
to five recipients at the Board of Trustees' dinner on April
30. The award is the highest non-degree recognition
bestowed
by the College on an alumnus or alumna.
The awards are presented in
three categories. For Distinguished Professional Achievement, the recipients
are Vincent Andriole, M.D., '53 and Kevin J. Collins '61.
Andriole is recognized internationally as one of the top experts in the area
of infectious diseases. He is a professor of medicine at Yale University
School of Medicine, serves on numerous national committees and is a frequent
lecturer. Most recently, he was honored with delivering the Garrod Lecture
in England. The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy chooses
a person who
has made a significant contribution in that field. Andriole is only the
third American to receive this honor.
Collins retired as a managing
director of the First Boston Corporation. In that capacity he served as
an allied member of the New York Stock Exchange. Collins is recognized
for his expertise in the areas of environmental finance and
historic preservation. He has served on countless commissions and boards,
locally and nationally. An alumnus of Rutgers University Law School, he
is a former chair of Rutgers' Board of Trustees and current
chair of the school's budget and finance committee. In addition, Collins
is a past president of the Holy Cross General Alumni Association, an In Hoc Signo
Award recipient and a member of the Varsity Club board
of directors.
In the area of Outstanding
Community Service, the College will honor Kevin T. Avery, D.M.D., '65 and
William H. Farley '58.
Avery is a professor of dental services administration and assistant dean for
student affairs at the University
of Oklahoma College of Dentistry. He has served as a consultant to Head
Start programs for 15 years and the U.S. Job Corps for 20 years. He is
deeply involved in issues relating to the dental care of migrant workers and
their children, institutionalized populations, preschool children in day care
and nursing home populations. Avery established the Native American
Center of Excellence in 1993. His efforts on behalf of Native Americans
have resulted in the College of Dentistry receiving a federal grant for a fellowship
for a Native American faculty member.
Farley is extremely involved in his community in the greater Hartford, Conn.,
area.
He has served numerous organizations including the House of Bread, where he was
president of the board of directors
and a founding member. He oversaw the growth of the organization from a
morning soup kitchen to a Christian outreach program that includes
men's and women's shelters, full-time residential facilities, full-time soup
kitchen and more. In addition to involvement in many other service
organizations, Farley founded and chaired the Hartford Prayer Breakfast. Just
recently, the group held an interfaith event that brought together more than
700 people in the Hartford area.
Farley founded the Farley Company, a successful commercial real estate firm,
in 1968. The firm has since merged with Whittier Partners of Boston and
CB Richard Ellis, the world
leader in commercial real estate. He has been honored with numerous
awards in his professional life and for his community service.
This year's Outstanding Young
Alumnus/Alumna is Erin Kemple '81. Kemple is the executive director
and co-founder of the Housing Discrimination Project. The private fair
housing organization serves central and western Massachusetts.
In addition to overseeing operations of the organization and raising funding
for its operations, Kemple trains
realtors and lawyers on fair housing laws. She is a member of a fair housing
working group of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, advising the
federal agency on fair housing issues.
Following her graduation from Suffolk University Law School, Kemple served as
a staff attorney at Western
Massachusetts Legal Services for 11 years. She litigated cases in areas
of landlord-tenant law, housing discrimination, and the rights of
mortgagors. She handled a statewide class action which caused the Secretary
of Health and Human Services to change national AFDC policy regarding caretaker
relatives of foster care children.
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