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The General Alumni Association (GAA) presented the annual In Hoc Signo Awards at the College’s reunion banquet held this past June. This year’s recipients were John J. Farley ’64, Frank J. Lasch ’54 and John J. Moynihan ’52. First presented in 1960, the award is an expression of respect and admiration for those alumni who have given generously of their time and talents to the College.
John J. Farley ’64
Following his Commencement from Holy Cross, Jack Farley earned his master of business administration degree at Columbia University, New York City, where he was a Samuel Bronfman Fellow. From 1966 through 1970, he served in the United States Army in Vietnam, earning four Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts and the Army Commendation Medal. In 1973, Farley received his juris doctor degree from the Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, N.Y.; the founding editor of the Hofstra Law Review, he had been first in his class. After serving as a trial attorney and as an assistant director of the Torts Branch in the Department of Justice, Farley was appointed a founding judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and the first chairman of the Veterans Law Section of the Federal Bar Association. For the last 20 years, he has worked as a mentor for disabled veterans; Farley is a trainer and certifier of peer visitors at both the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. A member of the board of visitors for the Armed Forces Amputee Patient Care Program, he spends his days with the newly wounded and their families. Farley resides in Bowie, Md., with his wife, Kathleen.
Frank J. Lasch ’54
Upon departing Mount St. James, Frank Lasch earned his juris doctor degree at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, N.Y. Following three years in the United States Navy, he joined the law offices of DeGraff, Foy, Conway & Holt-Harris and, in 1963, became a partner in the firm. Over the next 30 years, Lasch developed an extensive legislative law practice, representing companies in the natural gas, real estate, banking and newspaper industries. A man of his community, he has served as a board member for non-profit organizations and offers his considerable skills as treasurer of a nursing home, trustee of a junior college and a school for troubled teens and, for the last eight years, president of the Destroyer Escort Historical Museum in Albany, N.Y. A lifetime member of the College’s President’s Council, Lasch is also a member of the Fenwick Society. An admissions adviser and a career planning counselor, he has served on the GAA’s Book Prize Committee and his Class Reunion Gift Committee. Lasch resides in Loudonville, N.Y., with his wife, Mary Ellen. They are the parents of nine children.
John J. Moynihan ’52
Following graduation from Holy Cross, Bud Moynihan served in the United States Naval Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant senior grade. Following his discharge, he studied law at Boston College, earning his juris doctor degree in 1959. From 1959 through 1983, Moynihan practiced law with the firm of Wolfson, Moynihan, Dodson & Keenan; from 1983 through 2001, he served as a justice in the Worcester Probate and Family Court. Moynihan has twice been a recipient of the “Distinguished Lawyer” award from the St. Thomas More Society of Worcester County, and of the “Distinguished Lawyer” citation from the Massachusetts House of Representatives. A tireless supporter of the General Alumni Association, he has served on its board of directors and in its senate; a member of the Book Prize Committee, Moynihan was presented with the “Crusader of the Year” award in 1972 by the Holy Cross Club of Worcester. He is also a member of the Worcester Club’s scholarship, by-laws, social events, fund-raising and children’s activities committees—as well as a 40-year member of its board of directors. Moynihan, who is a resident of Worcester, is the father of three children.
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