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The 10th annual presentation of the Sanctae Crucis Awards took place at a campus dinner on May 4. The Awards are the highest nondegree recognition bestowed by the College on an alumnus or alumna. Awards are given in the categories: Distinguished Professional Achievement, Outstanding Community Service and Outstanding Young alumnus/alumna. This year’s recipients are: Mark J. Doherty, D.M.D., ’70, John T. Harrington, M.D., ’58, Paul F. Walker ’68 and Timothy J. Treanor ’89.
Mark J. Doherty, D.M.D., ’70
Mark Doherty is the founder of the Oral Health Clinic—which he administers at the Dorchester House Multi-Service Center—and the Commonwealth Mobile Oral Health Services (CMOHS), the first portable dental program in Massachusetts, established in 1981. Doherty’s vision was to create a “dental home” for children with dental needs due to the lack of MassHealth providers, transportation problems, incarceration or residential status. CMOHS currently serves more than 50 Department of Youth Services (DYS) facilities, 55 Department of Social Services (DSS) and special program residential facilities, 20 public elementary schools and 60 Head Start programs throughout the commonwealth. Following his graduation from Holy Cross, Doherty attended the University of Pennsylvania where he received his medical degree in 1974; he currently lives in Lakeville, Mass.
John T. Harrington, M.D., ’58
John Harrington has been a part of the nephrology division at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston since his fellowship training in the mid-1960s. Now dean emeritus and professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Harrington focuses on outpatient care, in-patient consultation and medical education of nephrology fellows, internal medicine house staff and medical students. In December 2005, he completed 28 years as a founding co-editor of the “Nephrology Forum,” which had been published monthly in Kidney International, the journal of the International Society of Nephrology. His intellectual interests include the broad field of clinical nephrology and, specifically, the arcane world of acid-base, fluid and electrolyte disturbances. After receiving his bachelor of arts degree in classics in 1958, Harrington went on to receive his medical degree from the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn.; he completed his internship and residency at North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Harrington began his association with Tufts-New England in 1965, subsequently serving as director of the dialysis unit and as chief of the division of general internal medicine. In 1996, he was appointed dean of the Tufts University School of Medicine, a position he held until 2002. Harrington lives in West Roxbury, Mass.
Paul F. Walker ’68
For more than 25 years, Paul Walker has been a leading expert in international security, arms control and nonproliferation policy. A former senior professional staff member of the Armed Services Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, Walker has lectured and published widely, most recently on the demilitarization of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). For more than 10 years, he has been associated with Global Green USA—the United States affiliate of Green Cross International, an environmental organization founded by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev—where he is responsible for the direction and management of Global Green USA’s international “Legacy of the Cold War” program. Walker holds a Ph.D. in political science and defense studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge; a master of arts degree from Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.; a Russian honors certificate from the Defense Language Institute of the West Coast; and a post-doctoral fellowship from the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. A Vietnam-era Army veteran, he is also the former acting director of the peace and conflict studies program at Holy Cross. Walker is a resident of Cambridge, Mass.
Timothy J. Treanor ’89
Timothy Treanor has dedicated his career to public service, currently leading the U.S. Department of Justice’s efforts to combat organized crime in and around New York City and supervising an elite unit of 15 prosecutors; he has been an assistant U.S. attorney since 1999. During his tenure as a federal prosecutor, Treanor also took part in the Justice Department’s efforts to combat terrorism in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack in 2001, conducting numerous terrorism financing investigations. At Holy Cross, he had been a history and an art history major; prior to attending Fordham Law School, he worked with homeless street children in South Africa—founding, and raising funds for, a residential community reintegration program for older street children preparing to enter the workforce. The program continues today, serving the neediest population in South Africa. Treanor is a resident of Pleasantville, N.Y.
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