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Event includes 24-hour fast in honor of victims
On Jan. 27, the College hosted a scholarly panel, “Tsunami
Symposium: Making Sense of the Asian Devastation,” in
the Mary Chapel. Featuring presentations by experts on the
disaster and the region, the event also included a 45-minute
interfaith prayer service, followed by an All-Bach recital
in the Brooks Concert Hall. Dedicated to the victims of the
tsunami, “The Partitas of J.S. Bach” was performed
by Sarah Grunstein, assistant professor in the music department.
The College community also held a “Sundown to Sundown
Fast,” during which money otherwise spent on food was
donated to the Holy Cross Tsunami Relief Fund, with all donations
evenly distributed among Oxfam, Catholic Relief Services
and Save the Children relief programs.
Participants in the symposium included Susan Rodgers, professor
of anthropology and director of the College’s Asian
studies program; Alan Kafka, seismology professor at Boston
College and chair of the college’s department of geology
and geophysics; Daniel Libraty, M.D., of
the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for
the Study of Viral and Infectious Diseases, who spent four
years in Bangkok with the Thai Public Health Service; Diane
Bukatko, professor of psychology at Holy
Cross; and Maurice Weinrobe, chair of the
economics department at Clark University.
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