College of the Holy Cross - Purple Patcher Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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N' nam. ff'- fl l l l 5 l I l l 3, l l It tl f W sympathetic and outraged epistles faithfully and then waits, usually in vain, for some sort of response, who wants so much to understand and be a part of all that her boy is doing-mom walks down and up the dozens of stairs and perhaps catches a glimpse of an unusually clean and hastily rearranged room. The weekend of rushing frantically from one room to another, from one handshake to another, pivots around a Saturday afternoon football game. Down on the field is the spectacle of every Saturday, but the dialog from the stands makes this game different: Now, see ,... when this guy gets the ball, mom ,... uh, no ,... over there, heis going to throw to that guy there with the .... Where? There, mom! . . . oh, never mind, we missed it .... Well, anyway, I think theyill probably run a cross-buck off the .... H A What? Never mind, mom, I'll explain later. , Saturday night is time for his first teachers to meet his present teachers, with trumpets blaring in the background, parents expectant, sons strangely hesitant. As Parents' Weekend ends with a weary but satisfied sigh, one feeling predominates: it is the knowledge that in spite of our failures to describe Holy Cross and to explain the drama that is, for everyone, college life, somehow the presence of our parents here, even for a few hours, links them forever to the incommunicable essence of collegiate life. Holy Cross is, to a greater or lesser extent, a home to each who comes here. This uniting of a family with a second home is the reason there is a Parents' Weekend.-Steven Bashwiner

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Holy Cross NROTC Drill Team, Front row: James Kelly, Thomas Moore, john Smith, George Conery, Peter Lynch, James Snee, Robert Fratello, Robert Cipriani. Back row: Executive Officer Herbert MacDonald, William Perry, Richard Morin, Terrence Comfort, Richard Carroll, Ernest Guay, Philip McCaffrey, Matthew Doyle, John Andrade, Drill Team Commander Rudolph Price. My , , ,,,, 25, M aw W 6 Holy Cross NROTC Band. Front row: Executive Officer jim Corbett, Tom Reid, Larry O'Connor, Edward Matthews, Mike Ryan, Bob Williams, Bob Hastings, Bruce McLaughlin, Band Commander Frank Fanning. Back row: Mike Hoo- ban, Steve Donahue, Bob Molino, Tom Moriarty, Brian Atkinson, Tom Gilliam. Y Ll? wx, .5 XJ if Tlx