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

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SW lj X71 There have been so many proud moments for me over the years at Holy Cross but the one event which I cherish the most was the board meeting in l97O when I supported the nomination of Father Brooks for President. There is no college in the country which has a more active and supportive alumni body than Holy Cross and no Catholic college which has done more for ecumenism than this institution. Father Brooks deserves the credit for these accomplishments and so many more. It has been a tremendous pleasure to have worked so closely for so many years with such a strong and compassionate man. He leaves me, the Holy Cross community, and the city and people of Worcester much richer for his tenure here. -Jacob Hiatt Chairman Rand-Whitney Corporation Member, Board of Trustees, College of the Holy Cross Holy Cross College has been singularly blessed to have had Father John Brooks at the helm for these past thirteen years. His qualities of leadership and administrative skills have kept the College on a steady course toward its goal of academic excellence and fiscal viability in very difficult times. He has well earned this accolade of gratitude and esteem in which I am pleased to join as a long-time friend and admirer. -Most Reverend Bernard J. Flanagan, D.D. Bishop of Worcester . . First and foremost. Father Brooks has become an outstand- ing proponent of excellence in education. He has determined to raise the standards at Holy Cross and to spread this philosophy to all contemporary institutions of higher education. Concurrently with this goal, he has worked for expansion of the endowment fund, along with encouragement to alumni, business and friends to build the college along these lines. His leadership has brought many of his original goals to fruition, with a collateral expansion of the physical plant to meet new challenges and requirements. As City Manager, l consider Father Brooks as one of the out- standing Ieaders in our community who has contributed his exper- tise and example to the City of Worcester, and earned the admira- tion of all its citizens .... -Francis J. McGrath Worcester City Manager 20 nfl www ' ,QT-ft , . f. had' K., .xT,w .. I f Q, . , , . ' u A V' 7,1

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Father Brooks sets the tone for the present and the future of the College of the Holy Cross. The liberal education offered by Holy Cross is a model for all, in it knowledge, ethical principles and Christianity are mag- nificently blended. No other New England college has demonstrated better the essences of liberal education, Father Brooks has been the leader and the visible spokesman for the liberal education of the l98O's and I99O's. -Dr. Kathryn A. McCarthy Ph. D. Tufts University Member, Board of Trustees, College of the Holy Cross . . Perhaps he CFr. Brooksj is best understood as one whose attitudes toward education, society and the process of maturing were forged in the World War ll generation who saw the challenges to be so great that they should be addressed without artifice or overly mannered rhetoric. He is a man of deep social, moral and religious concern who has many friends but is devoid of small talk. A man of direct honesty, he has little tolerance for what he sees as self-serving or pre- tentious. He is an honest man who believes his duty is to get things done. -Dr. Edward F. Callahan Department of English, College of the Holy Cross One of Father Brooks' great contributions to Holy Cross has been his deep sense of the religious and intellectual ideals of the Society of Jesus. He has vigor- ously and consistently defended the authentic human- ism which is fostered by a study of the liberal arts. He has guided the College in its pursuit of academic excel- lence and its recruitment of highly qualified faculty. And he has helped to create and maintain a religious climate on campus where faith and justice are linked in educating students to become men and women for others. -Fr. Joseph L. Ryan, S.J. Rector, College of the Holy Cross