Religious leaders from across faiths and communities convened at Holy Family University on May 13 for an Interfaith Prayer Service entitled “Be a Living Prayer” for members of the Class of 2024.
If you happened to be in the working-class, safe-haven Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood of Bridesburg on April 25, 2024, you might have heard the shouts of sheer delight bellowing from Kaitlyn Cross’s house. The community is close-quartered and close-knit, adept at deciphering an exclamation of excitement from one of distress, so the commotion beckoned more anticipation than panic. Cross, a Holy Family University senior and first-generation college student, had just received notification that she had earned the title of valedictorian for the Class of 2024. She is the first valedictorian ever formally recognized at the school. There was no containing her joy.
The Holy Family University Board of Trustees unanimously voted Albert M. Tantala, Sr. to the status of Emeritus Trustee at its February meeting, and formally recognized Tantala’s remarkable 42 years of service at the May 8, 2024 Board of Trustees meeting.
Holy Family University President Anne Prisco joined Prince Adnan El-Hashemite, the University’s Executive Director for Global Initiatives & International Programs, in presenting recognitions to two students for their participation at the United Nations’ Ninth International Women & Girls in Science Conference hosted in New York City on February 8-9, 2024.
Hundreds of community members turned out for discussions and resources centered on addiction resources and recovery at Holy Family University’s 2nd Annual Collegiate Recovery Program event on May 4 on the University’s Philadelphia campus.
Education Professor Claire Ann Sullivan, Ed.D. has been named as the 2024 recipient of the Holy Family University Faculty Excellence Award, Executive Vice President & Chief of Staff Dr. Sylvia McGeary announced.
Holy Family University’s English program proudly inducted nine students into the Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society during its inaugural ceremony on April 29. The significant event also marked the establishment of the Alpha Omega Pi chapter at Holy Family, representing one of the first new chapters inaugurated in the honor society’s second millennium.
Holy Family University continued the world’s oldest tradition of standing against sexual violence on college campuses when it hosted Take Back the Night (TBTN), a free event on April 25. The TBTN movement dates back to the 1970s when Florida State University first organized a march to bring awareness to the issue.
Nearly a dozen Holy Family University students, enrolled in the Honor’s Program, along with the program’s director Dr. Mary Carroll Johansen, travelled by train to New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 20. The students spent the day exploring the museum’s vast collection of art from around the work and across the millennia.
Legendary Brazilian professional footballer Pelé characterized the game he loved best as joga bonito, translated from Portuguese, “the beautiful game.”
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