John Ashcroft to speak at Holy Cross

The Hanify-Howland Lecture Committee has announced that former Attorney General of the US, John D. Ashcroft, will speak at Holy Cross on Tuesday, September 16th at 8pm. Ashcroft, now the proprietor of a consulting firm, led the nation through some of the most perilous times in its 250 year history. Ashcroft helped shape policy following the attacks on September 11th to prevent further terrorist attacks and bring the perpetrators to justice. Attorney General Ashcroft assisted in the conviction of 191 terrorists and enemy combatants.

he annual Hanify-Howland lecture honors the late Edward F. Hanify, a 1904 graduate of Holy Cross and a Massachusetts Superior Court justice for 15 years, who died in 1954. The series was started by Hanify’s friend, the late Weston Howland of Milton, Mass., board chairman of Warwick Mills, Inc., who died in 1976.

Since 1965, the Hanify-Howland lecture series has brought to the Holy Cross campus a series of distinguished speakers on public affairs who have exemplified in their own work the spirit of public service that the series was established to encourage.