Military Correspondent Lieutenant General Bernard Trainor to Speak at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – Lieutenant General Bernard Trainor will deliver the annual Hanify-Howland Memorial Lecture at Holy Cross on Monday, March 31 at 8 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom. The lecture, titled "War and the Christian Conscience" is free and open to the public.

General Trainor, a 1951 graduate of Holy Cross, is a senior fellow for National Security Studies at The Council on Foreign Relations and associate at the Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

A highly decorated officer with a background in special operations, Gen. Trainor commanded combat in Korea and on two tours in Vietnam. Prior to his retirement from the Marine Corps in 1985, he served as deputy chief of staff for Plans, Policies and Operations and Marine Corps deputy to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The co-author of The General's War, Gen. Trainor has written extensively for various military publications. After his retirement, he worked as the military correspondent for The New York Times, covering conflict at home and abroad, particularly in the Third World. Gen. Trainor also served as a columnist for The Times News Service and as a military analyst for ABC. He continues to do military analyses for NBCTV, The New York Times and The Boston Globe.

Gen. Trainor is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He also serves on the board of directors to the World Affairs Council.

The 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., a board chairman of Warwick Mills, Inc., who died in 1976.