Fall 2022

Inside the Early Years of Coeducation at the College of the Holy Cross

How ready was the Holy Cross community for women, really? It depends on whom you ask.

It was Sept. 14, 1972, and Gayle Devlin Ciaramicoli ’76, one of the first women admitted to Holy Cross, was in tears. The intrepid 17-year-old had come a far distance, alone, flying from California to New York, where she picked …