Holy Cross College is proud to announce the induction of 16 new members to the Delta Epsilon Sigma (DES) National Scholastic Honor Society. Congratulations to the faculty inductee Professor Clyde Ray, PhD., and to the 15 student inductees Sofia Bammer ’26, Jelani Cotton ’25, Lanie Criswell ’26, Linkin DeNeve ’26, Mark Franco ’26, Jacob Harsch ’26, Liam Hatton ’26, Job Hermann ’26 Giovanni Lo Giudice ’26, MacKenzie Maggine ’26, Nicolas Mays ’26, Aidan McGuire ’26, Mateo Cruz Mendoza (MCI), Hugh O’Sullivan ’26, and Viktoria Savvidou ’26. Inductees will be honored on Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 7:00 p.m. in Driscoll Auditorium. All are invited to attend.
DES is an honor society for students, faculty, and alumni of colleges and universities with a Catholic tradition. The organization started at the suggestion of Reverend E. A. Fitzgerald, Dean of Studies at Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa, who in October 1938 surveyed Catholic colleges and universities concerning their interest in initiating such a society.
Inductees of Holy Cross College’s Epsilon Delta Chapter are required to have completed at least one-half of the credit requirements for their bachelor’s degree and rank in the top twenty percent of their class in scholarship. Each year a faculty member speaks at the event and is then also inducted into the society. This year, Professor Clyde Ray, Ph.D., will present “Education and Democratic Citizenship: The View from 1787”
Dr. Clyde Ray is assistant professor and director of the politics and public service program at Holy Cross College. Prior to his current position, he taught political science at a variety of institutions of higher education – large and small, public and private, urban and rural, across the country. Dr. Ray earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where his dissertation was on Chief Justice John Marshall’s political thought. Before that, he earned degrees at Villanova University and Western Carolina University. His books include John Marshall’s Constitutionalism, published by SUNY Press in 2019, and Defining Statesmanship: A Comparative Political Theory Analysis, also published in 2019. His most recent writing is on the concept of constitutional legitimacy. His third book, Framing Citizens: Sources of Constitutional Legitimacy is due out next year from Lexington Press. At Holy Cross, Dr. Ray’s teaching includes ranges across the academic discipline of political science, from American government and world politics to comparative politics and the history of political philosophy.