Viveca Stucke ‘26
Chief Features Editor
Name: Ben Franzone
Class Year: 2026
Hometown: Norristown, PA
Major: Political Science and Sociology
Campus Activities: SGA Co-President, Pax Christi, SPEECH Peer Educator, Spring Break Immersion Program, Gateways Orientation Central Staff, Hanify Howland Memorial Lecture Committee, OSI Student Worker, Sociology and Anthropology Student Advisory Committee
Favorite Movie: “The Hunger Games”
Favorite Song: “Best Love Song” by T-Pain
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Sports Team: Eagles all the way, go birds!
Favorite class taken at Holy Cross: My Academic Internship Program (AIP) Seminar with Prof. Flaherty and Congressman Bishop, Theology of Making with Prof. Fritz, and Pandemic Policy, my sophomore year, would be my top three. Also, shoutout Prof. Mondoux!
Item on HC Bucket List: The Spiritual Exercises Retreat
Embarrassing HC Moment: One Sunday my freshman year, I slept until 6:00 p.m. My friends had to wake me up because they hadn’t heard from me all day.
Bragging Rights: My family owns a pizza restaurant that just celebrated its 70th anniversary.
Words to live by: “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” –Maya Angelou
One thing you would change at HC: Football games under the lights
Favorite TV Show: “Friends”
Favorite Book: “Strangers in Their Own Land” by Arlie Hochschild
Favorite Kimball meal: General Tso’s Chicken
Favorite Drink on Campus: Grande iced vanilla latte with brown sugar from Starbucks
Favorite spot on campus: The Office of Student Involvement (OSI). It’s always a fun time!
Favorite off-campus restaurant: Mare E Monti! It was the first restaurant I went to with my parents in Worcester and has been my favorite ever since.
Guilty Pleasure: Cheesesteaks, pasta, and anything Italian
Some small things that make your day better: Seeing my friends around campus and chatting with them, a sunny day, and good vibes.
First thing you do when you wake up: Turn off all of my alarms and check my phone.
Last thing you do before going to bed: Brush my teeth, set multiple alarms, and scroll through Instagram reels for far too long.
Favorite place you have traveled to: Italy- especially the Amalfi Coast!
Something you look forward to when you go home: I always look forward to seeing my family and getting food from my family’s restaurant – cheesesteaks, pizza, Zeps, and hoagies!
Post-Graduation Plans: I’d like to attend grad school and get a Master’s degree in higher education.
Favorite memory at HC: Right before the end of my sophomore year, all of my friends and I cooked dinner in the Ciampi common room and hung out before going abroad our junior year. It was the last time we were all together until senior year.
Featured image courtesy of Ben Franzone ’26
Copy Edited by Sophia Mariani ’26
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