1935
John
2005
John ''Jack'' R. Crutcher
March 8, 1935 — June 5, 2005
WORCESTER – Dr. John “Jack” R. Crutcher died Sunday, June 5, 2005 at age 70. A native of Peoria, Illinois, he founded the Political Science Department at St. Anselm’s College in Manchester, NH. At Assumption College for the past 37 years, he established its Political Science Department, chaired it for many years, and taught courses on peace and war, American foreign policy, diplomacy, totalitarianism, nationalism, and government and politics in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.
A summa cum laude graduate in the great books program of the University of Notre Dame, he attended Georgetown University Law School, did postgraduate work in political science at Georgetown, and was a Soviet Studies Fellow at Notre Dame.
Dr. Crutcher served in the U.S. National Security Agency during the Eisenhower administration, and during the Kennedy-Johnson years on the Committee on World Communism in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State. He has lectured at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute, Notre Dame, and other colleges and universities. For many years, he was an academic associate of the Atlantic Council, an organization that supports the NATO Alliance.
He traveled widely in Europe, studying NATO, the new post-communist governments in the former Soviet satellite states, reunification of Germany, and the breakup of the Soviet Union. As the Balkan wars were breaking out, he went to the former Yugoslavia. In Croatia and Slovenia he conferred with government officials, in Serbia he met with leaders of parties opposed to the dictatorship of Slobodan Milosevic, and in the province of Vojvodina he learned the situation of the large Hungarian minority.
Dr. Crutcher is survived by his wife, Svetlana; nine children, Maria Hopkins and Eileen Toomey of Paxton, Katrina Riedle of Spencer, Thomas, Joseph, Rachel Dolan and Sonia Root of Rutland, Sara Rayburn of Beaverton, Oregon, and Vladik of Worcester; 14 grandchildren; his step-mother, Josephine Crutcher of Peoria, Illinois; and a sister, Suzanne Murra of Sylvania, Ohio.
A funeral Mass for Dr. Crutcher will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, June 9, in the Assumption College Chapel, 500 Salisbury Street, Worcester. Burial will follow in Rural Cemetery, 180 Grove Street, Worcester. Calling hours are from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, June 8, in the Miles Funeral Home, 1158 Main Street (Rte. 122A), Holden. Donations may be made to the Jack Crutcher Fund, c/o Assumption College, 500 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609.
Website: www.milesfuneralhome.com
A summa cum laude graduate in the great books program of the University of Notre Dame, he attended Georgetown University Law School, did postgraduate work in political science at Georgetown, and was a Soviet Studies Fellow at Notre Dame.
Dr. Crutcher served in the U.S. National Security Agency during the Eisenhower administration, and during the Kennedy-Johnson years on the Committee on World Communism in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State. He has lectured at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute, Notre Dame, and other colleges and universities. For many years, he was an academic associate of the Atlantic Council, an organization that supports the NATO Alliance.
He traveled widely in Europe, studying NATO, the new post-communist governments in the former Soviet satellite states, reunification of Germany, and the breakup of the Soviet Union. As the Balkan wars were breaking out, he went to the former Yugoslavia. In Croatia and Slovenia he conferred with government officials, in Serbia he met with leaders of parties opposed to the dictatorship of Slobodan Milosevic, and in the province of Vojvodina he learned the situation of the large Hungarian minority.
Dr. Crutcher is survived by his wife, Svetlana; nine children, Maria Hopkins and Eileen Toomey of Paxton, Katrina Riedle of Spencer, Thomas, Joseph, Rachel Dolan and Sonia Root of Rutland, Sara Rayburn of Beaverton, Oregon, and Vladik of Worcester; 14 grandchildren; his step-mother, Josephine Crutcher of Peoria, Illinois; and a sister, Suzanne Murra of Sylvania, Ohio.
A funeral Mass for Dr. Crutcher will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, June 9, in the Assumption College Chapel, 500 Salisbury Street, Worcester. Burial will follow in Rural Cemetery, 180 Grove Street, Worcester. Calling hours are from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, June 8, in the Miles Funeral Home, 1158 Main Street (Rte. 122A), Holden. Donations may be made to the Jack Crutcher Fund, c/o Assumption College, 500 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609.
Website: www.milesfuneralhome.com
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