Profiles in service WHAT DID THE Y DO? BRAZIL


SUZANNE KELLY MUND ’64


Served as a public health worker in Sao Benta do Una, doing everything from checking in on patients after procedures to vaccinating children.


WHY THE P EACE COR P S?


John F. Kennedy’s words, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country,” and her Catholic upbringing inspired Kelly to join the Peace Corps.


NIGERIA


MARTIN J. GLEASON


BA ’58, JD ’61


Worked with a newly opened university where he lectured on social sciences, and later assisted in the opening of their law school. After return- ing, he was hired as a paid staff member at the Peace Corps headquarters in Washington DC, where he helped develop further programs in Southern and Eastern Africa, frequently traveling to Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, and what was then Tanganyika.


President Kennedy, as well as his Jesuit education that emphasized “doing,” “serving,” and “men and women for others” prompted Gleason to join the Peace Corps. He went to Nigeria just nine months after Kennedy signed the executive order that officially began the start of the Peace Corps, making him the first Loyola student to join. In the time between graduation and departing, Gleason passed the bar in Illinois.


WHE R E ARE THE Y NOW?


Retired high school adminis- trator in New England. She has two children and volunteers as an ESL teacher on the side.


After working on Hubert Humphrey’s political cam- paign, as the chief of public affairs officer at Columbia University, and most recently as an adviser in the Office of the President in Kabul, Af- ghanistan, he now lives with his family in Washington DC, and one of his daughters is a Loyola senior.


MOROCCO


ERIN ATWELL BA ’07


Worked on a variety of health initiatives, includ- ing teaching a middle school health class and or- ganizing a regional HIV/AIDS skit competition for youth. She also helped develop a women’s health center with adolescent girls in the community.


Atwell studied abroad for a semester in Santiago, Chile, having been encouraged by her under- graduate volunteering through Loyola4Chicago at Centro Romero, a social service agency for im- migrants. While in Chile, she took classes on pov- erty and spirituality, and realized that she wanted to serve in the Peace Corps after graduation.


UGANDA


ROSE MARIA LAROCCA


BA ’69


Set up conferences for students working against STD and HIV and worked with a government program to develop workshops for teachers and administrators on the government’s Presidential Initiative on AIDS Strategy for Communication to Youth.


ROMANIA


KEVIN GIGLINTO MBA ’94


Worked within a network of business develop- ment centers with state-owned companies that were transitioning to private or public owner- ship, and new start-ups diving into the business world for the first time.


LaRocca credits professors at Loyola who encour- aged her to ask questions and open her mind for pushing her to pursue the experience.


After earning a master’s de- gree in international political economy and development, Atwell is an intern with Catho- lic Relief Services in Rwanda, focusing on strengthening the agriculture and economy.


Works in high-rise property management in Chicago.


Giglinto had always been interested in learning through other cultures and was interested in the work the Peace Corps was doing in Eastern Europe at the time. After finishing his final year of classes at Loyola, Giglinto was about to go to a pub on St. Patrick’s Day when he got a call asking if he would go to Romania in May.


NEPAL


JOHN CASEY BA ’87


Taught English in a small village, where Casey says the Jesuit connection prevailed: while working, he met a Jesuit priest who was living in Nepal after opening a school.


Casey originally got the travel bug when visiting friends at the Rome Center during his first year out of college. He applied to the Peace Corps soon after. He says the experience offered him a fantastic opportunity to explore the world and learn about other cultures, and himself, all while creating a worldwide group of friends.


CHINA


CLAIRE DONZE BA ’11


Taught English to high school freshmen, sophomores, and juniors in Guizhou Province.


Donze says there was no “a-ha” moment when it came to deciding to join the Peace Corps; it was simply always something she had wanted to do.


Vice president for sales and marketing for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.


Elementary school counselor and case manager for a Chicago Public School in the West Humboldt Park area.


Still in China. Hopes to go to graduate school for environmental science.


SPRING 2012


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