Alumni Successes
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- Teresa J. Degen, M.P.S. '87, D.Min. and James T. Degen, M.R.E. '87, D.Min. From first LIMEX graduating class, Teresa was the first person to walk across the stage and be awarded degree
"It hardly seems possible that 15 years have passed already. The Loyola experience has opened many doors for our fellow graduates and us. Our LIMEX training is recognized and appreciated across the country. As we have moved from parish to parish, sometimes to a new diocese, we ask immediately if there are LIMEX graduates in the community. They are our first and favorite source of ministry partners. Throughout our 28 years of full time ministry, we have enjoyed many extraordinary opportunities and blessings. Our LIMEX experience is certainly among the richest of these blessings. Hardly a day passes that we do not call upon our Loyola experience, reference a text from our course work, or somehow connect with the rich background we received through LIMEX." (LIMexpress Fall 2002)
- Rita Lucey, M.P.S. '97 -- Rita is a LIMEX graduate from the Diocese of Orlando. In November 1997 she crossed the line at Fort Benning Georgia with 24 others to demonstrate for the closing of the School of the Americas. In 1998 she and 24 others were sentenced to six months in prison and a $3000 fine for their peaceful protests. Rita Lucey resigned her position as President of the Greater Orlando Chapter of the United Nations Association in February 1998 to self-surrender to Coleman Federal Prison. She is active in many peace-related organizations and is a member of Winter Park Quaker Meeting. As wife, mother of four and grandmother of six, retired Business woman she is a member of The Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice, Amnesty International, Grandmothers for Peace, the School of Americas Watch and a board advisor to Radio for Peace. As an ex-convict she is very involved in different prison ministries, understanding now, all too well the problems that exist in that environment.(LIMexpress Fall 2000)
- Theresa May, M.P.S. '00 -- Theresa is a pastoral associate and director of religious education at Saint Jerome's, in Jerome, ID. Theresa along with her family have received several significant awards, including most recently Idaho Family of the Year from the Knights of Columbus. They were named fourth runner up nationally as well. You'll find it hard to list all that this outstanding family does for the church--Cursillo, music ministry, Knights of Columbus, work on building a new parish worship center, etc.--while also running a farm. The have made 20 trips since 1997 to an orphanage in Mexico to help volunteer their services and support.
- Deacon Pierce Murphy, M.P.S. '00 -- Pierce is the police ombudsman for the city of Boise. He is very much a man on the local news here in the state's capital. He also serves in one of the local parishes.
- Dr. Alice Pita, M.P.S. '04, M.D. -- Alice, from the Diocese of Ft. Worth learning group, recently retired as the head of pediatrics for the city of Dallas. She uses the experience gained as a graduate student at the Loyola in volunteer ministry.