Loyola Academy - Yearbook (Wilmette, IL)

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STudenTs Spread Loyola's Mission of love To The poor of Peru. iaued by a concern for Those less forTu- naTe Than Themselves, six Loyola sTudenTs jour- neyed To poverTy-bound Peru. Joined by six ST. Xavier High sTudenTs from CincinnaTi and a sTudenT from Quigley NorTh and under The direc- Tion of Mr. Mark BaTenburg of Loyola, and Paul Lamer- moyer and Fr. Brad Schaeffer of ST. Xavier, These Ramblers eagerly un- derTook whaT proved To be a soul searching and mind broadening advenTure filled wiTh hardwork, inconven- iences, and soul-searing sighTs. The group arrived in Lima, Peru's capiTal, aT midnighT on June 25Th. They were prompTly welcomed and es- corTed To The Colegio de La lmmaculada, The JesuiT high school of Lima. The sTudenTs sTayed There for Three days while recovering from jeTlag and adjusfing To Their new counTry. AfTer experiencing The siTes of Lima, The group moved on To Cuzco, The ciTy of colonial splendor and Indi- an capiTal. From This moun- Tain ciTy, The group visiTed Macchu Pichu, The lncan ciTy of specfacular proporTions and awesome locaTion. This was a definiTe highlighT of The Trip. Affer reTurning To Lima and Thanking Their hosTs and Translaforfsaviors, The lndacochea family, The sTu- d'enTs boarded a bus for Piura. Loyola alumnus, Fr. John Foley, S.J., direcTed The pro- gram wiTh which The Loyola missionaries worked. FaTher 'IA Peru serves as principal of The Je- suiT high school, San Ignacio de Loyola. Five days were spenT in Piura ifself as The sTu- denTs acclimaTed Them- selves To The environmenT and The area in which They were To live and work for a monTh. The eighTh of July saw The group head norTh for The ca- sario or Town of Chalacala. This village of 1500 survives wiThouT benefiT of running waTer or elecTriciTy. Howev- er, The physical condiTions paled before The brighT lighT of The people's hearTs. The home in which The group lived was donaTed by a vil- lager named Hosed Silipu. Though his family included seven children and his wife, Senior Silipu gladly gave his house To The sTudenT visiTors. The group began work The following Monday. Some of The sTudenTs worked in The fields, oThers in The soup kiTchen, and yeT oThers in The communiTy garden. The average day began abouT 6:30 a.m. The sTudenTs also underTook chores around The house including such Tasks as chopping wood, cooking, and geTTing waTer. AfTer consuming a breakfasT of oafmeal, The missionary headed ouT To The field by 8:00. Lunch consisTed of wheaT soup, fried dough, and sardines. AT 3:00 p.m., The group held a prayer ser- vice and reflecTion period. Then The sTudenTs were free To mingle wiTh The Towns- people. This seemingly rou- Tine day Taughf The projecT parTicipanTs how To and why To live in a ChrisTian commu- niTy. They came To under- sTand The plighT of The cam- pesino. MosT imporTanTly, They were drawn closer To The Lord. And, in spiTe of an occasional sfruggle and a selfish alTercaTion, The indi- viduals coalesced info a closely kniT group of broTh- ers, noT friends, buT broThers. lnTegral To The group's ex- perience was The dynamic and sainTly leadership of Mary O'Keefe. A NorThwesT- ern Universify sTudenT work- ing on a masTer's in Third World developmenT, Mary had been living in Chalacala since March and direcTed The San Ignacio projecT. Upon reviewing The suc- cess of The group inTerac- Tion, parTicipanTs in The Peru projecf agreed ThaT They had never before grown so close To anyone. They Thanked and praised The Lord for Their experience. Mike Regan. i T lic .?Tf l9 4CT6' Q.. . x - Breaking The communicofion gap befween firsT and Third worlders are Mike Regan and his friend.

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Bringing Smiles To New Grledns Kids mdkes profound impdcT on Bridges poriiciponTs. doylong jounT on AmTrok broughT on onxious group of Romblers To The CiTy of New Orleons. Unlike mosT people who were New Orleons- bound This summer, The Loy- olo sTudenTs venTured souTh To experience life in on ur- bon housing projecT while leorning obouT The ronge ond depTh of problems which dolly Terrorize Ameri- co's urbon poor. Upon orrivcil in New Or- leons, The group wos meT by STeve PoffroTh who, wos working os o coordinoTor for T5 The BRIDGES progrom. The progrom soughT To bring high school ond college sTu- denTs from differenT porTs of The counTry TogeTher in on educoTionol ond service projecT. PorTiciponTs lived for o week in The VincenTion Seminory oT The border of New Orleons' ST. Thomos Housing ProjecT. Eoch doy, The porTiciponTs would lisTen To sociol workers ond experTs speok on such ospecTs of urbon poverTy os educoTion, crime, ond The poor ond The low. LiTurgicol celebroTions, reflecTion ses- sions, ond group discussions helped The porTiciponTs inTe- groTe The informoTion wiTh Their own experiences ond Their experiences wiTh resi- denTs of The housing project OTher ocTiviTies included vorious work projecTs in The housing developmenT os well os ocTiviTies wiTh projecT residenTs. lVlosT enjoyoble wos The Time spenT wiTh The friendly children who loved The ciTTenTion They received from The Bridges porTici- ponTs. Kevin Morinocci wos im- pressed wiTh The hospifolify and generosify shown The Loyola sTudenTs. The Bridges experience broughT The Loyolo porTici- ponTs To o fuller opprecio- Tion of The mony opporTuni- Ties They enjoy while owok- ening Them To The unovoidoble issues of pover- Ty ond injusTice in The UniTed SToTes Todoy. The sTudenTs developed new friendships ond sTrengThened old friend- ships. Jlm Farah, Rusty Magner, and Kevln Marlnaccl Small group games ond songs led by Skippy PoffrcTh, ocquolnfed The members of The Bridge . Photo by Rusty Mcgner. New Orleons '13

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