My story on the impact College of the Holy Cross alumni are making in the Ignatian Volunteer Corps appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Holy Cross Magazine, the alumni magazine of my undergraduate alma mater.
The Ignatian Volunteer Corps is a 16-year-old organization that offers adults opportunities to serve the poor or work for social justice while pursuing Ignatian spiritual reflection. Most IVC volunteers are retired or semi-retired individuals looking to give back, and several Holy Cross graduates are involved in the organization as volunteers, staff members and board members.
Among the volunteers the article profiles are Bill Waters '67, a retired Rhode Island man who has worked with the poor in Providence; Warren Howe '63, a longtime educator and musician who mentors inmates at a Maryland prerelease center; Jerry Sheehan '59, a retired dentist who helps underprivileged students at a Boston high school with their college choices; and Tricia Brennan '78, a Boston-area minister who helps guide IVC volunteers as a "spiritual reflector."
