FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 25, 2007
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Contact: Tonya Strong-Charles
                 216.397.1958
                     tstrong@jcu.edu

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2007 Segundo Montes Memorial Lecture
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Monday, November 12, 2007
7:00 p.m.
D.J. Lombardo Student Center / Jardine Room
This event is free and open to the public

Lecture: “Pastoral Reflections: The Impact of the University of Central America Today.”  
                       
This lecture is presented by the Department of Sociology with the co-sponsorship of the Cleveland Commission on Catholic Action, Diocese of Cleveland and the Bridge Foundation, along with numerous departments and programs at John Carroll University.

Fr. Joseph Callahan
                       
Joe Callahan (’79) was a chemistry major at John Carroll who found a vocation to the priesthood after graduation.  He joined the Cleveland Mission Team, which for more than 40 years has labored and suffered and loved in the impoverished, war-torn Central American nation. 

John Carroll University Department of Sociology
216.397.4381

John Carroll University, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a liberal arts university grounded in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition.  The university has some 3,100 plus undergraduates and just over 700 graduate students.  The U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 annual college guide ranks John Carroll University among the top 10 master’s-degree granting universities in the Midwest and first in average graduation rate. Originally founded as St. Ignatius College in 1886, the university was renamed in 1923 to honor America’s first Catholic bishop, John Carroll of Maryland.  John Carroll is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities located in the United States.

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