October 02, 2013
Right at Home in Foreign Affairs: Students’ Summer Stops Include Japan, Haiti, India, Spain
Students traveled the world for study and service during the summer.
Through the Maymester program offered by the Department of History, seven PC students studied a three-credit course on campus, The U.S. and Japan in the Modern Era. Accompanied by the course’s instructors, Dr. Margaret M. Manchester ’83G and Dr. D. Colin Jaundrill, assistant professors of history, they then spent a week in Japan — Maymester’s first venture to Asia — with stops in Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagoya, and Hiroshima.
Campus Ministry launched new International Immersions in Haiti and Jamaica. Eight students volunteered at the Louverture Cleary School, a tuition-free boarding school operated by The Haitian Project, whose president is Deacon Patrick J.A. Moynihan ’99G & ’12Hon.
Thirteen students volunteered with Mustard Seed Communities, a program that serves disabled children, pregnant teens, and young mothers, in Kingston, Jamaica. Mustard Seed was founded by Msgr. Gregory Ramkissoon, O.J., C.D. ’08Hon.
The Father Philip A. Smith, O.P. Fellowship for Study and Service Abroad, now in its fifth year, sent a record 10 students to study on five continents, in Haiti, Spain, India, South Africa, the Solomon Islands, and Australia.
Music students were on the move as well. I Cantori, the Concert Chorale, Oriana Women’s Choir, and the Jazz Ensemble toured and performed in concert in Spain.
In addition, 10 students studied Roman and Early Christian Italy on a Theology Study tour that took them to Rome, Assisi, and Verona, among other sites.
