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A gift planning newsletter for alumni, parents and friends of Loyola Academy
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Fall 2022
A New Chapter in Loyola’s Leadership
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his July, Loyola Academy welcomed Rev. Gregory J. Ostdiek, SJ, as its ninth president. Father Ostdiek’s key responsibilities will be leading the Academy’s Jesuit, Catholic mission, sustaining focus on its strategic vision and directing the institutional advancement program.
He entered the Jesuits in 2008, teaching physics, coaching and moderating ministry activities and clubs at several Jesuit schools, including Loyola. He was ordained in 2019. He has served as a parish priest and prison minister. Currently, he is an administrator at Brebeuf Jesuit in Indianapolis and on the Boards of Loyola Academy and St. Xavier in Cincinnati.
Father Ostdiek, a native of Dayton, Ohio, holds B.A. degrees in mechanical engineering and English from the Prior to joining the Jesuits, Father University of Dayton, M.A. degrees Ostdiek was a member of the United in English from Pennsylvania State States Navy for 12 years, where he served University and philosophy from Rev. Gregory J. Ostdiek, SJ on a variety of ships, including as a Fordham University, an M.Div. in navigation instructor, a reactor training theology and a Th.M. in scripture from Boston assistant responsible for the training of a 450-person College School of Theology and Ministry and an department on a nuclear power plant and an executive Ed.M. in educational policy and management at officer and navigator second in command overseeing an 80-person crew that was deployed twice to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Recently, he Arabian Gulf. completed an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. “I am tremendously excited to join Loyola Academy
‘‘I am tremendously excited to join Loyola Academy in its mission of serving Chicagoland and the world.”
in its mission of serving Chicagoland and the world,” states Father Ostdiek. “Loyola is a school with incredible students, a tremendously talented and caring faculty and staff who show daily their dedication to the school’s mission of forming women and men for others in service to the Church and the world and an amazing community. I am humbled and honored to be chosen to serve them in turn.”
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