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Alumni Highlights - Impacting the Church and the World

Sr. John Paul Maher, OP (MTS 1998), USA  
Final Professed Sister
Sr. John Paul Maher entered the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist after graduating from the ITI. She made her Final Profession of vows on July 22nd, 2008 - the Feast of Mary Magdalene. Sister is assigned to different projects for her Order, and is presently teaching World History and Geography at St. Mary's High School in Phoenix, Arizona. 
   
Inese Ratnikaite (MTS 2004), Lithuania. 
Opening Minds to the Truth
Inese helps out her bishop in the curia of the diocese of Siauliai by acting as a correspondent on Christian activities for certain newspapers and the Vatican radio. As a new graduate from ITI, she was accepted on the Faculty of Siauliai University where she teaches Theology.
   
Dr. Richard Gildersleeve, (MTS 2003), USA. 
Participated in the Founding of a Catholic Middle School.
Richard, as a founding faculty member of the middle school within St. Joseph's Catholic School in South Carolina, is very proud of the school’s success.  Open for little more than two years, the enrollment has doubled in size and recently St. Joseph's Catholic School received notification that it is in the top 50 of all Catholic High Schools in the Nation, and in the top 20 in academics. He is currently teaching in the theology department and developing curricula, as well as giving lectures in Bioethics. Richard is also studying for the licentiate in Bioethics at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum University.
   
 

Jutta Graf (STM 2003), Austria
Fighting for Life.
For many years, Jutta lead the youth movement 'Jugend für das Leben' - youth for life - which is present in Upper Austria, Vienna, Styria and Carinthia. The group builds up a culture of life and gives a voice to the unborn by giving talks in schools, and by appealing to the public, to media and politicians. She is married with one son.

   
   
 

Eugenijus Danilevicius (MTS 2000), Lithuania.
Defining the role of Education.
Eugenijus is currently involved in defining the role of education in developing democracies. He is an editor of “International Journal of Educology” (USA), a member of the Charter Fellow in the Institute of History and Philosophy of Educology for Developing Democracies in the World, editor of the scientific journal “Vocational Education Research and Reality” (Lithuania), and a lecturer in Faculty of Catholic Theology at Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania). He is also doing research into the development of personality in the vocational education and training (VET).

   
  Mary Healy (STL 1998) USA.
Professor, Writer, and Consecrated Life. 
After graduating from the ITI, Mary completed a doctorate in biblical theology in 2000 at the Gregorian University in Rome.  Since then, she has been serving in leadership for a lay Catholic community, Mother of God Community, in Gaithersburg, MD.  God granted Mary a great gift when in March of 2000, in Jerusalem, she made a permanent vow of consecration to the Lord in celibacy.  In addition to her work for the Mother of God Community, Mary is also an adjunct professor of scripture at the Institute for Pastoral Theology at  Ave Maria University, and the Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College in Alexandria, VA.  Mary is the co-editor of two books on biblical interpretation: Behind the Text: History and Biblical Interpretation (Paternoster, 2004), and Out of Egypt: Biblical Theology and Biblical Interpretation (Paternoster, 2005). Her new book, Men and Women Are from Eden: A Study Guide to John Paul II's Theology of the Body, was published by Servant Books in July, 2005.