Profiles of people engaged in the Society's work [Page 4]

Fr. Robert Frommelt, SJ

Assistant to the president
The Jesuit Partnership, Milwaukee

Time on the Job: 3 years After 45 years of teaching and pastoral work, Fr. Frommelt "retired" to an active-as-ever life in 1977. Following a stint as the Jesuit Mission Service's assistant director, he joined the Wisconsin Province staff in 1996. The 92-year-old Fr. Frommelt rides the bus to work every day; he builds relationships with donors and represents the Partnership at myriad functions. Youthful of spirit, faithful, inspiring, and spiritually uplifting, Fr. Frommelt routinely leaves people half his age huffing in his energetic dust.

Fr. Bernard Bush, SJ

Retreat director, Jesuit Retreat House,
Los Altos, California
Time on the job: 6 years

In his 48 years as a Jesuit, Fr. Bernard Bush has been a retreat director, sculptor, private pilot, psychological therapist, and spiritual director. He also helped turn the olive crop at El Retiro San Inigo, the Jesuit Retreat House of Los Altos, into olive oil. Does he ever find life at El Retiro a little boring? "Never," he says. "Exciting things happen here--interior things. Life here is like falling into a tub of God."

Mr. Simon Chiu

English teacher,
St. Ignatius College Prep, San Francisco
Time on the job: 6 years

Mr. Chiu, who teaches English to sophomores and seniors at St. Ignatius, emigrated with his family from Hong Kong in 1977 and attended Ignatius and Santa Clara University, where he received a BA in English in 1992. He developed and teaches an Asian American literature class for seniors, coaches the speech and debate teams, and moderates the Asian Students' Coalition. During summers Mr. Chiu directs the Uplift Summer Program, an academic enrichment program for junior-high students from inner-city San Francisco.

Dr. Celeste Grant

Resident, Maywood Primary Care Clinic
Loyola University Chicago Medical Center
Time on the job: 2 years

Dr. Grant, an internal medicine resident at Loyola, works at the Maywood Clinic, a joint effort of Loyola's Medical Center and the Cook County Department of Public Health. The medicine she practices brings her in contact with low-income residents of Chicago's near western suburbs, many of whom suffer from chronic high blood pressure and diabetes and have little or no medical insurance.