Honorable Mention, Amateur

Creighton Prep student Bryan Gates feeds a child at Hogar Luby, an orphanage for handicapped children in Santiago, Dominican Republic. Bryan was part of Creighton Prep's Institute for Latin American Concern (ILAC) trip, run in cooperation with the ILAC program at Creighton University. He and other students and faculty lived and worked with the people of rural villages for two weeks. The work itself is in the Jesuit tradition; the relationships that we formed with the people were an even stronger part of that tradition.

--Mr. Thomas Hare, Omaha (Mr. Hare, who graduated from Creighton Prep in June, will attend Saint Louis University this fall.)

Honorable Mention, Amateur

A retreatant grasps the hand of the Ascension statue at the Jesuits' Sacred Heart Retreat House in Sedalia, Colorado. In one instant she gives form to two Jesuit ideals: to be a companion of Jesus and to see, in the words of the Jesuits' 34th general congregation, "solidarity with women as integral to our mission."

--Fr. Vincent Hovley, SJ, Sacred Heart Jesuit Retreat House, Sedalia, Colorado

Honorable Mention, Amateur

Kate Bowler, Jennifer Rosales, Karen Dazols, Beth Suman, Krissy Hansell, Erin Scollin, and Heidi Lavelle, members of St. Ignatius's Varsity Water Polo Team, shaved their heads in support of teammate Danica Skibola, who lost her hair after chemotherapy to combat Hodgkin's lymphoma. "I'll never forget how much my coach and my team have done for me," says Danica. "Everyone at SI has been wonderful to me and has helped me through this very difficult time."

--Mr. Paul Totah, Editor, Genesis IV, St. Ignatius College Prep, San Francisco

Honorable Mention, Professional

In the words of the Jesuits' 34th general congregation, "The Christian message is to be open to all cultures, bound to no single culture and made accessible to every human person through a process of inculturation, by which the Gospel introduces something new into the culture and the culture brings something new to the richness of the Gospel." This child walks in a Good Friday procession through the streets of Managua, Nicaragua, where I journeyed to photograph Xavier students studying and working.

--Mr. Gregory Rust, Director for Photography, Xavier University, Cincinnati

Honorable Mention, Amateur

Companions of Jesus
Wilnaud Pierre, a street child in Cap Haitien, Haiti, holds hands with Fairfield University's Fr. Paul Carrier, SJ. Over the last three years. Fr. Carrier has brought more than 100 members of the university community and local area to work with the boys in Cap Haitien as part of the Pierre Toussaint Project, founded by Doug Perlitz, a Fairfield University grad who has lived in Haiti for four years. The project includes a school, bathing program, and new residential program.

--Mr. Marc Vanasse, Director of Publications, Canterbury School, New Milford, Connecticut

Honorable Mention, Amateur

Xavier University student Claire Mugavin participated in the university's Service Learning Semester in Nicaragua. This program helps students learn to put the concept "Men and Women for Others" into practice. Claire is helping one of the children at the place where she worked, a nutrition project in Managua.

--Ms. Katherine Hammett, Director, International Student Services, Xavier University, Cincinnati