Mr. Kiley’s Term Papers

While I was living in Chicago , I had the chance to visit with Mike Gerardi and his lovely family. Our conversations would recall the quality of education we received at IHM. Mike remembers our senior English teacher, Mr. Kiley, returning our term papers to us with giant quotation marks from beginning to end. We all had to do our papers over again. Little did we realize what that lesson would mean until we each entered graduate studies and had to write a thesis for our Masters’ program.
Mike received a Business degree and is serving in upper level management. My Masters Degree was in Spirituality. My studies at IHM made me realize that I would never become an accountant or Financial advisor since I struggled in math. But the language studies opened a niche for my future. I am grateful for studies in Latin and Spanish. I eventually learned Italian and have used these three languages for congregational as well as personal ventures.

Rick DiLeo SCJ-Class of 1970