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Michael Crookston
  • Philosophy
  • Class of 2015
  • Clinton, OH

Michael Crookston Travels to El Salvador with John Carroll University to Promote Social Justice

2016 Feb 1

Michael Crookston was among 15 students who recently traveled with John Carroll University President Rev. Robert L. Niehoff, S.J., to El Salvador to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the deaths of four U.S. churchwomen. The El Salvador Immersion Experience is sponsored by the University's Department of Campus Ministry and the Office of Mission and Identity, and is part of a course in which the John Carroll students were enrolled.

John Carroll University's engagement in El Salvador supports the Catholic partnership established with the region by the Cleveland Catholic Diocese over fifty years ago. The objective of the class and trip are to demonstrate John Carroll University's support of the Diocese and other Catholic partners working for peace and human rights.

JCU Faculty and staff members also accompanied the special delegation of students during their trip to El Salvador to celebrate the lives of Sr. Maura Clarke, Sr. Ita Ford, Sr. Dorothy Kazel, and lay missionary Jean Donovan, who were brutally murdered on December 2, 1980, for their work and commitment to the poor during the civil war in El Salvador. Kazel, a Cleveland native, earned a graduate degree from John Carroll. Donovan volunteered in Cleveland.