Professor's new book looks at Jesuits' contributions to education

Published: 2007-12-06

OMAHA, Neb. (CNS) -- If the Jesuits are looking for a spokeswoman in Omaha, they need not look any further than Eileen Wirth. She has worked professionally with the Jesuits for 16 years as a professor at Creighton University and entrusted her son's high school education to them at Creighton Prep. And she just completed a 211-page book on Jesuit high schools titled "They Made All the Difference: Life-Changing Stories from Jesuit High Schools," published by Loyola Press. "I have fallen in love with Jesuit education," said Wirth, who is chair of Creighton's journalism and mass communication department. "I thought there are bound to be lots of stories of people whose lives were changed by these high schools and wouldn't it be fun to search them out," she said in an interview with the Catholic Voice, newspaper of the Omaha Archdiocese. And search them out she did, visiting nine Jesuit high schools and conducting countless interviews. "They Made All the Difference: Life-Changing Stories from Jesuit High Schools" can be ordered online through loyolapress.org and amazon.com.

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