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New president appointed for Jesuit High

STAFF REPORT

Published: 12.14.07

TAMPA | Father Alfred C. Kammer, provincial of the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus, has appointed Jesuit Father Richard C. Hermes as the new president of Jesuit High School in Tampa beginning the 2008-2009 school year. He will replace Jesuit Father Joseph F. Doyle, who has been president of the school since 1996, the longest continuous leadership tenure in the school’s 108-year history.

Father Hermes, 43, is a native of Shreveport, La., and a graduate of Jesuit High School there. He studied at Loyola University in New Orleans and Louisiana State University and earned bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and classics from St. Louis University. He also earned a master’s degree in classics from the State University of New York in New York City, a master of divinity from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass., and his licentiate in sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Institute in Rome and Jerusalem.

Ordained in 1998, Father Hermes has been pastor at Immaculate Conception Parish in New Orleans since March 2006. His background includes 10 years of teaching experience in Jesuit secondary education at Jesuit High School in New Orleans from 1991-1994 and 2000-2005, where he taught theology, Latin, Greek, and speech. From 2000-2005, he also served as theology department head, school chaplain, staff formation program director, curriculum committee co-chairman, co-founder of the school’s Christian Life Community and the pro-life club. He also led delegations to the World Youth Day celebrations in Toronto, Canada, and Cologne, Germany.

His professional associations include service as president of the board of directors of the Harry Thompson Center homeless shelter in New Orleans and Reconcile New Orleans, as well as the board of directors of Good Shepherd Nativity School in New Orleans. He is a past member of the board of directors of Jesuit High School of New Orleans. He is a member of the Catholic Biblical Association of America. He is expected to arrive in Tampa in late May of 2008. Father Doyle will remain in his position as president of Jesuit High School until then.

Jesuit High School is a private, all-male Catholic high school that has been educating young men in the Tampa Bay area since 1899.

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