Through Ignatian Volunteer Corps, Peter Goschy began volunteering with San Miguel Schools in 2004 at the Back of the Yards Campus.  He spends two days a week with the students teaching Renaissance classes, reading with the students and providing support in Math, Science and Social Studies classes.  The Senior Connection features Peter and Ignatian Volunteer Corps in their January issue.

"Peter Goschy, 66, of Chicago, a retired Chicago public schools teacher, admitted he was angry when the inner city school where he had started a fine arts program was closed.  He was looking for fellowship as well as something to do.  The aspect of meeting in community monthly was appealing to him.  A graduate of Loyola Academy and Loyola University, he said, "I was not aware how much I had been influenced by the Jesuits until I joined IVC in 2002 and realized how the Ignatian spirituality had permeated by whole life."  Goshcy volunteered for two years at Deborah's Place for homeless women and now tutors at San Miguel School.  The Ignatian Volunteer Corps (IVC), founded in 1995 by two Jesuit priests, Father James Conroy and Charles Costello, is a national organization with programs in major cities across the country.  It gathers together retired men and women over 50 who want to share their skills and talents with the materially poor and at the same time deepen their own Christian faith by reflection and prayer based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatious Loyola."

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