The Giveback

Steve Page’s parents had a mantra. “It was,” he remembers, “You guys are going to get an education.” His LMU education was made possible by the generosity of others.

For people with cancer in the gastrointestinal area, radiation therapy can be an ordeal as well as a path to better health. A 10-minute treatment may leave them with tiredness, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

The Jarlath Curran Technology-Enhanced Classroom that will be found in the new Life Sciences Building of Seaver College will include technology and devices to promote both group work by students and faculty-student collaboration during class time.

Gross understands that he was fortunate that his parents saw the value of his going to college. That’s why he has set up a scholarship at LMU for mechanical engineering students who are the first in their families to pursue a college degree.

As a Loyola engineering graduate and a longtime member of LMU’s Board of Regents, Tom Hynes ’59 has attended his fair share of commencement exercises, but next year will be the graduation of the first cohort of the ACCESS program that Hynes and his wife, Marlene, support financially.

By the time she finished fourth grade, Meg Grant ’81 had decided that she would spend her life writing. “I’m one of those weird and maybe fortunate people,” Grant says, “who knew what I wanted to be when I was very young.”

Talk to Christopher Silva for a few minutes and you may start thinking that age is your friend. He’s convinced.

Scholarships helped Frank Amato pay for college. “I got help from the university, and I even borrowed money. I feel indebted to the university. Not only did it give me the best education in the world, but it prepared me for life.”