We are pleased to welcome two new members of our board of directors who will begin their service this fall.

Gerry Cavanaugh was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and educated at the University of Michigan (B.A. in History) and at St. Mary's Seminary & University (M.A. in Theology). She became a chaplain in the pastoral care department at Stella Maris in 1996 and has been working in long-term care with the chronically ill and dying and their families ever since. As a graduate student Gerry attended the 9th National Work-shop of Christians and Jews here in Baltimore. "It was a horizon-expanding, attitude-changing experience," she says. "The workshop introduced me to Judaism and Jews and resulted in my changing my image/concept of God." Later, while attending ICJS lectures, classes, and discussions, Gerry came to appreciate the beauty, the excitement, and the vital necessity of Jews and Christians coming together to study each other's texts, to experience dialogue, and to begin to heal the wounds mutually inflicted over the centuries in the name of our respective religions. She believes the ICJS pro-vides a way to bring our faith traditions together to address the violence that threatens our world.

The Reverend Harold Ridley, S.J. is President of Loyola College in Maryland, a Jesuit institution founded in Baltimore in 1852 that today enrolls over 6,000 students in graduate and undergraduate programs. A native of Jersey City, New Jersey, he was educated at Fordham University, Woodstock College, and the Union Theological Seminary before earning his Ph.D. in English Literature from New York University. For over twenty years, Father Ridley taught English at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, where he also served as Chairman of the English Department and as the College's chief academic offi-cer. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1956 and was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1969. On July 1, 1994, Father Ridley became Loyola's twenty-third President. Father Ridley serves on the ICJS board and also on the boards of College of the Holy Cross, Loyola High School -- Blakefield, Crown Central Petroleum Corporation, and the American Council on Education. He is co-chair of the Greater Baltimore Public Outreach Committee on Regionalism.