Class of 2022 Visits DC

As part of their religion curriculum, our 8th graders have been reading Elie Wiesel’s Night, which highlights the atrocities of Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–45. To follow up on the reading, Deacon Ames planned a trip to the U.S. Holocaust Museum, so students could witness first-hand the Nazi atrocities. On Monday, March 26, the entire class traveled to Washington, DC, to visit the museum, while also making at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Korean War Memorial, and the Lincoln Memorial, thanks to the history department.

Prior to the trip, the class voted for four students to represent them at Vietnam Veterans Memorial and make a print of several names connected to Loyola. AJ Larkin, Alex Jones, Baba Shonaiya, and Chris Fleschner were all picked to make the rubbings. Fr. Aloysius Paul McGonigal, who was a teacher here in the early '60s, was killed trying to administer Last Rights to the Marines during the Tet Offensive in February 1968, and Private First Class Mark Preis '64 was killed three weeks into his tour in October 1969. View photos from the trip below.