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EDITORIAL

In this new edition of the ETC Newsletter, I would like to refer to two of the resolutions taken at the 1997 World Union Congress in Sydney. They are those of Twinning and the Arrupe Dollar.
I believe that these two resolutions were taken in the most Ignatian way of thinking. Twinning, as Fr.Duminuco points out in his contribution to this edition, was introduced for the first time in the Jesuit Company by the Fr.General, at that time (1969), Pedro Arrupe. Twinning is the outmost expression of friendship and sharing. Two things that today's world needs badly.
In Twinning we take from others, but more important, we have the opportunity to give. It is only by giving that we receive. Twinning is brotherhood, is the opportunity to find new cultures, new ways of life. TWINNING is a concept that well taken will enrich our lives. I would like to invite all Alumni Associations and Federations to give Twinning an opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities to do so. If your association has the willingness but doesn't know how to start, contact Fr, Duminuco or our Vice President, Mr. Bernard Thompson, they will be more than pleased to help you.
The Pedro Arrupe foundation was founded at the Versalles, France, Alumni/ae Congress in 1982. It was decided at that time that the foundation was to be the social arm of our World Union. The foundation has engaged in many activities to benefit not only those in needs in developing countries but also some of our fellow alumni. As Mr. Laurent Gregoire and Mr. Eric De Langsdorff point out in their article on this edition of the ETC, the Arrupe Foundation is in need of funds.
At Sydney, one of our resolutions asked all our Alumni/ae Associations and Federations to collect, once a year, one US. Dollar per member. This purpose which could seems difficult in some countries could be easily done in others. The Arrupe foundation needs your help and contributions so I would like to ask for your firm commitment. Your Association will also benefit from the Arrupe Dollar to support your own social work in your country.
In January, when I had the opportunity to talk to Fr. Peter Hans Kolvenbach, he was very enthusiastic about this program that he thinks will prove the real worldwide solidarity among the Jesuit Alumni/ae. When I asked Fr. Kolvenbach if we could collect this money also from the actual students in the Jesuit schools, he said that it was possible if we request the permission of the Principal of the schools. So why don't we try to extend this program to all members of our Jesuit educational system.
I invite all our Associations and Federations to work hard to comply with this important Sydney resolution. The Arrupe Foundation needs our help.
Fabio Tobón
President WUJA


THE ARRUPE DOLLAR CAMPAIGN


As we have been promising in the latest ETC issues, the time has come to give a few details about the 1999 Arrupe Dollar campaign.
This campaign is the follow-up to a decision made at the world congress in Sydney in July 1997 (Resolution n° 11).
The aim is to allow the World Union, via the Pedro Arrupe World Association, its "social arm", to support humanitarian or educational programs in favor of the poor and refugees on the different continents, particularly in partnership with the Jesuit Refugee Service.
The idea is that the Associations will be invited to deduct one dollar from every member subscription to finance these programs (which will be chosen in agreement with the steering committee of the World Union). Each national federation — where it exists — will be responsible for gathering the sums collected directly from the associations which it represents. Where there is no national federation, or it is in the process of being constituted, the continental delegates to the World Union, assisted by the World Union Secretariat, will be asked to inform local associations about the campaign.
After consultation with the World Union steering committee, the following procedures have been defined: As announced in the March 1999 issue of ETC, the Pedro Arrupe World Association has already agreed to participate in an educational and cultural development program, in association with the Jesuit Refugee Service in the great lakes region of Africa, in two refugee camps housing some 40,000 people (cost of programme: 30.000 US$ ). This programme alone is a measure of how much we are counting on you this year.
Laurent Grégoire and Eric de Langsdorff
Vice-Presidents of the Pedro Arrupe World Association
Acting for Fabio Tobon, President, François-Xavier Camenen, Secretary and Denis Larcher, Treasurer
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TWINNING
by Father Vincent Duminuco, S.J. - 1999-06-23


It was Fr. Pedro Arrupe, then General of the Society of Jesus, who introduced the concept of twinning relationships among Jesuit provinces throughout the world in 1996. Fr. Arrupe was implementing a decree of the 31st General Congregation of the Society calling for interprovincial cooperation. The objective was to establish relationships of mutual assistance and growth between provinces. Typically a province from the developing world was twinned with one from the developed world.
There are two things to note especially about these relationships. First,
both provinces were to give to one another and
both were to profit from this relationship. This was to avoid building dependency relationships, which in time could generate patronizing attitudes or resentments. Second, what the provinces involved in the twinning relationships give and get varies considerably. Of course, financial support for seminarians or apostolic works helps provinces of slender means to grow and effectively serve others. But money is not the only thing given. Some poorer provinces have been especially blessed with large number of vocations. Some send their scholastics to teach during Regency in schools or universities of their twinned provinces _ retreats, informal education models, social service projects, and the like from both provinces help all those involved to grow. Opportunities to study or serve in the other province for a time broadens awareness of cultural differences and enables participants better to evaluate their own culture and to relate better to the emerging global village. And friendships have developed and grown deepening awareness of the bond we share as Jesuits.
Results of these relationships have been judged overwhelmingly positive over the last thirty years. And this success is due in large measure to the experience of mutual assistance.
At the last Congress of the World Union of Jesuit Alumni/ae in Sydney in 1997, a resolution was adopted to encourage development of twinning relationships among Jesuit alumni/ae and Jesuit works in countries around the world. The pioneering example of how this could work was that of the Jesuit alumni of Britain and the Jesuit gymnazia in Lithuania.
Approximately eight years ago, when the newly liberated government of Lithuania restores the Jesuit gymnazium in Kaunas to the Jesuits, there were extraordinary needs for everything from books and blackboards to restoration of walls that had collapsed in order to make the facilities safe. When the Jesuit Alumni Counselor who had visited Kaunas met with the Jesuit of Europe, he shared with them what he found in Lithuania. There was tremendous enthusiasm to move ahead to reintroduce Jesuit education, but beyond needs involving physical facilities, there were needs to understand the specific identity, values, goals, pedagogy of Jesuit Education and to share these effectively with Jesuits and lay people who had not had any experience of Jesuit education for fifty years. In addition, the psychological scars of a regime that depersonalized and de-Christianized so much of life took its toll on those who now were to start Jesuit schools. The Jesuit Alumni of Britain resolved to do what they could. They sent a small group of their members to visit Kaunas for a month. While there they say for themselves the needs, and more important, they got to know the people. Out of their personal contacts emerged not only shipments of school furniture and supplies, but also visits by people. Jesuit alumni, old and young, came to spend time with their new found friends who shared the same Jesuit goals. Some came as teachers of English in the school, some as technical specialist advisors in construction, some as spiritual and psychological counselors. And they have continued to come over the years. Some of their Lithuanian colleagues went to Glasgow to participate in training courses in spirituality. Friendships deepened. Discovery of the Lithuanian culture has enriched many British alumni who have realized the universal love of God in brothers and sisters across the seas. Here we cannot recount all the developments, but even a brief list helps to see how this twinning relationship has been functioning.
Something similar developed with Italian Jesuit Alumni working in Albania over the last six years, teaching law at the university, arranging for Albanian young people to study at Jesuit secondary schools in Italy, etc.
The challenge is now squarely before us to implement the twinning resolution of the Sydney World Union Congress. Mr. Bernard Thompson, Vice President of the World Union of Jesuit Alumni/ae, will coordinate and encourage development of twinning relationships. When asked how Jesuit alumni might effectively help in twinning today, Fr. General Kolvenbach replied, "They can help greatly in assisting and working with Jesuit schools, which are in need".
Fr. General's Delegate to the World Union will work with Mr. Thompson in providing suggestions and advice for all Jesuit alumni associations or federations interested in beginning a Twinning relationship.
Contact Mr. Thompson at:
22 Elm Grove - Hildenborough - Tonbridge - Kent TN119 HF, GREAT BRITAIN
Fax: 44-173/283 239 - E-Mail: bawthomp@classic.msm.com


AGREEMENT BETWEEN ASIA - BARTOLINA COLOMBIA AND FE Y ALEGRÍA - PRESENTATION OF THE JESUIT PROVINCIAL OF COLOMBIA, FATHER HORACIO ARANGO, S.J.


Following are the worlds of the Jesuit. Provincial of Colombia in the ceremony of the agreement between ASIA Bartolina and "Fe y Alegria", a Jesuit Educational Organization in the country, to work for the education of the marginalized.

Dear Friends:
For the Society of Jesus and in particular for the Colombian Province it is a real joy and privilege to witness the strategic alliance between two institutions that have their origin in the Ignatian spiritually: Jesuit Alumni and Fé y Alegría.
It was the laud outcry and urgent need of the poor, which moved the Society to the decree 4 of the General Congregation 32. This outcry was voiced in the cry of father Arrupe to the Jesuit Alumni/ae that met in Valencia, Spain (1973). "If we give to the world "justice" and to the expression "to educate for justice" all the meaning that they have today in our church, I Believe that we must response with sincerity and humility: no, we have not educated you for justice". That speech was not welcomed among the President of the World Union and he resigned. But the mandate to be men and women for others was born.
Words by Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., during the Congress of the Social Apostolic, Napoles, Italy, 1997.
In Colombia only 30% of the children in scholar age will begin school. Of those that enter into school only 60% finish the 5th grade. Out of 6'400.000 children between 12 and 17 years old, a third part, 1'700.000 are working children. 70 % of the children that work don't go to school. In 1997 there were some 37.000 people death by violent causes, of which 4.171 were young people below 18 years old.
The good words of our Lord Jesus to humanity are linked to the practice of solidarity and fraternity. The brotherhood of men and women in this world is a condition for the happiness of all. The paternity of our God, our Father is lost when there is not justice in the world with the poor and the displaced of any kind. The whole live of Jesus Christ and the tradition of the Israel faith are targeted to give solidarity and brotherhood all over the world.
Since the beginning of the Christian faith to have events of truth solidarity is a recognition of the authenticity of the gospel and the presence of Jesus Christ among us. Today like yesterday, this solidarity could bring death and hate in our world to those that practice it. Any questioning to the power of those that hold the richness in our countries and are against real transformations of the people has a response in violence.
Along the centuries the Christians have tried to create different forms to live the fraternity that Jesus tough us. In this history, the Society of Jesus has contributed in the search for ways of Christian live through the ethical and social content of its educational project. In this way is how the alumni/ae Associations and Fe y Alegria were born. They were founded as centers of apostolic action in which lays and Jesuits share the mission that Jesus inherited us. I am convinced that the Alumni/ae Associations in our schools with their actions and decisions challenge the validity of the Ignatian formation for today's world.
The violence of the war that we face, the different forms of aggressions to the boys and girls and the extreme poverty of millions of people are today the new challenges for the Jesuit Alumni/ae Associations in the world and to the members and instructors of Fe y Alegria.
To seal this agreement today, confirms the above purpose precisely now when the scene of war in our country seems to get us all involved without exclusions and the people marginalized growths immensely. It is for all of us present today a sign of hope in our future.
In the name of the Jesuit Province in Colombia, I give you my blessings and wish you the best results in this practical gesture of solidarity.
Many thanks,
Horacio Arango, S.J.



NUCLEUS


The following is the contribution of Professor Vicente Pain, Counselor of the Alumni/ae Association in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

TAKE YOUR PLACE
At last what is Nucleus? And what are the objectives of The Nucleus. Circumference. Circle. Integrable. Undissociable. Abstract. Concrete. The Nucleus is abstract. It is an idea. It is a willingness: and state. A proposal.
The nucleus is concrete. It is concretized in people. In the people that has been integrated with it. They integrate themselves and tend to expand. Like its name choose: "A circle" with its circumference that expand without closing…" And the integrity concrete, could be abstract. To the level of ideas, of the willingness and of the state. ¿And is that good? And the abstract integration becomes concrete in doing it. ¿And is that good? For that reason the objectives of Nucleus are:

¿And you? ¿Where are you?. ¿What are you doing? Chare what you are doing and come with us to do always the best.
Professor Vicente Pain - "Ancora" Do Nucleo
Saint Ignatius School - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/1930/nucleo.htm



NEWS FROM THE WORLD


INDIA
Dear Fabio,
Thanks for publishing in the ETC my report on the 2nd NATIONAL CONGRESS at Calcutta and other events/happening in India. Truly the ETC has become a vehicle of World News.
To start with the scene in India at the moment is one of a certain degree of anxiety with the prospects of war with Pakistan looming large. But life has to carry on even as we hear the sound of fury of battle.

  1. The newly formed Governing Council of the Federation of Jesuit Alumni(ae) Institutions of India met for the first time at Mumbai on April 25th.The discussions veered around the point of bringing together all the institutions numbering approx.150 together under the wings of the Federation. Also lines of communication were required to be established with all of them. Not all were connected through the e-mail. It was decided that a meeting with the Jesuit Province Co-ordinators would be held at Bangalore in September to discuss these points. Furthermore it was stressed upon the Council members the necessity to get back to their respective Zones and see that the respective Zonal Councils were formed latest by October. Zonal Councils were really the wheels on which the Federation was to move. This would facilitate working at the grass-root level and help establishing communication with alumni of all the institutions. It was also stressed that all institutions should be encouraged to join the Federation. The role of the Jesuits heading the different institutions was also stressed upon as it was felt that at the initial stage it is they who would have to act as the principal animators. Already Zonal councils had been formed in the West (covering Mumbai, Gujrat & Goa) and South(Tamil Nadu,Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka & Kerala).A meeting of the Northern Zone has been convened at New Delhi in September whose theme would be "Values that we could carry into the next millenium".
  2. A group of 15 students and 2 teachers from St. Xavier's School, Calcutta visited Belvedere College at Dublin in mid-May on a student-exchange program. They studied the socio-economic scenario of Ireland and also helped in the exchange of cultural ideas of the two countries. A group of schoolboys have already been chosen by Belvedere College to visit Calcutta in November this year as part of the return visit.
  3. This is "result time" in India and most of the Jesuit Schools have fared well. The next generation of alumni(ae) are keeping the flag flying high.
  4. Most institutions held their annual Reunions between January & March and the scene was one of good fellowship and camaraderie. Many organizations like ALSOC are trying to chalk out plans for the Millenium celebrations. Also after the end of the financial year in March a lot of institutions held their Annual General Meetings to elect their committees for the next year. While in most places the old group continued but the growth of the alumni movement was seen.
  5. Efforts are on at most alumni organizations of India to raise funds and other resources to help the families of the soldiers of the Indian Army killed in the current Kashmir conflict. We also solicit help from our fellow brethren across the globe.
  6. On the evening of April 25th, we had a dinner-meet of Old Boys of our School now living at M'bai which was also attended by the members of the Federation as well as eminent alumni of the city of M'bai. After delving into nostalgia and memories I put it across to my fellow alumni that the mandate given to themselves by old boys in the next millenium world over is to "repay our debt to society". This evoked a lot of enthusiasm from the local alumni many of whom are deeply involved in social projects through their corporate connections. In fact the call was that the parent organization should seriously think of taking part in their activities and thus reach out to them. I feel this is also food for thought for the World Union where we have already agreed to `twin' with other organizations like the Rotary.
Warm personal regards,
KALYAN CHOWDHURY - Council Member India

AUSTRALIA


Early July, Father General of the Society of Jesus, Fr Peter-Hans Kolvenbach SJ, visited Australia for four days to celebrate the Sesquicentenary of the arrival of Jesuits in Australia. His visit, with his East Asia Assistant Fr Paul Tan SJ, was very busy, with him meeting and talking to as many Jesuits and friends of the Jesuits as possible.
He is pictured here with Fr Daven Day SJ, the Australian Provincial and Fr Des Dwyer SJ, President of the Australian Jesuit alumni Association.

THE AUSTRALIAN JESUIT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
The year of Sesquicentenary Celebrations continues here in Australia. Many wonderful events have been held and attendance at these has been impressive.
Over six weeks during February and March the "Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series" was held. This was a key event in the Sesquicentenary program and was an initiative of Uniya, the Jesuit Social Justice Centre.
The series took as its theme the Australian social conscience, it probed and encouraged discussion by people of good will on Australian values in relation to personal well being and social justice, religion, the State, science, technology, education and the arts. The combination of lay women and men as speakers with Jesuits making the formal responses was a popular and successful format.
The Lenten Series provoked widespread interest across the community, many people suggesting that something similar be a regular event. The attendance were very high during the entire six weeks, both in Sydney, New South Wales, at St Ignatius College and Xavier College in Melbourne, Victoria, the venues of the series.
The Lenten Seminar Series is now out in book form and Father General, Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach SJ, launched the book "Discerning the Australian Social Conscience" during his recent visit to Australia to mark the Sesquicentenary of the arrival of the Society of Jesus in Australia.
We were honoured and delighted to have Father Kolvenbach back in Australia exactly two years after his last visit when he attended the World Congress of Jesuit Alumni/ae held here in Sydney. On that visit he met so many of you who attended that Congress, wonderful memories of which are still very vivid in my mind.
Robyn Treseder
Council Member - Oceania - World Union of Jesuit Alumni/ae

UNITED STATES
Good news from the United States, as reported by Ron Ferreri on the possibility of organizing the first ever Congress of Alumni/ae in that country. Here is Ron's short report:
"In a meeting with colleagues from several northeastern institutions on June 18th a national congress of Jesuit Alumni (ae) in the year 2001 was discussed. Attendees resolved to conduct a survey of member institutions of the JSEA to determine willingness to participate and ability to help in producing well-known speakers for the event.
That's about it for now.
Ron Ferreri - Council Member North America"

From the USA, here is a contribution on a very good example to follow:
Alumni Experiment in Arizona: Two Years of Activity Designed to Bring Life to the Desert
Former students from 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States (and 39 high schools) who live in Arizona have launched an experiment that may prove to be a model for other cities around the world with a sizable number of Jesuit alumni. In the words of Robert Blair Kaiser, the co-founder of Jesuit Alumni in Arizona, "this is part of the fun of being a follower of Jesus who said that He had come so that we would have life and have it more abundantly. Part of that life is something called `friendship.' Most of us still have fond memories of our Jesuit experiences, and find it easy to make friends with others who have similar fond memories."
The Arizona alumni group, called JAAZ, was founded in May 1997 by Fr. Edward E. Callanan, SJ, pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church in Phoenix, and Kaiser, a former member of the Jesuits' California Province. JAAZ has sponsored two weekend retreats and put on programs featuring a number of Jesuits (and some former Jesuits) who come to tell of their varied work around the world. They also get together for social events — wine and cheese parties, picnics, baseball and football games, and theatre parties. They have an annual dinner on the Feast of St. Ignatius.
On May 26, 1998, JAAZ sponsored a screening of two unseen segments from "Nothing Sacred," the controversial dramatic television series that had just been canceled by ABC. The screening was followed by a panel-and-audience discussion afterward about "The Faith and TV," featuring Brother Michael Breault, SJ, one of the creators of the series. More than 500 showed up for a thought-provoking evening of adult television.
On October 30, 1998, Father Chris Corbally, an English Jesuit on the staff at the Vatican Observatory in Tucson, spoke to JAAZ members on the work of the Vatican Observatory in Tucson. More than 60 attended that talk, including some non-JAAZ members who wanted to know more about the long historic connection of the Jesuits and astronomy.
On January 15, 16 and 17, 1999, JAAZ had a Zen-Jesuit Retreat conducted by Michael Saso, a former Jesuit missionary in China who is now a priest in the Diocese of San Jose, California, ministering there to the Catholic Asian community. (He also works with Jesuits in Beijing.) Father Saso, who has graduate degrees from Yale and the University of London, is the author of 12 books and he is one of the world's leading experts in Asian spirituality.
In February 1999, JAAZ members attended a free 3-day seminar at the Vatican Observatory in Tucson called "Astronomy for Dummies." JAAZ also helped promote a Vatican Observatory calendar for the year 2000, put together by the Vatican Observatory in Tucson.
On May 7, JAAZ hosted a talk by Fr. Frank Stroud, a New York Jesuit, on Anthony DeMello, the Indian Jesuit spiritual writer who died in 1987, but was given a recent monitum by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Fr. Stroud directs the DeMello Foundation and is responsible for publishing some of DeMello's works and producing a TV program on DeMello.
JAAZ has a membership of 800 and is governed by a volunteer board of 30. It charges no dues, but relies on donations for incidental expenses, mainly postage.
Robert Blair Kaiser
14249 N. Third Ave - Phoenix, AZ 85023 - (602) 548-8827 - r_kaiser@speedchoice.com

COLOMBIA
After months of working on the formation of the Colombian Jesuit Alumni/ae Association in Colombia (ASIA Colombia) they have finished all the arrangements and they have finalized the status and by laws. A meeting of the different associations has been called in the city of Bucaramanga in August. Best wishes to the new Colombia Federation of Jesuit Alumni/ae.

PERU
The Peruvian association of Jesuit Alumni is preparing the first national congress of Alumni. It will be held in the city of Tacna in August of the year 2000. Congratulations for this initiative.

MEXICO
News from the Mexican Federation of Jesuit Alumni/ae - Presented by Carlos Alvarado, President of the Federation

  1. Dialog. Without any doubt the most relevant news in the last year was the dialog between our Federation and Father Provincial Mario López Barrio, S.J. and with eleven other members of the Province last November in Mexico City. The results of this meeting were many and very positive and above all we established a new base to strengthen our mutual cooperation and confidence (for a complete report, please contact Mr. Alvarado at acalvarados@gfnorte.com.mx)
  2. Projects. We would like to point out the important commitment of the alumni/ae Association en Mexico City (ASIA Ciudad de Mexico) to open in September two new Educational Institutions: the Instituto Patria Tercer Milenio, in the South of the city and another with the same name for children of scarce resources in Los Reyes, La Paz, which is a marginalized zone of the city. Both institutions will be opened in memory of the Instituto Patria by its alumni/ae who integrate ASIA Ciudad de Mexico.
  3. Associations. The alumni Association of Instituto Oriente in Puebla has re-initiated its activities with great enthusiasm after several years of having been disbanded.

VENEZUELA
We are pleased to announce the creation of a new Jesuit Alumni Association in the city of Maracaibo belonging to the Colegio Gonzaga. Congratulations to them and any communication could be addressed to its Vice President Mr. Eduardo Romero at: eromero@sa.omnes.net



SYMPOSIUM ON CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGH


We have received an invitation to submit paper proposals for the "The fourth international symposium on Catholic Social though and management education". The Symposium will be held at the Universidad Iberoameriana in Puebla, Mexico, from July 12 _ 14, 2000.
The theme of the symposium will be "Rethinking wealth creation and distribution in the Jubilee: A double challenge for Catholic Social Though and Management Education". The symposium will be simultaneously translated in Spanish and English.
The main purpose of the symposium is to explore the questions of the nature of wealth, its creation and distribution. The presentations will have to be focus on the following four areas:
  1. Wealth creation: What is well and how is it created? What theological, philosophical, economic and managerial concepts and insights can be game about wealth creation as its relates to entrepreneurship, creativity, the roll of knowledge, risk taken, competition, virtues, financialization of assets and so forth.
  2. Wealth distribution: What theological, philosophical, economic and managerial concepts and insights can we game about wealth distribution as its relates to property, capital ownership, compensation, knowledge and training, financial markets and so forth.
  3. Global market integration and wealth distribution and creation: How does the global integration of financial and product markets affect the creation and distribution of wealth and incomes, particularly for the Developing World.
  4. Curriculum and pedagogical materials on wealth distributions and creations: What roll do business schools and catholic universities have in educating responsible managers about wealth creation and distribution and what roll does catholic social though play in this education.
This symposium will follow the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools (IJABS) meeting from July 9 _ 12, 2000. At the last meeting of the IAJBS, held in Goa in January of this year, Mr. Arumai Raj, member of the Council of the World Union from India attended representing our Organization.
This symposium is a good opportunity to strength the relations of our World Union with the international association of Jesuit Business Schools (IAJBS). We invite all the associations and Federations of the World Union to present papers or ideas for this symposium. If you need more information please contact Mr. Michel J. Naughton at e-mail to mjnaughton@stthomas.edu or fax to 651-962-5710 in the USA.


STATISTICAL REPORT ON EDUCATION


The following chart shows the number of students by Geographical areas on the Jesuit Educational System. This information and a complete report were presented in the Newsletter "JHS Education S.J.". In the December 1998 issue, father Gabriel Codina, S.J., Secretary for Education gave a complete report of the data on the Educational System as was published by the Educational Institutions Directory of 1998. The information includes not only the works of the Society properly speaking but also those entrusted to the Society. This distinction is relevant at a time when the number of Jesuits is decreasing and new Governance structures and new forms of management of the apostolic works of the Society are appearing.
The statistics presented in the Newsletter include all those institutions which share the same Ignatian inspiration. For more information please refer to Father Gabriel Codina, S.J. at the International Center for Jesuit Education in Rome.

SUMMARY - N°. OF STUDENTS BY GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS
Univ. Coll. Tert Phil. Theo. Sem. Univ.Res. Other Second Primary Tech. Prof.A Tech. Prof.B Min.Sem. Other Total
N.Africa - Middle O. 6587 - - - 8500 2420 4503 503 100 - - 22640
South Africa 300 377 208 82 - 13972 8143 744 506 106 - 24438
South America 166212 8622 578 - - 59977 75557 4391 98 - 397927 713362
South Asia 18024 5550 413 333 - 104615 80978 648 1356 457 18931 231305
SouthEast Asia 69503 - 97 120 - 22154 22093 - 3332 100 - 117399
Oceania - - - 703 - 4450 1276 - - - - 6429
Europa 32439 27969 6632 1502 - 91064 44153 6404 - - 19233 229396
East Europe - - 2169 - - 1842 - - - - - 4011
North America- 190905 - 714 - - 20307 21434 - - - 1215 234575
Total 483970 42518 10811 2740 8500 320801 258137 12717 5392 663 437306 1583555