Fr. David BarrAlumni Board ChairmanFr. David BarrAlumni Board Chairman

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Alumni Board News

This past year has been an exciting one for the St. Vladimir’s Seminary Alumni Association. Following the approval of bylaws for the Association by the Seminary’s Board of Trustees, the alumni elected their own alumni board members for the first time in the history of the Seminary. The newly elected Alumni Board includes Fr. Theodore Paraskevopoulos, Fr. Paul Hodge, Fr. Abi Chacko, Matushka Michelle Jannakos, Gregory Abdalah, and Vitaly Permiakov. These six new members join Matushka Valerie Zahirsky, Matushka Alexandra Safchuk, and myself—all from the prior, “appointed” board. This coming year, we will be electing three new members for the Alumni Board as the terms of senior board members come to an end.

Continue the Tradition

Protodeacon Joseph Matusiak, Director of Alumni and Recruitment and alumnus ('06), invites you to look back and move forward:

Protodeacon Joseph Matusiak, Director of Alumni and RecruitmentProtodeacon Joseph Matusiak, Director of Alumni and Recruitment“I am excited to use my experience, both growing up in the Church and also being a student here, to encourage other students in their vocations and service to the Church. I want to create a similar excitement in other students to attend our seminary and to re-ignite the relationships of our alumni with their alma mater.

“Especially, I want to see my work, and that of the seminary, as meeting our alumni where they are. In other terms, what can we do from here, in the areas of continuing education and assistance to them? What can we offer?”

PDn. Joseph formerly spent four years as the deacon and secretary to Archbishop Job, bishop of the Diocese of the Midwest of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), of blessed memory. He also is on the Board of the Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF), a nationwide college campus ministry.

If you are an alumnus/a send your recent news to PDn. Joseph.  He'll post smaller notices and family news as "Vital Signs" in Alumni E-News and feature major life events  as profiles in our Website's Alumni News section.