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About Rev. Edward J. Phillips, MM '68
Thursday, October 19, 2006
12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
Boston Room, Corcoran Commons
By invitation only
Biography
After graduating from Boston College in 1968, Rev. Phillips joined the Maryknoll Fathers. Upon the completion of his graduate studies, he was ordained a priest in 1974. Almost all of Rev. Phillips' priesthood has been spent in East Africa. He initially worked in the rural areas of Tanzania as a pastor, youth chaplain, assistant director of the language school, and assistant director of a leadership training center. In the mid-1980s, he was assigned to Dar es Salaam, where he did both administrative and pastoral work and served as the pastor to the president of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere.
In 1989 Rev. Phillips was transferred to Kenya, where he has served as a university chaplain and lecturer as well as the founder of the Eastern Deanery AIDS Program. Since 1993, this program has cared for over 40,000 poor people suffering from HIV/AIDS. At present, the program is the largest individual supplier of anti-retroviral treatment in Nairobi Province. The Eastern Deanery AIDS Relief Program also conducted the national pilot study for diagnostic testing and counseling in relation to tuberculosis, which has become the government protocol.
About the Lunch with a Leader Series
The Winston Center Lunch with a Leader Series brings
individuals to campus who have distinguished themselves in
their respective fields to share lunch, present a lecture and
engage in dialogue with a small group of undergraduates who
have a particular interest in the work area of the featured leader.