Operations Staff Nominated as Hidden Chaplains

Congratulations to the 24 Operations staff members nominated as Hidden Chaplains this year. The program, run by the Office of Religious Life, seeks student nominations of staff members who make a positive impact on their day-to-day. 

Hidden Chaplains "may work in dining halls, offices or take care of their buildings. With their quiet generosity and work, Hidden Chaplains are the backbone of how we make this university compassionate."

• Joe Abate, Custodian
• Joe Ayindenaba, Custodian
• Yaw Agyei, Custodian
• Kwasi Boateng *, Custodian
• Erik Breza, Mover
• Eunide Brioche, Custodian
• Jean Chery, Custodian
• Nely Chinchilla, Custodian
• Terrence Daves, Custodian
• Will Dickerson, Custodian
• Esther Figueroa, Custodian
• Nancy Garcia Roman, Custodian
• Kenneth Grayson, Supervisor, Electric Shop
• Michael Hayes, Custodian
• Jim Inman, Custodian
• Josue Lajeunesse, Custodian
• Roxana Mastroianni, Custodian
• Pedro Maysonet *, Custodian
• Brandon Meadows, Custodian
• Celia Montenegro, Custodian
• Karen Montgomery, Custodian
• Justin Philipsheck, Custodian
• Peter Strang, Custodian
• Keith Upshur, Custodian

The Hidden Chaplains program aims to help students notice and appreciate the compassion around them, to create an opportunity for both private and public gratitude, to notice and deepen informal friendships. The Office of Religious Life's hope is that the nomination process itself will encourage students to reflect on their interactions with strangers and its meaning. In a typical year, everyone nominated is invited to a dinner with the student nominators, and is asked to bring their own hidden chaplain, with the notion that they too have people who change their day in similar ways. 

*Staff received 3 or more nominations