Everyone enjoyed being around him. He was always a very upbeat individual. Mark always seemed to find the positive things. Everyone on the team, all 100, considered him a good friend. The scholarship has been designated for a scholar-athlete who majors in criminal justice or a related field.
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Lay ministry graduates rise to challenge of church leadership Eight years ago campus ministers at the University of Dayton developed a lay ministry certificate program to prepare college students to take on volunteer leadership roles in the Catholic church. Today that program, believed by Catholic ministry leaders to be one of the most ambitious in the country, is gaining in popularity and giving students an edge in the ministry job market. Started in 1989 by Father Chris Conlon, S.M., director of campus ministry at UD, the program is a response to the decline in ordained clergy and members of religious orders. And we saw an interest from the students. So we put the two together.