{"id":1143,"date":"2013-03-06T10:44:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T15:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:49:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:49:02","slug":"2013-ips-damen-award-winner-jimmie-l-flewellen-sr-mps-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"2013 IPS Damen Award Winner Jimmie L. Flewellen, Sr., MPS &#8217;83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>IPS Damen Award Recipient 2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Named for Loyola University Chicago\u2019s primary founder, Arnold Damen, S.J., this award is granted to an alumnus(a) from each of Loyola\u2019s schools and colleges.\u00a0 It recognizes the qualities of leadership in industry, leadership in community, and service to others.\u00a0 This year IPS is proud and pleased to announce that Father Garanzini will bestow this award upon<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>MR. JIMMIE FLEWELLEN<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jimmie L. Flewellen, Sr. is a native of Columbus, Georgia, born in 1926.\u00a0\u00a0 He completed high school in Columbus and was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1945.\u00a0 After his service he married and moved to Chicago.\u00a0 He converted to the Roman Catholic faith in 1960. In 1970 he joined the training program for Permanent Deacons in the Archdiocese of Chicago, and was ordained a deacon as a member of the first class, in 1972.\u00a0 He began service in his home parish, St. Thaddeus, a ministry he continued for 34 years.\u00a0 In 1985, he was appointed a Catholic Chaplain for the United States Justice Department.\u00a0 In this appointment he was the first African American Catholic Chaplain in the History of the United States.\u00a0 He served as prison chaplain in Springfield, Missouri from 1985 to 1993.\u00a0 In 1993 he was transferred to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago as its Head Chaplain.\u00a0 He held that position for nine years, until his retirement.\u00a0 Deacon Flewellen received a Master of Pastoral Studies in 1983.\u00a0 This award will be presented at Founders\u2019 Day, June 8, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPS Damen Award Recipient 2013 Named for Loyola University Chicago\u2019s primary founder, Arnold Damen, S.J., this award is granted to an alumnus(a) from each of Loyola\u2019s schools and colleges.\u00a0 It recognizes the qualities of leadership in industry, leadership in community, and service to others.\u00a0 This year IPS is proud and pleased to announce that Father <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=1143\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4973,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/4973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}