{"id":3725,"date":"2018-11-01T12:35:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T17:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=3725"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:45:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:45:23","slug":"ips-remembers-randy-gibbons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=3725","title":{"rendered":"IPS Remembers Rachel \u201cRandy\u201d Gibbons"},"content":{"rendered":"
(IPS would like to thank Professor Emeritus Peter Gilmour for penning the following commemoration.)<\/em><\/h6>\n

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Rachel “Randy” Gibbons<\/strong> died of cancer in mid-October.\u00a0 During her thirty year career at IPS<\/strong><\/em>, Randy served with five directors in several positions.\u00a0 She started as Receptionist and quickly moved to Administrative Assistant.\u00a0 During the last several years of her tenure at IPS, she served as Assistant Director.\u00a0 During Randy\u2019s time at Loyola, IPS developed several new degree programs and relocated to the Water Tower Campus.\u00a0 For several years, she administered the scholarship program, and was the behind-the-scenes person who not only kept track of an amazing amount of detail but also organized a myriad of IPS special events, Leavetakings and Graduations among them.<\/p>\n

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One faculty member summed up Randy\u2019s unique approach to her work: \u201cRandy\u2019s emphasis was pastoral.\u00a0 No job was beneath her, no rank was above her, and she found ways and means to support so many students who might otherwise have fallen through the cracks.\u201d\u00a0 Randy\u2019s long and loving service to IPS was honored several years ago when an endowed scholarship was established and named in her honor.<\/p>\n

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Randy was a 1968 graduate of Mundelein College, and shortly before she died, was delighted to celebrate her 50th anniversary with her roommates from college.\u00a0\u00a0 While working here at IPS, Randy enrolled in the Master of Pastoral Studies<\/em> degree program and received her Master\u2019s degree from IPS in 1988.<\/p>\n

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During her retirement years, Randy continued her lifelong love of reading.\u00a0 She was quick to recommend engaging books she had read.\u00a0 She also enjoyed going out to dinner with her many friends.\u00a0 But, first and foremost, was her family.\u00a0 Her four children and eight grandchildren lovingly engaged much of her time and attention.\u00a0 Her husband Bill who suffered from Parkinson\u2019s disease, died less than a year ago.<\/p>\n

*** Above photos were shared by Randy’s daughter, Tracey Gibbons. ***<\/em><\/h6>\n

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To learn more about IPS, go to https:\/\/www.luc.edu\/ips\/<\/a>.\u00a0 For those interested in applying to IPS, go to https:\/\/gpem.luc.edu\/apply\/<\/a>.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(IPS would like to thank Professor Emeritus Peter Gilmour for penning the following commemoration.) Rachel “Randy” Gibbons died of cancer in mid-October.\u00a0 During her thirty year career at IPS, Randy served with five directors in several positions.\u00a0 She started as Receptionist and quickly moved to Administrative Assistant.\u00a0 During the last several years of her tenure read more <\/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":[12,13,19,21,27,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ips","category-ips-alumni","category-jesuit-university","category-loyola-university","category-service","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725","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=3725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4768,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions\/4768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}