Meet The Jesuits

Name: Fr. Michael Graham, S.J.

Hometown: Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Education: Bachelor of Science from Cornell College,

Master of Arts in American Studies and psychology and a doctorate in American studies from the University of Michigan, Master of Divinity from the Weston School

of Theology.

Fun Fact: If he had to go to a desert island, he would take music by Bob Dylan, Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, John Banville's The Sea and David Mitchell's Cloud

Atlas along with a ground beef, onion, black olive, green olive, bacon and double cheese pizza from Leonardo's on 16th Avenue in Cedar Rapids.

Name: Fr. Albert Bischoff, S.J.

Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio

Education: Undergraduate and Master's at Xavier, studied

Theology at Mt. St. Mary Seminary in Cincinnati and at Jesuit School of Theology in Chicago.

Fun Fact: Fr. B enjoys dancing and telling stories.

Name: Fr. Gene Carmichael, S.J.

Hometown: Chicago, Ill.

Education: Studied at Loyola Academy and Holy Cross in

Massachusetts.

Fun Fact: Fr. Carmichael paid for part of his education by being in a Dixie Land band.

Name: Matthew Dunch, S.J.

Hometown: York, Penn.

Education: Undergraduate from Catholic University in

Washington, D.C., earned his Master of Arts in philosophy at

Loyola University Chicago and is currently in his sixth year of his regency.

Fun Fact: Dunch is the youngest in the Jesuit community

at Xavier and started reading Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in eighth grade and hasn't stopped. He was also in Rome when Pope Benedict XVI was elected and was in St. Peter's Square for his first blessing as Pope.

Name: Fr. Leo Klein, S.J.

Hometown: Chicago, Ill.

Education: Earned graduate degrees from Loyola University

Chicago and the University of Notre Dame and earned his doctorate from Fordham University.

Fun Fact: He has had two knee replacements and one hip

replacement, leaving him one hip which is natural.

Name: Fr. Joe Wagner, S.J.

Hometown: Erie, Penn.

Education: Earned a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Arts in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin. He earned his Master of Divinity from

the Jesuit School of Theology and earned his doctorate in science and mathematics education at the University of California, Berkeley.

Fun Fact: Fr. Wagner is an only child and an only grandchild

and was therefore spoiled rotten as a kid.

Name: Jim Riordan, S.J.

Hometown: Chicago, Ill.

Education: Went to St. Ignatius College Prep, then Loyola

University Chicago and finished his Master of Arts at Loyola as well.

Fun Fact: Riordan placed second in the World Irish Dance

Competition in 1997 and was in The Road to Perdition and "The Jay Leno Show."