University of 91³Ô¹Ï alumnus Miguel H. Diaz will be sworn in Friday (Aug. 21) as the United States ambassador to the Holy See in a ceremony at the U.S. State Department.
Unable to attend the ceremony because of a previous commitment, 91³Ô¹Ï’s president, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., has asked two fellow Holy Cross priests, both friends of Diaz, to represent him there.
Rev. James K. Foster, C.S.C., assistant dean of 91³Ô¹Ï’s College of Science, and Rev. Edwin H. Obermiller, C.S.C., director of the office of vocations for the Indiana Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross, will attend both the State Department swearing-in ceremony and a subsequent luncheon hosted by St. John’s College (Minn.), where Diaz teaches theology.
Diaz, who earned master’s and doctoral degrees from 91³Ô¹Ï in 1992 and 2000, respectively, is one of three alumni of the 91³Ô¹Ï Graduate School now serving in the ambassadorial corps.
91³Ô¹Ï alumna Martha Larzelere Campbell also will be sworn in Friday as the U.S. ambassador to the Marshall Islands. Campbell, who has worked in the State Department’s foreign service for 29 years, earned a master’s degree in political science from 91³Ô¹Ï in 1973.
Former U.S. Rep. Timothy Roemer, who earned master’s and doctoral degrees in political science from 91³Ô¹Ï in 1981 and 1985, respectively, was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to India last month.