Special to The Message
Five new members have been added to the Board of Overseers, the advisory board for St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. In addition, a board member has been named an emeritus member.
The board advises President-Rector Benedictine Father Denis Robinson on matters related to the school’s programs and performance and addresses strategic questions regarding the future of the school.
New to the board are Deacon Gary Keepes of Petersburg; Angie Greulich of Jasper; Father Anthony Cecil Jr., Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky; Martin Foos, Dayton, Ohio; and Father Jeff Goeckner of Edwardsville, Illinois. John Lueken of Georgetown, Indiana, has been named an emeritus member.
New Board Members
Deacon Gary Keepes, MD, of Petersburg, is a family medicine physician at Deaconess Hospital in Petersburg. He serves as president of the Southwestern Indiana Guild of the Catholic Medical Association and is president of the Southwestern Indiana Chapter of the Chesterton Society. He is also a member of the American Academy of Family Medicine and serves on the Board of Directors at Deaconess Memorial Hospital.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from Murray State University in 1989 and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1994. He completed St. Meinrad’s permanent deacon formation program and was ordained a deacon in 2022 for the Diocese of Evansville.
Keepes and his wife, Jill, live in Petersburg and are the parents of four adult children. They are members of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Petersburg, where he serves as a deacon.
Angie Greulich, of Jasper, serves as a charitable giving relationship manager for Catholic Relief Services. She previously served as director of major gifts at Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand and as director of youth and young adult ministry at various parishes in the Archdiocese of Anchorage, Alaska; the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee; and the Diocese of Evansville.
She serves on the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity of Dubois County and on the Board of Directors for the National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministry. Greulich is a certified fundraising executive and a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals of Louisville. She is also a coach for Girls on the Run and a member and podcast presenter for the Fit Mother Project. She previously served on the St. Meinrad Alumni Association Board of Directors. She and her husband, Josh, also present marriage retreats for St. Meinrad’s Retreat Program.
Greulich and her husband, Josh, live in Jasper with their two children. They are members of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Jasper, where she serves as a lector and Eucharistic minister.
Father Anthony Cecil Jr. is the pastor of St. Raphael the Archangel Catholic Church in Louisville, Kentucky, and the director of the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry for the Archdiocese of Louisville. He also serves on the advisory board for EQ Saints and is a member of the leadership team for the Encounter School of Ministry Louisville Campus. Father Tony was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Louisville May 25, 2019.
Martin Foos, of Dayton, Ohio, is a law partner at Foos and Lentz LLP in Dayton. He serves as president of the board of trustees for the Community Health Center of Greater Dayton and is treasurer for the Dayton Liederkranz-Turner German Club. He is also a board member of the Dayton Catholic Lawyers Guild.
Foos attends Emmanuel and St. Mary Catholic Churches in Dayton, where he sings in the choir.
Father Jeffrey Goeckner, V.F., is the pastor of St. Boniface Catholic Church in Edwardsville, Illinois, where he has served for 18 years. He has also been the dean of the Alton Deanery for 15 years, and president and chaplain of Father McGivney Catholic High School for 10 years. He serves on several diocesan boards, including the Diocesan Personnel Board, College of Consultors and Presbyterial Council. He is a current chaplain for the Daughters of Isabella and a member of Knights of Columbus Council #1143. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois on May 27, 1995.
Emeritus Board Member
John Lueken is an attorney, partner and chair of the Estate Planning Department at Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP in Louisville, Kentucky. He and his wife, Stacie, are members of Holy Family Parish in New Albany. A native of Jasper, he earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting at the University of Evansville in 1985.