Father Paul R. Taylor, O.S.B., C’87, S’92, Named Executive Vice President At Saint Vincent
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he Rev. Paul R. Taylor, O.S.B., C’87, S’92, has been named executive vice president at Saint Vincent College, according to an announcement by Brother Norman W. Hipps, O.S.B., president, effective June 15. In the new position, Father Paul is the chief advancement officer for the College and works with the president and the members of the board of directors to develop a dynamic philanthropic program by providing vision, leadership and strategic planning for support by
Father Paul R. Taylor, O.S.B., gives Governor Tom Corbett a tour of the Fred Rogers Center.
alumni, parents, friends, corporations, businesses, and foundations. Serving since 2009 as executive director of the Saint Vincent Archabbey Apostolates and Endowments, he will also continue to coordinate the institutional advancement programs of the Archabbey and the Seminary including the Benedictine high school in Savannah, Georgia, Saint Vincent foundations in Taiwan and Brazil, and the international Benedictine university of Sant’ Anselmo in Rome. Father Paul previously served as vice president for institutional advancement, dean of admission and financial aid, and acting dean of students. “My current assignment at Saint Vincent involves mostly development work which I enjoy because of the
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great people I have the opportunity to meet,” Taylor said. “The alumni and friends of Saint Vincent are good and generous people, many of whom remain very connected to Saint Vincent, and I try to keep those connections strong.” He is a graduate of Saint Vincent College, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics with highest honor and Saint Vincent Seminary where he earned a master of divinity degree in theology with honor. “Saint Vincent College prepared me well with a great foundation to study for a master of arts degree in mathematics at Duke University and a Ph.D. in higher education administration from Boston College,” Taylor said. “Upon returning to the monastery, my work has included admissions, financial aid, student life, and development in the college, as well as work in a parish on weekends at Saint Louise de Marillac Parish in Upper Saint Clair, and working also at the Saint Vincent Gristmill. “I have had the pleasure to meet and to work with many of the people serving in public office. In November 2010, then-Governor-elect Tom Corbett asked me to serve on the Education Committee of his Transition Team,” Taylor said. “Since 1999, we’ve developed a partnership with Saint Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, N.J., so for 13 years, I have been leading a group of Saint Vincent students to spend a week of service in January each year in this inner-city school operated by the Benedictine monks of Newark Abbey,” he said. “This is a great community. In 2010 I was inducted as an honorary alumnus of Saint Ben’s Prep.” A current member of the Latrobe Area Hospital Charitable Foundation board of directors, Father Paul formerly served on the boards of directors of the Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau, Benedictine Military School, Savannah, and the Saint Vincent College Corporation Board of Incorporators. Father Paul, 47, entered the Benedictine monastic community in 1987, and professed his solemn vows in 1991. He was ordained to the priesthood by the Most Rev. Anthony G. Bosco in 1992. A 1983 graduate of Elk County Catholic High School, Father Paul is the son of Irene S. Taylor of St. Marys, Elk County, and the late Robert Lawrence Taylor. He has two brothers, Larry and Bert, and seven nieces and nephews. Of his hometown, he said, “Saint Vincent has always had a strong partnership with St. Marys. Our foundings were only four years apart and we have similar histories. Many students have come to Saint Vincent from St. Marys over the years to receive a quality Benedictine education and have enjoyed success in their work, in their families and in the church, and I’m sure that tradition will continue in the years to come.”
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