SouthBendTribune.com: Longtime Girls and Boys Town head steps down

SouthBendTribune.com: Longtime Girls and Boys Town head steps down: "Longtime Girls and Boys Town head steps down
FAITH

By NELSON LAMPE
Associated Press Writer
The Rev. Steven Boes, left, who has headed an American Indian parish in northeast Nebraska the past eight years, took over the executive directorship of Girls and Boys Town in Boys Town, Neb., from the Rev. Val Peter on July 1.
AP Photo/NATI HARNIK



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OMAHA, Neb. -- While serving in Iraq last year, young Marine Sgt. Eric Eggink wrote in gratitude to the Rev. Val Peter, president and chief executive of Girls and Boys Town.
'Thanks to the skills I learned at Girls and Boys Town, I'm able to lead others and teach these men how to handle battle,' wrote Eggink, who graduated in May 2001 after arriving at the institution in 1997, at age 15.
Now Eggink is back safe in Omaha and can't believe that Peter is stepping down as the leader at the campus that was once called Father Flanagan's Boys' Home."