Galvin, John T., 1914-1994
John Thomas Galvin was born on December 26, 1914 in Boston, MA, to Thomas J. and Agnes M. Hughes Galvin. He was an alumnus of both Boston College High (class of 1931) and Boston College (Class of 1937). He married journalist Ruth Mehrtens Galvin (1922-2002) in 1968, and they had no children. He died on September 19, 1994 at Youville Hospital in Cambridge, MA.
John Galvin handled press and publicity for the Boston Community Fund Campaign (now United Way) after graduating from Boston College, and then enlisted in the United States Navy in 1940. He served in the Navy during World War II in the campaigns of the Solomon Islands, Philippines, and Iwo Jima, and the occupation of Japan, and he remained a Captain in the Naval Reserve until his retirement in 1973. Upon returning to Massachusetts after World War II, he began a career as a public relations director, working for the John C. Dowd Advertising Agency (1946-1956), Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Association, Inc. (1947-1957), the World Trade Center in Boston (1957-1966), and Tuft-New England Medical Center. He was a communications consultant for BC President W. Seavey Joyce, SJ.
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