Jesuit Educational Association records

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Jesuit Educational Association records

1919, 1933-1972 (bulk 1936-1970)

http://hdl.handle.net/2345.2/JA2015-001

The records of the Jesuit Educational Association (JEA) document the organization, history, and goals of the Association and its members from its beginning in 1934 to its end in 1970. The records were produced and collected by the various commissions, conferences, executive offices, and institutions under or associated with JEA in the form of conference materials, correspondence, financial records, meeting minutes, news releases, photographs, reports, speeches, and surveys.

39 linear feet

eng, Latn

Boston College. John J. Burns Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11677451

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FitzGerald, Paul A., probably 1926-1987

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Paul A. FitzGerald was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts in about 1926 to Joseph A. and Alice M. (Ryan) FitzGerald. He received degrees from Boston College (BA and MA, 1941-1942), Fordham University (MA, 1947) and Georgetown University (PhD, 1953). He entered the Jesuit order at Shadowbrook and was ordained in 1948. He held positions as Dean of Boston College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1953-1960); vice-president and assistant for higher education of the Jesuit Educational Association (...

Rooney, Edward B. (Edward Bernard), 1900-1976

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Edward Bernard Rooney was born in Buffalo, New York in 1900. He entered the Society of Jesus after graduating high school in 1918, and received degrees from Woodstock College (BA and MA, 1924-1925), and Gregorian University (PhD, 1932). He was president of the Jesuit Educational Association from 1937-1966. He served as educational specialist for Jesuit Missions, Inc. from 1966-1969 and overseas education consultant to the Jesuit Provincials of the American Assistancy from 1969 until about 1974. ...

Jesuit Educational Association

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Educational organization. In 1930, Society of Jesus Superior General Wlodimir Ledochowski, SJ named an Inter-Province Commission on Higher Studies to review the state of Jesuit high school and college education within the American Assistancy. Following the Commission's report in August 1932, Ledochowski outlined the path forward for Jesuti higher education, Instructio de ordinandis Universitatibus, Collegiis ac Scholis Altis et de praeparandis eorundem Magistris (1934)...