O'Malley, Thomas P.
Biographical note
Thomas Patrick O'Malley, SJ was born on March 1, 1930, in Milton, Massachusetts to Austin and Ann (Feeney) O'Malley. He graduated from Boston College High School (1947), Boston College (1951), and Fordham University (1953) before he entered the Society of Jesus in 1953. He taught Latin and Greek at the College of the Holy Cross at Worcester, Massachusetts from 1956 to 1958, then went to Louvain, Belgium, to study theology. He was ordained to the priesthood in Brussels on August 5, 1961. After earning a doctorate in literature and theology at Nijmegen University in the Netherlands, O'Malley became the chair of the Department of Classical Languages at Boston College in 1967, and in 1969 he became chair of the Theology Department. He was named the Dean of Boston College's College of Arts and Sciences in 1973. In 1980, O'Malley left Boston College to be President of John Carroll University in Ohio, where he remained for eight years. Then he taught in Nigeria for a year and served as the rector of the Jesuit Community at Fairfield University, Connecticut for two years. In 1991, he was appointed President of Loyola Marymount University. O'Malley returned to the teaching faculty of Boston College in 1999 as a professor in the Arts and Sciences Honors Program. O'Malley died of a heart attack on November 4, 2009.
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Thomas P. O'Malley, SJ papers
Papers of twentieth-century American Jesuit classicist and administrator Thomas P. O'Malley, SJ, including biographical, personal materials, and collected materials, as well as correspondence, homilies, hymns, essays, photographs, and speeches.
Collection is open for research.