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FitzGerald, Paul A. (probably 1926-1987)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: probably 1926 - 1987

Biographical note

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 (1960-1966); professor of history at Boston College (1966-1970); pastor at Sacred Heart Mission in Reading, Jamaica (1971-1975); and university secretary and university archivist at Boston College (1975-1986).

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

W. Seavey Joyce, SJ, President’s Office records

 Collection
Abstract The W. Seavey Joyce, SJ, President’s Office records document Joyce’s tenure as twenty-third president of Boston College, 1968-1972. This collection consists largely of administrative records and contains building plans, committee records, correspondence, departmental records, development records, and faculty and subject files. Subject files contain personal materials, inaugural materials, and materials focusing on student and faculty relations with the administration. The collection also...
Restrictions on access

Collection is closed. Access with permission of office. Departmental records and faculty files containing student records, faculty tenure and promotion files, and other records containing personally identifiable information are closed due to privacy restrictions.

Dates: 1944 - 1974; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1972

Jesuit Educational Association records

 Collection
Abstract

The records of the Jesuit Educational Association (JEA) document the organization, history, and goals of the Association and its members from its beginning in the early 1930s 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.

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1919 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1936 - 1970

Robert P. Neenan, SJ papers on Jesuit secondary school education

 Collection
Abstract Papers documenting the leadership of twentieth-century American Jesuit academic administrator Robert P. Neenan, SJ on three inter-related associations: the Jesuit Alumni Administrators (JAA); the Jesuit Secondary Education Association (JSEA); and the Commission on Planning and Development (COPAD), a subordinate body to the JSEA. Neenan's papers include correspondence, minutes, and newsletters of the associations, as well as printed materials from Jesuit high school alumni programs. These...
Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1959 - 1975