Thomas P. O'Malley, SJ papers

Collection

Identifier: BC-2005-131

Scope and Contents

Papers of Jesuit classicist and administrator Thomas P. O'Malley, SJ, who served as a dean at Boston College and president of John Carroll University and Loyola Marymount University. Biographical materials include family history research, personal information, and photographs. His collected materials feature jokes, poems, and stories for use in sermons and speeches, as well as articles and essays by colleagues. The correspondence is both personal and professional. Works by O'Malley range from homilies to hymns, essays, and speeches.

Dates

Creation: 1952-2007

Creator

O'Malley, Thomas P. (Person)

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

These materials are made available for use in research, teaching and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. The original authors may retain copyright to the materials.

Biographical note: Thomas P. O'Malley, SJ

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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 in 1947. O'Malley earned a bachelor's degree from Boston College in 1951 and a master's degree from Fordham University in 1953, both in Classics. After graduating from Fordham, he entered the Society of Jesus at the Shadowbrook novitiate in Lenox, Massachusetts. O'Malley taught Latin and Greek at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1956 to 1958, where he also coached debate and was a resident assistant in the dormitories. In 1958, he began studying theology in Louvain, Belgium. He was ordained to the priesthood in Brussels on August 5, 1961.

Following a doctorate in literature and theology of the early Christian period 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 Chairman 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 become the president of John Carroll University in Ohio, where he remained for eight years. He then spent a year teaching in Nigeria and two as the rector of the Jesuit Community at Fairfield University, Connecticut. 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 in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 4, 2009, at the age of 79.

Sources:

"Fr. Thomas P. O'Malley, former LMU President, dies at 79," Loyola Marymount University Campus News, November 5, 2009. https://newsroom.lmu.edu/campusnews/fr-thomas-p-omalley-former-lmu-president-dies-at-79/

"Thomas O'Malley Obituary," Boston Herald, November 8, 2009. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bostonherald/name/thomas-o-malley-obituary?id=23855581

Woo, Elaine, "Thomas P. O'Malley dies at 79; former president of Loyola Marymount University," Los Angeles Times, November 6, 2009. https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-thomas-omalley6-2009nov06-story.html

Full Extent

7.833 Linear Feet (8 containers)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

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.

Arrangement

Arranged in four series: I. Biographical materials; II. Collected materials; III. Correspondence; and IV. Works by Thomas P. O'Malley, SJ.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Thomas P. O'Malley, SJ, 2005.

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Separated Materials

Published works associated with this collection have been transferred within the Burns Library and can be found in the Boston College Library catalog.