Fordham: A History and Memoir, Revised Edition

Notes and Sources

389 Notes and Sources Abbreviations FA Fordham University archives FOH Fordham sesquicentennial oral histories FM Fordham Monthly FEY Fordham: The Early Years JCB “Jesuit and Catholic Boyhood” RAS Raymond A. Schroth UP Up to the Present WL Woodstock Letters In these notes I will not necessarily refer to a book or article if the reference is already in the text. As often as seems appropriate I have included references in the text to campus publications such as the Ram, the Maroon yearbook, and the Monthly, particularly when the reporting of the story is part of the story itself. All these are available in the Fordham University Archives (FA). The Ram is a weekly, but during crises it publishes several times a week. Full bibliographic information on books, periodicals, manuscripts, and other materials is in the selected bibliography. Any references to a work in the notes will simply be to the author and/or title of the work and will include page numbers when appropriate. All other documents and letters that are not cited in the bibliography are in FA or in my possession (RAS). I also personally witnessed many of the events described for 1950–55, 1969–79, and 1996–99. There are four major works that cover the history of Fordham University in some detail. The best known is Robert I. Gannon, S.J.’s Up to the Present: The Story of Fordham (UP), which quotes liberally from contemporary documents such as the Fordham Monthly (FM) and reflects former Fordham president Gannon’s own views on American Catholic higher education. Thomas G. Taaffe’s A History of St. John’s College, Fordham, New York was published in 1891 to celebrate Fordham’s fiftieth anniversary. Christa R. Klein’s “The Jesuits and Catholic Boyhood in Nineteenth-Century New 16950-09_Fordham_BM 6/4/08 11:46 AM Page 389 390 F O R D H A M York City: A Study of St. John’s College and the College of St. Francis Xavier, 1846–1912” (JCB) focuses on the curriculum and the moral training of the young men. Fordham: The Early Years (FEY), edited by Thomas C. Hennessy, S.J., collects definitive essays by eight scholars on the histories of the early Fordham Jesuits from their departure from France up to the Civil War. An important source for the mid-twentieth century is a collection of oral histories from interviews conducted between 1980 and 1990 with faculty, administrators, alumni, and trustees as part of the sesquicentennial celebration. The Fordham oral histories (FOH), of varying length and quality, are in three boxes in FA. A selection of these histories, edited by Jerry Buckley, was published in 1991 under the title As I Remember Fordham. The project was organized by Stella Moundas, secretary to three presidents. For histories of American Catholic higher education, see Edward J. Power, Catholic Higher Education in America: A History, and Philip Gleason, Contending with Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century. The Fordham archival sources consist of Fordham catalogues; the Minister’s Diary (1846–1912) of the early fathers; reports by Fordham Jesuits published in Woodstock Letters (WL) (1872–1969); reminiscences in the Fordham Monthly (1882–1960s); the Maroon, Fordham’s yearbook; and the Fordham Ram (1918–present). Prologue All the material in the prologue comes from my experiences and observations and from interviews with the participants: Eric Montroy, Eileen Markey, Vincent Augello, Nicola Pitchford, and Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J. 1. Michael Nash Arrives The story of Michael Nash’s arrival is in “Reminiscences of Fr. Michael Nash,” WL. His obituary is in the same volume. Thomas C. Hennessy summarizes Nash’s life in “The First Jesuits at St. John’s College” in FEY, pp. 116–17. For St. Mary’s College and St. Joseph’s College, see Walter Hill, “Some Reminiscences of St. Mary’s College, Kentucky,” and “Some Facts and Incidents Relating to St. Joseph’s College, Bardstown, Kentucky,” in WL. The most recent and thorough summary is Cornelius Michael Buckley, S.J.’s “French Jesuits at St. Mary’s College, Marion County, Kentucky, 1831–1846,” in FEY. Also see “The History of St. Mary’s College, 1821–1871,” in Memorare: St. Mary’s College, 150 Years, Chester Gawronski and David Hilier, editors. 16950-09_Fordham_BM 6/4/08 11:46 AM Page 390 391 N O T E S A N D S O U R C E S The most...