Evening star., 1936-06-26
GEORCET0WNADDS
z NOTED PRIESTS
TO ITS FACULTY
Father Hogan, President of
Fordham, to Be Graduate
School Dean.
FATHER PARSONS
ALSO APPOINTED
Editor in Chief of America,
Catholic Weekly, to Be
Professor.

Two OF the most prominent Jesuits
in the. East-Very Rev. Aloysius j.
Hogan, president of Fordham Univer.
sity. and Rev. j. Wilfrid Parsons,
editor in chief of America-were as
signed today to the faculty of George
town University.
Father Hogan, whose six-year term
at Fordham has officially ended, will
become dean of the Graduate School
OF Arts and Sciences at Georgetown.
He will come here for the opening of
the Fall academic term.
Father Parsons, one OF the best
known Catholic publicists, is due to
arrive here tonight. He will be a
professor in the Graduate School.
America is a national Catholic re-
view Of the week.
Assignments Announced.
The assignments were announced
today from the headquarters of the
New York-Maryland Province of the
Jesuit order in New York City. Very
Rev. Arthur A. O'Leary. S. j., presi-
dent of Georgetown University, who
is now in New York, confirmed a re-
port of the two assignments.
At Fordham University, it was an
nounced in New York, Father Hogan
has been succeeded by Rev. Robert 1.
Cannon, S. j., formerly dean of St.
Peters College and founder-dean of
the Hudson College OF Commerce and
Finance. both in Jersey City.
The appointments were first an
nounced in Rome by Rev. Vladimir
Ledochowski, general of the Society of
Jesus.
Succeeds Father Sohon.
Father Hogan will succeed Rev.
Frederick r. Sohon, S. j., as dean of
the Graduate School at Georgetown.
1t was not known whether Father
Sohon, who also is director of the
Seismological Observatory. has been
assigned elsewhere.
The new graduate dean climaxed
his administration at Fordham two
weeks ago by laying the corner stone
of Keating Hall, the university's new
100000 building. He has never before
been assigned to Georgetown Uni
versity.
Father Hogan was born in Philadel-
ptia August S, 1891 and entered the
Jesuit order in 1908 He Is a noted
teacher of the classics and as an ad-
ministrator advanced the Graduate
School at Fordham and reorganized
its Law School.
He is a Ph.D. of Cambridge Uni
versity, England, and has done i'm
portant research in medieval mystery
plays. He studied at the Jesuit class
ical colleges at Poughkeepsie and
Woodstock, Md, and taught the class
les at Boston College from 1915 to
1920. In 1927, he was made dean of
classical studies at the Poughkeepsie
College and just before assuming the
presidency at Fordham, he had been
dean Of the new Jesuit House of CLASH
cal Studies, Wernersville, Pa, which is
now affiliated with Georgetown Uni
versity.
Native Of Philadelphia.
AS editor of America, Father Par
sons has had prominent role in mold
ing Catholic opinion and action since
he assumed those duties in 1925. He
also is native of Philadelphia and is
40 years old. He is Master of Arts
and Doctor Of Divinity of Woodstock
College and took his graduate studies
at the famous Gregorian University in
Rome.
For many years, Father Parsons has
been active in Catholic press relations.
He is president of the American Press,
a Fellow of the American Geographic
Society and member of the Catholic
Press Association. the Academy of Po-
litical Sciences and of the American
Catholic Historical Association.