Evening star., 1942-06-18
Eight Appointed
1oGeOrgefown
Faculty
Father MeNomee
Is Made Dean
Of Arts College

vi NitS SOhSSS
Eight appointments to the Jesuit
faculty of Georgetown University,
including a new dean of the col
lege of arts and sciences. and the
transfer of nine members of the
present faculty to assignments else
where, were announced last night
by the Very Rev. Arthur A. OLeary,
S. j., president.
Orders received from Jesuit pro-
vincial headquarters provided for
the replacement of the Rev. John E.
Grattan, college dean for the last
eight years. by the Rev. Stephen F.
McNamee. a native of Washington.
The latter has been professor of
philosophy at the college since 1896
and was reared and educated here
DR.. Grattan is to become parish
priest of st. Ignatius Church in
New York City, which is under
Jesuit auspices. 1t is one of the
most important Catholic parishes
in the East and includes large
schools.
The change in the deanship was
rather unexpected, although DR..
Grattan has remained here longer
than most Georgetown deans. He
will not leave for his new duties
until after the opening of the next
semester July under the accele-
rated program which he prepared.
Some of Georgetown's most i'm
portant academic improvements
were made during his administra-
ton.
DR.. Grattan, native of New York
City, taught at Georgetown as a
young scholastic He was ordained
to the priesthood in 1926 at Wood
stock College, Md. Widely known
in educational circles, he served for
four years III Rome, Italy, before
returning to Georgetown as dean in
1884. In Rome he was secretary to
the American assistancy of the Jes-
uit headquarters. Few priests in
this country have a better knowledge
OF Jesuit affairs.
The new dean is a graduate of
old GonZaga college here and was
brought up in the parish of st.
Aloysius Church. He obtained his
A. B. and NJ. A. degrees from Wood
stock College in 1916-19. Dr. Nc
Nance was born November 6, 1895.
He entered the Jesuit order in 1912
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, and was
ordained June IA, 1926. In that year
he was sent to Rome for special
studies in dogmatic theology at
Gregorian University, receiving a
doctor of divinity degree in 1881.
Returning from Rome, DR.. Nc
Nance taught at Woodstock College
until 1886, when. he Joined the
Georgetown faculty. In earlier
years as a teacher he specialized in
Laatin, Greek and the English
classics at st. Josephh'S in Phila-
defphia. In recent years at George
town he has taken an active part in
scholastic affairs and was moder-
ator of the Washington Club and
director of the Jesuit seminary
fund. among other activities. His
mother and a brother live in Wash
ington.
Among other appointments at the
college is that of the Rev. Edward
A. Kerr of Baltimore. to succeed the
Rev. David T. Madden as minister
of the community. The latter goes
to Woodstock College in a similar
capacity.
Father Madden has been minister
since 1899, having come here from
Poughkeepsie. His successor at
Georgetown is graduate OF Loyola
College. Baltimore. For the last
four years Father Kerr has been
connected with ST. Michael'S Church,
Ridge, Md. He was ordained in
1905 at Woodstock, where he COM
pleted his theological studies.
The recent announcement that
the Rev. w. Coleman Nevils, S. j.,
director of libraries and archivist is
to be become rector of the Uni
versity of Scranton, Pa, has brought
about the appointment of a new
archivist at the college. He is the
Rev. Thomas A. King, who is COM
ing from Our Lady of Martyrs,
AuriesviIe, N. Y.
The Rev. Elmer j. ALI, ordained
last June at Woodstock, has been
named professor of religion. Other
appointees include three young
Jesuit scholastics. They are John
M. Daley, history lecturer; Hugo A.
Kennedy, English lecturer, and
Charles J. Lewis, instructor in
mathematics. Mr.. Daley is coming
from West Baden College in In
diana, and the other two are from
Woodstock.
A former Georgetown teacher, the
Rev. Gerald P. Yates is returning as
professor of political science after
an absence of several years. He was
studying in Belgium at the start of
the war and, returning to this coun-
try, he completed graduate studies
at Yale University. He taught Latin
mt Georgetown prior to 1888 and was
on the faculty in more recent years.
Geohgetown loses the services Of
the Rev. Edward R. Powers, who has
been assistant in the chronological