page_title: Edward B. Bunn
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Edward B. Bunn / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: St. Andrew-on-Hudson in 1920, now the Hyde Park campus of the CIA.
context_page_description: Edward Bernard Bunn was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who became the president of Loyola College in Maryland and later of Georgetown University. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was educated at Loyola College before entering the Society of Jesus in 1919. While continuing his education at St. Andrew-on-Hudson and Woodstock College, he taught dramatics at Fordham University. He then completed his doctorate at the Pontifical Gregorian University and taught at Brooklyn Preparatory School and Canisius College.
  In 1938, he became the president of Loyola College, and his term was largely defined by a protracted legal dispute with the Archbishop of Baltimore, Michael Curley, which came to involve high-ranking church prelates. Bunn's term came to an end in 1947, when he was put in charge of the colleges in the Jesuits' Maryland Province. He also briefly transferred to the University of Scranton, before becoming the regent of Georgetown University's School of Dentistry and School of Nursing.
  In 1952, Bunn was made president of Georgetown University. He would become the longest-serving president in the university's history to that date.
context_section_description: Edward Bernard Bunn was born on March 15, 1896, in Baltimore, Maryland to Sebastian Philip and Filomena Philip née Fortmann. He attended Loyola College in Maryland, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1917, and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He then entered the Society of Jesus in 1919. He proceeded to the Jesuit novitiate of St. Andrew-on-Hudson in New York, where he earned a Master of Arts in English, in 1921.
  Immediately thereafter, Bunn began his scholasticate at Woodstock College in Maryland. His studies were punctuated by a period as professor of dramatics at Fordham University 1923 to 1926. Bunn completed his education at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, receiving a Doctor of Philosophy degree in philosophy. The title of his doctoral dissertation was "The Moral Judgments of Children from 6 to 12 Years of Age". He was ordained a priest in 1929.
  Following the end of his education and priestly training, Bunn became the dean of Brooklyn Preparatory School in 1930. After two years, he left to become a professor of psychology at Canisius College. Bunn remained in this position until 1935, when he transferred to Fordham as an associate professor of psychology.
caption: The Jesuit novitiate of St. Andrew-on-Hudson in 1920
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