RIP: Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J.,

[PatsFanSince74]

Father Monan died this morning at the age of 92. He was a Boston legend, taking BC from a struggling local college to a national powerhouse in nearly a quarter century as the school's President.

As the linked article mentions and as an earlier article in the Globe detailed, Monan played a major role in keeping the Patriots in the Boston area. The image, from the earlier article, of Tom Birmingham, Jack Connors and J. Donald Monan, sitting down together in an office in downtown Boston and cutting the deal that kept the Pats in Massachusetts, brought a tear to my eyes.

Rest in Peace, Father Monan


Rev. J. Donald Monan, who guided Boston College into modern era, dies at 92 - The Boston Globe

 

[Wordsmyth]

In pace requiscat.

 

[oldrover]

 

[FCB02062]

Too bad Fr Mohan can't send some of his good to the current state of BC "revenue producing" sports - football & hoops.... They've been ****e for a long time in both....and no, going 6-5, 2-5 in the ACC, and winning the blue bonnet bowl is not a successful season...
Football season is even more fun here when BC is good

 

[PatsFanSince74]

In pace requiscat.

Gigantes autem errant super terram in diebus illis...

 

[Hammer of Thor]

Sadly I had thought he passed away years earlier. How time flies, I was an undergrad when he retired and Fr. Lahey succeeded him. RIP. They were going to name a building after him ages ago, but never did, because colleges joined pro sports in starting the "naming rights" era in the 1990s. Too bad, but his legacy lives on, he almost single-handedly saved the school.