Georgetown University

"Bishop John Carroll"
portrait by Gilbert Stuart
painted ca. 1810
Now in the Georgetown University Art Collection
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On these pages will be my
History of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service,
the long-untold story of the decades-old hostility
towards the SFS harbored by the G.U. Administration,
particularly by the leaders of Georgetown University's College and Graduate School.
In all modesty, no one alive knows more about the SFS's history than yours truly.

You will also find here
a record of the confrontations
The Georgetown Ignatian Society,
has had with Very Rev. Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J.,
president of Georgetown University,
and Rev. Lawrence J. Madden, S.J.,
pastor of Holy Trinity Parish,
over the Catholic identities
of the University and the Parish.

Also located here are accounts of
a 'sit-in' at the Gateway Diner in Rosslyn,
the University's first instance of civil disobedience
opposing racial segregation,
which occurred in February of 1963, when fifteen students belonging
to Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Fraternity
were arrested late one evening
while protesting the refusal by the diner's owner
to serve a Negro fraternity brother, St. Clair C. Bourne,
(now the famous New York documentary film maker).

And, lastly, you will find here the story of
the first electoral defeat ever suffered by William Jefferson Clinton,
which occurred in the spring of 1967 when,
as a junior in the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service,
he ran for President of the East Campus Student Council,
but lost to a little-known classmate named Terrence Modglin
in a campaign that was master-minded
by the officers of Alpha Chapter
of Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Fraternity,
who were all opposed to
Clinton's record of collaboration with
G.U.'s Jesuit Administration
in their efforts to end the independence of the five G.U. undergraduate schools.

 

 

LINKS:

Georgetown University
37th & O Streets.

Very Rev. John Carroll
1st President (and the Founder) of Georgetown University

Very Rev. Patrick F. Healy, S.J.
28th President (and "Second Founder") of Georgetown University

Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, S.J.
First Regent of the G.U. School of Foreign Service

Very Rev. W. Coleman Nevils, S.J.
President of Georgetown University
Second Regent of the G.U. School of Foreign Service

Rev. Frank L. Fadner, S.J.
Third Regent of the G.U. School of Foreign Service
G.U. Professor of History

Rev. Joseph S. Sebes, S.J.
Fourth Regent of the G.U. School of Foreign Service
G.U. Professor of History

Very Rev. Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J.,
Present President of Georgetown University

Carroll Quigley, Ph.D.
G. U. Professor of History

Jules Davids, Ph.D.
G.U. Professor of History

Walter I. Giles, Ph.D.
G.U. Associate Professor of Government

Jan Karski, Ph.D.
G.U. Professor of Government

William Boyd-Carpenter, Ph.D.
G.U. Professor of Government

John Waldron, Ph.D.
G.U. Professor of English

Jules Davids, Ph.D.
G.U. Professor of History

Alpha Chapter
Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Fraternity
3401 Prospect Street, NW

Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church
36th Street, between N & O Streets.

Holy Trinity Church Parishioners' Discussion Page

 

Bibliography:

Rev. Edward B. Bunn, S.J., ed. On The Hilltop:
Reminiscences and Reflections on their Campus Years by Georgetown Alumni.
Washington: Georgetown University, 1966.

Robert Emmett Curran, S.J., The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University:
Volume I From Academy to University, 1789-1889.
Foreword by Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J.
Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1993.

John M. Daley, S.J., Georgetown University: Origins and Early Years.
Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1993.

Joseph T. Durkin, S.J., Georgetown University: The Middle Years (1840-1900).
Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1963.

Joseph T. Durkin, S.J., Georgetown University: First in the Nation's Capital.
Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1964.

Joseph T. Durkin, S.J., ed., Swift Potomac's Lovely Daughter:
Two Centuries at Georgetown through Students' Eyes.
Foreword by Charles L. Currie, S.J.
Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1990.

Carroll Quigley, Ph.D. "Constantine McGuire: Man of Mystery"
COURIER. December 1965. pp. 16-20.

Carroll Quigley, Ph.D. "Father Walsh as I Knew Him"
PROTOCOL. 1959. pp. 7-11.

Carroll Quigley, Ph.D. "Is Georgetown University Committing 'Suicide'?"
The HOYA. Friday, April 28, 1967. pp. 8-9.

William W. Warner, At Peace with All Their Neighbors:
Catholics and Catholicism in the National Capital 1787-1860.
Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1994.

 

 

 

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