9/08/05—The Law School is pleased to announce that the second year of the School’s 3-year 75th Celebration will kick off with an event honoring J. Donald Monan, S.J., for his many contributions to the Law School and the University, as well as his commitment to public service.

Dean John H. Garvey will present Father Monan with the Law School’s Distinguished Service Award at the event, which will take place on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 in the East Wing building, room 120. The program will begin at 4 pm.

Everyone is welcome to a reception in the Mone Courtyard at the conclusion of the program.

J. Donald Monan
J. Donald Monan, S.J., assumed the newly created post of Chancellor in August, 1996, following 24 years as Boston College President—the longest presidential tenure in the University’s history. Fr. Monan has received honorary doctoral degrees from thirteen colleges and universities here and abroad. In 2002 he was appointed Chair of the Visiting Committee on Management in the Courts by Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall.

He is former chairman of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts, served as a director of the Bank of Boston (1976-96), as interim president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (1996-97), as first chairman of the seventeen universities working with the Boston Public Schools in 1975, as co-chair of the Massachusetts Summit for the Promise of our Youth (1997) and, in 2003, as chairman of the Visiting Committee on Management in the Courts. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The National Mentoring Partnership, of the Massachusetts Mentoring Partnership, of which he served as co-chair from 1992-2001, and of the Yawkey Foundation. Father Monan is a member of the Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy, and the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Prior to joining Boston College in August, 1972, Father Monan held positions as Academic Dean and Chairman of the Philosophy Department at LeMoyne College in New York. Father Monan became a Jesuit in 1942 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1955. He holds his Ph.D. from the University of Louvain in Belgium and conducted postdoctoral research at Oxford, Paris and Munich.

75th Celebration Committee

Co-Chairs
Prof. Daniel R. Coquillette
Prof. Emeritus Richard G. Huber

Committee
Prof. Robert M. Bloom, ‘71
Prof. Emeritus Peter Donovan, ‘60
Fred Enman, S.J., ‘78
Jean French
Linda Glennon
Irene Good, ‘89
Assoc. Prof Frank R. Herrmann, S.J.. ‘77
Prof. Ruth-Arlene Howe, ‘74
Prof. Sanford N. Katz
Nathaniel Kenyon
Marianne Lord
Prof. James R. Repetti, ‘80
Prof. James S. Rogers
Vicki Sanders
Assoc. Prof. Francine Sherman, ‘80
Susan Sullivan, ‘93
Assoc. Dean Norah Wylie, ‘79