About Joseph D. FitzGerald
Lived 1899 – 1974 (aged 74–75). Joseph D. FitzGerald was an American academic.
Joseph Denis FitzGerald, S.J. (March 9, 1899 – September 22, 1974) was an American Jesuit and academic. He served as the third president of Fairfield University located in Fairfield, Connecticut, from 1951 to 1958.
Biography FitzGerald was born in 1899 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and graduated from Boston College High School in 1917.
During FitzGerald's seven-year tenure as president of Fairfield University, the first class of the university graduated in 1951 and the university was admitted to fully accredited membership in the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (NEASC). After his tenure as Fairfield University president, FitzGerald was regional director of Jesuit high schools for four years.
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American university president
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Joseph D. FitzGerald was born in 1899 in Lawrence.
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Joseph D. FitzGerald died on 22 September 1974.
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Joseph D. FitzGerald was an academic.
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Joseph D. FitzGerald was American.
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