Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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DR. J. S. FOOTE. For thirty-three years professor and research professor at Creighton, Dr. }. S. Foote left behind an enviable record not only in his vocation, which was medicine, and more particularly bone structure, but also in his avocations of music and poetry. Announcement was recently made of plans for the post- humous publication of his last work, which wilt include within its pages thorough discussions on Bone as a Measurement of Development and When and How We Acquire our Teeth. that St. John ' s church and the first additions to the modest college building were constructed; and it was under Father Dowling that the observatory, which was destined to add so much lustre to the names of Creighton and Father Rigge, was built. All of these projects were financed in their entirety by John A. Creighton. Father Dowling ' s term expired in 1889, and he turned over his office to the Rev. Thomas S. Fitzgerald, S. J. During [ Page 24 ]

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REV. M. HIGHER, S. J. The only member of the original Creighton faculty still living is the Rev. M. Eicher, S. ]., who is now stationed in Cincinnati. Father Eicher came as a scho- lastic to the young college of Creighton in August, 1878, together with Father Hubert Peters, S. J., and two other scholastics, Messrs. William Rigge, S. ]., and A. Beile, S. }. the jubilee celebration is held next winter, Father Eicher will be here, and fitting tribute will be paid to the only living man who can tell the story of those first days from the view- point of the teacher. The young and raw Nebraska of the seventies was hardly ready for a college, and during the first few years of its exist- ence, the new institution was little more than a grammar school. Stage by stage it grew, first into a high school, then into a college, finally into a university. In 1885 the school took a great bound forward, when the Rev. Michael P. Dowling, S. J., entered upon his first term as president. It was under Father Dowling that studies of college grade were first offered; it was under Father Dowling [ Page 23 ]

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BISHOP PATRICK A. McGOVERN. Bishop P. A. McGovern graduated from the Creighton College of Arts and Sciences in 1901. He at one time served as pastor in the old St. Philomena ' s Cathe- dral and St. Peter ' s Parishes when he was very active in Creighton affairs. On Janu- ary 18, 1912, he was appointed Bishop of Cheyenne Diocese, and now resides at he bishopric at Cheyenne, Wyoming. President Fitzgerald ' s administration the first college class, that of 1891, was graduated. In 1892 the College of Medicine was opened, offering the first of the university ' s professional courses to the public. The college began with a three-year medical course in accordance with the prevailing standard of the times, but in 1894 the requirements were raised to four years. The Creighton College of Medicine was the first institution in the west to require a [ Page 25 }