Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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country as a lecturer for the National Catholic Welfare Conference, a task which enabled him to lend inspiration to thousands of hearers. But executive ability of the caliber possessed by Father Agnew was in de- mand, and he was called, in 1921, to the presidency of Loyola University in Chicago. Here, in an institution bearing the name of his model in religion, the full fruition of his years of preparation was realized. He erected five new University buildings, fathered intercollegiate athletics, and was instrumental in doubling the student enrollment of the University. He took his place among the leaders in educational and civic endeavor with an ease and naturalness that marked him as one of the foremost in his field. So it was that five years later, when an exceptional executive was needed in the presidency of Creighton University, Father Agnew was assigned to the post. His value to the University where he spent his last years was brought out in a remark made by his predecessor at the time of his inauguration: If I were privileged to select my successor, I should have selected Father Agnew; he is worth more to Creighton than a ten million dollar endowment. His greatest accomplishments of a tangible nature have been the erection of the Faculty and Administration building; the erection of a modern central heating plant for the University; the affiliation of the College of St. Mary and St. Catherine ' s Nurses ' training school; and enlargements and improvements in all of the other de- partments of the University. To Father Agnew, therefore, as a loyal son of Ignatius and as a gifted leader of a great University, the alumni, faculty, and students of Creighton, as well as the entire citizenry of Omaha and the middle west, owe a profound debt of gratitude. He was a true Jesuit both in character and deeds. A tradition in keeping with the intense loyalty of President Agnew was that of the flag-raising ceretnony on the annual Commencement day. The picture above shows the presidents of the senior classes presenting the national flag to their president on June 6, i )}0. ZO

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His mental acumen and masterly knowledge of the arts and sci- ences merited almost immediate recognition, and he was ap- pointed editor of Queen ' s Work. In this capacity he carried out the edicts of his spiritual father by spreading truth and knowl- edge to all parts of the country by means of the printed word. The completion of his term as editor saw him appointed chap- lain to various institutions, where he ministered to the un- fortunate with the same kindli- ness, zeal and charity that had characterized his entire life in the Society. His assignment as a college professor sent him to the class- rooms with those same sterling qualities, and endeared him to his students as a genuine friend and an able educator. Because of his knowledge and experience in the fields of sociology and education he was called upon to tour the Left to right in the picture above are General Desticker, Marshall Ferdinand Foch and President W . H. Agnew. The picture was taken on June 11, 1921, when Loyola Uni- versity of Chicago, of which Father Agnew was then president, presented an honorary LL.D. degree to the late commander- in-chief of the Allied Forces during the World War. A view of part of the funeral procession which escorted the body of Father Agnew to Holy Sepulchre cemetery. Led by three companies of Creighton R.O.T.C. cadets and the Uni versify band, a long line of cars filled with friends of the dead president wended their way through the streets of the city to his last resting place. J 9

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