Fairfield University - Manor Yearbook (Fairfield, CT)

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An act of incorporating Fairfield University of Saint Robert Bellarmine, Incorporated. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: Iames H. Dolan, Leo A. Reilly, Iohn VV. Doherty, YV. lfVaIter Kennedy, Iohn A. King, and their successors, and such other persons as may be associated with them in accordance with the by-laws of the corporation, are constituted a body politic by the name of: Fairfield University of Saint Robert Bellarmine, Incorporated, to be located in the Town of Fairfield, County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut. 'ii' l ITI-I the signature of the Governor of Connecticut, His Excel- lency, Raymond E. Baldwin, the confirmation of Fairfield Uni- versity as a legal entity was completed in Hartford, on the 29th day of May, 1945. But the birth of the youngest American Iesuit Univer- sity was more than a legal charter to many, who saw in it the beginnings of what will one day be a leading American Catholic University. It was late in the year 1941, when the Society of Iesus, at the invitation of the Very Reverend Bishop, Maurice F. McAuliffe, began to plan for the first Catholic University in the state of Connecticut. Through the efforts of the Very Reverend Iames H. Dolan, then Provincial of the Province of New England, the estates of Oliver Gould Iennings and Walter B. Lashar were purchased as the site of the new university.