Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Rev. Justin J. Ooghe, S.J. Rev. Joseph A. McEneany, S.J. Rev. Philip M. Finegan, S.J. cA ZJribute Before beginning the history of Loyola College’s twenty- five years at Evergreen, it seems fitting that we should pay some tribute to those priests of the Society of Jesus who, by wise and patient planning, made possible the efficient relocation of the college. Loyola was fortunate to have men who could carry it through so troublesome a period of transi- tion. Men whose names are lamiliar to many alumni were active at this time: the Rev. Eugene DeL. McDonnell, S.J., who spearheaded the campaign for the Gymnasium and the Rev. Joseph 1 . Zieg- ler, S.J., moderator of the Alumni Association. Names which are even now associated with Jesuit institutions in Baltimore: the Rev. Joseph J. Ayd, S.J., the Rev. Joseph M. Kelley, S.J., and the Rev. John E. Duston, S.J., were members of the college staff. To three men, however, the college owes its greatest debt: the Rev. Joseph A. McEneany, S.J., Rector of the college from 191S to 192S, the Rev. Philip M. Einegan, S.J., Dean of Studies at that time, and the Rev. Justin J. Ooghe, S.J., peren- nial professor of Philosophy. Eather Ooghe, a Belgian who taught in Brussels and in France, Egypt and India, was the most familiar figure on the campus from 191 8 until his death in 1931. He personally supervised the transfer of the col- lege library from Calvert Street to Evergreen. Another former missionary. Father Finegan ac- quired the present Chapel of St. Francis Xavier. He died at Loyola High School in 1930. Father McEneany, as Rector, directed the entire resettle- ment of the college. He purchased the Evergreen site through the generosity of Miss Mary A. Far- mer and he personally secured funds for the Library and Science Buildings. If credit for the expansion of the college can be given to any one man, it would be given to Father McEneany upon whose courage the success of the entire venture depended. So relentless a pace undermined his health and he was sent to Texas to recuperate. Father McEneany died at the Wernersville Novitiate in 1939. These three men, and those who were asso- ciated with them, had begun the work which transformed a magnificent estate into a representa- tive college campus. The first real step in this direction was the laying of the corner scone of the first new building in 1922. 12

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J oy ola CoUeg ef Irom 1922 to 1947 Xhe “Evergreen, Jr.’’ estate which Father Me- Eneany purchased for the college had a frontage of over 500 feet on Charles Street Avenue, 1250 feet on Coldspring Eane and about 670 feet on Reservoir Lane, now Millbrook Road. The only buildings on the estate were the Garrett Mansion, now the Eaculty Residence, and the garage. Both are in the halEtimher Tudor style. The Garrett family purchased “Evergreen’’ in 1S7S and added “Evergreen, Jr.,’’ to their prop- erty in 1SS3, when they acquired it from Mr. William S. Wilson. Twelve years later, Mr. T. Harrison Garrett decided to erect a mansion on the estate as a gift to his son, Horatio, who had just been married. Lawrence Aspinwall, a noted New York architect, was engaged to design and supervise the construction of the mansion. Mr. Horatio Garrett left for a honeymoon abroad before the mansion was completed. While on this trip, he died suddenly in England and his body was returned to this country. His widow lived in the new mansion for four years after the funeral and then went to live with her parents-in- law at “Evergreen’’ until her second marriage in 1912. InipiS, the United States Army leased the estate and some of the homes around it as a tem- porary rehabilitation center for the sudden influx of blind war casualties, pending more permanent quarters. The Army relinquished its lease in 1921 and shortly afterwards Lather McEneany secured permanent title. Classes began in the former Garrett Mansion on September 19, 1921. On June 12, 1922, commencement day for what was then the largest class in the college’s history, sixteen graduates watched the late Archbishop Michael J. Curley break the ground for the first of the new buildings to be erected on the campus (see frontispiece) . It is appro- priate that the achievements of these sixteen men, then student leaders on the new campus and now leaders in Church and State, should be hon- ored here. 14