Rudolph J. Eichhorn Photograph Album
Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 24, Folder: 3
Identifier: GTM-0073
This collection contains photographs collected/taken by Rudolph J. Eichhorn (later known as Douglas C. Vaile) during his Jesuit formation, including pictures of Georgetown College/Washington, DC, St. Andrew-on-Hudson, and Woodstock College; teachers and fellow seminarians; recreational activities like handball, tennis, and baseball; and several family members such as his mother Louise and sister Gertrude. Fellow Jesuits pictured are: Cornelius Herlihy, Thomas F. Gear, William A. Schmitt, Andrew S. Dimichino, Anthony Beckmann, Henry A. Leary, Vincent Watson, Daniel P. Mahoney, Hugh J. McLaughlin, John Sheerin, and John M. Giraud. Many others are unidentified.
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Rudolph J. Eichhorn (1893-1964) was born in Washington, DC, to parents Aloysius B. (1860-1937) and Louise C. Ruppert Eichhorn (1868-1925, m. 1890) alongside siblings Gertrude C. (1890-1986), Raymond A. (1895-1956), Aloysius B., Jr. (1898-1958), and Paul J. (1900-1970). He entered the Society of Jesus at St. Andrew-on-Hudson (1909-1913) and did his philosophical studies at Woodstock College (1914-1916). Between 1917 and 1921 he was teaching at St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, before his theological studies at Woodstock (1922-1925) where he was also ordained (1924). Eichhorn worked on special studies in sacred oratory also at Woodstock (1926-1927) and completed his tertianship in Austria at St. Andrew’s, Lavanttal, Carinthia (Sankt Andrä, Lavanttal, Kärnten, 1928). He briefly returned to Woodstock to teach in 1929 after which he became rector of Canisius College (Buffalo, 1930-1934).
In 1935 he was stationed at the Church of the Sacred Heart (La Plata, Maryland) and in 1936 at Mt. St. Michael (Hillyard, Spokane, Washington). Eichhorn left the Society on 11-6-1936 and changed his name to Douglas Colin Vaile, marrying Katherine Poth (1914-2004) of Illinois with whom he had three children: Joan K. (1937-2003), Barbara S. (1938-), and Laurie L. (1946-). Vaile went on to be an educator for the American Savings and Loan Institute in Chicago (1937-1946) and the National Savings and Loan League in Washington, DC (1947-1948), before becoming president of the Colonial Federal Savings and Loan Association in Philadelphia (1949-1963). He was then chairman of the executive committee of the same organization until his death in Radnor, Pennsylvania, in 1964.
0.1 Cubic Feet (1 album)
English
Gift of Gertrude C. Eichhorn McNamara via Fr. Lawrence J. Kelly, 1949.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository