Lawrence C. McHugh, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-200210
The Lawrence C. McHugh, SJ Papers include published and unpublished writings, some of which were adapted into TV/radio programs, as well as material related to the 1950 Georgetown University pilgrimage to Europe (including Rome) and the 1956-1957 Georgetown-at-Fribourg study abroad program.
The Lawrence C. McHugh, SJ Papers are on deposit at Georgetown University and are the property of the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus. As stewards of the Archives, the Georgetown University Library’s Booth Family Center for Special Collections is responsible for managing access to the material based on policies set forth by the USA East Province. Researchers may view these materials in the Reading Room of the Booth Family Center for Special Collections. General policies for using Special Collections can be found here.
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Fr. Lawrence C. McHugh (1909-1979) was born in Winchendon, Massachusetts to parents Charles A. (1871-1935) and Mary Josephine Morlock McHugh (1883-1981, m. 1905) alongside sister Mary Josephine (1905-1998). The family moved to Washington DC, in 1911 where his siblings Charles Xavier (1919-1972) and Emily T. were also born (1923-2005). They lived briefly in Camden, New Jersey, before returning to Washington, DC, where Lawrence went to Gonzaga College High School (1923-1927). After graduation he entered the Society of Jesus at St. Andrew-on-Hudson (Poughkeepsie, 1927-1931) and completed his philosophy studies at Woodstock (1932-1934). He spent one year at Georgetown for his regency (1935), preparing to teach seismology or astronomy, but was then transferred to St. Joseph’s College to teach Classics (1936-1937). Between 1938 and 1941 he studied theology at Woodstock College and was ordained in 1940.
Fr. McHugh’s tertianship was spent at St. Robert’s Hall (Pomfret, Connecticut, 1941-1942) before being stationed at the lay retreat center at Manresa-on-Severn (Annapolis, 1943). From 1944 to 1958 he was at Georgetown University in a wide variety of teaching, administrative, and moderator positions including director of the Veterans’ Guidance Center (1946-1949), professor of philosophy/ethics (1949-1956), regent of the School of Nursing (1953-1954), and part of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, study abroad program (1956-1957). Next Fr. McHugh was at Campion House, New York, writing for America and The Catholic Mind (1959-1962) before returning to Georgetown as a professor of philosophy and theology (1963-1971). After two years at the Loyola-on-Potomac retreat (Faulkner, Maryland, 1972-1973), he returned to Georgetown as a professor and then professor emeritus of theology (1974-1979). Fr. McHugh died in Washington, DC, in 1979.
1.2 Cubic Feet (3 boxes)
English
Likely transferred from the Georgetown University Jesuit residence after his death in 1979.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository