Event Details
Date & Time
Thursday, Apr 30, 2020 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Wolff Auditorium, Jepson Center, Gonzaga University
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About This Event
Due to concerns related to COVID-19, this event will not take place as scheduled. We will announce a new date and time if we can reschedule in the fall semester 2020.
The lecture series honors Rev. Timothy O'Leary, S.J., devoted priest and Professor of Chemistry at Gonzaga University from 1933 until his death in 1975. We are grateful to his many friends and former students who have made these annual visits possible through their generosity. Timothy Joseph O'Leary was a native of Butte, Montana. He earned BA, BS and MA degrees from Gonzaga in 1932 and 1933, and the Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1945. He was a superb lecturer and his classes in general and organic chemistry are fondly recalled for their clarity of presentation. Father Tim was even more renowned on campus as the ever-present prefect of DeSmet Hall and therefore the ultimate judge and jury of student escapades. He was generous with his time, counseling students as both teacher and priest, and many have attributed their later personal and professional success to his influence.