Thomas P. O'Malley, S.J., Collection
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Title: Thomas P. O'Malley, S.J., Collection
Dates: 1985-1988
Collection Number: 045
Creator/Collector:
O'Malley, Thomas, P., S.J.
Extent: 1 oversize flat box (1.75 linear feet)
Repository:
Loyola Marymount University, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library
Los Angeles, California 90045-2659
Abstract: This collection consists primarily of plaques and awards given Rev. Thomas P. O’Malley, S.J., prior to his service at Loyola
Marymount University.
Language of Material: English
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University.
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Thomas P. O'Malley, S.J., Collection. Loyola Marymount University, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William
H. Hannon Library
Gift of Rev. Thomas P. O'Malley, S.J. Accession number: 1991.1
Biography/Administrative History
Reverend Thomas P. O’Malley, S.J., was born in Massachusetts in 1930 and died in Boston in 2009. He became a novitiate of
the Society of Jesus sometime around 1953 and was ordained in Brussels in 1961. Six years later he earned his doctorate in
early Christian Theology from Nijmegen University (the Netherlands). He taught at Boston College, chairing the Classics department
and the Department of Theology, before leading the College of Liberal Arts there. In 1980 he became president of John Carroll
University in Cleveland and in 1991 assumed the presidency of Loyola Marymount University, where he led a significant expansion
of the school’s endowment and physical infrastructure as well as hiring a significant number of minority faculty members.
He left LMU in 1999.
Scope and Content of Collection
Rev. Thomas P. O’Malley, S.J. (1930-2009), was president of Loyola Marymount University from 1991 to 1999. Upon his retirement
in 1999, he donated many items to the Department of Archives and Special Collections. This includes this collection consisting
primarily of plaques and awards given to O'Malley prior to his service at Loyola Marymount University. The donation also
included books and postcards, which were treated separately from this collection. The University Archives also contains material
relating to Rev. O’Malley and his presidency of the University.
O'Malley, Thomas, P., S.J.
University president