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Fairfield University
Building Fund
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Dedication
To "The Friends of Fairfield" -the esteemed group of the many splendid people
whose genuine welcome heartened the Jesuit Fathers on their coming to Fairfield five
years ago, whose deep interest in the University hastened its planning, whose beneficent
activities eased the pioneer burdens of the work thus far accomplished, whose enthusiastic
assurance of continued cooperation is warrant for the larger hopes of the Fairfield of the
future.
Prominent among the "Friends of Fairfield" we are happy to recall, is The Most Rev~
erend Maurice F . McAuliffe, of revered memory, whose cordial summons inaugurated ,
this first Jesuit educational institution in Connecticut; his successor in the episcopal office,
our esteemed Bishop of the Hartford Diocese, the Most Reverend Henry J. O'Brien, the
clergy of the diocese with whom the Jesuit Fathers are united in their priestly ministries,
the Sisters so completely devoted to the earlier training of many of our students in their
younger years. The loyalty of our College~Preparatory School graduates, apart altogether
from our affection for them, impels their inclusion in the enrollment of the " Friends of Fair~
field ." The parents, who have entrusted their education to us and who, through the Bellar~
mine Guild and the Fathers' Club, have generously supported every endeavor of the school.
are " Friends" indeed.
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To these "Friends of Fairfield" we are proud to add the names of the many public­spirited
men, representing many communities of the County and its adjacent areas and
who, coming from the professions and business, have put their energies and influence at
the disposal of the Building Fund Campaign of the University. The names of Col. Alphonse
J. Donahue of Stamford, the Executive Chairman, and of W. Raymond Flicker of Fair­field,
the General Chairman of the Special Gifts Committee. as well as those of their assist­ing
Local Chairmen and of each individual campaigner will be of abiding memory in the
records of the University.
To these "-Friends of Fairfield",_..and to all who believe in the Univers1ty,_..we dedi­cate
this explanatory brochure.
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The gold pine cones of St. Robert Bellarmine' s family coat of arms, the blue badge of
the Society of Jesus with its traditional nails and I H S surrounded by a crown of thorns, the
hart crossing a stream, the heraldic symbol of the Diocese of Hartford, the grapes transcribed
from the seal of the Town of Fairfield, all these are easily discoverable in the shield of
Fairfield University.
Not so obvious, perhaps, is the division of the upper portion of the shield, "the chief,"
into three compartments, so designed, the artist has written, "because the school is dedica­ted
and exists in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." The lan­guage
is reminiscent of the reading of the cha rters inaugurating the ancient universities of
Europe and of the opening words of all peace treaties signed when Western Civilization
shared a common system of philisophical values--values which Fairfield University valiantly
espouses and which she proudly proposes to her students in her motto which can be trans­lated:
Belief in God and in God's mind on matters is essential for true learning.
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THE PATRON OF FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY ---Saint Robert Bellarmine, Priest
of the Society of Jesus, Cardinal Archbishop and Doctor of the Church. A man of the 16th
century ( 1542-1621 ) ...- a period of crisis as portentous as our own --- St. Robert moved
through the turmoil of the times an actor of importance who bent his energies and his gen­ius
to bring sound principles to bear on the civil and ecclesiastical problems that confronted
him.
Scholar, orator and administrator, Prince, Saint and Doctor of the Church, Bellarmine is
best known to American scholars as a political philosopher. The unwarranted assumption
of reigning Princes that they possessed totalitarian power of rule derived from a " divine
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right" St. Robert challenged with his clear teaching of the dignity of the individual who has
sacred rights that may not be invaded. Interestingly enough. the Library of Congress owns
Jefferson's personal. marked copy of a book that epitomizes Bellmmine' s political teaching.
Books were the barricades St. Robert Bellarmine manned in the b..a ttle of ideas on the ori-gin
and nature of democracy.
Warming and lightening St. Robert's prodigious learning was an irresistible spiritual
charm. A man of complete gentleness and geniality through all the recurring seiges of ill
health. to his beloved students simplicity and charity were his especial mark, candor his
chief characteristic. To them and to their fellow alumni of Fairfield University as )lie left
this advice: "The crown of everlasting bliss can never be yours unless you sweat and strive
to win it with all the power and energy of your body and soul."
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Fairfield County's
First University
EARLY in 1942 the Fathers
of the Society of Jesus acquired the splendid property of
some two hundred acres, located in the town of Fairfield,
for the establishment of the future Fairfield University. In
the following September, the Fairfield College~Prepara~ VERY REV. JAMES H. DOLAN, S. J.
Rector of the University
tory School opened its full four~year curriculum of
courses with a registration of 319 non~resident students. Now in its fifth year the College~
Preparatory School has reached an enrollment of more than 700, all non~ resident stu~
dents, notwithstanding the usual restrictions of entrance examinations and a sustaine<;I high
standard of studies. The securing of an additional property, in the Seaside Park area of
Bridgeport for the accommodation of the incoming Freshman Class of September, 1945,
provided but a temporary and inadequate relief. It has now become a matter of urgent neces~
sity to seek a solution of more permanent value by erecting a classroom building on the
Fairfield Campus, that in addition to the existing buildings will supply sufficient accommo~
dation for all the Preparatory School students and for the Freshman enrollment of the Col~
lege of Arts and Sciences, to be opened, as previously announced, in September, 194 7.
This highly significant development has been in the planning stage for many years.
In compliance with the expressed wish of the Bishop of the Hartford Diocese, the Most
Reverend Maurice F . McAuliffe of revered memory, and with the encouraging approval
of his immediate successor in that office, His Excellency, Bishop O'Brien, this first educa~
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tional institution of the Society of Jesus in Connecticut
was incorporated with the definite aim of advancing from
its initial status as a College-Preparatory School to that
of an institution of higher learning, through the gradual
development of collegiate, graduate and professional
schools. Such a development is in the tradition of the
comprehensive program of Jesuit education, after the
manner of the growth and expansion of such well-known
Jesuit universities as Georgetown, Holy Cross, Boston,
Fordham, St. Louis, and Detroit.
In 1945, the General Assembly of Connecticut, upon REV. WALTER E. KENNEDY, S. J.
Faculty Director of Campaign
favorable report from the Senate Committee on lncorp-orations
and by joint action of the Senate and the House, granted a charter to Fairfield Uni-versity
of Saint Robert Bellarmine, and on May 29 of that year the approving signature of
Governor Raymond E. Baldwin was attached. By this Act of the General Assembly, the
Reverend James H . Dolan, S . J., Rector of Fairfield University, was authorized and com-missioned,
with his associates and their successors, to " establish, organize, maintain and
conduct an institution for intermediate, secondary, undergraduate and graduate education
in the State of Connecticut and to confer all such academic degrees as are
usually given in colleges and universities."
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The Next Step in Development
.~::The time for the development of this second unit of Fairfield University, the College
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oi A.r.. ts and S'ciences, has now arrived. It has arrived sooner than the Fathers of the
Society of Jesus had anticipated. Out of their vast experience in the foundation and
development of twenty~five colleges and universities in this country alone, they had planned
their progressive program of expansion from the first unit of the College~Preparatory School
to the ultimate realization of the complete Fairfield University, with its College, Graduate
Schools and Professional Schools. There are many contributing factors that have impelled
the opening of the College of Arts and Sciences two years in advance of the original
schedule. The first is the high degree of universal and encouraging enthusiasm with which
the people of Fairfield County and the surrounding areas have voiced their approval of the
College~Preparatory School. The second reason rises from the repeated and widespread
requests for the opening of the College Department from the days of the opening year of
this first Jesuit educational foundation in Connecticut.
An added reason of major influence in leading to this decision comes automatically
from the critical need for the prompt mobilizing of all available educational resources to
meet the requirements of the young men returning from military service in the recent World
War who are so intent upon availing themselves of the opportunities provided for their
continued education under the federal law known as the "G. I. Bill of Rights."
The planned development of the Fairfield University program is undertaken at this
time with conviction that ·it will be a significant contributing factor in the solution of
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this problem. In its immediate provision for the opening of the College of Arts and Sciences
in September, 1947, and in the gradual development of Professional and Graduate Schools,
Fairfield University offers to the High School graduate, to the veteran of the World War
and to the student population at large throughout . this county and the surrounding area
opportunities for self-improvement that over a period of years will raise the educational
level of county and state.
The university campus at Fairfield will be a center of interest for many of the resi­dents,
not only of the university-town itself, but also of the neighboring towns and dis­tricts
throughout the county. The leadership which many educators in the Society of Jesus
have earned in various specialized fields will make itself known and sought in the economic,
the industrial and the social phases of community life. The people of Fairfield, of Bridge­port,
and of the neighboring vicinities are even now enjoying the stimulation to spiritual
and intellectual values which have been provided by the presence in the community of the
Fairfield College-Preparatory School and its faculty.
To every qualified young man applying for admission, regardless of race, creed or
color, Fairfield University will offer educational opportunities that would not otherwise
be available to them because of the financial problem involved in attending more distant
institutions.
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Jesuit Education
By all standards of permanent educational values, Fairfield University, in the high
tradition of Jesuit
tional institutions
t h e Religious
of the university
completely de-expansion
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record of
field of edu-
Educ_ation gives clear promise of ranking with the educa­of
the highest rating in the country. The Society of Jesus,
Order of Men, to whom has been entrusted the charter
and who by virtue of their religious profession are quite
pendent on public interest in their program of operation and
honored throughout the world in its extraordinary
four centuries of outstanding achievement in the
cation.
In 1948 the Society will observe the fourth centenary of the founding of the first
Jesuit College for lay students at Messina. Within a period of less than fifty years, the
success of this first Jesuit School was repeated in 150 other educational foundations for
the lay student throughout Europe. In the year 1568. the Fathers of the Society of Jesus
established their first college foundation in South America at Lima, Peru. Then followed the
Jesuit Reductions among the Indians of Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil that, for complete
and extraordinary educational achievement, remain to this day a record of unparalleled
renown.
In 1573 the first Jesuit School was opened in the capital city of Mexico, to be fol­lowed
by extensive missionary exploration that at length reached into Lower California,
until at the turn of the second half of the eighteenth century some twenty-three colleges
and eight seminaries had been established in this difficult missionary country. Shortly after
the opening of the 17th century the French Jesuit missionaries came to Canada to blaze the
way through unspeakable sufferings that culminated in the martyrdom of the eight North
American Jesuit martyrs, five of whom made the supreme sacrifice in Canada and three
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in the vicinity of Auriesville in the State of New York. In 1635 the Jesuit College of
Quebec was founded , but for many years the work among the North American Indians
was necessarily missionary and exploratory.
Prior to the coming of the Jesuit Martyrs, two French Jesuit missionaries came from
Canada into the State of Maine as early as 161 L but their mission at St. Sauveur was
destroyed by the English from Virginia in 1613. The name of the Jesuit Pere Marquette
who, accompanied by Joliet, was the first to explore the Mississippi River has been im­mortalized
in history and in the Hall of Fame of our National Capitol in Wash.ington.
Jesuit education in the United States dates back prominently to the founding of George­town
University in 1789 and reveals a glorious record of sound growth and expansion
until it has reached the remarkable present-day record of fifteen universities, twenty-five
colleges and thirty-eight secondary schools.
It is in this glorious tradition of educational achievement that the Fathers of the
Society of Jesus are founding at Fairfield the sixteenth Jesuit University in this country.
The system of education in operation at Fairfield is the one common to all the
educational institutions of the Society of Jesus, the well-known Ratio Studiorum. This
system is based on studied experience and centuries of close observation. It stems back in
its fundamental elements to th~ educational system prevailing at the University of Paris
at the time of the founding of the Society of Jesus, in 1540. Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the
founder of the Society, and his six founding Companions of Jesus were all students at the
University of Paris, completing their courses there with the Master of Arts degree. Ignatius
himself, on more than one occasion, referred to the University of Paris as "the mother of
our first Fathers" and until the time of his death in 1556 never lost that deep affection for
the institution. So. too, did all the first Companions of Jesus share their Founder's venera­tion
for their Alma Mater. Perpinian, a prominent orator of the times, does not hesitate to
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declare that the University of Paris is the one mother from whom alL or nearly all of the
Schools of the world have taken their origin.
It was to be expected then that the Schools of the Society of Jesus would frame the
fundamentals of their famous method and course of studies on those of the Paris Univer­sity.
It is. to be noted, however, that the Paris method was but the germ from which Ratio
Studiorum developed . . It was only after fifty years of experimentation, modification and
improvement, with a faithful adherence to the substance and spirit of the Constitutions of
the Society drafted by Ignatius, that the Ratio Studiorum was officially promulgated in
1599. The whole spiritual tone is distinctive of the Jesuit spirit that stresses repeatedly
the harmonious union of instruction and character formation. In the Jesuit system of edu­cation
an harmoniously unified and integrated course of subjects is of prime importance.
It makes the education of a youth, from his entrance into the High School to the com-pletion
of his course in advanced studies, a graded, related and systematic unit directed
not to the mere accumulation of facts but to the development of all his intellectual facul­ties
and to the training of his character. As the student advances in the course of his
studies a certain latitude may be granted in the selection of certain minor or secondary
subjects provided that they are properly related to the field of his major concentration, but
any tendency to a wider extension of electivism is
and spirit of the Ratio Studiorum.
The Jesuit System of Studies invests educa­and
serious responsibility. It holds that the attain­be
had by recognizing in the training of human na­changing
values attached to the mind and the
heart of man. While admitting that stu­widely
in their individual talents, in powers
contrary to the letter
tion with a sacred
ment thereof can best
ture the permanent, un­will
and the
dents may vary
of application,
in certain tendencies and aptitudes, the Jesuit system fearlessly asserts that the in tel-
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lectual facilities of all mankind are essentially the same, viz., the memory, the imagina~
tion and the powers of observation, of reasoning, of judgment, of discrimination, since
they must function as the mental factors of a human nature that is specifically the same
in all human individuals. It proceeds on the theory that general education calls for the
supervision and co::1trol of trained, experienced educators and is not to be regulated
by the inexperienced student himself. Keeping in view the marked distinction between
collegiate and university education, as that of a general training to be distingushed. from a
specialized and professional education, the studies in the former are for the most part to be
prescribed. It aims at the formative development of the complete man as the essential task
and ultimate goal of all sound education. After this is had, specialization in elected fields
of study may properly and effectively follow.
This Jesuit system, employed substantially in about 300 colleges, rests on the theory
that men of fully developed faculties who have been previously trained to correct and accu~
rate reasoning, to close observation, to tireless industry, to keen discrimination, to sustained
application, to sound and sober judgment, and to vivid and lively imagination, ordinarily
will outstrip in any line of human endeavor the single-sided man.
For the effective administration of these principles of general and advanced specialized
education, the greatest asset which Fairfield University has is the availability of the many
Jesuits who, in addition to their traditional training, have had further training and experi­ence
in tlie many specialized fields of graduate and professional education. There are more
than 6,000 members of the Society of Jesus training and working in the United States at the
present time. Of that number, more than 2,400 are engaged in the long academic courses of
training and studies at Jesuit or Secular Universities throughout the country. Those mem~
bers of the Society who have completed their training are conducting the universities, col­leges
and secondary schools referred to above, with a combined student enrollment, as of the
1946-47 year, that is in excess of 105, 000.
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THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY
Legend Explains Diagram on Opposite Page
The d,iagram shows the location of the
various buildings at Fairfield University.
as proposed in the comprehensive plan
for the development of the University.
The numbers below refer to the build-ings
numbered on the diagram on the
opposite page, which may be used in
conjunction with the architect's rendering
on pages 16 and 17 more complete
information concerning the comprehensive
plan.
The University Group
I. Bellarmine Hall.
2. Faculty Ha ll s.
3. Administration Building.
4. Chapel.
5. Library .
6. Student Activities Building.
7. Undergradua te . . Classrooms.
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8. Undergraduate Classrooms.
9. Undergraduate Classrooms.
10. Undergraduate Classrooms.
II . Chemistry Building.
12. Physics and Biology Building.
13. Undergradua te Residence Ha lls.
14. Dining Hall.
15. Boiler House, Garage, Shops.
16. Gradua te Schools.
17. Gradua te Residence Halls.
18. Guest House and Infirmary.
19. T ennis and Handball Courts.
20. Field House.
21. Garage.
22. Cottage for Help.
23. Athletic Field.
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24. Gymnasium.
25. Parking Spaces.
The College-Preparatory School Group
27. McAuliffe Hall.
28. Faculty Addition.
29. Administra tion Building.
30. Berchmans Ha ll (Freshman-Sopho­more
Building) .
31. Junior-Senior Building.
32. Chapel.
33. Library.
34. Socia l Act ivities.
35. Science Building.
36. Residence Halls.
37. Dining Hall.
38. T ennis Courts.
39. Playing Field.
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An exchange of professors and instructors, as conditions may warrant, makes it pos­sible
for Fairfield to have the benefit of expert and experienced instructors from its sister
institutions. This interchange of Jesuit University professors, not only throughout the United
States but also as the occasion may offer, from abroad, provides an extraordinary oppor­tunity
which is a part of the ultimate and broader prospect for the academic future of the
new Fairfield University.
Since Jesuits by vow serve without salary, the financial contribution represented by
the free service of the faculty personnel is a substantial factor enabling Fairfield Univer­sity
to further its plans for the future with the assurance of a part of its operating expenses
already guaranteed. Well over $100,000 is the amount contributed annually by the free
service of the present faculty of the College-Preparatory School. Still larger will be the
financial contribution of the increased faculty for next year in the College.
The Future Fairfield
The campus of Fairfield University is a place of commanding beauty and ready
accessibility, and as such fulfills to an unusual degree the architect's desire and the plan­ner's
goal as a site for an educational institution.
It is our good fortune that the combination presents itself in a splendid setting at
Fairfield, a location close enough to the many cities and towns of Fairfield County and
easily accessible from the main lines of communication of Connecticut and of nearby New
York. The natural beauty of the campus offers a challenge to those who have the responsi­bility
of planning a program of future development and physical construction.
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It is also true that only in exceptional instances have the more expansive developments
in the educational field in America been able to begin the construction of the complete
physical plant in relation to a definite and comprehensive plan that will be the established
guide of future growth and development. Such an opportunity is ours here at Fairfield.
The new University campus is composed of the two adjacent estates bounded by
North Benson. Barlow and Round Hill Roads. The combination of these properties, com-prising
a tract of some two hundred acres of gentle valleys and rolling meadows. nffords
a comfortable spaciousness for the University Plan. Aside from the landscaped grou:1ds.
the distinctive feature of the property is the two knolls which ris ~ on the easterly and
westerly borders in a commanding position overlooking Long Island Sound to the south and
the rolling Connecticut countryside for miles around.
This advantage of beauty and setting made it essential that the utmost care and con-sideration
be given to preliminary planning. that such natural beauty might be enhanced
and preserved. Thus in planning the University campus a guiding principle has been to
take full advantage of the excellent setting. the gently sloping hillsides and all of the nat--
ural characteristics of the property. Added to the opportunity afforded by the physical
advantages of the property. was the need felt by the First Rector of the School. Rev. John
J. McEleney. S .J., and by his successor, the Rev. James H . Dolan, S.J., that an organized
pattern of proven design be provided as an adequate and representative symbol of the
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genius of an institution of learning. so old in its educational heritage of four ·c.erituries and
yet so new in its unique privilege of being the first school of the Society of Jesus in the
State of Connecticut. In addition to these considerations of purpose and setting. there was
a definite conviction of the sense of communal duty arising from the immediate residential
environment of the Town of Fairfield, the civic center of the proposed university.
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MCAULIFFE HALL
BELLARMINE HALL
LOYOLA HALL
Bridgeport
With this background a thorough study was made of various types of architecture,
such as the Classic, the Renaissance, the so~called Modern and the highly favored
Georgian. The impressive and enduring beauty of the English Collegiate Gothic, with an
authentic adaptability to certain mo're modern structural requirements, was the ultimate
and determined choice as the most appropriate embodiment of the ideal and plans for the
new Fairfield University. To those familiar with the high estate of the Gothic tradition,
the choice will be accepted as {nevit~ble . It may well be said that " hist~ry has no record
of a system of architecture which expresses so eloquently the genius of the Christian idea."
The glorious cathedrals of Europe and England, many now scarred by the ravages
of war, bear eloquent testimony in terms of enduring charm and gracious dignity to the
religious inspiration and spirit of centuries of Catholic culture and tradition, while the lum~
inous splendor of Oxford and the more sombre majesty of Cambridge are a persuasive
literature in stone which, even in this intensely modern day, exerts a compelling influence
in the field of American architecture. The glory and dignity of the Gothic has been revital~
ized in many churches and educational institutions of America. After the turn of the
present century, so skillful and sympathetic was the rendering of the spirit of this Catholic
mediaeval art, that American ecclesiastical and educational construction was highly com~
mended for adopting the Gothic countenance.
After the choice of the style of architecture for the University was made in favor of
Collegiate Gothic, the Rector and the consulting architect turned to the problem of estab~
lishing the interrelation, in the general plot plan, of unit to unit, of group to group and of
building to building. They projected in accurate dimensional scale and architectural design
the individual character of each building to appear in the comprehensive plan.
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The comprehensive plan as developed includes some forty structures composed in
three major units: The Preparatory SchooL which is planned to accommodate a thousand
students, the College unit for fifteen hundred students, and the Group composed of the
Graduate and Professional Schools to expand with developing needs. Provision has been
made for campus residence halls in each of the separate units. It was considered desirable
that a definite and complete physical separation should be made between the College
Preparatory Group and the units of the College and Graduate Schools.
Ground was broken on January 6, 1947, for the first new building on the University
campus. Construction schedules call for its completion before the opening of the new school
year in September, 194 7.
This building is situated on the North Benson Road side of the campus, and its per­manent
place in the University plan will be as the Sophomore and Freshman Classroom
building in the College-Preparatory School group. Because of the urgency of opening the
College of Arts and Sciences in September, 1947, this building will be occupied for the
present by students of the entering College Freshman Class.
It is planned that a second classroom building in the immediate vicinity of the first will
be constructed to be ready in time for the opening of the College Sophomore Year in
September, 1948.
An announcement bulletin outlining the courses for the Freshman Year of the new
College has been issued and registrations now are being accepted. Enrollment for the new
College Freshman Class is limited to 300.
In September, 1949, utilizing the facilities that are available, it is proposed to open
the Junior Year of the College, and in September, 1950, the Senior Year, by which time it
is estimated that the enrollment in the College will be approximately 1,000 students.
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The Graduate and Professional Schools
Development of the long~range program for Fairfield University calls for the open ~
ing of the Graduate and Professional Schools as the needs and the opportunities may
direct. This group ultimately will include a Law SchooL Schools of Education, of Lan­guages
(Classical and Modern) . Schools of Philosophy and Psychology, Schools of Poli­ticaL
and the Natural and Social Sciences, an Institute of Industrial Relations, a School of
Business Administration as well as other schools, and finally the Medical and Dental
Schools with their clinics as a distinct unit and destined to occupy the highest elevation
of the campus fronting on North Benson Road.
The Building Fund Campaign
The Fairfield University Building Fund Campaign has been organized with the de­voted
and loyal assistance of thousands of interested laymen who reside in all of the towns
of Fairfield County and in other nearby towns and cities, under the leadership of repre­sentative
citizens whose achievements in many fields of endeavor are well known.
After extensive consultation with friends of the University throughout Fairfield County
and elsewhere, it was decided to appeal to the public to subscribe to a Fairfield University
Building Fund, the campaign for which is 1:ow underway.
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The objective in this campaign is to finance in major part the construction of the two
new buildings referred to above. The goaL therefore, is a minimum of $800,000.
The Rector of Fairfield University has announced that it is not the intention of the
University to make frequent or periodic appeals to the public in the interest of the Build­ing
Fund, and that the success of the current campaign will provide the financing required
£or immediate needs.
Those Who Contribute Now
Participate as Founders
An appeal is made at this time to all interested persons, business firms, corporations,
philanthropic foundations, and organizations to lend their moraL spirituaL and financial
support, and thus to participate as founders of the most significant and glorious enter­prise
of its kind in the more than 300 years of Fairfield County's history.
As this is a capital fund appeaL those whose support is solicited are asked to make
contributions, payable in full or in part at the time of subscribing, the remainder to be
paid, as may suit the convenience of the donors, over a period not to exceed two years.
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COL. A. }. DONAHUE
Executive Cha irman
RAY FLICKER
Chairman Special Gifts Committee
How Federal Income Tax Laws Reduce the Cost of Gifts
(Under present Federal Tax Laws)
Reduction in T ax By Net Cost to Donor of
Adjusted Gross IS% Maximum Gift of Maxirrum Net Cost to First $1000 of
Income• Deductible Gift Deductible Arrount Donor of Gift Such a Gift
$ 5,000.00 $ 750.00 $ 156.75 $ 593.25 $--- --
7,500.00 1.125.00 277.88 847.12 753.00
10,000.00 1,500.00 427.50 1,072.50 715.00
15,000.00 2,250.00 836.0·:> 1,414.00 615.25
20,000.00 3,000.00 1,368.00 . 1,632.00 525 .00
30,000.00 4,500.00 2,508.00 1,992 .00 439.50
40,000.00 6,000.00 3,619.50 2,380.50 382.50
50,000.00 7,500.00 4,859.25 2,640.75 344.50
60,000.00 9,000.00 6,241.50 2, 758.50 287.50
70,000.00 10,500.00 7,538.25 2,961 .75 259.00
80,000.00 12,000.00 8,892 .00 3,108.00 230.50
90.000.00 13.500.00 10,288.50 3,211.50 230.50
100,000.00 15.000.00 11 ,799.00 3,201.00 202.00
120.000.00 22.500.00 19,023.75 3,476.25 154.50
200,000.00 30,000.00 25 ,640.50 4,359.50 145.00
250,000.00 0 37,500.00 32,062.50 5,437.50 145.00
"Adjusted Gross Income generally means total gross income from all sources, less certain deductible
business expenses and losses on sale or exchanges of business property. It is assumed that allowable
deductions from the indicated amount of "Adjusted Gross Income" other than contributions, are
I 0% of the amount, and also that the personal exemption is $1.000.
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Organization for the Camp·aign
Heading the Fairfield University Building Fund Campaign as Executive Chairman
is Col. Alphonse J. Donahue of Stamford. Col. Donahue is an industrialist of wide renown,
President of the A. J. Donahue Corporation which has its principal office in New York
City, with plants in Milford, Connecticut, and elsewhere.
Directing its efforts particularly to the individuals, corporations, and organizations of
substantial resources throughout Fairfield County will be the Special Gifts Committee of
which W . Raymond Flicker is the chairman. Mr. Flicker is Vice President and Treasurer
of the Post Publishing Company, which publishes the Bridgeport Post, Bridgeport Tele~
gram, and the Bridgeport Sunday Post. He is a director also of the First National Bank
and Trust Company of Bridgeport.
Serving as co~chairmen of the Special Gifts Committee will be the following:
BRIDGEPORT _____ ______ - _- - - ------- - - ---- - _ Sumner Simpson
John A. Lyddy
FAIRFIELD ____ ________ - - - ------ - ---- ---- - - - - - --- - - - - - ------- - - - - -- ____ - George C. Waldo
STRATFORD __ ______ - __ ---- ---- --------- --- -- -- - ----- --- - . ---- _- __ Edward W . McFadden
NORWALK ___ ___ ___ _ - --- ----- -------- - - - --- -- ----- -- --- ---- ------- _______ John Cavanagh
STAMFORD __ ___ ___ --- --- ------ ----- ------ ----- ---- - - ---- - - ------ --- - _ E. Gaynor Brennan
GREENWICH __ __ - --- - - ---- - - - - -- --- - - - - - -- --- -• --- - -- --- - -- - - --- --- _- Eugene S. Loughlin
DANBURY ~BETHEL and
REDDING~RIDGEFIELD ---- - - ---- ---------- -- -------- -- --- - ------ _ George McLachlan
MILFORD __ ___ - - - --- - -- -- - - -- - - --- -- ------ - ----- ----- - - -- -- -- ---- - - _- __ Richard H. Simons
TRUMBULL~EASTON - -- ----- --- -- ------ -------- --- - - ---- - ____ _____ ___ Jerome Niedermeier
NEWTOWN -- --- - - --------- -- -------- -- ------ - - ---- - -- -- -- -- - - - --- _ - - _ John T. McCarthy
ANSONIA~ DERBY _- ----- - - -- - -- ------------- - - - ----- -. - - ____ __ ______ Cornelius F. Caldwell
Carleton Brett. Jr.
SHELTON _____ ____ ____ - --- - -------- ------ --- - - - ~ --- - -- -- - - - __ - - - _________ _ Fred M. Daley
NEW CANAAN ______ - ___ - ------ - - - - - -- -- -- - -- -- - --- - - ---- ---- _- _ Casimir Herold
DARIEN ~NOROTON ___ _________ - - --------- - -------- - -- - -- - -- -- _- - - ___ ___ James T . Clooney
James J. Holahan
Directing the general solicitation in the interest of the Fairfield Univ ersity Building
Fund among thousands of prospects throughout Fairfield County and elsewhere will be
local committees, each headed by its own local chairman, and responsible to the Execu~
tive Chairman.
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The third and final phase of the Fairfield University Building Fund appeal will be
in charge of teams comprised of members of the Bellarmine Fathers' Club and their asso~
ciates residing in the various town's throughout Fairfield County and elsewhere, and col~
laterally, of members of the Bellarmine Guild of mothers of present and former students at
the Fairfield College~Preparatory School. and their associates.
Personnel of the General Solicitation
Col. Alphonse J. Donahue, General Chairman
ANSONIA~DERBY~SHELTON ___ -- ----------------- ______ ___ ___________ William K. Bennett
BRIDGEPORT ______________ ---------------------------------- __ ---- - ----- ___ James V. Joy
· John H. McCall
FAIRFIELD _____________________ ---- - ___ ---------- ___________________ William J. Fitzpatrick
George Longstreth
STRATFORD ------------------------------------------------- - ---- Edward W. McFadden
NORWALK __________ -- __ -- _-------- --------- ---- - ------ ----- __ - _ Richard D. Halloran
Dr. William H. McMahon
STAMFORD ___________ ___ ___ - ___ ---------------- - --- ----- - _ E. Gaynor Brennan
GREENWICH ___________ ---------------------------- - - ------ - ------ _- __ __ J. Gerard Tobin
DANBURY ~ BETHEL ______________ --- -- ------ ---- -- --------- ___ - _ _ George McLachlan
MILFORD ____ __ _____ - __ -- _------------------------------------- ________ Richard H. Simons
TRUMBULL~ EASTON __ ____ _ -- ---- ----- ------------- - ------------- ___ __ ____ Frank A. Rice
NEWTOWN ----- -------- - -- - ---------------- -- ----- - ------ - ---------- - John T . McCarthy
WESTPORT ------------------------------ - -------------------------- - -- John H. Mountain
DARIEN~NOROTON _____ __ __ -------------------- -- -- - --- - ------- ________ James T. Clooney
James J. Holahan
BELLARMINE GUILD
Mrs. Frank A. Rice, Trumbull President
Mrs. Cornelius S. Gearin, Norwalk ----------- ---- -- -------------- ------------- Vice President
Mrs. Edward W. McFadden, Stratford _ Secretary
Mrs. David Sullivan, Fairfield __ - _______ ____ ____________________ __ ________ ____ ____ __ Treasurer
BELLARMINE FATHERS' CLUB
V/illiam J. Fitzpatrick - ----- ---- ---------- -- ____ _________________ __ ____ _____ ___ ____ President
John R. Ganley - -------- ---- ---------- ----- ---- - _ _ Vice President
Robert L. Walsh ----------- -- - - -------------- -_____________ ___ ____ ____ __ Recording Secretary
Frank A. Rice ---- -- ----- - ------------- -- ---- --- _______ ______ ______ _____ __ Financial Secretary
Bernard A. Gilh uly - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _ Treasurer
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Memorials
To perpetuate the memory of one who has been selflessly devoted to the advance~
ment of a great cause is a praiseworthy act; to associate this worthy tribute with the high
purpose of enriching the lives of future generations is a noble achievement.
This two~fold aim can be admirably realized in the founding of Memorial Gifts, those
contributions in greater amounts covering to a significant degree the costs involved in the
development of the comprehensive plan of Fairfield University.
These Memorials may extend to the foundation or the endowment of a building or of
a department, of a chapel or a library, of a lecture hall or laboratory, of an auditorium
or a gymnasium, of a classroom or other unit included in the University program.
To permanently commemorate the Memorial Gift, the name of the person so honored
and of the donor, if so desired, will be suitably inscribed on a special memorial plaque.
On request, the Rector of the University will be happy to discuss in greater detail
the comprehensive plan and the memorial foundations .
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