Joseph M. Egan, S.J. (1898-1968)
Joseph M. Egan, S.J.
President, 1942-1945
Father Egan taught classics and theology at St. Louis, and Mundelein, Illinois, before coming to Loyola where he served as the eighteenth president. His administration, during the last years of World War II, was marked by consolidation rather than expansion. He was the provincial of the Chicago province of the Society of Jesus from 1949 to 1954, then went to St. Mary of the Lake where he was president of the theology faculty and superior of the Jesuit community. In 1959, he was named assistant director of the Jesuit retreat in Barrington, Illinois. From 1962-1967 he was confessor at the Cardinal Stritch retreat house, Mundelein, and then held the same position at Loyola's Bellarmine School of Theology, North Aurora, until his death on July 18, 1968.
- Army specialized training and Navy V-12 programs at Loyola Medical and Dental schools
- Loyola Institute of Aeronautics
- Loyola University Medical Unit, 108th General Hospital, is reconstituted and sent to France