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Although the Jesuits, all men, teach thousands of women, no woman had ever before been named to such a high administrative post in a Jesuit college. But to Fordham's president, the Rev. Robert I. Gannon, Miss King's promotion was "logical," since Fordham has more than 3,000 women students, and in the social service school they outnumber men two to one. Founded in 1916, the School of Social Service is now a fulltime, professional graduate school to which only holders of bachelors' degrees are admitted for the two-year course. Its campus is the eighth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fordham's King | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Father Robert Ignatius Gannon, 46, is halfway through his six-year term as head of Fordham, biggest of the nation's Catholic universities. Like its football teams, Fordham is rough, tough, commercial. President Gannon, a onetime English and philosophy teacher, believes there is nothing wrong with Fordham football or fascism in Italy, plenty wrong with Progressive Education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: TEN TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL COLLEGE PRESIDENTS | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Warren M. Gannon, 17, of Independence; William Chrisman High School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 34 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

...please," reads the circular announcing the event. A "typical program day" is presented the reader. It's really quite a day, since it starts at 4:30 A.M. with a visit to the City Markets, where you will be able to meet personally one Mr. Gannon, Deputy Commissioner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Dollars Will Get a Harvard Man Keys to New York in Spring Vacation | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

...President Stringfellow Barr, University of Chicago's Vice President William Benton and Professor Thomas V. Smith, Wharton School of Finance's Dean Joseph H. Willits, TIME'S Editor Henry R. Luce, Emporia Gazette's Editor William Allen White, Fordham's President Robert I. Gannon, former U. S. Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Rohde, New York University's Chancellor Harry W. Chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Radio Educators | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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