Existing comment:
Healy Hall
bears the name of
the Reverend Patrick F. Healy, S.J.
1834-1910
the University's twenty-ninth president
1873-1882
The first Black American to hold a doctorate and the first to serve as president of a major university in the United States,
known as Georgetown's second founder.
Father Healy - through his pioneering achievement and personal sacrifice - established this institution as a leader in American higher education. |