Excerpts from a newspaper article on the occasion of his inauguration follow.
The Buffalo Courier Express
Vol. CXXV-No. 12
Saturday Morning, August 1, 1959
New Rector Hails Caliber of Canisius
A native of New York City, Rev. James J. McGinley, 48, entered the Society of Jesus at St. Andrew-on-the-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, in 1927. In 1933, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Woodstock College, Woodstock, MD, and a year later a Master of Arts degree from the same school.
Took Master's at Fordham
In 1934 and 1935, Father McGinley was on the faculty of Xavier High School in New York City. He then entered Fordham University Graduate School where he received a master's degree in economics in 1937. After further studies in theology, he was ordained in June 1940.
Graduate work in economics led to a PhD in 1947. During this period, he specialized in labor relations and wrote a definitive study, "Labor Relations in the New York Rapid Transit System 1904-1944." The book was published by Columbia University Press in 1949.
In 1947, Father McGinley was appointed assistant professor of economics at the Institute of Social Sciences at St. Louis University. He served there two years.
Fulbright Professorship
Appointed a Fulbright professor to the Ateneo de Manila, the Jesuit university in The Philippines. Father McGinley founded the graduate department of social sciences as part of the school's postwar reconstruction work.
While in The Philippines, Father McGinley also founded the Research Library of Social Sciences. He also founded and directed the Priests' Institute for Social Action. Returning to the United States in 1950, he was appointed assistant professor of economics at Fordham University.
In 1953, he was granted a leave of absence from Fordham to teach labor economics and social legislation at the Gregorian University in Rome. Since 1954, he has been dean of the Fordham School of Business.
