Rev. Robert F. Healey, S.J.
Scope and Contents
The Classics Department record group is split in to three series:
Series 1: Office Files
Series 2: Courses, Curriculum, and Catalog Changes
Series 3: Teaching Files
Series 1: Office Files contains six document boxes organized chronologically. Box 1 contains materials pertaining to classics theater performances from 1895-1925. Box 2 cotains materials for the 1926 performance of Hecuba, and Box 3 holds a Scrapbook for this Hecuba performance. Boxes 4, 5, and 6 contain office materials organized chronologically, and include department correspondence, meeting notes, press releases, reports, and budgets, as well as other programming files. These files include play programs, scholarship information, brochures, and newspaper articles.
Series 2: Courses, Curriculum, and Catalog Changes is held in Box 7, and contains course lists, curriculum reports, and course descriptions. It is ordered chronologically by academic year.
Series 3: Teaching Files contains 12 document boxes of materials created by the classics faculty for teaching courses. Box 8 contains general materials of the classics department for teaching courses, as well as those files unable to be idenitfied and assigned to individual faculty members. Box 9 holds all materials, correspondence, programs, and newsclippings related to the Hellenic Tradition Seminar, also known as the Greek Honors Course. Boxes 10 to 19 contain the course materials created by individual faculty members of the Classics department. The files are organized alphabetically. Boxes 13 to 18 contain the file for Rev. William H. Fitzgerals, S.J. and hold a large collection of notes and translations for many Latin and Greek plays. These plays are organized alphabetically, as well as separated by language.
Dates
- Creation: 1909-1995
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
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Biographical Note
Robert Fisher Healey, S.J. (1924-1987) was a teacher, scholar, and priest. His father, Arthur Healey, served in Congress from 1932 until 1943. Healey graduated from Somerville, Massachusetts High School in 1941. He studied at Shadowbrook from 1943 –1945, Weston College from 1945 –1948 and then attended Oxford University in England. Healy was ordained in 1955. He continued his studies at Harvard University where he received his doctorate in classics in 1961. Healy taught in the classics department at Boston College from 1961–1966. After a year of teaching at Fairfield University, he was a research assistant at Harvard University. He then joined the Holy Cross faculty and served as director of the Institute for Early Christian Iberian Studies at the College. Healey was a member of the American Archeological Institute, American Philosophy Association, Classical Association of New England, and Virgilian Society of America. He died on June 12, 1987
Extent
From the Record Group: 8.28 Cubic Feet (19 Document Boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Record Group: English
From the Record Group: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
From the Record Group: Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives Repository