Yesterday, while shifting the flats in the vault (the section of special collections monographs that are too large to safely shelve in folio), I discovered this thin pamphlet-stitched ditty devoted to Fr. Gleeson, the namesake of my old library at the University of San Francisco, on the occasion of the celebration of his 60 year anniversary of joining the Society of Jesus. It contains a poem written by Edward F. O'Day that was included in the program for the honorary evening.
Furthermore, we have the papers of Fr. Gleeson in the archives; he was the 13th president of SCU. In the last folder of his personal papers, there is a letter in which he discussed the building of the namesake library at USF. I will take a look at that next week and post a follow-up.
Connections are everywhere! Which is to be expected of 2 Jesuit universities located within 45 miles from each other. Yet maybe in a little way, Fr. Gleeson is watching over me at SCU :)
