James Connerton
Fr. James W. Connerton, C.S.C., a priest and religious of the Congregation of Holy Cross served as the first president of King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania from 1946 to 1949. Before moving to Wilkes-Barre, he served as the director of the Moreau Seminary Choir and served as an administrator at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana.[1][2]
Fr. Connerton described his college's mission in the following words: "King's teaches students not only how to make a living, but how to live."[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "ZAG 001". archives.nd.edu.
- ^ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wbalmanacs/1947%20WB%20Record%20Almanac,%20Record%20of%20Local%20Events%20for%201947.txt [permanent dead link][bare URL plain text file]
- ^ "Mission Statement". King's College. Archived from the original on February 21, 2014.