Edward B. Bunn

Edward B. Bunn
Father Bunn
44th President of Georgetown University
In office July 1, 1952 – June 30, 1964
Personal details
Born	1896 Baltimore, Maryland
Residence	Washington, D.C.
Alma mater	Georgetown University
Religion	Roman Catholic

The Rev. Edward Bernard Bunn, S.J. (March 15, 1896 – June 18, 1972) was the 44th President of Georgetown University from 1952 to 1964. A leader in Roman Catholic education, he was the longest tenured president of the university at the time of his death. From 1938 to 1947, Edward Bunn was president of Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. He was director of the University of Scranton’s labor school for less than a year before going to Georgetown. Previous to his work at Loyola, he taught drama at Fordham University and psychology at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.

Born in Baltimore, Father Bunn graduated from Loyola College in 1917. He wore the key of Phi Beta Kappa. Bunn then took his master's degree in English from St. Andrew-on-Hudson in New York City and his doctorate in philosophy from the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. He held several honorary degrees, and honors from the governments of West Germany, Austria and Peru.

Father Bunn is remembered for his leadership during a time of post-Second World War expansion. Through his leadership, Georgetown renamed its foreign service program the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in 1956, in honor of Fr. Edmund A. Walsh, S.J. After serving as president, he devoted much of his time to Georgetown fundraising. Bunn came to Georgetown from the University of Scranton in 1948 to serve as regent of the school’s dental and nursing schools.

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