John R. Cavanaugh

John R. Cavanaugh

John Richard Cavanaugh (June 10, 1929 – July 26, 2007) was an American priest, teacher, and scholar.

He was born in Rochester, New York, the fourth child and second son of William Cavanaugh and Helen Louis Cavanaugh.

After graduating from Aquinas Institute of Rochester in 1946, he entered seminary studies for the Congregation of St. Basil (The Basilians). He was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest on June 29, 1955. The following year he earned his Master's in English from the University of Toronto and then went on to teach English language and literature at the newly-established St. John Fisher College in Rochester, which had been founded by the Basilians in 1948 and had its first graduating class in 1955.

In September 1959, he began doctoral studies at Saint Louis University. After completing his course work there, he returned to teaching at St. John Fisher College in 1962. He completed his doctoral dissertation in 1970. Both his Master's thesis and his doctoral dissertation were studies of certain features of St. Thomas More's writings.

In 1984, he took a year long sabbatical trip to Ireland, locating his ancestral home. When he returned to Fisher, he launched an Irish literature course and became active in recounting Ireland's history and countering stereotypes of the Irish people. To that end, he helped found the Rochester chapter of the Irish-American Culture Institute, a group that brings Irish artists and scholars to Rochester.

He was named Distinguished Irish-American of the Millennium Year at the sixth annual Rochester Irish Festival in 2000; in 2001. he was the grand marshal for Rochester's St. Patrick's Day parade.

In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Cavanaugh enjoyed playing bagpipes, an activity he had to give up when he developed heart problems in 1980.

He served on the board of trustees for Fisher and Aquinas Institute.

In 2000 he was named Distinguished Irish-American of the Millennium Year at the sixth annual Rochester Irish Festival, and in 2001 he was the grand marshal for the St. Patrick's Day parade.

A life-size bronze statue of Cavanaugh was erected on the east side of the Fisher campus where taught from 1956 to 1994.

He was predeceased by his parents, William & Helen; his brother William and sister, Mary (Curtis) and Survived by his sister and brother-in-law, Elizabeth & Herman Walz; along with 19 nieces and nephews.


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