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- Gerard F. Yates, S.J. (1907-1979) spent 40 years at Georgetown, as Professor of Government, Dean of the Graduate School, director of international student programs, foreign student advisor, and as a long-time member of the Chimes singing group. The field house at Georgetown bears his name.
On July 30, 1923, he entered the Society of Jesus and was ordained on June 21, 1936. He received a B.A. (1929), M.A. (1930), and S.T.L. (1937) from Woodstock College and continued graduate studies in theology and canon law at the Ancienne Abbaye, Tranchiennes, Belgium. After graduate studies in government and international relations at the London School of Economics (1938-39), he went to Yale University and received his M.A. (1943) and Ph.D. (1947). Throughout his long career. Father Yates was active as teacher, administrator, and scholar. At the time of his death, he had been serving for a number of years as Assistant to the President of the University for Alumni Relations.- IMDb Mini Biography By: John Smith
- [When asked why he became a Jesuit] The Order seemed to stand for great things and the spread of God's kingdom at every level. Chivalry was still a reality... when I was a boy, and the Society of Jesus was to me a spiritual chivalry and a disciplined army. I came to see them as men formed in a great school, modeled on a noble pattern; and I thought if I could be that kind of man that they were... there was nothing better I could ask or do in life.
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