Fordham University History: The Man - The Building

Named for John Larkin, S.J., Fordham University President (1851-1854)

Named after Laurence J. McGinley, S.J., Fordham University president (1949-1963)

Named after Augustus Thebaud, S.J., Fordham's first Jesuit President

While the structure is technically called Alumni House, the coffee shop it contains is named for the builder and former resident, William Rodrigue, brother in law of Archbishop John Hughes

Named for Joseph T. Keating, S.J., University treasurer (1910-1948)

Named after John Mulcahy, a former Trustee

Named for William J. Duane, S.J. University President (1924-1930)

Named after Vince Lombardi, class of 1937 and Football Hall of Fame coach of the Green Bay Packers

Named after Gerald M. Quinn, a Dean at Lincoln Center who died tragically in a car accident in 1991

Named after Joseph A. O'Hare, S.J., Fordham's longest serving president (1984-2003)

Named for Fr. Arthur V. Shea SJ, Dean of Students and Athletic Director.

Named after Fancis Cardinal Spellman, a member of the Class of 1911 and Arch bishop of NY

Named for the Science Professor Thomas A.J. Freeman, S.J.

Named after William D. Walsh, Class of 1951, and his wife, Jane

Named for John J. Collins, S.J., Fordham University President (1904 - 1906)

Named in memory of Bill Tierney, a football player who died prior to the Rams' 1996 Homecoming game against Lafayette

Named for James Finlay, S.J., University President (1972-1984)

Named for Patrick F. Dealy, S.J., president of the University from 1882 to 1885

Named after General Clarence R. Edwards, a professor of military science in the late 1800s

Coffey Field

Named after of John Francis Coffey, Class of 1910

Murphy's

Named for Cornelius Murphy, a football player who died from injuries suffered during the 1931 Fordham-Bucknell game

Named for Fr. John Leonard SJ  Patriarch of Fordham theater and former trustee.

Named for Archbishop John Hughes, Archbishop of New York and founder of Fordham University (1841)

Named after Blessed Peter Faber

Named after Michael P. Walsh, S.J., University President (1969-1972)

Named after Leon Lowenstein

Named after Robert Moses, who helped Fordham acquire and develop the land for the present LC campus 

Name for Blessed Rupert Mayer S.J., a German Jesuit who opposed the Nazis

Named for George McMahon, S.J., vice president of the Lincoln Center campus (1987-1995)

Named for William J. Loschert, a Business School Alumnus (1961) and Fordham benefactor

Each hall in this large dormitory is named after a Jesuit martyr, Isaac Jogues, John LaLande and Rene Goupil