Frank Haig served as the third President of Wheeling Jesuit University from 1966 to 1972 and the seventh president of Le Moyne College from 1981 until 1987.
12 Facts About Frank Haig
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Frank Haig entered the Jesuit order in Wernersville, Pennsylvania shortly after graduating from Lower Merion Senior High School in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania in 1946.
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Frank Haig earned a second licentiate in sacred theology from Woodstock College in 1961, the year of his ordination.
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Frank Haig joined the faculty of the physics department at Wheeling College, which is known as Wheeling University and no longer affiliated with the Jesuits, in 1963 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Rochester.
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Frank Haig remained president until his resignation on August 21,1972.
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Frank Haig became acting president of Le Moyne College on January 1,1981.
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Frank Haig was formally inaugurated as the college's seventh president on Friday, January 22,1982.
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Frank Haig returned to Loyola in 1987 and was named professor emeritus of physics in 2005.
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Frank Haig received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Washington Academy of Sciences at its annual meeting in Washington, DC, on May 19,2016.
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Frank Haig served on the Scientific and Educational Council of the Maryland Academy of Science and as treasurer of the Washington Academy of Sciences.
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Frank Haig presented papers and lectures both in the United States and abroad and lived at the Manresa Hall Jesuit Community on the campus of St Joseph's University in Philadelphia until his death.
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Frank Haig died in Merion, Pennsylvania, on February 28,2024, at the age of 95.