Frank O'Malley was a professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
12 Facts About Frank O'Malley
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Frank O'Malley spent his entire career at Notre Dame, where he was renowned as an undergraduate teacher.
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Frank O'Malley attended the University of Notre Dame in 1928 as an undergraduate and graduated in 1932, as the class valedictorian.
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Frank O'Malley remained at Notre Dame and taught in the English department until his death in 1974.
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Frank O'Malley was exceedingly popular with his students and came to be acknowledged as "the university's most inspiring undergraduate teacher".
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Frank O'Malley enjoyed and excelled at teaching freshman composition, encouraging his students to "write something fresh about a tree, the feeling of alienation, their first kiss".
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Frank O'Malley was managing director from its establishment until 1963 and published eight articles in the journal.
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Frank O'Malley's subjects included John Henry Newman, Romano Guardini, Maritain, and William Blake.
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In 1971 Frank O'Malley was awarded Notre Dame's Sheedy Teaching Award for "sustained excellence in research and instruction over a wide range of courses" in the College of Arts and Letters.
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Frank O'Malley had been nominated for the degree by the student body.
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In 1991, during the celebration of the university's 150th anniversary, a weekend symposium on Frank O'Malley attracted 200 of his former students to the Notre Dame campus.
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In 1994 Notre Dame established the annual Frank O'Malley Undergraduate Teaching Award for "outstanding service to the students of the Notre Dame Community".