75 Years Ago - University of Scranton sets date for Gallery's inauguration

Brian Fulton, The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa.
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Feb. 4—Feb. 4, 1948

U of S sets presidential inauguration

The University of Scranton announced its president, the Very Rev. Eugene Gallery, S.J., would be formally inaugurated as the school's top official on Feb. 23.

The ceremony would take place at the Masonic Temple in Scranton.

Gallery served as the chair of the university's Department of Social Science and was a member of the school's board of trustees prior to his appointment as president.

He also organized and directed an adult education program called Labor College in Hazleton and Shenandoah. The program was run out of the university's Institute of Industrial Relations.

Gallery also served as an arbitrator for industrial labor disputes in Scranton, Philadelphia and other towns across the anthracite region.

While studying at Georgetown University, he served as a member of the U.S. Field Artillery during World War I.

Gallery was appointed to the top job at the university in July 1947 following the appointment of then-president, the Very Rev. W. Coleman Nevils S.J., as president of the American Press and head of Campion House in New York.

Soldiers make record-setting jumpSgt. Stanley Grodzicki of Nanticoke literally jumped into the record books on Feb. 3.

Grodzicki, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, made his 240th parachute jump during Exercise Snowdrop at Pine Camp (now known as Fort Drum), New York. This was a record for the 82nd Airborne.

As part of the Army's winter maneuvers, some 600 paratroopers jumped from aircraft over a snow-covered landscape. The soldiers then spent the night in the below-zero weather with the gear and supplies they jumped with.

This maneuver was the largest mass over-snow parachute jump in U.S. Army history.

Furniture sale at Sears

Three-piece living room suite (sofa and two chairs) for $198.50, three-piece hardwood bedroom suite (double bed, four-drawer chest and vanity with mirror) for $169.88, cedar chest for $34.95, a Daveno bed for $69.88, secretary desk for $87.88, kneehole desk for $48.88 and a rollaway bed for $17.77.

Brian Fulton, library manager, oversees The Times-Tribune's expansive digital and paper archives and is an authority on local history. Contact Brian at bfulton@timesshamrock.com or 570-348-9140.

Brian Fulton, library manager, oversees The Times-Tribune's expansive digital and paper archives and is an authority on local history. Contact Brian at bfulton@timesshamrock.com or 570-348-9140.