NEW YORK —Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham University, and members of the Fordham community will celebrate a special dedication ceremony for the statue, “Ignatius the Pilgrim,” on Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 3:30 p.m. on the Alpha House Lawn of the Rose Hill campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Following the dedication ceremony, Rev. John O'Malley, S.J., Distinguished Professor of History at the Westin Jesuit School of Theology, will deliver the Inaugural Jubilee Lecture, “Ignatius Loyola,” in the McGinley Center Ballroom.
  
DATE:      TUESDAY, DEC. 6
TIME:        3:30 P.M.
PLACE:    ALPHA HOUSE LAWN
                AND
                THE MCGINLEY CENTER BALLROOM
                ROSE HILL CAMPUS
                441 EAST FORDHAM ROAD, BRONX, N.Y.

Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to approximately 15,800 students in its five undergraduate colleges and its six graduate and professional schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx, Manhattan and Tarrytown, and the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y. 
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