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October 4, 2006
Rev. William G. Guindon, S.J., former provincial of the New England Province, and faculty member and administrator at Holy Cross, died Oct. 4 at the Campion Center in Weston, Mass., at 89.
Appointed associate professor of physics at Holy Cross in 1964, Fr. Guindon subsequently served as dean and vice president of the College. In 1968, he began a six-year term as provincial superior of the New England Province.
A 1934 graduate of Boston College High School, Fr. Guindon entered the Society of Jesus in 1936, after completing two years of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. Pursuing ascetical and liberal arts studies at Shadowbrook in Lenox, Mass., he subsequently attended Weston (Mass.) College from 1940-43, earning his bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and master’s and licentiate degrees in philosophy. Fr. Guindon then taught physics for two years at Boston College before returning to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1945 to continue his studies; he received his Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics in 1948. Fr. Guindon had also pursued theological studies at Weston College from 1947-51; he was ordained to the priesthood there on June 17, 1950.
Assistant professor of physics at Fairfield (Conn.) University from 1951-52, Fr. Guindon completed his tertianship the following year in Florence, Italy, where he undertook advanced ascetical and spiritual studies and pastoral work. Returning to Boston College in 1953, he served 10 years there as a professor of physics and chairman of the department. Fr. Guindon completed one year of special studies in physics at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., before joining the faculty at Holy Cross in 1964.
After completing his tenure as provincial of the New England Province, he was appointed dean and, then, president of the Jesuit School of Theology in Chicago, from 1976-81. Fr. Guindon subsequently served as special assistant to the provincial of the New England Jesuits; superior of Loyola House, Boston, from 1983 until 1985; and assistant chaplain at Smith College, Northampton, Mass., from 1983-88. He had relocated to the Campion Center in 1998.
Fr. Guindon is survived by a brother.
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