Acknowledgements

for god and country

The editors are indebted to William P. Leahy, S.J., President of Boston College, for his support of our work on “For God and Country,” Jesuit Fr. John P. Foley’s diary account of his life as a U.S. Navy chaplain in the North African and Pacific theaters of war during World War II.

We are also grateful to David Winkler, Archivist at the Naval Archives; to David Miros and Ann Kanke, of the Jesuit Archives at St. Louis University; to Alice Howe, retired Archivist of the New England Province Archives at the College of the Holy Cross, who provided us with the transcript of the diary, and to Dennis P. Foley and Maureen Dwyer, nephew and niece, respectively, of Fr. Foley. We are grateful, too, for the assistance of Associate Vice President Jack Dunn and Senior Associate Director Brock Dilworth, both of the Office of University Communications.

And we are in particular debt to our Graphic Designer Bobbi Bloom.

The Editors

Joseph P. Duffy, S.J., served in various capacities at Boston College for 42 years, 20 as Secretary of the University. He is the editor of three other on-line books based on the 20th-century military and diplomatic service of New England Jesuits. These can be found at the Joseph P. Duffy Collection of Digital Works at the Jesuit Archives and Research Center. (https://jesuitarchives.omeka.net/collections/show/3)

Ben Birnbaum is a writer and editor in Brookline, Massachusetts, and was the editor of Boston College Magazine from 1982 to 2018.