Background
Lennon, Joseph Luke was born on September 21, 1919 in Providence. Son of John Joseph and Marjorie (McCabe) Lennon.
Lennon, Joseph Luke was born on September 21, 1919 in Providence. Son of John Joseph and Marjorie (McCabe) Lennon.
AB, Providence College, 1940. STB, Immaculate Conception College, 1946. Master of Arts, University Notre Dame, 1950.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Notre Dame, 1953. Doctor of Laws, Bradford Durfee College of Technology, 1963. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Southeastern Massachusetts, 1975.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Roger Williams College, 1980.
Ordained priest, Roman Catholic Church, 1947; instructor, U. Notre Dame, 1948-1950; member education department, Providence College, 1950-1951, 53-56; assistant dean men, Providence College, 1953; dean of men, Providence College, 1954-1956; dean of college, Providence College, 1956-1968; vice president community affairs, Providence College, 1968-1988; retired, Providence College, 1988. Director Teachers Guild of Thomistic Institute, 1953-1956, Pennywise Shop. Board of trustees Southern New England School of Law, since 1994.
Member advisory council Citizens Educational Freedom. Advisory board Perceptional Education and Research Center. Co-chairman Easter Seals, 1968.
Arbitrator Rhode Island Board Labor. Advisory committee Mental Retardation, Rhode Island. Chairman National Library Week, 1962.
Member Rhode Island Advisory Committee Vocational Education. Annual lecturer Psychology and Everyday Life, WJAR-television, 1960-1975. Member Governor Rhode Island Committee to Study Rhode Island State Institute at, Howard.
Chairman speaker's bureau United Fund Campaign, 1971. Coordinator Civil Rights Affirmative Action Program, 1970-1978. Member Committee Future Jurisprudence in, Rhode Island.
Committee clergy renewal Diocese Providence. Member Committee for CROP-Community Hunger Appeal of Church World Service, 1974-1975. Member subcommittee on family law Governor's Commission on Jurisprudence of Future.
Member membership committee Cancer Control Board, Rhode Island, 1977. Member Governor's Commission on Consumer's Council, 1977, Governor's Leadership Conference on Citizen Participation. Board directors Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Progress for Providence, Rhode Island Legal Services, Federal Hill House, Pawtucket Young Men’s Christian Association, The Samaritans, Handgun Alert, Volunteers in Rhode Island Schools, Meeting St. School, Big Sisters, Big Brothers Association Rhode Island, Rhode Island Easter Seal, Blackstone Valley Surgicare, Rhode Island Heart Association.
Chairman 1975 Heart Fund campaign. Trustee Rhode Island chapter Leukemia Society of America. Advisory board Parents Without Partners.
Board governors John E. Fogarty Foundation, Irish Scholarship Foundation. Board directors, trustee Big Sisters Association, Rhode Island. Board directors Diabetes Association.
Advisory board St. Joseph's Merged Hospitals. Member corporation Rhode Island Hospital. Trustee Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital, since 1984, Southern New England School Law, since 1994.
Chairman Laborer's International Union North American Scholarship Program, since 1995. Member advisory council Quirk Institute. Member Special Legislation Commission Created on Catastrophic Health Insurance, 1979-1982, Governor's Screening Committee for the Judiciary, 1980-1989.
Member Save the Bay, 1986-1988. Board directors John Burke Scholarship Foundation, 1973— Scholarship Funds of the Laborers' International Union of North America. Member National Catholic Education Association, American Catholic Sociological Society, National Society Study Education, American Philosophers Education Association, New England Educational Association, New England Guidance and Personnel Association, Greater Providence Epilepsy Association, National Society Study Education, American Arbitration Association, Alpha Epsilon Delta, Delta Epsilon Sigma (president 1966-1969).