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Exhibition about Rev. Coughlin, former GU president, on Display at Gonzaga’s Foley Center

By: Tracy Simmons

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April 30, 2018

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Photo of Rev. Coughlin courtesy Gonzaga University

The exhibition titled “Fr. Bernard Coughlin, S.J.: President, Priest, Scholar, Civic Leader, Friend” is on display at Gonzaga University’s Foley Center Library through Oct. 31.

When Coughlin became GU’s president in 1974, Gonzaga was a small, financially struggling school, according to a press release. During his 22 years as president, the university experienced unprecedented growth in finances, campus size, student enrollment, and academic reputation. He went to serve another 20 years as Gonzaga chancellor.

The exhibition features more than 100 items, including his presidential medallion, honorary degrees, his publications, awards for chairing the Spokane Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Anti-Defamation League’s Distinguished Community Service award.

Located in the Cowles Rare Book Library, on the third floor of the Foley Center, the exhibition is free and open to the public weekdays: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. and weekends 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

The exhibition is available online as well.

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Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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