More than 2,000 Duquesne University students, faculty, staff, dignitaries and honored guests attended the inauguration of Ken Gormley as the university’s 13th president on September 22, 2016, at the A. J. Palumbo Center.
Blessed Fr. Jacques-Desiré Laval, C.S.Sp., was born in Croth, Normandy, France, on September 18, 1803. He became a medical doctor, but always felt God’s call to be a priest and a missionary. Of his vocation, he commented: