Aloysius Carroll Galvin S.J. (January 15, 1925 – November 23, 2007) was an American Jesuit priest, administrator and teacher. He served as academic dean at Loyola College in Baltimore from 1959 to 1965. He was selected as the 17th president of the University of Scranton, which he led from 1965 until 1970. Galvin spent much of the rest of his career teaching mathematics at Georgetown Prep from 1970 until 2007. Nicknamed "Wish" by his family, friends and students, he was frequently voted a favorite teacher. Early life Aloysius Carroll Galvin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 15, 1925. His parents were Agnes Mercedes (Smith) and John T. Galvin, Jr., a wholesale lumber merchant. He was one of four children, with an older brother and older sister and a younger sister. Their mother Agnes died when Aloysius was just five years old. His father married again, choosing Agnes's sister, Helen Regina Smith. Galvin attended Blessed Sacrament Parochial School in Baltimore for elementary school. He went on to graduate from Loyola High School in 1942. Galvin began attending Loyola College but dropped out in 1943 to join the United States Navy's V-12 College Training Program during World War II. It was held at Mount Saint Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Galvin was officially commissioned as a naval ensign at Columbia University in 1944. He served as an executive officer on board a submarine chaser in both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans during the war. He spent much of his time assigned to the Aleutian Islands. Following the end of the war, Galvin re-enrolled in Loyola College in 1946. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1948. An avid athlete during his years in college, Galvin took up boxing and enjoyed playing basketball while in the Navy. The Washington Post'' referred to him as a "basketball standout" during his time as a student at Loyola College. Jesuits Galvin entered the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order commonly known as the Jesuits, in August 1948. He was formally ordained as a Jesuit priest on June 23, 1957, and celebrated his first Mass at St. Ignatius Roman Catholic Church on Calvert Street in Baltimore. Galvin began his academic career when he became a high school Latin and English teacher at St. Joseph's Preparatory School in Philadelphia for one year. He left St. Joe's Prep in 1959 when he was appointed an academic