Thomas G. Savage, SJ, Audio Recordings

Thomas Bohan Gerard Savage, SJ, was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1926. He was given the middle name “Bohan” but later changed it to “Gerard” after Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ. One of three siblings, Savage grew up in Chicago and attended St. Ignatius High School. Upon his graduation in 1944, he entered the Milford (Ohio) Jesuit Novitiate. From 1948-1951, he studied philosophy and theology at West Baden College in West Baden Springs, Indiana (a Jesuit college). As a Jesuit scholastic, he taught at St. Xavier High School. He was ordained a priest in 1957, did his tertianship under Fr. Paul Kennedy at St. Beuno’s in Wales, and professed his final vows in 1961. He received his master's in English language and literature from Oxford University in 1962 and was then assigned to teach in the English department at Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio). He joined the faculty in 1962, served as chair of the English department from 1965-1971, and co-chaired the department with Joe Wessling from 1971-1975. He taught courses on poetry. During his career, he also served as moderator for the student newspaper (Xavier News) and was a member of the university's publications committee. He lived in Brockman Hall. In fall 1970, he spent a semester at the University of Mississippi doing pastoral work and part-time teaching. He published And Now a Word from Our Creator with Loyola University Press in 1972, and was appointment as confessor at Mercy Center in Cincinnati that same year. Fr. Savage, SJ, died November 17, 1975 after complications from surgery.

Photograph of Fr. Savage by Rob Paris