Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Michael F. Kennelly, S.J.,was an Irish-born American Jesuit and academic administrator. He was a member of the Society of Jesus for more than seventy-seven years. Kennelly served as the 13th president of Loyola University New Orleans from 1970 until 1974. He was also the founder of Strake Jesuit College Preparatory in Houston, Texas. Kennelly spent thirty-three of his years of his priesthood working in Tampa, Florida on three separate occasions. Kennelly was born on May 22, 1914, in Kilbaha, Moyvane, County Kerry, Ireland, to parents, Timothy and Mary Jane Kennelly, who resided in County Kerry. He had five brothers and four sisters. In 1929, his uncle invited him to attend high school in New York City. A second uncle, Rev. Patrick Ryan, further encouraged Kennelly to move to Mobile, Alabama, where he attended Spring Hill College, which had a high school on its campus at the time