Rev. Bernard Coughlin

Rev. Bernard Coughlin passed away Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. Rev. Coughlin served as president of Gonzaga University for 22 years, from 1974 to 1996. He oversaw the building of the Crosby Library at the university and also served as head of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce in 1988.

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Tue., Jan. 28, 2020

Bing Crosby visits with the Rev. Bernard Coughlin, left, of St. Louis, Mo., and the Rev. Richard E. Twohy. Coughlin succeeded Twohy as president in October 1974.
Bernard Coughlin smiles in this 1984 photo. The former Gonzaga University president died Jan. 28 at age 97. His funeral will be 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 21 at St. Aloysius Church.
Watching the new President of Gonzaga are from left James Jundt head of the Board of Trustees, acting President Harry Sladich, former President Rev. Bernard Coughlin, and the Rev. Frank Costello . Christopher Anderson photo
Mrs Condon, Father Bernard J Coughlin & Mrs Joseph P Gagliardi.
Joseph M. Cooney and Roger Felice meet with Gonzaga President the Very Rev. Bernard J Coughlin. Cooney and Felice are co-chairmen of the New Bulldog club.

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Reedy, left, Salinger and Ziegler field questions at press conference moderated by The Very Rev. Bernard J. Coughlin, president of Gonzaga University. At right is Elliott Roosevelt, son of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the panelists who questioned the secretaries at Saturday night's forum.
Washington Gov. Booth Gardner, right, cuts the ribbon formally dedicating the new Agriculture Trade Center. Adjacent to the convention center. Rev. Bernard J. Coughlin, who was serving as he head of the Chamber of Commerce, looks on at left.

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Lenny Wilkens, coach of the Seattle Supersonics, was recently named to the Gonzaga University Board of Regents. Presenting Wilkens with a history of the school is Gonzaga's president, the Reverend Bernard J. Coughlin, S.J., while Regents president James F. Aylward of Bellevue looks on.
Shown at a recent reception in Washington, D.C., honoring the new dean of the Gonzaga University school of Law are Dean Theodore Clements; the Rev. Bernard J. Coughlin , S.J., president of Gonzaga, and Congressman Tom Foley, who is honorary chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Gonzaga Law Alumni Association. The reception was held in the U.S. House of Representatives Office Building.

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The Rev. Bernard Coughlin, Gonzaga University president, and architect Ron Tan detail plans for a new $20 million library. 3/28/1990. Photo Archives/The Spokesman-Review.
Father Bernard Coughlin, head of Gonzaga University at a press conference Wednesday Nov. 8 1995. Christopher Anderson photo
Harry F Magnuson, chairman of the GU board of trustees, left, was among participants at inauguration of Father Bernard Coughlin, right, as President of the school, in October of 1974 in Spokane, Wash. The Spokesman-Review archive.
Gonzaga University President Bernard Coughlin, S. J., takes a tour on his new touring bike at that was presented to him on Wednesday morning. The Gonzaga faculty, staff and students saluted Coughlin for his 22 years of service. He will now become the university's first chancellor when a new president is selected. Dan Pelle photo
Gonzaga Guild entertains at luncheon. From left, Mrs. Condon, Father Coughlin and Mrs. Joseph P. Gagliardi. 10/19/77 photo. Photo Archive/The Spokesman-Review.
Rev. Bernard Coughlin, 9/30/79 photo.

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Rev. Bernard Coughlin, 9/30/88 photo. Photo Archive/The Spokesman-Review.

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Bing Crosby visits with Rev. Bernard Coughlin (left) of St. Louis, Mo., who took over as president of Gonzaga University Oct. 20, 1974 and the Rev. Richard E. Twohy, Gonzaga's president at the time.

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Rev. Bernard J. Coughlin helps Bob Hope with his robes.

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